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On some x86 PC BIOS, there is a do-nothing delay loop (I've seen 20K and 64K cycles) not far from the reset vector, and I had figured that it was there because of this exact same reason; to give the system some more time to reach a stable state. If the voltages haven't completely settled, or there are still some undefined levels somewhere, then the CPU might be able to execute some if not most instructions correctly, but behave incorrectly for others --- overclockers are probably quite familiar with this "analogue" failure characteristic.
A few thoughts...

1. As yid said, it appears that this has been a half-hearted attempt, or certainly looks that way from an outside perspective. It should not have taken you 4 years to execute this idea, and even then, it doesn't appear to have been launched even now.

2. Execution is what matters at the end of the day.

Those things said, I do genuinely sympathize. It sucks when someone takes your idea and steals it. Worse if you know that person. But it won't be the thing that hinders you from success.

Now, with all of that out of the way, its insane how similar the logo and mockups are on your site is to theirs. Its almost blatantly stealing assets and beyond if true, not just an idea. That is incredibly bad.
I get "Method Not Allowed

The method is not allowed for the requested URL."
Actually I'd like to strongly urge you to not copy/paste code in. The trend lately has been to not paste code in but to do the typing... it's more akin to live coding and I think learners gain more. A lot of the better online tutorial sites make their teachers work the code out live. In addition to that, they often discourage the use of macros and shortcut keys so the viewer can see and learn what's going on. With modern video players those who don't want this can scrub past it.

The risk of typing the code in and not copying and pasting for those who are up to speed is that they have to take a few moments to watch the coding or skip past it; the risk of not live coding for those who aren't up to speed is not understanding what's going on. The time taken to live code is really helpful for people like me.
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I will do this, but it will start from the beginning, assuming that all knowledge (including language and math) is lost.

It will start with images, since are universal, and will teach the basics of language and mathematics. It will have to be done in such a way that it's self directed, and to assume that there is no "teacher" available.

It will progress into more and more complicated topics and will explain how certain breakthrough discoveries and technologies were discovered. It will provide the framework to recreate scientific knowledge. It will also touch on civic technologies and management techniques. It will be exhaustive.

The main challenge will be how to condense the knowledge in such a way that it is accessible to those with no technologies (1 book will not be enough). Potentially it will be saved in different technologies, each previous technology will allow you to unlock the next volume of information and technology (and thus becoming more efficient at storing the info).

Once I get to that point from a financial perspective, I will fund it and will put a plan in place to freely distribute the information and make sure that there are set locations across the world where the volumes will be accessible in the event of a major worldwide catastrophe.

I don't necessarily think it will ever be used, but like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1] it would be a "nice to have"

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
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from HN's FAQ: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
You can't argue that men generally aren't aware that a lot of sexual harassment takes place against women or attractive women, and also that they would assume that when they do come into power that they got ahead by accepting sexual harassment.
There was a bunch of discussion of good intentions above. You're one of those people who may or may not have good intentions, but as a woman who might someday have a kid, you make me angry. People like you make me REALLY angry. It's reasonable to doubt my interest in my own f(&ing company, it's reasonable to think I'll suddenly get stupid for hormonal reasons and won't be able to deal with business, it's reasonable... what? Do you not think I'm an intelligent being who has thought about the ramifications of having a kid and running a business? Do you think that it's just some sort of thing that I don't even notice until pop I have a squalling child and then I'm all like wow my brain has turned into maternal mush and I never even expected that! Unlike men who just do stupid business s#(& for rational reasons, like wanting to buy a yacht or upgrade the girlfriend or plain old greed. You don't even give men the credit of asking them if they might pay enough attention to their own kids to lose a moment's focus when one is born.

People like you see stupidity, lack of focus, and incompetence in men as simply individual traits. At the same time you treat women as some sort of broad idiot class, implying that women need to justify to you that popping out a kid won't jeopardize the business. You're the reason one of my friends in grad school wouldn't tell anyone she was pregnant for months and months and months, so that no one would deny her a research or teaching assignment or put her on some involuntary leave.

edited for asterisks. And one last comment: if you think the woman you are doing business with is not good at business, stop doing business with her. If you think she is, give her enough respect to figure she'll deal with children appropriately, and don't ask stupid questions about whether she'll lose interest in her own company. If you want to ask who will handle x business aspect if she takes leave, that's fine, as it is not a stupid question.
> The practical problem for people trying to rebuild civilization from Wikipedia would be finding the structure of its internal organization to get to the most needed information rapidly.

Does not matter much. Civilization is not rebuilt in a day. Even if it took a few generations for them to understand the internal organization, they'd still be ahead.

That said, a "book" with that purpose would be much better, indeed.
We will need a true "civilization source code" reference for when we settle the stars, not just for apocalyptic scenarios.

Like much source code, the most stable pieces for our own civilization is gradually lost to the mists of time, and we end up with mostly binary executable-only code. Generally where you will find this is in scaling down of processes.

Thought experiment. You start out with the minimum viable population to simply keep current technological civilization [1]. They are tasked with one task, and one task only for the rest of their lives before an asteroid too big to divert hits in 100 years: document what would it take for someone to do what they do today, because we only have space for 10K people on a space habitat that we can build in that time. How do you go about building the reboot manual then?

You will rapidly find that the fractal nature of knowledge exists in the past as well. There is a tendency today to depict our ancestors as simpletons, but this is a fatal conceit. They may not have had the scale that we do today, but they knew a lot of processes and observations that worked for the scale they did possess, and many times we've lost that knowledge as we never have had to revisit that scale for nigh on generations now in some endeavors.

Part of the enormously difficult task of booting/rebooting technological civilization is simply identifying the lower-bound you want to start from, which defines the scale to start at, and re-capturing the internalized knowledge that worked at that scale but is uneconomic to pursue at our much larger industrial scales today.

If you like this area of knowledge archeology, there is actually quite a bit out there, but you have to look off the beaten path, and "back-port" what we know today to what was practiced back then to "patch over" misunderstandings back then. In some areas like organic chemistry and radiological materials, such misunderstandings misapplied would be fatal. Not a big deal when you have a huge population base and plenty of other people who will learn from the mistake and carry on the species' push into the knowledge frontier. But much more significant if you have a narrow population base and only one or two specialists representing what used to be maybe hundreds of people in a specialty field in the distant past.

An example that is fairly-cleaned up in a highly narrow specialty is David Gingery's series on building a rudimentary machine shop from just scrap metal and charcoal [2]. You would have to look elsewhere for information on how to mine metal, smelt it, etc., how to make charcoal, and how to make progressively more accurate and precise machine tools given a starting point of what we consider today would be quite inaccurate and imprecise tools, but it gives you a taste of what's in store for truly rebooting civilization. Even just to get us back to the 1930-40's level era technology would require a minimally viable trained, knowledgeable population base in the tens of millions I would guess.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic...

[2] http://gingerybookstore.com/MetalWorkingShopFromScrapSeries....
I just explained why it wasn't. You didn't even acknowledge my comment, let alone rebut it.
To me, in business it always comes down to profits, and if I'm an investor I'd rather invest in profitable companies. A lot of investors think that way and I'm sure the market at some point says "gosh, they are going to burn through a lot more cash before they turn a profit." At some point, you're better off waiting a year or two, paying a little bit more, but investing in the same business once it starts making money.
I don't think we can really consider it to be "stabilizing" when there are relatively significant and breaking changes like this still going on.

It may be headed in the direction of stability, but that's quite different from stabilizing.

We can consider it to be stabilizing once the language and standard libraries have been frozen, and the only changes happening are very minor ones that are fixing critical bugs.

Until then, it's still in the research and development stage, at best.
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As a long-time Lisper in AI, Haskell does look intriguing, but I'm more worried about what I would lose. In particular, I'm curious about how DSLs fare in Haskell. I can write first-order logic sentences in Lisp, and they look and behave just like any other Lisp code. I can use evolutionary programming to generate new code on the fly, and send it to the compiler. And I can get really down to the metal if I ever need C-level performance.

How do these look in Haskell?
I think the idea is incredible. But I fear such a "book" would be way too big.

Time to build a fourth pyramid in Egypt.
Very similar concept to S.M. Stirling's "The Change" novels:
http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-A-Novel-Change/dp/0451460413
Because "slide-to-unlock" is a cornerstone of technology, the one only Apple would ever think off.
This makes me really miss Groklaw.

For the first trial, Apple v. Samsung, we had regular reports with

1. Daily trial reports on testimony and motions
2. Analysis of the patents involved
3. Descriptions of the legal issues involved and which were in dispute
4. History on the companies and technology involved

But in current stories, like this better than average one from Reuters, we don't even hear about the patents involved, not their numbers, not their titles or short descriptions, and not even the total number of patents involved. We don't have a history of the litigation, the likely effects on the industry in the future, the workarounds, the simultaneous appeals before the Board of Appeals at the PTO, the issues left for appeal, the history of the judge or even her name, or any kind of context that would help us understand.

Our news source for the original Apple v. Samsung was great, but Apple ][ is like a black hole of information. The upcoming Apple /// will likely be the same unless there is some kind of new Groklaw someday.
There is a potential liability in there, Reid Hoffman an investor in Flickr which is noted as a competitor, discloses internal flickr strategy.
Which makes me wonder why Google isn't doing a better job at protecting Android.

The claims/patents are rather ridiculous, and a win in this case would mean that Apple can bully every Android manufacturer, including LG and their Nexus line!
Because "slide-to-unlock" is an innovation.
Very neat. Not really sure how to appy this though.
I sent you an email, I'd love to hear more about your exact usecase.

my email is chris @ addonlist .com
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Likewise. The more I learn about Haskell, the more I've blown away by it's power and elegance. It's been a deeply rewarding experience. But spending days fixing dependencies to update the compiler on OSX and linux, followed by Cabal packages failing to compile is no fun. Hopefully the increased attention Haskell is receiving nowadays will help resolve these growing pains.
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Invented ideas like "slide-to-unlock" and "rounded corners"? Are those innovations?
This seems to be a list:

- 5,946,647: System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data

- 8,046,721: Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image (slide to unlock)

- 6,847,959: universal search

- 8,074,172: Method, system, and graphical user interface for providing word recommendations (word recommendation/autocomplete)

- 7,761,414: Background sync

More details here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/05/apple-wins-119-million-in...
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> you don't always know what you're saying

> You never know what you're saying.

(emphasis added)

There we go. You clarified why I felt this was off -- it's making a global statement. There's almost always a condition that goes with a scientific (or even mathematical) finding. Nature overstated their results.
"I don't think there are many excuses to be made in these contexts. If you've ever known your mother, or had a sister or a girlfriend who was attractive (and the recipient of suggestive comments), you know exactly what's acceptable and what's not. Picture it's your girlfriend getting harassed."

Your argument is incomplete. I doubt most people have an attractive women in their lives, having either the role of mother, sister, or girlfriend, since such a minority of women are attractive, even if they might be the only women you notice every day.
Part of using these to test lies requires first establishing a baseline. For instance, they would ask:

- What's your name? Where were you born? How much do you weigh? (or similar questions to understand your non-verbal).

It's super super important to first establish that baseline.
So many submissions, so few comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7688526

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684617

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684375
That was from the indexmundi site:

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?product=jet-fuel&graph...

I think the difference comes from global vs US numbers.
Well, I slightly prefer "fun", but the Rust community pretty firmly favors "fn", and they're about the same anyway.

As far as I know it came from ML.
Except macros are great for more than just lazy evaluation. For instance, completely altering syntax to make your app make a lot more sense and remove any amount of boilerplate.

As far as parallelism, sure Haskell can give that for free. The cost is you have to be pure about everything, which just seems obnoxious to me...especially when you don't necessarily care about parallelism or performance.

With lisp, I can use macros to make parallelism just as natural as programming regular lisp. Yes, I have to be explicit about when I'm being parallel and when I'm not. But that doesn't seem like such a big deal to me, and sometimes you want explicit control over your threads.

As far as community, I have no doubts the Haskell community is great. But so is the lisp community. There are a lot of bright people who jump at any chance to help out others, and in the past 5 years the CL implementations and community-built libraries have been making leaps and bounds.

This isn't to say Haskell isn't a great choice for many, many applications and requirements. But it's not a replacement for lisp, just as lisp isn't a replacement for Haskell. They are two different beasts that are great at different things.
> A lot of theories wouldn't need to be tested.

It sounds like you are saying Science would have put faith into the accuracy of a single book. The methods of discovery are as important as the discovery itself.
The situation with NAND flash has been pretty disappointing, I think; in the quest for more capacity, manufacturers have been sacrificing other desirable aspects of storage, like write endurance and data retention. In particular, 3-bit and 4-bit MLC are becoming the norm, and they are both slower and less reliable than older 2-bit MLC or SLC, while requiring more complex error correction and bad block management. The relatively increasing fragility of flash storage is never mentioned, and many people don't find out until it's too late --- because the typical consumer only focuses on capacity.

I still miss the days when SLC was the norm, and you didn't need complex error-correcting-codes and bad block management. Now SLC is considered "high-end", even in enterprise applications, and becoming rarer to find, while 2-bit MLC, which used to be considered the inferior, consumer-level grade, has also become more difficult to find and a "professional" feature. Considering that endurance and retention decrease exponentially with each additional bit-per-cell while capacity only increases multiplicatively, the tradeoffs don't seem quite so great.
One of the interesting problems for SaS companies is that the "easy signup" usually competes with the "vendor lock-in effect". A startup can use "easy signup" to take away customers from an established company but almost immediately it needs to find a way to lock-in the customer to avoid him/her switching to another vendor with even simpler signup, cheaper price, whatever. In a commodity market (like payments), price is usually the most important factor for many users. Thus "vendor lock-in" becomes a must for success.

The Square's new products are actually designed to increase customers engagement with the company products and increase the price of switching to a competitor. The payments itself is not sticky but the more advanced products (e.g. online stores) are. The broad range of the products Square is trying right now just shows that the company is searching for the new up-scale market with vendor lock-in where Square can capitalize on the existing customers without risking losing their business. From my point of view, it might be hard for them (they already have a big customers base) and a little too late. Square might have become the victim of its own success where hyper-growth in the last few years didn't allow the management to start this process earlier.
Orthogonally to whether this is a good or bad idea, I really wish the PR and subsequent community management had been handled more carefully for something that was pretty much bound to be a very controversial change (tellingly, /r/rust even had a preemptive thread about it before it materialised: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/236plz/thoughts_on_rem... ). Although I perhaps am in a bad position to complain after having been caught up in the less savoury parts of the exchange myself, I can't help it but believe that the often outright hostile tone and the swift wagon-circling by the proponents (in response to what they probably felt was an unreasonable onslaught of repetitive criticism) will have left a very bad aftertaste with a lot of readers. Much of this could have been prevented by preparing a clean document explaining the motivation and ramifications of the change to a general audience in advance, and perhaps by having the moderators apply some gentle pressure on the loose guns on either side to pipe it down.
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Apocalypse preparation really grinds my gears. It demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of the relationship between politics and ecology. Many people currently live in an apocalyptic environment. Destitute people in the richest cities in the world live without access to basic sanitation, let alone photography or "digital storage". Governments are a form of organized violence which the capital class use to protect their access to ecological and infrastructural resources, thereby denying those resources to the poor.

In the event of some kind of massive ecological disaster, violence and power will not suddenly cease to exist. The capital class will shrink and the remaining rich will double down on their use of violence to control resources. For them (us?) their standard of living will remain high. Electronics factories and power plants will continue to run, they will just be more heavily protected by militaries.

It will get harder for the rich to tune out the plight of the poor. But we already have many tools that shield us from having to see the violent side effects of our lifestyle, and those tools will just have to be used more thoroughly so we can ignore what will be much more widespread poverty and keep running the machine of civilization.

But this is the thing: that world only differs from our current world only in proportions and numbers. Everything that will happen in the "apocalypse" is already happening now, all the time. If you care about what happens in the apocalypse you should also care about what's happening right now.

You can "prep" to try to ensure that you stay in the capital class when the apocalypse goes down, but I just think it would be a better use of your resources to fix what wrong with the system now, and move away from this kind of zero-sum political system so that everyone can be OK both in the current resource crunch and in the theoretical future crunches.

We have an opportunity to solve the resource distribution problems that have plagued civilization from the start. Let's take that opportunity, rather than spend our effort trying to make sure we "win" and someone else "loses" if things get worse.
I believe this feat is only possible thanks to an effort to crack 512 bit RSA signatures used to sign the firmwares. Is this only the case on newer calculators like the TI 83+ SE or did even the earlier calculators use RSA?