skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your going to be outed by a 120 second buffer. Especially if it isn't written to disk until theres a crash. (Heck, two minutes is probably a shorter time than it takes to open the hood and spray the RAM with liquid nitrogen.)

Unless of course your being accused of a crime that was either caught on film two minutes ago or it involved a car crash.

EDIT: Or was caught on film two minutes prior and involved a car cash.
They are designated by the party, not just people who walked in and declared they will be observing the voting process on behalf of the party.
Does this exist? Seems like it should.

Sort of like how you can use linked in to figure out who people have worked with.

People with kids often have friends with kids and you can figure out all the babysitters that have one degree of separation from you.
Is there a roadmap for this release? I think it'd would be useful to link it somewhere in the readme or here (I'm sure people will vote you up to the top of the thread).

Keep up the great work!
It's not a straw man, it's a thought experiment. Obviously you can't actually do it. I'm sure you'd have trouble filling a room with rules about how to handle chinese symbols, or teaching a colourblind scientist everything it's possible to know about colour. It's hypothetical, it's a thought experiment.

Your first criticism is just invalid. The pill rewrites the workings of your brain to enjoy murder, the experience of murder and the consequences of murder. The fact that the brain originally evolved to work one way is irrelevant. The hypothetical pill changes the brain in a way just as powerful as the way an AI can rewrite its source code.

Your second criticism doesn't invalidate the experiment unless you claim that if the real life repercussions weren't a factor then you'd happily take the pill. I assume this is not the case.

Given all the facts, you won't choose to change what you fundamentally value, because that change would necessarily go against what you fundamentally value.
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Imagine a human genius. Now imagine that same genius with a brain that thinks the same thoughts, but a hundred times faster. Now imagine a million instances of that person.

At no point in this thought experiment have we changed the thoughts this person can think. If any of these sped-up million geniuses took an IQ test or something, the score would be the same. And yet, they would seem superhumanly intelligent by any reasonable definition of the phrase.

I doubt that evolution -- with a crazy biological substrate, no less -- somehow managed to find an upper limit on intelligence.
Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage.

On a lighter note, if there is still hope, it lies in the little not-so-popular desktop environments like XFCE. Those both have sane UI and are not ugly pieces of bloatware.
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You totally forgot that the evolution of messaging isn't linear. You skipped drums, which did not exist in europe, which almost monopolized technology as a source of inspiration. However, this anachronism is being reflected in modern communication. For example, drums were a broadcast method, and so was radio, and now so are social websites. Those three approaches (drums, radio, social sites) were re-invented over and over due to need. At each point in the improvement chain the broadcast nature was rejected as unwanted. Compare to what you said about only the good parts being taken to the next level. However, it's obviously needed.
Wow, this is pretty awesome.Is there a self-hosting version, somewhere?
> We have seen some software problems with various cars already

Have we? The highest profile one I know of turned out to not be be software at all (Referring to Toyota accelerator[1]), but rather a combination of floor mats and human error.

[1] http://www.nhtsa.gov/PR/DOT-16-11
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We also have no reason to suspect that it is possible.

The wall that silicon has smashed into should give us (well, not me, really the Singularitists) pause.
If you have any interest at all in the subject, Zarkonnen is making a very good recommendation. Red Plenty has brought Soviet society to life for me in a way that no other book or article could (and I've read a few).
I relate to her, and I'm gradually getting over it - but my mindset since I was a child was the only currency that I had an endless supply of was suffering. If I didn't have the money to do something for someone, or to do good in the world, I could spend convenience, time to sleep, comfort, health, or opportunities. I still feel that way, because it's true, but I also feel like I am worth as much as anyone else, and that good done for the selfish is usually at best neutral but probably bad, so that moderates my self-sacrifice. It allows me to narrow my focus to people and ideas that are net goods, and not to hurt myself to help people into a better situation than I am currently in.

A nice effect is that I end up maintaining the resources to help people who are worth helping without getting to the point where I'm spending suffering. It's really an accounting problem. If I suffer to death helping selfish people, think about all of the good people that I'm going to miss out on helping. I may end up sacrificing myself and still having a bad net effect in the world.
Smalltalk objects typically don't have a per-object table of function pointers (some dialects do, such as Self).
> Even as a user determined to see what the fuss
> is about, I don't even jump through this hoop.

I just did and I'm astounded that this filter even exists. From what I saw I got the feeling that the filter mechanism is broken.
My system starts to swap as it gets down to the last ~20% of its memory.
Ever think experience with different people is not comparable?
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Based on what Justin said, it sounds like what they tried to add is a defense against JIT spray attacks, not just a detector, which, if effective, would actually be pretty valuable. JIT spray attacks are pretty dangerous, because they defeat many of the usual protections against exploiting buffer overflows for code execution (e.g. DEP and ASLR on Windows). So it certainly would be valuable to try to defend against these kind of attacks, if that is what the Chrome folks were doing.

Apparently it was not effective in the end, but we may never know, since VUPEN doesn't plan to disclose how they escaped the Chrome sandbox.
xfce might not be "bloatware", but it also lacks some things. The atrocious "support" for keyboard layout switching comes to mind. Short of writing your own scripts that directly call setxkbmap with parameters added by hand, you have no chance of having this working properly. (And yes, I know there is a plugin, and no, it still doesn't make it work)

That alone makes xfce absolutely unusable to me, although it is otherwise very nice.

Another nice feature concerning "you can manage your windows with it" is KDE's default ctrl+f8 desktop grid, that actually makes handling multiple desktops really easy and really lovely to use.
??? Great article.
The one thing no one ever talks about when they speak of manufacturering coming back is the pollution that comes with it. We didn't just out source manufacturering we also out sourced the pollution. How will we deal with that?
In the Java example there is a ton of error checking that is not being done in the other examples. Not really a fair comparison. The author said the programs should complete the task of "reading two numbers from the user, adding them together and printing out the result." The Java program does more than that, so of course it looks more verbose.
And at the same time we have a whole generation of people that don't know what a tail call is. C might be closer to the metal then most languages but it still is a leaky abstraction in some places.

And anyway, the real problem is not C being complicated. Its that the other alternatives are also perfectly reasonable while also being simpler.
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There are list archives which provide mbox format archives. Mailman for example.
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From what I've seen, YC startups have never favored Mashable for launching – the exclusive is usually given to TechCrunch
I think it's fairly reasonable to not remember how to deal with user input in java when you need to remember what combination of streams and readers and buffers and scanners you need to put together to do it.
I believe it is quite close to the metal. When I had my Systems Programming course in first year of college we started with C, and then continued with x86 assembly. One of interesting parts was, when we compiled our C code to assembly and then compared with our hand-written assembly code. Was fun :)
I agree with you but only while limiting the scope to the best that can be done for a biological agent which must pass through a birth canal and evolved under strong resource limits.

Can you apply intelligence to more than one person? Can a group of 10 people be considered intelligent as a whole? What about 100? Can you distinguish between the intelligence of different equally sized groups? I say yes to all of those.

Let us say we put groups of 1, 10, 100, 10^n people in a box and gave each box intelligence tests. Which would be most intelligent? Eventually communication costs will outweigh size advantages but only at some n >>0. So a trivial example of an entity whose intelligence surpasses a single human intelligence. Now why do you expect that this level of computation and knowledge management is not replicable on a smaller more efficient device not distracted by the need to calculate proprioception?

Next consider effective intelligence. Do computers when used in the right way amplify intelligence? Is it possible that a human/computer interface is possible? Forget self awareness, is it possible that a computer could do what all of what we call intelligent work better than humans? The answer to all of these is more subjective, especially the last, but I say yes. The human brain is one architecture for intelligence. It is riddled with weaknesses that only make sense when considering the resource limited nature of its development. It was created under a specific set of constraints - a vehicle to manage the more effective transmissions of genes of an energy limited biological entity that must pass a birth canal. I believe that the human mind set on designing an intelligence can do better.

Will a superhuman mind do better at designing a mind in a proportionally similar way to how humans will surpass evolution? Or will they hit too many NP complete problems? The answer to this I cannot give but if forced to bet would be yes, yes.
My immediate concern is your definitions of success, growth, and self-sacrifice. You have narrowed your discussion to a person working a startup, but you have chosen too broad of language.

Instead of growth, I think you should have use the idea of investment. One chooses how you to spend his time, and that may be in learning new tools, creating a product, or non-work related things.

Self-sacrifice is the key to producing strong personal relationships, and not something that should be rejected based on a faulty association with time spent in business. Whether one works for himself or another, it is not self-sacrifice; rather, it is toward the reward. Self-sacrifice for personal reward is no longer self-sacrifice.

Success in business or wealth (which seems to be your focus) may be completely unrelated to other people's definitions of success. One may choose not to invest his time toward monetary success because he defines success not by becoming rich but by enjoying strong relationships with his family. Note that I am not saying that one cannot be "successful" at both, but there are many who have become wealthy to the detriment of everything I would consider success. To me they are wealthy or well-known, but truly failures.

Acting for the benefit of others does not have to be to one's own detriment, and relationships without self-sacrifice are ultimately doomed.
Arguably making the == operator mean two different things -- equal in value and equal in reference -- is the problem to start with. I'd prefer it if == was a value comparison in all cases, and reference comparison were mapped to === or something. I guess the extra verbosity doesn't get a lot of fans here...
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> Dyson played a large part in the election of Mr. Cameron's government: He wrote a report, “Innovative Britain,” calling for tax and education systems designed to move people into design and manufacturing; it was a major subject of the 2010 election, and almost all of its recommendations have been implemented.

Too large to summarize. The report, in whole, might be worth skimming.

> Both Professor Holman and David Phillips, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College believe that without the stimulation produced by making elements combust and fizz, pupils won’t continue science beyond GCSEs. “All the evidence points to practical work being the thing that pupils like to do,” Prof Holman said. “This isn’t about how do you get more Grade Cs in GCSEs, it’s about how you inspire more young people.”

"Ingenious Britain"

http://media.dyson.com/images_resize_sites/inside_dyson/asse...
You should read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect before discussing pleasure-to-death scenarios: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html
Ingenious Britain
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I think making auto-Boxing generate a warning is a bit over the top, but it's worth it to enable syntax highlighting for it. It just draws your eyes to it during debugging. I think mine is set to italicize all instances of auto-boxing. And of course, avoid it where it doesn't smell good.
In the UK we have automatic number plate recognition and a nationwide network of CCTV. Some places can recognise a stolen car and dispatch police within 60 seconds. (Notably the City of Westminster and Heathrow airport.)

> I'd prefer not to have all my actions recorded

Fair enough, but it's too late for some countries.
Did the author only mean 'make those choices some of the time'

"This isn't to say that we should all become selfish beasts concerned only with ourselves. We are lucky to live in a world where most of the really great opportunities involve delivering growth for many people at the same time. I'm not suggesting that we should focus only on personal growth - just that every decision should be optimised so that personal growth is part of the deal, and self-sacrifice is not."
Don't miss the punch line, which is at the very bottom: "Permission to copy: You may share copies of this story with anyone who might enjoy thinking about its implications in academia."

So this article is really about churning out useless research in academia, where merit is measured by how many publications you have rather than by what actual benefit the research has.
So nice to see an IDC Herzlyia project in here.
the big issue I see with this system is that the audit ballots are invalid. this means the developer only has to ensure that the audit system works. they can do whatever they want with the rest if the ballots since they can not be audited
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He was probably missing the Pissed Off Gene - http://gapingvoid.com/2004/08/15/merit-can-be-bought-passion...
Your argument doesn't line up:

> "If somebody swears at you in traffic, you decide if you just shrug on it ("He's had a bad day") or freak out, swear back, and think about it for the rest of the day."

and

> "I am convinced that what most people call luck or bad luck is partly due to their own decisions (previous or current)."

These two statements have no relation to each other.

The first one is obviously true. The second one is much more ambiguous - and comes with a lot of baggage. The same stance has been used to blame the victim throughout history, and continues today. For example, we continue to blame the poor for their own poverty, despite putting up barriers at every turn for them. It's a despicable stance that is entirely devoid of compassion or perspective, and does no good except to inflame the ego of the accuser.
> But Mr. Dyson describes it as only one symptom of a larger problem: a Western world, especially the former branches of the British Empire such as Britain and Canada, that has lost its will to invent and make things.

Excuse me? Apple's pushing the limit of display technology by using layered pixels. Google has invented and is maintaining an index on the sum of the world's knowledge. Facebook and Twitter have invented contraptions that make information dispersal nearly frictionless. And this guy says the Western world has lost its will to invent and make things?
Yes, he should have been using raw_input().
I'd suggest downloading smcFanControl. That's what I use on my MB Pro, and it works well. You can set different modes that will keep the fan at or below a certain RPM. If I'm gaming, I let it go up to 6200 rpm. If I'm not doing much (like now, just browsing on the internet and maybe running a couple other programs) I drop it to 3000rpm. That usually puts me around 45* C and keeps it nice and quiet. Then I've got a middle setting at about 4200rpm that makes some noise, but isn't quite as obnoxious as full throttle.
As of 2012, start-ups with over 1 billion growth potential appears to revolve around services or products offered to a large portion of the society or companies and which can generate 10 to 100 USD per person ( employee or individual) per year such as Search(ads), emails, education, showbiz, healthcare. Here are some additions; cheaper fuel, integrated software-as-a-service(kill salesforce or gapps), faster travel, space travel, home robots/ai, and better science.

In some cases there is a need for someone to open a new market. If Apple or Google had build a home robot with few basic functions, wouldn't a lot of people buy it and then it would open a new market?

More ambitious things to kill;

- Kill the "house"; since the days of the community cave a house has been human shelter #1; nowadays there might be better alternatives to an owned house.

- Kill the "state" or "a better citizenship"; provide the same things the state provides, leaner and cheaper.

- Kill the capital investment; create an automatic investor which selects virtually existing start-ups based on instant financial metrics.

- Kill the "company";

- Kill "democracy"; a better voting system

- Kill placental reproduction or sexual production; 9 months are too much.
It's utterly frustrating when a writer refers to terminology or acronyms (here FOOM) that are not explained at all.
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I guess investing into cleaner manufacturing technology would be a start. There'd be a much bigger incentive to do that in another country, or in a China that actually enforced its own laws.
On starting over. Don't do it.
This is something I've been thinking about seriously, building an "academic-level" search engine. I have the IR/NLP background. If anyone is interested discussing/collaborating, ping me!
Here's the proposed text, for anyone who's interested: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_129...

Edit: As I read it, this is pretty straight forward, doing the following things:

- Makes it explicitly legal to operate an autonomous car on public roads, if your car has met a safety standard yet to be devised.

- Authorizes the establishment of safety standards for autonomous vehicles by the California Highway Patrol.

- Until these standards are devised, it does not prohibit autonomous cars from operating on CA public roads.

"Autonomous Cars" in this case are defined fairly narrowly: a car capable of driving "without active control and continuous monitoring of a human operator".
I feel like this is proof that America has sold out. I understand China's role in the global economy and I understand why we've become dependent on them, I'm just ashamed we let it happen in the first place.

In my eyes, the beauty of the internet is that it literally makes the sum of all human knowledge to date available to anyone with a connection. To restrict the internet is to restrict knowledge, and restricting knowledge/information is one of the most dangerous things that any government or organization can do. Once you start, where do you stop?
> What used to take a few days of research in the library reading books is now a google search away.

I own 100s of books the content of which is in no way googlable, available via ebooks, or anything else. They are undergrad level books... nothing fancy. Your comment shows you haven't been to a demanding university.

> College needs to have a more high-school approach to teaching students, delivering an active, 40-hour week of education as opposed to 1-2 hours of lecture per day.

I thought we were talking about universities. It sounds like you want to continue being spoon-fed all your life.

> Universities should be able to provide a more engaging, transformative product. While this may seem abhorrent to self-starters and outliers in this community

Uh, how about this: we leave university degrees as only available to people mentally prepared for doing hard work on their own, and we give people who pay to be force-taught fischer-price toy degrees in bright colors? Laminated in case they slobber all over them.

But there already are universities that do what you want. Degrees from them are worthless unless the person hiring doesn't know the difference; and in that case you can bet the company is full of idiots and will fail anyways.
It's not from six months ago. At the time of writing this comment it's only about 8 hours.
awesome man :)

I never thought it was not possible , remember dabbling with xvfb and firefox for a screenshot tool
Has anyone written or thought deeply about all the ways that self-driving cars could be tricked or hacked into causing accidents, kidnapping passengers, driving off cliffs, running people over, or otherwise creating havoc? Seems like it was just a couple years ago that Toyota was recalling cars over a "sudden acceleration" problem.

A system like this is only going to be as good as the data coming to the car, and given the knowledge that all cars will react a certain way to a certain stimulus, it's a lot easier to design a low-tech hack that would kill a lot of people. Here's one that comes to mind:

Given an two-lane road with a narrow shoulder and an embankment, place a small boulder on the right side of each lane. A human being will either swerve off the embankment or rip their transmission out on the rock. What's a bot going to do?
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Some clarification on how this differs from rbenv would be in order. Personally I'm still using rvm without problems, but I've been intrigued by the simplicity of rbenv (especially since Bundler makes gemsets obsolete). If this is significantly simpler, how? And given that it's brand new, what kind of scenarios has it been developed and tested with?
Very nice.

This will be helpful to implement something like G+ 'Send feedback' mechanism.
I think it is a fair example: both NumberFormatException and IOException are checked exceptions, so the code will fail to compile if they're not caught.