skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could do a remaster from a vinyl, but it would only happen in cases when the original master tapes were lost.

Yes, you could record a vinyl losslessly and it would sound indistinguishable from the vinyl. But why bother, when you already own loads of vinyl and are familiar with that format? Plus some people enjoy the 'ritual' of vinyl, the sense of ownership not offered by digital music, and the way that medium places focus on records as self-contained works, rather than as a collection of songs from which people 'pick-and-mix'.

Don't get me wrong, I love all digital music has to offer, but I'm just saying there are still plenty of reasons to listen to vinyl too.
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I think pointing out problems directly and efficiently will eventually make someone a total asshole, and that's what I think Steve Jobs really did. However, some people(especially those blink-eyed Steve Jobs enthusiastics) just mistook the whole point. They thought it's being a total asshole making him efficient and successful, and by being a total asshole will eventually lead to him/her being an awesome leader of big cooperation. These people really have to learn some principles of logic before they start to learn anything from Steve Jobs. Pardon my poor English.
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I don't think it models intelligence; but maybe it models wisdom. The prediction part requires intelligence.

I can understand physicists getting excited over a simple mathematical model that explain a lot. Like Einstein thinking relativity was so beautiful, it must be true. But a difference there was unexplained empirical data (speed of light constant in all directions) - which we don't have for intelligence.

That is, it's not that we haven't solved the problem of intelligence; but that we don't understand the question. (sometimes dna seems terribly wise).
Always wondered what it was like.

At first, looking at the more rote-recall-based verbal section, I thought it didn't live up to the conception that it was an IQ test. But the math section didn't look easy, especially without a calculator, and I imagine that test-takers of the day didn't prepare like they do today, so the unfamiliar format of the test was probably part of the selection process.
That is only vaguely true.

There are some cuts that vary culture to culture (like Americans leave a lot of meat on ribs compared to Europeans), but in general cuts derive from the musculature of the animal and the various boundaries between the muscles. It's pretty obvious to all cultures what the "breast" of a bird is, because the meat all has the same texture.

Cuts mostly derive from nature in the same way mathematical formulas do.
The connections are slim, but it sounds a bit like the NES AI, which played Mario pretty successfully just by "making bits go up" (more or less).
Sometimes I wonder how much more productive Apple could be if they used a language other than Objective-C. Would they be more or less productive and able to get software/services done more quickly with another language?
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While it may not make your mind better, you can get positive results with problem solving - - like doing a crossword each day.
Is it common these days not to have perl installed? I assumed it was still standard on UNIX systems.

I count 308 perl scripts in my /usr/bin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable#Maximum_cable_...
The last 35 years of technology history is unfathomable without Steve Jobs. Jobs was the one responsible for getting the most influential early personal computer to market with the Apple II, driving the creation of the first viable GUI computer with the Macintosh, ensuring that CGI animation became the de facto standard with Pixar, founding a company that produced the machine that the World Wide Web was invented on, being instrumental in the introduction of PostScript and desktop publishing, and on and on. He may not be the sole inventor of these things, but ask Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Ed Catmull, Tim Berners Lee, John Warnock, et al where they and their inventions would be without Steve Jobs.
Yeah, they'd end up targeting cracked servers and consumer machines running botnets. In the best case "scenario" of a hacker facing off directly with a sysadmin, you'd what, break something on the VM the hacker's using?

This guy must think that "destroying the hacker's computer" is the defender sending an energy pulse over the Internet causing just the hacker's computer to emit sparks and power off.
We were mostly flying under the radar. But with two companies doing summarization being bought for $30M in the past month we are becoming less stealth.

I know it sounds like a bold statement, but I believe it to be true. Doing things right required we build our own tools, and not rely on libraries from third parties. I think we benefitted a lot from that philosophy.
What do you find terrible about it?
I find the Bw-tree work pretty underwhelming. It's not a transactional engine; the fact that it can operate "latch-free" is irrelevant since it must be wrapped by some higher concurrency management layer to truly be useful. The delta-update mechanism is probably more write-efficient than LMDB, which could be a point in their favor. The fact that they still rely on an application-level page cache manager is a strong negative - you can never manage the cache more accurately and more efficiently than the kernel, which gets hardware assist for free. Overall, it's an awful lot of noise being made over not much actual innovation.
Sustainability dictates that you don't keep going above and beyond without corresponding rest and relaxation.
At first I thought this was a joke, then I heard ex-CIA guy say "czech republic" on CNN while talking about those two.
Maybe IS Null, they're just two different implementations of monads.
It's a relative term, diluted by the fact the lived many decades. I would say he was more of a hacker in his earlier days, and less of a hacker in the later days.
I haven't read the original paper, but (speaking as a physicist) I'm always skeptical when physicists leap into extremely different disciplines and claim to have a grand insight that its specialists have never considered before.

It could always be true: physics really does have a lot to contribute in many areas! But the burden of proof is very, very much on the physicists to justify the relevance of their approach.

In this case, based only on this little summary, I have to wonder whether they are really explaining intelligence or whether they are identifying some broader natural principle for which intelligent behavior is just one manifestation. There may be something quite deep here, but I'm holding off on deciding what exactly it is.
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It may be old news to you, but Kai Krause's "Software is merely a Performance Art"[1] treads much the same territory, framing software as an ongoing framework to influence future generations.

Open source can be a solution, but it's limited by bitrot; what it runs on, and who or what is capable of interpreting it.

I feel there needs to be something else, haven't quite found out what that might be.

[1] - http://www.edge.org/response-detail/10113
Why is this down voted? It is correct. The article worded it wrong. A system with lower entropy has more future states than a system with high entropy.
Anything that lives outside of userspace.

If one has root and patience - flash BIOS and wait for a coldboot. One can even get an IP stack to pull down new firmware between boots. The user sees a normal post screen and your hypervisor sees normal hardware adapters.

See Jonathan Brossard's 'prior work' slide from his Defcon talk on his work [1] for more details on the state of X86 backdooring.

'Trusted computing' and all that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRxDvkKBMTc

https://media.defcon.org/dc-20/presentations/Brossard/DEFCON...
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I will just leave this here: http://xkcd.com/793
> Allowing the rod to fall will _lower_ the entropy of the system??
Reproducing captures more future states than not reproducing, since it allows some of your collected information to extend past your death.
I've been working on a replacement for Upcoming, called Daypace http://www.daypace.com but I'm still a good ways from getting a product out there. I really liked Upcoming before it went to hell with Yahoo and around 2010 got motivated to do something about it, but I wanted to also recommend events to people and avoid the spam that slowly took Upcoming down, and it's been a tough road getting that all to work and since I work at the most amazing non-profit in the world, I don't get a lot of time to put into it.

Regardless, thanks to the people who built Upcoming and sorry that Yahoo ruined it.
If it's a Redhat based server just run rpm -Va and that will verify the integrity of every rpm package on the system. If you're in a situation where you can't trust the current computer you can run it in a chroot from a known good copy.
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One of the Stremor devs here. I'm helping to build Liquid Helium, and wrote the cited README. Never expected that it would make its way to a public blog post :-).

Yes, language processing is hard. There are two challenges here:

1) Understanding the ambiguities of language, when every word in the sentence can be 2+ parts of speech.

2) Making it fast, and making it fit within the relatively constrained RAM limits of App Engine instances.

We're wrestling with both while we greatly expand on what Liquid Helium can do. It's not easy, but some of the things we're able to do with it are pretty magical.
He neither designed nor shipped 'Breakout'. He got Wozniak to design it and conned him out of the bulk of the payment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579311
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Might one say that they are putting more wood behind fewer arrows?
I installed the Chrome plugin with interest, but it only seems to work on the stremor.com page. However, for all I know it's in alpha/beta stage.

Like the general approach, which looks very promising.
This is interesting because it connects intelligence directly to the concept of life as a locally anti-entropic system (gravity can break an egg, but only a chicken can make a new egg). It implies that intelligence is an aspect of all life, which fits the latest research into animal behavior and intelligence.
Meanwhile, I still don't have variadic templates in VC++ 2012.

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Yeah, I had to parse the article a couple times because the wording is wrong. It seems to me that entropica is trying to minimize the entropy of the system. Life is all about low entropy.
Dataflow models are definitely convenient. One of the nice thing about QuartzComposer is the ability to directly "probe" connections between patches to see what data was flying across them, whether this was text or something richer (e.g. graphics).

On the other hand, dataflow models are definitely limited in their abstraction capabilities, which is in opposition of directness. They work well in shells but have a harder time being used in large scale projects. I've never been able to make them scale past a certain point.
Welcome to modern physics, where physicists do unfalsifiable and imprecise things based on bad philosophy. Anything goes as long as it gets you attention anywhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562156

HNers need to more critical of Science articles. This is where we need good criticism not on some poor hacker's pet project.

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"Additionally, a company he founded is exploring commercial applications of the research in areas such as robotics, economics and defense."

That is a major red flag when people posit a universal AI theory and try to sell to the hapless government tech based on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
I either do not like Steve Jobs, or I feel sorry for him. One of those two.

I do not like to speak ill of the dead, but I also do not like to sugar-coat things.

Steve Jobs was mentally ill. A lot of people don't like to say that, but that is what he was. I cannot diagnose his exact condition, but he shared many traits of the common sociopath -- all except that he was never very charming, generally speaking. [0] Steve clawed his way to the top, and turned himself into a god, when all of his talents were really nothing more than hiring the right people (Steve would have been an absolute nobody if he had never met Wozniak (or a man of similar talent) to flush out his ideas) -- in fact he probably would have turned out to be a homeless person (if you had met him at Atari, you would have thought so). Steve was a bag of ideas -- ideas that were not original but, to his blessing, very consistent. And as most of us agree, ideas are only worth the quality of their execution. A lot of people look up to Steve for this reason - he was a non-engineer who came to rule the tech world. If he could do it, so could they.

I have no real agenda against Jobs, and I would definitely say that his life was filled with interesting accomplishments (even if the only accomplishment was only swindling the world to pay 2x as much for his products). But this is one man I would never place on a pedestal, because he is not a model human being.

The only heros I have know humility. Steve Jobs, even in the face of death, never learned that.

[0] http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
Thank God. While I'm honestly not concerned about the man's well-being - that 8-year-old boy should be alive in his place - I am very curious as to why they did this.
Completely blown away after watching that video by the sheer range of tasks this AI can accomplish on its own. Learning to walk, balance a stick, using tools, co-operating, playing pong, and...even buying stocks low and selling high! And all of this without being programmed or given a goal to do so. If true this could be a huge breakthrough indeed. Would really like to learn more about the core technology and will be following this more closely.
I'm so glad this is over and that he was caught alive (in unknown medical condition, but it didn't sound like that was an emergency/panic situation). Being able to hold a trial and learn how and why this all happened is the best outcome.
When smart people get cocky about the hard work they've done, it gives me great confidence in their claims. Cockiness for smart people is reserved for only such occasions when the problem has been solved and tested, born into a growth state, ready to evolve. I am following this story with great interest because I'm rooting for the creative geniuses at Stremor and for the technological advances they are producing.
The thing is, he didn't do all that. At least not by himself.
A lot of talented people built every single one of those things, and without them, Steve Jobs wouldn't exist.

As stated before, gathering those talents and driving them to make these things does take a lot of effort and he did that very well.

Behind that guy in the cover of the magazines there are tons of people that actually made those amazing things. Many gave ideas that in the end made that product a whole.

And finally, without Steve Jobs, someone else could have taken the spot. Or not. The thing is, you can't know what would've happened without him. So don't say that as a fact, it's at best a supposition.
Have you tried the November 2012 CTP [1]? It purports to add support for variadic templates, among other things.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3551...
I'm impressed with the professionalism of the Boston police. After cops killed, and a day-long adrenaline filled hunt, they managed to remain professional for the sake of the greater good and take this schmuck alive.

edit: I guess only 1 cop was killed?
Sitting down and listening to a vinyl is not 100% about audio quality. The aesthetics and interactions with the mechanical systems can be satisfying.
I wonder if he'll talk. If he is treated like a normal citizen, he doesn't have to say a single thing to the officers conducting the investigation.
Agreed. A trial is the best possible outcome to this bad situation. Boston & surrounding PDs did a good job.
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Oh please please fix that font you are using, on my iPhone it looks like a badly faxed article from 1997.
(When I said "more obscure tools like top" I meant to say "pstree" but edited the statement one too many times before posting.)
Linguists don’t know squat about grammar in modern times. Everything is a verb these days. I Google things. I FedEx things. My game gets nerfed.

That's a bit broad. Talk to the right kind of linguists, and yes, they do know these things.

Every problem he talks about is well-known. Not to say that they aren't still problems- they are problems, and hard ones, that linguists (computational and otherwise) don't have good standard solutions for. Thing is, most of the time, you can get away with not bothering to solve the real problem. Most of the time, you can pretend that white-space separates words and periods separated sentences and that 8 parts of speech is good enough, and it will be good enough. And thus the incentive to spend lots of time and research money on solving all of the big problems in natural language processing is reduced.

Except when it isn't good enough, and we wonder "why the heck hasn't this been solved yet? Doesn't anybody realize that this library is totally broken?" But yeah, we know that it's broken, we know what the problems are, they're just really frickin' hard.
It's interesting comparing their behavior to the LAPD/etc. during the Christopher Dorner manhunt a few months ago.
>I haven't read the original paper, but (speaking as a physicist) I'm always skeptical when physicists leap into extremely different disciplines and claim to have a grand insight that its specialists have never considered before.

That's bad, because the most interesting breakthroughs came from cross-disciplinary work.
Since _why's stuff was open, he addressed bitrot in his (brilliant) novella. The article treats it some; the open-source remarks were about the code that you don't see, that suffers from being under lock and key as well as bitrot.
Yes. I don't know the exact dynamics of their toy problem, but thinking about it this way can help: When the rod falls over, it will stay there from then on. In terms of the number of possible future states, there are less possibilities for the system.
They come from a very Islamic country and it's been said that they'd recently started wearing traditional Muslim clothing--a switch from the european clothing they'd been wearing for most of their lives. It's easy for kids to become obsessed with a cause... even if it's a terrible one. Basically, all signs point to this being just another religious extremist attack.
Glad to hear they got him alive, it must have been hard to do that. Having him alive is important to understand and analyse the sequence of events, the motivation, the planning etc. There is also a possibility they had help and more people may be involved and if he were dead that would be very hard to discover.
Kudos to the FBI and the Police authorities of Boston.
Agreed

"My proposal is that intelligence is a process that attempts to capture future histories"

'future histories' is just ... the future! .... so his great proposal is 'intelligence predicts the future'? Well duh!
The ending to The Blues Brothers seems prophetic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0

To edit and elaborate: they shut down a large portion of New England, affecting millions of people. Amtrak service, for example, was suspended north of New York City at 12:30pm today. Private taxi service in the Boston Metro area shut down until 11am. Other public transit, such as the T, shut down for most of the day. People didn't go to work.

I know it sounds callous, considering how many died or were maimed, but we now have to consider that a couple of pressure cookers are on par with hurricanes, blizzards and power blackouts when it comes to anesthetizing the North East corridor. I think we should think about this.
This is going to bring OpenFlow[1] and software defined networks[2] to the next level. What a genius idea!

[1] http://www.openflow.org/
[2] http://www.opendaylight.org/announcements/2013/04/industry-l...
Yeah. I don't normally commend people for doing what they should do but in this case I'll make an exception. It must have been very hard to stay professional but it seems they have just set a good example for police across the nation.
Did you restart Chrome after? It should work everywhere.
The only point I was trying to make was that execution of an idea in the market is so much more impressive (and gratifying) than credentials. PhDs, like MBAs, get more credit than they deserve.
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and Apple...
Agreed. I can count multiple people I've worked with who decide that to be a leader/genius/visionary, you first must be a jerk, and that will lead to respect.

If you really are a genius, you're a huge pain to work with, but at least you're worth something.

If you're not, you just look like an ass.
Speculation is that they are/were radical jihadists based on their background and recent changes in their behavior.
FYI, the parent poster is Paul Lutus, author of the first word processor for the Apple II, and a lot of other ground-breaking programs.
That would be helpful for rootkits coming from outsiders, but would only serve to slow down (not stop) an insider. An insider knows what protections are in place (probably implemented them too) and can defeat the hash check if she knew how the hash was calculated, or can ship the binary alongside a regular update.
That is how I feel too. It has been 3 days since the e-mails started going out, but it feels like 3 years!
I know how they work, I'm asking GP to name one that he could have used. There isn't actually much "out there" that is undetectable. You'd likely have to write your own, which is highly non-trivial.
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For me this will be the enduring image of the manhunt: http://i.imgur.com/lV7CMQA.jpg

Even if there's a manhunt, shelter in place order, and an officer with an assault rifle on every corner, life will go on.
Yes, bitrot is _addressed_, but not resolved.

That's the source of my frustration whenever the open source solution is brought up. It only works when there are hands present to maintain the source.

Which is much more effort than, say, writing a book and leaving it some place to be rediscovered. Only the popular or the intensely niche seem to survive.
You are right there are a select few. But it is very few. I linked to the quora as just one example. The challenge is that they focus on what is "right" not what is "common".

It is like swum. It is a real word, and I have swum many times in my pool, but it is not how humans write. More of practical linguistics is about how people use words, not how they are supposed to use words.
Why are the parents saying 'he didn't do it' when they were throwing exploses out of a car and killing officers. Wtf??
Someone who wrote this has much higher chance of being called 10x by peers and management. And someone who has to support that code has much higher chance of being called 0.1x by pears and management.
Any chance this project will ever be open-sourced?