skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting concept, never thought about it that way. I think separate AIs in "actuators" could (and should) be limited to sub-human level (there are also some interesting ethical reasons for that[0]) and without any significant self-modification capability to limit the risk.

I believe that just building an intelligence will not prove to be the most difficult task - it seems much more complicated to build it in a way that will not end up with humanity dead (or worse).

Friendly AI[1] is a bigger problem than General AI, and unfortunately it needs to be solved first.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/x7/cant_unbirth_a_child/

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...
I switched from iPhone to Android, and I liked it.
The only benefit I can see from standardizing something is that browser makers who want to claim to be compliant actually have to support it, so you won't end up in the flash/silverlight situation where some platforms don't support it.

But if a plugin framework is standardized, why settle for only DRM? Why not fix the whole crapfest that is plugin applications entirely? A standardized interface to a fast sandboxed virtual machine with good hardware support would be excellent. Currently there is javascript, ActiveX, flash, java applets, Silverlight, NaCl, WebGL and a number of others, each having their own benefits and drawbacks.

If I want to write a web based multi-threadced GPU accelerated webcam-using application that works on any compliant browser on any platform, what do I do? Isn't that what the next kind of web standards should be addressing?
Maybe he needs a cheap display for reviewing photos taken on the trip? Something, he might do some basic editing on? Something durable, not too expensive, that fits his needs.

Just throwing thoughts on a wall, waiting to see, that sticks.
This article is about Windows!

Only Windows laptop sales have declined, Apple had a big increase. Linux numbers aren't reported but wouldn't be representative anyway because it's usually forcibly bundled.

Nobody is going to miss desktop Windows. Except your corporate IT department, and maybe gamers.
What would be better is if paypal would stop freezing businesses' account when they receive something as simple as a charge back. Paypal's main market is small businesses who can not afford the time or cost of setting up a merchant account. This is the same businesses who cant afford to have a large chunk of their fund frozen for months at a time while a tiny dispute is resolved
> It's a large topic in the sense that it's a Really Hard Problem, and an active topic in the sense that there are a few people thinking hard about it.

That's what I meant (though maybe forgot to parenthesize it properly ;)); it's large because as I see it, it gets mind-bogglingly complicated quickly and branches into lots of different areas of maths, philosophy and computer science.

It is an active topic, though unfortunately I haven't seen much research in it aside from MIRI and Oxford guys. I hope this will begin to change, as topics of AI seems to enter the global consciousness again (thanks to Google and Facebook employing high-profile AI scientists, transhumanism becoming more popular in the media, etc).
If you could make dogs that remained puppies for life you'd become a billionare.
>multi-threadced

Web workers?

>GPU accelerated

WebGL?

>webcam-using

WebRTC?
It's an improvement because all applets will by default not run at all, and most users don't need to use any applets and thus will not in fact be trained to agree to run applets.

Basically, it acknowledges that the Java sandbox is as leaky as a sieve and that securitywide, running an applet not much different from downloading and running a regular executable file, so you should only do it if you trust the source.
Then we've got a problem, and likely as not a violent one.
Wasn’t this an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man? As I recall, it was a fake product even there.
GrayLog2 RC1 released
OpenSource log correlation tool build on ElasticSearch.
It would be kinda cool to have backup of everything that looks cute or tastes good :) Plus you can sell it.
We've been relying on modern industrial food production for about 100 years now. 150 years ago a potatoe famine broke the back of Ireland. It was all the same cloned crop. We've crossed that rubicon.

The only way to go back is for there to be considerably less people.
Hot or Not pays successful iOS job applicants £1000
Why is there always a nagging comment at the top?
It's inevitable with all the science we have, but yes, it's a very bad thing. I have seen Christmas this year again; people flock to the pet shops (horribly bred puppies and other species, while there are tons of animals in refuges waiting for homes) to buy 'cute puppies'; three weeks after the kids don't like them anymore and the parents find them 'quite a bit of work' so they dump them somewhere. To end up in refuges or dead (rather have the latter in this case, but then have the fucking balls to do it yourself and not put them out of your car and drive off with it running after you not knowing wtf is going on. GRRRRR).
Japan to tax sales of content downloaded from abroad
I just ignore the ones I don't know. Then I can pretend like I didn't see the request
The 2005 article is irrelevant to any point I've been making, and the 2001 article is both ancient and matches not at all my actual experience living in Taipei this decade. Both are from a source with all the integrity of Fox News.
Paypal users (on the business site) owe Stripe an increasing debt of gratitude, since "We do what Stripe does 2 years after they do it" may just yet bring Paypal kicking and screaming into a modern UX. (I say that as somebody who likes Paypal, but certainly not for their technical agility.)

See: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

The last time they did paid Stripe the highest form of flattery was when they redid their API docs, which for literally over ten years were ponderous 400 page PDF documents that you had to get behind a login to find. You can find the new Paypal docs here:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/

If that looks a little familiar:

https://stripe.com/docs/api

It looked even more familiar the last time I actually used the Stripe docs -- looks like Stripe has restyled since then.
Cloning is fine; putting these animals in these small spaces is not unless they manage to breed them without any memory/brain (verifiable) at all; just meat machines then it's fine.
No video. I'm trying to get slides, and the only reason audio was recorded is because I pulled out my iPad during the talk. I ran down to B&H to buy an H4n to plug into the board during the lunch break to get the next 2.5 days of talks recorded at higher quality at least.
ISO27001:2013 has launched
I never understood the rationale of this behavior (not being able to just click anywhere to set the curser position). At least in not-yet-executed input.
PHP 5.4 broke code. In more ways than documented in the help (where a list of breaking changes exists, but is incomplete). For good codebases that adhere closely to how good PHP code should be written it's probably not much of a problem, but the ancient and horrible code base I had to coax into working with 5.4 had a few places that broke.
Setup your own Linux router using iptables
I'd say it was better 4 years ago. Maybe because they weren't worried about making money yet. Now with all the "optimizations" to the feed, it's less relevant than ever. Or maybe people just stopped posting interesting things on Facebook. Either way I don't see it anymore.
"It smells like you've burned your dinner. Would you like to order Dominos for delivery?"

I love my nest. I hope they do good things with the brand. I'll admit.. I am fearful for what they'll do with it.
>I think this whole idea of Ray Kurzweil that we will someday upload our brain files into the cloud and run it there. Or able to survive outside our biological bodies, perfectly fits into the line of evolution we have followed at earth.

If we transfer our minds into the "cloud" then are we still human? Are we even alive? What happens to our bodies? Are they cared for by robots that we control within the cloud? And if our body dies, then what? And I'm not even touching on the "religious" implications this would have? Man... what a fight that would be. ;)

>Some humans like bacterias today will be around outside. Many will be inside helping AI machines run.

And those "humans" inside the AI would no longer be human. Also this would a 2 class world. Which could easily end in conflict. Would the "minds" in the cloud consider the humans caring for their tech (and probably their bodies) consider them the same? And likewise for the humans outside.
Odd trivia: in the mid-80's I worked as a programmer writing educational software for Apple IIs. While digging through the college library for old magazines (they had a mostly complete run of BYTE) I came across the Cream font (page 106) and decided to use it on one of our programs.

So, that font was displayed on Apple II's all over Brazil.
Show HN: Horizon for iOS, record horizontal videos, always.
This is inflamatory and wrong on so many levels. Don't forget that the web is the network platform on which apps are built upon.
I invite you on a journey into the world of bacon.
I agree with this. When I was buying physical music CDs and play it on my laptop - different CDs had different DRM formats. After a while, I had 6-7 different DRM-enabled players. I stopped playing physical CDs on my laptop after that.
Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlant (TEDx Talk - 2013)
Yes - there is a market. Having duplicates of the same animal is seriously useful if you're developing medicines or doing other kinds of R&D
Well to be fair to the company, I really like the "We want to help" bit at the bottom of their main page. Seeing that they had even just given that issue some thought gave me a very positive first impression of the company... But I still think it is somewhat naive to believe that all of this automation coming in the next 20 years is going to create more jobs just because it did during the first industrial revolution.
No, the idea is a bit broader. By structuring your application in a modular set of libraries, you can break up the "ambient dependencies" (e.g. the monolithic kernel) into what your application actually needs.

Once that's done, the Xen backend is just a matter of filling in the missing kernel components with OCaml libraries (or, in the case of OSv, with C libraries, or in HalVM's, Haskell libraries).

In the case of MirageOS though, we're using this fine-grained dependency control to implement other backends too. For instance, compiling the same source code to run as a FreeBSD kernel module or as a JavaScript library. There's already a Unix backend, so nothing special needs to happen to run it under Docker.
the playfulness of kittens wears thin long before the 6-12 months it takes to wear off - I'm not sure prolonging it would have such an appeal...

(note: I love kittens, but I also love adult cats, which I can coexist with much more easily.)
Lua is proper C code, and readable too. Macros are not necessary.
You've misunderstood the facts. The PS3 security was not fully compromised with the first hack, and locking down the console was a motivation to those who ended up cracking the security properly (news released December 2010). Watch this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFMAP0mTvY#t=0
I +13 this.
It should be easy to build something using Vagrant (based on VirtualBox) and Jenkins, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941547/how-to-combine-va...
Whenever I see a comparison to Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior, I wonder whether people don't understand antitrust law, what Microsoft did, or both.

From a competition point of view, antitrust isn't concerned about where you are, but rather how you got there. As Sherman put it:

"[a person] who merely by superior skill and intelligence...got the whole business because nobody could do it as well as he could was not a monopolist"

As far as we know, Google is doing nothing to prevent other companies, like Apple or Microsoft from making similar acquisitions and/or capitalising on the acquisitions they have made.

Microsoft told OEMs that if they sold more than X computers without Windows, their licensing cost would go up by Y. There's also their embrace, extend and extinguish (their own words) which describes their strategy to adopt a standard (Java), add custom behavior (J/Direct) and thus breaking the standard and weakening the product. And this isn't all of it, and they also did some stupid stuff in court (submitting faked videos and getting caught).

As long as Google's behavior doesn't hurt consumers nor does it unfairly disadvantage competition (and being too good and too big isn't enough, they need to actively undermine them), the comparison is absolutely and totally flawed.
I think it's mostly in HHVM, which is publicly available.

It's not documented, but you can see it in the tests.

E.g., https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/test/quick...
I wonder how quickly we will be able to apply the technology to human clones, breeding them for loyalty and obedience.
PHP, unless it has changed radically since 2009, is pretty horrendous as a language, there are, IMO, far, far better choices on the dynamic side of the fence (e.g. Python, Ruby, Groovy).

It does get the job done, as you say, but being able to patch a running application with oh-just-this-one-quick-fix is not necessarily a good thing as it can encourage one to fall into the opposite of programmer best practices (was the case for me, I completely understand why DHH of Rails fame said [tongue in cheek], "PHP is the devil!")

Scala, on the other hand, basically changes your brain chemistry. Compared to where I was in 2009, floundering in dynamic language hacking with PHP, and later, Groovy, Scala has completely changed my approach to programming.

Obviously the rich Scala ecosystem has something to do with that, but the language itself really just helps guide you to "correct" solutions (FP constructs in particular). At this point I cannot imagine going back to a server-side dynamic language.
I'm sure they (BGI) will make lot's of mistakes along the way, but they got the right attitude.
Hmm.. No. :)
I guess that's discussed all over the thread here. I do like C# in general and agree that it can be used in a functional style, but 'just as concisely'? Can't agree with that.

Needs the boilerplate (class definition, Main vs. .fsx for example), most keywords/methods seem to be longer (especially the Linq ones, SelectMany, FirstOrDefault etc) and there's no inherent way to build a pipeline as in "no |>".

Obviously you can write quite similar code in C# and I would agree that C# doesn't make it especially hard, is even a roughly decent language for that sort of stuff.
Still, the F# snippet looks a lot nicer to me.

Which leads to .. Just a matter of preference, ymmv etc - there's no claim of superiority here.
~40% of high-speed check processing machines run FreeBSD 4.x-6.x
I've predicted this for years. Now automate the ordering and delivery. Imagine a drive-up fast-food joint with no people inside at all! Just swipe your card, get a history of your orders and today's specials, speak or touch and drive up to the chute to get your hot, custom burger and fries!

Talk about social impact is inevitable. I would just mention that far more people are affected by timely safe food preparation, than are 'put out of a job'. Maybe 10X?
Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
Looks like the W3C may have been the inspiration for Games of Thrones...

Seriously, if there are men and women of honor in this organization, they should stand up against any form of standardization for DRM. DRM can be a proprietary extension for the people who want it.
I always thought of them as the "song ID" section for artsy videos, because that's what they used to be good for. Now even that is broken.
Then they are going to face a huge revolution, which will result in one of: (1) the upper class getting killed, (2) the lower class getting killed, or (3) the states "nationalizing" enough land (via taxes or something) that can feed/supply the masses.
Difficult. We have a troubling capacity for meta-behavior, where we notice how we're thinking and try to change it.

More likely, breed for non-violence and contentment. These are endocrine (?) systems that are immediately available to genetic engineers for tinkering.
It seems that Mr. Kurzweil has become very influential at Google. This is indeed the future that he predicts, and i can understand why google want's to be a part of that !
> Why are bespoke markup languages like MathML and SVG actually failing or seeing less and less adoption?

? Native MathML is soon going to be used by Wikipedia by default [1]. SVG adoption increased ~4x in the last year [2].

[1] http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/?post/2...

[2] http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-svg/all/all
1. "Middle class" does not mean "median income".

2. The relevant meaning for this particular discussion is "in a position to spend $200 on a thermostat but not willing to spend thousands". That seems like pretty much exactly the bracket a lot of US software people would be in.

(There is a phenomenon in US politics where people earning $300k/year think they are "middle class" and I agree that that's silly. But software developers on ~$100k? Middle class. No question.)
Webcam image don't swap images around, if you take the image that is actually getting streamed/saved. The only time they are acting as a mirror is when you set them up and the reason is simply because people are somewhat familiar with setting up things in front of a mirror, so adjusting the camera is much more intuitive that it would be with the actual image. Just try it out once.
Afaik, that's how they explain why the Elves in some version of D&D fantasy roleplaying only need 4h of sleep/meditation :)

But seriously, I've never noticed anything like that in my own practice. Granted I don't go for stretches longer than about 45 minutes, and I do it every morning when the cleaning has just happened. Or perhaps you'd need a specific additional technique apart from just sitting focusing on breathing. Visualisation techniques can sometimes dramatically change the effect of a meditation session (sometimes, but not consistently).

Additionally, I suggest trying to meditate when you're mildly sleep deprived. You'll find it harder to do, with yourself dozing off or blinking/blacking out occasionally. And while they're both, in some sense, mental states of "no thought", they are also worlds apart: the meditative state is a state of high focus, while the dozing/blinked state is pretty much the opposite.

What I've found in the few occasions I've experienced this (I don't like being sleep deprived so I try to avoid it :) ), is that you come out of such a blink-out state with a tiny bit of a jolt. Now, say I'd apply the same technique as one would use for basic meditation practice: when your thoughts wander away, try to observe that this has happened, congratulate yourself on noticing (instead of seeing it as failure) and gently bring your thoughts back to the focus.

Now I guess (and I'd have to try it out, but I don't want to because it involved sleep-depriving myself) one of two things will happen: One, over time (weeks/months), this process will train myself not to fall asleep, setting up circuits in my brain to keep me from dozing off (hopefully only when I don't want to). Of course the cleaning thing won't happen because you're awake and focused all the time, so you just got more efficient at sleep depriving yourself. OR number two, perhaps more likely, you'll doze off anyway, at some point. I can totally see that happen, dozing off into a half-dream where I dream I bring my mind back into focus and have this amazing meditation, suddenly get weird, in my dreams, and wake up a few hours later. It's the typical kind of trick my brain would pull on me.

Also, I don't quite see meditation like this. True, after 30 mins of meditating I am usually more relaxed and focused than I was before (but not always), but the main thing about meditation for me is just like sports and exercise: it's not so much about the immediate results, but it's training. When I meditate I do it because I am training my mind to keep focus and not drift off to everywhere except here & now, to have that state at least once a day, but to also take that habit onto the rest of the day when I'm not sitting. What you're describing sounds more like meditation as a kind of "pill" to give a direct effect, I find it's not very reliable in that sense, I use it more like training one's back muscles to give more support during the day.
echo 'Amber Alert' | sed 's/Amber/Luke/'
I think it is a combination of third party bug bounty programs (ZDI, etc) which is causing vulnerabilities to be disclosed to the vendor and the blood in the water effect.
The problem is a normal plugin doesn't allow a browser vendor to write their own version. (iPhone + Flash for example).

Perhaps a plugin standard and API would solve it, then a vendor can build their own plugin (Apple) and allow others to use a non shipped third party (Firefox).
I always thought "behind the bar" had an amazing interface, with virtuosic operators!
European word translator
Google promotes Usage Rights filter to top of Image Search
Yandex can now search for Facebook posts
well said. Can be a jack of all trades and an expert of none. wont cut it today
Site is getting hammered. Video here:

http://vimeo.com/79098420
A key paragraph:

link: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2...

Well, as I say, the actual requirements that lead to the proposal of EME
would be a start. This is how it looks to those who don't agree that
EME is a good fit with the Open Web:

- 'big content' has certain requirements relating to preventing users
copying data streams

- they won't make those requirements public (as you've said, the
agreements are confidential)

- their licensees propose a technical solution that is unacceptable to
many others because it necessitates the use of non-user-modifiable
client components

- all proposed alternatives (e.g. FOSS DRM, server-side watermarking,
client-side watermarking, no DRM at all) are shot down as being either
too expensive or inadequate to the (secret) requirements

In a normal software project, I'd take an apparently insoluble conflict
(the requirement for non-user-modifiable client components) to mean that
we have done a poor job of determining requirements.

Hence my request for either a real user to talk to (e.g. an MPAA rep) or
the actual requirements docs, which you've told me are confidential.

And that sets off my spidey-senses ... something is not quite right
here.
I would say that PHP, or any dynamic language for that matter, is going to result in faster iterations just by virtue of never having to wait for the compiler to catch up.

Even with incremental compilation and SBT subprojects (i.e. modules to keep recompiled code to a minimum) there's a compile time hit on _every_ source file change; that adds up over the lifetime of a project.

You guys may be more productive now than you were with PHP, but that's likely due more to the awesome libraries you're using than Scala development being inherently faster than PHP.
Very interesting to see the changing trends
Check out aLOKSAK bags. I've successfully tested my Nexus 7 tablet under the shower with one of these bags. For scientific purposes, of course.
Good point, just thought the same thing (example: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-phot...).