skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call the article "bad", but I do think it loses points for furthering a "feud" which just need not exist. Norvig-style AI is incredibly useful in the here and now to solve real-world problems. Hofstadter-style AI is driven by a deep desire to exorcize one of the few remaining "ghosts" in our otherwise natural world. It is an attempt to REMOVE the "ether" of thought stuff, not to hide in it.

Perhaps a terminology change is in order? I would call what people like Norvig and Hinton and Ng do "machine learning", while I would probably use "artificial sentience" to describe the Hofstadter-Dennet camp, as that seems to more closely capture their ultimate goal.

The world needs both approaches, and hopefully the time will come when the gap is bridged.
I wish most laws required scientific proof and if future studies prove differently the law would be revoked.
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It's cool, but I doubt it will compete on price:performance with a bucket of ice.
You could be getting downvotes for your grammar, which makes your point hard to understand. You do make a valid point that Windows 8 is better on hardware that was designed for the new input methods.
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Either way, terrible news for Intel and Microsoft.
Reading this is a breath of fresh air from the traditional "defend Google or other corporations at all costs" type comments. Maybe now we can drop the meme that Google is some altruistic entity and realize that ~97% of their revenue is from advertising. This is why they exist.

It's now just a matter of time before paid inclusion results show up in the organic SERPs like Yahoo used to have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_inclusion

Edit: Whoops they already broke that promise too!

http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrace...

The best part is in Google's original IPO filing they promised not to ever accept money for inclusion of results:

> "Google users trust our systems to help them with important decisions: medical, financial and many others. Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them or for inclusion or more frequent updating."

> "We do not accept money for search result ranking or inclusion. We do accept fees for advertising, but it does not influence how we generate our search results. The advertising is clearly marked and separated. This is similar to a newspaper, where the articles are independent of the advertising."

> "Some of our competitors charge web sites for inclusion in their indices or for more frequent updating of pages. Inclusion and frequent updating in our index are open to all sites free of charge."

> "We apply these principles to each of our products and services. We believe it is important for users to have access to the best available information and research, not just the information that someone pays for them to see."

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125041...

Times sure have changed!
Just curious, what kind of event did you put on?
It's nothing to do with microwaves. It sloshes the drink around in a bath of chilled water while rotating it. It appears to save energy by keeping the chilled water thermally isolated from the environment rather than keeping an entire fridge cool. Very similar to the Salted Ice Water method[1]

[1] http://www.wikihow.com/Chill-a-Drink-Quickly
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It's as if the PC is some sort of professional tool, like a truck.
Hate the pop ups (adds or something on this article link). FF is black, so I won't waste more time on it. In any case, sounds a if e-bikes are aka e-scooters? Doesn't an e-bike defeat the purpose of a bike?
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They do run a sort of virus checker against applications, but those have never been effective against new, unique applications with undesirable behaviors.
And a promise, in the simplest definition, is not enforceable by law. That's why it's totally different from a contract.
The fact that Bitcoin is deflationary is purely a product of the software/protocol. Given consensus to change it, one could make it inflationary easily. E.g. by having blocks always pay out 25 btc as a reward or even have successive blocks pay out increasing rewards.
The Single Most Unfair Advantage A Person Can Get
I wouldn't consider these investment properties occupied. And in fact, that's the point of my suggestion. Excess liquidity accumulated by the upper echelons of society is spurring this "housing crisis". Society has an interest in dis-incentivizing the kind of property-hoarding that you describe.

In addition to wanting to keep housing affordable for workers in cities and elsewhere, cities should be scared witless by the thought of "ghost towns" and neighborhoods with 30% residency. Cities are not collections of streets and buildings, they are made up of the people that reside in them, and without people, the economy of a city will collapse.
Finally a proof that New Yorkers are more stupid than anyone else. They cannot predict the speed of approaching vehicles and thus have to be protected from such vehicles. I wonder how the city council found proof for that claim.
A tablet is a PC. Especially as x86 processors start taking over arm processors.

Just because it doesn't sit in a big box doesn't mean it's a different class of system. The difference is really the openness of the platform, comparing something like iOS to Win 8 pro.

That said, many tablets are basically what we would have thought of as PCs before. Consider something like the Samsung 500T or similar, or thinkpad helix. Components are small and cheap enough that they can be packed behind the LCD, and you have essentially a laptop that doesn't need it's keyboard.

Will iPads take over PCs? No. They are too limited, not because of hardware, but because of OS limitations. Will tablets take their place though? Quite possibly. The portability is quite handy. That I can dock a tablet with a keyboard and have a normal PC experience, but have it portable when I need it is a selling feature.

The obvious cavaet is that a limited OS is fine as long as the majority of data is cloud based. In that case even development can be done on a closed platform, and the tablet becomes something more akin to a monitor or keyboard. More of a peripheral than a computing device. We might get to that point, but that's not the cause of the current trend.
1 point.
If you add salt to the ice it'll chill even faster.
So you are already a paid user but you can't adjust the quota yourself? Or GCM quota cap is 10,000?
Yay! Clueless Apple bashing. This thread has everything now.
New itself does not throw, the allocation function does. Nobody makes you use the library allocation functions.

A better nitpick would be dynamic_cast throwing under some conditions. But then, how does it make iostreams the part of the language? There is just a typedef in the std namespace that aliases the type for some optional, compiler specific, data.
Makes me glad I live in Canada. I've had several CT scans since 2007 as part of some post-cancer monitoring, and I haven't had to pay a cent.
The Weird Keyboard That Transcends Keys
Can a non-technical person contribute and idea and watch other people build it if it gets chosen?

Is this an "idea sourcing" engine or more "crowdsourcing developers without needing to join a full startup"?
When I go to that page I see: "Of the 1838 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-10-24, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-10-23."
According to that website, because they form a "Rankine vortex" in the beverage itself, the carbonation is not disturbed. Not sure I buy that, but that's their sales pitch.
Exact numeric nth derivatives
Building a FirefoxOS App for my favorite Internet radio station
Cool writeup. I don't know much about this market, but the Competitor Pricing Comparison Chart shows them undercutting the others on price so much that I'm wondering how much money they're leaving on the table. Hopefully as time goes on they'll have enough differentiation that they don't feel the need to compete on price any more.
What's the difference, in terms of end-user experience, between the links you circled and the ads?

They're both to stores selling trash cans.
Building _anything_ on that scale is not trivial.
Salt, and water to increase the contact area with the can/bottle (unless you want to wait for the ice to melt).
But is it really any different from a shareholder getting paid versus an employee? These are pension funds and 401ks counting on the money.
Kobe: If playoffs were now, I would probably play
The ability to burrow in between cells and to have more adhesive surfaces seem like two possible defenses bacteria already vary in and could evolve better. (Surely handwashing doesn't remove 100% of bacteria.) One reason this doesn't pose problems similar to antibiotic resistance is that this defense doesn't become a useful strategy inside the body, where infections are problematic for humans.
I agree with your general point, but the ability to decide what patents are valid is still a lot of economic power. Even a vastly better-staffed USPTO would still have the capability for incompetence or corruption, at a huge cost to innovation and society.

Ultimately, any invention covered by a legitimate patent should probably be protected by a legitimate copyright instead. The flaw in the concept of patents is the one pointed out by Carmack: if someone is capable of reproducing your work independently, then can it really be said to be "owned" by its "creator"? Obviously, no one is going to create an exact copy of Harry Potter or Microsoft Flight Simulator without having seen the original, but they might very well write a wizard school story or plane-based video game; clearly, those concepts do not deserve to be owned.

Anything not specific enough to be covered by copyright is capable of being duplicated by another human independently, and therefore absurd and counterproductive to assign ownership and monopoly rights.
No, I don't think the author does. About society I won't try to defend any opinion. The author would, I think, agree with me that the purpose of life is independent of "success" by any visible metric, and that a deep dedication to doing what is right comes in large part from not valuing success in and of itself. Better to be a lieutenant that does the right thing and reports war crimes violations than to keep silent and hope to be a General who can successfully change the system.
TIL: PROMPT_COMMAND, and a simpler git prompt
I see the ad if I search for just "southwest".
Why not contact every one of the people making fake reviews and ask them if they know how you can earn money for posting reviews. Don't mention BBM, just about the general idea. Chances are you will either dig up someone who is running a single campaign for a single app (which may be a BBM clone) or you will dig up a PR business running lots of these campaigns. Do some investigative journalism.
Picking the Right Niche
Reverse microwaves? The author of the post must be completely, 100% scientifically illiterate.
There are some issues which make me question the usefulness for a javascript project:

For browser-based scripts, usually a minified and an unminified version are made available. That unminified version is usually the product of a script that concatenates other, smaller scripts. This leads to a perceived high level of duplication (because, after all, they are the same functions and code). For whatever reason, even in private mode, the exclude patterns are not followed.

Also, the linter is much more aggressive than jshint/jslint (in many cases, for no good reason). For example, in a function whose sole purpose is to do bit twiddling (interpreting a set of bytes as an IEEE 754 double), the linter complains `Unexpected use of '&'`. (the original line was `c3 = (e3 & 3) << 6 | e4;`). Akin to JSHint flags, there should be flags to control the linter.
Volatility doesn't bother as long as i can convert it to USD as fast and painless as i do with USD/EUR or Gold/USD.

But, i can't. So it's kinda worthless.
Interstellar broadband shoots for the Moon
None of those use cases are going to grow the PC market. The things you're describing have always been a niche (remember Workstation Class PCs?) that may add a few $$ to the bottom line, but they are not going to drive growth.

The PC market has relied on end users - consumers and business users - for it's growth engine for decades, and that appears to be drying up. One of the reasons for that is outlined in the article, for most use cases we don't need faster.
Well, yes.... if you insert the flux capacitor properly.
> one of them got a new laptop with 8GB of RAM, why? because she was complaining about webapps using too much memory and slowing down her previous system.

I suspect a few people on HN will be reluctant to see their role in this arrangement. ducks
When a salesman should enter and leave a company
Comparing, and... nope. They were both developed within a few years of each other, and are from different paradigms, so regression seems like a cheap dig, but not an accurate one.
What if one of the reasons we don't need new PCs yet is not that tablets and smartphones are replacing the need for them entirely (although for some people they are), and not that PCs are lasting longer on their own either (although they probably are, too), but that tablets and smartphones are helping PCs last longer by reducing the wear and tear we give them?

I'm still running fine with my 2007 Macbook, but I think my iPhone has extended its life because now my laptop almost never leaves the house and sometimes doesn't even get used in a day, whereas pre-smartphone I used to cart my laptop around rather frequently and use it every day.
The ones whose benefits are backed up by large bodies of evidence.

http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/

http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/
Show me how to install it?
Using GCM for Chrome is free but you do have to have an API key (unlike some Google services). The 10,000 messages cap is is what they call a courtesy limit, hinting that you can get it increased, but we had never gone through the process of requesting one, nor did we feel we were necessarily guaranteed an increase.

(Adding a credit card didn't let us increase the cap.)
@cousin_it: I have exactly the same feeling about C++ and Haskell. Another feature of this kind is inability to do virtual calls from constructors / destructors. Sure, the explanation makes perfect sense and leaves you with a feeling that C++ got it right and the rest of the world got it wrong. C++ protects you from accessing not-fully initialized object, awesome isn't it? Unfortunately it gets in the way when using factory methods (which are perfrctly ok to be called from the constructor in other languages) and is a source of subtle bugs.
It's a very interesting idea - so much so I can't think of anything to compare it to directly. It's like github, but instead of contributing to a repository, you're contributing to a running operation?

One thing I'm unclear about: how do you handle disagreements/forking? As in, I want to add a feature I need, but can't get it greenlit, can I easily run the app elsewhere?

Anyway, I'm interested to see how it turns out. Valve's structure is based on similar principles, so there's definitely something there.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...
This would be great to try out, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on my code structure!

Most of my projects are CoffeeScript residing in /src, compiling into an identical structure in /lib.

I tried it with a small project, and it only picks up the index.js (which is an example script):

https://bitbucket.org/bithiive/authio-js-client/

Any ideas on what is going on here? Perhaps the "avoiding minified files" is getting in the way?
I think it's more like a set of tubes.
That has nothing to do with cartography. That's geology.

Geology often uses cartography to display data and various spatial analysis methods to analyze data, but what you're describing is purely geology.

Sorry if I sound snippy... But as a geologist, we get a bit annoyed when one of the major discoveries of our field is attributed to "those darn geographers"! :)
In the enthusiast PC world you swap out parts and upgrade your system bit by bit.

In the emerging post-PC world you just sell your old device and get a new one, not unlike how cars are treated. I doubt anyone has trouble unloading their old iPad 3, they probably get a decent amount of money for it if it's in good condition. This just does not happen with homebrew systems, the risk is too high.
You cannot not reduce it to statistics, vast majority of your cognitive activity is statistical in nature, in the more general sense of the word. The actual high-level structured thoughts are a very thin layer on top of a huge statistical information processing powerhouse.
> When I review code I review all of it...

We haven't mentioned timing, but that's the reason I decouple design and code reviews.

Design reviews can be done fairly early in the process before the code is complete. If design changes are needed, there is still plenty of time for them.

Code reviews can't really be done until most of the code is written, but (as you point out) the kinds of problems they find are much easier to fix, so require less time.
I think she meant reverse microwave oven. As in, rather than heating fast, it cools fast.
Crowdsource fundraiser for Open Source, visual IDE for tablets
I wonder how much the ubiquity of the Internet contributes to the Flynn effect.
Firefox OS advances, as LG Fireweb phone debuts
Thanks, but as far as I can tell that just shows you how to launch scripts/macros in various ways (menu item, etc). However, it doesn't document what you can do with the macros...coding conventions...interacting with data...etc.
I'm not using the phrase "sexual abuse" in a flippant way here. Workplace power dynamics can make sexual relationships improper, but rarely rise to the level of abuse. But this story is classic sexual abuse. It's about using your power to humiliate someone. It's the kind of thing that a pimp would do to a prostitute. It reminded me of a recent Israeli art film about a woman whose boyfriend abuses her in this way. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called...
Truly the dismal science, if this is the kind of thing that an economist can engage in and have it considered serious scholarship!
There is such a thing as a B-corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

"A benefit corporation or B corporation is a corporate form in the United States designed for for-profit entities that want to consider society and the environment in addition to profit in their decision making process."

E.g., Patagonia is a B-corp.
To maximize the profits?
Google gets all its revenue from advertising and cost per click was down another 8% in 3rd quarter compared to 2012, continuing a trend since 2011:

http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/je-hochman-benchm...

To grow revenue when your product is selling for less you need to sell more of it, so ads will start appearing everywhere. It's just common sense. What else are they going to do... fire people and start a mass exodus?
Chrome (v30.0.1599.101 for future reference) -> new tab -> Google + search bar appears above the recent/most popular sites list. I click on the search bar under the Google logo and start typing.. and magically my text does not appear in the text form but rather in the URL field in the navigation bar.

What once may have been uneducated behavior is a behavior Google is training users to do.
Also given it a shot on some more friendly code (no concatenation, no root index.js) and it completely fails:

https://bitbucket.org/bithiive/delayed-ping
If 10 % of their needs aren't met by a tablet, they need something more that do, which is my problem with recommending a tablet over a PC. Sure, buy a tablet and use it 90 % of the time, but own a PC as well for when the tablet isn't enough.
Why cook when you can eat chips and order pizza? Probably because it's better for you and because cooking has cultural significance that goes beyond simply replenishing calories.

People who cheerfully proclaim that PCs are dead forger that PCs aren't just devices, they also attained a certain level of cultural significance. IF the death of PCs also means the death of PC culture (which involves things like game modding, hobby website making and so on), then the death of PCs is a really, really bad thing.
Yeah, when I saw OpenSSH in the list, that was my first impression too.

I wonder how many backdoor authorized keys they have installed? :(
Assembly is a collaboration platform to enable everyone to work together and get paid to create better products.

The "idea sourcing" and backing is meant to find new products with some market validation so we know people want what we are building.

Non-technical people can definitely contribute to the apps. There are many coding tasks, like marketing and copy editing, that goes into any successful product.
Cellphone Operator in Indonesia is a Phisher
45 seconds is too long for a beer!
Just as a quick aside: PCI compliance is a huge (mandatory) motivation that fuels much of the information security industry. While I'm careful not to "bite the hand that feeds," there is a large gap between being PCI compliant and being in any way secure. For those that are interested, hacker/security conferences such as DEF CON, Black Hat, ShmooCon, etc. regularly have interesting presentations on completely owning PCI compliant networks.
I would hope that Google considers itself, at least a little bit, more moral than one of the top ten most evil persons of history.
In the iterests of full disclosure: This is a project I started. So I am biased towards it. But I felt the crowd at HN would have some interest in this bad-boy. (Being able to have a full IDE that runs great on an Android tablet? Yes, please.)

Feel free to ask any questions you like and I'll do my best to answer them.
Tech covers Apple for page views and advertisement impressions. Don't take it personally. They're businesses. They're just doing what makes fiscal sense. They'll get far more revenue from Apple articles than Snowden.

Apple events are extremely popular in the media because the media participates in circle-jerking. Decades ago Apple did not have as much media spotlight, but after key hardware releases (e.g. iPod, iMac) the media began to grow its spotlight on Apple. They knew people loved reading about Apple, so they continued to place all bets on spotlighting Apple during its events knowing the return would be high. Even if Apple was not having an event, the media would artificially build hype by spreading rumors about Apple products, knowing readers would click.

The media does this with everything. Celebrity scandals, politics, etc.
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This was about the same time period that companies started suing over "look and feel". One prominent example at the time was Lotus suing (I think) Paperback Software, and also Quarterdeck Software (Quatro Pro). So, when it appeared that the same was happening between Sea and PKware, many BBS operators (at least in the Midwest) dumped Arc for Zip almost overnight. What made it worse was that PKarc was significantly faster than Sea's arc, so it looked like "If you can't compete, then sue". Of course, a lot of the details were kept sealed while the court case was going on, and all people had to go by then was what leaked out.
API Design is Stuck in 2008