skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen no evidence that the field of meta-learning over AI / problem-solving approaches even has much interest, let alone is showing enough progress that it could foreseeably start self-improving. The "AI" areas where great progress has been made recently are extremely technique- and domain-specific (e.g., image recognition via deep neural networks). Heck, I haven't even seen a lot of progress in areas that seem relatively straightforward & seem like absolutely necessary precursors to strong AI, like automated refactoring of codebases or just straight-up genetic algorithms.
I think Surface Pro is an excellent device for enterprise, much better than the iPad. Problem with Microsoft is always their marketing and branding. They're making a huge push for consumers when they should instead be doing enterprise and education.
Does PNAS realize that their acronym is ridiculous and hilarious? Was that done on purpose?
> Yeah, and it would be even safer of the entire functionality of the ATM were implemented as an ASIC. Except that's completely impractical.

I agree. That's why I haven't even mentioned it. Running from flash and self-verification is already what most payment terminals do. This is not something new.
Can I ask the thinking behind how you name your products?

I had some difficulty understanding what you are selling - a groupware suite with API integration? If all your sub-products make sense used as part of a suite, why not talk about the suite and it's capabilities, rather than a collection of products with strange names?

(hope this is useful feedback, good luck!)
> Customers who wish to use the new Beijing Region are required to sign up for a separate set of account credentials unique to the China (Beijing) Region. Customers with existing AWS credentials will not be able to access resources in the new Region, and vice versa.

I'm guessing this is related to China's foreign ownership laws?
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I pair almost every day, and my biggest complaint is that pairing isn't useful for boilerplate code. Pair programming's biggest advantage is that you have two people working out solutions and catching bugs. If the solution is boringly obvious and the chance of bugs almost zero, then pairing is a waste.

The success of pairing depends heavily on the skill and personalities of those involved. If the skill disparity is too great, you end up with one person doing all the thinking while also lecturing the newbie. If neither collaborator likes the other, you'll have issues. Even something like preferring different editors can get in the way.

In general, I don't think of pairing as good or bad. I think, "Is pairing a tool I should use in this case?" For me the answer is often yes, but it depends on many factors. I could see others answering no just as often as I answer yes.

Really though, you don't know it 'till you try it. If you want to get started with pairing, make sure you pair with someone who has paired before! If both people are inexperienced, the result is usually chaos and frustration.
With such incisive and reasoned slogans as "Tax evasion is theft from the commonwealth," how can it be that statists are so widely considered a target of derision and loathing?
I think this is true, but before they missed mobile, they conquered it.

The main mobile computing vendor in the early 2000s was Palm. Microsoft destroyed the existing entrenched competitor with genuinely better products and a wider ecosystem.

And then forgot to innovate. Then got out innovated by competitors.

Just like with the browser.
Wait, you inline your JS and CSS? Doesn't that mean that the user has to re-download it with every page? I get the desire to have as few connections going as possible, but just be sensible about caching. First page load downloads the CSS + JS, subsequent page loads just serve it from cache.
With respect to 4: probably the funniest way I've ever seen vacation homes ever painted.

Presumably it goes Top AI -> Successful and wealthy -> has vacation home in quiet, rural area.

The author seems to paint it as Top AI -> has a rogue AI bunker
Well, yeah, but the 13" resolution has been an embarrassment for a long, long time. It just made no sense, especially compared to the Air.

I think it’s a quite obvious tradeoff, Apple just decided on it early on so it’s not as noticeable. (They must have known for quite some time that retina screens were coming so they kept the 13" Pro at a level where they could feasibly quadruple the pixels in the short run.)

That’s my little conspiracy theory for the day, and anyway, the logical resolution of the 13" Pro is an embarrassment. That’s just how it is. It’s a very real tradeoff (you get higher res for less logical resolution than is usual at that size).
There is a lot of pumping by those who want "bitcoin to go to the moon" for their own financial gain.

That still does not make bitcoin technology inherently evil.

The distributed ledger and proof of work pioneered by Bitcoin does have incredible potential to change the way people transfer "value" between themselves.

The problem is a subset of bitcoin users who want to get rich quick, that does not make this technology evil or worthy of death.
Cash can also be used by all sorts of criminals for all sorts of shit, if anything its much easier to use for nefarious purposes than bitcoin. It was anonymity provided by TOR that gave rise to silk road, pseudo-anonymity provided by bitcoin was just a bonus.
The YouTube copyright crisis and why you should care
I bought it for a Modern Editor to replace Emacs. The editor is solid but there aren't many great plugins/community, like in Emacsland.
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Blah blah blah doge is up 600% !!!

I just got a girl to show me her boobs for 10K doge. You guys I'm not joking, hot girls are using doge!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the fuck is going on ?

Ahhhhhh!
Thanks for the link! We started working on this project in early 2013, prerender.io didn't exist then (I think).

prerender.io does do most of what we do. A few things we do differently are keeping a pool of PhantomJS workers always available, killing HTTP requests that never complete, putting it behind HAproxy and logging.
I worked a college computer lab help desk in 1996. When people reported that they got a chain letter from one of our students, we forwarded it to the folks in charge of the mail servers & they got a stern warning.

I miss those days.
Super interesting! As a material scientist this is really interesting to me, and I'm surprised I've never seen an article on the topic. I am aware that there is a lot of physics that we don't understand when it comes to macro-molecular systems, let alone living macro systems. So I'm sure there's plenty to of new ideas to explore here.

On a side note I am really frustrated with the NYTimes video service, I have never had one of their videos play through without freezing!
1) Can you take cash and transfer it to bitcoin without using the bank? 2) Will it be nearly as quick converting between instruments as traditional stores of value?

Yes, I can take my cash, dump it into Qiwi machine and btc-e accepts that. It will be faster because Qiwi machines are denser than bank branches.

3) In a day or two when you want to make a purchase can you guarantee or even confidently assume that the value will be the same as when you deposited it?

No, but neither it is with your currency.

Hell can you assure yourself that the value will be the same < 1 hour from when the transaction occurs?

Why are we again talking about day-to-day spending? I don't care about the value in one hour, I care about value in one year and Bitcoin shows pretty good performance. It's more reliable than USD/EUR and USD/RUR swing, believe it or not.
How about a wage that was at least a decent amount above the federal poverty level?
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The blog post loads perceptively fast, but what I ran it through the PageSpeed tool, it came up very poor;

http://i.imgur.com/IBpar1y.png

Any ideas on the shortfalls of the ranking, areas where it's not accurate, etc?
I'm genuinely curious as to why people believe that it is 100% up to "luck" that some people are successful and others are not.

If it was "luck", wouldn't CEOs be evenly distributed amongst minorities, men, and women? Or at least per the population distribution? Or are white males just that much more "lucky" than women and minorities?

If you think answering those questions is tough, you and I are on the same page--that's why I don't ascribe this to "luck."
What about this kind of code?

var x;

promise().then(function (result) {
x = result;
}).done();

x.doStuff();

This is a contrived example, and pretty stupid too. Still, if promises are always resolved on next tick, it will always fail. If promises may be resolved in the same tick, then you may miss the mistake.

A more real-world example is synchronization code like this[1]. Can you say at a glance if this code works fine both with resolved and pending promises? You'd have to check every `then`. You don't get this kind of problem with always-asynchronous promises.

In other words, it's a tradeoff between performance and introducing possibility of several different code paths, and it gets messier with non-trivial code.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/gaearon/7930162
I would argue that "advantage" in your scenario only applies to the employer, who doesn't have to provide space for two people. For those who must now share a space, I would consider this a disadvantage.
We have more-than-human entities controlling our energy resources. They are called corporations, and some even argue they are pretty much already out of our control.
Also see "Apocalyptic AI" by Robert M. Geraci

http://thelawsofrobotics2013.iankerr.ca/files/2013/09/15-Apo...
GnuPG 2.x wasn't vulnerable, just the old 1.x:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/00033...
"GnuPG 1.4.16 avoids this attack by employing RSA blinding during
decryption. GnuPG 2.x and current Gpg4win versions make use of
Libgcrypt which employs RSA blinding anyway and are thus not vulnerable."
As someone who has a desk at a co-working space, I'd want to murder you after 3 hours. It's not really an appropriate place to spend 8 hours a day talking to each other:)
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I can't predict the future any more than you do, but the creators of BTC have thought of this, it seems.

> If gold goes up in relative value, then that creates a strong incentive for creating more gold mines, which then drives the price down.

Currently it's the same with BTC (higher price creates an incentive for more mining).

> This is of course very much unlike BTC, which has a fixed number of coins at around 21 million.

The idea is that mining rigs should still be useful after the 21 million BTC mark. Unless all BTC markets freeze, the rigs will earn their upkeep in transaction fees. The size of fees is regularly adjusted to make it worth their while.
A friend of mine directed an indie film about the singularity which is just about to come out. Here's the website for it:

http://www.is-movie.com/
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Terabytes and 5-6 thousand queries per second.

> What makes the db slow is throwing bad sql at it, not Stored Procs

Absolute statements are absolutely wrong. :)

Particularly with DBs like PostgreSQL where you can (and people do) run Python scripts as stored procs. Great way to slow down your DB.
The thing is that there are plenty of people who did everything you did and still didn't have any luck, just as there are people who did it the "right way" and still didn't luck out.

You are 100% the creator of your own happiness, not your financial success in life.
This is a really well written fake.

Use some common sense.

Are you only doing one thing on your computer? No.

Does your Memory vibrate when the data is stored? No.

Can data be transferred via acoustics over a 2 conductor 16 gauge wire at the speeds memory is accessed or is sent to the CPU? No.

Think of something you have heard "hum". Is the noise pattern of your Amp and another the same if the "hum is anything other than 60hz? No. Because manufacturing tolerances are not such that the flaws are the same.

This is really great FUD. Likely designed to get People to think that they are constantly at risk, and have the CIA and FBI spend billions buying acoustic shields for their computers.

If this is real. And does work, fine, just run a background task that puts multiple random RSA's through the paces in alternate threads so the extraction can't take place because of garbled data.

EDIT:
Apparently I forgot that HackerNews You get downvoted if you present common sense in face of a fallacy that those with limited understanding want to hold true, as seen by the mass of links to wikipedia made by those with out the foggiest about audio, capacitance, RSA, or Electrical engineering.

-Brandon Wirtz
SMPTE
I don't like these all or nothing articles. Once Singularity is achieved, AI won't instantly take over the world. It is also restricted by computational processioning power and will take some time to evolve as well.

Philosophically speaking, why would AI want to destroy humanity, wouldn't it be just as bad as humanity itself?
It rebounded back to almost same level

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD

% change 24hrs, -10% at time of this post
The Ten Year Agile Retrospective:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh350860(v=vs.100).a...

From June 2011, this article covers four key success factors for the next 10 years of agile. Great thinking on software development.
Networking events are a waste of your time.
Risk. Most compensation for sales commision based or sales with quota. Sales people are better negotiators(core skills). Also, most people aren't willing to put up with that much rejecton.
Can confirm.

I have sourced all the mcdonalds wifi in my area to grow marijuana. It's like how the sonar in the dark knight works.

All of the free wifi gets channeled in to my grow lights.
Is entrepreneurship learned, or wired into your DNA?
> So because you can't sometimes remember what you were doing in a file you would never want a feature that would have undos even for files that were closed? Ok.

Yes I believe it's called 'That's how I work.' I don't use undo that way, so I have no desire for it to work that way, especially not along with all the rest they wanted.

> And what does the file being open have to do with remembering what you did it in it?

Maybe it was open for a reason? Maybe I was actually working on it. Shocking really.

> You could have a tab open for ages in ST and I bet you are as likely to remember what you were doing in it as you were in a file recently closed, so why should that impact whether undos were available for it?

Very good, I am unlikely to remember what I was doing, I don't use undo in these circumstances.

HINT: I might not use undo the way you do. I undo immediate actions. That's about it.
It's luck because plenty of people do exactly the same thing as you and me. Work hard, take what they can get, have ambition and yet still don't make it.

If you want to see this in it's purest form look at music and art. Plenty of amazing hardworking musicians that will never make a dime. Plenty of hacks who will.
Codifying circle jerks is a dangerous precedent for a sub-reddit. Of course that assumes that the goal of the forum is fostering discussion and not just engaging in choir-preaching...
thats true and very compelling, still your 15inch rMBP is at least twice as expensive as a more powerful desktop.
I wouldn't say they are smart moves as such, bearing in mind they are reversals of direction. Yes they are the right thing to do, but only because they did the wrong thing in the first place.

MS still makes plenty of money selling Windows licenses to PC manufacturers, so charging for an OS isn't going away just yet. Arguably the other dominant OS in the desktop space - OSX - isn't free either. Upgrades are now free, but you (well, certainly 'I' anyway) pay a big chunk of cash over the hardware costs when you buy a Mac, for the privilege of running OSX and the iApps.

MS isn't going to make much money on the WP App store though. Even Apple barely breaks even on the iOS App Store. Digital stores are essential to maintaining a viable ecosystem, but they're not profit centers. So if you have to give away your OS, barely break even on content sales (if that) and don't sell the hardware either where do you make your money?

Well, MS is trying to answer that by selling the hardware as well, but the problem is the main reason they're doing that is because otherwise nobody would be making hardware to run their mobile OS at all. That is how bad things are.

Even so, what are MS#s alternatives? They simply cannot afford to remain irrelevant in mobile. IMHO their best shot now is to go all-out with mobile versions of Office on WP, WinRT, Android and iOS. If they can manage to become relevant in mobile apps, there's a reasonable chance they might be able to leverage that into relevance in other areas.
Also, I imagine the various regulation ISPs and hosting providers are obligated to inside the country - if customers can siphon off data that local officials disapprove of to another region easily, it puts Amazon in a difficult position.
While they do point out Ilya's comment in an update, it should be more central:

Here's a slightly modified MPS config that gets you to
100 without any manual work:

ModPageSpeed on
ModPagespeedRewriteLevel CoreFilters
ModPagespeedEnableFilters prioritize_critical_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters defer_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters sprite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_png_to_jpeg
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_webp
ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments

-- https://github.com/danriti/bootstrap-pagespeed/issues/4

mod_pagespeed can automate all those complicated steps.

(Disclaimer: I work on mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed.)
You know that photo is from Theo's basement, right?

here is a more recent photograph:
http://www.openbsd.org/images/newrack.jpg
You can split hunks down to individual lines.

Also git-gui can stage individual lines.
Microsoft / nokia are still likely to exceed iOS phone market share globally within two years as they are growing much faster. Nokia has been growing the market at the low end where there is no iOS and where android is a poor experience (and Windows Phone surprisingly is quite good). The US market is locked into high end phones due to the carrier subsidy model, but in the rest of the world the story is very different.

Microsoft's current moves are about the tablet space. They think the dominant device form factor will be tablets, not laptops, so they're trying to reposition windows to be a tablet-friendly OS, but have the problem that people don't care about win32 on a tablet, but they do want apps and those apps must be designed for mobile. A lot of what they're doing makes sense from the perspective of wanting to be a player in the tablet space : the unified OS and app store strategy which they are working on now, windows 8, windows rt, surface, the Nokia buyout, and so on.
What is this? Physics for ants?
It's Theo's basement.
People like to laugh, but if we can invent real AI, and there's no reason to suspect that we cannot since nature did it blindly, then it's just a matter of time until the end of the human race. We will likely either become them or be destroyed by them (or maybe some of us kept in zoos or as pets.) You cannot firewall or imprison a god, especially with humans being so divided, short sighted and manipulable. Simply put it's still survival of the fittest, what happens when that's no longer us is pretty inevitable. The only real question I see is how long will it take?

One happy thought is that the AI uses us as slaves to build a way off the planet to a place more habitable for an AI. Someplace nice with lots of raw material for chips and lots of energy. Maybe a super massive blackhole, maybe another solar system nearby.
I'm really surprised I don't see more Emoji in HN post titles!
So let me get this straight. This guy got a girl who wasn't (or isn't anymore) his wife pregnant when he was 20 and didn't have a college degree. No shit it's going to be hard to get along. For fuck's sake, you can get FREE condoms from Planned Parenthood or another local health clinic. The sense of entitlement people have is just astonishing to me.
> I started out doing desktop support for $15/hour.

$15/hour * 40 hours a week * 52 weeks = $31k in 2001 dollars = $40,000 in 2012 dollars.

That's still more that double Manny's income.

> Manny also has lower expenses than I did, since he lives with his mom

A person living on the streets has lower expenses than you too, but that doesn't mean it's by choice or a good thing.
I found this to be a good resource: jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/pair_programming.html
The problem in Sublime is that you have a limited set of layouts, those that appear in the Layout menu. In other editors, such as Emacs or the way Terminator works, you can just "split" the current buffer/view/panel (you get the concept) either vertically or horizontally, so you can build virtually any kind of layout.
I like to compare it to gold mining
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It's new to me and a nice read.
Have you started building an audience? (ie. connecting with people that would be users of your product?)
and since the current space is Theo's basement...
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True. That's partially due to Obamacare. If more than 30 hours, the employer has to provide coverage, which greatly increases the cost of that employee.
It's not clear to me how your life experience in Silicon Valley is at all comparable to the experience of the man in this story. You mention that he has a college degree and, in my opinion, imply that he should be doing better than he is. The article clearly states that he recently finished college (this semester) and has already moved on to full-time work. So he is doing better and has already left this part-time position. I couldn't find any reference to this man's interest in software development or administration in the text.

Minimum wage was still insufficient for this person to support themselves and their family without supplementing with a food pantry. I suspect that in 1999, this was also the case.

Further, the point is also made that this large and wealthy company is saving money by dividing their workforce into two classes: employees and contractors. Certainly this is nothing new but it is an important point, for instance, below is an article about how Amazon is agressively hiring more and more contractors.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...

I don't really believe you were trying to say that anyone with sufficient drive can be a CEO with a seven figure salary, but that is how it came off. Clearly there are not enough CEO positions for everyone that would like one, regardless of their skills or credentials.
> I don't know anyone who stopped using their PC just because they got a tablet or smartphone.

Sounds like a highly biased sample set. I know several people who barely touch their PCs since getting a tablet, and there are an increasing number of children for whom PCs are just these weird things they see in school that, for some unfathomable reason, don't do anything when you touch the screen.

There already aren't a lot of reasons left for non-techies to not stick to tablets. Those reasons will continue to recede.
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When I posted this I also had a thought that despite taking standard metrics of viscosity, elasticity, etc. it seems like it would be very difficult to model something like a glob of ants since each ant is obviously a lot more complex than a molecule. Perhaps, as a material scientist, you could speak to the difficulty of doing this?
The keyboard is the same on the iPad 4, which at the time of the iOS 7 release was the newest model iPad. I get typos all of the time due to it missing key presses or hanging.