skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume it gets reward for getting points in the pacman game (eating dots and ghosts) and presumably loses them if it dies or loses the game. There might also be a time factor involved so it doesn't waste time.

I'm really not entirely sure how it's decision making process works and I'm really curious to know. Because simulating every possibility would be ridiculous, but trying to predict the distant future based on some small action that happens in the present is also really difficult.

>So while this is intelligence, this is not sentience.

No one is claiming it is, and "sentience" is a really dubious concept itself.
I'm not seeing the g2.2xlarge instance type when I select Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09.1 - has Amazon disabled this instance type or am I missing something?
Everytime I refresh the page, I get a +1.

Just wanted to let you know.
I would think in a future where work is optional, the goal would be to create a system where choosing to work would still provide you with additional privilege (via more money)... the difference would be at the bottom end of the scale, creating a society where unemployment is a feasible lifestyle if all you really want in a material sense is basic needs (food, shelter, clothes) plus healthcare.

Feasibility of that system is another question altogether. I'm just saying I think in an ideal world, there would still be motivation to contribute to society (in a capitalist sense); it just wouldn't be a hard requirement for maintaining your dignity.
Indian PM's award Bharat Ratna award to themselves.
It isn't available in all regions. What region are you looking at?
FYI, you could have just used http-kit. If you don't want an enterprisey ecosystem, don't use the enterprisey stuff. That's how I use it.
Ok, the plethora of bitcoin/litecoin articles on HN news are making me sick now. I feel like there are 3+ articles about it at any given time.

Seriously, with all the hype, I got suckered into buying bitcoin/litecoin just to realize that I can't compete against Chinese miners.

I guess I could buy coins and sit on them but there is no fun in doing so. Arbitrage is practically impossible because of the lag time to pull hard cash from the exchanges.
> As a safeguard, take an all-purpose screwdriver and pack it in the gig bag.

After having security confiscate my small hex wrench set (part of my bike kit) and, on a different occasion, a tiny screwdriver (part of my camera's filter kit), I would recommend getting a CHEAP screwdriver.
Why would you publish something like this? Why not just ride on your own discovery, get as many instances as possible and get rich?
Fuller is arguing otherwise here. He says we need to get away from the idea that we have to do something to deserve to make a living. Your whole comment is premised on that idea. Whether it not you're right, you haven't engaged with what Fuller said. The closest you come is making the unsubstantiated statement that getting rid of work is a dangerous idea. Dangerous for whom? Other than, you know, powerful people who depend on an endless supply of cheap labor, and politicians who rely on an exhausted, frightened, ADD electorate.
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Hmm, I just checked in US West, East, Ireland, and Singapore. Still not seeing it..
True but the approximations of it are (i.e. limiting the amount of running time each hypothesis has and limiting the number of hypothesis you test.)

This is sort of like criticizing the concept of a Turing machine because no one has built one with infinite tape or running time.
Naive question from a non-techie - if i were to run 10 g2.2xlarge spot instances, how much net profit per day would i make?
His title was Falcon 9 Program Manager, but I don't remember his name.
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> Work is necessary insomuch as it takes effort for one to provide 'other people' with goods and services that these 'other people' value.

This kind of reminds me of basic research, people are asking "Why do we spend so much money on CERN?", "Why do we spend so much money on NASA?", etc. not everybody sees and understands the value but it is still emensly desirable that someone does it.
> being able to fire up FSC outside of IntelliJ and have your code recompile very, very quickly when you make changes

I guess that you can achieve the same benefits with an always-open SBT console.

I usually do

~ test

So SBT will recompile and launch test after every :w in VIM
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Make sure you are selecting the HVM AMI
You're not going to get rich from this. AWS limits you to ten spot instances of this type, and profits per ten instances per day are probably going to be $20-30. I've been mining with this setup for ~4 hours and have amassed ~0.2 coins ($8!).
> it's an overload and a typecast.

No, in Scala there is no typecast in that example. Everything is an object in Scala and the + method in String class accepts an object as parameter.

There is some auto-boxing happening under the hoods but that is not type-casting.
I would go on long road trips through interesting places. But I would still create software along the way.
So how much is the author's BTC savings worth now?
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"The warren of small stores selling paraphernalia such as resistors, capacitors, LEDs and soldering irons became a symbol of Akihabara over the years."

... paraphernalia, allright. How does that journalist imagine he could write this article without any of them? :-D
Back of napkin math: spend $29 to mine $50 worth of LTC.
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How is the guy marketing the decentralized services going to beat the guys who hate decentralized services, considering those guys already know everything about everyone's customers?

One way might be to let the user push a button to get $20 for giving up some purchase patterns. Ugh ;)
Ok, I took it down. It won't be as simple as 'just encod[ing[ with whatever method', as users right now copy and paste their lists in. So this will be a step back. We need someone to code a way to add encrypted lists, and we've got several higher priority things on our plate. Hopefully someone will help out with an open source contribution.
resist, my son. i've made a pledge to myself that everytime i'm tempted to click on some BTC-related stuff i will instead study a new code library. i haven't totally wriggled free yet (obviously) but i'm close. as with all things, chasin paper is no way to live life and get-rich-quick ideas are something to discipline yourself against.

in life, studying code is what has netted me the most cash that i feel proud of earning
I think while interesting, the semantic gap is probably too large. E.g. the machine stores machine words on the stack, but the JVM stores Java values. And the instruction set of the JVM is much richer, and it knows about many more concepts (types, classes, objects, boxing/unboxing, ...). So you'll have a significant translation layer anyway. If you have to pay that cost, then doing register allocation onto a conventional set of registers is probably cheap in comparison. And you want the conventional machine for its much, much higher performance.
It seems that with a modern Cygwin (installed within the last six months) you can. Moreover, if you perform (say) an ls, resize the terminal to a really small width, perform another ls, then resize the terminal to its previous width, the text from the first ls is restored to the screen. (I also remember this behaviour from when I regularly used Cygwin four or five years ago.)

It's been a while, so don't hold me to this, but I think there's a batch file that you get a shortcut to on your desktop and start menu. If you don't use that, you'll get the stupid unresizeable window. (Because, yanno, all of the Cygwin stuff was designed to work alongside CMD.exe, too.)
Someone should probably try this with Amazon's first year free offer.. I will probably try this out.
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Thanks... so not that bad considering it wouldn't require any continuous efforts.
My best mate was a QA for a very well known Australian game company (since folded). That's not just "work", that is torture and slave labour. *shudder

/offtopic
Or spend $200 on a mid range Android or Nokia..
Looks like the spot prices have already jumped to $0.175 - $0.2 per hour
Threads like this rarely get answered by people who have significant holdings. Usual replies are "wish I bought in early" or "man I sold too soon" or "lost my wallet when the hd crashed".
How long did it take the pending to stop? Also, how do we SSH into the instances once pending is over? I cannot seem to find a way to launch.
You know, I've been to this site several times, but noticed just now that it says "1 in 27588" about plugins of *stock iPad browser". This seems to be off, way off.
I don't want to be "that guy," but I had to stop reading in the middle.
but WE do spend money on CERN, which means that someone values it. However, it is incredibly likely that in the case of CERN, it is a politically connected elite that is making those choices on behalf of us. In the case of something like CERN, the end result is arguably benign, but consider, what else might we be spending our money on? Might it be cheaper to make the same discoveries that CERN makes 50 years from now instead, with better and more efficient underlying technologies? What are the consequences of giving politically connected people disproportionate purchasing power?
Thanks. I will instead finish my projects that I am working on :)
I'm not familiar with the Kuwaiti experience, could you elaborate?

Kuwait has enough oil money to give their people free health care, free education, housing subsidies, and food subsidies. On top of that, they have guaranteed employment so ~96% of their citizens work for the state. Oh, and there's no income tax.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
Ah, ok. True, when I have had this issue it was after doing something like 'grep "pattern" file | while read ...'. I did not realize it was the pipe that caused this.
It's interesting to see how people intersect wealth and ethics. I've met people on the extreme end of the spectrum that believe shoplifting from certain chain stores is justifiable because of oppressive corporate practices.

I guess the logic here is that airlines have a lot of money, and they also have some sort of power dynamic with customers that borders on oppressive, so one would be justified in loosening their moral standards when dealing with such an entity. Not sure how I feel about that, but I guess that's one way of interacting with the world.
I've been an MBA program prof and seen
what MBAs have learned and done.

There are some advantages to having an
MBA; at best, these advantages are terrific.
Sadly one of the best of the advantages is just
meeting the other students -- something like
the advantages of being in a good country club
where know that everyone else has been carefully
selected.

And you can learn some business basics in accounting,
finance, organizational behavior, business law,
statistics, and maybe something about information
technology, production, management, etc.

Mostly the universities run MBA programs to get the
tuition revenue and, later, the alumni financial
gifts. But mostly a university wants to do 'research',
and the MBA program is a bit far from that. Mostly
the rest of the university wants to turn out college
profs which, however, usually don't make much money
so aren't good bets for gifts. So, a university can
swallow its pride and run an MBA program.

For some students, an MBA can get them on a good
start in business. Alas, for someone already successful
on business, an MBA is highly questionable. E.g.,
for someone already successful, they no doubt meet
lots of people, even ones better to know than other
MBA students. For accounting, after a few tax seasons
and discussions with a tax lawyer, likely know a lot
about accounting. For business law, working with a lawyer
a little will likely teach you all you need to know about
that. Really the main thing you need to know is your
business that you are making successful.

So many people see these points that a university might
have an 'executive MBA' program where they can
get successful business people through in less time
with less bother.

There may be some direction for you in the future where
something in an MBA program would really help you,
even be crucial, but this is not clear. Or, can look
at a lot of successful people in business, e.g., Gates,
Page, Brin, without an MBA. Or, if they want an MBA,
then they will hire one.

My guess would be that an MBA program would be a
waste of time, money, and effort for you and also
possibly a severe shot in the gut of your career.
Indeed, many profs will feel guilty that somehow
the university had gotten you to leave your successful
career, and likely hurt it,
for the university's questionable material.

If you can find an 'executive MBA' program
at a good school and really have the spare
time, then maybe okay. Otherwise I'd advise
you to be very careful and actually go for an
MBA only if you could find some astoundingly
good, special, and unique reason. Stay with
your bird in the hand and be less interested
in the two birds in the bush.
...a special interests group which got involved due to the airlines frequently destroying precious musical instruments through negligence.

If one is looking for the root cause of this cost, the arrow points directly at the incompetence of the airlines.
>I think you're being disingenuous here.

Well, I think you're being disingenuous. Please cite a scam that worked by making it hard to get money into the system.

Besides, mind blown! Bitcoin is a phenomenon that has been featured on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, regularly covered on NPR and CNBC, all with coverage that was generally critical but fair, and no one accusing it of being a "scam". And yet you're still hanging on to this baseless, slanderous accusation?

I mean, accuse r/Bitcoin of being mindless cheerleaders of Bitcoin, fair criticism. Accuse the economy of being traditionally filled with libertarians, programmers, and crooks. Fair criticism.

But scam? Come on. It's you who is being disingenuous here.
Sorry, I was going to mention that it was dangerous for the ayn-rand types who see that it is individual value that ought to be the highest objective for society, but I decided that that was too politically-baitey.

Moreover, to address your comment: that the 'labor is cheap' has to do with a lot of things, why don't people simply negotiate for higher wages and refuse to do the work otherwise? That it's so difficult to live on a low wage has to do with the political infrastructure throwing money at the financial sector for decades, and not to do with any form of natural exchange per se.
Damn discovered this two days ago, hoped that I went under radar for a bit :-).
It's well worth watching the talks about the new Mill processor design, as it claims to tackle precisely this head-on.

And the videos make excellent watching:

http://ootbcomp.com/docs/
That's only for the Free Tier which is an m1.small or micro I believe.
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This post is interesting on multiple levels. I'm an upper middle class white male, who has been a homeless drug addict living on welfare. Things are rarely as simple as you make it out to be, though yes there are systemic problems that the current thinking doesn't seem to address nor fix. The thing is, the people you are talking about may have different priorities and choices in life to yourself.. Is that inherently a bad thing? I don't think so, and so I attempt to avoid generalising when it comes to this. A huge "work for the dole" plan rarely has the outcome that you'd logically assume it would. These are differences on a sub culture level. It's a huge topic and one that sociologists actively study because of that.
No one is using MtGox anymore, exactly because it isn't very liquid (money hard to get in and out). Take a look at Bitstamp.
It's nice to see an article title which violates Betteridge's law.
Implying western countries produce too many children relative to the death rate. Overpopulation is far more prevalent in the underdeveloped countries. If their standard of living improves, with enhanced education (contraceptive) the populations are estimated to balance out to that of Western countries.

Western countries have to worry far more about immigration than birth rate control.
So just like in real banking? Nothing to worry about IMHO.
Right... the solution to Stallman's concerns about government surveillance of social networks is definitely a government shutdown of Facebook and the development of a centralized social DNS created by the government.
I no more have to subscribe to your morality as your ideology.

I'm not a bug Facebook user, but it has nothing to do with privacy. I've always known some random engineer at Facebook could read my posts, and assumed it was not a stretch for the government.

You prefer to give up conveniences because of fear of govt. I'm still much more afraid of the random engineer, but think the convenience is worth it (maybe).
Bill Joy's essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" [1] is a good read for anyone working through what such a society would be like and what it means for our race. I think it comes down to the philosophical question of what man's purpose is.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
I would work. But not for someone else, and perhaps not for any clear goal or achievement. I would work patiently and methodically on long-term projects that could only be possible with that amount of leisure time.
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I apologize for my high-minded tone, sometimes I find myself falling into that style of prose. I still stand by my objection to the ethics of such an act.
Work for myself, on things I'm interested in. Likely nonprofit work in the education space.
Hmm not really clear what it's for. Is it a replacement for Jetty/Tomcat?
You should consider editing the Wikipedia page. This would make it much better.
Not using TWC. It could be my ISP's peers, but my ISP itself is both rather competent and very network neutral.
This one is so real!

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Too scared to write a simple operating system

Cook something or get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”

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These ones got me:

Google has an entire country
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Absolutely hilarious!
Mine fits in my jeans pockets and replaces an iPhone.
I would have ponied up quite a bit for a copy, but I didn't know about the ebay sale. I wonder how the bidders found it, probably not by searching for it I would imagine. Who would search for a book that basically doesn't exist?
I am seeing:

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Love this one. Haven't laughed so much in a while. xD
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great advice!
:-)
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Cars in the next lane really do go faster
You could open a DO account, pre-pay into it, and then hand over the credentials.
IMHO that's list what you can't do "with the browser" not "on the browser". If browser is somehow exposed to interfaces of peripherals/devices/etc there is no reason why you can't do that "on browser". Yes, you can't do that with browser alone, but you can do that on browser.
Or well, you know, it got the attention of any mod once it reached the front-page.
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A lot of developers are so because of the need to fix problems, that and a flair for logical mathematics. Sitting on a beach sounds nice but I think it would only be a matter of time before members of this community try to come up with a solution to sitting on the beach.

I think workers work. The satisfaction is in achievement of worth, or at least in the endeavor.
I imagined this in William Shatner's voice.
Coinbase seems to be incompatible with my bank account (a credit union).
So the max out of pocket is $2 an hour if I bid $0.20?
Excellent analysis from first principles. However, this is an extremely simple model. In reality, human ability is roughly distributed normally about a mean. Technological progress began automating work starting at the very left tail, and worked its way along to the right. This progress has shown no signs of slowing down.

How do you imagine a society will look, when only those with abilities four standard deviations from the mean can compete in the labor market? This is known as "winner-take-all", or the superstar effect.

By your example, the majority of mankind will be at the whims of an extremely tiny elite, due to their lack of marketable skills.

What happened to horses after the onset of the automobile?
What about Kraken for trading? They support a number of altcoins and a few fiat currencies (I believe USD, EUR, and KRW). They seem to be a whole lot less shady than BTC-E.
I wish more people understood this, instead of being easily influenced by sales and money.
Not sure about DK/SF, but Mouser lets you make public project BOM lists so users can just one click and purchase all the components.
"Ira, I learned centuries back that there is no privacy in any society crowed enough to need IDs. A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs -- microphones and lenses and so forth -- are that much harder to spot."
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Likewise someone with a CNC machine, or woodworking tools, or stone chisels...
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I think you misunderstand. AdBlock doesn't force this whitelisting, it merely defaults to using it.
Ugh, HN really has become reddit. Half-baked ramblings about socialist utopias powered by machines. I mean come on...
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In the case of scheduling we have the bizarre situtation where we have pluggable IO schedulers for different workloads, but a blank refusal to allow the same for CPU scheduling.
how did you decide staying alive was the baseline, and not more than that?
I use my Visa wherever I go in the world without any problem, and for business money transfers are fast and easy.

I really fail to see what problem that isn't already solved in this regard.
There were actually Java processors, and a whole bunch of them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor
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Upvote for great good.

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This article makes some good points.

In my opinion, it isnt just that a lot of jobs today dont contribute anything to society, they actively work to its detriment by wasting precious resources and contributing to serious problems like climate change and pollution.
Here's a bitcoin profitability calculator:

http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/