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by lincolnq 15y ago
I am investing $100 right now to hold long-term, with an 80-90% expectation of it being worthless in a few years. The alternative, of course, is that bitcoin takes off, is not banned by governments, and is useful enough to enough people. If
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Awareness is materialistic because it affects the physical world. How does it affect the physical world? You thought about it, those thoughts were translated into nervous system impulses which caused you to press keys on your computer, whic
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Previously discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475349 I didn't read that review before writing mine.
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Another Learn You a Haskell book review(techhouse.org)
1 points by lincolnq 15y ago|1 comments
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Two from the last couple years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_%28robot%29 http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa The Singularity Institute is working on making such a thing safe: http://singinst.org
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Here, read this: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power I agree with you for the most part. But somehow, what makes us different from apes was some kind of keystone. Whatever evolved in the last two million years in our brains made a HUGE
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Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk(lesswrong.com)
2 points by lincolnq 16y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Learning to hack is not too hard. PG says 6 months to a year. ( http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html ) I tend to agree. A friend is working through "How to Think like a Computer Scientist" -- http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ -- which h
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by lincolnq 16y ago
FYI, "sighted" -> "cited". Indeed, this story is in Peopleware, and it surprises me that I can find no account of the Black Team which has any details other than those I can find in Peopleware. It makes me wonder whether the story is ap
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I think you may be confusing the event horizon with the Roche limit. The event horizon is the distance where not even light can escape. The Roche limit is the closest a body can come to another (more massive) body such that it can stay inta
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Wow! The most interesting thing I found in this was the "chords" idea of concurrent programming. Check it out. I've never seen anything like it -- has this been thought about?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Offtopic, but the parent post should not be downvoted. It clearly adds to the discussion. (I can barely read it to make sense of the replies!) Please, don't downvote when you think someone is wrong; downvote when their post doesn't contribu
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Hmm. An interesting observation, but is mutation really the problem here? I'm not sure it is... we are able to transform any program with mutation into an equivalent program where each variable is assigned once upon allocation. (If you don'
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Firefox 4 will let users opt out of ad network tracking(mozilla.com)
2 points by lincolnq 16y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Nobody is claiming anything about the internal combustion engine. Uvdiv is claiming that oil is not an example of path dependence because it is actually optimal. That there exists a path to get to the ICE does not refute the argument.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Thanks! I want to know what you think of "murder" though. Why isn't it the same (or is it)? I feel like someone whose dad was murdered would be offended by the same principle.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Offtopic, but do you find this especially offensive? (The GP's quote was "Yeah, we are getting raped either way"). If "fucked" was substituted for "raped", would you still be offended? What about "violated"? "shat on"? "murdered"? I'm tryin
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Try DuckDuckGo. Gabriel has been doing an aggressive job about removing unsavory domains and I've been fairly impressed. I think that Google probably can't be nearly as aggressive for political reasons.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Well, why not throw out anything ending in .com or .net? After all, they're all made to earn revenue... I hope the point is clear -- "to earn revenue" isn't an appropriate test. But your point is well taken. I'd prefer a search to turn up t
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by lincolnq 16y ago
It may be an expression of hubris (and always a liability). I'm not really trying to imply a causal relationship.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Yes, Google has an enormous reputation for NIH. Great technology companies often do.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
#1, "Object Oriented structure should always map to well defined mental concepts in the problem domain," is a recipe for producing excessively complex code. You end up focusing on the parts themselves, instead of their interactions, which i
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Derp? If you're getting the damn results, who cares how many hours you spend?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Indeed, the book is incredibly entertaining. Seems like people here seem to put it down, but it's a real hackers' book -- lots of practical, effective recipes for getting results. I'd definitely recommend it.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
This is an astute summary. Yes, it is misleading, but such is the way of language growth: when transferring concepts from one language to another, sometimes meaning is permanently mutated or lost. Consider French "journée" and English "jour
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I'd love a postmortem.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
He's not serious. It's a classic Slashdot troll.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick is a fun read. It's more about how to defend against social engineering, but you can take it from the other side too. :)
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I wrote some stuff about monads on HN a while ago that some people found helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247446
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Presumably it's like OS X -- it's a lot harder to make an OS that runs on any old hardware than it is if you know the hardware ahead of time.

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