skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey pdog this isn't really in response to you - it's more something that's been bothering me for awhile - but who the hell appointed Gary Marcus the arbiter of all things AI?

The New Yorker apparently hired this guy to be an AI columnist, and he has no background in either neuroscience or computer science, only psychology.

If you read his articles, he veers wildly from "strong AI ain't gonna happen" to "AI could destroy us all", the only common thread being pessimism. Meanwhile, he displays a frightening lack of understanding of the subject matter, and perhaps most disturbingly, in some of his more alarmist articles advocates that computer scientists should step aside and make room for psychologists, philosophers, lawyers, and politicians to sort out these thorny issues at the big boy table.

Kurzweil is certainly fair game for legitimate criticism, but Marcus calling Kurzweil a joke is an even big joke in itself.
I think some people mix "quantum" and "magic" definitions in their minds. Even mtgx kinda alluded to such above with would all be better served by a quantum computer than by anything else.

Everything will -- somehow -- be better. Just add quantum. (protip: go read scott aaronson's relevant articles, papers, monographs, course materials, etc).

I don't claim the effects aren't present. I do claim they are unnecessary for the emergence of human level consciousness and the reproduction thereof in silicon.
Amazon used to have DRM-free mp3 advertisements.
>I think it's closer to raiding someone who had their wifi unprotected and someone jumped on and did something illegal.

That's what I'm saying. In what world is that a reasonable thing for the police to do? A raid is a thing they should do last, after they already know who they're dealing with and are just sewing up an already strong case against them, not the first thing to do with a suspicious IP address.

>In the case of an ISP they don't have to raid them, they just show up with a subpoena and the ISP coughs up the info.

They could do the same thing to the operator of the exit node and it would get them the same result as the raid (which is to say really nothing useful) without the harassment, at least in the case that the operator wasn't the perpetrator. Which is the same case for the ISP. Nothing stops criminal ISP employees from responding to a subpoena by destroying the evidence and then fingering some ISP customer known to have open WiFi.

>I think that is precisely what they want to do.

Then they ought to stop pussyfooting around and actually come right out and propose legislation to that effect. And if it subsequently gets (or already has been) defeated in the legislature or struck down by the courts then they ought to stop pretending it wasn't.
I think there is too much pressure because of the version number. If it were 1.10 the eyes wouldn't be on it as much and they could be more incremental without anyone complaining.
Most app developers can only monetize 10-15% of their users via "common methods". Selling your app allows you to monetize 100% of that user base. Not such a bad deal.
Isn't this basically Google Glass in a different form factor? I guess the advantage of a band is that it doesn't encumber one's appearance, while the disadvantage is that you require some sort of external display device to read your output.

(the inter-device connectivity/authentication seems like something that would happen naturally via bluetooth to Google Glass)
Is it necessary to speak the language to get by for a couple weeks?
mojio monitors your vehicle battery level and ignition state. It will go into a deep sleep state with only critical functions on (e.g. theft monitoring) if the vehicle is not doing much. If the car battery hits some critical level, it will send you an alert and shut itself off.
>> We encrypt data with 256-bit SSL in transit and AES-256 encryption before it hits disk.

> For us crypto-ignoramuses, what's wrong with what you quoted?

First off, it is very easy to get cryptography wrong. I wouldn't trust most people with being able to implement cryptography software correctly.

Buzzwords like AES and SSL are used to convey a sense of security. Their 256-bit SSL uses AES-256 to encrypt data in transit. While using AES-256 to encrypt a file doesn't mean it is secure. The mode of operation is very important. The following wikipedia page has a picture that was probably encrypted with something like AES-256. I will let you guess what the original picture was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher#Modes_of_operation

Another issue not discussed is key management. To encrypt the files with AES-256 they need to have the key. If someone breaks into their server, the server will have the key and the files. It becomes easy to break the security.
I hope this site brings a little boost back to the Flash world, especially with Stage3D and all of it's possibilities.

Actionscript 3 was such an enjoyable language to code in, though I haven't been able to use it professionally in over a year due to demand; the extent of my 'interactive' work has been hacky, ill-performing CSS3 transforms, and WOW are they limited.

It's been all JavaScript, all the time, and I do love the community but then again I really (really) miss the rich immersive creativity that used to be so inspiring on the web.
We don't currently offer the Mcor iris line at Shapeways. It actually just launched so I'm not sure if anyone does yet.

Our CEO was just at Euromold so he may have some insight as to whether or not we should look into the paper-based tech.
Definitely true. I just mean to mean to illustrate that on FB the very definition of private changes. One day something is explicitly private, the other FB decides its unreasonable.

I'm not even blaming Facebook per se. This is a whole new territory and they've been anything but timid with their approach to doing what they think is right. That boldness is probably necessary. But, with that in mind users have to recognize exactly what that means to them.
Hello there, I'm from Mexico, i was part of the 2nd generation of Startup Chile .. I remember Daniel Ponce from Bolivia.

He was on a startup called "amerpages", I think he is now part of "CityHeroes".

Un saludo desde Mexico :).
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Return of The 40 Year Old Videogame: Pong World for iOS
Why would you "launch" a website and literally have nothing on the page that explains what it is?
He didn't just proxy through a random "third-party," he sent everything via Contendo. If anything that sped the whole thing up unfairly. Contendo had (before Akamai killed them) a killer DSA product that basically sucked a webpage in via the closest Contendo datacenter then transported it over their optimized and compressed backbone to the Contendo datacenter closest to the user.

SPDY hits you a bit harder in setup costs to be able to sling lots of requests back and forth faster. This is great for someone like Google who serves 100% of the on page content themselves. Anyone with advertising, third party content, or using a CDN for delivery might want to do some extensive real world testing before bothering to implement.
How do you encrypt data stored on your severs?

Also, the gli.ph https certificate will expire in less than two weeks. You may want to renew.
I don't know enough about markets to find the answer to this. Does Syris have a "stock market" or some form of electronic exchange? I would imagine if they have money they do.

Did those routes stay up? If not, what are the repercussions of that going to be come open time? Or any foreign trade, anything that relies on network time, etc. the list is pretty large for services that need Internet at least infrequently in order to keep basic services up.

I can't imagine how many deaths there would be in the USA if this happened. All those televisions stop working, that's gotta be a few million heart attacks right there.
Sounds like a pre-Mass Effect scenario. Also, Jesus, you've been on this website for a long time.
Wow, picture 9 looks straight out of an Orwell story.
It really depends where you go. If you're in the big cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, etc.), you'll be fine without Chinese. If you go into more rural areas, Chinese would certainly help, but you'll certainly still be able to buy food, live in hotels, and ask for directions (look for the younger crowd; they've had mandatory English classes).
This guy is the chief architect at Akamai and probably knows a thing or two more about HTTP in general than most HN regulars. But please feel free to improve upon his work by proposing a better methodology and your results.
First off, OP mentioned he got it for free in a conference raffle: Dell already achieved their free publicity/sponsorship/whatever by announcing this laptop in the beginning of the conference, and by the time the raffle winner was announced, it is already out of Dell's hands, and between OP and organisers. At this point, had he mentioned that he is probably not going to be using it at all because of his strong Mac preference, another ticket would have been drawn and hey presto.....

>>> The point of these beta tests is to get feedback from people

Exactly. And that's my main point. In all this time, feedback was not at all achieved (edit: contrast with, say @chimeracoder's review above), because by his own account, he barely used the laptop, ergo, no feedback to Dell or anyone else in the matter.....

Which is why I mentioned in the original comment "someone else could have used it happily all along...." (note the ellipsis, where the ending is left unsaid, as in, it c(w)ould have resulted in feedback, in the very least)
Obviously every song is in some way building on other previous works, but there are degrees of originality and contribution above and beyond the building blocks that a song draws from. Some songs seem to be just "beautiful component" + "harmonious other beautiful component" = "pleasant synthesis resulting in more beauty", while others seem to be "beautiful component" + "rotting vegetables" = "pretty rotting vegetables"...
I don't believe that's accurate (at least, as I would interpret "concrete harm to customers"). It may be enough in the US for the predator to intend to reduce competition and to have a reasonable chance of success (and of maintaining higher prices one competition is reduced)[1][2].

[1] - http://www-student.unl.edu/cis/econ321b03/online_course/unit...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
"Productivity Software" page in the customization dialog. A large banner displays "MS Office - Get tools to express ideas and solve problems with full functionality". However (obviously) there is no possibility to actually select MS Office! Just odd/bemusing oversight.
The tragedy is that even if you are right to say "it's all physical things" that does not mean you can "quite easily introspect by poking around". It's quite possible that some important functional brain processes could be just too complex and subtle for us to figure out, even though they are accessible in principle. That would be sad.

It's also possible that consciousness is better understood as a computational process which is implemented on a VM instantiated by a brain. In that case looking too hard at the squishy stuff is not directly relevant and may be distracting, since it's a very complex way to implement a computer. This is logically possible and is of historic significance in AI.

My view is that the everyday concept of consciousness is mistaken, and that no such thing will be found. Our common sense view of perception and cognition has been found over and over to be completely wrong, so we shouldn't expect consciousness to turn up anywhere just because it feels like it ought too.

Functional approaches to brain modelling neatly avoid this issue by just building away and not worrying about it.

TLDR: physical doesn't mean explicable, and consciousness won't be explained by a physical process since it doesn't exist.
Obama’s tech team talks loves, hates and neck hair
Just tried this out. Very simple and friendly sign up and setup. Looks great so far and seems to serve its purpose well. I will mention though that it felt odd having a link in the main navigation (Malware Scan) take me to a different website. Having not been familiar with Sucuri to begin with, I wasn't sure if it was an advertisement and how it related to UpMonkey. Thanks very much!
Will we be able to modify the software running on the device? I sure as hell don't want information about my car's problems or GPS whereabouts, not to mention a detailed record of when I'm speeding, to be uploaded to "the cloud".

And of course -- the increasingly likely case that "the cloud" gets owned, the hardware devices get some kind of pushed software update, which then proceeds to use manufacturer specific commands to upload new firmware into my car and drive me off the road.

Blah blah. There're good reasons to be reluctant about hooking your car up to the internet and sending your data over yonder.

It looks like potentially nice hardware. Now let me do the software myself.

While you're at it, it'd be nice to just make the software open-source, so that tinkerers can tinker.

Lest I have to JTAG the shit out of the flash chip. Which reminds me to ask -- can you at the very least keep some JTAG or serial headers on there? Please?
Small laptops are really valuable. You can take them on a plane in a carry-on bag and have more room in your bag. It doesn't hurt your back to carry them for a few blocks. You can even carry other things.

If you don't move your laptop, you should get a desktop.
Microsoft Security Essentials loses AV-TEST certification
Not even one mention of Skynet?
Facebook lives in a SOA. PHP is probably the best choice for dispatching services written in more "advanced" language. The beauty of SOA is that you can use the right tool for the right job.
I'm not sure it's right to say that psychopaths are without emotion. I'd call self-interest and self-preservation emotional impulses. People naturally assume that AIs will exhibit those, but that assumption is driven by our experience with existing intelligences, which have all been shaped by natural selection.
How we allowed users to customize the look & feel of our app with only 4 options
Ask HN: What are you Always Googling?
What kinds of things are you always googling that you wish there was a faster way to find? For example PHP functions, car specs, etc.

Your answers are valuable to me, and the more the better. Thanks!
Worth noting since we're all supposed to be hackers, the connector hasn't changed over the years since '96 OBD II in the US, but there are several protocols and many vendor-specific subsets of interaction. Early "code readers" may not work on later cars despite having the same plug because the underlying protocol is different. It's easy enough to find out what the protocols are on wikipedia if you're interested. What's available greatly depends on the specific vehicle manufacturer but there is a minimum set of data including DTC's (diagnostic trouble codes) for all.

With manufacturer-specific details, there's an unbelievable amount of data and even commands and firmware download capability through that port. A decent PC-based system with specifics for your vehicle added-on is a worthy tool if you tend to do your own car repairs. Or at least you can go into the shop and tell them what part you need and know whether you're being quoted a reasonable price.
Lua's dispatch wasn't chosen because it was the fastest. If you read their Lua5 paper, they discuss how they prioritized being portable ANSI C over speed. Indirect threading is the fastest simple technique, but you can do even better. See section 3.3 of http://www.cs.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.07/TC... for a discussion.
Martijn Wisse On The Future Of Robots
People want to believe in a soul which isn't just an artifact in a Turning machine, and "quantum" is the only thing which is both credible and vague enough.
I have terrible eyesight, I still prefer this. I compensate by wisely choosing fonts.
The Debian shootout has made some very questionable decisions, and the author has defended them by saying that you cant rely on the results. Which is definitely true.
It uses instructions from the pdf.

Edit: sorry, I'm not going to heaven. From [1]: "you define groups of neurons in terms of what they represent, and then form connections between neural groups in terms of what computation should be performed on those representations".

[1] http://nengo.ca/
Just as it was before, but less-so now, it all comes down to who you want viewing your site. There is no single rule about what your site needs to adhere to, nor a single set of best practices that are appropriate for everything.

If you are concerned about your users, a lot of people these days are basically sacrificing accessibility for a better user experience for the non-visually impaired users with a recent browser. That is a bigger problem than web-safe colors by far. Web accessibility may eventually become subject to the ADA: http://www.ada.gov/
Really? is that what you think? Where are those shovels?
this article was terribad internet 2.0 stuffed shirt middle management corporate hot garbage.

i wiped my ass with everything that ceo had to say. join our moustache hipster 'hot startup', it'll take you 9 interviews but we're worth it. really? it's 2012 how about f you and your viral marketing video cloud service startup. you are parasites upon humanity making video spam and viewing metrics stats for car companies, penis pills and gambling. just admit you are shameless hucksters that are one peg above a spammer, ditch the synergies and ridiculous pretense.

if this guy enjoys the starbucks latte macfag synergies promoting corporate work environment that's great but this isn't 'hacking' this is pleading and begging to get a shitty job in yet another corporation that's just pretending to be super kawaii cool and awesome but when it comes down to it they'll lay this guy off in a heartbeat, sell the company to some megacorp and screw every employee royally. all startups do this. the guy who owns it buys back all your shares before he lays you off as a favour then keeps the money and sells out faster than Jay Leno in front of a bowl full of Doritos.

I bet they do excrement inducing "team building exercizes" at this way super coo startup. No matter what hipster clothes and mac products you put in front of the CEO he's Bill Lumberg from Office Space demanding TPS reports.

Finally the worst of this entire article was the buzzword 'growth hacker' which is newspeak for a spammer. Look at the definition article they link, some guy who basically manipulates CL ads to punt his junk, a marketer with coding experience, in other words, a fcking spammer. Protip: all of India and Pakistan are chock full of marketers who can code. This is not a revolutionary concept.

I would've shown up and given this guy a USB drive with 3 OSx exploits on it to corrupt client side memory and my "resume", then sold myself to him in person using balls not limp social media or stalking around linkedin and twitter. If they didn't hire me I'd have their source code to sell on blackhat SEO forums anyways so who cares.
I think this type of progress is actually extraordinarily bad for humans 1.0. A brain in hardware can grow so much faster and outpace wetware by orders of magnitude. Think of forking subminds to think on decisions research possibilities, and report back.

Should brains like this have any desires that conflict with our needs, we will be in an extraordinary amount of trouble.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
The issue with Penrose's ideas in this area is that he worked backwards to get to them. He didn't want the mind of a mathematician to be shackled by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which means he can't support the idea of an algorithmic mind. The general acceptance of Church–Turing–Deutsch principle backs him into a corner then, and quantum mechanics offers pretty much the only reasonable escape. The real problem then is that every time someone pokes a hole in his ideas for how that might work, he just switches it up how he thinks it might work. He is grasping at an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance with no real reason to do so.

What bothers me about all of this is that he writes books about it aimed at the general population, instead of proposing his ideas properly. Inevitably many of the laymen who casually encounter his ideas will misunderstand his point entirely and mistakenly think that Penrose supports a non-materialistic view of the mind (which of course he does not. A mind as Penrose envisions it, despite not being algorithmic, is still quite materialistic).

Roger Penrose is a brilliant man, but I think this is a case of the Nobel Disease (well, he hasn't received a Nobel prize, but even so).
It's the latency, stupid (1996)
We are indeed. We intend to offer multiple colors and will allow users to choose a color if we exceed 5000 units.
In annual ritual, AT&T declared worst wireless service
> Akey specializes in what’s known as rare variation, or changes in DNA that are found in perhaps one in 100 people, or even fewer.

This classification of variations into "rare variations" and "common variation" is interesting (and new to me).

Any one knows resources that explain more about this?

Popular science depictions of "mutations" make them sound like "one lucky shot" kind of thing. This model never made sense to me. I figured these variations must be occurring constantly across the population.

It's interesting to me that even the variations which are considered "rare" actually occur at a rate that's around 1 in 100. Hell, even if it was 1 in a 1000, that's still quite a lot.

I need more resources about this topic!
> You could possibly simulate [emotions], but I'd ask why bother?

I've been thinking about this lately and my working theory is that emotions are a fundamental driver of learning, because they give us pleasure when we accomplish something.

A CPU can complete billions of operations per second but doesn't care which ones. Because it experiences no pleasure from doing something useful, it is not at all self-directed; we must tell it exactly what to do. There is nothing to guide it through the search space of all possible things it could be doing.

My theory is that a very basic part of artificial intelligence will be missing until a machine exhibits some kind of emotion.
Wierd. UPS Delivers to my door only when I am at work. Then, if I don't want to/can't take time off, they tell me I must pick it up between 7 and 9 pm, as those are the only acceptable times, unless I call and arrange a pickup at the office instead of a delivery. If I am really lucky, when I call and arrange for a pickup, they will actually keep it in the office, and won't send it out on the next day's truck. After 3 attempts at this, they return it to sender.

I guess you don't live somewhere interesting and/or don't leave the house.
note that that's trust based
Don't live with someone who is likely to get raided, either. I've seen the quality of training of local police; if they come in with guns drawn, it doesn't matter as much that you're not even listed on the warrant; you might get shot.
The thing about disruptive technologies that I've noticed is that they rarely come from the originator of the technology. Instead it takes a company like Apple to sit down and finally work out how to present the technology in a way that the average person not only can use it but enjoys using it. The next thing to disrupt the smartphone industry won't be some crazy new technology noobdy has ever heard about but instead be a well assembled collection of existing technologies made ultra intuitive and easy to use.
>Should brains like this have any desires that conflict with our needs, we will be in an extraordinary amount of trouble.

Only if we equip such entities with the capacity to act on those desires.