skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The argument about overcoming the fear of death is really not sufficient to make that point.

Let's leave at that: there are good arguments in Schopenhauer for not considering death as undesirable, and many of them are not necessarily dependent on his idea that time is whatever he says it is. I haven't read them carefully enough to convince anyone, let alone summarize them in a few paragraphs, but I do think it's worth pointing out this source.
As far as you know, what is the market salary for a full time Iphone developer ?
The simple fact the world is today a village and politic/economic leaders realize the situation (too late on my mind but still) makes the situation totally different than before.
Besides leaders, individuals understand the situation, we are not blind anymore.
Keep in mind that your deleted comments are never gone, just hidden from common users. PG and crew can still read them.
Eh. There are other reasons for an exploding offer. One is that companies don't want to get into a bidding war, so they offer a tradeoff: accept a certain offer, or find someone else willing to engage in a bidding war.

If you had exactly two job opportunities, and they were willing to negotiate down ("Oh, you'll take $80K? Great. $75K is the most we can do"), you'd probably want to use an exploding offer, too.
I absolutely love rtorrent, I've used it for 3 years! I occasionally see crashes in extremely long-lived processes, but I've had it run for 6months+ with a week+ of CPU time used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant

But seriously, don't upvote this story, it is written by a fifth grader (or at least makes that its audience).

EDIT: In response to the comment below ("just because it's simplification doesn't make it inaccurate"):

Because it's not "simplification." It's--pardon--bullshit. Chaitin's constant has nothing to do with "randomness in mathematics."

Besides, number theory is certainly not "the foundation of pure mathematics." Gauss would say that in the 18th century ("Number theory is the Queen of the Sciences"), but obviously it's long been replaced by logic, model, and axiomatic set theory.

Here, I'll condense the article to one sentence:

In other words, the randomness of the digits of Omega imposes limits on what can be known from number theory--the most elementary of mathematical fields.

There. So what? There are limits on what can be known from anything in mathematics. Nothing to see here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_equations#Typical_q...

This is just saying that some of those five questions are answerable by Chaitin's constant for that particular huge Diophantine equation.

EDIT2: Disclaimer: I am a graduate student in mathematics.
The first day at University, my Maths Professor told us: "We will asssume you never knew about Maths and we will start fron the beginning".
We defined what a number is, what addition is ... and from theorem to theorem we reached some very high and complex domains in Maths a few years later.
The process of understanding each step, each demonstration and ultimatly each concept - starting from scratch - made few students among the group Maths masters.
Right now not many people have enough calculation power available to really experiment much with AI. I'm only working with game AI where the bots run around in a simplified model world with a simplified set of available actions. But even with those constrains the by far biggest challenge is is the available processing time. You still have to pre-calculate much stuff that people can work out in a second.

The current state of AI feels to me similar to the state the 3D graphics felt to me in Amiga times. You can already do a few nice effects in real-time, but for real cool stuff you still have to run the computer 3 days. The basics are already mostly there even if they might be used in new compositions in 20 years.
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The new design would have to carry two people and luggage, have an empty weight of no more than 625 lbs. and use an 85-horsepower engine.

The biggest differentiator between cars and planes (as far as construction goes) is crashes. That changes both weight and price in a non-trivial way.
What's wrong with a simplification if it's accurate? We can't all be geniuses, I know I'm not.

Here's Chaitin's layman's description of his theory:

http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/feat.pdf

His book about getting there:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0404/0404335v7.pdf

And the halting problem thrown in for good measure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

BTW, if someone wants karma, I haven't submitted any of the other Chaitin links. The book, at least, would probably be worth something.
And it came to pass that the light from the self-sustaining fusion reaction danced upon the surface of the orb that would be known as Terra, and this dance would cause the essence of the orb's surface to dance in unison, in ways that would sustain itself and yet change it's cadence and routine slightly with each generation...

This in turn would feed another improbable series of creations that would form their own yet again....and these would reflect...only to say that their own ability to shape the dance is impossible...
I would get new Macbook Pro or ThinkPad X301 if I wasn't using OS X. Both have 1440x900 resolution. For the amount of time I use my laptop I budget more $ then use it for ~2 years.
Maybe not complicity, but fairly useless, yes. Reporting is also gatekeeping. Reading #mumbai on Twitter you learn nothing beyond what the ticker on CNN tells you ("Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Situation confusing").
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It's random according to Chaitin's usage of the term. Anyways, I changed the title so that section is in quotes, showing it is what Chaitin thinks, not what is necessarily accepted by all mathematicians.

EDIT

The definition of randomness he uses is the same as Kolmogorov's, something that has a description as complex (containing as many bits) as itself. So, when Chaitin says math is random, he means the basic truths of math cannot be reduced to a simpler system. Godel said such truths exist, Chaitin says they permeate all of math.
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do you agree that good database design means good database implementation?
It doesn't =)

If you have enough heat to make it click forward, you also get random bounces on the prawl which themselves make it go in reverse as much as forward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
So a Theory of Everything would be a set of axioms from which we can deduce all mathematical truths and derive all mathematical objects.

A Theory of Everything was meant in the physical sense. One that fully describes the nature of spacetime (or what appears to us as spacetime).

Obviously the above can't be true. You can't have a consistent and complete theory, come on, that's Godel already.

This is exactly what I'm saying. Chaitin might have a clue to what he's talking about, but obviously the author has nought. I rest my case for people to stop upmodding the article. You may not know it's sensationalist and innacurate, so I'm just letting you know.

I thought we wanted to avoid articles like this on HN?

EDIT: Parent edited his comment.

EDIT2: What basic truths? The only "basic truth" is first-order predicate logic. After that you assume some axioms (ZFC), and then it's not basic anymore. If you had used different axioms, you'd end up with a different mathematics, .e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Bernays%E2%...
Yes. I was chatting to one of the folks involved in iPhone Devcamp the other week and he was saying that $120 is the bare minimum at the moment. So the figures tally.
I agree it's a pain, although I assume one of the other reasons would be a badly programmed website that does something silly like

myImage.src = "http://www.blah.com/foo.png?username="+username+"&password="+password;

The user is under the impression they are secure, and their data is protected from prying eyes, but then the website has gone and given their username and password out over a non secure channel.

So it's not just js/css that could cause leakage/security issues, but any http request.

This is of course the fault of the website for being sloppy with the users private data, but I can see the argument that says users should be made aware that there is a possibility of sensitive data being "leaked".

The issue is: Who do you want to be the authority on what data is "boring generic/doesn't matter", and what data is "sensitive"... The website? or the user?
Sorry, I should have waited for your response.

Anyways, they are saying different things from what I can tell, as mentioned in the edit. So, I'm not seeing the case that the article is innacurate.
The iPod touch isn't exactly a big seller. I don't know a single person who actually likes it. I re-gifted the one I got for Christmas last year.

My theory on the iPod touch is that it's a scheme to further cement in people's minds the association between the iPod and the iPhone. I don't think they ever expected it to be a cash cow. If they did they probably would have killed off the classic iPod. After all, Apple consistently makes products that consumers aren't necessarily clamoring for and then tells us it's exactly what we want. The iPod Touch is kind of an oddball in the iPod line and they treat it like one.

You've got the classic iPod with scroll wheel and hard drive. You've got the smaller one with scroll wheel and flash memory to compete in that market. Then there's this touch screen thing that's basically an iPhone without the phone and it's called an iPod. The capacity is low. The battery life is abysmal. It's just as big and expensive as the iPod classic. I don't have a clue what's compelling about that. But people see the iPhone and think "it's just like the new iPod only it's a phone too."
Hey, no need for downvoting. robertk knows more about what he's talking about than I do.

Anyways, here's what I gather the article is saying:

Pysics depends on maths. Godel's incompleteness theorem (GIT) doesn't necessarily impact physics because physics can just use the untouched part of maths. However, Chaitin says his Omega number impacts all of maths with the same kind of consequence as GIT. Therefore, physics and the TEO is in trouble no matter what part of maths it uses.
So you're a RE-GIFTER!
Sadly, I actually have had the article open in a tab for three days and I still haven't finished reading it.
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I didn't realize the goal was to talk about physics. Consider the first sentence:

He shattered mathematics with a single number. And that was just for starters, says Marcus Chown.

Certainly reading about uncomputable numbers like Chaitin's constant is interesting reading, but my case is that this article is not the right start.

Anyways, foundations and information theory isn't my area of research, so I'll leave it at that.
The article is clearly a review, and the point of a review is not to be impartial. Readers expect the reviewer to take a stand. The piece, arguably, should have been in the opinion section since that's obviously what a review is, but it's absurd to slam a reviewer for not being impartial.
I'm going to start a new channel with the motto: "Fear anytime, all the time."
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You're right, physics is just part of it, and some of the other links we've posted will give people a better grounding in his theory. Anyways, I appreciate your input, criticism is always welcome, especially from grad students. Best of luck on your studies:)
Not expecting any replies, really, but why not? The rate doesn't seem to be that far out there (compared to Java contracting which is always available).

I could also set up contact with an iPhone developer in China who might accept lower rates.

What are good places to find iPhone contracts?
I concur with your experience.
That is really neat. I've never had that experience, and I definitely envy you.
Also one of those "bastards."
It's not as bad as it sounds. A friend's iPod broke and I told her she could have the Touch since I didn't like it. I went back to my old one. The best part is that a few weeks later she was like, "I really appreciate you giving me the iPod but this thing sucks." She doesn't use it anymore so I don't have a clue what happened with it. It's probably still getting passed around like it's radioactive. It's pretty bad when people won't use your product for free. :)
>Note: There’s a reasonable argument for warning on JavaScript includes as man-in-the-middle attacks can do nasty things, but that’s not true for CSS (on anything but IE) or images

Changing an image on a button from "reply to this quip from your friend!" to "submit password to re-login" isn't a security risk?
Google "managed server" and you might what you need. Probably cost you between $250 and $600 a month depending on what you want (which is wayyyyy cheaper than an in-house sysadmin).
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I would like to point out to the author that many natural phenomena like rabbit populations are tightly constrained by environmental factors, mainly available living space and food. Its these environmental factors that cause the S-curves. These same constraints do not apply to technology.
We can take some stabs at it now - privacy, genetic engineering - but I submit we have no idea what the real problems will be. It's the revolutionary technologies that matter, and by definition, you can't predict those.

Look at it from 1908. Think of what someone back then would have had to predict in order to guess what technology related ethical dilemmas we face now.
Huh... you're right, it looks totally awesome. I've been using Unison for a while and have been... less than excited about it. I'll have to try this right away.
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Here's hoping CPU memory bandwidth reaches up towards GPU and GPU doesn't reach down towards CPU...
actually, hellanzb is pretty spiffy.

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it does my paring and unraring too
CPU speeds have not changed much in about a decade but that does not mean that the current GHZ barrier will never be passed. There are indications that THz transistors are possible at room temperatures see http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36946/113/ and http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17368&#...
>> myImage.src = "http://www.blah.com/foo.png?username="+username+"&password="+password;

No encryption (or technology even) of any kind could protect against that kind of stupidity.
You can just attend calculus 101 when the next semester opens, in any university.
There's a quite legitimate reason to use exploding offers (beyond the implied "bad" reasons Joel cites): to ensure that companies get exactly the number of college hires that they want.

If you've got budget for "no more than 20" and a real desire to hit 20 on the dot, then it's entirely rational (and I think reasonable) to extend exploding offers to your top 30 candidates, and then as the prior offers expire or are turned down, to extend offers to the "waitlist". It's not particularly different from the college admissions process, or a season ticket renewal process, daycare/pre-school admissions waitlisting, or any other means of efficiently allocating limited resources over a period of time, and is certainly not inherently evil.
What makes you so certain that humanity won't be wiped out by a full nuclear war or a massive asteroid impact?
Well at the moment, some browsers will warn you when this code executes, as it's loading http, from an https page.

Yes it's an extreme example, but there are likely other examples where the data isn't quite so sensitive.
A malevolent AI could pave the earth.

We might get a nanotech grey goo scenario, or just a sufficiently bad nanotech disaster to kill off higher life forms.

Plausibly, the parent post meant erase modern civilization rather than every last homo sapiens. Full scale nuclear war could do that. So could an an engineered superflu. Both are a lot more likely than an asteroid strike.

If we can last until we get off the planet, our long term prospects are a lot brighter.
JavaScript has arrays and objects, either of which could be used to do what you want, though you'll need to write your own library of set operations.

JavaScript and Python are very different languages. I'd suggest you start here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript
please stop buying apple garbage. they are evil. there's nothing cool about crass consumption
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Most publicly traded financial entities were slow and limited in the amount of risk they reveled to their investors. Many of the really bad bets they made are still hidden from public view. These entities were not caught "by surprise". This was not an accident or a surprise. Executives of these companies have for years been talking behind closed doors about the risks of the bets they were placing but not disclosing this information to their investors (mostly public shareholders).

On a smaller scale (relative to this crash), the dot com boom saw massive public market fraud as well. I was in the middle of it in NYC during this time and personally witnessed massive fraud and insider trading with NASDAQ entities. The direct result was that the outside public investors paid for this fraud.

I have seen enough details of what bank and related financial entities have done over the last 10 years (and another cycle of bad behavior another 10 years prior and then another) to understand that they did not come close to disclosing the nature of the risks on and off their books. This is actually pretty scary to think that a public financial entity can even have such a thing as an "off the books" position.
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Glancing at the standard Python modules is a great way to learn. They are generally high-quality and will reveal many hidden tricks within Python (this is where I learned generator expressions).

Also I like Googling for "python tricks" as there are many gems hidden just waiting to be discovered. Here are a few examples:

http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/python_tric...

http://www.siafoo.net/article/52

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of...
What did you use to teach yourself Ruby?
I have a few paper books (Learn to Program and Ruby On Rails 2nd Edition) and a lot of ebooks and a few video tutorials, but I am looking for the cream of the crop. Thanks!
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I have no idea. I don't do any kind of Mac development so I'm not in touch with that world.
Nice.

I chose as random as possible (for a human, we're bad at that) and I tied: "Against me, you've won 23 games, lost 23 games, and tied 21 games".
If you have a version of this point that depends on reasoning rather than adjectives, you should probably use that instead.
Happy Thanksgiving!

May the Great Pumpkin smile upon you all. : )
Let me try to summarize. Out of all possible mathematics, there is something mathematicians care about and also there is a lot of crap. This is really not that surprising...
I'm always in the middle of learning a new language or framework, and the general pattern is always the same:

Read a bunch, get a project idea, start hacking on it to practice "muscle memory", use reference documentation a lot, go back and re-read -- picking up lots of info you missed the first time, get back to hacking. Keep cycling.

Many moons ago, I distinctly remember reading the 'Programming Perl' book 7 times before I finally felt like I understood what I was doing.
Doesn't support 64-bit windows?

I'd LOVE to use this product. I'll be watching avidly for a release that supports 64-bit vista.

Not to be overly critical, I realize 64-bit isn't a priority for a startup, but why wouldn't it be supported? Is there really that much of a difference for an application?
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The people actually working on general-purpose AI, exactly what the heck are they doing?

It seems to me we:

* Don't have a clear idea what consciousness is
* Have very pathetic attempts at creating it so far.

But machine learning has achieved some seriously impressive stuff. Although I wouldn't call that intelligent.
I'm into machine learning because it works and it is of great help to humanity.

If someone told me to design a general-purpose AI, I wouldn't really know what to do.

So what are these singularitans doing? Only philosophy or something real?

They strike me more as the alchemists of our time rather than serious scientists.
The correct answer is "Yes", right?
I've done some OLPC development. It's fairly easy to get the environment set up on Ubuntu, and then you can use whatever dev tools you want: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux

Getting Komodo to autocomplete on the Sugar libraries might be non-trivial though.
Doesn't work. Tried to associate my Torrent files to open in uTorrent, and when I opened them Finder locked up and just closed the file's window. Back to Transmission; I like the minimal UI in uTorrent, too bad it doesn't work yet.
Also, if you're familiar with GDB, you might find that PDB gets the job done for debugging Python. It uses many of the same commands as GDB.
Listen, I know I stand on the edge of recursion with no stopping condition - but it's too late. Life has no ctrl+d nor a ctrl+c and certainly no hard reset. My father was an air-cooled volkswagen mechanic despite the low pay and esoteric mechanical configuration he never gave up. He adapted and learned ways of making the work meaningful, the engines faster, the restorations nicer, soon he was restoring cars to look nicer than newer vehicles and building engines faster than tricked out hondas etc. I feel it is my lot in life to hold onto php despite the fact I know I should move on to ruby, python ... lisp. Yet my calvinistic work ethic dictates I suffer and my desire for higher level constructs dictates I take what meager tools are at my disposal and I make it happen. If that means writing a transmogrifier (I wouldn't call it an interpreter or a compiler necessarily, more like macro/special form expansion) IN php to write my php so be it.
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> Chaitin's discovery implies there can never be a reliable "theory of everything"

Just because gravity works every time we check, there's no certainty that it will work the next time.

Physics disproved - I'll take my Nobel please.
A good idea to implement.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: http://poignantguide.net/

This is good for your first steps. Then check out The Ruby Way to dig in deeper:

http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Way-Second-Addison-Wesley-Profess...
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