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by dasht 16y ago
Kurzweil snipes "It is an argument from information theory, which Myers obviously does not understand." With some delight, I would like to explain how Kurzweil incorrectly uses information theory and arrives at a false conclusion. In fairn
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by dasht 16y ago
Ah, yes. No, I meant for the outside investor with early news of the purported proof who is willing to bet that it holds up. For example, if there is some crypto company whose business is premised on hedging that a "P == NP" proof is just
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by dasht 16y ago
So: What publicly traded firms benefit from a confirmation that P!=NP and are there any that lose (e.g., that were betting that P might == NP). There's gotta be money in this news :-)
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by dasht 16y ago
You must read it in context. What it says is that if P == NP then the implications are profound for applications such as cryptography and on the general question of whether human creativity can be automated. You can see why P == NP would ha
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by dasht 16y ago
carbocation: Can you say a word or two about the current view of short reads for re-sequencing? I worked for a time on software for a particular lab to do alignment of short(-ish) reads like 13-bp+gap-of-100-200+7bp+gap-of-5-8+7bp+gap-of-1
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by dasht 16y ago
Well, after carefully planning to "ramp down" over the next week or so, I woke up this morning, thought "screw that", and quit cold.
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by dasht 16y ago
I'm really appreciating all the reports. One of the folks in my dental office suggested (a) use mouthwash and, ideally, dental floss after each lapse; (b) make a chart and track your progress - make a game of it. That kind of jives with
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Ask HN: How did you quit smoking?
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by dasht 16y ago
I've experienced the same problem. I like to think its mostly fixed now. Here are some things that worked for me: Don't shy away from the ones that call you out, at least if they are giving you friendly pokes rather than being mean. The
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by dasht 16y ago
The point is that the technology isn't about the things, it's about the people and how it affects your life. Right. For example, the technology and social practice of a cable TV show can lead folks to incorrect conclusions about how to p
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by dasht 16y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that it's "just a TV show" and that it has the benefit of hindsight. They can look back at history and find the great (or the disastrous) ad campaigns and riff on those. They make it look like Draper (the pi
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by dasht 16y ago
Mr. Grove should consider, in my view, another contemporary issue that puts our society at risk: the failure of basic infrastructure and the general fragility of engineered environment. We have centralized (and industrialized) food product
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by dasht 16y ago
Heh. Yes, in the very early days of Canonical I chatted with Mark about the possibility of working there and that intention to closely hold some of the software I'd be working on was one of the red flags for me. In my view, it was partly
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by dasht 16y ago
It's not disingenuous. When I was speaking "proprietary" I wasn't referring to Cygnus but rather to RedHat and other complete system distribution firms. Internally, they maintain a great deal of infrastructure to smooth the assembly of c
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by dasht 16y ago
Can you describe more about what you see as this originally-envisioned user space? Briefly, yes. Two aspects were of particular interest to me, although if you ask the HURD developers from back then they could likely point out others: 1.
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by dasht 16y ago
Could you be a little more specific about this? E.g. perhaps who, or at least how and who it effected how. Briefly: The ECGS schism was, in my view, purely and simply a successful effort to wrestle control over GCC away from the FSF. The
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by dasht 16y ago
I was one of the hacker employees of the FSF back in the early days of the HURD project. They pay was modest by industry standards but fair (every employee, hacker or not, got the same pay -- later the formation of a union was encouraged).
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by dasht 16y ago
The commute is horrible, whether by car or Caltrans. Many firms locate down in the heart of the valley for many reasons including that office space is considerably less expensive, infrastructure is theoretically somewhat more robust, tradit
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by dasht 16y ago
Sure you can, if you amortize your time (the concept of making components ahead, in batches). Your point is well taken, of course. It's just that I would hate to see a new born self-feeding foodie get "stuck" in the rut of using needless
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by dasht 16y ago
Beautifully produced. Mostly healthy, intelligent recipes. Lovely "food porn" illustrations. I like that several ingredients recur in several recipes so there is an implicit nudge in the direction of good pantry management. This looks
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by dasht 16y ago
The Nolo Press catalog contains several helpful books on the topic. (I've no affiliation or stake in them - just like their stuff.)
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by dasht 16y ago
I am perplexed why the comment above ("revamp the company into the default search engine") got down voted. I saw this research as evidence that IBM is quite interested in search. I'm not so sure they want to go head to head with Google or
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by dasht 16y ago
It's an interesting question, that one, isn't it? I don't think "nuke" is the operative word because they would want a tiny nuke so "conventional" explosives might do. From what I hear Prof. Bea and some other sources saying I infer that
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by dasht 16y ago
I'm not an expert. I'm just passing along what I hear Prof. Bea of UC Berkeley saying (and that makes intuitive sense to me). One of the big risks of the top-kill procedure is a kind of "you push in here, it pops out there" problem. Ther
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by dasht 16y ago
The notion of a content addressable network, where content is defined broadly enough to encompass services, is profoundly important. Some of us have pushed towards for years and it is nice to see some PARC weight behind it. For an example
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by dasht 16y ago
"Can they sue me if I do that?" Ask an attorney or for self-help try something like Nolo press' web site.
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by dasht 16y ago
Other comments have pointed out some factors of the L/GPL problems but I'll point out some and repeat that have not been mentioned yet. Apps in the App Store are encumbered by Apple's right to disable use of the app by users who have alread
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by dasht 16y ago
"open source" ordinarily refers to code licensed under any of the licenses that are "approved" by the self-appointed board of the "Open Source Initiative". The license terms of those vary wildly and most of them do not give strong protecti
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by dasht 16y ago
Actually, from what the EFF is saying, you almost certainly may not port GNU Emacs to iPad or, for that matter, offer any derivative work of a GPL program in the app store. If you agree to the terms of the App Store developer license, it ap
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by dasht 16y ago
No. When you give control over YOUR computer to some third party, you are giving up you freedom. Apple insists on having that kind of control over iPad purchasers. I can't speak for the FSF but I think it is a safe prediction that there wi

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