skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't notice your point about impact. Impact is hard to measure purely objectively, but I agree Newtonian physics, being more fundamental, has had more impact. But it's also had 325 years to do so, whereas Information Theory has had only 64 (to stay with these examples). Given an exponentially expanding search space, there's always more to see (but this is an assumption, not a conclusion; I think the nature of the search space is the essential question at issue here).

How much impact did Newton have on the world by 1751? How much impact will Shannon have had by 2337?
https://twitter.com/markmilian/statuses/233015694432813057

Mark Milian ‏@markmilian 7 Aug

Contradicting earlier statement, 3Taps spokeswoman emails to say, "Craigslist is still allowing indexing of pages." Still nothing from CL PR
They no longer need the exclusive since PadMapper's workaround has been effectively killed by the changes Craigslist made to its robots.txt, Google is no longer allowed to index apartments thus PadMapper can not scrape the Google cache.
Haven't you heard? All of these companies are dead/dying/about to be obsolete. Of course they recruit at universities!
What does that mean "it's not coming". Isn't pretty much everything "coming" eventually?
I drink on the job from time to time. The programming I am required to do is rarely challenging, its maintaining and expanding a system I know inside and out.

Sometimes it reaches lunch time, I have some dull task to finish, motivation is leaving the body. The cure. A whisky. Definitely not to get to drunk, just to get the juices flowing.

I find my productivity greatly improves when I get a small buzz. I find the quality of my work stay's the same as I never drink enough to truly impair judgement. It would be win / win but I feel the negative connotations of drinking of the job means this isn't really something I should be talking about.
Why is it all black-and-white? Is it because color cameras are too heavy/expensive to take or because color photography is for some reason impossible under those conditions?
Is that BMP thing based on something that actually happened?
If the Singularity is defined as intelligence explosion following the creation of strong AI, and if intelligence explosion is impossible, then the Singularity is not coming, even in the far future. Progress will just carry on linearly.
My school used one called "PC Lockout". It wasn't long before the necessary DEBUG.EXE commands to switch a strategically chosen JNZ to a JZ were being distributed.
Shoot me an email - I am interested in talking more. Mail@philipithomas.com. I'm an engineering and physics student who, among other ventures, owns a marketing automation company and who appreciates clothing.

On a bit of side note, I'm excited to be meeting Daymond John from Fubu and Shark Tank tomorrow!
So after year of developing this product, they finally realized that each page should have an unique URL.

It's called lack of vision.

ps. ajax content does not rank in Google SERPs at all, it's a typical band aid solution, so websites made with meteor will have some serious issues with monetization and stuff
Rat brains? Paul Linebarger is rolling in his grave.

[See "The Game of Rat and Dragon" if you don't get it.]
http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Smith-C/Game-Rat-Dragon.ht...
The fact that they have a windows version is nice, but when I say cross platform I mostly mean Mac/Linux. It's one of the main reasons I chose vim in the first place. Mac/Linux/Windows GUI/Terminal. And not to start a flame war: OS X isn't getting any better for developers. It's ok. It's just not their main focus. Lucky for everyone Linux is rad and getting better all the time. Now if only there was a cross platform Fireworks like program I could switch for good...

And while it's unlikely: I may find myself in a position where I have to use Windows. I'll be glad not to need to learn a new editor I don't want to. Or maybe I'm away from my Macbook and I want to code? We aren't all complete masters of our own destiny like DHH. I like to be prepared. :)
With a JVM or .NET language they would be better served than with Go.

Given the available communities, performance of current JIT and GC systems, tools, libraries and distribution mechanisms.

If they prefer to go VM free, there are commercial native compilers for JVM and MSIL bytecodes.

For those with VM phobia, D, OCaml, SBCL, Haskell, Rust offer native code compilation by default, with 2012 set of language abstractions.
Right :-) Brute force is 'hard' - dictionary is not.

Calculating 'v' is a bit harder than SHA1 - there is a lot of research on performance of modular exponentiation since it is the foundation of crypto, but most of the current benchmarks are at 1024 or 2048 bit N.

Given that we have a mere 256-bit N, it looks like between 10k - 100k operations / sec is achievable with a modest budget. I should go benchmark this on Google Compute or EC2 GPU, but I need to sleep at some point.

Intel released a benchmark here: http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/PAPERS/324952.pdf claiming they can do 1024-bit ME in 2m cycles, and 512-bit ME in 250k cycles on an i7-2600. Assuming that means you can do 256-bit ME in 32k cycles, that's 100k / sec at 3.4GHz.

So an attacker takes a dictionary with 100k passwords in it (or just the top 10k, that works almost as well...) and tests them for each { username, salt, v }.

If you can do 100k tests per second, you can test 100k passwords for 100k users (10B tests total) in a little over a day. You won't successfully crack every password, but a well formed dictionary with top 100k passwords will crack a majority of them.

So don't tell me it's too slow to dictionary attack, ok?! :-)
I turned on Vintage mode within the first hour. Pretty nice! Funny how the single thing that turns so many off of vim initially becomes the thing you can't live without when checking out other editors.
Don't forget the part where it rode on top of a giant rocket to escape a unfathomably deep gravity well.
"Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative."

That's definitely what we need more of, investment bankers being "creative".
Entrepreneurs in the Arab world are leaping into action
With the massive amount of backlash they got from SOPA, I seriously doubt whether they would be doing this sort of thing.
So basically the argument is that if you are the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" kind of developer, you should use Go as hammer instead of PHP.

I don't think so.

Not to mention the unfounded and insulting assumption that "you PHP guys" are all the "everything looks like nail" kind of people. Methinks the author is projecting too much.
+1 came here to say the same thing.
If you hadn't gone to college you would have been doing something else during those years and you could have gotten job leads from somebody else somewhere else. You can know that the job lead you got was good, but you have no way of knowing that your lead was better than you might have gotten by going to a jobs fair or some sort of special-interest convention or local community center.

And note that you could have taken humanities courses at a community college or audited them for free at a private college or done self-study. You don't have to be paying full college tuition to "open your mind" that way.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019533.html

That article is from 2009, noting that CL had added the meta tag to posting pages. So I think this is old news.

I think storborg has it right in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353120 when saying that "3taps seems to be claiming that Craigslist has cut off Google, but I think it's just that Craigslist has cut off 3taps."
At one of my previous jobs, our office was right across the street from a fantastic microbrewery. I'd loved going over in the afternoon with my coworkers for a couple of pints.

My current office is right across the street from a different microbrewery. I can't get anybody in my office to go over with me.
I like using Prezi.
Help not wanted: why are so many scientists unemployed?
looks interesting, a command line player might be just what the doctor ordered.
Growing a Funded Startup
Breaking news: Some people just want to solve the problem at hand and don't care for language elitism ("you use php? you suck!") in their choice of tools.
One other note: Advertising for women sometimes focuses on finding that 'perfect black dress' (in ads ranging from the dress itself to deodorant) - I wonder if your company could create the 'perfect black polo' for men.
I don't really think this is as weird as you think it is. The key part is "non-trivial." Speaking as a current university student, the vast majority (>90%) of required coursework is trivial and can be easily summed up within a page or two of text per class. The ability to figure out what couple paragraphs are going to be tested on and to regurgitate them on demand is really all you need to get a passing grade for a significant percentage of your college career. Figuring that out over a period of a few days doesn't exactly require a superhuman effort, and is (in my experience) quite common. Cramming isn't a new phenomenon, and computers make it significantly easier to find a bunch of information and memorize it for a few days (before forgetting everything.)

Of course, that is not to say that there are not courses that require greater diligence - but they're often avoidable, and a student can compensate by putting effort into those specific classes. Or simply cheating.
As a European I find that the sheer amount of money required to get higher education in the US is absolutely crazy. In most (if not all) of Europe, universities are paid from tax payers money and are basically free for all who have the necessary qualification to attend them.

That shows though. I have the impression that you can make rather decent money in the US without ever going to college but there's not a glimpse of hope for you to do that in Europe. Without at least a minor in something you'll top out at about 2.5k€/month (that's an annual salary of abour 35000$) being employed anywhere. So, all in all, you're expected to go to university.

Oh and btw, going to university was in fact a great idea for me, personally.
Um, Google often recruits by posting puzzles on billboards or in magazines and by running contests and by paying headhunters. I mean, I'm sure they go to universities too, but they certainly don't recruit exclusively there.
I think there's also the factor that there's no real advantage to the mission in a 20MP camera.
The article also said that all children would receive $1k/mo until 19 (or 23 if a full-time student).
"In one experiment, they found that job candidates who ordered a glass of wine during an interview over dinner were viewed as less intelligent than those who ordered a soft drink."

People that order wine instead of a soft drink at a job interview probably are less intelligent. Not because they like wine but because that's just not a very intelligent thing to do at a job interview in the USA in 2012.

A SV note: Asana has a stocked bar in their office and IIRC encourages people to drink while working.
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with alcohol specifically.

As a European, I've always gotten the feeling that corporate America has been trying to ban almost any kind of potentially disruptive but generally perfectly normal social activity from the workplace. Take for example how uptight many American companies seem to be about people forming intimate relationships in the workplace.

Maybe this has more to do with American fear of legal liability. Whatever the case, the strict separation of social and professional settings seems to go well beyond just booze.
Plus with SVG you get Retina support for free.
Yeah, I agree with this. My English skills have always been top of the line (99% on standardized tests, 5s on APs, etc), and I fully accredit this to the fact that I have been reading CONSTANTLY since I was little. You have to develop an ability to hear the written word inside your head as your eyes move across the page--a lot of lower functioning people don't seem to have this, as indicated by the bizarre sentence constructions they vomit all over their word processor.

A knack for sentence flow isn't practiced, it is absorbed. Want to be a good writer? You need a vocabulary to match. Those of us who acquired extensive vocabularies through osmosis can tell when a lesser person has whipped out the thesaurus in an attempt to sound "smart." (usually, the fancy words they try to insert just end up hilariously misused, since they don't understand the different shades of meaning attached to them. You can only get that through observation of the word in its natural setting.)

As anecdata, I know someone with an English degree from our flagship state school who can't manage to comprehend the difference between "its" and "it's," "your" and "you're," and routinely mangles grammar in a manner absolutely horrifying even before you take into account the fact they studied English for OVER FOUR YEARS and still never managed to grasp the proper use of the possessive.
> "And in addition to your salary, we're also giving you a roll of quarters every month in case you need to pay tolls, do laundry at one of those barbaric laundromats not in the Googleplex, or play arcade games."

... is it just me or would this be an incredible perk? If a roll of quarters and an envelope with $250 worth of $1, $5, and $20 bills were delivered to my desk every month I'd save a lot of time going to the ATM or the laundromat for tips/laundry/cash-only restaurants/etc. I think I'd willingly give up a lot more of my salary than it's actually worth for the convenience of perks like that. Free laundry (like, full wash and fold and dry cleaning)? Shit, for that I'd probably take a $95K job over a $100K job (all other things being equal) even though it's really worth ~$1000 at most (comparing against the cost of laundry services, not machines, of course). Does Facebook still have that?
The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day)
"If you have something positive to say, it's often vapid or redundant" ... it doesn't have to be.

I have a singer friend who works on a huge variety of projects, some "good", some "bad", but there is always something positive to say about the "bad" ones.

That's the purpose of positive criticism, and - for what it's worth - that's exactly what comes across when you watch PG do something like office hours at Disrupt.

I do generally agree however that there does appear to be a lot of negative comments from time to time, but my impression is that when the world turns so that HN is in Europe time, there is a bit more.
I'd go if I were there.
If "not really up for debate" follows from "settled law" - how do you change settled law (e.g. if it is a dumb law)?
Erm... The "absolute black" on your screen isn't absolute black either...
"We understand that craigslist faces real challenges in trying to preserve its character and does not want third parties to simply reuse its content in ways that are out of line with its user community’s expectations and could be harmful to its users."

You don't want your users unexpectedly harmed by saving them hours of their precious lives with a better UI. That would be a tragedy.
> gedit is pretty impressive, still!

Yes, and it feels completely alien on OS X.
Probably because many colleges cost like 200K nowadays. Fun's justifiable maybe when you're graduating with, I don't know, 0-10K in debt, but at 200K you've really gotta question whether or not it's worth it. A lot of people have their four years of fun and then end up slaving away as indentured servants to Sallie Mae for the rest of their lives.
Asking Google to stop caching CL pages is probably not a real solution. There are plenty of other parties caching them.

From Squid/Varnish style proxies, to paid CDN's, to free CDNs. If you upload content to the web, and you do not put it behind access controls like a password, it gets copied.

It's the nature of the web.

Many sites have built businesses around caching. Not taking content from search engine caches, but caching content that users request through their proxy. The users have no idea they are using a proxy. They think they are making a request to "A" site, when really their request is being passed to "B" site and "A" site is caching the result. Then other users come along and request the same content from "A" site and they think, "Wow, this is fast. And 'A' site sure has lots of content."

What's strange is that guys like Craig Newmark have made a fortune running "B" site, yet they get extremely protective of their turf. They think they are _entitled_ to something. Not really. They are just lucky. Because anyone could provide the same "service". Users can get the same content (which incicentally "B" nor "A" site own) from a myriad of points on the network. The web is a vast copy machine.

There is no entitlement. These guys who have made a fortune should be thankful.

Just because you can afford lawyers does not mean you have to start suing people because you are annoyed by competitors and the lawyers advise you that indeed you can sue. They are rarely going to tell you you cannot sue. They can find something.

Copyright trolls like Righthaven are one example of egregiousness that comes to mind. But how about with the recent OpenDNS Paxfire lawsuit? Junk patent nonsense. Fighting over who gets to hijack NXDOMAINS. The suit was dropped of course. Meritless.

There are companies out there whose business consists of hijacking and manipulating traffic, whether DNS or HTTP, to show ads. And these guys think they are _entitled_ to something. Please.

They should be happy with what they get away with.

We need more Alsups and Posners. We need more adults in the room.
The internet is a great resource but never a replacement for a great teacher. There's so much to learn that most people don't even realize that only a good teacher can show you. During the first years at university I was confronted with so many things I never thought I'd have to learn which proved to be invaluable.

Additionally, a great teacher makes you learn things a lot quicker than you'd learn them yourself, because of the insights he can give you.

Oh and btw, I've found textbooks to be infinitely more useful than the internet.
Samsung reveals the Exynos 5 Dual chip
Well, I guess you could take a humanities class...or, you could, you know, get a library card.

Believe it or not, there are actually sources of information outside of wikipedia and $1000000000/credit college courses. Amazing, right?
And that is a good reason to stop copy, rather than paste.
I'm lazy/stupid, can someone find the link to the paper if there is one?
The value of a university education does not principally lie in how much money you can make afterwards. Many people go to university to learn, to build a philosophy for life, to meet and engage with other engaged people.

But I paid orders of magnitude less so maybe that gives me the freedom to be more contemplative.
Also, Ray Kurzweil is not known just for his imagination. Some of his research has enabled groundbreaking technologies. For example, he is one of the creators of speech recognition technology (Nuance, which spun out of Kurzweil's company, allegedly powers Siri). I had heard of Kurzweil long before I knew anything about the singularity.
This topic was also discussed here (regarding some previous missions):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356878

They use a black and white CMOS to accurately measure the actual light hitting the lens (which may include non visible spectrum. To get a colour image they need to use filters and take multiple photos, where as consumer cameras have a fixed grid (Bayer pattern) of one filter per each pixel. That probably won't give you such an accurate picture. Also when they're using filters they're not interested in reproducing true colour but rather highlighting a difference in materials.

The bandwidth constraints no doubt the reason they didn't change the sensor. Besides, when they combine three different images taken with filters to create one colour image it will essentially be 6MP anyway.
firehose.io
...at least the movie industry helps you Americans a bit: remember Zuckerberg's character coding Facebook's ancestor fueled by a couple beers in The Social Network?
Intelligence and Imagination could not be more separate.

I'm defining intelligence as sheer IQ, analogous to a computers' ability to process information. Imagination is so essentially human in nature that there is no way to describe current AI as "imaginative". For example, the person with the highest IQ in the world is not more creative than the best musician. Some of the smartest minds in the world cannot "think outside of the box" effectively, because their minds are not wired that way. Intelligence is not imagination.

Can anyone please explain how an intelligence-self-improving computer will shift from being incredibly smart to wildly imaginative?

That's the one hole in singularity that I can't figure out.
Feel free to divide the actions arbitrarily if you really want to. Charge then with half the jewels federal, half the jewels state. It's when the charges overlap that I feel justice isn't best served.

Also you'd need to try to mitigate nonlinearity in punishment somehow. At the very least figure out a way to punish any details like "armed robbery" only once.
Thanks for this article. I've always been fascinated by singularity, and even though I don't know too much about it, I'm excited to see the people who fully support your position to create some great conversation on this topic.
That's why I stated "when needed". I thought I didn't have to explain it in more detail, but it seems I do. You obviously have an interest in these things and rightfully have issues with pure MP arguments. In this case you read something into my comment that wasn't there. That's my despair, and one of the reasons why I try to avoid commenting on technical posts.

Note that I also stated that I did understand that there were other technical reasons. My comment was limited to the question of bandwidth only.

My original question that you didn't reply to still remains. From a pure bandwidth point of view, they could crop the image when they need a high transfer rate so that they can have a higher resolution when they have enough available bandwidth.

If they chose 2MP for other reasons, that's fair enough.
> Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative.

Wow, never thought I'd see scientific evidence for the Ballmer peak.
Yeah, I tried to warn my friends, but they all looked down on the idea. Now that they're out of college, most of them are working retail. They have no idea how much they owe or when it might be paid off--math is scary, so they just defer and defer and make the minimum payment when necessary.

Of course, given their relative inability to comprehend fiscal realities, almost all of them live with their parents. Any free money they have they immediately blow on unnecessary things (trips, designer clothing, etc) instead of even trying to get out from under their loan debt.

I really hope that people come around some day, because I'm really sick of people treating me like shit for actually getting a worthwhile degree that'll lead to a career that can pay the bills. Not all of us have parents we can move back in with, you know? But even that concept is offensive to them.

People spending money they don't have on useless status signifiers just pisses me off. So irresponsible.
I can see why are sensitive (I am also primarily a PHP dev) but I didn't see any "PHP is trash" statements in this article. The article even shows how you can use PHP with Go via Gearman.