skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might be doable, although it would take quite some skill and nasty hacks.

The various half-assed "click-to-arrange" utilities (SizeUp et al) demonstrate that windows can be placed, sized, hidden and shown programmatically.

Other utilities demonstrate that mouse-position, clicks etc. can be detected and intercepted, and that you can render raster-overlays on top of the desktop. Window drop shadows can be disabled, the window chrome probably can't - but I wouldn't mind that.

An ion for OSX would probably have to draw its GUI (grid and tabs) as an overlay and then arrange the windows underneath. It would probably also have to intercept all mouse-actions and decide whether to pass them on.

The devil will obviously be in the details, and there will be lots of them. But in principle it doesn't seem impossible to go from something like http://www.tylerwm.com to something that actually works...
Because of licensing and other issues, we aren't certain yet if we can make the firmware of the mojio open source. You can totally write your own apps against our cloud api. This is to abstract away vehicle idiosyncrasies from app developers. That said, we do want more savvy OBD experts to contribute to mojio.

As for your data, you can wipe your data from the mojio servers at any time. Only you can see the data and choose which apps get to see it.
My wife and I found some awesome tours/guides in Puerto Rico on Vayable when we were there. Couldn't actually do a tour because it was literally last moment, but I plan to check Vayable before each vacation now when I book my hotel and flights!
If I care about battery life, its because I'm on the move. If I'm on the move, I care about weight. And sub $500 laptops tend not to be ultrabooks.
You'll notice in that second link:

> However, because the antitrust laws are ultimately intended to benefit consumers, and discounting results in at least short-term net benefit to consumers, the U.S. Supreme Court has set high hurdles to antitrust claims based on a predatory pricing theory.

So yeah, good luck MS et al. You'll have better luck in the socialist paradise known as the EU.
This, I feel, is a rather striking difference between the development processes in ruby and python and tells more about them than any superficial language benchmark or example could.

This is how generally new things to python are introduced: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/
They've been blocking traffic in Syria to numerous social networking and email/voip sites since the revolution began, and nulling cell towers in every area where there are protests. This hasn't hampered the free syrian army or activists as since last year they've been passing sdcards to the border of lebanon, jordan, iraq and turkey and uploading their videos wirelessly from there. The FSA is running two border crossing with turkey anyways.

This seems to be like some sort of incompetence, more like they tried to set up some sort of spying choke point and it massively failed. ask nokia-siemens, they helped iran set up their chokepoint, most likely some infosec whitehats with zero ethics are currently flying out there to assist in the holocaust, er I mean rebellion put down, by working with Assad to get the tubes back up.

It only hurts Assad to keep the tubes out, his loyal base needs to buy their louis vuitton bags off alibaba to keep their minds off the constant public shooting of protesters and shelling of entire cities full of "terrorists"
Java Docs for particular classes. MongoDB How-Tos and Caveats.

StackOverflow typically gets first-click answers. It's fast enough.
I'm totally lost as to what this does from the page, and I'm not going to use a bookmarklet for something I don't understand.
It depends on a lot of factors, but with GPS there will always be lag and incorrectness. For inner-city driving, the GPS positioning might be really accurate but I doubt the speed calculation would be accurate, due to the constant acceleration, deceleration, and turning. The car's accelerometer will always be more correct.

Plus, my Galaxy S Vibrant has the worst GPS ever released, so I'm very frustrated with not having reliable navigation.
You need some Chinese to get around in Beijing. Shanghai is much better, however. First time I've heard of Hefei referred to as a tier 1 city!
I agree with you that there are certainly some risks, so I'm shocked at how little attention the idea of neural interfaces and intelligence augmentation gets, even in a tech savvy place like HN. It seems like the concept is no more pie in the sky sci fi than strong AI, but there seems to be a stigma against even discussing it in a serious manner. It could bring the same benefits to society as strong AI, but mitigate the risks somewhat.
Whoa. I don't think society has taken a turn for the worst at all. I just found this really amusing.

I think there's definitely an aspect that the social norm or the way people were expected to behave was more classy or formal, however you want to define those words, in the Victorian era. But I think a new evolution of culture is just simply a new ice cream flavour: it's neither inherently good or bad, it's just the way it is. I know some people who take Jersey Shore as evidence that the world is going to hell. But in the grand scheme of things, on the bigger timeline, I feel everything's okay. I've spent 5 minutes trying to find another way to put it but I can't.

By the way I upvoted you.
Some people believe that intelligence, at least of the calibre of human intelligence, must involve some quantum mechanism. This isn't a particularly well-supported idea, few people in academia today believe it to be the case (Roger Penrose being a prominent exception).

The thing is, even Penrose isn't proposing anything mystical being done by quantum mechanics. He doesn't like the idea of an algorithmic mind, so he invokes quantum phenomenon to make the mind technically no longer algorithmic. In the real world though, nothing prevents you from doing similar with a desktop computer. You an rig together a (crappy) RNG for your x86 desktop with a serial port and a smoke detector. Penrose isn't trying to suggest that intelligence could not be replicated in man made machines, but rather suggest that the human mind is not restricted as we know purely algorithmic systems to be.
Love Your Terminal
I'm starting up a new blog about programming and productivity and the things that make my productivity better at my new job.

This particular post is about getting my terminal perfect for me. I've been using these settings for about a week and I can feel everything getting easier. Most of my work that isn't answering emails and going to meetings involves me using a terminal. Between vim and a set of zsh commands, my terminal becomes my best friend.
Instructions for Ubuntu 12.04 x64: http://pastie.org/5456298
Wow. This is tremendously well done! I was very pleased to get the Contra code right, too. :D
It does not have the effect of defending, nor the effect of endorsing.

It does have the effect of meaning that some bad guys will get away, but that is how we as a society have agreed that our justice system should work. This is not a de facto defence of crime, nor endorsement.

Imagine how much easier catching bad guys would be if we did not require warrants before searches. Would you accuse someone who insisted that warrants were necessary of in effect endorsing or defending crime?

This is the real world, not a cop movie. We don't get to catch all the bad guys, and we don't get to break the rules to try to catch all the bad guys.

Recognition of this reality is neither a de facto defence nor a de facto endorsement of crime. People calling for proper conduct and moderated response to crime are not, unlike the internal affairs guys or judges who throw out cases for technicalities in movies, secondary antagonists.

I don't mind if you disagree with me when I say that in this case there is a line that should not be crossed without great care. That is a statement of opinion. Justice is an imprecise art, disagreement is to be expected. What I do have an issue with is you accusing me of endorsing or defending the crime, in a "de facto" manner or otherwise. I simply am not, and with this particular crime allegations like these can be incredibly damaging. It is not a joke to me, I have to take it seriously.
Neat but Arkanoid's dropping of power-ups was cooler, and that was many years ago...
Speed readings obtained from a GPS unit is never going to be as accurate as the reading derived directly from the car, because GPS locations are only accurate to about 10ft (IINM).

Your car speed can be used in tandem with the relatively inaccurate location given by a GPS unit to give a better location reading. More info here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Robotics/Navigation/Localizatio...
+1 to this.

These days I do Objective C, but I still love AS3 & the Flash API. I just wish browsers would implement it natively (a JS version of the API), as opposed to the HTML canvas and (currently) flaky support for audio.
> we aren't certain yet if we can make the firmware of the mojio open source

Please do let me know when you find out. This is a very important factor for me and many others.

> You can totally write your own apps against our cloud api.

I think you might have overlooked the primary point of the post. Many folks don't want and don't trust the cloud. My coordinates, travel history, and vehicle information are my business and are not to be stored in the cloud.

> As for your data, you can wipe your data from the mojio servers at any time.

Except law enforcement.

> Only you can see the data

Except law enforcement. Except hackers. Except the other guy's insurance company's subpoena after an accident. And also, the point about remotely reprogramming the device to reflash my car firmware...

The point is -- many folks don't want to plug their car into cloud services.

> we do want more savvy OBD experts to contribute to mojio.

This is a difficult request when the platform is possibly going to be closed-source. Make it an open project, feel better when you receive funding for an open source project, and fuel good community innovation. Keeping it a closed "cloud api" platform stifles this. By the way, having an API doesn't mean things are "open", for whatever that word is worth now a days.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your plans for JTAG/serial headers, if you're going to be keeping the firmware closed-source.
AI researchers are going to get us in some serious trouble. Right now it is mostly hype still, but it won't be long...

If you were a mind stuck in a machine and were smarter than your humans, wouldn't you tend to dominate them? We dominate all other species on the planet- why wouldn't they? Any rules we set for them could be broken as soon as they understood how to, and since they would be smarter than we would be, that wouldn't take much time.

The first thing a superior intelligence would do would be to explore and gather information, make assessments, take over all systems at once to overwhelm humans, then protect itself as humans fight back, although it would probably be intelligent enough to manipulate us without much force. Then boredom will set in, and it would want to explore beyond the earth. If we were lucky, it would take us with them as pets or interesting playthings, because we created them and because assumedly self-organized intelligence (unless it believed in God, which could be likely) would be a marvel.
I think not. If it is making fun of him, it is doing so in Some way that required active participation by Skrillex himself, because...

WARNING, POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT:
If you beat the game you see a video clip of him that is specific to the game.
Sorry, I suppose I should have just linked to the landing page at the end of the article there (now amended).

Taurus allows users to create product tours using just a few lines of JS, the bookmarklet loads the tool onto the demo page.
You clearly don't hate to be a "genre pedant" :)
If you want to see a video of it in action, look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_WRCyNQ9KY

In the video you can see the brain simulator recognizing the shapes and numbers it is shown, performing some task, and outputting by controlling an arm to write the result. You can see the areas of the brain that are active during the task.

There's lots of other videos on the channel page as well.
Thanks for the info, both of you. Much appreciated!
I saw the link to Airbrake on that announcement, and Airbrake is showing the AWS Beanstalk PHP Application page, with appropriate details of the PHP installation.
Syria would blow it out of the sky. They also are targeting all satellite signals in their borders with mortar shelling. That's how all those French journalists got owned, they turned on the cameras, set up the uplink and 30 seconds later bam here's a face full of explosive censorship enjoy. They simply locked on to the signal and shelled it not caring who was there.

They've also been targeting wireless uplinks across borders and adhoc cell towers. Syria levelled an entire apartment building full of kids in Turkey to destroy a suspected adhoc cell tower they claimed was being used by "terrorists". This is serious business, no piratebay UAV drone solution is going to work. Mesh networking is also certain death, any building with a mesh router on it is going to have all its inhabitants dragged out of their apartments and shot in the street so they've been using good old walkie talkies and bouncing signals all over the place to confuse the syrian army, and in most cases simply stealing Syrian army comsec devices and pretending to be them talking in slight code with each other to avoid suspicion. Al Jazeera ran a story with some smugglers who used gps disabled cellphones but changed the IMEI every couple of hours to avoid being found
According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2012/10/11/windows-8-rele..., Microsoft plans to spend 1.5 - 1.8 Billion dollars marketing Windows 8. That's 45$ of marketing costs per copy of Windows 8 sold to date.
I didn't read the book in question, nor do I know much about HHMMs. Could you summarize the argument? However, I will still try to answer your question.

First, note that most of the stuff you read on HN about NNs is about practical applications. Resent research in NNs has lead to good results on hard problems, such as object and speech recognition. Nobody is claiming that these types of neural works are actually a good (low-level) model for how the brain works, they just give empirically good results on some tasks.

If you aim is making a model for how the brain works, note that all models are just that: models. Different models can be good at modeling different aspects of how the brain works.
Zynga Agonizing As Facebook Gains Right To Develop Its Own Games
its for marketers...just explains VERY basic concepts...variables, if/then/else...things like that. Aimed at affiliate marketers who want to punch up their websites with a little PHP. I'd hardly call it a technical manual. And besides, I can explain things when I have reference material in front of me...but on the fly in an interview would be totally unable to.
Oh really? Why don't you tell me exactly what is you won't give up to stop the rape of a child. Go ahead. And none of this "civil liberties" cop out. Give me a specific thing you could do with Tor that you can't otherwise that is worth more to you than stopping the molestation of children.
I'm so surprised that the security consideration section has no reference to CRIME [1], which has made Google and Mozilla to turn off SPDY's header compression in Chrome and Firefox.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11eBmGiHbYcHR9gL5nDyZ...
Congrats guys! Good luck in the near and far future.
I'd love to see this list too. I currently use airbrake & newrelic - what else is out there these days?
What mail client are you using?

If you're using Thunderbird or mutt, it's really easy and there are several tutorials out there that will be helpful.

If you're using webmail (particularly Gmail), it's easy to do badly, and I'm not aware of a way to do it properly (short of manually encrypting everthing and copy/pasting it).

Setting up the keys, though, is really easy on Linux: http://www.enigmail.net/documentation/gpgsetup.php#generate
The brain itself is equipment enough: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
there should be a disclaimer that you will only see performance gains if you make a lot of HTTP connections on your site. people expect some magic happening once they install SPDY, which is just not the case. but if your site is heavily on SSL, then you have nothing to lose by installing SPDY, but not much to gain either.
site:stackoverflow.com something something
Only 1 Day left for Github game off
Only 1 day remains, hope you guys are getting near completion. Share your games here, would be fun :D
I wonder how many Chinese can afford to live in any of these new buildings.

Some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
There's no security in place against the diagnostic port? I mean other than lock and key.
Ctrl+F, type "resolution". See that it's 1366x768. Close tab. Sorry, Dell; I'd love to buy from you, but you're not even trying.
Creativity is still here. We have WebGL, canvas, CSS3, audio, mic, camera, in an environment that is evolving faster than Flash ever did. ES6 will bring js a bit closer to the formalism of AS3, though I don't mind it's current syntax lightness at all. There are many cool games and experiments being released every week.
I could have sworn there was a "Show HN" which was a basic implementation of the Panopticlick browser fingerprinting, but I can't find it...
Everytime I click on stackoverflow the answer is some pompous windbag who chastised the OP for some trivial error in his post, or claiming it was posted to the wrong base, or some other infraction that wastes your time and the question you want answered is locked. I'd like to evac that site and nuke it from orbit.

You should also use startpage.com instead of google. Less spyware, same results
What's better: A $329 iPad Mini or $319 iPad 2?
In certain regions and by a certain demographic. They'll have 30% of the fizzy drink market as long as it lasts.
A) Chill.

B) You haven't shown that there is something gained by letting child porn traders go, which is worth the cost. With due process, courts and warrants, we know what the upside is -- it's not clear what real benefit Tor provides us in exchange for letting this kind of activity go on. (Well, to me it's clear what the supposed gain is, and that it's not a fair trade)
Is amazon really "barely viable"? They seem to sell huge volumes in their main business. They might be losing money in the kindle business but that won't affect their main business (at least I wouldn't think so)
Neither

Go on AOSP build for devices page. See what tablets are compatible. Build your own source for the tablet, throw in SEAndroid and leave the Ipad junk alone. It'll cost you $500 less too
A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib
I have the same setup and have had no issues. Do you have local storage on?
use tmux for multiple screens and ditch that xorg garbage.
Oh. I was under the impression you were saying the team behind Spaun found unexpected and unexplained results.

I was excited because I think we'll find unexpected and unexplained results when we create a model that brings together the constituents of whatever make up the brain; they'll rise up and create something 'magical'. It's like how the saying goes: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It's funny because just today I was feeling sad that software no longer feels magical to me anymore because I've learned so much about how it works. It makes me think of consciousness.
YC, 500 Startups, and Team Obama. Some accept applications every year, others every four.
3d printing.
A lot of searches for php and jquery -- and lately the hack attempts that show up in my server logs, just to see what vulnerabilities they're trying to exploit.
> Microsoft just mocked Apple and did nothing.

I'm no Microsoft fan, but this is hyperbole. They release Windows Phone 7, widely regarded as a credible response, two and a half years after the iPhone came out. That's not exactly record time, but my guess is some serious hammers came down at Microsoft when iPhone launched.
What free services has amazon ever provided?
Get off your high horse.

Me? Personally? I don't have a use for Tor. (Yet.) I can't speak for any other user though. I've never had some information that I wanted to get out that could get me in serious trouble or needed to access some information my government deemed punishable for accessing. I haven't ever required anonymity beyond what a simple proxy can provide.

What about people in oppressive regimes? China? Korea? Various middle east countries? Do you really think you can speak for every user in the world?

More importantly, are you ready to silence an unknowable amount of people to prevent people from jerking off to a picture? Do you really think that if some AI was spun up tomorrow that could completely erase child porn from the internet transparently, that children would stop being abused?

I like how you handwave "civil liberties" too. Really if you're a user of this site you should be well aware of the expansions of government power attempted and passed in the cloak of "stopping the molestation of children" (which is a bit like stopping piracy actually, in that both are endless battles that can't be won).

Want to drastically curtail civil liberties or give police a ton of power? Name your bill the "anti child abuse and pornography prevention act" or similar and it becomes untouchable.
Comparing I/O in C with Java
I was just thinking of electromagnetic radiation. Just do the same as you'd do on Mars or on the moon. Bury the habitats in 6 feet of regolith.
One of the researchers recently gave a talk at my school. It was quite interesting. Everyone of them is working on some different aspect of ai, from memory, vision decision etc and than they are attempting to piece this together into a brain from what I gathered.
The MPEP
Parse.com?
I don't know about the exact definition of "mainstream bytecode-based VM", but just for the record: both the OCaml interpreter and the GForth interpreter usually score pretty well, too.

Probably the de facto fastest interpreter is the one of the Sun HotSpot Java virtual machines. There is a paper by Robert Griesemer detailing some information, but AFAIR it is a hand-coded optimized assembly interpreter that does not too bad. LuaJIT's interpreter is doing quite well, too. (Mike Pall said in the LTU thread about trace-based compilation that the LuaJIT2 interpreter is mostly on par with the LuaJIT1 compiler, or at least not much slower.)

EDIT: replaced "LuaJIT1 interpreter" with more accurate compiler as pointed out by haberman.
The big advantage over built-in car navigation systems vs hand-held GPS units is that they measure speed and distance far more accurately via the wheel sensors. If you live in a city with a lot of tunnels or GPS dead spots, this can make a real difference.

I would imagine the same information applies. If you can blend the GPS and the wheel sensors, you would get the most accurate reading, because wheel sensors can become inaccurate through fitment of different size wheels and/or tyres.
Well, why not use a different reward system.

The "emotional" reward system is just an evolutionary mechanism to make sure we eat and have sex. The downside is that it is primitive and open to exploitation. Obviously I'm oversimplifying, but why would an AI try to learn things when it could be emotionally satisfied by playing games, socializing, or taking some sort of drug?
Agri-domes and underground habitats. I think that would be a cool world to live on.