skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was looking to experiment with Contiki I realized that most of the supported micro controllers are a lot more powerful than an Arduino or something comparable, and a lot more expensive for a development board.

There are some ports to low cost hardware - the arduino port for atmel chips [1] and a port to the TI launchpad [2], which is a $3 chip.

https://github.com/contiki/contiki-arduino
https://github.com/msloth/contiki-launchpad
Being European is the worst when it comes to sarcasm. I can't even express my excitement/happiness over something without it coming off as sarcastic.
in Scala: https://github.com/pathikrit/ScalaVerbalExpressions
I actually like the idea of a hypothetical post-revolutionary Britain which seeks to emphasize the humble status of politicians by requiring that all their political arguments are voiced by a randomly-selected homeless person.

Kind of a mixture of the ceremonial humbling of the Queen mentioned in the original article and the Troubles-era rule that all Sinn Fein statements must be read by an actor.
Defending against this would be a perfect use of Florida State Guard, as such groups aren't controlled by the federal government. Unfortunately as of 1947, Florida now only has the Florida National Guard which is under federal control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Guard

For all the talk of 2nd Amendment (guns rights) advocates, I think they miss the obvious use cases: well organized (and locally controlled) militias, such as the Florida State Guard.
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Happy to hear about your good experience :)
If you like this sort of thing, you might want to try out Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUDh_IErT4
That one bothers me too. Just like I can't sign away my obligation not to commit a crime, they can't sign away their obligation to uphold the law.
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If I had to guess the reason, I would say that the new Windows devices are going to include many more small screens, which MS forecasts will make secondary (bigger) displays much more common than with traditional Windows PCs.
> I agree to that. But the question of whether human-level I is capable of designing human-level AI remains open still.

"Designing" isn't necessary for creating (OTOH, whether we can artificial select for it and avoid selecting for dead ends may be an issue.)
Dev here, happy to answer any questions!
Do you honestly want to argue 51% of the people in poverty can pass a college level Math or English class? As well as afford the time away from working to gradate?

I don't think that is true.

http://www.duck9.com/College-Student-Drop-Out-Rates.htm
Over 50% are from financial or academic disqualification reasons...

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40
We are talking about 50-60% graduation rates in 6 years for the people colleges already accept.

I think poverty would make it hard enough that rate would drop significantly.
Welcome to the USSA.
It's not quite as much like git as you might think it is. It's git-style in that it stores data as blobs named by hash and tracks everything with pointers to those blobs, but isn't as committed to keeping everything forever. Git is designed to be able to reconstruct a set of data at any point in that data's history, so it makes sense to keep all previous data in its storage system.

However, even git will delete data if you delete the "tree" metadata, ie you nuke some branch that has no downstream dependencies because you never merged it or there are no branches off of it. In that case, if the blobs aren't reachable by any tree/graph, git can garbage collect those blobs.

Camlistore does the same thing: if you delete all pointers to the data, those blobs might eventually be reclaimed. As a matter of implementation, camlistore doesn't do that today, but it's not the case that camlistore can't or won't let you delete data.
Very cool - and reminds me of Jack Monroe's recipes & work in the UK: http://agirlcalledjack.com/
I have to say, after the big piece appeared about price manipulation / fraud / whatever on MtGox, I have zero confidence that this is a genuine rise.

Caveat: I'm not an "active Bitcoiner", just a casual observer. And I can tell you that my view is now irreparably tainted.

The "normals" I interact with continue to not use Bitcoin for anything. It's even stopped coming up in casual conversation (likely because the tide of consumer news stories has slowed). From my perspective, the Bitcoin economy continues to be powered by people who have either mined or bought BTC and are just exploring new ways to spend their windfall (Overstock! 50 Cent's new Album! Dish Networks!)

There is still no incentive to get paid in BTC, no incentive to use BTC, and no incentive to hold BTC (as the recent spike shows, it's still incredibly volatile).

For now, I'm holding on my belief that the Blockchain is the real story here -- and we haven't yet discovered the killer app (which I _don't_ think is BTC).
If you can't stipulate that the poor are better off today than decades ago I don't know what to tell you. For some reason people insist on the "things are getting worse" narrative reality be damned.
The machines are creating wealth for the owners of the machines which isn't being (re)distributed to the former workers at all.

That's the crux of the problem. Maybe there will be another revolution in jobs that need to be done that these people will be able to take up, but until that time we are sentencing a huge number of people to live in poverty. We need to find a way to help those people until this new class of jobs people imagine will appear actually become reality.
Wow, I didn't even notice this chapter... Thanks!
Its up already.
Virtru integrates with your existing email client so that you can send end-to-end encrypted email from your existing email account: https://www.virtru.com/other-platforms

disclaimer: I am a software engineer at Virtru. Happy to address any questions/comments!
It really doesn't matter how much entropy exists because password crackers do not use linear keyspace searches, they use advanced heuristics to guess the most likely possibilities first. The major flaw in passwords is that humans choose them and humans are fairly predictable.

If a site generates a password for the human it would result in a more even distribution of randomly-generated passphrases and reduce passphrase re-use across different sites. The human could then write it down or memorize it (or record it in their password manager, which defeats the purpose of using passwords entirely).

Passwords are mostly dead at this point, and more two-factor service providers need to pop up to prevent over-reliance on passwords. http://twofactorauth.org/
> For all the talk of 2nd Amendment (guns rights) advocates, I think they miss the obvious use cases: well organized (and locally controlled) militias, such as the Florida State Guard.

That's because Florida outlawed them[1], along with many other states.

[1] - http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20St...
"While I'm in the camp of "people who say 'X will happen in the next Y years' are really saying 'X will happen before I die'"..."

That depends on who is saying it. I've noticed that when actual researchers say, "We hope this will provide a treatment for reticularly homicidal brain-worms within 5 years", they mean they have no idea if or when any such practical material benefits will appear. If they say, "We will be able to get effectively unlimited amounts of energy from russet potatos within 20 years," they mean they don't believe it's ever going to happen.

If the difficulty is exponential, as I rather expect it to be (in my own completely unfounded opinion), then lowering the bar a given amount doesn't help much. And as far as increasing computational capacity goes, we're already deep into the realm where communication costs outweigh actual computational costs, which makes it a whole different ball game going forward.

If you want a further speculation, I suspect that modern statistical methods like those behind th' Goog, self-driving cars, and what-not will not get too much closer to a super intelligence than conventional heuristic search. They're capable of doing a lot of things easily, that only humans could do heretofore, but they're not actually more powerful. So, "a machine capable of general problem-solving" is easily conceivable in the same sense that you are capable of general problem solving, but I can't see a singularity on the other side of that.
The very existence of Bitcoin debunks much of efficient markets theory, at least when markets are thin and difficult to safely short.
In the long term, could you extract the underlying crypto library and make it available for others to use in easy form? Crypto.js is pretty difficult to use and I keep seeing people including the files into their projects because of this. I'm mainly looking for:

* Officially hosted on GitHub (or at least official mirror)

* Bower and NPM packet management

* Common.js modules for Node
Unless one defines poverty clearly, then I cannot accept this premise. For example, the US census bureau uses 48 different poverty thresholds and does not explain clearly where they came from. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/measur...

Here are some other interesting comments that should throw the entire conversation into doubt:
- They are intended for use as a statistical yardstick, not as a complete description of what people and families need to live.
- Many government aid programs use a different poverty measure
- Poverty thresholds were originally derived in 1963-1964, using: U.S. Department of Agriculture food budgets designed for families under economic stress. and Data about what portion of their income families spent on food.

BTW, they also admit that they do not take geography into account. Anybody see a problem with that?
> AI workers might be more successful in the long run if they focus on making a useful martian brain, not clone humans in silicon.

AI has been a diverse field for a long time, with many different paths -- both with direct biological inspiration (often not human -- including, e.g., insect-inspired approaches) and without are common. Its not an exclusive "human or not human" modelling choice.
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I'm assuming you made bitcoinmegaphone.com?

This was very confusing for me and it took me about 5 minutes reading the site before I could understand what I was looking at. There's so much information on that page that is irrelevant to a person following that link. Perhaps I could see this being valuable if people used it like pastebin, but why do people have to pay so much to post something?
If it was real you'd think it would be a more obvious anagram, like NSA IS HERE.
In my three previous businesses, I hustled and cold-called my way to paying customers (or at least valuable pilot programs) each time. But these were enterprise (B2B) businesses that could cut relatively large monthly checks. The reward was absolutely worth the lift.

That said, I'm having a hard time making the leap that for some consumer internet products with hefty cold-start issues cold calling is still a viable strategy.

For a product that has no network effect and is useful for the first user (e.g. Google search), sure, I'll buy it. For a product that needs 10+ people to start getting useful (e.g. Facebook), sure.

But for a product that needs multiple thousands of users to start getting useful, how does cold calling still make sense? These 1x1 users would come to your product, say "Um, it's a ghost town.", and then leave, never to return. Wouldn't the founders be better off putting effort into PR (TC, Pando, etc)?

TLDR. I'm not arguing that non-scaling hustle is not important -- I've seen the results myself, first hand. But doesn't the type of product really dictate how effective it will be, and therefore, how strongly should be prioritized over other avenues?
I have 3 monitors and use ultramon as a utility to do this. I can totally appreciate that the population here is not the norm and whatever metrics we see here is an outlier.

In most cases I assume people use laptops with one monitor. The percentage of desktops with two monitors can't be too high. So when you combine laptop and desktop it lowers the total percentage. How many of us have a laptop in addition to out desktop that is never connected to another monitor ;)
I believe that house will be twice as expensive compared to median income than it was in 1950, so that will already put a dent in an attempt to live 1950s style.
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> Best we can probably hope for is better intelligence augmentation/amplification than we've got now.

That seems as if it can get pretty close to the singularity, and answers a lot of questions about what a super intelligent being's motivations would be.
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Gittip is a site for multiple communities, not one single community, so I take it as a sign of strength that we do in fact have multiple communities using Gittip now. Think along the lines of PayPal or Twitter: they are a big tent.

I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074, because you're right that the homepage currently conflates the different communities that are using Gittip.
>> There is still no incentive to get paid in BTC

How about no chargebacks? That seems to be a pretty big issue for anyone doing business on the internet.
> definitely not suppose to happen

Over what time range are you referring? Based on the 'millions' comment, I'm assuming you mean 'all time'. It's illogical to expect systems to perform flawlessly over a long period of time.

I'd also quantify the fact that it was only "unavailable" for a period. It's not like they lost my data.
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Many users don't even have a desktop anymore.
What you're describing is what's behind (in part) the growth in the economy; but nothing you said has anything to do with what the parent comment was talking about, which is that people who are automated out of work generally aren't participants (and recipients) of that growth.

This isn't a new problem by any stretch of the imagination. Almost every technological advance has had the same effect (pretty much by definition: if a tool is more effective at a job then less humans are necessary/cost-effective for the job). In modern history though, the (obvious) response has been to educate the population to leverage the skills that humans are still better at (c.f. the US gov't literacy drive and the post-WWII GI bill, both of which smoothed the path to an increasingly white-collar labor force). Sometimes this also includes providing a soft-landing (in the social welfare sense) for those who are old enough that it's unlikely they'll be able to easily switch out of their obsoleted industry, but this is less common.
In 1950, most cities also still had functional streetcar/bus systems that would take people downtown, and schools within walking distance.

People didn't have fancy sneakers but shoes were usually made with a Goodyear welt to be rebuildable and long-lasting, and such shoes usually cost hundreds of dollars today. Sears and similar stores sold durable, American-made clothing— visit a vintage store some time (acknowledging survivorship bias, though).

Houses were also small in 1950 because the housing pipeline was essentially clogged up from 1929 to around 1950, due to depression and war. Housing also was a much smaller percentage of most families' consumption baskets at that time, as well— there was a lot of buildable land at the edge of major metro areas, and the capital-GDP ratio was low so asset prices were low.

Working-class (evolving into lower-middle-class) employment was much more stable in 1950, and stability is a big part of being middle class.

It's not really possible to live a 1950s lifestyle today, since a significant proportion of lifestyle comes from living around, and being respected by, peers. And from the better availability of stability in employment, which one cannot get via personal finance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-ha...

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/2014/05/07/subcontract...

http://contractormag.com/plumbing-contractor/skilled-tradesm...

I think you are mistaken based on the fact I can find plenty of articles talking about a shortage. Likely due to the fact people think like you [and assume there is enough people].

It wouldn't absorb millions but it'd still reduce poverty.
I'm a hobbyist game dev, and although I appreciate this, I'm disappointed that sound works so poorly on mobile in html5 and I actually consider that a bigger issue than this (after all, my game already renders fine in the 2d canvas). Why don't others seem to care about this issue? Is it because they plan to use WebGL for something that doesn't need sound or is it because they know of some sound workaround that I've never heard of?

Here's the details of my complaint: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19365175/with-html5-audio... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19365931/does-phonegap-co...
I made http://www.sososwift.com/ just for this purpose. It's a collection of all the tutorials on Swift that I can find. Bare with me, I made it just last night. I'll be adding features in the upcoming days. :)
Could be related to Apple's announcement regarding cryptocurrencies in apps.
I agree. Signing up for free, then actually using, THEN using it when it has a fee. All of those are additional levels.
This is really cool. Going to look at integrating this into my Clojurescript/Om development workflow.
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I'm pretty excited that Apple seems to be loosening their terms around cryptocurrency apps. Maybe that helps explain the spike? I'm hoping for some neat p2p ios apps.
Do you mean ignoring laptops? Because I believe the most recent statistic I saw was that 60% of users still do a considerable amount of computing on a desktop/laptop.
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Had an idea that I would like some feedback on.

What if a group of people put money together to buy a dedicated server and then shared it by creating their own virtual private servers. For example, http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/hosting/2014-HOST-128.xml is $2868 for a year. But if 120 people paid $25 a year, they could get a 1GB ram VPS. Granted, the CPU power wouldn't be great, but $25 a year for a personal/development server is something I would love.

Something like a private kickstarter could also potentially be used, so you would only buy if 120 other people pledge to buy.
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The eight-hour day didn't come from the generosity of the rich, but because workers fought like hell for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
You're right. Right now we use ProtectYourBubble and it allows us to cover devices, electronics, and appliances. It's a decent start.
I have zero evidence to support this except, perhaps, Occam's Razor and Bitcoin history, but I believe this to be either fraud or manipulation. In fact, I believe the majority of Bitcoin's price, whether volatility or stability, is not the product of natural market forces.

How does an asset with virtually no underlying value remain so remarkably stable for long periods? Then, how does that same asset suddenly experience such sharp increases in value and volatility?

There are those with huge holdings who have an interest in stability for the sake of its adoption as a currency, and its long-term value. They can easily manipulate the market towards stability. And, as we saw with Mt Gox, unsecured and unregulated exchanges can also be a vehicle for market manipulation and outright fraud.

I know that opinion is unpopular with some, especially without hard evidence, but many also believed the increase before the Mt Gox fiasco was organic.

I am not a Bitcoin hater, and have dabbled myself for a decent return. I just think its past time to secure it properly and earnestly acknowledge its vulnerabilities. That vs. pretending that any of this makes sense from a traditional market perspective.
It would be interesting to see what the impact would be in a more limited context as you suggest. Also, having it as part of a toolkit would lessen the burden and allow for continuous optimization. Exciting times!
The article suffers from a bit from looking at things from a strictly theoretical knowledge (i.e. the first example is not valid Swift code), but it does bring up a few interesting points.
Nice! Playing spacewar on the real hardware was one of the big highlights of my last visit to the Mountain View Computer History Museum (the other one being seeing the recreation of the Difference Engine actually working).
Like many commenters I have the same question about what "poverty" really means. I asked an economist doing social policy, and the response was basically that the definition of poverty is not an economic question but a political one. Which would explain why we are talking about this issue so much without any real progress.

Without a doubt, today's definition of poverty would be very different from the one used in the 1950s but the fundamental question is whether we should have an absolute metric or a relative one.
Thanks, I read it.

> Many people delude themselves on whether they are a one-miracle, or multi-miracle startup. They way to tell is to ask yourself what your product or business end goal is. Is your approach directly focused on achieving that end goal? If not, you may have a multi-miracle plan without realizing it.

Gittip's end goal is to enable an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love.

So you tell me: is our approach directly focused on achieving that end goal?
Collectively we (as a generation, let alone a culture) haven't reached a point where more shopping is done online then in person. Until we start to approach that point we don't start to a bigger push for online digital currencies form the general population.
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Ah, thanks. Didn't even see the buttons down there.
What is amusing to me, is that started programming on a 20 x 80 line terminal (Beehive Bee3), then got spoiled by a 25 line by 80 character terminal, and then one with multiple 'pages'. When I got to Sun and had all that space of a 'workstation' I could never imagine going back to a single terminal, then I got two monitors and couldn't imagine going back to one (although I operate that way in a pinch on some systems). Certainly there is always "something" to put up in the extra real estate.

At the moment I think my ideal is 3 (a 2K landscape in the middle) and two vertical 1080P monitors, one on either side. I'd really like something like a 2440 x 800 "strip" to put along the bottom for a high res "task bar" kind of deal but can't find anyone with that particular glass and I don't want to glue together two 1280 x 800 panels.

One trick though is keeping the PPI the same (or close) on the monitors so that things don't distort weirdly when they move from one to the other.
The new anaylzers use async, so it's happening in the background as you work. For example, symbol analyzers take an action delegate with a cancellation token: http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com/#Microsoft.CodeAnalysis/Di...
Chargebacks, while inconvenient for vendors, provide utility to consumers, especially online when there can be a long delay between paying and getting to receive/examine the product.
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YES! Shard-allocation dashboard!!