skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bunch of these "reasons" are ridiculous. Using ghosts as an argument for our universe being a simulation [reason 8]?

The notion that if it were possible, someone would do it, leading to the assumption that someone HAS and we are inside it[9]?

Somehow saying "parallel universes" (completely unproven, hypothetical things) imply a simulation [5]?

The statement that if we are in a simulation, it was created by someone and there must be something outside of that person's universe, somehow being used as an argument for us being in a simulation [2]?

These "reasons" are completely stupid. Of the entire list, reason 7 and, to an extent, reason 1 are the only vaguely valid ones.
New York medallion owners are definitely milking the value of their monopoly, but it's really hard to make the consumers are getting shafted argument when Uber is much more expensive than traditional cabs.

The solution for Uber and the like isn't progressive regulation that puts them in a different category. Uber walks like a cab service and quacks like one, the only difference is a more modern method of hailing. Cities should deregulate their cab systems to increase supply, but categorize services like Uber within the same cab regime.

Also: the population of Manhattan is 25% smaller today than it was in 1950, so that means more medallions per person. Also, it has probably a lot more private cars.
wow he is a fellow UCSD alumni, respect.

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￼Nick Woodman still remembers the day he decided to become a surfer. He was eight years old, standing in his friend Brian’s bedroom. Brian’s family had a house in Hawaii, and his walls in California were plastered with tearouts from Surfer magazine depicting palm trees, beautiful people, and the curling turquoise waves of the North Shore.

“I didn’t even know that world existed,” recalls Woodman, Muir ’97, who grew up surrounded by tech startups in the wealthy Silicon Valley community of Atherton. “But from then on, I knew I wanted to live in that world.”

Thirty years later, Woodman is still in Silicon Valley, but he’s tan and fit and has a cheeky freckled grin that suggests he’s living the good life. He should be grinning. He’s the founder and CEO of GoPro—one of the world’s fastest growing camera companies, now worth an estimated $2.25 billion. He’s created a device that helps people capture and share their passions from the North Shore and way beyond.

￼It started as a durable wrist-mounted camera for surfers to record their feats in the lineup—effectively helping them “go pro.” Now the palm-size cameras, which sell from $200 to $400, can be fastened to helmets, handlebars, ski poles, and, yes, surfboards to document experiences both ordinary and extraordinary. Last October, the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner—equipped with five GoPros—jumped from 24 miles above the earth’s surface, breaking the world record for the highest and fastest freefall, and broadcasting it live for all to see. A few months later, the cameras were streaming 30-foot waves at the Mavericks Invitational surf contest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., and a few days after that, snowboard slides and backside airs at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. For GoPro, this is every-day R&D. "
Gotta be in the 95th percentile to be considered a Speedway Math Third Grade Champion.
Even with Feynman's carefully reasoned essay, the next shuttle disaster was a mirror of the first: chunks of foam falling of each flight, careful monitoring but no serious action until the foam resulted in a loss of a vehicle.

The first loss was after careful monitoring of near-burn throughs of the SRB o-rings on many flights, but no decisive action.
> Also, isn't your argument re: information asymmetry an argument in favor of F2P?

It's an argument that developers and consumers can both be correct to gravitate toward F2P. It's not an argument that this is the happiest equilibrium for either. It's the same rationale behind lemon laws; the absence of such laws pushes the market toward a position where buyers have to assume all cars are secretly busted, sellers have to price their cars accordingly, and the market ultimately gravitates toward people selling busted cars because nothing else is profitable.
Haha! I had to make stuff for Ovi once.

Nokia are bad at it, but you might recall the N-Gage that had a services layer that wasn't completely terrible. In Europe the operators usually ran this stuff, at least pre-Apple/Google, and there were a good few companies that existed by selling portals which were white labelled and branded as the operator stores.

These things certainly can be killed in bureaucracy, but the tech issues aren't too bad, especially if you're already sitting on a giant pile of servers and a billing solution for each country. At one point I knew one team running stores for about 20 operators (each country is essentially separate) with less than that in developers, and only a handful of sysadmins, if you can have such a thing.
(1) - does your dream product have a novel take on the space / differentiates itself in some way (UX for instance - UX is a powerful differentiator (hipmunk is an example)? If so, Don't let existing competition scare you. If not, don't start the company!

Also, regarding MVP/Selling: Make a simple webpage for your product in launch-rock style. Just advertising. No actual product. Tell people exactly what the product is, and the benefits. Have some screenshots made by a designer friend. Set up analytics: measure incoming # users, and have a place for them to put an email. Then post this everywhere on the internet! Are people excited? How many people visit?

If people visit, this validates your concept, and if people sign up to learn more - don't worry, you can sell eventually find a way to sell your product. There is demand.

(2) Don't worry about this at all. After you do stuff in Step (1), find a better developer. If you are to run your startup, being a programmer really helps, but you won't be doing it for long.

(3) This is an important thing to fix. Are there local meet-ups for programmers / university clubs for geeks? After Step (1) you'd have a validated idea, so perhaps you can move to a more start-up friendly place if you can't find a local group in your hometown. Since there is a software company, there's gotta be more startup minded people in the closet!

(4) It doesn't have to be a career break. You should put your startup on your CV. The funny thing is, a lot of 'established companies' in the developing work are actually doing back office work for American startups. I understand that you run into cultural issues and this is hard. I guess this is part of the risk you'd have to take. You'll eventually find a new job.
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My personal suspicion is that it's an ensemble approach involving both probabilistic and symbolic methods. But I think that human intelligence is largely driven by probabilistic methods.

But, I also "am not an AI/ML anything", I just read a lot on the subject and think about it a lot.
The problem is people need to get the proper insurance to do this.
Google's AOSP is FOSS, Android you get on a typical phone isn't. You got bunch of proprietary binaries, kernel source code (usually, even without a toolchain to build it), and, well, that's about it.

Fuck open source, I don't give shit about Samsung/Sony/Motorola developers and how they are happy with Apache license they took AOSP under. I - the user - want free software on my phone and I mean the software that respects my freedoms. In this regard, average Android phone isn't free by any standards.

But, yeah, right, AOSP is open. Like this fact is of any use to an average tech-savvy consumer who's not skilled at reverse engineering.
I think what's lost here is that they're really more of a market place. It's similar to arguing that ebay has a moral obligation to make sure that people selling things there make enough per hour. I'm not sure I'd agree with that.

It's not that Uber is paying $21 an hour. It's that they're allowing the driver to go on and be matched with people who want that service. It might average out to $21 an hour for some set of hours (I imagine it's higher on the weekends and lower at low peak times). The fact you can back out dollars per hour from someone providing services on a marketplace doesn't really change things.
Some of the slides from the LLVM track have been uploaded separately on llvm.org also

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-02/
Collectively, the public has a similar approach to nuclear power plants, which make vast tracts of land useless for agriculture if they melt down.

We've had three meltdowns in 40 years, about one per 13 years so far. Have we been lucky? Or have we been unlucky? Time will tell.
Lifting Bodies

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-011-DF...
The guy that ran windows phone is now the head of the entire windows division. His name is Terry Myerson. I doubt very seriously that he is going to shitcan windows phone.
The ones I sold:

- AppGrid, a simple GUI-configured window manager for OS X 10.7+, predecessor to Zephyros

- DeskLabels, lets you put labels on your desktop so you can label groups of icons

- Mail Ping, pretty much a clone of Gmail Notifier, but works with multiple gmail accounts

- LoginControl, lets you reorder your login items in Mac OS X 10.5

- Docks, an Mac OS X 10.5 app that let you swap out the apps/documents in your dock quickly (featured in MacWorld magazine a few years ago, leading to the only month I had any real sales)

- TunesBar, showing your iTunes song in your menu bar; now integrated into Bahamut[1]

- QuickApps, icon in your menu-bar that gave you quick mouse-based access to all your apps

- QuickTimer, a simple microwave-style timer for your desktop

- TiltRecall, an iPhone OS 3 simon-clone based on tilting your iPhone

(I'm probably forgetting a few.)

I've since open-sourced many of these apps. The repo[2] was forked a lot, and then I deleted my own repo.

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut

[2]: https://github.com/fuseelements/grs
And Microsoft wouldn't be able to add similar integration?
its not what makes an android phone and android phone.
so.. the argument is valid, android as a whole, coming from google, isn't open source. only AOSP is. And heck, even the AOSP maintainer resigned some time ago because AOSP didn't include open source drivers and what not.
You do understand how it seems that this is just cannibalizing Persona and Persona will end up with none of the browser support it needs to fulfill its vision?
Flash in 2014?
>>>You can buy smart phones for 30$ in shenzhen electronic malls today.

1) That's in Shenzen. Might as well be Mars for most people. When Shenzen hardware is sourced by global brands, they usually have a generous markup where that "$30" quickly disappears.

2) How long do they last? "Oh, but they're cheap. If it breaks in 3 months, just buy another!" No. People just don't want to go through possibly losing data and having hardware just suddenly drop dead on them.

So, yeah. I'll go with the guy who said five years. That's for stuff that won't drop dead in three months.
One way I see to move this forward in websites at scale is to run a test where you find out the percentage of hovers that result in a click. Suppose its 90% - that means that 10% of those hovers result in fruitless busy-work for your server. Multiply bandwidth + server cost by 10%, and compare that amount to the amount you'd be willing to pay for near-instant load times.

For many companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc) the desire for instant user gratification is paramount, so the push toward instant browsing experience is a very real possibility. One problem is that most people wouldn't really notice, because these websites load pretty quickly as it is.

One interesting direction is if there was some kind of AI in the background that knows what pages you're likely to visit and preloads them - Facebook stalking victims would become an instantclick away.
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Oh, are we talking HATEOAS session support?

# if you don't have a session token yet
POST /session-tokens # Accept: application/json
=> 200 {"token": "someuuid"}

# no cookies set!
# stuff the session token in localStorage instead

# now use it
PUT /sessions/someuuid # with your login details
=> 201

GET /sessions/someuuid/inbox # Accept: application/json
=> 200 {...}

GET /sessions/someuuid/inbox # again
=> 304 # wow much cached

# meanwhile
GET /sessions/otheruuid/inbox
=> 200 {...} # other user: other memcached prefix!

# pages that won't change per-user...
GET /home
=> 304 # can be cached globally
# (use JS client-side, not edge-side, includes)

# and finally...
DELETE /sessions/someuuid
=> 301 /home # log out!

Basically, a session is just another resource that you create and then manipulate using its sub-resources. This makes all sorts of things easier: creating session tokens and attaching sessions to them (by logging in, or as a guest) are separate steps, so you can throttle logins at the just by throttling access to the token generator. No cookies and no ESI means caching (reverse-)proxies can actually cache. (Note that I'm presuming TLS and hygienic CORS here, so "session stealing" isn't a valid complaint. Or rather, without those things, it's just as valid a complaint for a cookie-based approach.)

Oh, but as a postscript, one little HATEOAS bonus tweak:

POST /session-tokens
=> 200 {"token": "/sessions/someuuid"} # no constructing URIs!
Even if the security protocol was "append this number to the messages you send me", it wouldn't be very easy to break since you don't have a successful transcript, any information about the implementation, or the ability to cheaply try keys.
The problem with this assumption is that one doesn't have to be aware of how their own brains work in order for them to work.

The fact that people seem to be universally bad at assessing probabilities means only that however their brains work, that mechanism doesn't produce intelligences that are finely adapted at assessing probabilities. The machinery that is producing that intelligence could still be completely probabilistic itself.

Humans are fantastic at pattern recognition, but that doesn't mean that our intelligence must have been created by a pattern recognition algorithm.
Technically powered by JGit too (which powers Gerrit, Gitblit and other tools): http://eclipse.org/jgit/
I think they were trying to avoid bitter criticism from an army of neckbeard comic guys.
This article is deeply flawed. First of all, it's premise is flawed; secondly, it's supporting evidence is flawed.

Example from supporting evidence:

"then people would be naturally great at probability, and we know we suck at probability"

No, this does not follow at all. There is absolutely no reason to assume that a probabilistic algorithm would somehow lead to better results when dealing with probabilities at a much higher level.

Example from premise:

- No argument for why "if real intelligences aren't probabilistic, therefore probabilistic intelligences can't work" is given.

- Just because your models come from statistical learning (such as SVMs or Bayesian methods, as the author names) does not mean your resulting algorithm is probabilistic.

Flagging.
Traceroute should nail down the ISP and possibly enough info for the ISP to track it down, but you need law enforcement to get further I guess. Personally, I'd rather have full disk encryption and password login to prevent them even getting far enough for a network connection to be there.
I don't really want to discourage teenagers from public writing, but if you're really confused about why this is being negatively received...

The most glaring thing: your three argumentative points could be simultaneously true and the assertion "Probabilistic AI can't be AI" could still be false.
Engineers aren't just resources to be allocated. Quality isn't a zero-sum game. If a manager said "all of you should only be working on performance", it would be a waste of a lot of people's time who aren't performance engineers.
I disagree with some of the premises.

We are great at probability, we compute it unconsciously. Every person knows the approximate probability of flipping a coin to show heads, pulling a card from a stack, or being rejected/successful when asking a date out (we always say our 'chances' are good/bad, depending on factors we think are important).

In our day to day lives, many decisions are driven by what we think the 'odds' are of our endeavor being successful.
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...people would be naturally great at probability, and we know we suck at probability

Human bodies are based on molecules, it doesn't imply that people understand chemistry.

Computer chips are based on transistors, it doesn't imply that computers understand electronics.

Sorry, but your assumption that knowledge is inherited by foundations would imply that everything understands the Universe.
You are thinking of Android as just an OS for consumer mobile phones. You don't always need Facebook to run on it for it to be useful. It is a great polished Linux distro that can find a lot of uses. Think of it as a specialized Linux without the GNU user space. It has a full rich and powerful API without relying on google.

Also device integrators are free to fork away from the base APIs to add their own functionality in the same way google has. If an app wants to be portable, they shouldn't build against these proprietary APIs. This isn't a unique problem to android and doesn't make the source any less open.

What I love so much about open source is that once a project is out there it can take on a life of its own. People can/have/will start cramming Android in places Google would have never expected. It makes a great base for POS systems, high end touch screen vending machines, in flight entertainment consoles, and any number of other things I can't think of but I'm sure the community will.
Note that deep packet inspection will be able to identify this as OpenVPN traffic the way its configured right now. You can configure OpenVPN to use a fixed key [1] at which point the traffic is indistinguishable from random noise and no longer has any protocol data. The big tradeoff here is that this disables perfect forward secrecy; you can't add this as an extra layer on top.

You may also want to specify "cipher AES-256-CBC" in both client and server config to upgrade from the default AES-128 it uses.

[1]: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/misc...
Wait, isn't GNOME a part GNU Project?
I disagree with your first point. I still think it's silly to subtract points from the maximum simply because a driver didn't do some nice things which he or she shouldn't be expected to do, like carry your luggage or give you a million dollars.
And here is quote from Pilger describing a specific admission of media manipulation by a major government:

[A former British official] described how the Foreign Office manipulated a willing media. "We would control access to the foreign secretary as a form of reward to journalists. If they were critical, we would not give them the goodies of trips around the world. We would feed them factoids of sanitised intelligence, or we'd freeze them out."
(er, I meant UberX set their rates below Lyft, in case that wasn't obvious.)
There were 135[1] Space Shuttle missions with 2 resulting in human casualties (Challenger and Columbia disasters).

Thus, a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life of 1.48 in 100.

The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

The reality was even more dangerous than the engineers had predicted, and far more dangerous than management had.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions
At least they had the ride of their life.

Sorry, couldn't help it.
I don't have much to say about the forking issue, but it want to say this: I own and LOVE my Windows Phone (Nokia Lumia 822). I started on android (Droid X) after deciding the iPhone was too small, bought another one (Droid Razr Maxx), and finally ended up at Windows Phone after playing with it on some online simulator.

I wouldn't go back to android or ios. I don't think they're as usable or fit me as well.

Anecdotally, my wife also joined me on Windows Phone recently after dropping her android phone. She started on iPhone, lost it, was gifted my Razr Maxx, then broke it. She liked the UI of ios, but loved Swype on android and said she'd never go back to ios. Then while we waited a couple weeks for our phone upgrade, she played with my phone and ended up really liking it. She now says it is her favorite phone (Nokia Lumia 920). She likes the camera and the excellent apps from Nokia.

Obviously I don't want MS to switch to android. There may be more apps, but so many are of such poor quality that it is entirely irrelevant to me. Same goes for the apple store. It's almost overwhelming how many bad apps there are.
> That is open source in my book.

Have you actually built and installed AOSP on a device? If you have you might not completely agree with that statement above because without proprietary firmware and closed sourced device drivers those devices often become unusable.

That is completely ignored by your post. Is it on purpose?

JBQ (their AOSP "liason" to the community even quit over that issue) -- people complaining that open isn't really that open.

https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/9HHRURorE7g

So it is not just me raving about.

I understand Google though. They don't design all those sensors and drivers and all the hardware but have other manufacturers make the devices who buy components from others and so on. So they don't have a choice. But regardless of blame assignment here, I can't honestly say the system is completely open.

Now if you are Amazon or Microsoft, ok, you can find a hardware builder with its own custom drivers just for your device, then forking could work out. But for enthusiasts and experimenting you need to download the proprietary drivers to get a usable device, simple as that.
Yes but the APIS themselves are open. It is possible to yank out the Google implementation of the location services and instead use a 3rd party implementation. The OS was designed to make something like this possible. Nokia could plug in their location services trivially for example if MSFT goes Android. (Not that I think it's a good idea but it's doable.)

There are other ways too - Sky hook for example seems to offer location services SDK http://www.skyhookwireless.com/location-technology/sdk.php for the Kindle Fire which doesn't ship with GApps.
Or the pages that are most likely to be requested, based on previous session data which you have stored and analyzed.
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- SVMs aren't really probabilistic models. They don't need to be thought of in a way that assumes underlying statistical properties of what they're measuring. Many machine learning methods (decision trees for one) are similarly agnostic.

- Reality is a probabilistic process. Brains work probabilistically at least in the sense that the underlying biomechanics have some statistical distribution.

I have the feeling the author doesn't really understand what "probability" means, as he more or less admits.
Article dated almost a year ago.
Yep, I’d like to get statistics on the additionnal load.

For answering your second paragraph, note that even small gains in speed have a direct effect on user engagement. Google and Amazon have noticed so: http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/2/4/amazon-milliseconds-mea...