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this is a point where interpreting intuitively leads to wrong results - i do know of the opposite fact, the pictures however i admit are poorly taken, which is lack of photographic talent rather than execution, or maybe a personal style. but this is an interesting point - can one be both executive/leading and liberal/companion? if so, he's one of the rare individuals who can, so thats a plus point for joining rather than questioning his execution skills.
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"Also, it seems to work for Apple..."

I see irony here, in that I'm old enough to remember when Sun was killing because everyone needed high end server hardware to get on the web and so Sun could charge a good premium, and Apple was getting killed because they were trying to sell a premium product into a market that had been commoditized by the PC.

Interesting how things change. I'm not sure what the equivalent of the "Apple strategy" would be for re-establishing a premium brand in the server space.
Sell them to who? Back to the company?
Here is a vote for "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke

I learned from this book. I also know a few graduate students who studied databases (or some varient) and they continued to use this book throughout their studies.

(I know nothing of the other book though, so this is a one-sided view)
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What is he talking about when he says "pricing time"?
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You want to ask Colin Percival (hn://cperciva) this question, since Colin's a professional cryptographer and I'm a software security person. That said, I like "Practical Cryptography" (not Applied Cryptography) and I don't know of a good book that covers side channel attacks or parameter tampering; you just have to be very interested in the topic, follow the news, and start attacking systems.

I would say one of the best things about "Practical" is that it will leave you feeling even less prepared to implement a cryptosystem on your own, even though you'll know much more about how to do it.
It sounds like your options are:

1) Leave without any shares.

2) Stick around for a year and then sell your shares.

3) Stick around for a few months, see how things go, and maybe decide to stick around for longer if things are looking up.

Your right to some compensation for your work in the event of leaving before you are fully vested in your shares became tenuous when you agreed to stick around until a year from now, and went out the window when your partners declined to bend the rules for you.

I would imagine your partners would be grateful for your help at this critical stage despite whatever awkwardness arose when you talked openly about leaving.
I wouldn't say "nowhere close", as the quality of computer go players has improved dramatically in the last year or so:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/08/1243244...
everyone keeps talking about what sun should or should not do. no one talks about how they will actually do any of it. sun is barely surviving; they don't have the money to do much.
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Brief summary: If you stick an electrode into a tree and another into the ground around it, the pH difference between the two media gives you a difference in potential (~ 0.1V); you can draw a small current from this. (The article doesn't indicate how much current. That seems kinda important.) It's enough to power small sensors attached to the trees, which communicate wirelessly with a base station. They hope to use this to monitor conditions in forests so as to spot, or anticipate, or prevent, forest fires.

Despite the cutesy closing line calling Voltree a "green-energy company", there is no prospect whatever of getting energy from trees to power household appliances or anything like that. (Nor does anyone claim there is.)

Seems very neat, though.
Longer comment about same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990

Emacs is a Lisp virtual machine, and tends to act more like an integrated environment, while vi(m) is a text editor with less intrinsic extensibility.

Also, Emacs's default keybindings (both in the main system and virtually every mode people write for it, out of tradition) tend to use quite a bit of modifier keys (e.g. you are frequently typing with control held down), which can be hard on your hands. Vi clearly wins in this regard.
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we've all figured out that smaller, cheaper machines are just as good

It's worse than that. All the kit that Sun sold in the 90s is still perfectly usable. Why buy new even if you want Sun?
"Singularity" here doesn't mean "infinite improvement", it means "such a big improvement that, from the point of view of people trying to predict it now, all bets are off". At least, that's how Vinge used the word and I think it's the commonest usage among present-day singularitarians like Yudkowsky.
Which is Emacs keyboard shorthand for, "press Alt-x, let go of Alt, then type help-with-tutorial and press Enter".

If that doesn't work (depending on what Emacs thinks your Alt key is), you can also type Control-H, let go of Control, and then type t.
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So your claim is that we can satisfy the requirements thus: (?)

while 1, {}

Not sure if you meant this, but remember that it is not possible to write a program that always gives the correct answer, just in an unpredictably large amount of time.
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While it's difficult to keep up with a steady stream of lengthy emails, I prefer that to phone calls. Especially when working with customers who tend to ask the same question multiple times. I'd rather send an email and attach the same file/text again and again than deal with the overhead of multiple phone calls.
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So if I lay a plank over the 300ft deep well on my property, it is "a bridge higher than a 30 story building"?
Back to the company or any willing buyer. Of course, my shares are only worth something if the company does alright or better.
Like CAPTA's? I would say the number of things computers can do better than people is growing. They are not unified in a single project but computers are gaining around 100x the computational ability every 10 years so the gap between 1% as smart as a human and human level intelegence can close rapidly.

http://seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?pag...

Granted the human brain has around 100 billion neurons vs 10,000 neurons, with about 30 million synaptic connections between. However 100,000,000,000 / 10,000 is only 1/10,000,000 which is around 30 years unless the software becomes more efficient.

PS: I don't think directly simulating a brain is the most efficient method of reaching human level AI but it's hard to see how it would fail.
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The device of having a despised phrase turn out to be an unkillable meme is extremely common not just in sci-fi but in heroic tales generally.
It makes sense to (at least) the extent that you have grounds for thinking that the-way-things-are can be changed, which Eliezer does. In any case, he's describing how he feels, and it's not obviously wrong to feel "angry enough to do X" just because X is impossible.

What exactly is your objection? That EY et al think death can be more or less completely abolished, and that's obviously wrong, so they're probably being irrational? (If so: why is it obviously wrong?)
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An addendum, a couple months later:

Another major difference is that Emacs frequently uses modifier keys, and it is especially common to type with Control held down (while navigating). If you use Emacs, you will probably benefit from moving Control to either CapsLock (home row, pinky) or the left Alt (to hit it with your thumb); bending your pinky down to Control at the bottom of the keyboard while typing contorts your hand rather badly.

On the other hand, Vi seldom uses modifier keys besides Escape (which could also be moved to CapsLock), and it is never held down while typing. While I don't know of any hard data, the default Emacs configuration is almost certainly harder on your hands in an RSI sense.

Wily (a clone of plan9's Acme: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/index.html) is another extremely powerful editor, though I don't personally like its mouse-centric design. Still, it's quite extensible, and probably worth a look.
You can boil any human aspiration evocative of hope, happiness, and progress to this defintion of "religious". Does this invalidate
the drive?
Cool post, good luck with the business.

Whereabouts in southern Spain are you? My wife and I spent a week near Nerja and loved it.
I am reminded of a few lines from a talk by Richard Feynman:

For instance, the scientific article may say, "The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreases to one-half in a period of two weeks." Now what does that mean?

It means that phosphorus that is in the brain of a rat -- and also in mine, and yours -- is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago. It means the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced: the ones that were there before have gone away.

So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! They now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago -- a mind which has long ago been replaced.

To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out -- there are always new atoms, but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday.

I found this fascinating: what we are is patterns. We have a built-in desire to extend the patterns for as long as possible, but at the same time we don't want to preserve the patterns in a fixed state, or we would never learn or grow.

Simultaneously, we are part of larger patterns which -- like the atoms in our brains -- we enter into, subtly alter, then leave. Until we have better ways of extending life, our influence on the larger patterns is the most enduring thing we can have. It is some comfort against the prospect of annihilation, however small.
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Thank you! The city nearest is Marbella. About a 120 km left of Nerja.
How about a tiny, molecular sized ratchet, that would absorb vibrations due to heat and turn one way, but refuse to turn the other way due to it's ratchet teeth. These could then be hooked up to a generator for free power.
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Hacker News has news about economics all the time. If world trade will be using a gold standard instead of the dollar, that is big news.
No, it was specifically talking about prescribed medicine. Granted not the cost of said medicine. Something like this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/health/24placebo.html) but rather reviewing what drugs patents where taking and comparing it to their symptoms.
I have no smart-assed response to that.
If people stop dying, won't other people have to stop getting born?

I'm just reading something by Schopenhauer on death, and he thinks it doesn't make sense to fear it. Here is a better summary than I could write:
http://darwiniana.com/2006/04/23/schopenhauer-on-death/
Do you also get concerned that practically every atom in your body now will be replaced by others by next year?
just did.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/26/sec-outlines-its-reason...
Apart from the coolness of its subject, this article has a real cliffhanger of a page turner. It's probably inadvertent, of course - but I dare you to resist clicking "Next Page" :)
And another entrepreneur is (re?)born.

However, I'm not quite sure this Community CEO thing can fly (Loic leMeur's blessing not withstanding), design by committee is always sure to fail. But it's going to be a nice experiment anyway. Best of luck anyway, looking forward to seeing where this goes.
You should restore the original title, which includes Lewis' name. I went from idle curiosity to going, "Oh! I have to listen to that later tonight!" when I saw what it was really about.
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As I recall current is related to the size and shape of the electrodes, potential is related to PH and the makeup of the electrodes. So you can't really say what the current is without standardizing on a specific device.
Then your understanding of machine language and compilers would be flawed.

In most cases the compiler will do a better job at optimizing machine code than humans will.
Sounds like a heavenly place to live. I wish you all the best and will be eager to follow your success!
Thank you!

About being a community CEO (and coder ;-)): I believe you're building for your users - they are your community, who knows better what they want and where they want the product to go.
Looks like someone is doing it wrong.
I understood it was the time it takes to calculate the price of the financial instruments.
With my special training program, anyone can turn 100 despised phrases into unkillable memes, not just in Hacker News but in social sites generally.
Performance hasn't though.
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This is awesome. Fantastic. Best of luck!
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oh absolutely, I wasn't talking about ignoring the feedback loop or not doing constant iteration. I was saying that you need to have someone that takes decisions and the accountability rather than trying to please everybody. :)
> 120 km left of

:-D

Left = West?
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Sorry, I missunderstood you there. I completely agree with you!
And that they are direct competitors with Disqus, a (great) YC company.
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Modded down because I'm an atheist, or because I imply that religion is dogma? Just curious.
VCs are definitely not in the loan business, and I am skeptical about Sherbrooke Capital's approach. Had never heard this before and thought I would share it.

I highlighted Founders Fund at the other end of the spectrum...which I think is a much better approach to aligning interests between entrepreneurs and startups.
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AFAIK, that is true for whole programs. What about a tiny routine that is executed millions of times deep inside a loop? You can get better performance by hand coding it, especially since you can have machine generated version for comparison.

Also, do you compile your python programs?
I'd have thought that there'd be a maximum current you could draw without making the potentials equalize. For small electrodes, the resistance between the electrode and what it's connected to will be a limitation, but beyond a certain point I'd expect it'll level off, the level basically being determined by how much the tree's internal workings are doing to maintain its pH level.
How much are the shares likely to be worth in a year?
No leg to stand on for private institutions. They are free to set whatever preferences they like. (And they all have them, especially for athletes at schools with sports dynasties, etc.)
Damn, yo.
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One thing I never got: sure, it's certainly possible that one day the technology will come into existence that will create beings (be it computers or genetically modified brains or whatever) that will be as superior to humans as we are to ants or rabbits. How on Earth does the singulatarian paradise follow from this premise? Doesn't it seem at least just as likely that those super-intelligent creations will eradicate humans, or enslave them, or do something to them which we don't have a concept for in our limited brains, and which is different from happy immortal existence?
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I thought David was kidding. Jesus.
Haha, yup west ;-)
Check in your changes, then merge.

svn does not let you check in changes if your working copy is "out of date". You have to svn update before svn commit, which is the whole problem. (Remember "svn update" is a merge, and can cause conflicts.)
Sun is just a bunch of really smart developers surrounded by a bunch of fairly bozo sales and marketing folks, and headed by no one with a real vision.

They might as well give up.

"Without a vision, the people perish." (quoting scripture)

Sad, too, as I remember the early Sun quite well (at the 10-15 people phase), as they were a neighbor of ours in Mountain View, and we (Imagen, later QMS) swapped early laser printers for early Sun workstations.
Thank you! I look forward to sharing about the road to it.
To me, it validates the drive. Just as language is universal, so is the effort to make meaning. Those two qualities bind us as humans.
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I agree. I'm a big fan of asynchronous communication.

I only use IM for work and communicating with my wife during the work day. Fortunately, we use Skype at the office, so I can minimize my exposure to friends. I've discovered that even when I set my status in, say, Google Chat, to "Leave me alone" people still contact me, so I just got in the habit of not signing in.

I also don't have a high volume of email--even with list memberships, I probably don't receive more than 50 emails a day.
I recall Affirmative Action being challenged (Univ of Michigan?) successfully.

Not sure how, qualitatively, race-based admissions is different from letting rich people jump ahead of the line.
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If said intensive math is currently written in Python, then rewriting it in CorePy will likely give a big speed boost. CPython does not compile down to machine code, so it can't do the optimizations that a full compiler can do.

Now, if a project like this made it easier to embed C or C++, you might get the best of both worlds...
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In my experience, that is.
Not true. Even private institutions receive millions in government funding. Are they willing to give that up for a few hundred students each year?
I'd like to live for a time, sure, but even five hundred years might be too long. I'd either get driven insane by the constant bow-shocks of ever advancing culture, or I'd lapse into some kind of boredom-induced stupor.

It's not wrong either for the rest of us to be curious.
Care to elaborate?

Otoh, why waste each others time.
Then we are no match. Never mind!
I think that most people miss the point of these sorts of questions. I don't ask them just to figure out if the person can answer it or not. a scantron with all the answers filled in would be useless to me. I ask them to watch how the person approaches problems, how they think, how well they communicate and how they interact with people while trying to solve a problem. a person who spits out the answer in 5 seconds, but acts like this question is beneath them is a strong no hire, but someone who struggles a bit, but finds some interesting insights along the way has a good chance.
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First off, "two is objectively larger" is silly. If you're comparing two to one, then there's subjectivity involved. Rather, your argument is like saying two is objectively large, period. That's something that you can't do.

But humor isn't as harshly defined as the number system is. Rather, defining humor like that would be like saying "the sound of the word 'two' is objectively greater than the sound of the word 'one'." Once you say that, you need to define what those sounds actually mean, determine the numeric value of each, and then make the comparison. Until you do all those things - and all of those things require subjectivity within the confines of a language - then the sound of the word "two" has no meaning. The concept of two is objective, because mathematics deals only with objectivity. But humor doesn't have such harsh definitions, none of it is objective, and you can't limit it in a way that makes it objective.
okay, take the phrase "such a big improvement that, from the point of view of people trying to predict it now, all bets are off" and replace "improvement" with "change". The Singularity doesn't have to be good to still happen, unfortunately.
"The premise of the series is that the two get lost together in various locales such as Austin and Anchorage, and have to solve various mysteries of their surroundings using AT&T phones"

Maybe the problem was not the people.
Really? Or is that just a coping mechanism to deal with an inevitable reality?

I wake up every morning an evolved version of myself - how could I ever become bored as a result of becoming ancient and wiser?

I want a bigger slice of spacetime. If you were awarded 3 wishes, sure, you could wish for something nice, you could wish to have your wishes vanish.. and that is control. But the ultimate answer to the game is to wish for more wishes - it is the only rational answer that gives you any real control over this wonder.

'The steady decay...' is a disease. If you had a curable disease would you so effortlessly arrive at the same conclusion? Is this characteristic of being human stricken with, say, cholera, that we would lay in bed, slowly dying in pain, with 'no regrets'? No!! we are creatures of survival, of sustainability, of life. We will rise to our feet, or pick up the phone, and find the treatment, and live another day of beautiful human experience.
Misquoting a mistranslation of scripture, unfortunately. (The actual proverb seems to mean something like "without prophecy, the people cast off restraint", which is both less poetic and less sensible.)
Bookmarked this HN page for later so I can make the obvious joke about this article.
Does BaseShield manage updates the way services like Steam do? (It automatically checks for updates when you open up the service, and if they exist downloads and installs them.)

Can BaseShield run .NET apps, or just native code?