skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: recently accepted a position at MSFT.

I think I'm starting to "get it", in that Windows 8 (perhaps moreso than Surface) may have a big effect on how we use computers.

After using a Surface for a day or two, I've caught myself a few times trying to tap on my other LCD screens. For some reason, this didn't happen even after using Android tablets, even with docking keyboards.
So I figured it out. Basically, they take the idea of AGI seriously, and actually consider and talk about the repercussions, and therefore you dismiss them and their ideas as fringe and not worth investigating. I know that, because if you had investigated at all, you would see that all of those projects had really interesting results and these people are not being vague and hand-waving.

Not all of those projects I listed identify themselves as AGI. However, they should go in the same group.

And anyway, all of those projects have demonstrated progress. If you looked into them at all then you would see that. Ben Goertzel is using some aspects of his AGI research in mainstream (narrow) AI projects. OpenCog has released a number of solid demonstrations of current features. And Goertzel isn't hand-waving or bullshitting in his numerous books and scientific papers, for example Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference (336 pages).

Hawkins has demonstrated very interesting progress with his software and has a commercial application https://www.numenta.com/grok_info.html

Voss is using his system at Adaptive AI as a commercial enterprise.

Qualcomm is funding Brain Corporation (Izhikevich et al) so obviously they are taking it seriously. A bakery in Tokyo has tested Brain Corporation's machine vision technology to power a semi-automated cashier system

http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0145-r-en.php
With some reasonably cost effective (compared to the cost of a car) installation, electric, fuel cell, and CNG vehicles can have their "fuel" delivered right to your home in a very cost effective manner, allowing you to refuel overnight. This is a distinct advantage over gasoline & diesel that goes a long way to mitigating, and for some people completely obliterating, the disadvantage of slow "refueling" times.
If you want a loophole, look at the part where 'selling' software wasn't on the list of exemptions. I think that could create more than a few problems, though I think the overall idea is a good one.

As for the complaints that this might create more legal absurdities, there are plenty of those already. An imperfect solution is better than none.
Well if they need people, for ARM soc work, Freescale apparently laid off most of the designers of their i.MX chips in Israel
Isn't much of the subsidizing of infrastructure (roads) via fuel taxes? How should EVs be taxed?
If I compared it to a Leaf, it still wouldn't make sense. A Leaf is $35,000 MSRP. The Leaf is built on the same platform as a Nissan Cube ($14,000) and the Nissan Micra ($17,000). I could run the same comparison between the Leaf and the Cube and come up with the same results.

Except, if I did that, it might even be worse. See, I picked the Tesla Model S for a few reasons. One being that it's the subject of the debate here on HN, and second is because the Leaf gets 100 miles in range. The Model S gets 250. The Model S is also capable of being mostly recharged in 30 minutes (for free), and while the Leaf can also be recharged in 30 minutes at one of Nissan's charging points, they are not free. You would end up paying a fuel cost for a Leaf, no matter how marginal.

I was using a Toyota truck as an example, but also noted that the rented minivan in the example cost just as much in gas. Minivans secondhand are also generally cheaper than trucks in my experience. The difference between a Model S and a Porsche is simple in my opinion: if you don't like the Porsche, the BMW is a comparable option. The Ferrari is nice at that price point as well. But you can't swap out the Model S with a comparable option. Like I noted in the first and second paragraph, the cheap competition isn't much cheaper at all, and in all honesty is a much worse value for the money.

If you're buying an electric car, it doesn't make sense to not go with the Model S. And if you can't swing the extra $30,000 for the Model S, just realize that the Leaf is ($35,000 + $100/yr in electricity + $1400/yr to rent a car) $42,500 for 5 years compared to $66,000 for the base Model S compared to $19,000 for the gas-guzzling 4x4. The cheap mainstream competition still doesn't beat a 5,000lb, 14 year old truck with a V6 engine. How many years would it take to break even on that investment? Trading in your old car for a new electric car isn't going to save you money. It just isn't. Especially if you're renting another car as well.
You didn't mention methane. I hear there is lots of that stuff and some places find transportation of it so simple that they have pipes that deliver it right to people's homes... ;-)
They have developed it and don't want it fragmented. Not out of fear of loosing the project, but because they consider rampant forking to be one of the main weaknesses of open source and Linux in particular[1].

Why is it strange to want to avoid dilution and confusion of your product? People can use it, modify it for improved performance, add libraries to it, include graphics and other files as necessary, and even charge money for what they've done with it. Pretty much the only thing you can't do with it is modify it significantly and re-release it as your own personal brand of Shen (whether renamed, or not).

It looks like a lot of work went into it, and they're basically gifting it to the community to use and profit from.

A more open license would be great, sure. But they have a legitimate position here, and they make a reasonable point. It may be myopic in some people's opinion, that's a matter of debate, but I don't see how it can be considered to be absurd.

[1] "Hence the production of derivative non-conforming programs from our source, whether called Shen, Shin, Shine or Shoo, is barred by the license. To give up on this is to give up on the motivation for Shen.

We are therefore not open source. Generally, the diversity and freedom to fork which was lauded as a strength of open source, has turned into the major weakness of Linux. This OS has been burdened by multiple forks, multiple distros, multiple apps for doing the same thing to the point where essentially the same work has been redone over and over again by different groups. The resultant wastage of effort has been huge and the result has been lack of cross platform usability, a lack of uniformity in the user interface, a reliance on complex dependencies and too often, software that reflects the scattering of human resources by displaying broken functionality. Even Linux fans are seeing this. This in turn has given Linux a bad name. We want to avoid all that."
I realised earlier this year that bet-the-company decisions on technology and process are, at this very moment, being made by people for whom the Agile Manifesto was signed when they were in primary school.

People for whom MySQL is relational databases.

And so on.

I mean, numerically speaking, I have only been paying attention for a minority of the history of this industry. But if you read stuff from the 90s, it refers to stuff from the 80s and 70s and so on down the line until you get into deep ur-software engineering.

But then the internet came along and nobody has time for books any more. Even blog posts are tl;dr these days, everyone sort of scrapes together their craft from twitter and HN comments.

It's like someone took decades of accumulated wisdom and hit a giant red button somewhere that overwrote that collective knowledge with random 1s and 0s.

Of course ... similar rants were being written in the 80s ...
A decent software shop is more constrained by headcount than funds to pay them.
The parent post spent a lot of time to try and inform us, including multiple links. To post a dismissive comment in response, with no explanation whatsoever, is well beyond rude.
you sir, are awesome for providing such a thought provoking and detailed explanation .. with references!
Hacking, Gangnam Style
I must say that i always love programming.
Yeah, funnily enough I listed the boat on gumtree as well, but got nothing but scammers! There was about 5 people that contacted me trying to run this scam: http://www.mactalk.com.au/8/80486-paypal-scam-carsguide.html

With the listing on e-bay I got two enquiries, both of which were legit. One of the interested parties ended up buying.
I think the idea is that, if I like what he has to say, I'll just do it. He doesn't have to ask, and doing so _inside_ the post shifts the whole thing from inspirational anecdote, to well-written justification of why you should follow his Twitter.
The article and Apple's filing mention the legal costs of litigation.
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We haven't nailed down a set of criteria, but we're starting with things that we and our friends would want to own. Handmade items tend to have good stories which make them more fun to sell, but probably not everything will be handmade.
The US has been extremely slow to adopt this technology despite, the adoption rates around the world. Visa and MasterCard have set a date of 2015 to push merchants to have their checkout terminals be EMV compliant or face higher fraud liability charges.
Here's a previous post of mine suggesting a way to raise the obviousness bar for software patents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523706
I don't understand how these pages could have been crawled - could someone enlighten?
Apple with 400M credit cards on file introduces De Facto Mobile Wallet
As for all of the second chance auctions being "ignored", I think it's common practice for 99% of ebayers to completely abandon the idea of winning a particular item (and moving on to another) the very second that they notice they have been outbid.

"Oh, well!" is what most of them say.
I don't see anything except results for "bcode"
Has anyone done any performance testing on this yet? Just curious if the new bitmap GC is more efficient with memory and also if 2.0 is faster as it was promised.
It's the visceral reaction to creating a more human-like chimp. A mouse is dissimilar enough that we don't have an innate revulsion to tweaking mouse genes. But for chimps it's another story. Most people are already uncomfortable with the idea that we're closely related to chimps. Tweaking their genes to give them what is a uniquely human feature? No way will the unwashed masses go for that.
The argument is that agda is relatively straightforward for haskellers and similarly, coq for ocaml devs to adopt. This is a good succinct example of former. Coq has lots of tutorials

http://www.cs.uu.nl/education/scripties/pdf.php?SID=INF/SCR-...

There's also typed racket, which i don't know anything, it's been mentioned to me as "theorems for free"

http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
It's seems that Facebook uses robots.txt to block this pages

https://www.facebook.com/robots.txt

But, depending of the amount of inbound links, Google will index the urls anyway.

It's a common issue.
Solving Cross Origin Resource Sharing policies Sinatra and BackboneJS
Smart! You can extract the emails from result URLs :)
param = n_m
Amazon Offers Alternative To Microsoft's Sky Drive With 'Cloud Drive'
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js...
>And for the couple times a year we need to take road trips, we can rent a luxury sedan with the money we've saved on fuel costs.

False.

See another discussion I'm involved in. To give you the gist: I drive a 14 year old gas guzzling truck. Let's say it broke down and I wanted to save money, so I bought an electric car. Here's the breakdown in costs-

Buying another 14 year old gas guzzling Toyota truck: $19,000 over 5 years. ($1400/yr in gas, 32 mile round trip to work, plus a one-time cost of $5000)

Renting a minivan for vacation trips: $110/day plus gas (20mpg).

High-end Model S: $108,680 over 5 years. ($100,000 plus 5 years of renting a minivan for one week)

Base Model S: $66,080 over 5 years. ($57,400 plus 5 years of renting a minivan for one week)

Nissan Leaf: $42,500 over 5 years ($35,000 plus plus electricity costs plus 5 years of minivan rental)

The fact is, if you want to save money, you can do it more efficiently with an ancient gas guzzler than you can buying a new electric car. Yeah you're saving money on fuel costs, but you're spending a lot of money on the car itself. The Leaf is built on the same platform as the Cube and the Micra, yet costs $20,000 more MSRP. Even comparing it to the truck, it would take 14 years to save enough on fuel to pay off that $20,000 you could have saved by buying the Cube or the Micra.

I highly doubt that only 1% of the population needs to drive more than 250 miles at some point once a year. We have salesmen at work where some of them drive that far every day. My mother was a home care nurse who drove that far one day a week. If the car works for you, I'm glad. It's a nice car. But don't fool yourself into trading in your old car for promises of saved money. The numbers just don't work out, even for the average American driver they're targeting.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730973
When I click on a link I see another person's email address in the login box. I assume it's a facebook user's email.

See these two examples :

http://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.face...

http://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.face...
Weird. I clicked on one of the links and it asked me if I was that user, and, if so, that I should click the login button. When I did, it logged me in as that user.

Edit: This happens for multiple users.

Edit2: It looks like if you click on the link, it automatically expires. bCODE is "an identifier that can be sent to a mobile phone/device and used as a ticket/voucher/identification or other type of token." I'm guessing somehow these tokens (the ones that auto log you in) never got used, plus the old ones were saved and contain email info. Not sure how Google could have gotten them though. Probably just got accidentally listed, despite robots.txt.
I wonder if this is the source of the Facebook data leak ("I just bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries") last week?
Google creates a onetime virtual card number that it sends to the merchant and that the merchant can process. The onetime card number never changes for that transaction, so a chargeback and return can always be processed for that order. I'm sure Google plays a part in the chargeback process due to the fact it acquired TxVia in April.

http://support.google.com/wallet/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

In regards to reward points- This article also mentions "Certain transactions may not earn your typical rewards or be eligible for certain benefits. Learn more about rewards. Please contact the seller with any questions about your order."

Most people seem to use their credit cards to pay for things instead of their debit cards to get reward points. This will definitely discourage people.
Again, I say: sources?
What's the Best way to create Javascript Classes?
To be fair, you could put just about any human activity after "so we now need a crud app to..." and hit a successful startup.
Yeah, the Gateway Drug factor here is huge.
The reason why Caller ID can be forged is that the calling device announces its CallerID number.

The easiest way to get into spoofing CallerID is by using a SIP-driven POTS gateway (very common 6 years ago, telecom moves very slowly, so I suspect they are still easy to find today). Some providers will validate the number you want to announce, and prevent you from announcing a number that they don't think you should be using. Others don't care at all. There are a lot of different telecom service providers, so finding one with lax policies isn't hard.

Almost anyone who is actually operating a phone card business has all the equipment needed to do this, for example. Phone cards are incredibly competitive, so if you head over to your local telecom hotel you won't have much trouble finding people willing to take your money in exchange for steady business.

The next time you are in a data center, take some time to talk to the people messing with the funky gear that doesn't look like any firewall or router you've ever seen.
Hong Kong has the fastest broadband in the world at 49.2 Mbps
I don't get what the big deal is. It's the same log but with different letters. It sticks to the same structure as the current one with the same palette.
HN does not use CSS for layout.
Definitely agree! I like that her opinions are her opinions and not some pendulum-swinging doctrine. Bookmarked for future perusal for sure!
i'm not arguing for or against patents on software, mathematics or otherwise. I'm just saying that answering an interview question about how a particular thing might be done is not in violation of any patent laws. Replace "method for traversing linked lists" with "a new technique for cutting wood using a new tool" if you feel so strongly about software patents.
It's not? Have you even tried the app? I've been stitching together 360 degree panoramas with it since 2009ish.
Strange it doesn't work for me. I get a "Page not found".
How did Sherlock survive the fall?
It's really weird.
If you think someone doesn’t fir your team because of their gender there is something seriously wrong with you.
There might be holes in Stallman's plan, but this isn't one of them.

Apple might be able to patent multi touch if they hypothetically invented it, since that's a hardware thing.

But once that touch data makes it to the CPU, what is done with it afterwards would be unpatentable.

Even if Apple themselves somehow did slide to unlock in hardware, competitors could still implement a software version.
For your definition of "decent."
Same thought. It must be really easy if you use an scraper and decode the urls.
You mean FAB, then?
Call it iCommerce: 80% of All M-Commerce Occurs on iOS Devices
"The page you requested was not found"
I think his political thinking and language thinking share a similar problem: preference of ideal theories over practical solutions.
Notable Features:

- Named arguments
- Multiple inheritance (traits)
- Incremental performance improvements over 1.9's VM
- Better compatibility with non-unix environments and small/constrained devices (embeddable)
- Sandboxed VM's (VM per thread)
It's only sexism if it uses sex as a criteria to disadvantage someone who isn't male, in the same way that it's only racism if it uses race as a criteria to disadvantage someone who isn't caucasian.
I think it's interesting that people with a computer science and technical background are often referred to as "engineers" in tech.

It seems like such a general label that can apply to anyone from a chemical engineer to a CS major, it all depends on the context.
Use this Google's query:

inurl:bcode=[]+n_m=[] site:facebook.com
Facebook's privacy settings have a ton of bugs. Here's another one:
1. Make a stupid status update post.
2. It appears in all your friends newsfeed.
3. You realize you said something stupid and private.
4. Panic. Delete post
5. Breathe sigh of relief that it is no longer showing up in your profile.
6. But wait a minute! It still keeps showing up in all your friends newsfeed.
7. Now that you deleted the post, you can't even modify it's visibility settings. Heck you can't even get to the url. But all your friends continue to see the post in their newsfeeds

So the way facebook implements a delete of any activity(status post/like/comment) is that the owner stops seeing it but everyone else keeps seeing it. That is simply the most retarded delete implementation ever!
Show HN: Learning Ruby on Rails by creating an app
No, they can't be trained. Those studies were largely failures and the idea that they can be trained is little more than a myth.
rvm install ruby-2.0.0-preview1
That was my first thought as well when I saw the title of the post. :) (I'm 31 as well as a matter of fact)

Looking back, I feel that I indeed had no idea what I was doing. I still don't but I feel I'm more self-aware of this fact.
You registered 10 hours ago to post this. Really?
I hope they pay well. At least six figures after a year or two.
Planned obselence is unavoidable. Android device manufacturers are notorious, especially that awful Verizon Droid branding.
Show me a link that actually describes how to make it work. I have yet to see one.
What is the meaning of the square brackets in the Google query syntax? I could not find any official documentation.
Interesting observation, though I think you're missing a few points in your analysis:

1. Engine braking + looking ahead to see when I need to lift = I seldom need to replace brakes. And my driving is quite spirited. (I go through brakes far slower than does my wife, who doesn't drive with as much zest, but accelerates towards red lights, etc.)

2. Yeah. It'd be nice to not have to worry about oil changes. But besides that, good modern drivetrains are incredibly reliable.

3. Not if it's engineered well. There are sports cars that can be driven hard for the better part of a decade with nothing but oil, filter, and tire changes. (This is from experience.) Sure, there are plenty of lousy sports cars out there, but the causes of their poor reliability are more rooted in lousy engineering than in their having internal combustion engines.
You should enjoy life, love, learn, teach, travel, and have fun from zero to death. The 20s are no different. I for one had an absolute blast in my 20s, did well financially, and didn't take myself "seriously." Different strokes for different folks. People should just plain think for themselves and NOT take themselves too seriously, IMHO :)
Looks fixed.
how? I am unable to replicate this bug
You've just reinforced the OP's post by this. That torrent was posted OVER a year ago, has ZERO replies, and only 14 seeds?

Really, if this stuff actually was worth any amount of money, it would be much more prolific than that.
Chomsky's expertise is in linguistics and political analysis. Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct is a good, readable introduction to some of Chomsky's work (and the wider field to which he is pivotal.) Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent is probably his classic work of political analysis.

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

He's no quack.
> One way to think about this is that electric vehicles (EVs) are at the iPhone 1 stage, with the Tesla S being the first to demonstrate to a lot of people that it can all be put together in a compelling, yet expensive and not quite perfect package.

I think it is more accurate to compare electric vehicles to the Motorola DynaTAC phones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC). They are expensive, and are extremely limited in their functionality. They are only viable for people who can throw massive amounts of money at them and have limited demands.

Like the cell phone, electric vehicles may continue to develop to the point where they can adequately replace a landline. In cell phone terms, that would be the early Nokia candybar phones.

[The iPhone is a fairly poor phone, but a great mobile internet device. If you gave me an iPhone instead of a Nokia candybar phone a decade ago, I wouldn't have cancelled my landline. Now that people use email and instant messaging for most communication, a poor quality phone isn't such a big deal.]
quantify "better"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky_bibliography

Chomsky's a pretty substantial walker.
Google ignores robots.txt if the number of inbound links is > N?

Also - any speculation as to how so many sites were lining to peoples login pages?