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I don't understand your objection ...

> ... it depended on something not stated in the
> problem; in brief it requires multiple interdependent
> participants to adhere to a pre-agreed algorithm
> for searching a data structure whose topology
> they cannot know in advance.

It clearly says:

The prisoners have a chance to plot their strategy in advance

That seems pretty clear: the prisoners must pre-agree a strategy to do what they're going to do. Not adhereing to that seems to follow naturally.

What am I missing?
And people wonder why health insurance premiums are so bad ;)
The U.S. immigration is definitely insane. I know people that have been waiting for ten or more years. It almost doesn't matter what qualifications you have.
Either way, when PPK is this pissed you should probably pay attention.
You're conflating two distinct concepts. By the genetic definition, a 3/4 European 1/4 African would be white. By the social definition, a 3/4 European 1/4 African would be black.
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Think what you want about Scribd, the case is really loopy and weird.
Good catch. Under the heading, "...Looking instead at the number of lines of code changed," Google doesn't even appear in the list.
It's not clear that they can distinguish the boxes in advance, but apart from that, I think it's perfectly clear.
Still this can be arranged as a well-defined test instead of humiliation crapfest.

Everything can be.
Great, 10 unrelated slideshow images of incredibly obvious things.

Hint: it's basically the exact same reason that anyone else faces financial ruin.
That's ridiculous. Proposing a nonsense solution certainly doesn't risk giving anything away. (You claim that there is a 100% likelihood the warden will cooperate and put the names in the boxes the prisoners request?)

If you think there's something wrong with the solution provided, why not just come out with it, and write "SPOILER WARNING" before it? I suspect you're misunderstanding something, though.
I've always been curious who are these people who commit so much personal time on open source projects (instead of doing rounded corners kind of web 2.0 work) and I googled Jeff Garzik, seemingly the most productive developer during this release:

http://linux.yyz.us

Notice that even his home page is all about his projects as opposed to self-promotion.

Compare that to the douchebag Seth Sternberg (http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ), who built a company on top of libpurple's team open sourced work, bragged about building "from nothing to something" and didn't even mention them in TC article, preferring to speak about his "desire to build the next great thing" buillshit instead.
Start-up unveils cloud storage co-op
Ah I did not know that, thanks!
I also found this interesting. My father has run his own business full time for 20 years, and did it part time before that. I think that's a big reason I started my own business ~2000, though it certainly was not a startup as we think of the term. A lot of the reluctance to do a startup is simply fear of the unknown, or thinking there's some "secret sauce" that one doesn't know. Like most things in life that don't have a prospect of being immediately fatal, often the best advice is "Just do it"
Startup day 2009
This sounds like complete nonsense:

"Lasers sweep the surroundings and when they detect a CCD, they fire a bolt of light right at the camera to obliterate any photograph"
And there, to some extent, is the point. People will continue to write "popular press" articles about builing compilers using flex and bison, possibly targetting C as an intermediate language, until the ML community (or equivalent) becomes less clannish.

I'd love to see how clever they are, applaud them for it, and build on their work. They don't seem to care.
I think we're discussing an attitude that is a symptom of something deeper. Currently, it is not really legal to not make money. So, the majority of people work out of necessity, and do jobs they wouldn't choose otherwise.

Being able to stop working as an obligation and start working as an authentic contribution, passion and creation is an important and very, very satisfying lifestyle change.
Probably recruitment
Defeatable? What on Earth does that mean? The goal of these puzzles is to find a solution, not to foil the given solution. "Lined up on a table" has a common-sense meaning. Everything else in this puzzle and the solution is purely based on the common-sense meaning of the words used.
The warden is not compelled to cooperate.
> I think it's perfectly clear.

The problem as stated, or the objection in the HN comment 835216?

I think the problem as stated is perfectly clear, and I thought that when I first met it a few years ago. It boggled me then that it was possible, and it continues to boggle me somewhat even now.
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They have one. It involves a $1MM investment and no employment options (you have to "invest" it and can't work for the firm(s) in which you "invest").
Is it possible to participate in some students project and get your head scanned for free as part of a study? That would be sweet.
I like the design but then again it is not clear what the service does. As a new start-up it is of prime importance to make that first impression otherwise you will have a lot of one-time visitors.
It looks like some kind of social networking sort of thing but not exactly clear and I would not want to go through the sign up process unless I know it is of some interest. So, your first job is to get me to sign up and then go from there.

Good effort though!
I believe the standard interpretation of 'lined up' is 'in a line', as in a 'straight curve', which disallows your otherwise ingenious foil.
Quite correct. But when I was imagining it, I began thinking of different ways to 'line up' the boxes and it's not clear to me from the problem statement that the layout is predictable in advance. See below for why (I think) a circular arrangement would defeat the strategy. Lines can be curved, and curves may be closed.
My personal favorite that I've used is Transformers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Autobots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Decepticons). This also lends itself to clever names for deployment scripts.
Hmm - it works fine now. Sorry about that hiccup.
If you haven't ever read about how MRIs work, you should. I first learned how MRIs work in college while studying biochemistry. The same technology is used in that field, but called NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). It is the only medical technology that still blows me away when I sit down and think about it. The people who realized they could use it to take cross-sectional scans of peoples bodies without any invasive procedure are true geniuses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
Mojito Island is also a strawman, apparently.
and mugshots. like baseball cards.
Lessons Learned in Large Computations with Ruby
I think your main problem is one you yourself have mentioned.

Sign Up and Find Out What's Going On

I have no idea what it's about or why I should sign up.

The most important part of any site is the WIIFM factor: tell your consumers what is in it for them to sign up.
Apparently Nik Cubrilovic is sorting it all out for Arrington.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/bootstrappr/soa/Duel-of-the-fa...
I'm sorry, but that's a silly question.

Assume the following:
1. first child.
2. standard spread of non-child-related stressors (money, job, relationship, illness, family).
3. standard spread of impulse control across the population
4. sleep deprivation
5. social contact deprivation (very common with parents of first-children in the first few months).
6. colicy baby

It's basically a statistical certainty that there will be cases of shaken baby when these things collide. While the warm glowing fuzzy feelings of parenthood are lauded in the media, dealing with a baby who hasn't stopped screaming for hours and who _just won't tell you what's wrong_ is crazying for anyone, let alone those at the mental margins.
You have to wonder whether the CS faculty at Stanford, MIT, et al are thrilled or disappointed with the perception that they've become a pipeline for 9-5 coders (even if it is google).
You're right, I misread it as "The prisoners get the Warden to label the boxes randomly", with the same implicit assumption as anigbrowl, that the prisoners don't have enough information beforehand to assign an order to the boxes.
A great intuitive way to link head mri's to actual heads. Thanks for this. I expect it will be really helpful for students.

If anyone wants to get paid (usually about $30/hour) to have your head examined, search for a fMRI lab at the biggest universities in your area. You'll usually also get an image or two. If you ask nicely you may also be able to get the same type of set as here.
Lines are a special type of curve - a straight curve. This precise and simple mathematical definition precludes such confusion.
"If you...start a small business, you will be able to get coverage."
Point taken. How would you suggest we go about this? I look at other sites like Facebook and Twitter, and it's not entirely clear upfront what they do either. Are you suggesting something like an "About" or "Learn More" page?
This is a terrible idea. We already have people borrowing money in huge sums to get themselves smuggled into first-world countries, then becoming indentured slaves in perpetuity to pay it off.

No one should ever be able to buy their way into a country with raw cash. Skilled immigration policies that aren't stupid (i.e. H-1B is the dumbest "immigration" policy I've ever seen) are a much better idea.
I noticed that too. I'm also interested in what the definition of 'non-harmful' devices is. This seems like a possible loop hole to argue for restricted devices, as in "allowing live streaming video from 3G devices will harm the network."

I'm not positive, but I'd be willing to bet this is how cable providers are allowed to disable some functionality of set-top boxes...?

Overall I think it's a very good thing, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out as case law defines these guidelines.
Not to mention Yodle (nyc). They have a strong dev team.
Yes, I get this. And if this applies, sure--take the money. I guess you weren't doing what you wanted before. But what if you were already doing what you wanted? If you're lucky enough to wake up and do something you'd pay to do--and get paid handsomely for it--why the heck would you want to stop for more money?

Again--already making good money, already doing what you love: why stop?
Not an Obama fan, but this is a great move. Good one Mr. President.
Who is voting this up? the article has absolutely zero content. It just repeats what everybody already knows.

I say this as an enterprise/web Lisp developer ;-)
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834352

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=832142

There's already a great deal of discussion on the first of those, so it might be worth reading that before commenting here.

FWIW, I think that what scribd does is a Bad Thing(tm). I can image having to check every week whether something I've written and copyrighted has appeared on their site, and I think it's unsupportable that they say "It's your problem to check - tell us and we'll take it down."

Perhaps it would be interesting to require that any money made from having my work on their site must be transferred to me with interest. Further, to require that such accounting be made auditable. If they make money while my work is on their site in breach of my copyright, why shouldn't I get it?

Still a nightmare to enforce. Every author constantly having to check to see if their work has been pirated.
I'm currently working in the US on a TN visa. I like it here, and if given the chance I'd probably stay. But the odds of me being able to do that, without jumping through large number of inhumane hoops like a circus animal, are low.

Odds are I will be moving back to ole Canada at some point. The US is so busy being afraid of everyone else that they're very, very quickly driving themselves into irrelevance.
True. But as soon as I thought of the circle, I said to myself 'ah, the idea that it's a straight line is exactly the sort of assumption that you gets you into trouble!' so I threw the whole solution out.

I figured a straight line would be equivalent to a random arrangement with each of the boxes being numbered, so I assumed the vagueness was designed to lead one into making a foolish assumption about their ordinal presentation. Maybe I'm paranoid :-)
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Memphis is a third-tier barbeque city, and Rendezvous is a tourist trap.
I agree with you that the problem as stated is perfectly clear. I thought the statement lacked a little clarity about how distinguishable the boxes were for the prisoners that haven't seen them before, but on second reading I think that's clear too.

I also heard about it a few years ago, and discovering the solution was mind-blowing! It's stunning that it's possible.

If you're a fan of these types of puzzles please check out my contribution to the field:

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~te233/maths/puzzles/evenharder.htm...
I think the market is there, but it may not be uninitiated so to say. Once someone explains to people that they can now comfortably browse the Internet while sitting on the john, the sales will go exponential :-) But this is a substantial marketing expense, so .. hmm .. perhaps crunchpad may be in the right position after all. They have effectively reserved for themselves a market niche of inexpensive tablets, and so they just need to sit tight for a while and let Apple do the marketing. Once the tablet ball gets rolling, they can introduce their stuff and capitalize on the pre-established "cheap tablet pioneer" status.

Hmm .. so it may work after all. Weird :-)
can't the paparazzi just switch to video?
Geographic stuff seems to work well. Printers in our company are named after US states. Fifty is plenty.
Can't argue with that. I guess I'm thinking of those puzzles that say things like 'can you draw a line that passes through all these points', and when you can't, the answer turns out to be that it's not a straight line. I'll leave my wrong arguments up for educational purposes :-)
I bet he also has a small army onboard.
The author titled his post "50 things I never need to hear at another conference". Presumably he feels he has heard this wisdom often enough to have internalized it.
You should join her and move back here to blighty. I can say that we've now got a pretty vibrant tech scene here in London and have sources of investment lined up and ready to go.
They missed a number, though. It should have been something like "Microsoft's Five Secret Plans To Kill Apple Revealed".
My assumption is that not everyone is an enterprise/web Lisp developer - is it possible the content may be interesting to those who aren't?
Could you counteract this by taking a photograph from behind a one way mirror?

You could still get photos, but the raft's light would be reflected back. Or so I presume...

EDIT: Two way mirror is the technically correct term.
Would have been more enlightening if the poster elaborated on why each item was in the list. I can make guesses, but don't make me beg your question.
This is just one project (albeit a prominent one). Google might be contributing to a lot of other projects. I hope that companies do contribute across the board, and not just to high-profile things like the kernel.
Are you kidding ? I would buy it just for being able to read stuff at the kitchen table or in the bed. The $200-300 is exactly right price for this sort of gadget.
This is where I originally found him (from HN actually):
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1

But you won't find much more in this, unfortunately. For the link (or lack thereof) between IQ and critical reasoning search for Stanovich, it's mostly his own research. For link between (parts of) critical reasoning and academic success look up Mischel's marshmallow experiment. Personally I never saw 0.8 correlations with IQ mentioned anywhere, so I'd be grateful for a pointer.
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The Terra Bite lounge in Kirkland tried this when they opened (and got a fair amount of press out of it), but it appears it didn't work.

http://www.terrabite.org/press.htm

Commentary indicating that they stopped: http://www.yelp.com/biz/terra-bite-lounge-kirkland
That's because really, you're a startup until you're established AND your business model becomes predictable.

The Valley wants you to believe you've disqualified yourself once you've found a steady income, even though your business might follow the exact same trajectory as Dropbox once you find the right knobs to turn.
As far as I can see from the outside, Google is much like any other Java/Web 2.0 cube farm: miserable salt-mine drudgery - though with above-average pay, plush armchairs, and free lunches.

Here is what one notable Google escapee had to say after doing his time:

"The interchangeable component model of software engineers seemed to work reasonably well there. It's just not a business model in which I wish to be involved, at least not on the component-provider side. So after a year at Google I quit and returned to JPL."

- Erann Gat: "Lisping at JPL"

(http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html)

If you have any creativity in you, being a fungible cog will always suck. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
I would love to encourage submission of articles on Lisp dialects, but this one is completely useless. Nothing you couldn't have learned from the wikipedia page on clojure or any other Lisp.

[Edit:

It's not the writer's fault, he might have had a different audience in mind, but the submitter should have known better.]
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"Fear of the unknown" - very well said. In fact, there are some communities (sindhis, marwaris, parsis in India for example) where the culture of entrepreneurship has been handed down through generations. Like getting a job is a way of life and not "unknown" in common families, entrepreneurship is not an "unknown" in families of these communities.
Is a CCD, at several hundred feet, something you can detect? Using what technology?
Well, given my erroneous thinking about lines vs. curves (something you sometimes see exploited in other puzzles), when I say 'defeatable' I mean from the point of view of the warden, who would be seeking to minimize the prisoners' chances of success. You know, 'mwuhhahaha! I never said they were in a straight line' or indeed 'mwuhahaha, I never said we were in Euclidean space!'.
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Another dimension that would have been interesting to consider in this study is immigrant entrepreneurship.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/02/immigration-india-china-ent...
I think the device issue can be solved with a little trickery as well. AT&T could allow you to use any unlocked GSM phone on their network but just not advertise it so that virtually no one takes advantage of it.

As for cable STBs, they don't even connect to the Internet and thus are exempt from net neutrality. And if you don't like your crippled Cisco/Moto cable box you can always buy a Moxi... for $800... that will be obsolete in a year.
We've tried using Clojure for even basic web application development but all of the web-ish frameworks and libraries out there (eg: Compojure) extremely early in their development.

Building a web application in Clojure right now seems to involve a large amount of re-inventing the wheel. Meanwhile, we can just switch over to Rails and have stuff working in minutes.

Does anyone have any personal anecdotal evidence that Clojure's benefits outweigh this chief drawback at this time? What are the chances that Clojure will ever be where Ruby (with Rails) is now?
This headline should read "New Research ... could free hundreds grieving parents wrongly wrongly convicted of killing their own child."
Holograms. That you can feel.
Dont forget Facebook and Twitter are a household names

This is what they used to look like when they first went semi-public at harvard: http://blog.gleuch.com/post/50407323/the-original-facebook-h...

Note that the about link at the bottom went to more info as well.
Class action lawsuit immediately makes me think of sharks smelling blood in the water.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that I wrote that post. Onstartups is Dharmesh Shah's site. He's the one who says he was confused about the distinction between startup founders and entrepreneurs generally. And incidentally, he's in Boston.
I'm pretty much of the opinion that anything PPK says about web development is likely to be of importance.

I like "This is a strange inconsistency, especially since the spec is supposed to be based on the IE implementation."

That kinda explains why it's counter-logical then, it's based on some voodoo from IE6 (!).

Thankfully when PPK works it all out he usually makes some lovely examples up and posts them to quirksmode, press on my friend, press on. [I guess that should be drag on]
Exactly. And what of cameras that use CMOS sensors (like most DSLRs)?

Or old-school film-shooting paps?
My current scheme is to use Bay Area cities (e.g. sanjose, fremont, gilroy, etc.).

When I was at MIT, the convention they used for the print servers was characters from the novel _Ringworld_: teela, louiswu, nessus, speaker, etc.
Sharks with lasers of course...
You could use Clojure with an existing web framework (say Wicket).
Please be aware that MRIs have an utterly massive amount of radiation. X-rays are almost always done first because of the risk of damage from the radiation. You really don't want to have an elective MRI. (That said, I'm aware of no known studies that have demonstrated long-term risk from MRI radiation, but to me, prudence says you don't subject yourself to an MRI that you don't have to.)
A better video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3seTlvQtIgc
Since the contest is over all of the data has been donated to the UCI ML repo http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize

The "secret" data set is in the file "judging.txt" in the grand_prize download.
I dunno, the whole post read as if he was trying to make some kind of point about accepted wisdoms, fashions and memes of the game industry. This one is more of an indisputable fact.
You guys know that Andrew Morton works at Google right?
Well, there are actually two unstated preconditions that need to hold for proposed strategy to work:

1) every prisoner uses the same entry (with the same reference frame in respect to boxes)

2) there are no changes in the arrangement of boxes between prisoner visits (this is extra requirement, as it includes wardens not doing any rearrangements in the meanwhile)

But otherwise, the strategy could be extended for arbitrary topologies - just state additional algorithm for defining starting point of labeling and then use a deterministic rule telling which box would be the next one.

For example, for circular arrangement - start at 12:00 and go clockwise.

Or, for arbitrary random arrangement - start at upper left box and then proceed in (axis-aligned) grid: leftmost->rightmost->down to next leftmost->repeat.
Well, the question is one of discovery, right?

Posts like this one are useful for people who don't have Lisp on their radar yet. They've heard about Clojure and how it's awesome, but they think "I don't have a problem that requires functional programming", or they hear about the awesomeness of Common Lisp, and they think "I don't want to learn emacs".

I think there's value in spelling out the obvious because there will always be new eyes around to read it. In the worst case, it's a few paragraphs that are obvious to to someone who has any familiarity with Lisp. In the best case, it brings someone new to the table.