skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was Windows 7, I am pretty sure with dwm disabled, and it was comparing (albeit informally) against every Windows app I used at the time.

I know that some newer frameworks take advantage of GPU features (actually I used to work as a dev in the Windows org) but guess what, GDI is still faster.
Also of interest:

Hofstadters lecture about analogy on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk

Also some earlier work on the subject

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.307....
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.57.7...

I have also written a review on this very interesting book "Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking"

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/blogg/2013/10/15/po...
Worse than that, as a company you can pay to have LinkedIn data available when you process your log files, and from that you know which companies viewed your site.

To give a real world example of how true this is, I have a friend that owns a service company. He subscribes to Visistat for which he embeds a small snippet of Javascript into every page in his site. He uses a product of theirs called LeadCaster which then identifies the company name and often the contact name of people that visit the site. How does it do this? Look at Visitstat's Learning Center for an explanation:

NOTE: Contact information is supplied by the contact databases of Data.com (formerly Jigsaw), NetProspex and LinkedIn. Not all information will be available for every company and listing, however, your reports will show all the data we are able to access for you.

So for a real world example that he told me about a few hours ago, a lady was on his website. She left without doing anything more than viewing a few pages. Through Visistat, he was able to get her company name and contact information from LinkedIn. He looked up the phone number for her company and called her. He then said, "I understand you're interest in ..." She replied, "How did you know I am interested in ...?"

This is spooky as shit and almost made me delete my LinkedIn profile today.
I'm still not able to believe if I read that right. Does LinkedIn really re-routes your emails to their servers in their entirety? I looked at their announcement and video at http://blog.linkedin.com/2013/10/23/announcing-linkedin-intr.... There is NOT even a hint of disclosure that they are doing this. I can imagine 10 ways to achieve the similar user experience without re-routing entire emails. So if this is true, LinkedIn really really fundamentally screwed up with customer trust.
Since I've switched to zshell, I've found that I haven't used Ctrl-r much at all. The intelligent history feature does it for me. For example:

If earlier I had a long command like `mvn clean test && mvn deploy -P release`, I can just type `mvn v` and press up on the arrows. zsh will present only history entries that start with what I've typed. Insanely useful!
Tutorial: Using GHC 7.6.3 with OSX Mavericks
A detailed write up of working with Haskell GHC 7.6.3 when you have OSX Mavericks. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19579577/installing-building-ghc-with-osx-mavericks-ghc
Just picked up an r9 280x ERRRRRRRR... Asus CUII 7970 from Fry's for $279

Happily ran BF4 beta on High/Ultra 2x MSAA at 1080P.
If an employer is worth any salt they should be placing a higher value on your StackOverflow account, Github account and/or personal site (with resume). I don't see any value in LinkedIn - to me its still just a glorified resume site (and one without any verification - many people make stuff up).
Technically there is duty owed when you bring something back worth more than $1,000...

At the moment the difference between the MacPros is $1,000. So if I bought it in the states after currency conversion I might save $750 or something. I would need to bring a lot of them back to cover my flight.
Plus then I might get stung at customs and owe 10% of the total value anyway.
If you hark back to the days before, say even 2010, there just weren't many SaaS's that worked or were affordable. We ran our own ticking system, chat, accounting, hosting, email servers, error reporting, server load checks.. it was all handmade cobbled together from open source and when we were running as fast as we could to get products together it was quite a mess yes, but there was no Github, Google Apps, Hipchat, OpenHosting, whathaveyou, and looking at our own list I see we have now a huge amount of stuff we used to build ourselves thanks mostly I suppose to what we find on HN as it comes up, and the article is spot on - definitely costs less than a full time employee to run all this.

However my point? This is all terrible for security, we're reliant on someone else's data integrity, and I would assume it's safe to say that if we had the time to have someone do all this in-house and maintain good documentation we wouldn't hesitate, given the security and data integrity tradeoffs.
"His position is basically a pro-business position"

What utter nonsense. Being ignorant of the facts and making vague claims of protecting economic interests can only be described as a "pro-getting-paid position".

You can speciously misrepresent and mislabel things all you want. No one can predict the long term outcome of these kinds of bills. It's informed guessing at best, wilfully blind money-making at worst.
A lot of this research is going towards developing neuro-prosthetics. The primary application of neuro-prosthetics in humans is to give paraplegics either the ability to control a cursor with their mind (a huge improvement in standard of living) OR the ability to control a prosthetic arm or leg with their mind (the long term goal).

Currently, this is only available with invasive brain surgery that can often have complications. So money spent on better imaging and implant technologies will have a strong positive impact on the field.

Interestingly, the researchers I know in this area are confused about why such a big deal is being made about this "Brain Initiative" because the amount ($70M) is actually not a lot given how capital intensive this type of research is and how many labs it will be spread amongst. Still, any funding is better than no funding.
By the same logic, Apple shouldn't have hired him and Elon Musk should not have started Tesla.
2012 MacBook Pro non-Retina with a 2.9 dual-core i7, and upgraded to 16gb ram and a 120gb SSD. That's my main computer.

My college was selling 2011 macs for 1/2 off last April as a "fire-sale" kind of thing where they cleared merchandise before the next shipments of 2013 came in. I bought a Mac Mini for $279 and have put 16gb ram in there to replace the 2gb stock. I primarily use that machine for experimental stuff. I run a couple dev web services off of it for side projects I build, and do some dev on it.
> I thought I was fairly certain that my friend was working for a senator at the time, not a congressman

Not to be too pedantic, but a senator is a member of Congress.
A few things lead to this including the obvious tablet/mobile disruption. PC Gaming decline due to console gaming and mobile and Moore's law and processor speed.

I used to update for gaming and 3d almost entirely.

I also used to update more frequently for processor speed/memory that were major improvements.

If we were getting huge memory advances or processor speeds still there would be more reason to upgrade. Mobile is also somewhat of a reset and doing the same rise now.
I have an i7 920, purchased in December 2008. Please point out which consumer processors (No $3000 xeons) have "multiple times" greater single threaded performance.
What makes the right level of abstraction right? Seems like the units of abstraction have to be amenable to application (analogy), but rightness is fluid. If you have a turing machine, it might make more sense to write a JS compiler first because of the familiarity and perceived difficulty of translating your thoughts, but that's a statistical process of your own head. If you're a fresh mind, you would never create a JS compiler. The aggregated feedback of our social consciousness over time is what sets the 'rightness' of any approach by modulating the difficulty and expressiveness of each concept to each individual.
The Clojure alternative (simpler): https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer/
As a multi monitor user doesn't Win8 provide a much better experience over Win7? Not saying this alone is worth an upgrade, but IIRC it's definitely better in a "would make you more productive" way
Yes, I've noticed that as well. Yet no matter how much you try to convince them that this stuff is complicated and many different factors are at work, some people just keep coming back to race as if it was the only thing that matters.
I seriously don't understand the praise of Hofstadter in the article and in the comments here, and the criticism of the mainstream AI research, especially it is very hard to find any precise details of what he does and what are the outcomes.

Uh Yeah, you don't understand "Hostadter", you can't be bothered to spell his name right, but you're willing to attack him.

Just FYI, Hofstadter was never in the mainstream of GOFAI but always advocate something of a different path; a path not taken - for good or ill but not the same path as you caricature. You might take notice that your link makes no mention of Hofstadter, for example. Hofstadter's work on analogies, for example, was by no means a pure symbolic approach.

And the rest your post is thus ... ignorant and irrelevant [Edit: by the fact that it's not about Hofstadter, just someone's critique of someone else' AI grr]. Kind of an embarrassment having it here.
You are correct. I guess it all comes down to how transparent Linkedin are with the users installing this stuff.
Will they disclose to the user exactly how this works like in their blog post - or will they obfuscate the whole activity and represent something else to the user.
Actually, after further review, it looks like the issue is with a revoked intermediate certificate that is sent along in the chain. It still causes issues in FF, but at least it's not directly with the PHP.net certificate.
You know that at a minimum, some manager at the NSA/CIA read that seminal paper and salivated at the prospect of a compromised compiler. Whether they are other there or not, I'm certain millions have been spent attempting it.
Well, you said "you cannot not reduce it [AI] to statistics". And I'm saying, not only is it possible to not reduce AI to statistics, it is desirable. It's the reduce part that I have a hard time with.
Oh gosh. The battery life alone terrifies me! Microsoft simply doesn't know how to make an efficient OS.
No, it means that the NSA can, and has, collected data on just about anyone. What they do with it, my guess is not much unless there is an actual national security threat, is still up for question.
Great to know you are actually qualified. Can you highlight what point other people have been missing in reading these statements?
2013 Thinkpad T430s :)

But my linux history:

- Started with Ubuntu 8.04 on a ~2006 Dell 600m.

- ~2010 System 76 Pangolin PanP5

- ~2011 Dell 1530 (work laptop, ended up using it for most stuff)

- 2013 Thinkpad T430s.

I am hoping to stay with the Thinkpad for a long time. This feels like the computer I've been meant to have all along.
obviously you've never worked in any industry that has regulatory obligations. I work for a bank, on the team that looks after blocking all of this. We don't allow linkedin. We don't allow installing arbitrary software. We don't allow accessing personal email from work devices or vice versa.
Regulators can, and will, fine you for doing these things without consulting them.
I don't even need a 4K monitor at £2000. A 15" or 17" external retina thunderbolt screen would be perfect.

They already have the 15" panels, I wonder why they don't sell them as external monitors too.
uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?
The real vision though for Windows I think is probably summarized with Surface Pro + Surface dock.

I'm way too tired to explain why Windows 8 is a good idea - in the long run. But if you browse through my comment history I think I've explained it a few times. Probably from ~1 year ago
Im running a 2500k at 4.3ish with a CM 912+ in push/pull and happily devour pretty much anything. I don't foresee a CPU upgrade anytime soon. I had a pair of 6950 (the older 1 gigs) and just put in a 7970 and another 4GB of RAM for less than 400 bucks and only did that because BF4 is a resource monster. Everything else was fine.
A statistical learning model concluding that 'the thunder gods make the crops grow' would not make it a failure. Indeed that's what people thought for thousands of years!

I think you're confusing good AI with being 'smarter than humans'.

An AI can still pass the Turing test if it believes in Scientology or any of the other nonsesne beliefs that humans have.
These things not always work very reliably. A guy from a supplier once held a security talk at our university. They basically filter out unwanted messages, but the manufacturer often don't configure them very restrictive, but use black list approaches.
Seems like Linkedin have posted an update on http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-...:

Update, 10/24/13

We wanted to provide additional information about how LinkedIn Intro works, so that we can address some of the questions that have been raised. There are some points that we want to reinforce in order to make sure members understand how this product works:

- You have to opt-in and install Intro before you see LinkedIn profiles in any email.
- Usernames, passwords, OAuth tokens, and email contents are not permanently stored anywhere inside LinkedIn data centers. Instead, these are stored on your iPhone.
- Once you install Intro, a new Mail account is created on your iPhone. Only the email in this new Intro Mail account goes via LinkedIn; other Mail accounts are not affected in any way.
- All communication from the Mail app to the LinkedIn Intro servers is fully encrypted. Likewise, all communication from the LinkedIn Intro servers to your email provider (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) is fully encrypted.
- Your emails are only accessed when the Mail app is retrieving emails from your email provider. LinkedIn servers automatically look up the "From" email address, so that Intro can then be inserted into the email.
As a developer myself, I don't think it's fair to be branded as a "dull weirdo" just because I write software. I seriously hope this article is link bait, designed to be offensive and provoke a reaction, otherwise this author is dangerously misguided.
Gambling with Civilization and global climate change, by Paul Krugman
It's explained in the article. Timestamps, file paths, certificates and oddities of the PE format.
jTypes: overcoming differential inheritance
No, I was referring to one of the challenges he presents to his students. There's a link in the post.
If you don't care about IE8 you can get rid of the observables on your models with the ES5 plugin.
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2013/05/20/knockout-es5-a-pl...
As far as I know HN doesn't allow downvoting by default (I think you need sufficient posting experience to do so). So having +100 is not in any way a reliable metric of overall opinion towards your comments.

For example, I think your attitude and condescension is at best odd and out of place here, and I personally would downvote you if I had the ability.
I agree with you except that I think you are on the other side.
Do it in .inputrc like this:

set editing-mode vi

Now any executable that uses readline will have vi editing commands on its command line. mysql, psql, etc.

Do as much of your command line editing configuration in .inputrc as possible, and you'll have it everywhere.

EDIT: man readline
AI research is very hard.

As far I understand Hofstadter's approach, it has involved something of a call for a synthesis for a long time.

But your argument is sort of doubly ridiculous given that's confusing whatever personal loggerheads Hofstadter and researchers are at with what approach they are pursuing and then confusing that with what approach would actually work.
I would really like to know this as well. I use gmail, which by default blocks images from loading unless explicitly allowed. I would be pretty upset if I knew that people could insert hidden iframes and achieve the same goal without it at least prompting me. Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to write html email from the gmail web interface and I don't feel like installing an email client just to test it out.
uTorrent started selling itself short quite a while ago.

I stopped using it about 2 yrs ago for similar reasons. It's a malware seeding garbage now.
$100 billion would only be about the size of the Australian dollar. That seems like a feasible level to me.
We kinda like the requirement of no fancy post-production added; this reduces the possibility to screw it up. Besides, different people like different types of movies; but a good story always stands.
If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. It's more like a natural evolution of the author pictures Google indexes.

Yes it's eye catching, but you could just as easily end up with the juxtaposition of a big AA ad, followed immediately by an article about a hijacking. Plus there's the argument that people have been trained to ignore banner ads. This could bite advertisers depending on the other organic results and their demographic.
I don't know, and one can't even try. (Really. Read the EULA.) And if you decide to ignore everything and try it, you can't discover if it's faster than native Windows either, nor compare it with Postgres.
Could someone clarify how radiation dosing and dose rates are measured?

The article says background radiation levels peaked at .15 mSv in 1963. Looking at the wikipedia page on Seiverts, I am trying to compare this to other radiation examples, but not sure how to draw a comparison.

Would a human standing outside be receiving .15 mSv per hour? year? total?
The global economy isn't zero-sum.
I must admit I have been annoyed by it in the past but it seems to have dropped off a little recently, I wonder if things are changing.
No, you're wrong.

Hofstader begins with symbolics but definitively goes off them.

The point of something like a "strange loop" is that it can't be encompassed by an ordinary symbolic system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
When I introduced Aktively to artists as "an online marketplace for people..." people looked at me as if saying "what are you all about kiddo." So when I ordered my business cards today, I changed it to "a website for people..."
Hi. Everybody liked CodeCombat. I am sure you will have a deluge of offers. But if you need an extra scribe, you can count me in.
I would say his industrial design experience at Segway (and Deka) was more relevant to Apple.

Let's not forget history here. Musk had a very hard time releasing the Roadster, and it was one of the most painfully delayed automotive launches in history. They were close to running out of money numerous times in the launch, and needed key loans and cash at key times (including a huge cash infusion from Musk himself) otherwise they would have failed. At least some of that based on the public information at the time can be attributed to Musk's inexperience in the car world.

They made it, but it wasn't without a lot of luck. I worry about decisions like this because if there's one thing Tesla really needs to execute on, it's getting new car models out the door in a very timely fashion.

Another example - Nardelli was also a brilliant leader at Home Depot, but he couldn't do enough to save Chrysler.

The car industry is a very different beast then building wheel chairs and segways. Personally I would prefer someone in the new car development driver's seat with a bit more experience. Putting someone without that experience is such a leadership role seems like a reckless move by Tesla.

This is all just my opinion. I'd be happy to discuss further and share opinions.
Simple: don't use uTorrent. Use Transmission instead:

http://www.transmissionbt.com
Don't need GPS - WIFI connection can cover home and work. I personally don't suggest any automation for car mode. It should be manually started / stopped for safety sake unless you have an accurately-made car dock.
I can imagine a scenario in which even rock solid evidence of that sort wouldn't lead to real reform.

"Hello Senator thanks so much for meeting with us today. We understand you're considering co-sponsoring that new 'privacy' bill. We just wanted to take a few minutes of your time to emphasize some points that we feel have some bearing on the bill in question.

"I have here in front of me a few hard copies of some of your communications. I must say, they make for some interesting reading..."
Well, if you search for "windows safe mode", that went down too and "windows [version] safe mode" is systematically in the top 5 suggestions after "windows [version]". That may mean that people search less for windows because it became more stable. Good news!

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=windows+safe+mode#q=w...

My point is that, yeah, getting conclusions from that is hard...
What Fedora is planning is leaving /usr/bin/python pointing to Py2, but making all their tools explicitly depend on and request Py3. This is distinctly different from the Arch decision, which instead resulted in fixing everything that expects `python` to mean Py2 to explicitly request Py2, or assisting with the porting process to Py3 for those applications.
Or Tixati!

http://www.tixati.com/
there are other options too :)

Deluge - http://deluge-torrent.org/

Tixati - http://www.tixati.com/

qBittorrent - http://www.qbittorrent.org/
Nice! I like it. it would be cool if you had a counter that showed how many rounds you have made it though.
I'm not sure why he is comparing knockout to angular. Angular is an entire framework and knockout is a small piece for binding. Seems like Durandal vs Angular would be a better comparison.

I just finished a large project with Durandal that went great. I fell in love with it. I'm eager to try Angular on the next one to see how they stack up.
The only reason I still use uTorrent is for the integrated RSS parser. Is there something like that for Transmission?
Cool tip, did not know that, though I prefer to put long reusable commands in script files, in part so I can comment them to better remember what everything is doing.
this is why "freeware" can't be trusted, the threat of a fork keeps open source developers honest
On Windows, you're going to want Transmission-Qt Win: http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/

(Although I personally prefer qBittorrent: http://www.qbittorrent.org)
Home: 2 year old desktop. Ubuntu. 6gb ram. 2 monitors.
Work: Thinkpad t520. Win7. 16gb of ram. 2 monitors.
On Building Community Products
I have mixed feelings about this, but that might just relate to a certain subset of SaaS products we've used - namely products that require heavy integration with your data.

I'd sooner spend engineering time writing our own report generators than writing code to push data to another service, in the format they expect, pre-empting which data we might want to have in that service down the track, understanding exactly how the different reports are calculated, and then inevitably having to write a few custom ones of our own as well.

Of course, the exception to this are services have a huge set of useful features and take basically no time to fully integrate with, like Google Analytics.
But if you do it that way, you don't get the "cheater" special achievement!
I never updated uTorrent, I run 2.2.1 so either find it or I can probably send you the exe.
I hate jargon too, but I'd prefer to use the followings...

Pivot - Shift in strategy
Monetize - Start charging/selling
Minimum Viable Product - Beta product (this one is tough)
Leverage - Re-use
Root Cause Analysis - Finding source of problem