skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really - this has been done before and the textbook example are spin systems. The newsworthy part is that the negative temperature is realized via motional degrees of freedom.
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These better interfaces are called API clients.

The business angle being interesting is something I'd disagree with. Look at what happened to "better interfaces to Twitter."
I'm going to agree with you re:the opposite. The Web Design Served category (supposedly the best of the best on the site) posts some seriously awful stuff (stock photos, overuse of textures, bad typography, poor UX practices). When I emailed them to ask who curated the site and if they were an actual web designer or just a random intern, I was told it was curated by the entire web design department. I stopped visiting Behance after that.
A pie chart of the Vigil development time would show something like:

25% Writing code
10% Reading the traceback documentation
40% Writing the README
20% Browsing a thesaurus for the best words
5% Cursing after Vigil deleted part of the example

I tell you what, trying to get this thing to self-host is... tricky.
Al Capone is not a good example because he had a tremendous amount of influence via bribes, extortion, blackmail, assassinations, and the like. This is why he could not be convicted on criminal charges. He was basically an outlier.
Does stimulated emission hold this property? We increase the energy until the system lases but the entropy decreases as the gain narrows?
Amazing how high quality, HDR-blasted stock images distort reality. Replace those with more typical pictures of crappy iPhone pictures about things no one cares about, and I imagine it looks far less pretty.
Envy.. This rant obviously shows that the author doesn’t get along with his artistic inabilities.
I ask because I find it incredibly easy to come up with ideas for projects and startups but find it incredibly difficult to assess their commercial qualities, the amount of work required, etc. Just picking an idea and work on it isn't that optimal because it's difficult to know how much work it required and where it will lead to.
The downvotes, imo, are most likely not for the concept of your post but for your tone.
You can file as 1b intent to use. Or simply design a logo as used in printed stationery (or on a website page) and submit that. We've done both and have been successful in getting trademarks approved.
Can you comment on how this technique is better than simply having AdBlock extensions in browsers? They seem pretty reliable to me. But maybe there's an advantage to having adblocking at router level? If so, please explain.
while echo $RANDOM; do sleep 10; done
I wasn't expecting this comment in Hacker News. I can only agree. Indeed, this is an investment with a risk/return profile of a utility, not the technology.
AI is just smarter software at the end of the day. The risks are still far greater for a simple control system used in a Boeing 777 or heart pacemaker than for an AI search engine.

It's all about Risk Management 101: Risk = Impact x Probability.
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TCP packets facilitate online gambling too.
This is cool but I'd rather go with a 12factor layout.
Allow smooth scrolling of the window [VIM]
The Riddle of the Gun
Looks like a new version of this one is coming out in February:
http://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Introduction-Symbolic-Comp...
I don't see how after a project matures, there should be no exploitable bugs? Even Java still has serious bugs on a yearly basis... The only secure systems are the ones nobody uses.
The detractors are few when the discussion is about IBM's Watson. It "competed against" the best Jeopardy players and is now said to be "going to medical school."

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/i-b-m-s-watson-goes...

But it's still a machine. Albeit with very sophisticated and very useful capabilities.

And as far as I know, has not expressed self-awareness.

Yet given the fundamental nature of how Watson works it would seem logical to think that Google might one day have to compete with IBM in a number of areas where Watson excels -- medical diagnosis for example. Or worldwide financial analysis.

To do so, Google will need strong voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities which Ray Kurzweil can help with immediately.
"but what happens"

The fear here (which isn't really detailed in the post because the OP has some experience in this area) is always going to be that you will say the wrong thing and somehow disadvantage yourself. If the respondent goes along and is willing to cooperate that won't happen. But if they don't there may be some nuggets in whatever you say that will come back to haunt you (just like talking to the police w/o an attorney might).
Imagine this but instead of awesome professionally shot pictures it is just full of crappy webcams. It is awful.
This is what I use nowadays: https://github.com/ulyssesv/django-quickie.
How about good old HTML + CSS + SVG for a book format? There is a number of good rendering engines for that, I heard.

Also, it's much less complex than PDF.

But publishing a book in HTML would require some genuine effort, as opposed to just exporting the book typeset for paper as a PDF, often not even trimming the margins which eat precious e-reader screen space.
I think the new part is that this is very close to absolute zero from the negative side instead of the positive side. It also seems the other interesting part is that the system transitions from positive to negative temperatures very suddenly.
Starbucks reveals $1 reusable cup to curb trash
IOS Safari silently fails to draw sprite slices on HTML5 canvas
> My question is...why not implement such an interface via a plugin/extension and actually make it a reality for anyone that wants it?

Oh, a couple of reasons.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-bans-browser-plu...

http://www.fbpurity.com/news/important-news-facebooks-legal-...
How about they just switch to biodegradable cups? Or even ones that you can actually recycle?
One that I can imagine is this works on all devices and all browsers regardless of any external factors. For example, is it possible to install an AdBlocker on Safari Mobile? I know it's not on my Windows Phone. Having to install an extension on every device, every browser, every computer gets tiring.

Another bonus is when people visit, ads are blocked for them as well.
Here's an idea: why not code it up?

I mean, Facebook isn't that revolutionary in terms of a site - there's a user with a login, there are comments, there are pictures. A demo site wouldn't need a scalable infrastructure to show off these ideas.

I'm just not so sure that some of the site controls would be possible in a browser. It's very tablet-y with controls that we are accustomed to in our phones and pads but not on a desktop. Also, it's very horizontal, which isn't typically very friendly on handhelds.
One other thing (yes, I realize I'm replying to myself): In non-monetary crimes.. burglary, for example.. the accused does not get to hold onto the property they are accused of stealing. It sits in an evidence locker until the trial is over, and then it's returned to either the accused or the victim (or auctioned off).

In a way, the freezing of the funds in a white-collar crime is very similar.
I'd be curious what other myths you spotted, because the reference to Ariadne is certainly an allusion to the Greek myth you mention. Just as her namesake there guided Theseus from the labyrinth, Ariadne's role in Inception is guiding Cobb out of the maze that is the mortal world. This why we get casual dialogue about characters "getting lost" in limbo and "spending a lifetime" down there. According to the logic of the film, life is a dream and all dreams are mazes.

More neat things about Ariadne's character: she is a gift from his father ("ask and ye shall receive") and one of the first things she does is the very symbolic act of shattering a pair of mirrors which trap Cobb in another maze of sorts. Also, considering her thematic purpose, it is interesting to note that she is the single character who accompanies Cobb to the gates of immigration, wearing a sweater that appears to be made of red yarn.

On the Christian front, I was raised as a soft Anglican so I hope I know enough not to be wildly wrong. That said, the first thing that clicked for me watching the film was the secular symbolism. When Nolan pointed his camera at the ocean while the narrator intoned about "the shores of our subconscious" it jolted me to attention as water is a common symbol for the subconscious in a great deal of English literature and film, and Nolan uses it in this very conventional way throughout Inception. The Christian references are omnipresent but subtle ("leap of faith", "goddamn beach", etc.) and the sandcastle bit didn't fall into place until much later, when I caught James' line of dialogue thanks to watching the film in a theater with subtitles, and then made the connection to the collapsing buildings of limbo and the sandcastles after the fact.
In the mean time, simply settling for unobtrusive ads would suffice.
Technology is Good, But People are Better
There are good ideas, like the profile page (which right now serves no purpose on Facebook). Sadly, my Facebook is not a wall full of models, and this design seem to fail to account for anything that isn't a photo.
Even if you don't like exercise, it isn't necessarily a loss. Have you considered the potential quality-of-life improvements you could enjoy during the time you aren't exercising? E.g. better mood, better health, more energy/vigor.
Before clicking, I thought as though it would be like http://mustachify.me/ with a prompt/variable to render the bubble text.
Free.fr has been trying for years to force big content providers, and especially Google, to participate in ISPs' infrastructure costs. This move is most likely a way to dry up AdSense revenue, hoping that Google will cave in.

Free.fr, and beyond the company its boss Xavier Niel, has a consistent track record of pissing of big players in established markets. Niel made his wealth with Minitel, including sex and dating sites, then consistently disrupted networking markets with Free.fr:

* they first sold dialup connection for the cost of a local communications, without ads;

* they established the price of unlimited ADSL around €30/month;

* they introduced TV over IP and free phone calls over IP through the freebox (the ADSL router that comes with a free.fr subscription)

* they started a bandwidth race, offering tens of MB/s when historic operators were stuck at 512KB/s.

* they slashed mobile phone prices: no subsidized phones, no contract, but unlimited calls and data (bandwitdth capped beyond 3GB/month) for less than 20€/month.

Their whole business model has always been about pissing off fat cats, big time. They're trying their luck against Google.
What were your issues with timeline usability wise? I think it's great, so genuinely curious.
> Does stimulated emission hold this property?

Yes.

> We increase the energy until the system lases but the entropy decreases as the gain narrows?

Typical model is the two level system. At abs 0+, all the electrons are in the lower state. at abs 0-, all the electrons are in the upper state.
>> I'd choose system integrity/reputation over catching 100% of the bad guys.

Pretty much my thought. The system is based on the fundamental belief that it is more harmful to convict an innocent person than to let a guilty one get away. This is why there is a built-in assumption that people are innocent until proven guilty.
That isn't the only chip microchip makes for recharging, but it's probably the cheapest. There are more complicated (larger) chips that do everything from overcharge protection, temp monitoring, etc. Some applications don't need all that fancy stuff. The chip I linked is 4 years old, but they make new versions of the chip almost every year.
So I understand it conceptually:

A thought experiment where a cup of some substance manages to be observed at a stable negative temperature.

This substance is a liquid at its current temperature. But it is colder than the ambient temperature of the room. As the liquid warms up from the ambient room temperature, it freezes. But taken outside on a cold day, it will melt and then evaporate?

I know you're not going to get a cup of this stuff in reality, but am I at least understanding the idea? The "temperature" of the liquid would remain negative, it's not like it could ever "warm up" to the point it was positive? It could reach an equilibrium state with its environment, but it would still be negative?
>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!

I .. I'm not sure if you're serious, but that is either smart, insulting or both. It's true that cleavage and nice smiles were there, but noting it as a non-production look, - that's a bit bleak.

The design looks great. I can't wait to hear my friends opinions as I don't use Facebook on regular basis.
Charles Carreon: Internet is so mean I can’t “keep my cool” in court
I strongly, strongly disagree with the idea that you should only build products where you're the end user. There are many interesting problem domains where the end users aren't suited towards building the solution.

My company does Machine Learning for Sales. There aren't a huge number of people who can do both programming and statistics well. Add Sales to that skillset and there are, what, 5 people in the world who can do all 3? The odds of finding a sales person who wants a predictive sales tool and has the capability and interest to write it are vanishingly small.

For a consumer-oriented example look at Coursera or other MOOCs. Andrew Ng is not a Coursera user (i.e. student.) He understands students, and that's enough-MOOCs provides enormous value because they solve an important problem. Students would have had a much harder time creating Coursera than Ng.
A distinction without a difference if it isn't configurable by the user.
That's potentially legit (people could argue about whether these rails vulnerabilities represent something to worry about in Rails, or whether even mature robust projects will still have bugs, including security bugs).

But the fact remains that THIS vulnerability isn't NEARLY as dangerous as some of those OTHER ones you mention in the last 7 months, but those other ones people mostly ignored, and THIS one they're going crazy thinking they need to fix right away.

What I think about the general question? Most (all?) of those Rails SQL injection bugs actually are related to a similar underlying design: Attempt to create methods with 'variable signatures', where you can give it a string OR a hash, or a list of various strings and hashes, and all of those things mean different things.

I think all of the Rails SQL injection bugs are actually related to variable arguments like that. When those variable argument methods were designed in Rails, it's probably safe to say nobody realized there were security implications, that it opens you up to a whole class of bugs where someone puts a hash where you expect a string and it change the semantics of the method call because your variable argument interpreting logic had some flaws. In retrospect, it's possibly not a great thing to do.

But Rails is not the only offender here, it's a pretty common design pattern in lots of ruby -- I think it's probably a mistaken one, but it is one that developers tend to like the convenience of.
Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"
I fear the response from advertisers, which will trigger a technology war that will eat endless computer cycles with complicated ad-content delivery networks.

An easy solution is to equate blocking AdSense with blocking Google.com. I am not sure why Google hasn't already taken this step.
Intelligence creates tools--that is its nature. Modifying intelligence is easy--just fork a process--now you have two minds working on the problem. I'm human and I could hack into other machines to gain their processing power. Even if you don't put it on the web, it could probably talk you or someone in the lab to do so by promising stock market riches, or to cure the janitor's kid of cancer. All of these things would be behaviors that further the paperclip goal.
In regards to drinks, it's probably indirect. E.g., the sort of person who has several drinks every night is probably the sort of person to have alcohol abuse issues at some point in their life. Alternatively, the data was averaged, and you are seeing the negative impact of binge drinking on weekends.
Python or Ruby is fine...the main trick is to be able to process those fields with regular expressions...which, IIRC, requires throwing in VBscript if you were to handle it solely in Excel.

Python and Ruby would also allow for more elegant-looking -- i.e. more maintainable -- functions to handle that field.
So your baseline standard for whether an experimental result is interesting is "does this violate the laws of physics?" You must find science so disappointing.
Love at first sight? Mild interest at 12 dates, 15 emails and 2 phone calls
Realizing the consequences has everything to do with being pro or anti ads.
Working in information security, I spent a good amount of time tracking down malware infections on our company's machines. While most of them are from email attachments, a good number of them source from ad servers that have been hijacked to serve malicious content.

I see a comment on Ars that says ad-based malware is overblown as a concern, and let me assure you it is not. Hijacked ad servers are an incredibly effective way to spread your malware across many unsuspecting users. If this was overblown, you wouldn't see so many people working so hard to find new browser 0-day exploits.
So, simply put: convenience. Plus, some small saving on computational resources on the browser device.
Facebook tests Wi-Fi calling, and voice app in Canada
Yes, science must ignore the Siren call of religion! We welcome your efforts, for it is a truly Herculean task, nay, Sisyphean! You're like modern Prometheus, providing us fire on this Odyssey into the future.
Inspired by Lumia 920 and Windows 8 :D
Make this into an iPhone app and you'll probably get some very nice monthly dosh from it.
I know you're being sarcastic, but this is a wonderful thing about science! Commonly held, intuitive, time-honored ideas about temperature, space, mass, time, turn out to break down in edge cases, and those breakdowns drive the development of new mathematics, physics, and chemistry. The universe is so much deeper, stranger, and more beautiful than we ever imagined.

If you aren't compelled by ideas alone it can feel like much ado about nothing (who cares about tiny variations in spacetime curvature?), but without general relativity, we couldn't have built the GPS. Without quantum mechanics we couldn't have lasers--and without lasers, no modern internet.

Pretty cool time to be a human being, I think. :)
Well, from what I gather, the overarching criteria of the contest for which this was develped is "Does it do something novel to advance understanding and execution of software development?" While that kind of focus tends to bring out all kinds of wacky ideas, don't confuse defiance of the status quo for casting off all reason. When there's no shame in it, experimenters needen't rationalize or smooth over their deviation from expected norms.
Not the above user, but the two column format was definitely jarring. I've since then gotten used to it -- and grown to appreciate it -- but it definitely took a lot of adjusting.
Anyone knows which font is used?

EDIT: found it, it's Museo Sans
Below absolute zero is an anti-concept.
The information being broken into two columns is quite annoying; it's like searching for an item in a supermarket looking on both sides of the aisle
I sure hope that the grid is religiously chronological. Otherwise, this design has the same fundamental flaw that the current timeline has - rearrangement of stories that is not easy to predict. The current timeline moves stories from left to right, into and out of folders making finding a story impossible. This design will do that to by rearranging the grid after every story comes through.

I'm not sure why designers would think this would appeal. This is like throwing a pile of papers on the desk. And rearranging them each time a new sheet is added.
from the POV of a design researcher/strategist, this is a pretty typical if oversimplified process

1) find a problem through user research
2) asess scope & scale (is this a big problem? does it impact a lot of people?)
3) identify what the successful experience would include (more/less interpersonal interaction? faster or more leisurely? high energy or soothing?)
4) create divergent solutions, filter to find ones that work and might actually be profitable
Autofocus time management system
This is the essence of the Hobbesian approach - Vigil is has unlimited power over the programmer's code. The programmer has no claim upon Vigil other than that it enforce morality upon their code.

I don't think you can have turtles all the way down.
> Which might seem odd for a Googler, but actually it could easily be explained as someone who was rejected from that team, dislikes someone on that team, etc.

Seriously? It’s impossible for a Google employee to not like one of their products?

That would be dishonest, no need to ascribe it to malice or retaliation.

This should be true at every company. How can you improve your product if you think everything you do is just perfect and there is nothing to be improved?
It is configurable but opt-out.
My friends aren't overwhelmingly ugly, but they certainly don't take production-quality pictures. Judging a social app's beauty by the stock photos is like judging the fit of a shirt by how it looks on the model.
Very interesting. Could you expand a little on this, ie what exactly his bet on interest rates is? Is he expecting them to stay low or go up?
Pretty sure "moat" is a term popularized by Warren Buffet himself to describe a company with some kind of inherent advantage over it's competitors. As in, when a company with a moat succeeds, his competitors have a hard time entering that market and replicating that success because of the moat.

A moat protects your marketshare. A very large moat then would be, I guess (I'm not an investor or anything), a company with a large competitive advantage and a market share that would be very difficult to steal.
Just checked wikipedia:
"By contrast, a system with a truly negative temperature in absolute terms on the kelvin scale is hotter than any system with a positive temperature. If a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative- to the positive-temperature system."

Let's define wikipedia to be the absolute zero of information.
Em, surely the idea would be to get poor people to have a defence as good as rich people, not dragging rich people down. And, its says nothing good that its clear that there is a difference in out come depending on wealth. If some one is innocent, then that should be the out come regardless of money.

Further, defendants are going up against the might of the state, US or other wise. Surely all defendants should have a defence equal of the state, other wise, well, you don't have any justice to speak of at all.

I cant understand why this is not making people want to argue for non rich people to have a decent defence in court.
It is turned on by default on a router that the ISP is capable of upgrading (which is scary enough) and that the ISP forcefully upgrade without notifying the customers.

If the title was - French ISP upgrade routers to block porn it would have been an uproar. It is the same.

So the ISP is not being just and ISP it is assuming the role of a gatekeeper with a device on which they have root access.