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Why are they giving away Leafs in California? I had read multiple articles about the new lower prices and went on the nissan.ca website to price one here in Canada and it's almost $700/month for a 48 month lease! What up with that?
Things don't always need to be rebuilt 'just because'. We all get tired of thinking that way at some point or another.
You made it about the $2 in your headline. And frankly, I have to agree with the grandparent.
Maybe I don't use HN enough. How did you post here without a web browser of some form?
Truly curious.
So we now need a crud app to communicate what we have done at work? Lol . I think management and people at the ground level know who the high performers are. When things are broken they know who will take charge and fix it. Who can deliver consistently. This is obvious to all team leads.
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> The Audi A7 was their car of the year.

Sorry, you're right. The Karma was the "Design of the Year".
no politics
Please argue that there is nothing to associate with.

Why is a real observation from your senses more privileged inside your brain that a random well-formed value by a (hypothetical) random number generator neuron?
An upvote for Stavros -- I've never hired him, but I have been a user of his products, and Stavros SHIPS, is very responsive and turns bugs into smiles... or something.

Anyway, hire him.
Are the products handmade? What qualities do you look for in a quality item?
I used rbenv for a while but what killed it for me was the huge startup lag it adds to every invocation of ruby or any other bin installed via a gem. I was seeing delays of 4-5 sec which disappeared when I switched to RVM. The universe of tools and integration is also far better in RVM land (though this may have changed more recently).
Nice to see that the FTC recognizes what an incredible nuisance telemarketers are, but hard to cheer for them as politicians are not only allowed to use robodialers, they are exempt from abiding by the Do Not Call list.

Why? Because they are not "included in the definition of telemarketing".

Source - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt107.shtm

Oh, ok. Doesn't seem like any sort of a conflict of interest at play here.
For the volumes in which PowerPC Macs were shipping, it wasn't worth it for IBM or Motorola to devote serious engineering resources. And at the time Apple wasn't the cash fountain it is today.

In terms of units shipped, the iPhone and iPad vastly outstrip the Mac. And those devices repay investment in chip technology by establishing a marketing point of differentiation.

So actually, given the amount of free cashflow Apple has, it makes sense to spend up to a billion on embedded chips but not on desktops, where Intel has a far bigger lead on design and process.
In order to test it, we'll need at least two thousand developers (in matched skill pairs) going for one thousand jobs.

It might take a little while to perform that experiment...
I've never had that problem. Ship with delivery confirmation and insurance and you're safe.
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As EVs become more popular and the batteries become smaller and lighter, I can see a market for a 'battery exhange' which could be located in existing gas stations ... this would negate the problems with range and recharge ... as usual it would only appear when they become more popular.
> Because people as a general rule abstract anything related to computers or computing into one lump object. This vague, ossified amber of the interwingled nature of computer media causes problems with understanding computers.

The same thing happens with every field. If you're at all medical, you're lumped into the 'doctor' category regardless of whether you're a neurosurgeon or a scrub tech, and all doctor-type humanoids know everything about everything from the cingulate gyrus to my granny's chilblains.

Which is still closer to the truth than imagining that everyone who is 'good with computers' can instantly diagnose and fix every single problem that has ever come up for everything that can run software.
Any details or evidence to back this up? I see more and more job opps for people with Ruby skills: startups, BigCos, Gov, nonprofits, I know longtime java shops that are rewriting their apps in Ruby.

I have worked with Ruby professionally for 5 years. From my perspective there is more opportunity now then years back, more high quality code being written, more problems can be solved in less time, etc

This is still a very exciting place to be. I have found being good at Ruby has provided the highest ROI of my career.
I made similar comments when the Chomsky vs. Norvig discussion came up on HN some time ago and got interesting replies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291327.
With bitcoin you can do some surprisingly complex things. Such as move money into a fund that the other people can verify are there, which only pays out on a trigger condition.
The problem is, forcing restrictions on a password actually reduces the search space, making the password file as a whole easier to crack. It's far better to inform the user of the strength of the password and advise to use a stronger password than to enforce it. If I know the password must have a digit and an extra special character, then I can exclude all passwords that don't have these features from the search and significantly reduce the cracking time. If any password is possible, then I basically have to search the entire space. Sure, the single english word passwords will be the first to fall, but if you advise the user their password is weak, that is a risk the user has taken on knowingly.
My conjecture about the secret sauce is more along the lines of using statistical techniques to foster better discussions.
Thanks for sharing. Something you touched on but didn't explicitly stated is to have a standard and uniform interface everywhere.

My go-to example would be JQuery.. It feels like once you understand $('a.test').click(function() {..});, you understand and, most importantly, feel how everything else behave.

For instance, what if I don't want a click but a mouse hover? I don't have to read the doc or google.. I can just try .hover() and 9 times out of 10 it will work.

A bad API forces you to spend hours reading the doc because the 10 most obvious tries failed. Most of the time, these ugly APIs come also with bad or lack of documentation and backward-breaking changes without notifications. Yes, I'm talking about Facebook' API.
It's still in heavy use. I think it has plateaued compared to some other technologies but it isn't declining at least. I say this as a publisher with fingers in the Ruby, JavaScript, and HTML5 pies (the latter two are growing more quickly but Ruby is far from dipping).
They do have their own separate social network. Wonder what that runs on? I bet its Python.
As a 31-year old, the main thing I've learnt is that at 24, I knew nothing. Nothing at all.

I imagine I will feel the same way about 31-year-old me, who is at last, finally, starting to Get. It.

Conversations with my 69 year old Dad suggest that he too feels as though he is on the cusp of true understanding.

Also, here's a joke for old farts.

When I was 18, I actually did know everything*

* for sufficiently small values of 'everything'
Why do people keeping saying that probabilistic models do not provide understanding? We flew to Mars on a few simple principles applied to massive amounts of data. Comets aren't following sophisticated orbital plans, just F=ma.

Maybe (probably) all the sophistication of natural language is an emergent property of the pile on of lots of little similarly-shaped details like atoms. Sure, high level rules are nice approximations that satisfy our human craving for patterns, but that doesn't mean those patterns are how the brain really works, quite the opposite in fact.

High level models are illustrations, useful for game programmers and artists to efficiently create simulations and plausible imaginary creations. Low level models are how things actually work.
I just came here to thank OP for passing single_page=true in the url.
More rubbish designed to get page views.

The fact is that Apple has a 2013/2014 roadmap of incremental updates that could all continue to sell very well. Retina iPad Mini. Retina MacBook Airs. New Mac Pro. NFC/Passbook iPhone.

Not to mention that Johnny Ive's iOS 7 and OSX 11 could easily reinvigorate both platforms.

And then from the business side Apple is only just starting to tap into India/China both of which see the iPhone as a status brand ala Louis Vuitton. Expect major growth here.
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> I had a summer job in a telemarketing sweatshop and I learned that you should be polite to telemarketers.

Well, polite and merciless. Anybody doing telemarketing today is a criminal, so they get zero mercy from me. My favorite approach is to let them stew for a bit and then ask, "Hey, does your family know you lie to people for money?" It almost never fails to get people upset. The truth: it stings.

Them putting me on the "call back again" list isn't a problem for me; it's an opportunity to make another parasite's day more difficult.

For the record, pretty much everybody who mentioned the topic at the FTC robocall summit believed that there is no such thing as an internal "do not call" list anymore.
"it's pretty desperate to reach for that when it started with more or less: "Android has ads and Google watches everything you do on it""

That might've been your interpretation, but I wrote:

"Android users pay with their personal information and by looking at ads."

By which I mean a typical Android experience. Not the Android OS, or the official Google Android experience. Most Android users are subjected to lots of ads because they don't buy apps; they download ad-supported apps. They don't buy third party navigation apps, they use the ad-supported Google Maps app. Etc etc.
... and the fun part will be seeing what changes and what stays the same
Could you please stop doing that! If you don't know anything don't say anything. If you know that it truly isn't AGI (as you may do) say why!
> Qualia certainly exist in some sense.

As an epiphenomenon of neural firings? Or is saying that 'not allowed' somehow?
Articles like this are what are going to get girls into computing. They need to know that there are other normal girls, just like them, that do this for a living.

I got my ex-girlfriend into software development. She comes off as a very stereotypical girly girl. She likes clothes, shopping, and top 40 pop music. I convinced her to take an intro programming class her sophomore year of college. Now she's a software engineer at Amazon.

All it took her was a little convincing that she could do it, and that normal people (I suppose I seemed normal to her) do it too.
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Edit: I find it adorable that you all think HN is a hard site to run. Good luck breaking 200 qps.

It is a hard site to run due to its audience. Realize that this site gets poked around by hundreds of hackers. All trying to learn or break the system. Trying to not get your ass handed to you with a commonly language/framework is hard enough. I can't fathom how they do it with an experimental language and libraries. Though they are Lisp hackers. If anyone can do it, its a Lisper...
Catching and prosecuting a criminal is an awful lot of work, so there will always be a lag between crime and punishment. Most criminals aren't making good cost/benefit tradeoff decisions, so as long as they can get a quick taste of money doing something dubious, some of them will scale up.

I'm also in favor of mandatory jail time for serious offenders, but mere punishment hasn't stamped out most other kinds of crime, and probably won't stamp out this one, either.
I had a surprisingly similar experience from the other side. I purchased an iPhone 4 off of eBay and realized after receiving it that it was locked to the wrong carrier. I reviewed the auction and confirmed that the seller had listed an unconditional return policy (which I had specifically looked for while scanning auctions just in case ). The seller ended up refusing to honor the return policy and taunted me to contact eBay with it, who then simply refused to enforce the return policy. I was thankful in this situation that sellers can't leave negative feedback because I was able to leave negative feedback without anxiety over possible retaliation, but I can see how it'd be really annoying if I were a seller dealing with a dishonest buyer.
I think his point was that many people keep the signature in the same place as the actual binaries (most directories of builds of OSS I've seen have a tarball and a corresponding hash in the same listing).

I'll admit I'm probably ignorant about this, but I don't see the point in that. If someone can compromise the binaries, they can also modify the signature files that are sitting in the exact same place.
So hang on... you're telling me there are people who consider themselves geeks who don't use the Lazarus plugin (http://getlazarus.com/) in Firefox? (Or an equivalent, but Lazarus was developed by a friend of mine, so I prefer it.) That's just weird.
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What they are talking about is the idea of human-like general intelligence, and AI mostly doesn't try to do that anymore, although there are some people who are seriously trying and calling it AI and even a few who are sort of aware of what the AGI people are doing or have projects that are as sophisticated. But most of the researchers who are farthest along and most serious about it have been calling it AGI.

Anyway, you have to at least include AGI if you are serious about human-like AIs.
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#that's how people see it.
Really? Ouch. :(
> It is the obvious way.

I don't think many people are claiming that all patented designs are 'obvious', even to a field expert. Just that quite a lot of the ones currently making news headlines are.

The issue of there being 'only one good way to do it' is completely separate. It is analytic that legally barring competitors from implementing even a non-obvious design, once it has been discovered/invented, restricts others from further innovating on it.

It would be difficult to argue that the US should license all of its military technology to China on FRAND-like terms. But when companies refuse to do this trans-nationally, it seems like trade war, especially if there is only one way to do it. It's an interesting question at what point the profitable IP owned by a country's corporations should be considered a strategic national asset (and IMO it illuminates some of the decisions by trade organisations and even courts).

The appropriation of any technology with potential military applications will always be governed the rules of the game -- there is no global legal authority to appeal to in such matters and nor would the USA want there to be one, for obvious reasons.
... And it's apparently owned by eBay. Nevermind. :(
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You need to provide some evidence for Stallman not being pragmatic. The existence of the LGPL is clear evidence that he is capable of pragmatism. Another example is that he does not get very excited about things like simple calculators being open and free because he does not see that as a practical concern.

He has principles that he tries to live by and advocates strongly but I have never viewed him as an idealist nor do I see much evidence for it.
When do I get to opt out of subsidizing ICE cars and the infrastructure needed to keep them on the road?
You know what? Absolutely. I'm 100% with you. You should be able to turn off caller id. And I will black hole all anonymous calls, and we'll both be happy.
> does the use of continuations prevent HN from running multiple processes & from being load-balanced?

AFAIK HN doesn't use continuations, but closures.

Something along the lines of(imitation of arc challenge in flask):

https://gist.github.com/3998745
I believe the growing consensus is that the playing field has been levelled between iOS and Android. Both are fair options... and one not heavily dictated by price (as with the osx vs windows debates).

This of course won't be the usual conclusion of the tech commenters as iOS vs Android has turned into political camps http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer

That being said, the app marketplaces are still heavily in favor of iOS.
There's still no better consumer video editing program than iMovie and I still can't use CS6 on Linux without a bunch of awful, messy hacks. These are the only things keeping me on OS X.

Are you a founder looking for a good idea (perhaps for your YCombinator application?) Let me be clear — I will pay for these things. Free me and everyone else from the growing tyranny of the Apple ecosystem and you'll be stacking paper to the ceiling.
It was still a bad idea to base your game on movie ip.
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See also the story of the MIT magic switch that toggled between Magic and More Magic, required to make a certain machine function, with no wires behind the switch.
AI has forever been filled with buzzwords and trendy absurdity. Most of this lies on the soft computing end of the field, where self-styled visionaries hold forth with holistic mumbo-jumbo while valuable work is done by reputable researchers elsewhere.

AGI is one of those little goofy microtrends: so far as I can tell it's essentially a rebranding of Strong AI by soft computing reactionaries responding to AI getting dominated by domain specificity (otherwise known as "being successful"). To claim, as the grandparent appears to be doing, that AI is now properly called Artificial General Intelligence, is crackpottery at its finest.

Wake me up when AGI even appears on the first results page of a Google search for "AGI".
The Church was angry that the sun didn't revolve around the Earth. We don't get to pick the prettiest models. Right makes right.
I think this is one of the reasons I always shied away from Vim. I can use my basic Emacs muscle memory in almost any text editing environment. But I'm sure you can brew up a pretty powerful Vim environment too with a little legwork.
I also have one (that I used in the US btw). The screen was great, easily readable outdoors, the phone was great, super simple, super light. And the battery great.

The dealbreaker was the sms UI: it was absolutely horrible because of the super limited amount of characters on screen at a given time (from memory, it was around 7 or so), it was impossible to text and receive texts in a coherent way.

But for the rest, I loved it.
You can get most of the data you need thorugh the OBD2 port, located on the lower part of the dash on the drivers side. It is a known and documented protocol. From there, you can then maybe get some sort of LED based display bright enough to show up on your windshield. Again, this stuff is mainstream. Best of all, you can do it with an arduino.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/btxyhpeivqyvemr/Screen%20Shot%2020...

(I caught the article before the site stopped working … and it just sort of feels like a rant I've read a million times. I can understand why one might feel that way, but it's kind of been said before.)
Have you thought about trying to find the intersection of the two? Is there a company or something you can work on that takes advantage of both skillsets?

I think the real challenge in life is to get heart and head in alignment. It's not easy, but who said it would be?
I've had better success with eBay after using their buyer requirements option. It lets you ban users who do not meet your requirements from bidding.

As a result, my last batch of sales (3 computers and a few other items) had all of the bidders paying immediately upon completion of auction. Whereas my previous batch of sales when I did not know about this option, I had 3 time wasters who never posted payment.
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Like maybe when you add 7 and 6, let's say, one algorithm is to say "I'll see how much it takes to get to 10" -- it takes 3, and now I've got 4 left, so I gotta go from 10 and add 4, I get 14. That's an algorithm for adding -- it's actually one I was taught in kindergarten. That's one way to add.

I get 13.
Ironically, here you are decrying a statistical model of impact factor and yearning for a higher level model of meaning in research.
Worthless Apple bashing over subjects that have been beaten in to the ground, as late as today, have little use here and only drag down the conversation
I'm talking about the efforts to really reproduce human-like intelligence. I'm not saying that AI isn't a field, I am saying if you want human-like intelligence, the AGI people are the most far along, or at least the most serious about it.

Did you really look into AGI, for example the past conferences or those projects, and conclude that it is just invaluable holistic mumbo-jumbo?

That is so unfair and inaccurate, I can't see how you can possibly be evaluating things rationally if you really came to that conclusion.
Ad hominem cuts both ways. Being right once, no matter how significant, doesn't grant a free pass to BS through other topics.
see this answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731232
Patents are not trade secrets. There's nothing illegal about communicating the contents of a patent.
Nathan Myrvhold did not build a patent portfolio out of Microsoft's R&D budget.
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It's fine to keep the signature in the same place as the binary. Simply being able to modify files won't allow you to produce a valid signature under a PGP key kept offline.
Paypal and Rogers are due facto monopolies, which naturally leads to evil. GoDaddy achieves that honor squarely by catering to the worst in all of us ("run your website on a nascar driver striptease that never stops teasing!"), and most of us oblige.
Maybe you're from Europe because I think you're talking about stuff that isn't even close to existing in the US.
Article elsewhere on the internet:

http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-201...
That really rocks! The Hacker News site could really use a make over
Not really - statistics helps to separate the impact from the link stuffers.

Noam Chomsky may very well be a real life link farm or content stuffer. Hence why the impact/importance of the papers that link to him are important.
Fascinating...

10/GUI is a proposed new user interface paradigm. Created
in 2009 by R. Clayton Miller, it combines multi-touch
input with a new windowing manager.

It splits the touch surface away from the screen, so that
user fatigue is reduced and the users' hands don't
obstruct the display.[1] Instead of placing windows all
over the screen, the windowing manager, Con10uum, uses a
linear paradigm, with multi-touch used to navigate between
and arrange the windows.[2] An area at the right side of
the touch screen brings up a global context menu, and a
similar strip at the left side brings up application-
specific menus.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/GUI