skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GEB was a considerable waste of time and contributed nothing to my understanding of intelligence or AI. The time would have been be better spent elsewhere.

If you want to understand Godel's proofs then I recommend the book "Godel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman:

http://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837...

Instead of Hofstadter's GEB, read some of his papers, e.g.,
"Analogy as the Core of Cognition"
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.h...

But there are others who have focused longer on analogy, e.g., George Lakoff:

"Metaphors we Live by"

http://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/022...

"Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being":

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Come-Embodied-Brings...

"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things"

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Fire-Dangerous-Things-Lakoff/dp/...
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Well, they automated the offensive capabilities first, and then realized that they(humans & some HAI) couldn't keep up with the pace of their automated systems, now they need to dig themselves out using faster (secure?)patch deployment.
Has anyone gone past the dragon? What is the solution to the puzzle at the lighthouse? Very addictive game.
Google (and possibly many human's) principle over time..

Don't be Evil (2005) >>

Don't be Evil over short period of time (2013) >>

Oh screw it, now we are Evil enough. Let us plunder the hell (2021).

Now they will show ads for the key word, South West Airlines. Next it will be a whole flashy ad when you search flight, then it will when you start to think about flying or your girlfriend sends an email about flying for someone's funeral. But these profits too will dwindle after a point. Then they will start selling your profiles, what you read, what you think.

For a corporation privacy and trust, or any other values are only as important as the profit it can bring. Its only a matter of time before you will erode your own values, when profits are what we are maximizing. This is all the more likely when you are ambitious.

And then you repent it, and the cycle is complete.
Whoever wrote that is wrong. Click the "[2]" citation, and you'll see that it in no way backs up the claim.
Perfect would have just one ad. However, I can live happily if there are at least as many organic results as ads above the fold.
My hypothesis is that it's about encouraging upgrades rather than increasing the cheap market.

I've heard from multiple sources that Apple computer and devices have a much higher resale value than other electronics. I've never understood this from a Moore's law perspective, but I've been shown compelling evidence that it's true.

Now, imagine that you own an iPad 2 and want to upgrade to the latest iPad. You'd start by saying that the iPad is $700 and then subtract off the amount you'd get for your iPad 2 on eBay. Natively, I'd say that the device is two and a half years old, so you'd drop the original price by a little under a factor of four, so I'd sell it for $200. Thus I need $500 to buy the latest iPad.

Of course, I've now seen that the iPad 2 is a $600 device, new. Droping off a factor of two, because it's used, I put it up on eBay for $300. I now only need $400 to get the latest iPad. Apple just saved me $100 without actually cutting a penny from their own sales.

Of course, they could have made more money buy selling the iPad 2 directly to the person I sold it to on eBay, but that jsut creates a larger iPad 2 install base that the need to deal with. They get more money in the short run, but they then have to deal with fragmentation in the long run. Instead, they've now made the used market more expensive, discouraging used buyers while encouraging upgrades.
> When you have a keyboard / mouse, then TYPE on the start screen. You know, the auto-search feature? The Start Screen is one of the best keyboard-interfaces I've ever used.

For me, the problem is that, on the desktop or laptop, the Start Screen uses 100% of my screen real estate for a task (typing a search query, hitting enter) that would be better performed with, at most, 10% of my screen real estate. Having a full-screen dialogue pop up for a trivial task is horrible for maintaining flow.
They're separate clauses.

If I say "I won't hurt you. I won't sneak in in the night and smack you with a fish. Ever" and then I punch you in the face I've broken my promise. If I'd snuck in at night and hit you with a fish then I'd have broken two promises.
Google does zero gate checks on apps before publishing them. As an egregious example, if you want to post an app called Garageband on the Google store, calling yourself "Apple Corporation", you can do that. There are no automatic red flags or name collision issues, and instead the system relies upon enough complaints that it gets taken down.

Any anticipated app sees dozens if not hundreds of scammer apps on the Play Store who try to take advantage of that namespace early to deploy ad proxies, etc.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/21/fake-blackberry-b...

There is some medium ground between fully curated and Wild West that needs to be found.

There have been countless fake BBM products on the Play store. They each have thousands of such reviews, official sounding publishers, making it incredibly difficult to blame the user when they install some of this junk.
Source for that? I'd prefer to hang on to my outrage until it's actually justified.
Yep, I'm very interested in exploring the (Geo)pandas / Vincent / Vega intersection.
> building reusable data structure libraries
> vectorization, cache-optimized layouts

Could you explain a bit more about this features of C++? I believe that you're referring to templates for the first point, but I'm unsure about the rest - SIMD? stack-allocation/memory-pool-allocation?
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If you have access to a whiteboard...

List all of the directories (or classes, for a smaller project), and draw them as boxes on the board.

Draw arrows between the boxes based on dependencies in the codebase (helps if you have someone already familiar).

... Now start at the bottom of the dependency graph, and browse the code at a medium level.

If you are going to be working in this codebase, go back through and browse the code at deeper level, as if you were doing a code review. You can pretty much assume that, every couple lines, there is always something you would change about the code. Make a note of it.

At this point, you should have a fairly decent idea of how the code works, and how you would change it.
There seems to be some controversy here, and one of our research systems found the same problem. So heres a quick post and a link to the full pcap so you can see for yourselves.

http://barracudalabs.com/2013/10/php-net-compromise/

Cheers.
The emotions that trigger content to go viral.
Google testing huge banner ads on search results
A drinking problem doesn't need to be drunken rowdiness. I just take it that she's saying "the focus of our social time appears to be consumption of alcohol, is that true, is that right?".
That article is wrong (and the cited source for that claim, if you follow it, leads back to a thesaurus-like entry that is, unlike the other definitions on the page, itself unsourced though the source appears to be itself a tertiary source.) A promise is not a "legal synonym" for a contract. A promise is a necessary but not sufficient element of a contract.
You also won't necessarily expand your view, since people seem to gravitate towards people who have the same opinions and attitudes you do.
Companies which have a niche market do depend on their customers continuing to invest in that niche market, but this is like any other company that sells a product. If people no longer want that product, they go out of business.

In the companies you cite, the product you're buying (primarily) is peace of mind. You feel better when you buy their products, vs others. If you stopped feeling good about it, you'd buy somewhere else, and they'd go out of business.

Here's another case of customer intent: CBS Fantasy Sports. For years they've been charging people to use their fantasy sports websites, while Yahoo, ESPN, and others gave theirs away for free. Year after year, people paid money for the CBS product, and they actually got more customers than the free providers. Why? Superior niche product. If the product wasn't as good as the free providers (and if they provided all the same features) people would have left in droves.

A "promise" is not a business model. A product is. Google's product is not banner-ad-free search, it's just search. If in the future there's an equally-good search product that uses no ads at all, Google will have an inferior product, and people will leave - eventually.
Considering the large and growing bank of research that highlights areas where the brain's output is flawed or plain wrong when compared to the consensus "optimal solution", I think I'm with the "AI establishment" as it's painted by this article. It doesn't seem self-evident to me that the inner workings of the human mind are the only or even optimal implementation of intelligence for every task.

If anything, the human mind seems to me to be a particular algorithm that is flexible, but trades that flexibility for capability in certain problem areas. Using a transportation metaphor, it's like walking versus air travel. Walking is incredibly flexible when it comes to where you can go, but air travel is by far the optimal route to get from coast-to-coast, although you are limited to travelling between airstrips. I feel like focusing on the human brain as the "true" intelligence is like claiming that walking is the only true transportation, instead of focusing on optimal routes for each problem.
Bicycles should and will take a lane when they feel otherwise unsafe. Large sums of debris is swept into bike lanes/ gutters that can and will puncture tires/ cause wrecks. Many bike lanes are next to parked cars as well, and being doored is one of the number one ways to get seriously injured on a bike commute. Its a real, valid fear.

Even if the lane is safe, often times drivers will completely ignore you, blinking safety lights or not.
Once, I kindly took the edge of an uphill slope, no bike lane. On my right, parked cars. On my left, cars going up the slope. Half way up the hill, a car literally pressed me up against the parked cars to my right, while in motion. My right leg was forced against the parked cars, my left against his. I could have reached into his window and turned the wheel for him, he was so close. Its the day someone not paying attention almost killed me. I took the lane on that road from then on.

If someone is in the lane, its for a reason. I know it can be a nuisance, but an unsafe biking environment means no one bikes, which means more cars are on the road, which means you'll be more inconvenienced in the long run by worse traffic.
I'm not familiar with this news agency(?) Is he being serious or is this an onion style report?
I have some internal knowledge of what happened to HealthCare.gov as I was employed as a major developer of the original proprietary content management system they we were using circa 2009-2010.

The original Content Management System was Percussion CM System also known as Rhythmyx. You can confirm this by googling: "percussion cm system healthcare.gov" (the links will be broken obviously because they don't want to be associated). One of the things that made Percussion good at scaling was that it was "decoupled". It was sort of like a massively complex GitHub Jekyll in which the web pages were statically published thus Percussion would not be as liable for performance.

Now here comes the OSS irony. I remember distinctly that there was a huge political push to replace Percussion with Drupal. That's right. Instead of static pages they wanted a dynamic OSS CMS (not to be confused with the healthcare CMS entity).

Now I don't know what happened after 2010 because I went off to go start my own company but I do remember we warned them of using a dynamic frontend for such a high profile site.

Anyway I have no real opinion on whether or not healthcare.gov should be OSS but thought that information might be useful for some.
What a sensationalist headline. The guardian really seems to have learned the need to go sensationalist from the Snowden affair.

"Google breaks promise" followed by "Google is testing banner ads" in the first paragraph. So umm, "breaks" is the wrong verb, more like "thinking of breaking"

The reality is, Google runs hundreds, perhaps thousands of experiments all the time and only a few make it.
The difference is that Google does not charge MLK to have his info show up in knowledge graph results. As I understand it, they are charging Southwest Airlines for this big banner.

If it was just a larger knowledge graph box I doubt anyone would care.
Surprised no mention of the Chinese Room in this article ...
Apparently you didn't read my comment because the point was very clear: engineers cannot do whatever they want and expect to take advantage of the currently hot job market.

The author suggested that the average twenty-something engineer in Silicon Valley was in a far higher echelon of earners than is actually the case. Without any confirmation, he took emails he was receiving from recruiters to mean that he had virtually unlimited job options. And he assumed that the founders who were interested in recruiting him would be offering him a high salary in exchange for less than what his current employer demands. All these things give him a false impression of reality on which his argument was based.

No, not every six-figure engineering job in Silicon Valley requires ten hour-plus days day in and day out, but companies are not paying these salaries and offering perks like catered lunches and dinners, house cleaning, the best equipment, a free laptop, group events, etc. with the expectation that their most valuable employees are going to be out the door and off the clock at 5 pm.

If you truly believe that there is an abundance of six-figure 9-to-5 engineering jobs at major tech companies and funded startups here in the Valley, you're simply wrong. And as I noted, if the person I responded to believes that the type of threat he made to his current employer would be well-received at recognizable companies here, he'd be in for a rude awakening.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. When your employer is paying you, say, $140,000/year and needs you on a weekend to put out a fire or finish a major release, unless you have FU money and are working for the fun of it, you had better have another job already lined up if you're going to threaten to quit. And you might as well line up the next two jobs while you're at it because most jobs (in any industry) that pay above a certain amount come with the expectation that you'll go the extra mile when asked.
Well, along with the proper definitions from other (cited) legal dictionaries on that page, there's also an unsourced, thesaurus-like entry that does seem to suggest what the page is cited for, though the other definitions on the page make clear that that entry is only accurate in terms of loosely associated concepts and not proper synonyms.
Stupidity? Stupidity is people making criticisms without actually using the product they're criticizing.

>Treat the Metro UI and desktop as different modes and encourage developers to build applications that work on both. When you’re interacting with windows from a tablet switch into metro mode. When you’re using windows from a desktop with a mouse switch into desktop mode.

This happens today. It's called... Windows 8. My desktop boots to the desktop and I only use desktop applications with it. My tablet boots to Metro and I use a lot of Metro apps with it. This is a thing that exists today. The regular size tiles are about the same size as a desktop shortcut is (ie, not too big for a mouse). The larger size tiles are more useful than a static icon, since they show you data without needing to launch the app.

Here's the big rub with Windows 8: people are complaining that it's worse, when in reality it's just different. Especially in Windows 8.1, where some of the things that were worse are now corrected. It's been two years of this "Windows 8 is a failure" bullshit. People are still using it. PCs are still being sold. Work is still getting done. The world is still spinning. When are we going to find something else to complain about?
I love Windows 8.
At first the separate "Desktop" and "Metro" environments are confusing, but once you realize you can go into desktop mode and stay there while utilizing all the new utility offered by the interface (Windows + Q anyone? It's a more robust version of Spotlight) the whole thing clicks and becomes a real joy to use.

I believe 90% of the backlash is from people who have never used Windows 8, or gave it literally 30 seconds of use in Best Buy then came home to post online about it.

Give it a real shot, its fun!
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Make healthy food as easy to eat and as tasty as junk food.
It seems no one is working on that.
Twitter core is now open source
I think the better conversion rate has more to do with a better pricing page (simpler design & larger CTA) for the last one.
You know, leaving your current program and starting up a new program is horrible for maintaining flow as well. But lets be frank here: you're entering the start screen because you're starting up a new program.

Its not like your programs disappear when the start screen pops up ya know. Its all there...
Interesting. I make a living developing backend systems in Python, but picked up Matlab (Octave) for machine learning, and really enjoyed doing linear algebra on it. For PoCs and general experimentation I find it more amenable than messing with Numpy. Of course it isn't great for building complete systems, but for self-contained programs - which I believe is the intended purpose - it works pretty well.
I'm confused. Your customers wanted to pay per ticket, but you wound up going back to the industry-standard of paying per agent. What gives?
> You sir, get -9,001 Internets.

A million times THIS!
If you find contradiction between my two statements then you can accept the latter, as I am also evolving. -M. K. Gandhi
on a side note, windows 8.1 makes windows 8 look like a failure...the difference in terms of response and functionality is ridiculous
He only jabs at Apple but this happens with any new consumer product. The title is very miss leading; it should be "The way tech covers tech is ridiculous."
I just want to say thank you to Alex Turnbull for writing about all the things they've learned at Groove. It's incredibly helpful and insightful to read.
IP banning usually doesn't work, since that was the first countermeasure employed.

The captcha farms got a lot better at using large proxies/gateways to hide their traffic.
Firefox doesn't come with the DOD CA installed...
When is a Medical Treatment Unneccessary?
I dont get why people think about the new start menu as a replacement of the old one. It's more like they buffed up the Alt+Tab functionality to include openin programs and search into a single feature. Old start menu is gone and not needed any more. Can't think of a single use case.
This is somewhat unrelated but, relevant enough I guess..

In Finland a bicycle must be equipped with (among other things) two reflectors on each pedal, on the front face as well as on back. Unless it's daylight and the bike weighs less than 10 kilos and has at least N (can't remember the exact number) gears.

My bike is a fixed gear and I use clipless pedals. Even if it were technically feasible to mount reflectors on the pedals, it'd be pointless because the shoe snaps on to the pedal, hiding it almost entirely.

My bike is therefore illegal.
Touche! =)
Maybe you could still do an RTS, but cut it down to the bare bones of what it needs to have.

Look at a game like Rymdkapsel. It's an RTS, but it cuts a ton of complexity out of the gameplay. By doing that, and focusing on some simple but fun mechanics, and a very simple art style, you've got an RTS that a small team or a lone programmer could implement.

Rymdkapsel cost $4 and they've got at least 10,000 downloads on Android and who knows on iOS so that means they've probably cleared north of $50k to maybe over $100k.
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What Windows 8 [and Windows Phone] do really well, is keep shit from piling up. By making the icons big, there's less room to save another icon to the desktop/home_screen. And applications don't get to place stuff there by default.

Having run Windows Phone for two years, and my new Android phone for less than a month, the Android homescreen is already more disordered than the Windows device - and despite my more active management. And please don't ask me how many useless icons are on the classic desktop of my under the desk box. It's too many to count and I don't care enough to clean it all up. I hate filing. It's the sort of clerical work that we shouldn't be doing here in 1973.

The second screen on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone shows everything in a simple text based scrolling list. It's fucking genius - the idea of using words to organize things with names rather than hieroglyphics.

This of course begs for the question of why Android rather than WP8 for the new phone. The answer is that as much reading as I do, the phablet form factor made the sale. If there were still Windows Phones with keyboards like my old Dell Venue Pro, I'd still be on Windows Phone. But there aren't so I ain't.
Yeah sounds like everything they do is lowered the price.
You're saying that whether or not it's advertising depends on the context of where the paid ad appears, which is an arbitrary and baseless distinction.

If a company rents a billboard that's right outside their office, isn't that advertising? Sure, you could have looked at the front of the building to see their logo, but that doesn't change the fact that the billboard is advertising.
Cheating is damn easy but it kills the interest in the game.
Its all about page views. Apple has a very loyal fanbase
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Just looking at this for one of the first times (new to this part of the game), it seems like this is a step-by-step progression from 'we have users!' to 'users are paying!' If I were working my way forward yours would absolutely be my next question, along with figuring how to target the 20% of customers that drive 80% of my revenue.

Do you think that it would be better to have the revenue model fully thought out (through to revenue/user and lifetime value) before a/b testing the pricing models?
Switzerland allows 500w motors. I so wish that the EU would follow this. 500w can fit in a motor that doesn't make your bicycle look like a moped and the battery can be taken home for charge in the evening.

The 25km/h and 250w limit is what is preventing me from getting one. I don't really see the point when I can reach that with human energy.