skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two-month deadline over in-app charges
Pretty much that

It can't be too low as too "worry" the employee or to make him/her uncomfortable living in Silicon Valley

For the "paying less" I see it as backwards. Between working at Apple at X and SomeOtherPlace at X+Y the Y may not be worth it. And based on some places I worked, Y may be totally not worth it.
This article is stupid. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs are all Democrats and Obama supporters. Most valley leaders are.

The reasoning of the article laid out explicitly: Peter Thiel is guilty of hypocrisy because (democrats) Larry Page and Steve Jobs failed to live up to Peter Thiel's libertarian principles.

[edit: CEO of Adobe, also involved in this mess, is a Democrat and selected by Obama to be on his PMAB.]
It is also fun to imagine fairies exist.

More seriously, Kurzweil snake-oil selling is just distracting us from serious research in AI. That is the problem. Belief in this woo woo might actually stop us from getting real AI.
(Disclaimer: I work for Dashlane).
I am sad and curious about the fact that nobody mentions Dashlane here.
Is it because you guys never heard of it? Or something else ?

I realize KeePass has they key advantage of being open source, but we have good UX :)

Very interested in your thoughts...
Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide
I think it can be improved so that you don't have to put the whole machine between your legs by using more of the cycle (chained pedal rotation). Good to see people trying to make lives better for themselves and their community.
Don't overestimate bitcoin's anonymity. Because it's not anonymous. It not CamelCased either.

Oh well.
I did a quick Google, but couldn't find any particularly useful sites. However, I shall keep looking.
React 2014 – An Indoctrination to Reactive Programming (7-9th April, London)
U.S. Democrats seek to restore net neutrality
BlazeMeter's Chrome Ext:Record JMeter scripts from your browser
I didn't mean persona when I said trusting with my data. I am just saying if ever I could trust a company with my data, it would be Mozilla (shows how much I trust them).
Yeah... encrypt the transmission with a secret key that is embedded in every public car. That will stop it being reused! Like CSS, bluray and other DRM solutions.
C Macro Tips and Tricks [2010]
Linodes backup restoring failed with no way of restoring data
But BitTorrent wasn't invented to stream movies.
Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"? If the label includes people with a wide range of fundamentally incompatible views, it's not very useful to use as a yard stick. It looks a lot like guilt by association.
Why are you talking about "lethal dose" when the issue with atrazine is specifically a proven link to birth defects at very low doses?
I appreciate your comment. The machine I ran this on has some strange issues that require us to keep around older versions of GCC and Clang, but I was able to install recent ICC. I hadn't known about the online compiler. That said, perhaps you could provide some numbers to back up what you are saying? I'd love to see what you think they should be.

Seeing as the article is about providing rough faster estimations using series expansions, I'm OK with Intel's choice of optimizations. For GCC, does "-Ofast" do anything that "-O3 -ffast-math" doesn't? Because I tried that and it did not help. CLang threw up error messages when I tried, and since it wasn't my code I didn't bother deciphering.

[Does godbolt.org give you any way to download the executable, or do you have to cut and paste the output and assemble that? I can't find a download feature, but it would seem very useful and I don't immediately see any security reasons that they wouldn't offer it.]
Spam and policing spam: Why Google+ communities are broken
5 steps to bursting the Gen-Y unhappiness bubble
UK, Birmingham to London train. Mostly corporate Lenovos with about one quarter Apple laptops in First, Lenovos and iPads with a few smaller Apple Air in Second. Remarkably few generic brand laptops. Tablets are winning in Second I think.

UK, Birmingham coffee shops, chain and independent: Apples, some netbooks. A lot of iPads and book readers of various kinds. Again, very few generic laptops. I really notice now when someone has a 15ish inch laptop with DVD drive &c. Perhaps people have those in their houses.

Edit: Phones everywhere. Samsung, iPhones, Blackberrys still popular, generics.
Externally yes, but what if you can't hot swap consciousness? What if "you" remain in your body and all that happens is a clone of you is produced? Externally, both you and the clone behave identically and assert that you're the same person.
As much as i like that video nothing will top his special version of Bowie - Space Oddity

This might also pique you interest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dQJBBklpQQ
It's a huge improvement over holding the stuff full of skin-attacking chemicals in the hands for extended periods of time. Women in India and not only there have to do that daily.
If Kurzweil is right or wrong and by how much is completely irrelevant.

What is relevant, and this is the only relevant thing about the entire discussion is:

1) When will we reach the ability to take a snapshot of an entire organism with a nervous system up to a resolution sufficient to satisfy all expected simulation parameters?

2) When will sufficient computing and storage capacity be available to run a simulation off the data captured in step #1?

3) Will the simulation performed in step #2 adequately match the organism as it exists in real life to declare that the simulation a success.

4) When will we be able to perform steps #1, #2 and #3 for a human sized organism?

By the nature of such an experiment, a negative result does not indicate the absence of a positive in the future. And certainly, and inference on a negative outcome at any step cannot be valid without performing the steps, that's just guesswork.

It's also worth noting that inherently estimates on timelines of this are nearly impossible because one cannot exclude the possibility of radical advances in scanning, computing and storage hardware.

Or, if you prefer to have a TL;DR explanation for geeks. Unless you can write and run a program, it's nearly impossible to debug it or make statements about how useful it'll be.
We know so little about our brain I don't think that is really, possible, not without some major breakthroughs in how brain functions.

I think Penrose was on right track with his ideas about brain using quantum effects (our words and comprehension follows rules that are eerily familiar of some quantum effects).

With that in mind, I don't think it's possible to do an easy copy of it without disrupting the way it works.
In the last drop he doesn't spin it and it seems to fall at the same speed, it also wobbles and hits the side, so I think you're right
Awesome.. OK that makes much more sense now, i knew i was missing something important!
>I write my HTML semantically primarily for myself. It's far easier to read, debug, and develop when the structure makes sense and isn't littered with a dozen nested divs with incredibly complicated class names.

Sure, but nobody called for "a dozen nested divs". You can ease the same number of divs, semantically or not. Just make the styling targets are encompassing as they can be.
The one thing I disagree with in this article is the idea the Hoffman might have gone to a safe-injection site. I lived in Vancouver for a while, I always thought of the safe-injection sites as places where people can shoot up safely in private, rather than in the street (which is common around Pigeon Park).

My gut reaction would be that a recovering addict, and a celebrity one at that, would want to hide their addiction. It's another problem with the stigma associated with addiction. It's seen as shameful even though it's a disease.
There's no need to do purely sequential download, though. You only need to download sequentially at the speed of playback, the rest of your bandwidth can go to the rarest chunks.
And we all know that calculation speed is the main quality of IQ.
Isn't that part of the author's point? That Kurzweil is picking and choosing exponential developments because they fit his narrative? Since none of us know what the requirements of the Singularity are, it seems odd to extrapolate from a single abstract indicator and assume that it will happen "somewhere" on that line.
> How about if we extend your brain by hooking it up to a memory augmentation device. Still you?

Probably "still me" in the same sense as the person I was five minutes ago is the same person as the one I'll be in 5 minutes.
From my perspective, there is no source code to review so we have to trust you to have made sensible security decisions, which at least I don't.

UX isn't a big win. KeyPassX is good enough i.e. works with keyboards entirely, is open source, is reviewed, goes to extra lengths not to leave stuff floating around in RAM as well. Oh and works across all platforms I use.
Brazil Government Health Organisation Websites Hacked by Brazil Hack Team
"I'll go back to desktops if the situation doesn't improve by 2020."

I hope to be using a dockable phone then with a mechanical switch keyboard and a monitor the size of a window... we shall see. Thanks.
Because a) that belief is based on scientific facts although some of them are highly exaggerated and b) basically you’re not bashing/attacking/humiliating anyone who tells you otherwise.

Personally I don’t believe that Singularity will be achieved in the time frame Kurzwell predicts. Especially regarding AI progress I think that we need at least half a dozen paradigm shifts in order to get to the milestone of a truly self sustained AI entity. But you know in some sense believing it gives you an extra motive on pursuing some of these goals and I think that’s the real benefit of this idea. A few visionaries out there like Kurzwell could push science to new frontiers.
This is awesome, but please make that gif into a html5 video so the playback may be controlled.

EDIT: here's gfycat version: http://gfycat.com/FlusteredFarApatosaur#
> Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"?

Yes

> It looks a lot like guilt by association.

Your political affiliation is your own choice, so it doesn't seem to have that unfairness.
Awesome! I wonder how much computer power FB used to generate the videos for all of their users.
There's a big debate whether those secret treaties exist and if they do, whether they say what Foschepoth says they do - i.e. if they allow spying on all german citizens by allies secret services - and if they allow it, whether the german government can sign (secret) treaties that violate principles of the german Grundgesetz (constitution). See for example this blog post http://www.internet-law.de/2013/10/darf-die-nsa-in-deutschla... and the following discussion.

So if the lawsuit ever makes it to court, these questions need to be debated - and I'm very interested in seeing the result.

Edit: Just for clarity: The situation may be quite well that currently the german governments allows allies surveillance based on contracts that are illegal in itself.
I have a command-line thing put together with HtmlAgilityPack that represents HTML in an XPath-navigable document. It lets me apply the same XPath queries to HTML, for screen scraping.
If that happens, I'm in :)
don't be ridiculous.
UK council to send obese people 'motivational' texts
You could argue that Mediawiki has Wikipedia. Wikipedia didn't change the look much from the stock Mediawiki look.
Uh, you can just push your payment through a mixer and it's effectively anonymous.
What happens when performance approaches infinity? Many AI problems have been solved because there is now simply more processing power available. For example computer Go using Monte Carlo methods. Just a couple of years ago people thought it was impossible for computers to beat human professionals.
It'll be interesting to see how they go about scaling this. Link to full article is here: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140130/ncomms4086/full/nco...
Sounds like religion without many of its benefits (for example, human terminus) and with a more superficial form of belief. If this is a trend, it feels like the potential for a revival for organized spiritually in the coming generation or three is high. I mean this in a good way, unlike Singularity which I personally think is mostly harmful and bullshit masqueraded as science.
Happy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome.

You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/lookback
The article is right in the observation that Kurzweil's singularity paper conflates a set of notions. Some are easily testable, some are more difficult to digest.

The notion that evolution is exponential is, to me at least, very well supported. This article criticizes the fact that Kurzweil crosses the barrier between biological evolution and technological evolution without mentioning it, and that the utility function used to plot the exponential across evolution barriers is ill-defined. Both observations are true, but I don't think they shake the observation of exponential behaviour in these evolution functions.

The conclusion that this will all end in our minds being uploaded to the ether is more difficult to swallow, I concede. It is a philosophical can of worms, and it is a question that will be left unanswered, even after we can replicate human consciousness in a computer.

However, if you assume there is nothing magical about our brains, that our consciousness is merely the result of (biological) computation, then @AndrewDucker's approach [1] is an easy way to wrap your head around the concept. Instead of thinking about a clicking moment when you get transferred into silicon, think of a continual transferral process, where you get silicon additions, while your organic brain continuously dies. Imagine this process takes ten years. When do "you" stop being "you"? I'd wager: never.

BTW, the same problems you have with brain uploading, I have with star-trek teleporters. If the same machine that can teleport me can copy me, then it is killing me and creating an identical twin. I'd rather not die in transportation, thank you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176674
Surprisingly, we've been doing this on the Microsoft side of things for years with ADO and csv data sources!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974559.aspx

(article dated 2004)
Value is not an intrinsic property of a thing, but is determined solely by what someone is willing to pay you for it. I agree that the value of diamonds is an engineered one, but it still doesn't change the fact that people will pay truckloads of money for them.
By your ridiculous logic, we should judge all Democrats like we judge the murderers in Chicago and Detroit who self-identify as Democrats, right?
It might not matter that much. If we ever get something like uploading working, the people who don't care that much whether their upload is really them or not are going to have quite a bit of selection pressure going for them.
Religion by definition is an acceptance of the claims based on the faith instead of critical thinking and the observation of reality. If the claims use scientific-looking statements which can be proved to not match with the reality or logic they are the "dogma." Of course it's not an "organized religion" but the beliefs are religiously accepted by those that promote it.
Quote from Linus Torvalds on Free Software
Your comment is both ignorant and false.
If you manage your time terribly, you'll get more done
Thrice today I've clicked on a link to put.io (which was upvoted on a number of sites), scrolled around absentmindedly for a bit, and left. It was only just now that I thought, 'wait a second' and clicked back, to realise that your site is a bittorrent service (and one that I may actually use since my free EC2 instance (which I was using as a torrent box) just expired).

I guess what I'm saying is, you might want to unbold 'Hassle-free' and embolden the word 'torrenting' in your byline. Or something like that. Here's what my brain saw when I went to your site:

http://i.imgur.com/9D78Bx9.png

I'm not being snarky, but I am trying to help you see into the mind of a disinterested internet user in the midst of a mild social media daze.
This question is even deeper than just a you or not you. It's been a tough question for a very, very long time. [1]

"The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object which has had all its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late 1st century. Plutarch asked whether a ship which was restored by replacing each and every one of its wooden parts, remained the same ship."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
No-one sane writes parsers any more. People use parser generators.
For this reason I tend to position myself behind the nearby traffic pole relative to traffic on my side of the road while waiting for the 'cross' light.
[NSFW-ish] an online Clit you can 'play' with
So it's fair to say that we can judge all liberals as having Fidel Castro-like views because he identifies himself as a liberal, correct?
How could you know without extensive investigation on your own that it wasn't sponsored by some other biased group?) No, really, when you have believed any similar article, it seems unreasonable to expect truth of any journalism and science (which has now become a form of journalism since the only visible effect is articles being published).
To me it sounds very scary to make profit with something related to torrents.
If I was the founder of put.io I would spend most of the time looking at the window expecting an FBI helicopter to land on my garden at any time.
I'm going to give a differing opinion here, depending on what you write your interpreter and/or compiler with, using s-expressions may not be the best choice.

While using s-expressions is obviously the right thing to do if you are writing your compiler in some dialect of Lisp, it may not be the best choice if using another language.

In particular, I have past experience from writing several toy programming language interpreter and compiler prototypes in Haskell. Representing the abstract syntax tree with a tree structure and sum types is easy and convenient and writing the actual parser (using e.g. Parsec) is trivial and doing a pretty printer isn't hard either (using Hughes-PJ pretty printers).

If you have not tried it, I recommend doing a small programming language prototype in Haskell. It's a very good exercise and really fun.
Incorporation is giving a company the legal status of a biological entity. Within 25 years I think we will have the first company staffed entirely by AI machine (trading bitcoins?).

If machines ever get the "inventive spark", its seems clear to me there will be rapid expansion of machine influence on the universe. Computation is just silicon (rocks) after all.

So that's the big IF. Can we invent inventive machines? Machine learning is certainly going at rapid pace, NELL etc.
So it's fair to judge Democrats as guilty by association in this case?

(Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Marisa Mayer, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs all self-identify as "Democrat", not "[Ll]ibertarian". The president of Adobe is on Obama's PMAB. I can't find info on the others with 3 minutes of googling.)
Dude peddles exponential snake-oil curves while we deal with sine++ waves.
Singularity is an idea that once you have an AI slightly smarter than humans, it will be able to create a better version of itself, the improved version would do the same, etc. leading to an intelligence "explosion".

Consiousness is a different problem. I personally came to the conclusion that a deterministic machine cannot be consciouss.
Why is he screaming?
If somebody writes
a + x(b + x(c + ...))
one should expect this code to be future-proof and work with any compiler. But if code is mixed with inline assembly, the result will be doubtful, at least.

No need to be a prophet. First CPU with AVX appeared 3 years ago. Haswell was announced 6 months ago. There are no AVX-512 solutions for home users yet, but one can write AVX512-opimized code without any special knowledge.
I've wondered, but too lazy to calculate that how much electricity could be generated by machines in gym. Probably not a lot, but the whole idea of a green gym could encourage people to work out more.

Edit : Google search shows some in practice : http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032281...
Exactly, bang on!
I have a cheap internet connection (16Mbit, ~$13/month), and I'm not a minority. In my country, having an internet connection that's speedy enough for video streaming is not a luxury. And yet, I can't even buy anything off iTunes, Google Play Store, not to mention Netflix and other similar services. In fact, we even got PayPal only in mid 2013 (and not even the full service - we can only send money and can't receive anything), that's how "open" the internet is to our market.

Also, my country is in southern Europe, not part of the EU yet.

> The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for.

I think this is highly biased towards your own ideas of how someone could use such service. You are, in fact, projecting[0] your own probable scenarios to large group of people you have never met, living in countries you've only heard of in the news. That, sir, is unfair. You should not stick with generalized opinions and prejudice, mkay?

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops
Query app
ASK ANYTHING!

Query is the best way to find your answers. The only thing you have to know is the question you feel the need to ask and let Query do the rest for you. You can even search asked questions through categories. Yet, it only supports Yahoo! Answers, however, a lot of more Q&A servers will be added soon.

https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/query/id725029532?mt=8
I'd use this if it was in Python. For go, I don't have a compiler handy on any machine I might need this.
> even after we can replicate human consciousness in a computer

What exactly do you mean by consciousness? (I personally don't believe that a turing machine can be consciouss.)
Kurz-goo-weil-le is a grade A bullshit artist.
OK, I just tried on the same machine with GCC 4.8.0. Same results: ICC clobbers GCC.

nate@fastpfor:~/lolengine$ g++-4.8.0 -std=c++11 poly.cpp -Ofast -march=corei7-avx -o g++-4.8.0_Ofast_march=corei7-avx

nate@fastpfor:~/lolengine$ g++-4.8.0_Ofast_march\=corei7-avx

sin: 18.373 ns
sin1: 17.0716 ns
sin2: 11.0505 ns
sin3: 18.3832 ns
sin4: 13.244 ns
sin5: 12.8103 ns
sin6: 12.0091 ns
sin7: 11.4129 ns

Entirely possible I'm doing something wrong. Maybe ICPC is inlining things into main() and not using the assembly I put on pastebin? But in any case, I think the ball is in your court.

And with GCC 4.8 you will get even more optimal assembly.

Please prove it. Is it optimal because you tested it and it ran faster, or because you believe it should be? I used to have faith in GCC, but having looked at a fair amount of generated SIMD x64 assembly, I now believe that ICC generates better code in most cases.
The learning curve is steep. After using it for a while, I still can't figure out how to do certain things.

I don't understand why they decided to hide the status bar.
No, you should judge all Democrats by all Democrats taken as a whole. If it turns out a greater proportion of Democrats than Republicans are murderers, or vice versa, then you absolutely should take that into account when judging them.