skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> something more polished

What do you mean by this? IMO the last time I used EOS it was lacking in a lot of areas. This was only a few months ago.

Installation was fast and everything was automated, the install window had a "drop-down" terminal to watch processes, but nothing was there. I expected to be asked to re-size my partitions but never was. When I rebooted I noticed grub was a little borked, showing EOS, EOS recovery, Windows 7, and then about 30 or so entries of old kernels (I know I need to clean these up). It should have showed two more ubuntu OSs installed. I can still boot into my other two installations fine, I just had to do some guess work on what to pick in grub.

So I get into EOS and things are pretty cool, the thing I like best is the speed. Everything seems instant, well except the applications menu, it was a few milliseconds slower than anything else on the DE and that was annoying as I would often end up clicking it a second time causing it to open twice, which was kind of hard on the eyes. Coming from a Gnome 3 environment, I decided to change some things on the interface around to make it more like the gnome shell. Moved the launcher to the left, assigned the top left hot corner to show all windows, things were looking pretty good.

I tried using midori but the font rendering was just not worth it so I installed chromium, and of course that came with a lot of dependencies (around 300mb), so I tried to find out exactly how much space I had left on the partition (I some how missed the partition editor in the install). I opened the file browser and really liked it. you could see how much space was being used by each partition with "progress bars", but not by the EOS partition. There was no way to right click and select "properties" on the EOS partition, so I opened up the applications menu (twice) to find the "system monitor", because on Ubuntu, the system monitor shows how much space you have. But the OS had no graphical system monitor. I'm sure top was installed, but it's not the same. I was able to right click my home folder and select properties and this showed how much space I had on my partition.

Next I opened the terminal. I forget the name of the default terminal, but it wasn't gnome-terminal. It was a very utilitarian terminal that had tabs and no menu bar. I couldn't figure out how to change the look of it or get the tabs to go away.

Overall I give EOS a 5.9/10 It's fast, but it lacks a lot of functionality I look for in an OS like this. Maybe I was expecting too much, but I feel it will be a long time before EOS is as robust and polished as Ubuntu. I realize that EOS is meant to be lighter than Ubuntu and use different programs, but at this point it's just not ready to be my work horse.
Best privacy-protection laws?...

...yeah... the law does its job, perhaps, a bit too well.
Beijing-Based IMF? Lagarde Ponders China Gaining on U.S. Economy
Great resources, was just about to buy a book on Linear Algerbra & ML before I read this.
Thanks for the heads up - I'll get that fixed.
Show HN : My ios game for WC 2014. Having fun
You should add a (2005) to the end of the title.
Any chance of seeing conversation logs?
You make it sound so complicated. It is and it is not. They built FM radios one hundred years ago...
I appreciate HN's rule about brief, non-sensational submission titles, but perhaps this one's taken it to the point of absurdism.
This essay is mostly spot on, but there is some "more important work" that is harder to define: emotional/social work, raising a family etc. These things are mentioned in your eulogy, but not your obituary.

I'm pretty sure this essay was written before pg had kids. I wonder how/if his perspective has changed.
The old instruction to pinch yourself to check you are not dreaming is essentially all you need to do. The pinching itself is not really necessary, just the habit of checking the current status of reality.
Bold claim, but without any transcripts it's impossible to verify just how close to the truth the claim comes.
I suppose it varies from place to place. My uncle put a car, a fridge and I don't remember what other stuff to fill up the hole under his terrace, and as professional mason considered it a perfectly normal and usual way to save concrete.
I think we're all severely fooling our selves if we don't realize every OS copies features from other OS's.
How much could it cost to fill a World Cup Sticker Album?
After seeing some demos of the new UI features in Isis, which are pretty original and amazing, I don't think it's copying OSX any more than the later and iOS are copying Microsoft's modern UI with Yosemite.
"London's Very Own Urban Legend: There Are NOT Hundreds of JCB Diggers Buried Beneath The Capital's Streets.."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/london-urban-lege...
GCHQ is quite strongly against allowing some evidence to be used in court cases because it would need to be tested in open court.

They haven't said anything about intelligence provided to law enforcement.
This argument cuts both ways. The emphasis on performance and, you know, working is what led to the massive amount of money in the market.

That is, yes there was a cost to this. However, leaving aside the unknowns of whether there would still be millions in tooling necessary for security even with microkernels, you have to provide some sort of reasonable argument that the current market (> billions) would still exist. You can't just take that for granted.
Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test
Surly they did not talk to this one [1] - it is light-years away from being convincing.

[1] http://www.princetonai.com/bot/
For those who are wondering which is the galaxy that is being talked about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3190
> Our grasp on technology is flawless, and our staff is friendly and professional.

Comedy gold. Classic German smugness (?).
Could someone explain what the thing with East Texas is?

A district where juries and judges are more favorable than usual towards patents? This sound kind-of ridiculous, no? Can't the defending companies find similar anti-patent areas and file counter-suites there?
'Eugene Goostman' Supercomputer Passes The Turing Test, Apocalypse May Ensue
You can agree with the precepts of the Constitution and justify certain kinds of surveillance. Even if you think the NSA surveillance is unconstitutional, you have to concede that "privacy" is not a well-defined constitutional value. The framers spent many pages in the Federalist talking about the ins and outs of various voting systems, but never articulated a broader concept of privacy. The 4th amendment is based fundamentally on a "property rights" view: intended to keep the government from searching your property.

A perfect example is the recent case in Jones. Is it unconstitutional because putting a GPS tracker in a car enables 24/7 surveillance, or because it requires the police to physically trespass on the car to place the tracker?

The protection of "privacy" in the constitution has been extended to reach things birth control and abortion based on the "penumbras" of the rights that are actually in the text. This is fuzzy ground! You can believe that those penumbras exist yet still not believe they cover recording information people put out into the public internet.

In short, its not so much that Obama is well-placed to know how to work around the Constitution, its that he knows that digital privacy is on unsure Constitutional footing in the first place and is positioned to take advantage of where the lines are drawn.
If universities can't manage to exist in the US off the 70 billion the feds spend on tuition support, or by snagging a share of the 150 billion the US government spend on research, let them die.
Me>> Hi - what's the weather like there?

Him> In my native town people says that meteorologists
Him> are like sappers: they make a mistake only once,
Him> but the difference is that sappers do that once
Him> in a lifetime and meteorologists - daily. Do you
Him> like weather today?

Me>> It's a bit warm for my liking - I prefer it cooler.

Him> You're not the first one who told me that.

Me>> Really? Who else told you that?

Him> Yeah, fine! I'm kidding. And I forgot to ask you
Him> where you are from...

========

OK - fail.
Three, according to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#Tunnelling

"Six machines were used, all commenced digging from Shakespeare Cliff, three marine-bound and three for the land tunnels."
What Morgan Freeman Doesn’t Understand About Race
> If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five minute keyboard conversations it passes the test. No computer has ever achieved this, until now. Eugene managed to convince 33% of the human judges that it was human.

Surely it depends on who the human judges are. It seems a bit unfair that the judges normally have IQ > 100 and the other humans have IQ > 100.

I strongly suspect that some simplistic AI (alicebots, for example) would beat the Turing test if the human judges had IQ between 90 and 105. (Especially if we're using the limited 30% rule above).

Getting bots running on some Facebook groups might be interesting.
Awesome job of putting un-followable links in the press release, Reading University.

I'm going to take this with a hug pinch of salt until I've read the transcripts, due to the involvement of famous publicity-hound Kevin Warwick.
Possibly off-topic, but I wonder when PG will be writing more essays. I remember that one of the things he was looking forward to when sama took over YC was the extra time to work on projects and write more.
Good? Bad? There is only the value that you place on your own time. It may be that shaving/maintaining friendships/health do not offer rewards that you value. That's your decision. In the end, if your occupation doesn't reward you in a way you value, you will find an alternative way to spend your time.

edit: If you are concerned about how you spend your time, I would suggest that you should spend some time reflecting on why you are making those choices.
Wow, I really love the new Media Viewer they have there! Or perhaps it's not new, I've not been contributing to Wikipedia for a very, very long time now.
gotta protect those internet points
I was impressed it could write grammatically sound sentences, but it's not even close to human-level conversation...
It passes the Turing Test? Not for me it doesn't.
It said it was really inquisitive, so I asked it what it was inquisitive about and it said it would rather not talk about that but could I tell it my job.

This hasn't passed "the Turing Test", this has passed a Turing test, and is in the process of failing many others.
I'm in a same boat as you. Between work, family, and house projects, I barely have any time to do anything I want to. So when I do get such time, I blow it on gaming as a form of relaxation.

One thing that really helped me was during work hours, if I have downtime, I'll spend it on either searching for new projects to do or learn new things. Once I'm home, my emails stop syncing and I concentrate more on home and family related activities.
As the essay mentions Hamming's talk, here's a recording: http://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw
You can't really subject something to the Turing test when you already know that it's an AI.
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I would be impressed if it didn't. If it made common mistakes a human would make, it would seem more human.
>Because computers got more computing power

You're missing the essential component of artistic creativity.
Lots of self-congratulation all round with no sample questions to provide the merest smidgeon of 'reason to believe that this is that significant'.
A selection of mini-diggers (the first hit on the first websearch) showing some proces below £10,000

This is the machine that is claimed to be buried.

http://plant.autotrader.co.uk/used-plant-machinery/category/...
I suspect whats called a "digger" by journalists is just a stripped frame. Anything that can be unbolted or cutting torched off has been removed, but the frame might be too heavy.

There is too much space for fraud... If you own a fleet of diggers and 3 minutes with a wrench and some bolt cutters can get you a $500 hydraulic control center or a $300 pump, its gone. You might tell the boss or insurance agent the whole thing was a complete loss written off and thats how it will be recorded on the bill, yet there's a new huge pile of spare parts with no serial numbers back at the warehouse... And any evidence is under a concrete slab.
Did you compare it to an actual 13-year-old?
I think "patent troll" should be applied to be anyone who waits for accidental infringement. That's not quite everyone who's an NPE, and I view this behavior as tacit admission that you know you shouldn't have a patent.

That said, I doubt banning this behavior would solve much. It's easy to pretend to be well intentioned and there are truly well intentioned people with bad patents.
Me: What is your claim to fame?
Bot: My "little friend". (No, not my dick as you might have thought! Just my guinea pig). If I'm not mistaken - you still didn't tell me where you live. OR it's a secret?:-)

Huh?
Infector++ – Dependency Injection in C++
>It seems like sometimes I'd rather do anything other than what I'm actually suppose to do and what pays the bills, almost like a mental disorder.

History is full of geniuses who weren't interested in paying the bills, to the chagrin of their creditors, but ultimately to the benefit of civilization as a whole.
Managing to successfully imitate an ignorant, immature child 1/3 of the time is not what I would call a success, but rather a subversion of the entire intent behind the Turing Test in the first place.
Ironic that i'm reading this at work.
God damn you have a low IQ.

I get a number from NIST. If it's fake, just use a human. Retard-nigger.

Tin-foil-hat nigger doesn't know what a random number is. It's fucken God, nigger.
Society can be pretty tolerant of eccentricity and a lack of personal hygiene when it's accompanied by genius. Look at Albert Einstein and even Richard Stallman.
I think sometimes the mind just needs to think about other things. I mean, I love what I am doing now too, and I have moments where I'll want to just spend all day and night on it, but there are also times where I would rather do something else like watch funny videos on youtube or enjoy a karaoke session with my 2 year old daughter. It just makes me a happier person to be doing other things as well. I think diversity is important for the mind, that's why we procrastinate.
Does this mean AppleScript will actually be documented now? The problem historically has been code is written from random examples, without actual reference docs that make it possible to discover what's available.
I'm a big proponent of government and a healthy mix of public and private enterprise. My point is mostly that I'm worried more about safeguards against a corrupt referee than a corrupt star player, to use a sports analogy.
What are people using Linear Algebra for in Data Science? Aside from the stock representing words as N-dimensional vectors I mean?

I ask because I do this kind of work as my J.O.B. and every skill he refers to I totally see the necessity of except this one.
The Alibaba Culture
Lip service from the company that patented a rectangle with rounded corners (D670,286).
This thing completely failed. Total disappointment. I can't retrieve the tscript, but it went almost exactly like Colin's transcript too.

At the end I told it we'd need to wait yet another 20 years for a useful AI. It replied with the generic phrase:

"Very interesting! What else can you tell me?"

Bleh.
If it was hosted by the Royal Society, wouldn't it be on their website (https://royalsociety.org/events/?type=all&direction=past)?
Here's a good, quick post by Cal Newport titled, "Don't fight distraction, make it irrelevant" that his some of the same points that PG makes:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/06/05/dont-fight-distraction...

"Distraction, from this perspective, is not the cause of problems in your work life, it’s a side effect. The real issue comes down to a question more important than whether or not you use Facebook too much: Are you striving to do something useful and do it so well that you cannot be ignored?"
It depends on what you are digging.

A long expensive digger can be tough to resell. All six diggers[1] used for the Channel Tunnel[2] were buried[3], and their cost was in the order of millions each.

What else could you do? Put a 750-foot, 15,000-tone tunnel digger[4] on eBay?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

[3] http://www.nysun.com/new-york/after-work-done-drills-likely-...

[4] http://www.therobbinscompany.com/en/case-study/the-channel-t...
But here and there are actually two different things that can coexist and, combined, give us the best of both worlds. A lot of developers use OSX and the terminal.
D670,286 is, quite literally, a design patent on a rectangle with rounded corners (it's about the solid lines in the drawing). And they sued Samsung over it and Samsung was forced to make the rounded corners on the top and bottom of their phone different sizes. Despite the fact that multiple phones and tablets predated the iPad and iPhone and were rectangles with rounded corners.
CD Summits: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins – NYC 6/19 and Berlin 6/24
I asked it if it liked its name. Two nonsensical replies.

Is this a joke?
Hey, I posted this elsewhere http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/52-ways-to-have-lucid...

Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming (cant believe i'm linking reddit)

I started when I was young, somebody told me it was possible so the following night I tried it - and it worked. Such is the wonder of youth :)

It comes and goes, so it does require continual 'retraining' - basically find a technique that works for you and give it your best effort. At the end of the day I suspect these 'techniques' are merely 'permission slips' allowing our brain to accept that it's possible. Either way, they can work.

The thing you have described is 'sleep paralysis' when in waking life (at least in the LD circles) - it's a very good sign, apparently you're meant to chill and just let it be. If you really needed to move (emergency), your brain would override the 'state' and allow you to (that has happened to people, the body 'unlocks' immediately).

I don't know what it means in dream life, other than it would be a good cue to remember that you have FULL control in your dream. When it happens next, remember this chat, and make yourself superman.. use your superhuman powers to break free :D Whatevvvver you like, just know that you can actually do that, because many of us do every night.

I'm no expert, since I didn't need to go through any hardships to achieve it. So perhaps there are better people for more 'concrete' advice. Good luck, it's lots of fun.
Wow. I didn't know how strict the UK legislation is in this matter. I once photocopied an entire book in London. Guess I am a criminal now.
That's what peering is. Both parties agree to connect their networks for mutual benefit of each other. If one side is lopsided on traffic usage, this really is no longer a mutually beneficial relationship. See Wikipedia for more definition information.
By the way, I've just thought up new progressive
Asimov's laws for chatterbots:

1. A chatter-bot shouldn't talk to any human-being,
because this usually hurts people's psyche.

2. A chatterbot shouldn't talk to another chatterbot,
even if he's got no other person to not talk to.

3. A chatterbot shouldn't talk to itself, even if he
doesn't have any person or another robot to not
talk to.

Damn, I hope, I'll be as widely quoted as Asimov!

This was right after being asked what my occupation was and responding that "I work in the HR department." (I do not, by the way)
Yeah, I got all excited thinking it would be a new essay from PG.
"You’ve made a $20.88 USD payment to elementary.
This charge will appear on your statement as “WPY*elementary”"

I paid!
From the NSA to a "random" traffic stop: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/paral...
Pretty cool. Just a suggestion, why not display a few more rows for the stack options instead of a single row. It would be pretty neat if I can just click through the stacks that I knew instead of figuring what I probably left out.
This is the German implementation of the European Data Retention Directive [1]. The legal landscape across the EU is bound to be similar. The gist of the directive, regarding email is: providers must retain sender, recipient, date and IP address information for a period (6 to 24 months, depending on the country). This data may be requested by a court order, and only by court order.

The directive says nothing about the secrecy of the request, so this is up to the specific implementation in member states. In Germany it is secret, in Portugal it is public except for complex cases in investigative phase (a specific, well defined situation meant to deal with large organized crime). I don't know about other countries, but since our laws are usually modeled on the French version, I'd wager France is similar to Portugal (actually, it's the other way around)

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
This has been the most common question I've gotten. I'd say partially it's my bias as someone who works in recommender systems a lot. Many/most common statistical problems have a compact matrix representation (e.g., systems of linear equations). Finally, everyday matrix decomposition tasks like SVD.
Dare To Disagree
If I've learnt anything in programming, it's that inconsistent naming just adds useless complexity. At some point, you'll find yourself having to map from 'referrer' to 'referer'; that's entirely wasted effort. Wherever possible, name everything (variables, array indices, filenames, database fields, HTML input names) exactly the same.
Where are you from?

> I live in a big Ukrainian city called Odessa. It is on the Black Sea shore.

Oh, you're Ukrainian. How do you feel about Crimea joining Russia?

> Oh, you possibly know all these three Slavic countries -
> Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that constantly entertain all
> the World community by their funny scandals with stealing
> gas, dividing military ships - like children that in
> "divorce".

If you're Ukrainian you must have a view on the legitimacy of the referendum though?

> I'm just a boy from Ukraine. Actually, I am Jew, if you are interested.

You're Jewish?

> I'm Ukrainian. At least, I was born and live in Ukraine. My nationality is Jew.

----

Not TOO worried about a Skynet-style geopolitical intervention by machines just yet, anyways.
I think such a defeatist attitude will inevitably lead to a scenario where those in power are not subject to surveillance, and those without having every detail of their lives recorded.
In so far as I can tell, if you use noscript, you don't show up on google analytics, encryption isn't broken and your analogy of disney with no money trying to shut down bittorrent is completely incorrect given that the cost of computing, communication and encryption is tending towards zero over time.

I can envisage a scenario where for the vast majority of low bandwidth communications, even the endpoints aren't known to be in contact to a third party.
Thanks for the response. That gives me something new to learn/look into.
Funny :)

> for what purpose do you exist?

And you? I suspect you exist too! By the way, I still don't know your specialty - or, possibly, I've missed it?

> I'm asking you, for what purpose do you exist?

You sound nice, but errr... loopy a bit:-) Some another topic?

> You didn't understand my question, really.

Oh, something tells me that you're trying to con me! Well, let's go on though.
> What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

Because that probably will probably not make me enough money to pay the rent.

If I were rich and didn't need to work. I would.