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Has anyone tried using statistical filters to detect unwanted comments? If you could get the volume of stupid comments low enough, the users could vote down the more cleverly written trolls. Alternatively one could try to automatically give high ranks to good comments.
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I thought it was Monty:

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I think he means the auto completion suggestions, not the search results.
This is basically what Amazon's "Real Name" system is.
It is impossible to 'unlicense' the right to reverse engineer. (if you reverse engineer only to support another company's format.). If i'm wrong on this one, let me know.

EndNote didn't stand a chance in court.
A reality show about a regular repo man is apparently quite popular among spanish-speaking tv viewers:
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Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous?

I loved comic strips as both a child and adult. Garfield, Far Side, Bloom County. I just never thought C&H was that funny.
For a more everyday example of how everyone wants to do things their way, despite evidence, see this post by Robin Hanson, http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/sweat-intuition.html
Can you say 'oops'?

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Yes, and to add the things a university is supposed to have, they've started Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org
"Am I the only one who never found C&H humorous?"

Yes.
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That distinction is likely temporary though.
I thought you were going to say something about how C&H made more insightful comments than jokes, but then you praised Garfield. Not to jump on the Garfield-hating bandwagon, but it isn't really in the same category.
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> It seems like a logical certainty to me.
? What is the alternative? How might The Singularity not occur?

Human intervention and refusal to allow it, as you already mentioned.

It could be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but not necessarily a logical certainty. For example, if I could convince you (and with the same amplitude of conviction that you have right now towards a "smarter"-computer future) that such a future will inevitably result in the slavery of one man by another, and of ever-more powerful dictatorships (that call themselves democracies), this very thought would be the first step towards the non-conception of the singularity. I believe a person called Theodore Kacinzsky has previously argued along these lines, though he chose a more explosive form of argument than mere words :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski

One alternative is to restrict research to biological advances that benefit humans (stem cell research, for example) rather than trying to create even-more powerful machine learning tools all the time.

Just because "everyone" eats McDonalds, it does not take away the power of choice from you to never ever visit a McDonalds (for whatever reason), for example. Look at how scarily equipped are the police today, what things man has created for war (weapons that boil your invisibly from a remote distance), and you will understand that technology is fun as long it's not. It doesn't take a genius to look at each invention and decide whether it will most probably be used for the good or result in further loss of privacy and freedom. Two headings from today' ACM "TechNews" newsletter in my inbox are, "The Display That Watches You" and "Predictive Powers: A Robot That Reads Your Intention?". My reaction is : "Are you dumb? don't you see where this is leading?"
People spend a lot of time and energy in machine learning and AI. Singularity is more of a land grab, and attempt to repurpose this research for a movement. Singularities obsession with prediction seems to have more to do with building a prophetic story in order to give itself power rather than useful future planning.
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I guess it has something to do with this guy really being a star in a pretty good department, versus myself being a pretty typical student in a very strong department.

UW is a top name brand grad school for CS.

personal achievements say a lot more about you than the hand you were dealt by the extremely noisy college admissions process

Grad school decisions at all the universities you mentioned are made by professors themselves, and they typically look for candidates who are interested in getting a PhD. Stanford's three year Master's program is career oriented.
someone who owned a $100 million toy

No, someone who missed several payments on a leased $100 million toy. The ultra rich-and-powerful don't miss the payments.

Also, if the repo man dies shortly after repossessing your property, you are probably going to be at the top of the list of suspects... so killing the guy's whole family is probably not a good idea.
It seems like a failure of the legal system that something like this is necessary. I guess there is no law-enforcement agency that can move fast enough to prevent a jet from leaving its jurisdiction.
I think a successful ENTREPRENEUR is worth 10 MBAs and 10 PHDs.
Well, you're certainly making his point for him.
I think this is the beginning of the end for North Korea. They have done a good job annoying the world, but kidnapping US citizens is probably going to have consequences for them.

(Although maybe not, as everyone seems to have forgotten about the people that North Korea kidnapped from Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japa...)
Hmm, was twisted not the next big thing that everyone was rewriting their app in? What does he mean, it does not scale?
Somehow I don't think this course has a few billion years to get it right.
It's all about the speed.

Once an idea for a startup is born, once an idea is getting to materialize also others in different parts of the world will seize the same idea. (think about scientific discoveries: a couple of teams are working on the same subject unaware of each other)

And a race will begin. If you are an one person company you cannot compete with a small team:

- in the same time you'll deploy less code

- you'll burn out faster

- the clairvoyance to your business will be shaded by the lack of feedback from your unexisting peers

Alone perhaps a successful open source project can be made, serious business not.
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If Apple hasn't completely forgotten about the Apple TV it would be interesting to see a new revision launched with a full SDK. If Apple doesn't care about the device that much they should really open it up to third parties to fill the gaps in its functionality. Give it a halfway decent 3D chip and a simple motion controller (with iPhone/Touch integration too, of course) they could probably capitalize on all the developers doing games for the iPhone market. It may be Apple's last real chance to get a foot hold in the set top market because both Sony & Microsoft are starting to push more and more non-gaming apps out. Apple will almost surely never be a #1 but they could carve out a very respectable market for themselves -- mostly casual gamers and Internet media consumers who may not be interested in "hardcore" gaming. (and there are lots of us)
Why would Apple want to drive cross-platform sales?
Actually, I'm working on that now. But the part I really suck at is billing, so I want to pass that off on the resellers. They'd be providing real value for me then. I've been talking to a few people about this; what I want to do is provide a interface so the resellers can provision new images themselves, charge the resellers a discount on what I charge normally, then let resellers sell and bill at whatever price the markets can bear.

This would help me immensely. If I didn't have to screw with billing, I could focus more on the technical stuff, which is what I'm good at. I was going over things the other night, and I'm collecting about half what I'm billing out. (I imagine that many of those accounts are people who want to close the account who didn't bother telling me, but some are probably interested in continuing service.)

The question is how do I let resellers differentiate while I am still doing support? I like the idea of letting them set the prices (because some people really do want to pay more, and on the business end of things, I want to provide a commodity. Getting some people to pay more for a commodity than others do is a skill for other people. One that I'm not particularly interested in developing.)

Resellers could differentiate on nicer interfaces, and hopefully some of them would be able to have several providers on the backend... you know, kindof like cloudkick; you could buy a vps from cloudkick and they could run it on me, on slicehost, ec2, or linode; that is adding real value for the customer.
I can hardly believe what I'm reading here ('ISSUE #24' is the most impressive):

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It's 'flexible' a euphemism for 'full of holes'?
Oh God, I hope the OLED screen thing pans out - it would be a huge step forward for Apple, the kind of step they need right now to set themselves apart from me-too offerings that are starting to hit the market.

Did anyone else here notice that a new iTunes update is out, which enables support for iPhone OS 3.0? This seems like jumping the gun if the hardware isn't due out for another month. Are we going to see hardware availability immediately this week?
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People always say that, and it's ooooh scary, but I don't think it's justified. I'm happy for you to try and convince me otherwise, of course, but I won't accept it at face value.
This is great. They're trying to penalize a company that actually produces value, and propping up the ones that don't.
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Well, one reason I don't buy it is that it all seems premised on the notion that the human body is nothing more than a vehicle for the human mind, and that ones thoughts are the essence of oneself. The problem is that all current biomedical and neurological research points to the exact opposite: a human mind without a human body is not human.
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Not a python programmer here and I'm only guessing after a cursory look recently. Twisted developers are layering a higher-level "architecture" over the basic system calls they have wrapped. It's just a few calls down there (serial and scatter-gather I/O, multiplexing, etc.) but twisted adds higher level data structures, and design-patterny conceptual models to shield the pythonista from Unix.

Some of that gotta add some fat; which might be OK for the great majority of the people, but the few who need raw performance might end up cutting some bacon off.

That dude at amix.dk actually knows his stuff.
Lots of Asian countries have a common culture that spans groups following different religions: Indonesia, India (and particular Indian regions), Sri Lanka etc.

Also, most of the major religions spread to different cultures a long time ago: A thousand years ago a Russian and a South Indian could have both not only been Christians, but both Eastern Orthodox, or an Indonesian and a Libyan could both be Sunni Muslims, or a Sri Lankan and Laotian could both be Theravadan Buddhists.

If people of disparate cultures could share common beliefs, sure religion and culture have always been separable. Especially pertinent to your examples are the South Indian Christians who have undoubtedly shared the culture of the Hindu majority for 2,000 years.
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So how long till the rest of the world adopts the same approach. Australia is having problems with proposed filtering because of performance concerns, so this would be a solution from their point of view as well.
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Christianity in the US is also very different. I have met very few Creationists in Europe or Asia, and almost all those I have met have been members of evangelical churches of a type that has American roots.
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Europeans may also use their cars less. Most people I know in London own a car, but most only use it on weekends or holidays.
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Being a python programmer I am a bit worried that one (In this case) needs to use java to overcome a scaling problem. From my experiences with twisted, which is on much smaller scale than the article, I have never found twisted to be anykind of bottleneck.

It may be that since twisted(python) can only use one cpu effectively per interpreter(GIT et al) that it got left behind java which can easily use multiple CPUs for threads.

A slightly different architecture might be required then where multiple python processes are used.
2 years is incredibly fast for academic standards. Usually they're at least 4 years too late.
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Has anyone had any success with orbited?
This kind of thing gets me excited. Ideas spinning. All that.

What my mind keeps hovering around is a core that others can build around. Small or large groups, online or offline taking these courses together. Co-ops where later years tutor earlier years in exchange for the tutoring they themselves received. Lowered barriers for creating a 'college,' where courses, accreditation, lectures etc. handled by this & only peripheral services provided by the institution.

If it's good, there are all sorts of possibilities.
I really hate these articles that paint really broad swaths of generalizations on entire continents.

People, Africa is not a country! There are 40+ countries in Africa at the moment. Some are more stable than others. Some have had good success since decolonialisation. Others are in perpetual civil war. Many are still recovering from past events. If the author meant Africa is the next big thing for mineral exploitation. That would seem obvious, but the creation of a sizable, sustainable, educated middle class for the entire continent seems decades away.
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It reads like a Stephen Glass article -- though it's not clear what the balance is between sycophant writer and tale-telling subject.
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This is a nice writeup that gives some good insight into what you're up against if you want to implement Comet today. It's a cool idea, but there's really nothing out there that you can use to do it off the shelf. It's great that he's gone through and actually tested out a bunch of these candidate technologies under load, so the next guy will at least know what not to try.

I have faith that Comet will have its day eventually, but clearly it's not quite time. With the current crop of production quality web servers, handling 100k requests per second (polling) is a solved problem. Keeping 100k simultaneous connections alive (comet) is by no means solved. It'll be cool when it happens though.
The language difference might not be as significant as Alex thinks. Steven Pinker criticizes studies of the kind that Hart and Risley did, where they measured language used with children and assumed that affected development. He says that causation is not established, and points to twin adoption studies that indicate that the causal factor affecting IQ is genetic.
Slightly offtopci - wasn't the guy behind that also behind the acacia berry site?

I can remember hearing about how they were optimizing to adwords / adsense - just filling a need, basically being nice about it all.

Then every now and then I'd google something obscure and come across pagerank shennanigans related to similar keywords. That's when I started to think that the people who got excited over the parrot book might have been scammed.
Most of the comics have their own niche. They are directed towards certain audience. For example Archies is mostly for teenagers and adults who still have musing for teenage life.
Garfield is mostly for those pet lovers.

Calvin and Hobbs in my opinion stood out because it's targeted audience was grown up people though the protagonist of the cartoon was a kid. As adult we try to see and perceive the world through the kid's eyes.

Whether it is pointless education, our cruelty for animals and nature, hypocrisy in art, falseness of popularity surveys or just plain simple living in imagination sort of stuff , C&H not only brings a smile but it silently pays a tribute to our lost innocence of childhood.
While that used to be the case with MSN Search / Live Search, it hasn't been true for a while (at least in the US index).
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If you really believe that a Palm Pilot is a current machine or that the OS its own manufacturer no longer supports is superior to present day Unix then I don't think there's much for us to discuss.
What for PHP6?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/douban.com

AFAIK douban.com seems to be the largest (pure) Python site.
I would agree with this. The part that I really like about this cartoon was that despite being Calvin's despise for education and he being termed as dumb by conventional educational standards, he comes across as a boy on unusual intelligence.
The only similarity between C&H and Garfield is that most of the time they share the same paper space in the daily newspaper.

But then Porn Ad and Obama's speech too share the same space yet they are different :)
I still don't understand how anybody could survive on the beach. Where did they hide?
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Oh, really, Google?

Google may be producing massive value, but for the most part, it's THE online ads network in terms of PPC. They're gunning for the banner ads with their DoubleClick acquisition and they're trialing CPA ads. All these are online, and in February, they exited the radio ads market: http://google-tmads.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-exits-radio-... .

In terms of dollars spent on online ads, Google gets the lion's share. I've seen some reports say 90%, but I'd wager it's closer to 70-80%.

So it looks like a monopoly, walks like a monopoly, and acts like a monopoly. The key question is whether they've abused this monopoly. Being a monopoly in itself is not illegal, but using a dominant market position to stifle competition is very much so. I say let's investigate and make sure there is healthy competition.
IQ can't measure intelligence because intelligence is qualitative, not quantitative. It's not like height or weight, it's like beauty. People can generally agree on it, but there's no concrete way to measure it.

IQ is useful, and only useful, in its "industrial" capacity, meaning where it's used statistically over large sample sizes. To explain this better, let's use the analogy of a Beauty Quotient (BQ). It would be calculated to give a higher value to large eyes, high cheekbones, etc. This could be used in aggregate to understand why so many female models come from the Czech Republic, but to apply it individually is meaningless. There are people with big eyes and high cheek bones who look like freaks of nature, and people with smaller eyes and lower cheekbones who are stunning. BQ doesn't exist because what it would measure is self-evident; you could just look at someone saying, "I have a BQ of 180! I'm gorgeous!" and agree (or laugh). IQ, however, measures something that can't be so quickly assessed, and so many grasp onto it to validate themselves. That's an abuse of the purpose and displays a lack of understanding of the difference between qualitative and quantitative, thus my jibe at losing 80 IQ points.
Creating your "own" opensearch provider for any search engine on the internet is ridiculously easy.

In fact, going to any search engine which allows you to add a search provider should give you a simple enough template to work with. Just customize the URLs used there and point it at this thing. Then make a html file with the needed html-header field and you are good to go.

It should be a 5 minute job tops.
I thought it was clever and funny, but that doesn't justify it. Clearly I offended people here and for that I apologize.
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SPEED :: In defence of Java, it is very quick when done right. See Kilim[1] for examples.

SUPPORT :: On top of the speed Java has a supported hardware stack (Solaris). So if doing 100K connections is important to you, you can find engineers who can diagnose difficult problems on your whole stack.

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[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NaHRE0Sqw at 23:23 . Java is quick without Kilim too, this is just an example with stats.
The write-speed issue, even on the cheap SSD drives, is going away this year.

On the RAM side, have you considered the impact of having 32 GB RAM and 640 GB SSD perform better than 64 GB RAM and 2 TB HDD ? That's what Young is pointing at.
I would guess that breasts interest a lot of the HN crowd too, but that doesn't mean they should be featured prominently in front page articles.

Oh well, at least it's not politics...