skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcpWxF9hbI
Sure, I agree about this: "C provides an easy-to-read intermediate format, and is simple to generate, as other benefits. Not having to deal with a massive C++ codebase is another.".

So portability and less dependencies, plus easier.
> "upload" our minds ... to explore the universe

I don't think it'll ever happen.

Uploading something just means making a copy, and if that becomes possible the AI potential would be millions of generations smarter than a carbon copy of a human brain. Sort of like digitizing a record or wax cylinder - we don't do it for the quality, we do it for historical or nostalgic purposes.

If AI becomes possible then the only reason to upload a human algorithm would be for the same reasons as the wax cylinder. It wouldn't be to rely on the created construct to do decision making or exploring.

More likely AI programs would do all the exploring and it would be brought back holodeck/matrix style for people to experience safely in the confines of earth.
Technology like U-Prove addresses exactly that scenario. Using it you could prove to a third party, using a government-issued credential, that you're over 18. You wouldn't disclose anything else. The third party couldn't derive you gov. Id, and the government couldn't prove whom you provided your credential to - even if the two collude.

Read up on it - the tech is really that good.
3D printed car is strong as steel, half the weight and nearing production
>It is not a given that there are "more moving parts" in generating C output from a compiler than in using LLVM.

No, but it's a given that the LLVM moving parts have been already written, and are tested by millions.

Your moving parts in your own solution, you'd have to write yourself.
Ask HN: Jobs - Are Analogue Electronic Engineers Paid Well?
I'm asking on someone's behalf.

He's a very experienced (20+ years) analogue electronics engineer who's currently doing some bits and bobs to stay afloat, however, it isn't really enough to pay the family bills.

His areas of expertise are audio and sensitive measurement (think photons) and is definitely a mad genius type.

Is his a dying breed/skill or are there well paid jobs out there which just aren't being advertised?

Thanks.
I'd love that (and even some far-end conservative/capitalist relatives agree) but I always see greed and power as motives where curiosity and thirst are not present.
What was hard about learning Lisp? And which Lisp?
Rodney Brooks has a nice twist- "That we won’t have enough robots to do all the jobs we’ll need them to do in coming decades."
> 2. The backup problem. If my cloud account "goes dark"
> for whatever reason, I'm dead in the water, and
> I'm helpless to fix it.

Isn't the cloud part of your back-up strategy? For example, I use OneNote for all of my notes. It syncs the notes on my PC to the cloud. As long as I'm connected, I have a backup online.

Changes also sync to my other computers when they're online.

Additionally, the notebooks are included in the local data backups we make (in our case off-sited to our ISP).

Sensitive stuff is encrypted in TrueCrypt, and the TrueCrypt volume is stored on DropBox. MI5/CIA could probably break the encryption, but there are easier ways for them to get at it.. http://xkcd.com/538/
From then linked devblog:

"a disparity between the actual value of the item on the market and the average price we use to calculate LP."

Seems a rather newb mistake to come out off a company that has full time professional economists on staff.

Simple fix: charge sales tax for transfers of "valuable" items.
AKA "I couldn't be bothered to share an interesting response".
The difference between the US and Zimbabwe is that if the US had a civil war and inflation ruined the currency, it would send the world into the second dark ages. Civil wars cant happen in the US? thats good to know, but i wont take your (implied) word for it.

What about if China suddenly asked for something in exchange for the tons of american paper currency they have accumulated? It is unlikely anytime soon, but they will only take it as long as it has value. So the more you inflate, the more you have to send to China to maintain the American lifestyle.

Our economy is becoming less rugged over time. A large shock becomes more and more likely to significantly disrupt our system. There is no redundancy or backup operations. Our cpu core's are all at 120% load.

<sarc>Also, its a good thing that stuff like population pressure and infectious diseases are a thing of the past (two of histories best methods for shocking a political/economic systems). You know, because the global population is under control and our climate is capable of withstanding everything we throw at it with complete aplomb. </sarc>

However when everything is going well, Keynesianism works well. I will give it that.
I couldn't tell if you were implying this, but FYI in the US today food stamps can be used on any food item that isn't prepared (i.e. already cooked).
I'd say Huffington's answer fits this theme too. (Ymmv)
Piled Higher and Deeper, the movie [video]
That is a fancy way of saying "we don't like to share". There is no matchingincrease in charitable giving when tax burden changes suddenly.
This project is interesting in its own right, and links to a cool tool by the same author

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/international-object-sizing-tool...

for showing the size of photographs, which I just told my Facebook friends about and printed out for my children, who are practicing photography.

The heavy-duty version of a periodic table table is that made by Theodore Gray,

http://www.theodoregray.com/periodictable/

who is quite a fan of the periodic table.

http://periodictable.com/
Interesting counter-point. But I don't think the two papers really attempt to describe/model the same reality - the world(s) of MUD is not quite the same as the modern world(s) of MMORPGS.

I've always seen Bartle's paper more as a guide for (MUD) game/world designers -- and I find the simplification of boxing player types is a useful model for that. By his own admission it isn't meant to be an academic paper -- and seeing more academic research is this area is welcome.
What should we be worried about?
You missed:

51. That we will worry too much. –Joseph LeDoux, neuroscientist

Not sure about the other cognitive-/neuro-scientists, but I know LeDoux spent considerable time on the amygdala.
Never? I agree our minds are incredibly complex, but it's not magic. Once humankind can measure what happens inside a brain, it's surely should only be a matter of time before it can replicate its machinery. I agree it may be something that's quite far into the future, but consider how far medicine has come in the past 25, or even 10 years with regards to replacing other human organs.

My personal opinion is that AGI will look a lot more like a convergence of man with machine than software suddenly gaining consciousness. I think it will be a viewed as performance enhancement much more than the merging of two foreign entities. I think it will begin with an interface that will allow us to communicate with software neurally, or store our memories externally (even if it's just copies). Early research is already happening in rats to this effect[1][2], I have a hard time believing that our brains are so complex that they will never be deciphered.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/424452/a-first-step-tow...

[2] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511721/rats-communicate...
What Worries Applied Mathematicians:

"Put the headphones on.

Set the dial to 89.5.

It'll take a coupla-three seconds."

"...Oh My God! ...Oh. My. God!!"

"There it is."

"...Do you have any idea what we're hearing?"

`Life In the Divide'

- mid-90's Seattle/Bellevue C89.5FM `lectroBox' sound spot
>Haters gonna hate. Larry Page obviously didn't hire him and let him take up Google's resources for his "rigorous hand-waving".

No, he did it to get some PR of Google as a mad-genius storage. He also did it with tons of other semi-retired Comp Sci legends. He might also like the guy, or believe the Singularity mambo-jambo himself.

There's a line going around about Google being where "old computer scientists go to retire".

>How does this one-liner contribute to the conversation at all?

By giving a summary of the whole thing? A very succinct one at that? If it's also accurate (which you can argue about), then it's a perfect contribution to the conversation.
I am unable to follow your argumentation - if an economy is fully automated, there is no money - at least not in the way we currently understand it. No human is working and gets paid so there is no money to spend on goods.

There will still be some limited resources and things will remain having a value that could be equated with an currency, but this will be different from our current money. For example it could be the case that we are only able to mine 10 grams of diamond for everybody. Whoever desires to have more diamonds is free to exchange them with others not caring about their share of diamonds probably involving some currency.

I still have the feeling that I am missing your point; maybe you could elaborate it a bit more.
Italy and Greece: two countries that are on the verge of economic collapse as a result of corruption, tax avoidance, etc.

Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea---three places with very strong U.S. and U.K. influence...
You gave a very cavalier response.

> I'm going to take a wild stab at the primary reason he develops on the Mac is his own comfort and expertise with it (...)

This to me reads as "I'm not going to put much thought into this, but it sounds like he is just ignorant."

Maybe you didn't intend it that way, but that's how it read to me.
Thanks _lex, web site updated. English is my second language
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I'm yet to benchmark it but I'll run some ApacheBench and post them up in the next week.

And sorry - the missing link there is uWSGI.
Found it to be much more stable and configurable than Gunicorn.
Also did some load testing which required a lot of Async stuff (waiting for unreliable external APIs to respond...) and Gunicorn just fell over.
Something Out of Nothing
C++11 looks better to me.
Of course it is, it was posted by a recruiter site.
I feel as you do, but it's worth pointing out that if you come from a different frame of reference you may not be observing what you think you are observing. I can't say for sure in this case of course (hence how I ended my post), but he may have seen, say, discussion (in a language he may not be fluent in), showing each other papers, etc., yet may not have been seeing the actual 'cloning' of homework answers. If you walked into a bunch of American students doing this (but couldn't, for whatever reason), it's more natural to assume that there is direct cloning involved.

But different cultures have different norms.

Let's say, for example, that problems 3, 4, and 7 are assigned. Now, problem 7 is a bitch, but shares some of the devilish details, perhaps the 'trick,' with problem 6. Let's also assume that the course requirements are "You must do your own work on homework." As a team, the group worked problem 6 together. But one of the group was still struggling to complete problem 7 for homework. He turns to his friend for help, and the friend replies "remember what we did in problem 6? You do the same thing, but with two <whatevers> instead of one."

Is this cheating?

The direct help "with two <whatevers>" is getting close, but if you are from another culture you may, honestly, think no. Because remember, your whole understanding of education is about getting/doing whatever you need to do in order to solve the problem. So you are going to judge rules differently than someone whose first instinct is "this has to be my work only-- I'll fail all by myself." (I hypothesize that this is part of the problem with international IP laws as well.)

On a personal note, one the other side of the desk I was delighted when students teamed up on homework and did extra. In fact, making solution manuals available and publishing old exams was simply a sneaky way for me to get them to do more work.
Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess
Huh? There are no private-access-only ERs, so none to compare against medicare.

Most ER waiting patients are there because they don't have primary or urgent care.
I have one of these and I can highly recommend it.

Maximum capacity is 96T, that should be enough for most home servers.
Remixing and Production on iPhone
By "it's not exactly BI," you mean "it's not at all BI."

The core premise and compelling logic of BI comes from the fact that it is simple, not-gameable, and, most importantly, doesn't have huge disincentive effects at the margin as benefits phase out.

PER sounds like it runs headlong into all of those issues. By the standard you're using to critique BI using PER, I could just as well point to PER to critique markets as a whole.
This mocking of Google Glass as something that only "geeks" would ever use, because it is awkward and fails too frequently in embarrassing ways, suggests the product and technology have a very long way to go before they cross the chasm into anything resembling mass-market appeal.

While I think that ever-more-personal Internet-powered products like Google Glass ARE the future, I can't help but see some parallels with Apple's original tablet computer, the Newton MessagePad, which never quite recovered from the drubbing it took in a Doonesbury comic strip, because its handwriting recognition software was awkward and failed too frequently in embarrassing ways.[1]

--

[1] Here's one of the Doonesbury comic strips mocking the Newton MessagePad: http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/db9... and here's a NewsWeek article from 1993 discussing it: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1993/10/10/the-handwri...
Interstate immigration guarantees is a factor against single-statd healthcare.
I don't think that's the case. The argument, as I see it is:

In order to buy a product from company X, which I like and want to use, I'm also required to give money to company Y for a product I do not like and am not going to use. I don't want to reward company Y for making a product I do not like, and I am angry company X has made a business/marketing deal that means I can't get its product without rewarding company Y.

As others have pointed out already, PC makers get most of their profits at the low-end from bundling. I'd rather pay the same price with no bundled crapware and no bundled OS because dislike crapware and I dislike Microsoft's current operating systems and I do not want the companies that made them to get my money.
I mostly meant it as a joke about how if his students were enemy combatants he would be a war criminal for that.
Just install from 'experimental' because it isn't in the conventional sense of the word experimental..
This is an admirable effort, but I would not recommend ever using this in practice. I am saying this from experience: I wrote a game engine on top of UIKit, which I spent months trying to fine-tune before finally ditching it and re-writing everything to use Cocos2d.

The performance aspect is just not there. Once you get to a game with a large number of sprites and animations, animations will jitter and glitch. You're really going to be stretching what Core Animation can handle.

What I usually recommend these days is to use Cocos2d for your main game view, but using UIKit for the rest of the interface (menus, score screens, etc.).
“We should worry that so much of our science and technology still uses just five main models of probability—even though there are more probability models than there are real numbers.” –Bart Kosko, information scientist

Which five models is he referring to?
Cite?

I try to follow BI, and although the BI experiments I've heard of certainly have had cons to go along with the pros (spiraling costs in Manitoba, for instance), "stagnation" has never been one. I'd love to see that study.
Seems like the equivalent of MaxiPads to me. Once Google Apps get some killer apps, that you can't do with any other device, or not nearly as well, they'll come around.
Are certificates really worth it?
One issue is that the govt can relativelt easily ban you from driving without insurance. banning you from existing without health insurance is harder. ACA oa trying, though (by forcing coverage, not by killing people)
No, it's just that when you go out the first time you pick the low hanging fruit.
'columbo' didn't say uploading would never happen, just that uploading in order to explore the universe doesn't make sense
I am the author of the blog post.
Thank you very much, I take it as a huge compliment.

I am not sure if what you said is to be generalized. I am afraid, the image of germany being a deeply philosophical nation of thinkers cannot stand at detailled observation.

But I can say, two things:

First, I try to write short sentences which are straight. My english skills are OK in conversations, but I am far from being a great writer. It takes me a lot of time to write, and almost in every sentence you can hear the german in me. Maybe this creates a specific atmosphere in what I write. But I cannot judge this.

Second, I am studying psychology and thus have to read a lot of philosophical and cultural text. I enjoy it very much and try to learn about cultural aspect as much as possible. I am also a Zen buddhist in real life (not only saying in the post) and learn a lot from my teachers. It all makes me think.

It honors me that you attribute the deep thinking in what I wrote. Again, thank you very much for your comment, it makes me feel good.
There are a few problems with read=any (or really read=one as any is only supported by writes). One issue is it will still send the request out to all the servers in the quorum so even if you don't have to wait on a quorum you still put the read load on them.

The second and more important issue is that if you want consistent data the only way to use read=one is if you use write=all which means you would have no resilience to a server outage. So in a normal cassandra cluster where you have write=quorum a read=one can give you back no data. In my experience this happened frequently enough with long GC pauses on one of the nodes that it wasn't useful to use in production.
Change http://localhost:3000 to myapp.dev with marathon-dns
21st century phone call security:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/2600hacker_2257_61664974

(c) 2600
You certainly want to market this as being for a "digital elite", at least for the time being. And its best for technology professionals to maintain that type of attitude as long as possible where the belief is that these types of jobs require very rare intelligence and skillsets.

But I think that the realities of the situation are going to eventually change the cultural attitudes towards high tech workers. For the vast majority of high tech jobs, vocational training is not only much more economical, but also vastly more effective. (I would even go so far as to say that vocational training/apprenticeship activities are more effective at teaching more conceptual and abstract concepts that one might consider to be part of a traditional academic program, but thats not my main point.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education
> So, if 20% of them bought your app for $1 you'd be $13 million dollars richer.

http://sivers.org/1pct
Yeah, I wonder why you would even try this when something like Cocos2d already exists and is awesome.
Is this The Submarine in action? It even starts off with the infomercial-like anecdote about working at home: "You fuss, you muss, but you just can't make it work! Soon you're fat and lazy."

And in the caption of the photo-

People are “going back to the office to be around people again,” one of its founders said.

Again? Since the beginning of the still incredibly uncommon @home work, a fairly standard practice was to essentially turn cafes into workspaces, including collaborating with other people.
We do have 3D printers, and we also help 3D makers share their work online with http://sketchfab.com
TL;DR: One design is better than another because the photo "looks better" to the modern eye.

I guess form doesn't follow function in this case.

The author then generalizes to language design with no supporting evidence, and omits various counter-examples (Visual Basic, JavaScript, PHP) that don't support his thesis.
you should read the work of "greg egan"

in particular his novel "schild's ladder", in which space travel mostly involves digital brains being transmitted by laser between physical outposts

sometimes "people" send along specifications for biological hosts in which to be embodied, sometimes not
> Hashing on the client side is obviously superior to hashing on the server side, since the original password is never transmitted over the wire.

Can you elaborate on this? All client-side hashing does is replace the user's password with some hash, which now effectively becomes their password.

I don't see how this buys you any security. The user's password is irrelevant if all the server ever sees is a hash of that password.
If a company has a major breakthrough drug that produces high profits then its competitors have a substantial incentive to try to duplicate this drug in a way that circumvents the patent. In a regime where patents provide a monopoly, the availability of potential substitutes will have the benefit of bringing the price down, however if the drug were already selling at its free market price, without a patent monopoly, no one would look to waste resources developing a second drug that essentially does the same thing as the first drug.

This is the key takeaway for me.

Also, there is more effort on securing patents than there is on reducing the cost of research than there would be without the patent system in place. By having a patent system in place which grants monopolies, we have redirected the efforts of the marketplace to focus on attaining monopolization as opposed to commodification of the means of testing and improving medicine.
Insurance is fundamentally a group activity --it is a shared risk pool. There is no such thing as individual insurance. The question is how groups are formed. Currently, US does it around business units. UK does nationwide.

Somalia does individual, AKA, no insurance.
The problem is that the slowness is not limited to running command line programs, the REPL is slow to start, compilation is slow and so is running any leiningen task. As suggested in another comment I gave a quick try at ClojureScript but the compilation process is also slow. Clojure is an appealing language but to me the general sluggishness of the environment is too irritating. The existence of things like Nailgun and Drip seem to confirm that there's a real problem there.

I suppose if you're coming from a C-based runtime like Ruby or Python, you have to adapt your workflow. I imagine that a lot of Clojure people come from Java and have already shaped their workflow around the JVM.
Async with pypy? I though pypy still doesn't support greenlets?

What did you use for async calls?
There's also apparently no real research which shows that Dvorak is actually a more efficient layout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Cont...
Fedora’s Matthew Garrett explains his position very good.
The "UEFI Forum", which controls the Standard, is made up of computing industry representatives including Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD, and a handful of computer manufacturers.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
This a more technical perspective: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html

The day people start doing more than watching youtube videos with their ARM computers is certainly a possible future. Smartphones are becoming a stronger selling factor than the PC industry. We all agree that the future is mobile and everbody is betting on this future.

Although not a BIOS disadvantage per se, switching from EFI mode to BIOS mode requires re-installing your OS(es), or at least reconfiguring their boot loaders.
ObjC++ uses C++11 (plus you NEED ObjC/ObjC++ to make calls to Cocoa).