skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder what the rationale is for making captchas nearly impossible to solve in specific regions.

Google will captcha-block IP addresses (not just Tor) if they get too many queries from them in a short period of time, so that bots can't crawl the search results.[1]

1: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#GoogleCAPTCHA
I think this describes me. I'm originally from South Jersey, outside of any big metropolitan area. I'm now living in Palo Alto, and I think Caltrain and VTA are great, but I think that the only reason for that is that I went from no public transit to being able to survive without a car thanks to the train.

Sure, it'd be nice if Caltrain didn't stop running at fricking 10:30 on weekends, but it gets me to work in a reasonable amount of time.
That's still not actually doing something about it.

IMO voting is the same as praying. I mean, sure; Your ruler may decide to grant one or more of your wishes, but you'll never know if it was them, or simply chance.

Also, my point was regarding boycotting, and how free association and volunteerism become ineffective when dealing with government or government sponsored corporations. Boycotting on free market ideals, means they don't make money if most people don't like them. This can't happen when the operation itself if funded through tax dollars and currency controls.
This is why I love articles online!
What do you think, is it usable in development ?
TOR+Eastern Europe has probably triggered the heuristic that you're a probable bot, and it's giving you a test that will further amplify its confirmation bias.

Welcome to the preview of the day where all the networked, statistically self-optimizing IDSes simultaneously turn on us and clean the messy humans out of their technological world.
It's likely the case that the house numbers are from Google Street View, and they are using them to improve the addressing for Google Maps.

I'm a bit puzzled by this update, though. I have reCAPTCHA on a wiki that I maintain, and I still see the traditional text based ones, not anything like these new number based ones. Are they rolling this out slowly?
Google I/O 2013: Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns
How exactly do you "put out" a molten reactor core?
I daresay I'm not all that surprised your domain suggestion was registered today.
>No! Why?

It was built by the co-op students who couldn't get placements anywhere else.
I've had an idiosyncratic but highly useful definition of the word 'genius' since I was a little kid thanks to my mother. She taught me that a genius is an intuitive/rational thinker-feeler-person who was lucky enough to somehow line it all up for humanity in his/her mind and bring something big into the world that changes it for the better. If you think about all the real geniuses-- that criteria holds.

There is not much academic research into genius these days but there is research into intuitive people and intuition. And there is also related work in psychology about self-actualization and the other mental-processes.

But eventually it all comes down to someone doing something breathtakingly interesting-- you can't really roll that step off an assembly-line.

I percieve one of the problems with the world right now is that lots of the most highly-competent/skilled people are sort of holding off doing big things, esp. with technology. The number of intuitive man-hours that have been poured into the subject of online advertising is staggering. Those people working on that are capable of actual works of genius. But instead they feel motivated to work for a big company on long-term useless problems. But I understand this: if you look at what the last waves of true high-tech are i.e. computer/communication/aerospace/nuclear vs. what their "fruits" have been i.e. surveilance-state/police-state/military-industrial-complex/mass production and mass proliferation of WMDs. It's quite disgusting.

Anyway, I know why I'm working on "social technology" and "consumer technology" instead of "high technology."
A coworker was offered a job there recently. I told him if he took the position he was dead to me.

Thankfully he did not, as he is an amazing engineer and he's more valuable to the world not being there.
IDE for Scala sucks, mostly because Java developers are spoiled with Intelij IDEA and, to some degrees, Eclipse. It is still very usable. If you don't care about IDE, that is a non-issue.

What other Scala tools you're referring to? Scala can reuse almost all popular Java tools.

Also, can you elaborate on strict coding convention? do you mean operator overloading?
Yeah, well I want flying cars, but the physics just doesn't make it practical. Neither is what you're talking about. Just take the extra steps and be glad you're not paying for Photoshop.
I'm sure people were saying the same things about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc...
so I wonder if they will make it available to current subscribers of their cable internet service.
This comment has nothing to do with the article and the debate below has been rehashed many, many times. Let's not bring it up on every news vaguely related to Japan.
In American English, "data" is a collective noun treated as grammatically singular, like "research" and "furniture".
Ah, ok. I of course agree with you about the narrow case of Google's current self driving car initiative. It's likely they don't yet have the capability to adapt to the varied conditions a human could, and won't for some time.

I suppose I was thrown off by your phrasing "fundamental difference between humans and algorithms" and "algorithms will never be able to do that" and "I don't believe in algorithms that would do image or voice recognition as well as we do".

In fact, it seemed to me the entire point of your comment was to take the specific limitations of Google's current algorithm, and use it as an example of a general principle that algorithms are fundamentally limited in ways humans are not. If that wasn't the point of your original comment, what was?
Skype's Brand Bible
The Google.rw hijack nobody else noticed
I can't wait for the next iteration of the Gear. The first Note was rather awful, but the Note 2 turned out to be one of my favorite machines. Let's hope this works out that way.
Typically investments in private technology companies include a provision called "liquidation preference" where investors get their money out before other shareholders (managers and employees) get paid on an exit.

A common term is "1x liquidation preference" which is the example you give -- if I put in $1M, I get $1M out before anyone else gets paid, even if the sale valuation is less than the valuation at which I invested.

Sometimes you see 2x or 3x liquidation preference, in which investors get that level of return before other shareholders get paid. This is considered "less common-friendly" and is a worse term if you are a founder or employee.

There are also other variations on this general idea that you see particularly when valuations get high.

So, in a case like the purported Snapchat round, a new investor would actually look at the investment as a combination of financial instruments -- think of it as a call option (participate in appreciation above the entry price) coupled with a put option (get your money out if the company sells at least for more than the amount of invested capital).

The more money involved, the more complex this gets and the harder it is to evaluate the true pros and cons of the investment based on public reporting.
Yes, unlike with iron, the process does not continue and the result is harder and more durable than the original, but, my point was that the surface probably is not just painted over, but has dye incorporated in the surface.
Its kinda expensive, $255 for a month?
Michel Jouvet[1] was the researcher who developed Modafinil. In one of his experiments, Jouvet deprived cats of sleep until they drowned in a vat of water. The cats survived an average of 35 days with only micro-sleep[2].

Regardless of whether one thinks the outcome of this animal experiment was "worth it", it was callous and imposed an incomprehensible amount of suffering on other sentient beings.

This leads me to my next point. From my own experience using modifinil, the reason why I believe this drug works in focusing the mind is because it mutes empathy. The user loses a wide range of nuanced and complex emotions that instruct us in how to behave appropriately.

I don't know if there are any scientific studies that bear this out, but this is what I noticed from my own testing of the drug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jouvet [2] http://psychology4a.com/sleep8.htm
Hah! I thought I was the only one who did that. So much fun.
1) It's unequivocally bad if the government spies on its citizens.

2) Some people manage to obtain justice when they are wronged. Often it's just not that easy.
Tl,dr: Two things will cause that chips won't get that much better performance:

- energy efficiency at transistor level will cause hassles, it doesn't scales down well

- gains in performance from multiprocessors are smaller than from improving performance of cores
i.e. wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
> Until Soylent there wasn't a non-medical meal replacement that at least theoretically tried to be everything you need.

Here are a couple that predate Soylent:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf
It is “Selected and customised” by Johnny Ive and Marc Newson.
I would heavily emphasize on “customised”.

The headline from MacRumors and many others are inaccurate.
>...elected officials who promise...

We need an accountability contract; You campaign to do XYZ. You sign it. You get elected. After N month you get audited. if you fail - you lose the position.
Improvement? For watching movies maybe, or a vacation slide show. But for working with color, I haven't found a better option than a well calibrated matte display on the mid-2012 MBP.
Right. Your reply only confirmed my reluctance. =) I don't have that LOVE for the bike, I think you're right, that's an important point.

I want a pony. =)
I don't really believe in geniuses, but I believe in works of genius. Works of genius are at least potentially producable by a large proportion of the population, but not with any reliable frequency. Perhaps then a genius could be defined as one who is a prolific creator of works of genius.

Many of us have experienced that rare feeling of self-amazement of the result of the creative process. In could be in doing a drawing, composing a piece of music, proving a novel theorem, or writing software. When you create something, stand back and say; "how on earth did I do that?", "where did that come from?". That is a work of genius.
Reddit is a social bookmarking site, not a social networking site.

The focus is on the content, not the user.
When we consider it at all, we're inclined to deny it,
deconstruct it, or explain it away as an "ideology of
genius." Geniuses of the past seem to have been perched on
their pedestals so that we might drag them down. "People
love to come up with reasons for saying Shakespeare was not
a genius,"

Rihanna, Jay-Z and Serena Williams all make me squirm. When I consider them at all, I'm inclined to deny her or reconstruct her. When I read her twitter account about the Indonesian sex show or the illegal photo shoot in front of the Taj Mahal I'm inclined to deny him/her or explain them away as an "ideology of genius". Geniuses of the past seem to have been perched on their pedestals so that we might drag them down. "People love to come up with reasons for saying Rihanna was not a genius,"
This protein talk is BS, unless you're an elite athlete there's no way you are not meeting your protein intake with a normal diet. Whatever excess protein you take will be converted to energy (or fat), so you're just paying more per Kcal than carbs.

Did you ever see prisoners? They get huge and they don't drink whey in prison, they don't even eat a lot of meat. All they do is rest all day and, in the limited time they have to workout, they pull heavy weights.
While it's nice that they're trying to design the captchas to be more user friendly, these new number captchas are quite easy to crack. This might lead to an uptick in spam as recaptcha ocrs become easier to create.
She's supposed to be younger than you.
Your connection with her is supposed to
be heavily emotional -- from an expert,
"Of course women are much more emotional
than men; that's the cause of all the
problems."

She is supposed to tell you about what's between
her ears (thoughts and emotions), care about you,
respect you, and respond to you (E. Fromm). And,
really, being younger than you, she is supposed
to look up to you as a leader. You are supposed
to be a good leader of you both, but you have to
use some subtle means I can't explain usefully
here; we're not talking military or business
leadership here. As in Eric Berne, the two of you are not
supposed to be equal -- you are supposed to
be quite different, "equal" in respect as
persons but not the "same" (E. Fromm).

Actually, from Mother Nature, if she is
already old enough and you are still young
enough, then that's enough! Things she
doesn't know or gets confused about are
places where you need to apply some
leadership. E.g., if you want your kids
home schooled but she didn't go to college,
then you have to lead in how she can
get materials, keep the schooling organized,
and make good use of good tutors and
other home schooled children. And if
you want your kids taking the SATs at
12 and the GREs at 16, then you will have
to lead in how your family does this.
Did I mention leadership?

She can have a "brain" and even be brilliant
(my wife was Valedictorian, PBK, Woodrow
Wilson, NSF, and top research university
Ph.D. and just brilliant but, still, was
mostly run by her emotions) but will still
be run mostly just by her emotions. She
may care more about her emotional security
from you than even financial security.

I don't know about your school, but I went
grades 1-12 with, from girls my own age
in the school building, receiving a total
of likely less than 100 words. Right,
they ignored me. Then in the ninth grade
I discovered that girls 1-3 years younger
could be from eager to much more to talk
to me -- some of them were both shocking
and obvious and about much more than just
talking. Girls are designed to like
older men. The way of the world.
This article should be taken as seriously as Derrida is.
Just curious: why is living in Hawaii something a person would get divorced over (or something to complain about?)
I hope that they put a backdoor in it so that they can learn about European secrets...
On the exploitation of APIs
>Does ramen, McDonalds, and frozen cardboard pizza count as real food?

Nope.

It is pretty expensive to eat good, healthy food all of the time, but I still think middle-class families can afford it (although its getting harder all the time). Sometimes the crappy, unhealthy alternatives are cheaper, but there are still meals that you can cook at home that are pretty inexpensive.
The Golden Radio is numerological nonsense. There is no evidence supporting some inherit beauty of the Golden Ratio.
You are missing the whole point. The new "easier" captchas are shown only to people that they are sure are humans already. I suspect they are looking at the number of previous captchas you have solved correctly, are you logged into gmail, etc.
Would servers be affected by the instability of the ocean? That is, if they use spinning drives, would the heave and ho of the ocean affect it? Would that affect other electronics and components?
BART goes directly into the SFO airport. If you are taking a flight from the international terminal, it is a direct walk to the check-in counters. Otherwise you connect to the airtrain which is an escalator ride up from the BART platform.

I've found it extremely convenient getting to/from flights from San Francisco, although I'm lucky to be within walking distance to a BART station from my apartment.
News at 11? Sorry for the negative, but isn't this what has been said for a decade now?
Perhaps in some glorious future utopian society, humans won't have to see CAPTCHAs at all.

They don't. You can implement basic defenses like hidden input forms or checkboxes that are masked by CSS rules or served on the client side with JavaScript to weed out bots from human users, among other less intrusive techniques.

Of course some bots may make use of high-level browser engines (such as those provided by acceptance testing frameworks) to try and get around this, plus you'll always have cheap human labor. But ultimately, anti-spam is an arms race and simple tactics like this will get rid of most unwanted agents.
Sounds like yet another round of investor hot potato.
Is "for-profit" incompatible with "forest"? It certainly doesn't seem to be....
That's true, it takes a lot to bring back people after burning them.
google is always incredibly secretive about their datacenter technology. it's a big advantage to be able to run a datacenter more cheaply and efficiently than your competitors.
Outsourcing a project that level of complexity is never going to end well. The only way to consistently produce good, highly complex software is to have stakeholders closely involved in every step of the process. You simply aren't going to get that level of involvement when you pass off development to contractors.
Great points. You summarized exactly what I felt when I read the article. So...

> The other question is thus: Does it matter?

Absolutely not. Any, and I repeat, any of the problems encountered with a computer or the internet, can easily be more attributable to the human condition, and the way our civilization and organizations work. It's the exact same argument as guns don't kill people.

Lets take the title as an assertion, and see if holds any ground when asked as a question. So the assertions are: "The internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life"

The internet hurts your sleep schedule?

First of all, what's the internet? Is it a physical object? No it is not. Does it force me to interact with it? No. People or myself may force me to use it however. When I look into the science, it tells me that what really affects your sleep, is bright lights close to your face. This actually seems like more of a problem with display screens and is more of a criticism of our modern, electrical society, which is fine. This doesn't mean that it's the Internet's fault though.

The internet hurts your productivity?

Hah. So where are we getting our data from? From before the internet was invented? Yes? Well No. Actually the data is more about what a time sink on average, certain services are on the internet. Again, what's the internet?? Unfortunately people use whatever definition suits them. Again, all I'll say is the problems are most likely born from personal or social pressures or vices or defects, and while I may agree to more accurate phrase (Facebook hurts your productivity), the internet is where I and many others make their living everyday. To generalize it as unproductive is just incorrect.

The internet hurts your personal life?

If you let it hurt your personal life, or you let someone use the internet, and that person hurts your personal life, then I guess you could argue a more exacting phrase (My naked photos being on the internet hurts my personal life). But then again, with such a general definition of internet, then a fair retort is the evidence we have of people's personal lives being improved everyday because of the internet. Girl dying of cancer? Reddit donates to her in a caring creative way. Veteran needs some love on their B-day? /b/ from 4chan has over 10 people attend and give the man company. The internet is keeping you single because of anime and porn? The internet got this guy a girl friend and a job in Cologne.

It's like your said earlier: Does it matter? No. Because people are different, technology is agnostic to our anthropomorphism, and all of our problems stem from humans, human groups, or human civilization.
Would you rather a fail fast on bart or a service never reliable and will probably be late holding onto your time.
Are you considering buying shares of Twitter's stock when they IPO for $17-20?
So does state aggression.
You're correct. Refreshing the page a couple of times reverts the captcha to the old one with letters. So I guess they keep track of how many times they serve captchas to your ip address in an hour, and if you go over some limit they start serving you the harder captcha .

Thanks :)
This whole interview seemed to be an exercise in lengthily recapping well-known things, like how the market for computers is different from the market for paper towels. Presumably the intended audience isn't from the tech industry.
I think I'm still technically correct in that no algorithm can imitate humans, because no such algorithm exists yet. I should have said "humans and existing algorithms" probably.

Google's approach to the problem has nothing to do with the (nonexistent) "A.I." as media likes to present it, it's just incredibly complex software that's trying its best to tackle the problem of navigating the roads, recognizing signs, other vehicles, etc. I can imagine it's an enormous effort that doesn't guarantee success. See "Siri, Call Me An Ambulance" meme as an example of a comparable effort ;)
I'm curious how many 'hackers' actually wear a hoodie when 'hacking'.
Definitely, check out the progress. This is no big deal really at this point. As another person pointed out, the biggest issue us humans.
Which equals $2.83 per meal.
the patent mentioned in the article says 3-7 miles offshore. that's well within governmental jurisdiction.
Thanks for the further info... I'm waiting on an email response from them. It was an introduction from a successful entrepreneur who wanted us to speak to this particular VC company. Upon introduction, was hit up for BTC... I'll let you know what the end result is. Appreciate the feedback though!
Is there a good place to see the product offering map SFDC has to evaluate if our "idea" is already covered?
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Academi (née Blackwater) is a private company, which has been hired by US police departments for crowd control. For example, they were sent to New Orleans, right after hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
I'm not sure, I don't want to burn any bridges or anything like that. Sorry about that.
The root of the problem is that women are behaving more and more like men and men more and more like women. We are equivalent but we are different, we must acknowledge it.

- women want direction in life from men (not feelings).

- men want beauty, support and kindness from women (not careers).

No one is giving the other what they want/need so they seek it in themselves, making the situation even worse.
Weird, seems to be a kind of "squatter's rights" for rich people applied here. It's illegal to exclusively possess a public beach by impeding all access to it, but the courts rule that since it was done for many years, it is legal in this case.
And since the parts of todays phones are usually manufactured in China, the Chinese officials should be informed very well too.
Since the Russians seem not to be a part of the chain, it seems to be obvious, why they need Snowden. :)
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I wish there was a legal body that could order the author to explain his core thesis in one paragraph.
I have the solution! Behold:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/
+1 for installing python from homebrew; letting the default OSX installation be used at all has caused me mad problems in the past.