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The Rijksmuseum has a couple of pieces of such excellent craftsmanship in it, that if you like design, just seeing those can make it worth the visit.

The ivory-hilted matchlock pistols are some of the most beautiful weaponry I've ever seen. There's some excellent fencing swords in the museum as well. If you like arms, it's worth it just to see them - but I've fenced and like marksmanship, so I've got a bit of a bias. Night Watch is in there too, and it's gigantic and a fun painting. You can cruise the whole museum in a couple hours even while dedicating some time to a few really interesting pieces, and I enjoyed it much.

So I'll put in a vote for the Rijksmuseum, I do like it. If you like electronic music, lots of good DJs spin in Amsterdam but you'll have to look up where the party is. The Westerhousefabric district outside of the city has more of a local nightlife scene, as opposed to the hardcore tourism you see in central AMS.

If you're by chance going to England after Holland, taking the ferry from Hoek van Holland to Harwich is an incredible experience. Hoek van Holland is a really, really wonderful little town, with some great cafes, restaurants, and friendly people. The train ride there from AMS is beautiful. Then the ferry is lots of fun if you like boats.
Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/bflora I'll announce on there.

Looks like we're going to build it at the eventual live URL so I'd rather not give that out just yet. My buddy's doing all the heavy lifting on this one. I'm just tracking down shape files and representative listings and so forth.
The same thing that happens when any insurance company goes bankrupt.

Fraud is a normal, insurable risk. We just have a bizarre, underfunded, overambitious regulatory apparatus bolted on to where insurance is supposed to fit.
Don't press ctrl + opt + cmd + . more than 20 times ;)

(Undo: ctrl + opt + cmd + , )
Does http://www.nonhackernews.com/ also use the hacker news code base?
Clearing out some of my bug list.
you have to go here to make one
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
If you ever need a fallback idea you could try turning Picwing into a monitoring tool for NOCs (network/server health) or financial systems. I think you'd have an easy time selling lots of units to both groups of customers, and there's probably a lot of other people who would need a cheap display device for monitoring purposes.
What's the problem with what the New York Times has been publishing about China recently?
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I remember reading a comment somewhere about how successful web apps exploit one of the seven deadly sins. Well, I guess this is a good example.
Ah, the scrollbar gets centered vertically on the current line. Got it.
Is that really true? You get a copy of the source code and license at 20,000 points?
He's joking. Anyone can have the source code. http://www.arclanguage.org/install
Have you guys checked out http://monstropolis.org, I think it's from the same guy.

EDIT: I found more: http://monstropolis.org/intro[1-11].html,
replace [1-11] with any number between 1 and 11.
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My grandfather is 90 and has parkinsons and I've been looking for something like this for him. He is still sharp, but he was never good with computers and lately he's pretty much lost whatever ability he had. The key thing I need is the ability to send him podcasts and videos of booktalks that queue up sequentially as if they were blog posts in an RSS feed. What I also need is the ability to check online to see if he's already viewed something, and if so the ability to get rid of it and add more stuff to his queue.
sigh. you could have played along! :)
<i>The Chinese Room argument is wrong. That in itself does not make it useless.</i>

It might be useless, but it's also not optimally useful. That is, I think, a large part of the problem PG points out in his essay.
i think he means more like the people who submit every blog post to HN/reddit/digg,etc.

i enjoy looking at people's hard work and projects. i don't necessarily enjoy a new submission for every little opinion someone has. thats what comments are for.
This is Enrique from picwing. In addition to the larger display, the picwing frame runs on a faster hardware platform, supports Actionscript 3 for application development and doesn't require the user to go to a different computer to customize and install widgets. Eventually we would like to release an application store (running on the frame itself) for people to install new apps for their frame.
We are ourselves big fans of the chumby and we have tried to learn from its advantages and shortcomings.
That's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion !! We have also thought about using them as kiosks for events like conferences or for taking orders in different businesses.
No as it states it uses Slinkset.

Check it out you could create your own in two seconds.
Teaching is a skill on its own, it's orthogonal. I've read, and believe through my own intuition/experience, that being a "true expert" in most things is often such an intuitive place to be that it cannot be translated mechanically in that person's mind into steps for teaching it.

It's arrived at after years and years of "doing" and growing past internal boundaries and goals.

One thing you can be a "true expert" at is teaching itself.
Yes, we are planning to release an API to develop new applications for the frame. We have done some work already in that regard but we want to have something very solid before releasing it.
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I know we have a large community here, and thought a few of us may want to send the girl a card.
For me, I only really got it after I had taken all three courses:

- Machine Language
- Compiler Construction
- Operating Systems

Just after that, a bunch of lightbulbs started to fire off. I think the NAND to Tetris approach is really great in this regard. It's designed to be the place where it all comes together for a Comp Sci person.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507
I was actually thinking maybe if we can somehow use something like dabbleboard to all sign it digitally. I would then print it on a card or something to send?
http://tenderapp.com/
OTRS: http://otrs.org/ or RT: http://bestpractical.com/rt/
Hey, men, this's not true, at least for me, I can visit http://nytimes.com, it's fast!
My friend and his son both enjoy AoPS: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com

>Is math class too easy for you? Looking for a greater challenge? You've come to the right place.

My friend laments something like it was not around when he was in grade school (in the Bitnet/Compuserve days, ha!)
"The sheer volume of the literature that has grown up around it..."

So it inspired a huge waste of time. Doesn't really fit my definition of useful.
A compiler that takes Sed programs and produces Parrot interpreter code. It was a project in a college Compilers class that I didn't take seriously enough, so I'm revisiting it to see if I've actually grown better at this programming thing since I've graduated.
Me too — I try to rewrite my own blogging platform/CMS every year or so, wrapping up all the design elements and programming quirks I've learnt over the past year, into a cool little package — fast, simple, and fun to use. :)
Having tried _major_ python frameworks Django, TurboGears, and Pylons. I've always had an issue with the "magic" that powers them. Mind you, I do not want to appear trollish what so ever but I do prefer web.py amongst all of them.

I would personally sacrifice magic in favor of creating my own.
Interesting idea; Wasn't aware there was a limit...
The argument in this essay relies heavily on, among other things, the idea that extraordinarily abstract mathematical discussions are similar to extraordinarily abstract discussions in philosophy or literary theory. This premise (among the others refuted throughout this post) is flawed; while some of mathematics is not yet related to any applied field, that is because applied fields develop by using the mathematics available. Furthermore, unlike the linguistic gymnastics of much of philosophy and literary criticism, the abstractions used in mathematics have meanings that can be explained concretely in simpler terms. Anything published in a mathematical paper is either incontrovertibly true, contains some equally incontrovertible flaw, or is a conjecture after such a result. That mathematics contains this level of rigor is precisely why it avoids the contention against which fields such as literary criticism and philosophy fall--namely, that of containing form without substance.
Digg raised $40mm in VC. VCs don't give you money to put in the bank... they give you money to hire people and invest in things that might be profitable in the future.

Which begs the question: why exactly did they need 40mm in funding?
The most interesting thing about the Chinese Room paper, I believe, is that most people who develop an intuitive understanding of how computers operate mentally confront this very question long before they ever hear of John Searle or the Chinese Room.
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Yes. It's called a second hand Aeron.
I'll finishing my sinatra/sparrow web app that ensures a set amount of EC2 instances are up and running at all times by automatically running other instances among failure. I'd like to launch early next year, http://www.ec2mon.com
And a really cool black & white portrait photo?
Ok, I'll bite.

I've been at Amazon for 6.5 years. People work pretty hard and are recognized and rewarded accordingly. There's still a startup feel to the company. This is manifested in the intensity with which we work and in our rather frugal approach to spending money on fancy office furniture and other frivolous things.

There's a really deep technological core to the company. I remember an occasion which took place just a few weeks after I started there which really made this clear to me. An engineer benchmarked an "a" and a "b" distribution of the same version of the Linux kernel. "a" was 5% faster and he took the time to figure out exactly why this was the case and to see why this had happened. When you are running hundreds or thousands of servers,a 5% performance degradation can alter your cost structure significantly.

We have fun by doing great work. There may be a foosball table or two somewhere in the organization, but by and large our energy is focused on doing a great job for our customers.

Every company likes to claim that they are customer-driven. That is truly the case at Amazon. If you do something heroic to help a customer in need, you may even be recognized in front of your peers at your team's next all-hands gathering.

Creative problem solving is encouraged, but it is most likely going to happen within the space of your team.

Reasoned, fact-driven arguments prevail in meetings and in the overall decision-making process. You won't get too far with an argument that starts out with "I am guessing that..." If you do your homework, collect up the facts, and have genuine numbers to back up your hunches, you will do great.

As a developer you will be on pager duty 1/N of the time, where N is the number of developers on your team. After some piece of code wakes you up at 3 AM twice in the same week, you'll figure out that it is a weak link in the chain and you'll figure out how to strengthen it. This continuous improvement process helps us to make our systems more and more reliable over time. Of course, sometimes the fix is to rearchitect. Figure it out, put the plan together and make it happen.

We do have a "get it done" approach. There's nowhere to hide and no room for slackers or pretenders. Working in our environment tends to weed out those kinds of people pretty quickly.

Benefits are good and once you've proven yourself the pay is good too.

Like I said, I have been at Amazon for 6.5 years. I am still thrilled to come in to work every day (when I'm not traveling or working from home, that is).

Sound good? Track me down and I'll tell you about our open positions...
I give the guy credit for being upfront about it, but an upside in being an entrepreneur is being able to step away from the nitty-gritty details of the day to day stuff. If you believe in your idea, you should be concentrating on growing your business and more often than not that requires bringing someone else on board.
Cool, just found ShoveBox and it looks awesome! Can't afford to buy a licence right now, so I may as well help you test it! :)
Awesome. The other thing, and I expect you have this in mind already, is that if I were to buy one, I'd want a thinner more modern bezel instead of a picture-framey one. Are you planning to make different styles/colors available in the future?
"comparison of Django and RoR"

http://www.google.com/search?q=snakes+and+rubies
I find your site very useful. If you'd like some SEO advice shoot me an IM sometime (AIM: StanleyShilov).
I can whole heartedly recommend renoise... very solidly built and it has great sound quality... can also work inside other hosts.. cubase etc..
Upgrading our webapp to the latest version of the symfony framework, then spinning off the open source version to attack another vertical. Makes for interesting and exciting work.
> regular variable because Java works by reference, not by copy

I haven't read the other replies, so somebody else may have pointed this out already but Java is a by-copy language, like C and C++. Not by-reference like you claim.
Made me visit the django homepage, but seeing this code there made me depressed:

class Person(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

Maybe I am just in a bad mood, but that doesn't look very elegant to me :-( Somehow I struggle with Rails, but I guess there would be no point for me to try Django instead.
I think you've answered the question. Kevin is the company. It was not always so - in fact in the early days he downplayed his role in the company, and it had massive momentum. Instead of concentrating on making a better product, a lot of energy went into the "web 2.0 poster boy" campaign as a marketing strategy. I don't think it worked.
I think the reformation to which he refers would be the advent of modern, analytic philosophy at the turn of the century through the works of Russell, Moore, Frege, and Wittgenstein. If so, the two claims are equivalent.
You really do have a knack for endearing yourself to this audience, don't you?
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You do. Have you read any of the literature on multi-agent systems design? Or the literature on belief-revision/database updating?

There's a significant community of modern philosophers/logicians actively contributing to developments in CS. Also, check out the Philosophy department at CMU: they've got someone employed full-time to work on implementations of philosophically-inspired causal inference systems.
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Man! I want 250 points now. Just 233 points away . . .
Of course I pretty much associate the orange and gray with HN, so I'll probably get 250, and say "YES! I can change my top bar color!" and then try to decide what color to use for 10 minutes and leave it the same.
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It's not really what I would call a "startup" as I don't really plan to monetize, but I'd still like to see what you guys think and get users.
Plus if you have any ideas of how to monetize well (the only ways I can think of are charging, charging for features, or putting ads in the feed), I'd be happy to hear them.
It's my first webapp and my first post to HN.
And if you'd please, don't turn this into a "never give your twitter password to anyone" "but I love all of these apps" discussion. As soon as twitter implements oauth, I'll use it. Until then, all of the solutions are ugly, and most become scaling issues very quickly. Though I did just come up with one that is only really ugly.
Comments/suggestions/signing up are all greatly appreciated.
Because healthy young people wouldn't buy the subscription, and the risk pool would be flooded with high-risk people, and the system would fail. Wikipedia: "adverse selection".

There's also no such thing as a free lunch (which is why dental insurance sucks) --- if you know you're going to incur an expense, and your provider knows you're going to incur an expense, nobody is going to "insure" you out of it; you're going to pay one way or the other.
If you're a woman or (obviously) if you have a family, this isn't going to work for you --- there's no maternity coverage. (I'm not trying to snipe at it).
http://www.GroupCard.com
It's also murder for recruiting people --- anyone with a family is going to require health insurance.
I'll answer the questions in order:

1: If humans lost all technology today, the vast majority of them would die off within a month, because only modern, high-energy farming can get enough food out of the ground to feed them. However, this high-energy farming is only possible because of oil, which not only transports the food, but provides the pesticides without which insects would be eating instead of humans. (Another finite, nonrenewable natural resource with no possible substitute provides fertilizer, without which our food wouldn't even grow).

2: Because, like other species before them, humans are destined to exhaust the resources on which they depend.

3: Nothing has been created (IOW, entropy has not decreased, and matter and energy are still conserved)-- we're merely better at transforming matter and energy than we used to be.

4: Before our developed energy resources were built, they existed as undeveloped energy resources and raw materials. For example, oil drills are made of steel from the ground, not steel magicked into existence, and they are built to remove oil from the ground, not to create oil out of thoughts.

4a: Since the aforementioned resources are finite, they are most certainly running out. The only scientific theory on the timing was formulated by one M. King Hubbert in the 1950s.

4c: General entropy is irrelevant. We're still over a trillion years away from seeing the entire universe burn out. The entropy of this planet, WRT its ability to sustain an ever-increasing human population, is increasing rapidly, as evidenced by global warming, desertification, deforestation, and other very obvious symptoms.

5: Yes, humans are running out of general resources (because they are finite) to transform into security-enhancing resources. No, humans are not running out of chaos, they are creating plenty of it: Polluted drinking water, fishless oceans, coalless coal mines, a toxic atmosphere, and dry oil fields (among other things) are all perfectly useless to our security. Eventually, there isn't going to be anything left but rocks and mud, and then the situation I described in (1) above will exist.

5a: 100,000 years is not a long time compared to the length of the history of life on Earth. There have been other species that lasted longer, but are gone today.
Trying to understand a reimplementation of a famous AI program from the 70s that I've had lying around for 9 years:
http://github.com/akkartik/am-utexas/tree/master

And oh, learning prolog as I go.
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You're saying Wittgenstein is part of reformed philosophy, not bad philosophy?

I don't know about that:

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~luke_manning/tractatus/tractatus-j...

1
The world is everything that is the case. *
1.1
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
1.11
The world is determined by the facts, and by these being all the facts.
1.12
For the totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
1.13
The facts in logical space are the world.
1.2
The world divides into facts.
1.21
Any one can either be the case or not be the case, and everything else remain the same.
How is this relevent to HN ? - I understand posting here if a charity cause has some kind of particular interest to startups, etc. But for random charitable stuff - why is this any more worthy than any other charitable activity ?
Term health insurance can be a bad bet: if you get sick on day 360, you're basically screwed, because your current insurer will drop you and your new insurance won't cover it. If you're young, the earlier suggestion of High-Deductable + HSA might be a better plan.
I'm saying that Wittgenstein /contributed/ to the advent of modern analytic or formal philosophy; an indisputable claim. While I have a spot in my heart for the Tractatus (if nothing else the method of truth tables in logic was co-invented within its pages, not to mention "whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"), I'm not defending it and its solipsistic position/obfuscated style per se.
It should also be pointed out that your HSA can earn interest.
While I agree that slogging through Aristotle and Kant is incredibly painful (and many departments definitely over-emphasis), I think it's undeniably useful for one pursuing a career or even hobby in philosophy to have some knowledge of the discipline's history. If nothing else, it demonstrates exactly what not to do and how vital clarity and a rigorous, logical methodology are.
I'm a researcher. I have friends who've had research-y jobs at Amazon (I don't think they have a separate research division, like Google and unlike Microsoft/Yahoo.) I've heard uniformly negative opinions from them. It could be just that research is given short shrift, but it probably also reflects on the overall culture.
I think that HN looks 'wrong' now when I'm not logged in.
(I use f6f6ef for a more tasteful look.)
nice, you just demonstrated that caring about the topic is all that matters to have a good chance of succeeding (not how smart you are).
It makes it kind of hard to click the green links.
So surely everybody should be good at "thinking", since everyone who has been alive long enough has been "thinking" for 10,000 hours...

I find it a bit miserable though - how can you head into something knowing that it will take a decade of focused practise to be good at it? It's a bit intimidating, and limiting - how many decades do you have left? Wouldn't want to waste them on something not worth it, eh?
Something both of these papers miss is that most modern disciplines have their origins in philosophy and, in moments of foundational crisis, often return to their roots. While I do find pure philosophy to often be garbage (most metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology), I think one of its most important contributions is in multi-disciplinary pursuits and its concern with foundational matters. Not to mention that so much of modern, theoretical computer science (particularly logic and type theory) have its origins in the works of philosophers.
Keep your prices down and your APIs open and people will do this stuff for you, and feel like great hackers for doing it. Kiosks seem like the kind of thing entrepreneurs love to dream up business ideas for and none of them seem to make much impact - that's a purely unscientific intuition.
It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there's the slide. Cute theatrical technique.

Here's an idea: treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. You could have a conversation. You'd need theatrical skills to pull this off.

Please reply to this comment if you try this out!