skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that just having folks enter free-form information works amazingly well too.

The caveat is that you have to make sure error handling sucks a bit less; otherwise, you run into people getting frustrated that their country isn't listed or that they're using a foreign name for it or similar.

... or maybe you could dump those cases into a customer service bin straight away and have those folks talk to a real human to straighten things out.
Yeah, I think it's possible (although unlikely) for someone to be able to privately build an AI that can compete at the pro level. As you say, they would have access to all the papers published by AI researchers.

There is always a chance that someone has come up with a new approach. For example, the introduction of Monte Carlo search trees http://senseis.xmp.net/?MonteCarlo to computer was hugely successful. An AI on a 9x9 board can now compete at the Dan level. Obviously that's a long way from top-level 19x19 strength but it does show there is always room for a completely new approach.
A better alternative might be just to list the name of the country the users's IP address is originating from, in no input field, just as text - with some button or method of changing it - that could bring up a nicely organized/filterable country list.
Don't drop-downs already have "find as you type"? Focus on a drop-down, press a few letters.
From the webpage it seems that UAE emulates the m68k, not the ARM processor.
I can name a couple. Both from Norway, both a joy to work with.

Ole Martin Kristiansen: http://piraja.no

Does outstanding work, plain and simple. I'm a Django developer, and I've worked with him on a couple of projects. Without prior knowledge to the way Django templates work, he was able to pick up very fast. Has good knowledge of Wordpress. (Full disclosure: I developed the system behind that site)

Simon Bognø: http://simonsays.no

As you can see on his site, I've already made a public recommendation. :-)
Fantastic fellow, also does tremendous work. Has good knowledge of Wordpress, and was able to get an understanding of Django's templates quickly.

I don't really do a lot in the Rails space, so I can't tell you if they're a great fit there… But all in all I'd say they're great designers, and more important, great people to work with.

Edit:

Oh, and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain of http://31three.com markets himself as a person who provides "Creative services for the design-challenged developer".
Never talked to the guy, though.
I understand the technology- but my qualms is with the process and the time-lines mentioned with regards to the interception. Why cannot the sanction process be 24 x 7? Also, why should a sanction of such a critical action like reading someone's email go unreviewed for two months?

We are in 2009 and not in 1984, right?

I feel this has misuse written all over it. And unfortunately, I feel GPG is not really the answer here for 99% of the email users (unless gmail and yahoo decide to turn it on by default).
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(Well, that was easy. I wish I could up-vote this 100 times.)
On a related note, can anyone point to any writings/information on Kurzweil's work in this area?
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I specialize in interface design for web applications.

My standard rate is $75/hour.
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Good point, I didn't think about retrieving the answer. Is that something can be done with gates or is there another method?

My (simplistic) understanding is this: you need to think of the "registers" in a qc as not storing one value but essentially a probability distribution, so your operations are really convolutions of those distributions. "reading" from the register is a measurement, which collapses the wavefunction into a set of states which happen to share the value for the attribute you are measuring. The outcome of the measurement is random but governed by the probability distribution that the system has for that attribute at that point. You need to make the desired answer stand out in that distribution (i.e. more likely to come up), otherwise you won't have gained anything vs a classical computer.

Seems like you might be right in the short term, but I wonder if it will be true in the long term.

I'm having a hard time understanding this stuff at the micro level, whereas assembly language of a classical computer is trivial in comparison. I made the FPGA and concurrency analogy because you have to account for global state, not just the state of registers touched by one instruction. Except the "global state" in a qc is a different beast entirely. I guess I don't have a clue what these abstractions might look like so I'm going to accept that you may well be right.
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Please don't look too closely at the code, there are some things in there that need a bit of refactoring :-)
I'm not certain that bookstores are going to be put out of business quite as thoroughly as record stores have been. Music is a bit different from books. It's actually easier and better for me to have my music in digital format, because then I can play it where and when I like. When it was on records or CDs, it was still getting converted into electric signals before it came out of the speakers, so the medium is unimportant.

On the other hand, I like having physical books. I enjoy the medium. I also like having good books in bookshelves, I think it looks good and they're nice to have around (like fine art and furniture, fine books tell you something about people - that might be elitist, but I'm not afraid of that label).

Certainly book stores will be under a lot of pressure. But interestingly enough, the small book store that opened up near my home recently has been getting me books that are cheaper than what I've found online. Mainly this is because they do not charge me shipping (their books arrive in bulk orders, presumably shipping is spread out that way).

I've been finding books online, and then emailing the owner to get her to order them in for me!
Noticing comments on the high degree of proficiency of the competition(or so is the perception.)

Anyone know of any particular markets where a small timer might have a better go at it due to insufficient volume to attract the bigger players, or for any other factors?
how much do these guys usually charge? with design you can end up paying $100-$100K for the same thing, and it's hard to know how much each charges
It was said in jest. Price is obviously a factor.
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To me it is totally clear that ebook readers will dominate. The key technology is e-ink, which is not luminescent. I believe that luminescent displays are more difficult to read and that products like sony reader and amazon kindle will get smaller, more efficient (remember, only need power to change the page, you can power this with a handleheld generator or solar cell) and eventually replace paper altogether. Also, paper requires killing all those tree things which are so convenient for breathing...
> Rarity: If text is not online, it doesn't exist.

Be careful with that line of thinking. Time and again throughout the history of the digital age, data has ceased to exist precisely because it was in a digital form. Consider this remark from the US National Archives: "By the mid 1970s, when computer tapes for the 1960 census came to the attention of archivists, there remained only two machines capable of reading them. One was already in the Smithsonian. The other was in Japan!" An entire task force now exists at the National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/era/papers/preservation.html) to address the problem of expiring data formats (old cassettes, magnetic tape, etc).

Take the following hypothetical: if Google goes under sometime in the next decade, and takes all of its data with it, the thousands of volumes that have been archived by the Google Books project will persevere only because university libraries around the world have copies of them on their shelves. Data continue to exist even when they're not immediately available to us at our terminals.

[And this is most certainly not the forum for this, but if I'm reading between the lines correctly you seem to be speciously implicating that Judaism was surpassed by Christianity as the predominant western religion because of its failure to embrace the printing press, but I would point out to you that a.) I own a lovely bound copy of the Tanakh, published by the JPS and available from Amazon for the low low price of $23.10, b.) the total number of adherents of Christianity had leapfrogged Judaism by at the latest the 4th century--a full millennium before Gutenberg--and would only continue to skyrocket seeing as it was the de facto faith of a sprawling political empire, and c.) Judaism is an inherently non-evangelical faith, so talk of such competitive tallying is really irrelevant anyway.]
First off, I'd invest in combined washer/dryer machines. This would eliminate the need for you to move clothes from one machine to another.

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Add a bunch of other automated conveniences, which replicate aspects of a Cafe, gym, bookstore, co-working office, copy center, post office, etc. But have superior design and decor, with attendants onsite to ensure the place stays clean and comfortable.

Your "airlock" might be key. Concentrate resources to keep a "core" area with optimum presentation and maximally clean and comfortable. Have these areas separated from the other "utility" areas.

Basically, you'd be pooling infrastructure expenses for various conveniences with other users.

This sort of thing has happened before. In the old days it was called a "city block." Unfortunately, such infrastructure leaves something to be desired in terms of design. The result is less than optimally clean and convenient.

I wonder if there's an opportunity for a new kind of "co-working mall" as infrastructure? Have private-enterprise services compete to provide services, all within a few minutes walk, inside an optimally designed environment? (Perhaps these could start inside Hotels and Airports?)
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Quantum computing has nothing to do with making computers smaller.
The excuses are part of the explanation ;) I don't know why people expect to have metaphors from the macro world that can be readily applied to quantum mechanics - the whole particle-wave duality for example seems just an attempt to explain experimental results / equations with two partially broken complementary metaphors - just because this is all we have at hand in the everyday world...
One thing I noticed right away is:

I entered in what I wanted to do, and I'm instantly prompted to register. Fair enough, this is a common pattern. But after I've registered, the thing I entered in already isn't listed, and I have to re-enter it. I was very much expecting that information to carry over.

I can't speak for everyone, but this doesn't solve a problem I've ever had, and it doesn't seem any more useful than an email or Facebook status update.
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Yeah, Accelerando was a book I thought important, and wanted to love, but only like. Rainbows End was entertaining, but not like Vinge's earlier stuff, in my opinion. Ah, well. :)
thank you for pointing this out.. we are currently fixing it.. much much appreciated!
Wow, accurate and a great reply. Thanks a lot.
Definitely, I understand what you mean.

These two are not the kind of guys you'll find on crowdSPRING, but they're not the most expensive either. I can't provide you with any absolute "project total" numbers, but the first one I mentioned (Ole Martin Kristiansen, piraja.no) usually goes for about €75/hour on larger projects. In my experience, he's always worked quickly and to the point.

The second one is probably in that range as well, although I can't make any guarantees (and he's not currently on GTalk).
Prof. Boahen gave a talk at TED a couple of years ago. This article doesn't really shed any new info on what they are doing. The video is really interesting and contains a simple demo: http://blog.ted.com/2008/07/kwabena_boahen.php
I've been thinking about this and the best I can come up with is the same as smanek's answer. It's not a form of computation; I'd say it's a physical concept rather than a mathematical one. Retrieving information about a quantum system's state changes that that state. Moreover, it is impossible to have a complete set of information about the system's state.
I was also a little puzzled by the post hoc ergo propter hoc tone of his assertion that "Human beings have no trouble keeping seven ideas in their head (hence the seven digit phone number)", if for no other reason than that I have an easier time remembering my social security number than my own phone number.

Positing the existence of the decimal system because humans evolved with ten fingers is something I can get behind. The seven-digit phone number, on the other hand, I'd probably attribute to other causes.
Just so I'm clear about this, it appears that you believe several old pros about brass instruments, but you don't believe several old pros about violins going to sleep.

Is that right?
I'll mention some names in a moment. First, I want to offer an anecdote about the extent to which brains can be wired differently.

For awhile I was in a business partnership where I wrote code and I worked with a designer. One day a friend told us that she had started a new yoga studio and she wanted to show us her new business card, which was done in the shape of a bookmark - long and narrow. At the top was a photo, at the bottom was a quote from Hinduism. The quote was about acceptance and suffering.

The next day myself and my partner were at restaurant. The service was terrible. I jokingly repeated the quote about acceptance and suffering. My partner gave me a blank look.

"I'm quoting from that business card that we saw yesterday," I said.

"What quote?" she asked.

"The text at the bottom."

"I don't remember it."

"It was under the photo."

She then began describing the photo. She remembered in astonishing detail - camera angle, lighting, pose, shadows. I hardly remembered it at all.

It struck me that I had a good memory for text, whereas my partner had a good visual memory. And I've noticed that is fairly common division among programmers and designers.

The point of this story is that programmers and designers have brains that are wired in very different ways. I assume some of that difference in wiring is essential for any of us to be good at what we do.

Having said all that, I'd say the best designer I've worked with, and who is currently open to accepting free-lance work, is Darren Hoyt: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/
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Hm. What if it was actually the musician being out of practice that was creating this perceived difference? My mom is a piano teacher, so I've heard a lot of pianos and a lot of piano players over the years. A "poor" piano can sound quite good in the hands of a musical player, and a Steinway can sound "off" in the hands of a mechanical or out of practice musician.

If an instrument hasn't been played in months, odds are the person who owns the instrument hasn't played on it in months either.
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Fix released and tested, it should now retain your activity when you create an account :-)
Going to the world series of poker is slightly different as there's potentially a contract established between you and the promoters via your ticket.
Regarding versus Facebook status. Facebook status will move very fast. If you post "I want to go and see Batman" in a couple of days time everyone will have forgotten about it. This keeps track over time.

Initially we planned it to have tight facebook integration but the facebook api proved to be an enormous pain, so we cut our losses to built what we could build in a weekend.

Also we wanted an android/iphone front end which would be good for realtime activities (i.e I want to go to the pub this evening) but again it was a time thing.
Books have another advantage over CDs in that they are easier to browse in store. If I'm walking through a book store and see a book that looks interesting it's easy to pick up and quickly read a bit to see if it interests me. No one ever really solved that problem with CDs.

I often walk into a book store with no real plan of buying anything and walk out with a book or two I happened to spot and decided that I wanted after reading a bit.
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This won't work for a simple reason: No violin sounds the same as itself from one day to another.

Violins are made of wood. Wood is acutely sensitive to temperature and humidity. Moreover, a stringed instrument made of wood is also sensitive to time: The strings stretch, thanks to the well-known phenomenon of "creep". They move around on the bridge as the rest of the instrument expands and contracts. They also stretch and shift with use. Violins use friction-fit wooden tuning pegs, so they certainly won't stay in tune over time.

Then, even if you place the instrument in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment, as soon as you take it out of the case and play the thing all bets are off. A violinist is a big, moist, warm thing, in intimate contact with the instrument, who keeps moving the strings back and forth and up and down while applying strain to the neck.

Nobody who actually plays an instrument like a violin [1] would doubt that a violin that sits in a box for six months will sound different than it did on the day it was put into the box. The only question is whether the difference is systematic or random, and whether there is really any "mystery" there. I would hypothesize that if you stored your violin under conditions which simulated (to a sufficient degree of accuracy) the temperature, humidity, and (perhaps) string-stretching cycles that occur when the violin is used, you would find that the "mysterious" "sleeping" phenomenon would become undetectable. But by that point you've gone to an awful lot of trouble just to rediscover the usual rule of thumb: To keep your instrument sounding like it would if it were regularly exposed to a violin player who sweats just like you do (and constantly retunes the instrument to compensate), just play the thing every day!

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[1] I play the banjo. It's even worse. It's very hard to get the darned thing into tune at all (the source of endless banjo jokes) and it goes out of tune very quickly. The pros spend a lot of time cursing airplanes (which tend to expose your instrument to a fairly profound temperature and humidity cycle, especially if you check it into the hold) and stage lights, which are nice and warm, and which therefore start putting your instrument out of tune the minute you go onstage. But even beyond that: The tone changes when you change the pick angle subtly, or put more or less pressure on the big drum head under the bridge, or put any strain on the neck, or stand differently relative to the wall...
Also not the addressee, but I'd probably bet at about an 80% confidence level that you could not demonstrate a consistent preference for the sound quality for an instrument that has been played recently versus one that has been sitting in a climate controlled environment for a year. This means there is a real chance that I'd lose, so I have to base my bet size on what size loss I could sustain. For me, that would mean I'd bet up to several (single-digit) thousand dollars.

My actual confidence level is somewhat higher, but I have to factor in the rate of false-positives. And while I certainly could be wrong, and I'm certainly not an expert in this area, I don't feel like I'm going in blind: I have a general physics background, I've done basic violin repairs, and I have a general sense of how difficult it is to prove any consistent effect regarding taste and perception.

[Edit: why are people voting RiderOfGiraffes down for asking question?]
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While less is more in online forms is good advice, the thing about 7 items is wrong in this context. This is because while you may only keep 7 items in your head at any time you're not actually using this skill when filling out your form -- you're just scanning down the list for a particular item you need, not trying to memorize the whole list. Even if you're trying to choose between comparable items, you're still memorizing those few items, not the whole list.
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For several decades a sufficiently large number of books will be sold to make enough money out of production, distribution, storage, and sale. Then BOD will take over but books will be still there.
Totally agree. While I respect LinkedIn's decision (saying no is hard), it sounds like a bad move.
Unfortunately, the energy needed to build & power ebook readers & to generate & distribute ebooks (incl. maintaining the necessary server farms and other ICT infrastructure) doesn't grow on trees.
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I really like the idea behind this. Best of luck.

I'd prefer an OAuth twitter integration.
I wonder if it sends the wrong message. They hold their general guidelines higher than user judgement. You have to trust your users learn about the social environment of a network. The network is ultimately the users, not the companies, and the sooner businesses figure this out, the better.

Any site could have my photo, and my resume. If LinkedIn wants to be truly valuable, they have to differentiate by giving me professional super tools.

Helping me find jobs for my unemployed friends would be an incredible value add.
Haha this was the first thing I prototyped into my bashrc to incorporate the idea. I used the suggested "$@" myself.
True. Each side has their own set of advantages/disadvantages. And so you'd have to adapt and take that into consideration in addition to bid/ask spread. It's not impossible (nothing is impossible), and you'd only get killed by brokerage fees if you're overtrading.

If you can find an algorithm that can trade only a few times a day and ride stocks that has a volatility of 1% or more then even at retail commission levels you can still do pretty well as you slowly build up your account to trade strategies that require more churn.
Seems like the Go language's implementation of Interfaces would be very useful here!
A humble question form design-challenged developer: at $75/hr how long would it take to design a prototype of a site similar to the Guestlist of yours (i.e. what's the total price usually)?