skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to be in need of a mattress. We're currently sleeping on the floor (we just moved) and couldn't afford a mattress on top of all the other stuff we had to buy up front.

I'm going to buy one! Awesome. They look magnificent.

(When I get my paycheck next week. Ha.)
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Open to suggestions but the current plan would be to make it match up roughly with the Firefox 6 week release cycle. Definitely versioned and fingerprinted such that Firefox can verify that Cisco did not compile in bad stuff.
The entire premise of the article is the fallacy of equivocation: when the people referred to are advocating study of STEM subjects, it isn't narrowly focussed on STEM degrees (especially obvious when that advocacy is for general, primary/secondary STEM education), but to set up the "people who chose not to study" is based solely on the fact that those people don't have STEM degrees.
Forget about OOP. Check Clojure.
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Does anyone know how vertx[1] fits into this picture? It gives you the JVM, JavaScript, and non-blocking I/O.

[1]: http://vertx.io/
I guess the assumption is that if you're running the application with Citrix or VMWare, you'd have no other choice but to travel to the cloud datacenter on foot and install it manually on the server from a DVD. Fair assumption, I guess.
Do you mind elaborating why JavaScript should have nothing to do with it?

IMO responsiveness is a broad approach, and it doesn't necessarily imply only a pure CSS3 approach using media queries. If using JavaScript can make the web app more "responsive" to user needs, what's wrong with that?
How Framed And Storyteller Play Differently With Narrative Comic Book Puzzles
If you are looking for an on-line resource nick_dm's suggestion for http://www.learnprolognow.org/ is spot on.

If you would like a book, I cannot recommend "The Art of Prolog" by Sterling and Shapiro enough. It gives a very understandable introduction to the language and is focused on teaching you how to approach different problem spaces while "thinking" in Prolog.
If images are loaded by default, doesn't this open up the old attack vector that delayed image loading was designed to mitigate, wherein a spammer would send separate images to plausible email addresses and use which ones were loaded to build a database of active email addresses. Is it just that Google is confident enough in its spam detection heuristics that it no longer needs this long-standing line of defense?
I find it difficult because so many normal concepts like momemtum, conservation of mass, etc don't seem to apply.
Saving a playlist generates a custom url for you to access it at. If you added a password to it, you can modify the playlist saved at that particular url. Sharing the url and password with friends allows everyone to collaborate on a playlist.

The front-end is just Bootstrap and jQuery. It calls an API server that is built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
If these were true, It would mean that atoms in our brain violate physics as we know it. This source of intelligence would be detectable, because it is significant enough for neurons to detect it.

The hidden premise of the quote is that that we have observed brains enough to be confident that they are running on physics.
Ever use Wicket? It's an utter joy to work with, and the only framework I've found that really shows the good side of Java.
You can't explain the comeback of the Mac if you cling to the assumption that Microsoft products are cheaper and better for getting "real work" done. (rendered here as "tool for a specific task" vs. "leisure".)

You can get a Mac desktop for $600 and a laptop for $1000-2000, and the prices are going down every year. These aren't cheapo versions of Apple's more expensive offerings, either, they're the real deal, with better hardware design than pretty much any PC laptop. And they run Windows.

How cheap do people expect a computer to be?
Last I checked, Lisp/Scheme had some nice curves.
PC-over-IP is coming and already has HTML5 clients. With dedicated decoding hardware you can even play streamed games at low latency and good framerates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJwekaJ6Ys

I wonder where personal computing will go. Either this where the personal pc is more or less a dumb terminal, or something like ChromeOS with a Client/Server hybrid approach.
This is a very insightful comment. There has also been some debate about the appropriateness of non english comments and comments that only made sense in context of internal code names for Cisco projects. The high level test we used was lets get the basic code out on github as early as possible.
It is because both xbox and ps have launched their own in-game screen sharing feature.
His yields are also almost certainly less than his neighbors, as well. I love what Salatin is doing, but there are tradeoffs, one being that it probably doesn't scale that well.
I don't if it will break a lot of applications; probably some. The real problem is the permissions system that doesn't allow users to selectively choose which permissions they want to give to applications thus application developers don't code their applications to not work if they fail to get permission. Users are just shown a screen with the permissions the application requested.
For most users, this is worthless. Do any users decide not to install an application based on asking for too much? Users still don't have any control on stock systems over running services and applications in the background.

It is all 100% anti-users and pro-monetization; which is probably google's intention all along.
Cannot say I have. I left Java at the 1.1 version and never made it back.
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And then hide your drugs inside the laptop.
"or that increased computer power will bring it forth (as if someone had already written an AGI program but it takes a year to utter each sentence)."

No, 1000 years would be more like it, if you add in the years it takes to learn language.

Here's my very quick and dirty calculation:

A rough estimate of brain data throughput would be 100 billion neurons x 200 firings per second x 1,000 connections each = 20,000,000,000,000,000 bits of info transmitted per second. 20 million gigabits (20 petabits) of information move around your brain every second.

The biggest/fastest numbers I can find for an IC is going to be about 3 billion transistors x 8Ghz x 3 (connections per transistor) = 6,480,000,000,000 = 6.5 Terabits per second.

20 petabits -vs- 6.5 Terabits, that's roughly 3 orders of magnitude difference. If someone wrote a true AGI today, it may well still take 1000 years to do what humans can learn and accomplish in one year (assuming moving bits of data is the key to AGI).
Java at corporation level is extremely popular.
Damn, I feel old now..
> If you put software into the wild - you have released it.

Even by that definition Google never released it. You needed a 3rd party app to access the feature, Google's software alone was not enough. Google didn't fail here, they flat out never released it.

Or perhaps you could argue that they failed by not releasing it (or something similar), but that's different story.
There are a few things that I dont quite understand: what is the point of the yellow scrollbar on the left? If youre going to have it there, you should make it easy to scroll with (right now, when you click and hold it will scroll only as long as the mouse stays within the yellow box). Secondly, Jose said in his comment: "A tax attorney would be much more qualified to comment on this than I would, but it's worth pointing out the issue." It would be cool if a tax attourney could reply to his comment to clear up what he was unsure about.
How about a simple antitrust argument: if Google wants to use their power in the browser market, where they have majority power, to dictate the shape of the online advertising market, I think DoJ would have a pretty slam dunk case. Especially since Microsoft would be happy to pay for the best lawyers out there to write all the briefs in the case.
Yes you could do that two seconds worth of testing, in basically every browser these days even. But then you couldn't write a link bait article about the possibility that they are doing it.
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A browser-based vt100 terminal -- how cool would that be?

I wonder if you could run X11 in a browser. You'd have to get around the fact that it couldn't accept client connections, but otherwise, it seems plausible.
Thanks. I saw another post mentioning this too. I don't have time to test it. I'm not really worried about that all as I don't ever type "I'm going to kill you!" in a fit of rage, come to my senses / re-think it, and then delete the words I typed. :P
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I actually just had to look this up in a different context and came across this explanation

http://english.stackexchange.com/a/4247
You should probably start with the Adafruit guide, it's a good survey and starting point. It doesn't delve deeply into actual prototyping, but it covers the 'due diligence' aspect.

The first half is run of the mill startupy stuff, but the second half has a lot of useful information to consider.

I'm not sure how helpful the blog links will be at this point.

Re: External Casing- If you have access to a 3D printer, I highly recommend trying out a few iterations of the casing yourself before you try to outsource.

Once you have everything working, you can find companies that do limited runs of PCB and casing.
You can prove the transaction has occurred if the buyer posts his wallet address. The proof will be in the blockchain

paper wallets and usb drives arn't proof of anything.

Unfortunetly, to prove that you did send the coins to the right address, the buyer must publically provide his wallets address. At least as far as I can tell.
It's the way natural language sometimes works. I would argue that the intended contrast of "incompetent people think they're awesome" is not against other people's self-opinions, as you're saying, but against a true, objective self-assesment. If I can find an interpretation where someone is correct, I'd rather take that.
I would bet the success of the iphone and ipad play into this as well.

FWIW: I'm a developer and after being on a Macbook Pro with a Retina display for over a year I can't imagine working on anything else.
A lot of this is nonsense, lots of monetization actions are being reversed with a simple response from the uploader.

Here are some comments from Jon Paula, a creator that has been earning his living via YouTube advertisements since 2009 or earlier (in '09 he convinced me that it was possible for non-top-10 channels to earn a living):

http://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/1shutu/rumors_were...
A conspiracy so vast - not just NSA, FBI and local police are also spying
It's definitely true that content blocking is the user's trump card in the online tracking vs. privacy debate.
It's unlikely to be much different than the recent Berkeley benchmarks, since they all ran on AWS: https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/benchmark/
Question: everyone keeps talking about low pay amazon workers, but do the lowest paid warehouse employees of Costco get paid the same comparable low wage or not?

There are many tiers of employment at amazon and the same for costco, I'm wondering if the great costco benefits also apply to their hourly warehouse employees or their equiv on the amazon side.
I'll still raise you a glider - http://imgur.com/GBjevny
I wouldn't bet against you, just pointing out that he's working from a hefty (if legitimate) assumption.
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Awesome! I find myself making smallish edits via the web front end quite often and I'll definitely be using this.

Make sure to add "https://github.com/*/blob/master/*" to Vimium's excluded URL's if you have it

Edit: Seems like escape isn't working correctly for me on Chrome, I'm not able to get out of insert mode
I'd love it if enabling a feature like just caused the selected data points to be returned, but completely bogus (invalid phone number, empty address list, north pole location, etc). It would work for almost everything except network access, and would ensure that it didn't break apps in a bad way.

The all-or-nothing data privacy model of android makes me a bit crazy now that I'm using it on a regular basis for my tablet. That's one thing BlackBerry got right - you can grant or deny individual permissions to applications, and generally could safely assume that application developers knew this and handled security access exceptions when trying to access protected data.
"Farming is a low margin business"

You can do quite well if you manage moisture effectively. Those dryers are not cheap.
Based on my previous experiences with such live chat help. I'm guessing they are just mindlessly going off a script/flowchart. I'm also guessing Sarah, Melissa, and John aren't their real names and they aren't native English speakers.

So their words may not be authoritative.
Dear BizJournals.com, what could you possibly be doing in order to serve up text and pictures that would cause my browser to freeze for 10 seconds?
If the x264 people think they can give x264 to Cisco under a license that we can compile it and distribute the binaries with no changes to our MPEG LA licensing agreements, tell them to get talk of me (fluffy@cisco.com) if they want to do this. I came to the conclusion Cisco could not do this without x264 giving us an appropriate license.
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I think you could get pretty close to general intelligence by modeling three properties in a computer program. Each of these is difficult, but not outside the realm of possibility.

- Awareness of environment, including self. It would need to be able to re-program itself

- Ability to form intention. It would need to be able to form objectives and utilize the first property to accomplish them. Also, information gathered from the environment should be able to inform this.

- A creative function, constantly running, that constantly combines information from the first two inputs to form and re-form concepts.

I think that a program with these three aspects, running constantly, could eventually form opinions and act intelligently. The intention function could delve into the creative function and form intentions to refactor and make more efficient the mental processes.

It could have a representation of its own creative function in its environment, allowing the intention function to explore its own creativity as an environment. Connections between the three aspects would grow in this manner, and the program could become deeply introspective.

It would probably take a long time for it to be able to do anything like human-like thought. We could help the process along by restricting its environment and giving it 'games' to play. If it's sufficiently fluid in creating concepts, it could then reuse them for different games.
Bezos' Blue Origin space venture loses protest over NASA's launch pad
> Our foam should last 5-7 years before there is any deformity/compression

5-7 years doesn't seem like a particularly long time in the context of the life of a mattress. My (limited) understanding has always been that mattresses are the sort of thing many people hold onto for decades. In that context "it'll be good for five years" doesn't sound reassuring.

If you're positioning your product on price, you could make the counterargument that with your mattresses people could afford to replace them much more frequently than they typically do, of course. Just pointing out how this marketing point would strike me, if I were a potential customer.
Quay customer here - these guys are fantastic.
Yes - things like Twitter, IM group chats (FB/Hangouts/even IRC), all have a single "ring" of attention. A message is either to you, or to a group. There is no way for the sender to dial up/down the level of "attention" or send other signals when sending a message.

Some examples (admittedly, these are how they are used in my workplace and life, other people may perceive these differently, which is also interesting):

- BCC has an interesting side-effect of being able to drop somebody from the conversation, but notify them of that fact at the same time.

- CC is sometimes used as a "heads up". It means "I'm interested in you reading this, but I'm not asking you to do anything right now."

- To is explicit "I would like you to read this, and there's probably some action you need to do."

That said, these are used in my workplace so these rules don't really apply when sending more informal mails between family members and the like. I have tended to use CC at home when sending emails to teachers, keeping my spouse in the loop.

You can't really deliver the same messages within a Facebook conversation or a Google Chat. I think Twitter has some potential since the "to" line is fluid, but I treat the platform as read-only and find it extremely chaotic and unorganized.
Just quit interneting. I'm in the process of it. It's been making me happier and more productive.
I think its more of the realization that types are actually freaking useful for determining "provability" of a system. C++ perhaps takes it too far with Const, but it allows the compiler to prove that certain functions will not attempt to modify certain variables.

Compared to Python or Ruby, you're pretty much relying entirely on culture and good habits to ensure the proper rules of encapsulation. Any code may modify the private members of your objects. (Granted, C++ has "mutable", Java has the whole "Reflection" loophole as well. But you can search for those edge cases rather easily).
And then face the rage of a thousand suns when you break email filtering rules ;)

(personally I have rules that catch this sort of behavior so it doesn't bother me, but I've seen it happen).
What a relief that e-mail marketing spammers will still be able to track multiple opens! What value!
As with anything, it always depends on the context. If I'm introducing someone to an investor I barely know, I'll make sure they opt in. If I'm introducing them to an investor I see every day and know they trust me, I'll just go for it w/o the opt-in. This article and Fred Wilson's are great examples of how to maximize etiquette.
That's good news - and a great link, thanks.

Still, it's great to see the games companies lining up to allow Let's Plays, Machinima, and similar uses of their content. Definitely a positive that's come out of the whole affair.
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Google Analytics only gives out aggregated data, however.

I would feel a lot safer if Google started running their own email analytics service, and blocked off everyone else. Oh, I can see the potential antitrust implications, but as a customer I still trust Google far more than any company whose sole purpose is to spy on my email.

(Disclaimer: I also work for them. I don't think that'd alter my conclusion, but possibly how strongly I feel about it.)
You can talk extensively about how low-end this mattress is, but from the Amazon reviews it seems like your industry knowledge is rubbish.

137 reviews: 124 5-star, 12 4-star, 1 1-star
You can't put me in an uncomfortable situation. Reading these things only confirms to me that I will never be able to understand all the other people.
It looks similar to some existed app on Google play
This is incoherent. Is the ask the item being requested, or is it a demand? Neither of these are how it's used in the article, either.

Which mostly goes to show that it's not a word with a definition as we think of it -- it's a word that displays familiarity with the tech scene and is used as a social signal.
Premature optimization of your optimization is the root of the root of all evil.
1) Legislation. 2) No.
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This codec is designed more for interactive video conferencing applications and is not really great for non interactive encoding of a movie for playback. The choice of CBP came from that is what the IETF is considering to specify for the WebRTC standards.
I find that this confirms what we already know. It's hard to fit intense creative time into an 8 hour box.

A quote on Poincare's [1] working habits: "He worked during the same times each day in short periods of time. He undertook mathematical research for four hours a day, between 10 a.m. and noon then again from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.. He would read articles in journals later in the evening."

I think we could find 100 other examples.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9
"ask" as a noun is fine (even outside of finance). I've never seen or heard "spoke to she" and Google doesn't seem to turn up anything.
And if it was made from/to a cellphone, what towers saw that phone is going to be logged. Hello triangulation!
but it is much safer to purchase your bitcoins with escrow, credit card or paypal.... 3% could be made back on a cryptocoin exchange in one day.
If I can buy a product for 10-25% of the cost that lasts 33% as long, I've come out ahead.
Dolphin just lets the web page describe the font size... thus it's all correct.

Chrome and Firefox both try and guess what the font size should be and ignore the web page telling it. Thus the font varies all over the place, though the pattern seems to be depth of text in DOM.
For the first time in forever I have a Mac as my primary work computer. (Granted with Windows on VM for a few things) I converted from Wintel at home back to Mac about 3 years ago, and I was a relatively later adopter.
A language can't suck just because it isn't Haskell or ML.
> The parent post (for this comment) contains a rant about physicists but has no specific rebuttal of the article.

It's not a rant about physicists (I am one, for the record), it's just that this is what I noticed--whenever there's an otherwise good scientist giving misguided proclamations on how some research field other than his should proceed, it's always the physicist. Maybe I'm biased in that I take extra notice of what physicists say, but anyway it's anegdotal and not the main point. What matters is: whoever you are, if you're going to seriously opine on a subject, beyond general methodological remarks (which are extremely important), you better have in depth knowledge of the subject matter. Example claim: "behaviourism is abandoned by mainstream psychology". I'll avoid discussing what he means by "mainstream" here (there could be all sorts of ugly dragons lurking behind this statement), and just say that this is false. The term behaviourism is not used anymore (it's not useful anymore to use it), but a huge deal of behavioural theory and results are still alive and well in psychology of cognition.

His central point, that "creativity" is the key to AGI, is meaningless the way he talks about it. Creative thinking is not a mysterious process, there is a lot of empirical work dealing with it. He further postulates that we need philosophical (of all things) breakthroughs. I can't help but think this is some sort of Chinese room style argument all over again. Having stated, multiple times, that philosophical/epistemological breakthroughs are needed, he speculates that maybe better understanding of genetic diffs between humans and other higher primates hold the key. It's all over the place. It's hard to give specific rebuttals to extremely vague ideas.

Thanks for the pointer to Dyson's article, found it and stashed it for later reading.

> And oh, to state possible biases on record: I'm a physicist :-)

Have you read Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday? This discussion is starting to feel like it, just do a %s/anarchists/physicists/g :)
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