skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they do pull that off, I hope they will be very, very careful. You know, Intelligence explosion, Friendly AI, taking over the world, that sort of things.

http://intelligenceexplosion.com/
The problem with HTML5 is and always will be performance, not because of HTML5 but because of the platform it sits on. The DOM simply can not perform with the efficiency of native applications. I'm more hopeful for companies like famo.us that have basically subverted the DOM renderer for their own Unity-style game engine. You can see demos of their projects at http://demo.famo.us/. Running those on your phone will give you an idea of what a truly native web experience should feel like.

All of these attempts to make a web page run fast on the phone are all bound by one single performance constraint; Document Object Model.
The video took longer to appear than them buttons so my first thought was the demo was broken.
2048 Drupal
the brain having a programming language would have to be based on a lot of assumptions that not everyone is willing to make.
So the question you should be asking is...if everyone agrees that cheap renewable energy and curing diseases is a good thing, why haven't we done it yet? I guess if you're cynical, you'd argue, because no one can make a profit from it (uh...right).

However, if you see it as a pragmatic problem, then maybe the answer to why not? is because we need better ways to process information -- and this kind of unsupervised machine learning is critical to doing that.
Bicycle Rear Suspension
Supporting standards is pretty unimportant when you have an interface to ruin, ads to sneak in, an unasked os to support, etc... /s

To be on topic, there isn't much activity in the bug topic: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616605. Two blockers landed in Fx30, but that is well within the statistical margins of randomness.
Oculus Rift Simulator
Shouldn't "setting up a correct init process" be part of every "getting started with docker?" http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/
Why would you feel insulted? Did you personally create any of those languages? In fact, did you personally create any language? If not, maybe you should't be quite so dismissive of the accomplishment it was to create PHP. Sure, it's not the best language out there, and valid criticisms can be levelled at it, but as they say: It's better to have tried and failed...
This is the result of free markets. Some markets can be completely free and still result in monopolies. Some markets have natural tendencies towards monopolies, and will inevitably become dominated by monopolies unless (ironically) regulations artificially create conditions under which competition can exist.

In the case of ISPs, the most pragmatic resolution is not to artificially create a free market but to classify them as utilities. This is an acknowledgement that they exist in a market which tends towards regional natural monopolies, and allows them to enjoy those monopolies, but prevents them from exploiting their status too much (for example, by using their natural monopoly in one market to affect another market).

I don't even know who their hypothetical competition would be- my understanding (which could be wrong) is that there is nothing preventing such competition, it's just very difficult to go up against an entrenched incumbent. Google Fiber is great, but if that was Google's only business they wouldn't last very long.

The only counterexamples I can think of are the legal battles where ISPs have effectively shut down attempts to establish municipal broadband, which is terrible, but I don't think that's the kind of competition you're referring to.
Ironically Gul was the person to sign a legislation a few weeks ago to enable the shutdown of a website in just a matter of few hours (in less than 4 hours to be precise). He either doesn't actually read before signing it or is mocking with people.

They are basically playing the good cop-bad cop with Erdogan.
Bitcoinference California: Women in Bitcoin, VCs, and the ‘Unconference’
You made a good point about Kwedit back in the day, which I believe applies just as well here. Namely, micropayments on the nickel-and-dime scale are seriously challenging. How does a vendor price them effectively? How do you get a consumer to wrap his/her head around them?

Everybody understands the value of a dollar; nobody understands the value of a nickel. Coins, pseudocurrencies, and loyalty points seem much better suited to overcoming that psychological barrier.
It seems that the author is articulating the idea that developing for slower connections and using older technologies requires a different skill set than developing using the "state-of-the-art" in the Valley.

Isn't this self-evident? It's unclear why this should necessarily equate to greater respect for developers in the developing world, as a general assertion.
did anyone else try to first drag all the elements on the landing page before watching the video?
I'm in love with Dragdis and I hardly know you.

I've never been really gotten into Evernote or Pocket, but this had me hooked from the very beginning. So brilliant, yet simple, and thus far the experience has been flawless.
Show HN: Canvas/WebAudio experiment inspired by 'The Sound of Sorting'
OP here. There are still a few spots left.

Backstory:

I was baffled by how many startups aren't tracking even basic analytics, or are only tracking vanity metrics (eg, pageviews) but not things that affect revenue (eg, conversions). Sound like you?

Then I realized it's not because they're clueless. Quite the opposite! They know they should be doing this, but don't have the time to set up proper tracking (learning, doing, and then measuring). So I thought while I'm in the bay area next week I'll try and help some of these startups by offering to set up behavior tracking. I'll be in and out, 3 hours tops, and for a fraction of my usual rate.

Happy to answer any questions here, about the offering or basic GA stuff.
And yet the US government was never able -- nor did they try -- to develop a fully-reusable rocket, which is something SpaceX is currently doing.

Saying that corporations are risk-averse followers is inane. Governments broadly fund a great deal of seed-level research. Sometimes they develop applications based upon it. Sometimes corporations get there first.

We're seeing an instance of the latter with SpaceX, I think.
The Turkish government is deeply divided, between the islamist faction (Erdogan) and followers of the Gülen movement ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement ).

Recently, the Gülen faction, who has the support of much of the judiciary, has stepped up political attacks against Erdogan in the form of bugging, recording and releasing phone calls that show corruption among Erdogan and his top officials. These recordings have led to further protests (people have been protesting against Erdogan for a variety of reasons for over a year now).

As for Erdogan's credibility, he has very little for many reasons, not least of which for hosting jihadi terrorists on Turkish territory.
I think it's important to recognize that not all innate abilities are created equally. Innate intelligence will make you a social pariah but innate ability in a physical skill that results in you being an amazing basketball player will make you Michael Jordan.
One simple thing they could have done would be let you click on the airplane to stay, or, alternatively, have a button which says "Start Here". I didn't realize the top three buttons were actually buttons initially.

In terms of content, I think some analysis would be good, given that most people have absolutely no context for how airplanes work and what potential scenarios may have befallen the flight.
Dealerships don't make since today?

I like being able to take my car to the place I bought it to be fixed.

I like that I do not have to try and convince some sales guy to come take a look at my car.

I like the fact that I can touch, get in, kick, and drive the car I buy before I but it.
Dayton's upset leaves no winners for Take Buffett's Billion
Originally submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7417548
Happened to drag a mp3 file, it'll be nice to have an html5 player for it when viewd from dragdis
Higher order strategy.

We do that for ourselves when we learn first about something, plan ahead, and then do it. Thing is, we don't know how to cure diseases, we don't know how to make cheap renewable energy, and we certainly don't know how to turn Earth into Heaven. The direct approach might very well be harder than the AI one.
Agreed. The fonts render terribly on Chrome Windows 7 on my machine.

Also, I kept expecting to be able to scroll and it took a little while to figure out how to navigate the pages. The nav bar at the top could serve dual-purpose: allow the user to click on a particular box while also allowing scrolling and showing the user's current position in the content.
This needs an ELI5/TLDR version....
> Compare this to proprietary software, which can't operate in a capitalistic society.

Er, what?

> It relies on government interference in the software market to create an artificial scarcity (ie. copyright).

Capitalistic society relies on government involvement in the market to create property rights; among the property rights that were features of the systems for which the term "capitalism" was coined is copyright.

So, to say that proprietary software cannot exist because it relies on government for the system of property rights that underlie it is a gross misunderstanding of "capitalism".
As seems to be a pattern with this blog, the article is a little too similar to existing materials to not have any citations. Here the tree starts at Wikipedia, bounces through Archive.org and ends up at a Danish blog with some interesting images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_loop

http://web.archive.org/web/20070827183113/http://fy.chalmers...

http://www.matematiksider.dk/vejgeometri.html

Nothing is taken directly from the source material though.

Edit: Just to expand a bit on calling it a pattern, this blog:

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

uses a figure (and analysis) very reminiscent of A birthday present every eleven wallets? from here:

http://www.jbonneau.com/publications.html
Originally submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7417548
> Roller coaster enthusiasts exploit these differences and compare notes as to the better places to sit on each ride to maximize the hang times, g-forces and ride experiences.

Hmm that sounds interesting, is there a "Roller coaster news" somewhere?
Hardware startup Trontium wants to make a 'universal battery'
Well sure, "social contract" is an imperfect metaphor, but it's not devoid of meaning, nor divorced from the idea of contracts.

It's the living that bind the living.

Specifically, previous but still-living generations. No one comes of age in a vacuum. If you inherit the benefits (or situations) of the previous generations, you don't just inherit the good stuff, you inherit the debts of the previous generation as well.

Looking way, way back, one can say that the first settlers in a given region might have formed a consensual contract, and the "social" contract is what each continuous generation inherits.
tl;dr: Designers, please think about ordinary-sized screens!

This presentation may have good design within it, but it is not actually presented well. It is intended to be a series of slides which appear on single screens. However between its thick header and insanely thick header, there is not enough real estate on the screen to view a full slide on my 13" MacBook Pro. So I have to scroll down to view the bottom of the slide, then scroll up again to click the navigation element, then scroll down again to view the full slide, etc. It's incredibly aggravating.

So I've just hacked the CSS to set the header and footer to display:none. Not an auspicious way to begin an interaction!
Haha, yeah I guess they found that architecture might be a bit too valuable to open source
And it'll be great at selling ads!
Interesting, just this morning I wrote a python script using https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pync to do something similar, except by sending OS X notifications to myself. I made some resolutions recently and I needed to remind myself of them regularly so I'd stick to them. So my 'app' chooses one from a list (randomly) and every 1-3 hours (randomly) sends a notification.
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I watched the video and still have No Idea. Is it an app? Is it a browser plugin? Where does it store the data? Does it sync between machines?
So the "Download" button is a regular link to the GitHub repo. Ugh, not a smart move.

Ok, so the technical details are:

* JS file (minimized): 33k
* CSS file (minimized): 62k
Thanks for posting this! This article is proof you can learn Vim in less than a year and really really enjoy it :)

You can also check out my dotfiles: https://github.com/sheerun/dotfiles I'm really proud of my .vimrc ;)
Agricultural technology already replaced most manual human jobs (from the era when most human jobs were agricultural). Humans found other things to do, and we found ways to use the surplus.

If it gets to the point where there isn't any unskilled labor left to do, we can always choose as a society to vastly expand the welfare state and divvy up at least part of the accumulated surplus to everyone. We have already moved in this direction a bit, and I expect to see more things along the lines of guaranteed minimum income in the future.
I don't think their goals are considerably different; I'm curious about their approaches however. How divergent are they?
Ask HN: Common or Preferred Stock (joining a startup for 25% equity)?
If I was going to join a company for 25% equity, what would be the benefits of going with preferred stock over common stock, or vice versa? Are there legal advantages or disadvantages to either, tax advantages, ability to be screwed over in the future, etc.?
You're looking too narrowly at the potential here.

What might begin as an underground colony full of social elites or skilled professionals required to run the infrastructure could result in a fully-habitable environment.

But if you don't plant the seeds and experiment with this, then it certainly won't get anywhere. Elon Musk is planting the seeds.

When he says "back-up the species" (not /save/, one would note), he's referring to planting the seeds for a long-term habitation which very well could be self-sufficient and continue progressing in the event of an extinction-level occurrence here on Earth.
I've been using docker for a couple of months, but we have only just begun experimenting with actual deployment in a test environment on ec2. Right now we use it primarily as configuration/dependency management. We're a small team and it seems to make setup easier, at least so far. Two examples: the first is a log sink container, in which we run redis + logstash. The container exposes the redis and es/kibana ports, and the run command maps these to the host instance. Setting up a new log server means launching an instance, and then pulling and starting the container. The second example is elasticsearch. We have a container set up to have cluster and host data injected into it by the run command, so we pull the container, start it, and it joins the designated cluster. The thing I like about this is the declarative specification of the dependencies, and the ease of spinning up a new instance. As I say, just experimenting so far, and I don't know how optimal all of this is yet, so would love any feedback.

One last quick thought on internal discovery. A method we're playing with on ec2 is to use tags. On startup a container can use a python script and boto to pull the list of running instances within a region that have certain tags and tag values. So we can tag an instance as an es cluster member, for example, and our indexer script can find all the running es nodes and choose one to connect to. We can use other tags to specify exposed ports and other information. Again, just messing around and still not sure of the optimal approach for our small group, but these are some interesting possibilities.
> Can you back that up? I thought that Weev joked with friends about doing that but never took it anywhere or did anything that I would regard even as "attempting" to blackmail or extort instead just told Gawker.

There are words on an IRC transcript. Whether those words constitute a "joke" is a matter of interpretation, and that's something we leave up to juries. For various practical reasons, we do not just trust criminal defendants when they say they are "joking." Weev's jury, which returned a verdict after just a few hours, apparently did not think he was joking.

At the end of the day, this is the sort of thing that got Weev convicted, not some "corrupt prosecutor." If you do something at the edge of the law, and do it in a way where a jury of your peers is likely to find you unsympathetic or not understand what you did, you're going to have a bad time. Maybe this isn't fair, but it's a natural property of criminal law systems based on jury trials. The law isn't enforced by robots, it's enforced by people, and if people don't like you, that diminishes your odds.
> I'm not even sure I prefer him outside of prison walls for some of his past actions

I don't know what he did (heard his name for the first time today) but if it weren't crimes then he definitely should be 'outside of prison walls'. No matter how much you don't like him or how much his actions made you feel bad.
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I'd be curious to see a rational argument as to why this couldn't be the case.
Not at all. I don't think you understand what's being discussed.
So first of all, you have to keep in mind that I'm in the middle of litigation related to these issues. I am careful about what I say.

Second of all, the question posed here was both presumptuous and awfully vague. I'm not about to go on the record in response to that kind of question other than to reject it. I'm sorry if that makes me come off as prickly--I have to put other considerations ahead of public perception.
Nope, president Gul is likely a follower of Fethullah Gulen, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen) a muslim cleric with massive amounts of influence in Turkey and the world. Gulenists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement) and AKP used to be allies, and that's how AKP came to power. I'm surprised at how "clean" his wiki page is and how moderate they make him look. He's a hardcore islamist and is known for taking in helpless children young under the guise of aid and indoctrinating them in his own schools. Like the Muslim equivalent of the missionaries. Gulen schools are known to be rigorous and many of their students then get scholarships to study in the west in Europe and America. Then they serve the "congregation", as it's called. Gulen has gotten a large number of politicians and businessmen under his influence in this way and others. It is also said that as a result of his international efforts, he has significant sway in Central Asia and the Middle East.

Recently, they had a falling out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_corruption_scandal_in_Turk...) and a crapton of damning confidential phone recordings of higher-ups were released to the public. (Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439128 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440964) People guess that Gulen and his folks are behind these releases, in a bid to take AKP down.

Erdogan realizes that he's out of good moves and the local elections rapidly approach. Our best guess is that this was a reaction to get new audio recordings out of the hands of the public. The recordings have been popping up once every few days, and it's expected that there will be a really big revelation in the next few days leading to the local elections on the 30th. This could really sway the election results and ultimately kick AKP out of power.
His record is clean in the sense that (unlike the prime minister) there has been no allegations or evidence of corruption involving him. He has been positioning himself as the more modern, tolerant option the conservative AKP party that has been in power over the decade.

However, it's safe to say that he talked to talk but failed to walk it. When the government started passing laws that undermine the independence of judicial system, free media, etc. he decided to tow the party line and failed to take any action, even symbolic ones, disappointing many that expected more from him.

He also has not taken any action or made any comments to address the corruption allegations against the government. It appears, he is aligned with the current administration in their struggle to hold on to power. Possible conclusions are
a)he does not believe they are corrupt (despite significant evidence to the contrary)
b) he believes struggle against Gulen movement is more important
c) his hands are not sufficiently clean to take any action

His current position is indeed mostly ceremonial but still has impact. More importantly, there is (at least was) discussion to change the system towards a more powerful presidency along the lines of France or US. Gul was presenting himself as the more palatable and clean option (the modern conservative). It is not clear he can convince the masses on this anymore.
From that equity share, I'm guessing you are a founder. You won't be offered preferred stock, that will likely be reserved for future investors.
That's exactly what I was looking for - create lists by just dragging including videos. Safari's reading list is cool but I really don't like Safari. Evernote's cool but way too costly to add an item to a list. This one's really simple, really like it.
> Should a prosecutor be allowed to prosecute a case if he doesn't understand the actions taken by the prosecuted?

Yes.

There's no reason a prosecutor needs to understand the details of exploit development in order to prosecute a case related to it. A hyperbolic comparison would be to claim a prosecutor needs to be able to build a nuke if they were to prosecute someone who built one in their garage. A more apt comparison might be:

Suppose Weev was the first person to discover bleach+ammonia = toxic gas. The prosecution is trying to demonstrate that this was done intentionally, using techniques that are well beyond the average person. An equivalent quote would be

> "He had to purify the ammonia. He had to use a centrifuge. He had to do all sorts of things—I don’t even understand what they are."
People do write entire conventional web apps (e.g. REST APIs) with Node, so I'd say they are competitive and that it comes down to taste.

If you're being drawn to Node because of real-time stuff, though, I personally would suggest a mixed architecture. I'm a fan of using Django for the conventional stuff and then something else alongside it for real-time. You can use a reverse proxy in front to make the services appear to be unified.
I know someone who intereviewed at Vicarious and came away unimpressed. That said, any company with an investment by a guy who can make his company buy it out is a good one to invest in.
I'm curious to see how spending the money would solve an extinction-level meteor strike. Or any number of other not-fully-predictable disasters.
My point is speed of abandonment. Yes FF and Chrome gonna drop XP support real soon at EOL of XP. However the creators of XP are not supporting it. That's my point. MS has a history (not even contradicted once yet) of not supporting operating systems that are not the latest and greatest. I bet Win 7 wont be supported by newer IE versions in a year.

Which means IE11 may be great, but we're stuck with it forever just like we're stuck with IE8, etc.

And if you code for DX12, you will be abandoning like >50% of your audience, so nobody will code for it. Just like DX11 is only now gaining real steam.
Yes, know, i just found the phrase funny.