skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the parents in the article complained about an anti-intellectual movement taking off. Yet he would do well to consider the scientific method: there is lots of research on cognitive development, and more could be pursued. Why don't parents, particularly in the STEM-centric Bay Area, consider the academic research results, and the scientific method? Yet the answer is clear to me: value systems.
It's understandable that many people see the disconnect between fears about strong AI and the much more limited capabilities of AI today, and think that the fears must be overblown. However, this article takes that gut reaction and uses it to justify labeling the views of many prominent philosophers and AI researchers as simply a "myth", without even beginning to address their arguments. I strongly recommend reading Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom.
I was not implying that anyone was doing it right (end-to-end encryption)
Your previous point extolled opportunity over representation, but this comment seems to suggest that opportunity itself can sometimes be inappropriate, and hence harmful. Or have I misunderstood?
Thanks for the feedback, it is on my to do. However for now, Photish itself is probably best showcased by running it and checking it out. After it is installed, an example/demo is provided by running:

photish init --example && photish host

Once I put together a nice template and some example sites I they would better showcase my HTML/CSS/JavaSCript and design skills rather then what Photish can do. Theoretically any design could be created using Photish as the templates and assets are completely up to you. The tool just takes care of the generation.
I am weary of the gatekeepers, they can change the rules when they want. What would really help from a long term perspective is to provide very low cost data plans, this might not happen if we go the free basics route since telcos have vested interest in keeping the free basics forever by jacking up the cost of data plans.
>I say this as an atheist who enjoys Christmas.

Well, from the christmas tree to Santa Claus there's nothing much christian about christmas in the way it's celebrated in the US (and copied everywhere else too). It's mostly a shopping holiday with a Disney theme.
I've implemented Common Lisp using llvm (github.com/drmeister/clasp). I've integrated the Boehm and Memory Pool system garbage collectors. How? It would take a long time to explain - but it's doable.
Merry Christmas and enjoy programming with Ruby 2.3!
Resident Evil 4 HD Project
Should, but unfortunately one can't always forsee things that come up. If your spouse comes down with cancer, for instance, and you're reliant upon company insurance to pay for treatment, one might be tempted to put their spouse's treatment ahead of those ethics.
- Altoid mentions Silk Road: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175.msg42670#msg4267...

- Altoid identifies as Ross Ulbricht: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg5...

(Looks like the NYT got mixed up about which post was deleted)
I'm not even really talking about profits, though. Just the basic amount needed to get by.
python: hmac._secret_backdoor_key
I think a serious benefit ND has, aside from the established reputation and money put in is space. I can't really think of somewhere in Silicon Valley (or near by) that has the lack of population, lack of airspace traffic, and lack of local / state / federal ordinances that would allow this degree of freedom.

Silicon Valley has it's strengths, but it can't be ground zero for everything.

Honestly, if the NUMI plant wasn't in Fremont, I could see the majority of Tesla being not in the bay area (one could argue the battery plant in NV is such a shift).
You seem to be making strident arguments against ridiculous points that nobody is making.
It is an insanely boring sport. People should be abandoning it.
Good point. The effectiveness of that kind of attack will come down to the user's wetware.
Man, I can't wait to see the comments THIS gets
Use the "web" link under the title. It does the search for you.

(I wish HN would rename the link, as I see these posts several times a day and it's a useful feature).
I wonder if you could make a client that also wraps over Steam? So you have your own store and library and messaging system and everything, but you also log into your Steam account under the hood and it mirrors all your Steam things. So you can launch your Steam games and talk to your Steam friends, but have a nicer client.
To quote from the screenshot you linked of a typical Wikimedia Foundation advertisement: [1]

"We ... have costs like any other top site: servers, power, rent, programs, staff and legal help."

I count six costs listed there. Doesn't look like "pretty shady" advertising to me.

Also, "internet hosting costs" in the financial statements isn't all the money spent on IT-related costs. For example, computer equipment is counted as an investment which then depreciates. In the 2011 financial statements you linked, Wikimedia spent $3.2m on computer equipment and $1m on depreciation (though depreciation would also include things like furniture). [2]

You also haven't provided any evidence for your claim Wikimedia promotes "purposeful backlinking to their for profit sites".

Finally, although it's an imperfect way to analyse charities, Charity Navigator gives Wikimedia Foundation 93.5/100, an excellent score. [3]

1. http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/11/28/wikipedia_chugging_fullsize...

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/ac/FINAL...

3. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
Fun is subjective.
I don't know of any general purpose concurrent collectors which have no stop-the-world phase.
For the history of this, see: https://code.activestate.com/lists/python-checkins/32587/

This is actually just a unique object used for an object identity check, so that instances of the HMAC class can copy themselves and tell the copy to not bother initializing its internal state before that state gets overwritten. It's not in any way a "key" in the cryptographic sense.

Current events, on the other hand, make it a rather poor variable name in hindsight.
4chan and 8chan, by this article's definition, have attritional interfaces, to a greater degree than Reddit. Threads are moved to the top of a board when posted on; when this happens, all other threads are pushed down. This happens so quickly that, effectively, threads are ordered by their activity. When a thread hits the bottom of page 10, it is deleted, and depending on the board's settings, threads with more than N replies are "bumplocked" and cannot be moved to the top. Further, one may use the keyword "sage" in the email field to intentionally reply without bumping.

This means that, without constant activity, threads will eventually die. Third-party archives exist, but the chans do in fact delete old threads.
Which degrees give the best financial returns?
They properly programmed the website so you can't abuse this occurrence, as well as it might be the fault of their cache provider. Although they do have some problems, it is without a doubt they hire extremely smart people if you watch any of the talks people from Valve give, especially concerning their marketplaces. They definitely have lots of problems with their policies, but they are definitely not bad at programming.
That article is so naive and misinformed that I was seriously wondering if it was a prank. I suppose it's a nice read if you want to see someone obliviously ramble about things entirely unrelated to the actual arguments for AI risk scenarios.
> What's a more lucrative and easy way to get into Web development as a remote web developer?

There's no other way than to get online and be noticed. As far as I know, the people being hunted down are 1) The ones that contribute to some open source project and 2) ones that are active in programming communities like Quora or StackOverflow. That's because employers have tangible evidence of your skill level (they see you code).

> I'm thinking of learning PHP/WordPress or Javascript as a way to get my feet wet into Freelancing.

Every technology has their own niche in the freelance world. Choose one you're comfortable with, and where the action is. If you're still starting off, better learn fast. These freelance things don't start off easy. Half of it is the work, the other half, the paperwork.
I imagine the list of those that want to also fix bugs and performance issues for such apps at Valve is even smaller. Just my guess from being an active steam user for about a decade.
This is a terrible comment in hindsight given I made it on Christmas but spending the holidays in rural Appalachia for years makes me ponder how oblivious people in tech are to the realities of their countries. Enjoy the holidays, folks and go talk to everyone - get out of your comfort zones and experience something completely crazy perhaps. We have the best living standards worldwide in the history of the planet but we have a long way to go before we can achieve the humanist dream of providing the opportunity for each person to work hard for their dreams and realize them. I hope that during the holidays as a time of reflection we look for our common struggles and work towards creating human consensus rather than the every day popular rhetoric of creating division and controversy out of their own desperation to put food on the table.
Utterly ridiculous things are often the most interesting, I didn't say otherwise. The social justice bit of his comment irked me though.
Don't focus on one scenario leading to disaster. There are many scenarios pointing roughly in the same direction. Here's the argument in its shortest form:

The current situation, where unmodified humans are the smartest creatures around and call the shots, is unstable. It could go several different ways depending on the desires and quirks of the first superhuman intelligence to appear. It could happen via math-based AI, nature-imitating AI, self-improving mind uploads, biological intelligence amplification, or other means. We're making fast progress on all these fronts, so I'd be surprised if at least one of those didn't happen within the next century, possibly much sooner. Since it's an arms race between many competing organizations, it's unrealistic to expect that all superhuman intelligences will be kept powerless. So one way or another, it will happen. How do we ensure that humanity and its values survive the transition?
Yesterday, this occurred to me. I quickly forget which pdf I have downloaded.
I was searching for an application who is basically a to do list for pdf (a "pocket" for pdf).

Does anyone have an application like that?
Anyone who claims that not having the most stressful, rigorous environment around for children is going to lead to a "dumbing down" needs to take a serious look at themselves, and what they want to subject their children to. Maybe CPS should take a look as well.
Virtual queue
Also, every student should have the opportunity to participate in the music and arts programs. Art is for everyone, not just the few who were forced by their parents to play from birth.
How to Turn a FanBoy into a Hater in 5 Minutes: Lessons from the New WaPo
Does it really work? Because https://camo.githubusercontent.com/61a470c896d89cc50b78b606b... images on GitHub READMEs are cached by GitHub.
The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Good Ol' Games deserves a big mention as well. The entire library is DRM-free.
As someone who really doesn't do that much web programming, what is the modern way to handle the kinds of information that cookies are/were used for?
You are incorrect in how you labeled your second "choice," it should be:

"Its a choice between having Facebook, or having no Facebook at all."

Do not let them confuse you into comparing the two... What you just said is why this sort of think makes my fucking blood boil (no anger at you friend, it's with the institution manipulating you).

What they are trying to do, and this really pisses me off, is rebrand "internet" to "Facebook," for poor Indians. A group who as of right now is unaware of the difference and less apt to understand the evils of the marketing engine behind it because they are not yet connected.

Tangent: they are making this so much worse by using government built spectrum. What the fuck kind of perverse asshole thought that would be okay?

... Back to the point.

Think about this, from an infrastructure standpoint: it will cost them more in firewalls and configuration to limit the Internet than to simply allow unfettered access.

I'm not even kidding, they are going to spend more money implementing basic access than by just giving out plain ol' Internet. Knowing that, I find it pretty fucking audacious Facebook thinks we are all so fucking stupid to accept that line of shit.

Okay... they know we won't but we don't matter to their growth target. They need mobile users, that aren't already users, that they can exploit for money (ad views, sponsored content) or their stock will tank because they aren't going to hit their growth target for Qn.

So where do they look? The world's poor. They go in and offer "internet," and market it to them as a "right" or some sort of moral high ground. Then back home they market their "humanitarian" efforts making for some touching PR moments.

/slow-clap "nice work, assholes."

And finally for how this is actually worse than "no Facebook at all," is because FB's marketing machine will go around saying to governments and media "don't worry about India's Internet, we fixed it." This, I promise, will slow the development, if not halt it, because other organizations non-profit or for-profit will think it's a done deal. Even scarier is that the people in those areas won't want "internet," because "Facebook is good enough."

Digital slavery is what this should be called. It should be abhorred. It should be vilified. It should not be tolerated. We should all be angry.

Edit: Updates for grammar and to let person I was replying to know I'm not at all upset at them or trying to direct anger their way.
I guess refreshing the above link repeatedly answers the question: the images are not cached, just proxied through camo.githubusercontent.com.
How did they route the temperature sensors out of the oven? I'd imagine the PVC insulation wouldn't be too happy above ~100C, and the oven was supposedly around 160C. Toxic ham?
Although ND has crop dusters which will be an interesting conflict.
What enabled mainstream web adoption was mainstream computers (Intel 486) and modems (14.4k/28.8k) getting fast enough to make something like the web useful. Jobs wasn't in a position to speed that up. They got affordable in 1993. (TBL defined the cornerstones of the WWW in 1989.)

In 1989 Jobs was still selling (very few) Next computers for an entry price of $10k.
This presages the development of SaaS. Software is, if you're lucky, a means to an end. No one pays you for the means, they pay you for the end. When you're building your own house, you can often get it built for less than half the price you would pay down the street because of this phenomenon.

Looks like Microsoft caught up to this reality.
No, Java is not fully backwards compatible. It may be more backwards compatible compared to ruby, but claiming that it is fully backwards compatible is simple false.
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
Yeah? Try rails 3.2.17 which work perfectly on ruby 1.9 and see how well it works on 2.2.

(java is not fully backwards compatible either, but it may be a bit more tolerant in some cases)
That aviation school appears, in detail, in Miss Pilot, the Japanese drama. Episodes 5 and 6 are set there.

(That drama was made with the total cooperation of ANA, and the aviation details are accurate.)
Even if you can find your package in the repos, you can always build from source if you like. In that case it a ./configure && make && make install away
The thing was Micro-Soft at the time was selling BASIC, COBOL, and FORTRAN languages without paying a license fee to use them from the college or company that held the copyright license. You could say that Microsoft made a clone of the languages for microcomputers, but did not invent the languages themselves. This cut down on research and design costs to use an existing language and write a clone of it instead of paying a license fee for the language software and port that.

So at the time the people who pirated Micro-soft tapes and floppies claimed that it was an illegal port in the first place. I don't know if they are correct or not but copyright was not enforced in the 1970s and 1980s because they had different IP laws then than we do now.

When Microsoft bought 86-DOS/Q-DOS it had violated CP/M-86 patents by using the API and in fact there was a CP/M to DOS converter for programs because of how similar both operating systems were. http://www.wired.com/2012/08/ms-dos-examined-for-thef/ But as it turns out you can't copyright an API and Linux uses the Unix API.

So saying Microsoft stole IP is very hard to say, they did develop alternatives to the originals that their software did the same things as. None of what they made early on they sold was original and was based on something else.

The only reason why IBM chose DOS instead of CP/M is that DOS cost less per license than CP/M. Plus IBM got access to Microsoft BASIC for their PC ROM.

Micro-Soft saw a need for a programming language for many microcomputers that didn't even have software yet, it allowed others to use the languages to write software for the many different microcomputers. So in a way Microsoft making their own version of those languages without paying a license fee opened up a lot of doors for the 8 bit and 16 bit market. Because no other company was doing that at that time.

To this day many free and open source projects make clones of the original products by using the same API as the original and writing their own code from scratch. If API becomes copyrighted it would shut those projects down.

The IBM PC Clone market only happened because they cloned the PC BIOS by reverse engineering it and writing their own BIOS that uses the same API calls as IBM's BIOS. Then Microsoft licensed MS-DOS to the PC clone companies who made PCs cheaper than IBM and lead to a reduction in cost of microcomputers.

So in honesty Microsoft sort of started the API cloning business and it allowed the PC Cloners to take over IBM's marketshare and drive IBM out of the PC business.
CPS = child protective services?

If yes, why?

Pushing your kids to achieve and holding them to high expectations is a good thing. It's not child abuse assuming that's what you meant by CPS.

If some kids can't hang, that's life. We don't need to regulate that away.

I realize that hard work and grit and the grind are out of favor today but making schools less rigorous is foolish.

Disclaimer: son of immigrants
Agreed. I'm a foreigner living in the US. I attended a baseball game live by curiosity and found it incredibly boring. I mentioned it the next day to my co-workers and they told me that the only reason to go see a baseball game was to get drunk, shout a little and go home after an hour or so (that is 1/3 of the game).

Popularity of the sport may depend on the region though.

While I can enjoy hockey, basketball and even a little bit of football, baseball is just unwatchable. I guess you have to be born in it.
I find really curious to tag almonds (we talk about Prunus dulcis, isn't?) as hungry-water crops. They are just the opposite. One of the ancient fruit trees that need less water to trive. They are famous because can survive and growth with just two deep watering episodes each twelve months. Even if you need to wait some years, you will not spend so many water in fact as with other crops.

Alfalfa on the other side needs to be watered constantly, day after day.

This is probably just another local war for the territory. When the best water containers (forests) are burned year after year by delinquents, millions of dollars in free water literally evaporate.
The paper never refers to hubs, the necessity of a handful of entities routing payments a-la Visa has never been part of the design. There are certainly more connected nodes, but that's true in any P2P system (as well as nodes with higher uptime). Additionally the paper refers to larger blocks, LN doesn't resolve underlying block capacity issues alone, it could help mitigate its problems significantly -- much like how a switched network helps resolve bandwidth (but you still might want faster connections).

I've never argued that it is a dead certainty, certainly less so than you have argued that arbitrarily large blocksizes are the only solution.

Quite frankly, I don't understand why you're so butthurt with my comment, I've stated that I think multiple solutions are best, and have explicitly avoided the politicization with this community.

> I can assure you, the CS understanding of the people who disagree with you (like Chris, Gavin, myself and Satoshi) is just fine

I'm pretty sure your comments don't accurately represents Gavin's view (AFAIK, he also thinks we need to explore many technical approaches), nor do you speak for Satoshi (current understanding of bitcoin's risks is significantly different than 2011).

Engineering costs are one thing, technical impossibilities are another. It's not credibly possible for bitcoin to exist in its current form while also being able to make a $0.0001 payment. I agree there are some aspects to consider, esp with maximizing the social value of the network and testing it out, though. Certainly, for all we know there may be unaccounted issues, but that's the case for bitcoin as well (51% risks are still unknown).

For those who are not paying attention to the bitcoin discussions, I have always stated many transactions will still be on-chain (e.g. large directional flows, but paying $0.001 has not been feasible for a very long time in Bitcoin, LN enables those payments to exist using Bitcoin again).
Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach Florida seems far more likely. http://daytonabeach.erau.edu/

Also tons of near by land and open ocean, as well as NASA and government contracting engineers already co-located and a bunch of other great universities nearby or with satellite campuses in and around Orlando / Daytona.

Being able to fly 365 days a year helps too.

Realistically, the Pacific Ocean and insanely high concentration of engineers in sv seems like the most likely place for long-term drone innovation.
Yeah Github's proxy [1] respects Cache-Control headers, so it will just pass through.

[1]https://github.com/atmos/camo
Regular people couldn't afford Next computers. They used PC clones (running mostly 16-bit Windows at the time, which is why Netscape was successful -- their browser ran on 16-bit Windows).
I add both kinds, but keep them in separate categories. In fact, I have three kinds: a few feeds which I read in full, a few more which I decide based on skimming the titles, and the rest which are just for when I feel like it.

This is why - despite having accounts in both - I follow Twitter and Tumblr feeds on my RSS reader. The sites are simply too limiting.
I've dabbled a little bit in Ruby, and I found this to be a much larger problem than it is with Python. Most systems have python 2 and/or python 3. Beyond that, I've rarely need to worry very much about which Python version I have. But for every new Ruby application I install on my machine, I'm messing around with rvm.

Is it truly a difference between the languages release strategy or is this just my perception because of limited experience with Ruby? I found it to be a huge pain in the ass.