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> I very much doubt that knowledge of either is really going to give you much edge over someone who concentrates on learning the practice itself.

But then you get an insight and create these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimfin
- and win without much effort.

It of course wouldn't help you much in a swimming contest, where the priority is for the whole game to look 'fair' to viewers, not to Just Win. But in real life, you're not always artificially limited by a set of rules that disallow using advanced knowledge for your advantage.
6) Wake up when your life is half over, and realize all that bucking-up and Machiavellian conforming has sucked the soul out of your life and left you an empty shell of a human.

Does anyone remember when Monster.com had that super-bowl commercial? -- When I grow up, I want to climb my way into middle management!
> it can also modify the utility function to return MAXINT every time

Which would be equivalent to taking the murder pill. If it's able to model its own behaviour and model the consequences of future courses of action (required for meaningful self-modification and meaningful planning respectively), it will see that such a modification results in poor ore collection, and not make the modification.

You're right about the time-envelope of the utility function being an issue. The AI needs to plan far enough ahead at all times to see all relevant consequences of its actions. I don't think that requires two separate utility functions though, a single long-term one should do the job.

Edit: Also, "being able to modify the utility function is a pre-requisite to be called intelligent."? [citation needed]
this is old hat. 13th century, Florence.

now, its just called double-entry bookkeeping system. works for money, and low-and-behold business deals. some people look at their whole life from this perspective.
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To be more precise: Real world C++ programmers don't use iostreams as I know from personal experience (more than 10 years of C++ programming).

Edit: Several (more or less successful) attempts have been made for an alternative library. http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539 for an overview.
The thing is, Mika Mobile already uses Unity, arguably one of the better cross platform development tools. If they are having this problem, imagine what a dev using his own libraries and porting tools is dealing with.
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Impressive indeed. I personally know the author and he also programmed a complete implementation of the ECMAScript (5th edition) in Object Pascal. BRRE is also a part of this.

http://besen.sourceforge.net/
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A very broad generalization. You are confusing Panchayats with "Khap Panchayats" and other traditional community panchayats which have been in news for honor killings and such. These panchayats are traditional bodies with no powers sanctioned by law or constitution.

Separate from that, there is a whole system of local governance based on panchayats. These bodies play a very important role in letting the local people participate in decision making process for things which are going to affect them. Members of these panchayats are elected through proper electoral process and are not "old fucks" usually. It is a form of decentralization of power which is sanctioned by law and is a good thing.
Thanks for posting. Notes from this keynote were also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3685444

PG seems down on Google from the initial statement that it may have peaked, to making fun of its search results as similar to the scientologist principle of "what's true is what's true for you" or something that makes you feel like you are being A-B tested, to Gmail being painfully slow. PG said he would pay $50/month for a good email replacement, and after just having talked about his friend at Google complaining of too much email and saying Gmail was slow, I think he was implying that Gmail needs to be replaced.

So, what interests me most about this is his mention of his friend at Google.

Read: http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/How_to_find_startup_ide...

Matt Cutts (search engine God of Google) said "I’ll stop with a story. I have a friend at Google who is really good at noticing things that annoy him. While walking from his car to his desk in the morning, he can easily find six things that irritate him because they should be improved."

Matt says this is "his" friend, but is Matt Cutts PG's Google friend? This sounds very similar, and there is a hint of their relationship at the end of this article when PG got him to personally handle an issue with HN not being listed first in search results: http://getoffmyinternets.net/2011/11/25/paul-graham-knows-ho...

However, a better guess is probably that it is Peter Norvig, Director of Research. There are examples of their relationship around, like Peter reading a draft of his: http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355984

It's interesting that PG is pushing for someone to compete with Google though. It is almost like these comments were meant to be a public criticism of Google by his friend via PG rather than just to provide startup ideas.
I don't like the tone of this sort of piece. The capitalizations and bolding, the oversimplified assertions of "caveman brain" and "rational brain". It probably has valid advice, but it rings quackery alarms.
First of all, I don't think that's the point. Not at all. Next, kids should not be prevented to file law suits if deemed necessary (ex. sexual harassment, child abuse). And finally, according to the article, it was the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota that filed the case.
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"The district is confident that once all facts come to light, the district's conduct will be found to be reasonable and appropriate."

I can't imagine what these "facts" are, but I will reserve judgement until I've heard them.
As someone who knows little about Indian society and have never set foot on American soul, I'm obviously a bit limited wrt the subject matter. That said, this text reads to me as a shallow piece of nationalism. The comments here (which are - I might add - much more interesting to read) seems to confirm that.

I'm wondering if the author is naïeve or if it's deliberate propaganda. If the latter - which groups would promote such views and are they dominant in India?
Yeah, that caught my attention more than the actual article (which was a great one)!
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> Or you know don't worl in a megacorp.

Or university.
So you are saying it is ripe for disruption?
another flawed article..

Can we suggest that NYTIMES seek better article submissions? Maybe some HN'er?
With all respects, why is that comment either a) at all credible, or b) informative? It is by an anonymous person at some nebulous "middleware" company (not a description I would ascribe to someone concerned with Android GPUs...).

The problem with this discussion -- it is ostensibly an iOS versus Android discussion, as if developers have the luxury of just developing for iOS and the market will follow (hint: ha! Android made most of its gains when there little to no apps for it. Apps like Netflix and others followed but didn't lead. Now you could fill your day trying out new games and apps) -- is that there are a lot of very, very strongly biased individuals and parties, and the discussion gets completely crowded out by what often ends up being bullshit (though it takes a lot of legwork and endless excluding to actually discern that). What I like to see are specifics, but they are shockingly hard to come by. Lots of vagaries and second-hand accounts of profound all-encompassing difficulties, but never specifics that could be vetted, if only to offer a fix or different approach.

In this case of the linked story the vendors used Unity 3D -- why they were even writing specific shaders (double shocking given that their top-down sprite graphics, if I am understanding their apps right, are the most bog standard shaders going) is a mystery.
The point of homeopathy is to take your money for fooling you.
And if placebo is likely to help won't real medicine help more?
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Wombat is using threshold cryptography. Threshold cryptosystem, works like this (in short), in order to decrypt an encrypted message a number of parties exceeding a threshold is required to cooperate in the decryption protocol. Meaning, before the election has started a threshold is set, let's say there are 4 candidates, you can agree that 3 of the candidates is enough to decrypt the votes.
Also... Don't forget the paper backup, you can simply count those.
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Yes, absolutely. I forgot to list the very important third reason, which you mention here.
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But do you think a Wikipedia contributor thinks, "damn, it's Wikipedia-editing day and I'd really rather be out with my friends...nevermind, better crack on" or that they enjoy the research and editing in itself? Wikipedia is successful in my opinion because it makes contributing enjoyable (and self-benefiting)...it's a framework for swombat's advice.
The whole article is comparing India to US, when the title says America. America is from Alaska to Argentina/Chile in the south Pole.

And yes, India is far from being U.S.
The University problem is potentially a "3rd world" problem, especially inasmuch as you interpret it as a learning/teaching problem.

Non consumption is traditionally a good place to start and I would suggest that high school & junior university level is the most disruptive place to start. Non-consumption of senior high school to junior university level education is something in great abundance in poor countries.

There is also probably a more incentive for potential students to play along in poor countries. A 9th-10th year dropout is more likely to be in that position because of access or soem other problem that technological innovation is good at dealing with. More importantly, the ROI on those 2-4 years of education is probably much higher.

If you were to go after job skills/ training as the point of attack (as opposed to general education) poor countries are also a great place to start. For a lot of skills there is demand at the bottom: bookkeeping, graphic design, programming, etc. Bringing a person making <$1-$2 per hour to a point where they can command a $3+ is fundamentally doable. That's a big incentive.
Yup, I connect to an external monitor. And worse, it doesn't seem to give that memory back without rebooting.

Sorry --- that was an important detail that I should have included.
Well, I think the goal of these graph questions is not so much figuring out if they "know graph theory". But, rather, figuring out if the candidate had a solid Computer Science education and if they can think about a problem in abstract terms (as a proxy for being smart in general). The idea being that if those two things hold true, they can learn everything else on the spot.
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Absolutely. Most people either do not understand the role of apprenticeship (I try to persuade them to read Richard Sennet's The Craftsman) or simply have a completely short term attitude, which often means they fail to hire for longer than training would take, and also blinds them from the contributions different experiences can bring.
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> Maybe the solution is to follow SQL and implement a prepared-query system for shell commands?

You mean shell scripts?
That is nothing. DHH posted a tweet about a company that required 7 years of rails experience.

The key to overcome that is to not give a fuck and just apply anyway. I applied to countless jobs right out of University that turned me down, but that didn't matter since more than one didn't. Nearly all of them expected more experience than I had, but again it is just meaningless HR talk.
Why is it nonsense? It's arguing exactly for your solution: a smart way to run external commands and capture their errors.
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Its interesting to listen to this after reading the article; its as I'm rereading with a laugh track.
It is ripe, but it requires you to come up with something better, which can't be gamed by bad developers and doesn't take longer for good developers (since they will find other companies to apply for).
You should get some assistance from the ACLU or similar organization because you are not a lawyer and you will end up spinning your wheels. The U.S. Supreme Court only hears 150 or so cases each year. Except in a very small range of cases (such as cases between states) they are not obligated to hear any cases. You would have much better luck with the Court of Appeals. If the facts are not developed on appeal, you can ask the Court to appoint a special master. The matters you raise are important and merit judicial consideration. But get a professional to help.
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My calculator did ruin my ability to do mental arithmetic, because I had it in my pocket basically every weekday between the ages of 11 and 17. Damn school blazers and their capacious pockets.

My general ability to do maths (in terms of understanding and applying mathematical concepts) is good, I got a degree in computer science, but my ability to do maths in my head is really bad.
Doesn't really matter what 'facts' they have, you can't just throw out the 4th amendment.
There will always be metaphysical questions. As much as it's worth fighting against people who have their head in the sand about basic scientific evidence, I don't think it's a requirement that we give up all spirituality and resign ourselves to only caring what science can prove. Human experience is after all entirely subjective, and there's no logical reason why the pursuit of objective truth should be the meaning of life for everyone.
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The article is quite correct, of course. But this kind of bug gets tiresome. We saw the same kinds of troubles with SQL for years. And we'll see it again the next time we get a popular technique that involves code that generates code using outside input, and passes it as plain text.

So we need a new rule: If you're going to provide an interface that allows programs to generate code and pass it to something, then you need to deal with these problems proactively. You can provide sanitizing/escaping functionality. Or you can avoid passing code as plain text. Or you can do something else just as good. And proper error handling needs to be the default.

But if you don't address these issues, then your interface is lousy, and it deserves to be treated as such.
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I when I applied right out of college I didn't give a shit about how many years of experience they required (for some reason they never count the years of experience I had accumulated in college) and just applied anyway. I got a job out of it too, so I wouldn't recommend anybody else pay attention to that.
It's pretty clear that pge is also a VC.
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Curious if you could explain how you did understand the blog post? This is recently quite an interesting topic for me, why when one person feels like they've communicated as simply as they can, still can get misunderstood by someone else who is probably also actually quite intelligent.
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It might also be Paul Buchheit. He also reviewed a couple of PG's essays.
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Just out of curiosity, what do people think schools, parents, etc should do about minors and Facebook? Bullying, "naughty" pics of themselves, and just simple over the top kid drama. Facebook is public. It's not your diary. You are sharing it with your hundred "closests" friends. Rush Limbaugh calls someone a slut on the radio and people are outraged. I can imagine that kids are quite rough with each other on a daily basis.
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My only desire is that these powerful tools become more widely available outside of the safety-critical scene. It would be wonderful to have this sort of power for some of my own smaller, less critical projects - it definitely makes one a better, more careful, programmer.
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Ok, so I tried to learn PHP by creating a CRM program in that language. No really.... I succeeded in learning PHP. I was less successful in creating a CRM. Well, actually, I created a decent CRM for some markets, but failed at marketing it and eventually abandoned it. I didn't realize it at the time but this sort of thing is a key to my successes: I rarely take on a major project for one reason only. Instead I take them on for a myriad of reasons so even if the project fails, it's hardly a complete loss.

When I look back into the economic opportunities I "fell into" the same principle was at work. I did something, did it for two or three reasons, one fell through, another one became important, and suddenly my direction shifted. The same thing is now happening as well.....

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Well, one skill I thing is quite essential to anyone anywhere at anytime is socialization, something you won't learn easily being homeschooled.

Kids need to be out and see lots of different people and characters before their adulthood, otherwise they're gonna have an schewed view of others.

Why not try to teach them all this different skills and values while they go through traditional venues of growing up instead of alienating them from the rest of the world around them?
I don't mean to be harsh but after reading the article I couldn't listen to the "Uhhh Ehmmmm"s anymore.

Was he just reading the transcript to the guys? A keynote should be without any "uhh"s and "ehmmm"s otherwise you will not get audience IMO.
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The overuse of exclamation marks makes me cringe when I read this article. Nonetheless, he's got some solid points. I wish he gave more concrete examples rather than just the one on getting up early.
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If someone whips out an actual hip flask, I would notice too.

I don't think that someone noticing is the social threshold, here. Rather, it's whether pulling one out makes a stir, or causes you to stir as your rearrange your surroundings to accomodate what you've carried along with you.

If one or more people see you pull it out, but everyone carries on with what they were doing, then it's like a hip flask. Even if an isolated individual rolls their eyes in judgement as you bathe your neurons in a rush of dopamine.
It's not that facebook wouldn't like the users. It's the costs and risks of trying to comply with COPPA regulations.
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In regards to 3: I can tell you want to succeed. And I can tell you've never had depression, confidence 95%. Maybe you live in some kind of posh suburbia, where pseudo-"depression" is cool, whatever, and thought that depression and demotivation could be somehow comparable.

Let me welcome you to clinical depression. You can't concentrate for five minutes, and I mean it. Your productivity will be 0.01x the normal. Your error rate will be 100x. Half of your day is a struggle for not jumping out of the fucking window, right there, right now. The other half, you will spend crying in the bathroom, pushing through the pain. (And then some smug bastard tells you "what pain? suck it up", and you fall into suicidal ideation again.)

If I were your boss and discovered you were clinically depressed, I would pay you to go home and not work until you got well. Damn, I would pay your therapy, even. Simply put, depressed workers are bad for business.

Of course I am pissed off. Don't tell me that I should have worked my ass off when I was on SSRIs, and anything less is being a loser. Don't trivialize it. Shit, I can't fucking believe I made it through. And I wasn't even that majorly depressed.
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This. Thank you for making this point :)
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