skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule.

Isn't this already done? I haven't visited or talked to anyone at a bank (other than a couple of calls to the help desk for my online banking when strange things happen) for years. Paying bills, transferring money, applying for loans smaller than a mortgage, opening and closing accounts, managing my investments. All that is trivially done on-line these days. I don't know anybody who doesn't do all their personal financial management over the internet.
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To nitpick, isn't it really that "Selling advertising on the top of search is an extremely important and profitable business"?
That's quite old, but interesting. I should have asked at the International Conference on Functional Programming last week, what became out of the Supercompilation idea for Haskell. It was not mentioned, though.
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disclaimer: I work for that company.
...for essentially a single company.
point 1 is completely not true. most adventure games I've played require things from many screens to be solved before moving on to the next puzzle. monkey island springs to mind as the most obvious example of this.
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Crowdsourcing meets 1984...
1. Build an electric helicopter with batteries and a pedal-powered dynamo

2. Pedal for hours/days to charge the battery

3. Fly helicopter on battery power

4. Collect $250,000
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or Pidgin ;-)

ref: http://www.bofh.org.uk/2007/08/08/domain-specific-pidgin
I'd love to see some updates on these numbers as 2002 was well before the main wave of Web 2.0. The blogosphere was still very young etc.
>Isn't this already done?

That's the point of this topic, to discuss things that have been done but didn't seem obvious 5-10 years ago.
Rather than just collecting data as a reference, I really like the idea of analysing what I've been doing (often wasting time!) and taking the chance to live my life better in future.
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That's a really useful presentation.

My own experience with testing is this: test code is like the safety net under a trapeze act. It will catch you when you fall, before the consequences are dire (read, your code is in production with a bug).

It's not infallible but it will help you a lot if you add some tests to your code.

Even if you're not in to perl, if you are not doing automated testing go see this presentation, you won't regret it, it's quick, humorous and makes the point in a friendly way.
Why do they want access to my Twitter account???
What about 1 dollar 6 months after it came out on video?
Sorry, I completely misread the question. I read it as things which will seem obvious in 5-10 years, but have yet to be fully implemented.
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Thanks for the overview. I was hoping for some examples, but most work on it is done in academia.

"Iterative" theorem proving (though probably a typo for "interactive"), is the way this could go: "agile theorem proving". That is, where you don't need to plan ahead.

i can imagine a world where people are fed up with badly written software, which will force engineering to verify at least certain properties.

Historically, people consistently choose features, convenience and performance over well-written software. It seems that formal methods only get a foothold where there are serious consequences for failure - often legal ones.

BTW: The US/UK vs. Germany/France in computer science seems to me (from reading papers) to be pragmatism vs. theory. Reading on electromagnetism, Lord Kelvin took French scientists to task to task for their errors traceable to their algebraic and abstract methods - so this divide seems to go back a ways.
It's almost like complaining that Drudge Report is ugly. It is, but that's missing the point.
I agree with most of this. I think the post demonstrates what a chore some adventure games can be when you get stuck on a puzzle: waste hours trying to get past it (before wasting hours on the next puzzle) or cheat and lose the satisfaction of having figured it out yourself.
How is "human powered" defined? I take it charging a battery by running on a treadmill and then using the battery in the helicopter wouldn't count?
This sounds like about the worst idea I've ever heard of. Big brother's ultimate fantasy.
Don't bother: it's just an interstitial link to another link. All together, it is simply two sentences.
i want this now, I've been trying to monitor what I'm doing using a mashup of rescue time, saving tweets, but an auto camera and audio recorder? perfect.

Speaking of, has anyone ever filmed themselves to see how they interact in social situations?
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I understand the storing energy rule, but it seems to me it defies the purpose of the competition. Without storing energy, wouldn't the helicopter come crashing down as soon as you stopped pedaling (or whatever you do)? Surely there would have to be some way to take a break without dieing.
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Whoops.
Excel is a close contender. It's still the world's most popular programming language. It incorporates a zeroth order functional language (the spreadsheet).
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I wonder these cells do when they detect an object approaching. Is this the reflex for closing the eyelids, or something else?
GP is the submitter. He's linking a way to locate other articles on HN about Dijkstra (by using "ewd", which always appears in the URL for Dijkstra's site).
They exclude the stored energy of the "rotating aerodynamic components".

So you can have energy in the system, but you can't sit there cycling for an hour charging a battery.

(They also exclude the crew taking stimulants and drugs).
Way cool, thanks :]
The discussion suggests that we should somehow expect from a newspaper to deliver objective news. That's a very flawed assumption.
In the long run this will be revolutionary for society. The benefits of being able to observe videos of ones self in sport are well recognised and they should carry over to ordinary life as well. 'Know thyself' could finally be possible (as long as you have the time to watch the 'logs').

For society it should bring in huge reductions in crime as well as many types of deceptive behaviour. Combined with reputation management people would have a bigger incentive to do good.

Society will probably need to adjust to a few 'minority' behaviours somewhat analogous to homosexuality. Those who had recognisably harmful conditions would be able to identify them and have access to help.

I'm sure there will also be some problems, but they will be dwarfed by the benefits. Data is power.
We're talking about the future, not the past. Excel, while astonishingly popular today, has nowhere to go but down.
It's more like "Development's Dream Team." Skills aren't found, they're developed. Developers don't have to limit themselves, but they like to. If they didn't, they'd be doing a different (broader) job. It's odd to see a product manager as a sort of assistant to developers.

Avoiding skill-overlap limits productivity, innovation, and truck numbers. It's hard to connect dots separated by meat helmets, space, and language barriers.
Yes. However why write your own tests? Have the computer generate them for with QuickCheck. (You still have to hand out a way to tell wrong from right.)
You might wanna try redmine (as an alternative to trac). It has a wiki, news updates, file uploads, with plugins you can do twitter like status updates, besides all the project management things. Look at the plugins list on their site. You can create unlimited projects.

Although it might not be a true collaborative tool in the sense you mean, but it helps you to do all the other stuff that an early stage startup needs. I've tried more than a dozen hosted solutions and finally gave up and installed redmine for all project related needs.

ohh and Dropbox allows you to undo file changes upto 30 days in the past. I think they do have something called pack-rat, but i don't know it's pricing.

Surprisingly, the microsoft small business options were interesting. With a plugin you can use your desktop office to update online docs. Which is a killer feature in my opinion. But i never got around to testing it, since we'd started on google apps. Their live mesh is similar to dropbox, with 5GB or more from what i remember. Too bad they don't unify all their solutions and market it properly.
What about artificial legs?
If I were more than a mere Software Engineer I could actually go and impress people by stating that I work for ARM.
And in many ways other than monetary.
as if the intrusions in life and privacy aren't enough already.

just reads like the novel 'The prometheus deception'. The worst part of this post is that Arrington makes it sound as if it is a great idea, and very much needed.
For me, every month is apptember.
Does it have to be "the cloud" as in S3? What about good old space on a traditional host? I have a Dreamhost account that claims to offer "unlimited" space for a flat monthly rate, and they support traditional *nix rsync/scp/etc. Seems like a good fit to me.
I was watching a interview with the guy that suggested the idea with On2 to release their VP3 codec as the basis for Ogg Theora. He used the descriptive term "scorched earth" as one reason for doing so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth

In other words, you can undermine your competitors by having a free version. An open source version takes this one step further.
As long as the data remains yours and you're its handler, why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff? It'd be no different than carrying an always on camcorder.

Though I think that box is ugly and impractical, I'll wait for artificial eyes or systems tapping the optic nerve.
It is really fascinating to see the oppositional reactions to this idea. It seems like either people love it or they are really scared (like me) and cannot understand why other people would like it. This is also reflected in the poll results on TC (so far).
I read a good sci-fi book recently about the possibilities for a device like this. (It was the one about orcs raiding an MMORPG bank in Scotland and causing a financial panic. I don't remember the title but if you Google it you should probably find it fairly quickly.)

They didn't tag the people -- they tagged the cops. I'd be 150% in favor of that -- the camera preserves all the evidence impartially, regardless of whether it shows the cop in the right or in the wrong, and the minority of bad apples would probably clean up their act a bit if they knew they were being watched by something they could not intimidate or cajole into silence. Plus as a public servant, while they are on the clock, cops have zero expectation of privacy.

If I had my druthers I'd give them to everyone with a badge and make their use compulsory 100% of the time when in uniform, with a 5 minute time-out button for bathroom breaks which, if you punch in the middle of a traffic stop, means you lose your badge.

See the book for how it would revolutionize policing. The cops could use simple voice commands to produce authenticated timestamps for, e.g, arrests and collecting evidence. It would greatly simplify arrest reports and the like. It would make a HUGE portion of criminal cases even more open and shut than they already are -- "Look, we've got you on video swinging your fist at a cop. Please guilty to the possession charge and resisting arrest, or you'll be convicted of assault."
I guess you're referring to the South African runner that wasn't allowed to run in the Olympics with artificial legs.

If I recall, the issue wasn't an energy advantage, but the recovery. He could train at maximum level, and simply grab a new pair - whereas his competitors would have to worry about injury. (So I guess there was an energy equation, but a different one - the energy of the artificial legs slowly breaking).

In this case, I'd guess that would be a non issue. However, I equally don't see it as being a huge advantage... At the outside, perhaps a weight one.
full on information over load, i can hardly keep up with the digital photos between my laptop, desktop and iphone.
On the Microsoft stack side, everyone knows about Visual Studio. The licensing cost for the Team Suite is $10,939. LAMP developers just love to point that kind of thing out. But folks, the fact is, that price is not measurable as the equivalent of LAMP freeware. It’s for an enterprise shop that needs very advanced and sophisticated tools for performing every corporate software role in a software development lifecycle.

These arguments are walking tightrope of avoiding the obvious. Installing all of the Microsoft free tools will make the stack cheaper. But as soon as you want to do something even close to challenging you can bet you'd need support and a license for the real tools. Apparently it's the open source crowd that is subjecting the "market" to FUD?
"The only restrictions are time and taste."

Looks like only time is on their side.
why would there be any intrinsic legal implication to wearing that kind of stuff?

For one, in many states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of all parties. (In most states it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of at least one party to it.)

You'd literally bump into people at the supermarket and say "My, what a beautiful child you have and BY THE WAY I'm wearing a discrete wire please don't talk unless you want it recorded."
Uncomfortable with the cloud in general or with the current cloud-based offerings? I'm uncomfortable with Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite because there's no way to verify they've encrypted my data, stored it redundantly, etc.
> Speaking of, has anyone ever filmed themselves to see how they interact in social situations?

Not directly, but enough to know that Me + Spice Girls + Bourbon != Positive Social Interaction
It's a long way down.
I'd like to thank everyone who contacted me! I've replied to most of you, and those that didn't get replies, I'm working on them!

I hope something good will come of this! :-)
I take it they also discount the future somewhat?
I share the distaste for "holier than thou" proponents of testing. However I have to take issue with the following:

Test code is easy to write
* It doesn't have to be clean
* It doesn't have to be readable
* It doesn't have to be robust

This is really bad advice. Tests still need to be maintained, so they should be clean and readable like any of your code. Readable tests can also be invaluable for understanding the module they are testing (especially those tricky parts where bugs once lurked). I learned this the hard way myself, and worry that this attitude leads people to wasting a lot of time on test maintenance and eventually giving up on testing.
Presumably using either an ExpressCard (in a MacBook Pro) or PCIe (Mac Pro) eSATA controller. Not exactly what I'd call "custom built". Interesting though, that it recognises USB and Firewire as external, but not eSATA. I wonder if it supports hotplugging/ejecting of eSATA drives at all?
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"Mandate lower drug prices in some other way and say goodbye to future new drugs."

Or find new, different, better ways to promote and reward invention and say hello to lots more future drugs.

Patents are broken, even if you agree with them in principle. See software patents for an area where they are broken beyond repair. Medical patents distort the market a great deal. See the comments on the original article for various dubious schemes that only make sense under the current patent regime.
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There may well be copyright implications too.

You might be recording images & audio without the rights to do so.
I suppose the conflict of interest would arise if Pogue had been asked by Apple to write up a Missing Manual for Snow Leopard. (Was he? No, afaik, but [citation needed])

Conversely, one might say that he'd decided to create such a manual for Snow Leopard because he genuinely believed what he'd written in his review, and felt the product worthy enough to warrant such an act. But then again, I suppose anyone who reads Pogue's columns/blog regularly would know he's a MASSIVE Apple fan-boy (neutral observation - I'm not judging him..)
'halting state'.
This article doesn't get into the behavioural response to this, because they're solely concerned with characterizing things at the cellular level.

Personally, I doubt this would cause the eyelids to close (stimulation of the eyelashes already does this). It may activate the startle reflex, or perhaps initiate a saccade to focus the eyes on the stimuli. More research will surely follow to figure out exactly what behavioural role this information plays.

It's already known, for example, that cells in V1 (primary visual cortex) respond to similar motion. Either the V1 cells receive input from these ganglion cells, or their function is somehow complementary to this (a different time scale, for example).

Also interesting, this new finding directly contradicts existing research: "It is generally assumed that there is no sizable proportion of motion detectors in the primate retina." (Bach and Hoffman, 1999; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00106-1)
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I can see a device like this embedded in the line just above the windshield in cars. Instant black box, accident investigations would become a lot easier.

Not sure if I'd like the privacy issues resulting from that though.
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I personally only care about optimizations that enable someone who's a domain expert in something else to write code that performs well. If I know Haskell at an intermediate level, and I'm focusing on the equations for protein folding, or game mechanics, or rocket trajectories, will I still be able to write code that performs well? Or do I need to be a Haskell expert first?
4.1.4 No devices for storing energy either for takeoff or for use in flight shall be permitted.
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This is correct. And this is how studios structure their deals with move theater owners. The studios take a greater cut in the first week(s) and that cut declines over time. Having cheap alternatives available at any time, especially early in relative terms, stings them. The whole pricing structure is, IMHO, silent collusion. It's maximizes their profit as long as they don't get disrupted. When they do get disrupted, they fight back, as is the case here, and it's the case with the health care industry, politicians, lobbyists, and any other member of the status quo, but now I'm ranting!
Or maybe you tire of the "find the non-abvious joke reference thing to apply to gadget" routine and just want to get the story of the game, in which case hint books (web pages, these days) are the perfect solution.
One tester for 6 developers ? No project manager ? (a product manager is not a project manager).

Funny world that guy is operating in.
Unless your sailboat is tied up in a marina, actual sailing will take up too much attention. You can't just leave the radar on to warn of collisions, for example, it takes too much power and CBDR isn't widely available (tho' I suppose you could hack it up if you were running a laptop anyway) so you would need to visually assess every proximity alarm. Even anchored in a secluded bay you have to worry about being T-boned by a novice day skipper...
This is just perfect, speaking from the other (lower) side of the fence. In my limited experience as a 'mentee' - I would say the best mentors have clearly articulated what is expected of me, then left me to think my way through.

The worst - even more so than the micro-managing types - are those who make lofty statements like "take initiative", and "be proactive", without much substantiation beyond that. Thus far, these have been the quintessential PHBs.
Just another example of how pathetic the current views on copyright are.

I wonder if you could prosecute a person with photographic memory for the very same thing: "recording" images and audio without the rights to do it.
I don't want my ancestors knowing about some of the things i lookup on the internet just for giggles... or seeing how many times i turn the device off while sitting at the computer.
There's another point of view, which is found e.g. in David Brin's "The transparent society": privacy is inevitably going to be more or less a thing of the past pretty soon, so the challenge is to find a way to make that not end up benefiting the people with power and completely screwing the people without. Brin thinks it can be done...
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Wasn't that what the author was getting at? The DSL for including rewrite/optimization rules in the compiler is actually accessible to the "mere mortal".
Reflexes are also interesting, apparently the round-trip time to the brain for information is so long that in some situations something quicker is needed.

So, you could probably conclude that some thresholding, computation and feedback capability is present in all neural tissue, including the spinal cord.

Apparently an octopus has one 'main' brain and 8 'auxiliary' brains, one for each of its tentacles.
Hydroptere: A 60ft sailing hydrofoil
On a smaller and more accessible (hackable!) scale:

http://hydrofoilsailing.com/boats/bladerider.html
Better, both of the above and the AI is bright enough to contrive that a crime fails when it isn't targeting a willing victim or a sockpuppet.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=546444

http://www.cybertechnews.org/?p=1422

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8bhy6/do_you_te...