skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're discounting the actuation time for the machine, as well as latency in the system. Nothing is instantaneous. I've seen driving systems with 1-2 second latency from sensor data in to actuate brakes.
PostgreSQL vs NoSQL: Why Structure Matters [pdf]
> The authoring platform doesn't matter as long as the product is cross-platform.

I think it matters a lot. That's why a lot of people don't care about .NET/C# actually, because they can't stand Windows.
I would be really surprised if that entire blog post wasn't reviewed and re-reviewed by the investigator (and their new head of HR) several times over.
You should try using Fuze. We replaced Hangouts and Skype with it. Best of all, it is free for 25 simultaneous users in a chat/video.
And SMT solvers pop up in another interesting paper! It's fascinating how over the last decade, I've started seeing SMT appear in practically anything and everything.
You're confusing progressivism with postmodern feminism. The purpose of the latter is not to make any sort of worthwhile progress, but to fuel its followers' various complexes.
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6XJ_VkWiM
Ask HN: Why is The OpenBSD Foundation not an option for AmazonSmile donations?
I'd love to direct my Amazon pennies to help fund OpenBSD development, but it does not appear to be an option. I find this surprising because even small, local non-profits from my area are available. Does anyone know why this is, and if it can be requested?
In my experience a minimalist design often requires more effort behind the scenes. So, I don't see the two having any relationship.

Just one of many possible examples, the minimalist ios7 interface has an embedded physics engine so that all the springy/sliding views feel natural to the user.
but something should be done, otherwise he will continue to do it without being punished.. :(
Humans aren't particularly good at that problem either. I wouldn't be surprised if Google has or will soon get their autonomous cars to perform better than humans on a variety of road obstacles.
This is not a good Hacker News comment. It's snarky, resorts to name-calling, and presents no substantive view. Thus its signal/noise ratio is poor.

Several people have observed that HN threads are sensitive to initial conditions. Threads seem to go more off the rails when a dismissive one-liner becomes the top comment early. I'm not sure how one could test this, but it does strike me as valid.

All: Please don't post dismissive one-liners. They don't just lower the signal/noise ratio a little—they add a significant risk of lowering it a lot. It's better to post nothing.

When you do comment, please do so "in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something". That's a pg phrase which captures the desired quality of HN so well that we intend to add it to the site guidelines.
<tin foil hat thought> Maybe they are behind duckduckgo.com ? That would give them cover to start spridering </tin foil hat thought>
what would you do if you didn't need money ?
Progressives don't demonize white people. You should investigate what a progressive actually is, rather than regurgitate whatever talking points you're getting from mass media or wherever.
The point isn't that everything can be proven, the point is that human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers. If you emulate every neuron and neurotransmitter in the brain with a sufficiently powerful computer, you will get an intelligence that has the same perception of love, beauty, blah blah blah that people think somehow set them apart from all other matter in the universe.

In addition, once you have it modeled, its possible invent a computer that loves more deeply than any human ever could. Who understands and appreciates the human concept of beauty better than any human ever could etc.

We know these things are emergent properties of very slow meat processors, and therefore can be recreated again on very fast silicon processors.
I had similar experiences with merges around Boston: the painted lane markings, if they were even visible, seemed to be treated as mere suggestions and people just squeezed in semi-randomly. Of course traffic barely moved, so it wasn't really dangerous, but I can imagine an automated, defensive-driving robot just waiting until the end of days.
I am always amazed that the same people who are proponents of the scientific explanation (simple immaterial matter turning into self-aware human beings without any designer. At the same time talk about a very small part of evolution as something unique and magical as if it required a designer.

Why is it so hard to believe that computers created and designed by human beings who themselves didn't even have a designer, can become self-aware?

We also see this in the quantum physics field where some people insist on the "hidden variable" theory.

Simply don't get it.
WebSQL yet another web spec that the Mozilla Foundation won't implement because of "problems". There are a few bits of CSS that I would love to use all over the web, like "display: run-in", but Gecko is the only holdout.
✓ Victim Complex: "For years, women, blacks and Latinos have been kept out of the tech job market."

✓ Blame Game: "Now white men are being forced to train their replacements."

✓ Biased Reporting.

Apparently anyone can be a "journalist" now a days. Do you guys remember all those articles about San Francisico Gentrification a few weeks back? All complaining about how the evil white male tech workers were taking up real estate? Ooops. Turns out 50% of the tech workers are Asian. Funny how that was left out. I'm having a hard time believing anything anymore.

I guess there's no such thing as a fluctuation anymore. Every change is a conspiracy.
He's not comparing performance, he is pointing out that frequency has been fairly stagnant since the very early 2000's
To clarify this point: at the time I meant "imagination" in a human context, as the ability to create new thought systems to operate in, as opposed to doing research within an existing thought framework (typically inherited from your thesis advisor, etc.).

This is analogous to creating a new market with a completely new type of product vs. entering an existing market, for companies.

No, I do not believe there is anything special about human intelligence. Artificial consciousness is among my research interests. As for artificial imagination, it is not exactly "covered in theory" by our current understanding of AI or the human mind --the only kind of AI we know are AIs that operate within rule systems determined by humans. Let's take a simple example, the most general AI we know of, genetic algorithms: if you launch a genetic algorithm to find a solution to some problem, it will merely search through a search space you will have to determine yourself. Artificial imagination would the capability to expand or modify that search space based on previous findings...
Excuse you; it changes my opinion and I'm a pretty staunch feminist, social justice warrior or whatever else you may call me.

The previous public statement was a disgrace and is exactly what you get when you let lawyers recommend you what to do; which includes soulless recommendation to fire anyone who raises harassment complaints after three months; even if they are valid.

This statement is OK and I'll give them a pass on it.
So bottom-line: the company is not a haven for male brogrammer types, the founders fucked up and please engineers don't let this scandal affect you.

Still, there's a bitter taste left here. The whole situation remains somehow murky and nobody has benefited from this "clarification".
My personal opinion is that if you have a disagreement and there's grounds for legal proceedings, you should start the legal proceedings. It might be an uphill battle, it might eventually prove useless, but at least it's a final answer to a question.

My guess is that this public storm did not help anybody: neither Julie, nor Github, nor the movement against sex discrimination in the workplace. Everybody still thinks they were right and no "final" solution was shown. And most importantly, with regard to the real issue (the discrimating treatment), nobody DID nothing. The founder just quit (without being accused of much and without "paying" for anything), Github is still the best place in the world to work in (as it was before this thing happened) and somehow Julie seems to be a little more paranoid than before (hey what can we do, an independent expert did not confirm her story).

Back to square one on this one.
Thanks! One of these day I would like to do some side projects in each of these.
"Welcome to France, entrepreneurs! It's a wonderful place to do business in, what with the lax regulation and light bureaucracy and all. Oh, and far be it from our economy to be drowning in taxes. Very far.

But don't you fucking DARE to become 'rich', you bastard! -If you earn more than our socialist overlords deem appropriate, we'll just confiscate 75% of the 'excess'. Fuck you, slave. But, you know.. welcome."
Stop using IE until bug is fixed, says US
> That this deadline would arrive just in time to save the proponents of the Singularity from old age is just a weird coincidence that ought to be ignored.

It's also not a true coincidence: http://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf It look like it was just an artifact of the 10 or so predictions Kelly compiled.
Too little. Too late. My team and me moved from Skype to Hangouts and then to Fuze already. We're very happy with Fuze. More here: https://www.fuze.com/
I assume finding name and address are trivial in this situation once you go the legal route. Helping the OP with some information privately is of course helpful.
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> ... you should write your tests before you write your implementation"

should be written more like:

> ... you should PROVE IT"

That is the essence of what we're discussing here, at least from the TDD side of things.
Could you use some kind of LIDAR stereo configuration to tell the difference between a dry spot and a solid object?
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Exactly they both have scenarios that they work very well for just like you have with the server-side SQL RDBMS and the NoSQL ones. IndexedDB is fine for simpler apps or apps where there isn't a real need for joining, grouping and ordering the records in a very flexible way.

Web SQL is definitely dead in native Chrome apps. It was never born actually given IndexedDB was the only solution that was pushed.
the processor would slowly (over several months or even weeks) become more unstable over time with a degradation in maximum stable clock speed before dying and becoming totally unusable

This is an electromigration[0] and/or hot carrier injection[1] problem. Both are exacerbated by temperature and voltage, but are not the reason chips are stuck at 3-4GHz.

One actual limiter is pipeline depth. Deeper pipelines is an easy way to enable an increase in frequency. The problem in a nutshell- the longer the pipeline, the greater the overhead & the larger the penalty of branch misses.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier_injection
I think this is an example of Wanstrath kow-towing to a small, outspoken subset of GitHub's employees to avoid bad PR. This has happened before. At some point a group of GitHub employees were offended by a rug that said something to the effect of "United Meritocracy of GitHub." This rug strikes me as being not at all divisive - not even subtextually, not even under an extremely charitable reading of the argument. I'm very familiar with knee-jerk reactions of this kind - I went to an extremely politically liberal, East Coast university that reacted to every conceivable slight with a blizzard of sometimes phony outrage, the kind that makes even people who agree with them (such as myself) completely unsympathetic to their argument.

Interestingly, the "divisiveness" of this rug was apparently turned into an issue by none other than Julie Ann Horvath.

(http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocra...)

Now I absolutely think that Preston-Werner's wife and Preston-Werner himself acted extremely inappropriataly towards Horvath. But, since it appears that Horvath's other claims do not seem to have a basis, she has yet again taken a situation where she had a legitimate point to make and completely blew it out of proportion.

Wanstrath will learn eventually that he sometimes just has to say no more. There are more important goals for his organization to accomplish than to be accommodating to every single grievance.
> ...due to the "exponential" rate of progress of science.

I don't remember any great futurist referring to the "exponential rate of progress in science", but rather the accelerating advances in regards to information processing technology specifically.
I live in England. There is plenty of trash outside wastebins. Especially if you see the streets before the streetsweepers have been through.

The fact that there exist specially designed and built vehicles to sweep pavements to clean them of litter, and these are supplemented by workers with hand push carts and litter picking sticks, shows some need for litter collection. Litter costs about £1bn per year and we're still a pretty dirty country. (I did notice on my visits to California that they were much cleaner. Partly that's about lack of rain, but also it's because people just don't drop as much litter.). Californians are usually surprised at just how dirty London is.

David Sedaris hates litter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r11wc
> And what about concepts like art, love, beauty, morality? Are these also simply "computations" of some sort?

Yes, all that we are is contained within our skulls, in some sort of mess of chemical reactions and computations built ontop of those chemical reactions. Our detailed understanding of those reactions and relationships is limited at this point, however there has been nothing to suggest that anything that "is us" is operating outside of the laws of physics.

In other words, we are materialistic.

That leaves the question of if we are algorithmic. According to the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle, we are. Some people, most notably Roger Penrose, disagree.

Penrose's objection to the algorithmic nature of the mind is rooting in Gödel's incompleteness theorems (I suspect you are familiar with his objections, maybe read his books on the topic?). However it is important to remember that Penrose does not argue against a materialistic mind, merely the algorithmic mind. He believes that there are quantum phenomenon in your wetware that are essential to the human mind, and which allow a violation of the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle.

If he is correct (and I believe that he is not. evidence for such a essential quantum phenomenon is absent), then it doesn't really matter. What it would mean is that any computer constructed to run a human-like intelligence would need to take advantage of those same quantum phenomenon. Anything a materialistic (although not algorithmic) mind can do, a sufficiently advanced materialistic computer can do as well.
Empirically, they are. As a civilization we are investing exponentially more in science over time, which is mentioned in the article.
no, it doesn't require heroku, it could easily be used in other environment. i just used heroku initially since it was simple and free to spin up.
all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits.
The issue I have with your statement is that I don't see why we are special? What about our machinery makes us any more fit to be intelligent than a hunk of doped silicon? I mean, it all seems to come down to electrons flowing through (meat or metal) circuits. Of course, whether or not you feel the same way might partially depend on your religious beliefs. I guess I just don't see anything special about our wetware that couldn't be reproduced on silicon (eventually).
I'm still not sold that "A robot car would reduce these rates to near zero" as you claim. Your statistics give:
time of day;
weather conditions;
area (pedestrian or motor vehicle designated);
alcohol consumption;
and state/city data;

BUT I don't see conditions predicating the crash.

I would be very interested, and would be sold more on the idea of self-driving cars if the advocates who make your claim could point to examples that would reduce these rates. How many accidents are caused by drivers swerving to miss something? How many are caused by driver inattentiveness? How many are caused by mechanical error? Without these numbers, saying that a robot car would reduce these rates to near zero is on the same footing as anyone who wants to claim that self-driving cars would kill more people, because we can plan ahead. I hope that makes sense, I'm having a hard time with the language today.

By the way, I love the concept of self-driving cars, I just don't think they're the cure-all most advocates, such as yourself, claim them to be.
We don't know that now. We just know that no one was willing to admit to a company hired investigator (as impartial as defunkt claims they are, would you feel comfortable voicing allegations of sexism about your superiors to someone who you KNEW was going to report to your superior? Now imagine if you were a woman, where talking about sexism is often enough to get you labeled as a troublemaker, or just a nasty word).

I shouldn't expect better from HN, but it's amazing how much stock people put in the words of corporations trying to cover their asses, even if they are start ups. Everyone stops applying critical thinking when you criticize start ups because of the ridiculous start up boosterism mentality we've adopted.
make deal rooms in eXo to involve non-sales people
And god forbid let's just avoid doing the right thing because the fervor is dying down.

Good on GitHub for updating.
I saw this posted earlier. My records show it was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7661641

Have you deleted and re-posted?

Edit: Indeed, I see it was you that posted it at 18:50 BST, 17:50 UTC. I guess you did delete it and re-submit. Any particular reason?
yes, PushServer uses the node-apn module for delivery, I just built the device token database, notion of channels, and the web frontend around it.
True. But how many people run a single application at a time on a desktop?
I'm not sure what more GitHub can do that isn't outlined in this post.

It would be good to hear from people with perspective what they think the next steps should be.
Does anyone know if a golang variant of this?
We've also generated at least two direct competitors:
http://yes-www.org - A site that suggests that all domains have www. subdomains
http://extra-www.org - A site that suggests that all domains have two www. subdomains. (www.www.domain.com)

Fantastic. That is old-school internet humour.
Except that “moving off Github” seems to have been becoming a meme that’s all over Twitter. When slander hurts your business, what do you do?
I've used Thinky on a few little side projects and loved it! Definitely check it out if you are using Node and RethinkDB.
I was at a conference this weekend, and let me assure you that most people have not forgotten.
Your haughty response is so incredibly out of place that I have to think that you replied to the wrong post or something. But there you have quotes from the parent post, so you must simply have a trigger finger for trying to point out that someone is wrong.

But they aren't. There is nothing they said that is wrong in any way. Indeed, you continued this with replies to various other people where again your replies barely relate to what they are saying.

What is your motive?
Thank you. Given that and the high-indignation, low-information thread it has already precipitated, I think this post can be described as a troll.
And we don't have a choice but to live with people.

Selling a random person an item and asking them to give over control to said item, when the item carries the very real possibility of causing harm, is a harder sales pitch. You have to remember that not everyone is sold on technology, just for the sake of technology.
The Wire Next Time
> Using clock speed as a simple way to determine which CPU is faster than another is just plain wrong.

But neither of the posts you've replied to in this subthread have recommended that.
Having read the parent and grandparent comment, I regret upvoting this thread.
Yes threaded rods were suggested by a commenter on the blog[0]. By the time he had posted that comment I'd already invested in about 100 of those aluminium stand-offs, so I decided to go with that :-)

[0] http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/caseless-virtualization...
Most of the article seems to be attacking a straw man argument saying science does not progress exponentially hence no singularity. The arguments for the singularity do not generally involve the advance of science. They are based largely on computing getting faster which is down to technology and economics and does not necessarily require any new scientific discoveries although there may well be some. The basic argument is that is computers keep getting more powerful in the way they have for the last century (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTMooresLawai.jpg) then at some point they will have processing power greater than a human brain and assuming software development keeps up that they will be able to exhibit human level intelligence. The hardware getting up to human equivalent levels seems a near certainty and software development while less certain is coming along in a promising manner with Google's self driving cars and the like.
I'm not saying I disagree, but there is a benefit to default values, and that's a unified design throughout the web. For the technically inclined, we can always use custom CSS, but often the people who would benefit the most from it are the people who would have the least idea how to do it. Edit: To put it another way, and bring it back on topic, it's no surprise Wikipedia uses black text on a white background with blue hyperlinks, and I doubt that will change any time soon.

I do realise I'm basically describing Gopher here, and there's possibly a reason it didn't take off...
> It's not clear that it works for multiple independent vehicles, either. We may only have self-driving car, singular.

I'm no LIDAR expert, but I do design and build synchronous detectors (think: boxcar/lock-in amplifier/gated counter). Maybe this has been tried and there's some reason it wouldn't work, but I don't see why you couldn't apply a pseudo-random modulation to the LIDAR emitter and then run the received signal through a correlator. Besides bringing some conversion gain and allowing for more accurate distance determination (compared to a simple pulsed-ToF), PRN modulation allows you to share the channel with other transmitters (CDMA, if you will).

> BTW, LIDAR doesn't work in snow and rain. Today.

Isn't this just a matter of the wavelength used by today's LIDARs? There's a huge hole in the liquid and solid water absorption spectrum in the visible range.
for the most part, recent asian immigrants have an extremely flawed and incomplete view of american society and how it actually works. this manifests in all sorts of weird ideas about 'americans' (i.e. white people) and half-baked poorly-executed ideas about what it really takes to get ahead in this country.

example: college admissions.

source: my parents and their friends for the past 3 decades.
Your i7s 2.5 years apart get a ~25% improvement in benchmark ratings.

A PC with an 80286 was like 4x faster than a PC with an 8088, and they were about 3 years apart (1979-> 1982 chip introductions, the computers were later for both). And not just 4 times faster in some tests, an 80286 was much faster at everything in a way any consumer could see.

Only programmer is going to buy a new computer for a 25% speed increase. The pace of improvement is slowing.
interesting, i hadn't seen that! it does say it's not meant to be a front-facing server since it has no authentication, which is a slight downside (one of the reasons I added github auth to mine was to allow logging in from anywhere)