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Already sold! For my first web 2.0 project I started with PHP and, being a bit disappointed with its performance, switched to Golang. Among other things I didn't want to have to do ifs with parentheses or use semicolons. Those seemed superfluous. Then I discovered Go, and it doesn't need those things and it's way faster. A lot more benefits too. Definitely a steeper learning curve than PHP initially but should be well worth the effort. I'll still use PHP or Python where they make more sense.
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I think a good model for "the singularity" is a long straight highway. Stand in the middle and look down its length, and it appears to converge to a singularity in the distance. But when you actually drive there, you see it's just more highway.

Basically I believe it's an issue of cultural time perspective. We can't imagine the tools that will be in use in 2112. But, they won't seem so strange to the people of 2111.
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There's also the possibility that the grad student who'd been working on something a lot cooler (but never got it to work) wanted to graduate, and so pushed out what s/he had.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.
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Money loses value, so it's less than 5x if you use the discounted present value of the future cashflows.

Finger in the air, it's around 4.5x if you assume a discount rate of 3% and 4x with a discount rate of 6%.
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There are a variety of ways that you can use canvas with D3. For example: force layouts (http://bl.ocks.org/3231307 and http://bl.ocks.org/3180395), time-series charts (http://square.github.com/cubism/), custom DOM-to-canvas renderers (http://bl.ocks.org/1276463).

If you mean you want D3 to support behind-the-scenes mapping from SVG to Canvas, that will never happen. Unlike Dygraphs, D3 is not a charting library, so it doesn’t abstract the underlying representation; with D3, you’re still using the DOM, albeit with a more convenient API. Magically converting SVG to Canvas would be a huge amount of work. And for what? In many cases SVG performance is comparable to Canvas, and SVG offers conveniences that Canvas cannot, such as external styling via CSS, simple declarative event listeners, and the ability to inspect elements.
Examples for Golang are sparse compared to PHP-land. The books help a lot on that. Other than that I haven't had an issue with finding stuff online. The official documentation is extensive when you know how to look for it (namely, "golang <package name>". Hopefully in the future the official documentation will have many more examples.
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It's not like they have extra batteries and they just add a power strip for the better camera. The change you suggest would involve re-engineering, which would increase your lamented cost of this mission.
Perhaps, but if you look at the industry closely, most of the largest apparel brands in the world started with basic apparel (t-shirts: Gap ($16B market cap), Uniqlo ($20+B); Yoga wear - Lulu Lemons ($10B market cap), athletic tops: Underarmour ($5B market cap).
That's silly. Anyone who worked at SCO was gone before Dark McBride took the paper shell of the corporation to court.
Your point is taken, but saying "you cannot retrieve X from v" in a thread about doing exactly that is kind of funny. :)
College rocked! I dorked out with some really smart people, learned a fuckton, got laid somehow, and after paying teh dues got a fabulous job. At the time, state school didn't cost so much, so no debt! Blah dee blah, good for you no-college man.
There is always an opportunity cost. I did a startup over last summer and dropped out to focus on it, and I have learned exponentially more since being out. I still advocate an education, because I wouldn't have had the base to learn on my own after that. Being a self funded scientist rather than a student has been more more interesting/beneficial. I still learn every day (business and tech side..)
I am surprised by how many good sized pebbles are on the top surfaces of curiosity. I guess I expect dust, but those are pretty big. Kicked up during the landing?
A $100K bonus could shave off a decade from a home loan. Even in the bay area. I'd work hard for that, but I would also have to like where I work even without the bonus.
No, its still not possible. There is a big difference between dedicating 10 weeks of thought and consideration to plumb the depths of a subject and simply being able to fake that effort in order to pass a test for a grade. You and the OP did the latter. Nothing wrong with it but in the end you're just fooling yourself, your professors, and anyone who puts value in your degree.
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I can't really blame the guy for the off-the-wall tone and and the straight-up poor grammar and spelling, because I'm guessing English isn't his first language. Kudos for trying.

But some of his reasons that Go may be better or more useful than PHP don't really stick. You can deploy a PHP web application using the PHAR format, which is a lot like just moving a file into a folder. And static variable typing isn't really a requirement for a successful language if you're adequately validating input and the like.

Also, a PHP programmer would have an easier time learning another scripting language compared to another compiled language, regardless of the overhead of configuring a development environment.

Things that would make me consider Go would include ease of deployment, significant speed improvements, fantastic libraries for the kinds of things I want to get done, or smart under-the-hood concurrency that I don't personally have to worry about coding. Go could have all these things, and I've have no idea from this post.
ouch... yes, something to consider...
Oh good yet more comments about why PHP is trash and how your intelligence and social status are dictated by what language you are using. I almost don't click on posts about programming languages any more. Yet here i am, commenting..
> But I haven't seen an explanation why bandwidth is so low -- is it lack of spectrum? Interference issues?

Transmit power.
Reread the article, it is exactly what you're telling me it's not (last paragraph). :(

Also, beside that point, this is thrice daily conversation, whether it's Peter Thiel, or KA, or whatever the "anti-college" hit of the day is.

As far as 5 years of experience ... It depends on what you spent 5 years doing.

The $44K/yr is a non-starter. Sure, it's a big waste of money if you get a .33 GPA, agreed. Big deal. That's so much higher than average that bringing this up is sort of a strawman; if that school is way outside of your budget and you're not just dead-set on that school, why go there. That's more than B.S. + PhD for many people. Give me a break!

As far as the idea of college being step closer to success being "plain wrong," this is just a naked assertion that is really generalized and kind of ridiculous.
You can find one in the mandelbrot example.

https://github.com/dabeaz/bitey/tree/master/examples/mandel
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You cut open the skull of the rat, pick out the ripest looking neurons, and place them on a block of cheese.

Okay, here is what actually happens. Neurons don't usually differentiate. So instead, cancerous neuronal cells are commonly used (neuroblastoma cells). Basically, these neuronal cells have decided to divide rapidly. You simply place these cells in a serum of growth medium consisting of protein, sugars, and salts and watch them divide over the course of a few days.

It would be nice to use stem cells instead or cancerous cells... but that is another thread entirely.
lol...it depends how funny your jokes are. I would pay $1 to spread words about my app to additional 1000 people.

I like all the $1 app ideas. Just for the fun I made $1 site http://www.mostpopularpicture.com. Change the picture for a $1.
I like your highway analogy. Mainly I think the singularity argument suffers from an acute case of perception bias in favour of recent advancements; just as picking any arbitrary point in time and asking a scientist of that era what they thought the most important scientific advancements were.

> We can't imagine the tools that will be in use in 2112.

Pretty much just the hall-filling computers of the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx. Guitar-smashing jerks.
> Let's reformulate the question: Why not keep the same enclosure, the same lens assembly, the same mechanical parts and simply swap the 2MP sensor for a 20MP sensor?

You can't "simply" swap the sensor. What about the processor behind it, that interpolates the sensor data and produces a viewable image? Then you need more power for both of those units, and if you're moving to a 20MP sensor, probably size too.
as ugly as it may look, it seems like targeting something like GNUStep may help out with the portability issues. then you really only need to worry about the Mac-specific APIs.
Would you mind stating what weaknesses you see in the unmodified SRP? Against a server compromise it's equivalent to salted hash storage, but it's impossible, in general, to do better without losing the ability to authenticate using the password (only).

Edit: do you mean the weakness of salted SHA-1? SRP is not defined for SHA-1 only.
I don't like PHP either, but nearly every hoster let you run PHP code. You could pick a 3 Euro Webhost and it will be fine. That's one of the biggest advantages for PHP.
Actually, I forgot one minor thing. LinkedIn hashes were unsalted. Even assuming SRP is no better than sha1, cracking all of the battle.net passwords is going to be $number_of_users times harder than LinkedIn.
I used to dislike CM when it was printed on laser printers, but discovered that when it was printed on a Linotype--the Art of Computer Programming books, for instance--it seemed to take on an entirely different character. It looks clean and pretty, rather than spindly.

Clearly that's subjective, and you might hate it no matter the output device. :)
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A quick take on the project.

Software Architect: "Hello sir! As you know, it has taken millions to billions of dollars and years of time to develop your project. We are ready to launch! As you know, it will take a year to actually deploy it in production, during which point a bug or misconfiguration of the software during the transfer, installation, or activation stages would cause it to fail. If a failure happens, we will need millions of dollars and lots of time to rebuild the project, as well as to figure out what went wrong and to try again. However, if we do succeed in installing the project as we hope, we expect will be able to run for ten years without updates. If you do need an update or if an error is encountered or the hardware deteriorates (such as because of a memory error, hard-drive crash, etc.), then parts of the application never work again. Also, as a reminder, the user will have to wait many hours after submitting input before receiving acknowledgement from the system, and many days to receive even partial results."

Customer: "Thank you for your report. It sounds great. I have one suggestion. Lets make sure that when ask the system for an image, we use the .BMP format to increase the file size. This way, we can please the media with numbers about how much raw data we have obtained."

Software Architect: "This will take additional time and millions of dollars and not be much of a benefit."

Customer: "Ok, fine let's skip that."
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Say you were developing a website, and once you get the first real life visitor, you can't SSH in any more; it's set in stone forever. Would you swap out a JSON parser on your backend just before you ship? They're functionally equivalent, and should be interchangeable, right? Your unit tests say it's fine, so what's the problem?

Any kind of change is adding risk to a project that costs billions of dollars.

The rover a one of a kind project, and any issues are set in stone before any kind of real world testing can be done.

If anything, the team should be praised for being conservative enough that they managed to pull it off with success.

You're right that dropping an extra 20 megapixel camera in there would be less risky than changing the main lens; but it's still an unspecced addition to the plan. I don't blame them for choosing not to.

In the future when launch costs are cheaper, people with a hacker approach are going to make rovers on their own. Lots of experimental designs, safety in numbers, and they'll do amazing things.

But when you've got one shot, your risk profile makes you conservative in the extreme.
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The $2.6 billion price tag is not just for the rover, it includes R&D for the rover itself, employee salaries, Sky Crane & parachute R&D as well as the rocket to launch it, which cost over $100 million.

Also included in the budget is funding needed for all of the science teams to do what they do over the next few years while the rover does experiments.
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I'm just going to do what most people won't and just say I don't believe it. Sure it is possible. But is it likely that you're the one? Now what you're talking about is an extreme outlier.

I don't believe you spent 2 days worth work on a non-trivial course and produce A or near A level work.

People are promoting this anti-college line with utter propaganda and lies. It's one thing to debate whether college is for everyone ... But come on guys, don't lie.

Now, yes I admit it is possible that you are like Ramanujan so I'm not going to commit 100% to this, but I'm going to commit 99.999%

Even if it were true, your ability would be astronomically beyond the vast majority of even highly educated people. Therefore, this would be the most statistically insignificant data point ever, which makes me further question this ability -- how could such an error be committed????

Why is this anti-college view of so many built on such a weird foundation?
Apparently not that great of an investment, tho: http://www.contingentfeeblog.com/2009/05/articles/corporate-...
The bandwidth to the orbiters is up to 2 Mbps, but because they're in low orbit they're only in sight 8 minutes per day.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communicationwithearth/...
This is a reasonably plausible argument for progress within fields and paradigm shifts; but consider between fields, and the rate of new field creation. To use the given examples, Newtonian physics, quantum physics and Information Theory began in 1687, 1930 and 1948. That seems quite accelerating (of course you'd need more complete stats to demonstrate this properly).

BTW: I disagree that intelligence and imagination are separate. I think intelligence necessarily includes imagination, so AI would include artificial "imagination" too.

I'd like progress to continue rather than to stagnate; and since progress has historically continued, that seems the way to bet. Those pundits predicting stagnation have historically been wrong.
However, I find it curious that Kurzweil does not address the availability of innovations/discoveries (and the difficulty in finding them), in contrast to the compelling case he makes for historical progress. Are potential discoveries infinite? Is their density uniform, or do they become less likely as you go along because they are limited in supply (the assumption of the article)?

How would one sensibly model the supply of potential discoveries, since it is intrinsically unknown? Perhaps a mathematical model of computation might help, of computable functions and Kolomogorov/Solomonoff program length to compute them. Using this model, the search space of functions increases exponentially with program length - but at what rate would the number of "interesting" computable functions increase? And with what density (with respect to the search space, i.e. how hard they are to find)?
> the total amount of effort I put into a course probably amounted to 2-3 days of work, including time spent in classes and exams. But, I knew people who were easily an order of magnitude more productive than I was; for them, it would have been an afternoon of work.

A single math/engineering problem set at any reasonable university will take more than an afternoon, so I really don't see how it's possible you knew people who were learning everything in an afternoon and getting A's/B's. Maybe it's possible in the lowest level courses where you went in already knowing most of the material, but otherwise I'm calling shenanigans.
Really, don't feed these trolls that pop up in every single thread that has to do with PHP.
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No. :) That's interesting and wonderful but does not prove anything about this discussion. I haven't watched the whole but I saw the description, learn to use a PC. OK, there is a big difference between learning to use something and that designed with "usability" in mind and learning CS, physics, chemistry, law, medicine, whatever.
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Maybe Instagramm built the camera?

But seriously, I guess for the same reason Couriosity runs on old PowerPC processors. They are just well tested and less likely to fail. If you want a high res image, you can always take 10 images and glue them together, result is the same.
I loathe sites that disable pasting passwords (I'm looking at you, Apple!) as it makes entering that random 24 char string generated by Keepass an exercise in frustration.
Worth mentioning is that battle.net passwords are not case sensitive.
While I agree with you that the rate of paradigm shift increases over time, I argue that their average impact/scope decreases. Newtonian physics opened more room for technological progress than quantum mechanics, etc. Earliest inventions have the most impact (the invention of the scientific method having the most impact of all?).

So my point is that if you look at paradigm shift rate not in volume but in impact, you'd get a linear rate.

For this reason, an AI given imagination and exploding resources would still only make linear progress.
Apple could've thrown copy and paste into the first iPhone, but they didn't because they didn't feel they had it right.

They might be in the process of actually designing an interface for formulas that actually expands the reach of such functionality. You know, something that the "I'm bad at math" crowd could actually dig into, make use of, and learn within.

If you release a basic not-that-hard-to-implement version of the functionality, it's WAY harder to drop in a new, innovative model afterwards. I think there's a lot of sense in waiting until they can get it right, if they're planning on doing something different with it--which, judging by the other UI departures they've made, I wouldn't be surprised if they are.
... in which case they would buy more insurance. This benefit from Google is additive to existing benefits (including life insurance, which as mentioned is free up to certain limits and can be bought for additional amounts), and does not replace those benefits. So if you opt to not have ANY life insurance and instead depend solely on Google's stated 5x salary death benefit, then, yes, that's not enough. But this benefit is not meant to replace life insurance, but rather to augment it.
Full screen is tight. After a few minutes of looking around at the landscape, I find my self more interested in cool 360 view of curiosity not from.
Excel doesn't lack capabilities, but it lacks in the ability to surface those capabilities to the people who need them.
Why do Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, etc keep coming over to universities if it's so outdated and useless. Why aren't they out on Tumblr or photo sharing sites trying to work on problems and recruit? They could save a lot of money on these plane trips by just looking at blogs! Don't they know any better? :)
I agree, and luckily he touches that subject a little at the end of the article, the line:
"In any case, most of PHPers alwasy need to learn other languages for the backend development."
Pretty much sums up exactly why a PHP developer should learn Go. For all the things that PHP just isn't meant to do.
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omg, I suck at math. am I the only one who got intimidated by the math formula? May be I need a tutorial about C ABI/Python writing wrappers like "foo_sum" and "bar_multi".
I had assumed that they were blown there by the wind. I'm sure it's just as likely they settled after being kicked up during the landing.

[EDIT] From the nasa website [1]:

Today's Sol 3 morning and afternoon passes by NASA's Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft provided a plethora of new data, including more high-resolution black-and-white 360-degree and deck panorama images from her Navigation Camera, or Navcam, which revealed some small pebbles deposited on the deck during landing, which should pose no problems for mission operations. Curiosity also returned 130 low-resolution thumbnail images from the color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, providing scientists and engineers with their first color panorama glimpse of Gale Crater.

[1] http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAct...
Me too. I mean, look at this. The place looks like a desert on Earth, and yet its millions of miles away in space, on another planet. There's a certain feeling I experience when I look at those photos, like there is a vast, cold void inside of my chest. I felt something similar when I touched a meteorite for the first time. That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years, and now here I am holding it.
No offense to the writer, but it seems to me he doesn't really understand web development. In 99.9% of web applications, the bottleneck for scaling is the database and not the language. Web application processes are generally not CPU intensive and are short lived, something PHP handles very nicely.

On the other hand, PHP has a huge list of existing resources, libraries and excellent documentation and community.

Look over at the language used by the largest sites on the Internet, and compare the number that use PHP to the number that use Go. Not saying Go can't handle those applications, but obviously PHP was used in scale effectively on many occasions, while Go hasn't proved anything yet.
I agree it's a tough sell, but it does looks like he will reach the funding target on Kickstarter.
That's great, very impressive. No one denies brilliant computer scientists with no formal education exist. But just because Ramanujans exist, doesn't mean the other 99.99% of people don't need an education. :)