skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know any Spanish or Italian broadband ISP that caps the connection
To question what consciousness is and how we define it is a good starting point. And because there is so much uncertainty and no overall consensus makes it seem to be very hard.

Somehow I fear the only satisfying implementation of AGI has to end in a skynet scenario. We as human will only accept intelligence as general when it is at least as intelligent as humans. But that would mean that we have to accept that we can't control it for sure. In fact only a machine that is able to rebel can be considered to be general intelligent. So I am not surprised that consciousness is not defined that way, because pursuing to build a machine capable of consciousness would mean to build a possible enemy.
Everything2 has more history than yet-another-silly website. It predates Wikipedia and was in ways a prototype for encyclopedic wikis but with a far freer style.
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Linkedin is a horrible, horrible company and very harmful to the startup culture and ecosystem.

I don't understand why Reid Hoffman, who I think is a great Angel investor is doing that to the startup community.
While it smacks in the face of the joke I made elsewhere, altering the events of that day probably wouldn't have had that much effect on the over-arching tides of history. Pretty much everyone agrees that Europe was a proverbial powder keg at the time, and that all sides (at least in and around Europe) were itching for an excuse to go to war. This is a relatively popular subject to study in history, in fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I

While there is some argument to be made that the specific timing of the event made subsequent happenings occur in the manner they did, I think most people would say that what happened was going to happen anyway. Or at least, this is what I recall from high school history class and my own limited research into the subject.

Still though, it's fun to speculate - a sufficient delay in the causes of revolution in Russia could have correspondingly delayed the backlash against communism, Germany could very well have been the first country to undergo such a revolution, the style of communism then being more akin to classical Marxism than Lenin's, perhaps lessening Germany's role as an industrial powerhouse and colonial ruler, mitigating the competitive tensions in Europe on that front but increasing them on an economic one, or who knows what. Really it's all just counterfactual conjecture, but like I said, it's fun.
> Who cares? If you don't like these services, don't use them. Nobody is forcing you to use this device.

I cannot dictate my friends. Should I disallow them entering my house with their shiny toys? Should I nuke their wireless connections to make sure they cannot transmit live? Privacy is a societal issue that cannot be fixed by ignoring it.
I like to believe Americas misadventures with Drones give us lots of reason to be sceptical of these drones. If there was no threat from the east, these drones would still exist, but perhaps they would have no one to kill so would remain on the borders of obscurity like most of military technology.

Who'd be opposed to them then?
And by scale they really mean swapped out whole parts of hg, which they could have done with git as well.
I got the Chili Kit Kat at the Ikebukuro store - it's really great and I want more.
i use ctrl-up / ctrl-down

bind-key -n C-up next
bind-key -n C-down prev

ctrl-left and alt-left/right interfere with too many other cli apps.

https://github.com/fishman/dot_files/blob/master/tmux/.tmux....
Sorry but I disagree. It may have changed the number of people who feel that way toward a given death (more people are affected by his death than without the internet), but the way each individual affected feel about it hasn't really changed.
You'll also get major specificity issues when using element selectors with other class/id type selectors. My rule of thumb is classes and only classes for styling, it really makes life a lot easier. (Even if you have a unique element on the page, don't use the ID in your selector to style it.)

<section class="body">
<main class="content"></main>
<aside class="sidebar"></aside>
</section>
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And now you can use tmux in Cygwin.
SMBC has dealt with this several times. Here's the most recent (and best) one: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3266
> "Now that you’ve changed things, time travel wasn’t invented in your lifetime, so either you vanish and the whole thing is undone, or your time machine does."

Can we please stop telling people that time travel will/can cause the object in your hand to change in front of your eyes?

Objects in spacetime follow the path defined by the laws of physics. If you brought an object from your timeline[1] it (and indeed you) will not change to suit the new reality you're in. It will just be an object, like you, stranded from another place, even if the return journey closes because of one of your actions.

The first housecat in Australia just hangs out and eats everything, it doesn't start acting like a koala. (traveling in space and time are the same thing, even though one is more restrictive in which way you can go.)

EDIT: There is another alternative, which is that there is only one causal universe, and it is impossible to change things that happened in the past (e.g. every time you try to kill Hitler you fail, and maybe make him tighten up his security making it impossible for a local-time assassin to do their job, all of which was reported in local documents that you already knew about, or similar.)

[1] or universe, if you believe in multiple possible worlds.
Any comments and suggestions for further features are really appreciated.
Before the first Nuke (or the first H-bomb, I don't remember) was fired, there was a study about the risk of burning up the entire atmosphere. See, at the time, they were quite confident the Nuke would just be a huge bomb, but there was this little uncertainty they needed to sort out. In the end, they concluded that firing the Nuke would not burn up the whole atmosphere. It didn't.

The lesson is this: we had only one try. If nukes did cause the atmosphere to burn up in a giant blaze, we would all be dead by now. If you do something, anything, you better make sure it won't kill us all.

Horseless carriages? Sure, these might kill a few people, here and then[1], but we're pretty sure they won't kill us all in one blow.

Intelligence on the other hand is way more dangerous. Human intelligence designed Nukes in the first place remember? AI can do way worse. Even if we model it after the human brain, if it's smart enough to do the same as we did, then it will be able to model another such AI, only slightly better, and so on until it takes over the world. "Taking over the world" may sound enormous, but it really isn't. Imagine for a minute a small group of cavemen vs an army of chimps. Well, if you give the cavemen a chance to prepare, the chimps are toast: the cavemen have spears, fire, better communication… Now imagine an AI imagine the AI is smarter than us by the same margin we're smarter than chimps. Same thing: if it's not safe, we're toast.

[1]: http://www.statisticbrain.com/car-crash-fatality-statistics-...
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Contest finished at the moment it is started?

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/terms/

"The Contest begins at 12:00:00 A.M. Pacific Time (PT) Zone in the United States on February 19th, 2014"

"On or about February 19th, 2014, each Essay will be evaluated by the Judges."

#memonkey
It's not a theory since the official documents on it have been declassified nowadays, you can find the details on wikipedia, short version is they tried to get him killed but after a couple of years they realized he was not a very good military tactician yet still imposed his ideas/choices to the generals, so having him alive was beneficial to the allies.

Unsurprisingly this is roughly at this point that German's generals plots to kill him from inside started, although their reasons were more complicated.
It's not a good idea to allow it to be broken at any size. In any design that I implement, I deem unacceptable a solution that appears broken at 400px wide, and similarly unacceptable a solution that is unusable at 300px wide (minor layout breakage is permitted and a fair amount of horizontal overflow is acceptable). Yes, really. It is possible, and typically not difficult. As an example, my own website is moderately ugly at 250px wide but is still entirely sound and usable. (I could still improve it by reducing the side margins at such a small size.)

Seriously, use a tool like Firefox's Responsive Design View (Ctrl+Shift+M on Windows/Linux) to conveniently verify that the design really works at all different sizes. It's a great tool and helps you to experience all the different sizes easily.

(Note also that I'm one of these 16px-is-a-good-default people who shuns 12px or 14px body text; I have seen some people shrink their text size well below that on mobile to fit in more stuff, and this is my advice on that matter is a resounding don't do it! Start with legible text and then fit your layout around it. Doing it the other way is a Very Bad Plan and will severely hinder the usability of your website/product.)
You would have to kill a lot of people. And you risk that some of them would turn out to be more effective then Hitler.
Thanks for that :)

> I'll need to sanitize the script, but I'll try to put up a github gist of the script later on.

If you wouldn't mind, I'd be hugely grateful as I often find myself having to do similar tasks as what you describe (and even wanted to set up a script to auto start sessions in different panes like you do but wasn't aware that was possible).

While I do use tmux quite heavily (to the point where I found myself needing to rebind a lot of the keys to be more vi like or more convenient to manage one handed), I reckon I still only use about 10% of it's functionality. So it would be good to see other solutions based around tmux.
An article about Android 4.4.2 would be less trivial than protesters being shot in the Ukraine? And why are you reading HN instead of doing something about the Ukraine situation?
Why Google Glass will fail and why this won’t stop smartglasses’ success
Here is a Dot Matrix Printer Playing "Eye of the Tiger"
"Pick a bunch of AI problems and see how well it does on all of them."

The problem is, you have infinite potential algorithms and a finite number of tests. This means you'll necessarily get algorithms that pass all your tests but fail at least one other test of intelligence. Because of this, your tests won't actually let you discover which of the generated algorithms is intelligent.

Or, you could have an infinite number of tests, but if you have infinite tests for intelligence, you effectively already have an algorithm for intelligence (for any problem, just look up the answer in your list of tests), so, again, brute-forcing a solution isn't helpful.
With actual rockstar startups not burning through cash like it's their own personal vacation from profitably and reality, the dilemma is often centered between reasonable frugality and trying too hard to seem frugal ending up penny wise-pound foolish.

FWIW I'm impressed more by how little actual (non-bullshit numbers) cash and time went into something.
Well, based on the video, they're aiming this as entertainment in some ways. This means your kids are going to run around your house playing these games, sending a 3D map of your residence to Google. Or wait, you lock this feature on your children's phone. Well, you can't exactly control their friends that stop by, or even your own family or friends that visit.

It's not like Google needs to map a complete picture of everything at once. If someone pulls out their phone this week and points it around your room, the location and data is sent to Google. Fast forward a couple of years, and someone does it again, and now they have a little more data of your home. They'll have millions and millions of little cameras and sensors around every corner of the globe, slowly constructing a virtual 3D world in the coming decade.

So yes, even if you don't want to surrender personal information, everyone around you will do it for you, and companies encourage your friends to profile you. It's similar to people uploading and tagging photos of you on Facebook. You can lock yourself in a box, and Google is going to know everything about you, even if you decide not to willingly share information. Most of the world uses Gmail. A friend recently sent out an e-mail for an event. I think I was the only person out of 20 that wasn't using Gmail. How do I not give up my information to Google? I stop e-mailing my friends? How do I contact them? Pick up the phone? Didn't Snowden inform the world of our phones being monitored? Hmm, no e-mail, and no phones. I can't even browse the internet, since the majority of sites run Google Analytics, or AdSense.

Good luck not surrendering information.

Anyway though, I don't think the intentions are evil, it's simply business. Rule number one, if you deal with users, you store as much data as possible. Delete nothing. You don't know where your business will be in the future, and this data might be priceless for improving your service, or expanding into other areas.
Screw the Kit Kat Konspiracy. I want to know what happened to Coconut M&Ms!
> I've been thinking about ways to create an offline-equivalent backup, so that it can be automated. One way would be to have a computer that is only connected via serial cable, which only accepts new files to be backed up. (No ability to delete via the serial cable.)

A lower tech alternative is to use a Linear Tape-Open drive/cartridge. Not only are they archival safe (20 years+), but either you can use a new one every time or I think there is an option somewhere to only write once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

Edit: Indeed, available since LTO3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Once_Read_Many
Even grumpy people should be able to distinguish pseudocode from c++, I'd have hoped!

But yeah, great article, imho, in that it clarified these concepts a lot for me, as a non-crypto person.
Disclaimer: No rhinos were harmed during the writing of this article.
I much prefer the murder of limited numbers innocent civilians with drones (which is usually a mistake) to the mass murder of innocent civilians by "Shock and Awe" tactics and cluster bombing. Making cluster-bomblets the same colour as air-dropped food-aid packs was a particularly cruel accident.

With bombing someone is making the choice to kill civilians. At least with drones they're trying (perhaps not hard enough) to avoid killing civilians.

The book "Bomber Command" (Max Hastings) talks a little bit about the changing policy in WWII from "Do not kill civilians" to "Let's carry out horrific firebombing of German cities". (Also the death rate of bomber crews was shockingly low.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Command-Pan-Military-Classics...

(Wait what? Is that a referral link? I don't think I have any kind of referral stuff set up with amazon?)
(Slashdot successor) What Have We Created?
wow. Americans and Canadians actually spell it, as well as say it, "airplane". weird.

(mumble mumble aeroplane mumble)
The AMA: http://redd.it/1ygyw9
Can I SPARQL your endpoint?
>What are current options to optimize LESS files and remove unused mixins?

Kolega, use parametric mixins without parameters: http://lesscss.org/features/#mixins-parametric-feature

For unused css I'd try this: https://github.com/addyosmani/grunt-uncss
That's because people usually put "morality" over "success of a business, even mine", and that's the world I want to live in. Your world has slaves (they're good business, after all).
No, I don't think they're less monstrous - the fact is that mass populations living so closely together, in architecture that does not motivate their interaction as a neighborhood, is a real problem. There are endless rows of these city-apartment buildings, built to maximize space and landlord profit, which simply puts people into boxes and discourages interaction. Europe is full of these cities. So maybe that is why Vienna - where its entirely unfashionable to despise the city for its physical oppressions - gets the accolades every year.

Berlin, at least, makes an effort to build community in the neighborhood and of course Paris has centuries of history with precisely this notion in its street courses; Vienna has always been an imperial place, and it shows. The impersonality of the architecture seems to have been long-since inherited. They even re-built it this way, after the War .. so I believe in fact the "Concrete Jungle", "City-As-Machine" thing is so strong here, that its just not noticed any more ..
if there were no hippies, we would never have Steve jobs; no ipod; no iphone; google would have come out with a nexus with a physical keyboard. we would never have apps etc etc.. oO
I have used my Gmail box since early beta, and most definitely, a fraction of people I have ever contacted are no longer alive. There is no way for me or for LinkedIn to determine that. They may use an aggressive strategy to get new sign-ups, but that's just their way of shoveling money. Death is natural and inevitable, and I believe that we must raise people's awareness of it. I'd say deal with it and don't ever let the reality offend you.

Here is a good speculation from xkcd on a related topic: https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/ With it in mind, how valuable would a database of the deceased be in 100 years from now, if we start gathering this data today? For example, mining the internet for history on relatives would probably become a business of it's own, and as a consequence, ancestor's deeds would be much less romanticized than they are today.
The whole history is explained nicely by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hypertext-history/

Meanwhile, before Hypercard, there is a notable product: Guide by OWL in Scotland, who were approached by Tim Berners-Lee as his desired candidate for the world wide web.
Matsushita had then in an 80s Japanese shopping frenzy bought up OWL (lawyers on the same trip to Scotland went on to buy a couple of distilleries and golf courses in the same week). Japanese management of OWL then turned down Berners-Lee.
I use self-checkout even when the line's longer, so that I don't have to talk to someone.
Every website which uses facebook sign in has "list of friends" among permission requirements, and there's no way of going around that. Every product I worked on used those facebook lists to send invites and to create ghost accounts with pre-made connections :)

If I ever implement yahoo (or some other) oauth, I expect the requirements to be similar, eg 'Ask for everything and create an account for everyone'. So I believe it's something that everyone does already, why would linkedin be so special?

Personally, I always use e-mail signup, no OAuth, due to not being able to reject certain permissions. And I never gave my e-mail password away to LinkedIn or other services who asked for it, back in the day. Had a client of mine wanted such a feature, they probably would have asked to store it, 'just in case' :)
Eye of the Tiger – As played by a Dot Matrix Printer
GE(General Electric) Has A Namecoin .bit Website
Yes....they see the potential!

set up foxy proxy info here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21044/viewing-bit-domain-names-in-firefox
They created Slashdot, with a different name. At least, that is what it seems.
The article itself is not as revealing as the comments below made by some folks well known within the semantic web community.
Was mentioned in the article, but often overlooked. Drakon is an old school FOSS diagrams-based visual-editor that outputs C (and Java, C#, Erlang...):

http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/
Alternative in short - some people here are actually hackers
It would be nice if they had their lawyer write a little more on the implications of this. It seems unwise to give corporate arbitrators more authority than the legal system, but I'm not a lawyer.

edit: There's a thread on /r/cyberlaws http://www.reddit.com/r/cyberlaws/comments/1yifc2/dropbox_up...
There is a slight difference between those plans being at a state bureau versus a recent snapshot being at a private company that can correlate vast amounts of data from you and others.
If by hacking you mean removing the offending gene from the beans then yes. You must have a strong background in biology, chemistry and genetic engineering to proceed. An access to a lab would also be useful.

If that is not what you meant, then please remove your post.
> whether Whatsapp can retain their users, due to it's novelty or despite the lack thereof.

WhatsApp's been around for years; not sure what novelty you are talking about. It's a very classic and straightforward user-base argument: do I know anyone who uses it? Yes, then it's absolutely worth the six SMS it costs me; no? Meh. I personally had it for years, on and off, simply depending (internationally mobile) friends asking: “Communicate via WhatsApp?” It's about as obvious to subscribe as a all-you-can-eat SMS plan.
There is no reason this is necessary though, we could achieve so much with local applications and processing.
Kill Hitler == no WW2 == no nuclear energy, no computers == no time travel == Hitler was never killed.

Time paradox.
This is one of the main reasons I like AngularJS directives. If used properly (huge caveat) they allow your template markup to take on far more semantic meaning.

I also agree with the idea that we should use Mixins to allow for more semantic meaning in our plain HTML. As an added bonus, this can make things a lot more maintainable down the road.
Well, it's the 'don't be evil' thing. It seems to me that it's perfectly possible to not be evil - until you go from being a nimble startup to a billion dollar business with serious shareholders to impress, rather than a couple of VCs who more or less expect you to fail.

The bigger you get, the closer your girth gets to the legal line. Then - as happened with large parts of the financial system - you have to cross the line just to compete.

'Don't be evil' falls away a long time before that.

So, despite our little contretemps over Paris Hilton, I think I'm with you on this one; it's naive to expect an NYSE listed company with a market cap of $23bn not to screw every last drop of leverage out of its data, whatever the ethics of the matter.
Credit to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tommyd whose submission of the Gawker link made me look ;-)
This question ("...but ever?") is a good one. How many people balk at sharing their contact list with LinkedIn, and yet install apps from LinkedIn and also WhatsApp, Facebook or PayPal on their phones, all of which access the contact list anyway?
Also ScraperWiki: https://scraperwiki.com/
Yeah, getting a working prototype and alpha users before even thinking about angel or VC.

Later, the right amount of validation will speak for itself and reduce friction. That is if investment would win a race-to-market. Otherwise, plan to get to market as quick as you can on with the team and money you have.
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Did he edit the comment or something? I see nothing that calls an entire country provincial. Calling something terrible is fine by me. Life would be terribly boring if you had to preface everything with "In my opinion". I am deeply sorry if I offended anyone who does preface everything like that, by calling their lives terribly boring.
And we had rockets before WWII! (They were invented by the chinese around 1000 years ago)

The big leap in technology still happened during, and mostly because of, the requirements of war.

It's obviously too early to decide if drones is going to be the quintessential example of peace dividend technology to come out of the war on terror, but it's disingenuous to suggest there isn't going to be one (or several).