skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the book Permutation City, people are just able to upload a copy of their brains into a computer. But the simulations are so big that they run slowly. So a billionaire not only uploads a copy of his consciousness, he also runs a massive optimization routine on it! After a few years of chugging along, the optimizer spits out an empty file and reports: "This program has no output."
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Jamie needs £2500 GBP ($3900 USD) to complete his goal. His family has already raised the funds for the airline tickets and hotel accommodations.

His FB Page:
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Fundraising Page:
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Articles:
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FYI GCC and LLVM both do whole program optimisation these days. Not that this is going to help you with function pointers of course :)
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How well does this work? I've never even had much luck getting my phone to detect "north" as accurately as a $3 compass.
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Not everywhere has wifi and bluetooth (yes, places exist outside of the wired world) and from the article it seems that an application area of interest is underground mining where transmitting radio through tunnels is already problematic.
> there's a severe shortage of good developers
Couldn't agree more!
I wonder why they won't let you to open local files without passing their content via browser. Should be very useful when run locally.
But, why? Is the product alone not enough for your money? If you feel so strongly about this, why not wait for it to be released officially before making the purchase?
"Me : I am not sure whether I can generalize."
That was the clearest, most rational thought in the entire post and it is unfortunate that you did not pay heed to it.

1. These guys have worked pretty hard and/or are pretty damned smart which was the reason they got in there in the first place. The placement opportunities reflect exactly that and that is a pretty strong incentive for them not to launch their own startup.

2. Getting some working experience is a very good thing because their jobs offer them great exposure and experience, a pretty strong network of people and a clearer picture of what they are up against. While jumping off a cliff might be very brave and fashionable thing to do, it might not always be the smartest.

The startup ecosystem sucks in India and is nothing compared to the US (I leave room for the grass is greener effect - I don't think that is the case here). Funding is hard to come by and most business don't like dealing with startups. When the odds are that badly stacked against you, a broader network of people helps enormously.

3. A good %age are gasp actually interested in their engineering courses (IITM particularly has a healthy number & tradition) and pursue further studies abroad. A few of them go on to start their own companies in the US and others contribute to startups there.

4. When I see the word solution, I expect to actually see a solution - not read why you think it is an inherent quality.

5. Never use statements like "X group never does it". It takes away whatever miniscule credibility the article has. Some obvious examples of IITians doing startups: Flipkart, Rabi Kisku entertainment (Rabi Kisku and Siddharth Nuni are about to release their movie Software Hardware kya yaaroon) and several several more. You just have to look.

6. Startups are not for everyone. Hardworking and smart alone doesn't cut it and it is not a bad thing that not all these guys are doing it. Doesn't mean they are wasting their life away.

Disclaimer: I was one of those Vetti 5 pointers at IITM, who took a 2.75l job in 2006 ago and I am running my own bootstrapped startup with my batchmate since 2011. If my startup fails (at my last stand), I don't think I will do a bootstrapped startup in India ever again and that has very little to do with the size of my cojones.
Somehow that is a solved problem with internet and all other open security architecture.

Just to play devil's advocate, I'm not sure that's entirely true; would you say that every computer user on the entire planet is 100% secured? The vast malware landscape would very much disagree.

I think that it is harder with cars, if only because they have to have an open gate to the heart of their system. Plug in, turn on laptop, access! Apparently that's enshrined in both EU and US law, so not very easy to overcome in the near future.

I do agree with the heart of your message though: this is the year 2012, and whilst as a non-security bod it's easy for me to say, these things really shouldn't be happening.
> Additionally, I'd love to take a few years off and spend more time with my family. Being tethered to a job, regardless of how much it pays, will not allow me to do that. Making a shitload of cash will.

This pretty much sums it up as far as I'm concerned. We all have only one shot at life on this planet, so unless you're comfortable spending all of your productive years working for just enough money to stay afloat, you'll want to save up as much money as you can, to buy yourself the freedom to make radical changes to the course of your life when the time comes that's what's necessary to 'increase happiness'.

I always get a little annoyed when people say or write stuff such as 'money does not buy you happiness'. In our modern, western societies, it actually does buy you happiness, provided you have enough of it, and don't blow it all on materialistic things. All those quasi-romantical perspectives how it's immaterial things like health, family and friends that make you happy are missing the point. It's not about money, that's just a medium of wealth, but about the opportunities you have for yourself and your loved ones to enjoy life. If you're lucky enough to have good health, family, friends and the financial means to make the most out of the privilege of having all that, you can be much happier than when you have to miss either one of those.

I realize that this may sound awfully shallow and materialistic, but it's just my observation of how this world turns. Sure enough you can be happy without being wealthy, but in the end, almost everyone would prefer being happy and wealthy, for the simple fact that it provides opportunities that are simply unattainable if you're happy but broke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation also known as the golden mean fallacy
99% of people don't know or care. At least in the UK, we're buying tonnes of them. 3 months ago, iPhones everywhere in our office. Now all I see is "sent from my windows phone" all over emails :)

I know 5 people who've binned iPhones for Lumia 710/800 handsets on contract renewal citing that the iPhone is clunky.

(I will say I got rid of my Lumia 710 recently and replaced with a basic phone but that's not really because the OS or the device suck).
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key-values stores like levelDB are persistent [1], but they are not persistent [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_(computer_science)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
The tough part for me is, how to find leads? I have a lot of contacts from previous jobs but nobody I know who could give me any kind of freelance work. How do you bootstrap this?
Newton had boatloads of crazy beliefs and --oddly enough for his future reputation-- was probably kept from publishing most of his esoteric work by the religious intolerance of the period.

The Newton Project at University of Sussex and Cambridge University has collaborated with University of King's College in Halifax, Canada, and Indiana University to collect and transcribed his all of his writings. Their progress widget has them at 4,950,000 words so far.

Alchemical writings:
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Religious writings:
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Ask HN: European software company looking for sale of IP in North-America.
Our small European company (14 employees and founders) is looking for sale of IP in North-America.

Our main product is a java-based, graphical oriented application development platform, which specialises in real-time data

analysis, operator advisory and visualisations. Total investment has been tens of man-years.

We have customers in oil&gas, utilities and infrastructure.

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We are looking for opportunities to sell/license our IP in North-America. We have contacts in the USA we are working on,

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Spot on. WP has good web integration as well i.e you can pin web sites to the start screen so there's a good opportunity there to bridge the gap.
Colin,

I have a tremendous respect for you and I love your product. But you have to understand that hedge funds do not care about 'saving money' as much as they care about 'making money'. So yes, they will go to crazy lengths to shave microseconds off their order times but they will not try to save a penny while they are conducting their business.

From their perspective, when they see a product priced in picodollars their immediate reaction is that this is not a product for them. They want to use best in class product and they have learned over the years that the best in class product costs money, lots of it. So even though Tarsnap is best in class, they will ignore it because it is priced too low. For their back up service, they want to pay thousands of dollars and get a guarantee from the vendor that they will be their if shit hits the fan.
There's already a front-page discussion of this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217329
Well, I am not IITian , not even frequent commentor on HN ,I seriously think , it's the software culture that need to change . People need to change their attitude play safe. We understand working on start up idea is like walking on the edge of a cliff and you don't know when you will fall but if you have 'the drive'/guts , no body can stop us from being successful.
One factor that you could think of ( may be not applicable to IITian ) the service industries are killing most of the talent in india, most of us are happy with what they are getting paid and they don't want to take the risk.
And working on a startup in India is far more difficult than doing the same in US, you take example of funding , it's not as easy as US to raise funds for startup in India
We can list down lot of these factors, it's true that this situation would change in few years, let's hope for the good
It's essential for robotics applications, home automation etc, though.
That is a very cool app. Thanks for sharing the link!
Which mobile track record are you referring to? They had early success with Windows Mobile but fell behind the pack.
Two issues:

1. I have to question the effectiveness of using 'magnetic anomalies' to determine absolute position. Isn't the sensor just reading one value (magnetic field strength)? Couldn't that be anywhere on the map with that value? Do people have to turn it on at a specific starting point?

2. It says 'communicates with the API' while tracking. Most large buildings that I've been in like a conference center have marginal data reception.
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There's some internet law that points out that you can never know for sure.
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"According to the science, porn trains our brains to release more endorphins than is natural in response to an overload of sexual stimuli. After a while, our brains become desensitized and develop a need for higher and higher stimuli in order to reach the same arousal and excitement."

Um, isn't that just how the brain reacts to everything? If you have sex with your wife every day, unfortunately you'll also get bored or driven to trying more and more kinky stuff (having her dress like princess Lea and what not).
> I'm more qualified to talk about 'regulatory capture' than I'm leading on, but its a real question: how is moving from industry to regulation, or the other way around, inherently corrupt?

It ignores human nature. People don't rat out their friends. If you're the jerk at the party, you stop getting invited to the right parties.
I looked into indoor navigation-related stuff when I was planning my senior project in college. There seems to be a problem on some university campuses where freshmen, visitors, etc. get lost easily because buildings get merged with other buildings and the university can't be bothered to renumber rooms.

I don't think indoor navigation is as big as NFC, but I can see people making at least a little bit of money at colleges (and, as someone else pointed out below, mass transit situations)
Maybe the OP just needs to Embrace the Nagging Voice of Success - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/21/embracing-the-nagg....
How does this work? I understand if you know the true north and the magnetic north, you can get the difference, but I assume a compas only can measure one of them (the magnetic one). How do they determine the 'fault' in the signal with just 1 signal?
No one has or wants a Windows phone. If it's that easy for a Windows phone to kill off Blackberry, then Blackberry is already dead.
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This is becoming a popular subject lately. See also:

http://www.yourbrainonporn.com/

http://reddit.com/r/nofap
Perhaps those activities are being bifurcated, then. Perhaps the future of journalism looks like this: on one hand, you have news/data sources, like AP, who put the boots on the ground, do the reporting, and license that information to a wide variety of news outlets. On the other hand, you have the news outlets, who buy the information and translate it into content. The supplier gathers news and sells it to the publisher, who adds value to the raw news in the form of X, Y, Z, and sells ads around it. It's an industrial supply chain, like any other.

This has been happening for many decades now, especially in the TV news industry. If anything, I would expect the trend to accelerate and proliferate. It's going to become increasingly unprofitable to house the costs of news-gathering, and the revenue of ad-selling, under the same roof. A few outlets will keep at it, but on a much smaller and more selective scale, and mainly for specialized stories (investigative pieces, like the ones HuffPo does on occasion).
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What happens if there are large items which move and cause changes in the localised magnetic field readings?

Things such as lifts, vehicles, regularly changing stock levels... Or are these all considered negligible?
Sorry, your assumptions are way off. Indoor mapping and specifically location aware indoor mapping is huge.

We're trying to solve exactly this problem in London, why you may ask? When you have millions of commuters using your network each day (Underground) and many of your stations are at 100% capacity then your only option is to manage the flow of passengers more efficiently.

You've also missed a key problem, accessibility. The sheer volume of tourists, elderly or parents with prams getting onto a carriage thats inefficient to their travel results in exacerbating delays on platforms, this example(and other technologies) is a possible way to reduce those problems.
In other news, bikes are outselling SUVs.
But they share the faith don't they?

And then the Church proceeds to say: "You see, there are gazillions of christians in the world! Respect my authoritah!"

And bashes whoever they want over the head with a stick.
And what what if the stock is magnetic? ("Where's the fridge magnet isle?")
... and doesn't the earths magnetic fields change also?

There's a number of questions I'd have about the stability of the data being collected and how quickly it'd go stale.
Print publications have four options when it comes to their digital side:

1.) Publish the exact same content

2.) Publish some of the print content, but only a fairly low percentage

3.) Create separate digital content

4.) Same content, put it behind a paywall

Newspapers have typically gone for 1 or 4, because if you do 2 then people will go somewhere where they can get all the news, and 3 seems like a waste of money to them.

Magazines generally go for 2 (e.g. Esquire) or 3 (e.g. Wired). These options make more sense to them than to newspapers because... well option 2, there's no "people will just go to a site that has all the news", because it's all custom content - another site might have more content, but it won't include any of the same content. Option 3 because they feel that if they just put the magazine's content online they can't make enough money, and it will lose them money with people reading it and not buying the magazine, on the other hand they don't want to miss out on digital money, so they essentially launch a new product there, under the same name.
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I don't think that's true. They certainly knew about the iPhone before the public did, and so they had a ton of time and money to position themselves for it. Certainly the iPhone was a game changer, but there is absolutely no reason that a better managed RIM shouldn't have come out ahead. Look up some of the stuff that Lazaridis said about the iPhone.

I mean, read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/29/rim-chiefs-... . The iPhone didn't kill RIM, it was hubris and complacency.
You know, this brings up a very valid point, and in some ways this represents traversing the guts of a kind of simple expert system. Is it useful? Dunno, I suppose if I was in a foreign country and had an object and didn't know what it was, and it could help me identify it, then sure.

But the more valuable point is this, what kind of 6-7YOHC answers people's questions? Most children at that age have achieved a kind of self-feeding curiosity and spend most of their time asking "why" questions...slowly populating their own knowledge base provided a convenient and willing human to answer them.

In the case of a human, the intelligence precedes the facts. We're wired to desire to build our model of reality. Autodidacticism (on some level) is the default. Our extant models of intelligence (living creatures) aren't pumped full of factoids till one day, sometime before sexual maturity, the spark of intelligence kicks in and off we go! Our fundamental AI approach is literally putting the cart before the horse. Perhaps this is for lack of enough study into building productive self-learning systems?

On to 20q:

The problem with 20q is that it largely depends on its own internal model fitting yours. With three tries it sort of got one answer right (it guessed stereo speaker when I was thinking head phones) and I was just picking stuff up off of my desk and answering its questions. My guess of where it fell down is that my model of the world might be less firm than its own.

Using headphones for example: it asked two interesting questions

13: Is it used by the police? "Sometimes"

14: Does a basketball player use it? "Irrelevant"

But my answers could have just as easily been "irrelevant" to both, or "sometimes" to both or "yes" to both and off down a different decision path it goes.

A naive better answer from the system at the end of a "round" might be "so I dunno, what is it?" and fit that into its system. But the honest truth is that it would also slowly be populated by junk. Both intentional and unintentional.

Fitting everybody's personal model of the world into a single model is only going to fail since even in the best of cases people have similar models of the world they walk around with in their head, but are often grossly different or even contradictory within a single person's model let alone multiple people (don't even get me started with the discussion my wife and I had last night over a topic we were at absolutely opposite ends of)!

Yet! People deal with this every day by interacting with multiple people, weighing new input, and either keeping or discarding the information either because it fits well into their existing model, or a vast array of other reasons (forgot, drunk, heard it during an emotional moment, needed it for a test, etc.)...we can even remember negative assertions "a cow is not a moon rocket".

So 20q is a great example of a "human who can do this job with a reference" (RAHWCDTJWAR) syndrome. Clever, but ultimately not as useful as just asking somebody.
I was a student and I asked questions. That was the point I was driving.

The only reason I took my questions offline was because they were pretty hard ones and I dint want to be painted as a troll.
Atheism is very different. You don't see atheists having fancy churches. You don't see athists demanding hurting over people over their "religious feelings".
I suppose it depends on your field. In my highly technical field (thermodynamics) this is what I am doing, in fact more about 3 to 4h a day. This is long term work (100+ days/year) at about $750/day.

This is why I always recommend people to specialize themselves and not to drop out of college. You will have hard time convincing someone that you are 12 times faster/better than a "normal" developer, but if you have only 1000 people in the world able to do the job the company want to be done, you do not need to convince anybody.
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The computer is no longer personal
This is where it gets dangerous. We've swapped physical keys for electronic keys, but we've mandated that the root electronic keys get kept in the car.

Everyone wants the keys to be kept outside the car.

The future of personal freedom will be decided based on whether our fix is to give the keys to the car owner to keep in their home, so that they can unlock their car if they loose their fob (or allow a mechanic of their choosing to generate a new fob), or whether to give the keys to the car manufacturers, so that only approved dealers (and criminals who hack into the dealers' electronic networks) will be able to generate new fobs.
There's no evidence the OBD port was actually used in this attack. The programmer could have been directly connected to an easily accessible CAN connected component such as the wing mirrors.
But then I end up with a WRT54GL again.
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We're also not supporting the original iPad on some new apps since the hardware is too underpowered to deliver great performance, and we believe it'll quickly become a liability in the future (better to have not supported it from the beginning than having to drop support a few versions down the line).