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Most of the commenters focus on the technology of learning. Perhaps that's all that was intended, but there's more:

1) The student audience is staggeringly different. Back then, it was well-to-do Protestant white males. Now, it's far more representative of the population statistics.

2) The subject matter has radically altered. 100 years ago, quantum physics was nonexistent, cosmology was in its infancy, biology was "stamp collecting" (quoting a physicist) and computers were nice young ladies the folks in (1) tried to get close to. Whole departments, good or bad, have appeared (and disappeared) over this time.

3) The range and number of "advanced degrees" have greatly increased. Partially due to the huge increase in the number of colleges and universities but also for the creation and/or expansion of whole industries: weapons, pharma, electronics, ... What was the crown jewels of individual countries now shape the economics of the world.

4) Computational capabilities is infinitely higher than 100 years ago. This permits computational modeling, medical and/or biological processes (PCR, gene/chip screening, etc) or even economic or hobby activity that would seem diabolic to our predecessors.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Some things aren't worth changing - some of the pedagogic methods are thousands of years old. As others have said, why change what isn't broken, and why should we adopt "technology" that merely distracts from the problems at hand? Small classes, driven by discussion rather than lecture, are still amazingly effective in transmitting knowledge and stimulating thought.

Edit: Oh, and regarding physics... There's been a staggering lot of it in the last 100 years, both good and bad. Sorta altered the world, it has.
That's awesome. Thanks for the reply, I'll check it out.
Heh.. can't speak any ilaksh or ithkuil just picked the name so people would Google it and because it is usually available as a screen name. Seems like ithkuil pretty much owns as far as conlangs and is interesting from a general knowledge representation standpoint but honestly I never really took the time to understand many of the details since even approaching that would take me a solid month or two. Thanks I will check out loper.. but can loper compete with Intel? We need advanced general purpose open source chips that we can use for gaming and everything else.
Do you want patches/prs for copy editing? I've noticed 2 or 3 of them.
Philippines has one. They treat you like criminal when you try to leave.
On the dotted line, of course.
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Lots of broken links in the article
good point! just wanted people to be aware of what framework i was using.
You're surprised that a criminal act that can incur tens of millions of dollars gets the attention of the authorities?

Not for nothing, but a significantly less serious crime than a B&E got an undercover police officer stationed in an apartment behind my house. I'm sure you're right that the average TV theft isn't going to make a federal case, but part of the reason for that is that most people don't make that much of a fuss over having their TV stolen.
Err, the whole article is about slave labour? And his father is well documented as the greatest user of such in WWII? Thus, the like father like son discovery was a total surprise... hence my post sharing that revelation? How is this not obvious? Are you just trolling? Is it possible to write another post with this many question marks?
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I never found presentations that hard. For most presentations I kept an Excel template with the BBG Excel plugin, which would then be linked by Powerpoint.

But I do agree with the point that not everyone is a trader. The quality of a lot of macro data often wasn't there. For this I also had a Datastream terminal, which excelled in longer term macro data.
And everyone might stop using Facebook. Or WhatsApp. Then Mark Zuckerberg would look silly. Like AOL did after buying MySpace.

Is there a deeper point here which I'm not gleaning?
I'm a fan of BTC and use coinbase as my central wallet of choice. Super excited about this news.

I recently switched from regular banner advertisements on my site ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ) - cheap plug - to taking BTC donations. The BTC community has been amazingly supportive throughout the whole thing.
Allow me to plug #ddeeff. I think it very nicely complements the orange Y and the gray background, and it's easy to remember.

I'm mildly colorblind, however, so take my recommendation with a large grain of salt. But if you're also colorblind you're just going to love #ddeeff to death.
You hit it on the nail, at least for me. I love the post-apocalyptic film genre because it throws the current system of society under the bus and makes the characters focus just on survival and then a possible rebuilding of society in a whole new way.
Oh my, please take all of my upvotes.
Truly warms my heart to see there is some resonance on HN for the stoics. I came across Epictetus in a particularly low part in my life - it was this particular passage that nailed me - excuse the bad formatting/spelling. http://wismer.github.io/
There's tilesets, but honestly I think they detract. My extended ASCII are like 8x12 pixels and scan really easily. Even at 32x32 I can't reliably tell the difference between a dog a cat or a rat in most tilesets, especially on first glance, so a lot of memorization is still required with tiles, they allow for less information to be displayed at once, and they are more complicated to recognize.

I don't even see the extended ASCII anymore ( http://i.imgur.com/7ci106g.png)
No, actually, I am referring to real time sentiment analysis of any kind - services such as http://www.dataminr.com/ or http://www.infotrie.com/ do this today mostly using online chatter, which you correctly point out probably would not be possible 5 years ago. However, real time news sentiment analysis would have been possible and relatively novel 5 years ago. For instance, Columbia's Paul Tetlock published a very interesting paper in the Journal of Finance in 2007 ago on the subject here: http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ptetlock/papers/Tetlock... (he used words from a Wall Street Journal column). If you read the paper, you'll find he used daily data over the 16 year period 1984-1999. While this is not of the same granularity you could get from services like InfoTrie or Dataminr, it certainly is of high enough granularity to trade on (and could have been done 10 years ago apparently!) and appears more useful than AAII or NAAIM.

I am interested in your claim that the data has alpha and smart money is trading on it. I have been looking for any peer reviewed, academic articles actually documenting that alpha (ie. by anyone except the people trying to sell you the data). One such paper I found was Bollen et al's http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003. From my understanding, there are several problems with the methodology (I could find a rebuttal paper I read if you're interested) and the methodology was used in Derwent Capital - although the fund only traded it for 1 month: http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/28/twitter-fueled-hedge-fund-...

Care to point me to anything else like that?
"Massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields, shot into space on July 23, 2012, would have been aimed directly at Earth if they had happened nine days earlier, Luhmann said."

This is incredible to think about. The chaos this would cause is hard to imagine. We lost power in a data center last spring during a thunder storm and we're still dealing with fallout and problems 9 months later.
Working alongside your gf or wife is one thing. But if she reports to you, do you get to decide her annual review rating? Do you decide her raises? If she's not doing her fair share of work, do you warn her and then fire her?

There are reasons why managers can't generally have relationships with a direct report. HR at my company forbids it.
I love how easy it is to get started with MySQL and historically it's had a great user manual for beginners.

For years, though, I've felt that the small problems where SQLite is useful now cover all the former MySQL ground. Once you exceed the power of SQLite, the features and performance and standards compliance and reliability and flexibility and correctness constraints and transaction execution and ongoing feature development of Postgres overwhelm the use case for MySQL.
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Yeah but blackhats ala lod / h0no / el8 routinely released exploits that were leaked or stolen. They just hated full-disclosure with a passion as they saw it as too corporate.
Didn't AOL buy MySpace after everyone stopped using it?
totally agree - and probably why if all you have is a niche play, even if it has potential to be extremely profitable, attempting to replace the Bloomberg App Store is like trying to replace the Apple app store for one mobile game.
Here's the logic: if your father was a war criminal, and you have a conscience, you'd probably work really hard to distance yourself from that atrocity. Not doing so is a pretty good indicator of a lack of empathy.
I possibly might answer my own question.

It seems we have a non-sandbox discourse installation linked to the article.

Which makes me happy.
That could work, although I see that as a somewhat different class from what this post is talking about. Academic spinoffs are one semi-established way of managing the issue of long lead times and research risk: you do the up-front risky research in academia, and then start up a company once you have something close to a prototype. That way your time-to-product in the company is not so huge, because you have a prototype or close to one at t=0.

But I read this post as suggesting that YC wants to fund companies that are themselves doing new research, rather than looking for companies that are doing spinoff/commercialization of established research labs.
Forget asking Qatar to kill fewer people, etc. The world should simply force Qatar to withdraw.

Any number of countries have the infrastructure to support the event and would be happy to do so without resorting to quasi-slavery.
It would be. You could use something like Greasemonkey or Stylish.

As for automatically using the color of the bar... Simply have the icon with either a background color, or a black with the opacity at around 5%.
I'm a fan of BTC and use coinbase as my central wallet of choice.

Please transfer your BTC to a wallet under your control immediately. Run, don't walk. Take it from me: it's a terrible feeling to lose your money because someone else lost it on your behalf.
You can get away with a lot of shit if you hold the keys to some petroleum.
> I don't see how the regulation level of Coinbase affects anything.

There's no point to a crypto-currency with insecure crypto. If you have insecure crypto, you need centralized regulation. If you have centralized regulation, you don't need crypto-currency.

> The point is that its that choice (for starters) which differentiates bitcoin from Paypal.

Paypal moves money in a lot of currencies, and there are lots of choices other than Paypal to move currency.

> Coinbase isn't going to take over bitcoin any more than MtGox did. I don't quite understand what you're worried about.

I think the analogy you're actually looking for is:

"Coinbase isn't going to take over bitcoin any more than Google took over e-mail"

The decentralized nature of bitcoin is the entire point. If it's co-opted by cloud key escrow services, there's no point.
Thank you for your suggestion. I've added PayPal to the mix. Though I feel that BTC is the future of currency I'm not sure everyone will feel the same way.
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It's just a question of how much noise you're willing to tolerate in hopes of a signal. Would you till a whole field for just one or two carrots?

With a few exceptions, websites no longer attract a high enough percentage of the smart, articulate, responsible commenters to make a comments section worthwhile.

The best discussions now happen on forums and aggregators like Slashdot, HN, subreddits, etc., or via competing blog posts promoted on social media. Corrections and related links work well on Twitter.
Personally, I like to use #50b1db. It clashes a bit, but it's a nice blue and I like it next to the orange of the logo.

I should write a custom CSS for HN...
I haven't used Unreal but I have shipped AAA games. To those who have used Unreal 4 is this really something an indie would want to use?

My impression is Unreal is designed to make giant games, not small ones. True?

My impression is Unreal is not nearly as iterative as Unity which lets you change code as it's running. True?

Also Unity targets more platforms?

Of course it's great the Unreal is accessible. Appearently Crytek now has an even better deal. But, I just wonder is Unreal really suited to indie development and quick prototyping or is it more designed for large teams who don't care as much about iteration time and expect to spend way more time getting started

Since I haven't used Unreal I have no idea. Please enlighten me
That's because PRISM deals with court orders for specific users' data. Every company in the world complies with those court orders. Why should we demonize these companies for doing something everybody else does and that everybody has always known they do?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This sounds like an interesting phenomenon in that I assume this wasn't the case at other recent major sporting events.

As for TV news:
http://www.msnbc.com/search/world%20cup (nothing)
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=world+cup&sub... (nothing)
http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=world%20cup&sortBy=relevanc... (nothing)

I almost didn't even bother with CNN because it was obviously nothing due to the missing flight.
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I'd like to see this too!
If Icculus pulls it off, then I'm 100% switching. I'm currently building my engine for an atmospheric survival horror game, and I would throw it all away if the Unreal editor worked on Linux.
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As I posted elsewhere, they (TV) aren't.
Yea, go hide under a rock or ... If you are part of the rising new elites (which the article claims will be our only savior), you might be able to save us all http://goo.gl/uDp3vW
The difference being that dirt supports the growth of carrots. While asshole comments actively drive away good commenters.
use a 2of2 or 2of3 wallet with multisig and two factor.

Even better with an anti tampering hardware wallet talking to a service provider for 2FA for most security
> it can be quite hard to capture the economic benefits of the development

This is a key issue, I think. When doing something technically innovative, a very common pattern is that the team that spends all the money & time up front to get the first working version is not the one that ends up with the successful market leadership: once the up-front investment is sunk, a 2nd team can much more cheaply iterate on the market/business side of things and capture the market without spending money on the R&D. Sometimes it might even be a different market, since inventions researched for one purpose may turn out to be applicable in another field. Patents are an attempt to provide a mechanism to reimburse the first group in that scenario, but are pretty imperfect.

One reason I prefer to see research publicly funded is that I think it's often good that it's difficult to capture/monetize the benefits benefits of research breakthroughs. I'd rather not have researchers spending their time trying to figure out how to encumber/"own" the results of their research out of a need to get their investors an ROI.
I think the key for founders targeting these kind of applications is to figure out a strategy that means they can deliver something in the short term, something that lets them attract the resources they need to reach longer term goals. I like Planetary Resources approach to this: long term they want to mine asteroids, but they started with a Kickstarter to put a satellite into space which is a meaningful way of moving a little way down their development path. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arkydforeveryone/arkyd-...
Wait what? What motivates Dish do that? Were they laundering money or something?
It's interesting how the community explanation is that some set of perfect ideals was "corrupted" by consultants. That actually happened fairly early in the process.

It's the very consultants that are now blamed for corrupting Agile that made Agile popular. Agile wouldn't be a thing without the feedback loop of the industry it spawned.

Everyone believed, and one day they stopped believing. It's as if perfect "Agile" was nothing but a figment of people's collective imagination.

I've always had a skeptical eye about all this. Some useful things, nothing new, just a fresh coat of fancy buzzwords used to re-invent common sense.
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What does it mean to "incur" tens of millions of dollars?

Microsoft isn't putting any trade secrets into Windows that are worth millions of dollars; they publish the object code to 500 million PCs, each one of which can decompile it all. A few hardware manufacturers may have contracts demanding M'soft protect their trade secrets -- the secret usually being all the patents they infringe -- by keeping driver BLOBs obscure, but I doubt that's at issue here.

I don't think there will be tens of millions in fines, either. Maybe thousands and a few months in jail.

Tens of millions (billions, really) may be all the salaries of employees that make M'soft a big name company that can call up the FBI and USA to get attention. But that's what I said before. It's a matter of social priorities.

Also, congrats that your local police cared and had the resources to look out for your neighbor. Most departments don't have that level of resources. We had to work for months to get ours to pay that much attention to a convenience store that had some armed robberies in a residential neighborhood.

Incidentally, I tried to make a fuss over a stolen teevee and nice camera once. Didn't help.
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> They do it right.

This is the hallmark of Postgres. Either they do it right or they don't do it at all. For a long time, this worked against them in benchmarks because doing it right meant that mysql was faster (due to cutting corners). It pleases me to no end to see the progress the 9.x series has been making regards to performance, ease of replication setup and marketing.
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I have an extension in my GitHub for Safari 7 that is custom CSS (with one rule currently) and JavaScript :)
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Here's a quick and dirty script for parsing the site and rendering the colors in an RGB scatter plot.

https://gist.github.com/ginkgo/9656285

edit:

There's a couple of interesting things to see here:

* There's a clearly visible diagonal axis of the shades of grey.

* There's a cluster of colors around the default orange value.

* The "pink corner" of the color cube is very sparsely populated compared to the other ones.
1) Chrome apps can be silently updated; it's a huge security hole in Chrome's distribution model, as it removes all human oversight from the process of software distribution.

2) You control the distribution keys for the silently updating Chrome app, and your signing key, which means all you need is the end-user's signing key to empty people's wallets -- which you (or any adversary that compromises you!) can get by pushing a Chrome app update.

3) Unless you are actually pushing users to use externally downloaded, NON-AUTOUPDATING, code signed applications by default, you're making users insecure by default. An open source client on GitHub doesn't do anyone any good if your default is to strip away crypto-currency's security. This is no different than Microsoft's previous policy of shipping insecure services enabled by default.

Essentially, this boils down to "trust us" -- you control the infrastructure that protects one half of the signing keys, and you already have access to the other half.

It'd make a helluva lot more sense if a locally installed client was maintained by a trusted third-party, and it was the default user mode.

Cloud-focused web people are undermining the promise of bitcoin by simply not understanding why the cloud is so dangerous, whether we're talking about user data (creating a vast treasure trove for the government), or money.
Not too much, except for the first eleven years, Albert Speer Jr. was born in 1934. In 1945 his father got sentenced to 20 years in prison and served until 1966, mostly in Spandau. Wikipedia states that he wrote many letters to his children from prison but "found himself unable to re-establish his relationship with his children, even with his son Albert".
Yeah I should have elaborated a little more. I was in a rush. I wasn't trying to endorse 64 bits, but think for a second about what it would take to attack weak entropy here. For every possible entropy state:

1. Put the random number in that state
2. Use that randomness to build a RSA key pair
3. Do an RSA decryption of the captured key exchange using this key
4. See if the symmetric key we get decrypts into sensible plaintext

The thing to note is that steps 2 and 3 are both expensive -- especially step 2. This isn't nearly as easy as scanning a 64-bit key on a symmetric cipher! So suppose for a second that you've got a huge data center full of machines at your disposal and you can do a billion tests per second -- a full sweep of the 64-bit space would still take 584 years. So you better hope you'd get lucky.

Now would that be enough protection? Of course not -- computers get faster, and a determined enough adversary could build special hardware. (Although, again, it would be orders of magnitude more complicated than just SHA-512 bruteforcing)

The point I was trying to make is that even if they were somehow only using 64 bits of entropy, a practical attack would still be difficult to mount. I'd say that each test would be at least 2^16 times more computation than a typical symmetric cipher check. Therefore I think it would be about as hard as bruteforcing a 80-bit symmetric key.

In other words, 256 is way more than plenty.
> i have had to worry about O(n) to choosing Hash tables, quiet a lot of times.

I know, I am constantly concerned about sorting that list of 100 items!
As the existence of such countries suggests, though, I'm skeptical that it's really a technology or innovation problem. We aren't delivering healthcare more cheaply in Europe because we have great healthcare startups or advanced preventative technology, but rather because the sector is structured entirely differently.
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It's very easy to underestimate how difficult building a database from scratch (or even making large incremental changes to an existing one) is.

Another way to think of it is to think of an core database engine as analogous to a part of a propulsion mechanism. You can "demo" the core to show that a technology has promise. In case of a DB, you'd use a micro-benchmark with a synthetic workload; in case of a propulsion mechanism, you could use a software simulation.

The full RDBMS (transactions and locking, query optimization, buffer pool, etc...) takes far longer to build.

Finally, the equivalent of a "spaceship" here would not be more than the RDBMS, but a full ecosystem of systems software, middleware, and applications (e.g., app servers, messaging, CRM, ERP, etc..)
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