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That's my reason for switching to Linux, back in the Slackware days.

Back when CD burners were still uncommon, I got as a gift a japanese, SCSI-based one. With my hardware, I'd lose a CD if I forgot to disable the screensaver - the amount of disk seeks required to load the screen saver executable was enough to starve the buffer, and I'd get a buffer underrun every single time.

So, one time I was trying a linux system, and had to do a last-minute presentation, which required files on a floppy drive. For some reason, I had no usable floppies and had to format one, and I couldn't wait for the burn to finish.

So I inserted the drive and, fully expecting to lose the CD, called fdformat. cdrecord didn't even flinch, the buffer was still full when the format finished.

I only ever booted Windows from then on to play games.
I'm not trivializing anything. But it's hard to get past basics like lack of water/electricity, soaring food prices, safety on roads etc. before you have time to help out others.

Your response just proves what I said about not being able to reach consensus on the real problems. Nitpicking isn't a solution.
I like the concept of implementing the "waiting" function of responding to a cheat code as an asynchronous promise-style callback. I think this should be used more often in event-driven stuff, even when it's not explicitly "asynchronous" as much as it is a conditions-based response.
It is no different than linking to any third-party / external resource. Specifically, profiling information is delivered across the referrer and user-agent to name a few.

There is a more complete discussion on the network security stackexchange group[0].

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38415/privacy-ri...
Nice! Another idea would be to use events in stead of keys in the sequence, something like:

"click:#elem1 click:#elem2 keyup:13"

That would enable you to make slightly more advanced easter eggs or "cheets"
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Enjoyable read, but that share button was annoyingly as all hell. Easy enough to delete, though, as we were already in the web inspector.
My current plan is to describe some pretty recent results -- most likely, the big breakthrough on ImageNet by Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton (http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2012/imgnet.pdf), which uses convolutional nets. I may also describe the famous Google-Stanford "cat neuron" paper (http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/icml12-HighLevelFeaturesU... ). But at this point things are moving so quickly that I'll keep my options open, and if more exciting things come up, I may change my plans.

Of course, there's a tremendous amount going on, so my broader philosophy is to focus on fundamentals. Readers who thoroughly master the core ideas shouldn't have much trouble later getting up to speed with the result-of-the-month.
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The way I see it Bitcoin is inspiring people to create these insanely powerful mining rigs. Once they've developed the technology then its possible to make a more general application to other fields, not with the exact same hardware of course but with similar setups.
No. They look for low hashes by incrementing an appended nonce. That's it. Nothing else.
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I am so happy that this view is being shared - so happy, in fact, that I created a HN username just so I could comment on it. I am female and graduated from MIT several years ago. While I was there, tech entrepreneurship far and away the sexiest thing to be doing. It was at the point where you felt like a loser if you didn't have your own startup.

Unfortunately, this fetishization of startups resulted in many ideas that were, to put it bluntly, stupid. I couldn't believe how many people - including investors, not just students - were obsessed with creating iPhone apps and social media networks.

I had a telling encounter a year ago with a woman who ran an incubator; it was somewhat tech-focused, but also had a creative bent and was partially funded by state money for assisting small businesses. I wanted to invest my money locally (a la Slow Money - www.slowmoney.org ) and was looking for mentors and partners. We had a long conversation during which this woman said things like, "what a great idea, I've never heard of anything like that before". At the end of it, though, she asked: "so let me get this straight. Are you an innovator, or do you just want to fund innovators?". This kind of myopia about what constitutes innovation devalues the contributions of non-tech entrepreneurs (and many others, too); furthermore, it discourages young people from attacking important problems outside of technology.

Interestingly, the Economist had an article recently about how public veneration of the tech elite may be ending: http://www.economist.com/news/21588893-tech-elite-will-join-.... Even though I'm part of this group, I'm glad this issue is being discussed.
Sadly, not any that I have found other than a few alternate coin systems.
Well let's be clear: there are lots of Indian villages who would have plenty of drinking water if some Western firm wasn't bribing the government into letting them steal all of it. There are Mexican farmers who would have a good deal more food if NAFTA hadn't ruined them. There are Argentine workers who would have much better wages and easier access to, well, everything, if the IMF had not tried to liquify their entire nation into debt-service payments.

Global capitalism is a global problem.
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I don't think this can be practically done. Is there an algorithm for folding proteins? Where is the protein data going to come from?
You may be very interested to read about Bayes factors, which allow interpretable hypothesis tests without prespecified priors:

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/simplicity/KassRaftery1...

(though one does have to specify the hypotheses to be tested more exactly than, say, "the effect is not zero.")
While we have project management tools already in place (jira) and I don't forsee us changing anytime soon, this is a really cool idea. I see a hubot hipchat script implementation in our near future... because though it would be cool to have such chat-like functionality in the management system, it would be even better if it integrated with where we already did our chatting.

That might be something you also want to consider offering in your solution, as an additional method of accomplishing the same thing.
"Even if it's not random, it's too complex to be controlled." - OP.

I think it's this realization that gives rise to quotes like, "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." by Arthur Schopenhauer.
Waterloo has been prestigious for at least 5 years (when I was applying it was among the hardest Canadian universities to get into, and it was already globally recognized). The only thing that has changed is more VC money, and more startup incubators, drawing the interest of progressively larger institutions.

I think the whole "meritocratic" argument is stupid. But it's worth pointing out that Waterloo is a self-fulfilling prophecy: a lot of startups are being founded because a lot of support and infrastructure is being thrown at the students. Whether the students are more suitable than others is anyone's guess, but they're in the right place at the right time (and they can afford the tuition).
The article states:

> Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson recently noted, "The pay-TV industry has reported its worst 12-month stretch ever." All the major TV providers lost a collective 113,000 subscribers in Q3 2013. That doesn't sound like a huge deal — but it includes internet subscribers, too.

Except the source is another BI article, and _its_ source mentions nothing about Internet subscribers:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-c...
Re-read the original article. When someone writes with such extreme language about a transaction they've apparently gotten value out of - then fail to even mention the idea of exit, then I suppose my response will let a little condescension and self-righteousness seep through.

Your inability to understand that is just not relevant.
Many physicians are terrible at interpreting results of screening tests:

http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7562/284

For screening tests where the problem being screened for is rare, most results will be false positives, but the result is not intuitive.
Maybe the community has a bias against pointless class warfare. You want to make an effective feminist statement in Silicon Valley? Start with a github profile.
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I've developed a better 'feel' for the game by watching Andrew Martins lectures @ http://www.youtube.com/user/YMChessMaster/videos
"Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm." Good words my man!
So anyone who questions merit vs privilege is "Marxist"?

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't see any Marxism here.
That's got nothing to do with PC or any such nonsense, it's got to do with you taking as your starting point that it's possible to reduce highly complex, multivariate and environmentally influenced phenotypes down to useful genotypes.

Your comments are essentially daily mail fare.
I wasn't working with Alan when he wrote the original Tripod prototype. He hired me and Gary Kratkin, Mark Merker, and Frank Raab to rewrite the whole thing in a more maintainable and extensible way.

Alan was a good coder before he decided to concentrate on UX design, but like many prototypes where a number of different ideas have been explored, the code got a bit messy and he felt a fresh start was called for.

There's more of the story here:

http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html

I don't know of any other Microsoft projects that used the Ruby code or ideas, just Visual Basic.
There's nothing special about this stuff really. The processors they are using at the moment are literally just standard SHA256 core designs slapped on a wafer. The ASICmimer gear is ridiculously inefficient, drawing something like 11W per gigahash of mining.

Other designs like the anonymous Bitfury's are hand routed and do a lot better, around 0.8w per gigahash, but although there's skills in doing so, it can't really be applied to anything except for Bitcoin mining.

They're pretty basic on the scheme of things, they're just very costly to get to a fabricator in the short timeframes the community wants.
The tumblr stuff is because the website is hosted on tumblr (as can be seen by the feed at the bottom of the post).
ASIC - or Application Specific Integrated Circuit - is one purpose only - so unless the exact thing being accomplished is sha256(sha256(x)), then it can't be repurposed - this even limits its use as a password cracking machine unless the password is encrypted using that specific routine.
"Function with side effect" is a term of art in functional programming. It's a function which (like all other functions) takes in arguments and puts out arguments (that's the "effect", if you like). But also, with a "side effect" -- the simplest example being, display something on the monitor.

I.e.,

(display "hello world")

returns whatever it returns (we throw it away), but also puts that string on the monitor. The latter action is not just computing a function (in the sense of FP) of the inputs.

For more, see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch20/io.html (search for "side effect").
The fact that they died isn't what's concerning. The circumstances around their deaths is (like their dead bodies being found on railroad tracks).
I moved out from Dropbox for similar reasons in 2011.
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I believe nakedrobot2 is referring to http://folding.stanford.edu/
Yeh, my HTC Desire had working voice search long before Siri came along.

Are you sure about that?

Siri company founded 2007, iPhone app demonstrated at D7 conference May 2009.

Siri approached by Verizon to be a default Android app, Autumn 2009.

Siri on iOS first release date: Jan 2010 in the App Store.

HTC Desire first release date: Feb 2010.
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Notice that if any other group is proportionately overrepresented in a population, it can still be "meritocratic". It is only if there are too many white men, and only white men, that a group can no longer be considered meritocratic.

Meanwhile, people tend to forget that half of successful startup founders are immigrants, including large portions from China and India. Most tech companies I've seen are not very white. If Silicon Valley is a good old boys network, the good old boys have done a terrible job at exclusion.
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Firefox is the browser market's biggest proponent of the open web; for me the choice is a no-brainer.
I would absolutely love to see a double-blind randomized experiment with controls for YC applications. In one batch, randomly and secretly assign CONTROL or EXPERIMENT to each application (in whatever proportion you are comfortable with). Of the CONTROL batch, do regular reviews. For the EXPERIMENT batch, randomly accept the same percentage of groups as the control. Then have people outside of the reviewers try to label each group correctly at different stages and see how they do. These people could be: YC alums, YC staff not on the interview loop, VCs making investments, outside experienced CEOs, successful startup founders.

For full double-blindness you could even do interviews with the EXPERIMENT group, then use a program to automatically either use the interview result or not. This might be aggravating for reviewers, though, seeing their work wasted by random choices.
Is the only right of expression in your world is whether to use a service or not? Why should people be forced into silence if they don't like something? This seems especially relevant in a world where services are increasingly integrated.
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So, this cooling is basically a ghetto monkey-copy of techniques Cray pioneered two or three decades ago--right down to the use of 3M Fluorinert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2).

I don't think that this technology is going to be readily adaptable to anything other than brute-forcing hashes. I don't know of any fundamentally useful engineering or research being generated that would have application elsewhere.

EDIT: Which isn't to say it isn't neat...I just don't think it'll bear fruit anywhere else.
Why is that a problem? Because someone who can say with moral certainty "this is my money, I earned" is not an easy mark for the sort of people who produce nothing but demand an equal share of the work of others? Because they won't subscribe to the ridiculous notion that there is no virtue in creating wealth but only virtue in giving it away? Maybe that is precisely why those who produce nothing hate the concept of meritocracy so much. It makes it harder for them to guilt people into giving away what they rightfully earned.
Any doctor educated in the past two decades is well versed in genetic testing, and any doctor specializing in areas where genetic testing is a frequently used aspect of planning/diagnosis (such as OB/GYN) will be highly familiar even if trained long ago.

The 23andme product explains explicitly how it should be used by a physician, and there are all kinds of warnings and checkboxes before the user is shown any data that falls into the area of overlap.
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In order for us to "believe you", you would need to test your hypothesis at least once - for example, by selecting a small number the startups you invest in at random and see how they fare compared to the other startups. Keep in mind that most stock pickers would respond exactly like you even though their choices are rarely (if ever) better than chance.
And not a single mention of Babylon 5.

The special effects were created on Amigas: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html

Also, while looking at Video Toaster's entry on Wikipedia, I found this gem:

"An updated version called Video Toaster 4000 was later released, using the Amiga 4000's video slot. The 4000 was co-developed by actor Wil Wheaton, who worked on product testing and quality control.[6][7] He later used his public profile to serve as a technology evangelist for the product.[8] The Amiga Video Toaster 4000 source code was released in 2004 by NewTek & DiscreetFX."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
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Has any new technology been developed that's widely applicable? It seems like straightforward financial pressure being applied to existing technology. What problems exist that'd benefit from extremely high density hash calculation? That is, computing that only needs 32-bytes of input?
Actually, no, it doesn't involve finding new primes. In fact it states clearly that it is not interested in finding large primes numbers (which is a requirement for finding new primes).

Primecoin's goal is to find chains of prime numbers, like the ones describe at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_chain

This is at least more useful than running a double sha on some input to produce some output that is hopefully less than a target t. But a altcoin that does something useful with its proof of work system is still not available.
That would actually be a rather interesting, if costly, experiment for you guys to try.
So, if you're running a... time management tool, let's say it's just a todo list. Then you create another tool, a time tracker so you can log your hours on your todo items. You should force them to sign up for it in order to use it? Personally, even if the tools were made to be able to operate separately of each other, I would give the users of my first tool access to the second one and link the accounts.

G+ is just an extension of their offerings. Just because the tides of the internets have flowed against it doesn't mean that anything involving Google plus is practically rape.
I mean, it is major surgery. There is a pretty big difference from somebody cutting out gluten from their diet and somebody getting surgery. If I decide one day I'm allergic to gluten, I can stop eating it without consulting a doctor. Similarly, as the sibling comment mentions, if McCarthy thinks vaccines cause autism she can stop getting them for her and her children without consulting a doctor. Sure, maybe some women will start pushing for unnecessary surgery, but they will also have to find a doctor who is willing to accommodate them and perform the surgery in the absence of evidence (or perform it based on a website).

It just doesn't jive with me that they are remotely the same thing. I think Jolie is a particularly poor example here and serves as a distraction for an otherwise decent point.
I'm always looking to create some new niche site for passive income. I've tried various site worth estimation services to see how much existing ideas are earn, but it's really hard to trust the numbers. Many of them are opaque about their methodology. But what if we aggregated their results (a la Nate Silver)? I created MetaSiteworth to do just that, and the results give you a ballpark idea about what kind of sites make what kind of money:

Here's some of examples:

// Music sites

http://metasiteworth.com/report/anydecentmusic.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/rapgenius.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/pitchfork.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/mp3skull.com

// Utilities

http://metasiteworth.com/report/converticon.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/favicon.cc

// Reference Sites

http://metasiteworth.com/report/howjsay.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/urbandictionary.com

// Other

http://metasiteworth.com/report/milevalue.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/mtbs3d.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/thottbot.com

http://metasiteworth.com/report/forbiddenplanet.com
You're correct about the existing hardware not being useful. I don't think the bitcoin ASIC research is generally applicable to other fields.

This came up on the bitcoin Stack Exchange:

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10421/are-bitcoin...
The FDA introduces a bootstrapping problem wherein the proceeds from selling a potential remedy cannot be used to test it, and no one other than the inventor can test it, because the product cannot be sold until after it is tested.

In any case, the only hurdle to selling should be "does it do harm?", and "does it work as advertised?" can be determined later, if and only if there is any doubt among the consumers.

Elsewhere in consumerland, the product is sold, and independent testing is performed on off-the-shelf samples. Think Consumer Reports or Underwriters' Laboratories. If a problem is found, a recall may occur. If none are evident, the testing body grants its approval to use its trademarks on the product. People look for that trademark from the trustworthy third party.

If the FDA did not apply prior restraint, and tested products already available to the consumer, it could regulate the usage of the phrase "FDA-approved" and make perfectly safe everyone who buys only the medicines bearing that approval for the purposes which have been tested.
It seems a lot like cars in the US, where people regularly discard perfectly good cars and buy new ones. In my extended family, we tend to keep cars for decades, driving them daily. If you keep them maintained (and maintenance is cheap), you can keep them operating just fine for a long time.

Heck, my truck is 25 years old, I've had it for 20 years, costs me about $300/yr in maintenance, insurance is cheap (no collision), no worries about somebody stealing or damaging it, and I go out on a frosty morning, turn the key, and it starts right up.

I don't feel any urge to replace it with a new one.
Doctors being lousy Bayesians is (if anything) an argument in favor of services like 23andme!
It shouldn't because it doesn't? That seems like a circular argument. Home technology would evolve much faster if we invested more into it, and it we rebuilt homes every 30 years, we would be investing a lot more into building...
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