skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tested, nothing happened(no leak).
that's just a marketing site talking about a marketing term probably invented by a marketing guy, I'm okay if this gets as widespread as apple devices (and btw I really love my macbook pro) but I find it totally useless for the people working day by day with terminals, time will have the last word
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So I understand: you are 1 of 3 people involved, you are the main/only technical person, you were involved in service ideation, you engineered most/all of the service? That would suffice for co-founder-ship in my book.
I can't reproduce this in Firefox 6
Hey teams, charging a premium? Watch out for the zombie unbundlers. They are everywhere and they are relentless. Remember, your split is not a Nash equilibrium. Swear an oath of allegiance to each other once a week.
Why not just make WP7 for tablets then? What's the point of bringing over to tablets and ARM the whole bloated OS, and all the unnecessary API's? My guess is because they don't want to charge just $15 for it, so they position it next to the real Windows so they can charge several times more.
This reminds me of the very cool class I took at Michigan. In 08, our design challenge was to design and build an easily shipped, carried and deployed station for disaster areas that facilitates bathroom functions, washing and showering. The product criteria included that it:

Must be free standing and use no external power source.

Must allow people to go to the bathroom, wash one’s face and hands, bathe an infant and bathe/shower an adult.

Must have a safe, easily executed waste removal and transport system from the bathroom facility. All waste must be easily removed and reliably sealed off from the local environment as it is transported elsewhere.

Must weigh less than 40 pounds and pack down for easy transportation.

Must manage gray water from the sink and shower, by directing it to a hose connection.

http://www.tauber.umich.edu/News%20and%20Events/IPD/2008/ind...

We had a cross disciplinary team (engineering, design, and business) and had to actually build the product, and were judged based on profit... how many "purchases" were made at a fixed price ("purchases" were made by designers around the world on the web and in person at a live show) minus costs (we had to cost out the thing at scale). It was amazing and we ended up winning (I was part of the "cocoon" team).

If you can get a chance to take a class like this, do it. Definitely do Integrated Product Development if you're at Michigan!
Can't reproduce in Firefox 6 neither.
I think as long as we still view it as a machine, the issue with never be taken seriously.
I use an Android every day, and my wife has an iPhone. The absolute biggest thing that annoyed me about using the iPhone after being used to the Android is the lack of a dedicated hardware back button. The problem you describe about an app opening the browser and then trying to get back to the app on the same screen you left it is so irritating in iOS - It's a huge glaring issue that is seamless on Android.
Nice idea but why can't I view example teams before signing up? Something along the lines of Softfolio would entice me in more before leaving.
not seeing it in Chrome 11.0.698.68.. quitting after 600 requests.
Twitter slowly killing xAuth?
"Browsers are bad at / don't care about constraining website memory usage, news at 11."
'I suggest buying a screwdriver, a chainsaw and a hammer.'
Of more concern to me would be control of my own consciousness uploads.

I don't believe that hell exists now, but it would certainly be possible to create a technological hell if brain uploading and simulation is possible.

Torture is already horrific, but at least you can only be tortured to death once. With brain simulation, it would be possible to torture someone again and again and again.
I find it interesting that the test was performed on XP and IE9.

Am I missing some way to install IE9 on XP?
LinkedIn is great for sales people who need to know who to call at large companies. Say I want to reach a director of business development at Cisco. LinkedIn will tell me who to call. Amazing.

Where LinkedIn fails in my opnion (and why we work so hard on http://letslunch.com) is connecting people. When is the last time you "met" someone new on LinkedIn? Their introductions (what they call InMail) simply don't work: no one pays attention to them.
I'm not sure where you got that from, but just so everybody's clear, this leak isn't in Flash — it's somewhere in the browsers' image loading code. Odd that an identical bug would be present in both Chrome and Firefox.
* The only way to get direct message access is to request access through the
OAuth /authorize web flow. You will not be permitted to access direct
messages if you use xAuth.
I dont think this is very ironic. IE9 is native to MSWIN and is written by the people who have the deepest knowledge of the operating system. They probably found this issue and fixed it before it was exposed to the other teams like Goog and Mozilla.
Poll: laptop & monitor: side by side or monitor on top
On our dev team, 6 of 8 developers have their laptop on the desk with their external monitor just above it. In my experience this is a fairly rare setup, but I think it's much more comfortable, less head movement, quicker scanning. I'm curious if this really is as rare as I think.
monitor above laptop
monitor to the left of laptop
monitor to the right of laptop
no monitor just the laptop
Depends what I'm doing.

When I'm feeling a bit too tired, I generally like listening to music to wake me up and get me through what I'm trying to do, usually lets me focus a little harder.

When I'm energetic and at full focus, I will sing along to the music I'm listening to, obliterating all my productivity.

Either way, also depends on the person. Have plenty of friends who can't deal with any audible distractions, and have plenty who can't work without it.
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The real drawback isn't the team leaving, its groupthink. I think we've all experienced this firsthand at some point in our lives, especially when we're getting hired for the first time - you walk into a room with the entire programming team. You are a stranger, but the team know each other. The team has agreed upon a common methodology, a common programming language, a common framework, maybe they all use vim on the Mac. You walk in & say something stupid like, Hey guys, lets just do this in xyz language, you open your windows laptop & fire up TextPad & next thing you know, you're getting those weird "hey he's not really a part of our team" look. Then you pretend like you hit the wrong button and quickly bring up cygwin & they heave a sigh of relief :)
You can view us, the founding team, here: http://grouptalent.com/teams/1
No leak in IE6. No leak in FF 3.6.8.
Strangely enough, everyone I know of at Facebook uses LinkedIn for professional networking. If even FB employees recognize the need to keep personal and professional social networks separate then perhaps you are not really using either FB and/or LinkedIn in the most optimal manner...
What if the machine starts printing out
"NOOO!! Don't turn me off, I'm alive in here"

Someone's going to go soft.
seems like the comments validate OP's point on Linkedin being big recruiting mechanism.
Does it add anything more than being a Monster 2.0?
I'd like to think so. It's a good global address book of my contacts.

However, the interface is quite bad. Linkedin could be so much more than it is right now.
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Games by Rybka[1] and Houdini[2] have often been amazingly beautiful.

1. http://www.rybkachess.com/
2. http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm
This should be called The Coder's Path for the same reason this site should be called Coder News. A whole section on "Gettin’ Paid, Makin’ Money"? Fucking please.
You should watch "the measure of a man" episode of TNG...
Wow that's fucking sick.
There are many three-player chess variants. The Wikpedia article on the subject lists some of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-player_chess
Whoa there, can you expand on this a bit?
Offer a free tier. I don't want a trial. I want to see exactly how your service works and I want to make a purchase decision on my timeline, not yours.
Or even without maliciousness - someone could screw up a simulation such that the simulated mind is in pain for a subjective eternity
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Every day that went by where they didn't respond drew further outcry in the press and from government. So they rushed something out. Caught between a rock and a hard place.
I first learned about this guys work in The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Excellent read for anyone interested in these topics. I understand maybe one hundredth of the mathematics and it's still seriously fascinating.
What if the machine hires a lawyer to represent it?
Well, that would be the plan :-)
Thanks for the info. What is the built-in serialization format?
Metadata in MP3s seems like a nice precedent too.
> I find it very difficult to believe that anyone would want one of these dingy, musty things over a proper wood or concrete framed construction.

Well, around here, wood-framed construction is only found in shantytowns. This would be a big step up, I think. And if you think it's easier to build a wood-framed structure than to inflate a wet bag, count me skeptical of your construction experience.
I doubt that's what he means. Regardless, very few people would pay for code like that now that the web is ubiquitous.
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Actually, a cutting edge PC isn't really all that necessary for gaming nowadays. Since a large portion of games are cross-platform between 360/PS3 and the PC, you just need a PC as good as one of those. I spent less than a $1000 (including monitor, kb, 1TB HD, etc) on a decent PC about 2.5 years ago, and it's still able to run most everything I run into on max settings. Until we see a new generation of consoles, or something like another Crysis, you really don't need to upgrade your PC for gaming.

Besides, some of us prefer keyboard/mouse and modding ability.
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You did not completely censor the last screenshot.
I think that the trust model for Google Apps account recovery is wrong. The domain name is a separate asset from the Apps account and the data in it.

The owner of the domain name should be able to create a brand-new Google Apps account for it. Recovering access to an account should be done through another channel (secondary email address, SMS, postal mail).
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This is a great question. I was put under for a surgery at one point. I was effectively "dead" from my perspective during the duration of the surgery in that no time seemed to have passed between when I was put under and when I came t. My consciousness was "off" in a way that is not when merely sleeping. It seems like this is a parallel for unplugging an AI, but then you have the problem of the AI losing whatever is in RAM.

The non-humanness of an AI might slow the realization that creating an AI should probably embody the same responsibilities as having a child.
Their services look interesting - What specifically do you love about them? How have they improved your site?
Really like the page design, simple, uncluttered (at least the homepage). Are you using a template (link?) or did you write the css from scratch?
> Also, can you simulate a brain without a body or is say hormones/blood sugar/nervous system not easily separable?

Even if those systems are integral to brain function, I'd assume that they are easier to simulate than the brain itself. Is it important to build a "brain simulation" instead of a "full body simulation"?
Ironically I know of actual account owners who entered in fake birthdays and could not reset their own password because they don't remember their own "personal details."
I used to tell my nieces/nephews I was on LinkedIn instead of Facebook. They would usually say what's LinkedIn and my half joking reply was "it's like Facebook for grownups". The interesting thing is that through LinkedIn I reconnected with a few friends from college which eventually led me to get on Facebook to connect with others.
Interesting idea.

I tried to fill out a team profile but had problems. Now keep getting "We're sorry, but something went wrong." when I try to login. I guess I'll try again later when the Hacker News rush has passed.
It took me about 10 minutes to write a python script that grabs a list of recently expired domains and checks each domain to see if it's a valid Google Apps domain. This is a pretty serious issue, if indeed it's still possible to take ownership of accounts as the article suggests. Hopefully Google has added some mitigating steps to keep this sort of thing from happening.
Any idea if this applies for a domain that's an alias to your primary domain?

For example, if you have foo.com as your Google Apps domain, and you have foo.us as an extra domain that was aliased but then expired, does that expose the foo.com Google Apps account?
Yes, he's at the board level, so he has no need to qualify his statement and introduce ambiguity.

If you take everyone, particularly people with great power, at the surface level of their language, you are missing most of the meaning. Indirect and qualified statements are usually that way for a reason. Read up on this - I'm sure you'll be fascinated.
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Haha, I thought about doing that, but it would just serve to piss a lot of people off.

I think it would be kind of cool to have a little project/developer toy that would be an API where only a single endpoint was provided (think http://mysteryapi.com), and the rest of it had to be discovered. It could be like the labyrinth from House of Leaves, but in REST API format.
Even a chat-bot could be designed to plead for its "life".

Perhaps a new version of the Turing test is in order. Two computer programs, each pleading for their continued existence. The human judge/executioner is able to interact with both and has two kill switches, one for each. If one of them isn't turned off in 20 minutes, both will be turned off.
Will look into this. Did you use oauth?
Agree on the ethical dilemmas. Imagine being the consciousness in the first few actual working versions.

Technology can bring us literal heaven and hell.
On the bright side, it's also possible to create heaven.
Congrats.Can you tell me what the website is doing,sorry i didn't get it
Cannot agree more with 'hire effective teams over individuals'.

And, when having to chose between high competence meeting minimal expectations on team spirit/communication/people skills versus the other way round, ALWAYS choose the former.
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Seems like the "exception" is becoming the rule here.

SF revising to the "after $750,000" seems like a fairly reasonable solution to extract a few bucks but not scaring companies away, why not just make it official?
This isn't practical since any Apps admin account has by definition access to modify/reset all regular accounts belonging to that company/domain, so if you don't use things like wipeouts upon whois creation date modifications, the potential to expose a lot of private data from the former owner still exists.
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Thank you. I wrote it from scratch.
I see it's about some deals.Deals for what,photos.sorry again if i'm wrong
man, if you had to operate daily hundreds of files you will forget quickly about drag'n'dropping, scrollbars and all that annoyances. about the popup is useless on a keyboard controlled interface as the number of keystrokes needed are the same. the problem you have, is that you think that your terminal application is badly-glued into your graphic system, when in fact your graphic system is badly-glued on terminal applications
IMHO, relevant reading would include The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil and Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

I bet everyone here knows the former book. Kurzweil's exploration of the ramifications of thinking machines is fascinating, but his response to the question of ethics can best be summed up as between "meh" and "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

The other book takes place in a future where consciousness can be digitized, and mankind has already surpassed the threshold of computing power represented by the ability to simulate/host consciousness. The fictional treatment of this technology and its impact on society -- especially on crime and law enforcement -- is fascinating.
Very nice DNS management, faster page loads, reduced bandwidth usage and server load, and all of the nice security features (blocking malicious clients, XSS protection, etc). And all of it with practically no configuration and it's free unless you need SSL (and/or more advanced security features).

Also, they pass along a country header which comes in handy if you need to know which country a user is in without having to set up GeoIP and keep it up to date.

Oh plus they sent me a t-shirt.
> Even a chat-bot could be designed to plead for its "life".

And people respond emotionally to those.

Also, see http://qntm.org/difference
Also - if you're interested in background on systems biology - there's a broad overview of UCLs biological modelling research group here (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10844/1/10844.pdf [pdf]) - they've got a project modelling the liver / blood-sugar-system.

Apparently the canonical example that has worked pretty well is a computer model of the heart but I think it's a simpler organ in that it's mostly electro-mechanical, without such a complicated chemical system (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/295/5560/1678.abstract - behind Science paywall)
Except instead of two computer programs, it will be one computer program and one human.
Sort of takes the long way around of basically saying that too much of anything is bad for you.
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That is important, but extremely challenging to execute for two reasons.

1. Historically, technology has outpaced the legal framework. Look at copyright law, software patents, and internet commerce for some examples.

2. It is next to impossible to predict the impact that "Strong AI" or a "Singularity" would have on society. Science fiction literature is filled with thousands of different scenarios. Do we expect Congress or another legislative body to create a framework based on each potential manifestation of strong AI, on the 0.01% chance of it occurring in the next 10 years?

Food for thought - there's a chance that the first implementations of Strong AI occur as a result of a public and government-sponsored research program. There's also a chance that they will come about by a small team of dedicated researchers who will use the technology to their (or its) own ends, legalities and ethics be damned.
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Their video really makes it like they are the first to ever do this.

This has been tried many times before including EchoNest, MusicIP and Gracenote. Not sure what is different here.
I'd love to but the test site is over quota. Surprise surprise.
I am the author of the article. What aspects do you think I missed that you'd like to know more about? My first draft was much longer with a lot more details but I was worried about a writing a book instead of an essay :-)
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There are dozens of ethical concerns involved with created an artificial human conscious. A completely selfish concern of mine is this: Once the hard work of emulating a human brain is done, what's to stop the emulation from running at 10 or 100 (or many, many more) times as fast? If this is a human brain, replete with arrogance, in what way wouldn't it be right to feel superior to me? If you had the option of hiring normal speed brains vs ultra high speed brains, which would you hire? How long would it take ultra high speed brains to completely take over?
If Google Apps doesn't know about foo.us, then I think that answer would be no. (Though I would confirm this with someone more knowledgeable)
I agree you could just go on to a full body simulation - I guess you have to somehow decide what level of accuracy is needed for the key features. You're not going to be able to do chemistry-level simulations of your whole body, so you'll have to make higher level simulations of different parts (like here's a function that describes insulin reaction as a response to blood sugar function)
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While the timeframe does suck, especially for iOS developers who have to wait for Apple's approval of any updates, this is a good move by Twitter.

More and more sites and apps are adopting Twitter integration, not all of them should have full access to our accounts.
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Producing enough light for a larger display requires power, requires mass, interferes with the light weight of the phone. Decouple the display and the phone.

Correct. Which is why my prediction is a heads-up display in glasses, driven by the "phone" in your pocket. Computer displays as we know them will mostly go away, but we'll effectively have infinitely sized screens.
"Of more concern to me would be control of my own consciousness uploads."

I don't bring it up very often, but this is actually one potential positive case for DRM. I want control over my brain state. If Hell does not exist, Man may very well create it for himself. I've come up with some nasty tricks you can play with brain states that I don't even want to record to electrons, though the odds of nobody else ever thinking of them are zero.
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I worry a lot about this, because users have a lot less freedom with the iPad than with PCs; they're a lot more vulnerable to Apple, which can abuse its power in the same way that Facebook can.

If the iPad or something like it wins, disruptive innovation in computers is dead, because incumbents will control the market, and incumbents don't like disruptive innovation.
Does anyone see how these sit on the ground? I don't see any footings in the video. Just compacted and graded topsoil? What is the floor made out of?

See also: Dante Bini's air formed domes

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Air-formed_domes
I often dream about "building" a digital human brain (Not that I have the knowledge to do it.. just for the sake of dreaming about it :p) That'd be fantastic.. think about all the advancement in the medical resources.. Being able to "simulate" a real-world scenario.
As with all the previous stories of this kind, we are again not dealing with an actual monopole particle, but rather with an aggregate of material whose behavior resembles that of the elusive monopole particle. This 'monopole' is more like a phonon than like an electron.
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> This issue is still a serious matter. I would have still been able
> to access the person's Amazon account using a wildcard email
> address.

That's just a general 'loss of domain' issue. It would also be much
harder. This Google Apps issue allows you to exploit everyone using
that domain without any prior knowledge. Without access to the
previous Google Apps accounts, you would have to be specifically
targetting someone. (Note: This is the same for any service similar to
Google Apps.)
It reminds me of the short story http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_S...
I think they will still have a solid userbase, but will be far less hyped.
I very purposefully segregate my professional and personal networks. I don't want my online professional identity tied to what people might tag or say about me on FB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT_N5zzO32c

FTFY
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This is far from my areas of expertise, I was hoping someone more knowledgeable might be willing to comment on whether or not this is a feasible explanation for dark matter? Thanks.