skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spam is not an unwanted email.

As a professional in this field, I assume you are aware that "spam" is also known as "UCE", which stands for "unsolicited commercial email," and "UBE", which stands for "unsolicited bulk email." Note how "unsolicited" is right there in both of them.

The number one sales technique of shaking hands and smilling is equal to sending a friendly cold email.

The difference between "shaking hands and smiling" and what you are describing is that shaking hands and smiling is something you do one-to-one. Buying a list and blasting email to it is not. It's not personal, it's not individual. It's more like using a dialer to blast faxes to fax machines than any one-on-one salesmanship.

And more importantly, you're not allowing people to opt out. There are a range of body language indicators and other social cues that people can use to tell you your smile and handshake are not wanted. Someone who happens to end up on a list you bought has no such recourse.

hold on. I'm not finished. Say I sent them a monthly newsletter of things they can do to improve the quality of life for their disabled children. Right on the middle of the newsletter is an advertisement for my app. Am I spamming then?

Yes. Yes you are. Ethical marketers build their list via opt-in mechanisms. Your mechanism is the opposite: you assume everyone on your purchased list wants your messages, and force them to opt out if they do not. In other words, you are creating work for the people on your list who don't want your messages. Which means that for those folks, not only are you not adding value to their lives, you are subtracting value by creating a new problem they have to deal with where none existed before.

Marketing, believe or not, is what puts your food on your table. Not your precious code... You would not even be a programmer if some marketing guy had not managed to successfully market computers...

In my experience, the people who shout most loudly about their sterling ethics and critical importance are usually the least ethical and least important. YMMV, of course.
Google is in the best position of anyone/any company to cause an AI disaster.

I imagine the CIA and/or defense contractors are in a better position- they have a ton of money, they work in AI... oh, and they also tend to equip their projects with a ton of destructive weaponry. Which gets deployed in foreign countries, sometimes without permission.
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Let's not forget WshLst example which uses MvvmCross to achieve about 70% code reuse for UI heavy apps that use the specific UI bits on each platform:

https://github.com/Redth/WshLst
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That makes sense. I'm still trying to get used to living in Canada.
Much for the same reasons I run my own mail server - because I can, I learned something doing it, it gives me more control than I'd otherwise have. I also don't trust any network with plain-text credentials so TLS was a requirement for mobile email.

IronKey was something I already used, so it was natural to try and build a minimal CA that fit on it.

Given the choice I'd prefer a good VPN solution but the aforementioned pre-smartphones simply couldn't do that and SSL VPNs weren't common, so TLS was what we had. Now, that little CA primarily gets used for generating Xauth-RSA certificates for my IPSEC VPNs...
Agreed, my experience was stated above: I spent 4 months there and some a persons confidence deteriorate. Being slightly literate myself was frustrating but extremely manageable.
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You're exaggerating a little, x+y is defined over signed ints as long as as it doesn't over/underflow.

If it does overflow, it's either a target-specific hand optimization or a programmer error, but that varies on a program-by-program basis, hence GCC having -fwrapv, -ftrapv, and the default of "I don't do that, optimize accordingly".
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I just removed the NSFW image as i can not edit the title any more. Sorry for that! Did not think that far when posting.
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"I did an A/A test, basically testing the same exact page––expecting the results would be the same."

That's not how A/B testing works. :)

Let's say we want to detect a 1% lift in some metric at 95% confidence and we set up an A/A test. We do the math and it tells us we need to sample 1,000 people to reach 95% confidence on a 1% lift.

If we ran the A/A test 100 times, roughly 5 of them would show a statistically significant difference between the two groups. That's what "95% confidence" means -- it means your false positive rate is 5%. This is called a Type I Error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors

You could run a kind of meta-analysis and use the false positive rate as the variable you're measuring to see if there's a statistically significant difference between the %5 false positive rate you expect and the false positive rate the A/B testing software generates in practice.

In this case, your null hypothesis is that the "true alpha" of the A/B testing software is 0.05. You'd sample from among all the 95% confidence tests you run and see whether you can reject the null hypothesis.
I did not read the article (shame on me), but the story goes like this:

Normally, energy of a system is bounded from below (there's a lowest energy). Adding energy to the system increases the number of accessible microstates (individual particles may occupy energy levels from lowest to highest accessible one) and thus the entropy. Such a system is characterized by positive temperature.

Now, quantum systems may come with an energy bounded from above, and adding energy to the system will decrease the number of accessible microstates (individual particles are forced into the highest energy level and have nowhere else to go). Such a system is characterized by negative temperature.

A system with negative temperature is hotter than one with positive temperature in the sense that heat will flow from the system with negative temperature to the one with positive temperature.
If I deny access to my gmail, I get the generic rails 404 "The page you were looking for doesn't exist."
They could give them one month or even three months so their client have time to get their certs replaced, that's not terribly important. But in a broader sense, yes, they were compromised - they had an entity vouch for them that apparently vouched with a blank cheque.
8) Have a hypothesis of what you're testing and control for variables. Run a MVT test if you're changing a lot of things. If the test wins and it's implemented, everyone is happy and people don't ask too many questions. If it loses, what have you learned? Test a hypothesis.

If a client looks at a comp for a test and asks to change something, I always ask them, "What hypothesis are we testing with that change?"
To be honest it was more like a long Christmas weekend.
I appreciate the comments from sceptics, but I look forward to seeing what progress they make. I hope to see a lot of progress using deep neural networks, HMMs, etc.

I remember bringing a bumper sticker "AI, it's for Real" home from the 1982 AAAI conference and putting it on my car, so I may a little biased.
Either webcam or from Instagram/Facebook/Flickr, like Picplum does.
Any guesses on the reasoning behind that?
You still need to join a University for the credit to be worth something. So maybe students will be able to transfer in many credits, kind of like APs.

FWIW, my state school requires 45 credits to be taken at the Uni for a bachelor's in CS so the announcement is not too too helpful for me.
Mozilla removed the CA, rather than just blacklisting the intermediate certificates: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/03/revoking-trust-...
Funny, because Hal didn't had a bug. It did what it did interpreting the orders that humans gave it. Just unintended consequences.

Which is kinda the point about AI safety. We don't really know what we want, we sure as hell don't know how to formalize it, and we're lucky that we don't know how to create a real AI because otherwise it could surprise us in a very ugly way, just lawfully following the plan we gave it.
This is simple enough to catch on with the tweeny Facebook crowd. Make is more SOCIAL NETWORK and with luck it may go viral.
The idea behind Categories is to add methods to an existing class. This means if you get back an NSString from an API call, for example, you can call a method from a category declared on NSString, without having to convert it to the instance of some subclass. This can be very convenient, and I can't think of anyway to do the equivalent in Java.

It's similar in spirit to "monkey patching" in Ruby and similarly dynamic languages (but won't allow you to replace existing methods, so not as dangerous).
If only it were this simple with every case. What if you applied for a trademark sometime ago, but haven't released your product yet and someone comes along and releases a product with your trademark (unintentional of course)and becomes fairly successful ? I am not debating the article. Just wondering what would be the most ethical thing to do.
It should also be noted in Black's case, much of his assets were frozen by other (non-US) governments. Here's a Canadian court freezing his worldwide assets, at the request of Hollinger Inc (the company he once controlled):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5302140.stm
The number of cores Google has in their server farms is such a large number you need to use exponential notation.

To say it's an AI researcher's paradise is putting it mildly.
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Gots me a standing desk. :)
Isn't this something of a contrarian bet on solar technology, and energy technology more generally?

If you anticipate technology improving or prices for energy coming down, you wouldn't invest in today's technology.
The outcome is great, but what happens when a small company sends out a friendly email like that without lawyers and things don't do so well? Has the company screwed themselves or will they just be back at square one when they have to involve the lawyers?
Nature's article starting with completely anti-science statement like : "It may sound less likely than hell freezing over" is pretty disappointing.
i actually thought about this but wanted to keep it simple in the beginning. i reconsider it right now.
It's much easier to make it look "gorgeous" when the timeline is full of gorgeous people, beautifully photographed.
You should add the ability to modify an existing phrase'd picture. That would make it easier for trends to emerge.
> the Federal government will do some very nasty things -- in court -- to people it knows are guilty but hard to convict of their actual crimes

The government can presume the guilt of a party they put on trial. But acting as if that presumption is in fact knowledge, and that such an ends justifies whatever means they require to get there, that is a subversion of justice, IMO. I would rather they didnt do that.
The lack of flow that Metro provides was not lost when copying it.
Why does this happen? It seems technically solvable. If you want a cert, you have to prove you own that domain. No amount if faxing or email is going to truly prove that.

And Chrome hasn't asked me to update, am I safe or do these updates happen unbeknownst to me server side?

If people can lie, they will, and there will be security issues. In this case a wildcard got out for *.google.com! MITM all google.com email, sounds fun!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a single google webmaster tools or analytics account out there connected to the wrong domain. Why? Because to engage those services you must own the domain and have access to it.

Google makes you put an HTML file they generate in root or add a meta tag. They then request that URL and look for the resource.

If you want an SSL cert, you should have to put a file at example.com/ssl.html

Wildcard SSL's are trickier. My previous SSL provider charged over 100.00 per cert and that was as a reseller. They wouldn't even offer wildcards in the beginning. I believe they do now but it's a significant application process.

You still could require the placement of a file but that doesn't entirely prove they should get a wild cert for the domain. It still seems better than nothing and would have stopped the issuing of this particular cert.

Not to mention, wouldn't you think every CA or intermediate has a blacklist if domains they simply don't provide certain for? Google, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, every major ISP, etc.

Or what about using DNS as a means of authentication. If you want an SSL cert you have to add a TXT record of ssl. TXT (value issuer provides). Again, in this case, they would have failed the ability to interact with google DNS and no matter what DNS server they asked would tell the same.

They could set up a phony DNS server, but the issuer has no reason or knowledge to follow that out of band chain. Then the only way is a rogue employee, which is something no technology is going to solve and probably will remain a risk of all business security from SSL certain to banks to brick and mortar inventory shrink.

All these methods are fully automatic and should be of little burden to the registrar to implement. It's not like they have to handle a million requests a day. A page that spits out a hash of the domain and curl's the resource could probably handle most registrars load.
Considering the resources given to something as standard as a team working on a better search algorithm, which is thousands of servers, I'm pretty sure he's going to have access to pretty much whatever he wants.

A petabyte of memory? Two hundred thousand cores? Done and done.
removed the NSFW image. Sorry for that!
Love the design and new ideas. Although judging by the way facebook has been moving it lacks 1 main ingredient, Ads.

I know I hate them as much as you do, yet still buy them, but keep in mind that ad integration should be not only important with design but a must.

Just my $0.02 :)
I wonder if EFF SSL Observatory detected anything suspicious about the phony certificates.
I don't think it's irony, I think that's the very reason that qznc linked to it.
Prices come down due to scaling of existing manufacturing -- which benefits the players who bet early to invest in those processes.

You're mixing the cost to the consumer with the investment return.
true - I didnt mean to hold him as an example of overwhelming the prosecution with his resources (just as an example of the type of white collar crime I was referring to). He is, however, an instructive example in a different way - $1B of the assets that he stole have never been found. DOJ lacks the resources to trace the complex paper trail to figure out where it went (as a DOJ friend of mine said, "The money can always move faster than we can"). So, while he was convicted, someone somewhere is really, really rich, and the feds don't have the resources to recover the capital and return it to the victims.
I think the best way is to study the company find a problem, and then write a very short mail telling them how passionate you are about the subject and that you would like to work on the X problem.

Even if they don't care, they will appreciate your offer.

Good luck :)
I quit my day job! So I've full flexibility in terms of work hours :)
Perhaps it's undervalued because of an overreaction to this?
Couldn't agree more. And it kinda looks like Spotify to me.
Realistically the number of people who would like to learn an instrument is astronomically high. Most people try, get frustrated, and quit. If Chromatik makes learning far more enjoyable and simple, they could easily grow the size of this market.
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Yes, and in one really big country, it's under 5%.

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/11/06/google-search-maps-con...

I bet Microsoft has a much more consistent desktop market share in more countries. That is, about 90% everywhere. And that's one monopoly that isn't going away any time soon.
Its a gorgeous look because of Samantha, the profile used in designs. ;)
So this may be a counter argument to the "Hacker" culture, but here goes. Hopefully this can spark an interesting discussion.

I own a fitbit, and have loved it. I don't regret paying the $99 for it. I log into the web site, and see my daily totals, and the little graph showing when my activity spikes were. At the end of a grueling day walking around New York City, I can tell my wife that we took 20,000 steps and that's a bit interesting. It's useful and interesting - only to a point.

So after reading this post, my main question is "Why?"

Why do you need minute-by-minute access to pedometer data? What use is it, really? The OP says, basically, "out of curiosity". OK, so hack the thing. There's a number of links for intercepting that data during the sync process. But can you fault fitbit for not providing data that noone (not even the company itself) needs?

What data can the fitbit give you on a minute-by-minute basis that is remotely useful or interesting?

It's just a pedometer. At the end of the day, it tells you you took 10,000 steps or whatever. It's also interesting that you walked 50 miles this month, or have walked up steps to the level of a helicopter flies. Or how many miles you've walked this year.

But minute-by-minute?
Why was this something that needed to be 'created' then? Isn't it just a different way of thinking about the same thing?
There are safe places to get random images for testing, like placekitten, perhaps others have more recommendations. Personally, I didn't get an unsafe image and found your site easy to use and effective.
1. Investment is a contrarian thing. Else you overpay.
2. If it makes sense now as a profitable, you go for it. He probably pre-sell a lot of the output at fixed prices, or you hedge or whatever. Technology always improves, but future money is worth less than money now.
As a friend of mine put it, run an office pool on how long such a contract-testing system will take to delete all your code!
Store users’ birth dates, not ages, in the database
i wish we had that in France!
That sounds like Death Eater talk to me.
I'm mainly an iOS guy but the way Android manages layouts and resources in XML beats the pants off of xibs + interface builder for non-trivial UIs.
For domain validated certs, certainly.

The issue is that it doesn't solve anything. We merely shift (more) responsibility to registrars and NICs. You can change (untrust) registrars I suppose but if you have a .com you'll have to trust Verisign _forever_. Well, at least as long as they operate the .com tld. So if Verisign loses your trust, there is even less you can do than today.
Good point about the cancel button! Once i find more pictures i can put to the stock i'll definitively add a "next image" button.
On a similar note, SiriusXM does not leave you alone when you unsubscribe from their service. I am surprised their have not been lawsuits considering the amount of mail and emails I receive even after opting out of their lists on numerous occasions.
To be fair, it's a news brief designed for the average layperson, not a research article. I think editorializing the content a bit is fine.

Besides, that particular phrase is commonly accepted as an idiom, not a serious reference to a Biblical Hell.
I have a feeling that this is not an investment to Buffet, but rather a means for him to influence the market. People now follow his investments religiously, and an investment like this in to solar could spur a lot of people to make similar capital investments.

In effect, Buffet is now making a demand for green companies for copy-cat investors to invest in.
You are apparently not aware that the author himself created it as satire as part of a programming competition/game.
I have found my Android phone (HTC 1X) to be much more likely to have an app crap out and kill the battery by repeatedly polling location services. After removing app after app looking for the culprit it appears to have been Google Plus. It's recently been updated, so maybe they fixed it.

I never had this issue on my iPhone(s).
Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me).

I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.

Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.
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Grantoo was founded in Paris before moving to SF :) Europe is very much on the radar.
That assumes that Numenta's principals would have been willing to sell. You can't take that for granted.
> Sitting really is that bad.

Does anyone have any references for this? All I can find are some articles reporting on one study.
This guy is giving an incredibly useful tip on how to trick people to interact with the spam he's trying to shove down their throats. These kind of things make the world a worse place to live.
Your first three sentences are worth more than that entire article. Thanks!
This is eq 7 here (scroll down) if I'm not mistaken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature#Second_law_of_therm...

That is, temperature relates to the change of entropy in relation to the energy that enters the system
You're assumption is that you get a fixed amount of functional life, followed by a variable amount of less- or non-functional life. OTOH, you might get a variable amount of functional life, followed by a more-or-less fixed amount of non-functional life. In general, I think the second option more closely matches how we understand aging and disease.

(Also, watch the TED talk by the referenced professor. He doesn't ignore quality of life.)
They couldn't get Al Capone on criminal charges so they screwed him for tax evasion. Was that the "right thing" to do? In the end, we have to hold people accountable rather than expect a perfect set of rules to lead to a perfect set of outcomes -- there's no perfect set of rules, and even if there were people would interpret them and create imperfect outcomes.

Speaking as someone with a logical mind, I used to get worked up about the imperfection of rules until it finally dawned on me that they're all socially constructed, and it's the people you need to worry about.

Do you recall the scene in Catch-22 when Nately flies his plane into the ground after accidentally killing someone, and the doctor who is listed as being on the plane doesn't bail out because he isn't actually on the plane, he's just collecting "flight time" to satisfy some idiotic bureaucratic rule. Despite the fact he's on the ground next to all the other people watching the disaster unfold, they decide he's dead and ignore him afterwards.

My point is: the world is not actually like this.
And now I'm imagining Moral Relativism speaking in John de Lancie's voice.