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This is just a sequence being modeled by a polynomial. The point of a "difference table" is that when you take enough levels of differences (if you like you can think of these as analogous in some way to derivatives, insofar as each step of grabbing differences reduces the order of a polynomial sequence by one power, but it's not really necessary), you eventually get down to a constant, from which you can work backwards to figure out what the patterns in higher-up differences are.
The questions that I see coming from amichail are either questions that have no real, objective answer (Are parents essentially AI researchers? Why not turn twitter into a massive brain for problem solving / brainstorming? Should games like The Sims be banned?) or questions where the best way to get an answer is to just be scientific about it and create an experiment - Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? Allow PhDs to apply for expert status in various subreddits?. This is why I think they are inane. It's not about asking questions. It's about making the right ones.

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Whenever I'm around a child that keeps asking me questions, my standard response is "I don't know. How can we figure that out?". It usually works. If it's genuine curiosity, then they will be really excited to be able to take part in the discovery. If they were just trying to be annoying or looking for an easy answer, then they just forget about it and move on.
They write. Skip this article and go write.
Nothing against Mark. I am an entrepreneur myself, I admire his aggressiveness. The video says it all.
What I was impressed with were the bike ramp and escalator alongside the stairs. They are such simple and elegant solutions to the bikes-and-stairs problem. Dig it.
Yes, most modern AI researchers believe that the functioning of the brain can be explained by electromagnetic and chemical phenomena, accurately described by 1900s theories. The fact that we don't fully understand its workings is due to its organizational complexity.

Penrose's arguments are discussed for example here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.5.html
If I said that recovering from cancer does not act according to classical physics, or even according to conventional quantum mechanics, you would consider me a delusional wacko with nothing useful to contribute to the conversation.

Given the weight of evidence showing that anything we can measure about the brain can be explained by physical processes, the onus is on the person claiming that's not how it works to point to some phenomenon that isn't well explained by classical physics.
I remember years ago when installing RealPlayer, the current streaming media standard at the time, the installer would sign you up for all kinds of mailing lists if you didn't scroll down on the "Offers List". All of the offers that were beyond the fold were selected.

Not to mention that back then, say 1999, every company would freely sell your email address to spammers.

I'm glad we stopped putting up with that.
Fully agreed. QM is like ... our knowledge of the Moon before the 1960s. Until we got 'out there' we couldn't see the whole thing.

Lots of people like to look at the very complex stuff. But the year Einstein published several papers, it was all about very basic observations. We don't puzzle enough about the 'simple'.

Heisenberg: "We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
So... I don't own a startup, have never done user interface testing and am generally unqualified to talk about how to design these things.

However, I'm not bad at statistics and logic, and I'm sorry, but the logic here is pretty bad.

The author is comparing a user (edit: really user behavior on a feature/icon that no one gets) to a fair coin. The conclusion he comes to...? They are not the same! Not exactly a lot of insight.

A much more fair comparison, in the example given, is comparing the user to a heavily biased coin. In this case, a coin that (almost) always comes up heads. With this coin, the convergence is much faster.

The (almost) fair coin is a better comparison to a feature that (almost) half of your users do/don't get.

So, if you try with 30 users, 14 like something and 16 don't, you need more data! But, if you try with 30 users, and 29 like it and 1 doesn't, you can stopy.
Hah. My dad (a nurse) actually took care of Captain Kangaroo in a hospital once.

Tags are coming in v2.

I should note it's not really meant as a file organizer -- it just-so-happens to import certain types of files, but that's not the primary use case it's designed for.
I have this feeling that most of what they do don't really matter that much, but is more of a habit that works for them, but not necessarily something that would work for a new writter.
Instead it would be more fair to say that he views quantum mechanics as an incomplete theory, and one that should be continually challenged.

Which is not an unusual view. Nobel prize winner 't Hooft has expressed the same sentiment.
It doesn't need sunlight, it needs to be dissolved in what the person was on this when he taught about that treaty: acid.
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It is as personal as can be, it is in a public forum and you are specifically singling out one individual for this 'treatment' and you are effectively telling him you think this forum has no place for him.

Let me give you one simple example of why I think this kind of contribution is useful, maybe even very useful.

I've seen in practice several times that people that shoot off their wild-ass ideas for literally years on end suddenly hit one right out of the ballbpark. Having ideas is like having to paint, or blog or anything other that is creative that is a drive outside of yourself. You literally can't control it.

And if in all those ideas there is ONE golden one and it is recognized as such amichail will be the one to reap the benefits from that.

HN is a great place to get criticism for your 'stupid' ideas, and it isn't always the smart ideas that end up making you money.

If I look at my own history it is the stupid ideas that made be lots of $ and the intricate and lots of work stuff is what gave me great intellectual satisfaction but ended up losing literally buckets of money.

Give the guy a break, there is room enough for everyone here.

One of the reasons these 'niche' HNs seem to fail is simply because of the lack of volume and requiring the potential audience to monitor yet another website.

If amichail were to take his 'idea fountain' elsewhere I for one would miss him, and I would consider it a loss to all of us.

A couple of years ago I guy I knew was bugging everybody about his idea for 'foldable storage boxes'. He eventually made a cardboard model, and couldn't stop talking about it. The follow-up was dreadful, it never went anywhere. Fast forward 10 years, he's back at it, only now he's gotten this idea that maybe he can make them larger, so that trucks that drive south with flowers can use these boxes on the way there, and fold them up on the way back so they can carry payload both ways, instead of driving back with empty flower racks. Oh, and of course everybody was telling him he's nuts.

Same basic idea, took well upwards of 10 years for the coin to drop. I would not be surprised at all if amichail is like that guy. He takes a shower, comes back out and can literally fill 10 pages of his 'notebook' with ideas.

99% of them are crap, and everybody keeps telling him.

I wished I had his banking problems though...
I was going to post exactly that :).
I don't think many people would object to that. I think the objection is that being a regular on SO does not demonstrate that one is serious about learning their craft. At least not anymore than someone hanging out on LtU, or GDnet, etc. The problem with SO Careers is that it is in effect being advertised as the only legitimate way for programmers to show that they are serious about programming. That doesn't seem right to me.
already written to complain to london's Members of the European Parliament.
not sure what good it'll do - most of them are completely useless, the EP has been ignored on this very issue (ACTA) in the past, and they're only writing back to me to ask me for my mail address 'so they can write back to me'
I don't want to hear back from them. I want to read about them standing up for my goddamn rights, in the papers or in the minutes of the EP if needs be. I don't care what they have to say to me on this issue.
so why is your video on the front page twice?
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They have those on a small scale here in Italy too. I guess they become economically feasible when space is tight.
Well, he did say he admired Mark's aggressiveness. ;)
"He babysits twice a month"
Really? That's pretty damn cool.
I agree with your description of Penrose's Goedelian claims (the logician was Solomon Feferman), but I'm not sure why you say he'd be even more out of his depth in physics. Penrose is primarily a mathematical physicist, not a mathematican.
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He's like Zed Shaw only without, y'know, actual code
Interestingly, very few of those approaches can be directly mapped to software. Bulletin boards, graph-paper notebooks with revisions written as speech bubbles, "auditioning" characters ... how do you wade through such immense amount of data on a computer?

I only know of one app (for the Mac) called Scrivener that gives the author some freedom to develop a story visually instead of as a wall of text.
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How are you doing the time machine part ;)
your bike becomes theft-proof

No. It just means your bike thieves need to be more technically astute. (nothing can be completely secure)
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The series 9,73,241,561,..corresponds to:

2^3+1^2; 4^3+3^2; 6^3+5^2; 8^3+7^2; 10^3+9^2; 12^3+11^2; ?

Soln: 14^3+13^2 = 2913
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This is fantastic.

However can you even imagine a "too many bikes" problem in the USA? My town has many bike lanes but bikes have disappeared from even the college campus at an alarming rate as students come in as freshmen with daddy's SUV instead.
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What you say is well-put, but to nitpick the last paragraph: the limits of quantum mechanics are well-established. QM is a special case of quantum electrodynamics, which is a low-energy special case of the Grand Unified Theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Field_Theory

While the latter is not fully fleshed out, its uncertainty only begins in circumstances far weirder than what gives Roger Penrose pause.

Penrose says that "The [QM] equation should describe the world in a completely deterministic way, but it doesn’t." But work such as Bell's theorem shows that no deterministic equation could ever be consistent with quantum mechanics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem
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Those Velib bicycles are $3500 each like the windows in my house are $30000 each - after all, I had to erect a building around them to keep them up, and that costs some real money!
What have many scholars changed their minds about?
You are missing the point: this is not the brainchild of a "sick" mind. This is an ongoing (well, History...) collective push from a select few in position of power‹o›. Unless this gang is broken up (which is not even under discussion), there will be other incarnations this idea (and other similar ideas).

By criminalizing personal, non-commercial replication, they are in effect monopolizing the achievements of our culture to this day for their own profit to the detriment of the advancement of knowledge/culture. This is intentionally premeditated by the board members (real, physical persons without accountability and responsibility) of the Corporations behind ACTA, not just a random (fishing) trip.

http://www.free-culture.cc/ (see Disney story)

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Nice idea!

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For the first part of the article I was still waiting for a connection between breasts and brass.
I can hear Caesar speak: We will not make the mistakes of the Greeks.

But there are so many other mistakes that you can make.

I'm sure Bill Gates never planned to make the same mistakes that IBM made. So he didn't, but he found some original ones.

'This too shall pass' applies to google as much as it applies to microsoft.

It's hubris to think that you can go the distance simply by avoiding the mistakes of your competitor.
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Here's the thing that I've read about - really good entrepreneurs start at a really young age. Its like they've got it flowing in their veins and embedded into their thinking as kids.

Another example worth reading up on is Sir Richard Branson
He owns the board, so don't expect the same thing to happen with Offerpal's CEO. The reason he focuses on profits anyway is because he doesn't like dealing with investors.
It's their way which they have found suits their individual flow. Just imitating what they do won't get an aspiring writer anywhere. It's nice to know, but ultimately doesn't help you write that novel.
I hear that.

I spent nearly 4 years doing OO PHP. I enjoy coding a lot more now I'm rocking ruby/rails.

If anything this article has made me more inclined to check out python/django.
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For a writer, a computer is nothing but an enhanced typewriter. Limited upside (functionality of scrivener e.g.), huge downside (lots of attention-draining distractions).
> But work such as Bell's theorem shows that no deterministic equation could ever be consistent with quantum mechanics:

This isn't quite right, because you left out the word 'local' - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_interpretation

Bell's theorem applies only to _local_ hidden variables.
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I'd love to hear why Penrose really thinks the Everett interpretation is crazy. He gives a very weak reason in the interview. No doubt he accepts the atomic theory of matter, despite his inability to see atoms, so his inability to see superpositions should not prevent him from accepting quantum mechanics. It would be interesting to hear him address that.
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It's amazing just how nuts you can go within the Dwarf Fortress game engine. I spent ages building my wooden stilted fortress entirely out of lumber. Farms were created by hauling buckets of water up onto the roof to make mud and plucking wild berries for seeds to plant.

Another fun consequence of the game engine is how the creature generation created Zombie Sharks all by itself. According to the game's rules, any creature can be zombified, and one of the results of this is that the creature no longer needs to breathe. You haven't known fear until you have seen zombie sharks flopping along on land, heading your way.
Excellent idea. Thoughtscream Media doesn't even have an official site up yet, at this time - alas, almost certainly one of the many flaws in our application. Oh well, it didn't cost us to make the effort, even if we're so barely starting out, the wheels've barely begun to turn.

Actually, does content format experiments on a /personal/ blog even count as going anywhere right now?

In lieu of getting into a debate about that, our twitter accounts:

@ThoughtScreamM (group)
@JCThoughtscream (editor)
@SCThoughtscream (technical)

I'll post my audiovisual cofounder's account once I convince him that Twitter's actually worth investing time in.
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That's a Good Thing. Ever spent a year adding data to a site (like oh, say, Stumbleupon) only to notice that there's no way to get your work out? I did. DL lets you export to several other blogformats. That's much cooler.
I agree on the need for this. I am working on a similar project, oriented towards students: http://www.aleveo.com/ideas

IMHO, more discussion there is on ideas, more people are willing to cross the threshold and actually start working.
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They offer the same functionality (more or less)... Factory objects just feel like overkill - usually they carry no state of their own, so why are they objects? If you could pass around functions, you could just use them instead.

x_factory_proto :: GlobalParams -> InitParams -> X
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x_factory = x_factory_proto some_params
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This is the kind of thing you should wait a few days to post.
I love the stupid simplicity of ShoveBox (that's a complement, btw). If I wasn't already hooked on Yojimbo, I'd probably switch. Sometimes Yojimbo feels just a tad too complicated for my needs and I find myself just saving a link as a (temporary) bookmark in Safari instead of creating a Yojimbo note, but by and large, Yojimbo does the trick for me.

As the only things I write are technical papers, I don't have much use for either Mariner or WriteRoom (this is where LaTeX and Microsoft Word with its automated bibliography and table of contents shine).. But 'Hordes of Orcs' seems pretty cool. I previously trialed Twitterific but didn't like it much - TweetDeck is so much better.

I don't know whether or not TinyGrab will come in handy; I think it's one of those apps you've got to live to truly appreciate it.

At any rate, nice bundle. Thanks :)
No, I can personally testify to what the Op says; In general people in the Python/django community are quite stingy with up votes.

See S Lott (or Alex Martelli) and Jon Skeet for instance; There are many, many good programmers in Python tags giving many good answers; but to be only at +2 and an accepted.

In the C# tag on the other hand, or if you yourself, once in a while ask a question on git or svn, you can notice how many upvotes and points those questions get.

In general, I tend to up vote liberally, particularly for the Python community related questions; but there is a limit to number of upvotes as well ;)
I think they do have a system in place that detects "upvoted answers by same user, only, so many times"
Great idea. This might actually get me to start using Twitter again. I'm @chaosprophet.
Don't forget though that your presenting a solution to the problem expressed in that blog.

If the solution didn't excite them it's hardly contradictory :)

Good luck with it though; sounds exciting!
From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
I've flagged this, not because I think it's inappropriate, but because I think you might regret phrasing it as you have. I agree with davidw - I think you should wait a few days, then put up a post.

It's great that you're not discouraged. Just because you didn't excite them, it doesn't mean you don't have something great. But I think you should wait a few days, then think again about your exact wording.

On the other hand, maybe you've said exactly what you want, and having said it, you can move on.

Whatever you decide - Good Luck!
With a smug smile on my face, I notice that most of this list is impossible to do in Haskell.
I think there are different monsters. One thing is to project what are you going to do in the next five years and another completely different is to forecast what are you going to "sell". I think the post implies that the later is crap. For the former I imagine that all of us know that things are going to change (as I think you imply too about a PhD program).
It's funny, but to be certain that consciousness can be explained by known laws - we just don't know exactly how - itself requires faith and is quite unscientific.

Although I too believe it.
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But as a entrepreneur, Do you really know that data? What are your sources? What are your tools to make the forecast?
Yes, generally you do not have any of them and they know that. Your forecast is just a very empirical calculation with a large margin of error.
It's beyond advice. It's the energy, community, contacts, drive, and exposure that you get to a community of like minded entrepreneurs. Getting _into_ that community is something that may change you for the rest of your life. Even just going for the _interview_ may be a life changing experience, regardless of whether you are funded.

In Silicon Valley, you see something similar in companies - there is this massive meritocracy and cross pollination that takes place. Companies get successful. Employees vest out and go form new companies. Then they reach back into their (metaphorical) Rolodex and pull colleagues from years passed who went through the most intense interview ever - working side-by-side for multiple years. It's why I recommend anyone from outside the valley interested in technology, particularly early in their career, to take any job they can get with a good valley company, and pay absolutely no attention to their salary. None. Once you are established, the money will follow.

But it's all about getting in the door, taking that first step. YC is one of those first steps for startup founders.
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