skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a prison in California where the state wide minimum wage is $10 an hour starting in 2016 and in some cities it is as high as $15 an hour so offering "up to" $20 an hour sort of sounds like a PR way of saying they are going to pay them close to minimum wage w/o being explicit about it.
I was thinking more in terms of cost. Adding a person to your cause requires a lot of money (the cost of them devoting their entire working time), and you only get so much extra benefit (efficiency losses due to communication and their own incentives). And the more effective the human, the more he would cost.

With an AI, you just dump that money directly into the brain by slapping on more compute power and storage. It'd be a direct increase in ability to its will. I'm not sure what exactly the raw costs would be (maybe it would still cost more than hiring a human), but at least it seems like it'd be a much more efficient use of each dollar.
Disconnect: Jack Ma just made his first big mistake
Someone else replied but deleted their reply, I had mine written up but they deleted their post before I could post. Here it is:

> You're right in that a large degree of my preference owes itself to familiarity bordering on second nature – I gave IntelliJ another shot recently, and I didn't feel right adapting to it. Autocomplete was typically the very first keystroke I changed - to escape - so it was never frustrating to me. I'm also fond of an old plugin that generates class builders, which made creating immutable POJOs with autogenerated constructors/hash/equals/toString super fast and easy.

> Thanks for your reply!
Maybe I did not get the example? I would not need to get up to turn off the light b/c I can use a trigger like touching something on my night table. But if that something and the light switch are somehow networked, can't I just use my phone and some app to directly turn it off? Same thing with the timer example: isn't my phone already capable of running all sorts of abstractions? Why would I need to borrow the timer function from the tv? Finally, as far as discovering objects and its capabilities, wifi + some sort of IoT protocol should do, right? No need to point a camera, this gadgets will always be broadcasting its API (and ACLs I hope). Sorry, maybe I did not get the product at all.
What do you mean when you write "a custom content application loses to Drupal on all 3 of the above points"? Consider this:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=drupal%2C+node%2C+rails&l=

There is a lot of custom work in the Enterprise. It dwarfs any one CMS.

Also, about #2 in particular, do you think it is hard to find Node talent or Rails talent? They both seem fairly abundant to me.

Regarding #1, I'm sure you can recognize this as a double-edged sword:

"You can buy enterprise software support from Acquia."

That is the problem, the Enterprise support is associated with a single company. Unlike, say, Rails development, or especially Java development, where there are a zillion companies selling to the Enterprise.

The problem for Drupal is in trying to find that space between "too big for off-the-shelf" and "too small for customized solution". It's a very narrow space.
> Another interesting set of findings to lop on top of this is that dissatisfaction (diminishing probability x magnitude of reward) can be an antecedent to task creativity, as can mild depression, while mania can be an antecedent for behavioral stereotypy (antithesis of creativity)

That's interesting. I agree about the link between depression and creativity, but in my experience manic people are also quite creative, in a different way. Or have I confused creativity with mere productivity?
In Japan they have a game arcade inspired by the KWC:

http://randomwire.com/kowloon-walled-city-rebuilt-in-japan/
Anki has a nice android app too by the way
Thanks for the Concrete Semantics recommendation!
Wordpress still remains to be a blog, not really a CMS per se
I'm sure you don't like lots of things. The hand drawn stuff is very readable. The demo work is all machine generated.
This is already how it's generally done on Android (via hosts file.) Still detectable though: You can detect broken images on the page for example, which would tell you that the hosts have been blocked.
Carnival of Mathematics
... you really took "Honestly, faced with two evils, yes." and ran with it, didn't you? If you want to misinterpret my remarks so I'm a better straw man to argue against, not sure there's much more to discuss.
> PS: We can fantasize about people being rational, but reality disagrees.

I worry that this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That the less you treat people as rational beings responsible for their own decisions, the less rational and responsible they will be. It might already be happening, with victimitis in American politics being one of the most visible outcomes.
Andrew Ng works for Baidu now, so I'm not surprised.
You can get Privacy Badger and Disconnect lists in uBlock Origin. No reason to have all three.
I prefer BSD or MIT any day, I can't take the license seriously, heck even the Beerware License sounds like a better alternative, and a quite shorter one at that. As long as the whole liability claim is shoved in somewhere all should be well.
'The Freak', a Chaplin masterpiece that never was
New creative app turns your photos to videos
False. Plenty of large companies run their business on WordPress, not just "blogs".

https://vip.wordpress.com/clients/
Surely that's not true until someone achieves human-level performance with their entry.
I feel like this and platitudes like it are only ones that can be understood as a "ah...it really is that simple" once the goal has been reached...which does not help my case.
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It's also kind of funny that it's available in limited regions.

Alpha, is what the Article says. Which means not ready, and changing in development quite a lot.
Your thoughts on a microframework for Java?
Hi Guys:
I'm building a dead simple and minimal microframework in Java that allows users to create a web application or a microservice using Java in minutes. (Focus on being able to write a microservice really fast).

I would like to hear your opinions on what features, etc. you'd like to see or even your criticisms (e.g. we don't use java for that or it already exist).

I'm looking for feedback on what kind of HttpServer to use... I would like to support plug-in-play with default being NanoHttpd....

Secondly, which template library would you suggest (e.g. Apache Velocity)?

Thanks.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+erstwhile

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+booster

/shrug If those are familiar words to you, then I think it's a little harsh to say that they "hate convincing people" because they use them. Totally agree that a good author edits out rarer words to reach a broader audience, but I think that's a very weak vector of critique for the article as a whole.
Mom for rent: $40 buys you an hour of motherly care and judgment-free advice
Not to be confused with Shen [0].

[0] http://www.shenlanguage.org/
Ya, I have experienced times where it has worked but I don't remember a time it has worked better than collocating a team. There seem to always be some inefficiencies introduced but it really speaks to the professionalism of the team members when it works
His fundamental conceit, namely that mathematics sometimes suffers from ambiguous or sloppily used notation, is a valid one, and this fact has caused a great deal of confusion for a great number of people.
Visual Transistor-Level Simulation of ARM1 with WebGL
I really appreciate this answer, thank you. I can really see how something can be built up over time to be a substantial project.
The reality is, money publishers get from ads are much more than they would get from content. You'll need insane amount of traffic to make it work with very low cost subscription costs that some will pay for.
Story telling and creation app, Ikatha 2
Why Nobody Cares About Your Banner Ads
AIM, Spark, Bloomberg and the Road to Slack
My objections are a) there is so much more to a drug than how addictive it is, b) no one said anything about deregulation per se (you can have a regulated legal market), c) your analysis has an implicit anti-capitalistic and snobbish bias against the public to make its own decisions, d) it isn't even true that only huge corporate players will have a hand, especially in drugs that have a very low barrier to entry in cultivating such as cannabis, e) your argument from the ill-defined "medical utility" ignores that illegality hampers medical research to lesser or greater extent, f) you are ignoring regulatory capture is a significant issue in pharma company troubles and g) you clearly do not understand public choice theory.

Though I think it's clear you believe in copious use of intervention against individuals and have a hatred or fear of capitalism and free association in order to make such a batshit argument as arguing for cartel violence and regional destabilization because the prospect of corporate profits terrifies you so much.

EDIT: Scanning your post history, you make a reference to "the final solution to the capitalist bourgeoise swine". You might have been facetious at that time, but I believe it reflects a general attitude you hold that is spiteful. I hope you at least do not believe in discredited economic doctrines such as tendency for the rate of profit to fall, or labor theory of value.

EDIT #2: You also believe that free market players are purely profit-maximizing "with behavior only moderated by applicable government regulations". This is plain false, even by a left-leaning Post-Keynesian analysis. You also again do not understand public choice theory in the slightest and how endogenous regulations emerge by transaction costs and private property (e.g. Coase theorem).

You hold a lot of fallacies.
Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for, I think I can follow from here.
I'd argue that WordPress is used far more as a _web_ (not just content) management system than a blog.

My idea of a blog is what blogger/blogspot provides. Your common WordPress config today has 5+ pages, maybe a store, maybe directory of employees (who don't even know what WP is), maybe manage subscription memberships, maybe running a flash arcade (so 2006, but you get the idea)...

Yeah, WP has a core function of making a post, but it's evolved into 100x that, and that was the goal (probably in like 2008 they set out? I don't know). Did they accomplish it? I'd say so.
What version of IE is that dialog from? 6? Things have changed quite a bit since then.

Yes, SSL inspection is a security tradeoff. Whether the folks rolling it out realize this is another story.
Bitcoin mining is so odd.. BitFury's going to add a power plant's worth of mining to secure the blockchain and nothing will change at all -- blocks will come at the same pace, the transaction limit won't increase, the network won't be appreciably more secure... what a waste of energy. 40MW of super clean power that could be manufacturing solar panels or smelting aluminum or any of a million better options is instead performing useless calculations to pay back the cost of building this silly infrastructure.
I always preferred his later works, like "Chronicle of a death foretold" or "Memory of my melancholy whores".

Macondo is a bit too whimsy for me.
German pro basketball team relegated to lower division due to Windows update
Actually, yes. However, to be fair, it didn't extend farther than noticing that I couldn't rescue it by copying over the data, because when viewing the "original" the base64 text simply stopped.
Wether the data was lost on the server, or simply never transmitted for other reasons (size limit in the UI?) I don't know.

It was inline do by means of a data-url in an img-tag in case you want the details ;)

And no offense taken. It's a fair question.
You. Are. Not. The. Audience.

You are just one of the costs of doing a freemium business. Like the alcohol industry, the game is really targeted towards the psychologically vulnerable who represent most of the revenues.

The game is boring by design. Actually its just barely interesting enough to keep the target audience playing, but not so interesting that it stops them from paying to get their psychological reward. These games are basically crack which you can legally sell to kids.

There is a great south park episode that illustrates this phenomenon. Its very well done. You should watch it.

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s18e06-freemium-isnt-f...
Smartcasual meets Jessica Choi
I imagine creating sets of functions that effectively compose a DSL to write configurations using really simple and expressive constructs. Ideally, Fig (the language) files could be included in repositories and run with environment data as input (an env function is supplied) so that people don't have to maintain multiple copies of configurations.

The tool also has a strong potential to grow to support other output formats, and also do more in the way of code generation.
Story #3 reminds me of a rule: if your company's name causes spontaneous laughter from multiple people, it's a bad name. This really happened:

(at a party, in a group of 6-8 acquaintances)

Me: Oh hi Fred, how're you doing? I heard you got a new job. Where are you now?

Fred: I'm at Clustra Systems.

(entire group laughs spontaneously)

[explanation: everybody in the group other than Fred simultaneously thought, "That sounds like a Clustraf*ck of a company." OTOH maybe Fred did too.]
Ask HN: Good programmable robot kit for teens?
Hi there,

I know a few teenagers interested in robots, but are not super sold on the blockly drag and drop programming.

Anyone have something slightly more complex, while still being geared toward Teens?

Thank you!
Does anyone know if there's a recording of the usenix talk given? (Referenced slides)
The book they're advertising in the article is $112.20 on Amazon Kindle!
"what a waste of energy"

The energy will go towards securing $6B+ of electronic currency. The more players like BitFury that work to secure the blockchain, the harder it is for a single player to attack the chain with a 51% attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector
Good analogy, I thought of the same thing. And they (Michael and Joy Brown) knew Lee well and had a good assessment of her talent. From this PBS article (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harper-lee-hey-boo-i...):

"Lee shared some of her writing with her friends. “We read character sketches that she wrote about people in Monroeville,” said Michael. “And they were unusually perceptive. How could two people like Truman and Nelle be such close friends as children and grow up to see things the rest of us couldn’t envision? She just amazed us.”

This short NPR article also has some interesting information as well as a photo of Lee taken around the time of that 1956 Christmas mentioned: http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421812608/how-harper-lee-went-...
Do not take a counter-offer. As you you'll find from a quick google search (and there is plenty of research to back it up), a counter-offer is nothing more than a temporary band-aid to a bigger problem. Research shows after six months the majority of people end up leaving anyway.
I always wanted a dictionary app that would make flashcards based on words I looked up.
I would imagine that the cost of a false positive if something goes wrong with the ad network would be pretty damaging.

I don't know if it's still the case but Comedy Central's video player was atrocious, the video wouldn't play unless it successfully played an ad but ads just straight up failed to load 30/40% of the time so you had to refresh, watch an ad to get to the video controls, scan back to your place, watch another ad because you crossed a 'commercial break' point, have that fail 10 minutes later, and repeat. The whole experience was awful and lead to me just scraping the site for the direct steam link and eventually just deciding that Jon Stewart wasn't worth it.
so you mean there are 5 entries you can select to be scored in the end, and there is one private leaderboard no one can see but the admins? do you know the size of the private leaderboard test set?
SPI with a Blindfold On- speed up by letting go and trusting the machine
If you trust your CDN, then no, you have less issues if you use the same domain as the one you use for your APIs.
Avoid face detection in style
Completely agree...Not sure if OP is serious or if their post is a bad joke.
If we're discussing headlines, can "has quietly X" stop already?
and written by a former Debian Project Leader:
http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar
I wonder if people would even show confidence knowing the difficulty of other drivers' road tests, given how easily they can vary based on instructor and region.
I've block ads with a host file on PC for 10 years. Maybe it's my browsing habits, but I can count the number of times it affected my ability to browse content on one hand. I also manually add a lot of the entries so imagine that also helps.
Human level performance was surpassed earlier this year:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01852
Because running your own CA, on the internet, with correct support for revocation, and correctly securing it, is not easy.
>But what evidence do we have that a human level AI would be able to scale easily?

The fact it would probably be software, executing on a digital platform. These things typically lend themselves to optimization and scaling.

Seems to me that the chance we'll have just enough computing power to run human-level AI—without sufficient resources to go beyond that—is a small one. It is far more likely that we will either have too little, or more than ample computing power available.

What evidence do you have that human-level AI won't scale easily?

The best argument I can think of in your favor would be prohibitive computational complexity requirements, but the aforementioned dynamic still applies—it's unlikely that we'd have only just enough computing power to achieve human-level and not go beyond that.
Speaking of destructive social manipulation, your game destroyed my grade in LISP (or was it C++?) when I discovered Empire on a (Sun?) workstation in the computer lab.

But you probably already know all that from on the extensive profile you built on me.

Thank you. :)
I'm wondering... if you have 2 minutes could you glance at http://qbix.com/platform and figure out exactly what it's for and what makes it unique?

I've been working on it for 4 years for our developers and I want to get some feedback. I feel it's the new drupal, in many ways.
One reason I prefer college graduates to the self-taught / bootcamp types is that the college grads had years to let the concepts simmer in their minds. This is because of time. You can't cram for 8 weeks at a bootcamp and truly understand things, it takes years.

But a prisoner, all they have is time. All the time in the world. Someone with a passion and desire to learn to code while locked up, and with access to the correct resources, could really learn this stuff and learn it well. I hope this spreads.
Google to start sending search traffic to fast-loading AMP articles in Feb 2016
The tone of your comment was that you were excited that it was offensive to a group of people. I made no change in the intent of your words. "Best thing! Even more offensive! Hooray!"

As 'good-natured stabs' go, it's pretty low-quality.
So, I'm not sure the optional warranty disclaimer variant is actually sufficient under US law.

Disclaimers of implied warranties, e.g. warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, need to be explicitly, and "conspicuously" disclaimed.

Apparently the legal profession has decided that means in ALL CAPS.

http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/why-is-your-contract-yelling-at...
Sure, the homeless can't eat entirely fruit. But if they eat 2 apples per day, that's almost 10% of their daily calorie requirements right there.
The best part about it, I automatically write to three caches whenever I write to GAE datastore. One to the instance, one to memcache and one to Google's edge cache. It's just part of the GAE api, you get it for free.
Windows 7 Keygen 100% Working is here
Limited only to service hosted in GCE unlike cloudfront which is a huge limitation. My guess is that there are more non-aws cloudfront customers than aws ones
I have pretty strong doubts that the Google Cloud Platform team would have convinced the broader organisation to host customer stuff on their mission critical caches.

As I understand it, there's not a lot of dogfooding (let alone cooperation!) between GCP and Google.
I think I prefer the Solipsistic License out of those two.
Zerodha opens up Kite-Connect, an api to build your own trading platform
The supercomputer that just simulated one second's worth of brain activity (K computer) cost $1.25 billion to design and build and $10 million a year to operate. Now, I don't have experience with supercomputers, but I doubt that you'd just be able to slap in some extra ram and get a big speed up.

It seems likely that the first simulated human level intelligences, at whatever point in the future they pop up, will at first be extremely costly and extremely slow. We don't really know if, say, connecting two supercomputers two simulate twice as many virtual neurons would make it more effective or if it would make it too unstable to do anything (how would a human brain with twice as many neurons react? It might just be mentally unstable and unproductive). But even a simple doubling experiment like that would probably take a long time to plan out and realize.
This type of thing is long overdue but it's important to understand why real effective training for post-incarceration employment is not already the standard in the USA.

Regardless of what the books of law and public policy may state, in practice prison in America is punitive not rehabilitative.

When politicians talk about getting tough on crime they aren't talking about putting in place more effective rehabilitation programs. They are talking about harsher penalties from a punitive perspective.

Therefore the biggest barrier to whether or not this type of program can or will be successful and widespread has more to do with whether or not this can be done while still making the prisoners "pay for their crimes" to the satisfaction of the politicians and the public at large.
Yet again I am ashamed of my government.
This is cool. I use OneTab similarly though really just to stash tab overload more than share.
Ask HN: How to maximize earning potential in pre-Series A, fully funded startup
The startup I am working at is gaining momentum. When I joined, there were some ideas in the air and it was nothing concrete. We are getting customers and generating interest now. My work was pivotal in getting us this far.

The company is fully funded by the CEO, who has several other companies. We are building B2B solution, so our customers are enterprises. There is low chance of company going public, but the CEO has brought up getting 'acquired' by some larger company many times. We are planning to raise funding some time next year.

I am a key employee, but not irreplaceable. The CEO has a vast network and with what we are building, many folks with my skill set are now interested in working with us. My compensation for salary and bonus is on the higher end of the market rate and I was given that number without me asking; which means they do value my contribution. Next year is going to be the year that makes or breaks the company and my "just a job" contribution will not be enough.

My question is - assuming the company does well and gets more VC funding and few years down the road gets acquired, what should I do to maximize my return? Is asking for more stock options better even if company never goes public? Is there anything else I can ask for instead? I am getting above par compensation money wise and I do not want to ask for more money.
BIDU launches one or two vaporwares every year and this is one of them.
An Experimental iOS Architecture Based on Radical Decoupling