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Nice idea, and I'm eager to use it day to day, but one small quibble: It would be nice if the setting allowed me to set the language - you currently set the language based on the location, right? Assuming the language of the land is my preferred language setting is not correct.

Can we use location services and set the language preference?
See discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4363782 for more info on this
Well, there is always save page as.
It powers YouTube, among other things: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

Go documentation is very good, the standard library is extensive, and it has a very active community, but it does lack certain libraries that web developers might find attractive, e.g. a comprehensive ORM.

Insinuating PHP is better because it's deployed in more places is silly.
> 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)?

Like AIXI?

http://www.hutter1.net/ai/aixigentle.htm
There is at least some logic in these things, further than legal issues. Relationships are perfectly ordinary in general life, and if they end you can usually avoid seeing the other half if you want. At work that may not be possible, and can cause genuine problems if two colleagues hate each other because of a break-up.
Indeed. However, a number of researchers have had arguably more impact that he did on NN research (such as LeCun), and these people are completely unheard of outside of the NN community. I can't imagine Kurzweil becoming the media star that he is without his singularity books.
Does this mean that Craigslist will no longer be taking legal action against Padmapper or will that still be going ahead? This is great news though, it's amazing what a little (well a lot) of backlash can accomplish.
Transistors couldn't have been designed without understanding Quantum Mechanics. Bye, bye modern computers.
Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus
Attempt to make contact with every single person that cancelled. Catalog their concerns, there will be patterns. This that aren't glaringly obvious to you but are visible to the customer. Address those concerns with existing customers to stem the flow. Adjust. Rinse. Repeat.
> Doing the same thing as everybody else, and doing the same thing year after year after year, is trivially easy.

No, it's almost impossible. Doing the same thing for year after year is impossible because someone comes along and does some part better from the customer's point of view, and then you don't have a business.

> Slicing bread is a dead easy business to be in. You buy a bread slicer, and you let it run. innovation, no matter the sector, is what is hard.

There are no "easy businesses".

For starters, there's no "bread slicing" biz. Slicing bread is a small part of whatever it is your customer is actually paying for.

Never confuse "units of billing" (suc as "loaves of sliced bread") with the business. For example, the biz is often making sure that they can serve their customers profitably. Fresh, on-time, small-inventory, etc is what makes a difference, not the bread slicer.

There's innovation in every biz that lasts. Technology is usually the easy part.
According to wikipedia article, the power source is designed to create 125 watts of electrical power from 2000 watts of thermal power. (It might look inefficient, but they are using the heat in all parts of the rover.)

For comparison, that might be how much your graphics card might be consuming while you are reading this article.

I guess that also means it is going to move very slow.
Good God man.

I wasn't born in the US, but came over young. The whole college evaluation, application, and selection process was one giant set of mysteries to me. Yet, this is all about exactly those questions. At least I feel better, apparently I could've done a lot worse.

Cost - debt or opportunity cost of cash. Treat it as exactly that, a risk you're taking for some expected gain. A high-ranked, expensive school is only worth it if you're going to get something out of it. Your ability to withstand debt (or cash burned) is runway you can use for other things. I'm sorry this guy spent a mercedes benz on stuff he didn't want. But he shouldn't have spent a mercedes benz. My highest undergrad tuition over 4 years was $4k (after fees) per semester. Without a strong interest in a particular field that the school's well-known for, I don't see why it's worth it. And if you're not sure, there's always grad school. People tend to look only at the school of your last degree.

Specialization - I can't understand how people choose majors without looking hard at the ease of getting a job in the field, the effort spent in the degree, how much they like the topic, and the amount you can expect to make. Somehow it turned into a "what's your calling?" question, which is an asshole question to ask anyone, much less some poor 18 year old coming out of 12 years of highly homogenizing k-12.

Frankly, if I had supreme fascist control over a school, departments with poor (say, <85% after 3 months of searching) hiring likelihood should charge double tuition, and require field-specific talent auditions like a good music school to get in. Waivers if it's a second degree, or a written letter of intent to go to law school after.

Finally, what happened to trade school? Les time, higher per-class-hour relevance to the primary goal, and it's a job you can explain to your friends. My CS dept had a 90% drop rate over 4 years (300 freshman, 30 graduating seniors). A lot of those kids would've been happier in trade school, instead of hopping over to business (or business IT). Paid at least as well, and with less debt.
At our company we have beer and whisky stocked. "Project Friday" is a fun day.

We're in Germany and this is not usual here :)
> How do you know it's not yours? Or rather, how can you be so sure?

Well then how does the author knows that his assessment is the correct one? I agree with the GP for three reasons: (1) I am not a super intelligent, 140 IQed, childhood prodigy who can learn so much faster than most if not all of my peers that I find the courses in my university program slow/unnecessary. (2) I fail at keeping myself motivated for months without direction, peer support and proper schedule. I am more likely to slag off in a side project that I am doing than in a course project that I have to do. (3) I am also more likely to learn things that are absolutely necessary but I personally don't find interesting (Logic Design, for example was one such topic).

> people who are just as hungry and passionate and brilliant as I am

I think that is largely a function of how good the university is and how likely you are to identify motivated people. I was lucky to find some really motivated people around me who would challenge everything they encounter. I am much more passive than they are during sleep and just observing them struggle to tackle the weirdest problems was worth it. I am of course, not from a US university. My 5 year program (B.Tech. + M.Tech) would have costed me not more than $20K as a large part of my academic expenses are subsidized by our government. But all I can say is that at a good university, neither is this behaviour unusual or is it rare.
A bit of clarification, I think the orbiters are in sight of Earth for most of the day.

It is Curiosity that is not in sight of the Orbiters, again because of their low orbit.
Thanks. Paying per milestone is what I should have done, and do when I'm hiring total unknowns but this designer came to me with enough social proof (he's pretty well known in the community + the recommendation) that I decided to just pay upfront so I wouldn't deal with the burden of a back and forth.

Now I see better. Thanks for helping to settle my mind.
According to the article they would look down on you if you went, so maybe they think of not going as a favor. Or maybe they are worried about how you might see them if they drank.
> Because it means that there's no "we couldn't afford to do it right" excuse.

No, 400x the average lifetime salary of a worker doesn't mean that.

> Double or nothing on a company that size is a stupid bet.

Wrong again. Double-or-nothing is often an extremely good bet. You're ignoring odds of each outcome.

Then again, you're just spewing soundbites and getting details right doesn't help with that.
That may be the logic behind it but, purely anecdotal, of the several people I know who have dated at work and ended it they have been socially fine afterwards. There is a period of a month or so where they feel anxiety about seeing the other person but people are adaptive and the cope with these situations. Eventually they just become colleagues again.
What's the relevance of this? Since they're bandwith limited, using a more inefficient compression scheme wouldn't gain them any extra transmitted bytes, only less actual data.
This seems circular to me.

Observation: The culture has changed to the point where people think you are dumber if order a wine during an interview.

You: You are dumber!!!!!
Accountability is what school offers you. You are forced to work the homework problems and then you really learn. You can do this on your own but without the social motivation it is much less likely. Udacity, etc. are solving this problem for online education now in CS.
That's not math. It's just a formula. It is nothing more than the C function, written in a more compact notation. Consider this notation as some kind of programming language.

Learning the meaning of math symbols is actually easier than learning a new programming language, or some cumbersome API. (I assume that you have no problem picking up a new language, as this article is directed to people who have learned at least two quite different languages: C and Python.)

So if it's just a formula, what would be math? Math would be describing exactly what problem is solved by this function, proving that the formula's result will indeed have the desired properties, and checking all edge cases and interesting special cases of that function. And on top of all this, math would analyze the effects of floating point inaccuracies on the result.

So this article doesn't really contain math. It contains just a formula, which shouldn't be any more intimidating than the corresponding C function.
i soft launched http://cloudplay.fm into beta today on HN (see [1] for the discussion). it's what i use every day, and i'd love to convert you as a user :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361448
I primarily develop using PHP. I read the first few lines of this article, got to this 'PHP is easy to learn. Golang is as easy as PHP!' and basically read, 'Hey thicko PHP guy, you could probably learn to use this language, cos its simple enough for your addled brain'.

The immediate feeling of condescension turned me off.
Anyone know what the circular symbols (similar to the BMW logo) all over the rover mean?
Hmm, reduced to begging for users in the streets?

Oh well, I suppose at least it's more popular than Dart... ducks
I have taken a different route on that. Take a look: http://naugtur.github.com/builder4impress/
I have always worked places with strict alcohol rules (my current place doesn't even allow having drinks in the office during a social event after work), so I don't now about during the day, but I have found sipping some whisky while working on personal projects to always be very motivating, enjoyable, and the code generally doesn't turnout any worse.
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You started off defining intelligence as something limited and not independently useful, and then you concluded that its presence was limited and not independently useful.

The answer is that it's not actually obvious that "intelligence and imagination could not be more separate" or that "imagination is...essentially human in nature," so when most people talk about AI, they are not excluding those abilities.
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I think it's an example of ruthless extrapolation.

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-06-27/ruthless-ex...
The problem I have with these aggregators is, twitter != facebook for me. So, I will not use these. Yet.
ok, how are you different from these guys http://dayoneapp.com/?
You are clueless, NASA uses lossless and lossy compression on its image data.
I'm less likely to use twitpic now from the tone of this article.
haha came to my mind as well.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/natur...

Dunno if there's a preprint somewhere.
The more important soil-drill/analysis experiment was fine, that is often confused with the soil punch experiment. The paper claims that the Venera-14 punch was OK, the arm went over the lens cap, but the punch still penetrated the soil.
Bring on touch screens with print scanners. I really hate login/pass. I realize in away the more secure the token the more private it can become but the screens could at least check for a pulse too. (it's late)
I just mash my keyboard for 10 seconds if I have to supply one.

But now I wonder if "A bunch of random characters" would be accepted as the answer.. >(
Well, I mean when you look at some of the incredibly broken tools that we use today, it is a bit ridiculous:
1). Emacs/Vim are the popular hardcore/moddable editors, despite the severe clunkiness/outdated architecture
2). C/C++ has a huge mindshare despite the fact that it severely reduces the impact of the individual programmer
3). Proprietary tools are falling away, but their entrenched closed gardens are remaining for us to take care of
4). OS design has almost stalled

I think big paradigm shifts are coming at much faster rates than anyone wants to admit. If you are looking at the past to predict what comes tomorrow, you are an idiot, at least in the field of computing. I feel like we are standing on the precipice of a hole so scary no one really wants to look down at it.
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Imagination isn't any more human specific, than inteligence, or walking upright. That we can't do machines that are imaginative now, doesn't meant it's impossible to do.

Besides - what if imagination is just heuristic to search solution space quicker? Maybe machine with orders of magnitude more processing power can give better solutions without using this heuristic? That would mean it's us who thinks inside the box (because we use this heuristic), and computers can search solution space exhautively, so they will come up with solutions that escape our heuristic - we wouldn't even consider such solutions.
Just another naysayer. At least he's not one of those "but H+ is unethical/against god's will" guys.
"To use the given examples, Newtonian physics, quantum physics and Information Theory began in 1687, 1930 and 1948."

Some things that we consider significant today won't seem significant from the perspective of centuries. Similarly, someone in 1750 would be able to list significant new fields developed recently that we would omit. For example, Newton also did work in optics, which we pretty much forget about today.
The big difference is the discussions with a group of other people (especially great: of different majors!) and a professor who knows what you're talking about and how to steer the conversation. Trying to understand a book and trying to understand people is very different.

I had a great seminar this semester where we would talk about "knowledge" from a philosophical, historical, theological and physical point of view with the respective students and professors. Often, we were none the wiser about our original question afterwards, but had had a great discussion, and quoting the philosophy professor, "understood the question better".
Again, my point - it is not about gained knowledge, and the way a conversation engages your mind is hard to replicate with a book.

But then, I live in Germany and can live off 6000€ including university costs for a year, so YMMV.
Here is a color photo: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16032.jpg
The Cosmos magazines Mars issue on the iPad has a Mars panorama which utilizes gyroscope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3r8k8hX-8

Sadly its not the panorama Curiosity took but the one from the previous Mars rover.

Sill its pretty awesome.
I've tried various experiments and have found that a beer around 3pm often leads to the best productivity gains for technical work. More than a beer and the productivity starts to tail off, but it's much the same for me as with coffee.

I don't drink so much beer these days, but an Aperol or Campari and Soda around 4pm seems to be quite a nice and not very alcoholic way to round off the work day now and again.

In the UK, sales lunches tend to be fairly boozy affairs - this is an exception to the 1 pint rule, although I generally wouldn't go past a third pint of beer on a sales lunch unless we'd agreed we'd take the afternoon off for some time out.
> a two-way hash (that their support app reverses)

Isn't that just encryption?
A friendly note: The official homepage is at http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/
And quantum mechanics could not have been thought up without newtonian mechanics...
Down-thread [1], someone claims to have found SRP to be about 172 times slower than SHA1 on CPU due to the modular exponentiation and other overhead.

Some numbers run by zaroth (down-thread) [2] show that we could see 100k 1024-bit modular exponentiations per second on a new Intel Core i7 with the cryptography extensions. A 2011 implementation paper [3] had about
20k 1024-bit RSA decryptions per second on a GTX260 using Montgomery exponentiation, so it doesn't seem like using the GPU has that much benefit for performing modular exponentiation. I haven't had time to figure out an estimated price/attempt for SRP, so it's hard to compare to the existing SHA1 figures [4].

Still, if we take the 100k/second figure for modular exponentiation (extrapolated from the number of cycles per 1024-bit modexp on a Core i7), versus the 5B/s for SHA1 on a single GPU, being 50000 times slower than the best SHA1 speeds seems pretty good to me.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365079

2. http://www.opine.me/blizzards-battle-net-hack/

3. http://trone.di.fc.ul.pt/images/e/e2/ASAP11-paper.pdf

4. http://golubev.com/gpuest.htm
> Lots of fonts have numerals that are the same size/location as the rest of the text.

Actually there's not a 'rest of the text' that is homogenous, unless it's completely uppercase. In normal body copy it's a rhythm of ascending and descending letters, and to that those numerals are meant to fit.

The meaning of 'Lining Figures' is numerals that are spaced proportionally (the opposite of their tabular version). They are a good option in technical texts (as those set with LaTeX typically) where you want to integrate numerals, but still have them stand out.
They are also the default numerals in many digital fonts, even if there are the 3 other options as well (it's a 2x2 system of proportional vs monospaced and text numerals vs lining numerals).
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Great article.

I've always found the concept of singularity naive.

Greatest discoveries haven't been done by the most intelligent persons.

Science isn't just a question of intelligence or will, it's also a question of timing, luck and duration.

Everything has a limit. Ants have limits. We have limits. And the supposed "all mighty AI" will have limits if it ever exists.
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Have you already got a music collection? If not, Spotify is awesome.
It's a dumb move to do something that makes people see you as dumb. Just a fact of life.
It seems cool but why would you use it instead of having a c lib (or c obj file) interfaced with ctypes or swig ... ? Maybe I miss what LLVM brings ?
Thanks
In the interest of fostering discussion, the full paper is available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/pf1fohxj9r3ua6b/nature11347.pdf
Anecdotal counterpoint: I've worked with three sets of people who dated in the workplace, and when they broke up it was fire and brimstone. In all three instances, one of the two quit.
It's time for a native EventEmitter
But if it's in the contract, then you know? That seems naive, you can't possibly know that they won't sell your data, but you can make an educated guess.
I very much like the concept. But I dislike the "magic" feel of overloading "import". Especially as it creates namespace collisions, eg when you have python module and object file with same name. Imho something like "bitey.import_obj(name)" would have been nice and more clear.

I wonder how complicated it would be to parse header files to populate field names of structs automatically? Maintaining separate .pre.py and .h files seems like recipe for trouble.
Tell me about it -- and working like a charm despite the fact that some of the instrumentation on the top of it looks no more sturdier than your average lawnmower. Truly incredible.
My workplace is actually right above a microbrewery. We have beer o'clock every Friday at around 3:30pm :) We're in Australia FWIW.
It is circular but still correct!

There are many situations where there are feedback loops like this: For example: Male peacocks grow large tails because this is attractive to peahen mates. It's attractive to peahen mates because their male offspring are also likely to have big tails, which will lead to better reproductive success because they are attractive to peahen mates.... and so on. So a gene that favours big tails will make more copies of itself in the peacock population than some allele that favours smaller tails, even though from a "design" point of view the smaller tail makes more sense (not as heavy to carry around, means you can run fast to avoid getting eaten etc.)

There are many equilibria like this:

- the bank is going to go bust because everyone wants to take their money out because it looks like the bank is going to go bust...

- the credit card company declines your application because you were declined from getting a credit card by another credit card company.

- The company doesn't take you in for interview because you've been out of work for 6 months. They'd rather go after someone that already has a job.

In all of these cases, although the outcome is often not optimal (e.g. nobody wants the bank to go bust), and often not fair, the individuals making the decisions are behaving perfectly rationally.
It would be nice if it was compared to pure c implementation too, to measure the overhead.