skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If the AI is evil it would argue the exact same thing in order to deceive us meatbags.

But if it knows you'll find a proposition fishy, why would it waste time following through that decision branch? I figure a conversation with the AI would avoid the "but-I-am-telling-the-truth" paradox altogether, in favor of a conversation that focuses on easily verifiable data.

>> It would be easy for the AI to get one of the assumptions subtly wrong, to abuse a flaw in our proof verification software, and so on.

I think the flaw abuse is unlikely given that the AI would not know how the verification system works and it only has one go at trying to crack/fool it (without any one catching on, at that).

The misunderstanding of scope due to complexity is an interesting point. Three things come to mind:

- paradigms: Thread safety is mind-boggling in procedural paradigms, but a non-issue in functional.

- abstraction: the AI should be able to give you readable, modularized, unambiguous, testable code, rather than a monolithic rats' nest.

- scope: if an AI can help me find good restaurants, that's a feature; if it can weigh human life, that's a bug :)
Does WoW use TCP for all communication?
A line my 63 year old dad recently told me: "People spend first half of their lives spending health to earn money, and the second half of their lives spending money to recover their health"
Guarantees, SLAs, and Hollow Promises
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Thanks for your reply, and I can definitely see what you mean.

To clarify, our site can be searched by anyone, but to create a post or message someone through the site you must be signed up. I see what I'm doing as bringing the classified space into the 21st century by streamlining the process!

Still, what you have said demands consideration. Interesting.
Thank you, but was there anything specific you would suggest so that we could improve it?
En passant only needs 3 bits to encode the file ("column") containing the eligible pawn. The rank ("row") is inferred from the context -- whose move it is. (W=5, B=4)

3 bits always suffice to indicate either (a) a pawn en prise (as it were) or (b) no en passant possible because there's no enemy pawn on the proper square for that file. (You can't have pawns on all 8 files and at the same time have one eligible for en passant capture, since you've got to have an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file. So in the usual case of no en passant you just pick a file not occupied by a pawn of the right color, alternatively one of the right color not adjacent to a pawn of the color to move. This is always possible).
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Presumably, he works in a branch.
The usefulness of an SLA is not the refund to the customer. It is the cost to the provider, which if painful enough, assures the customer that the provider has incentive to keep the service up.

This blog post says, in so many words, they would rather not be bound by such incentives. (and they are seeking customers who have no such requirements.)
I am pretty sure every word is slang for penis in some language.
My own definition: "Math is a language for describing phenomena that can be precisely defined."
SGI used to sell setups like this called reality centers. At first they seem like a gimmick, but they're terribly useful. When you can get a few people together and have an "ah ha!" moment within a minute of loading up your problem that can pay for itself in a matter of weeks.

Wish this stuff would come down market to be more mainstream. Maybe google will help with that.
He also said he wouldn't take his mom's money, so this was also to prove something to himself.
Maybe not, but they still would have been reporting on a new table, whether it was positive reporting or not remains to be seen.
Is modern web design too like print design?
Totally agreed about understanding how tools work being useful.

I'd just be wary of using an extremely complex tool. From what I can tell, this "C++" looks like it could self-destruct at any minute, unless handled by an expert. Perhaps that makes the case even more strongly that you ought to filter your hires most strictly, but I wonder whether there might exist a simpler tool that could do the job with fewer risks.
One, obviously, is rigor: every step is justified by formal rules, there are no appeals to intuition or leaps of logic.

I am not certain that is entirely true. In areas that are long settled, this has often been made true, but that is often long after the fact, and often done through a process of "monster barring".

That is someone proposes a definition upon which theorems are built, and someone else later will present an object which meets the technical definition but which clearly did not meet the intent of the definition. So the technical definition is revised to exclude that. And the process repeats, narrowing the definition to remove that problem but often in the process making it more difficult to come to an intuitive understanding of that formal definition. One historical example of this was in the definition of polygon.

Areas of active research do tend to appeal to intuition, at least to a degree, until the formalism can be completed. Historically that formalism has often come from other hands than the original researchers and often either in the process of "monster barring" or as the final touch after several iterations of it.

In practice, even in areas where full rigor is absolutely possible, it can be terious beyond any use if there is no debate or challenge. Mathematical papers often do not have complete formalism and even text books on fully settled areas often do not try to justify every single step if there is no reason for it. Perhaps a better definition is that it must be possible in principle to justify every step by formal rules.
economies of scale and fixed costs apply for most products that involve manufacturing. Not only for cutting edge ones
But there were some other cars that had their names changed, like the "Pagero", that sounds like someone that frequently masturbates :-)
Yes, I too found that ironic. But it remains a beautiful and well written insight into the mind of a great mathematician and into why he went into mathematics himself.
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A good point.

And by the way, thanks so much for your work on OpenBSD (assuming you are the Ted Unangst of legend). I've been using it for years, and I appreciate the dedication of the folks who created it.
In Spain it was introduced by Tarzan films.
I'll tell you what VCs look for : zero risk and a short to mid-term ROI of several thousand percent. You, on the other hand, are looking for bags of cash with no risk and no strings attached.

Going with a VC means entering a relationship. If you read this list and went 'oh yeah, I never thought of that!', you don't want to go near a VC.

VCs mean (potentially) millions invested in your company. Not revenue, certainly not profits, but investment. Millions in investment is going to be protected one way or another, which means you should have beancounters and legal advisors before you even talk to a VC.

Once you start talking to VCs, don't accept whatever comes your way. You have plenty of time to talk to other people.

Develop a relationship and establish some trust before you dive in there. VCs come in all kinds of different forms. Some just have bags of money and want you for their lottery, some have less money but can contribute in other ways (networks, financial management, etc).

If you have a successful product it's likely that at some point you'll need extra capital for expansion or product growth which is a lot more than you can loan from a bank. Take your time, look around, talk to people and remember that you don't have to make a decision overnight.
I'm kind of suprised they don't have some sort of analytic system in place to detect this sort of thing automatically.

I hope they are working on one, as manually discovering this thing with the amount of apps/developers would be nigh impossible. The only trouble would be with false positives, so then you'd need an additional manual review system on top of that (of which one would think they're already short on reviewers anyway).
Damn you for making me want an Android-based phone, Google! First free turn-by-turn navigation, now this. Argh. Once AT&T gets a good Android phone, I'm switching.
When trying to look at a product you're thinking of buying, ignore the 5 star reviews. Those are always a mix of fanboys (whose posts amount to "<insert product here> is awes0me!!1!1"), people paid to rate it high and other people who like the product but don't tend to have much useful to say (you tend to already know all of the advantages of the product from the marketing department). Looking at the 1 and 2 star reviews is always better as you tend to get an idea of what the problems with the product are and why you might not like it. A balanced approach will always give you the most information.
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There's a lot of nuance to getting partnerships and getting distribution on your product. It's a different mindset that needs to be learned. In most cases, early-stage web startups should have at least one person who is capable of getting in the door (at minimum, an engineering person who can also do biz dev). It is rarely the case that you just make something and let the orders stream in. People don't know about the product yet and there's a lot of work involved in convincing them that you are capable of actually producing the device at scale or even at all. Just off the top of my head, if you see things like Twitter using bit.ly instead of tinyurl like what happened earlier this year, that wasn't a technical decision, that was done through business development and leverage.

It really depends on what it is you are producing, but in this particular case of the JooJoo/Crunchpad/whatever marketing and sales is probably part of the fundamental strategy. If a lot of time and money has been invested in something, it would be a major oversight to not have somebody who can specialize in distribution/marketing.
So if I were very hypothetically having recurrent dreams of making my next Rails app a game, what would you tell me to bring me to my senses?
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According to the FlyerTalk thread (which is over 400 pages!! apparently, this has been going on since sometime last year...), credit card companies are becoming wise to this trick and are starting to treat purchases of the coins as cash advances (thus subject to fees and no rewards). I'm sure the WSJ front page article will only speed this along...
Sort of... the point was more that the promises are pretty hollow in the first place. We don't need financial penalties being applied to motivate us to keep our service up, at least beyond the natural loss of customers if we were to be down for an extended period of time. I think offering anything beyond that, for a service as low-cost as ours, would be lying to our customers.
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I agree. $499 is a deal-breaker for me. I will happily wait for Apple's device now.
Oh come on. Linode 2880 is ~100 EUR/month and you get far less computing power for your money.

You can also ask for a KVM over IP console to be attached to your server (for free for 2 hours) though this would only be needed when you have an emergecy (i.e. machine not reachable over SSH). There is no bandwith limit (you're capped to 10 Mbit if you exceed 2TB/month).

Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
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Well, Jason, we work hard --- harder than most people in 9-5 jobs, to be sure --- but we all have work lives and home lives and things we do besides work. And we're doing pretty well.

37signals at one point was officially working four days a week.

So there's two counterexamples.

Submitted as evidence for my side of the argument: all the startups that killed themselves working 90 hours a week, and took their companies with them.
Yes.

But as per the other response here, I'm not sure it's using the video so much as the location and orientation to deliver results.

I'd like to see a version, like the still-photos, whereby the search engine is translating in real time as new objects enter the frame.

While I'm at it, I'd like it to perform these tasks with a T-800-style HUD.

Droid indeed.
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By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.
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Does not quite answer the question, but a true ode to mathematics:

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."

Betrand Russell: "Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays". [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25447]
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The broadcasting loop shouldn't take too long... I'm pretty sure that the socket.send() calls are non-blocking.
I could be wrong, I haven't tested my (toy) chat server that thoroughly. :-P

In general, the single threaded evented model tends to scale better than the process/thread per connection model for large numbers of connections.
Having to context switch between 10,000 threads/processes typically means the OS spends a lot of time doing context switching instead of IO.

I'm not sure how Clojure implements agents, it may already handle having 10,000 concurrent agents efficiently. I'd be curious to know.

Also, there's a great article about network programming, which you may have read. It's called "The C10K Problem", which talks about scaling to 10,000 concurrent connections.

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

.. really good article, well worth a read if you haven't already.
Just tried it on my G1; This works really well.
Fully integrated augmented reality. Once we get mind-machine interfaces working, we could have an application that looks at every object around you, checks which one you're focusing on and somehow the entire Wikipedia article on it is already in your mind.
My vision for the future involves ending world hunger, a Mars base, and an alternative energy source to power everything in the world. To accomplish these things I will set a budget of $5 dollars. Because I see it's the right amount of money to charge for all that.

I'm going to call my plan "The Future." Since I just wrote about it online, in a comment, any time any one reference The Future, or even mention the future, and it includes some aspect of my plan I demand you credit me and attribute me as being involved. Because I wrote about the idea first.

Also, the blogosphere agrees with me about ending world hunger, having a Mars base, and the need for an alternative fuel source so I'm right. Because we all know if it's popular then it's more important than the truth and popular people are always the best judges of plausibilities in an intellectual property legal dispute where there are no legal documents.

This is why Michael Arrington won.
if it was more than a toy, 499 would be fine with me. the atom processor (if its the dual core) is okay. the hard drive space, memory, and overall os just aren't appealing. at 499 I want a real computer, not a toy. that's my problem with things like chromeos- they're gravitating us towards a lower common denominator of computing. were conditioning people to go for cheap toys, that don't really do much. i'd rather go for things that don't cost a ton, but cost something and act like a real computer.
Agreed, and lying is never a great idea. But you also specifically noted that you do not invest in the kind of solutions that help ensure better uptime stats. And other sites that have failover and other HA techniques are not making empty promises. They are showing that they intend to try harder, and your blog post so much as admits they really do try harder (with more expensive architecture, and the willingness to be penalized on failure.)

So, regardless of the icing on the cake, you seek customers who do not rely on uptime. That's a valid choice, and I mean no disrespect. I'm just calling it what it is.
In most companies with in-house applications, access to the wireless network equates in some low number of moves to root access to production servers. Losing your wifi is a big deal.
The CrunchPad was a cool idea, what would make it a real winner for hackers is if the hardware and software were open sourced. I know hardware is a bit more difficult to open source, especially if you are purchasing necessary components from other vendors, but it's still a fun idea. esp. for something like the CrunchPad :)
See I read those two code snippets exactly the same.

The 'verbose' one, I read as ...println("Hello, world!")...

Perhaps I'm not normal, but I 'see' those code snippets to be identical in terms of code.

Lets face it, we're never going to be bound by typing speed, and as I say, there's no chance of getting a bug into that 'verbosity' in java. So the only real issue is down to taste, which is up to the individual.
Guess not. Could be because I tend to focus on the article rather than wandering around all over the place.
How much time does a bootstrapped company take? All of it.

Every successful bootstrapper I know puts work before self.

Which is funny, because I've been used by Jason as an example of a successful bootstrapper before. (+) I don't know if he knows my work habits, but here there are: over the last three years I have averaged less than 5 hours a week on my business. The most I've ever worked is during the week right before launch (my, ahem, entire development schedule), which was about 50 hours. (I was working a day job at the time, although it was fairly undemanding. Two jobs at once made me get sick. I promised never to do that again.)

A typical weekday sees me get up, check my email for 10 minutes, go to the day job, come back you-don't-want-to-know hours later, check my email for 10 minutes, and go to sleep. On the weekend I'll (sometimes) put in three or four hours on Saturday. When I get inspired by a project I'll split ten hours across Saturday/Sunday.

I know there are a million things to do. Believe me, been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Outsource, automate, eliminate.

Example: bookkeeping. In a traditional small business, bookkeeping can actually take time. For most of us, on the other hand: use the computer, that's what it is for. 98% of the bookkeeping entries I need to make are done by a computer program. The other 2% I put into a web form. It took 2~3 hours to write the software (once, about 18 months ago) and about 5 minutes to do data entry every month.

I remain convinced that we create our own pathologies in this industry. It is like being a salaryman -- the lifestyle sucks so bad because everyone around you thinks it should suck so bad and if it isn't sucking you must be doing it wrong. Is there an objective justification for working 80 hour weeks? No. It is a social phenomenon -- you use "all my role models work crazy hours" to convince you to work crazy hours even if, in point of fact, your role models don't work crazy hours.

+ Citation:

http://www.building43.com/blogs/2009/09/14/too-small-to-fail...

Looking at the embedded sales graph there is seriously weirding me out, incidentally. "I remember when almost hitting $3k was a lot of sales! Wow, that's a blast from the past... wait, that was a few months ago?!"
I would like to see more accessible exposition of modern mathematics to the interested public. There seem to be two opposing forces - assuming more prerequisites lets you talk more easily and go into more depth, but cuts your target market very quickly. Is this an inevitable dilemma?
I also think the price isn't right and that I can't imagine many sales at that price.

But you must admit that presenting "let's make it for $199" as a valuable idea is annoying. It's like those 'think outside the box' speakers that present Apple's "idea" as "Let's make a computer that isn't as big as a fridge and is cheap enough to be bought by normal people." There's an Ali G presents to Donald Trump aspect to it.
"The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps."
Thanks. I didn't realize it could be searched by anyone, although on a second look, it clearly can. I think I was distracted by the sign up form.

I still think an open API is the key.
Now I'm reminded why we are friends- well said.
As someone working in the recording industry, let me add my thoughts. First, I'm not surprised at all to read this. This sort of stuff is pretty common. Not because of greed or malevolence (at least not primarily) but because of the utter incompetence and chaos in the music industry. The big four companies (Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal) are enormous chaotic abominations where one department has no idea what the other department does (not unlike Microsoft or IBM in the software/tech industry). Corporate politics and ego plays a great part. Despite them constantly whining about the hardships caused by music piracy they grew way too comfortable as nothing really threatens their business model.

Don't get me wrong; we need record labels and publishers. Someone has to invest in discovering, coaching and marketing artists. This is not an anti-recording industry rant but as someone who really loves music I'm infuriated to see every day how incompetent the recording industry is.

Really I can imagine only two solutions: either a number of lawsuits like this delivers the shock to shake up the industry or emerging new competitors with better talent and more up-to-date views on the future of this business replace the old ones. Perhaps the second path would be better but to be successful in this industry, having money and being smart is not enough; you have to have lots of connections. Lots and lots of them.
Have any of you bothered to see how much it costs now to produce a prototype in China now? And do you really think that Fusion Garage is funding these factories themselves?

Wake up to the 21st century please.

Non-cutting edge electronics are cheaply produced in Asia. The "JooJoo" is made up of commodity electronics which means that these "low-tech" plants are easily able to solder and assemble the components together.

Fusion Garage is not building the factories, mining and smelting the ore, nor fabricating their own silicon...
> Where, then, is the desktop operating system not built
> of recycled crud? Where can I see a conceptually
> original system created after the 1980s?

MS Bob.

I'm serious. And the example I offered shows why a conceptually original system is not necessarily a good thing.
It depends what kind of game you're creating. For the kind of game we built it was a huge win. Some of the features were deployed in days.

Ruby might be slow, but in my experience as long as you give it a lot of RAM to play with it can give you great performance (we have over 200k registered players). Of course, we also cache data heavily using memcached.
Wow, very interesting thread. I read the whole thing and stand corrected.
This story was [dead]-ed once already since it's clearly nothing more than an ad for Rackspace Cloud. Apparently an effective one. Before you upvote, take a look at the 'story' here.
A working, shipping $499 tablet is a more important step on the path to a $199 tablet than just wishing for a $199 tablet.
So you think you want to upgrade your compact digital camera?