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Since I started reading Yudkowsky/LessWrong heavily, I tend to have 2 strong predictions about the future:

1. AI will be invented sometime, and this will be a radical game-changer. In that everything after it will be hard/impossible to predict today.

2. We will eventually conquer death. Hopefully soon.

The second belief I find to be very, very strange for most people I talk to about this - people really can't imagine it, and most don't want to imagine it.

By the way, the other major prediction I have about the future - we will all be vegeterians, and future generations will look at us as barbarians for eating animals. I'm not a vegeterian, but I believe that this is inevitable, as soon as we have the technology to make animal-like foods without killing animals, both in terms of health and taste.
Not working on mobile. Google still seems works on the basis of "mobile second" when it comes to search.
Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying
World's most improbable property booms
How many founders do successful tech companies have?
Right, which is worrisome. The reddit trajectory was: "intellectual and polite" -> "smart and combative" -> "kinda dumb and hive-minded" -> "lolcats". Simultaneously its median opinion towards Ron Paul seemed to go: "interesting" -> "savior" -> "devil" -> "who?". So it'd be another indicator that HN is sliding if we're becoming more enthused by Ron Paul. (I voted for him, btw.)
"If anything, it seems to me that he agreed with the gist of the post, while at the same time clarifying his own position."

Your conclusion is probably most likely to represent reality because it assumes the best in both the Ryan and pg. Assuming the best in others is usually a good approach.
Strange. The game map shows lots of active portals in Sydney and a few in Melbourne.
That's the standard way of doing things in the UK and the former British Empire. Go straight from doing a Bachelor's, with coursework to doing research. He probably did the Masters programme requirements while technically an undergrad. The other interpretation is that he's part of the Ph.D. programme but he's a Ph.D. student (still doing coursework) rather than a Ph.D. candidate (gotta finish up that research and write papers/a thesis.)
The above is a logical fallacy (and a distorted form of the issue under discussion).

It's the actual definition and quality of something that matters, not the popularity of a mis-representation of it. Statistics do not define substance.

Even if 99% of milk sold was chocolate milk, that wouldn't mean that milk contains cocoa. Milk is a specific thing, yogurt is another.

You're only confused in the case of yogurt, because whereas "chocolate milk" is sold with a different name than that of milk (that makes the different obvious), sweetened flavored yogurt is sold as "yogurt".
I feel their pain. I just paid $750 for an iphone 5. Right now to submit an app for iPhone 5 you have to have a retina display with correct dimensions for screenshots.
Slightly off-topic, but since the 'UI' is in the topic, I'll bite:

Why did Google need to re-invent the scrollbar ( http://i.imgur.com/ztm93.png ), without the two squares (sorry, don't know what they're called) on the opposite sides, which you can click without having to move the mouse up/down;left/right?

What is wrong with traditional scrollbars that Google felt the need to get away from it?
You can just use iPhone simulator to make retina screenshot and/or do bigger screen testing.
Actual full yogurt is around 10% fat, yes.

This one had the fat removed (but that's an easy process, and doesn't alter chemically the base product or add any substance to the ingredients).

That said, the whole process to create this (even the fat-less version) is the basic, standard yogurt creation process known since the dawn on civilization, and not some mix of flavors, sweeteners and food processing that characterizes modern "yogurts".
That's weird. It only works when I click on the submitted URL, but not when I search for it myself.
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No it does NOT. Not apologizing if you're wrong makes you a douchebag. There might be something you missed and therefore you want to correct yourself. It happens all the time - no big deal in an apology.

PS - This is a general comment on tendering apologies and has got nothing to do with the OP.
Still no cure for cancer...
If you search for e.g. "Pink Floyd" it shows the sidebar, with a tracklist. If you then click on a song on the tracklist, it'll display the same UI as the linked one.

On the other hand, it's listing The Great Gig in the Sky as being part of the Brain Damage album, which as far as I know doesn't even exist.
"Un-portable" in that it wraps the win32 API rather than implementing the API. But it's actually a pretty handy format if you wanted to generate wrappers for other languages -- replace a couple base types/functions and have it emit code to wrap the Win32 API for any other language.

And yeah, it's pretty obviously automatically generated.
Hardly, there would be plenty of couples out there who don't directly need iOS devices for their job that have just as much if not more.

After you take out 2 phones you would have anyway, 2 laptops and maybe an iPad and an Apple TV there isn't that much more.
>And exactly why wouldn't designers and illustrators pay (read: devote resources) programmers to improve it, just like they do now? If your claim is that people don't pay for OSS development, my paycheck says otherwise.

No, my claim is that people don't generally pay directly to support OSS development, and never in the scale of supporting huge teams of programmers, equipment, testing, etc like Adobe does.

There are very few examples of people in a field paying directly for OSS programmers to create programs for their profession.

Don't conflate a company paying for OSS software or employing programmers working on OSS (like Sun, Oracle, RedHat, IBM etc), with "people" and specifically graphic professionals paying programmers to create OSS graphic editing programs. (The one counter-example I can think of, Bender, was closed source, and not doing very well financially when people sponsored it's becoming OSS).

Heck, GTK+, the very toolkit used not only by Gimp but by a huge ecosystem of programs, is left with ONE programmer working on it (he posted a complain a few months ago).
My initial thought was that they were inserted as a diversion to those who thought a simple frequency analysis would break what appeared to be a simple substitution cipher. Whereas in practice, the 'expected' substitutions yield gibberish, and the actual message is encoded using poly-alphabetic substitutions to throw off simple attacks.
I actually took a course on iOS programming from the guy discussed in the article, 1 day, $350, though there was another instructor. So he was doing that to some extent.
Is free-to-play with in-app upgrades now the favored model for games?
No you cant. It is NodeJS module referring node-ffi - module allows you to call dynamic libarary functions w/o making your own binary module. So it may be used with NodeJS under Windows. For example you may access COM ports directly from JS. Or you may send messages to other Windows to manipulate them.
As a fellow tool builder (albeit in a different domain than mobile), i'm repeatedly impressed and awed by how well RubyMotion is done + how they've grown a nice community around it.

(I can only hope I encounter remotely as much success as they once I launch! :) )
>All it takes is to list projects like Linux and GCC to show that yes, companies can give something back just fine with GPL.

That only works for server software, like Linux, and basic infrastructure that tons of companies use, like GCC, etc.

And it works because they don't have to distribute said software. On the server side, it doesn't make any difference if the license is BSD or GPL.

In both cases, companies get to make whatever changes they want, deploy at their infrastructure, and NOT release the code (because they're not re-distributing it).

Plus, in a lot of cases, they use Linux as a commodity underlying layer, so they don't care about making proprietary changes at all.
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Probably an aesthetic decision, but why would you have to move the mouse? No scrollwheel?
I am curious, Ryan says:
> This is also why I don’t ever want to take Treehouse public. I hate the idea of having to answer to outside investors who don’t have day-to-day knowledge of the challenges and opportunities we face. They also don’t share the insane passion that I have for the business.

But Treehouse has raised $5M. How did that work? What outcome are those investors looking for?

If you didn't want to go public, then what did you sell the investors on? Seems to me that you are weakening your hand - because any potential acquirer knows that your options are limited because you don't want to go public.

What's the point of publicly disclosing something like that?

Given that VC investing is a hits driven business, I can't see any rational investor being satisfied with you not swinging for a large outcome for them.

Given that you own 70% of your company, if we make the simplistic assumption that you sold 30% for $5M - which would give you a $16M post-money valuation...you would have to sell to Google or some other deep pocket for almost $40M just for them to double their money. Assuming this doesn't happen for 5 years, those returns look paltry.

What is the end game for them?

P.S. If you never told them that you didn't want to swing for the fences, then this must be a sucky way for them to find out.
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Paypal oh yes paypal
We all know it's important that we all try to get a job in this economy to make ends meet,right? No matter what happens we gotta do what is right to live and survive even taking the smallest jobs out there..
The "one" who is more productive and motivated in the morning does not describe me in any way. As much as I love mornings, when I wake up early, I am fairly useless the rest of the day. On the other hand, I can start coding at 10pm and have 3am show up without realizing there was anything in between.

I really wish I was a morning person, but I'm not. I'm tired of "normal" being dictated by those same people under the guise of, "you'll be a better person for it" (note: please don't read this as me thinking you are saying that!). I know myself well enough to know that is false.

At this point, I am so happy to be working at home full time, where I can wake up and start working at the time that works for me, whatever time that happens to be that day.
An iPod touch 5th gen has the same 1136 x 640 screen resolution as an iPhone 5. It's $299 + tax.
Does anyone have any benchmarks on how fast this will run?

For comparison C++ based implementations range from 13.5 seconds to 0.65 seconds when iterating over 1,000,000,000 elements on an Intel Core i7 860, quad-core, hyperthreading, 2.8Ghz cpu. (http://create.stephan-brumme.com/eratosthenes/)
Since this book will likely be unscientific conjecture backed up by an amateur conception of psychology and physiology, I hope you will detail as many case studies as possible to allow readers access to the data on which you are theorizing.

Providing as much raw data as possible will greatly increase the value of the book. It could actually be picked up by academics who study these issues.

When programmers attempt to study their own physiology and psychology, they are leaving their area of expertise. Most blog posts that try to address programmer productivity are tragically uninformed (and just as often contain egregious analytical errors).

It's a very interesting topic and programmers have a lot of data to provide.
Ask HN: Why is AAPL down to $527 a share from $705?
AAPL had steadily increased all the way up to around $705, all the while holding a recommendation to buy. Then, without any explicit reason I can see, it's suddenly started constantly falling all the way down to a new low of $527.

I'm asking as a completely honest question: can someone versed in economics explain what they think is going on? What changed and why are they on such a decline? Was it just over priced based on the presumption that they'll continue to beat expectations, and they haven't?

I'm not looking for trading advice or opinions on how the company is doing, but rather an objective economic explanation of the market factors at play.
LWN has appeal because it has actual original content, often written by some of the people who work on the Linux kernel and related projects. It's not just a link aggregator (although it is that too.)

It's also a place where discussions are mostly polite.

If you don't like the article, maybe you should mention what you didn't like about it. I thought it was pretty even-handed. It even ends with a plea by Corbet to avoid a Linux monoculture-- not something you might expect out of the editor of Linux weekly news.
Which is probably the correct decision.
The Psychological Effects Of Alcohol
When many people think of the effects of alcohol, they think about the physical effects alcohol has on the body, such as liver damage.
In general, using n-grams[1], probably at the character level. (So, as the article mentions, the bigram "ch" is common in German, and "qu" is much more common than "qX" for any X in English)

You can analyse texts you believe to be similar (in language, period, subject, etc) to the coded message you are attempting to crack, and use that to build tables of these n-grams in various semantic units.

Of course, these are useful in many more things than code-breaking, and Google have various datasets they make publically available.

The Google books ngram viewer[2] is a fun tool to play around with, or for the more serious, you can download a corpus of ~24GB of analysed web data they've crawled (from around 1 trillion source words)[3]

One actual example of a code constructed in the manner described is the Playfair cipher[4] which was used for a time in the late 1800s, but is now thoroughly broken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram

[2] http://books.google.com/ngrams

[3] http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipher
Can someone explain the technical details on how this program works?
You have it pretty right on with the "over priced based on the presumption that they'll continue to beat expectations, and they haven't." The iPhone 5 wasn't a record breaker new device, it was them being complacent and creating a marginally improved phone. The iPad Mini was them REACTING to Nexus 7, Kindle, Etc. And now with Microsoft coming in with Windows 8 phone, Windows tablets, etc... more competition for them.

And it's not like investors (and the stocks they invest in) are necessarily going up / down for a great reason. A lot of it is also emotional. And I think the factors I noted play into the emotion that Apple might have seen their peak in all out domination of smart phones (although android has greater share) and tablets. They would need another true innovation to see the type of growth they showed before.
I wonder how this maps (if at all) to Ayurvedic cycles [1]? This one is quite curiuos:

Mid-night – 10pm-2am is again pitta time.
The fire element is strong, and the stars shine brightly.
Although pitta will give a spurt of energy and creativity one must avoid staying up into the late hours.
If one stays awake until after after 10 pm, the
active nature of pitta can prevent sleep.
It is the hours of sleep that one gets before
midnight that are the most rejuvenating.

[1] http://flowingfree.org/using-ayurvedic-principles-to-live-in...
yes an example would be great
Ask HN: Google refuses to work due to 'unusual data traffic'
So a friend of mine works for a European newspaper, lives in Tel Aviv and covers the recent events, including visits to Gaza.

Google started to refuse her search requests with this aforementioned message today. Now I'm interested (and this place has quite a high number of Googlers): Is this a weird 'don't search for bombs and rocket terms' kind of terrorist protection gone wrong? Something else? Not any message Google returns ever, likely being related to network services on site or that particular machine?

Seems quite an odd message and.. scary.
This looks great, but why have a special UI style for this when they already have a useful sidebar display when searching for movie directors or other famous people? : http://goo.gl/JGMQ6
The Web page containing the original article is remarkably large considering that the article is a few paragraphs of text. There are also webfonts to fetch.
yes, but what a pain to manage! Money is not the issue, it is the time spent keeping track of builds, profiles and UDID's
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Someone like Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford, or Susan Collins, perhaps. They aren't particularly libertarian; if anything, the moderation is across the board, being moderate on social issues, and middle-of-the road on fiscal issues.
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Impressive. This is the most fun HTML5 games that I played.
3 months of runway
According to the help forums similar error messages used to appear for those who had the toolbar installed (false positives detecting queries originating from non-humans).

Have your friend preform searches on the encrypted site and report back:
https://encrypted.google.com
Game changer: The 'Iron Dome'
Easy for him to say; he already has a lot of money.
> That being said, based on the initial data, if you want to give yourself the best odds of having a high-growth tech company, two founders is optimal.

I don't see how that conclusion can be drawn from this kind of data.

EDIT: It looks like the post has been edited, so this criticism is no longer relevant.
That's a vague question.

You could mean the style of the architecture of the code, and how easy it is to find the bit that you want to fix/extend.

You could mean how adaptable is the code, is it loosely coupled enough that when you grow and find a bottleneck, that the bottleneck can be addressed without enormous changes rippling through the codebase.

You could simply mean the whitespace, variable names, and very basic structure of a file, and whether it takes minutes for a new maintainer to comprehend a file unknown to them or hours (and it really matters when it's a critical bug that needs resolving).

You can already see from my attempting to understand the question, that one way or the other it does have an impact.

Is style more important than shipping? No. A shipped product with poor style beats the most elegant code base that never shipped or shipped so late that you missed an opportunity.

But bad style (however you define it) can contribute greatly to technical debt which may really hurt you later.
Simple answer: Tragedy of the commons.

If your nation consists of 1/6th of the world's population, you bear 1/6th the burden of the global warming triggered by your fossil fuel use, but get 100% of the energy output from your fossil fuel use. Conversely, if you unilaterally decide to build a giant shade for the earth, you foot 100% of the bill yet only receive 1/6th of the overall benefits.
The article is right about at least one thing: Even without any evidence about what's going on behind the scenes, most people will assume the RSC came under pressure from copyright holders and caved almost instantly.

We're left with the impression that either they're truly incompetent or they're so embarrassed by their actions that they've tried to spin them as incompetence. Whatever they might have gained with that report is now lost unless they repost it in short-order and Paul Teller falls on his sword and resigns.
HN submission linking to Slashdot submission of a story that has already been discussed on HN ages ago.

What was the name of that movie again?

Oh yeah, Inception.
What makes some start-ups succeed where others fail is so poorly understood that superstitions start to creep in -- such as this one: that a co-founder is needed. It's widely believed and utter nonsense. Worse, it leads people to find co-founders artificially and to accept a co-founder when they would be much better served going it alone.

When you add a co-founder, you might have increased your chances of success but you certainly have increased your chances of failure.
Also works for authors.
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Probably because the "squares" have a very small target area and most people either use the scroll button if they're using a mouse or scroll gestures if they're using a touchpad. I'm pretty sure they have detailed information about this from the metrics that they collect from Chrome.
Just pointing it out a little trivia:

"Programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code."

was probably derived from

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." (Attributed to both Alfréd Rényi and Paul Erdős).

I believe it is one of the most famous quotes about mathematics (I hadn't heard it's programming variant so far).
This story is more about personal stupidity. They buy a ton of new Apple products then lie to themselves saying it's for "business". It shouldn't be news that most devs dont make much on AppStore apps. $5,000 isn't bad from indie apps. Honestly, I doubt even large corporations spend $200,000 to create an iPhone app.
Note the report has been pulled, supposedly because it didn't get "adequate review", but not specifically opposed/contradicted.

It could be back in some form, maybe watered-down. And the mere fact that some portion of the group was ready to advocate this direction suggests the range of views we'll see from individual legislators will grow. (Some will embrace this agenda even if the study group itself doesn't.)
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Same here. That data could result even if a greater percentage of one-founder companies succeeded, than two-founder companies, all else being equal.
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I think what you are missing with the ABA problem is that it doesn't apply as it is the expected behaviour from the point of view of the programmer.
Selling the car and cashing in 401K is generating cash flow. The hardware they bought would be around 8k-10k$ expenses (4k-5k$ per person). I don't consider this as a lot. Or is your point that they should have put that money into marketing instead?
My brother found the explanation for this: While those of us that are more active at night were still sleeping, the morning people decided what the proper schedule should be.

On a more serious note, there is a big difference between "A" and "B" people (sometimes tied to A and B blood types -- I've not really tested this -- I'm definitively not much of a "morning" person -- but I am flexible -- I can get up at 2-3 am and work, or sleep until noon -- normally I prefer to be up for 5-8 hours before I do any "work" -- and I am always more productive in the afternoon (as defined by how many hours it has been since I got up). My blood type is AB -- so maybe there is a correlation there.

I have some friends I've worked with that are absolutely useless after around 10 pm -- and others that are absolutely useless before 10 am. And a few that are more like me -- they adapt easily to either way -- and also function quite well even when under severe sleep deprivation -- or on an irregular sleep schedule.
More top technology companies are started by 2-person founders. If you had no other data other than what is presented, and there isn't, you would want to start a company with 2 founders. Obviously this is not taking into account how many businesses are started with different numbers of co-founders. Perhaps 50% of all people who start companies as a single founder end up on this list. We don't know that. The idea I have in my head is that it's easier to start a company with fewer co-founders, so more would be started with one than two, and two more than three and so on. In any case, the data is there for you to make your own conclusions and you don't have to take mine.