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> then it would be ok for students to use an algorithm to write the papers no?

If a student used an essay-writing algorithm he designed himself, I would certainly consider that okay.
I find it beautifully ironic - the statement "2.They are evil. They are dangerous. Everyone must know." from people who invaded privacy under the misguided belief they are fighting the good fight...

Two wrongs don't make a right. Grow the f*ck up - stand up instead of skulking in the shadows.
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From what I heard, it's possible to run Android apps on Ubuntu for Android:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/ubuntu-for-android-announ...

The fact that they run in a special window suggests that the applications actually run in Android, but that they are composited in/on the Linux desktop.
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A corporate bank's primary purpose is easily stated as: to help its customers manage and raise money.

Traditionally, this has included both equity funding and debt funding. Banks will help with public offerings, and with issuing bonds - or loaning directly from the bank's cash pile.

Most established businesses use some amount of loans to "leverage" their business. Some smaller (and even larger) businesses even depend on the loans to operate day to day. However, startups normally don't get access to this type of money, because banks see them as far too risky.

SVB presumably has its own custom risk models and procedures to deal with startups, which enables them to loan money to startups even though most banks wouldn't.

Why would a startup want to get a loan rather than raising some money? Because borrowing money is about a billion times better/cheaper than selling a chunk of the company, that's why.

This won't be replacing seed funding - that's always going to be too risky for a bank, which needs most of its money to be repaid with interest - but for startups with sustainable revenues and growth, SVB can presumably come to a sensible analysis as to whether this company will be able to service its debt, and so make a loan where a traditional bank wouldn't, in a growth funding situation. And the startup would be stupid not to raise at least part of their growth funding with a loan rather than selling more equity, if they can.
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No.

Isn't it ironic how just a few hours after somebody posted the wikipedia article on Betteridge's Law of Headlines (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880), two of such headlines make the top 2 of HN :)

More on topic, this looks like Palm Foleo re-invented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo). I always found the Foleo concept great so I wouldn't mind seeing another attempt. That said, the success of iPad and other tablets is going to make this device even more niche than the Foleo would have been. It'll be a tough sell.
Pretty much any extra skill will make you a better programmer if you disregard the time put into learn it, so that's hardly a high bar. What about comparing the marginal return of an hour spent learning C with an hour learning best practices in their own particular field, whatever that might be?
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I think his point is that they may be irresolvable.

To think about the world, you must first have a model of the world. Then you reason about the model, finally you take action.

Somewhere in there you have a motivation for following this observe-decide-act loop. Motivation provides a reference point towards which you want the observed system to evolve.

But there's a problem. The easiest way to satisfy the motivation component is to lie to it. Tell it things are just hunky-dory.

Any singularity-style intelligence will necessarily need to be built with some kind of anchoring motivations to try and stop it from getting out of control. But what's to stop it simply lying to itself and ignoring the outside world?

Trying to add a meta-motivation be as realistic as possible won't work, such a system will seize up with analysis paralysis.

One of the things that Hayekian economists argue is that knowledge about reality cannot be centralised; it is unevenly, lumpily distributed across the whole of humankind. No one actor does, and no one actor could, perceive the entire system. But it works, because no one actor has to.
> The counter-counter example is Apple.

I disagree that Apple is a good counter-counter example. They started on the CP/M platform, which was proprietary. They were eventually able to develop their own operating system, thanks to the resources that success had given them.
I think this article will help you better understand it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/257237/clambook_turns_the_lap...

In short, it is an "empty"/"braindead" laptop that uses your phone's processing and storage capabilities to function.
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I'm a huge Windows Phone fan too, but this post isn't about the features, but rather the interaction.

The only thing I'm really missing in iOS (I've got an iPhone that I use part-time) is the ability to go back through my previous apps easily.
Rest assured, MPAA or alike won't leave them up for long. They should be smart as to where to host, and how to evade.

Still, even if someone shuts them down, the idea of visually and functionally all-web-two-point-whatever torrent sites will live on. I believe, that early success of movies.io will be enough for others to try to follow the lead.
Probably the most useful thing SVB could do for seed-stage startups is to offer painless merchant accounts structured with startups in mind (i.e not requiring a 100k deposit if you're only going to be processing 30k in payments, etc.)
Totally agree.

A lesson in life however is that you will meet people with real potential, who just never make use of it. For a long time I had a couple of friends who I tried to encourage to make use of their talented lives, but in the end they made their own choices.

In fact I can recall one such chap - one of my closest friends since childhood, just dropping out of life altogether - I don't mean he killed himself, just consistently took the path of least resistance to nowheresville. It took me literally years to get over it because I cared for him.

My advice is just let people do what they want, don't take it personally as your crusade to set them straight. It's an impossible and thankless task. By all means be there for your friends when they need you, but don't try to direct them.
Blah blah GEMA blah music rights blah not allowed to show this video blah. Hrmpf. Germany. Where legal idiocracy trumps sharing in every possible way.
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In extreme cases, state-adopted nominal realities may be purely driven by motivations, and have little or no connection to reality.

This essay was just a little too unfocused for my tastes. As an observer of many types of organizations of people, the predilection to spin is endemic. It's not just "in extreme cases"

I scanned the article and kept trying to find some meat, some kind of clear and forceful statement that the author was supporting. Instead it seemed like he was saying a lot of good things, but lacked the intestinal fortitude or insight necessary to actually get anywhere. I was left with a version of "it may be a property of monolithic systems that their motivations are at odds with an accurate perception of reality." That's almost useful, but not quite. There are a lot of interesting places to go from that statement, but we didn't go there. Hell we could have started deconstructing Aristotle and talking about how the tension between the usefulness of categorization versus all abstractions are leaky creates holes in what is knowable. Or we could have moved forward to sociology and discussed the role of the individual in large groups. Or we could have talked AI. Lots of cool places to take this train of thought.

That's a shame. It's obvious the author is well-educated and has thought this through. Sure wish he would have taken us somewhere a bit more interesting.
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When you are attempting to do a very specific thing. Not going to go into what that might be, unless you're curious, but sometimes you do need to know exactly or as close to exactly how your code is operating.
Wait, where have I heard this before?

Oh wait it's Palm Foleo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo) all over again
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From TFA:

> MHL Technology simultaneously delivers digital video to ClamBook and power to your Smartphone

> Standard Laptops can run uncomfortably hot in your lap. ClamBook's processing happens on your Smartphone, so it runs cool as cucumber.

> With MHL® technology, your smartphone charges while it’s connected to ClamBook.

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Apparently it has speakers too.
What is amazing in this?

Returning goods bought by mail order or online is the most basic service sellers have to implement. Refund if the product is not open and is returned at most seven days after purchase is guaranteed by law. If it is open a reason such as "does not fit" should be enough to be refunded.

Or is it the fact that the customer was refunded before amazon received the parcel? I am not impressed as my bank account is debited once a month, which means I usually still have my money when I send an item back to the seller!

It was already like that when I was buying things (especially clothing) through mail order twenty years ago. Or is it only in my country?
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They don't list merchant accounts as part of their account services, but I suspect that can't and won't be their main differentiator. After all, BrainTree has now expanded to the UK (and I believe they offer accounts-with-merchant-account-included), and surely a Stripe-in-the-UK clone (or even Stripe expanding to the UK) is not far away.
Oh, and this. For sure. Why is everything so slow?!
One great advantage of C (which was kind of mentioned in the article) is predictability of the generated code. Compared to a C++ compilers, a C compiler is much simpler. When you write a for loop, even doing something on a struct or some fairly "complicated" object, you have a fairly good idea of the machine code generated. It's also easier to go between the assembly code and the C code generally. In some applications like email or image processing, this can be valuable.
that's the trouble with discussion about A.I.

all of the exciting stuff isn't in the fundamentals and principles, it's in the exact details of how you train model X to do task Y, and few practitioners are going to give away information that's so commercially valuable.
Hi, I am sorry. I am no longer permitted to share that piece of work. And hence I took down the blog post.

Thank You.
I did try Haxe, back in 2010 when I used it to write a silly little domino trail. It was fine for what it does, but I wasn't particularly impressed.

It was interesting to be able to write code in one language then compile it to other destinations but it seemed to me that targeting specific domains and learning all their ins and outs made more sense.
Anybody want to summarize what she says in the video?
I've never heard anyone informed bash C. C++ and Java, yes, but not C. Even people who've never used it tend to know that C has a domain at which (a) it excels, and (b) it's really the only credible option.

There's actually no such thing as a bad language. I enjoy language wars as much as anyone else, but languages are only good or bad relative to the type of problem they're being used for.

For example, what makes C++ and Java odious is that people try to use them for inappropriate purposes. They aren't platonically "evil" languages, and they weren't designed by stupid people; they're just inappropriate for over 90 percent of what modern programmers have to do in their professional lives. When people need high-level features and don't have them, they tend to roll their own-- badly. This is Greenspun's Tenth Rule and the heart of those god-awful "design patterns".

C++ and Java, for all that, also have domains in which they're the appropriate languages to use. They're just very small.
Oh god you poor man. We took a look at using SMB Ledger (the parent of LedgerSMB) years back and after peeling back the covers it just looked horrific both from a security and general code quality perspective. This was around the time of the fork, and I couldn't help feel that SMB Ledger had it's work cut out. Hopefully you guys have been able to get through to the other side.
"The nightmare scenario for Nokia is that the one I [the author] described here back in January: that there really isn't room, in reality, for a "third ecosystem". In this scenario there's Apple and Android, leaving RIM and Nokia fighting for crumbs. Today, the health of WP as an "ecosystem" isn't obvious: Samsung, Dell, LG and HTC all seem to have given up. Only Nokia makes a noise."
> They started on the CP/M platform

Uh? Aren't you confusing Apple and Microsoft? Apple started with the Apple I, a fully wired circuit board custom-built by Woz. The Apple II was much the same, although it could run CP/M via a dedicated Z-80 expansion card from third parties.

On the other hand, Microsoft got started when Allen and Gates wrote a BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 (not CP/M) then built MS-DOS on top of a CP/M clone (again not CP/M) for the IBM PC contract.
Because continuing that analogy, you should pay once for that time and effort on the part of the publisher as well. It kind of falls apart, and I'm pretty sure it's not the point you were trying to make.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's, any analysis of post-WW2 Sweden has to account for them being one of the few European countries that emerged from that conflict with its industrial base intact, which it managed by hedging its bets on who the victor would be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II
<Coding in C is like carrying a loaded gun pointed at your feet.> Could not agree more. Except I would say pointed at someones head, or, perhaps, your own.
"Liked the Site Governance page?"

Sounds like about as big a thrill as C-Span, and with equal level of appeal.

However, I'm sure all 5 people who clicked "Like" on the Site Governance page also voted.
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Also: SSH is considerably more battle-tested in this configuration. There's a lot to be said for being aligned with how the developers imagine a program is used
Why buy them when you have already infiltrated and neutralized them ?
Then again, WebOS already had them as well so...
As someone who is building a religion in his spare time, I must say that I don't see something intrinsic to religion which says "they must exert as much control as they can" and "they don't give up control willingly," just as I don't see something intrinsic to government which says "they must form sprawling bureaucracies."

With that said, there may be a feedback-theory reason why these things often connect. In the case of governments, for example, bureaucracy allows you to marshal much vaster quantities of resources, especially for your military: so as we look for a positive feedback loop, the most successful governments were probably bureaucracies. (Yes, I would also classify evolution by natural selection as a feedback theory.)

It may therefore be the case that there is a competition for a limited believership and the religions which control their believers most tend to grow themselves in this competition. If you want an interesting perspective on what Anonymous is doing, it is trying to increase the cost of religious control, to the point where the feedback goes from positive to negative. If each exertion of control (however that is defined) tends to lose believers rather than gain them, then religions will either have to adapt to a policy of less-control, or else will naturally die out due to negative feedback.
People who love C love it, in part, because they are often solving interesting problems with it. Many problems that require C are interesting: embedded software, automated robots, new databases etc. Most problems that C is not good at - Web development - are not that interesting to many people that love C.
> Why is everything so slow?!

Urf tell me about it. Does my flipping head in.
Considering Apple patented the clamshell design from the Macbook Air recently, I expect this design to shift radically.
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Fair point - I'll give you that!

I did rather like WebOS.
Best? Probably an infrastructure VPN across databases. Have you database listen on the MPLS link and limit access to the service based on IP addresses and strong authentication.

Cheapest? SSH tunnel or openvpn point to point link.
They should allow just watching the video without the audio. I mean, it's just some background music in most cases.
Sorry for my mistake, I associate WAR files with Application containers like JBoss and (IIRC) Tomcat. I only deployed with embedded jetty :)
depends what kind of impact win8 has on the tablet market. seems like android is kind of weak here compared to iOS. If Win8 gets a big enough chunk of that and if WP8 is more or less compatible with win8 on an app level win8 powered tablets could pull windows phones along enough to get reasonable market share. Microsoft certainly has the reasources and cash to at least try that. As far as RIM is concerned, I see their future as kind of bleak...
As a channel to push your phone OS, of course.
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Hell yes, stay off the wall.

That's the reason most people don't use Facebook login, they're scared it will put something on their wall.

If Facebook had any sense they'd force the API to ask permission and show the user what will be posted before it will do so. Maybe then people would be more likely to use Facebook login and give them that network effect advantage they're after.
What are some of the problems you encountered? Why not cut the strings now and finish it on your own?
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Ad-hoc as the use of a circuit solver might seem, there is some quite interesting machine learning literature on the use of resistive networks to do "graph transduction", e.g.:

Mark Herbster, Resistive geometry for graph-based transduction
http://eprints.pascal-network.org/archive/00006759/

The application in this paper is fairly similar too (spam detection in a large graph)
Because Nokia will burn through its remaining cash within two years at the current loss rate and otherwise go bankrupt - perhaps fatally tarnishing Windows as a phone operating system.
I still want to know how you do the background images.

Congrats on building a beautiful product too.
What if I promised you gainful employment and gave you as much time as you wanted to prepare ? Yeah most people think "I know C its just like C++/Java". A good 75% of the people who fail don't even invoke malloc once.
Under his proposal, students can only participate in courses when they buy an online access code

Isn't that called tuition?
Or they will move closer to supply. It becomes a question of what is cheaper. Transporting raw/component materials near population centers, and then deal with all your waste near population centers, or building everything close to supply, far away from population centers, and polluting where "no one really cares".

I am cynical, so I'm going to guess the second. Even if we get mass robot manufacturing, we'll just let China continue to build all sorts of stuff, cause it's easier to pollute there.
The role of server S would be analogous to that of your email server, which you already trust. Just like email, it would be a decentralised system - with numerous public providers, as well as servers that organisations and individuals have set up themselves.

You could also have multiple accounts with different S servers, e.g. one for work and another personal use.

I agree with the single point of failure regarding availability - if your authentication server is down, you won't be able to log into anything. Though we already have the single point of failure with the existing system, in that once someone has your email password, they can obtain password reset messages from any site that you've registered on with that account.
It's funny, I tend to assume (because it mirrors my own experience, and my peers when I entered the industry) that everyone starts off as a C-on-Unix programmer, and specializes from there, into databases, or Windows programming, or whatever. But this isn't actually true, and makes people go cross-eyed when I say things like "just strace it" or "attach gdb and get me a backtrace". I grew up doing 6502 assembly language. Kids these days do HTML and JavaScript. They don't even know how far away from the machine they are, and when the "magic box" doesn't work, they're stumped.

A good programmer has the mentality "it's all turtles, all the way down", where a turtle means a thing that ultimately is just a piece of code, written by someone much like yourself, than you can understand inside out if only you take the time to do so. Even the CPU is just code (e.g. VHDL).
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The difference is that the heads of Scientology know that their religion is not only completely made up, but was designed from the ground up to serve as a money-making machine for the organization's leaders. While the history of the Roman Catholic church is rife with corruption, its structure, dogma and so forth are all focused on faith, not wealth. With the Catholic church, corruption is a side effect; with Scientology it is the raison d'être.
Completely this. On a similar note someone I follow on twitter posted that they thought it was important that every programmer knows the response times from L1, L2 and L3 cache...
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If you ever have to deal with a program that crashes (e.g. segmentation fault, etc) then the guy with the knowledge of C and the tools (gdb etc) will run rings around the guy who only knows a scripting language.
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For web and system administration tasks, sure. For anything where performance is an issue, you simply won't be using an interpreted language.

C is by no means my go-to language for personal projects, but there's still a helluva lot of software out there that it would be folly to write in anything but.
memcmp will probably return always the same value for the same parameters, which may not trigger the error. Trying different values may yield a value whose mod is 0.
So if you had most of those things you'd be dead and therefor not factor into this discussion. The ones who didn't die were much stronger than the average person today. They had to be.
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