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I define information as the ability to make information, which means selecting from a low probability portion of a distribution. One precise description of this is:

1. You have a problem domain P to which the No Free Lunch Theorem applies, at least approximately. Thus, there are hard bounds on how well one algorithm can do compared to any other according to some metric.

2. Information is produced when an agent can perform significantly better than is algorithmically possible. One such metric is the compressibility of its search history.

Why is this my definition? Well, it is linked to our intuitive notion of learning and intelligence. As informally described by Hofstadter, it is an inherent ability to "step outside of the system." This means, at some time t I am behaving according to some rule set r, but at time t+c I understand the rule set and can reason about r instead of just being subject to r.

One specific result of being able to reason about a rule set is that I can take some well formed sentence, realize it can't be generated by the rule set, and use a simpler rule set to generate it. When framed in terms of Kolmogrov complexity, I'm exhibiting a general compression capability, which implies a general (though not total) capability to solve the halting problem.

Since a problem domain with structure can be compressed, this relates to my first example in that if an agent has a generally much more compressible history than mathematically expected in a (almost) No Free Lunch domain, it is exhibiting the ability to step outside of its environment's rules, reason about them, and thus compress them.

So, you can see that my definition of intelligence as the ability to create information specifies an unambiguous and measurable capability, which also happens to specify something algorithms are mathematically incapable of doing. Thus, I've have both defined intelligence and disproven the logical possibility of such an AI in one fell swoop.

BTW, this is not an original thought of mine. It is a direct result of intelligent design theory, the progeny of the absolutely brilliant William Dembski.
And now we're entering an interesting new chapter in the travel industry. Hard to see useful reasons for sub-orbital flights as of yet (other than get from A to B with unique scenery, and "hey, look at how much money I have") but then again, I'm sure much the same was said about air travel in the early days.

Regular docking with an orbital station would make space a lot more accessible, as you could then start using several types of ship to travel - one to get from earth to the station, then another for space, reducing the need for a vehicle to be efficient at both. Larger equipment can be hauled up in parts over multiple runs. Fresh food may even become commonplace in space...

I'd love to peek into the future and see how this develops over the next 20 to 50 years or so. Will it be more like the space-based sci-fi, or more mundane, with space becoming another "offshore" location for work to be outsourced to.
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Making inbound data transfer free really makes sense if they're charging you to store it and every time you access it.
Here is the problem I see with this idea.

Why would students pay for a rental book that is nearly the same price as a used book they can buy elsewhere (half.com, amazon, etc.) and also own it? At the end of the semester, they can sell the book they own for some extra cash instead of returning the rental book.
Thanks for clarifying that. Sounds neat, but, for those features, I question the $30 million price tag.
That sounds like clever engineering to me, not science.
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Yes, copy academia's intellectual rigor mortis.
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A 135 million word dictionary still leaves lots and lots of keyspace for choosing an unguessable "non dictionary" password :)
Dude, don't make me have to write another essay.

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I agree. I met a guy who dropped out of his undergrad, worked on wall street a couple years, and now is quite wealthy helping run an advertising startup.

School is a horrible route to getting wealthy. On the other hand, grad school used to be a good idea if you want to solely focus on specialized research in a community of likeminded individuals. But, I don't think it's even good for that anymore.
Nah, orbital is yet another major leap. Right now it's mainly a gee-whiz dealy.
Agreed that Social Media Can be used to defeat this Google move. Thanks for your opinion, it really give to fight this Google challenge..
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It's across all services though, not just S3. Right?
No, they won't. There's no financial incentive for Craigslist to innovate. They own the classifieds market. Jim will spew off some great CEO-speak as to why they're not going to provide an API. Craig will respond with a half-hearted answer about being community driven, and that if the community had wanted an api then they would already have an api.

I've been down this road with Craig before (lets just say he doesn't like being asked tough questions on panels or at parties).
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The free inbound transfer is NOT permanent. From the post:

"Finally, we are waiving the inbound data transfer fee across the board (for all services) through the end of June 2010."

It's nice, but let's not kid ourselves about its awesomeness.

Prediction: at the end of June, they'll magically realize that they can do this permanently and they fix the free inbound traffic, or at least have a healthy free amount before payment is started. This means there will be another round of news for them.
let's look at that claim in detail. For example, does this http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/drawinggal15lg.jpg
look to you like it was done by someone who couldn't draw? It's pretty darn accurately drafted.
I think it should be possible to defeat that argument by calling their bluff and making the community speak.
Well the claim that Cezanne couldn't draw is pretty obviously contradicted by his sketches, especially when you look at them "in the flesh".
t seems that the only way the competitor could have properly followed up on the strategy was to use the same process to arrive at that initial strategy, and subsequently evolve it into something that actually worked

Sorry, I'm not sure I follow this reasoning. Why is it critical that they come up with the initial strategy first in order to succeed? Why wouldn't stealing the initial strategy and then evolving it work? (Obviously one consider that the people who came up with the original idea had some insight that puts them a step ahead, but, to me, that doesn't seem like it would necessarily be enough).
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Thanks for the support guys! My co-founder Jerry wrote this but I didn't catch this HN post until today. Glad you all found it useful.
I lived on $50 for 2 weeks of food one summer stretch when money was really tight. Meals weren't incredibly healthy, though :)
False statements you have made about art:

"The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed." (easy refutation - go to sistine chapel, look up).

"What made oil paint so exciting, when it first became popular in the fifteenth century, was that you could actually make the finished work from the prototype."

This is not how people painted with oil until the 19th century. It was a very expensive medium requiring careful preparatory work, sketches, and so on.

"Most painters start with a blurry sketch and gradually refine it." - completely unsupported.

"Line drawings are in fact the most difficult visual medium" - yes, carving marble is much easier.

"When oil paint replaced tempera in the fifteenth century, it helped painters to deal with difficult subjects like the human figure because, unlike tempera, oil can be blended and overpainted." - again, this is how oil paint was used much later. At the time it was painted in thin, transparent layers that did not allow the kind of reworking you learned four hundred years later in art class.

And now we have 'Cézanne can't draw" to add to the list.

Many of your other statements about art fall more in the 'not even wrong' category - fatuous generalizations based on your own tastes, but presented as deep insights about the world.

So it is a little disingenuous of you to keep asking for people to point to specific places where you are wrong. The wrong is diffusely and uniformly distributed.
They did give us a specific reason: our idea still seemed too much cool tech and not enough of a business to them. Thus Jerry's "Assume Nothing" advice:

"Even if something about your product or plan is completely obvious to you and everyone you know, your interviewing audience won’t know about it. If you want to convey it, say it."
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I don't think so: Most premium-rate callcentres still lose money. It's not that easy to make a profit on 50 cts/min, of which half goes to the telco's.
I feel obliged to elaborate on my answer. Speaking from personal experience and evaluation, it doesn't even seem like a graduate school route is designed for entrepreneurship. I even think undergraduate is a bit iffy in terms of contribution to an entrepreneurship career. I've always kept school separate from what I learn about internet technologies and startups. Obviously there's some cross-over from school, but I'm sure whatever I don't learn from school I would have eventually learned elsewhere anyways, and probably more efficiently.

My point is that entrepreneurship requires a lot of self-motivation, and if you have that, you don't need school to learn what you need. School and its inefficiencies in instantly satisfying your curiosity will just impede your ability to learn if you were to do it yourself at your own pace.

School does offer resources and opportunities, but that's why you're paying to go there right? That money saved can be used for other things.
It's similar to the proof that all horses are the same color.

Suppose we have $n$ horses. It suffices to show they are all the same color. We do so by induction on $n$.

If $n=0$ or $n=1$, then, certainly all $n$ horses are the same color, so the base case holds.

For the inductive hypothesis, assume we've shown that all the horses in any group of $n-1$ or fewer horses are the same color, and suppose we are faced with a group of $n$ horses. Choose some horse arbitrarily and remove it, leaving a group of $n-1$ horses for our consideration. By the induction hypothesis, these horses are all the same color. Replace the horse we removed and then remove a different horse from the group. Likewise, these horses are all the same color. This then implies that all $n$ horses are the same color. Since $n$ is arbitrary, this shows that all horses are the same color.
As other people have said, the stock-photo girl has got to go. It makes me feel like you're trying to sell me insurance or tooth whitener or a mortgage or something.

My main issue after poking around the site for a couple minutes is that I still can't tell what you offer that I can't already get from iTunes and sites like Pandora/Last.fm/etc. The iTunes "Genius" feature works well enough for assembling quick 'n dirty playlists out of my current music collection. If I want to share my music tastes with my friends, I'm already on last.fm. If I want to share a specific playlist with my friends, I'll burn them a CD or something, since their collections don't overlap with mine much.

Maybe I'm not your target audience, but, regardless, here's what I'd like to see: really interesting curated playlists. I can't find any on the site right now. The playlists I can find now are all very, well, functional, but they're not compelling. Ideally these playlists would be more like mixtapes than unordered jumbles of songs. It seems like it wouldn't be too much trouble (or too expensive) to get some good online or college radio DJs to assemble some quality content for you. You could also just use show track lists as playlists, but the results wouldn't be quite as nice.

(It'd also be neat to get suggestions for playlists that contain mostly, but not entirely, music I already own.)

That's the smallest delta from the current site that I would find motivating. I'd argue, though, that there's still nobody who really does music discovery "right", so there's a lot of room for innovation. I'm glad to see you're exploring the space.
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shout out to mglukhovsky and bkudria

You guys should have taken his sculpture class.
Cool, these guys study at my university (Chalmers)! I like how they effectively use the music as a component in the game.
Just a friendly word of caution: such a huge price differential (0 cents in vs ~15 cents out per GB) is a kind of lockin.
Hm ... I'm puzzled by your last sentence. Why do you say that?
A major difference between the Pacman ghosts as described here, and cars in traffic, is that the ghosts will always be able to smell the pacman, no matter how far he is, and a driver in a car has a limited view on the traffic surrounding him.

The latter (limited) is easier if you use objects for the cars, the former (unlimited) is easier using antiobjects.
At any reasonable scale, S3 bandwidth is still a magnitude more expensive than you would pay at an aggressive dedicated server company like ServerBeach, ThePlanet, 10tb.com, or SoftLayer. It's also even worse when you compare it to discount bandwidth offerings like Cogent's $1,500 for a GigE (which comes out to $0.0075/GB) or Hurricane Electric's $3k price for a GigE connection.

What Amazon is really doing here is the classic ISP inbound/outbound juggling act amongst public peers. In order to maintain a peering relationship, especially at the scales that Amazon must see with it's cloud services, providers really need to maintain an equitable inbound/outbound ratio, otherwise agreements become void and they actually start charging each other.
All the major RDBMS do recursive queries nowadays.
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To me the arguments made in the article sounds like "Maemo is more like _real_ Linux than Android, and therefore it will win".

I don't see much support for that in the marketplace for consumer and non-IT department mandated products. The overall user experience is way more important than anything else, even backwards compatibility, i.e. compare Windows Mobile with iPhone.

The competitor who will really square it off with the iPhone in the future will have to be really good at the integrated user experience IMHO.

I talked to some Maemo marketing guys at FOSS.in in Bangalore the other day and their key message was that "You can run multiple applications at the same time. You don't have to shut down one application to be able to run another, like on an iPhone."

But the handset they were showing (they called it a handheld computer, not a smartphone) was clumsy and unattractive. They were not even showing them turned on, so I couldn't really judge the user experience, but if you don't want to show it I don't believe it is a strong selling point.

The Android team seems to concentrate more on the user experience, something which I haven't seen the Nokia teams really do yet, so I think Android is better placed, for now.
Cezanne had at least six years of classical drawing instruction, where you begin by drawing various geometric forms, move on to making sketches of plaster statuary, and then finally draw from the model. It's a highly technical form of training akin to doing scales all day long on a musical instrument. I'm sure there's a folder in some archive in Aix full of extremely boring and careful studies he did at the time. I've linked the one example I could easily find online above.

Saying Cézanne couldn't draw is a glorious form of missing the point, like saying Stravinsky couldn't hold a tune.
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"specialized touchscreen device" = color ebook reader? iphone or ipod touch competitor?
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The poster seems to be confused about what he is trying to argue. Is he talking about technical merits or which will sell more? Even as a fan of Maemo there is no doubt in my mind that there will always be more Android phones on the market than Maemo phones. Also if you're intention is to sell apps and make money you're best bet of the two is Android.

If writing phone apps was my day job I'd easily choose Android over maemo any day of the week. As a geek programming simply for my own enjoyment the Maemo platform is far more enticing, if for no other reason than the fact that I get to use tools like Qt4, C, python, and all the libraries available for Linux. The idea of having basically a slightly stripped down Debian on my phone is just really cool. Plus the new Maemo 5 seems to finally be a truly usable environment running on some nice hardware.
Happiness is not having to know how many RAID drives died to bring you this information. (Statistically speaking I'm pretty sure I've burned through at least one drive somewhere in St. Louis, but I never had to worry about it.)
What was interesting was that some groups of people, both men and women, got it so wrong. Men with average to below-average intelligence think that they are quite clever. And very smart women think their intelligence is low.

That's clearly a misleading statement which has nothing to do with genders. The thing is, as far as I understand, is that the smarter people are the better they are at assessing themselves, and the more they tend to be careful about their estimations. Dumb people, on the other hand, usually think they are smart, because they have very little data and knowledge to prove themselves the opposite, and every little step they make and piece of knowledge they learn seems a big deal to them.
Indeed. Even with ram, concurrency is optimal on many server architectures. See NUMA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access
Well for a VPS, KVM over IP is as simple as running some piece of free software, as opposed to having the same thing on a real server where you need expensive equipment. This explains the cost. And as I said, the console is indeed expensive if you want it permanently, but is free for 2 hours and we seldomly needed it more.

Now if you are set with the computing power provided by a 20$ VPS that's another thing, I'm just saying, if you need more you should consider a dedicated server or maybe collocation.
That's interesting and very promising. But what I miss in most discussions of relational vs NoSQL is some kind of separation of data model related, performance related and scalability related arguments. These are three rather different issues.

There is no way to have a benchmark alone show me what it means to denormalize my data model. Denormalization can help scalability and sometimes performance, but it has huge implications for maintainability, data quality, code complexity and even organisational matters.

I do understand the advantages of being able to run any algorithm on data and not be limited by SQL. But abolishing normalized data models altogether and replacing them with application code and custom data structures everywhere makes me very skeptical as someone who had to deal with data quality issues for many years.

So that's why I'm glad to see some performance issues of RDBMS improved by new storage architectures and also the innovation going on in terms of recursive queries to deal with hierarchical and graph data structures.
It's on the left. In yellows letters against a black background 'In Standard Definition'. It's not too nefarious. Unlike how they used to hide the iTunes Plus setting (when you could order the higher quality DRM free version or be shown the DRM loaded version).
can you explain how synchronizing phase is trivial? the previous post made sense to me. it is hard to shift phase.

i agree that you could not try, and instead "hit the gap" (in which case synchronizing phase isn't important), but if you don't do that, and instead want to connect two supplies at once, how does a microcontroller make that easy?
(s)he's talking about ac out of phase.
3 points for 2 cents:

1. I didn't get within 10 seconds what you offer. Work on that.

2. I agree with some of the other commenters; curated lists (from a trusted source) would be a great idea, if thats the direction you want to head in.

3. It would be great if I could buy a track without having to create an account. You'd probably make more money too.
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"you must leave the footer backlink to the frameworks's homepage". Thanks, I'll stick with Compass. Or YUI. Or 960grids. Or Blueprint.
It bothers me to get different search result every time I'm on another computer. It's like surfing another internet..
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Now, let me play devil's advocate here, as I do think that Eliezer writes interesting stuff; but what is he contributing to the field of AI beyond what movies like Terminator, Space Odyssey or Eagle Eye also illustrate (AI takes over humans)?
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Possible to read it by going through Google News ( http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&... ) and clicking the Financial Times link.
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We know a lot more about how those work, which may well be a necessary condition when organizing prevention.