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<i>2. As someone who cares deeply about research methods, I'd argue that there is little to no value in superficial, subjective and contextless comparisons like this.</i>

I care deeply about research methods too, but I don't understand why this is bad. If the goal is to know which search engine is best -- a subjective question in the first place -- it's gathering judgments from people on exactly that topic.

Of course, you can't take the statistics collected overly seriously, since it's hard to know how seriously different people are taking it and such. But it's probably more true than not.
Is that really a bad thing?
I think a "put your money where your mouth is" site is actually a good idea. Have it by invite only. Make registration a pain in the butt, require credit card, and require that people go by their real names.
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How can the profit structure allow this to exist?

I would think the right people would already be dead.
I think Wikipedia is a good starting point for education if we have will and wisdom to pursue further.
Perhaps I'm an old man but it seems really retarded for folks like this to be wasting time with a problem that had been solved over a decade ago. And it doesn't have to be exactly the same -- but something is better than anything. Also, the retail site Amazon has also had community review moderation for the better part of a decade.

Even if there's only a "like" button that brings more liked comments up, it'd be something. No system is perfect, but all of them work well enough to bring useful content up and push trollish content out or invisible. And if trolls want to fight amongst themselves, they can still do it (either at the bottom of the page or by turning their threshold off).

You simply cannot have folks pick and choose which comments to keep and which to censor. That definitely will not make for good discussion, as evidenced by their efforts to date.

And even if its wordpress, as someone pointed out its open source and I bet there are multiple plugins that setup such functionality. I simply don't believe that these "tech" people in Silicon Valley would have a problem finding someone to do a little coding for them. Seems lazy more than anything else.
Again, I'm saying that actual ability is more important than credentials, not that credentials will be completely ignored. As for legal barriers, it looks like bokonist has already addressed that here.
Not at all. Programming has become specialized since its inception; there are systems programmers and application programmers. The former creates the tools used by the later.

But, I expect the systems programmers to know not only the ins and outs of the current technologies, but what came before them. The past is full of beautiful architectures that didn't succeed for commercial reasons in their time, but would be perfect candidates to make a comeback in some form in the future. Even if we have to form a vigilante group of hacking do-gooders who will mail architects copies of important texts and papers (a la GvR and SICP ;-)

Needless to say, MPI is not one such "lost beauty", more like a committee designed piece of industry infrastructure. MPI == HPC.
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I think that even if we had politicians capable of putting together a well conceived plan, a relatively small group can effectively veto any budget.
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Haven't got an email. Will try again soon. Don't worry about the other points, mostly icing ;-)

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For the arab world? Or by outsourcing to the arab world?
Another good reason to always use trunk! This has been around for a little while, though.
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I suspect this is motivated by performance concerns. The overhead of the centralized filtering they do is massive, and a friend living in China tells me that it hurts net responsiveness badly. Since the Chinese government already seems to have decided a while ago that it's only interested in preventing casual access to subversive material and doesn't care about anyone determined enough to bother connecting through a proxy server, it makes sense to decentralize the load by moving the filtering logic onto the client.

If I'm right, though, this presents an enticing opportunity for some vigilante freedom fighting: write a worm that disables the filtering software.
My mother was a schoolteacher in the '30s - in a one-room schoolhouse - teaching all elementary grades. She didn't have a college degree - but her students all learned to read, write, and do arithmetic.

After working as a secretary in New York during WW II, she got married, had kids, and when we were all in school, wanted to go back to teaching. Unfortunately, by then that required a college degree in education, which she was unable to acquire (financial difficulties after my parents split). She ended her working career as the secretary to the director of special education (who had an EdD) for a small school district. The irony of that was that she had to write all his correspondence for him, as he was incapable of composing a coherent paragraph. I'd submit that it's possible the kids in that school district would have been better served if he was the janitor, and she a teacher or administrator.
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something like that. wait and see, or use the email in my profile :-)
Which of course requires there to be any truth to begin with.

That Derrida showed that it's not possible to make declarative statement's is not the fault of Derrida but of language.

It is exactly the point that you CAN'T make any declaretive statements i.e. express truth that is the point of Derrida and deconstructivism.
I remember seeing several sites try one or more these strategies, the only notable success that I know of is smallworld.net which caters to a market that used to be known as the jet set, rich, well-connected and privacy conscious individuals who want the exclusivity.

But this (validated identity) is the sort of thing that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft keep trying to push out the door (now joined by twitter "verified identities"); and it keeps falling flat.
"I have heard people criticize universal grammar as being, essentially, a Colonialist theory, which attempts to assimilate languages into a Eurocentric framework."

What is the BS part then formulation or the theory?
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Ah dammit...you're right. I really enjoyed this, too!
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yeah, this could be solved by a better interface. Unfortunately, email has become somewhat unreliable, thanks to spam (no spam filter is 100%; my experience has been that most automated filters do better than I can with a delete key, once you get worse than 10 spams for every good mail. still, nothing is 100%)

I should set things up so you can set it all up in your one web session; it shouldn't be that hard; the parts I'm missing are the ability to automatically upload a ssh key, and to automatically process paypal payments. Neither of which is particularly difficult.
Sneaking around, bypassing security, fixing airplanes and flying them in nasty conditions?

I'd call it hacking.
I was hoping that the 2-page image of pg and other's at a table would be available.
I think NDA is for Paranoids.
Someone should make a movie script about this guy!
They are mostly unenforceable here in Australia but I've still seen them in a few contracts and never agree to them. Far more common are clauses that prohibit overt poaching of clients or staff to a new venture which is more reasonable IMHO.
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It is, but some things need teachers, or at least slides and tutorials, instead of encyclopedia articles. If I had to learn linear algebra from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as I did with Math 54 in college.
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I think there is no SCIENCE behind any Religion, Race, Class, or Caste, because all CURRENT living humans mtDNA is derived from a SINGLE woman.

And she is the MOST-RECENT common ancestor of all humans alive on Earth today with respect to matrilineal descent.
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Now I see why this problem is on your mind. In my original reply to you (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646561), I made the point that people should be free to choose how much risk they want to take. If your government is using propaganda and other methods to encourage people to take a bigger risk than they would otherwise, then it's not surprising that there are bad effects.
I would love to be able to prove ownership and get full access to the book/override the limited preview.

I put in the ICBM of Founders at Work, but Google only permits its limited preview. My plan was to take the book to my college dorm when I move in late this summer, but I guess I will do without Chapter 19 and Chapter 28.
ok, wtf is all this circle jerk with singularity... can anybody explain me why is this important that we need a whole university dedicated to it?

It just feels way too cultish
That may be true, but the actual claim was that the Repubs blocked something good. If so, we'll find said "something good" in Dem proposals.

How many Dems were advocating 2005 level spending? How many Dems were willing to say "we'd love to have all these new programs but since we can't get the revenue, we're going to delay them or cut something else?"

I'd love to be making 25% more than I actually am, but is it responsible to spend that way? If not, why are Dems off the hook?
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If evolution can do it, so can an online university.
The university staff are all donating their time.
Does this mean Windows is the only approved OS?
1) Use google apps' email accounts. five nine spam filtering, ime.

2) Web based sing up form, dashboard, and maintenance tools should be very straightforward. I reckon you could get that done in a week or so; I would love to license you the tech and get a commission out of every sign up :-)

also,

You should offer an affiliate service and let us marketing types do the marketing. Offer a commission per sign up and sit back.

Mail me if you wanna talk shop.

P.S. I refuse to accept the freebie month bro, sorry, but I would rather pay you for your services so you can pay me for mine :-)
I think this seems to be aimed more at countries where the resources for higher learning are absent apart from the very rich.

In those cases accreditation wouldn't be very important because the main focus would be on developing skills and the qualifications gained would speak for themselves.

Although I think if it is being aimed at the very disadvantaged the fees still seem like they would hold people back.
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They quote Fred Wilson: "I don't mean this in a negative way, but Y Combinator is more like a cult than a venture capital fund. And Paul is the cult leader."

I love that he added that last sentence! No one would've known what he meant otherwise. ;)
I seem to remember reading Drexler's book...something about "Let's keep the cultish bullshit down to a minmum."

Good advice.
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I'll allow it.
Type "linux" into Google and you get good sensible answers.
Type "linux" into Bing and you get something obviously tainted by the marketing department.

Microsoft can't hope to win with this attitude. Nobody is going to use a search engine which can't be trusted.
Have you looked at WGU's curriculum? It's all learning how to use specific Microsoft and other products. Very little of the fundamental topics is actually taught. Most disappointing.
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Anybody else get the da Vinci reference?

Is nothing sacred? ;-)
2 years too late for the fad du jour. They should have just tweeted a snappy line.
I'm not sure that's the case. Using the "blind comparison" site (linked earlier) I can't immediately distinguish "something obviously tainted by the marketing department"

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=linux
I was just thinking that, or maybe a TV series. This is great stuff. It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can.
1 - if you watch the "Wave and GWT" video from Google I/O, you'll see that both client and server are written in Java. (They share some of the truly hairy communications code.) Of course, the client compiles down to Javascript (using GWT).

2 - I don't think they've addressed the spam issue yet.
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No, I think he's got it right.

A blip is just a distinct (per-user) document that lives in a wavelet (the wavelet can have a distinct membership from any other wavelet in the wave).

So the wavelet functions as an "email" (which can have sub-emails with different contributors) in the wave "email thread".
the guy who invented spam filtering as we know it

That is NOT TRUE! It's so frustrating people think this. He popularized one particular algorithm, which is great. But he did not invent it, not by a long shot.
I agree with you, mostly. However there is one significant effect of the election of the Pirate Part: Swedish political parties have been given a rude awakening and if the Pirate Party continues to gain they will need to face up to the fact that a lot of people want more relaxed copyright legislation, or the Pirate Party may be swept into the Swedish parliament next.

(keep in mind: they were polling around 5%, and many dismissed them, claiming that their key demographic of <30's "doesn't vote" - instead they performed better than the polls indicated; that's going to scare a lot of politicians into rethinking their stance)

It's also bound to make a lot of people think seriously about trying to get equivalent platforms in place in other EU countries.

It's an amazing showing for a "single issue" (not really, but almost) party running in only a single, small country.
Walk to the CS section of any big university library and scan the shelves for the purple and gray "LNCS" books (Lecture Notes in Computer Science.) then weep in sorrow.

Not only is worse better, but industry seems to be at odds with good design.

The examples are simply too numerous and any examples would only be a poor and narrow representative, skewed to my tastes and my ignorance.

All I know is that we deserve better than this; a combination of MIPS, Smalltalk, Lisp, and Amoeba as mainstream platforms would have been nice.
Indeed, and when looking at Sweden in particular, the "Left party", which is the only other major party in Sweden that are as open to copyright reform as the Pirate Party, lost out heavily, more or less offsetting the Pirate Party gains.

Personally I saw the results as horrible (even the BNP got seats) but the Pirate Party win was at least a little beacon of light, though I mostly see their win as a kick in the ass for the other parties that will hopefully see them starting to reform their own copyright platforms or risk losing the rest of the youth vote too.
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Libertarian parties in Europe are largely seen as centre to centre-right, as they tend to focus a lot on "freedom to property" alongside other rights, whereas the European left overall see property rights as sometimes limiting rights and so not automatically (or ever, depending on how far to the left you go) desirable.

But it's muddy - the UK Liberal Democratic Party, for example, was founded by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (splinter from Labour).

Europe does however have self-proclaimed liberal and libertarian spanning the spectrum from centre-left to far right, and a bunch of far left parties that strongly adhere to large parts of libertarian ideologies.

In fact, personally during school I was campaigning for a Marxist party and during a school debate I almost reduced a "far right libertarian" to tears by agreeing with him at very inopportune (for him) moments. He was horrified at being associated with someone far left, and just plain didn't understand that the majority of our party platforms were aligned - it was almost only on the issue of protection of property rights to means of production that we disagreed, and the fact that I was for a far more drastic reduction of government power.
As low-brow (or pop-cultural) as this comment might be, I can't help but make the analogy: repo men are the modern day ninja. Being a ninja was never about martial arts; it was about subterfuge, and about protecting the assets of your lord by any means necessary. In the modern age, the lords are the banks.
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It feels cultish, but it's not. It's the real deal. It's the real deal because there will come a time in the future when computers are "smarter" than people. Computer analytical skills will progress faster than human analytical skills. Computers will be asking humans questions.

It's not a cult at all. You don't have to believe it is coming. You don't have to associate with people who do believe it is coming.

It seems like a logical certainty to me. Unless there is some sort of a human intervention or tragedy that stops us from progressing and innovating and building more powerful computing systems, then what is the alternative? That humans continue to outpace computers forever?

If you look around at the world already, most people have no idea what is going on with the internet, cloud computing, artificial intelligence. Robots are sweeping our floors and mowing our lawns and killing our enemies.

What is the alternative? How might The Singularity not occur?
Getting the plane doesn't seem like the scary part. You know you're safe once you're flying away. The scary part is knowing that you just made enemies with someone who owned a $100 million toy. If just one of them is the vengeful type they might have your entire family killed.

Talking about it publicly seems about the dumbest possible thing to do.
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The results for the search 'linux' are nearly identical for the first page. In fact, the first result is exactly the same.
A very nice description of the goal of marrying skill, demand, and passion:

If what you want to do and what you do well overlap, you still need to monetize it.
If what you do well and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to make sure the work is desired.
If what you want to do and what you can get paid to do overlap, you still need to do it better than your competition.
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Is the accreditation for the first class retroactive then?
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Wikipedia can only help if you know what you want to study and know how to move around finding information. For a lot of people in the third world this is not the case. They need mentors and guidance more than the material and information.
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At least they offer true graduation options, if they only offered online it would be as if the online degree means less and frankly misses the entire point of a graduation.
hmmm, I'm curious about why people are against dedicating time and energy to this. Technology is already growing at a faster rate than we can effectively regulate it.

There will definitely come a point when technology will be able to improve the ones improving technology, whether they're AI or cybernetically enhanced humans. That's going to profoundly affect everything related to technology (which is pretty much everything). Imagine if your neighbor can just think up the plans to make a nuclear bomb by getting a cognitive implant, how would that affect the world?

There is a lot of speculation, but kurzweil has been fairly accurate with his predictions so far, so I'm curious to why people don't buy it.
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The Swedish variant of BNP almost got a seat too.

It's to be expected, of course, with an economic meltdown. Nothing brings votes to right wing extremists like a crisis and someone else to blame it on - this time it's the muslims who get the blame for everything that's wrong in the world.
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appropriate is really just anything of interest to the HN crowd i'd say.
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And given the number of upvotes, stealing aircraft from armed mobsters seems to interest the HN crowd ;-)
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Oh absolutely. And it's a welcome counterweight to the fringe right-wing parties (I'm looking at you BNP) and the various communists.
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