skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It seems to me that the Kevin Drum article is much clearer on this topic. AI doesn't need to be that good in order to oust humans from their jobs. His first line example is automated cars, not sentient robots.

In the case where most jobs can be automated like driving can be automated, we're not talking a technological singularity, we're just talking a massive transfer of wealth to holders of capital. Personally, I think that's the more realistic scenario, and the one that it's easiest to think through the consequences of.
Because if you are going to break the law by leaking information, no matter how noble your cause, I would imagine that every additional person who is aware of your identity would give you tremendous pause.
The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads
I've run into the problem (with some Emacs add-ons in particular), of changing something on one machine, only to miss that change in another. So, if I've got my own "central" repo, I can push changes to that and pull them down to other machines.

Since I site the repos on a server I have online already, it is also trivially easy to make it publicly "pullable" for others if need be.
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"To be fair, what is one supposed to do? Should nation states just pack up shop because all their information-restricting legislation does not apply to the intertubes?"

The anarchist in me says yes, the realist in me says vote for Julia at the next election and cross my fingers, the idealist in me says move to New Zealand :-)

"Even assuming complete good faith from authorities, it's clear that they are reluctant to lose a pillar (if not the pillar) of their own existence."

I'd say that the fact the reluctance is so clear is indicative of a complete lack of good faith.

I see what you're saying, and it's a very valid point, but I think "Taboo-making" is way too often over-extended to include taboos on anything the current government doesn't like.
Broken link, typo I guess. It should be http://www.swedishstartupspace.com/.

I'm so sick of the usage of the word "space" in the startup space, it's not even funny when I try.
It's pretty goofy.
Hehe.. That is one of the best parts of the post ;)
Saving money in comparison to what? To spending that extra commute time working for money, no. To spending the extra commute time driving to a gym and riding a stationary bike? Definitely.
Does the feeling of right and wrong means sentience?
In a real authoritarian regime this page would not have existed at all due to government pressure (or would have been a honeypot for government). Such regimes generally work through the double whammy of threat of action (legal or thug-based, e.g. in Russia) to the actual reporters who uncover dirt and subtler threats/coercions to their bosses, the latter of which leads to self-censorship and is much preferred. A recent example of the second approach is the suppression of news about the bombing in Reyhanli in the Turkish press.
I like to use spacing here. There's a sweet spot between hug distance and handshake distance where you can often read which the other person wants to go for and likewise telegraph to them which one you have in mind. A barely perceptible move back and shake or a gentle move in and hug, or perhaps something else entirely. Body language is your friend.

This comment originally started as an analogy to striking distance and grappling distance in a fight, but I couldn't make it read unsatirically.
I think the sweet spot for WCF (for us at least) is for our internal APIs. The ability to easily expose the same service over a binary TCP stream or over HTTP makes a fantastic tool when you're trying to get a lot of different systems to talk to each other.

For external or HTTP-only APIs I completely agree that it's often overkill. Frameworks like servicestack are much easier to work with in those cases.
It often takes as long or longer to accomplish daily tasks in a car-oriented suburban neighborhood as in a pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhood; for example, it's about a 5 minute walk to the grocery store in my city neighborhood and about a 5 minute drive to the grocery store in my parents' (inner-ring) suburban neighborhood; likewise it's a 20 minute walk or 5 minute subway ride for me to a mall and around a 15 minute drive to a mall from my parents' house.

The main benefit the suburbanite gets is that much of their neighborhood is empty space in the form of grass and parking lots, not that they save particularly much time.

And the long-term mental and physical health benefits from daily physical activity are difficult to assign a dollar value to, but very significant.

That said, the OP must live right in a downtown to only walk and bike 700 miles a year; I live in a city neighborhood and have a 10 mile round-trip bike commute which comes to 2400 miles a year without errands or recreation or social calls or anything.
You'll probably have to reveal your identify in many cases, unless your evidence alone is convincing beyond a doubt, but your correspondence should still be performed and stored as securely as possible.
There are many, many jobs that you could eliminate without inventing sentient AI. Anything that requires implementing a plan, rather than coming up with the knowledge, should be fair game. Doctors, most of contract law, teaching, lots of logistical jobs. I imagine we're going to get there awhile before we get to strong AI.
There was a fantastic article from Mother Jones yesterday exposing how terrible America's prisons are, and in fact MJ shows up here about once a month or so, it seems.
I'm not surprised to see this coming from The New Yorker.

I've all but given up on quality journalism from most "newspapers," but long-form investigative articles from The New Yorker and Vanity Fair (yes, of all places!) always keep my faith in humanity. Less-lengthy but usually well-researched articles from Mother Jones and Harper's are also up there.

Other sources that sometimes do an awesome job but other days leave you scratching your head would be NPR, The Atlantic (less investigative journalism, but awesome write-ups), The New York Times (covering everything from tabloid trash to 20-page quality journalism spreads), and The Seattle Times (likewise, but less crappy and less awesome at both extremes).
How does having a scan of your card open you up to fraud more than giving them your SSN in the first place?

Faking an image of a social security card is absolutely trivial.
If you combine Namecoin with Tor you could get close. Have a Namecoin .bit address point to a Tor .onion address.

As long as you don't let the .bit address expire, you'll have a secure, easy to remember address people can use to access your hidden server.
The coming political battle over Bitcoin
It's as simple as, something that's concurrent (simultaneous) may not be parallel (physically) but if it's parallel it's also concurrent. When used as a verb, parallel is interchangeable with concurrent.
Sure. But at the same time, if you make it a policy to forbid nailguns at the workplace, you have less people shooting themselves in the foot while you're not looking.
I really do not understand how cybercriminals sophisticated enough to conduct these sort of heists would then go and deposit all the physical cash into the nearest bank account in the same country?

Or perhaps we only hear of the unsuccessful heists...
You may want to try selling through NoiseFX.com, they specialize in custom pedals, synths, etc. When I think etsy, I think fashion.
> three miles per hour, 24x7x365? That's crazy,

Average velocity is a pretty braindead figure here. How about an average of 1.5 hours of use per day at an average velocity of 48 mph? Doesn't sound so crazy any more.
I think this is what's going on with Facebook.

They've had so much success in such little time
Use the offline power of social media data
'Rather than steal money from depositors' accounts, Bhalla just invented a new account for himself.
"We went into the database where the accounts are and set up an account with $14 million," Bhalla explained. "We just created $14 million out of thin air."

I remember the first time I discovered this is how banks operate when I was a kid. It's really pretty mind-blowing when you think about it. And knowing how full of bugs most software is it really made me question the entire banking system. (My mind has still yet to be put at ease on that...)
You're right that many things about this experiment remain to be seen. You make some very good, optimistic arguments and I hope we get to that future. I fear we won't

I absolutely agree that education is not a zero sum game. I actually find it sad that most education has become about job training or making money. Whatever happened to curiosity and knowledge for its own sake? But let me not get into that debate. Degrees and credentialing might be zero-sum, however.

< actual instruction is a pretty small part of what full professors are expected to do.

Similarly, the majority of what students pay in tuition goes towards anything other than the salaries and funding of professors. Also, there is a big difference between top-10 schools which run based on a lot of grant money and smaller teaching institutions.

Look, I think I'm on the losing side of the wider argument. I am all for free access to knowledge. I'm just pointing out that we are likely shooting ourselves in the foot in the long-term.

< One might hope that making education available and practical to many more people at much lower costs might actually help advance the field, both within and without the ivory tower.

This is the best sentence in your response (upvoted you btw). I really hope so.
Mobile malware and Android
Good for the New Yorker; I hope this catches on. Unfortunately, if the encryption is not end-to-end, the data is not secure. In fact, the NSA may choose to hang out and watch the unsecured traffic flow.

The New Yorker should make the traffic a little more secure by encrypting traffic (using https).

There have been past instances where similar weaknesses were exploited by sniffers:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_...
From Popehat:

First, if OMICS gets a civil judgment against him from India, they won't be able to enforce it here. The SPEECH Act prohibits any federal or state court in the United States from recognizing or enforcing a foreign judgment for defamation unless (1) the judgment creditor can prove that the foreign court offers equivalent protections for free speech as the defendant would have enjoyed in United States courts under the First Amendment, or (2) the judgment creditor can prove he or she would have prevailed even under the stricter standards in the United States.

Second, if OMICS seeks criminal charges against Mr. Beall in India, they won't be able to extradite him there. Like most extradition treaties, the treaty between the United States and India requires dual criminality — that is, that the offense is a crime in both countries. Hurting fee-fees isn't a crime in the United States. Moreover, under these circumstances, the chance that the U.S. Departments of State or Justice would cooperate with extradition requests is effectively zero.
Seriously? Razor is just C# and strongly typed languages do not work well for templating. It's exceedingly difficult to make reusable partials in Razor, for example.
The cost of hubris in design - Gods and Mortals, Part 2
people buy bitcoins for cash in person today. if anything, preventing financial institutions from accepting bitcoins makes the transactions harder to track.
^^This

Still true today and as I say backup don't fuckup and plan for the worst and let Murphies law work in your favour.
Green Cleaning
Every one have goals in lifee :)
"The last time I checked my ethics and fundamental laws, the burden of the proof was on the accuser, and the doubt was with the defendant."

You're confusing business policy for law.
They're not making that much money. The processing fees are a fraction of that. It's still profitable, but at this point Mojang might still be making more than Mt. Gox.
That's correct. It's just solid, non-debatable science.

:p

But seriously, unless you have the perfect storm of public transportation systems and public schooling systems, you're either getting a car to shuttle your kids to school or you move to the suburbs for better public schooling.

Of course there are exceptions. I'm talking trends, as this article is.
Did you see people using Bing?
Correction: Until they have school age children.

It's not too hard to raise toddlers in the city and have a nice walkable lifestyle. Sure getting around to do anything outside your immediate vicinity can be a challenge but it's not insurmountable if you have access to good public transportation.

Once you have school age kids though, it's a different ball game. Private school in the city is expensive, and often puts you in an upper class income demographic with all the pros/cons that come with that. Public school can vary from being great in progressive, well funded schools to absolutely horrible and filled with violence, apathetic teachers, and rampant drug use in under-served schools. Often there's a lottery system to get into the good schools in many cities, too.

Schools are the suburbs' trump card. Most of us that would love nothing more than to get out of the suburbs and away from our car-based lifestyle are pretty much held hostage by the school systems. The one "hack" I've seen become more common is home schooling, but this requires one person to stop working, thereby reducing the income to a point where city living becomes hard to afford.
If you change "increased" to "decreased", you can find this info pretty easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Median_US_household_income...

If you're looking for personal income rather than household income, there's a graph for that as well.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Historical_med...
Correct me if I'm wrong but Cilk and Cilk Plus are different technologies so I'd write Cilk Plus instead of Cilk to prevent confusion. And where's Scala with Akka? Nice post though.
I live here. Yes it does.
He's pointing out that they're not adhering to their own moral code, rather than trying to hold them to his. That said, they might be able to assert an innocent infringement defense:

http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_infringement

Standard disclaimers about getting a lawyer if you need legal advice apply, as always.
The big reason I've been using Bootstrap for client websites recently has been the wrapbootstrap store. I'd been looking for something equivalent with Foundation, but haven't found one. This looks like it. I hope it takes off! I might submit a theme too if I get some time.
_yosefk, I'm trying to digest your argument and I'm wondering if I have this correct:

1. Concurrency is a property of any problem that involves resource contention.

2. Parallelism is merely a performance optimization for certain classes of problems.

3. Tools that address the concurrency problem are capable of performing the parallelism optimization by recasting a problem as a resource-contention problem.

4. However, casting a problem as a resource-contention problem introduces necessary nondeterminism and likely race conditions, as these are inherent properties of the problem domain for which these tools were designed.

5. Instead, use a tool that is explicitly designed to address parallelism in a deterministic, race-free manner.

Is this the essence of your essay? Personally, I'd love to see an example of a small real-world problem solved in e.g. Erlang vs. the same solution in checkedthreads.
I don't know the specifics, but my understanding is that the seemingly random string of characters is a crypto signature.

If I'm not mistaken, it makes the site safe from Man In The Middle attacks.
Open Source Helped Obama Win the 2012 Election Campaign
"His suicide also raised new questions: Who owned the code now? (Answer: he willed all his intellectual property to Sean Palmer, who gives the project his blessing.)"

Isn't his deaddrop code GPL licensed?
"I had no idea "handmade" was such a big deal at Etsy."

Hell, all I've heard about is griping from other sellers how "handmade" ISN'T a big deal from overseas sellers.
Personally I couldn't be more in love with MSFT tools (granted they're expensive and I'm using whatever free version they give us). I've worked with Java way back but can't help switching back (WPF, Silverlight for a short while, MVC). When people ask me why on Earth I prefer this, I always give them the same explanation: "MSFT development products for a straight-up developer are what Apple products to an average consumer. Things integrate together instantly and just... work!"
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Anybody else seeing the technology startup business creeping ever-closer to emulating an American Idol mentality? The "startup" seems to be getting smaller and smaller. These are more like paid internships than "funding."

What is really going on here is some people with access to money and zero new ideas throwing micro stuff at the wall to see what sticks. The best advice I ever received was "don't take on investment if you don't need it." This message consistently from a wide variety of successful people then running anything from Angel-funded companies to post-IPO NASDAQ listings.
indeed, may don't realise that, and a mistake/error replicated is still a mistake/error.

Still least I hope they didn't have transaction logging onto the same discs, seen that in horror because somebody had large raid array and did not think they needed the expense of another.
That's good stuff, thanks.

One thing I would say is that I've heard that no matter where one lives in London, the black snot goes away pretty quickly after moving there. I find that hard to believe (because: "why?") but so many people have told me it I think it must be true, except now you've said that for you it was constant so I don't know what to think any more.

Another thing is that "Plenty of opportunity to work in London and avoid the most horrible snot / commute issues.." fills me with hope! Cheers!
Tech grads helping athletes be their own "bosses"
> If you can't transfer your cash to Bitcoin, or your Bitcoin to cash, then the decentralized nature of Bitcoin itself is immaterial.

Unless you can turn your bitcoins into goods and services.
Show HN: Zoomendar - A fully gesture driven calendar for iOS
The key was born in 1960, when an I.B.M. programmer named Bob Bemer was trying to solve a Tower of Babel problem: computers from different manufacturers communicated in a variety of codes. Bemer invented the ESC key as way for programmers to switch from one kind of code to another. Later on, when computer codes were standardized (an effort in which Bemer played a leading role), ESC became a kind of “interrupt” button on the PC — a way to poke the computer and say, “Cut it out.”
Wow, Title is a bit misleading; One piece of anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. I would also like to take this time to bitch about the fact that airplane mode on many devices also prevents WiFi, which is allowed on board many flights.
Udacity and Georgia Tech offer ‘massive online’ computer science masters degree
5 Crazy Things Corporate Organizations are Doing to Strengthen Their Brand
Thank you very much, those comments made my day :). I very much share the sentiment. I am developing in SharePoint and I am sometimes impressed at what it can do; however lately I have been thinking of jumping ship and start developing small business applications (in Golang) that solve user problems quickly and iteratively.
Interesting that they didn't feel the need to write "C.D." though. I guess that one has been around long enough that it no longer is viewed as an acronym?
I don't really understand why these frameworks need themes.

IMO, they should be used as a hidden framework instead of driving the visuals. Essentially, they should just be a grid system.
> The real question is, why on earth would they use non-ECC memory on their database server.

Perhaps because the database server is a cloud server from someone like Amazon, Mediatemple or Linode where you have no control on the underlying hardware.
Here's my latest work worth showing. Started it back in late October, and while it definitely didn't take me THAT long (life got in the way plenty) this is definitely more than just a "weekend project" for me.

In a nutshell Zoomendar is a fully touch-enabled calendar. Basically you navigate your calendar by swiping, tapping and pinching. I think it's the natural evolution of the touchscreen calendar. As always I'd love feedback of any kind.

Direct links:

Video of Zoomendar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...

App Store - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
I don't think it's all about money.

I live in NYC in large part to avoid driving. If I moved to Kirkland the lower rent would easily pay to lease, fuel, insure and maintain a luxury car, with cash left over. I'm staying here. So are my 8 million neighbours.
Great unless you're a home construction business.

Anyway, this analogy isn't helping anyone. You think libs in source control is a problem because some people might not do it properly. I'm contending that there's nothing wrong with libs in source control--there's something wrong with letting people who might not do it properly near your source control.
As with many large and powerful organizations, it is not the top that is always the problem but the mid level players who wield their power either incorrectly or criminally.
Heh. Though speaking just for myself, I disable 404 notifications if there's no referrer, so I'd only see it if I happened to be trawling through the log with extreme care (i.e. never). If other developers are like me, you might want to use curl (or whatever) so that the referrer is actually set. In fact...I may start doing this.
Go vs Haskell/Erlang has a similar showing in TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks

Many servers solve the c10k problem (not that it is an issue for many users anyway), but it always seemed as much interesting to me how your code is structured with a highly concurrent server. E.g. Yesod and Snap (via WAI) allow you to stream the request and response with conduit (and enumerator) and build nice and composable pipelines. Play 2 is also moving in that direction with their iteratee implementation:

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.1/Iteratees

Iteratee/pipe-based processing would never be possible in Go, since it does not offer parametric polymorphism and typeclasses. Sure, you could write transformations to take and produce interface{}s, but it will give you as much type safety as a dynamic languages and type switches in every function.
Dealing With Overly Opinionated Clients
Going to blogs is, with the exception of very busy aggregators like Reddit or Hacker News (so, not 'small to medium size blogs'), for chumps. That's why we have RSS!
...because the alternative will be smashing my cup of coffee in the display :)
Installing and comparing MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Vertica, Hive and Impala
Better, if you do have backups, just drop your database, reconstitute a new one (using your schema definition file which you should have saved,) and load your most recent backup. I've dealt with disk file level corruption and the best way to deal with it IMHO is not to deal with it at all.
>It's akin to asking on IRC or writing a mail to a mailing list

No it isn't. It is akin to shouting at random people on the street "help I don't know what to do!". Asking on IRC on a mailing list is going to a group of people who are there specifically to help people with problems on that subject.
Not twice as much but yes ... more valuable. This is well studied in agriculture and economics. When there is a bumper crop, farmers suffer.