skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This relates to subjects I am slightly familiar with and very interested in so I am glad this is on the front page and I think he did a good job.

I have a couple of criticisms though.

The idea that we could build this powerful general human-like intelligence but it would turn out to necessarily be an addict seems unlikely, because I don't think you can build a reward system without including something to prevent shortcuts. Although creating an effective shortcut-prevention system may be challenging. See a bunch of stuff written by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky and his friends.

Also, when he writes

"It seems like the most important motivations of human civilization are related to near-term goals. This is probably a consequence of the fact that motivation writ large is still embodied in individual humans, who are driven by their evolutionary psychology. Individually, we are unprepared to think like a civilization. Our faint mutual motivation to survive in the long term as a civilization is no match for the ability we have to self-modify and physically reshape the planet."

To me that is implying a fairly obvious and typical line of leftish reasoning that for most of my life I assumed was self-evident and didn't require elaboration. After deliberately 'exposing' myself to some 'right-wing' thought and 'extreme' 'left-wing' thought, I now realize that aspiring for collectivism is not an adequate solution.

What happens with self-interested individuals in our capitalist society is that they aggregate power and resources for their own individual use. Unfortunately, something very similar happens in collectivism: power and resources are still aggregated in the hands of a few.

In other words, both systems tend towards centralization. Theoretically, the collectivists will aim for redistributing power and resources for the good of the many, but there are a couple of practical problems: they are still living in hierarchical societies and so have strong motivation for enriching themselves and the controllers cannot see enough detail to know what is really best for the rest of society.

Command economies don't work because of general problems with centralization and lack of distribution and the limitations of the types of technologies employed. A peer-to-peer network is more robust than an internet with only a few backbones.

Unfortunately, capitalists don't realize that their system also leads to monopoly and centralization.

I believe that we do need wholistic measurement and analysis of things like global resources and human equality, and a common principle of supporting the collective good. But at the same time we need to decentralize and distribute production locally. We need local decision making that operates on the basis of a global information schema with wholistic data.

A system can't be efficient or evolve without being localized, but it also can't be integrated without an accurate shared knowledgebase and an egalitarian perspective.
Being the lazy type I ask that you answer those yourself and report back.
How robots will affect employment in the u.s. depends on many unknown factors[1].

Since we cannot know those factors today, the best we can do is draw a number of different scenarios.

Let's simplify this to 2 scenarios. One scenario is yours. Another scenario is of larger unemployment. Since it's hard to set probabilities, let's assume they have equal probabilities.

I think this is a more reliable forecast of the future with robots.

[1]how much better u.s. robots will be then non u.s. robots, the cost of shipping, the importance of starting conditions(for example the Chinese supply chain), how many jobs will each robot create and what kinds of jobs,will there be new kinds of jobs created and how many , etc.
I've seen a native gcc build floating around. Is there a reason an app couldn't just build its own versions of the full libraries?
It would be significantly more interesting if they were 6 _qubit_ bytes.
Well, for this part -

it's better to see confirmation before submitting rather than submit and wait for confirmation doesn't seem to make sense.

Personally I feel less comfortable with an outright rejection ('Username/password is wrong' in bold red) than with a subtle hint that something's not quite right with what I typed. Subconsciously. So I think the addition of a real-time validity hint makes it for a smoother and more pleasurable user experience.
A wakeup call from online security, will you accept the charges?
Yep, it's probably the server creaking under the load indeed.
America, the Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’s Lament
Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation? [PDF]
Anonymous hacks abortion clinic, steals 10,000 records
FTFA: Hameroff, senior author on the study, said "...We MAY have a GLIMPSE of the brain's biomolecular code for memory."

I know Hacker News prefers the original headline, but there has to be an exception for ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, and any other blog that tries to write linkbait summaries of peer-reviewed research articles.

This is the dingding step of the eternally true http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
Once again misleading title. They did some modeling that shows that it might be possible to use CaMK2 to store information on microtubule lattices. That's purely simulations that show possible interactions between two proteins. No experiments were performed and they did not set out to break the brain code. There are no experiments that show information encoding in microtubules. CaMK2 is known to be involved in plasticity (in spine shape modifications via actin dynamics), but microtubules are assumed to be in the dendritic shafts only thus isolated from phosphorylated CaMK2. It would be worth to investigate further though.
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html
Lol, amusing post.. But in all seriousness the iFrame is incredibly useful when developing Comet-based webapps
TSA Out of Our Pants -- FAQ
We do in a way automate classification of mail in certain instances, which allows the user to correct the system in case we get it wrong, but it's important the the UI is intuitive and doesn't seem like a magical black-box full of pretentious AI.
I was just about to comment upon the inclusion of Hameroff in the author list. Penrose and Hameroff are pushing a notion that the brain utilizes quantum coherence to perform computation inside these microtubules, resulting in human consciousness.

There is very little evidence for this conjecture, but Penrose and Hameroff are convinced. Make sure to keep Hameroff's bias in mind when reading this paper...
The Simek book is quite interesting. Of course it wasn't just the sailors. By the 13th century, pretty much everyone knew the world was round as it was a common description in popular literature. Their ideas of antipodes were rather funny and something the church struggled against for some time until the discovery of the New World but an end to the question.... And until Vasco de Gama proved them wrong, they might not have believed you could sail across the equator.... but they knew it was round.

But the Simek work is interesting beyond that. It's largely on the basis of his work and the understanding that Europeans often knew more about Asia than Europe that it's fairly clear what a unicorn was: it's what you get when you describe an Asian rhino using a horse as a reference point. (Pliny's description of a monoceros is also frighteningly like a rhino, although some things are exaggerated.)
I've been looking for the same thing. The problem might be that "cloud" is too overloaded of a term.

I've found some good links on dzone.com but since there isn't a tag for cloud (or infrastructure or...) it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Hello I'm Fred Brach, the maker of townportal.

I would like to talk to you here more about my plan for the gold system.

On TownPortal, the creators don't choose the price of the play/view for his/her creation. People do. People do in the sense that more and more an entertainment get views, more it will cost to a subsequent user to play it. The only thing that a creator can do is stopping the price growth at a certain point - of course.

So what does it give.

First, in the absolute, you can have a play for free as you might had noted, and got to wait around 60 minutes for a next play - ie megaupload.

Also, at the beginning - right after the creators has published his/her creation, the price of a play is around 1c (cent). It is mainly for two things:
1) no way we pay more than 1c for craps and this is the biggest problem in entertainment.
2) we want mass-entertainment, we are in 2012.

If the entertainment is good, it gets views and its price growth - please note again that the creator can choose to stop this growth at the current point - so in a sense he/she is fixing the price of its entertainment, only if it is good enough to do so :) Again, two things:
1) supporting creators and creations at their beginning is cheaper and it's a good thing
2) we all like big productions unless their are craps and with this system, we can have big productions.

And, why paying per play? Because acquiering has not any sense today. Just an example of how nonsense it is: when you get a game, you play it either 3 plays or 3 years...
In addition, acquiering requiere in the end a higher price. So I think the best is to pay according to the rate we truly consume, not more, not less.

Why do the creators can't choose the price and the business model? Because I think entertainment takes a business-free system. Also, I would like a competition based on quality, not on business skills. In the other side, most creators are not able to setup a free-to-play, freemium, subscription-crap, blabla, business model.
Today, creators have to make something free or they have to work on entertainment factories - as I call them.

I want creators to get the most of their money back on townportal. I mean, there is no way a distribution system keep a 30% fees.
I've fixed the fees to 10% for the moment. This is a bit to high I think. Ideally, I would like it at around 5%. The thing is I don't know what could be the charge of such website. I will make my possible to push them down at maximum and why not - in fact, I hope! - reach the 5% (if townportal.net live of course).
So for the moment, you get 450 gold for $5 and, for the moment, you can play to each entry for 1 gold.

If you like this project, it's cool because I like it too. You can email me at: fredbrach@townportal.net (skype:fredbrach)
Nice! Looking forward to the video for this one.
PURE Plagiarism of my personal Website V2
I am more concerned about the inevitable bugs, and failures that anything has. Except now it's brain connected to my brain.
and another one copied my site http://attackemart.in
Listening and Acting: Power Users vs. Mainstream Users
I would say that we had a global collective consciousness even before. Not to say that everything is not working much faster and beter.
Google 'Play's with fire
I haven't seen a flash-block implementation in chrome that hinders execution of flash. Often the flash is able to load before it is blocked which kind of defeats the purpose (from a security standpoint). Or have I missed something?
Jürgen Schmidhuber - When Creative Machines Overtake Man
FWIW, this was an experiment.

I'm not a fan of DF because I'm no Apple fanboy (ZOMG have you seen the iPad3???!!!111), and I'm certainly no fan of the hyperbole and linkbait purveyed by Manjoo.

I often submit interesting technical stuff that never gets a single vote. However, I notice that any Daring Fireball submission will get upvotes on HN. Like you said, this is one linkbaity quote-- and I got four upvotes, enough to put it on the front page briefly. What does that tell you about HN?
8 hours to Build the best HTML5 app
We have not converged.
Green check if the password is valid, rather than this grid that's meaningless anyway... all it does is leak (hopefully) useless information about the first n (8?) bits of the bcrypt function. There's no correlation between how close the password is to the stored password, and how close the bcrypt hashes are to each other. You really only care about one thing... does it match or not? And if it does, you might as well check if it matches the full hash and not the first 8 bits... since you'd only be sending back a binary indicator to the client's browser.

You still end up lagging because of the time it takes to do the hash check, and if I were typing in a password I would hit enter and not wait for either a neat grid or a checkmark. If the password is wrong when the user has voluntarily submitted the form, that's when you break out the red warning, but it shouldn't take any longer to do that than to display a green checkmark. The difference is one requires the user to press enter first, the other doesn't but requires testing every single intermediate stage the password goes through.

Finally, I'm not thrilled with the idea of a page sending incomplete passwords to a server, which may well be compromised, before I press enter. What if someone types the password for another site by accident, but corrects it before pressing enter? I know some sites already do ajaxy stuff with usernames and passwords, but I don't have to be happy about it.
they deserve a serious shitstorm https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tacheyons-12/169212509844277
If you consider a million canine geniuses at a hundredfold speedup, I think the problem becomes clear: they wouldn't even match one human. What you've described is a civilization, effectively, and while a civilization can accomplish much that a single member cannot, they're still not more intelligent.
Why would these hashes need to be in any way related though? Can you explain?
It's a fun question to ask yourself. "If I was born 100 years ago, what would I be doing?"

Hackers have always existed. The difference is now we have the ability to amplify our creativity through technology. The end result is what we've seen over the past 60 years: people rapidly building on other people's ideas, generating accelerating technologies, returns, and wealth along the way.
Weibo is a competitor to Twitter. Twitter was mentioned in the title probably so that readers unfamiliar with Chinese websites could understand the context of this blog.
High RAM utilization is only good when your RAM is topped off with cache and buffer use. It's bad when it's all consumed by program data that forces the OS to swap other running application stuff to disk, especially if you're using several programs at once.
Why hasn't sciencedaily.com or physorg been banned from HN yet? Anybody know?

Incidentally, I've flagged so many physorg submissions that the flag link has been disabled for my account.
I have no clue what this is for, and it looks like it is from 1997.

Sorry. Moving on.
Springround tweak allow your to access your Springboard any where in your iPhone
My guess is that the basic systems (keep the car from going off-road or colliding, letting people takeover, etc) will run on an real-time barebones OS on a embedded system and will have a very simple and well defined interface to a full machine that runs all the crap like the UI, navigation systems and such.

I wouldn't discount having your car stolen remotely, but hijacking with humans inside is unlikely to work, and so is crashing into things.
The most interesting bit for me is the estimate for total capacity, which is ~10^19 bits.

That's about 2^63 bits, 2^60 8-bit bytes, 1 exabyte, or (probably) the sum of all Google data centers, in one brain.
Nope. Lack of money trumps fear.
I'd add micropayments to this list. If someone built a system (and -- the hard part -- it got widespread adoption) to charge a few cents with low friction, it could disrupt advertising.
Are we over OpenTable?
I totally agree. Large, dumb firms in capitalist economies have many of the same bureaucratic inefficiencies and silly management theories. We tell ourselves that they'll suffer for it, but in reality they can become too big to defeat. Comcast and basically the whole US wireless telcom industry are good examples.
Sticky Sessions Load Balancing and High Availability, by Michael Neale,CloudBees
If it's navigating according to a map that's downloaded from a network, upload a faulty map to it. Then it will go whereever you want it to.
> It requires a provider to turn over to the government without a warrant:

It does not require that a provider turn that over to the government without a warrant. It mandates that only the government can have access to it.

Providers still have the liberty of not complying with government requests for assistance, in which case a warrant would be necessary to obtain the information.

We can argue over whether providers will cooperate or not in practice, but it does not require providers to do anything but keep the information.
Which means in a couple decades it will fit on a thumbdrive.
Solving the Private v. Public PaaS Dichotomy:AnyCloud by Sacha Labourey
You deleted your comment below, so let me ask the same question here:

Why would these hashes need to be in any way related though? Can you explain?
We try to make the best decisions we can with the information that we have available, and if those turn out not to be the best decisions in the end, well, we now have more information.

This really resonates well with me. Problem is that realizing what to aim for isn't that easy. A lot of people base this on financial success and the benefit of that is that it is very easy to measure, my problem with it is that financial success is being sought after because of the assumption that money brings happiness.

I admire those that put a lot of effort on problems where success isn't easily measurable. (As always, you need balance)
As is often the case, a Reddit comment is more illuminating than the article:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/qqg5y/scientists_cl...
It's weird to me that this guy is jokes so much about Stuart's Jewish parents. Aren't we past that by now?
What's amusing is that you are trolling.

There is no "password nearness". The entered password is either in the same bucket (identified by an N-bit ID) as the stored password, or it is not. That's it. In former case the hint indicator is black, in latter it's not (though it is animated to a random state).
Having to formulate the query is too primitive ;) When you need to know the result, the brain probably does a memory "lookup" subconsciously (if I see e.g. 3x3, I know the result without having to calculate it), so that could be routed through the digital system and the result returned as if it was a memory. You'd just "know".
There's no benefit to producing a pretty design rather than only a binary indicator.
Indeed. People should rather review and make sure their registration and login forms work seamlessly with password managers, at least the popular ones (lastpass, 1password, etc).

All too often I run into a form that is either not auto-filled or where some javascript magic fails when it's autofilled (e.g. the page claims "password too short" until I fake some keystrokes manually).

Hint: If your login procedure is annoying then I'll come back less often (or not at all) for that reason alone.
If it's any consolation, my flag link vanished a long time ago after I went on a "purge all the self-promotional infidels" jihad last year.

I consider it a badge of honor to have restricted features but still have a working account. They care enough to limit us, but they don't want us completely gone.

I'm torn on the subject of sciencedaily. Without the linkbait-y headline, I doubt this paper would have any attention here. They should turn into a HN-like site with links to articles, then give each link a short (under 100 words) lay person description not just copy/pasted from the article (maybe even with linkbait conclusions). Sometimes you have to bend the truth (i.e. marketing) if you want people to get excited about your work.
FTA: [S]ynaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and hard-wired at a deeper, finer-grained molecular scale.

It suggests nothing of the sort. It just as easily could mean that memories are stored at a shallower, coarser-grained scale. Raindrops are short-lived, yet rivers last thousands of years. Does that mean we can't model hydrodynamics without accounting for quantum mechanics in the H2O molecule?
Hey, and I only have to give the extension access to all of my data on all websites, and the contents of every tab I open in Chrome!

I wish add-on mechanisms for browsers had finer-grained permissions.
True, but I think most average people do not use password managers. As far as I remember, IE, Firefox, and Chrome all ask to save passwords using a toolbar that slides in at the top or bottom of the page. All average users I have seen when that toolbar appears have ignored it. (I don't know how people react to Safari's modal dialog box, though.)

Probably they consider the toolbar "one of those computer things" and avoid it because they're worried they wouldn't understand it. And if they read it, they might be worried about whether they're really understanding the feature correctly and just ignore it in the end to be safe.
When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.
Let’s go Sailing in Hawaii
Best software engineers break to decompress! Did wonders for me.
Any chance of del taking a pattern happening in this or the next release?
Pretty typical medical FUD. Take a very unlikely situation, add a bunch of unsupported hypotheses, then bring it all home with a graphic description of one highly questionable case.

I'm not saying that there haven't been cases where doctors have been overzealous in harvesting organs, but most doctors are much more committed to keeping a patient alive than sending them out for harvest.
5 things to watch for at SXSW
Don't let the italian gov trash this world heritage site
Three Minute Fiction : Round 8
brianr, do you live at Langton?
Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World
Would it be a major hardship to require an EEG test to certify brain death? Seems like the biggest problem would be that not everyone would have the equipment, but surely they would have it in a hospital doing organ transplants? IANAD, though.
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.

Or people blame the blacks for being poor and "underachieving", not understanding that they started off in the US as slaves (much worse than anyone starting off as a poor migrant), and were still under segregation rules and heavy racism until at least the 60's.

Slave parents aren't exactly a guarantee of success. Sharecroppers parent's (the next generation) aren't either. Then, if you play your cards correctly, you end up with country and urban dirt poor parents, and maybe a small percentage of them can get to middle class --while still seen under suspicion by the wealthier and more white middle and upper class.

That a few people can overcome those things and be, say, even the first black President, doesn't mean that statistically everybody can --you don't judge a population by the outliers. The truth is, if they can get to college or get rich, for example, it's a far greatest achievement than the children of a 3rd generation immigrant achieving the same thing.
You're line of reasoning is way off base. You're trying to shoehorn a scarcity-based economy into a post-scarcity society. The idea of "contributing" (the way its currently thought of) will have to go away completely. Private ownership is a social construct. In a post-scarcity world our ideas of private ownership will have to change. Society will simply not allow the owner of Acme robot company to literally own everything (because he has a monopoly on labor). A more communal-based society will necessarily spring up. No one will stand for a monstrously imbalanced society.
Well, in sailing the direction of the wind doesn't 100% decide the course of your boat. That's why you have sails that rotate.