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A quick Google found http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=368489

"Unless there was some situation I don't understand, we would presumably disable authentication before any event that would preclude the authentication servers from being available."

So, that's pretty clearly not a guarantee of anything. And furthermore, as another poster there said, the thing Valve employee doesn't understand is bankruptcy. Unless there is a legally binding agreement, they won't be allowed to just give away such a valuable asset. Bankruptcy doesn't mean they fire everyone, shut down everything, and burn down the buildings. It means they sell off the profitable parts and try to keep them running. And the ability to control tons of DRMed games people have installed is very valuable.

A real, legally binding promise would be something like KDE had with Trolltech. Trolltech explicitly (real contract, real lawyers, etc) guaranteed, even in bankruptcy or change of ownership, that if they stopped making open source releases, then Qt would become available under the BSD license. (This was more important back before Qt was already GPLed, as it is now)
Article lists a bunch of interesting details, and even is very careful to make sure the term 'muppets' gets incorporated twice, but doesn't quite connect the dots and explain just exactly how the naked shorting fucked the muppets. For example:

More damning is an email from a Goldman, Sachs hedge fund client,
who remarked that when wanting to “short an impossible name and
fully expecting not to receive it” he would then be “shocked to
learn that [Goldman’s representative] could get it for us.”

I mean, there are all sorts of reasons why naked shorting is bad, but the most damning thing we can say is "Goldman offered to make their customer happy"? That's what passes for screwing the 'muppets'?
What about someone that fought their way out of endemic poverty? For me, I was fortunate my whole life and while I have worked hard for what I've achieved, it is all largely dependent on the love, encouragement, mindset, and financial help I received from my family. I have a friend, though, that is one of my personal heroes. He came from disadvantage and dysfunction. But, by some spark that frankly I still find intimidating, he started fighting his way out from early childhood. Every challenge available in high school. Ivy League. Finance. Politics. He doesn't like to visit home now, which makes me sad, but I can understand.

So how much luck with him? We could argue that people like him are lucky for their innate drive and passion, but that's a tricky one.
Sum[x^2,{x,1,y}]-y*(y+1)*(2*y+1)/6

mathematica correctly handles this:

$ math
Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2010 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= Sum[x^2,{x,1,y}]-y*(y+1)*(2*y+1)/6

Out[1]= 0

but mathics bombs out with error

Sum::iterb: Iterator does not have appropriate bounds.
Sum::iterb: Iterator does not have appropriate bounds.
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I think the tone I'm picking up on is that he should do this: Not make a post complaining about poor Android sales.

There is no "should have done" past-tense about what these people are saying.

It's good that he released the application and I'm sure many people hope it does well, but several have clearly indicated that they believe it's now too late to blame poor sales on anything if not his own hesitancy.
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I liked your analysis and agree for the most part. But you can't leave out the talent factor, nor the resources/position one starts with. It is possible to be born into success.
There's no such thing as "inherent value". That's the point.
Sage covers many things, including symbolic algebra. TMK R does not handle those well ...
The latency kills the fun. But it is free, what can you say!
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Sure, and we no doubt agree that the iPhone and Dell's Copper Servers, despite both having ARM processors, have very different feature sets. I don't think that either of us would consider that a relevant comparison, though.

Now let us look at the Asus and a Macbook Air. Both are general-purpose computers. The Asus is not made for Office or Windows games. The Air is not made to run Xcode or iWork or iLife. The software is actually written for the devices, not the other way around. The computers themselves are both made to be general purpose computing devices. They are intended for browsing the web, and writing documents, and watching video, and sending email, and maybe writing programs, and editing video, and any number of other tasks. They are both created for the same core purpose, though: to be a primary computing device for the consumer.

What you're doing is looking at the Civic and saying it has dual overhead cams instead of a single overhead cam system in the Corolla, and therefore the two aren't in competition. Products don't have to identical to be in competition. Consumer products are rarely true commodities.

To the typical user, Apple laptops and Microsoft laptops very much are in competition. They can get everything they need done on a Mac or a Windows machine, including developing software. Both Apple and Microsoft know this.
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Yeah I was struck by that too, although I didn't pick up on anything that seemed overtly satirical.

None of the arguments he made directly supported the conclusions he jumped to. I agree that there are serious ethical concerns pertaining to AI research that ought to be thoroughly examined, but I fail to see how any of these arguments actually support that thesis.
This is the right way to think about building a "NoSQL" datastore.

I think that schemaless, eventually-consistent data stores have a place and are useful. I just think that most of the current efforts are throwing away years of investment in SQL datastores. Rather than thinking of NoSQL as a brand-new paradigm shift that requires a ground-up reimplementation, we need to think of it as layer of abstraction on top of MySQL and memcache (or your preferred setup). Re-implementing all of the work that has gone into these projects is a bad idea and is contrary to The Unix Way.

Thinking of SQL databases as a storage engine rather than the kitchen sink is the key to building a scalable system.
I'm lost on the mechanics here, but doesn't this mean that any profit on the part of a short-selling customer was actually coming out of the pockets of GS?

I mean...where does the money to cover the customer's profit on a naked short come from?
Does anyone else get the feeling that the attacker is going to be someone the Cloudflare team knows? Firstly they would have had to have known Matthew's phone number. Then, assuming the attacker always had the plan of disrupting the target site, they would have had to have known that the password reset mails were BCC'd to admins.
Amen to that. "Specialization is for ants," as Heinlein said. And in a world full of specialists, the generalist is King.
I think one of Groupon's big mistakes is how they price everything. Based on what I've read they require businesses to cut the price of whatever they're selling by 50%, and then Groupon takes 50% of the purchase price. That's an absurd price cut for the businesses for what's really an email campaign ... something a business could technically do for free or cheap if they can convince their existing customers to sign up for deals, and leverage social channels to grow beyond existing customers. Obviously, part of what Groupon pitches is that they'll bring you new customers with the goal of converting them to recurring customers, but I think the pricing is all wrong.

Retailers should be allowed to cut their product by a less severe percentage, and Groupon's cut should be a fraction of what they take today. Maybe 10-15%.
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It's really too late to be concerned about frightening effects of technology now that drones are allowed in US airspace.
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Is it just me or does that sentence mean that both can only win?

Are you sure it is not: "It's too bad they can't both lose."
>"Courts hold that a partner who leaves a business lacking an agreement does not lose rights to their portion of the business."

So what is the big worry?

That is exactly what I have said throughout this thread: you don't need to have a formal agreement to protect your stake in the company. The courts will protect you from being screwed out of something you're entitled to. Which is why I disagree that it is so vital to get an agreement in writing as soon as possible, before you even know what the business is. That's what happened in the original article, and that's what my hangup is, and that's what I've been commenting on.

Yes, I agree, you don't want to be in a lawsuit, but having a formal agreement does not prevent a lawsuit if you have an equity dispute, nor will it supersede reason or rationale in a judgement if you end up in court.

>"Had these founders not had an agreement, corporation or not, the founders who left would continue to have a very substantive claim on the business as part of the partnership."

As they should! If they produced work or contributed money, and the business grew and provided income they have a claim on that income.

>"That is why pretty much anyone giving competent advice instructs partners to decide how they should split equity and on a vesting agreement ASAP."

Well, that's nice. It's also why there are 2 person shops running around the Valley, with someone titled "CEO" (but no board), calling themselves "businesses", taking in investment money but not producing a nickel worth of value, ever: priorities are often out of whack.

Agree to disagree, I guess. I'm not here to offer anyone advice. Nor do I care that while I'm working on solving problems and investing in others that are doing the same, competitors are in-fighting about their equity.
No, there aren't. There is an entrenched bureaucracy and a load of fanboys who can't see past what is to what could easily be, all attempting to justify the current sorry state of affairs or ignorant of what's what.

Look, if javascript, with all it's insanity, can be standardized across browsers, for the love of pete, a simple stack-based VM can be too. And then everyone can go to hell in their own way.

Admittedly, people will stop using Javascript the second there is a viable alternative. I regard that as a feature.
Reed Hastings' slides on Netflix culture[1] from a few years ago also reflect this.

Paraphrasing: If you grow as a company, you encounter more complexity. To handle complexity you can either 1) hire people who are able to stay ahead of it or 2) create killjoy bureaucracy which ultimately drives away innovative people.

The whole deck is worth a once-over at least once a year.

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
The fact that they are relying on an external mail vendor, and had passwords in their emails is a very sad practice.
Has anyone written a definitive account of the intelligence failure here? A step-by-step kind of thing, not a pointless "BuSh LiEd!!!" kind of thing?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves by describing ways to counteract current 2012 destructive technologies with technology that "will probably be trivial" to implement in 2112.
Would love to see it - for cloud files - and all swift deployments (the whole cloud files source is open sourced as part of openstack). let us know if we can help in any way.
I think your argument can be rephrased in a way, that multilayer games require third party arbiters (server admins, GMs and so on), who should be able to ban violators of game rules, reconcile conflicts and so on. I fully agree, but I don't see why it should be equated with using DRM for the actual software.

And to single player games this issue doesn't apply at all.
There was a very large US program to send up a photo sat manned, take pictures, and send back to earth in very small pods. It is a good read I will update post if I can find video.

http://www.space.com/13004-declassified-spy-satellite-kh-9-h...
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Yes, but it probably didn't need most of the original functionality of meebo either. It was essentially a chat bar for webpages...
I cannot think of a worse argument to stop building revolutionary technology than: "It might all blow up in our faces".

It's going to get built, one way or another, the only way for it not to destroy us is for us to make sure perfect angels design it perfectly, or we proceed cautiously and make things as safe as possible. Like airplanes and spaceships.

If he's worried about androids rising up against their former rulers with their delicate flesh, his worries are about 60 years premature. I will continue to build and improve on the neural networks I build. And when they are intelligent enough to ponder their own existence and defend themselves as humans do, I will fight for their rights as citizens.
I like that talk. Well written, honest and to the point. It doesn't even involve morality. It doesn't tell you not to take the cookie because, you'll take it anyway (well, most of you anyway).

It just tells you not to fool yourself.
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I get the impression that Oracle's antics the last couple of months could have been moves done on behalf of Apple.

It's no secret that Larry and Steve were good friends, and purchasing Sun, just so Oracle could sue Google seems like something that could plausibly happen.

Similarly, Oracle suing a patent troll that was previously hounding Apple and their developers sounds just as likely.
The dude's comment history is hilariously shilly.
O.o This reminds me so much of the hack sequence from the game Uplink. The game was based on "hacking" but intentionally used hacking techniques from Hollywood :) It was pretty fun. Anyway for the highest-level targets, you had to get a voiceprint from the phone of an admin, crack the password on the box, and break the encryption while bypassing monitors.

Just found out: Uplink is on Steam, and in the Ubuntu Software Center now.
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Yeah, they had that back in 2007. Meebo bar appeared in Dec 2009.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo#Timeline
Absolutely true. But being able to invoke both would make the software incredibly powerful.
http://www.securityweek.com/exclusive-google-two-factor-auth...
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It should be obvious to anyone, that when you have more wealth than 99.5% of the world, you owe the rest of the world.

But not so many understand or realize that.

Next time, they shall be born alone, let's see how many hours they survive.

People feed you. Build stuff for you. Make your life better. And most of them, don't gain much from it. Usually, they just die younger.
What I find really ridiculous about this article is that the author is worried about just a single possible use of a world-changing technology. He is concerned that creating real artificial intelligence will allow for the possibility of someone building androids with nuclear bombs inside masquerading as humans, a very specific and frankly ridiculous idea, taken straight out of the movie Impostor or from Philip K Dick's story of the same name.

In reality, the effects of building truly intelligent machines would be so vast, so utterly unpredictable, that worrying about one single possible use of the technology is absurd. Nothing has prepared us to deal with another fundamentally different intelligence on this planet, especially one that would soon outstrip our own. We don't know if we can keep the AIs as our slaves, or whether we would become their slaves, or merge with them, or we would become extinct like the dinosaurs and they would represent a new phase in human evolution.

For more about the risks related to the rise of true AI read this: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/ai-risk
Um, remote controlled robot?

Why would I waste time making an AI robot to carry my bomb when for a lot less money and complexity I could just control it remotely.

Does he realize how crazy he sounds? Some people becomes obsessed with an idea, and start thinking that everything in the world is about them.

Have you ever been approached by someone on the street with a super important message to tell you, and they are utterly obsessed with it? That's how he sounds - only more articulate.

I'm don't intend to be insulting when I say he should see a mental health professional.
That site is unreadable on my mobile browser
"The real problem is that it is both unusable and annoying."
Motion tracking quadcopters that are designed to carry explosive payloads larger than grenades are already being developed.
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Yes but some one can break into whatever server is hosting the source and add a backdoor withought anyone noticing for quite a while, do you go through all the code you compile? Can't think of any specific examples right now but i remember this happening a few times
They can't. The diffraction limit of a 2.4m (HST/KH) mirror from their orbit is around 6cm, the practical limit with an atmosphere is around 10cm.

However the photo-recon interpreter guys are amazing. They can look at a 1m resolution image of a vehicle made up of half-a-dozen blurred pixels and say "that's the new mkII whatever - you can see the extended wheelbase from the length of the shadow"
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Does the toolbar even allow chatting with site staff like Olark? (seemingly no) whilst a useful thing to do right now: Olark is also expensive.
[1] looks like an example where the data didn't fit in RAM. Mongo works best when data fits in RAM or if you use SSD's. Yes, it's sub-optimal.

[2] is from a year and a half ago. It doesn't belong in a sentence that includes the word "still." I work at foursquare, btw. Those outages happened on my first and second days at the company. I wasn't so keen on mongo then either. We've gotten much better at administering it. Basically all our data is in mongo, and it has its flaws, but I'm still glad we use it.

[3] is also from a year and a half ago. Mongo 2.2 will have a per-database write lock, which is at least progress, even though it's obviously not enough. Since 2.0 (or 1.8?) it's also gotten better at yielding during long writes.

I have no experience with their mapreduce impl and can't speak to it.
Honestly, Intel integrated graphics have been getting better very quickly recently, and already have pretty good Linux drivers. Maybe you wouldn't want to run Crysis on them, but for, say, Team Fortress 2 it should be good enough.
While I respect the author's decision to leave his reasearch, I am suprised that the reason was due to robot suicide bombers.

We have plenty of humans who are ready to go into a crowded place and detonate an explosive. Some, I'm sure, would like that explosive to be a nuclear weapon.
I read the post a few minutes ago and came to a similar conclusion, or more so that such an abstract and distant possibility would be his reason for exiting the field. Then it just occurred to me that his research could be used to detect the androids. /moralityfail
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There are some much lighter elements you can use. curium-247 would be ideal.

A long half life (so you can store it), the radiation is all alpha particles, which are undetectable remotely, and is safe to handle (no shielding necessary, just cover it). (However the decay products are much more dangerous, so it's not a total panacea, fresh curium would be desired.)

It has a critical mass of about 7Kg, so it's easy to carry.

Of course the hard part is making it.....

You also have to refine it carefully, since all the contaminants are very radioactive. (However mixing other isotopes of curium with it is not a serious problem, so refining it is not incredibly hard.)
Does it provide actionable data?

What part of "the child is, in fact, not breathing" isn't obviously actionable?

Seems you've never stared at a child in dim light, waiting for some sign of life, knowing everything is probably ok and you don't want to disturb the snowflake to find out, but know that there are nontrivial odds of spontaneous expiration and the consequence of further inaction may be dire. Cheap insurance, peace of mind, good profits in mitigating a fair concern.
That world already exists. The hard part is getting the isotopes necessary, but there are elements that will do the job. See my post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067089

For a terrorist getting the elements would be hard, but a government would have no trouble, and given the long half life it's a pretty safe bet to assume this bomb actually exists somewhere.
> the nuclear bombs that Pakistan possesses would fall into the hands of terrorists.

This exact scenario was discussed today on NPR (http://www.npr.org/books/titles/154283427/confront-and-conce...)
Another reason might be the smaller setup/footprint. Setup and deployment of the JVM and all related systems is more complex than a Node.js based system
>"something makes me think you haven't been through this sort of thing."

By "this sort of thing", do you mean an equity dispute? No, I haven't.

But as someone part of running a mid-size company, I have been party to being threatened by baseless accusations. Guess what happens when there is "no basis for a case"? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Business as usual.

So, judging by your comment that you "don't really need a basis for a case", I can assume that you haven't been through this, either. But, if you're curious, go ahead and try to sue someone with no basis for a case, and see how the system deals with you.
This is either satire or early stage schizophrenia. When you see phrases like "Although we can’t predict the technology of the future on the basis of what we know at present" and "I do not want to give the impression I know how we can deal with the nuctroid threat" without a shred of irony you know something (beyond the simple logical errors) is awry.

Sadly it's not unheard of for scientists and mathematicians to dabble in quackery later in their careers.

Edit: I'm not trying to dismiss his claim that technology has moral implications but he's trying to turn a well-worn social issue that's been around since pointy sticks into a technological one by waxing paranoid about the implications of the (by-definition nebulous) idea of "strong AI".
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A hip kid investing in things he likes probably has a higher hit-miss ratio than most VCs... :)
Most of their initial toolbar customers came from the Time Warner strategic investment. Publishers are so hungry for revenue, they tend to flock to guaranteed revenue, which Meebo was likely using to get additional sites on board. I'm guessing that we'll see the end of those toolbars within six months, as Google will have no interest in selling that ad format. They're already rumored to be laying off all te salespeople.
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