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What if this sponsorship enables an IT project that is then able to save the lives of two poverty-stricken children a month. Does that make it worthwhile?

More abstractly, what if this sponsorship enables an IT project to build a new kind of internet, that then enables Compassion International to work much more efficiently such that they are able to sponsor 200% more children on the same donations they currently receive?
Sketchfab 3d model library is already full of great models. You should definitely register even if you d'ont plan to upload models.
I understand two-factor auth just fine, it just wasn't clear to me if it was a demand-side or supply-side service.
The funniest part of "Scrotum" is that it's priced at $28.95. For an 84-page paperback, whose sole purpose is to trace the usage of the word "scrotum" throughout an oddly specific period in English linguistic history (1678 - 2007). I mean, perhaps the content farmer should also write a pricing algorithm?

The review is, indeed, ball-bustingly hilarious.
This is a great event for a great cause!
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Not to be outdone, I wrote my own genetic algorithm in Perl to do the same. It starts from randomly generated triangles, and evolves them to match the given image.

Here is the result of my first trial after 5000 generations:

http://imgur.com/L9Odx

For this run, I used 50 triangles, each at 50% alpha (fixed), a GA population size of 200, a crossover rate of 0.91 and a mutation rate of 0.01. It took around 12 hours to run, but that's mainly because I opted to do it in Perl and didn't spend any time optimizing it.
I would say there is no way in hell serial killers are sane. Are there those who actually suggest otherwise?

I don't care if they are placed in prisons or mental hospitals, so long as they are not set free. People who are interested in revenge will likely prefer they be sent to prisons, and those interested in helping the individual will likely prefer they be sent to mental hospitals. I don't care, so long as there is a lock on the door.
Here's an idea: for case where you do not (have to) expose what hash you use, start out with a simple, fast hash (could even be CRC32). When you discover that you have a lot of hash collisions (e.g. because a hash chain becomes X items long), rebuild your hash table using a good hash function.

That would mean you (except for that 'am I under attack' check, but that can be a single 'if' in code that, normally, rarely runs) only pay the price of having a robust hash when you are under attack. Your data structure would also have a 'hiccup' when switching hash algorithm, but that isn't that much different from what happens when you resize your hash table as it fills up.

Does that make sense, or am I overlooking something?
Using Gmail in mutt directly over IMAP is sloooow. It's a bit more work to set up something like OfflineIMAP, fdm, or something else.
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Moving away from proprietary standards, to open ones, is a declaration of war? Wow.

Could it be that Google is tired of paying to license a technology that has free alternatives? Especially considering that they will keep the proprietary option for its paying customers; this seems very likely.
For now, as has been pointed out, the answer is uzbl.

(Almost exactly what you describe is my current dream project, pieces designed, pieces roughed out, no part even remotely finished. The one I will get back to working on as soon as my startup exits and I have money and time. Or when it fails and I have time. You are not alone in wanting this.)
Just one point. "Fundamental Rights" are not granted by government. We are born with them. Further, it is government's role -- some say only role -- to protect those rights.
There's a longer story with a lot more about the lottery win and fall of his family and community that goes more in-depth, from 2005.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36338-2005Jan25?la...

The best advice I ever read if you win the lottery: get an attorney to claim the money on your behalf and don't tell anyone. I had family friends destroy their lives after winning a substantial amount and it's not pretty to watch.
>(but can you actually run a modern app stack on just 128 MB of RAM?)

C/Golang/Lua/Vala/SBCL/Ada/Pascal and an embedded datastore like bdb!

Why in my day we used to write little apps with C and bdb that used less than 5mb of memory! (Sqlite didn't exist yo.)

Heck these days you get (ENTERPRISE) choices like LevelDB and BangDB.

Edit: Who wants to have a datastore-backed c10k contest on prgmr machines? :D
Excellent. Down to 68.

for x in range(1,101):print['','Fizz'][x%3<1]+['','Buzz'][x%5<1]or x
You could also look at it like carrying a cigarette lighter with you that you like rather than using whatever fire making tool is around when you need one.
Why stop at 2, for all we know others are created by the impact in another universe(s). We don't really know. But sure is fun and the whole higgs boson mystery is still very much alive.

I don't believe we will truely understand the higgs boson until we fully understand gravity and more so explain why it is weaker than it should be.
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I just sent my idea, let's see he agrees with me to spend my entire winter break just working on this idea... Mostly, because of motivational purposes
That cost is really low. Not even worth mentioning. It's a bit of UI in settings, and you're done. It already exists on the Mac and has for ages. We can be stupendously pessimistic about the time and say it would require ten man-years to implement (not likely) and it's still vastly cheaper than licensing just about anything at their scale.
Excellent. Not too long ago I asked a partner at a very well known VC firm if they would consider investing a small amount ($x00) in many "startups" to see if the founders would use the money effectively and follow up with a more serious investment if so. He looked at me as though I was asking sarcastically rather than sincerely.

I'm confident that these six new Pinboard/Ptacek/A16Z companies will have excellent return on investment.

Humor aside, there are many smart founders but being brilliant and being money-minded are orthogonal.
I'm being vetted as an "investor" on the HN comment board. Forgive me for thinking this situation is hilarious.
I always thought a web designer was someone who knew HTML, a Mac UI designer was someone who knew ObjC and XCode, etc. But apparently it's now normal for a professional 'designer' to be an artist who just knows Photoshop, who then hands over to a programmer who recreates the whole design from scratch in code!
Kick-ass; thanks!
> "to which he replies 'well, novels don't usually make money'. Wouldn't you think the correct answer would be 'well, it wouldn't be very good'?"

Perhaps the same question can be posed to many startup founders in our community. Very often people in the startup scene seem much more interested in extracting profit (or really, just making the exit) rather than creating something good (in whatever way that you might personally define goodness).
A recent EconTalk, not sure which one, one of the ones on health care, also suggested that some countries with very low infant mortality are that way because they record fewer live births than the US.
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The most important lesson I learned in graduate school came from a scientist at Los Alamos who told me "three sigma effects happen in physics much more often than they should"
>It should be extensible, but only by 1 language. Competing programer's browsers could offer alternative extension languages as their differentiator.

Why not have a packet-based interface for browser extentions AND automation? (like a database)
It's interesting to note that the drone that the iranians spoofed and forced to land relied on encrypted gps, however they were successful at what is assumed to be a gps spoofing attack. The likely scenario is that systems are designed to fail gracefully - if encrypted streams are unreadable (jamming) unencrypted data may be used.
Ha, I'm aware that if you're careful, you can do it, but I was more thinking of a python or ruby stack with MySQL (or whatever) that most people would use :).
Does it still compresses the photos on the iPad? Cause that's the only thing holding me back from subscribing.
Simple things like renting a house/apartment in another town to live in for a week or a month before collecting, registering a new telephone number, perhaps now even signing up for new dummy email address, for folks to contact you, and never living there or using those after you win, will help to stay anonymous.

Not sure why people claim the money so quickly. I rarely check tickets I've bought within a month or two of the purchase date. I guess the thought of possibly winning is better than knowing that I wasted those few dollars on it, but also that nothing much would really change (other than a new laptop and camera).
Punch'd was a loyalty mobile app. It was basically the digital equivalent of the punch cards you get at sandwich shops. They have been shut down like almost every other startup acquired by Geocommerce at Google.

I really hope Bufferbox doesn't follow their path.
They did not have the technology that we do now. Guerrilla warfare hasn't changed much, but the most advanced military technology has changed drastically. And yes, they probably were concerned to a lesser extent. Each side in a conflict has to attempt to maintain a moral high ground or they'll lose their power. Long gone are the times when entire cultures reveled in massacres for its own sake. Even Hitler had to dress up his wanton evil in the language of the oppressed fighting back.
I disagree. I have always thought that one of the keys to being a good programmer is reading a lot of other peoples' code, and it's a process that doesn't stop just because you're more experienced. I've been programming for maybe 15 years now, and one of the ways I learn how for example a new algorithm works is still to type in an example and run it.

Integrating the manual activity of typing with the mental activity of thinking about what you're typing in and the visual activity of reading someone else's code just stimulates a lot of different neurons and helps you learn.
Leaked north korean documentary exposes western propaganda.
Does he really use Microsoft Access and Microsoft Word for the automated process or was that only for demonstration?
Take a look at VASSAL (http://www.vassalengine.org/) and the games it supports - between that and Dropbox, I find that playing turn based games over the internet is made a lot easier.

How many of you are there? How much complexity and/or depth do you like? At the deep (deep) end, 18xx and specifically 1830 plays well as PBeM (with a Java app called Rails), or there are games like Here I Stand that play well PBeM, or war games. Pretty much anything which doesn't need much interaction between players during each person's turn works well (especially if you can trust each other to roll dice for each other where needed).

If you want some more suggestions, feel free to drop me an e-mail and discuss further.
MySQL and Ruby could be made to work. (on 128mb of ram)...concurrency would be awful though.

I was trying to be lean.

Ruby users are quiche eaters anyway. Real programmers write their code in Fortran and persist to a hierarchical database on a mainframe.
I work in ecommerce and this guy and others like him have been creating this stuff for 3-4 years. It's a massive annoyance for us as the only real identifier we got from suppliers is the publisher name, we blocked them for awhile but then we started seeing a massive range of publisher names coming through in order to get around blocks (I assume every other retailer was blocking them as well).

When we first started seeing the automated content books, literally overnight our product set increased several million titles - I now estimate that about 20 million of the 50 million products we have are automated books (they come out with new "editions" all the time as well). This obviously has a massive impact on our search results - these books have keyword laden titles and descriptions, and without a solid identifier it was very difficult to get rid of them. Thankfully recently the suppliers that print these products have started flagging them as crapware.

As for the customer response to this type of product - it's definitely negative, with a massive return rate. As far as I am concerned, this is a massive scam - hedging on the fact that some people are to lazy to return the books.
I work this way too, and for the last several years I have been looking for software that would let me mark up some code without actually changing the underlying source files (keeping the annotations on the side). Putting your own comments in screws up diffs and all sorts of things like that.
That's a false dichotomy. It may simply be that America has a worse way of dealing with troubled/insane/dangerous/etc... people. I'm not saying that's the case necessarily, but it's definitely a possibility you missed.

I live in a country(Lebanon) that went through a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Guns are a fact of life here, they are very easy to get and lots of people have them. And yet nobody has ever gone into a school and shot children and parents that I know of.

We've had bombings, assassinations, terrorism, and even a war now and then. If it's violent, we've had it. But not this. Are Lebanese people better people? Hell no. But our societies tend to be more closely knit and more traditional. That has many many drawbacks but it also means that people very rarely get to such extremes in terms of mental well-being(to the point where they could do something like this) without being noticed.

I'm not saying traditional societies are the answer, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying, it's not just a choice between "bad people" or "too many guns". Reality is much more nuanced than that.
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upvar was a unique feature of TCL that was also a really bad idea.

http://www2.tcl.tk/1508
I did at one point, but not these days. I've grown so accustomed to my sleep patterns that it feels normal.

However, when I do make time to relax - I've been known to knock out during the day and not wake up until 3 or 4 the next morning, thus continue this horrible habit.
We do the same thing at Stack Overflow Careers. Except it's a lot more companies.

I really like this part: "our Talent Team will review your submission and if you're a fit, we'll follow up directly and connect you with relevant companies". They step in and do the work to connect you with relevant companies which is a great value add opportunity for a VC.
After you shed some different light on my original comment, I have to admit it is phrased weirdly. Apologies for the confusion. It wasn't meant to express the social or any other sort of pressure on Colin's responsibilities as to put the money his company earned into the open source project others also benefit from.

Rather, it was my compliment after seeing how much effort he dedicates to FreeBSD and donating a significant portion of Tarsnap's revenue to the foundation. I reflected on my gut reaction as in `I'd be surprised if a serious contributor wouldn't aid the cause with all the tools he has` and am sorry for the terrible wording.
>Swords and bows are also designed for killing. Does that mean we should crack down on archers and fencers?

The point is the efficiency. The magnification of force is so great with guns compared to other weapons as to render the comparison moot. If I had a weapon that could instantly vaporize a person of choice with the push of a button, this tool would rightly be condemned far and wide. Yet the same tool could be used in a purely defensive manner. We all subconsciously understand the importance of considering the magnitude of force magnification.

I completely agree with your second paragraph. I am far from a pacifist. The point is that these conversations seriously lack nuance, each side takes points to the absolute extreme as a tactic to validate their side. There is much nuance in the middle that needs to be considered. Acknowledging the nature of guns is a starting point.
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What does it take to have a program come up with the theory of relativity, given the knowledge that was available in 1904?

I think there are all kinds of reasoning skills that we've never been able to test, because they depend on perception and motor skills. It seems possible those would take many more computational resources. I find it hardly surprising that feeding a program abstractions and allowing it to reason about those abstractions is simple. It's the interacting with the real world, correlating abstractions with the real world and coming up with useful new abstractions, that's hard.

I don't think we'll ever have an AI until something is built that can freely interact with the world, freely gather data and freely modify itself to enhance all its abilities. An AI without pressure sensors that ever touched sand will never understand the universe.
Where does one put deuterium and tritium or carbon 14?

The model ain't the reality.

The standard model has six quarks, up from the three initially proposed.

In fairness, discarding data which does not fit the model has not been without it's practitioners. However, the method's history is somewhat less than distinguished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark#History
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I'd say your code contributions have been much more valuable than your monetary contributions.

Yes, I'd be inclined to agree there. My financial contributions have been quite modest (and in 2006 I received about $15k of donations from FreeBSD users to let me work on FreeBSD, so in a sense I'm still paying that money back).

I just thought it really odd to demand the people who work on something to also fund it.

Well, I'm not donating as a FreeBSD developer. I'm donating as a company which uses lots of FreeBSD code, and in an attempt to inspire other people and companies to donate.
Great response, I must say.

As a conjecture, do you think splitting the logic up into several smaller neural networks with different objectives (i.e. for chess, one evaluates defensive maneuvers, one for attack, and so on) would alleviate the problem? Or at least improve the performance of the machine as a whole...
Whoops, I appear to have given you a downvote. I really wish I could fix that. It makes me really paranoid when I go to up or downvote people that I'll accidentally click the wrong one.

EDIT: Since I appear to be able to still edit this, I would like to pose a question:

Is the published HN source code current? If so; would you be willing to accept a patch in Arc to implement this feature? (Assuming the code was decent.)
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"Dear angel investor, I need to raise $500k to cover my opportunity costs while I work on this startup."
How do you imagine a world without "propaganda"? Mine would be one without this documentary.
I think that Diplomacy is a rarity as being a Board Game which actually plays better on the internet and by e-mail just because it gives you that bit more time to think and plan and communicate.

If you're a fan, then I'm actually running a series of games at the moment on the DPPD judge (http://www.floc.net/dpjudge/) - if you look at http://www.diplom.org/openings/openings.html#USDP for openings on the judge they're the vole_xxx games.
Hear hear! I only wish the founding fathers had the foresight to anticipate advances in technology. It is my right to carry a nuclear weapon and I don't understand why that isn't more widely recognized.
> he doesn't have journalistic integrity

Can you provide any examples of Gruber blatantly lying or misrepresenting his sources? (Serious question)
I agree.

Occasionally people will say something about "having to sit at a desk" in relation to their job or mine.

"Have?" I get to sit at a desk with a portal to logic, problem solving, and all the information I could want right in front of me. If I were sitting at home, family-less and jobless, I would probably be doing a very similar thing about the same portion of the day.
Even bubble sort is an algorithm...
Probably not: http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/atlas_higg...
Fortunately opportunity costs can be paid in equity. Rent, car insurance, and groceries can't.
Restatement in pictures: http://abstrusegoose.com/496
I miss playing 8 board, 5 flag roborally marathons.
That sounds exactly like the last pull request I made to jQuery -- I found a bug in my use case that was so easily fixed it seemed like an omission, only to realize that it was deliberate due to some other, older edge case that had been coded around.

I ended up with the same result, however I will say that at least the jQuery team was very polite and respectful and was more than willing to discuss the issue at length, help explain the pros and cons of either scenario, and we were able to end up with a new, third workaround that should work with both edge cases.

Sorry that yours went the other way, but I found it spooky how closely your experience mirrored mine, despite a completely opposite resolution.
You're assuming Google would even allow that. Google knows what it's maps are worth, why would they license that data in perpetuity to a competitor for a one time fixed cost?

That's basically the argument that everyone has been putting forward for why this whole thing happened. Google and Apple had a deal, and it was up for renegotiation. Google didn't ask for more money, they asked for all sorts of integration and data sharing Apple was unwilling to do (possibly with more money).

They knew the position they had Apple in. They tried to get what they wanted and lost their position as the iOS mapping provider. I'm pretty sure if it was just a matter of more money, Apple would have paid up. They certainly have the cash.
Will you be offering $1.12 in expense reimbursement for the interviews? Will you do checks or cash?

($1.12 won't even cover the minimum BART or Muni or VTA fares now, I think, unless you're a child or senior or disabled or something)
We (meaning CS types who follow startups) are an unusual crowd. We're introspective and understand human societies and ourselves better than a lot of people do. Our main motivation for wanting money is (a) autonomy, and (b) building cool stuff. It's ambition that drives us, and we'd still work after a huge windfall-- we'd simply work on much better terms, and probably a lot harder (because such wealth takes out the "had to pay bills" excuse for typical middle-class underachievement).

The motivation for most (98%) people who want extreme wealth to want it is social status. That's not always a nasty thing. Sometimes it takes the form of extreme generosity, or large donations to children.

That's why the sensible path is so rarely followed. These aren't stupid or bad people. They try to use their money for its only remaining purpose (social status) to most people at extreme levels, and they get into a self-destructive loop, because high social status itself impairs judgment and leads to more recklessness.
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