skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using Glacier to store a backup of most of my personal data. This includes my home directory, the most relevant photos I have taken as jpeg, my gmvault and that's about it. I do not copy over any movies, music, raw photos or software, as this is my last line of defense, so it only needs to cover the essentials. I am under 1€ per month this way, and the backup gets refreshed only every other month or so.

I do have a local server that stores a windows backup image of my whole laptop, a second Harddisk in that Server to store a copy of the server, and an external hard disk with a windows backup at my parents that gets a refresh every time I am over there. All backups are truecrypt images for good measure, and I have tested recovery. Amazon stores a split truecrypt archive. Recovery cost about 20€ and took a day.

So yes, glacier is great as a personal backup, if you make it part of a larger strategy. To me, this is disaster recovery, and a small price to pay for this kind of insurance of important files and memories.
> Like evolution? It's important to hear that a God created everything, and directs the Universe?

If it makes people realize that the strongest critique against creationism is its lack of falsifiability, then yes.

At some point they might realize that evolution has the same defect which might lead to a much more interesting discussion on the subject of falsifiability as a requirement for scientific theories.
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I suspect this is an exaggeration of talking to some high-level eccentrics that find their way into academia, especially in the computer science department.

I'm dumber than a high level AI of fiction, and I could find your little cabin or panic room easily. A machine with drones, access to tax/real estate records, etc would have no problem here. Heck, why not just hire a mercenary group to fish these guys out of their little holes? AI money is as good as human money.
The repeal of the Silver Purchase Act was pure deflationary monetary policy.
Might as well add magnetic field to the list. In the odd circumstance it's possible there could be a large amount of power / electricity in wiring nearby, creating a magnetic field that's different than other test groups, etc..
Isn't the thread in breach of HN rules?

The title of the post is: "Big: Know Your Company grows up and moves out."

Shouldn't it be exactly the same?
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Let me see now: You start your comment with an ad hominem attack on the author and then move to making an unsubstantiated claim that contradicts the experience of Every. Single. Online. Community.

I don't think you're contributing to this discussion, and in fact, your comment is an example of what drags discourse into the gutter: Emotional, personal attacks coupled with information-free claims contradicting the established body of knowledge in a field.

If I had the power, I'd mod your comment and all like it into oblivion without hesitation, along with being very clear to you and anyone asking why I would make that choice.
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"I’m talking about the risks posed by “runaway” artificial intelligence (AI). What happens when we share the planet with self-aware, self-improving machines that evolve beyond our ability to control or understand? Are we creating machines that are destined to destroy us?"

The reason no one is worrying about this is because "AI" is still a) just a bunch of math (and still surprisingly stupid) b) nowhere near sentient.

My Kinect can barely follow my hand or consistently recognize what I'm saying with any accuracy. I'm really not concerned with it plotting my demise.
I work for a major telecom company doing field service.

I'm a contractor, I get a fair wage, but not much else.

Real employees get, company truck, 20% more pay, 100% paid benefits, company phone and a bunch of intangibles.

Like a good example when my manager goes on vacation even though I drive my own vehicle and am paid mileage, none of my mileage requests are paid, right now I'm floating about a month worth of mileage and other expenses, to the tune of 700+ dollars. If I were an employee, I would have a company vehicle, company gas card, company expense card, and it wouldn't be coming out of my pocket.
Anyone with some negative experiences pair programming? Would be interested in hearing about another side of this.
The problem with indiegogo is that most raised fund are in the order of 5 digit, we need are looking for $150k.
Do you think that indiegogo is still an option?
You can't beat the energy density of hydrocarbon fuels for many applications. Sorry.
> [...] All the land is owned by old people and established families. [...]

> Who can take a look at the deflationary nature of land, and think "gee, I'd like everything to be like this!"

People that got in early on the designed-to-be-deflationary thing they are promoting, and thus see themselves as the "old and established families".
"Google hired a security company to perform a service."

That's kind of a cop out. Like saying Apple isn't responsible for the treatment of the workers in Foxconn in any way (though I am sure there are some people who agree with that point of view).
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Doubt it. I would imagine a lot like to talk about it, or refer to their second/vacation home as such. Claiming to have a remote house for when "shit hits the fan" for most means a regular home/house in a less densely populated area than their primary residence. I wouldn't expect these homes to be built with any sort of defenses or preparations for a true apocalypse.

I visit rural Maine frequently and often hear residents talk about their guns, and their "readiness" for world ending events. Yet most have done nothing to actually prepare, beyond living remotely and stock up on some guns.
If Nokia's going to continue to exist they need to sell phones. Windows phones aren't selling. An Android one might. They have to take the shot.

Giving away Windows Phone/RT might encourage other hardware vendors to try it. Maybe they won't. But they definitely won't if Microsoft tries to charge them for it. Again, worth the shot when they have nothing to lose. It might be crazy if Windows Phone/RT were runaway successes, but they aren't.

Windows 8 is also a huge failure. Trying to go back and make it more like 7, which most people continue to prefer, is probably for the best.

This article is as poor as the design of the blog it's featured on.
Hopefully when MS and Nokia make an Android fork they put up an Android port of Internet Explorer on Google Play. Firefox on android is a great browser (better than chrome), but it would be nice to have more choice.

Since the recent death of Opera there are only two browsers on Android.
So, there are two users.

One believes in a god and believes that god created everything and drives the universe forward. That user is polite and calm, but mentions his god in many posts.

The other has the same beliefs, but angrily rejects the science and provides links to idiotic blog posts to "support" his position that the scientists are wrong.

The first hasn't been banned, the second has. At least, that's how I read the submission.
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If the "turn off IAP" button costs $10 I bet a lot of games could turn a tidy profit off it.
Climate change denial has been going on for 20 years. I, too, believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant, but that runs into trouble when you have a democracy -- not everyone knows how to properly vet whether each side is articulating their point.

Regarding reddit, sometimes the internet just doesn't work that way. When the con positions become disruptive instead of debates (and the knowledgeable people tire of having their positions constantly attacked by the unknowledgeable,) you have to weigh banning against transparency.
There are two reasons. First, the original iPad was somewhat underpowered. There is a reason the iPad 2 felt so much faster.

The second reason is because of the iPad mini. The non-retina Mini is an iPad 2, just in a smaller package.

I know some developers were complaining after the retina Mini was announced because Apple didn't update the non-retina version to the A7, so the effectively still have to support the iPad 2.
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What did you want to know that we didn't share?
The article doesn't say who these AI researchers are, and I suspect that the statement is utterly baseless and intended to add drama to the article.

At most it's possible that Hugo deGaris plausibly might have a "bug out" house, but I doubt that anyone else does.
Dogecoin has the fastest rate of adoption, what are you guys doing sitting here holding your dicks?

Don't miss the boat!
Are there tools that visualize code as a flowchart, like he did halfway through the tutorial?
I never know what to make of these articles. I started out with low pay in Silicon Valley, too; I took a job at a startup in 1999 making $15/hour doing IT desktop support. In 2002 (edit: this was 2002, not 2001), when I quit to do consulting and start my own company, things were miserable in the Valley--and my salary as a developer was still only $49,500/year then.

I am a college dropout. By traditional standards, then, this guy has more than I do: He has a college degree. Working at a tech company, he had to see that the developers/sysadmins/computer folks made more than he did.

I find this juxtaposition interesting because, certainly, a similar article could have been written about me in 1999. $15 an hour was a terrible wage then in the Valley, too.

Faced with something similar, I asked several of the developers at our company to teach me development. They were amused at this young 18-year-old girl asking them what a "for loop" was. But they taught me.

It took me a while to pick up Linux system administration, bash shell scripting, Perl and PHP (this was in 1999-2000.) When I dropped out of school in 2001, my parents cut me off financially, so I shared tiny apartments, slept on couches, and made ends meet.

Now, at age 32, I've bootstrapped a startup to a 7-figure sale and am now the CEO of a funded startup.

For most of my life, I've dealt with depression and believing I was not "good enough." In that way, I empathize with Manny. If he's reading this, I would like to say to him: I stand here as proof that a minority with no college degree and no formal education can make it in this world. You live in Silicon Valley. If you really want to pull yourself out of poverty, all doors can be open to you. The first step is believing that you can do it.
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That sounds like a good plan :)
I don't want the entire conversation, I only want the bit that's necessary to understand the reply. Even when I invert the email to put things in chronological order I still need to sieve through laboriously to find the relevant parts. Incredible waste of time.
Sit in your car/on a bench outside mcdonalds/starbucks in a security camera blindspot?

edit: Or how about a prepaid cell phone 3g connection?
This one got ten pages in science 30 years ago. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/213/4511/957

Predicted around 1/3 of a degree, reality is about 1/2 of a degree. So, there's that.
Yes, cars still pollute, although the bad smog we're seeing in eg. China has more to do with unclean combustion and no or poor filtering than is has to do with hydrocarbon fueled cars per se.

The reason a scalable carbon-neutral liquid hydrocarbon solution is attractive is that it's a drop-in solution to CO2 emissions. Battery-powered cars are neat and might well be the way of the future, but it's a very long play. Even if we had the money to replace all cars on the face of the planet with Priuses, there are some very significant constraints on the production on batteries in the form of rare earth minerals. Also, even if you did that, there's still trucks, ships and airplanes to address, never mind that most of the planet's electricity isn't exactly cleanly produced. The carbon-neutral liquid hydrocarbon solution on the other hand would be applicable without any of those constraints.
> Besides, maybe letting contractors take food home is too expensive for the company. Maybe they couldn't afford free food at all if they give to EVERYONE.

It's because a company needs to keep a very clear distinction between employees and not-employees. If a to-go box is an employee benefit, and those boxes are given to contractors who are not employees, then there is the risk that a court will decide that the not-employee is indeed an employee. After that the employee says, "where are my retroactive stock options?" For reference, see Microsoft in the 90s.
Google hasn't hired anybody. The security company was awarded a contract to provide security services, which is fulfilled by employing some people at < 30 hours/week. If there is an issue with the < 30 hours/week loophole, the security company is where it should be addressed.

"But Google is benefiting from this exploitation!" you might say.

Yes. Google can pay less for security services because the guards ultimately cost less. If the guards worked 40 hours/week, the contract cost would have to increase, and another lower cost security company may have won the contract. The reality is that security services are only worth so much. Not every job (even at full time) can or should be expected to pay a livable wage.
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I think the people well-versed enough in git to use "git add -p" to review their own changes, and commit them separately, are the same people that would correctly test their commits.

At least from my small sample size of people, that is true.
However, his use of Tor would mean the authorities wouldn't know which surveillance video to look at.

He was caught because they probably assumed the threat was an internal hoax, checked the logs and found only one or a few internal users on Tor at the right time, then got a police officer to ask each of them if they had done anything wrong [1]. One confessed, and there you go.

Morale of the story: don't do illegal things, and if you do want to do illegal things, have a cover story and don't admit things based on inferences from investigators.

[1] In fact, they probably overrepresented the evidence and then left him to talk himself into being convicted.
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What if "runaway" isn't possible?

It might be possible for an AI to be roughly as "intelligent" (depending on how one measures this) as the smartest humans, but that intelligence is the result of many millions or even billions of years of accumulated evolutionary learning.

It might be -- for fundamental information and machine learning theory reasons -- fundamentally harder to go where there are no roads. Start looking into combinatorics and the problems of searching large spaces.

The observation that genius is often tied to madness may be indirect circumstantial evidence for this. When we try to push the boundaries of human intellect, we seen to run rapidly into weird problems.
True. Though I suppose that writing an async generator runner that utilizes multiple workers (e.g. via webworkers in browser, via isolates in node - if they ever happen) is also possibly doable at some time in the future. Those generators wont have any access to the current scope, but that might be better[1]

Still, scheduling would continue to be cooperative via yield (just split amongst multiple threads). Go is clearly much further ahead in that regard :D

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/hZjvk-EP...

note: I'm curious, doesn't shared state from those closures let you shoot yourself in the foot in Go? You still have to be careful not to use anything not thread-safe that can potentially change...
Microsoft isn't nuts. They simply missed mobile. Microsoft almost missed the Internet, and retained some of their dominance only after decisive top-down action and investment. By the time Microsoft understood what was happening in mobile, it was too late. The fiasco was compounded by Ballmer's indecisive reaction, but it was already set in motion.

Anything Microsoft does with mobile, perhaps short of something that literally and clearly bets the company on it, is going to seem comical: Microsoft is a gigantic company that has no power in the mobile market. All their moves are big (because of their size) and pointless (because of their market position). Big pointless moves look crazy.
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I've suffered IE10 mobile for a bit now. It's a great browser but to be honest the entire mobile web is written for WebKit.

This makes it painful.
All they need is to be smart and strong enough to take control of the dense energy sources (oil, coal, uranium). Then we're toast.

No need to be millions of times smarter, whatever that may mean.
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>My Kinect can barely follow my hand or consistently recognize what I'm saying with any accuracy. I'm really not concerned with it plotting my demise.

My radium coated watch face can barely illuminate my timepiece, I'm not worried about the dangers of these radioactive elements.
That's a great reason. I did the same back in 2009 when an iMac couldn't support the displays I wanted along with CPU/RAM requirements. I find my computing drifts when I do that — I end up with a lot more flac music that doesn't port back to iTunes easily.

But these days, I can grab a rMBP, hook up three 27" external monitors (plus the built in 15" HiDPI display, plus the rMBP can use an AppleTV as an external monitor, not just a mirror now), have a 1 TB internal PCIe flash setup, have 16 GB RAM, and four 2.6GHz (~8 with HT) cores to do my bidding.

Plus, the Linux box was about two feet tall and acted as a noisy space heater even in the summer. :-\ (but, I had it crammed full of 2 TB drives. but, rMBP has USB 3 and Thunderbolt for easy expansion. It's more difficult for me to justify large computers for non-compute-intensive tasks these days.)
If you are just looking for an affiliate tracking system: http://www.hasoffers.com and http://www.offerit.com are very cheap solutions that should be able to do everything you need.

If you are looking to add your "offer" to an existing affiliate network with an existing publisher base then you should look into Commission Junction, Clickbank, LinkShare, ShareASale, etc. Many networks specialize in different verticals. Be sure to do your research.
They are evolved to be evolvable to some extent. The difference between a mouse and a human at the DNA level is not that great. That suggests significant mutability if we can find the right levers.
I usually like Matt Miller but this is just silly. Why be more afraid of AI then Nuclear War or a Man Made Super Virus getting into the wild? Every new technology needs to be used responsibly and were very far away from Terminator at this point. He should be embracing AI to reduce health care costs and improve city planning and control interest rates and make a more fair society and accomplish many of the goals he talks about every week on left right and center.
I think that most scientists, and certainly most AI researchers, would say that biological intelligence is also just a bunch of math.
Is it weird that I find this mesmerizing despite there being a foot of the real stuff outside my door?
Is pair programming always carried out on a single PC? I was under the impression that the pairs may just sit side by side and help each other throughout the session. Didn't realize that pair programming implied literally taking turns hammering out code on a single PC.
> ... users today understand how to keep an email thread
> alive in their memory, and do not need to read the
> entire chain, selectively quoted or not, before getting
> to the reply.

I have literally hundreds of active email conversations. If you think I can understand a reply without first refreshing my memory about the context then you're much mistaken. What you say might be fine for people with just tens of conversations, but there's no way it works for me.
The staging area is sort of a UI for "interactive" commit. But one that can persist the partial commit state across multiple commands, or until you can finish the work tomorrow.

An interactive commit interface which loses the accepted/rejected changes if you have to close it for one reason or another is going to be worse than the git UI for interactive commits.
No, litecoins algo (http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html) is easier to mine on a general cpu (see https://litecoin.info/Comparison_between_Litecoin_and_Bitcoi...)
Very interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing! Let's try to map it to a somewhat simplified system:

data = many news-websites out there

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v

information = RSS/Atom News Items of the sites above (basic data structure, highly available today)

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v

knowledge = ??

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v

wisdom = ??

... Do you have some ideas floating around how this concrete example could be expanded further?
I'm surprised by the decision to spin off KYC: from what I understand, it fits nicely in 37signal's toolshed and would help cross-marketing quite well -- especially with those great numbers.

If I were to guess (and this is with the caveat that I'm not too privy to what the actual product is -- from what I can guess from the marketing copy, it's a mixture of one-time consulting and internal SaaS), the growth rate of the project is increasing in a way such that scaling on the part of 37signals is infeasible.

(Edit:) Napkin math: if a company grows from 25 to 40 over the course of two years, that works out to be $1500 over 24 months, or effectively $62.5/mo for KYC. It also strongly incentivizes the product (er, company) to help with a company's HR attrition and growth, which is neat.
It's good for about two weeks to a month, and then you are looking at diminishing returns.

The productivity gains come from sharing each others programming tricks. You may learn a different approach to problem solving that you never thought of before. Over time you will learn less and less, to the point where you are just sharing a keyboard.
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Not at all.

Because Android achieved dominance, it's now starting to lock down how much its OS can be modified by other vendors and locking manufacturers into using either Google's services or having to make their own from scratch on top of an outdated OS shell. Microsoft is probably wondering how much appetite there is for vendors to make a break with Android and try to replicate their past successes with a new, more modern mobile OS.

At the same time, it's trying to take care of its legacy users and giving them what they want and what they ask rather than simply dictating to them "here's how you will be using your computers." Also, not what you'd call nuts, just listening to consumers and learning from their experiments.
This reads more like an advertisement than an objective analysis, which in looking more into AirPair, that's exactly what it seems to be. Pair programming might be great (it certainly sounds like something I wish we did some of at my company), but it's disingenuous to pass off a marketing piece as a critical analysis of software engineering methodology.