skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A note-taking device with under 4 hours of battery life is a joke.
Amazing perspective. Thank you for sharing.
Where do you get your estimates from?
Did Darwin really make a distinction between natural and sexual selection? As far as I know, the distinction doesn't really exist in modern biology. Natural selection is simply selective pressure that comes from the environment, and the psychology and behavior of potential mates are part of the environment.
I've already decided that I will be buying a Surface Pro as soon as I can lay hands on one.

But you're wrong about the MacBook's Windows support. If anything, Apple has better drivers for the Mac than a huge swath of PC manufacturers (I'm looking at you Dell).

The keyboard layout is weird to use with Windows and there are other niggling issues (like that damned ear bursting noise it makes when you use the keyboard to adjust the volume). With all of that it's by far the best Windows laptop I've used. No clue how well OS-X runs on it since my exposure to iTunes and Quicktime has convinced me to avoid Apple software if at all possible.
Visualized: Qualcomm's patent wall
Great group of companies! Proud to be part of this class.
It might be pessimistic if you're egalitarian, but nature doesn't seem very egalitarian.
why would understanding intelligence be a prerequisite to running low level simulations of the brain?

we can simulate computers without understanding the software that runs on them.
can we create a currency `anti-bitcoin` until we have a name where no transaction, small or large, is private. Where there is no privacy but also complete ownership. A single dollar cannot exist just on the floor. It always belongs to somebody.

It is not possible to lose money or find money in your old clothes. There is no physical money, in fact. All you have is your identity. All transactions are logged.

Did I just create a bank account?
If you look at the actual old and new prices, it actually could be over 30% depending on how much you use.
China's 8-core Godson processor details to be shared at IEEE forum
I love this guy (Jada)! Once again showing that Flash, when used correctly, can create unrivaled experiences on the web. Also of note is the Perfect Strangers game:
http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/
That is a good idea. Mind if I include this post as a block quote, citing your username?
The world around you minus syria!
By the way, there is an alternative to HipHop that is actually easier to implement because it makes php extensions.

It's called PHC http://phpcompiler.org and it's open source.

It was Paul Biggar's PhD thesis http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/a-rant-about-php-compiler...

It just needs some community contributions to catch up.
TabMonkey: quick tab navigation for Chrome
Yet another dot files project
So, you actually think that social norms are not a problem? Seriously? What about the norms that led Galileo to house arrest, or many to being burned at the stake, etc. etc.?
It boggles the mind why they went with Ivy Bridge instead of Clover Trail for the processor. The Surface Pro would be so much more compelling with 8 hours of battery life instead of 4.
Am I the only one who can't help but feel we're getting close? :D
This is a very good point and enough for me to know I will not be using Google for cloud hosting...ever.

They shut down AdSense and AdWords accounts constantly with no recourse or explanation and customer support is completely non-existant. Giving them control over my hosting as well is far more power than they've proven worthy of having over my business.
I hate to be that guy. But I'm not sure this belongs on Hacker News. There's already widespread coverage in mainstream news.
Exactly the same thing happened just a few days ago on the article about Windows 8 reaching 40million sales. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4839972
First, it's really hard to do a large rewrite of software. Netscape, for example, made the mistake of trying to rewrite their browser from scratch, and it killed them [1].

Second, what evidence to you base your statement "hiring talent at FB has to be getting harder"? If you're talking about market cap / upside, Google has had no problems hiring (well, relative to other tech companies, anyway), despite a market cap 3.5x+ what FB is today.

Lastly, FB is not all PHP. A lot of services are written in C++ or Java, and use Thrift to talk to the frontend [2]. Thrift allows a more gradual movement off PHP, by moving isolated components to other languages individually.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
[2] http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/What-is-Facebooks-...
Or the inside, depending on how you look at it.
> Natural selection only works if unfit individuals are killed off prior to breeding.

That's not true. Even in the hypothetical scenario that all humans reproduced exactly enough to replace themselves then died immediately (i.e. a completely constant human population), there would almost certainly be gradual change in the inheritable traits of the human population (i.e. evolution). If sexual partners are chosen, and those choices are inheritable traits (i.e. genes influence your choice of mate), that's textbook natural selection.

> even in the least developed areas of the world, this is no longer the general case.

A very large portion of the most successful pride of lions probably also breed, since they're not worrying as much about food or predators. Does that means the entire species is not evolving?
As a front end developer the things I would advise someone new to get into are: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, WordPress + Git(Hub) on the coding side && branding, copy writing, color theory + good UX/UI principals on the design side.

Edit: Some server admin stuff [ cpanel, phpmyadmin, dns ]

Hope that's helpful (:
I guess the cost of securing your 'bridgehead' would dwarf any cost associated with the actual link technology. And then, what did you achieved? You have your packages going back and forth, but how will you distribute the connection? Will you hijack the presumably uncooperative ISP's network, or just use sneakernet? If you choose the last, then you might as well ferry the information via boats. (Not saying that's easy, just it seems easier.)
Has anyone tried freedomcp yet?
I hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes.

I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my computer.
I see the advantage of having a sim (the real remote monitoring part) but also the disadvantage of needing a dataplan for the sim and security concerns ... why not just make a bluetooth dongle for a fraction of the price ...
Wow! A HUGE market that escaped everybody’s attention! There are a few comments that come to mind:

First, this Modj.io company provides free testing ground for car companies to see if there is really a wide demand for such feedback mechanisms in public. At the first sight, I would say that there is, as they outlined in their sample use cases in the video.

Second, the only chance that Modj.io has for survival is a quick ramp-up of user base, because this technology is a perfect example of what car companies will try to use for customer lock-in. Kind of like iTunes for your car, storing driving and tracking data in the cloud. I foresee that every car company will try to develop their own platform, SDK, and an app, with unique synergies coming from having access to their cars’ deep engineering knowledge. Additionally, this will give car companies real-time feedback about the performance of their cars down to the last part that failed. This will allow them to know things like that the left windshield wiper motor batch that fails more often that average was assembled on a Friday night by John Doe. That’s scary level of detail and feedback.

Third, with such level of granularity, insurance companies will have a whole new set of market segmentation metrics, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see attempts in horizontal integration of car companies with such feedback information with insurance providers.

Forth, when each car company starts promoting their own SDK, we will see an aggregator-type company that will produce an abstraction SDK that allows you to write an app once to work on all cars.

Just my $0.02. I’d love to hear your projections as well, or comments on something I missed.
Minimalistic RFC viewer
At the same price, I'll go with the one that is the first to eliminate any charges for get/put requests.

For public hosting of many smaller objects those gets add up fast.
Since we're talking about human evolution, time-scales of 20-30 years are only 1 generation changes. Machine evolution may have a much shorter generational cycle - but for the moment, it doesn't seem too much to ask to be a little patient. Machines have come a long way in the last 4 human generations...
Yes, HE's only limit is something like 50 zones, which for my projects is plenty. Their interface is solid and simple to use, and they support reverse DNS as well. Also, their support for these free products rocks. I haven't had support that great for any SaaS/PaaS out there, ever. They respond very quickly and actually know what they are talking about.

So far I've found only two issues: (1) no support for DNSSEC and (2) their use of HTTPS is somewhat spotty, so you must pay attention to it yourself.

Glad you found what you were looking for, and thanks for plugging TunnelBroker. The more people use services like these, the more IPv6 we'll be seeing.

Edit: I take it back. Looks like they always use HTTPS. It's tunnelbroker.net and tunnelbroker.com that don't.
This is amazing. Nice use of song samples for sounds effects in the game.
Those interested may enjoy the equally (or more) offbeat Goblet Grotto

http://harmonyzone.org/GobletGrotto.html
http://gamejolt.com/games/rpg/goblet-grotto/10253/
It's not just narrowed, dreamobjects is only equal to S3 RRS, which is now 7.6 cents, so there is no gap.

(dreamobjects only uses one datacenter with the data stored three times, it's not equal to regular S3)
According to the article "there are no connections in Spaun that aren't seen in the brain."

I'm assuming there are many connections in the brain that aren't implemented in Spaun.
Because in the brain, the hardware and the software are the same thing. To understand what processes the brain carries out would be to understand intelligence.
Light travels less than two thousand miles in 10 ms, and TCP requires three one-way trips before starting the first request on a new connection. Anybody more than 620 miles away (about half a time zone) is guaranteed to have a higher ping time than that.
"establishing colonies"

The radiation must be horrific.
>any manager who leaves a company without being escorted out in handcuffs is going to be "leaving for great things" according to all concerned.

That may be true, and would perhaps be applicable to this case, if Eric were a manager. He is not. He is (was) a Principal SDE. This means he writes code and likely has lots of input into high level architectural/design decisions. Any influence he had over the actions of others is likely due more to respect for his technical acumen than any kind of managerial title. I suspect the closest he would come to being a manager would be any mentoring (official or unofficial) that he did, which is likely more effective than being someones official boss :)
> Child porn is not a legitimate exercise of the first amendment

>They, and presumably you, claim without justification that "bad" speech cannot be pursued without chilling "good" speech.

> Your case that political speech cannot be free unless child porn is free,

Sigh. Yet another senseless, dangerous, and borderline libellous misrepresentation.

Allow me to strongly state this in no ambiguous terms: I do not oppose laws banning the production, distribution, or possession of child pornography. People who participate in any of those acts should be arrested and given a fair trial by a jury of their peers. I support these laws. I am not, IN ANY WAY, saying, suggesting, or attempting to appear as though I am suggesting, that I think child pornography is protected speech.

Is this clear now?

What I am arguing [snip]

Edit: You know what? Forget it. I am not participating in this discussion at the risk of being so thoroughly misunderstood. Not with this topic. It is not worth it.
Per-window private browsing support coming to Firefox
http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/

The results show SPDY, on average, is only about 4.5% faster than plain HTTPS, and is in fact about 3.4% slower than unencrypted HTTP. This means SPDY doesn’t make a material difference for page load times, and more specifically does not offset the price of switching to SSL.
Didn't realize that until I actually went to the page. I need to learn to keep my pie hole shut more often.
I love Skrillex and the game is awesome and pretty fast, Great work !
Yep - you can probably make more money by selling shovels.
Jeff Bezos Fireside chat at aws re:invent
It's better to think of a hive of ants/bees/etc. as a single organism. The individuals are cells. Things make much more sense in that context.

You're previous point, though, is spot on. In fact, I think we have genes just like that and not with regard to just strength. You might have a brother who becomes very famous because he's bright/sociable/etc. and your business prospers in the process, allowing you to have more kids. He wins that way, although indirectly. I think this happens a lot.

That's why it's such a pain to talk about these things in such simplistic terms ... life is just so much more complex and frankly, the evolutionary process is so brutal that there really aren't any losing strategies around. You can bet if somebody is doing something, they're benefiting somehow ... we just don't know how yet.
Skrillex's music is just like broken video game!
I gave preloading a shot. Should work fine for you.

https://github.com/shmup/wikiUp/commit/8a7216c28da9741beed5a...
If you're using Chrome, type this into your address bar:

chrome://net-internals/#spdy
Another example of a Microsoft article getting hit today:

http://hnrankings.info/4849090/

Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849090
I don't see how pirating the shows, as opposed to not watching them, is any better for the writers, artists, directors, etc. all things considered. Yes, in the short term, a show might not get cancelled if pirated demand is taken into account. But the global effect is that more and more people hate the media companies because they prosecute ordinary people that just want to watch shows and movies, instead of fixing their broken distribution system.

Sooner or later that is going to catch up with those companies, and when it does, all the writers, artists, directors, etc. who have tied their fates to the fates of the media companies will go down with them. If anything, pirating, as opposed to just not watching, postpones the pain of that happening, which will make it even worse when it finally does.
iTunes 11 is out
First impressions: it has a nice clean look.

It's a real CPU hogger.
Emotions are difficult, as they're (probably) as much physiological responses as they are cognitive ones. You could possibly simulate those, but I'd ask why bother?

Why would we need AI to be human-like at all? We already have a form of human intelligence, us!

It's like the android fixation with robotics... arguably the most useful robots don't look anything like us.

The human brain is a good starting point, but in the long run I think the most useful AIs will probably be the ones that DON'T think like us.
Try convincing the media companies of this. :-) I would love it if they would accept this argument, but I'm not holding my breath.
As parent informed us, mate selection is called "sexual selection" and is a force that complements, but is not the same, as "natural selection."

It is good to know the name for that.
There are a few really baseless, attack-y comments on the original post. I wonder if they're some kind of Syrian social media reactionary force.

CloudFlare, if you have access to their data, what's interesting about them?
Our new overlord likes donuts, back bacon and hockey.
First off thanks for all the hard work. Do you have a list of the php extensions you support? I’m wondering if things like cURL, memcache, pdo MySQL etc are supported. I found https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Extensions-and-m... but its a bit outdated (last mod 2yrs ago).

Also wondering what APC methods you support.
Amazon did it in the 2002/2003 timeframe when they moved from Obidos (C++) to Gurupa (Perl/Mason).
Who is buying a kindle book and expecting to read it on nook?
Ok, tell me if I have this correct:

module Foo
def hello
puts "Hello World"
end
end

...in a different file...

foo = Foo.new.msg

Q: What does that print?
A: There is no way to tell. It depends on what the 'using' line (not shown) is, and whether anything has refined 'Foo'.

Seems like bad action at a distance, to me. Or am I missing something? The example about the effects of refining 'each' is also pretty disconcerting.
Sounds like a good thing to me-

If it was better for your previous firm to pay more than to optimize, it's actually preferring developers time (which cost money, as you know) over servers cost.

This can be cost effective until some point. I don't think it could get to the level of "100k users on 250 servers", and if it does.

If the other side of the coin is that you waste dev time AND that your site is down for a few hours..
Is it really worth the "culture fear"?
Shameless PSA: the Markus is the most comfortable chair I've ever owned.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102/
My ThinkPad X201 is great for the most part. There are some issues with the wifi. The wifi icon will sometimes disappear so I have to manually restart nm-applet. I also have a tough time connecting to public wifi (or the connection is dead when I'm connected), which other computers connect to easily.
Doing the math on DigiTimes' Microsoft Surface sales figures.
I'm really glad this wasn't around when I was a teenage driver.
I was referring to the constant claims that we're X years away from a break-through for the last Y years.
symbolic execution is very similar to static analysis in purpose, if not name (closer to verification). You are right about the false positive rate, but I don't see why you think its becoming more practical?
Aside from the poor resolution I also don't understand the price. I purchased a gaming laptop (ASUS G75VW) w/ 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, 750GB HDD, GTX 660m & 3610QM, which runs 1920x1080 for under $1400. This dell laptop has the specifications of my $400 Chromebook. It seems like it has been massively overpriced because it's one of the few machines that runs linux out of the box.
Documenting a startup journey from the beginning: Starting a team
While you are very kind to say so, even the original Hiphop blew past what phc could do. Importantly, phc did not support the full PHP language (we had basic object support, and no support for magic methods).

There were two cool things about phc: that it had a really advanced static analyzer, and that it compiled to modules compatible with zend. However, these are somewhat mutually exclusive, and making them work well together is an open problem (though I had some ideas).

I moved on from phc, and there's no-one left in the community really. I now run https://circleci.com (applying my compiler knowledge in a different way). I tried to pass the reigns on, but nobody stepped up. Hard to find people who love PHP but are also able to hack on compilers.
Kind of odd that they have a Microsoft Office ad on the 2nd screen of the customization wizard... :/
understanding what processes the brain carries out goes beyond being aware of its structure and localised functionalities.

i don't see why this high level understand would be a prerequisite to running a simulation of the brain.

by the way, hardware and software is always the same thing. my simulation of a laptop will include a pattern of high and low magnetic charges on its simulated hard disc, without my understanding the software which those patterns ultimately actualise.
This, a million times this. My understanding also is that the ODB port on many/most vehicles goes straight into the CAN bus controlling everything in the car. It's entirely possible you could gain control over any microcontroller in the car, send false messages, drown the bus, etc. through a device like this. It's a TERRIBLE idea from a security perspective.
Tell HN: The solution to Wikipedia's funding
So I keep noticing that wikipedia keeps changing their pleas for funding on their site. While not quite as annoying as public radio interrupting their programming with boring people asking for money with ringing phones in the background that I never give to, I'm starting to wonder why Wikipedia is free if they need money (and the same goes for public radio). Unlike many of you, I grew up with encyclopedias. Real encyclopedias, not some encyclopedia on a disk or CD. They were huge and intimidating books of knowledge. When I read them, I felt like I was holding the last bastion of knowledge- that I had something substantial. Parents appreciated this and would shell out the money for them. Today, we have an incredible amount of information in Wikipedia and rely on it during the year without giving it a second thought. Why aren't we paying for it? I pay for Pandora and appreciate it. I would pay for Wikipedia, but for some reason non-profits think they they are doing a greater service to us by being free. But, libraries could buy subscriptions to Wikipedia and still provide those services for free. The only way to get people to pay for it is for them to give everyone a deadline for donations, then shut it down, and then startup a for-profit with the same information.
Saaspose.Words REST API Documentation Changes
Well you do not need to understand the low level of physics (quantum physics) to make very accurate predictions about ballistics with traditional, high level physics rules. You could as well understand the overall principles of the brain and have a high level model for it instead of trying to understand its smallest parts. This approach is also very valid, it all depends on what your expectations are.
I was just checking if Renesys[1] had any analytical updates, but hey, kudos to Cloudflare for a well-written and visualised post!

[1] http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml
Static analysis is about performing heuristical non-local analysis on a code base to find bugs. We aren't talking about modular type checking that is performed by the compiler and explicitly enabled by the programming language design.

If you eliminate potential bugs to be found, static analysis is devalued significantly. So while static analysis may seem necessary for C++ code (very buggy, not much safety), it has less value for Java or C# code, where the easy-to-detect bugs and the remaining bugs are much more difficult to find.
Urm, Microsoft should not be mocking people for suffering their late and fragmented attempts at web browsing.

They should be thankful the dev community is giving IE10 a go and actually being encouraging to some extent.
I'll probably be down-voted here for even saying this but I think we shouldn't endow machines with too much intelligence too fast. It won't be too long before we learn how to make them sentient and that's when we'll decide to accept them as equals or not.

At least until we as humans learn to get along better we might be better to hold off on this. Dumb robots that know how to do one thing and do it well will surely suffice for the meantime.
Congratulations gentlemen!