skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it would be like an OS that once loads and starts, will run forever. You can put your machine to sleep which will freeze the sate, and then bring it back on again and start processing instructions from where it left off.

But if that's the case then they'll have to think of ways to do e.g. OS upgrades - where you normally reboot to flush the old code out of RAM.

Or how will you recover if you load a bad driver end experience a blue screen? Normally you reboot to flush the bad state and start again.

Somehow I think you'll need a separate cut down immutable OS alongside the your System so that you can repair things or make updates to the main RAM/Storage space.

Or at least that's how I understand it..?
That was a 5 MIPS machine with just 40 megabyte RAM. The UI ran over a 10 Mbit/sec Ethernet X11 connection on a remote machine.
Feedly under DDOS by "criminals"
The common thread is coinbase creating a low-friction opportunity for merchants to accept another form of payment, but to be paid in - most likely - USD as far as they are concerned.

This does nothing to disperse bitcoin into many little places. In other words, accepting bitcoin by online merchants everywhere doesn't make many people want to go trade fiat for a volatile currency with all the inconveniences inherent. You need a frictionless means and stimulus for many swathes of people and organizations to accept and hold BC instead of wanting fiat conversions immediately.

"We take Discover/American Express etc." only really got so far to help with consumer adoption of those networks. This keeps coming around to a currency without a country is a PITA.

What are return policies around goods bought with BC? Do you get BC back or fiat? Do you get spot prices at time of return request, etc?
>>If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and you can't tell the difference between it and a duck, it's a duck.

If, later, you discover evidence contrary to it having been a duck, can you revise your belief? Or was your having been convinced of its duck-ness sufficient to make it a duck?
Oh, of course. reading fail.
Didn't that disappear in some recent version? I had to use some special keyword search term to make that happen in the newest Maps.
Sad to hear your story. I left my Yahoo mail and used GMail instead due to Yahoo's policy of deactivating accounts that's never been opened for couple of months. But I do hope you could retrieve your account as you said that it's somehow valuable to you.

Maybe this links could help:

https://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200801272005...

https://ph.help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-account/account-locked-sl...
U.S. ports vulnerable to cyber attacks, new report suggests
Agreed. TikZ is simply an awesome tool. If people want to try it out, I found A Very Minimal Introduction to TikZ by Jacques Crémer a great resource to help get started. There are also some handy examples here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/

EDIT: Forgot link to Crémer's guide: http://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf
Good on Kurzweil for calling out a self-aggrandizing researcher at U. of Reading. the Goostman bot is pretty poor as far as chat bots go. utterly typical in capabilities (below average if you ask me) for this type of bot, and utterly unconvincing to non-naive judges.
I don't think gmail is prefetching images. They just proxy and cache them if and when you open the email
This type of phone is going to have 3G data at most.
Bandwidth won't grow and IMHO that is now the chief constraint in computing. For low usage it is cheaper to store data on S3 for a month than buying the bandwidth to transfer it once!
In a way it doesn't matter does it? If they can't sell it then they're not going to be supported by shareholders/traders to make it. The oft quoted maxim here is that "companies must work to maximise their profits" - that's our capitalism; if they do the research and don't make a product then it's wasted money from a profit-based perspective.

It's actually really encouraging to me that a company could be doing R&D that's not going to have an immediate pay-off. That those with the finances to push technological development are looking beyond the end's of their noses for a change.
Funnily, Bryan's the same person who also showed contempt in crucifying one node's largest OSS contributors in public is now seeking to attract more contributors to the same project?

The 2 character pull-request that took down libuv's largest and one of node's largest ever contributors: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

Bryan's public Crucifixion of Ben: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

Ben Noordhuis's Response: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...

and HN Story of his Departure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845286

No thanks, I can't see myself ever touching or recommending Joyent's services as a result.
or Wikipedia is wrong or you misread Wikipedia.
Sorry for the headaches. I didn't see the preferred URL--too busy playing with the editor ;-). Apologies for any hassles this caused you.
Conceptual symmetry between the resistor, capacitor, inductor, and the memristor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#mediaviewer/File:Two-...

The scales fell from my eyes. Now the electronics math makes sense - Memristor was the missing puzzle piece.
Classnamer – when you just can't think of a name for the class
Are you sure about this? There are apps that do exactly this: http://mailtrackerapp.com
You can't not-fight in here! This is the Internet!
From the last paragraph:

"The Machine isn’t on HP’s official roadmap. Fink says it could arrive as early as 2017 or take until the end of the decade. Any delivery date has to be taken with some skepticism given that HP has been hyping the memristor technology for years and failed to meet earlier self-imposed deadlines."

So, does anyone actually know whether significant new progress is being made on this project, or is this article just a win for HP's PR department and nothing more?
extremists on my side of an argument make me far more unhappy than extremists on the opposing side.
Using a proof assistant to teach computer science [video]
> Lisp systems were popular for research, but were not used extensively for networking research. I expect it was in part a compatibility issue with BSD's socket stuff

They were not used for networking research, AFAIK, but Lisp Machines were definitely very well networked, speaking many protocols which soon came to include IP and TCP (though they started out with MIT's CHAOSnet). I was using Lisp Machines (both Symbolics and TI) networked with Sun 3s in the mid-to-late 1980s, and they definitely interoperated.

But I think that was a few years later than the networking research you're referring to, that created the Internet protocols.
I've managed today to boot OpenGenera in a Linux VM. It took me a couple of weeks but it finally works. I intend to have a look myself at what the fuss is all about.

If you're interested, here are some pointers to relevant resources (snap4.tar.gz image works as advertised):

http://www.advogato.org/person/johnw/diary/12.html

http://www.cliki.net/VLM_on_Linux

http://libarynth.org/vlm_on_linux

The opengenera tar-ball can be found in the intertubes.

Tip: Use Ubuntu 7.04 x86-64 to save you some trouble. I don't know what is the most recent distro that works but 10.10 doesn't. You get a blank window because recent X servers are missing something.
Before proceeding with the installation, complete the Ubuntu image with relevant archive server URLs to be able to apt-get with ease.
Why worry about something you can't fix? (Unless, of course, your monitor, not your vision, is the problem.) Unless you "do colour" for a living and have wondered why clients aren't banging down your door, it's probably not a real-world problem for you. (If it was a problem severe enough to be a safety hazard or mangle your fashion sense to the point that a hypothetical Garanimals For Grownups might be helpful, you would probably be acutely aware of it by now.) Hell, there's even at least one "name" professional photographer (Joel Grimes) who would score worse than you did. (Your problem is relatively subtle, apart from a bit of a mess in the red/yellow/green transition. You would probably have some real difficulty distinguishing the yellows of an egg yolk, a buttercup and a lemon, or at least being able to spot them in isolation. As handicaps go, I've seen worse.)
Costing $70,000 for the base machine would be one thing.
I'm worried that this is going to sound flippant (not my intention), but use Heroku. You're under significant time constraints with being a solo founder and it would most likely be a win to just not have to worry about this one technical aspect.
Create the Game of Life using Swift and SpriteKit
I take issue with some of the points regarding the GPL license. The author says that "GPLv2 has prevented the integration of of open source technologies like DTrace and ZFS in Linux." However, surely this is also the fault of the CDDL rather than the GPL alone. The CDDL license was written after the GPL, and according to some sources was specifically designed to be GPL incompatible.
As far as I can tell, he didn't write his own framework.

By "my framework" he means "the one I know".
wow, I never knew about this. Love interactive learning materials like this. My daughter is going to be using this to learn Python and I will start with the turtle interactive program.

This is the way to learn things. Interactive, break things, try things and see how it actually works. Just donated to the cause and bookmarked the repo. Hope to contribute in future.
Well if we're still capped at say broadband speeds, just driving down the street with your 50TB cellphone doesn't seem like much of a loss.

Maybe we should allow net neutrality to fall, increase socialization as a result :-) lol.

:.:.:

Also no, sneaker net means a network transported by feet not wires. But I do like the joke, or I pray its a joke not a prophesy.
Check out MapsWithMe - OpenStreetMap packaged as a basic mapping app, paid pro package for more than basic mapping/location pointing. The OSM db is segmented by country/province/US state so you can tailor the size / coverage as desired.

Haven't looked at the pro pricing or feature list, just having maps that my off-network, GPS equipped old brick can use near home is sweet enough.
"flat data plan for $5/month at LTE speed with this type of smart phone"

Flat data plans are gone forever I'm afraid. We might get more data for less money over time but there is no way they are going back to unmetered data.
Are they teaching memristors in college these days as a fundamental component, or is it still too new?
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how to define consciousness in this regard, but I suspect it would require surprising its creators to the point that they cannot fathom how it behaved the way it did.

It absolutely would require that. If you believe in determinism then part of the definition of intelligence, or an intelligent system, is that it exhibits behaviors that are just too complex for a human consciousness to intuitively follow the causal chain. Incidentally, biological intelligence is built on top of some other systems which, given our current levels of understanding, also meet that criterion themselves, so we're pretty clueless about how it works.

Part of this is a definition problem - the Turing Test was defined vaguely enough that everyone has different conceptions. When a person talks about a "good" or "strong" Turing Test, they are envisioning one that would pass all of their personal standards and all the ways they could think of to trick it. And when they talk about it with someone else, who likely envisions a somewhat different version of the test, there seems a tendency for that person to assume that their version would not be passed, so they start to talk past each other.

In other words, if an AI were to consistently surprise you with thoughtfulness, compassion, creativity, or whatever other constituents of "true intelligence" you assume the duck imposter would lack, would you then confer it those rights?

I think you would, because that's the point: it has thoroughly convinced you that it is "thinking", and you feel like it truly "understands" you - frankly a higher bar than many rights-granted humans would pass.

What separates animals that deserve human-level rights from those that don't? Would you argue that all animals do? If not, I would say that that distinction is no less arbitrary than the one you're drawing at the end.
I believe no discussion of poor customer service is complete without the inclusion of PayPal.

Just yesterday I attempted to close a business account and was presented with the message "We're sorry, but your account cannot be closed at this time."

No explanation, no nothing.

So I called the 1-800 number, and after waiting on hold for more than ten minutes was told my account would be closed right then. Okay, but still being naturally curious as to why I couldn't close my account through the site, I was told that there was no reason, I just couldn't do it. That's literally what they said.

So it would seem that they just want you to jump through an unnecessary hoop to make the funnel out of their site as narrow as possible.
A later MacIvory was a third of that.
The latest round of limited production developer phones sold for $70 usd each.
Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network
>First, that there is an implicit assumption about how cognition and consciousness are defined, but there is no real definition.

And yet volumes are written on the topic, and you have no trouble dismissing this particular approach as not really answering "consciousness". Well what do you mean exactly then?

>and while a human would pass all the possible models of humanity, a computer would surely pass only the ones it's programmed for.

I don't agree with either the first nor the second assumption a priori. Would a schizophrenic, or autistic or infant brain pass "all the possible models of humanity". And second, why would a computer pass only the models it was programmed for?! We know that isn't true with today's software and today's AI. IBM's Watson wasn't programmed with every single fact it used to win Jeopardy, nor is any rudimentary video game AI programmed with a specific set of behaviors that it executes regardless of player actions. If you want to go deeper, I can also claim the human brain itself was shaped by natural selection for a finite and very specific set of tasks, and the neural machinery is as deterministic as software since both are subject to the fundamental laws. So tell me why can't software simulate human behaviour again?

>Another thing is that in order for a computer to truly mimic a human, that is, to fool people for 20 years about movies/music/sports/family/relationships, but also other abstract experiences, the computer would need to experience them

No necessarily. It can lie. Or it can live them by ingesting huge amounts of information from digital content, or maybe it was trained in a lab or adopted by a family and raised like a human. Whatever.

> and especially, elaborate them in a human way.

Define "human way", because that's the entire point. I don't see intrinsically why such a computer program could not be built. What's so special about the "human way".

>You can achieve it in a static picture, but once you freely move in a 3D world, you see the flaws that show that what you're experiencing in reality is a limited set of limited algorithms, which are used to workaround hard problems

And you base this on what? I mean you're just asserting it can't be done, why? Because human brains are powered by magic!?

>I think exactly the same arguments stand, that is, in order to mimic a human in such a high level of faithfulness, very hard problems would need to be solved, not just worked around.

I'm not sure what the difference is between solving problems and merely working around them, in your context. But yes, we're not there yet, obviously. I think the Turing test is actually deeper than most people give it credit to be. And you illustrate this perfectly. All your objections are hand-wavy appeals to some vague notions of the "human way".
> Trying to prove a magic talking box has experience when you can't prove another moist robot has experience is moving the goalpost too far out.

Maybe I'm just confused about what goals we're talking about. If your goal is to understand cognition, then sure; a highly intelligent machine is a great way to do that. However, the comment I replied to was suggesting that strong AI would "render the question of consciousness meaningless"; that's a far stronger claim, and in my opinion, unrealistic. I think you and I are actually in agreement on this one... if anything, I was arguing against A.I. having the goalpost of understanding subjective experience.
That's pretty awesome. Memristors are very promising for creating fast, high-density, non-volatile storage, and it's good to see that HP's seeing that in the midst of the solid-state flash memory craze and working on commercial applications for them.

What's also awesome is that - according to the article - HP plans on open-sourcing its custom "Machine OS"; rather refreshing coming from a company that's traditionally released its own operating systems under non-free licenses.

I'm not normally a fan of HP (aside from their printers), but seeing them go after this kind of stuff is certainly exciting.
> I wonder why so many design-related critiques sound as if someone comitted a crime against humanity. C'est la vie, I suppose.

The comments here were even more virulent with the last beta. I didn't even bother to comment then, what can you say to people who expect multi-million dollar polished U/I out of a beta from one of the last large community-developed open source projects, as if KDE has some sort of hidden pool of paid artists and capital development programs?

Even Firefox on Linux still looks worse than KDE (IMHO) but people (even on HN) don't stop to base their opinion on Firefox based only on that.

As for me, I'm incredibly proud of those who develop the visual design for KDE, especially since they do so with no compensation. KDE has come a very long way since KDE 2 and 3 and that is almost entirely from true volunteer effort; while there is always room for improvement I think KDE looks good. Not even "good for what resources we have", but good per se, and if the screenshot of this beta is any indication KDE's Plasma 5 will look even better.
I wasn't referring to technical aspects, I was referring to social aspects. I'll admit I wasn't born in the 80's, but even when I was a kid in the 90's, I couldn't imagine sharing my day-to-day interactions with 100's of people.
Tough for HA, default Postgres has everything you need to get started.

The one thing that's missing is automated failover, but personally, I wouldn't do that with a database because from experience, from all the issues that would cause an automated failover, only a very small part would actually be solved by such action, whereas most of them would probably be made a lot worse.

Especially considering that undoing a failover is very costly (in terms of time, not necessarily money) until we get 9.4 where failing back to the original master won't need a full resync.
We're a new startup looking for a few extra developers to help build a backend-as-a-service platform. You're a bit front-end heavy for our needs but we could still possibly absorb all of you. Check out http://www.storycloud.co/careers/ and reply to the email address at the bottom if it seems at all like something you would consider.
With Chromes PGP extension it seems logical that you don't want clear text email being sent and cached on google's servers.
> Remember kioslave's support for ssh/sftp?

Yes, such support is still there. In fact, it's even easier to get to than it was in KDE 3 (where you effectively had to be good at understanding how KDE converted URIs into kioslave requests).
I'm wary of installing an extension that can access my data in gmail. Is the source code available anywhere?

Edit1: Found a chrome extension that lets me view the source code of chrome extensions[1]

Edit2: The inclusion of bootstrap.css is changing the appearance of some things, namely the "show original" message view. It also doesn't seem to detect the tracking image included by yesware

Edit3: Could I break this by adding "safe-img" somewhere in my tracking pixel url?

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...
Apple Banning Social Sharing Apps
I read this analogy and immediately started thinking how complicated it would be to use this effect if the diameter is always changing, every time you make your water flow.

Then I watched the video posted by achille [1]. If I understood the video correctly, the analogy should specify a fundamental thing: The diameter of the pipe only increases or decreases if the pressure differential is very high. You can make your water flow at low pressure without affecting the diameter in any measurable way. This should make using memristors practically much easier.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
And this is all especially true if we start seeing memristor arrays replacing flash chips in mobile devices; at that point, the few GB it would take to store a worldwide transportation map would be pocket change.
Species rediscovered after more than 120 years
Chrome plugins pose a HUGE security problem. This one, for example, gets access to your GMail account. Do you want that? What else could this plugin do since it can read your email? Do you trust the author not to steal your GMail cookie?

Are you installing this at work? What kind of trade secrets could you potentially leak? And how does it affect your corporate compliance requirements? If your email is subject to HIPAA regulation, then you may be leaking protected health information. That's pretty bad.

I, for one, rarely install plugins. I've written plugins for my own amusement that can do some very bad things, and it's just too easy. Think twice people.
Security was literally nonexistent. If you were at the console, you had control of the machine. Pwning one over the network was probably not difficult, though it wasn't the kind of thing people spent much time on back then.
The responsive layout is completely broken in iOS 7.1 Safari. There's way too much extra padding, so each line is only 1-3 words long.
I own a Symbolics Lisp Machine (a MacIvory). I'm in San Francisco and would be happy to show it to anybody who's interested and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Be warned, I'm still learning how to use Genera, so we'd be learning how to use the system together.
Burroughs B6500 Status Report (1968) [video]
In theory, yes, in addition it can also simulate neural networks natively. All kinds of new possibilities.
Probably nothing. At worst Coinbase would only lose the fraction of their USD/BTC holdings that they have stored in Bitstamp, but they would continue business as usual.

Coinbase could abandon Bitstamp if they wanted to, since they have their own customers selling and buying coins (therefore providing a supply of coins, and a way to liquidate them). And Coinbase also trade coins on multiple other exchanges (according to their claims). This makes their overall Bitcoin trading activity decentralized with no single point of failure.
In Linux-land, glibc's qsort also uses introsort, and musl libc's uses smoothsort:

http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language.

Hypertext: is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access...

So it's a game engine that relies on something that is, according to definition a text-only language. Are you really into ASCII games? Otherwise the name is very misleading. For legacy reasons.
You only have to use the app for a minute to answer that question. It seems that all the recipes are on recipes.wikia.com
Impossible to predict, but it seems we are getting the fabrication down.
WebGL won