skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Startup"? This looks more like a "business". Cheers to them for staying low-pro & avoiding the hypebeast for all this time.
it is interesting to me that the stock is not moving on this news. i think if the shareholders knew how much of google's future profits relied on exploiting the SERPs, the stock would have soared today. http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog
I don't generally like the "strikes and you're out" analogy, but in cases such as this, I find myself favoring a "one strike and you're out" policy. Or zero strikes, if we could force through effective audits.

If nothing else, maybe this would put the fear of [entity] into the organizations in question. The erstwhile incompetent ones. The malicious ones, we just need to give the boot, already.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219?viewlocale=en_US#dispnum

This says they do.
Borgo, I’d agree with part of that. Someone who isn’t technical within an early-stage technology company is simply likely to slow down progress.

Not sure folks here would agree with “hacker” being a childish term, given it’s actually the names of the site..
Ironically enough, point #4 sounds very similar to how Vigil claims to work.
Oh please: inequality!=injustice. Please grow up. Envy is not a good path to justice.
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"Does your call to action button stand out and is the button green or orange?"

I'm curious where he came up with the green or orange part. My intuition is that the best color for CTA button would depend on the other colors used on the page.
That sounds like a problem with the C standard rather than any compiler.
You say things like "google scares me", and "kurzweil ... isn't exactly comforting". Is this a bad thing?
I've had to resolve merge conflicts with pbxproj files and xib files, and while it's not pretty, it's not a good enough reason to eschew interface builder. There's a reason that toolset is still around since the NeXTStep days: it's powerful. It gets a lot of giggles from people who are less experienced with Cocoa / iOS, and think that programmatically defined UI is for 'real' coders. In my experience, the amount of time you save wiring-up an app with interface builder is significant. With the editor assistant screen open, you can even drag UI element outlets directly to your code, and it will automatically insert your property declarations (and same with method actions). The idea that I'm going to grok someone else's UI code at a glance -- the same way I would looking at a visual document -- is absurd. Does interface builder fit every situation? Absolutely not. But for the vast majority of apps, you'll get your rapid prototype finished more quickly if you use the tools, and then you can tweak from there.
"Marijuana" is not illegal.

It is illegal to do certain things with marijuana. Possession is one of those things. Growing, distributing, selling, processing, all fall under the category of possession.

It is not illegal to write about marijuana, sing songs about it, paint pictures of it, talk about it, or trade photographs of it.

"Gambling" is not illegal.

It is illegal to gamble in certain ways. One of those ways is when a gambling participant wins anything of tangible value greater than what they paid to play the game. This is why some children's arcades that give tickets for games of luck are legal, and some carnival games are legal. Your winnings are required by law be worth less than what you paid to play.

Playing poker is not illegal, playing bingo is not illegal, playing slots is not illegal, playing blackjack is not illegal, guessing who will win the presidential election is not illegal, and guessing how much rain will fall next Tuesday is not illegal. Just don't gamble for tangible value while you do these things!
Prototype face tattoo in 3D before going under the needle... wouldn't you?
Real-time browser market share from chartbeat
If I understand what benjamin is saying, these would be written as:

account.process_transaction(new loyalty_bonus(bonus_amount))

or possibly

account.process_transaction(new bonus(loyalty_bonus_amount))

depending on the business logic.
Let me address all those people who are saying this is spam. Marketing, believe or not, is what puts your food on your table. Not your precious code. If the code you write every day was not successfully marketed your children would ask for a loaf of bread for Christmas. Marketing is not evil, or sleazy. It is the tool through which we communicate to others that we offer good and meanningful products that will improve their quality of life.

Spam is not an unwanted email. Spam is an email that does not, in any way, provide value to us. Nigerians telling me my rich Uncle left me $5,000,000 is not spam if I, indeed, had a rich Nigerian uncle. But I don't, so their message has no value to me.
You do are not spamming people when you cold email then, just like you don't bother people when you stretch out your hand and smile! The number one sales technique of shaking hands and smilling is equal to sending a friendly cold email.

Is cold emailing spam then? Not at all. Again, it depends on the value you are providing. Say I have a product that helps people who have disabled children. The product has been successfully tested in improving the quality of life of the parents and the children. Its downright awesome. Oh, and its an iOS app. I buy a list of the emails of people who have disabled children. Then I proceed to send them a message campaign highlighting how my app will make their lives better. Twenty five people respond and buy the app. Ten of those people who bought the app use it every day and it does, indeed, improve their lives. One email message improved their life. Is it spam? No. Because it provided value to them. But 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? No. I am providing value to them.

So, all those of you who put down marketing people because its sleazy to sell, read the following:

You would not even be a programmer if some marketing guy had not managed to successfully market computers. And that took a lot of mail campaigns (real mail). Some of it was junk, yes. But a lot of it provided value. So much in fact, that you probably learned how to code from some book or manual sold on one of the catalogs mailed, or handed out in computer stores. I personally benefited from this, because some salesman in some electronics shop convinced my parents to buy me a C64 instead of a Nintendo! Nowdays, I can provide my family with a good quality of life because one salesman decided to sell my folks on a computer. Not spam. Not sleazy. But very valuable.
The kindle DX was a 9.7" screen last I checked. It was big and, from what I've heard, had a tendency for the screen to get broken. It was also over $300. Looks like Amazon has dropped it off their list as well. My guess is there wasn't enough demand for them to keep making it.
for god's sake .. add a nsfw tag for the auto generated pics ... not cool man
If Google over-promotes their own services, and that makes the result worse, users are more likely to switch to alternatives. Viable competition will improve the ecosystem.
Free isn't modifying HTML, but filtering ads servers IPs.
also interesting, the market is not punishing those companies who stand to lose from this ruling:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=yelp
http://www.google.com/finance?q=kyak
http://www.google.com/finance?q=trip
http://www.google.com/finance?q=pcln
Dubious framework decision process
Today's movements:

MSFT: -1.30%

FB : -1.11%

AAPL: -0.68%

NASDAQ: -0.26%

GOOG: +0.28%

So probably not moving down, and slightly moving up, is a good reaction.
Not to mention if anyone will have the resources to create and host the singularity, it would be Google.
83% Of B2B Marketers Are Still Preferring LinkedIn Over Facebook And Twitter
Many tech publishers now sell their ebooks as bundles: one price for multiple formats (usually the big three, sometimes even more). O'Reilly, PragPublishing, NoStarch, Informit spring to mind. (Not saying that it isn't a good thing, but I'm surprised you think it's rare.)
More people die of work from Artificial Stupidity risks: second-hand smoke, open-plan offices, depleted glucose leading to bad eating choices, et al.
Keep in mind that life expectancy is a statistical notion. Something specific is going to kill you. You won’t die or live 30 minutes longer or shorter as a result of a cigarette or a meal many years in the past.

Rather, these behaviors are correlated with outcomes, and average to 20 or 30 minutes or whatever. This sort of daily accounting is misleading.

Similarly, the notion that we are living longer largely has to do with less infant mortality. Specific people are not dying at birth that otherwise would have, pushing up the expectancy. Someone else’s not-dying-at-birth hasn’t made you healthier.

Now, is the “20 minutes a day” thing a noble lie, to encourage good behavior? Perhaps. But that should be put to scientific scrutiny too: to what degree have people changed their behavior due to these notions, and what’s the outcome?

Can I add two years to my life by regularly reading pop-sci recommendations?
Well lets just streamline the "fix" to the "problem" and instead of preventing them from hiring lawyers to "tie up" the feds by freezing their cash, let's just forbid them from hiring lawyers.

Oh right, that would no longer be technically legal, the best sort of legal.
Currently that would be Intel if you want OS drivers. Along with supporting more of the OpenGL standard (i think in dev they're at 3.1 or 3.2 now from what i've heard, which beats most of the other drivers currently) they are also doing fairly well performance wise lately too from what i've seen benchmarked. They're really come a long way and kudos to them.
While I have some disagreements, I think it's great you bring this up. You're addressing an elephant in the room.
This is/was a great app!

I think it's one of the few (2, last I checked) that gives the user access to the heroku console, which can be really handy on the go.

Would love to have it fully operational again.
The real Google's monopoly is AdSense.
Yes, there are "other" ad networks, but they mainly operate with publishers rejected from AdSense or those who serve content that is not compliant with intentionally vague AdSense TOS. Their "competitor's" revenues are smaller by orders of magnitude, and their CPMs are between 5 and 25% of what Google pays.
For anyone who didn't know: Mac and Next users have always informally called them apps. ".app" was actually the NeXTStep extension for program bundles (now carried over to Mac OS X).
I recently implemented A/B testing on a client's site using one of these Javascript-based A/B testing tools (but not this one).

I hadn't used one before, so wanted to verify the data would actually be accurate.

I did an A/A test, basically testing the same exact page––expecting the results would be the same.

Not only were the results not the same, but they were off by a wide margin.

Given this, I don't know how I'm supposed to trust any of the data.

Has anyone else had experiences like this? Is A/B testing in Javascript just not as reliable?
> If Vigil fails to punish a function, does it delete itself?

1. It is wrong not to punish immoral code.
2. You cannot punish all immoral code without a solution to the Halting Problem.
3. You cannot solve the Halting Problem.

∴ Vigil must delete itself. QED.
My goal was to find counter-examples to the phrase "The notion of 2.5 goats didn’t make any sense to the people of those days. They would have been totally confused by the menu at Rotisserie Romados which offers 1/4 of a chicken."
This was their key victory:

"We’re pleased that the FTC and the other authorities that have looked at Google's business practices have concluded that we should be free to combine direct answers with web results."
My first thought was: "if Arizona is doing it, what's wrong with it?"
Visualization of rushing tendencies using this very data http://labs.juiceanalytics.com/spider/index.html
A gaming console on a stick.
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I think he implies that the manager is stupid
Super-productivity is deeply personal – don’t listen to anyone else
How is that practice anticompetitive?
yeah but... what has he done for me lately? /jokes
I found myself sometimes sitting for 4 hours without realizing it. When you get sucked into what you're working on, don't have meetings in the morning, and are sitting on an Aeron like any proper tech worker, it's not so hard to imagine.

Here's a tip: keep yourself very well hydrated. My goal is always 1L water before lunch, 1L after. No software tricks needed!
I guess with long familiarity, many of us just recognize it as a/the legitimate source.

That said, if they move it under the google.com domain, I hope they do not update it to use one of those blank-awful new Blogspot templates that coerce the use of Javascript (or the Google cache) to see anything. There would be, indeed -- from my perspective -- a bit of a contradiction (making me run their Javascript).
Mind sharing your script? I'd love to have something similar.
It would be interesting to take this data and build an app around it for fantasy football. If you have all the tendencies, and how players like your player have played against certain teams, you could make better guesses on who to play.
The point of using a standardized transaction object is that you can than track/manage all such transactions using roughly the same logic. Consider: crediting an account is merely a negative transaction, so there is no point in creating extra overhead or code to manage crediting transactions separately.

This would allow you, for example, to track and handle all transactions, including crediting transactions, using the same code base, with special transaction-type-specific issues dealt with by the transaction-type object.
SEO won't directly lead to viral growth, but it is integrated into a product and can be a significant source of early and new users.
For the longest time, it was also a very technical issue, of issue only to wonks. The general public simply didn't understand it well enough to recognize how pernicious an effect it really had, the news media (which is resolutely pro-status quo) wasn't going to make an issue of anything that would shift the balance of power away from the establishment, and activists realized that organizing against it was a fool's errand, since it would come down to petitioning the corrupt and asking them to give up their power and get nothing in return.

But as Leonard Cohen noted, there is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in. And those cracks appeared in California. Starting with the special election that recalled Gray Davis, and installed Arnold Schwarzenegger (which put the kind of pro-reform candidate who would have never made it through the party machine into the Governors' Office) and the often-problematic-but-in-this-case-fantastic direct initiative system (which allows voters to route around obstructionist legislators) the change got through in the biggest state. The last election, which gave the GOP a huge majority in the House with a slight minority of the vote, showed people in unambiguous terms that something was very clearly wrong. And as California gets itself out from under this awful system, it'll do what it does best: drive change by demonstrating that another future is possible.
I tend to agree with you. I am not aware of any major contributions he has made to AI and his recent work on the human brain is shallow and unscientific.

However, Google is not dumb. They have Peter Norvig heading Google X and a team of AI engineers recruited by Norvig. Perhaps Kurzweil is just the hand guiding the ship, but not the one pulling the oars?
Forgive the added clutter, but I came back to delete my comment as promised and HN wouldn't let me. Ah well... :-)
Google's Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal
Would your employer prevent you from going outside for 5 minutes every hour?

That actually sounds like a great idea. Once an hour, head down to the street and walk a couple blocks.
To my knowledge they haven't published anything around AI risk or released any statements/positions publicly.

That doesn't mean that they aren't taking it seriously, but it is at least a strong signal to me.
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I think a lot of people just think of Ray Kurzweil as being like a "tech blogger" of the scientific community - someone who just likes to talk about future stuff, but not someone who's actually an inventor - which he is.
Right -- big publishers' size and distribution model requires them to focus on outsized wins. Their overhead is too high to take on the many smaller projects they would require to feed their cost structure. Smaller traditional publishers face similar problems, having to make few and careful bets and so often having to sell out to survive.

Valve provides an interesting contrast here: with Steam/GreenLight they run a scaleable distribution channel for large numbers of small indies, taking a percentage without making particular and huge bets. It's like an index fund vs. managed fund, where the latter does intense research into specific options. Often that research in anchored in comparative analysis where someone has proven a juicy market exists (ex: Guitar Hero having a million clones in its wake).
Amazing that this isn't voted higher. Regardless of Objective-C's virtues, this the real reason. The decision was made back in the late '80s for NeXTStep, and it just hasn't been changed since then. Apple was kinda moving toward Java in the early days of Mac OS X — WebObjects was ported to it, and it was a peer language for Cocoa up to Mac OS X 10.4 or something — but Mac users hated Java, as it was dog slow at the time, so Objective-C won by inertia.
There's no way to know a priori without introducing some pretty onerous restrictions.
The perils of personal progress
May you provide more details? We could use your experience to shed some public light into how to interpret A/B testing data.
Interestingly, when I talk to DOJ or SEC prosecutors, I have heard the opposite. They are concerned because the whitecollar defendants (e.g. Bernie Madoff) they try to prosecute have access to much larger legal teams than the feds who are operating on very limited resources.
Now let's not go too far with this hypothetical computer-aided gambling scenario. Everyone knows that Bash keeps a history of commands and that our pasty friend simply needs to press the up arrow followed by return after the first roll of the digital die.
not vaporware. tech is built and already in use.
It also means that when a bug is found in that code that you only have to fix it in one place, not 75,000 random places where it's duplicated, and probably slightly differently each time, making it hard to search for.
No, I do not. I imply that the manager does not understand the benefits of 20% time on productivity.
If you need a similar level of assurance in Ruby, https://github.com/fxn/i-told-you-it-was-private can do something almost the same.
It's obviously bad from his perspective.
The "radeon" driver supports everything up to the "Northern islands" series very well. Check out http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature for details.

Support for the "Southern island" series should be coming soon. And AMD is working to make future driver releases coincide with the hw releases.

The free drivers are still a little slower than the proprietary drivers but they have more features such as KMS.

EDIT:

To answer your question directly, the Radeon HD 6970 or 6990 are the fastest northern islands cards and are well supported by the radeon xorg driver. I don't know if the driver can use both of the gpus in the 6990 though.

The southern island chips should be supported very soon though, which are the HD7750 - HD7970 .
I am not sure I understand your point.

More people, almost by definition, currently die from every other cause than x-risks.

Google is in the best position of anyone/any company to cause an AI disaster. That they don't _seem_ to care is what bothers me.
What about people who do intend to work within the law, but are uncomfortable building wealth in a country which may deprive them of that wealth when they need it most? Not only guilty people get indicted. I think the previous commenter was right: this could become an incentive for people to take their business elsewhere, or at least keep more capital offshore.
I stopped having merge conflicts with pbxproj files - ever - once I started making use of this tool in my projects:

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Tools/Scripts/s...

It can be run while Xcode is open; it'll just reset the tree view. It basically alphabetizes everything, so there is one canonical ordering to items that you add to the project.
>> Casinos in vegas have no idea if you're deep into a gambling session or not.

Yes and no. The slot machine has no idea. But the casino certainly does. They do stuff like track you with membership cards, detect when you're frustrated and about to leave, and "helpfully" show up to offer you a free meal so you'll stay.

It's diabolical, really.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/15/142366953/the-tues...
All Late Projects are the same
I'd love to believe that this data falls underneath the "Facts are not copyrightable" decision: http://chart.copyrightdata.com/c16B.html
This is great. Kudos.
I'm afraid that was my response. I doubt I'll need them, and I'll re-evaluate if I ever do, but as far as I'm concerned TurkTrust is not a valid CA. Here's how on Windows (you can't delete them, they come back with the next CA update):

IE, Chrome & everything else that uses the OS:

runas /user:Administrator "mmc certmgr.msc"
(might also work as another Admin user if you disabled the real Administrator account)

Expand "Trusted Root Certification Authorities"

Double-click on TURKTRUST certificate

Click "Details" tab and "Edit Properties..." button

Click "Disable all purposes for this certificate"

Repeat for each TURKTRUST certificate in turn

FireFox/Thunderbird & everyone else that reinvented the wheel:

Click "Options" -> "Advanced" and choose the "Encryption" tab

Click "View Certificates" button

Choose "Authorities" tab

Click on each TURKTRUST certificate in turn and press "Delete or Distrust"...

It's ridiculous that there are well over 300 trusted root CA certificates distributed with Windows 7. Does anyone have a minimal set for the Western world? I don't want to trust Turkey, or Korea, or China, implicitly by default - I'll decide who I trust as and when I have to.
Thank you, you have made my day!
I think reddit would go crazy for this sort of stuff. In fact, have it load images from imgur.
Also, nice work.
Ah, interesting. Thanks.