skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this exactly describe human sensory input?

Well, consider having a 360º array of 30 cameras all integrated into a perfect spherical sensory experience. It's something we can't really imagine experiencing natively, but it would be trivial for eBrains to coalesce visual systems that way from eBirth.

Our bodies have lots of low bitrate sensors like billions of individual sensory nerves distributed throughout our bodes (and they are each individually addressable in the brain), but we don't think of "touch" as a sense to "computationalize" like vision or sound or language.

One amusing thing about AI sensors: nobody ever talks about superhuman smell. Where are the quantum AI noses?
That's behind some weird interstitial, so here's a cached version: http://archive.is/xoix6
Isn't that what the 'web' rules under the title is for?

We really need an official with HN FAQ: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
I have to agree. It's pretty disgusting how the owners threaten cities until they get a new hundreds million dollars stadium, and how the NFL, MLB, and other leagues are complacent in this.

But what's worse, far worse, is how the fans have no problem with their own governments being fleeced. Their tax dollars are used to build the lavish stadiums and then they're expected to pay exorbitant amounts just to go see a game.

Bread and circuses indeed.
My thought had to do more with if he had been operating under someone else's orders within the U.S. govt to intentionally play the role of a fabricated whistleblower. However, I can see how that might be a stretch based upon some of the compelling information released.

Sibel Edmonds seem to have some apprehension regarding Snowden's and his constiuents roles. Her stance is what triggered my doubts.

Some of her views on are not necessarily directed at Snowden himself, but they do raise some questions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekhmXG_41Bc
Your ideas that grids and therefore alignment is some quirk among a few OCD artists is quite wrong. Good designers break grid all the time, but they all use grids and guides to some extent. Not using a grid is the sure sign of an amateur. Just because a grid is a well-known concept to everyone doesn't make it amateurish.
I think at a more simple level, why exactly would anyone want to establish a data center in one of the more inhospitable corners of the globe for any reason other than heat exchange?
I came here to say exactly the same thing ... it requires a lot more calories to heat up water one degree Celsius than it does air but the heat still has to go somewhere.
http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea...

This reminds me of a book I read recently in which they put the servers on barges. I was an entertaining read, 1/1 would recommend.
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I agree. You have to look at the intent of the business. LR's primary use was illicit, whether they explicitely advertised themselves as such or not, they were still out of regulation and obviously not innocent.

Also it's customer, not costumer.
There's two lines of thought. Either a.) an AI will have the mental capacity of a 2 year old with the powers of a god — or — b.) an AI will have the mental capacity of a god (not a dumb Abrahamic god, but more like a universal atman) also combined with the powers of a god.

If you're in the "2 year old with unlimited power" camp, nothing can save us and everything is futile and we should all just eat drink and be merry for tomorrow the AI kills us all.

If you're in the AI-as-enlighened-buddha camp, the godlike AI will either save us all — or — just leave us alone to solve our own problems (while potentially locking out future godlike-AI development so we don't do too much runaway damage (eschaton, etc)).
I'm in (outer, outer) Sydney, have been freelancing FT for 8 months, and find it's 75% sales and 25% 'work'.

I'm thinking about entering the job market again just so I can get away from being a sales person and get back to 'working'.

To offer some legitimate advice, I'd say if you haven't spent much of your career learning sales and networking, get started a year or two before you make the jump.
Let me reply the counter case. Someone very close to me suffered a severe episode of manic depression. So much so that they were getting evicted from their apartment and losing their job. We tried to escalate help from across the country and NONE came from the medical establishment. (Talked to both the psychologist and psychiatrist.) No offer of evem brief inpatient care, which would have helped ameliorate the damage which they are still facing caused by clearly a medical problem. Their answer was to let my friend ride it out, even though he was vandalizing buildings and threatening neighbors in his delusion. (Friend being heretofore a very high performing person in grad school.)

So yes, the profession is BS but I would say the pendulum has swung a bit too far based on the help we were asking for and didn't get.

A hard balance for sure.
A closer look at the vehicles designed for the Hyperloop Pod competition
Devaluing the currency is great for exporting countries, but remember that China's official plan is to develop a consumer based economy. People who use a devalued currency have no purchasing power and inflation can become a huge problem for growth.
Exactly - this is probably a very bad idea, even if it seems like only muck-dwelling worms and the like will be affected.
I'll never forget having to hear the npr announcer pronounce all nine syllables of dou-ble-you, dou-ble-you, dou-ble-you, before every sponsor's domain. I winced each time. I also remember telling my friends over and over that they didn't have to type www.
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I've just made the leap myself, leaving my agency job on Feb 10th to start my own consulting and contracting company. I'm a UX designer specialising in product design and interaction design for web apps and mobile. I've worked in UX for 12 years, consulting, agency, startups and enterprise - always wanted to run my own shop, and I'm finally making it happen. Woohoo!

I found a startup client who I have a small monthly retainer with, and who I'm doing some short (1 week-ish) contracts for on an ad-hoc basis. The money is good for the work involved, and the business gets to pay probably about half the usual cash for a senior UX brain that retains context around their business. It's win-win at the moment. I'm working hard to make sure I provide value for them because I know that I'm new to this game.

Finding clients so far has been all about activating my network. I haven't been able to do outwardly facing marketing stuff while still technically working at the agency, so once Feb 10 rolls around, I'm kicking that off.

Also, I saw in the comments that you're in Ivanhoe - I'm in Heidelberg Heights! We'll have to catch up for a beer some time to shoot the shit. ^_^
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Your last line doesn't make sense. If they think that, then they are going to fail. Hence, they won't be in charge...
Redhat unfortunately seems beyond reproach by many, even with all the bad behavior they've allowed under their watch. Ulrich Drepper was an employee of theirs during his most imfamous time as glibc maintainer. Their purchase of Cygnus scattered a lot of real interesting systems development tools, like the Insight debugger, to the wind. Unfortunately, they're one of the loudest mouths in the room, so a lot of their bullshit doesn't get called out, leaving everything worse for the wear.
Please go back to Reddit.
I don't like showering with a watch because you end up with that spot on your wrist that just won't dry when you towel down.
And even then you're doing DNS requests
Where about in (outer, outer) Sydney ?

So you mean its difficult to find projects?
Thanks, it is a very interesting field.
If they run out of cash they will start to devalue their currency, that's the bet.
Yeah, I'm familiar with Scratch because that's what CS First users. I'm wondering if there are any decent curriculums to go with Scratch or Snap.

Thanks.
That's not the point. 90%+ of the webpages I visit are essentially static documents. They can easily be treated as data, not code; even the UI description could be omitted and reasonably reconstructed from the actual page content.

This webpage? It consists of a title and a link to an article, followed by a series of comment objects. Each comment contains some text, an associated author, a timestamp, and possibly a set of child comments.

This exact arrangement of data can be found all across the web. If you take any blog article, it consists of this same layout, only instead of a link to the article, you have a bunch of text and/or pictures.

It arguably took more work to design a product (the web browser) that can parse html, apply CSS styling, parse and execute Javascript, and tie all those pieces together with the DOM than it would have been to just have webservers pass a loosely annotated version of the page contents to the browser and let the browser decide how to render and interact with the content on its own accord.

The point is, running an "app" on the web is largely BS. If you think your blog, news site, or forum is sufficiently different from the thousands of others out there that it warrants an entirely new application (as opposed to just different styling), then you're full of yourself.

And if we had taken that simpler route, I wouldn't have to spend days designing a trivial blog site. Websites wouldn't all be so jarringly different (which they largely are, and unnecessarily so). I could get straight to writing my content, because browser defaults would actually be sane enough to do the dirty work for me. And the resulting UI would be more accomodating to the user than anything I could whip up with "modern" web technologies because the browser has access to the user's [language, color, contrast, font-size] preferences. Not to mention how much more accessible it would be to the visually (or otherwise) impaired.
Sounds a lot like Theranos
Looks similar to Wireworld[1], although the rules are different

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld
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Why does the economy need to grow? No growth = no bubbles = no busts. Don't see everyone's obsession with growth, growth, growth.
Ahh Heidelberg, We should definitely catch-up for a beer or two.
Just run ZNC instead, if the service is unreliable.
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> 50% OF US LIVE NEAR THE COAST. WHY DOESN'T OUR DATA?

It's corrosive, expensive to get things to and from it for replacement, leaks destroy the hardware, it's not close to power generation, internet access needs cables because RF doesn't penetrate water, everything is going need watercooling which is rather expensive.
Go, and the Chasm AI hasn't crosses
Devaluation causes inflation?
Not necessarily: http://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/macroessays/does...
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008851.
early adopter of pinegrow here. I even bought multiple licenses early on, just to support them. It's become a critical part of my work now. And it's pretty affordable. Any software isn't going to be worth it if you don't find use out of it or use something else. But I'd be quite unhappy if I didn't have pinegrow to work on UI at my current job. I love how easy it is to copy and delete objects and I build screens for stakeholders (and then devs to work on)

firebug / chrome dev tools are great, I still use them along side pinegrow, but they aren't pinegrow. And pinegrow doesn't do everything perfect. I will ocassionally open up the same files I'm working in pinegrow inside a code editor for more robust tools, BUT pinegrow has been excellent to work visually on some of the mindnumbing things I'd have to do in code if I didn't have it.
Land costs?
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Granted the current state of JS is a bit of a joke. That said spend a week or two on understanding web components, virtual dom, immutable.js, webpack, babel and its plugins and you are good to go.
Would putting a big data center underground work? (ala geothermal cooling?)
10,000 years of history disagrees with you.
You need to have a much better filter than 0.3um as has been pointed out by others. I simply didn't like the smell of the ABS (PLA is fine) so I put mine in a laminar flow cabinet originally configured for down flow to keep silicon wafers clean in fab transport. I reversed the filtering system so it pulls the fumes from the printer through the filter which is good to 0.1um. Of course it's a bit silly because the cabinet and filter was originally 10x the price of my MakerBot ToM but I picked it up for cheap at a local electronics surplus store. Here's a picture:

http://7t.io/printer.jpg
I don't subscribe to the WSJ so I can't read the OP, but I thought the Yuan was wanting to rise, and that china was slowly letting it revalue. I thought all the economic pressure was aligned that way. Chinese have currency controls so they can't easily sell the yuan to buy other currencies (bitcoin is down for the past couple weeks- the one currency which chinese people love and which doesn't have any controls).
>If this is still hard, think of WW2. It was justified historically because of how Germans treated the Jews. Everyone is on board with the presumed necessary large scale destruction of Europe because of the holocaust. It was the internal horrific politics of the Nazis on people they considered foreigners which justify this.

This is just not true. The plight of the Jews was not a major factor in the United States entering the war, or in the war at all for that matter. The US entered in response to a direct attack, though we could say that that was just the tipping point that escalated America's involvement to outright war. The underlying factors were the defense of allied democracies, and particularly the fear of a hostile international order where America would stand alone against the massive totalitarian regimes in Germany, Russia, and Japan, who likely would have controlled the rest of the world (and thus people and resources, and thus industrial capacity, and thus military might) between them. As for how we look back at it, Lincoln's formulation for the Civil War could apply just as well:

[...]that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Web applications get a lot less access than desktop applications do. Desktop apps get user privleges, so they can read all your files. Web apps are fully sandboxed. They can, now, access your files, but only after you click a scary banner that people are not used to seeing.
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This is amazing, best yet! Wondering what's the status of that? Can't see save button..
Evernote has always supported offline /local notebooks without the cloud. You lose some features such as OCR, but the search feature works otherwise. Is there some reason that won't work?
Relabel 'web' to 'no paywall'?
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Simply put, the ocean is a massive place with so many factors at play (like underwater currents bringing in cold water), that the heat generated by a ton of small "micro" datacenters will be pretty inconsequential.
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"Eventually he ended up sending the machine to MSI for repair, which will be covered by warranty." explains most of it - broken hardware should be fixed by the manufacturer.
Seriously. It's a proposition obviously cooked up by someone who has never spent more than a week's vacation by the sea.
If only there were some mechanism whereby value was traded fairly... :)
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I specify bootstrap or whatever as a starting point because it's important to me to have a "toolbox" of stuff to pull from. Even after the themer's work is done, I need a set of UI elements to design with as my project's design evolves. A really good example of HTML/CSS toolboxes are a bunch of the themes at wrapbootstrap.com. Here's an example one I like:

http://simpleqode.com/preview/paperclip/1.3.2/ui-elements.ht...

For a programmer I have a pretty good graphic design sense, so I can limp along and build my own components while keeping an overall consistent style. A lot of other programmers are awful at this and I've seen some hideous stuff. Rando freelances are the extreme case, but even if you're stuck having a programmer without UI horse sense do UI work, having a framework based UI toolkit is a huge help.
Everyone knows that the terrorists will detonate a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl when it's in Denver. [1] In all seriousness, if event security is as lax as the TSA is at airports, what chance do they have of stopping it? Intercepting the cell traffic of those who are at the game will likely be too late. If they don't have credible intelligence beforehand, it's still going to be disasterous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sum_of_All_Fears_%28film%2...
This thing is amazing. I am a backend developer, and over the last couple of years becoming "full stack" for web projects. For me I can do CSS/Photoshop stuff but I'd rather hand code assembly language than CSS wrangling anyday. So this tool is great.

I think if the target audience is "non designers" who just want to get something done, it's perfect. I generally throw together UIs at work and pass them on to our designers who of course throw it out and put in real stuff, but at least they know they're starting with a functional product to work from. That's where I think this tool will really work for people.
Last I looked, China was a big export economy. So the population size is irrelevant. Look elsewhere for indicators of China's future economic growth.

And never forget, that big revolutionary wave of iPhones and iPads? It came from China manufacturers.

In today's world, if you only look ahead, you will be blindsided from the rear. China is not China any more.
Spot on. Couldn't agree more. I didn't download it because I didn't know anything about the creator, couldn't see the source, and had not evidence that it wasn't just some malware with a useful looking screenshot.
US Law does not apply to Costa Rica-- it's outside their jurisdiction. That's one of the fundamental problems here.

The US could pass a law that Sainsburies (a UK grocery store, with no US locations) has to employ a jazz band at every one of their stores for 3 hours every friday afternoon... but it doesn't matter, because the US does not have jurisdiction over the UK. Even if a US citizen goes and visits and stops by a sainsbury and is upset at the lack of a jazz band.
...unless you have to call into Numpy or Python C-API frequently in a hot loop. That's bit of a bummer. I would rather write array indexing in Numpy notation than do that error-prone indexing by hand (in Cythonic C). I think there was something in the works to deal with this problem, not up do date on it.
I'd go plain text with org-mode, if you are willing to learn a bit of Emacs.

Plain text has the advantage of being completely open to scripting. So it can satisfy any requirements you have down the road. Also easy to version control, etc.

Org-mode supports an immense amount of things already, including tags and it derives from an outline mode so it's great for note taking.
Military protection is the primary quality of feudalism, not democracy.

The cold war threat from the soviet union was factually incorrect and had many theories like the domino theory which are irrefutably wrong. It was more about placing neoclassical economics as the only framework to think about markets. And if you don't know what I'm talking about it's because it was a huge success.

And if you don't think anti American propaganda is what created groups like ISIL, I strongly advise you to do a very small bit of research just about anywhere - Wikipedia is probably fine. Heck, even conservapedia might be OK here.

And finally, there's thousands of attack vectors daily. You have the subway system, theme parks, universities, tourist attractions, busy intersections, elementary schools, transport hubs, parades, celebrity at the local book store, water towers, shopping malls during the holidays, festivals, sporting events, music concerts...

The probability of terrorism is very likely p < 0.001. More people will die traveling to and from the events by many orders of magnitude.

Just like how you'll stop mass shootings is when you stop making the shooters celebrities, you'll stop terrorism when the entire world stops reacting in batshit crazy ways to it.
Do data centers ever rely on RF for connectivity?
QBASIC was my first programming experience. I fondly remember a little known function that would treat a string variable as an array of machine instructions and execute them. There was a nice library of graphics functions designed that way by some clever person which I had found on the late 90's internet. I used that to write a little space invaders clone because the built in functions for copying data between buffers were so abysmally slow (even on my kick-ass state-of-the-art 100Mhz Pentium processor).
What I'm about to say is unfortunate but true. China has a big us against the world mentality. Economic "attacks" are often seen as attacks by nation states, not by individuals, and as such, directly reflect foreign policy attitudes. Language like this only adds fuel to the fire. Given the different worldview about how the world works, motivations will always be suspect. Official party mouthpieces will never view such actions as a secular step to simply make money, and many especially uneducated people (who still make up a huge portion of the country) would agree with the mouthpieces on how to understand it. I'm not saying that we should coddle nation states. I am saying that it's unfortunate that I think an economic exercise would result in strained foreign relations at all levels. At the very least, it easily gives the government a scapegoat on which to blame things.
I would shy away from the word "fudged," but almost every country's gdp numbers are the result of subjective interpretation.
This is the distinction between a crime and something that is illegal. On HN people rarely make the distinction because they think something being illegal makes it a crime.

Illegal means it violates a law. A crime is something that actually harms someone.

Gay marriage may have been illegal, but it was never a crime, for example.

Alas, these days the USA is a very authoritarian culture and the idea that there might be US laws that are themselves crimes to enforce seems alien. But logically and morally it is the case.
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All other things being equal, a weak currency is a good thing for a country. Unfortunately for China, a weak currency comes with a host of other problems, one of the most significant is capital outflow:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/china-capi...
I'm still not sure why one would want to place the data center at the bottom of the ocean. I would think that the disadvantage of not being able to perform maintenance for 5 years would be more significant -- can't they just create the data center near a water source and pump the water through pipes that run across a heat exchange on the backside of the servers?
That is all the worse for China, and will only serve to increase the size of the bet against the Yuan. When it comes to currencies, there is nothing that can fix the law of supply and demand. The country can spend huge fortunes avoiding the direction of the market, but it will only make things worse when the fall finally comes. I believe Soros and his friends will make a lot of money here.
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