skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something about chicken and egg going on here too.

The Chromecast was wildly successful because it rode on the back of
an already successful browser (50% market share) with support out of
the box.

It also featured dedicated support for specifics apps and platforms, like YouTube and Android, both within Google's control.

Coupled with a low price, this was enough to make the stick sell on
its own, and that again compelled developers to implement dedicated
Chromecast support in their own apps.

In short: Google had both the chicken and the egg. Problem solved.

But if Firefox is to make their own free-er stick... They now have
15-16% browser market share which they can leverage and no on-line
services which they can use to further increase the value of that
stick.

If they can make it "Chromecast compatible" that's obviously a
different story, but that means Chromecast apps now also need to be
compatible with the Gecko rendering engine.

Looking at the sorry state of the mobile web in the end of 2015, we
can already see a significant amount of developers whose only mobile
test-target is Webkit. Some even skip testing Android completely,
focusing only on Ios and Mobile Safari.

And do we expect developers to bother 1. getting and 2. testing for a
Chromecast-compatible device with a sub 1% marketshare when there are
already millions of chromecasts out there?

To me this just smells like Firefox OS all over. Maybe a good idea,
but it's too late, and it probably wont win any developer mind share
from the established platforms.
Very true words.

I think it's even dangerous to focus on scenarios that leads to disasters. I'd like to write this up in more detail one time, but it's summarized as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How would evil AI be prevented by a company from Musk, let's call it aiFriend?

- Analyse what evil AI would constitute

- Build forms of evil AI to understand them better, understand how to counter them

- "Offense is the best defence" thoughts might lead to good AI bot development fighting evil AI bots

- Development in tools to fool evil AI bots to make them make the wrong decisions

- Development of all the human capabilities of deceitfulness to help good AI counter evil AI.

Will Musk create evil AI by focusing on the dark side of a technology and bring about unintentionally that what he fears so much?
No, Stellenbosch University 1997. But, yes, maybe I'm just biased to keyboard use, but I never got the appeal of the zealous mouse interface.

For others, read more about the interclick at http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/Mouse.html
The current campaign in which Facebook v.s. net neutrality activists are asking people to write in to TRAI (and the other stages of this campaign over the last year) is about exactly what I described. The regulator's consultation paper is not specifically about internet.org, it's about differential pricing in general. Like I said, before the activism, ISPs were already declaring they'd charge extra for messaging and VOIP, so it's not 'alarmist', it's planned and declared.
Ancient Rome: Inside the Emperors’ Clothes
Well, most entertainers, writers, comedians, etc. tend to have a humanities background. But these people (like Patton Oswalt) are outliers; they are so ridiculously talented that they would've done with or without any degree.

The more time I spend in humanities, the more I realize that this is a field only for the exceptionally talented or the exceptionally hard working.

I'm neither of these things. I just happened to grind away and had a strong analytical mind.

This also means that if you get an application from a humanities grad who has 'made it' within or outside the field, you should take notice - it's likely that this grad worked far harder/smarter than a STEM major to get where he is.
‘His Joy, His Life’: Nabokov and his wife
There is a whole range of machines that can be classed as 3D printers, from a simple reprap like setup all the way to SLS and DMP printers. Yes, they're all 'additive', but additive manufacturing is a concept that is a lot wider than 3D printing. For instance metal vapor deposition is also additive manufacturing and definitely not 3D printing.
> You should really think before spouting off, and you should honestly admit if you're biased in this instance.

The ivory tower comment which you complained about up-thread read to me as "this is a possible cognitive mistake we might make, let us avoid it" (note that it used the word "us").

On the other hand, there is no charitable reading of the first line of your comment. It's just nasty, much nastier than the even the worst reading of the ivory-tower comment.

>:(
NURBS and CAD: 30 Years Together
I don't really disagree, but that would make for a rather perverse unit, given that inverse temperatures are already on a logarithm scale relative to the probabilities of microscopic states.
Maybe you should have read the whole thing. His customer (the Mexican Govt) netted $6B out of the deal in the end.
The space for AI-powered venture-backed companies is really booming.

Full list of companies mentioned in the article:

Enigma - http://enigma.io/

Sift Science - https://siftscience.com/

Ravelin - https://ravelin.com/

H2O.ai - http://h2o.ai/

Seldon - http://www.seldon.io/

SigOpt - https://sigopt.com/

Gluru - https://gluru.co/

x.ai - https://x.ai/

SwiftKey - https://swiftkey.com/en

Matternet - https://mttr.net/

SkyCatch - https://www.skycatch.com/

DeepMind - http://www.deepmind.com/

Vicarious - http://www.vicarious.com/

Scaled Inference - https://scaledinference.com/

Sentient Technologies - http://www.sentient.ai/

MetaMind - https://www.metamind.io/

Unbabel - https://unbabel.com/

Ravelin - https://ravelin.com/

Signal - http://signalmedia.co/

Sano - http://www.sano.co/

Deep Genomics - http://www.deepgenomics.com/

Atomwise - http://www.atomwise.com/

Flatiron Health - http://www.flatiron.com/

Enlitic - http://www.enlitic.com/

Zebra Medical - https://www.zebra-med.com/

DueDil - https://www.duedil.com/

Premise - http://www.premise.com/
Don't get too excited - the Wikipedia article (very good) explores their genome and taxonomy. Fossilised records hard to come by but cambrian and Cretaceous records have been found. So probably boringly terrestrial
I made this because I missed an easy way to transfer confidential customer data to a "locked" server with only HTTP(S) transfer allowed.

The result is a general-purpose private WeTransfer alternative.
> Meditations - Marcus Aurelius -- A fine classic I enjoyed.

Which version did read, and where did you get it? The translation I found on Gutenberg was too archaic and hard to understand.
It's Ruby on Rails
That's a derivable sub-goal for just about any top-level goal. If you don't exist or you don't have sufficient power, you can't make sure your top-level goals get met and stay met.
Facebook doesn't need to do this.

They have a huge market share on the real internet, they could simply give more people neutral internet access, and they would still grow.

The fact that are attempting this means that they obviously don't believe in the longevity of their product on its own merits, so they are going to try to lock in a few users while they can.
I would say, go with vagrant and laravels homestead box, which comes with PHP 7 already. The documentation is great, so you should be up and running in less then an hour.
If we're really careful about how we program the AI, then we might be able to make it shut down after doing some limited-scope task. However, if its task is not extremely limited in scope, then it has strong incentives to continue itself so that it can complete its task.

An idea of how things could potentially go wrong if you're not ever so careful in this way is the following thought experiment:

> You told the AI to make exactly 100 paperclips. But the AI is made of (and knows that it is made of) human-made components, which are notoriously fairly-to-mostly reliable but not 100% reliable. Say they're 99.999% reliable. The AI's sensors are currently giving it the answer of "I have made 100 paperclips". Can it trust them? It really really wants to have made 100 paperclips, and it's not completely sure of having made 100 paperclips, so it decides to verify whether it has made 100 paperclips.

Boom, suddenly you have unbounded behaviour: "verify a probability".

If the AI is not extremely carefully designed, unbounded behaviour will lead to the AI acquiring resources and perhaps attempting to improve itself, in order to better fulfill its task. Look how readily humans attempt to learn new things and get better at what we do, even though our own goal systems are extremely fuzzy: we don't pursue one task with single-minded devotion like we hope an AI would. (If our AI's goal systems are fuzzy, then we won't understand why it's doing what it's doing, and then it's probably curtains for humanity.)
I find it equally arrogant to believe that humans will achieve strong AI any time in the near future.
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The dissonance between Mark Zuckerberg's letter to his daughter and stuff like this is hard to bridge.
Shouldn't a service like this use a small whitelist of sites that it provides for free (Google maps, Wikipedia, ...) and use https throughout rather than not at all? I completely understand if some services are easier to provide for free, e.g. static/cachable content that can be cached close to the users.

Also if I were Facebook I'd remove any and all Facebook services, just to prove I'm being altruistic and not trying to lock in third world users to my ads...

Really if fb can't do this then some nonprofit should.

This looks a lot like when the US got internet access, with AoL trying to be a quasi-internet within internet. I suppose you can argue "it worked" because it connected lots of households and now they have proper Internet, but the European model where governments subsidized massive backbones and municipalities created last-mile networks making "proper" internet available straight away looks more attractive in retrospect. Realistically, poor countries will have to follow the US model...
Or it could simply mean that they came to Earth a long time ago.
What makes you think Free Basics is doing anything about electricity or connectivity? It is just zero-rating for Facebook & partner apps, riding on top of infrastructure and services built by existing telecom networks in the country with the "extremely corrupt" and "failed" government.
A demo site is here https://foinq.com/photish-montage/index.html
For perspective, count of stories submitted:

php - 75508

javascript - 39526

python - 38836

ruby - 25275

java - 23527

cobol - 8383

node.js - 6677

c++ - 4858

lisp - 2983

haskell - 2917

scala - 2730

perl - 2479

swift - 2173

c# - 1954

erlang - 1882

modula-2 - 1648

rust - 1277

object-c - 1223

coffeescript - 1136

lua - 713

pascal - 687

f# - 606

ada - 428

typescript - 339

modula-3 - 322

oberon - 243

fortran - 182
>Add a few slices of banana peel to a bucket of water and let the mixture sit for a couple of days. Use this to water your planets.

Sorry but I found this hilarious. Article is otherwise of mild interest.
There are people who do not have access even to the walled gardens of 25 years ago.

This link is a response by Facebook to criticisms of Free Basics - https://info.internet.org/en/response-to-free-basics-opponen...

I don't understand why no progress is better than some progress. This initiative is not meant for people already connected to the internet.
Have a look at truecaller. They are a startup out of Sweden with over 300 million users (mostly in India and Asia).

Their app is basically a global callerid. Works well on android. iOS has some issues, but it works.
Any reason for the focus on old symbolic-AI techniques? Things like expert systems have fallen out in favor of learned machine learning models. Yes, machine learning is 'popular' and 'trendy', but it also happens to work better and require less engineering effort to build and maintain than symbolic-AI systems.

Is there a market for traditional AI techniques as a service? Or maybe the wording is just throwing me off? The word 'agents' in particular is used a lot in 60's AI papers (Minsky's influence), so maybe I'm misinterpreting?
What is the use case of spending $0.0001?
you don't even have to go that far just offer free free 2g (without edge internet). It the slowest speed possible but sites like wikipedia will work well on them. It will help people to know important stuff without wasting time on facebook.
A Christmas day with poncho – The Emporialist
The problem is you're framing this as "giving poor people some internet features" vs "poor people without any internet", which is the reading Facebook's propaganda is pushing.

The proper framing for this is "Facebook installing themselves as a middleman that can control and monitor all data access with de facto monopoly power to hinder future competitors" vs "letting the local people develop their own internet on their own terms".

Yes, the latter choice might take a bit longer, but it will be better in the long run than letting Facebook exploit the country in the style of the East India Company. This isn't about giving the poor access to the internet, it's yet another western corporation trying to exploit other countries.

It's important to consider the larger, long-term consequences, instead of the merely the immediate results. Framing matters, and Facebook's propaganda on this topic is transparent if you take the time to analyze it.
What I was lampooning is not simple opportunity, but downright manipulation, as benevolent as it may seem. That's the difference between allowing a child and encouraging/cajoling them to do something.

When you mount a huge campaign to get girls to code, even if they are not interested, are you doing the former or the latter? What about when you do the same for hiring more women in certain areas? Or for getting more women presenters in certain technical conferences?

And if we as a community decided that we should feel bad for being interested in things that overwhelmingly attract males, why not extrapolate the proposed solution? Maybe it gets absurd enough that we realize it's been wrong all this time.
The terms they chose do not have a well-defined meaning. I trust them on that. It is easy to verify by asking an expert whether that term has a meaning in their field. One can try and guess from the words what the meaning of an unknown expression is, but to claim any familiarity with the concept is deceiving oneself. Even if the term had a meaning to you you would still have to get others to agree to that meaning.

I find it unlikely that the meaning attributed to the made-up terms would have made a substantial discussion possible. Either the participants would have to define their mutual understanding of the term first or there would be a lot of hand-waving and disagreement.

Just because you can come up with meaning for a term does not guarantee that somebody else will agree to it. Once you're sufficiently proficient in an area, you realize how much guessing is involved when people try to make sense of unfamiliar terms. If you think you haven't done this, think again. It's actually part of how we learn.

> It would be interesting to see free responses after asking to explain a particular 'non-existent' concept.

I agree to that. And fun.
I explicitly did not mention Gentoo - I know a bunch of people who run it in production. But, for anyone considering to do this - if you're running Gentoo, you're essentially building your own distro, which has massive advantages but is also a huge effort. You're now in charge of security updates, maintenance and Q&A. What if you're leaving the company? There are many Debian or Redhat admins, but good luck finding a Gentoo expert.
Then you need to question the underlying assumptions, because your conclusion is wrong. Start with this: given equal opportunity, any self selected group will mirror the composition of the general population.
Definitely a very useful Chrome extension. I discover a lot of Github repos through my Github frontpage feed, and this will make reading the descriptions much quicker.
Maybe you don't see past the reductio ad absurdum.
Did I claim that? However, it is written in ruby and as such it is a valid counterexample to the claim in the comment I commented on.
New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches
Why is this being developed with the Bitcoin blockchain? Why don't you run your own alt-coin with LN?
Basically dehydration and radiation have the same effect on DNA and other large molecules. The major effect of a hard vacuum is dehydrations. Being able to survive both of these is just a side effect of being able survive dehydration.
Taking a Close Look at One Brand's Retargeting Ads
but then Facebook experience may be affected.

when was the last time someone in the valley/sf even tested their sites/apps on 3g? let alone 2g...
Nice thing is - systemd works well for both.
I think it's referring to the performance-orientated nature of modern cycling. Like many sports it has become a highly technical pursuit that requires exceptional levels of attention to detail.
You are wrong about mining costs. Miners are estimated to consume 100-200 megawatt. Most of them pay below worldwide average electricity prices, being located in Iceland (KnC), WA state (BitFury), etc; maybe around $0.05/kWh. So the miners' daily costs would be $120 000 to $240 000.
Or maybe you prevented a bunch of people from having a first bad experience with the internet.
Though, aren't there also plenty of other mechanisms that affect it? For example increasing speed of manufacturing procedures and improving knowledge about how to design complex systems. The end seems to be extremely dense blocks or spheres of highly optimized computation substrate, where each atom sits very precisely at the right place. But the state of the art is merely a few layers of crude photo-lithography. Imagine nanobots being programmed to move atoms around to assemble 3D circuits at the 10nm scale. I think this is where we are heading, and this will likely grant a couple of decades of continuing exponential progress. And by then our computation power will be insane. An equivalent of the simplest human brain models will likely fit into pea.
Yes, time keeping is up to the host kernel. The time can't deviate in the container.
Bizarre connection, but this reminded me of what Steve a Jobs said to the founders of Dropbox when he offered to buy them out. "What you have there is a feature, not a platform".

I'm not saying he was right or wrong in that case, that's a separate issue, but in the article at hand it seems like mock funerals aren't a service that can support a business on its own. It makes more sense as an adjunct to a main business 'platform' such as actual funerals, but maybe also e.g. Health resorts, religious retreats and such. Maybe that's a useful lens through which to look at any new business idea.
Containers also have a massive attack surface in comparison with VMs. Modern KVM has a comparable density to containers (except for memory).

I agree on the advantages on LXC though. Many hosting companies use it. Why fix it if it ain't broken?
that usually comes to bite you later.

with only one tv channel/radio station/available free web site to billions of poor, bad politicians can focus much easier on praying them. this worked very well when their only entertainment was religion cults.

everything has a consequence that will indirectly affect your ivory tower.
Logarithms are like violence—if it's not flat yet, you need to use more.
"In my opinion, the web isn't going to last forever" sounds quite bitter.
I'm curious if these scientists try to make the connection between the flow and the focused attention meditation. It seems to me that by trying to meditate, you are actually trying to get to the state of flow.
Doesn't really solve the problem of how life first arose. It just pushed the whole thing back into space.
I still don't understand why it's 'br' in the header and not 'brotli'
they were even suppressing a popular Indian youtube comedy channel's take on this issue when it was released. And yes, fb does internally censor things which they dont like, for eg they were actively blocking tsu.co, a rival social network url in their platform until it hit the media and they had to backtrack
It's a zero sum game either way.
> could simply give more people neutral internet access, and they would still grow.

By giving data without any restriction would result in its consumption via video content (e.g. Youtube) and will not be of any use to facebook.
https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-he...
Machine intelligence is nothing like human intelligence and I thank the author for writing this article.

It's a glorified calculator. An input-output program. It is not "intelligent". In fact, most research into artificial intelligence, in the sense that we think about in sci-fi is stopped. For more than decade, approaching on two. It is stopped because nobody got anywhere with it, despite lots of money and lots of people trying to get it off the ground. What is dubbed "artificial intelligence" nowadays is some statistical learning or other mathematical models which find optimal solutions. Its got nothing to do with intelligence. But it is easier to sell to executives.
Have these studies been reproduced elsewhere, or is it a singular group of researchers extolling the virtues of meditation?
Quick question: do you still need gemsets if you use Bundler? And why would you prefer using one instead of the other?
Wrong. Having no internet at all is better than having some. When you talk about internet it usually means all of it.
He probably is happy, but when I read that I'm sad for his parents. Especially when I think of them in another 10 or more years. And then a bit later I realise (selfishly?) there's more to it than empathy towards some strangers I've only just heard of, as it could be my own reality in another 20 years.
Wonderful extension idea. Maybe we could extend it further for other popular destinations (links to tweets, facebook pages, email addresses, domains).
heck they have even started Youtube adverts now! http://imgur.com/FqrQQm4 How can we face such a force who has every means of media communication to dupe people?
as a 10+ yr practitioner, studies are useless. practice it and test it by yourself, no harm done and a lot to gain ;)
Apple facing second lawsuit over excess data usage, this one for iPhone 5/5s
You could try out the live streaming feature of http://www.bitcodin.com, it supports HLS as well as MPEG DASH.
There won't be a door knob. The sensor will be in the door which will slide open for you when you are near but stay locked for everyone else.
Some of these things are already being done by people later they will be common at least for the people that can afford them.
Ok, we are still safe. As parent demonstrates, machines still can't even compose coherent text. Nice try, robot slave!
The reason given here appears to be bullshit. Nothing stops banks from reducing settlement period with existing technology, except change is complicated. It's already been done for foreign exchange - look up Continuous Linked Settlement.

BlockChain's stand-out feature is that you don't have to trust a central authority. As they are the central authorities in today's system, of course banks are looking into it.
Yes, DASH is still royality free
Remix (YC W15) is looking for engineers to rethink transit
Vagrant.
Socialteria