skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say existing devices are OK, but is Apple sending the UDID or another unique identifier to the server?
Would restoring an iTunes Backup to a replacement device remove your support for Exchange due to the hardware being different?

That would totally suck! If it's locked down by account, I guess that's OK since existing accounts would be grandfathered.
This guy is clearly in the wrong business. Books, who cares about books, he should turn his system onto writing patents.
So he gave a tech-talk at Google, around 2008, and yes he had lots of graphs and such but during the Q&A session he kept retreating into generalized ideas rather than data. I recall the question about how he came up with his numbers for machines to hold a consciousness as one such exchange.

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.

That said, I've got mad respect for his work and have enjoyed his talks and writings. Your comment though suggests you think 'theorist' is a negative in some connotation? Why is that?
>If you in the middle between introverted and extroverted, working alone may work if other parts of your life have personal interaction.

I think this is a good point, and for me one of the scarier aspects of this type of work. Working alone is fine until it isn't. I think your work quality / satisfaction are always going to be relient on your out of work happiness to a large extent, but when you're working alone there's that much less of a buffer. Work is such a large part of our lives, doing it alone is a pretty large commitment to aloneness.
Let's see…

• App Store, top charts, google maps, install…

• Give apple password with sufficient privileges attach to destroy my business in order to download free app. (Yes, off topic, but there it is.)

• Open app.

• Screen 1, accept TOS without reading. Ignore privacy policy. Agree to send anonymous location data to make their traffic stuff work. Tell phone I want them to share that data openly in exchange for me providing it freely, but the phone is not listening.

• Screen 2, GIANT BLUE SIGN IN BUTTON. Tiny, faint skip button hidden in upper right corner. I'll wager $20 to people with eye trackers that the upper right corner is the last corner to be processed on that screen, since you finger just acted on the bottom center. No word on what they will do with my info if I sign in, but it will share my searches and bookmarks between my computer and phone. (I'll skip and see what I have to do to provoke it again.)

• Screen 3, Popup to allow Google Apps access to location data in the phone. Of course, that would be silly otherwise. (Apple requires this.)

• Screen 4, I'm in! It found me. The map is dancing a little as the location refines.

• Screen 5, There is a little outline of a person. Street view? I like street view. Touch. Nope, profile. GIANT BLUE SIGN IN BUTTON. (I'll back out.)

• Screen 6, Try a search. It is google after all and POI is bad where I am in apple maps. See if google knows that hospital is gone. Before I can even type… map replaced with GIANT BLUE SIGN IN BUTTON. Also note: Google shows a hospital where there is none and hasn't been for a long time. I've been grousing about Apple doing this, but Google is apparently no better.

• Screen 7, There is a little forked road icon I don't understand, touch… it is routing… GIANT BLUE SIGN IN BUTTON.

• Screen 8, Try the paper airplane icon in the lower left. Oblique 3d view. Turn that back off. Something must be broken, no sign in button.

• Screen 9-12, try the slide out element in the bottom right. Traffic, satellite work, don't require sign in. No Public Transit information in my region? WTF? There is. It will even give me routes. I have no idea what's going on with that layer.

Final score: Before finding anything, you will be asked to log in twice. Before minimally exploring the UI you will be asked four times. Several of these appear that your only choice is to sign in, or cancel the task. (You can plow on through, but that isn't unambiguously obvious by the page design.)

But I'm glad I have it. It means I can go back to Manhattan sometime and confidently use the subways. (as long as I route plan before going down the hole).
Ever since they quickly killed Wave rather than keep it around as a research project, I've been more and more disappointed about the direction of Google.

And except for Google Drive, most of the stuff they're now charging for is clearly aimed at large businesses, with little consideration for smaller organizations or individuals.
You know, i never actually noticed that issue on Facebook. It has such a clusterfuck of an interface that that is the last thing I pay attention to when i'm on Facebook. But i very much agree with the notion that infinite scrolling is a poorly implemented feature on almost all sites which use it. It's almost like it replaced pagination and forgot about the fact that you can't go to a page anymore.
No, I don't think that's the same thing. In my experience, real-life conversations have a much higher quantity of ... something. Affection? When I talk offline, most conversations have a subtext of 'You're a valuable human being; I like hanging out with you.' However, when I talk on Facebook or Hacker News or email, I'm much more likely to just deal with the direct topic of conversation. Talking online is about ideas; talking offline is about people. Of course this is a massive generalization, but it seems to fit my own experiences.

An interesting question, then, is why, when talking online, do I focus on ideas rather than people? I think a major factor is simply that plaintext is a far less expressive medium, so it takes extra effort to convey complicated subtexts. When we talk offline we can show interest in people without having to consciously think about it; our expressions of caring are primarily subconscious and therefore don't transfer well to plaintext.
Sure! Nothing is free... Users need to be aware of the 'hidden' costs of anything whether it be free or paid. Time, learning, etc... all are involved with any software - or anything really.

Companies, on the other hand, typically exist to make money. This is nothing new... However, unlike traditional companies, Google is more sensitive to its users needs. After all: "Let the consumers decide whether we are going in the right direction" Unfortunately, the majority of consumers are lazy; not caring and simply consuming. A company needs only to change a service ever so slightly in order to not affect a large majority. Small change - After change - After change until a company has fully 'maxed' the potential profit.
Looks really cool. And i love Python.
However, I think the Python Syntax will make it hard to minify the code, which is probably not that important anyway when not in production. But for production usage it would be cool to have a real compiler instead of an interpreter.

But yeah. Cool stuff.
People this is all fake. It's not real or he's just a scammer. Look at the reviews he's got, it's all by the same person or the reviewer reviewed other titles of his books. Insead is a real place though, so dunno why he's a real prof there.
The screens might be social. But they're able to only fill a limited facet of human social need.

The value that I derive from an email with an old friend is different than a phone call which is different still from a lunch.

Our social needs are deeply intertwined with our DNA. And the emotional value we can derive from interacting digitally does not meet the full extent that we derive from physical interaction.

Hence, I would argue that someone that lives on the web all day with thousands of people in mostly physical isolation will find less social fulfillment than someone that lives amongst a handful of humans with little connection to the outside world.
Google employees tend to be harsher on our current achievements than the general public. :-)
"Ideas are presented in a way to fit nicely together, but ultimately lack any depth or critical insights."

While are a number of obvious problems with the theory, it's still an invaluable idea. Even if 2042 doesn't pan it, Kurzweil has still provided an enormously powerful tool to help understand the world around us. (Well, technically he didn't invent the idea, but he was the one who did most of the work aggregating the data.)
I wonder how the blind allocation process will treat him. His domain expertise is AI, but he didn't do any of that At Google, which means it doesn't exist. So is he going to have to spend 18 months maintaining a legacy ad-targeting product while the 26-year-old Staff SWE next to him works on its replacement? How is he going to handle that?
Does anyone know if Google is paying royalties to Microsoft for use of the Exchange protocol? If so, this may be a sensible move, especially if Google is paying the royalties on a per-account basis.

Also, I'm doubtful that this affects the majority of users: on both major mobile platforms (Android and iOS), Google has a push solution with nearly identical functionality to Exchange.
AngelList Raising A Big Round, To Be Valued at $150 Million Or More
Perhaps it could be argued that it puts the term and conditions out of reach.
Titan: A Vast, Subsurface Ocean?
Great site - unfortunately I'm based in the UK and a number of the recommendations only exist on Amazon.com; not .co.uk. If you could make this international that would be great - though I suspect that's lower on your priority list than it is on my wishlist.
s/a book/800000 books with a spam app./
Ugh, please expose the code/seed and just just the QR code. (I usually put the code into a couple of devices manually, vs. one)

Also, let administrators enforce 2fa on all users of an account, and/or see the status of all users of the account. Also being able to enforce password complexity requirements would be nice, but 2fa might be sufficient.
My daughter has been an avid board-gamer for several years and just started the 3D board game club at the University of Alabama. Look it up if you're in the area and want to find a group to play with!

http://cw.ua.edu/2012/10/29/3d-board-game-club-introduces-ne...
I think if you gook up your Gmail account in the Settings app, and you have the Calendar option turned on it should work. See http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
There's Conkeror, which uses JavaScript: http://conkeror.org/
Another nice feature would be a price range filter.
>I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature.

At the risk of being called a Philistine, I think there are a lot of things about the iOS UI that are not made obvious or convenient, even to dudes used to using a lot of tech and nothing is done to teach the user. A rollout of phones from work meant that a tech-savvy friend and myself recently got iPhones around the same time, we trade tales of hidden UI interactions all the time. I maintain that this phone is the mythical device that can fulfill my every last wish of tech, but I just have to find the right number of fingers to hold on the screen as I flip the vibrate switch back and forth to activate the mode that makes it do what I want.
So just to rephrase it to make sure I understand, it's more secure because even if the OTP is compromised, the entire system is not compromised, is that correct?

However, if the original secret is compromised (K), then could an attacker easily generate OTPs?
Show HN: 24 hours && 24 red bulls
It's more palatable to the people if they can hang you with your own words. No one is going to care if they can 'prove' they saved the people from a danger.

On top of that, the people will be more willing to accept any 'proof' they intercepted when they know the government is intercepting everything.
Why would Apple Maps have anything to do with a review of new hardware? Just over a week later, though, he did write at length about the maps situation [1]. How does this show a lack of integrity?

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/timing_of_apples_map_switc...
Sorry to provide questions rather than a concrete answer...

When I was a kid nobody but adults liked "educational" games. They were the highbrow equivalent of today's buying a massive electric Vespa to your 7-year old, with support wheels [1], just because it looks cool and you always wanted to have one, when you know that your kid will have more fun with a cardboard box.

My questions are: What do you want to achieve with an "educational" game? Is it compatible with being a game, something that people play for fun? I guess that you want the kid to "learn" something. What is it that you want the child to learn? Do you expect the child to learn it by playing with it? Would you have fun with it yourself? (naive as that might sound, remember that kids tend to imitate behaviours and their preferences might correlate with yours due to environmental and genetic reasons).

Having said that, I recently bought myself a set of Cuisenaire Rods [2], which were used in my classroom to learn basic arithmetic at that age :-) My adult self quickly found out how to calculate square roots with them.

[1]
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_st...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods
They also had a massive javascript variable coercion bug for a while. I got 10 or so connection requests, all with the text "undefined."

They certainly are the market leaders, but engineering skill is not exactly through the roof...
Background: I'm a developer.

Operating systems I use: Mac OS X, Linux (desktop and server)

Mobile Platforms I use: iPhone and Android

Operating systems I don't use: Windows 8

Mobile Platforms I don't use: WinMo8

I'm not buying a machine for Windows 8, a windows mobile phone, and a copy of Visual Studio 2012 ($2-3k++ outlay) for a chance at selling a $2 game to an unvalidated marketplace.

I'd have to sell 1,000 copies just to break-even on the hardware, let alone my time.

I'd be more interested if Microsoft had some sort of incentive program that included the dev machine, compiler, and mobile phone for testing. If they do, please link it.
wow. so brazen it just might work. wish i would have thought of it.
Why would you ever think that he is being blindly allocated to the position of Director of Engineering? In that position, he'll pretty much be in control of his own destiny at Google.
Pentagon, FBI Affected by Backdoored HVAC Software?
Please do teach them the value of data representation. I don't think this is obvious but it can make the difference between having to write a mountain of code or finding a simple solution.

Super-simple silly example: You have to write a program to work with four colors: Red, Green, Blue, Black. Naive representation will use strings: "red", "green", "blue", "black". A little smarter would be an enum type where red=0, green=1, blue=2, black=4. And, depending on context, it might even make sense to use individual bits to identify each color: red=01h, green=02h, blue=04h, black=08h. And, if the goal is to extend to other colors, it might make sense to represent them as RGB vectors.

You get the idea. I find that a lot of newbie programmers are too focused on the mechanics of writing code. They forget (or don't know) that investing some time in optimizing the representation of the data or problem they are trying to solve could make a world of difference.
Yes, mobile compatibility is a big issue, given the flourishing of cheap mobile devices in the developing world. We will definitely do more work to make this a smooth experience on tablets.

And awesome that you mention that -- when I arrived at Khan Academy for my internship on the first day, I was handed a copy of Diamond Age, and told that "Sal wants all the interns to read this". It was an inspiring read for me; especially the notion that part of the goal of real education is to inculcate subversiveness. :)
Stop trolling! I'm not even an ex-Googler and know about your constant complaints. Move on! Life's too short buddy.
2029: Although computers routinely pass the Turing Test, controversy still persists over whether machines are as intelligent as humans in all areas.

-- The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999)
IGive
>even if you don't believe in the Singularity

This makes "the singularity" sound very much like a religion.
Verifone pulling out of Square's market, says it's not profitable
Yes, they do (The protocol is called ActiveSync). I don't know if it's on a per-account basis, though.
It fairly awful if you spend any serious time with it.

The badge on the app reflects the unread count of every account that is active in the app, but even when you open it, there's utterly no indication of which inbox has unread email. I've just three accounts added to their app, and its already a hunting game finding where that mysterious (1) is coming.

Most of the interface feels weird too. You can't slide to archive an email in the new version, as it opens the siding panel. The behaviour is still hidden away though, tap and hold and slide tricks the old gesture into working again. Ticking and tapping for every interaction feels clunky.

It's not a replacement for proper psush email in Apple's Mail.app. I'd host my own push email, but I've struggled finding anything that is lightweight and supports IMAPs IDLE command (allowing for push email).
> This makes "the singularity" sound very much like a religion.

I think what most people mean is, "even if you don't believe that anything other than squishy brains can ever recursively do what the brain does".
What nonsense. Where does it say we can't have much more stringent gun control and also more wellness care?

Funny that she's from Alaska where residents are well known for their excessive gun culture. Must be a coincidence.
Given Kurzweil's age and stated goals, I'm thinking there is no way he is going to Google unless they are investing in life extension / prevention of death.

Read between the lines - "next decade’s ‘unrealistic’ visions" - is likely nothing less than brain computer interfaces with the end goal of extending life by storing the entire human mind on a machine. Certainly not far off from Kurweil's timelines on Law of Accelerating Returns. I can understand why the PR does not say this, but it seems clear this is where Kurzweil would want to invest his time.
I believe you can get push support through IMAPs IDLE extension, but I've had a hard time finding an IMAP server that supports it and isn't a fully fledged corporate system.
> 2) I'm surprised they chose to use Google Authenticator. The favourite in this space seems to be Authy; off the top of my head Cloudflare and DNSimple both use them. Any thoughts on the pros and cons?

Briefly looking at Authy, it seems they do make things reasonably easy. But the pro sides of Google Authenticator is that it's just an Open-Source app implementing open standards. It doesn't require any third parties or network communication to work, and you can add it even to unix logins or SSH.
there might also be an element of countersignaling [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling] involved - the real experts prove that they are not "nervous middle classes" by actively being nicer.
People who have untreated schizophrenia tend to reveal themselves with constant crazy behavior.
I didn't want to let your comment stand as it suggests the fault was mine due to using an incorrect link. So, I followed the link you posted. I clicked on the navigation items, rapidly but not unreasonably so, it took me 2 seconds for it to throw another exception.
When I close on my house, I'll have to offer housing-for-equity. I wonder if that works.
As long as you have good search functionality, it shouldn't matter. From what I can tell, so far Amazon does.
The problem is that they do still serve a purpose.
I don't think it's a matter of focusing on happiness. Mental illness a medical issue, like cancer and heart disease.

We need to develop a cure, and when we do, days like this will be far less common.
It's better to distinguish the singularity (semi-infinite rapid change caused by recursively self-improving AI) from AI.
During the 1998-2001 bubble, landlords (and lawyers, etc.) wanted warrants on top of normal (inflated) cash costs.
If you have an iCloud email address, it is "push" - i.e. as soon as the email comes in to your inbox it is in the mail app.
I would use the money to buy signals. Since they're a buck, I could buy 37 signals.
This seems like the right approach, but part of the overhaul needs to be a massive increase in research. We don't have a good way to treat the mentally ill, in most cases.
Real programmers use a magnetic needle and a steady hand.
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Not a big surprise that Apple Mail, iOS Mail, and Thunderbird are the winners here. They're the clients most likely to allow HTML through verbatim in most cases.

Sadly, at least in my case, most people are using Gmail on the Web and they filter the HTML in numerous mystifying ways (although this is ultimately good for us as users IMHO).

Luckily there's still a lot that most mass e-mailers can do, including myself, to make e-mail pleasant for readers without niceties like custom fonts.. but one day it would be great to universally expect something a little more elaborate than HTML 3.2 ;-)
I'm sure this really not help in future digital library archieves for phrase searching.

Next we will have entire usenet archieves published as ebooks, least a few threads in there day of more interest.
> For the price of the book alone ($29), I could watch 100+ hours of tutorials on a site like Lynda or Tuts+ from a variety of developers with similar experience. I'm having a hard time verifying that the value of the resources matches the price tag.

Dude. Do you realize that you are valuing your time at approximately 25 cents per hour? I suspect you have other, deeper reasons for not investing such a small amount of money in something that, by the way, comes with a full guarantee.
Pages downloading and executing things just reminds me of ActiveX from the late 90s. I think South Korea still relies on the technology for their home-grown version of SSL.
What is the correct way to use angel list if you're not currently fundraising? How should one engage on the site?

What is the strategy in deciding who to follow?

How do you attract people to follow you?
Windows Phone needs to support cardDAV and calDAV already.
See http://www.thirty-seven.org/
>I recall someone calling it "creationism for people with an IQ over 140"; it's a fair description.

Really? Because if so, then they stole that quote almost verbatim from Mitch Kapor when he was discussing the singularity in 2007. And it seems to have a lot less relevance to a book about how the brain works than it does to an imagined singularity.

>Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, has called the notion of a technological singularity "intelligent design for the IQ 140 people...This proposition that we're heading to this point at which everything is going to be just unimaginably different—it's fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse. And all of the frantic arm-waving can't obscure that fact for me."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Criticism
How about evaluating the work itself -- through the sample, or buying the book and asking for money back if it's unsatisfactory?
Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com). Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update.
It's faith-based handwaving bafflegab. So, yes, only without the intellectual credibility.
Thanks! This conflation keeps getting made in every thread on the singularity and they're not at all the same thing.