skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US universities have entire departments devoted to technology licensing. The default to secrecy may be an artifact of their historic reliance on defense agency funding for technical projects and the bureaucratic staffing for paperwork heavy processes.

On the other hand, there's an intellectual idea that for many companies, existing software should perhaps be seen as a liability in double entry accounting due to it's need for ongoing maintenance, upgrades, potential for catastrophic failure, and the cost associated with alterations for new business processes.

Companies offload some of those costs by open sourcing and allowing developers to happily "give back" to their bottom line.
Quite the contrary. I lived there in the 90-ies. The nature just recovers, and in 3 years humans are forgotten by wildlife. Moose and blackcock will stare at you from a 2 meter distance not recognising the threat anymore. Basically nature swiftly took back what was colonised by humans during centuries of industrial and agricultural activity there in just few years. So the event shows how insignificant humans are.
He doesn't disagree with that. Just that JavaScript's niche is frontend. And even that may be threatened with the advent of webassembly.
Be Red – Shoes that make the consumer and the maker happy
You speak as of you knew more about the implications of these attackers than Lee Kuan Yew. I'm sorry, but at this point in my life, not a single westerner who doesn't understand the dangerous of left wing extremists causing instability has any credibility anymore. Operation spectrum is a necessity, at least in Sweden as of today.
Une debliteration de conneries non fondées, comme d'habitude.

Stupid article.
I prefer pass, which uses GPG and regular bash scripts to store passwords. You can sync the directory of encrypted passwords via git too. No fancy stuff.

https://www.passwordstore.org/
I think the economy is very positive-sum. In a sense that there is so much more wealth now than ever before, and it is being reinvested and new wealth is being created. The most common instance of zero-sum competition these days is not the economy, but dating. No matter what, dating will be unfair, challenging, and zero-sum. Technology and modern culture can make dating more pleasant, but the dating market itself will always be zero-sum.
Your first point is what I was trying to get at - basically the culture is the 'test data' and IQ would be the capability of the 'hardware' or genetic make up of an individual brain/person in this case.

I think your point about intelligence not existing in an individual is too narrow, but ultimately that comes down to how you decide to define intelligence.

Not sure I agree that AGI won't happen - in fact I suspect the computing power we have now is good enough to do it, but we're just missing some insight with how.
Your entire argument is that there exists a subset of the world which has been forcefully maintained as "owned by everyone", ie. a commons; the commons exists by compulsion and operates in a matter which is entirely contradictory to the way a market works; in no way would a sensible person confuse a commons as being part of a free market; then when things don't work out well for the commons you want to call it a "market failure". It's a complete misnomer. It's a mind boggling definition. The markets didn't fail. The commons failed. And because the commons failed it's somehow a good idea to punish the market.

But I get it, you didn't come up with the examples or the theories. The pseudo-economists did. I'm merely exposing the shallowness and contradictions of their theories.

You talk about "playing with definitions" but that's the entire point.

The cost of the bag is irrelevant. The cost of disposing the bag is irrelevant. The important facts are that the dump is a commons. That's it.

You ask for the solution and I have already told you the solution. Privatize the commons. It solves the entire problem. In this case you do not even have to privatize all the roads, national parks, oceans or anything else. In this case if the dump was privatized and municipalities did not try to take control of it through onerous regulation, your plastic bag disposal problem would be entirely solved.

>And explain why the free-market approach failed to occur for 40+ years straight

First of all I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for not saying "explain why the free-market failed for 40+ years straight". Your question acknowledges that you recognize that the free market did not fail but rather the free market approach was not attempted.

Why was it not attempted? I don't know. Not being very familiar with history of municipal garbage collection across countless jurisdictions, it would be hard for me to expound on their history and evolution. Similarly I don't know all the reasons why bad laws are passed and remain. I don't know why prohibition, despite its wondrous failure in the 1920s and early 1930s, continues in kind today. I could provide some anecdotes, but it wouldn't be the full picture.

But I do know if you look at the history of the world, free markets are a new concept. Free markets have brought incredible prosperity to the world. I know that, from the big picture, the world is trending towards more open and free markets. Perhaps in my day I'll see the widespread privatization of the dump.
Turns out nothing, but somehow Jobs was able to convince you that by not owning an iPad you were missing out on something big.
Why would the licensing of the old shows have anything to do with the licensing of the new shows?

MRC licensed the name and concept from the BBC. That license would definitely not be regionalized.
China's first intelligent security robot debuts in Chongqing
> different filesystems

You're looking at the wrong end of it. Dropbox doesn't have to deal with any filesystem, Dropbox instead needs to build a filesystem.

It doesn't have to deal with any filesystem because Linux abstracts it. The same abstraction allows it to build its own filesystem really, really easily. How easy? I wrote, mounted, and used a filesystem in less than fifteen minutes. In node.js. It's that easy.

> desktop environments

Dropbox doesn't need to support various desktop environments, just a stable API for the desktop environments (actually, just file managers) to use. Isn't this how Nautilus, Thunar, Dolphin et al. already support Dropbox's existing features?
Why did you quote free software but not opensource? I am curious to know what the difference in your writing intended to convey.
Sorry, are we living on the same planet? If everyone around me had to be 'amazing', things sure would look different :)
The article is worse, it suggests that the Javascript language itself is what has doing the lying. Not people, the language. Keep that in mind.
As an aside, an algorithm based on ant pheromones is a clever way to solve the traveling salesman problem.

http://people.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf
Url changed from https://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-new-number-format-for-co..., which points to this.
No, how many e-mails do you have in GMail? Had this downvotes asked how do I use these feeds?
"She used to pay hard cash for access to Netflix (the US version), and watched US content legally" ... she didn't, she paid "hard cash" for the the Canadian version of Netflix, and found a not legal workaround to watch US content. She can most certainly watch CSI from an authorized distributor in Canada if she pays the right content owners in Canada.

"If the content creator doesn't want to sell access to the content for you, then you have every right to access it through other means.", No you don't, how did you come up with this logic? No distributor deemed the selling price acceptable for them in Canada, if the creator wants the content in Canada he can sell it at a lower price. As a consumer, if you don't have an option to buy something, doesn't mean you should acquire it thru illegal means.

NAFTA was created to eliminate tariffs and protect intellectual property. Someone buys the right to distribute a show in Canada, this right should be protected.
That confused me as well. And I find it worrying that the author is apparently confused about this term (or deliberately using it in a non-standard sense).
Upsetting the Apple car
I bet you'd like Missile Gap by Charles Stross
Here is some research to back up that torture is ineffective: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7576/full/527035a...

But it is behind a paywall :/
Yes. They use AES-OCB. I've gone through the crypto myself, and while I am not an expert, it seems properly done.
Notes on Notes on Startups: Takeaways from Peter Thiel's Zero to One
Requirements:
Node and npm - http://nodejs.org/
Node package manager for the Cordova CLI and Grunt
Cordova CLI - https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/
Cordova / PhoneGap command line interface
npm install -g cordova
Grunt - http://gruntjs.com/
Build tool for minimising, running and tests
npm install -g grunt-cli
PhantomJS - http://phantomjs.org/
Headless webkit for running tests
Cordova-icon and Cordova-splash - https://github.com/AlexDisler/cordova-icon/ and https://github.com/AlexDisler/cordova-splash/
npm install -g cordova-icon and npm install cordova-splash

Nope. Nope nope nope.
A STRANGE BIRTH DEFECT IS ON THE RISE IN THE UNITED STATES, SAYS THE CDC
While mikeash covered that badly, I'll continue to assume that they cover other topics that we're relatively ignorant about fairly and correctly.
Maybe developers value it's simplicity over it's ability to tick functionality boxes? I know I do.

Same with PHP and JAVA. Dysfunctional languages, yes. But fun and easy to use.
This is why I can't read any of Bill Bryson's books. As far as I can tell, they're researched by copying "facts" off "DID YOU KNOW???" children's diner placemats, for all the things I actually know about, so I have to assume everything else is like that too.
Human intelligence is not magic, but it is categorically different from machine intelligence.

What's amazing isn't that Deep Blue could beat Kasparov, given the depth of analysis it could do. What's amazing is that Kasparov could beat Deep Blue, despite not being able to analyze thousands of possible moves a second in his head.
Meanwhile Node is killing it on the backend.

Sorry, but this author is just the equivalent of an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn... but worse, it's not even his lawn, never was, and the "kids" are the ones who built his home over the last 15 years.

He looks out of date, out of touch, and unwilling to develop skills and knowledge.

Not a good look.
Google DeepMind Publishes 9 Papers at ICML 2016
I agree that people with the "scarcity-minded" approach aren't fun to be around. However, this is the unfortunate reality of some jobs. If you work somewhere where the revenue stream is relatively fixed (non-profits), then a huge raise for one person necessarily takes away from the pool to distribute raises to others. Even for profit enterprises are scarcity driven in any given year. Everyone is competing for the budget surplus to go to their own paycheck. I don't think this view necessitates engagement in social comparisons...it is merely a realistic perspective of business operations.
So, if I take your favorite language and somehow manage to cause its ecosystem to get as bad as you claim Javascript's is, does that mean your favorite language is now bad?
>The only interesting bit is whether it will be webassembly or something else

I'm interested in this as well. The near term plans, though, don't give wasm languages dom access, and limits wasm to statically typed languages. So, it's basically relegated to being an ffi layer for js for quite some time. I don't see that changing the world much.
What money? There's no platform for payments or advertising on Telegram. Advertising doesn't seem very practical with bots. Telegram has given no details or examples of what qualifies for the $25k rewards. It's not clear what level of production they're looking for... a bot that tells you the weather or a virtual girlfiend with full-blown NLP? Innovation prizes are cool but you can't play if you don't remotely know what qualifies as winning.
No, his point is that humans, just like computers, need to be programmed in order to do a task.
OP here. This ISP is pretty famous in several areas in my city (Bangalore, India). Can they legally do this? Isn't my browser sending each visited-domain's cookies to my ISP now? For example, one of the screenshot-ed sites is a very famous e-commerce site here. Doesn't this pose a security risk? I have no idea whom to complain to.
Well, it does seem like an odd thing to sell your customer on, doesn't it? If you wanted to do some home renovations and somebody told you they had no idea how much it would cost to do until they started working on it, you might be uncomfortable. There are scenarios where this isn't an issue but I wonder if it's as broadly applicable as we've made it out to be.
That's not "pricing for the enterprise" you're describing, it's pricing for customizations. Yes, each customization can be negotiated separately and when there can be "over 4000 options" it makes sense to not display them all but to guide the client through. This may be a case where complexity may warrant private interaction (or at least it used to be that way as nowadays the entire array of option complexity can be left to be sorted out with a software application).
well, i've been using mosh for two(?) years and it's not perfect.

>lost sessions cannot always be resumed, not even root can force that.
>you can't scroll the terminal unless you use screen inside mosh
>can't use mosh from the university network because UDP ports are filtered
>can't autocomplete hosts in the config (ssh can do that)

but i still use it and would miss it very much, the whole experience is much smoother using mosh and bad connections are more bearable with it
Worse still - it exposes that he really doesn't know that much about JavaScript development at scale.

Dunning-Kruger in action.
Someone who clearly doesn't know about half-lives and exponential decay!
My initial reaction to this was “Why would anyone have such strong feelings against any particular programming language?” Then I remembered how I feel about Java.

(I’m obviously joking here. I’m not 15 anymore. If you pay me to build your house with that particular hammer, fine.)
> Virtually everyone seriously condoning torture believe it is effective. If they were to believe it wasn't effective, they wouldn't order it to be done.

Not that simple. They "say" they believe is it is effective. The reason they do it is not necessarily the same.

People have sadistic tendencies and will torture and inflict pain on others just for pleasure and amusement. Bullies do it on playgrounds, people in power do it to their subordinates, others torture animals for pleasure and so on.

I don't buy the idea that just because they ended up as advisory experts to the Pentagon, or they rose into power it somehow means those tendencies are not there.
Antitrust and aggregation
I think you've described 'delusional' perfectly.

It is indeed a massive epidemic, as far as I can tell. A lot of people are in on the game and perpetuating it however - so what can one expect?
Hash browns are people!
Indeed. I would also posit that novel and challenging are relatively easy. Games are not just a set of rules but also rewarding to the players.

Games exist that are variants of "click the arrow on the coloured pixel 100 times". And people pay to play them. Good luck finding one with a Deep Conv.
The US produces more than enough food for everyone on the planet. There is ample room across the nation to build enough housing for everyone. Why don't we do it? Because the zero-sum neoliberal worldview has been ingrained in the American mind thanks to absurd concepts of exceptionalism and "individual liberty" and so the prevailing sentiment of the day is "fuck you got mine" in the biggest christian nation on earth.
Does Agile really not work with large enterprises? Or is it more that "fake agile" doesn't work?
Ever wonder why that same sales just guy won't stop emailing you? The stats
I think Alpha Go is more in the category of human intelligence.

My probably oversimplified understanding is that the neural network training on a massive amount of games develops something like intuition. It can't explain why a certain move it makes is the best, but only that it is the most likely to win.

This seems similar to advanced human play.
Yeah, that's an interesting observation. I've long thought that Apple benefited from the 2-year contract model more than any other manufacturer. The 2-year contract hides the actual cost of the phone, so an iPhone sells for $199 just like an LG. Who buys a Honda when a Mercedes costs the same?

Buying a phone for its real price puts the cost/benefit front and center to the consumer. Maybe an iPhone isn't worth an extra $200 after all? This puts Apple in a bind as they either have to drop the phones price or provide greater value for their price point.
I guessed TSMC myself but wasn't sure it's not some EE acronym I'm unaware of.
OK, we changed to that from http://www.thenation.com/article/the-cia-waterboarded-the-wr.... We'll also use the article's title (which you have to scroll down to see), which doesn't suffer from the problem users have pointed out with the Nation's title.
Seconded. I'm reasonably satisfied with JuiceSSH for light sysadmining.
While I agree that it's shame that people falsely accuse other of rape, and that it makes the situation worse, I don't think that's the root cause of people disbelieving claims of rape.

I would be that most instances of disbelief stem from knowing the accused and thinking they'd never do it, or having some personal interest in the person not being found guilty of it. For others who aren't acquainted with the accused, I've seen a lot of it come from misogyny in general, and a general belief that men are superior, so the man must be the one telling the truth.

Obviously, that's a bunch of crap. But personal beliefs and feelings don't really require logic, so they continue.

On the other hand, I personally know someone who believes that no woman will ever falsely claim rape because it's such a horrifying thing (and causes such strong feelings in women who were raped), and so she believes every woman who claims it to the extreme, despite any evidence I've ever seen presented to her, and any court findings to the contrary. She appears to be completely able to understand that some people will lie about anything if it gets them what they want at that moment.
That may be because "free software" is still an ambiguous term, while open source is relatively unambiguous. I prefer to use Free Software as my disambiguator of choice, but I understand the GP using the other form, and occasionally use it myself.
Not to mention the "Number as Double" issue has been called a massive mistake by most people involved in writing the standards.

However it's not a simple issue to change it at this point, but people ARE aware.
Not that relevant, but

>Because the Julia language is particularly good at adding new data types without sacrificing speed, several people jumped on making a port to Julia, including the MIT founders of that language.

I'm really impressed with the Julia language so far and considering implementing some quantum chemistry models for many-body systems (Hartree-Fock and probably Coupled Cluster if I ever get that far). Mostly because a) Julia looks fun, b) FORTRAN is still king of speed (which I'll need all I can get of) but is a pain to write and c) the alternative to FORTRAN is C(++), where being OO isn't that much of a bonus. And Julie looks fun to write.
Both require warrants. Are you referring to things like FISA courts and NSA wiretapping, or more mundane things like Dropbox volunteering your data?

In the latter case, at least, it feels similar to your landlord letting the cops into your apartment.
I use mosh to connect to my workstation, which only has an IPv6 address as far as public connectivity goes.

Several friends of mine are in a similar situation, so at least in my bubble, getting easy access to computers running at home is a major use-case for IPv6 :).
You've been misinformed. Their scale is a solid slab of sleek glass, and genuinely looks and feels nice. I'd totally buy a dumb version of it that looked exactly the same.
I'm genuinely curious what you feel is too magical with how we handle rendering? Templates are compiled as `render/2` function clauses on the view module, so there's no magic going on. As you said, we do lean on pattern matching, but that's a product of the language and how you structure a large amount of your own code, not anything tricky we're doing.

For example, if I have an `user/index.html.eex` template for a `UserView` module, I can render it with:

View.render(UserView, "index.html", name: "colbyh")

At compile time, we simply precompiled the index.html.eex template as a `def render("index.html", assigns) ...` function clause.

Now imagine I want a `bio.html` template. Instead of making a template file, I can literally do this in my view:

def render("bio.html", assigns) do
"Bio: name: #{name assigns.name}"
end
...
View.render(UserView, "bio.html", name: "colbyh")
=> "Bio: name: colbyh"

And it Just Works exactly because there's no magic going on. Templates are just function calls, whether they are precompiled from a template engine or defined by the user manually.
Whichever it is, wondering if it's improved (or not) economics to Apple.
To be fair, mosh -6 does work. I believe it’s only roaming that doesn’t work yet?
Orgmode for Emacs?
> Even Redmonk’s language ranking is deceptive. JavaScript is on top because of the massive number of lines of code committed to Github. What are we to make of this? Well, JS is the native language of the web browser; if you want to write a browser application, you have no choice (for now). Redmonk is effectively saying that the web is popular, not that JavaScript is popular. Duh!

I'd probably also add that a lot of that is probably copies of popular libraries just getting checked into people's projects implemented primarily in other languages.

I'm more excited about SPAs and other stuff happening in the browser than this guy is but I don't really get the JS outside of the browser hype.
Your two points are really one point - the mistaken idea that one can 'change the world' in a significant way if only he/she works hard.

That's a tough idea to shake when people connect their self esteem and meaning in life to it.

The solution is to re-discover what you want your life to be about and then get to it. People usually either figure it out somewhat by the time they're 30 or they get burdened by self-imposed obligations to a point where they give up trying and just go with the flow.

So really, a temporary hurdle in the scheme of things :)
I was thinking more generally, about the fact that these sites are set up and used specifically to avoid due process. I mean by definition, the people being tortured, not having been found guilty of any crime, are innocent.
But the concept far worse is very... human and emotional.. Chernobyl is uninhabitable for my years to come. But Agra is just really dirty. It is impossible to compare the tragedies of Syria, Agra and Chernobyl.

You can not downplay something just because it does not look as bad.
> I don't even like being around zero-sum people.

So, you don't like being around people with limited resources?
> No way they would get away with that, especially as they're both European companies and consumer protections laws...

I'm curious. Why would you think they couldn't get away with it? I don't have one of these scales but I'd guess that they function as ordinary scales just fine (i.e. accurate readings), without the backend stuff. The 'cloud features' are probably under some ToS that lets them do whatever they want (like shut it down). The fact that people bought it for exactly that feature doesn't seem to have much bearing.