skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a clear hypothesis: that a sufficiently advanced AI will manipulate most humans toward its own goals, and even its creators won't be able to stop it once it gets going. So the stakes really are "saving the world".

This hypothesis isn't easy to test. That doesn't make it unscientific -- cosmology and evolutionary theories are also hard to test.
Hotmail, for one, moved to IIS from its bought-in FreeBSD roots many years ago.
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But if you're being pedantic, discipline usually isn't defined with respect to willpower. It's defined with respect to control.

To be clearer -- consistency and discipline aren't exactly the same, but you get consistency in human behavior via discipline.

Technically the original poster was correct. What the pedant did required discipline. The pedant saying that it wasn't discipline was actually not even technically correct. By attempting to be pedantic he actually said something that wasn't even technically true.

Now what you're saying is that there is some other behavior that might be implied by the term discipline, which is a prolonged test of willpower. This technically is not in any definition of discipline I've seen.

I'd argue that if you're going to be a pedant, you at least need to be right.
I work on social games for iOS, and it comes up in few places.

(1) Users ask "why am I getting this sandbox error message?" and we say "That happens sometimes on jailbroken phones. We can't fix it."

(2) We have to step up our game re: preventing cheaters, keeping in mind that jailbroken users can change their UDID, fake IAP transactions (but not the receipts!) and modify files on the device.

In a single-player game we wouldn't care about (2) so much, but in a multiplayer game we don't want them breaking someone else's game or polluting our statistics. I don't have numbers, sorry; we don't count the number of jailbreakers, just the number of cheaters.
I guess I should be more constructive but reading this made me cry inside. Setting up a twitter account and a launchrock page does not mean one has launched a startup.
Keep government out of it. Almost everything they touch turns into an ugly mess.

Amen to that. Especially considering how closely the obesity "epidemic" correlates to government recommendations on what to eat (namely the "food pyramid").
I have the files but I haven't uploaded them as they are very big. I imagined one of the other programs would create the files, but I've yet to discover it. I believe these files are precomputations that are meant to speed up the algorithm.
Reminds me of: http://adamcecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/javascript.html
My girlfriend is from Thailand and a few months ago I went to visit her parents and home town. She's from central Thailand. One thing that stuck me was the lack of "fat" people walking around. Everyone is skinny and healthy looking, especially older people. When I pointed this out to my girlfriend she said that only the youngest generation of under 10 year old are somewhat fat. This coincides with the first fast food chains and supermarkets opened in her home town about 10 years ago. It's obviously the "western diet" that's doing all this. Chuck full of fat and sugar.
Just like a simple camera and film, Flash has been there, relatively unchanged, for many years.

Except that, unlike a camera and film, Flash no longer works for some fairly important use cases.
I'm 6'5", and I weigh 242lb

Remind me stop disagreeing with you. :-)
It is a process. One doesn't become radically honest with oneself until one notices how the body physically responds to criticisms.

Toastmasters is a good example where I keep noticing the better toastmasters actively solicit criticisms. Even if the message was "your speech was boring" is sufficient to prod them figure out how to improve it.
Right, so you admit that there is no actual bearing on the security of the overall application, just individual user accounts. I think that's worth clarifying.

I don't like sites that make me use a "special character" very much because they break my automated alphanumeric password generation scheme. I store these passwords in an encrypted container that I reference whenever I want to use the site. The passwords I use are always huge, but I leave punctuation out for convenience in selecting the text with double-click. :) I think that my alphanumeric mixed-case very long passwords are safe enough without requiring punctuation.

I also occasionally run into length limits on passwords which I'm sure we all agree is silly. But encouraging enforcement of complexity standards somehow seems to make some people think they can place arbitrary limits for the convenience of their VARCHAR() fields or something.

People will either use a password they can remember or reset their password every time they go to your site, which will not only make it really annoying to use your site but also doesn't do much good anyway since the password is then behind their weakly-passworded email account.

I understand that exposing this information allows an attacker to know more about my potential passwords and maybe to enhance his ability to crack them. I'm not really worried about anyone doing that and I'm confident that the information I provided isn't a total giveaway. ;)
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Or an example of the network effect overriding other condsiderations. PoF got big before OKC did, so that's where the people are.

Even with that factor though, I found PoF borderline unusable after a little experimentation and stopped using them in favour of OKC. I can't believe I'm the only one like that, or that there aren't some who simply dropped off PoF into nothing.

If that crappy site can extract value at such a high level, I'm sure a few reasonably small tweaks could extract significantly more.
>>1 / 4

Noted

>2

I chose GUnicorn for being more popular and easier to install. Performance difference seems to be very small and not sure how things evolved in last versions.

>3

Certainly not what I want for an introduction.
Here is another alternative.

Get a second-hand mac mini and attach an external hdd. Then share the hdd on the network and use it from timemachine.Now you also have a normal web server with apache and php, install your favorite db and you're done.

Or you can create a hackintosh from an old laptop. Though this is potentially quite unstable.
Any jobs or volunteer (intern) positions that don't require you to be in Mountain View?
Great domain, good logo, but what does the startup do?
A McDonald's patty contains nothing but beef and a little salt. It's probably corn-fed beef, but there are no fillers. What's bad for you at McDonald's is the bun, the fries, and the 44oz soda.
You have not launched a startup, you don't even have a MVP. You have a twitter account and a website. You don't even have an idea yet, and ideas are free!
It doesn't make any sense from my perspective as a JS developer to steal code. Each JS code is tailored to fit the website particular HTML and CSS structure. Unless it's a jQuery plug-in or something in these lines.

If the developer doesn't put the comments, it'll be a hell more difficult to find out how to use the code and what the code actually does.

At the end of the journey, it's not these lines of code that make a difference for my client website. It's the solution I bring.
The safe thing to say is that "having many lives" is just a metaphor that means much the same thing as "having many facets of one's life".

But for an infinite amount of additional discussion, visit the local philosophy department.
Most of the DIACAP, etc. requirements are either reasonable or purely policy enforcement. It seems like it should be possible to implement most of the policy restrictions using Apple OSX Server or another management platform, rather than lots of UI/UX changes on the clients.
Yep, 25 lbs. It's not unheard of. You can do google searches to read up on some other peoples' experiences, but presumably you won't believe them either. You could read 4 Hour Body, which has pics, but I guess you won't believe that either. I don't know what to tell you, but it happened. You could ask anyone at the SEM firm I work at, many of whom I convinced to do CrossFit with me, what changes in my physique were readily apparent.

An interesting side-effect from the experience is that I finally diagnosed my angioedema without major urticaria that I'd been having since I was twelve, off-and-on. I'd always had swelling of the face or fingers or tongue or throat, periodically, that would occur in the morning. It went away for some years, but came back a couple years ago. It wasn't coincident with any particular food or activity so it was hard to see how it could be a food allergy. I would take Zyrtec once a day to manage it. However, after going on GOMAD, I couldn't manage it anymore, it was getting to dangerous levels. I went to an immunologist who didn't know what was happening either. After extensive research, I discovered that some people are sensitive to the casein protein found in the milk from common breeds of cattle in the US. It breaks down into an opioid in the body, and some of us produce a histamine response from it. I thank the a2milk company of Australia for providing the resources to help me figure it out. I've since been able to keep the acquired muscle by taking pure whey protein with water.

Anyway, so unless you think I just made up that food intolerance anecdote, yeah, it happened.
I doubt it.

EDIT (after down vote): I doubt it because back in the day this problem was not as widely recognized as it is today, and no expert in the field today (that I am aware of) thinks we are even close.
His username:

http://www.reddit.com/user/salman_khan_academy
Adapt or die. Mobile is already big and it will get much bigger. 2012 is the year of the tablet. Android should finally produce some great tablets, the iPad 3 will be great, and we might even see some interesting tablets from Microsoft.
Depends how good you are (or how much time you want to spend) with hacking your system.

I had VMWare running, and it would be slow and occasionally freeze for no reason. I also tried installing iDeneb to dual boot, and it was a pain in the ass and didn't work.

Mac Mini's are about $500+. A used macbook pro can probably go for $700-$800.
I agree, much nicer and smoother than constantly getting removed from various upload sites and traversing through acres of dead links before you finally find a valid mirror, and a lot safer than something like BitTorrent.
Vocabulary is very important. But in addition to knowing the meanings of words, its important to know why concepts are carved up the way they are. Why divide the world into supervised and unsupervised --- what does carving at that joint win us?

I'm not sure that I get you. Why we have both supervised and unsupervised algorithms was made pretty clear to me in the class. And just what more difficult material would you have liked to seen? The real Stanford class is made more difficult largely by doing lots of difficult math proofs. I emphatically disagree with any assertion that this free class should be so math heavy. What would be the purpose of that for the intended audience? Sure, such work would make fine extra credit, but making effective use of algorithms rarely relies on on a ability to mathematically prove that they have the properties that they do.

I think that a big final project, as is required in the real Stanford class, on the other hand, would have a lot of utility for the intended audience. But as that would be impossible to automatically grade, that's a non-starter.
Here's a quick read for you:

http://www.heartmath.org/free-services/downloads/state-of-ea...

Tom
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They aren't one of the biggest companies in tech. I believe they just barely passed 3,000 total employees recently. Compare that to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo who all have more than 10,000.
NBA players also play basketball 4 hours per day. You can't really eat whatever you want just cuz you can bench press 1/2 your bodyweight. Retired athletes tend to balloon up because they keep eating the same way they did when they were burning 8000 calories per day.
In-person is strongly preferred, but remote is a possibility for the right person -- there are a couple of employees who work full-time remotely.

If you're looking for something less formal, here's information about volunteering and helping to make exercises:

https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/wiki/Getting-Involved
I don't think it's a spoiled brat mentality. It's the difference between what Startup Chile appears to be and what it is. The pitch is it's a 40k grant. The reality is it's a 40k credit and anyone who doesn't really understand latin american bureaucracy doesn't know what they're getting into. I live in Argentina and deal with mind-numbing bureaucracy every day and I have warned some people to be careful before they accept... that said, i'm on the advisory board of one startup attending the next class and i think it's a huge opportunity for them because one of the founders is a "yankee" living in Argentina and he knows what they're getting into.
Perhaps those commenters would disagree with your interpretation of 'the' point of her post. She makes a number of them.

This passage is what I focused on:

"You can protest, argue, call people thieves, stake the moral high ground, and point fingers all you want. There is no obfuscation, everything you have done is right out in the open for everyone to see. More importantly, everything you do is in the ecosystem for people to learn from. I think it's a great proof of concept as I've never heard anyone get angry at someone else for stealing something they have written for the DOM.

People don't run around copy -> pasting things they find elsewhere. For many reasons, mainly, your style comes through in what you write. Your code is your signature, and someone else's never can express your unique type of art. When it does happen (which it does), it is a matter of ethics, not law or government. Clientside JavaScript is policed by the JavaScript community, and if you're a thief that copies and pastes, people know."

That's quite a bit stronger than saying "client side code can be seen by everyone." She's saying client side code can be seen by everyone, AND in those cases where its copied no one should appeal to the law to protect their IP.

Well, F that noise.

"People knowing" whether someone copied my code doesn't pay my hypothetical bills / employees / etc. And if someone copies my code and uses it to take my customers, well Sucks To Be Me, but if I have sufficient resources to consider a decision between "being cool about it" and saving my business by appealing to the law, guess what I'm going to do?

And if Sara thinks that's a moral failing on my part, well, she can explain to my employees why their livelihood is less important than being a good Stallman-ist.
No mention of the fact that Flash makes right-click->save as impossible?
Dieter Rams: making systems and making sense
careful; some ideas in this book will fuck with you:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BipolarReddit/comments/l7nij/interes...
2011: The 5 Top Memes
Think this has merit to being a tutorial about getting on the web but while not to step on your efforts it seems like you've sort of built the shell but not the yolk. I understand the the central piece is the problem of insomnia but what is the actual trajectory of effort going to be towards solving this problem. Is the central purpose to aggregate content about insomnia and if so how is that helpful, needed by or useful to this demographic?
Not to be a troll but this really irritates me and its hapening more and more in the "start up" community. This is not a startup. Its a landing page. There is no such thing as a 4 hour startup. This is a side project.
No music at all. I zone out and don't really hear anything after awhile so its pointless to even have music on for me, or rather, it makes no difference.
You're discounting the calories burned while lifting the weights. Running also gets easier as you lose weight, so you'll top out unless you add miles/time or speed.
Depends on the size, of course. It would take more than 1 to cripple the entire country I would assume, but yes, if enough went off the country would grind to a halt. Cell phones, ATMs, etc would not work, at least for a time.

There are tons of books about this. http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/... was a good one. Fiction, but still.
I have experience developing that way. Vmware on Ubuntu. Mac OS X Lion. If you want to know more e-mail me directly.
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R4 DS Card is memory card developed by the purpose of being used with the Nintendo DS. The Nintendo DS is a handy gaming console that is used to have fun dissimilar video games.
This kid's a...kid, I guess we shouldn't expect a long view from him. What he sees as a slippery slope is a normal part of education that's hard to spot if you're only in the system for four years.

Professors have been complaining for decades that students don't start their classes with the basics already down. Making a video version of this class, even one that only teaches the first half of the real class, means the professors will start to expect the students know that part already and the real class will expand to include even more advanced topics.

There's no danger of Stanford or Harvard or MIT or anyone else making things easy on their undergrads.
> Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?

No, they should talk the damage SOPA will do and companies that consumers should work with that currently provide positive experience.

Godaddy has had tremendous press over the last few days. All most people know about them now is that they sell domains. Can I buy domains somewhere else? Is there a company better than godaddy? Why is everyone talking about godaddy instead of this other company?
And you know what they say, "all first world countries are just 3 meals away from chaos" or something to that effect.
The whole "eating fat makes you fat" thing has been pretty thoroughly discredited.
Heroku support to Django is promising but it still has things to improve like database access which is a performance bottleneck.

Also I don't think comfortable having all this uncontrolled "magic" happening.

EC2 is free for a year so I think it's worth giving it a shot.
The "Hacker Proof" badges are supposed to verify your web application as well, but this attack could have been entirely non-technical social engineering to get access to the cart admin account or MySQL username/password. We don't have any details right now at all as far as I know and I tend to doubt they will be forthcoming.

In fact, I doubt that specialforces.com will even inform users of this breach. They don't seem to be especially security-savvy and the initial reaction of secuirty-naive businesses is to keep something like this under wraps so it doesn't hurt their reputation.

Of course, this is just idle speculation and they could have already informed users. I have no malintent. That's just how I read the situation and the likelihoods involved.
You can do that, with gen-class:

http://clojure.org/compilation

The result is a completely "normal" non-dynamic java class. There's still a dependency on clojure.jar though.
Ever read Flowers for Algernon?
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> Launch time.

This word, "Launch", I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's a phonetic spelling of "Now".
I'm sorry but this isn't a startup or a business (at least not yet). It's a collection of web properties including a blog, a Twitter account, etc.

What exactly is the benefit in launching a "startup" in 4 hours anyway?
We're biased in favor of hiring people who can work with us in person, but regardless I highly recommend getting started via the open source framework mentioned above -- you'll connect pretty tightly with the team, get a sense for how we work, and can figure things out from there.

Plenty of our coolest, most interactive exercises were contributed by remote open source contributors.
Tried VMs before with bad luck, never got it to work properly.

I did however run hackintosh on a Dell laptop (XPS M1330) which ran alot better. Only problem was shutting down, where the GPU drivers would crash, but everything else worked perfectly.

That would be a low cost alternative (got mine for ~150$)
There may be a better Dell suited for this, but this worked for me.
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"I find the product and the design of the product much more interesting than the programming"

Of course. Programming is hard work.
Show HN: A Real-Time Meme Generator/Publishing service with Now.js
Sorry, I meant 210. 1300 sat. 4.0 high school inflated gpa. That's the article's example of a smart athlete that miraculously is rejected.
Does anyone recognize these fonts? In particular the font of the first, as well as the main text of the last graphic?

They are quite beautiful.
Buy a used Mac. You'll be much happier. The hackintosh route sucks as you'll run into lots of potential issues including lack of updates among other things.
A lot of people expecting about 3-year life cycle of a smartphone now.

They'd buy one under contract and upgrade to a new on within 18-24 months. The old smartphone then given to a family member. It is a lot more common than the tech crowd.

So having manufacturers updating the phone for at least 3 years would really help a lot.
Jamie Oliver has been taking on the problem of bad food in schools in both the UK and the US. It's a really pernicious problem, mostly because of all of the politics and bureaucracy involved, and the heavy lobbying by the companies making the crap food. Pizza is a vegetable, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamies_School_Dinners
Here's another mind-blower: enom runs the largest IIS server farm in the world (at least they did up to a few years ago)

Can't find a direct link but I remember that little factoid because it surprised me.

I don't mean customer servers sold as services, this was before then, it's their own server network.
I guess this is how I would do it:
http://www.macincloud.com/
more providers on this quora thread: http://www.quora.com/Virtual-Private-Servers/Can-I-get-a-VPS...
Nice demo of maze creation algorithms in JavaScript
I think the History Channel had a scaremongering show about coke can sized EMPs at 30,000 feet having the range to take out most of US electrical/computer systems.

If such EMPs did have the range, it would be scary indeed. Everything except hardened military equipment would go if a terrorist could sneak one in on a plane. Some records may be backed up in datacenters in other countries, that's the only protection for civilians.

But coke can EMPs at 30,000 feet don't really have the range. You'd need a specially designed nuclear warhead around 1 megaton at far higher altitude to take out a big chunk of the US.

I asked a related question on Quora http://www.quora.com/Are-datacenters-protected-against-EMP-a... lots of links in the answers
I meant most recent "mega-book" since its a brick like GEB (but not sure of the size of "I am a strange loop", so maybe that's a brick too)

I can see how the poem translations can get weary, but they do a brilliant job of illustrating his ideas about translation way beyond poetry. I love how he generalizes the idea of translation into all sorts of non-language domains (i.e. translating ice skating skills to roller blading). Now to get past the current set of poems onto the next chapter ;)
Not necessarily—at least for some Flash interfaces, you can still get images loaded by Flash out of your browser's cache, as, e.g., with Opera's opera:cache cache explorer.

I guess you're right, though, in that by removing the plain old right-click+save option it adds at least somewhat of a barrier for the unmotivated or uneducated would-be thief.
Rationality suggests incorporating new ideas into existing ones. Where are these people change their projections based on the slowing increase in computing power? (aka second derivative of computing power).