skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video tutorials are very useful for learning emacs, but there is a ton of static in the background. Hard to listen to
Facebook will apply the data from each account to the Turing Test. Start with a database of 67.5 years of e-mail, tweets, photos, voice mail, video mail, geo-location, blogs, purchase history, social networks, all from one person. Then add AI and a remote presence device, and we can all live on.
This company was mentioned in the article as well. I've actually used them for doing a test run of generated content for a specific niche (I prefer developing, not writing) and found that once the article calls for something "meatier" like analysis, comparing events to other trends, or generally just being longer than 200 words, the artificial nature of it is glaringly obvious.

Much like true voice recognition, I doubt quality, automated journalism is even a decade off. Humans get better and better at identifying subtle differences.
This is the opposite of how you should approach the problem in my mind. Why don't you want to use the framework? There must be some reason.
What were you trying to say? Is it that nobody should ever question the government/TV version of any event?
I don't have a picture of general anolog programming, but a concrete example is devising a strategy to hit some balls in a game of pool. Like in a neural net, this can take the form of turning a few knobs until you get the right result.

The reasons it can require less energy includes error tolerance, as mentioned in the article. The foundation of digital computer is error correction, so this trade-off could be the fundamental difference between the two.
This is some great stuff. Even though it's old it doesn't really matter. The same concepts still apply, and the ways to practice that he brings up are invaluable.

As a programmer I often wonder how to improve, or if the things I'm doing actually help. Typically my only measure is encountering a problem in the wild, and being able to recall that one thing I read and typed up a few months back.

To see how other successful programmers approach the problem of personal growth so as not to become stagnant in their fields is useful, especially to someone like me who is just starting their careers. Despite having gone through college pursuing a degree in CS, the learning I did on my own is some of the most valuable and now I have even more ways to keep learning independently!
Note - The article is about probabilistic chips. The use of analog is incredibly misleading. As can be seen in the interesting but nonetheless unrelated discussions on various types of analog computers.

This type of chip which will save a lot of energy and still be correct in the sense exact answers are not needed. Non-deterministic computations invloving sampling for example. This particular chip is better for many types of bayesian and or generative machine learning algorithms. Not the multi-layer perceptrons most posts are referring to.
I am absolutely in love with Intercom.io
When it comes to real estate the 3 most important things are location, location, location. Most city centers do not have options to allow more housing as they are fully built.

The improved materials already reduce the house building costs compared to 10-20 years ago but this mostly applies for rural areas....
Sunk: A story of how US almost went to war with Iran in 2007
Anonymous Affinity Group Leaks One Million Accounts and Records
Off switch did not work for me because I could not switch off staring out of my window or biting my nails.

One day I watched a talk by Tim Ferris and he mentioned the so called flash diet - in order to lose weight you take a picture of every meal you eat which is supposed to make you aware of your decisions that were previously habitual or subconscious and change your behaviour.

I realized this could also work when you are trying to fight procrastination. I created a little anti-procrastination tool based on that idea: http://www.simplyeasy.cz/war-on-procrastination. It's dead simple to use... all I have to do before I start wasting my time is to press the "pause" button. To my own surprise it really works for me. Tim Ferris might be on to something.
>Not hardly. Keep in mind that most people believe in some form of afterlife, so they don't actually think they're going to die at all.

I don't think people believe that "realistically" to that afterlife, including religious people. Else they would not be sad at funerals.

>If the approach to death is the ultimate test of a civilization's sophistication (which, frankly, is just a silly thing to say, even if it does sound Deeply Wise

Actually it's a common theme in philosophy and religion, far for a "silly thing to say".

One might hope for some Kurzweil like magic cure, but for several millennia of civilisation we had to make do without it (and will have to for quite a while). And people that couldn't accept that cycle made society hell. How a civilisation approaches death says the most about their way of life as well (e.g clinging to money, sex and stuff like it's the be all end all instead of creating things).

>then surely it would be the infantile civilization that deals with death by making up a bunch of fairy tales to convince itself that death doesn't really happen after all.

Nothing infantile about it. Those 'fairytales' are the basis of civilisation. They were forms of reasoning about the universe and existence, but their utility was not on their validity in the physics sense, but on the lessons they gave about current life. Put another way, they really were morals, philosophy and law, not physics and cosmology, even if they seemed like the latter. The important part of the Bible was not "god created this or that in x days", but the keeping-a-civilisation-together part (the creationist loonies in the Bible Belt mostly keep the first part of course).

So, if you think the 10 commandments are silly, you should have witnessed the society without them or something analogous. It's easy to pass judgement upon such things with some milleniums of hindsight and the benefit of a modern upbringing.
The essay was posted in 2005 by Steve Yegge.
Why do I have a strong feeling that this is anti-Apple blogspam? If people confuse Apple products with Samsung products, it's because Samsung wants that confusion to exist. Apple's innovations weren't "obvious" until Apple put them into their products. Please consider the criticism iPhone received for not having a keyboard or buttons back in 2007.
>I don't, ever.

Will, give it time. It's not like we have a choice on the matter.
The example given illustrates one of the flaws of almost all todo implementations: "Study for math exam" - you can never check this off the list because it can't be discretely finished.
Apollo 11 complete image library
Getting Started w/ MVVM Light for Windows 8, EventToCommand and Behaviors
This is literally the stupidest shit I have ever read on this website.
How can you claim to say what it's all about for Apple? You are very far out of bounds to claim it's about controlling something. From my perspective it's about making devices that offer a good experience, and from their current earnings I'd say that consumers believe it to be a fair price for that experience.
Quantum physicists disagree. Reality is far more weird than we think.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/11/the-insanely-weird-qu...
>Some people faced with certain death will go to very extreme lengths to prolong their lives by the tiniest amount. Others will accept it.

And I wouldn't want to be with the first guys company. They would screw you or everybody to achieve it.

One would never want to experience war, mass violence or extreme events of course. But ever more so, one would never want to experience war or mass violence near those kind of people.

Remember those taking the place of kids in the lifeboats of Titanic? You think in another, non life and death, social situation, but one that could have great benefit for them, they would be more graceful?
But it's kind of the opposite. The grandparent was wondering about the fundamental nature of the universe, whereas this quote shows that you can approach a problem both digitally and continuously, calling into question whether the distinction is fundamental.
Again, it depends on demand vs supply. Land in the middle of nowhere in Alaska is abundant with little demand, so land there isn't considered scarce. In Manhattan, New York, demand causes increased living space to be created by building upwards. In San Francisco, city restrictions on building heights limit supply (can't stack as high vertically as you can in Manhatten.)
There's more than one "Open Source" license. If I were you I would start by reading the "GNU General Public License" (GPL):

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Read this descriptive page as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

In discussions of this license, it becomes clear that an open source project based on it must be entirely open-source (all source code readily available on demand, and freely usable by others in their own projects), and if another project decides to use some of its code, all that project's code must also become open-source, even code not originally intended to be open-source.

Some object that this places a burden on projects containing code that isn't intended to be (or cannot be) published in the open, so there's another license called the "GNU Lesser General Public License" (LGPL):

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

The LGPL lifts the requirement that all source code be published in a project that uses some open-source licensed code.

Here's a discussion of the difference between the GPL and LGPL licenses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Licen...

(The details of these licenses can't really be accurately compressed as I seem to be doing, but the above is a reasonable summary.)

Debates about these and many other open-source licenses are long and sometimes heated. But these two licenses, and the philosophy behind them, represent a good starting point.
>I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly.

Far from silly it is what has happened to everyone who lived to be even 120 or 90. And the people know enough people to know it.

So they answered based on actual experience and observation instead of wishy washy Kurzeill-like hopes...

Why would one call this silly?

It's like calling someone who thinks that travelling to Africa and back to SF every day tiring "silly", because he doesn't take into account the possibility of tele-portation...
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Nice! Thank you! I had been looking around on reddit but didn't find this forum ;)
My top surprise? It's not uncommon to see people using MySQL with ISAM tables as a serious data store, and then half-implementing ACID properties in the application's GUI layer.

("Why would you want to put data constraints in the database? The data has already been validated by client side javascript, making the database enforce foreign keys too would just slow it down...")
> This may be a dumb question but why is housing so expensive? Or I guess to rephrase that question more correctly why DOES IT HAVE TO BE so expensive??

That's easy to answer -- housing is expensive because in an open market, prices rise in response to demand. More demand, higher price. Less demand, lower price.

> Do you think in the near future with improved robotics, materials, building methods that an average size home might cost $25000 instead of $250000?

Possible but not likely. The cost of a house includes the cost of the land the house sits on, and persistent rumors have it that they're not making any more land.

To see the sense of this, compare the cost of a house, with land, versus a similarly equipped mobile home, with wheels. The mobile home costs less because it has no land to call its own.
Perhaps it's a content-free marketing slogan.
I expect the Internet and social media is going to continue to evolve and blow past what Facebook was able to accomplish faster than anyone thinks. I don't expect Facebook will last as the largest social network for much more than 5 years. And the reason is simple, it only took Facebook that long to go from 1 million to 1 billion users. It's successor will probably be able to do it in half that time. I bet we're only a couple years away from that eventuality.
`open http://google.com` will open a URL with your default browser.
> Why is it that nobody could land on moon after 1972?

Lack of political will to fund it. Funding wars was more important than funding science.

> There are many unanswered questions here.

Sadly, no. We know precisely what happened, and that's the depressing part.
To be clear, that means it's a digital computer.
As someone who's been learning Ruby recently, this looked like a good read, graciously offered to the world for free...

And then the authors implied that Mac users are stupid and that Ubuntu will soon conquer the desktop.

command-q
Series A funding process Step 4: Negotiations and Legal Discussion
I have a small script named `pman'

#!/bin/bash
man -t $@ | ps2pdf - | open -fa Preview

it opens a man page formatted as a PDF in Preview
Perhaps the power for flight does not come from electricity? Otherwise, good question.
> 9/11 was an inside job.

Indeed. The USPS did it with explosive furniture. If you disagree with me, you're NWO COINTELPRO M-O-U-S-E.

http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2008/07/craziest-theory...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=476254
So what about increasing supply by building more?
First, "the author's visceral reaction" is simple journalist ethics. They teach you that at journalist school. Doctored images are bad.

Second, noticed how I haven't mentioned NASA in my reply about doctored images? I gave some examples of the kind of things photo editors avoid. Nowhere I said, explicitly or implicitly, that NASA adding black was like a "USSR-esque person removal".

Also notice how I gave TWO examples? "like pasting some space or removing a person USSR style"? NASA did the first, USSR did the second. Where's the confusion?

I called both "creative image doctoring", but NOWHERE did I implied that what NASA did is equally morally outrageous as the second.
Silly article, but mainly because it just ASSUMES that a 8 year old company will exist (in its present condition) for the next 1/2 Century!
I personally love the idea, But the core problem is that there needs to be a very strong level of differentiation between candidates identifiable. And this seems to be much more complicated with non-visual/de-personalized things such as code. I could see this working much better with design, but still even there things can get very replaceable.

Does anybody know how recruiting works in the upper end of C-level recruiting (i.e. Top500s)? I suspect that contract negotiations here are more similar to the movie industry i.e. - lawyers talking lawyers - after some screening process of the candidates etc.
When I was an EE major I distinctly remember designing an APU and thinking what a convoluted cluster f* the whole thing was -- taking electron flows, pouring then over specific transistor arrangements (transistors are not binary, they are amplifiers) that take time to flow over a transitor set for each binary digit, and design it so it had the right answer at the exact time of the next clock pulse. I wanted to just take two signals and let them superimpose and let nature to the instant addition. Of course the "context" between the analog and electron stram with a clock "digital" just wasn't possible on the process of the day. Or today. Maybe someday in all optical computing. Or something else...
Original release: http://pastebin.com/BuabHTvr
Good point about security confirmations, but it isn't as simple as users versus app publishers. Leading users down the garden path like this helps users who don't care about app privacy, or who already have a default understanding that apps may post on their wall, by letting them get on with playing the game without having to understand a page of stuff they don't care about or already know.
Worth pointing out, thanks! I see how that works.
I asked this same question a few weeks ago on HN. Some interesting points were brought up. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4310710
A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious
It's worth noting that you could replace every instance of the word "programmer" in this article with "banker" or "accountant" or "teacher" or any of a number of non-public-facing professions and the take-home would be the same. The programmer connection here is somewhat of a red herring; this article is much more about what makes Hollywood different than about anything related to programming.
If this is true, then it makes sense that vaccines could trigger the symptoms of autism. Looks like the Internet owes Jenny McCarthy an apology.
> Some say the meters would allow the police or other government agencies to tell when a person was awake and what they were doing in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

A legitimate concern.

> Some studies have also added to the health concerns. A branch of the World Health Organization last year called radio-frequency radiation from cellphones, utility meters and other devices a “possible carcinogen.”

This has been studied and the non-ionizing radiation emitted by a smart meter (or a cell phone) is much, much less than that from other sources. So even though in principle it might increase cancer incidence in an environment devoid of other sources of radiation, in a natural environment it cannot measurably change the rates.

It's important to distinguish between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Nuclear radiation, that created by disintegrating atomic nuclei, is "ionizing" radiation. It can dislodge electrons from atoms and thus produce ions. Electromagnetic energy from radio transmitters, cell phones and smart meters is non-ionizing radiation -- it cannot create ions and on that basis is regarded as much less dangerous.

It's unfortunate that both these kinds of radiation have the same name and are often lumped together in the public's mind, especially in the presence of an overwhelmingly powerful source of non-ionizing radiation that is often completely ignored -- sunlight.
I would suggest against this as Amazon is not the most reliable service on the planet.

Shadyabhi is right, though, that this is not any different from using IMAP and keeping all your email local on your PC, and keeping it on your PC is probably safer.
MAY? They've dumbed it down so it takes a Masters to get any respect these days.
>And what truth is that? There was nothing of any substance added or removed to the image, indeed adding the black only served to make it aesthetically appealing.

The truth that if you make it "a little of this is OK", "a little of that is OK" people will abuse it. No manipulation is clear cut and KISS.

And making an image "aesthetically appealing" can have consequences of viewer manipulation. E.g making pictures of war prettier, or removing some things that don't make the frame pleasing but reveal stuff about the actual situation, etc etc.

Even this manipulation hides facts. E.g the fact that Neil couldn't operate the camera with precision -- so it can be used to show that the walk on the moon was easier or more "piece of cake" than it really was. (Remember that one major use of the moon mission was cold-war era PR for the US).

>here's distortion of the truth, and then there's removing redeye from a picture. Which of these would you say this falls under?

Even removing redeye from a picture would be frowned upon in newsrooms.

E.g What if the picture is of a drug abusing athlete, and the process shows his eyes more normal than they were?
You are looking at it the wrong way. Yes, from the point of view of an individual cell, you are correct. But from the point of view of a whole human, that's not how it works. At 25 pretty much all your cells have died and been replaced many times, and if over evolutionary times we had lived to be 500 years on average, we'd have mechanisms to keep up healthy that long. But we haven't, and so we don't, which is why everything starts going wrong as soon as you get to evolution's blind spot, past the age at which most of us lived and reproduced.

If damage didn't accumulate past thresholds that cause various pathologies, we'd basically stay young adults forever. If we can figure out how to fix that damage before it reaches those levels, that's what is going to happen. It's a lot easier to figure out how to fix those few kinds of damages than to change metabolism so that damage doesn't occur, or to cure diseases after they begin.

> There is a reason we die -- it makes evolutionary sense. If there was an advantage to living longer, we would live longer. If there was an advantage to living a shorter time, we would live a shorter time. Our present lifetimes result from natural selection and evolution.

What is "good enough" for our genes isn't always good for us as people. Most of what can be called "modern progress" is about protecting us from what would happen to us if nature was left to itself. Curing the diseases of aging is just the continuation of that (unless you don't wear glasses, don't live inside a building, don't wear shoes, don't get vaccinated, don't take antibiotics, don't wear any kind of protection, don't brush your teeth, would never have surgery, wouldn't get hearing aids, dentures, etc).
Huh? No, it really doesn't make any sense for vaccines to have anything to do with autism.
Why is it interesting that these people are under 35? Is there any more merit to being an innovator at 33 than, say, at 44?
I think you have the wrong website.
A segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes in Go
It doesn't matter if it "makes sense"; observational studies have shown it to not be the case. Reality disagrees with your intuition.
A kilogram of film is still too much film. And they have too many useless and bad photos taken so it doesn't seem good pictures was their priority.