skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct that Hofstadter doesn't have grand assertions at the level of The Singularity but there is still something like a "Hofstadter" mix - say all the ideas in Godel, Esther and Bach with the implication that these are related and important. One might reasonably say this a somewhat grandiose admixture.

All that said, I think Hofstadter's "mixture of good ideas and rubbish" description isn't a good characterization of the thinking behind The Singularity. Rather, Singularity thinking is extrapolation of growth trends which might easily be false but since it is made on a broad level, it is not easy to formulate why it is false. And Kurzweil, in particular is popularizer of the singularity with a particular version of it.

One could argue there are limitations to the expansions that Singularians have been extrapolating from but characterizing these limitations is itself quite a tricky problem.

I think the best refutation to the Singularity idea is the argument of Paul Allen, that software and the understanding of intelligence simply haven't been amenable to increased computing power.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425733/paul-allen-the-s...

It's a good argument but I feel the tone isn't quite fair, the sense that you could more fairly say the singularity looks plausible until you really focus on the software barrier.
As a content producer, I love the idea of syndicated commenting system that actually syncs, but for pretty obvious reasons it doesn't work that way.

What would you suggest as a replacement to LiveFyre?
The calculation is already best/worst case. I simply calculated the enthalpy of 3 liters of the mixture. The energy due to the pressure buildup is negligible. If you didn't make sure that there is no air in the bottle, then the energy would in fact be considerably lower simply because then the bottle is mostly air (the way to make sure is by submerging and filling the bottle with water and wait until the bottle is completely filled with gas, and then closing the cap under water).

BTW, speaking of pressure it's unfortunate that these days the soda bottles are so thin & weak, some can't even stand 5 bar anymore, they used to be a lot thicker and stronger.
Do the classes teach "Modern Perl" e.g. Moose, DBIx, Critic ?
Maybe in the Internet web application business. Not true elsewhere.
I was always impressed by the Delphi Components ecosystem. There seemed to be a lot of useful code available at good prices - something I miss working as a web developer now.

Completely agree witht he product being mis-managed; it's still viable if they'd only make it competitive...
God says...

immediately.

8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith
hath made thee whole; go in peace.

8:49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not
the Master.

8:50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not:
believe only, and she shall be made whole.

8:51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in,
save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the
maiden.

8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not
dead, but sleepeth.

8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

8:54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called,
saying, Maid, arise.

8:55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he
commanded to give her meat.

----

I used to get excited when I left home and y'all installed cameras.

I used to wear a tin foil hat.
Poor can be "financially deficient" or "miserable" or "downtrodden" too, that gives some scope for alternatives.

"The poor are poor", can simply be a statement about the financial situation of a particular demographic or it can be a statement about the unhappiness of peoples lot, pity really, for those who're confined by their finances.

So:

People [without money|downtrodden] are [without money|downtrodden|to be pitied] because all of their [decisions|options] suck.

Who you think the term poor applies too is another way the phrase can be interpreted. "Trump is poor, he only values money", etc..
You can't make a private post on Techcrunch's page so the private/public argument doesn't seem very strong to me. Nor is the fact that you can't delete it as (unfortunately) that has become common wisdom not to put anything that you wouldn't want to be permanently public in the first place.

So you're left just with the arguments of ownership and republication. You gave facebook permission to use your content this way and facebook gave livefyre permission to build an app that uses your content that way I presume...maybe I'm just confused about what the SocialSync does and how it integrates with the host (not the user) account.
Show HN: Current HBOGO and MAXGO movies sorted by IMDb rating
Some say the connections are the main benefit of going to an Ivy, much like participating in the Greek system, getting an MBA, etc.
uhm no, this was just a highway for bikes.
My most sincere apologies to lovers of the snoopy-cursing syntax. In return, I only ask that you refrain from anything remotely nearing programming language design.
This is such a good idea. I definitely reach a point where staying up later does absolutely nothing for me.

I can get more done in one extra hour in the morning than I can in two or three hours past the time my body needs to go to sleep.
I forced myself to go to bed for a week at midnight and now I start to feel sleepy/tired around that time. I also stopped drinking coffee or energy drinks after 6pm.
What exactly is misleading in that graph?
My recollection of the NSA's legal interpretation is that they feel they don't need a warrant to record everyone's traffic; they only need a warrant for a human to subsequently access those recordings.

The twist this puts on "having nothing to hide" is that it means you have to trust everything you say now will forever be considered benign, rather than just at this particular moment in history.

Open Whisper Systems is a project I work on to help untap your phone: http://www.whispersystems.org
I haven't had a chance to read that New Yorker article yet, but who would you think would benefit from this bike article? Do you think it's a paid placement from a bike manufacturer?

(I'm not being snarky, it's a genuine question.)
If you're bored, the legal filings are awesome.

One of the masterstrokes....

Therefore, Defendants are public figures who must prove, by clear and convincing evidence that Plaintiff acted with actual malice in publishing his article to Blood of Kittens.

Podcast is impressive too.
> You probably haven’t gone to Stanford and MIT

Oh dear ...

I understand that this was the author's honest appraisal of the thought processes of potential investors within the SF bay area community. I also understand that it is probably a true reflection of investor attitude. Lastly I understand that the sentiment behind it is total cp - with about as much foundation in the truth as a bouncy castle has in rock and mortar.

Whether merely perceived or actual, the astonishing arrogance of some Americans is hurting their image.
If using NTFS, you can't beat imagex.exe.
I've been developing medium-to-large projects in mostly C# over the past two years. One thing about my style that has changed over that course of time is that I almost never use inheritance anymore. When I was in school, it was my primary tool for code reuse, but now I find it conflates solutions to different problems, as well as hampering readability.

My style now is small classes with a few, small methods each and lots of composition. I find it easier to reason about code, separate functionality, and reuse pieces. Also, placing unrelated state in separate classes really discourages a lot of the common mistakes with OOP.

Admittedly I don't do as much reading on the subject as I should. I am probably discovering things that were common knowledge 25 years ago. Maybe this is a common road that developers take. That's fine with me.

Rust's and Go's OOP style appeals to me quite a bit. I have only written small things in those languages, so I'm not exactly well-versed in what larger projects look like. Before reading this article, I wasn't able to put into words what bothered me about the style of inheritance in languages I've used up until now.
The problem is that if you ever cross them, they have over 10 years worth of every type of your electronic communications to sift through for dirt. Not only do they have all that on you, which gives them some unknown but extremely worrisome level of insight about you, but also on all your friends and family and colleagues. And the likelihood of crossing them keeps growing.
5 hours a night on weekdays and like 11 hours a night on weekends.
I have figured out that I'm way more productive, happy and healthy on weekends because of the more sleep I get.
Not sure about that under-specified... adding more info/clarification would mean simply giving the answer. Clicking that link i was expecting something unintuitive, but that was not the case, i agree, it's really just a 3rd grade problem.
I am kind of cynical but I just assume that's true with most of the media these days.
I like it but the Maxgo link is broken and returns a 404: http://lak.in/gomovies/maxgo.com
I've seen the original plans on display in Pasadena.
Maybe a bit off-topic but I enquired on Quora a few months ago on how one would go about simulating the CP1919 Cover. (I wanted it laser cut on my MacBook Pro through the services of uncover.com) and here's the answer:

http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-would-be-a-way-...
I attended a talk he gave on campus when I was in college, and afterward I lurked as some really smart people (grad students, maybe one or two profs) asked him for details. He came across as a con artist, selling ideas that he can't defend. For instance, one that stuck out was that he had nothing to back up his assertion that within x years there would be the ability to non-destructively copy all the information in a brain. Several questions I thought were fairly reasonable were met with the response: "read my book[s]." (in context, as I recall he was promoting _The Age of Spiritual Machines_.)

His basic argument of the inevitable advance of technology to true AI, or ability to upload consciousness or integrate computers with brains, rests on priors that are not clearly relevant.

With his latest title, "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed", how can anyone take him seriously? Scientists (practicing scientists) have been writing books like that for decades, and the lesson should be that unless you've demonstrated that you can build an AI (real AI, not soft AI like machine learning), you have no business using a title like that. If real AI is simply a combination of the right machine learning tricks, then the trick is in the combination, because nobody has figured it out (publicly) yet.
I feel like GitHub needs something similar to Google Groups for projects. I think that would come in handy.
I used to script FORTRAN back when I was in nuclear engineering. I didn't know of Fortran's particular advantages other then that the software we used was built in FORTRAN and all our scripts to date that we used were built in FORTRAN and the general attitude in the uber-safe world of nuclear engineering is if it works, and works well, why in god's name would you mess with it :)
companies can pay to influence the content of articles and the type of coverage.

Like every other publication in the USA?

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The more data they have, the easier it is for mistakes to occur, the easier it is for those mistakes to affect people detrimentally.
I think this is still an excellent idea for a lot of areas, especially Los Angeles where the traffic is horrendous all the time. It wouldn't take much to build this alongside major freeways so that you won't have to claim eminent domain and go through private properties. This would take up a max of an extra 10-15 feet on the side of freeways. Now, in LA a lot of freeways are built out so much that there's not even 10-15 ft without hitting a building or house, but there are a lot of areas this could work. Sometimes it takes 3 hours to go 10 miles in LA during rush hour, and this could make everything better.
dump(8)/restore(8)
By that definition sorting strings using Merge sort for example takes (K * n Log n) which is still worse because string comparison is worst case O(k) not O(1).
This thing is always coming up, will someone show me some actual evidence and I am not talking some crack pot agent turned whistle blower saying "THAT DO THIS AND THAT", not ECHELON and not the base they are building. I am talking evidence. Logging every single thing? Everything? The data storage that would be required for that is insane. All of these "whistle blowers" have something in common, they are making money off of this, from books to interviews. I am not about to trust them any more than I am their previous employers. Why is it I am ment to question everything the US does but I am ment to blindly trust anyone who says they are doing something like this?
Thanks! fixing that right now
You are doing a lot of hand waving, with very little backup. Where are your credible sources that class based OO is so much better than prototype based OO?

Personally I find prototype based OO very powerful and easy to use, but you won't catch me saying it is "better" in any way than class based OO.

Once again, where is your proof?
I don't really get your post. I never said that I want to 'beat' the performance of x86 Fortran. This particular framework is designed to make Fortran GPGPU compatible while not loosing any CPU performance. It was used to speed up the next generation Japanese weather physics by 3.5x (compared to six core Westmere) doing exactly that.
http://clonezilla.org supports http://partclone.org/ , http://www.partimage.org/ , dd, and ntfsclone.
If the government is already recording everything, why do they have to reach out and reprogram cards to get access to specific people? [1] I think the illegal things the government does to get more access is evidence they don't have total access at this time.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-a...
Thank you for showing me the error of my ways! Clearly google understands my needs better than I do myself.
You're right on whether the source of light is on the same or opposite side. I'm assuming the light is coming from above you and with respect to the view, in front of it. http://mdznr.com/bJ The way, I think, you're talking about is if the light were to be coming from the user's chest (certainly not what's expected and not in the HIG).

The part that's backwards about Apple's implementation is that tilting the device (roll) should rotate the shines and tilting the device (pitch) should change the size of the shines. Apple's rotates on pitch and changes size on roll.
I wonder what would be the best strategy for google to monetize such an asset as ibm watson? Surely ads based model is not the best way(since they've already got a large part of the internet ad market and given that only google, ibm and maybe microsoft could build something similar.

If it's a truly competitive advantage, wouldn't offering it for startups/other-businesses in return for equity would offer bigger profits?
Is there any point for new programmers to learn Perl, when they have the choice of Ruby (which supposedly is inspired from Perl) ?
32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By
The Internet offers great opportunities to create connections without the need of a physical presence. There lies a great opportunity to disrupt a system that isn't very efficient at all.
A generalization of this is to avoid string concatenation in favor of building up a proper internal representation of the data and then serializing it.

See also: Data In, Garbage Out (http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/data-in-garbage-out.h...)
The Power of Having Nothing Going On
Perl is very different than Ruby. It's also very different than Python. It's also faster and more concise than both.

You should learn Perl because you're likely to encounter a lot of Perl code in the wild, and because you can learn something from it. Knowing how to generate a Perl one-liner that does something incredible will take your CLI skills to a new level in a way that knowing Ruby will not.

Perl is still one of my go-to languages for sysadmin scripts, because it's so concise and powerful. It's a long-beard language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_soft...
How could they detect that??

I thought Chrome emulates anything in Incognito mode and then just deletes it when closing the tab. For example I once saw a memory based backend for indexedb and there was a comment that Chrome uses it for Incognito mode.

Scary!
Developers who haven't done their research properly?
It's not a completely ridiculous legal interpretation. The 4th amendment is implemented via the exclusionary rule, which excludes evidence from a court case obtained from an unreasonable search. As a matter of history and practice (the exclusionary rule predates the Constitution), the 4th amendment is in many ways a rule governing criminal procedure more than it is a privacy rule per se.

Now, today the prevailing view is that the 4th amendment is that illegal searches are unconstitutional even if the exclusionary rule can't be invoked (see, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named FBI Agents), but there is still this contour in the law that distinguishes collecting data from trying to bring it into evidence.

The argument here is probably wrong, but not ridiculous.
this was my first thought, but then I realized the teacher gave justification for his answer.

the problem is poorly formulated. The teacher would have been correct if it had said "it took 10 minutes to cut away 2 pieces from a very large board (thus resulting in 2 cuts, 3 pieces total)", whereas the student's answer assumes a single cut, which is more reasonable.
There's a significant difference between Vice and the publications (like the NY Times) that PG refers to in his article:

Vice has a POLICY of taking money from companies in exchange for allowing editorial control. As in, they encourage and have acknowledged this practice. They represent a strange, blurry hybrid between an ad agency and a news outlet.
No it's not. For example, the vast majority of 1-2 storey buildings in New Zealand have wooden framing, because it allows seismic resistance at a relatively low cost.

Most people that died in the Christchurch earthquake a couple of years ago were killed by falling bricks and stone, and a couple of collapsed concrete block buildings.
Fortran's string support is optimized for easily logging or outputting the numbers you've just crunched. For everything else it's just way too clunky, which is CS people tend to move everything not very performance critical into non-Fortran wrappers. I find Python to be particularly well suited for that task. I've also found a nice and simple module to give Fortran executables a unix style CLI[1]. Putting all this together with GPGPU acceleration makes a pretty mean combination for scientific computations.

[1] http://home.comcast.net/~urbanjost/CLONE/KRACKEN/krackenhelp...
I interpreted the title 'Go and Rust' as in 'go and make some iron-oxide' evidence that I am a mechanical engineer and programming is just a hobby.
I average about 8 hour a night. I'm not the best at keeping a consistent bed time, but I won't get out of bed until I know I've had my 8 hours. Thus, my sleep schedule tends to drift later as the week progresses, and then I can reset on the weekend.
Bing's own comparison site "bing it on" shows that most users prefer Google's results[1], even though the comparison uses results modified to favor Bing[2].

[1] http://blog.paulnshapiro.com/bingiton-google-wins/

[2] http://www.punditpress.com/2013/02/the-bing-challenge-yes-it...
You can use a randomized selection algorithm to find the median in linear time, and if you use the median as a pivot you will never get worst case n^2 behavior.

This is not used in practice because the probability of getting worst case behavior is extremely slim if you do some clever, and cheap, tricks.
It's probably smaller than we all think. Google has a lot of products, even after graveyarding a large number of them.
JSON was specified|devised by Douglas Crockford (and not Brendan Eich) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON

Crockford was a friend of Carl Sassenrath (creator of Rebol) and cited Rebol as an influence in the design of JSON - http://www.rebol.com/article/0423.html
ASK HN: FREE FOOD?
1) Would you post about your excess (leftover) food to a network that would notify organizations in need? (i.e. homeless shelters etc.)

2) Would you subscribe to a service that would alert you (based on your preferences) whenever free food was available in your area?

For both of these questions please assume food is safe and liability is NOT a concern.
Actually. If tabs are set up properly, then when you press tab you should move to the next relevant field.
Careful here. I recommend you watch an episode of Vice on HBO. I had my doubts as well, but the reporting on that show is great and my only criticism is that its too short. The article you posted is just an opinion of that person and she doesn't provide specific examples or lay it out objectively. I just recommend checking it out and then judge it for yourself.
This is a great point. Gabe Newell makes the same point about the gaming industry: the short-term view is that gaming is about selling units. The long-term view is that gaming is a cultural activity that can be monetized in an almost infinite number of ways.
Fireside chat with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston [video]
Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat Sue Scribblenauts Videogame For Infringement
I've been to a couple Kurzweil talks. He's got a good shtick, but it doesn't seem to change much. I tweeted "I saw this talk 10 years ago. Shouldn't it be 5 minutes long and 100x more interesting now?"
I interpret that as Ghost is being renamed to SSR with a few new OSs supported.
I am not angry at anyone at this very moment, thanks.
Fair enough. Thanks for sharing.
I average 7-8 hours per night, which is basically as much as my body seems to need. I work for myself from home, so I don't have to get up at any particular time - I just sleep as much as I need.

This seems to work well for me, as I have had pretty much perfect physical and mental health for the last 10 years (nothing but the occasional cold about once a year or so), and I have high motivation, productivity, etc.
One additional point the author didn't mention:

Executing JavaScript code sent from the server requires your JS objects to be in the global scope. Returning JSON (on the other hand) allows you to keep your objects and logic inside a closure.
Decades of personal experience dealing with many large-scale, real-world software systems written by many different developers, using many programming languages offering a variety of OO approaches.

With such experience comes the realization that there are big differences between the different approaches. Some are seriously inferior to others. Some generally aren't better or worse than others. Some are obviously better in many ways.

Have you ever worked on a significantly large JavaScript-based system that has been created by many developers over the course of several years, or even a decade? I find most people that have will know what I'm talking about. Experiencing it for yourself is much better than any academic citation I could give you.
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz: ‘Are you a mercenary or a missionary?’
1. No I probably would not because of the hustles it involves.
2. No I not unless I was homeless and broke. And if so I would most likely only look for unopened things. Otherwise I might as well just look in dumpsters by myself.