skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one argument is that if you had a human that just didn't feel emotions, you'd have a psychopath. Our capacity for empathy and the ability to share in each other's emotions stops us from doing harmful things that are in our 'rational self interest'. I'm not convinced that I want to live in a world with AI's that are as cognitively powerful as humans but are incapable of feeling emotions because I'm afraid they'd behave like psychopaths.

But, you know, maybe you're right, if human safety is somehow factored into things then it could work.
Indeed, simulating the brain using a level of abstraction we think to be correct may be a reasonable way to try to understand which level is actually the relevant one for the brain's most important functions.
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Haha, I think this list illustrates quite nicely how useless reviews of software might be. Not a single one of the points you mentioned irritates me even lightly†. Those are all things I do not care about or even like. I hate completely different things about iTunes.

That is not to say that anything you mentioned isn’t a valid point, they clearly all are. I have often thought that as comprehensive as possible lists of grievances (created by more than one person – you didn’t mention a single thing I hate about iTunes and immediately noticed) might be the ideal way to review things. When you read the review you can then just discard all the grievances you don’t care about and use the rest for your decision making.

—

† The App Store one is the lone exception.
Judge orders Paul Ceglia to pay Facebook nearly $90,000 in fees
yea, it somehow fits really well doesn't it!

the game was a bit simple, but have nice touches.
Thanks for the kudos. This was a really interesting story to follow and write. We've got monitors setup so we'll see the instant Syrian traffic begins flowing again.

And, if you're interested, we definitely are hiring:

https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team
Maybe you were just half a decade before your time and the rest of us had to catch up.

I worry the php community is losing or has lost some of the really smart folks.

Suhosin (Stefan Esser) is also fading away without any updates to work with php 5.4 and that's really sad, especially considering the radical performance improvements and memory-use reductions found in 5.4 and 5.5 vs 5.2 - 5.3
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This is curious. Their trace-based approach looks like Mozilla's Tracemonkey - even using the same terminology like side-exits. Mozilla discontinued Tracemonkey because it was really good for deep loops and not much else. They moved to JaegerMonkey, which is a method-compiled VM like v8 (at the time), and are now moving to IonMonkey, which is a best-of-all-worlds version.

So I'd love to hear why using a circa-2009 technology was the right one? Is PHP sufficiently different from Javascript for this to make sense (as someone who has worked on VMs for both, I think there's a good chance of that)? Why not use a method-compiler instead? Very interested in the answers and comparison to other JITs out there, if any HHVM people are here.
Wow, can't believe all the negative talk, perhaps I read it in a different tone, but the story delivers what the headline says, unless you want to be really critical on the word hack. If you are persistent and prove yourself, you can go anywhere. It didn't sound to me like they treated him like crap, yeah sure they told him No, they brushed him off, and they did what any other person running a start up or even what any other HR person would do. If a guy continues to practically stalk you, you either ignore him or are forced to deal with him, and when you are 'awkwarded' into a situation or you see someone trying hard, what are you gonna do, tell him to fuck off or throw him a bone? Dude kept coming back and incrementally proving himself, asking for what he could do, and what do you say? "Sorry you'll never be good enough?", you don't know that, you just know he is currently right for that role, but he still might be able to prove he's a valuable person to hire. The stories of 7-year over night successes are because of persistence, dude had that and those are the people you want along with you on the ride.
My favorite is shibboleth is "shibboleet" http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/1015/Shibb....
>such brain simulations might one day be used to better understand and model neurological disorders and diseases

Let's hope they obtain consent. And use a model of an animal brain first!
As recurser mentioned, backbone.js tutorials might be a good idea. I'd also recommend reading the source of backbone.js to see how it works internally. It's around 1500 lines of well written and fully commented javascript, and will probably cover everything you're hoping to learn in a very concise and practical way.
Or just buy the thing that you want printed in 3D.

Most times it's a small item such as a connector or some small thing, like a small part to fix your toilet.
What's the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry?
You're right that a lot of the most useful AIs won't (or don't) need to think like humans, but one large class of AIs that will at least need that capability are the ones that have to interact with people in social settings. I'd be surprised if that didn't become common.

As for simulating emotion, there's a bit of evidence that such abilities may have therapeutic applications:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/robots-children-autism/story?id...
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If you read a little about BGP you could figure it out relatively quickly.
If you wanted build quality you should've purchased a Panasonic, AINEC. If you want a "slightly nixy" whizbang OS but can compromise on package management you want a Macbook, but not for the build quality.

I prefer having military grade hardware (Panasonic), the best no compromises OS in the world (Linux), and the ability to virtualize Windows if need be. Just about had a heart attack when I saw your post. :)

I only wish I could easily virtualize OS/X. Come on, Apple.
I don't think it escaped everybody's attention.. there are several companies/people working on this.
I have no problem typing on mine on a flat surface. I can even type on it in my lap, though it is fiddly. Much easier with the firmer Type Cover. I also have an iPad keyboard cover and it's .. frustrating to use, since you can't fold it behind the device, so you are 100% committed to always being at a desk with that. And when you want to use it as a tablet, you have these two pieces to deal with.. and remember to find..
Judge says “no fundamental right to use Facebook,” tosses antitrust case
Its true this wasn't a scientific test and I tried to be clear it wasn't trying to be.

That said I doubt anyone would argue that performance doesnt have an impact on their bottom line, more over the three changes I mentioned would have a real and positive impact on their performance.

As for measuring performance on first visit, that's pretty standard stuff but again I made note in the article of the bu that later visits would be faster due to caching and session re-use.

In the end the goal was to get people thinking about how their SSL configuration choices affect their sites performance not just their security -- there just isn't enough conversation about this stuff.
> - The UN Human Rights Council deemed that basic internet access is a human right, but is it a fundamental human right which should never be taken away?

I think it can be qualified. The notion that free speech, which I think we can mostly agree is an equal if not more fundamental human right, can be qualified with things like "fighting words" or "clear and present danger" suggests that other rights can similarly have exceptions.

I don't know what those are, and I have a hard time accepting that our historical examples are a good indicator, so.
There is a community of OBD2 hackers out there working on this same problem w/ Arduino / Raspberry Pie. In my opinion, this is a feature that will be replaced by manufacturers embracing open APIs for the benefit of a more connected environment. So, while timely now, it will eventually be displaced.

If you want to build your own, start with OpenGuage: http://code.google.com/p/opengauge/
If you want a small, quiet desktop computer you can always just get one of those.
I believe that once it stops routing most providers will shut you off relatively quickly to prevent BGP from flapping. I'm sure that someone else could articulate this better than me.
I could never get the trackpad quite right, and the battery never lasted as long as it did with OS X. My travel kit is dual laptops. One Linux and one Mac. So far the T430s with 16gb RAM is looking very close to ideal.
I have made a video tutorial and step-by-step guide here.
http://www.tweaklip.com/internet/50-publish-static-website-u...
Yeah, there's a big difference between if and iff that is often glossed over in announcements like this. Still, it's a start.
iPad without retina is no sale, and three versions behind. Or go iPad mini.
Not on the dark side, Mercury is almost tide locked with the Sun. I always dreamed of a colony that could harvest the temperature gradient between the two sides.
Err, I believe you're referring to the Wired article, while this post talks about the earlierMS Blog post that got flagged off the page.
I really liked what I read here:
The Last PC Laptop (codinghorror.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560423

Here is the feature list for this laptop:

* Retina-esque 1920x1080 resolution in an amazingly high quality 13.3" IPS display

* Intel's latest 17 watt Ivy Bridge processor with (finally!) decent integrated graphics

* 128 GB SSD with fast 6Gbps interface

* Just under 3 pounds

* Decent 6 hour runtime

* Classy brushed metal case and cover
I think you're not understanding what their goal was/is. Not everything is a business. Not everything is paid for. As I recall, the last time wikipedia did a request for funding, they were very happy with the results. It's a charity asking for funding. Not everybody has to pay. Not everybody can pay, but even those who can't pay benefit for free.

"shut it down, and then startup a for-profit with the same information", is completely wrong, as the people who created the content did it for the purpose of providing it for free to the world as a resource. That is the value. They would likely loose the submissions and quality if they did this. Though it has been done before. Gracenote CDDB was open sourced, then they closed it and left the open source version unapdated which was the instigator for MusicBrainz to create an alternative.
Can you elaborate on the parts of what Spaun can accomplish that they can't quite explain? I'm very interested in this.
One more thing - the use of a stack-based bytecode is also curious. PHP itself (the Zend engine) uses a register-based bytecode (well, it uses a horror-show of an in-memory bytecode-like-thing, which could best be described as a register-based bytecode). The PHP engine details leak into the language a lot, so the difficulties they describe aren't unexpected.

Not only that, but bleeding-edge JITs typically use register-based bytecode. Java's JIT and all the modern versions of Javascript VMs use register-based (in many cases actually translating from stack-based bytecode that the parser outputs, to register-based bytecode consumed by the JIT compilers). Since 2003, when my PhD advisor and his co-authors (Google "David Gregg" and "Anton Ertl") showed register VMs could be much more efficient that stack-based ones, the jury has settled on register-based VMs.

So I'm curious as to why a stack-based instruction set was used in the VM design?
My Lenovo Yoga 13 is lucky to get more than 5 and a half hours. And that's a "traditional" ultrabook without even a high resolution display!

So 5 hours, while not spectacular, is probably acceptable for the genre.. plenty of other ultrabooks that do about 5 hours. Even Macs, I hear.
What about SmartSSL. Free.
That is completely orthogonal to the fact that the news about such an ad needs to be flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links.
I do. I use Calibre to remove DRM and convert. The Nook is a superior device for reading (though haven't compared it to the Paperwhite yet.)
Interesting that the descriptions all started with the history of the founders, then what they decided to build. Speaks to the "team first" mentality, or is there another reason they do this?
If you have an account with a university they probably have a subscription to the library. (You will need to login to the university tho).

ASU students, for example, can access it here for free:
http://www.sciencemag.org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/content/338/6...
80. So I can have 2 code windows side by side. Be it emacs or eclipse.
This is actually a great application for UAVs, and I think there is some DOD and/or DOS money to do it (not for Syria specifically, but the general application.)
I pointed folks to an article posted just a few hours before this one with more than 100 comments. Is that not enough HN discussion for you? Do we need to rehash the same things here on the exact same story every couple of hours? Why is there a duplicate article checker on this site?

>Instead of discussing the surface tablet

Said discussion was broken because of the flagging or whatever caused it to magically disappear from the front page. Is that not hampering a "discussion of the surface tablet" that you so desire? What's wrong with asking PG for the reason for a legitimate article disappearing suddenly?

Would you be okay if this or any article gets buried to page 3 after you comment on it and thus no one reading it?
I got to the fairy then I couldn't control the menu. I like the idea of the game, although I was hoping it wasn't done in flash.
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I'm still using iTunes 8. I stopped trusting the updates after it messed up my files one time.
>Children being victimized is a small price to pay for free movies on bittorrent.

If you're going to go straight to the "hurr this is just about piracy" stupidity there's no need to waste any time talking with you.
As a side note, I love the slideshow UI. The keyboard navigation (j/k or left/right) brings each picture flush against the top of the screen. I hate when I need to manually scroll down to bring the picture into full view and hide the navigation boilerplate, especially when a site uses full page refreshes instead of ajax. Unlike more interactive slideshows, this page still works normally without javascript or if the user just prefers scrolling.
...some history of the founding of geology [pdf]
If genes change in proportion because they make people more or less likely to reproduce, that's "natural selection".

If the genes change in proportion just due to randomness (they're all equally fit, but some were passed on more times than others as a fluke), we call it "genetic drift" [0].

Evolution involves mutation and gene flow [1] adding new genes to a population, and natural selection and genetic drift changing the relative proportion of various genes within the population.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_flow
While some say that understanding the brain at the quantum level is not necessary for achieving human brain-level intelligence, I think it would be much easier for AI's to have general intelligence if they used a quantum computer. Pattern recognition, answering to questions, understanding language, speech, and thinking up solutions to problems would all be better served by a quantum computer than by anything else these guys can make.
Once a route is withdrawn (either from the router going offline, a cable being cut, or someone adjusting the routing tables) upstream peers will drop the path very quickly (typically in seconds).
It has an SDXC card socket, so if you want to plunk down a few hundred more you can add 128 or 256GB of inside-the-case storage.
My ex-gf always used to say Skrillex sounded like videogame music to her.. I was like "whatever, you don't GET it", but I stand corrected. Should send her some "I'm sorry you were kinda right" chocolates.
Notable how business-heavy this class is (read the bios in the articles). Indicative of a longer-term trend for AngelPad?
This is really awesome, definitely a good entrant in the "video games are art" category.

I do wish it wasn't Flash though. Not that I have anything against Flash itself when used the right way, but I feel like it's really hard to "own" a Flash game.

Unlike, say, iOS apps that you can download and come back to 6 months later, Flash games are a lot more of a flash in the pan (sorry…) and I think it's a shame in cases like this where the end result is so great and so much work obviously went into it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the most advanced quantum computers today still grappling with basic arithmetic?

What makes a quantum computer better at AI?
Great job! Hope vidyard is everything you want it to be.
Pattern recognition, answering to questions, understanding language, speech, and thinking up solutions to problems would all be better served by a quantum computer than by anything else these guys can make.

Math or it didn't happen.

Speculation without hard facts to back it up is poppycock gobbledygook.
The Surface Pro isn't the cheapest Surface device (it even has "Pro" right there in the name).

The cheapest iPad is still more expensive than most Android tablets.
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But now they're reporting they found plastic ( http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html ) which on Earth at least is created by petrochemical compounds caused by... life.

If nothing else, we know "where" to focus our search for extraterrestrial life.
I apologize, but this post bugs me. You can google code snippets but you can't google how to do well in a programming interview? There are books for this. There are tons of online resources. I wouldn't hire you on the simple fact that you couldn't figure this out on your own. I can't imagine making such a post that has my name attached to it, on the internet. That will make you even more less likely to get a job. Based on what I saw on your website you should be able to sell yourself a little better, even if you don't feel like you're a good coder.
How do you migrate to new machines?
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"High resolution display" is a red-herring. iPad gets 10+ hours with a much higher resolution display than even the one in the Surface Pro.

The problem here is the CPU: it's an Ultrabook CPU in a tablet form factor.
You think so? Why? You're making a pretty serious claim without giving any any argument, evidence or citation to support it.
How would you circumvent this? I'm thinking that disabling CSRF is probably a bad idea. Maybe use AJAX to get the CSRF token after page load?
Hmm... pointing out the heavy amount of MS stories on front page... pointing out MS dominate the OS space.... obviously this must be down voted at all costs.
I am not affiliated to that site. I just saw it somewhere (can't remember where) and thought HN would find it interesting.
Hopefully the owners notice the traffic bump and come here to reply to the questions.
Where have all our manners gone?
One thing the article mentioned was that people are choosing not to have kids. In this case, it seems that there should be an extremely high selection pressure for people to be genetically more predisposed to want kids. And if this does evolve to be the case, then as long as technology does not make reproduction free (in economic terms, there is currently a finite "supply" - the number of fertile women in the world times one baby per year), then competition on other traits will begin to be more relevant.

So while people are saying that evolution is "selecting for less intelligence", this may be a short-term effect in which we are first as a species shifting to stronger reproductive urges at the expense of general intelligence, and only then increasing intelligence in a way which doesn't allow philosophical objections to having children.

But evolution is pretty complicated, and difficult to reason about. Other people have also mentioned the "selfish gene" effect, in which altruistic / kinship behavior can be good for a gene, but suboptimal for an individual. It's possible some weird effect like that is going on also.
But we don't understand the high-level 'physical rules' of the brain. While gravity could be explained by simple equations, the high-level operation of the brain has escaped us despite a lot of effort.

This goes back to the top-down vs bottom-up debate in studying the brain. What you are discussing is a top-down approach, where we understand what the brain does and then figure out how it works from there. A lot of people believe the 'correct' path is more similar to a bottom-up approach, where we understand the lowest levels of the brain and work up from there. This may be more feasible because we may actually have a chance at comprehending what a single neuron does. But amazingly our understanding of a single neuron's behavior is still limited. Some scientists believe we would need an entire computer to properly simulate what a neuron does (and others believe a standard computer can't physically do it).

There's a third group of very pragmatic people who believe the best approach will be a compromise between top-down and bottom-up - meaning we may not need to perfectly simulate a neuron nor completely emulate the brain's higher level function to make progress in understanding how the brain works.
Very cool concept and enjoyable game, but it caused the Iceweasel 'plugin-container' on my laptop to use over 200% CPU, which I'm guessing is related to the circuit breaker flipping (twice). Running Crunchbang 11 on a Dell Latitude E6410...

Edit: And took me from somewhere near 100% battery to 67%. Crazy
It isn't tracing. Don't be fooled by the name "tracelet".

Unlike trace trees, tracelets contain no control flow. It is just a type-specialized basic block. This means that the jit output does not combinatorially explode when we encounter polymorphism. In many ways, our approach is the opposite of tracing; we jit the first time we hit any code at all. And we look terrible on loopy microbench code, but run FB's multi million LOC application very well.
His benchmark indicates that SPDY doesn't magically make bad websites fast, which is to be expected. SPDY only makes sites that are sufficiently optimized that SSL's added latency becomes a limiting factor on performance. It also lets you not make some painful optimizations because you can multiplex more.
I had a roommate with one of these ODB connector dongles. He paired it with his phone, and was able to get tons of information about the car.

He could even shut off various warnings/status lights, which was handy (my car at the time had a faulty sensor).
What is the Bluetooth going to connect to when the car owner isn't the one driving?
> It's a real CPU hogger.

It's not a CPU hogger; it's a studio apartment space heater.
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I love electronic music. But, I can not get into Skrillex or American Dubstep for that manner. I feel like im missing something...
Don't you like it when a blog post about storytelling finishes with the obligatory 5 lines on "oh by the way, we want comments to make it seem like our blog is hugely popular. tell us your comments on the subject!"

Looks like they forgot to tell the story of why comments would enhance their content. Fail.