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Hopefully soon. Its wrong to subsidy the automobile, whether it is electric or ICE powered.

Yes, we do pay gas taxes, put I doubt they are enough. And even if they were, it makes no sense to charge the same regardless of when one travels.

Most of the road building is to accommodate rush hour traffic. It makes sense to more at that time, just as hotels charge more when demand is high.

The way roads are currently paid for winds up wasting enormous amounts of time at rush hour. Charging a price that reduces the traffic to the level that the roads can efficiently handle will save everybody a lot of time.

Of course, that issue has nothing to do with how cars are powered.
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From that it looks like the caller always has to allocate the right amount of space on the stack to hold the result. What if the result size is known only by the callee?

Denying yourself the use of the heap is also going to make closures rather difficult. You can use this style to pass back a function pointer, but the caller would also need to allocate space for the callee's captured variables. Ick.
The point of AI is not conscious machines but machines that can do useful things. Consciousness is not useful except to the extent that it helps a machine do useful things.
Here's my question about IOPS that I can't seem to find the answer to:

I get that if you have a workload that needs 1000 IOPS and you only have 500IOPS QOS provisioned, then they will get queued and you will see latency. However, if you have a workload of 500IOPS needed and you have 1000IOPS QOS provisioned, what is the latency of that? Moreover, what is the variance of the latency of that?

Basically, if they are saying you get a 20 lane highway and you're guaranteed to get 200 cars a second across it, that doesn't mean that if you only have 10 cars that they're going to come through quickly. The quote they highlight talks about latency:

Amazon's Provisioned IOPS helped us improve our MongoDB query speed by over 60% and drastically reduced latency spikes to our clusters. We are thrilled to welcome the new 2000 P-IOPS volumes.

… but does the EBS PIOPS SLA talk about latency or variance in latency when you're below that number at all? Is it true that EBS really only experiences latency variation when you go over your provisioned IOPS?

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way…

edited to add: After thinking about this some more I guess what I wanted to ask is: I have a database and I want to put it on EBS. If it doesn't even need 100 IOPS but I still want extremely low latency and latency variance, do AWS Provisioned IOPS guarantee this?
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Yeah but ruby does.

Do you program your WebSockets in railwayjs?
Unfortunately not. The file system is the achilles' heel IMO.
it is amazing to me that he thinks language is something more than mathematics/statistics

He doesn't think that. Look at his linguistics work - google Chomsky Hierarchy. He very much does not think that it's magic.

All he's saying is that some kinds of statistical modeling - while stupidly useful and practical - don't give us a lot of explanatory power.

He's, metaphorically, complaining about folk who are happy using Boyle's Law because "it works", when he'd like more folk figuring out what atoms are all about.
Of course one can assume a sexist intention behind the remark. My question is why? Is it simply because she is a woman and thus we should assume that anything anyone say to her is sexist?

Are we really that far gone, and if so, how are we ever going to get work to become a gender neutral environment? Assuming bad faith is not a road to take.
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The site seems to be suffering a bit. Here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
For many people, the lack of Linux "features" is a feature.
Even the lattice acquisition was a small one , the VC's made no profit on it.
Samsung Galaxy Note II Phablet Sells Three Million+ In One Month+ Of Sales
It seems to me that open floor plans aren't a bad thing when everyone at the company is a hacker; the cultural expectation is that it's very costly to bother someone who's hacking.
> You're not the only one to bring this up and it confuses me why. The gas infrastructure has already been built. It's a sunk cost. EV infrastructure most certainly is not.

Back in the day countries had a huge infrastructure for horse-based transport (stables, travellers inns, places to buy food). That was also a sunk cost.

Just a thought.
I think you might have misinterpreted the contents of that page. As someone who has worked on GHC, I can assure you that it does perform tail call optimisation.
While you might be right, this sounds like classic cognitive dissonance. Instead of accepting that China is a fast rising military/economic power, let's rather just believe that they're bluffing.
>Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.

Not realy just that the good hackers you mention decided Python fitted better to their specific needs.
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> Unlike Ubuntu, they don't randomly ruin everything every 6 months, which is kind of nice

They ruin everything every 2-3 years instead. Not sure which one is better.
Actually - Hydrogen storage isn't that much of a step above the precautions already needed for LPG; which is now incredibly popular in developing countries. Shanghai, if I remember correctly, made it illegal in 2000 or 2001 to sell petrol scooters in the city - they all run on LPG.

Regarding energy density - definitely agree, my own research showed me a 2 fold increase in consumption compared to LPG, which in turn increases consumption by 15% over regular petrol (note that these were estimates based on my data).

The lab had a "Hydrogen maker" - obviously it ran off electricity and in about 6 hours provided roughly 500 milliliters of compressed hydrogen (kept at 350 bar if I remember correctly) literally from air.

My concept was to be able to have a clean water tank (pure H2O) and electrolysis providing the Hydrogen to run the engine, and continue on in a closed loop; literally a car running on water. Obviously energy transfer, efficiencies etc make this almost impossible - but one can dream.
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Yes the thing that sunk Nokia was a different connector. Why didn't we see it before? If you'd like some reading on the lightning connector start here
http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/13/boom-2/

And follow through the update pages.
First thing I noticed when I saw the pic. Biggest obvious difference is the twin engines.
Maybe I am too young, work at a too small company, or has too much academia in me, but I have a hard time imagine myself ever trying to guess people work based on gender or skin color. It would be like trying to guess peoples future by looking into their hands.

The only person I would suggest being a cleaner, is one with a white apron, a big logo, with large visible name tag, and carrying a mop. That assumption is based on clothing standards at fast food stores, and its still a rather crude assumption.
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My brother has schizophrenia or is bipolar.
He was a programmer.
I have posted here very rarely, to provide links to the evidence of the causal link between canabis and schizophrenia, and to point out the devistation that may result.

Can I help?
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Your reasoning is perfectly valid, with the caveat that public policy typically does not have the goal of global advancement of military technology (in war, what matters is what you have relative to what the enemy has), whereas it does, or at least should, have the goal of global advancement of civilian technology (economics is not a zero-sum game).
Some perspective:

Apple is now spending roughly a third as much as Microsoft does on research despite generating roughly 50% more revenue. Apple spends roughly one half of what Google spends on research, despite having almost three times the revenue!

Microsoft is a bit of a sleeping giant when it comes to innovation. They do a lot of research and a much of it is of a very fundamental nature that is decades from being commercializable. Of course, they've been doing this for long enough that they currently employ the leading experts in some of the stuff that fit that description ten years ago. Corporate politics under Ballmer (e.g. stack ranking) and a strong aversion to disruptive changes in existing products have really reigned MS's innovation in. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years as MS software settles into new form-factors for the first time in ages (that goes double if Ballmer is shown the door).

Apple is much more focused than Microsoft on immediately commercializable products. In terms of product-bang for research-buck, Apple probably does a lot better than Microsoft. Still all MS needs to do to rock Apple's tree is shake up it's stodgy corporate structure a bit and become more adventurous.

Google, of course, is a huge innovator, but they do tend to be more like Apple in terms of their focus (i.e. More short term than MS). This focus combined with double the research budget does suggest that Google is the most likely company to out-innovate Apple in the short-term. Indeed, we've started to see this as Android has been gradually getting further ahead of iOS in terms of features even if it has not yet caught up in polish.

Apple is like a solid work-horse running down a race-track. Google is more of a thoroughbred, but got stuck in the gate. Now that Google is threatening for the lead, Apple is applying the whip more generously. MS is like a cheetah laying by the side of the track. It could come out of nowhere and change everything or it could just sit their licking its paws.
It's Motion Sickness Simulator 2012! No, seriously, I've never had motion sickness from FPS games but this one made me feel pretty uncomfortable. Those who do get motion sickness should consider themselves warned.

That aside... it's not the first game/toy about illustrating relativistic effects that I've seen before, for instance there's http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/ and a funny little Flash game that I've tried: http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html . Neither of them were very much fun.

This game was not very much fun either, but there was some promise, because at the end once I'd gathered all the orbs by moving slowly and methodically, I enjoyed skating around the level and trying to go as fast as possible without bumping into things. Hopefully someone will use the engine (they say they're releasing it next year) to do something really good.
Really cool concept! It takes a little while to wrap your head around what's going on but as you get deeper into it things start to make sense. The faster you move backwards the more light you lose which is rather disconcerting.

It's totally worth getting to the end (took me about 10 minutes) so you can play around for a moment without the colour shift affects. Would be really cool to have a version where you could do that.

Well done to the creators.
Seems like Google have already pulled these results.
That was fast.
More than once I was the only female in a team (including a 20 people team). I think that the initial reaction of most of the team members is not about 'hey, look, it's a girl! what are we suppose to do with it?' like it sounds on the article. When there's a tight knit team and someone a bit different joins there's always worry that it's going to affect the existing culture, it doesn't matter if it's a girl, someone older, someone very young or someone from a different country. Once you play the 'girl' card, you remain different. I'm not saying that you have to start drinking beer all day long and tell StarWars jokes, just be yourself and align with the team (same advice for men as well). You might be liked more when you play the 'girl' card but that's not the right way for a promotion (been there, done that). Other than that, great article, useful and I like the images.
Too late to edit, maybe a mod can fix it.
any one get it running in wine? i get through all the menus and story slides but then boom.
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I may be off-base here, but isn't the length contraction backward? Things should appear closer as you approach the speed of light, not farther away. And, it should not matter if you move backward or forward to observe that effect, yet it does (try moving backwards).

Also, relativistic motion doesn't appear to affect the movements of the other actors, though it's kind of hard to tell for certain.
The existing logo is quite good, however, it could be spiced up using a more beautiful font ;-)

http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/y-combinator-shirt.j...
I don't understand what bearing this should have on the probability of AGI succeeding. What we (should) care about is not whether the system is conscious or even human-like. What matters is that it performs well on the tasks it is assigned. I consider it highly likely that we can do better than evolution did, in less time than evolution took.
"Who steals my purse, steals trash, twas mine, tis his,
It has been a servant to thousands of others.
Who steals my name, takes that which enricheth him not,
but makes me poor indeed."
Looking at some successful startups in the very recent past can easily be a counterpoint to your statement. I don't think I need to say more.
This is essentially the technique used to implement the meat of Chicken Scheme, too. [1][2][3] It's a pretty neat idea, but not a new one.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Scheme

2: http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-compilation-process

3: The homepage is called www.call-cc.org :P
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Just pitching in to confirm this. Though not from personal experience, my acquaintances working at the respective companies have assured me that out of Big Three, MS is most heavily invested in research, in spite of the corporate politics.

What I saw as a big problem at MS was a lack of coherent vision to focus that into something tangible. Things are looking better now though.
Looks very psychedelic. It's interesting how simulating a variable speed of light creates the same visual effect as that produced by ingesting psychedelic mushrooms or LSD. Not just the color spectrum, but also the distance/space distortions one reports while tripping. I guess those mushrooms in the game are not a coincidence.
Wonder what the connection is there then.
> All it took her was a little convincing that she could do it

I don't know if it's society or what, but it seems a lot of girls suffer from this (conscious or not) line of thinking.

I'm versed in science (esp. math and physics) and like to talk about such subjects so I've been regularly asked for help, and every single time I helped a girl the cause of their demise was lack of confidence. Contrary to guys (which seem to have confidence in excess but need some form of support), telling them upfront is useless because it's so ingrained that I have to take a more subtle route. I explain her something complex, and keep going deeper until (usually takes about ten minutes) there's a a-ha, not about the subject at hand but about herself, a moment where she realizes that at every step she got everything I said, and now she gets a glimpse something so complex that ten minutes ago she thought it would forever be unfathomable to her, when I did not actually explain so much as pragmatically but subtly demonstrate that yes, she can do it. Subsequent results at school, even in unrelated disciplines and without more training, are off the charts.

It seems the "mens do the real stuff" society thing is so pervasive that it permeates through and makes them lose the confidence required, and they just need to be bootstrapped out of it so that they can finally say "This is within my reach".
An in return, I'm always slightly shocked by this kind of attitude. Just because I write code for a living doesn't mean that I had to forget how to do everything remotely practical first. If I'm confronted by a job that requires manual labour, I don't just stand there saying "oh I'm an IT person, I can't possibly do this".
Note its not private property

Actually it is private property, and the size of the property does not matter either.

The court ruled the way it did because the area of the property that was monitored was deemed to fall under the category of "open fields"

This would likely be different if it could be shown that the owner was actively maintaining this area of his property, or erected some sort of barrier, or something to ensure that the area of his property he would like protected is not just an open field. It wouldn't even necessarily have to be a residence, although this would be the most unquestionable.

Even still, I think it is a bad ruling, and I hope that it is overturned.
That's just for the Final Value Fee. He did that already, or he'd have been on the hook for more like $50 (eBay charges through the nose in fees, particularly for consumer electronics).
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Much of the main talent who led the GoldenEye team at Rare (David Doak, Karl Hilton, Steve Ellis, Graeme Norgate) left to form their own studio, Free Radical Design[1]. FRD went on to release the Timesplitters games to good success, but later hit trouble and have now been bought out by CryTek and renamed CryTek UK.

Martin Hollis, the other senior member of the team also left for pastures new after working on Perfect Dark.

I'm sure Rare still has a lot of brilliant hard working team members, but the main drivers of GoldenEye have long since gone.

[1] Disclaimer: I used to work at Free Radical at one point.
What is free software? LGPL? BSD?

To me free software either has no price or has no licensing restrictions at all.

What is free software?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I suppose it depends on your definition of 'expensive'. By that I mean, if your computational model is inherently serialised, sure, regexes are cheap. If fuzzy matching and rough temporal correlation between processing units turns out to be cheap, perhaps regexes are ridiculous extravagance on your hardware family.

I suppose you could turn it around - assuming our language processing is optimal (bit of a leap) you can infer things about our hardware architecture by the languages which we parse efficiently.
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This is both very interesting and a little painful for me. It's one of those ideas that I've always wanted to try, but never got around to. In a way it's nice that someone tried it anyway.
One persons belief. Life isnt a dictatorship. Do not be fooled by cargo cults and monocultures.

When the word "free" is hijacked for political agenda we slip a little closer to the Orwellian dystopia.
It's this kind of mindset that prevents a lot of people from actually getting the shit they work hard for seen by other people.

The people that make their work matter in the world find ways to extend influence and this is just one small tactic that simply works.
It's worth mentioning that with protobuf/thrift you get a lot of versioning support for free.
That's a very weird definition. Eliminating tail calls is fun, and useful. But not all that essential in, say, a lazy language.

Having first-class function values in the first place strikes me as way more important. Purity helps, too.
I think AGI is an important field of study - but only from an ethical viewpoint!

In terms of engineering yeah, the trend in AI at the moment is applied statistics for sure, and it wins hard.
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While I must admit the personally I'm completely cold on phablets (to me they offer the inconvenience of the bulk of a tablet with the limitations of a phone), I know at least a couple of people who love their Galaxy Notes and those sales numbers suggest that they're not alone.

I think the interesting question is is this a sign of a significant new market segment, or is it something more niche which Samsung have just nailed with the Note but won't ever grow too much beyond it's current size (at least as a proportion of the overall market)?
The first person I think of is the author of LoseThos, especially as he frequently posts on HN. I suppose it's been renamed to SparrowOS now though.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos.
Once you get all 100 orbs and you get close to the speed of light you're in for a treat. It gets rid of the funny color saturation effects and you only see the Lorentz transformation.
I'd like to know the secret incantations to be able to modify the speed of light manually. (Once you walk fast as light, the game abruptly ends)
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We need to understand companies do two kind of R&D , one is where company try to enhance their current offering to ensure that they remain on the cutting edge of the current lot (Maps, Search, UI based R&D in apple are examples of it), while other side of R&D explore other opportunities in CS and try to break new grounds. These R&D require more budget and are of experimental nature. In result , the first kind of R&D produce better results in terms of money spend but provide a narrow path of innovation while the later kind provide more wider path of innovation but produce less fruite in terms of money spent.
Right; as far as I know there is no serious research in AGI. AI is applied statistics, and anyone who doesn't have that point of view isn't producing results right now.
I would say the aspect that defines a functional programming language is the support of higher order functions. I.e. functions that can take functions as arguments and more importantly can return functions as return value.
Ruby 2.0 was (and hopefully still) earmarked to have traits which are an enhancement on mixins providing a much better & refined compositional implementation.

Thus it (should) allow you to do things like excluding or renaming methods/traits ala Perl roles - https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Manual::Roles#METHOD-EXCL...
Hang on, that's a little unfair. If you work in an office, and you know they have hired one person, and that is a cleaner / designer, walking unto the new face in the office and saying hi you must be the new cleaner / designer is not a prejudicial assumption. Especially if they are sitting in front of Blender / a mop.
(1) Syntax wise Ruby is a lot easier and more expressive than Scala. IMHO I feel that Ruby is an OO language with some functional sprinkles while Scala is a functional language with OO sprinkles.

(2) Ruby has a great ecosystem if you are building web apps. It's also got a lot of testing libraries. :) But in seriousness the number of libraries in non web/tooling space is slowly increasing as faster Ruby implementations have become a focus point. Also JRuby allows you use the vast ecosystem of Java from within JRuby.

(3) Performance wise I'm pretty sure Scala will outperform Ruby. I don't think JRuby will be able to compete either. Charles Nutter, JRuby Core developer wrote this blog post which explains why Ruby is hard to optimize ― http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby...

Of course take everything I've said with a bag of salt! :)
I think my fat fingers may have down voted you - despite you expressing my own thoughts, better and earlier. Cheers