skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might also be worth noting that some of William Burroughs' writing (as he self-describes) were created by cutting a type-written page into quarters, rearranging various quarters, and then dealing with whatever came of that (i'm of course paraphrasing, from memory of reading his works years ago, so forgive any vagaries).
Yeah CPC.
I agree - just pointing out however that Exchange is not the _only_ way to get push email on your iphone. For example, if you are using Gmail, you can setup a filter to forward email to your iCloud email address. That way you can continue to use Gmail like you normally would, but get "Push" email on your iphone.
> The impression I certainly got was that his approach is to theorize about something, then design experiments to test out his theory. As opposed to running a bunch of experiments and then figuring out a theory that would explain the collected data.

There's nothing wrong with this, as you've written it. (There might be a problem with his implementation.) All else being equal, I trust a theory which has made ten accurate predictions over a theory which merely explains ten previous observations.
Fully agree. While you get new mail notifications, the messages are not downloaded to the app in the background as they hit your inbox. Every time you swipe the notification to view the message, you have to wait a good ten seconds for the app to load and then retrieve the message, assuming you have the good fortune for it to even send you to the right message (it's been spotty at best for me).

I could get over the interface oddities as that's mostly a matter of aesthetics, but it's nowhere near as fast as Mail.app to actually open your new email, and that's the killer for me.
Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.
I personally love conservapedia because it's such an amusing mix of trolls and genuine far-right Christians with the borders blurring everywhere, only the Internet can make such a "work of art" possible.

However, they list Kim Jong-Il as "1994-present" while he died in 2011 and haven't listed his son yet.
Thanks in part to the popularity of his books, movie, and speeches, Kurzweil now knows pretty much every AI researcher in the planet, and we can safely assume he's aware of even very obscure research projects in the field, both inside and outside academia.

Joining Google gives him ready access to data sets of almost unimaginable size, as well as unparalleled infrastructure and skills for handling such large data sets, putting him in an ideal position to connect researchers in academic and corporate settings with the data, infrastructure, and data management skills they need to make their visions a reality.

According to the MIT Technology Review[1], he will be working with Peter Norvig, who is not just Google's Director of Research, but a well-known figure in AI.

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[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508896/what-google-sees...
I like to keep a light journal of tasks I accomplish every day. I think of this as goals in reverse. It gives me a sense of accomplishment, similar to achieving a goal, but at the same time allows me to focus on the present, as the author suggests. Looking back on the journal also allows me to put the present and the future in a well-defined perspective, which helps me give the time estimates that business types inevitably require.
I assume the former, as they just killed free signups for Apps For Your Domain (and one of the best "first hit is free" tricks in recent history)
My @me.com address still works fine, I just now also have an @icloud.com pointing to it too. I believe that's the case for @mac.com as well. Don't worry, there'd be uproar if Apple took people's email addresses from them :)

Personally, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I use my gmail as my main account, despite being far more comfortable with a service I can pay for (in the past, that was MobileMe) and know I can get customer service on the phone. Honestly, once Apple can show they've got their act together for more than a few years I'll probably switch...
Check out this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/favorite-posts-for...
Yeah, that's OneID and Duo Push, but no one uses it (yet). It's also proprietary, and I think there are some (stupid) patents.

Really, there's already x509, so if you're going to do this all on a single device (a single tablet or phone), just do client-side x509 certs managed well, plus passwords.

The problem was that desktop browsers had the worst possible UI for client certs, so no one used them, so desktop browsers had the worst possible UI for client certs, so no one used them, so ...
CalDAV, i guess. i don't use any iOS calendar, but everybody seemed pretty excited when they announced support for it a couple months ago.
> "The Policeman's Beard" Was Largely Prefab!

http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/racterfaq.html

This is an interesting web page that convincingly makes the case that "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed" was written largely by the humans involved, with the program having a minimal role, and that the Racter program they sold to the public was incapable of reproducing the novel.
Any idea on stuffing a web font into a multipart message so the tracking-adverse email clients can still use it? Could be impracticable depending on volume anyway, 18k (size of font in example) extra per message isn't nothing.
It really depends on what you and your kid might be into.

You can find education just about everywhere. For example, I used Grand Turismo 4 on the Playstation to teach my older kid some basic physics.

My experience is that kids don't really learn much of anything if you just plop a game or toy in front of them and walk away. You have to engage with your kid and the game at the same level you want them to engage with it and you have to be an active participant. That's certainly true for the young ones. Once they get to 12 or 13 years of age they truly have the capacity to learn on auto-pilot. Some younger than that.

So my answer is going to sound a little snob-ish: The best educational gift for a kid is a parent truly engaged and dedicated to teaching them something, anything.
Look, I'm not going to go Google articles for you. You're perfectly capable of doing that yourself. We're talking about an industry with 140+ billion annually in revenue in the US alone (w/ about 35b spent on the internet). If you think there isn't research on it, you're kidding yourself.
> Hm, but then they let it through:

Am I the only one that sees the idiocy here? That jwz had to fight with them at all is the entire point.
Huh, did not know that - thanks. Interesting.
In fairness, that's how good quotes usually work: they tend to be retold time and again and adopted for other purposes until it's no longer clear who said it originally. So I wouldn't be too quick to call fowl on this one. I'm not sure one can "steal" a quote...
The Rapture for nerds, as Ken MacLeod delightfully put it.
I use the little sync app to sync my work (Exchange) calendar with my personal (Google) one. Is that what they've broken? I'm assuming so, since the download link has disappeared from the page.

The one that used to go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync/thankyou.html .
Thanks for that. I couldn't remember if it was the first, or second screen, and I did sign in with my Google account, since I do use all the destination features.
When searching for friends by name, if I have a friend called Jonathan Smith and I type Jon Smith the filter stops the moment I hit space. It would be good to put wildcards around spaces, or build a dictionary of synonym names (not sure what the proper word for that is).
I don't think you understand what an algorithm is.
I just can't see Kurzweil being in the same league as Peter Norvig. Sure, he did some interesting work a long time ago, before he got weird. I can't see this working out well for Google, unless they just want a famous figurehead.
>Wow, Google really hates people using Google Mail now.

No, they hate people using gmail as a free enterprise-quality backend for some other mail system. The message seems pretty clear to me: if you want to use gmail, use gmail (with an official gmail client and an @gmail address) or pay up. If you want to use some service other than gmail for your email, use their backend too.
> Yes, because giving people choices imposes a small but real cost upon them. It's science.

I'm going to charitably guess you're being sarcastic.
The favorite in this space is still sadly RSA's shitty SecurID physical tokens (in enterprise). For free/startup/saas things, it's RFC compliant HOTP/TOTP. Authy is one (not quite compatible) implementation of that, plus a management system.

Google Authenticator is the #1 client I see on people's phones, even though it's kind of a zombie project at Google (from what I can tell).
As one who is serious about web apps, I have some different feedback for you.

I would pay at least $300 for the interviews alone.

While there are clearly improvements that could be made to the sales page, they are all tactical. I think your strategy is spot-on, and I think you've compiled a package of incredible value.

Thank you for putting this all together in such a well-designed way! Clearly if one values their time, this investment is far more productive than sifting through "hundreds of blog posts."
I'd say something too but I really liked the post. While not 100% on topic, the post was interesting. Unlike your post which is...not so much.
Thorium in a LFTR breeds almost as well in a stable thermal spectrum reactor as U238 does in a twitchy fast spectrum reactor. And a LFTR doesn't have nearly the neutron loss mechanisms that solid fuel reactors typically do.
That wasn't my point. DF isn't a journalistic publication. It's purpose isn't to inform. You can't comment on the news and be news at the same time.
When hosting on Heroku, first dyno per app is free!
Once brython gets some key missing Python features (classes, list comprehensions, lambdas), and some libraries for it, I think it has huge potential.
Fifty Years After First Interplanetary Probe, NASA Looks To Future
You can increase this further by abstracting away the "code monkey" aspect.

1. Specialize & productize your output, then offer fixed pricing. Customer gets a predictable result for a predictable cost, you produce something you can estimate to good accuracy while earning a higher effective rate.

2. Retarget your deliverables on business value instead of a technical spec sheet, then charge accordingly.

Note that both of these involve business development strategies, not improved technical skills.
No. A preprocessor usually translates into the same or a very similar language.
It was not so recent but this is part of Larry Page becoming CEO.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-20/google-profit-tops-...
I'm not sure we disagree on anything here
I'm somewhat surprised there are comments debating what use he could be to Google or what interest they might have in him - Google is one of the primary backers of Singularity University. They already have a working relationship. Now he's an employee. Don't get how this could be a stretch.

Singularity U as far as I understand is not really there so people can more quickly get to the point of uploading their brain to the cloud or anything - it's essentially for business strategists who want to have a better grasp of where things will be in 5-10+ years out. If the Goog believes strongly in the Kurz's ability to do this then it seems like a pretty nice score for the Goog.
FOLLOW THE NUMBERS!!!

U235 & Pu239 bombs extant ... ~20,000

U233 bombs extant ... ZERO

Seems pretty conclusive. It is MUCH easier to make bombs the way everyone always has than to put your lives on the line fiddling with U233.
China investigating Amazon's e-book business
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Computers can measure to arbitrary precision, so that's not the problem, and if you have good reason to think that you have 25 sigmas worth of evidence, that's still very different from a religious belief which needs infinitely more evidence to justify, or a religious belief of having unshakable meta-belief in the probabilistic model such that you never update it when it's wrong. The problem is really just a bad model, or (as with Challenger) ignoring the computer/engineer/model completely. Probability is in the mind; "events" happen, not "25-sigma events"; if your model is predicting a very low chance of something that happens much more than warranted, your model is very wrong. Is it so wrong it needs to be cast out entirely? Possibly. I'm more interested in how it gets updated when it's wrong.
Memories aren't discrete entities. Your brain isn't linearly addressable like our computer abstractions. At best, the answer is combinational in the number of synaptic connections in certain parts of the brain. At worst, the answer is essentially "unlimited."

How do you quantify the storage size of petrichor? A bad kiss? A good morning after? Episodic memory is a bitch.
DRH?
Does this include Gmail, or just Google Apps?
Assuming all this will be judged under American law, as Amazon is an American company, the interesting cases here are Feist v Rural:

> Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991),[1] commonly called Feist v. Rural, is an important United States Supreme Court case establishing that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

(The specific holding was that you can't copyright the phone listings in a phone book because a simple alphabetical listing isn't creative enough.)

and Bridgeman v. Corel:

> Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright in the United States because the copies lack originality. Even if accurate reproductions require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element for copyrightability under U.S. law is that copyrighted material must show sufficient originality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....

(Again, a court stated that in order to create a new copyright, the person had to exercise some creative spark; no machine alone can do that.)

> I'm not sure how far you can bend the argument to say that computer reorganization of facts is expression.

The Supreme Court seems to have said that it can't be a purely mechanical reordering. Of course, the whole point of having a judge is to create new judgements based on new fact patterns, so precedent isn't an absolute guide to future rulings.
I'm fine with reusing quotes, but in this instance it seems like a rather ham-handed application of it.

The singularity reeks of religious concepts. Kurzweil even called his book "The Age of Spiritual Machines" before it was "The Singularity is Near." He literally thinks he's going to be able to live forever (and the technology to do so will be available within his own lifetime). Yada yada... basically what I'm saying is the the quote fits that book perfectly.

Now we're talking about his new book "How to Create a Mind", which is a theory about how the brain works and how reverse engineer it, and the quote doesn't seem to fit. I'm guessing someone was just trying to sound intelligent... but then why does the OP agree with them?
But, but, we're the product!
> Sure, he did some interesting work a long time ago, before he got weird.

You know, it would be wonderful if Ray Kurzweil actually works on software/hardware projects, and he's just hush-hush because he doesn't want to release experiments. Maybe he does more than writing books and speaking at conferences, and he secretly provisions ec2 clusters to experiment with Hadoop or whatever. Maybe he's not just some old geezer that pops lots of pills, maybe he's an old geezer that pops pills and writes Go.

At least, that's what I tell myself to not be as angry about his "prediction from a distance" branding.

On a somewhat related note, http://heybryan.org/fernhout/ has some old emails someone sent to Ray, exploring his lack of involvement in the open source transhumanist hardware/software community.
I think this is useful and a great service, but only if everybody use it. If my friends doesn't use it, why I should use it?
What an awful extra punishment! Truly evil.
Thanks! I'll reiterate obilgic's question since I don't know if your showdead is on: what is the ownership situation before, or in absence of, subsequent fundraising? Would a company be considered automatically split into some number of shares at some point?
I love his creativity but it is an omg situation
Don't buy computer books on paper in the first place. Opt for ebooks.
There're two ways to get money. A few people to give you a lot (hard), or a lot of people to give you a little (harder). Google's just going for both.
I never understood why there are so many sites using infinite scroll bars. I don't find it useful to navigate. When I want to find something in the feed after a few days, I need to scroll like crazy.

At least, pages offered some time frame where one would now around which page to look. Maybe offering a page system using arrows would allow us to easily move from a page to another, reducing the negative aspects of the page, or giving the choice to the users whether they want infinite scrolling. Nevertheless, it is useful for very dense feed where things go crazy and a thousand pages would be added in a week.
> They already have a working relationship. Now he's an employee. Don't get how this could be a stretch.

Maybe because of his role at Google, "Director of Engineering". That's not a good description of what Singularity University offers their customers. They do maybe one or two field trips to BioCurious and call it quits.

Also, why is Singularity University managing TedxAustin? That was a bizarre email to see.
Some people are going to be weirded out by this "retargeting" thing. I don't think it quite meets the level of something that privacy advocates can complain about, though. It's just an agreement from ad networks that they'll show your ads when they see your cookies in a request. Ad networks function by reading cookies, so if you accept their existence you accept the basic practice. This is just an interesting new wrinkle.
> What made it impractical was the slowness.

Much of the slowness was because emscripten was immature at the time that repl.it worked on their port. If someone built python with current-day emscripten it should be much faster.

There is a better way, though. We could compile PyPy's generated C implementation and add a JIT to JS to that. That would be the best way to get fast python into the browser. If anyone is interested to hack on that let me know, I would assist from the emscripten side.

Note though that this would only give throughput speed, not startup speed. For startup speed, a method like pyjamas or bython will do better - at the cost of not fully supporting the python language, of course.
> even a poorly implemented autoscroll is an order of magnitude improvement over the UX experience it replaces.

I completely disagree. The best possible implementation of infinite scroll is better than pagination, but most infinite scroll implementations are worse to me than pagination.

First of all, the main problem I have with multi-page web sites is not that I have to click a "next" button. That's such a minor inconvenience that it doesn't even register. The main annoyance with arbitrary pagination is that you can't easily search the page. Infinite scroll helps with that, but simply having a single page per chunk of related data (i.e. one page for a blog post) works better.

Secondly, with pagination, or with an ordinary non-infinite single page layout, I can close my browser tab and reopen it, restart my computer, reload the page, whatever, and when I come back, it will be scrolled right there in the same place. I have never seen an infinite scroll implementation that could do that.

Finally, bad implementations of infinite scroll just let the page grow and grow, consuming resources without end. Especially on sites that have a lot of images, this creates a practical limit to how far you can scroll before the site becomes unusable. Even if the site offers an multi-page alternative layout, you then have to find your place again at that time.
There's PNaCl: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...
You would be making a mistake unless the predictions had a high degree of "unexpectedness" or the ten prior observations lacked coherence.
A corollary, a comment on method, and an anecdote:

Related, this approach also reveals syntactic errors in printed books. This re-enforces the principle, since it shows that even published authors make mistakes. It also means that, even following the text verbatim, I have to account for code errors and the standard bugs (as others note here).

Somewhat related to other comments here regarding closing the book and trying to recreate the code or underlying logic, I often think of REPL iterations in relation to industrial-scale engineering (rocket launches, bridge-building, etc.). If the cost of the test-iterate cycle is not seconds or minutes, but months and millions of dollars, we'd think very carefully about the logic and edge-cases. Granted, I like that fast iteration is possible, but in cases where that's not an option, you'd just have to use other approaches. Mostly, that would mean truly, deeply understanding what you're asking the machine to do.

Despite being a fan of Gonzo Journalism, I've never heard the anecdote about transcribing entire Hemingway novels. Re-typing code examples verbatim seems sort of obvious, but re-typing narrative fiction, not so much. So it's sort fascinating to hear that anyone in fact did that (and for exactly the same reason).
That person spouting nonsense was me! These "intelligent" behaviors arise through random chance and the successful ones stick around. I'm not sure how one could doubt that somewhat complex behaviors could arise through evolution while at the same time accepting that, say, the eye could. It's the same exact process.

An evolutionary "strategy" is simply a behavior that an organism exhibits to enhance its survival. Don't get caught up in the anthropomorphic terminology, its just a convenience to aid understanding. Dawkins uses that exact phrasing in his books.
We're in a bubble.
What about pnacl?

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...
Actually, there have been two working prototypes, one that ran without significant issue for about five full power years.
What does "believing in Google" mean in this context?

Believe that they'd never be mistaken?
Ask HN: UX design materials for line of business applications?
Can anyone recommend UX design materials relevant for data-driven web applications?

I'm currently working on a line of business application.

Users will be performing the same tasks repeatedly, inputting and reviewing a lot of data to get their job done. They will spend their entire working day using this application. It's usage is closer to something like Excel than a traditional form/wizard based workflow.

Speed of review and input are obviously really important, and I can assume that users will become familiar with it (although learnability is very important).

Most UX materials I've come across are for consumer web applications or tools. The user isn't expected to sit in the application all day and use it for everything. Additionally, they focus more on form-based or workflow tasks.

I know all of the principles are the same but I'd love examples of LOB web applications that are a pleasure to use.
Not to mention the whole password leak fiasco, and the issue with their iOS app grabbing secure personal data from the users phone.