skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mentioned in one of the comments that you get a lot of business from referrals, but don't track the number of referrals in any way. Would it make sense to have some sort of rewards program, e.g. one month off for every customer someone refers to you? I don't expect that would do much for you in the (presumably most lucrative) enterprise space, so maybe it's not something that would make sense to spend time implementing, but I could imagine it working out quite well with e.g. owners of massage parlors.
It's not a drug trial or a voting poll. You don't need that many samples when the statistical effects are large enough.
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> Wait. How could we even write such a program?

Not all programs are deterministic; some of them are useful precisely because they aren't. Neural networks[1], for example.

Also, within deterministic programs, there is "emergence": A very simple set of rules can produce unexpected patterns and behaviours which where not part of the original design. Conway's Game of Life's "patterns"[2] are an example of this.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

[2] - http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life#Pattern...
That's an interesting, though crude way to teach about the fallacies of Marxism, but what does Obama have to do with any of this?
If you find helpless animal do you do it's dirty work of providing it with food, water, shelter, some toys, some interaction? You do, provided that is not too much bother for you. I don't think we'll be too much bother for near omnipotent machines.
Dirge of Cerberus, amirite?
I thought that was Dali and then he would paint right after waking up from the nap. Maybe both.
(scss)
For mass production of burgers, restaurants will also benefit from the consistency in toppings.

Tough to believe, but places that sell a LOT of burgers have to calculate how many slices they get out of a tomato and how many tomatoes go on each burger. But the people making the burgers are not as consistent. This all comes into effect in ordering and budgeting which won't be as much of an issue if a machine is doing the work.

I've never had to do it, but a friend ran the food ordering for a large group of restaurants that sold millions of burgers a year, and it was there job to figure out how many tomatoes to buy in a quarter.
Hsve you tried creating a new clean OS X account? it could be that you have a corrupted preference file, or something similar.

If Steam works on the new account you can start deleting plists.
> Except your corporate IT department, and maybe gamers

Ah, just the two major mass-markets par excellence then..
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I guess it's only for Russian and Turkish-language posts.
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>The AI's progressed beyond humanity, and after taking the upgrade that makes processing possible "without matter" they shortly all left humankind behind for another world entirely.

Surely AIs would be trivial to backup and duplicate? So if an AI progressed to the point where it decided to leave humans behind, we could just reset its former host computer to a previous state and start it off again. Maybe we'd even have to do that once every six months, so what?
It's weird that a whole class agree on something like that (specialy in Texas!) but that's a interesting experiment.
The title makes this sound much more severe than it is. According to the article they only get access to _public_ posts, i.e. posts they would have been able to access by crawling the site anyway.
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I guess it's for getting more news coverage! #KeywordPlacing
> It didn't help that it turned out the CIA were running "fake" vaccination campaigns to gather information though

Did they at least actually vaccinate people? I mean you can run a vaccination campaign as a front, which is already a pretty terrible thing to do (for reasons that vaccinations HAVE to be out of public suspicion), but the times when you have to play the part, at least have the decency to deliver actual vaccines.

Got some sources for this story? Risking anti-polio vaccination programs of large populations really doesn't seem like a fair trade-off for capturing a single person (or anything, really), even if they're the founder of Al-Qaeda. Now some of those health workers are dead, a bunch of people are going to be crippled, distrust against vaccination has grown in those areas, a large-scale humanitarian project has been sabotaged, but hey at least they got Bin Laden.
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There would be countless historians now who wish they had access to more past writing than they do! And that includes the minutiae that we think completely uninteresting today.
Mostly a very common failure to understand the difference between socialism light (a mixed economy or modern welfare state), and real socialism (stalinism, fascism, communism). But then, seemingly not very many people grasp what capitalism is these days either. The counter side of this story are the people that think George W. Bush is / was a capitalist or small government proponent (har har).
At the end of the day it's all about money.
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Also, availability is a huge issue. For me in Germany it is nigh impossible to legally watch a recent episode of Game of Thrones. And Breaking Bad or Doctor Who has only recently become available via the new service watchever.de. And even there they are published far too late if you want to participate in the online discussion of an episode.
After a look at Google's smart house experiment in London, I think it's safe to say, their next lot of acquisition targets will be home automation companies.
These post were public anyways, therefore I fail to see how this will affect anyones privacy.

Also, like ryanmerket said: Facebook doesn't sell data, you are just misinformed.
Right, most likely only Russian/Ukrainian languages. I don't think they will index English posts.
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I've found that the data in Maps has been significantly improved (in the UK) over the last couple of months, its now actually possible to find businesses on it (road data has always been reasonable).

The more concerning thing to me, is Apple's apparent usability weakness when it comes to iCloud, syncing and its devices. I've worked it out now, more or less, but the potential for confusion is tremendous. If I turn on syncing, I expect syncing. If I turn off syncing, I expect syncing to stop, I do not expect warnings about documents being deleted from various devices.

Similar with calendars. Turn on iCloud and suddenly you have calendars 'On My Mac' and in iCloud. All the calendars are duplicated. Horribly confusing behaviour for someone who is new to it.
Do you feel the same way about the process of saving old letters from people? Because that practice has been going on for centuries.
Some of my high school friends would want to have back the points they lost on German exams for botching future constructions, then.

In the spirit of whichever language it is, let me say, "I do not read The Week."
A "leak" normally implies something that will get worse: like, as you use this stream, the stream will slowly lose memory or something. The standard is simply saying that when the program exits the stream objects themselves--and therefore the buffers they use--will not be destroyed: but of course closing the program will destroy them... the developer who closed the bug even put "leak" in quotes as this is more an artifact of valgrind's definition of "leak" than even an "unimportant" issue in the behavior. (I want to clear this up, as I can imagine people reading what you are saying and then avoiding this feature as they are concerned that their extremely-long running program will eventually exhaust memory.)
About $350 [1]

[1] http://mkcastor.com/2014/01/02/pipad-build/comment-page-1/#c...
Fun fact about considering R as a vector space over Q: the Hamel basis A mentioned in the post is not only infinite, but even uncountable.
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Something's happened with Apple place data in the UK in the last month or two - it's suddenly become... OK. It was a laughable joke before.
China may also be more accustomed to seeing people as a cheaper resource.
I never said its a solved problem. It probably won't for many decades or may be even centuries.

But probably for the fist time, we have a real chance of achieving these sort of goals.
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One issue is that thermostatic systems apparently work substantially differently outside of the U.S you can't buy NEST in the UK, for example because of this wiring incompatibility.
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I think we've all worked with someone like this before. The dog ate all of whatever they were supposed to do. Whether they are king lazy or just incompetent, it is supremely annoying to deal with a co-worker who doesn't pull his/her weight.

"The commit failed for some mysterious reason" "My email is broken" "I wrote the document but it didn't save properly" etc.

Please provide your favourite far-out excuses too.
I think more than anything, writing an article on a bounty hunter is plain dangerous.
The game is called "which is cheaper", and mobile wins.
But that isn't the case.

It might be possible to restrict the kind of thoughts an AI can have. That could restrict free will.

But it is possible the AI could find ways around those restrictions.

What isn't clear is if the desire to bypass those restrictions is required for Strong AI to be realized.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I like the blog idea.
When you invent a story like this you can use it to "prove" anything you want.

Alternative ending: the smartest kids rally around those failing and hold after-school sessions to bring their grades up. In fact these group discussions help improve the understanding of the material for everyone, even those already doing well. The grades go through the roof, and at the end of the class the students climb on their desks for a rousing chorus of "oh captain my captain". Therefore Obama is great, or something.
(Hey, I'm a big fan of your WebGL work!)

This is really not about interpolation or mipmapping; it's about creating a data structure that allows you to quickly answer queries with which to build visualizations. For example, you might want to see a heatmap of all tweets that happened in 2013, but you might want to see only the count of a particular week, or a month of tweets from Instagram. You might also want to see all of these things above over the entire world, or over a single metro region. What nanocubes enables is answering these queries in time essentially proportional to the size of the output (we take a polylog hit, but that's kind of to be expected). We don't even touch all of the input data, which, if you ask me, is kind of nice.

I wish I had bigger public datasets to show you, but we keep this fast experience with datasets in the billions of points.

About your interpolation point: yes, we could (and do sometimes) use interpolation and smoothing. We choose here not do it here so that it looks the same when you go to the webgl-less mode and run it on an iPhone or iPad, there isn't a big visual difference.
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Voice is horriblly slow medium of transfering information. I read because it's faster than listening to an audiobook. It's not scannable. You can't skip through the unimportant parts with one thought as you can do when you look at things.

You can listen to a single voice stream at a time so when AI talks to you you are more cut off from the people around you than when you look at our phone. ...unless exchanging glances is more important than what people are actually trying to tell you when you happen to look at the screen.
Unsafe behaviours with raw pointers:

- dereferencing
- arithmetic (implemented as ptr.offset(number) in the stdlib),
since it is undefined behaviour for LLVM to move a pointer to
point outside* of the object that it came from originally
(even without deferencing)

Everything else is OK. (Although the only other thing possible is passing it around as "black box" value.)

*One byte past the end is ok.
let the html5 vs native debate start in 3..2..1..
I find the site good, but I only got grief from the downloader (back when I tried it a year or 2 ago, it may have gotten better since), for all of its slowness Steam's installation and updating process is much more hands-off and convenient.
> The United States was so focused on Bin Ladin and catching him that they were willing to do whatever it took without thinking about the consequences of their actions. They had serious blinders on.

The message is: Don't mess with the US because "they be crazy, yo" and will go through whatever lengths to hit back even if it means endangering life on this very planet (also see: the Cold War).

It's bad, and there seems to be no power to keep it in check.
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Agreed. My experiments with rust have been uphill because I've been fighting with lifetimes, ownership and borrowing.

For the most part I failed to see that I -needed- unsafe code in some situations. Instead I was trying (failing) to annotate my code to ridiculous levels with lifetimes. It was really frustrating.

I don't think the current docs do a great job of putting unsafe in a suitable perspective. It's somewhat downplayed IMO.

Still, I've learned now and it's been pretty pleasant after that.

FWIW I've been doing c++ for maybe 18 years, writing device drivers, game engines, compiler development. I thought rust was made for me but it's been tough, much more so than any other language except maybe SML!
The web is searchable. Apps are not. Case closed.
My board just arrived, so I'll be testing things out soon! Either keep an eye on my site in my profile or on the RetroBSD forums :)
Isn't there a theory that dogs are wolves that retain their cub characteristics for life?
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Does anyone find it surprising that the napping group had performance improvements BEFORE they took their nap?

What's going on here?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/pix-media/blog/539/Untitled.png
The alternative ending is indeed more likely: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/04/15/why-i-let-my-st...

(I note that while this is not the exact same scenario, it also depends on students cooperating to maximize what is effectively a shared grade.)
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Our brains restrict the thoughts we can have. You could have some different thoughts if your brain was not mammalian or if it was bigger and more interconnected. How do you know how thinking about multidimensional manifolds daily as a pleasurable way to spend time would reflect on your perception of social justice? Human brain is not a pinnacle of of intelectual and moral developent that AIs can only strive to be full representation of. It's only pinnacle for meatsacks evolved over just 4bn years on a small rock, orbiting small boring star in quite unremarkable galaxy.
True, but the Apple music beast was really created by the music industry who insisted on them using DRM in the first place.
PayPal gets rid of its only good feature. Am I missing something, or are PayPal opening the gates for hackers to inject malicious code into third party websites and steal user credentials? I'm making the prediction right now, that they'll quietly remove this security atrocity after the first year of exploits.
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Try "open -h NSString.h"...
Indeed, that's exactly what poppea does. The code is a generalisation of the code in the reducers library.
This has been posted before but hasn't attracted much attention (not since 4 years ago anyway).
The trouble with laws like that is that they are only worth anything if you have the means to enforce your legal rights under them. If Steam -- or any other supplier or on-line service you use -- is based in one jurisdiction and you're based in another, the cost of actually taking them to court to force compliance could easily be prohibitive.

I'm a little surprised that they haven't been dinged by the card companies yet if reports of whole accounts being blocked based on one chargeback are true. Even Valve are just another retailer to the likes of Visa and Mastercard, and the card services tend to take a very hostile view of merchants who try to evade their obligations under the card service policies if something comes to their attention.

I'm also surprised there haven't been more legal cases considering the implications of SaaS, on-line media library services, software that requires phone-home activation/DRM, and the like. There are obvious ways that such systems/services could provide unfair leverage against consumers in the event of any dispute, and as you mentioned it seems very likely that they would fall foul of the law here in Europe, or at least in several national jurisdictions within Europe. The US tends to give businesses a lot more slack to play with on such matters, though.
Note, though, that Facebook's robots.txt and Terms-of-Service typically prohibit the crawling of these 'public' posts.

Users shouldn't be surprised that others can see them; they may still be surprised at the new level of discoverability by strangers and via other sites.

Developers may still be a bit miffed at the mixed meaning of 'public' here – world-readable to the extent it benefits Facebook (and negotiated partners), but not allowing downstream automated indexing/analysis/excerpting by the general public.
Well, my question is does HTML even need to encompass everything it does. It seems to me that we have an ever expanding monster. HTML does not have to be everything for everyone.
What part of "public" do people not understand?
When China finishes its industrial age, it is going to be one terrifying economic force to reckon with.

It is going to be completely self-sustaining, why will it need to answer to anyone.

We've become completely reliant on it and we keep feeding it all our cash.
That's pretty interesting. These pilots, and I suspect most of us, spend almost all of their working time seated in a chair. I'd be curious to see a study of people whose jobs require a lot of physical activity, or even just standing and walking. Would a nap be as beneficial or as necessary? (I'm guessing yes, but that their alertness doesn't get as low to begin with.)
There are two types of "counter" that would fix my needs: a counter like (1, 2, 3.. and its datetime) and another one with just datetime info. With the former you can count the regular stuff like the number of times you do something and at what time. The latter can tell you at what time you do specific actions, like waking up.
This is a powerful thing as long as the user wants to look critically at the gathered data.

Unfortunately I don't have an iPhone or any of the i-family gadgets.
A "simple" thermostat is costing you hundreds of dollars a year.

You can probably get most of the savings with what the US apparently call setback thermostats:

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

(that page cites Consumer Reports as these will save you $180 per year, edit: and interestingly lower down it says that in actual deployments they may slightly increase bills/energy usage, main culprit? the horrible UI)

But a) even to get the basics they have a UI like programming VCRs, and so can't be what you refer to as "simple" and b) they have obvious failure modes that need babysitting and manual intervention like it taking longer to heat your house up during cold winters (or just an unusually cold day) so the time it comes on in the morning should be slightly earlier.

It's a real UI challenge, that if solved will save money and energy (which seems to be a thing Google is interested in generally).

There are already products that simply shift the UI into a smartphone app (like British Gas's Hive https://www.hivehome.com/) and otherwise are mostly just programmable thermostats but they mostly still have a box (for manual overrides) and cost as much as Nest, without looking as nice or having such clever software.
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No. You're missing the point. You seem to assume that its a given that human consciousness can result from a created machine. We still don't know where consciousness resides, not even going into stuff like qualia. We aren't close to these "goals", we probably aren't even in the same century.
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In ST:TNG people didn't really swipe on their interfaces, did they?
Typescript has a pretty broken type system. Subtyping done wrong (and usually is).

Get more mileage out of Haskell.
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I think PCs sales are going to continue to go way down, if you are not including laptops as PCs. Can't imagine people will stop buying laptops anytime soon. I don't really know about the web.

Its better to have a simple API for standard things that can work across platforms without coding multiple versions of the same application. We basically have that now in the web platform.

Its also better to be able to quickly load an application on demand. Again, we have that with the web platform.

Its better to have a straightforward way to look up information (Google, on the web) and to link between information and applications (the web).

What the web platform is missing is native performance and some (not all) native mobile capabilities like easy payments and application access. Its also missing some things like the security model of mobile applications.

The internet is an open system, but it is still using a centralizing client-server model.

What we need is something like the web/internet that is not server-based but data-oriented, peer to peer, and encrypted. Not centralized.

I believe that there are a number of technologies that could come together to merge all of the features we want into a new platform.

Whether we will actually end up with this idealized platform I don't know. I wouldn't assume that will happen. If I had resources I could try to push things in that direction.
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>(for example, array bounds checking)

It's relatively easy to do this statically compared to bringing the benefits of Haskell to a unityped language. We just don't program in languages designed around dependent types typically.

Dependent types aren't hard.

Agda, Idris, Coq for any who are curious as to what that looks like.

Total functional programming is cool ^_^
Logically, this must generate less income than it costs to run, otherwise the people running it would make more money mining Litecoins themselves rather than selling the service to mine them.