skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual storm coming is most probably very different.

When we have a general AI, it is likely it will start to optimize the world according to its programming. One such optimization would be to code an even more efficient AI (we assume the AI is a better programmer than its human fathers and mothers). And so on, until FOOM, we have a super-intelligence, capable of taking over computers, convincing humans, build companies, take over means of production, inventing means of productions, and basically take over the world.

And of course, it will be unstoppable.

Now let's just hope that the original such AI have no bug, especially in its goal system, and let's hope further that it's initial goals are exactly in line with humanity's. We wouldn't want clippy to tile the solar system with paper clips. Or Smiley to do the same with molecular smileys (as a proxy for human happiness). Or Hal9000 to do the same with ultra-efficient computing devices so it can solve the Riemann Hypothesis… Which would have the unfortunate side effect of killing us all.

To the extent you don't believe in intelligence explosion, Robin Hanson describe the kind of world we could have. I dare say, it's not pretty.
I actually get a different rendering for some reason. I get all the extra diatricts to the right above empty circles. That certainly explains why I didn't quite understand the problem.
I don´t know what information is available (and english isn´t my first language, so I may not know some terms), but off the top of my head, I think some performance data could be used to know if the engine needs adjustments (comparing fuel comsumption against what is expected for the usage might help), alerts for when the brakes need replacement, the locations where the car was turned off (to track if employees went where they were supposed to at the time time they were supposed to (a problem at my job)).

Probably could have worded it better, but I´m out of practice with the language.
What a stressful 24 hours. Everything has finally been resolved.
Does Automatic impact my phone's battery life?
... more or less: no
Next section:
Does Automatic charge a monthly fee?
No, all you need is the Automatic Link and a smartphone with an active data plan.

From my experience that is exactly what kills 99% of smartphone batteries...
I wrote a simple bash script which is a good starting point for checking server issues.

https://github.com/BashtonLtd/whatswrong

The idea isn't too tell you the problem exactly, but more to stop you missing things that are obviously wrong.
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The text is in fact processed in the client, and is quite fast even for large corpora such as the whole Bible: http://www.jasondavies.com/wordtree/?source=kjv.txt&pref...

It attempts to access URLs directly but this only works if the server sends the appropriate CORS headers (hardly ever).

Otherwise, it falls back to using a proxy, which means the client only sees what the proxy sees. However, you can also paste raw text on the main page.

I could imagine modifying the bookmarklet so it lifts the text directly from the browser instead of just copying the URL. This would solve the proxy issue neatly and would also work for local-only or intranet sites, for which the proxy also fails.
> We do not waste any time "architecting for failure": our databases run on RAID arrays with hot standbys, no need for chaos monkeys.

Ha - your in for some fun the first time your hardware fails.
How effective is Duolingo?
An insurance giant will attempt to purchase Automatic. That's my guess.
Just a bit of feedback but a lot of these questions read like a checklist of no-brainers geared towards a pro entrepreneurial affirmation bias, rather than quantifying creativity, problem solving, business acumen and willingness to participate in a market.
Hello,

Can anyone provide any advice on how to help a friend through depression? I met this friend about a month and half ago and he recently opened up to me about his depression. He's been in and out of depression since high school (about three years I think; he is currently on medications and getting help; he's reached out to me first (we're studying abroad in Asia) and I would like to help in anyway possible. My questions are:

1) How much do I reach out and ask to hang out/eat/etc.?
2) What are the boundaries I should be aware of? Should I bring up the depression and ask him how he's doing every day? other day? week?
3) Any general advice (I went through semi-depression for about 6 months, but it was not anywhere near as drastic) (I also helped a friend through depression last year which was almost suicidal)

Thank you. I appreciate any advice you can provide.
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This looks amazing - I could totally see this being the go-to word processor for bloggers, especially with the editing service!
Then you have a tradeoff: if you don't wake up frequently enough, you could conceivably drive for a good distance before noticing.
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I did not know this friend, but I do know depression.
Anyway no one can know for sure, the problems of each, in their choose, in your life, etc..

Moreover, the help of doctors, etc, that's all very well, but many times we forget, the society in general, it is very cruel, often with other friends.

This life, this world..

Comments on Ref. to Friend(s)..:

http://is.gd/dMte7s

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

R.I.P.
D.E.P.
Why do you imply that the members of this panel are being disingenuous?

- Yes you never agreed to the panel, but how does this email chain not reflect an honest invitation?

- Of course the debate was framed; it is impossible for an event to not have context. Would you have preferred it framed differently? How so?

- Are you implying that these panelists prefer pageviews over progress? If not, who are the boogeymen you are invoking here?
This really does match up with my current view of reddit as a brutal hivemind of anonymous posters with a true lack of moderation (lest mod's get the "free speech" card pulled on them).

I admit to being an active user there but there is a true lack of acceptance of criticism and the inability to see things from multiple points of view.

Unfortunately, it seems like getting an objective view on what happened at the panel would be impossible now but those tweets in response are pretty vicious and uncalled for.
I want the reverse of this: a way to use the car's superior GPS/IMU to augment my phone, instead of the other way around.
Thank you very much for this. Yes, I need a lot of work on smaller view ports. Definitely on the todo list.
Wow. I may have misread your initial diatribe, but the inference was that you don't use it often. But hey, being rude is the best way to correct me.
I think it's better to break this down, because this myth of 'running out of battery' is really exaggerated

Let's say your average battery has 40AH. That means it can provide 1A for 40h (or better, the product time(h) x current(A) = 40 for a charged battery) @ 12v

If your lamps consume 24W (I'm guessing), that's 2A, it means it would go from fully charget to nothing in 20h. But of course, your battery is usually not 100% and you need a certain battery capacity to start the engine.

Even if the consumption of this device is 1W while idle (which is really an exaggerated value), the device uses around 0.084A and the battery would take 480h to go from 100% to 0% (or about 20 days)

My guess is that an unpowered car uses more than that by itself, so this dongle is not an issue, unless you're leaving it unattended, you can unplug it but will probably run out of battery nonetheless.
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Sad to read. Both how poorly the author was treated and how disconnected Tim is from the current O'Reilly. I got to talk to Tim at a conference once and was very impressed with both his ability to see the problem through the symptoms, and his views on publishing.

I was sort of wondering where the Dashboards book had gone, since I was going to refer it to friend and poof it was toast.
If she actually answered the questions she proposed the article might have some weight. But instead she spends most of the article complaining about the people criticizing her.

Unfortunately people like this make their money from stirring up controversy so it is a never ending cycle.
Could you detect a drop in voltgage when the engine turns off and automatically turn off your device?
It depends on the driver and the area you're from. In front of my home, I rarely lock my car.
Thanks! I sure hope that's a path this can go down.
VAG-COM is much more powerful and flexible than an OBD-II reader.
My experience of hangouts is video is slightly jerkier (though in a controlled way if that makes sense - it felt like a deliberately lower frame rate rather than just breaking up), audio is more solid.

On a poor connection I'd go with hangouts over the alternatives at the moment. It's not perfect but I prefer the trade offs.
It's not free, it costs $70.
People read books about computer programming?
Technically, you could always develop for Windows using OpenNI however you'd typically be relying on a 3rd party wrapper to expose the bindings in .NET. I'm not sure if this library is utilizing OpenNI or has been built from the ground up, but regardless: it does encourage developers to use their library rather than a separately maintained one.

In saying that: OpenNI works pretty well with the Kinect if you spend some time understanding it! I've never used the Windows bindings however on OSX it works well :)
> If this were an unlucky edge case, I could understand. But it seems like they allowed larger block sizes without testing them on pre v0.8 miners

That is not entirely correct. Multiple large blocks were tested on v0.7 (and older clients). Blocks up to the 1MB hard limits were validated and relayed by older clients.

The "problem block" in particular wasn't rejected due to simply being too large. It was somewhat rare in that it exceeded the number of low level locks available to v0.7 clients. It had a large number of transactions with a large number of inputs and outputs and those happened to have a large number of compressed keys. Without using a high number of compressed keys it wouldn't be possible to have a block with this number of inputs and outputs in the 1MB limit.

Granted in hindsight more testing should have been done but it wasn't like nobody said "hey we should test large blocks, nah I am sure it will be fine".
I really like the way you can just push your test app on the meteor servers and share it with a few friends, it is just so easy to build and deploy in it.

Here are some cool apps people have built with Meteor so far, there seem to be a lot of collaborative apps. Feel free to add your own: http://madewith.meteor.com/
The Pebble smart watch uses Bluetooth Serial Profile.
I preface this by saying I don't know the author and I don't recall ever having read anything by her previously before, so all of this drama about past things she's spoken about is new to me.

Regardless, this is a great example of how the challenges women face (particularly on the anonymous web) are even further worsened by inappropriate skepticism from those who claim those challenges don't exist at all. All of her points were unmistakably valid and yet she was publicly shamed, her Wiki vandalized (it says this happens 2-3 times a month, and that her page has been on a watchlist for years because of this), and most of these people weren't even at the talk.

And she's right; truly civil discourse just doesn't happen in most subreddits except in very rare instances where someone decides to take the high road. Regardless of gender, because karma exists, people'd rather not risk their worthless points over being the guy that says "Hey, that's not cool." Social janitorial work isn't pretty, but it needs to be done. If Reddit won't take responsibility for the direction of the discourse on the primary subreddits, users that value stimulating conversation over the same tired [pointlessly offensive] jokes will flock elsewhere.
Some interesting predictions for 2013
> you don't know before the interview if everyone else will be in jeans

If you don't know this, you've failed at researching for your interview.
Something like every 5 to 10 seconds would work fine. The point is this is a solved problem for embedded hardware.

The company rep said in a previous reply that it consumes < 1 mA when the ignition is off, that's good enough.
This was exactly my experience with FF back in the day -- while everyone was bitching about it being a bloated memory hog, I had no problem using it on an old machine with 256MB of RAM.
I've never understood why people dance around naming names when calling companies out. Doesn't that help the whole community? Now I know Tim is a good guy, and specific people tried to waste the author's time. If I ever publish a book with O'Reilly, I know to avoid those people. "The issue is with the entire company", which is made up of people. When people get good service, they use names. When they don't get good service, they suddenly avoid names at all? I just don't get it.
The servers. I was looking around on the site to try to find more info about Kiln, and one of the FAQs was the system requirements for the server (for companies that want to host their own Kiln instances I'd assume). With git or Mercurial I can spin up my own host in a variety of ways, or if I want something slicker I could host my own instance of github (not sure about BitBucket, but I suspect it likewise can be self-hosted). With Kiln if I wanted to go a similar route I need to have a Windows server with IIS and a variety of other dependencies.
> Why do you imply that the members of this panel are being disingenuous?

The original article claimed, "To balance things out, Farhad invited Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, but he dropped out, so it was just the three of us." Saying that Alexis "dropped out" is simply wrong, so the statement is disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst.
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Kiln Harmony is complicated, and has lots of edge-cases it needs to handle. We'll be publishing a whole series of blog posts that explore exactly how Kiln Harmony works. In the mean time, though, just because I think it might spawn some interesting discussion, here is a non-exhaustive list of edge-cases we translate:

* Git octopus merges
* Mercurial descriptions that are not UTF-8
* Git commits whose messages aren't in their nominal encoding
* Mercurial and Git having invalid timestamps
* Git having a different author from committer
* Git and Mercurial commits and changesets with extra metadata
* Mercurial usernames that are not valid Git usernames
* Mercurial bookmarks that are not valid Git refs
* Mercurial named branches
* Git annotated tags (requires an not-quite-yet-released extension to fully round-trip; the non-annotated part of the tag works today and will be forwards-compatible)
* Mercurial changesets/manifests/filelogs with bad parent data
* Git trees that are just flat-up invalid
* Subrepos and submodules (100% preservation, but we can only
translate Git submodules/subrepos cleanly to/from each other,
since Git submodules have to be Git)

There's more, but hopefully that gives you some idea what we were up against. Again, I'll be publishing a series of articles that explore how we handle all the above edge-cases beginning really soon.
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The android file transfer app does not work with the Nexus 4. At least, it doesn't if you're on Mountain Lion. Same goes for doubletwist. The Nexus 4 only supports USB MTP mode, not USB MSC (mass storage) mode. I think other newer phones are this way too.
is there a reason why we're not all using SVGs yet?

In a word: hinting. For the same reasons that fonts designed for screen use are hinted, so it can be useful to hint icons that will be displayed at small sizes, and of course using a font format allows that but unfortunately SVG doesn’t.

Other practical reasons can include the ability to apply things like CSS shadow effects consistently to both the icon and any label text next to it, and backward compatibility with older IE versions that don’t fully support SVG.

Of course there are downsides as well. The use of tiny icons as UI elements tends to create more usability problems than it solves unless the icons are immediately recognisable, yet being restricted to the completely monochrome, flat appearance supported by font formats severely limits how distinctive you can make each icon. You also can’t swap out a highly detailed icon for a simplified version of the same idea at smaller sizes/lower resolutions. The article touches on these points, but SVG only really helps with the first one anyway.

So personally I’m a bit of a sceptic about the whole icon fonts idea, but it does have some technical advantages over using SVG icons in the limited niche where the icon font technique applies.
She did write:

"To balance things out, Farhad invited Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, but he dropped out, so it was just the three of us."

"he dropped out" is clearly false.
Is it considered bad to post your new web app here?
Or is it considered to be a good place for feedback?
What a great great post. Sorry, no witty comments to add.
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About the same for me : http://i.imgur.com/fOTopJU.png

Both Opera and Chrome on Windows XP.
On windows 7 I get the interestingly looking results with both Opera and Chrome.
SRS is certainly not satire. It is a group of online activists, I'm not familiar enough to say whether or not they are extreme or not.
Clearing the code is a very standard feature of any OBD reader.

It does not mean you get to pass your next inspection. The computer will know it was reset and tell the inspector's computer when it was done. You have to drive ~50/100 miles after resetting for your inspection to be legit. If the problem is still there, it will pop back up.
Hardly top-secret if they hand them out to The Verge!
We're not. Hardware failures were "invented" before Amazon marketing thought of them. There are reasonable engineering overhead to deal with them, and we do. You are welcome to go and unplug any of our severs with no measurable downtime or data loss.

My point is that we didn't have to spend nearly as much money and time as AWS forces you to do.

Another point I want to make: not all hardware is the same. If you're running in Amazon/Google style data center optimized around energy efficiency and real estate density and you're spending serious R&D money on tolerating server failures.

But guess what: you are not Google and you are not Amazon. You need to be in a datacenter which is optimized for individual server longevity. Cooler temperatures. Better hardware. Have a hot stand-by. That's cheap. Such way to "compute" may be expensive for Google scale to run, but it's much cheaper and easier for nearly everyone else.
In the UK the family doctor (GP) acts as a gatekeeper to other services. Thus, seeing your doctor is excellent advice for people in the UK who are depressed. Your general point - don't get the treatment from a regular doctor - is a good point.

In theory you should get a quick assessment, and then a referral to PCAT team (Primary Care Assessment and Treatment) - these people will either take you on for short form talking therapy (probably cognitive behaviour therapy) with possibly some medication; or they'll refer you on to a community team; or they'll send you back to the GP.

The doctor may skip the PCAT referral and send you straight to a community team. They'll do an assessment and either take you on, or send you back to the GP with advice for treatment.

If a community team take you on you'll get a care coordinator, a care plan, a consultant (psychiatrist), and access to different meds and different therapies. Frustratingly, you might not be allowed access to short form CBT while registered with a community team. If you need hospital you'll get hospital.

In an emergency the GP will just call the crisis team for you (in theory crisis teams are available to anyone who needs them at any time, but it's usually better to go though a GP unless the crisis team already know you). The crisis team will assess you for a stay in hospital (either informally (voluntarily) or under section of the MHA (detained against your will to protect your safety)).

Of course, that's the theory and often the practice differs.

And, you can avoid some of that process by getting a private psychotherapist. Look for BACP registration. (There are probably other good registration, but BACP is the one I know.)

About psychiatrist:

I've met lots of psychiatrists.

They've almost always been "odd".

To become a psychiatrist in the UK you need to do the regular medical school. That turns you from a medical student into a doctor. (But not a doctor that can practice unsupervised.) You then do Foundation Year One and FY Two. (This is practice, supervised, in hospitals etc.) You then become a registrar. Eventually you become a consultant in your chosen speciality, which gives you the power to practice unsupervised.

All of this means that you have great, up to date, in depth knowledge of modern treatments and medications. It also means you're a bit of a basket case to make it through that process. Your bedside manner is likely to be interesting.

I'd strongly recommend people avoid psychiatrists unless the illness is severe or resistant to other forms of treatment.

As always: I am not a doctor and I have no training and all of this is just my opinion and etc etc.
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It's a legitimate subreddit. There's some humor involved (the bird, the silly Archangel names, and pretending that misogynist conspiracies are real) but the core of the subreddit is pointing out sexism, racism, and violentacrez-style exploitation on the rest of reddit.
The fork was at the block level not transaction level.

The transactions are on both chains. While they may be in v0.8 blocks and still unconfirmed in the v0.7 fork they do exist in the v0.7 fork. The only transactions which couldn't exist in the v0.7 fork are those generated in "v0.8 only blocks" and those are hard locked by the protocol for 100 blocks.

Had both halves of the fork existed for more than 100 blocks that would have presented a more serious problem. This is why the stakeholders (exchanges, merchants, miners, and developers) moved quickly to halt transactions, warn users, and move to the v0.7 version of the chain BEFORE one chain got more than 100 blocks from the fork point.
Cache of the Russian site hosting hacked celebrity information.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/celebrities-hacked_...