skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIs will be strong / have sentience because the easiest path to creating AIs that are that capable is to throw lots of computing power at the problem: simulate and then emulate specific human brains and use those resulting in silico entities as a starting point for further alterations and enhancements towards specific end goals.

That level of computing power will be available long before the nature of sentience is understood, probably within the next 15 years, and there are already heavily funded scientific projects that are starting down that road.

That doing it this way is enormously unethical isn't going to stop people from going down this road: the potential economic gains of creating knowledge workers to order are vast, and there are already philosophies (e.g. identity as pattern) that can be adapted to suggest that instantiating and destroying - or even just running - large numbers of in silico sentiences doesn't amount to mass murder. Therefore some groups will adopt those philosophies and prosper from the gains.
Which is pretty much why people think .Net is dying in the first place.
Thats correct, and ultimately these were the rocks I flailed against for a few months before giving up. There are ways that you can change what something does that don't look semantically different to the compiler. That means you can't capture a semantic signature completely.
I agree with you on the lack of iOS & Android support in .NET so far (i'm using Xamarin to bridge this now).

But I am personally confident MS will attack this market with full steam and deliver native tools to their developers sooner rather than later.
I think I'm basically with you on this, though when I receive a particularly brutal handshake a certain scene from Hot Shots[1] involuntarily leaps to mind and I tend to chuckle rather than read too much into the psyche of the shaker.

What is your opinion on the opposite? For me that's far more unsettling. I've initiated handshakes with people whose age and home country meant they didn't really have much experience of the Western "firm handshake", always the limp wrist. I don't know whether to shake it, or draw the hand to my lips as courting a princess. Which, I assume, was not one in your repertoire of "intricate hiphop style handshakes".

Jokes aside, more than one family member had felt it important to instruct me in the art of a good handshake as a matter of gentlemanly conduct from a young age, even long after I'd obviously "got it", and I distinctly recall one of my friends suddenly in his mid-20s going from a pathetic one to a really decent powergrip apparently because his boss had told him after a promotion that he ought to work on his handshake. I say this in defense of the one who "actively squeezes", as it may not be macho-signaling so much as over-correction for their past dead fish.

[1] http://youtu.be/HQmBJONo5_E?t=16m47s
I've often felt that more developers (or even interested power users), should be running with things like MALLOC_CHECK_=3 (http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3113982) enabled by default for everything. On top of that, when we have plenty of FLOSS static analysis tools (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545188), plus things like valgrind, gprof and gcov, I don't understand why more people don't use them. As for compiler flags, if we can build a whole distro around optimization (Gentoo), why can't we build a whole distro around debugging (-fstack-protector-all, -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, -g3, etc)? I realize some distros already enable things like this, but usually they are looking to harden things, not necessarily diagnose bugs.
This guy got fired for obvious sexism in the workspace, which was made visible by refusing to shake a woman’s hands on the ground that his religion forbids him to do so.
You raise a good point. However, in light of the Justice Department secretly obtaining AP phone records [1], this provides an alternative option for secure information.

For information that is best delivered anonymously, this sounds like one of many tools to get your message out there.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2013/05/14/183810320/justice-department-s...
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I am as well. They were so close to propelling Ruby as the desktop language of choice. I remember how easy it was to program GUI in IronRuby...:

button = Button.new
button.text = 'Foo'
button.location = Point.new(0,0)
button.click {|sender, e| do_something}
window.controls.add(button)

Makes Qt and Gtk look like over-engineered monstrosities.
It looks great, but isn't it risky to force people use an IDE? A lot of developers like to work in their own environment.
I thought the whole point of Facebook Home was if you download it, you're automatically using it. If you don't want to use it, you have to uninstall it. There's no having it installed and not using it.
If you have physical access to a computer (so you can put Hello Kitty USB in it) you can have root on it anyway, no matter the OS.
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Microsoft is so hit or miss. They're incredibly innovative in the research department, but business tools are definitely overcomplicated (Dynamics, SharePoint). I use C#.NET daily, and it is the programming tool I'm most in love with. There is no easier way to make business desktop apps, and with the new MVC and Entity Framework libraries, there aren't many easier ways to make significant web applications (i.e. beyond a to-do list or blog). Azure level of functionality makes other cloud companies look almost archaic.

I think where they're losing is that they've stopped communicating. With customers, with developers, even internally. They are proceeding down paths they imagined to be important. Some of them are, some of them aren't, and thus the hit-or-miss nature of their current business. I think a lot of this is Ballmer. He's trying to be a Jobs and failing miserably, when all he needs to do is allow his people to actually communicate with the community.

Another part of it is that they can't do anything these days without a bunch of FUD from the media and Anti-MS sheep. I actually like Windows 8 and appreciate the innovation even if there are some hiccups to take care of. .NET is great, and I hope they make it easier to move forward and migrate existing apps to whatever they do next. Will they die anytime soon? Probably not. But if they don't start communicating soon and often, they'll lose some market share for sure.
They offer 3 routes (fastest, quitest, balanced) for this reason already. I asssume the improvements they talk about based on more in-depth data would also take into account speed/confidence of the cyclist.
This

Today's 'sheltered youth' doesn't cease to amaze me.

Your $500 car is safe (ok, maybe the $1000). It's not a VW bus, it's safe.

Get out, get a job, go to college. Drive around. Sheesh

Unless you live in an area with good public transport, so in this case dumping the car is an option.
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I think this is a great idea. I use http://jsfiddle.net/ all the time for JavaScript and this will be useful for other languages.

Are there any plans in the pipeline to support C#?
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The teens who spend all of the money from their job on their car are teens who are entirely supported by their parents.

Many parents would expect that some of the wages that the child earns go towards offsetting the child's own cost. Some parents may even insist that the wages more than offset the upkeep of the child, and go towards helping support other children in the family (lots of single parent households.)
Ry,

I am curious about the learning part. Did you setup a list of questions and how do you plan to get the answers? Did you guys define "success" for today/this week in terms of what you want to learn?
"If you trust them"?

What does that even mean in a time when the US government can pressure reporters into giving them the information anyway, or simply spy on them (see AP spying case).
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Bootstrap is good if you are happy with its default design and do not want to customize it much.

If all you need is a good starting grid and some useful javascript libraries to work with, I would suggest that you take a look at Foundation. It gives you a good starting point and doesn't get in your way after that.

At Resumonk (http://www.resumonk.com), we started off with Bootstrap and then moved to Foundation because of the flexibility that it provided. Now we've just updated Resumonk from Foundation 2.x to Foundation 4. The upgrade went very smoothly and we also plan to write a blog post about it soon.
It's not really "flakiness" that concerns me -- it's "ownership". I need people who will take genuine ownership of the central pieces of the platform -- who will design and implement the architecture of the platform, carefully follow its performance as the product and the market matures, and make improvements accordingly. That requires being in the same room with myself and the rest of the development team, until the product reaches a stage of stability and self-documentation that others can slip into that role with relative ease.

Based on my prior experience starting software companies (this will be my third), I know that the developers team will need to be working fulltime on this (well, evenings, weekends, and holidays excluded...), in the same room as the rest of the development team. And I estimate this shakedown period will last 2-3 years -- not freelance time, any way you cut it.

Again, this is really not meant to be a slight upon freelancers. They can be excellent at what they do. But I would never ask one to take a critical role in developing unique, cutting-edge IP in what I am certain will be a long-term evolutionary process.
>I said they were a pain in the ass for the kinds of programs many people want to write

And refuse to specify what those kinds of programs might be. You are inventing a "many" and giving them a problem to create a false impression of consensus, when it is actually just you making a singular, baseless assertion.

>the very fact that a community exists around these products should make that clear to you.

I address that in the first post. You keep responding purely to act like a petulant child, but provide absolutely nothing to support your claims. Do you really think that makes you appear to be the rational, logical party?
The government has really showed us how little we can trust them in the last couple weeks. Go Tor!
Ok... let's believe for a moment that .NET is dying, so what platform you think it's ready to take it's place?
Man in the middle attacks on Tor are possible. Check out Moxie Marlinspike's 2009 BlackHat DC Presentation on SSL Stripping:

http://vimeo.com/50018478

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
Discuss it with therapist if you would prefer to reserve drugs as a last resort, and try all the other, non-chemical things first, such as CBT. You might even start by looking for a CBT-specializing therapist, as you are more likely to find understanding from them.
No he does not have a point. Even if he does trust them, that's irrelevant. The point of anonymity is so others (especially governments) don't find out your identity. That can be done regardless of how much you trust the publisher.

Why do you think Wikileaks was invented?
Because it is impossible to have children without a car. Right!
let the online phd begin....
Agreed, same here. If the app responds, good. If the app doesn't respond, check to see if it ate the computer (i.e., allocated all of swap and is now thrashing). So clicking/other movements are sort of a basic manual health check.
What your onboarding flow needs is "How this is different from X." Adding this to my app may be easy, but switching has cost (lost data, time spent, etc).

X includes at least: Honeybadger (what I use presently), AirBrake (just switched from this), NewRelic (also does what you do, and everybody uses it), BugSense, Errormator, Sentry, and I'm sure there are others in this field (for some reason).
Tube map doesn't say it's scaled so therefore the argument 'look how close these two stations are on the map' isn't valid.
Heh. A decade ago, I read this article on duplicate code detection in PMD:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/12/pmd_cpd.html?p...

... and sent Tom a much faster solution based on the BWT. (I tokenized the codebase, applied the BWT to the tokens, and the duplicates can just be read off the list of permutations). It's a neat trick, doesn't take much code, and I still use that from time to time on languages that I don't have tools for; it was used for a while in PMD's CPD, but the current version is based on Rabin-Karp instead.
Bank is the Hogwarts of tube stations.
Have a kid, live in the suburbs, haven't driven my car since maybe February, ever since we discovered that there was a COSTCO on the train line.
He used OPENSTEP on a Thinkpad, including during a Macworld Expo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhhFQ-3w5tE
Honestly when you read that as an actual solution it sounds like a joke
Don't feel sorry. That really is one of the worst infographics I've ever seen. The shapes infer zero meaning about the content. Worse, there is no obvious way to navigate an isometric cuboid staircase, so we have to rely on less obvious visual cues to find the path to the next step. The numbers communcate the order while the graphic confuses the eye. Worst of both worlds.
Just a data point, but I am 23 and have a three year-old son. I haven't owned a car since high school. We get around by subway and bicycle.

When I started working (19) I used to fantasize about buying a new car, but everything about them is a total money hole. You have to pay for somewhere to park it (just parking on the street is illegal in my city), then car tax, then insurance, then gas...

I guess I am blessed to live in a city (Nagoya) that is quite bikeable and has an adequate public transit system.
Yesterday's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709445
It amazes me that all these safety features are considered required, and that the bar is so high. Yes, they'd be nice, but people managed to survive prior to the safety features being engineered.
Yeah, that's what I got from it pretty quickly.

The castle is the carefully-constructed life they've built together which is being encroached upon, and they abandon their previous endeavor to find the cause or whatever.

And, naturally, the journey becomes the focus rather than the end goal.

The plot is (only a little) simplified, but this seems like Randall's 'novel'.
With the information they have and how they processed it seems like they should have a rough snapshot of each season. It would be remarkable to be able to click a button and change the landscape from winter-spring-summer-fall.
Absolutely spot on, and I have exactly the same experience.

What completely baffled me when I did quite a bit of SharePoint development of late is, that you are essentially doing web application development, except everything you know about web development is somehow not valid anymore because it has been buried under layers and layers of abstraction.

So you have to go on at least one SharePoint development course, to re-learn web development as you know it.
That's quite an assertion. I'd say that a few public radio programs I listen to have done some great investigative journalism.

Specifically:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/h...

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/07/182010027/episode-...

http://www.propublica.org/article/finding-oscar-massacre-mem...
>>I didn't say anything about performance, and that's because I don't think performance has much to do with it.

Sure but that is why I brought it up. Performance and safety are very often two sides to the same tradeoff. You were saying you thought the concurrency of Erlang was safer, and I was proposing that depending on the problem domain, a little risk can be worth the performance gain. That being said, I think Go makes concurrency easy to get right (much less risky than say C/C++), it just doesn't ensure correctness.

>>...Go is still an Algol-esque language. That's a legitimate advantage. I've paid the price of learning the alternate paradigms, but I would generally recommend Go to a larger corporate deployment before I'd recommend trying to convince a couple dozen people to learn Erlang.

Wise man :)
My 17 month old plays with several numbers and letters apps on my Surface. If the app hangs even slightly, she taps over and over until the app reacts again. I find it interesting that even she does the rapid fire tapping as well.
I admire their excellent investigative work, but they're certainly not the only one. Just three days ago the New York Times published a fascinating article [0] about a crooked Brooklyn detective who, with the collusion of Elizabeth Holtzman's AG office, put probably dozens of innocent people in prison for murder. These cases are getting reviewed and the victims released after years in jail, partly due to the Times' investigation. This is just a recent example.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/nyregion/doubts-about-dete...
I've been seeing a big trend amongst my peers to chose to live in walkable areas.

When someone announces they are getting a new place, they often excitedly list the places nearby that they can walk to. Even if you have kids, if you're walking somewhere, a car isn't as important. Sure, they may have cars, but they might not use them for every trip.
I've been actively courting developers for a few weeks now. I've found loads of qualified developers who are willing to freelance for a couple of months -- which unfortunately excludes them from consideration for the kind of roles I need.

You're perhaps right that explicitly stating the salary might be a better way to go. I've been patterning my job listings after those of more established companies, which generally do not state their salaries upfront. But when people see that we're a new company, their immediate assumptions are so negative (and wrong) that perhaps we need to go the extra mile to overcome those...
> Nine days after Aaron’s death, his familiar Skype avatar popped up on my computer screen. Somewhere, somebody—probably a family member—had booted up his computer. I fought the irrational urge to click on the icon and resume our conversation. Then he vanished from my screen again.

Holy shit, that ending. Chilling.
Only if you bill your walking hours at a consultant's rate, which is silly. I'm making more than both of you if you calculate it that way by sleeping an hour less a night while playing World of Warcraft.
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The most interesting web-based future of .NET is out of Microsoft's control. Xamarin allow you to make iPhone and Android apps in C#, Nancy.FX is the simple web framework MS never made, Moq allows you to greatly improve TDD...

I'm still glad I know C#, but I haven't had a use for .NET in a long time, and have little reason to. Desktop apps are something else entirely, of course.
> The map doesn't seem to claim otherwise.

Yes, it does. The tube map at 0:21 makes it look like the walking distance between Lancaster Gate and Paddington is about 75% of the tube distance. What you see at 0:48 is a regular map, which shows that it's more like 10%
Russia doesn't use too much logic, their history is all about power not wealth.

Arab Spring beneficiaries are Muslim extremists like Muslim Brotherhood. You know, usual pattern, women are treated like slaves, kids at school study Koran and Koran only, etc. They hate, they loathe, Europe as much as the USA. No, it turns out, they don't like your idea of freedom. They want you to be a Muslim or die. As simple as that.
Did you use Mac OS 8 & 9? They were awful. No proper multitasking ("cooperative"), no memory protection, crappy TCP stack, and lots more bad stuff. Things were so bad they bought a replacement OS (NeXT) because their internal engineering had completely stuffed up. I don't think I could have gone from NeXT to MacOS 9/8.
Only?

Tne Stranger?
Seattle Times?
If you disagree with what this anti-piracy group is doing, how is it fair to apply the standards they support? Isn't it necessarily, then, unfair to apply their standards to anyone, if you disagree with those standards?

It seems like you'd be agreeing with them if you asked them to apply their own standards to themselves. You either think they're right or they're wrong, and if you think they're wrong, some poetic justice shouldn't be enough to break your own moral code. That seems more indefensible than holding an incorrect set of views - to attempt to knowingly apply views you believe are wrong to someone because it satisfies a primal urge for vengeance.
I'm a Millennial. I went to college in a city, and happened to just stay (halfly because I'm sick of suburbia). I use public transit to go everywhere. I make enough money to buy a car, but I don't need it.
Sorry, that's just petty. There's nothing in your posts that has substance; it just reads as yet another guy on the internet who wants to be right about something so he nitpicks, nitpicks, nitpicks. OP doesn't have "a hole in his own story". As he stated: nowhere does Etsy say that sellers must have photographic documentation for each build process of each item, and to shut his shop down because he does not have that specific evidence is just BS. Stop looking for reasons to argue with people haha.
See also ErrPlane (ycomb winter 2013)
It would be interesting to know how much the average income has increased, more than minimum wage, and the effect of inflation on other prices would also be useful.

I'm not saying that it would lead to a different conclusion, but just that it's data you can't ignore when comparing prices across a 20 years span.
Yeah, it perhaps someone on the New Yorker masthead thought: "Hey, this needs to be New-Yorker-ified" and added trifles like 3D-ish outlines to make things really "pop"...when really, a simple ordered list or table would've sufficed. At least they didn't make it into a cartoon.
Is this really relevant here?

(I'm sure the sound code has few statically-detectable defects... even if it fails to produce anything audible for most people.)
I wrote a small guide to getting started with TileMill:

http://blogging.alastair.is/i-had-no-idea-how-to-make-custom...

But it was written long before these vector improvements. I hope to find the time to work with them soon, they look awesome.
If it's orange then it's likely to be EasyJet as everything they do is that colour
I'm going by my observations and a few chats with tube driver in the past, one which had worked on the line for 20 years. That said you could be right, not seen the air content of tubes stations analysed in any scientific detail.

I do know the Northern line in parts pre-dates electrification and deisel trains have been used as well as steam in the past -- last steam train was replaced in 1971 -- though which line I do not know and probably overground part of the service.

Though given it is underground then it is very probably a lot of dust and other crap air particles end up sinking into the tube system, certainly do not reccomend looking up in detail as can get dust from building waste and asbestos dust to some degree, though I'm sure nothing to worry about based up todays `safe` levels and limited samplerlings, Hmmmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_line Interesting read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_diesel_loco... as proved insightful.

Think all we can really say is, it has added value air that some may not agree with more than others. Still least we all don't go around with surgical masks, I can see why some do and it will be those having the last laugh.
> You will have a lot of mini libraries that you will put together to fit your needs.

Like a framework?