skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be really interesting to see how driverless cars negotiate things like natural merges (a freeway losing a lane), and how that affects traffic flow. Ostensibly they'll be as efficient as possible, but if two lanes become one, there's going to be some slowing regardless. Furthermore, in a vehicle that also ostensibly wants to get you to your point of interest in as timely a manner as possible, how does it decide whether to subject itself to staying in a right lane where it might be subject to moreane merges, or does it ever decide to go around a particularly bad or congested spot for the sake of getting you to the destination?
Giorgio is a pretty common name in Italy, where the team is :)
I suppose WinFX's spiritual successor is WinRT.
Cool, thanks. I will check it out this evening.
We took a different approach with http://akvo.org

I noticed the really poor use of Internet systems in international development aid. More than $120 Bn is spent yearly on this, and nobody really has a clue where the money goes. There is no useful overview. So we started building tools to fix that and supply them as a paid for service.

Everything we build is open source software. We have 45+ people working on this, with paying partners such as the World Bank, UNICEF, Liberian government, Mars Chocolate and many hundreds more. It is not your ordinary business model, but it works and we are growing. You can make open source software and earn a decent living.
alloca has its drawbacks. See the previous article in the series: https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/08/memory-part-3-managing...
I would suggest something like this: http://imgur.com/QugrU9y
(inaccurate numbers!)
Meteor does feel a little heavy (especially when you get around to deploying it) but take a look at demeteorizer, at https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer

It converts Meteor apps into more traditional node.js with a package.json
Okay, thats pretty neat, but whats with the auto translation?

Vælg easing for at se beskrivelsen sammen med en Bezier kurve.
div {
-webkit-transition: all 600ms easing funktionens Bezier kurve;
transition: all 600ms easing funktionens Bezier kurve; }

It hurts my brain, expecting to read english, then encountering danish with english mixed in.
Depending on one's financial situation, it's pretty reasonable to do consulting or something in between, especially if the founders are older or otherwise have higher income potential. (Going from $250/hr or $250k+/yr consulting to $0-3k/mo startup wages kind of sucks if you don't get an exit...)
Haha, not to be confused with this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/seliot/archive/2010/11/05/cosmos-pet...
Google and the Gmail user both benefit. This why there are so many Gmail users!

The Gmail user gets a free email account with a large storage allowance, an effective search engine, and a dynamite spam filter. Google gets to collect revenue in excess of cost (Google is very good at server farms) for the opportunity to show said user relevant ads.

Thus, Google's access to the content of the user's email benefits both Google and the user!
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Hi I'm comming to Startup School 2013 from Thailand and, besides not really knowing what to expect, I'm wondering if any of you locals are planning a post meet up of any kind?

I'm guessing that sat night and/or sunday is best for people, so if your willing to organize something for us out-of-towners (and for me, those of us totally ignorant of Silicon Valley culture) please do let me and others know!
Power training would logically be training the attribute referred to by 'power'. That can be trained with the Olympic lifts, amongst other things.

Here's a video of an Olympian shot-putter training, including 'jumping with weights': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frFVhwIy_PU

Not to say that strong tendons and joints are important, nor that the article mentions powerlifting, which is not concerned with power.
> If you follow Google's notion of implicit consent to such practices, then any traffic online can be lawfully intercepted and profiled. When you send data over a third party router, you give permission to spy on yourself. I don't think so.

I disagree. Google is not intercepting traffic willy nilly: you _sent_ the traffic to Google, when you emailed john.smith@google.com. Comparing Google reading traffic that was transmitted to it with a wholesale "any traffic online and be lawfully intercepted and profiled" is exaggerating the scope of what is going on here.

Also, what is the prosecution hoping to gain here? If they win, and Google can't serve relevant ads… are we out of a good email service? (I suppose Google could still try to serve ads, but they just would be in the dark w.r.t. the email content.)
Oh, hooray, it's mobile Safari!
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Absolutely. There is also no clue that the page should be scrolled down. And the video tutorial should be featured on the landing page.
Having a large picture of someone's face staring at me next to the text distracts me, creeps me out, and makes it very difficult for me to read. Lots of tech blogs have this anti-feature but this one is particularly egregious.
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Why should it be different from other traits? Well, we don't really understand the genetics of physical height. Why should we be so certain we understand the genetics of intelligence when we barely even understand intelligence itself?

What do we know? Getting Malaria in childhood reduces IQ by a few points. Resistance to Malaria is partly genetic. Are these genetic factors now a genetic basis for Intelligence? Shouldn't we just vaccinate the children and eliminate the problem?

We know that in developing countries, every month in school increases IQ and earning potential. Should we assume and accept genetic factors in school attendance as inevitable or should we just require attendance?

We know that in Africa, using cheap deworming agents in school children two times a year will increase their intelligence and school attendance. Are there genetic factors in resistance against worms? Does it matter where the particular ethnicity lives? Sure. Should we care? Not really.

The image that emerges is: Once you hold the environment pretty constant, as has been done in twin studies (regarding to the above known factors at least), IQ is largely genetic.

But making decisions on the basis of assumptions about the genetic basis intelligence is at the very least quite stupid.
IIRC running a program meant to delete the users computer on your website would likely get you in a bit of trouble.
There are two main issues with alloca: first you cannot deallocate or reallocate the memory, you just append more data to your frame. As a consequence, it is not suitable for dynamic allocations while the t_stack is.

The second drawback is that alloca allocates on the stack, as a consequence it is limited by the size of the stack (a few megabytes on recent linux distribution, and the actual size of remaining stack depends on the callstack, since each frame consumes some stack and may have put huge buffers/alloca on it already). The t_stack has no hard-limit.

Additionally, by being totally separated from the stack, the t_stack provides a flexible alternative to the stack: you have finer-grained control on allocation/deallocation patterns.

As said in another comment, the drawbacks of alloca are explained in the previous article of the series.
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However we barely understand the genetic factors. In humans it can be pretty difficult to control the environment. And then we assume we can understand the genetics of intelligence, when we barely understand either genetics or intelligence itself.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/116008498/Cover-up-5200-Pentagon-P...
This worked great! Didn't know this existed!
I reached their 400k cell limit :( Although Google Fusion works great as someone else pointed out below!
I recently came to appreciate this as a novice programmer learning Lisp. After working through the initial chapters of 'Practical Common Lisp' and 'Land of Lisp', I settled on DS Touretzky's 'Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation'.

The pace is very comforting for a beginner and the reiterations are meticulous in detail and yet concise. For any beginner, the joy and confidence from being able to grok simple concepts and finishing all exercises provides the impetus to move on to tomes like SICP, 'On Lisp' and 'Let Over Lambda'. I would highly recommend technical authors to study the prose and content layout in this book.
You claim to "demonstrate that it's a lot more complex than just environmental factors". But the correct conclusion from what you said is that you demonstrated that it's a lot more complex than just the environmental factors that you thought of.

You seem to be concluding genetic factors ("always had an intrinsic motivation"). But "not all environment" does not imply "some genetics", that is a false alternative.

There are more possible factors than just environment and genetics. One is human choice (sometimes called "free will", but that term has a lot of baggage). I do not agree with the perspective of attributing everything to factors, rather than a person's own choices.

Genetics certainly have a role in some sense. If you had different genes, you would have been a cat instead of human, and would not have the brain to be a software engineer.

But the general idea that life is very complicated, and the results of people in similar situations vary -- true so far -- simply does not imply (partial) genetic determinism. "Environment", or more generally alternatives to genetic determinism, is/are very subtle and complex. The world is vastly complicated, "environment" refers to a million factors most of which no one documents.

You had, in many respects, a different life and environment than anyone else had. Everyone has a unique environment at high precision. So whatever result you get, what would that prove?

You wonder how a person with several factors against them could be intelligent and successful? You can't think of any ways, besides genetics? There are a million ways. Poverty, non-wonderful discouraging parents, poor teachers, and whatever else are not one's whole life. You met many people, some more helpful than that. You read some books. Even just an ordered list of what books you read up to age 20 might be unique.

People don't start the same, but even if they did, things would quickly branch, again and again. 30 identical students sit in a classroom. The teacher explains something. By sheer randomness, if nothing else, some students understand it today, and some do not understand it yet. Then the next day the teacher gives a second lecture. Everyone hears "the same" lecture, but they have different situations (having understood or not understood yesterday's lesson), so different students experience "the same lecture" in different ways due to their different situations and perspectives. Similarly, in general, people in "the same environment" are not actually having the same experiences.
Could the teachers statement be rephrased in terms that the kid is developing analytical skills so quickly that they are dominating over the more "experiential" part of socializing with others? It seems that this kind of thing persists into adulthood, because I notice that it is hard to experience and analyze at the same time. For example, it is hard to read a book to experience the story and analyze the narrative structure at the same time. A similar point is described in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" that one can either listen to a musical piece as a whole (experientally) or as individual pieces, such as notes (analytically), but not both at the same time.

While I tend to think analytical skills are more important, it is probably not good to entirely neglect the skills to experience and "live in the moment" either, since that seems to be the foundation of many social skills.
> Except for that the Hart & Risley study measured the impact of genetics, and found it to be insignificant.

Congratulations, you've outed yourself as someone who has based all of their conclusions on a couple of feel good pop-science articles.
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Well, there is FastMail† (which was recently spun back off of Opera). You can get a good web mail service without ads in return for a modest subscription fee.

So, as a Gmail user, you have a choice. Free, but you get to see dumpster ads because the email was about dumping some stuff off a database. Or on your credit card, because you don't want silicon being any more aware of your email bits than absolutely necessary to show them to you.

It should be up to you, the user, not Judge Koh!

†https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html

I'm sticking with Gmail.
> We have to assume that the NSA has everyone who uses electronic communications under constant surveillance.

We don't have to assume anything except that which is provided by evidence. If you have the evidence, then allow it to present itself. Assumption leads to conspiracy theory and inaccurate information. I really don't think that's what this cause really needs.

Is it just me or does Bruce Schneier's posts read more like propaganda than journalism? It's pretty awful and I'm surprised HN is eating it up. He tip toes on fear mongering through exaggeration, e.g. in OP getting people more hyped up and fearful of the NSA because they're tracking EVERYONE... except, it's only an assumption. Calls to action should not be based on assumptions.
I've been using TouchID for the past few days, although I'm going to disable it before international travel. It works amazingly well. It caused me to set my unlock timeout to 1min vs. 5min.

The biggest annoyance is I keep holding my thumb on the home button on my iPad, then get disappointed when I realize it won't work. I've probably done that 20 times so far.

I really wish I could do "per context security" -- requiring multiple discrete factors based on action and threat. That would be a huge innovation for the iPhone, which would sell the next billion phones, if integrated with Internet services and apps. In my house, maybe not require anything, or just a thumbprint. In my car, same. In a coffeeshop, normal passcode after a few minutes, unless the phone has just accelerated highly, in which case a much higher passcode. At Customs in China, a passphrase held out of country. etc.

A bigger deal than Siri, if slightly less of a deal than Retina, and something a team of 2-5 people could implement before iOS 8. I'd even be willing to work at Apple to do it.
I think the iPhone being first with capacitive multitouch that didn't suck like resistive screens being used in all other phones at the time had something to do with its success also. But feel free to add that and another 10 or so "yeah, this is probably the only other thing introduced with the iPhone...."
I'm not sure you'll get an answer here. :-)
These are a better bet:
http://www.freelan.org/page/contact
Rust doesn't have stack allocated strings, I have no idea what you're talking about.

We have string slices, but there's no way to stack allocate those, they don't own their allocation.
"Stopped innovating around 2000" is wrong in every way that matters.

Splitting up the company is a tired refrain brought up by people either unwilling or unable to see Microsoft's strategy, its value, or its successes.
Wayland already does the same. Sailfish OS which is going in production in the end of 2013 in Jolla's handset is using Wayland.

https://sailfishos.org/
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It is a matter of building data structures and algorithms to teach a computer the meaning of words, and then use logic of how those words fit together along with parts of speech. Then make ones for logic, reason, critical thinking, and then a conscience to screen out any bad 'thoughts' (Yes you have to make a data structure for thoughts and algorithms for them as well and then a conscience function to determine if they are good or evil, like 'slice loaf of bread' is good 'slice finger off person' is evil.)

This describes something an AGI would be able to do. This is nowhere near an accurate definition of an AGI.

I'm about to write a top-level comment on this subject pointing to the actual current science on the subject, so go read ;-).
Is it the case that Sing# doesn't leverage CERs at all, then? I thought it did.
Correct, is that not what I said?
>forbid placing any restrictions on the rights to modify and use the software.
> Revenue which pays for the FREE service

Google also scans e-mails in paid Google Apps accounts.

Edit: correction to myself. Whilst paid Google Apps accounts still show ads and Web Clips, Google now have this statement:

If you are using Google Apps (free edition), email is scanned so we can display contextually relevant advertising in some circumstances.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60762

the implication being that the paid accounts are scanned only for virus, spam and Priority Inbox processing.

Sorry, I was wrong.
// The functionality was really already there. The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use.

And the fact that the old windows phones crashed daily. Was riddled with bugs (some never got fixed) and from an accessibility point of view was a terrible piece of hardware. Good riddance.

Apple made the smart phone easy to use, and gave it much needed elegance. Over night it turned the smart phone market into a consumer smart phone market.
Retries with an increasing backoff is literally 1 LOC. It's always fascinating to see cases where cost/benefit is just minuscule like that.
Today everyone can and usually does criticize "cause vs effect" whenever a study doesn't fit into his world view.

The discussion usually is omitted in journalistic articles anyway, so it's easy to say for readers that the scientists just "have no clue".

For me it looks like this research is looking for interventions. They are not just trying to understand intellectual development, but what can be done to improve early education. They succeeded at that. They didn't succeed at satisfying romantic and simplistic understandings about a genetic basis for intelligence.
But I'm confused now!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/ubuntu_1310_to_ship_... said the following three months ago:

> Shuttleworth said he has been running Mir on his own laptop, an "all-Intel" Dell XPS, for two weeks, and that barring a few minor glitches, the system feels smoother than it did before.

Surely it must have been ready to ship in a major release of the most popular Linux distribution given that!

There were only minor glitches and it's run a whole two weeks on the damn founder's personal laptop! How could it have been declared not ready to ship three months, such a vast period of time, later!

/s

Please grow up, Canonical. Also, Wayland.
Ok somewhat fair, but again (and I admit I do not come from Poland, and can only use the UK, French and German tax systems as anecdotal evidence) I didn't need tax software before I came to the US.

In the UK I do my taxes in 0 minutes most years, maybe in 10 minutes if I get a small return through the post.

Fwiw (I didn't use turbotax but some other online software) when I did my last US tax return; it was wrong and I had letters come through adjusting the calculations.
> The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use

The iPhone (and smartphones in general) have disrupted multiple markets:
* Photography and video
* Portable music players
* Email and messaging devices
* Phones
... and many others

The thought I ran into many times with many people during this "disruption" period basically went along the lines of:

"I could buy a new camera, a video camera, a new iPod, a netbook, GPS device, etc - or I could just get an iPhone."
It does. You can start your own subreddit, point your own domain at it, and then style it to your liking.

It's not super obvious, but the functionality has actually been there for years.
I believe Paul Allen had a much larger role in Microsoft's BASIC development than you imply.

I'm also unaware of any 1024-byte full BASIC interpreter.
I'm thinking that real time visualizations of music based on this would be amazing when high. I should go implement it.
Anybody looked at http://www.dailydot.com/politics/flowchart-avoid-nsa-online/ (linked by Schneier in the blog post)?

Isn't that a little drastic? The fact that my 4096-bit-gpg-encrypted mail has been stored by them doesn't mean my communication is pwned: the idea with strong encryption is exactly you cannot trust the transmission channel! And besides it doesn't take in account OTR for chat.
Sorry, I did not mean for it to sound so much like it was a one-man show.

And yes, I misremembered, it was more like 4096 bytes. http://web.archive.org/web/20011211233332/www.rjh.org.uk/alt...