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Justin, I like your idea behind "circl.es": people already are generating a lot of data, there is no need to ask for more.

If you need help with your data just email me.

Note to self: data mining web app, it seems to use simple a similarity measure, same idea can be used for recommendation engine [Twitter + Facebook + Pinterest, etc ... to get good vector representation for each person, then clustering (probably non-convex variable density or not), and assigning recommended items from a cluster to all people in that cluster]) - product recommendation is not much different than dating
They surrendered.
Maybe you missed what I was saying. Those instruments are the heart of what makes Hubble a world-class observatory, and they are far from off the shelf components.
HN thread on "Startups, this is how design works":
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Oh, it's just a farmers market directory for the west coast. It's old and I'm not proud of the design ... but hey, I shipped something.

http://farmersmarkitapp.com/
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This could be solved reasonably well with ACLs. Give the git user selective write to the tree rooted at /srv/www/helloworld.
Or he just failed the Turing test...
Hey, just wondering, did someone make that infographic by hand or is there some software that does it for you? EDIT: Made by a graphic designer, answered below.

And now I will shamelessly take this moment to request a few features related to account security :-).

* Alerting: SMS or e-mail notification when an unrecognized device logs into my account or when records in my domains change.

* 2-factor Authentication: Prompt for a code delivered via SMS, e-mail, Google Authenticator, or DUO Security to login from an unrecognized device.

* Login Accounting: Let me see what IPs logged into my account, when, geoip info for each, and preferably what actions they took while logged in. Provide an API for this info so I can write an automated script to analyze it for suspicious events.

If you end up making any of these features, it would be cool to open-source a library you used to do it. There are a bunch of large SaaS providers out there that use features like these but they're all homegrown implementations afaik.

Btw, the Google Apps Admin Audit API exists but I have never seen anyone do anything with it and it makes me sad. A few hours with [name a scripting language] and you could probably have a pretty robust Google Apps monitoring system, but no one seems to care:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/admin-audit/get_st...
You are correct, but English is not as strict as math. You can read it as "It's too bad"->"It's not possible" "they both"->"for both of them" "can't lose."->"to loose".
Should the public have the right to see the full details of "fails"?

The SEC website says disclosing this info would put firms like GS at a competitive disadvantage.

But someone has to know which sales cleared and which did not.

How can we accurately set a market price for something based on historical sales data that may in part be false (i.e. sales that were never cleared)?
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Yeah, mostly because it is proprietary and crashes often (Mathematica 8 especially).

The vast majority of students in my program are non-programmers. The only 'programming language' they know is mathematica which I think is a real shame.

Worse than that is that most of them have developed a dependence on Mathematica; without it they are severely limited in what they can do.
We are provided with free copies (student version), but once we graduate will have to pay the full price if we want to continue using it.

I guess I just don't like having my abilities to solve problems tied to an expensive, closed source program. I do admit, it is very powerful.
From wikipedia: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator, or pilot (in military UAVs called a Combat Systems Officer on UCAVs) on the ground or in another vehicle."

They can be controlled by pilots remotely, but are also able to function on their own.
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The music's world version of VCs is to own your own label and sign new artists. One of his was sitting at #1 on iTunes, so he seems to get the concept.
I think your characterization is wrong. It seems that you Bush canned the project. According to the asked the National Academy of Sciences whether the mission was "strong and scientifically vital." What information do you have that they didn't?
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Can you fly lower? You'd have to fly faster but wouldn't that be one way to increase resolution?
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Especially when he also has a stack of power to influence the fortunes of investments that he makes.
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This is pretty much business as usual for the enterprise space. Threatening a company's customers tends to illicit a response.
Another "this is why I quit" + name_of_company doomsday letter. Instead of a company, he's quitting his research and university. We know why this starts: seeking fame. We know how this ends: forgotten.
This is too much. About a week ago I finished reading A Deepness in the Sky, and a couple of days after that I started reading Charles Stross' Accelerando. In that one I ran across this passage:

> "Cats," says Pamela. "He was hoping to trade their uploads to the Pentagon
> as a new smart bomb guidance system in lieu of income tax payments. Something
> about remapping enemy targets to look like mice or birds or something before
> before feeding it to their sensorium. The old kitten and laser pointer trick."
>
> Manfred stares at her, hard. "That's not very nice. Uploaded cats are a
> *bad* idea."

Those are some lovely coincidences.
This reminds me of a problem we used to debate in college; on a perfectly efficient machine, would `cat /dev/random > /dev/null` violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Why, Lisp of course: http://twitpic.com/60plzm/full

(I don't have anything but that Soviet era mosaic to back it up with.)
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Ask HN: On Systems Engineering (EE) vs. Systems Engineering (CS)
I'm entering my Senior year of college with dual majors in Systems Engineering and Physics. I've also started a couple companies and love both coding and the startup lifestyle. (Details on my profile page, if you want more details/contact).

My flavor of Systems Engineering resembles Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on control theory and operations research. With the latter concentration specifically, the algorithms/heuristics behind seemingly basic apps like the Google Maps algorithm have fascinated me. In fact, it is these OR professors who describe a tangible engineering problem, the go to the board and write the problem in flawless mathematical set notation, then finally show us the code that applies OR techniques to find a solution that I find truly inspiring as I begin to make post-graduation plans (for it spans engineering, pure mathematics, algorithms (physic-style!), and computer science). On a more personal level, it surprises me that such few students take operations research classes, when it seems that the techniques taught are in use on a large scale in both consulting firms and corporations to save billions of dollars a year in inefficiency.

However, when I look at startups and find positions for 'systems engineering,' they tend to involve low-level C/C++ programming, the Linux kernel, and DNS. I understand their use of the phrase as it applies to the engineering of a computer system. However, this strongly differs from the academic definition, both in skill set and application.

The dichotomy here confuses me. I enjoy perusing the job postings of my favorite startups, and finding that the title on my degree in no way applies to the same title on a job post is a bit disheartening. The skillset for the computer science 'systems engineer' does not seem to intersect with even the basic accreditation requirements for a person to considered a legally-qualified professional engineer, let alone the academic definition of a systems engineer.

Can anybody comment on this?

I feel that I am looking for insight on:

* how the industry should approach computer system experts

* how systems engineers from the academic/EE perspective should market themselves in the hacker world

* whether this fuss is a bit inane because my major is considered both interdisciplinary and amporphous

Also, on a more personal/curious level:
Can anybody recommend a few books that teach the skills of a CS systems engineer? I understand the basics of the Turing theory, have extensive electricity and magnetism background, and know Python/Java/Ruby/PHP/Matlab/RelationalDatabasing/NoSQL, but: I don't understand the Linux kernel, low-level systems processes, or the more low-level DNS functionality. I have a voracity for understanding technology and really wish to add comprehension, if not a higher level of educatation, of the CS systems engineering to my repertoire. (i.e. I'm an EE systems engineer, but this CS systems engineering stuff seems cool and I want help learning it!)
> surely no shortage of people willing to die to do that

I think there is a major shortage of people willing to be suicide bombers. There is a grand fallacy out there that the world is full of suicidal terrorists. It is not.

Suicide bombers from Palestine were generally tricked or extorted. Those that were acting on their own volition generally could not detonate themselves, which is why bystanders had detonators.

There is strong evidence that most of the 9/11 hijackers did not know it was a suicide mission.

That said, under orders, extortion, or trickery, a human could definitely sneak a bomb into a city.
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It sounds to me that you interpret taking what might happen in the far future seriously as early-stage schizophrenia. Does that sound about right?

If so, that's disappointing news for me and others who try to take what might happen in the far future seriously.

I'm not sure what to make of your edit. It looks as though you wish to compartmentalize objections to technological development in such a way that they can't actually prevent any technology from getting developed. If we're just going to ignore the outcomes of such discussions I don't see any point in having them, we might as well just charge blindly forward.
Yes - for a few minutes before you burn up!

300km is about the lowest practical orbit with any reasonable lifetime, it depends on the size of the satelite and the solar weather
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I hope Meebo Messenger doesn't die. It's still the best web-based chat app, and the only way I still connect to my old MSN account.
I have gotten successful by being 'unlucky'.

Post my 10th Standard(10th grade) I failed to secure a seat in a good college, though I had good marks. I went to a sub par college by any measure. I met some amazingly hardworking people in the college, who were just motivated like crazy to prove to the world that going bad college doesn't change anything in life. We worked hard, very hard. Studied like crazy. I can't remember if we ever slept for more than 5 hours a day the whole year. I did great in my pre university exams.

During the entrance exams I got 'unlucky' again. The bus I took to the examination hall got punctured and I arrived to the hall 15 minutes late. I lost precious rank and again went into a average college. I met some great friends, we hacked in our free time. We did part time jobs in start ups. We installed modems for ISP's. I learned tons compared to other people in my age.

Then again due an average college I failed to get a job in a software company straight out of college. I went to a call center. I got trained to deal with sales calls, technical support, I learned to talk in American accent, I learned to work late nights, I learned how to resolve issues quickly. My other friends went to work at top software companies here in India.

I started coding in my spare time during the day and work in call center at the night. I got a job in a software company 9 months later. Again I got placed in a support project by being 'unlucky'.

I started automating stuff, hacked like crazy day and night. I got a break in another unit in the company. All my other friends went to foreign onsite locations and were seeing the world. I went to work in development project.

I got 'unlucky' again, I fell ill. Lost 35 kgs of weight due to a bad diagnosis of Tropical Sprue. I was put in as a back up guy for one of our client which happens to one of the largest web companies in the world today. I got back my life, and health slowly.

I started working like crazy again. I did stuff with and editor and a interpreter they had never seen. They were happy, they decided to hire me full time. I happened to land in a company any guy here would dream to work.

In this journey of getting and having chains of repeated back luck, I have gotten rich, got a little success and doing good by gods grace now.

If I had gotten 'lucky' at any stage. I wouldn't be where I'm today.

In other news, most of my friends who get tons of opportunities, chances and crazy twists of destiny in their favor are no where despite all they got today.

Moral of the story I learned so far: You can't win against Karma! No way! It will get to you sooner or later. So just do the right stuff and relax.
Interesting attempt, but it is easy to break.

Try

Plot[Sin[x], {x, -5, 200}]

The plot is all over the place. In Mathematica it is a smooth sine wave.

You can put the same input into Wolfram Alpha and see how it looks there.
I think the difference is that no money changes hands.

Normal shorting is when you "borrow" a share from someone else with the promise of giving it back at a given date. You sell it and pocket the current price, then try and buy back the share in the future at a lower price, pocketing the difference.

In reality, money never changes hands during a short (other than the cost of setting up the short). The short is only due at the end of the borrowing period (or before if a margin call happens).

So in the case of a naked short, it's more of a bet on GS part. They don't located a share to "lend" you, they just say "ok, pay us a few dollars and you have a short". If the stock goes down, GS gives you the difference, if it goes up, you pay up.

It's basically a bet and GS is the counterparty.
Absolutely agree!

..and from my experience, three clicks is about optimum for speed and opening the board. All my sub 80s games have opened 'gashes' across the board, the three clicks gives you the best chance of jumping the 'wire' (as the other guy put it)..

If you are going to have to play the odds at some point anyway, may as well do it at the start before you invest 50s of your life in some pointless activity.
It's linked from the YC "How to Apply"[1] page.

Don't try scaring people unless you are very sure of what you are talking about.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
Like many other posters, I find his specific worries a bit misplaced. However, I have had some reluctance to continue working on some of my own machine learning projects because I'm worried about the potential abuses of the technology.

I'm sure the field will get along just fine without me, of course, but I just felt like I was very likely to be asked to use ML skills to do things I felt weren't entirely ethical.
Pretty intense hack... I think Google gives you the option of setting up a recovery phone to receive voice or SMS messages. It looks like SMS may be more secure.

It also sounds like he didn't have 2 factor setup on his personal gmail account. I wonder if that would of helped.
It's been forever since I read the book, but wasn't the whole point of the Emergency culture they didn't use AI and relied entirely on hyper-focused humans with enslavement implants?
> However I would actually advise developers to stop and think if they really need MongoDB or the latest fad, because their current relational database, such as PostgreSQL, does a mighty fine job for most of their needs.

Every time I've had to use an ORM, it always became a headache sooner or later. It got to the point where I stopped even trying to perform an automatic mapping; I reverted back to using explicit SQL in my code and avoided the "abstraction" altogether.

With a document store like MongoDB, though, the mapping between object and document is almost seamless. It's actually really quite comfortable.
When humanoid robots become passable as humans, I would expect us to have technology capable of distinguishing between warm blooded humans filled with water and robots filled with artificial compounds, and to detect bomb embedded in anything mobile.

I wonder why it did not occur to him that the same AI could also be used to aid in this detection of humanoid nuclear bombs, which if they are going to be built, will certainly be built with or without him.
I think you didn't understand that paragraph. The implication is that Goldman couldn't get the stock, and in fact did not bother, and just lied and said they did.
If you're short-selling, naked or not, GS is not the party you're selling to. GS is the broker. They execute the sale on your behalf, because they have access to the market. The $10 comes from two other third-parties that GS finds on the market.
I'm happy about this trend. Cheaper software is better software in my opinion.
A return was considered in place of the COSTAR servicing mission, I can't remember if there was a 'safety margin' in that figure or there was another reason - but it was rejected for safety reason.
Then again, maybe AI-based surveillance could eliminate crime without embarrassment from other people violating your privacy.
You owe me a new monitor.

With that in mind, since physical presence becomes less and less important to influence the human noosphere over time, it's not totally out of the question that a sufficiently intelligent AI could actually be holding conversations all over the web, subtly shifting human opinions in a way that suits it's purposes. (Probably not now of course, but as we get closer and closer to Turing Test capable bots it's a more valid concern.)
Is there a point where there are no more efficiencies to be found though?

For sure. If demand outstrips supply, some competitors will have to exit the market. A good micro textbook will go through all of this, or if you prefer a conceptual approach try Todd Buckholz' New ideas from dead economists.
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> The only 'programming language' they know is mathematica which I think is a real shame.

Mathematica is a real functional programming language. It's a lisp with CamelCase builtins and consistent naming. And that's without any of its math goodness. It has superb documentation and a huge standard library. If you master it, you can master any lisp with a simple translator. matlab is a toy by comparison.
First, most poor people still don't live in projects.
Second, I don't know if degradation matters more than material possessions.
> It sounds to me that you interpret taking what might happen in the far future seriously as early-stage schizophrenia. Does that sound about right?

Only if it is speculation without evidence or solid logic that causes major personal distress. Also, meeting all of the other diagnostic criteria is a major plus, but getting severely worked up over something you cannot logically explain or provide evidence for is not normal.
Yep that sounds like the horror that is Nvidia-Optimus. There's some kludges out there to do it all on the internal display, i don't know how well it works for mixing the two. I assume you've already looked at Bumblebee to see if it might help your situation?
but the plan/aim is to make it all very simple to setup (even for noobs :)). cmon, ACL knowledge is not something wide spread.

So, we need to keep things simpler!
>> It's not hard to imagine if you let your mind wander

Ahem: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075765/
"These deals aren’t equity-for-endorsement trades. Bieber put cash into each one, and few of the companies have promoted their links to the singer. Spotify, which is still working to establish itself in the U.S., wouldn’t even discuss Bieber’s investment."

"Bieber has come a long way in the finance department since I first broached the subject with him a bit over a year ago. 'I have a business manager,' he told me at the 2011 Grammys. 'That basically sums up the question.' Today that’s changed: 'I do calls every week with my business manager and my lawyer,' he says. 'Each week I’m learning something about my business and what I need to know for my career.'"

"His eye for technology and trends ultimately determines the go or no-go--and some of the investments have come through his own contacts--but the guy actively scouting deals, whether venture capital investments or brand extensions, has a nickname worthy of a teen idol’s manager: Scott Braun, known to all as Scooter."

"On the tour Bieber will be showcasing the more grown-up fare of Believe--a crucial step as he tries to transition from teen idol to adult icon. 'It’s not really a transition, it’s just opening doors,' he insists. 'I’m trying to make music that’s a little bit more mature and that can appeal to all ages, and I’m not trying to lose my younger fans.'"

It sounds like he's essentially paying for glorified advertising and/or making marketing deals. Hardly "Venture Capital". Looks an awful lot like a puff piece to me... "teen idol to adult icon"?
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That kind of blows my mind. No ECC by default? Is it really a server with no ECC?
> genocide

Homicide, not genocide. Unless you think that all weapons over a certain destructive potential are necessarily used to eradicate certain ethnic groups as opposed to others.