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Short of them having some complete breakthrough of where the server can do some massive massive pre-computation to alleviate client side computations, I don't see this happening.

Between the computation / communication tradeoff, this would have to be a huge breakthrough for rendering.

what's the best open source alternative to git hub? (no, I don't want to host my code on third party servers)

the best I've used so far is trac, but their git support were flaky when I last tested it (only ran well with svn at the time)

As a Chinese American guy with great grades, I believe your friend is full of BS (unless she's "Chinese" in that she actually lives in China). In HS / College, I've never seen good grades = popularity.

edit: some variant of swftools ? others have more info?

Jim Clark. Read "The New New Thing"

BTW, the question implies PG is a role model for me. As awesome as he is, he's not.

Why all the downvotes? (I don't mind downvoted, just curious about an explaination).

Thanks for the tip.

I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.

Are people still making money from facebook apps these days? I thought it was over a while back (and thus why the mass exodus to develop on the iPhone although apple's approval process sucks.)

Crypto, in general, is really hard to get right.

With 'normal' code, if it's broken, something doesn't work, and you know to fix it. With crypto, if it's 'broken', all the valid requests still work, and you don't know that anything's wrong.

In fact, as far as I know, the only way to know if your crypto code is 'working', is to prove it ... in the form of, if you can somehow break my crypto, you will also be able to break problem X, where X is a problem the crypto community has generally accepted to be hard to solve.

I am. Order not crossed up at all; this is just divide & conquer approach; figure out what end goal is, then divide it into smaller problems, and solve each of those. :-)

I didn't say the bots had to play well ... if at the end of every competition, everyone rises up to the level of the winner, then I think the bots would also improve drastically :-)

Can we have a poker bot competition? I'm not a great poker player myself (in fact, I don't really even know the rules) -- but I think it'd be another cool way to socialize; especially if people are required to release the source later, and we can all chat about what worked / didn't work, etc ...

Can you explain this more? Why would HN comments vanish? Doesn't google follow all links?

first link was awesome

Can anyone on YC share personal stories? If you're afraid of being identified, maybe you can create an anonymous account.

I've been thinking of going into the iphone market myself, and more info will certainly help.

Thanks!

I would argue that the hard problem is not "reasoning" (taking absolute truths and deriving other truths); but rather dealing with noise.

The former problem -- logic -- ended up giving us the AI winter, and it's the later (with machine learning) that is driving Google and modern robotics.

If this is just Mathematica + Prolog + A giant hand tuned database, I think it'll be a disappointment. (Look at the Cyc project -- led by a former Stanford professor, lots of funding, supposed to revolutionize human knowledge -- where is it now?)

My favorite variant on this is:

every 20 years, have science advance enough to extend everyone's life by 30 years

(doesn't take care of things like getting hit by bus, but takes care of 'regular' life extension)

(iirc, there was some ted talk on this)

I don't get it.

Instead of "Let's get C++ easier to debug"

why not:

"Let's only write performance intense parts in C++", and have the rest in an interpreted scripting language, where things like this (and more) come much cheaper?

I found this book far more insightful than a bag of tricks.

Clearly, anyone who practices these rules religiously will end up living a very lonely, paranoid life.

However, as a nerd that doesn't understand social dynamics very well, I've found this book to be of immense defensive value -- I started seeing how people utilized these rules (either consciously or subconsciously) around me, and have been able to avoid being influenced / controlled by them.

Somewhat OT -- how do you have negative karma? I thought you can only vote up on hacker news.

I really appreciate your comment. For a while, I thought it was an Asian thing (never as an Immigrant thing); you logic makes sense. From personal experience all the things I labeled as "Asian" that's causing pressure, actually, in reality, can probably be associated with "Immigrant" instead.

Dumb question:

I understand how URL shorteners work (hash the URL)

however, how do they make money?

Are you a professor or a research scientist now?

I have pondered this route, but it seems that in general, the research community / academia tends to "shun" those that don't do straight undergrad -> research.

This sounds alot like the "Monk and the Riddle" philosophy. Is this what you're getting at?

Where would you live? In your own house? On your own island? Or somehow work in a company that lets you spend your free time working on an open source project?

Talk to your parents.

It's amazing what the response to

"I just recently graduated. Instead of going to Europe to get drunk for a year, I'd like to go home for a year and write software for my startup."

can be.