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I remember the article you refer to (though I can't remember what the exact story was, actually). I was disappointed at the reaction when people found that it was a fictional story, but at the same time it wasn't really clear from the format that it was a fictional story.

Then again, a good fictional story grabs you and makes you believe in that world, blurring the line between fiction and reality... so it's not so easy to demarcate without being overly blunt. At the same time, I guess if you throw a couple of elves and trolls or equivalently obvious device in at the beginning everyone will know it's fiction :-) (one would hope...)

Interesting idea, btw - looking at the comments as a barometer of whether the format is working. At the same time, if the fiction is being used to convey "profound truths", it may well be that the comment threads end up going round in circle since agreement or disagreement is really neither here nor there...

Thank you very much for your input, much appreciated.
Here's a suggestion. Read the story of David, all the way through, continuing into the early years of his son Solomon's reign. Pay special attention to Absalom's rebellion and the aftermath.

Then read "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo. Compare and contrast Solomon with Michael Corleone.

The Godfather movies are also outstanding, maybe better than the books. But they don't resonate the Bible story's theme of generational revenge quite so clearly.
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No.

Also, your SSD probably does garbage collection without the need for TRIM.
While it hasn't landed in the master branch yet, you can follow the progress of auth support in the auth branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/auth

See also discussion in the meteor-core list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/meteor-co... https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/meteor-co... and https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/meteor-co...
1) Afaict everyone depends on third parties. Even if I pick wild blackberries, where do I get the containers to put them in?

2) Sunk cost. The intention is to factor out wages and profit.

2.a) Maybe use Kickstarter here?

2.b) The community of people who want the product.
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I am having the exact same issue. I'm hoping it's a minor issue with validation, but that seems like a weird message to get if that's the case?

edit: swapped "had" for "am having" as this is on-going
The argument is whether a computer can learn language (well) from scratch, or whether some capacity for language must be built into the computer manually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus
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Thanks.

Yes, we now have an authentication system that lets you define limits on which documents each client can read and modify. It's available on the "auth" branch in the Meteor repository.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Getting-Started-with-A...
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You are right, but to solve most problems, do machines really HAVE to think like humans?
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Ooh, I see, interesting, thanks! :)
As an example of a flat but finite topology, think of the game "Asteroids" where, if the player's spaceship flies beyond the edge of the screen, it reappears at the opposite edge. This topology actually forms a torus! And, even though a torus definitely seems curved when embedded in 3D, its surface is actually flat - the angles of any triangle drawn on the surface always add up to exactly 180 degrees.
There's still the potential for security problems, as the OP acknowledges: "It still has to go through our security review since just having an open socket can drive the browser is quite scary and an opportunistic hacker could just run a selenium script and steal details. It will probably be preferenced off to start but is still a potentially scary problem."
Children are definitely not a 'blank' neural network. They spend ~6 months staring off into nowhere, looking, listening, and slowly developing the skills to respond to their environment.
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Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site.
>> (Facebook integration is not included in OS X 10.8; Apple says it will come in a software update “this fall”.)

sudo rm -rf facebook_integration && say 'not on MY machine'
You're right. I've since changed it from "John Siracusa describes his process of writing the OS X 10.8 Review"
write code, write code, write code.
finish projects, finish projects, finish projects
learn multiple languages, fix other people's code.
write more code.

understand at the very least all subjects covered in the typical CS undergrad curriculum.
Do you mean specifically of human languages? Because Chomsky's approach has contributed pretty extensively to programming language engineering, as the foundation of parsing theory and the whole formal language hierarchy (context-free, context-sensitive, regular, etc.).

I do agree it's been less successful for its original intended purpose, but things often find new life, which seems okay.
Any one interested in the power of stories, and the Truth of same, must read Don Quixote.

"OMG it's so long and there are so many Great Books I'm supposed to read." Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway.
I've spent quite some time thinking through the plot, and I can tell you that creating and telling a great story that also conveys sound and interesting business advice is extremely hard.

I'd say it's impossible.

What is possible, at least in my experience, is to start with a good story - i.e. characters, a plot, a series of interesting interconnected events - and let the meaning of those events shine through. I've never managed to craft a story around a message - the message always emerged from the story.
I saved it in Instapaper, and read it there. It grabbed all 25 pages.
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Dupe - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290797
Getting the same error followed by a popup telling me that the product is temporarily unavailable and that I should try again later.

I'm getting updates for what seems to be every application from Apple though.
The problem with Searle's assertion is that he is making a distinction between the computer and the program. We, as human beings, are not our computers, we are our programs.
Congrats. Could someone please explain the business model of such open source based startups in general?
I know a card counter. I showed him how to condition probabilities to determine how to best play. He went for the full Monte Carlo method and he lets his simulation run for a week before he starts using it "just to make sure". It's frustrating because he doesn't get that his results are statistically significant after about 30 seconds of runtime. He still makes money doing it. The results are tangible, but he's still just mucking about.

'Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.' --Einstein

Statistical methods can work but they are unsatisfying to the scientifically curious. You're not really a scientist if you create something that works and you don't really know why. (Not to say that the method doesn't have value. Sometimes you have to play with your Lego before you grow up.)
It does compress slightly faster and better than lz4 (when the output is written to disk on a SSD) using the default parameters:

For an input text file alpha.txt whose size is 3.3GB:

- fastlz compresses in 1m6.446s (real time)

$ time ./6pack ~/Desktop/alpha/alpha.txt /tmp/out.fastlz
alpha.txt
[##################################################] 43.4% saved

real	1m6.446s
user	0m26.482s
sys	0m8.346s

- lz4 compresses in 1m15.681s (real time)

$ time ./LZ4Demo.exe ~/Desktop/alpha/alpha.txt /tmp/out.lz4
*** Compression CLI using LZ4 algorithm , by Yann Collet (Jul 25 2012) ***
Compressed 3590403790 bytes into 2418583396 bytes ==> 67.36%
Done in 35.99 s ==> 95.13 MB/s

real	1m15.681s
user	0m23.081s
sys	0m12.927s

Here is the size of the output:

1.9G /tmp/out.fastlz
2.3G /tmp/out.lz4

lz4 is here: http://code.google.com/p/lz4
alpha.txt was generated as advertised on this website: http://leon.bottou.org/projects/sgd

Both projects were compiled from the trunk on a 2009 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6 with gcc i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1.

I will now make some room on my SSD to time uncompress.

Edit: I rerun the previous compression and the results are pretty stable: +/- 2s
In 15 years we are all gonna surf the web in a "virtual browser" that will be coded in HTML + Javascript running inside another browser.

Ha ha, that's silly, I'm just joking. Or am I?
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We find using --system-site-packages on your deployment is a better solution for deploying Django - especially when it comes to dependencies that need to be compiled.

It gives you flexibility on your environment and lets you deploy onto machines without a C compiler, or strange setup requirements e.g. psycopg2 on OS X, and PIL on Ubuntu.

You then install Django, and other Python-only dependencies inside your virtualenv, which stops you polluting the global Python path.

It requires some discipline in your development setup, but it means you're able to develop across whatever platform you choose, and simplifies deployment.
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Epic review as usual from John Siracusa. Dan Benjamin volunteered to do a reading of this for release in audio format, but I think John Siracusa ruled it out. Understandable as I think too many problems to overcome (images, footnotes, licensing etc), so just a dream really. Would happily have paid for that though. Hope they can sort out the Kindle release, definitely going to purchase that.
3) Marketing, PR, and BD make a lot more sense in industries where tech isn't the dominant factor.

I won't disagree, but I'd be wary of overstating the importance of that point. Marketing definitely matters for technology (esp. when you take a broad, holistic view of what 'marketing' is). There are more than a few stories in the annals of the tech industry where a nominally superior tech lost out to an inferior product that had better marketing around it.

On that note, the book In Search of Stupidity[1] catalogs a pile of tech marketing disasters from over the years. I'd recommend it to anyone who thinks "marketing isn't that important" or anything along those lines.

[1]: http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/
Isn't there a consensus that "passing the Turing test" <=> "true artificial intelligence"? Otherwise, what test do neurologists propose?
Same here. Colour games can be frustrating for us differently-coloured people. :P I can imagine how this is really fun for someone who can see colour properly. Maybe as a challenge the author could include colour blind mode?
Interesting but lacks way too much content still. I could not find Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Brent Weeks, etc. Every Fantasy author I tried that did not have an HBO series currently did not come back..
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Really funny pic
This kid reminds of someone I KNOW! but I just cant put my finger on it.
I've followed tutorials online, used Treehouse, and other services to learn online.
They are useful, but for me, there is one aspect missing: help.
I'm currently in university and If I have a question in class or during a study session, there is ALWAYS someone to help.
I get frustrated and discouraged when I'm following a class and don't understand anything, I search the web for help and can't find much to do with the exact topic I need help with. This in turn, makes me stop enjoying that class and can eventually lead to giving up.
It would be great for these online education providers to use an IM client, IRC room or something to facilitate student discussion for classmates to discuss lectures, ideas, and help each other.
An important aspect when using stories to convey lessons, whether they'd be true or fictional, is to stay faithful to patterns grounded in reality, not simply theory. That usually requires a solid life experience or at the very least some considerable research. Otherwise, you would basically be writing your opinion and it might not sound True in the end.

It's always your opinion, whether you know it or not, but yeah, some people's opinion is more worthwhile than others. I'd happily read any random stuff written by a Hesse or a Marques, because their opinion is gold dust.

Ultimately, there's no substitue for that but personal growth, observation and life experience, and no way, as far as I can tell, to accelerate it other than having very unfortunate events befall you (a kid growing up in a war zone will easily have more life experience than a much older person with a steadier life).
I would hate running a blog where every time I hit the "publish" button I have to think "someone might put this on Hacker News and some Hacker News guy will complain about me spamming". I don't think that this is "news"-worthy, but its the hacker news community that posted it here and upvoted it.
Firebase raised $1.1 million. Although I don't know how open source it is.
> Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site.

It's in the top banner, to the right of his header/nav. It's just that one of the current ads is a shade of brown almost identical to his own.
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“Norvig is taking the engineering approach - artificial intelligence needs only to pass the Turing test.”

Passing the Turing test and the simulation of intelligence are supposed to be the same thing. Turing came up with the test to sidestep the definition of intelligence.

I’m not sure what you mean by “but in order to have real intelligence you need an analytical engine (or brain, if you will) that can prioritize data without fiddling with bits. In the Norvig solution, someone will always have to be fiddling with the bits”.
Do you mean bits as in pieces or as in ones and zeros ? If the former, haven’t Chomsky’s models required the addition of new parameters as exceptions to his rules are found ? If you mean the latter, how is a computer to prioritize data if it can’t look at bits ?

There seems to be the misconception that Norvig does not use simple models. He does, just ones that use statistics for training and to learn. His approach strikes me as elegant, simple and more robust to changes in language over time than Chomsky’s.
I've been experimenting with it recently.

It doesn't take long to throw up a landing page, mailchimp and $50 of targeted facebook [or adword] ads.
I agree; I've thought for a long time that as far as Apple Cult bloggers go, he's better than Gruber on a number of fronts: less groupthink, less cynicism, less David Foster Wallace fanboyism, and less irrational Google hatred. The only thing Gruber has going for him now IMO is his continued Stanley Kubrick advocacy.
Study 1 indicated that "happiness" was moderated by marital status. Married couples with children were not significantly happier than married couples without children. They were only happier than unmarried individuals.

"married parents did not differ in satisfaction or happiness from married people without children, but unmarried parents reported lower happiness and satisfaction than their childless counterparts"

In Study 2, the discussion section points out the selection bias inherent in this particular investigation. "... happier people may be more likely to become parents. If parenting is related to well-being, then parents should experience more positive states when they are taking care of their children than when engaging in their other daily activities."

Study 2 does not distinguish between individuals who chose to have children willingly vs those who were pressured into having children by people or circumstances around them. People who actually want children may be the largest group of people with children, or at least the largest group among those sampled.

Study 3 is perhaps the most subjective investigation method. The main finding is that people associate the actual act of child care-taking with high "meaning in life". This is the parroting of a cliche. Sure, versus watching TV and reading reddit, playing with your kid is going to seem highly meaningful. Individuals who choose not to have children (operative word: choose) usually do so because they replace that time with something meaningful to them, e.g. writing, research, travel, a more demanding career.

Religious individuals rightfully find time spent on church and prayer meaningful; atheists find this time could be better spent on other things.

All this is to say, I wouldn't conclude from this set of studies that "children make you happy", and thus everyone should rush to have them. Instead, I might suggest you ponder whether you truly want children -- ignoring this study or others like it. If the answer is an emphatic "yes" -- despite the financial, emotional, and time requirements -- then, by all means, do. But if the answer is a hesitant "yes" or a firm "no", then, I might suggest you reconsider.

And, if at all possible, when you do have your child, try not to be smug about it to those individuals who chose to live their life childless. Their choice is just as valid as yours.
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If you are not really interested in Apple products - he's not a good source of information.

And this article (without reading it) sounds really like he jumped the shark.
(can't answer you directly, so I'm doing it here)

My point was, that, for example, language recognition doesn't need human intelligence, a statistical model is enough.

Or driving around a confined space only requires a particle filter, not human intelligence.
I expect to see some of this money used to purchase actual meteors: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CANYON-DIABLO-IRON-METEORITE-140-gr-...
Fantastic, just sent the link to like 5 people. There is definitely a need for this.

That being said I don't love the cloud icons. Also the layout of the social media icons when viewing a book is ugly.

I predict tremendous success.
No, but if you use Trim Enabler(http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322) 'command line hack' turns into simple slide to enable.
Are you retarded or just a troll?
Anyone know the planned business model on this one?
That's not a defense at all. That's a disguised offense against the proper values of parenting.
You're okay, actually: I've been using the GM for a while and Xcode 4.5 DP3 is pretty good. It's available on the iOS developer portal if you have access. There's a GM of 4.4 in the Mac developer portal too (should be the same build as the final). Both of these are for Mountain Lion.
Try using that argument in a court and they'll laugh.
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Mostly training and consulting. There is no better indicator that you know a framework best if you made and maintain it.

Another way, that the Meteor guys are trying (probably on top of training and consulting) is to sell an enterprise solutions. This solution will probably be an all in one appliance that enterprises can buy so they have an easy way to deploy and manage Meteor applications internally.
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Ok, I'm sure this address places, but if I can access the db api on the client... what's preventing someone on the client from screwing with my database? getting around read/write permissions and such.
bin/, include/, lib/, share/, tmp/ etc last I knew.

I've been using virtualenvwrapper since the separate virtualenv dir feature was added (and before), though. Seriously - just use virtualenvwrapper.
Exactly, right? It's sort of hard-wired into us to want kids....

Next up: new study shows that sex is fun!
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To be honest - I can't stand Daring Fireball too. They both are not really interesting if you are not into Apple's products. I'm just interested in them from the standpoint of - let's look what's going no over there. And to give my Apple fanboy friends a little bit of grief.
Do you have an ETA when you will officially release Meteor with auth?
I saw 4.4 final apparently is out now. The problem with the DP versions are that you can't submit to the appstore with them.

Also, I think I saw something about 4.4+ no longer supporting armv6, which is a dealbreaker for the few apps I'm still maintaining that needs to be compatible with iPhone 3G. :(
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By "blank" of course I mean that they begin blank and immediately start learning from their environment. You say they develop skills "slowly" but it's still much faster than you would expect, unless children have some innate skill at language built in instead of being "blank."

Edit: sorry if this is vague, this is what I'm talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_nativism