skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't control the AI. If we manage to build a self-improving AI (first hard problem), it will take over the world, and there will be nothing we can do about it. Assuming of course that the Intelligence Explosion scenario is correct. I believe it to be likely.

Now the second, crucial, super-hard problem is making sure the AI is Friendly. Even harder, define what "Friendly" could possibly mean. It's a Literal Genie you have there, be careful what you ask for. A tiny mistake may mean we're all doomed.

Oh, and we're not sure at all it will actually go well. But it might be worth a shot. (What is not worth a shot is launching an AI first, and checking it is a Good™ one after the fact. You need to be super-certain of your design before you launch it.)
That comes pretty close to describing me. I had instant streaming + 2 discs + blu ray and I would usually only send back 1-2 discs per month, if that. One time I went 6 months without sending a disc back.

Then they hiked the price of my plan by over 25% without any consolation at all. I cancelled my entire plan. Loss of $23/mo from me alone.

I won't be signing back up, either. There's other options and Netflix has done nothing to win me back at all. They expect me as a loyal US customer to fund their expansion into Europe (which was the cause of the major content fee hikes that everyone was using to excuse the price hikes.) Uhh, no. I'm not an investor, I'm a customer.
Are Tech CEOs too Conservative?
How to backup photos from Facebook Profiles
Shri Krishna the God of love
Lord Krishna is the God of love and most popular god among the Hindu Gods and Goddess.Hindu God Lord Krishna pictures and baby krishna photos is the eight avatar of Vishnu and the embodiment of love and divine joy who is worshipped by devotees all over the world.Shri Krishna is the very embodiment of love and divine ecstasy that destroys all pain and offense.
I can warmly recommend http://www.404.be.
Elite team needed for New Social Network for businesses. Crazy Lifeterm project.
Hi everyone,
I'm searching for elite team, co-Founders.
I believe you are really experts in what you are doing.

I'm located in San Francisco, recently moved from Moscow to realize idea. - I'm driven and motivated.

I've got idea for a million and millions dollars, but I don't care money at all, I want a big community.

Potential as huge as Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist or whatever.

What I've got idea for NEW SOCIAL NETWORK for people to communicate with organizations they use to work with, every time, every day!
With brilliant monetizing system with motivating advertisers..

It does not exist anywhere. It's new, it's system, it's crazy.

-really huge concept of service - people would use really often.
-service has unbelievable potential. when I think of new features - they come really fast you can't even imagine!
-project can be used all over the world, but best to start from U.S. Every city must be in this service.
-iPhone and iPad apps can really rock it too!
-after project is on top - service can add shop and sell related products.
-... you can't even imagine how many other features in my head.

Sounds really crazy.

Searching for elite team to build a huge network.

It's not just a words.
It's time to make business.

'think fast or you gonna lose your potential' - my mindset.

--
All the best,
iLgar
justidea@me.com
Amen, 2to3 in practice for anything but the smallest library is effectively unusable due to speed. Even if it weren't, I'm not much of a fan of maintaining generated code. That's an imposition I'm not really willing to put up with.
What is this sudden feeling? It is like a thousand HN readers cringed simultaneously.
I second arebop, unfortunately I had skipped on joining one of these top schools for my undergrad, as I was juvenile then (6 years back), and I only started regretting it as I graduated from College.

A better College should be a default choice for any forward thinking CS-interested individual, as its not just about the classes, but the fellow students at such Colleges that bring about a world of difference.

Most of these colleges have freshmen who already have landed awesome internships or have been part of past YC alum(or other incubator's). These individuals can directly impact how your future is shaped, and mostly its for the better. The intellectual quotient of these establishments is one of the major reasons they pump out the most awesome programmers.

I'm trying to land an MS at some of these universities - UC's (and other top schools). It isn't an easy journey, but it'll be damn well worth it. All the best, and never think of financials when it comes to self-improvement. I used to think these places were over-rated, and not a day has passed when I didn't regret such an erroneous judgement.
I didn't find a decent/direct way to get to the code itself. This seems to be the repository that is mentioned/used in that text:

https://github.com/whalliburton/academy

Edit: And someone who likes dead prez I certainly got a kick out of the hexagram examples. Haven't seen those for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Prez
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No, they're back. See Gmail.
ActiveX Controls in DOCX Documents & Custom Footnote Marks Rending
The long awaited version of Aspose.Words for .NET & Java (10.7.0) supports ActiveX controls in DOCX documents, Custom footnote marks rendering, improvements in rendering floating shapes, drawingML rendering improvements, more field types are supported by the field update engine and the ability to specify a thumbnail image for EPUB documents etc. This Aspose.Words release addresses a long-standing feature request to support proper rendering of footnotes and endnotes with reference marks to PDF and other formats.
Java Examples & Code Snippets by Java Code Geeks
Show HN: Wishbox Reloaded
I think the Java runtime installer asks to install a toolbar. There is something else that I can't recall (flash runtime?) that asks to install the Ask.com toolbar all the time as well. Some popular open source projects too (PDFCreator).
I have just given this version a ride on a personal Android project. The new layout preview for Android interfaces works fine in the Community Edition (the free, open-source one).

So really - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is right now the best IDE for Android development and it's free too. Forget about Eclipse.
The principle mistake I see was also hiring so many people. Didn't Digg at one time have >40 people? What in god's name were all these people doing?

"According to Rose, “there is a temptation that you want to throw as many developers as possible at a problem.” As Digg was built on top of PHP, the company would hire too many developers that specialized in this language. Then, however, Rose noted, “you end up with lots of PHP developers, but at some point, PHP isn’t a problem anymore and you are stuck with all of those developers.” At that point, said Rose, you end up having to hire a lot of developers that can do other things and don’t know what to do with the old developers."

PHP wasn't the problem, stables full of idle, cash burning developers was the problem.

Normally it's hard to do an apples to apples comparison, but having reddit around, and running for a hell of a long time with less than half a dozen people, really allows one to actually do that comparison in a pretty solid way.

I'd even argue that even though reddit has only recently surpassed digg in terms of users and page views and all that, it far surpassed digg in terms of content quantity long before it. Yet was still managed with a micro-sized staff.

Of course v4 was a huge pile, but at about 8-10x the burn rate of reddit, you almost have to do crazy things to make it work.

It's like the Mythical Man-Month was never written.
$1.6b in lost sales? Even if Apple call it something else, everyone will still call it an iPad.

If I were Apple I'd come up with a name unique to the Chinese market.
I live next to Monaco and the word on the street is that it has only a few years left of tax haven status.
> To be precise, XHTML promised that pages render faster, which turned out to be browsers fault, not markup.

I'm not sure XHTML ever promised faster rendering, I'm sure many people (including me) _assumed_ it would render faster. The truth is that XHTML rendered considerably more slowly! This days XML parsers have improved, but for a long time XHTML made partial rendering while loading and other things harder which meant loading an XHTML page took much longer than the plain-old HTML version.

I doubt rendering XHTML will ever be faster, at best it is/will-be not measurably slower than HTML.
New Xbox Netflix Player: New UI, Surround Sound but no 1080P
I think without question it's the best Java IDE out there. I try to avoid writing code in Java like the plague but if I really have to, I use IntelliJ IDEA.
I'm sure whoever decided this got a nice kickback.
A whole lot!
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Slightly off-topic, but I've been hacking IndexedDB lately, and while I'm grateful to Mozilla from saving us a future of writing SQL in the browser, IndexedDB is not what I would call friendly. Anything you do against it requires 4 or 5 callbacks. The first thing a JavaScript programmer will do is write an abstraction layer around it. That's a sign an API is too complex. Why on earth a transaction is required to do a get (or even a put, for that matter) is something I don't understand.
How fucked up are the US cellphone carriers?
A whole lot. That is the answer to that question. I can't believe what Verizon just did today. They just decided to fucking rip off customers by providing crap on a Google developer device with Nexus branding. To top it, the feature that Google is trying to push with their Offers/Wallet would not be included in the device. It is disappointing to see Google complying with that demand. Also the device being exclusive to Verizon in US, makes it impossible for anyone to get the phone in any other networks. (You can get the GSM device unlocked from expansys.com and I am going to do just that)

Smart phones are like Razor blades or drugs. You buy a razor which is cheap, but the blades are the one that makes the company profitable. With iPhone and other smart phones, what the carriers have done is put every single customer on drugs and sucking them every month with the data bill with a 2 year commitment. It's also classic to see that the initial wave of smartphone data plan were unlimited, similar to someone who is offered the drugs on cheap and unlimited in the beginning. Once you hooked on, it's where they catch you with crazy data cap restrictions.
With US being one of the most expensive mobile network, where an average person pays roughly 4% of their average income on a cellphone bill ($26,364 is the average median income as of OCT 2011). That is pretty high. I can't believe, even after paying $299 for a premium handset and another 70-100$/month for the next 2 years, I can't get a phone with the features that comes pre-installed in it? How fucked up is the system where there are essentially 2 big carriers screwing up the customers?

There is one carrier, who wants to sell itself so badly, that they can do everything in it's power to be bought by another carrier
Then there is another carrier who is really trying to stay afloat and made it pretty clear, that if the other small network is sold to a big network, they could be folded too. They are positioning themselves to increase their value if they do decide to fold.
Then there are the two other giants - who are really there just to screw the customers. At least one network provides a better and reliable network and have taken a big lead when it comes to LTE. The 3G sucks for that carrier. Even with LTE which are on same frequency band of 700 MHZ for both the networks has ensured that their customers swap their phones with each other networks! Isn't that screwing customers? The SMS charges are a whole separate debate on any networks.

It's so ironic, that today there was a survey done which listed Verizon with the best service provided for mobile networks. That might be true, but isn't everything screwed up when it really comes down to customers getting what they really want when they buy that phone/plan?
Show HN: my new site helps iOS devs share, track and promote promo codes
iOS promo codes are in theory a great way to get people to try and talk about your app, but I found it's really hard to get the most of them. I could tweet a couple of codes, but it's a complicated multi-step process to redeem them. Once I've sent them, I've no way of knowing if the codes have actually been used or not.

I built http://pcod.es/ to make it easier. You paste in some promo codes along with details of your app, and get a short url (like http://pcod.es/pi6) to share. The site tracks which promo codes have been redeemed so it's much easier to make sure you get the maximum exposure for your app. Finally, if users choose to sign up with Facebook and enable the option, a link to your app appears in their feed.

I'd love some feedback!
RIM BBX OS rebranded as BlackBerry 10 following trademark suit
rkhunter and chrootkit are two free malware scanners (also in ubuntu repos). There's also Avast for Linux. Avira have a free scanner (no GUI though) etc. If you actually look there are plenty of antivirus and antimalware tools.
Clickable link: http://pcod.es/

Free copies of my apps so you can see how it works:

Switch, the multi-user web browser: http://pcod.es/pi6

Awesome Shopping, a super-fast shopping list: http://pcod.es/As1
I can't wait to start it. Tomorrow I'm meeting VC.
I am learning javascript nowadays. Can you describe, what is wrong with this javascript? So that, I won't learn any bad practice.
Key line from the article: "Python 3 [...] changed just too much that it broke all our code and not nearly enough that it would warrant upgrading immediately."

To my thinking, Python, Ruby, and Perl make people productive primarily because of the availability of tons of high-quality packages that "just work". The Python Package Index (http://pypi.python.org) lists 18 thousand packages now. Many are very high quality and require essentially no "impedance matching" to use with Python 2.7 except "import package". If there's a genuine issue with a package, you can usually use a several-line monkey-patch and leave the package source completely untouched. Beauty.

Put simply: there's no way for a language design to make writing code easier than not writing code. IMO, this is why, despite the warts, these languages are winning. JavaScript doesn't have a standardized module/import system, so its packages are fragmented across a dozen frameworks. But this may change if the world settles on "one framework to rule them all" (or maybe two: jQuery for UI and node.js server side).

But Python 3 breaks many of the available Python 2.X packages, and in exchange for improvements that in most cases seem more like tweaks than major design fixes. Things that should be fixed in both branches (e.g., OpenSSL cert validation support) are now relegated to ad hoc patches to Python 2.X, because all the development effort is going into the 3.X series now.

Finally, the biggest improvement to Python IMO hasn't come from the core team at all: it's the absolutely brilliant work being done by the PyPy team. I would love to see "Python 4" merge some of the ideas from the 3.X branch in a fully compatible way with Python 2, and move the standard implementation to PyPY. Among many other benefits, this would allow the Python community to start seriously exploring adding static type-checking facilities to the language, which would make it far more suitable for larger projects. (I'm not saying make Python into Java, but it would be nice to be able to declare types as one can in modern Lisp implementations, and have the compiler both check correctness and optimize using such hints.)
connected to his wireless and were monitoring keystrokes somehow

I highly doubt this story. That sort of technology per se is not possible.

More likely someone used the same password on the email and or paypal account and it got out.
I agree with other comments you need to change your wording on the home page. I'm not really sure who you're pitching this to, but if it's to a non-technical crowd you need to simplify it. It would also be great if you made a page with examples of how to use OpenPhoto, because there seem to be many possibilities, but reading the home page didn't make me think of them.

That being said, I majored in Game Development and I could definitely see the artists in the program using this for their portfolios. Most of them use Deviant Art portfolios (http://portfolio.deviantart.com/) which is not fully customizable and doesn't look very professional. Some of them bug a technical friend to help them make a real site but then it becomes hard for them to maintain it on their own. There are artists at my schol who make their own site, but it is a small group, and an even smaller subset of them have NICE looking sites.

EDIT: Oops, typo.
Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small" is pretty good too, and has less gratuitous profanity.
Oh, he exists! Lol. He doesn't seem to be awake yet. Trying to figure out if this is his joke or the joke is on him!
we thought so too :) - help us spread the word on twitter @scaleconf
It's not even 6am in California yet!
The big costs in a solar installation are not the panels themselves, but the voltage regulator/converter and battery systems.
$1.6B is nothing to Apple. They had $80B in cash at the end of September and could very well pass $100B after the holidays.

I don't think there's any way Apple will dilute the brand of one of their flagship products in their hottest market. Plus, it works both ways: they would have to find a trademark that works everywhere else so that competitors don't snatch up the new trademark in other countries.
WePay all the way.

Good point, with WePay you wouldn't have this problem. No Italians would be able to take your money https://www.wepay.com/Does-WePay-allow-international-non-US-...
The power of a static typing in a dynamic typed language.. that's great.. and elegant too! GO BDFL !
What?! HTC HD2 is about as perfect as you can get. I think it gets overlooked because it's not Android.
You guys have it real bad.

In the UK we get free phones and our bills are so much lower.

You can get a free iPhone 4s with unlimited talk text and net for £60 a month.

The only US carrier who made any sense to me on my visit to start-up school was T-Mobile. It was the only place I could buy a phone of any quality and put a prepay sim in.
The scroll direction is backwards in IE9.
Yeah anyone that used Digg around that time should attest to this. The launch of v4 basically took the site from pretty great to pretty horrible overnight. As someone that used to check Digg every day it was like they turned the interesting faucet off.
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Ask HN: We are gaining some momentum from Stumble Upon, how do we keep it going?
Our startup, nosweaters.com (Better gift ideas through Q & A) is experiencing a good traffic boost from stumble upon. It feels like a "foot in the door" kind of moment. My question is, what should we be doing in order to keep the traffic coming? Should we be looking into supplementary adwords campaigns? Should we use the traffic spike to convince bloggers we are relevant now? What is the next step?
Wepay only works for USA https://www.wepay.com/Does-WePay-allow-international-non-US-...
Really sorry, I don't see edit or delete links. Shall I repost this?
This is a really great way to divide up the ecosystem. And you're right, it's mostly eyeballs or teams for sale in "traditional" startups (if you can say there is such a thing).

So few people in the startup ecosystem sit down and think hard, "Where WILL we make our money? What do we REALLY have to sell?" So many assume that they will get bought because "they have a great product" or "they are the best" or "they have traction," but honestly, that's not even why most bigco's acquire startups. As you pointed out.[1]

This is not a disease of startups alone, of course. Most employees never sit down and ask themselves how & where they create value for their employer, much less how much, and whether they're then earning too little or too much. They just stab around in the dark for a number they think they deserve.

But when an employee gets the value equation wrong, worst case scenario is he/she loses a job. A whole company, product, ecosystem doesn't go down the tubes.

(Sidebar: It really warms my little bootstrapping heart to see this becoming a serious discussion topic lately!)

[1] There are other factors I'd add -- sometimes, it seems like a bigco buys a startup because they have too much M&A budget and simply want to fill a slot, check a genre off their list. "Can't buy Twitter? OK, buy Jaiku and call it a day. tick" Or the ever-popular "this little company annoys us so we'll buy it and kill it so we can stop thinking about it" technique, which sure as hell seems to happen far more than startup cheerleaders will admit.
Yes, a backward compatibility mode that could re-add those things would be nice (which could be enabled by adding a pragma "from __past__ import old_unicode_literals", for example). It would allow for a more gradual transition.
to work with big datasets:
http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
If there wasn't the Matthew Effect in sociology PayPal had already gone down.
I don't think decision makers spend enough time on LinkedIn for it to be effective.

I personally think most people who you are aiming your product at probably use a mobile device to access LinkedIn. Therefore not coming across your ads.
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I am in Manhattan to give my talk at MoMath Encounters this evening, and I'm free for lunch. Anyone want to meet up?
Hard to argue with C-x C-s being the most useful feature of EMACS......... It's so useful people take it for granted ;-)
Outerra - The whole world as playground
NASA vows $8.8 bn space telescope on track for 2018
"Get some plugins to tweet new post"

Done.

"and get some plugins to post content from RSS feeds"

Done.

Thanks for suggestions.
Is it a big problem in pageranking if articles arent unique?
The reason they came to this conclusion is because they said the transfer initiated from his IP address. It's the only possible conclusion I came to.

And it is entirely possible, the was a story in the UK running warning people of open wireless networks. I know data between the client and Paypal is encrypted but it's the only conclusion I came to.

Like I say, I only followed his issue in passing but that is the only way I could see it happening (without his parents actually stealing the money!)
Reposted Here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3323672

Sorry Guys!
I am new to Google Analytics.I see a lot of options there.Where can I see what people are searching for when they come to my site?

Traffic sources->Overview?
But as more and more new features are being added to 3.x and not to 2.x (and assuming 3.x won't break compatibility with itself), won't there automatically be a point in which the features are worth the pain?

Even if not, the python devs are not trying to define this point for anyone, you can stay with 2.7 the rest of your life if you want to. I don't think a "2.x will no longer be maintained even for bugfixes" date has been established.
when I read the headline, I thought they meant content, not money. I was ready to mail them a few harddrives with worthy "stuff"...
"looks like Lion's" - I'm supposed to want this?
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How Facebook Can Be Effectively Used by Students
I haven't read a convincing argument on how such an entity would actually take over. She would have to be endowed with physical means, not just intelligence. She'd have to have humans do her bidding to a great extent and for a long time.
Even if we build an AI that can be controlled, I expect it would be used to enable a fascist dictatorship by few in control. :P