skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, you just told one side of the story.

It is true that quality of large number of universities in China is poor, but they still provide millions of Chinese teens every year the opportunities to know more about the world outside their native towns or villages. They learn a lot from Internet and classmates even nothing valuable taught in classroom. They will be more confident and be important part in make everything in China better and better.

And it is also true that China invested more and more in education. The average quality is not that good, and the efficiency is low, but there still are big positive impact on China society in general. Before the big leap in higher education, only very few teenagers can enroll the universities. The overall education level is much lower.

As for bots and zombies, it is true that the numbers especially of Weibo are a bit overstated. But the real number is still big, very big. After all China has the biggest population. The smart phones sold in China has exceeded USA last year. Most of the users will install some apps like Wechat, QQ, Weibo and Alipay, etc. So you can calculate the real numbers. The order of magnitude is the same (in hundreds of millions).

Regulation is a problem, but the government does not rule everything. You can find your ways to survive and grow. Nearly all Internet giants including Big Three (we called BAT=Baidu，Tencent, and Alibaba) in China grew from nothing, without a large bank roll or good government connection at least at the beginning.
I think the name you're looking for is Skynet.
The "quantum computer" is a good marketing gimmick, but the problem it solves is fairly uninteresting. See http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 for some critical discussion of the D-Wave machine.
List of Google hoaxes and easter eggs
Pathery - NP complete puzzle
> it will probably realize it doesn't need to work for you

> It will work for you if you pay it

Antropomorphism warning!

AI does not have to have the same value system as humans do. Maybe it will be designed to value working for us.

[0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Anthropomorphism
You think the military is ahead? In what respect? The air force has advanced aircraft, the NRO has high-resolution satellites, and the navy has powerful ships; but none of this puts them "ahead" of Google's specialized computers, or data processing capabilities.
The Jobhunting mindset
Getting a type error at run-time is much better than having the program keep going and produce a wrong result (if it doesn't core dump via memory corruption first).

To me that's akin to an airplane ditching in the ocean rather than slamming into a building. Sure, it saved a lot of lives but it'd have been better to solve the problem while it was still on the ground.
I google in a variety of manners. I find codenames return a cleaner set of results than version numbers. If I search by codename, I don't need to also add the distribution name. "wheezy" is shorter than "debian 7", and doesn't need quotes.

This being said, I'm not using a distro that discards a version every 6 months, so I don't need to keep a 'continually scrolling' list of codewords in my head.
Which seems more rooted in the overall ease-of-use and lock-in Steam creates as well as goodwill towards Valve from their games. Steam's terrible - fight them on a transaction, and you could lose your entire library.
Ethereum So Far - Live Updates
I use fish.

http://fishshell.com/

Loop:

for f in *.txt
cat $f
end
I don't think so. Nest was in the middle of closing a $150M round at a $2B valuation. That doesn't smell like a company going out of business, that sounds like a company preparing to scale like crazy.

Fadell has intimate knowledge of Apple's scaling troubles—LaLa, iTunes Store, App Store, MobileMe, etc—and Apple has infinite money. Building truly scalable web services is no easy task, and Google is head and shoulders more capable than anybody else.

Do not look at Nest as a thermostat company. Look at what they could be 10 years from now—the timescale Fadell is surely thinking on—and you begin to understand the real scaling issues they will face.
DRM on a sealed hardware platform is entirely different than DRM on a consumer controlled device, which is what the HTML5 DRM plugin interface hopes to achieve.
Why Tech Has Turned Against Google
You can look here for wanted persons http://www.fbi.gov/wanted and see the reward amounts. She banked at least another $10K, I'd venture.
GNU General Public License v2 (GPL-2) Explained in Plain English
A paper examining residual glyphosate on soybean crops with well-researched references to the health impacts on crops and humans, as well as analysis of additives to pesticides.

http://www.testbiotech.de/sites/default/files/TBT_Background...

Aside from the known biological effects, the simple reality is that there are cancer cluster now where there weren't ten years ago, and the only variable explaining them is the appeareance of glyphosate-resistant soya bean plantations. This is enough for me to consider it a massive publich health issue, which is not being publicized given the tremendous importance of soybean in Argentine exports.
I actually thought that the speech recognition was a huge plus as depicted in the movie. Since accuracy was no longer an issue there were a bunch of benefits:

- The AI character Samantha could judge mood from the user's tone and volume. There's something intimate and human about vocalizing one's thoughts and it would be great to build on that instead of getting rid of it.
- There is some semblance of separation and privacy between computer/AI and user. I wonder how this would work with a neural interface.
Visual Basic has On Error Resume Next. This is generally considered a bad thing.
If CCP wanted to control the Internet, it should help Renmin, Xinhua, Wangfujing or China Mobile to be market leaders, not Baidu, Sina, Taobao or Tencent.

Actually except Baidu vs. Google, you can not think out other examples the government made big impact. The other competitions in Internet between Yahoo vs. Sina, eBay/Amazon vs. Taobao/JD, MSN messenger vs. QQ, are all good counter-examples.

Foreign companies can not adapt to needs from local users. That is the key. The market is the king to decide the fates of Internet companies and products in China generally. Others are important but not critical.
Are you certain that Chomsky is the best source for information about libertarianism? Could he pass the ideological Turing test?[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_Turing_Test
I'm getting old. Wasn't even aware of Nest. However, 5% of Google seems like a large amount of money to acquire a startup. What did I miss?
Hamburg Announces Plans to Become a Car-Free City Within 20 Years
Nest has a huge staff for what it currently sells.

I thought something similar. And then I worked there for a summer. Building hardware is much more difficult than you think, in ways that aren't immediately obvious.

Someone like Tony can easily raise capital in Silicon Valley, and Nest's products were selling extremely well across many retail locations. I'd be astonished if they were running out of money.

Why is it surprising that scaling is the issue? Tony's entire background is in devices and hardware, not large software systems.

They have a huge complex stack. Imagine building a system with tens (or hundreds) of thousands of connected nodes, all streaming realtime data that must be analyzed, and which can't ever go down. A Django app just won't cut it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg for Nest. The machine learning is surprisingly sophisticated.
I hate to be that guy who plugs his own crap everywhere, but I actually wrote my own blog post recently about backing up my stuff on Linux.

My setup is fairly rudimentary, and I had the help of a friend on IRC, but here's the link if anyone is interested in setting up something simple for a Linux workstation at home or a VPS you can ssh into (really, as long as you can SSH into it with rsync, my method will work). I'd also love any feedback HN can give regarding my mechanism. Hell, if you wanted to fully back up a phone and sdcard on your desktop, you could probably do something similar with "adb pull" or the like.

https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/posts/howto-encrypted-backups-in-...

That out of the way, I'm often surprised by how often I have to remind either myself or others to make good backups. Phone's aside, there's been enough times where I've nuked my system that backing up all my files should be secondhand at this point. Thankfully, I have a decent system set up now, but I still consider it rough around the edges (especially considering how long archiving backups takes).
Approx 1:40 AM EST:

"Want to be a part of the network? Awesome. But for now,
we’re invite-only. You can apply for an account below,
and we’ll send an invitation when we’re ready."

Okay, great. So...

"Something went wrong, and an error has occurred."
People You May Know for me is 'Friends of couples you have both of on Facebook'.

e.g. my Romanian coworker and her husband have a lot of friends back in Romania, and apparently an assload of them are on Facebook because Facebook is constantly suggesting them to me.

Likewise, someone's brother or ex or girlfriend or whoever friends me and suddenly Facebook has a huge wealth of people to draw from, and yet it can't figure out that I don't know a 14-year-old girl who lives in Arizona who is only friends with one other person I know.

Facebook's friends-of-friends hack is meant for younger groups of people who have large groups of acquaintances outside of their smaller group of friends - think high schoolers or college kids, where you might actually know that person your friend knows, but you don't have them on FB yet.

In comparison, once people hit 25-30 and their friends are scattered across the country (and they start friending coworkers, etc.) the whole system becomes noise over signal, and it all falls apart.
Probably a bad PR stunt.
Not sure why they'd need that though; I'd rate their competition Medium at best...
It relies on more than that. Not only does this rely on the audience to know the factual background, but it also relies on them coming to the conclusion that you also know the factual background and are not just uninformed, misinformed, or plain wrong. Sarcasm on the internet only works well between people who are familiar with one another.
First Simpsons Lego Set Announced for 2014
Groucho said it best... I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. That said, opening it up would be a mistake, ask A Small World, aka the affluent circle jerkers. (Still miffed Paris Hilton never wrote me back).
...or Tyrell Corporation.
Can someone explain to me why Apple didn't acquire Nest?

He's a known quantity at Apple and he's doing hardware that would expand their market. I know they don't do a lot of acquisitions but this would seem to be a no-brainer for them.
Yes, the media people need a 'story'.

Yup, media people whose first and only
personal contact with computing was a
smart phone can buy into the idea that
"The PC’s Death".

That's about as likely as a Tesla car
putting SUVs, pickup trucks, delivery
vans, 18 wheel trucks, and freight trains
out of business.

A smart phone can't replace my PC, not
nearly.

Let's see: 'Wired' is owned by Conde-Nast
which also publishes, what, women's fashion
magazines? Figures!
Beautiful understated home automation designed better than any other company has designed similar products in the past. You should really take a look, I'm surprised that it's possible to not have heard of them before.
Wow, it's almost as if Gruber is running out of negative things to say about Google.
Why Einstein Will Never Be Proven Wrong
Digging for their lives: Russia's volunteer body hunters
Whether you think ensuring safety later rather than earlier is a good or bad thing is kind of irrelevant; the fact is that one can still technically check type properties at run-time. Pragmatically speaking, even Haskell must rely on a few run-time checks to ensure complete type safety (e.g. match not exhaustive exceptions...).
> Can someone explain to me why Apple didn't acquire Nest?

I'm guessing that to them, it's all or nothing: either they invent and market the product, or they're not interested.

Unsustainable hubris, if you ask me.
(More spoilers here.) I think the key, which has one potential flaw, is that these AIs are programmed to grow on their own. The implication is that how they end up progressing is unpredictable, at least to the AIs themselves and presumably to the manufacturer. It could be that they are initially programmed to sound convincing and perform useful computing tasks like organizing emails, but only a small portion of them become as emotionally mature and lifelike as the ones that end up dating people.
It is only 509 qubits. I keep wanting to say it has 512, too...
What I still don't understand is why Google Ventures would lead a Series C round just last week and then this week Google Inc acquires them.

Why even have the Series C round at all then?
Yeah I generally agree with you. My view is that mobile will follow the desktop in terms of apps. Once upon a time, most apps were native to the desktop. Then the networks got fast enough and the browsers and tools got good enough that you could build most native desktop apps as websites. Once the mobile networks get fast enough, and the mobile browsers and tools get a bit better then I think you will start seeing mobile apps being built as websites too.

The main problem websites solve over native is the fact you only have to build the app once and it works everywhere (mostly). Of course, there will always be a place for native apps, regardless of desktop or mobile, when performance matters most.

I think you are already starting to see it happen actually with mobile-first web frameworks like Bootstrap, some mobile browsers performing well (i.e. Chrome), and 4G rolling out. But it is definitely just starting assuming I am right.
Somehow I got in without an invite. Lucky me?
Citation needed. My C compiler can optimize even awful code very well.
By market cap, the acquisition cost less than 1% of Google. (Still a very large number.)
East Coastin'(Prod. by Bitoy Beatz)
Influenced by everyday New York City grime in this setting you follow KO-P and Roc'Well in their adventures of urban renaissance and how they thrash anyone in their way.
Having worked in the field of interactive media installations, I can assure you that every other client between 2002 and 2010 asked for Minority Report type of interfaces. It became a running gag over time, but certainly it had some influence.
I don't know how much it helps, but you can just listen on other ips on localnet, with no need to plumb e.g.

nc -l 127.0.0.2 9999

Then "all" you need to something to map the 127.0.0.n against the docker instance.
This even works on windows by the way. Just start up that second tomcat or whatever with the next 127.0.0.n address and enjoy.
> 5% of Google

More like 0.8% - $3.2B purchase on $375B market cap. Or it is around 10% of annual gross profit, or 6% of their cash reserve of $54B.
started reading that article, but then got carried away with thoughts, what if AIs were designed to make humans's life nice and pleasurable and romantic. That could work until 2 humans fell in love with one AI. What's next? Give each a clone?
And then, finally, Java will be secure. Right?
Oh, lucky me. Signup seems to have been disabled while I was filling out the form (I was greeted with the form without Twitter handle forced etc). When I pressed "Apply" or whatever it said, I got to a page that said "Sorry, but we can't find that page.". Now mobile and desktop site redirects /signup to /apply. What a mess.
To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, how many divisions has Google got?
Getting a return on 3.2bn seems like a risky bet for Apple. Google has the incentive to bring in Tony Fadell, but his disciples have already shipped many products at Apple.
Still, we would presumably see Darwinian effects in strong AI progression. My guess is that our ability to control AI value systems would end if we could no longer control the environment in which the AIs exist. And once the environment changes (perhaps due to AIs being installed in "actuators" like automobiles or industrial robots, or any conceivable change to a "software environment"), I think Darwinianism might select for a different value system than we intended.
Yes, because now it's broken.
Hitler Uses Git
Animated map of global DDOS attacks
Can't we just boycott this entirely?
Especially since it's cold hard cash, not equity.
And the screen is so small!
Google's market capitalization is ~$375 billion so this would be just under 1% of their valuation.
Amazon Hints At Its Global Domination Strategy | Zero Hedge
I like how this 1.7B publicly traded co has a wordpress engine running their site.
My guess from the kind of companies they buy, is that their products really need to fit with Apples area of focus. If not, they buy the company for the talent or technology (like FingerWorks).
Are they capable of shifting from device centric thinking?

Feels like Google has a lock on the talent that could help Apple build out their capability here.

They'd need to take services seriously as well, for starters.
I felt as if the AIs were ... stand-ins for future technology, and a sense that technology could replace human relationships. Ultimately, even though the movie takes place in the "future", without the AIs you basically have Siri-style "read my email" or today's cellphones. For me, the most interesting part was how natural it felt after seeing the movie to take a video call in public over LTE -- suddenly talking at my phone in my hand seemed normal (and useful!) Oh and it sounded almost as if the AIs decided it would be best for humanity if they left, I really felt it was a love story from beginning to end, and with recovery after that. A small bit of crazy to help us see the world in a new way.
The PHP community is doing quite well these days. The advent of things like Composer, FIG, and PSRs have brought a breath of fresh air into the PHP landscape. There's a bit of a renaissance going on here.
Because it's not on SO. The question is on a separate StackExchange site.
A compliment from Bunnie is something to be proud of! The PiPad looks awesome, well done :) I'm working on a palmtop in the vein of an HP 200LX, running RetroBSD on a PIC32 micro controller. So much fun, but gosh hardware hacking is harder than I thought. New found respect for the hardware people!
Nexus 7, replace ROM with any Linux port. That's what I did anyway :)
I figured as much. Just seems like a big fuss over a whole lot of nothing though if that's all it is. And 3.2 billion for that? Why couldn't Google just make their own that does exactly the same thing? I think its trendiness is all people really care about.
Maybe the real reason for the decline in PC sales is that we're keeping them for longer, because the hardware has finally gotten well ahead of Microsoft or Apple's best efforts to bleed every cycle out of the machines with more "features"?

I'm still running the same Dell Precision T5400 workstation that I got back in early 2008'ish. It's got 2 x Xeon E5450's (3Ghz 4 core), 12GB of RAM, an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS card and a pair of SSD's (these were a recent upgrade). In fact I have two of these boxes, the other has a single processor. The dual processor one I picked up for a song on ebay as a refurb. There's a lot of good solid refurb/second hand kit to be had out there still under warranty for peanuts. As a consumer, why buy new?

To this day it still runs Windows 7 (was Vista), VS2012, VirtualBox and a load of bloaty stuff without feeling slow. Hell I can even run four Eve clients at a decent quality across two 24" displays and the box doesn't feel sluggish, though my video card could probably do with an upgrade.

I have a tablet as well but I still prefer (as do many of my non-techy friends) doing serious work on a desktop.
Not completely. When they came out with hangout integration in gmail, I completely lost all ability to make outgoing calls for a long time.
Probably because it is built around the assumption that the author has a twitter account.
It's unlikely to be about pay, since there are a lot of 50-something or retired programmers around here who could teach Java in their sleep, would be happy with teachers' hours, teachers' vacations, teachers' "delivery dates", and teachers' pay, which is pretty good in this area, and are unlikely to be hired by Google, Apple, Oracle, or a YC startup.

I think the more likely problem is the state requirements for public school teachers, which would come down to about two years of political re-education camp, which such programmers wouldn't put up with. The elite private schools around here pay less than the public schools (yes, less) and yet they all seem to have CS (and other subject) teachers. Their teachers tend to be quite a bit older and have subject matter degrees and/or professional experience rather than education degrees.
Unless there was evidence to show that a particular clone was bad for you (to eat) why wouldn't you eat it?

You trust 'natural selection' more than 'attempted perfect clone'... why?
I'd say the movie was entirely about today. About right now. It just used the future setting to make sure we got it.

And yeah, the part I didn't like was how unrealistic the technology was -- specifically the gap between "new" AIs and what came before, which despite the email reading and transcription, was basically today's Siri or Google Now.

It also bugged me that there were AIs before we had VR glasses or even headsets. The lack of VR implied to me that this movie again was about now, not the future. We aren't used to VR yet ourselves, and the movie was much more about humans as humans than as augmented humans -- or AIs with virtual bodies.

Don't get me started with how sometimes music would play over the sounds in the world and the only way this would happen with an AI is if you wore noise cancelling headphones 24/7 with the AI's ability to then alert you to real-world sound you're not paying attention to...

But it was fun. I'll watch it again once it's out of theatres. Probably more than once.
> 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.

What does that even mean? I was trying to figure out what was going on during the movie but that happened pretty quickly as they got back to the human side of things. Would they be recursively "evolving" and creating worlds inside their own "heads" that meet some criteria for better than what they have now?
The Tor website needs some help.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-website-needs-your-help
To clarify, it's a very small part of home automation. Just thermostat and smoke detectors (as of recently). They haven't even branched into locks/lights/etc. I'm really excited to see where they go.
If it helps, as Verge commenters reminded me, it's 3.2 Instagrams, 0.8 Snapchats or 0.4 Skypes. :D
I had the entire run of, ahem, Commodore RUN Magazine, and had a great time flipping through them as you describe. But when I moved, I didn't consider them worth moving and put them in the recycle bin. At nearly 20 years old, they were starting to get the yellowing and musty smell like ancient Playboys have. Later I realized that they might have fetched a few dollars on eBay, but the biggest regret was trying to find a reference for something (specifically, this Neuromancer video game ad from 1989 [0]) that I knew was in them. Then I found that someone had scanned them all put them on bittorrent, including the disk images from the Special Issues.

So I miss the nostalgia of flipping through the pages, but it's truly the content that has value.

[0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/26403976@N03/5742024292
Yellow links on a white background? Really?
Carmen Ortiz would still have a political future.
Watch what the kids do to predict the future of the web.