skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evil is a road paved with good intentions, or it goes something like that.

There's no nothing wrong with starting a dialogue with "hey! this thing you are doing is wrong!" and I will continue to do so. I try not to judge too harshly on just that though. I hold back the anger in reserve to see how they react once it starts coming to light. Covering up the existence of potential wrongdoing, keep in mind the courts could likely say the tactic is legal, does not bode well for appearances.
I think the deeper nested a comment is, the longer it takes for a reply button to appear. It's a HN heuristic, they think deeply nested threads are possibly flame wars and they want to slow them down.
Latency is a real problem. Distances to satellites in orbit are very long. Also, there is a scalability problem. How many ground targets can a satellite simultaneously provide service to? My guess is, not a lot.

This could be an incremental bandwidth (but not latency) upgrade over existing satellite internet service to remote areas (by transmitting to a single ground receiver that serves a local area), but that's about it.
I read it simply as, he isn't thinking about what I think is important. I think he wants to dismiss Musk because he is rich because well, that is easier than dismissing the points Musk raises.

Usually you can tell which side to listen to by watching which discusses the question at hand versus the one who goes after the other party
I think this might work for my latest startup. I have a market, automation and a clear funnel. I'll be chatting with you guys very soon.
"This is a Golden Sunrise carrot, in burnt orange with off-green foliage. Heritage. What do you think?"

"Very nice, Bateman," Bryce replies. "When did a dork like you get so tasteful?"

It's all going well, and then Van Patten places his carrot on the table. It's fucking magnificent.

"This," he says, "Is a Pioneer Ridge carrot, in deep ochre with leaves in a color called 'hazy forest.' The seed stock is heritage, and the planting was organic."

"Amazing," says Bryce. "This is the best carrot I've seen all day."

I can't believe Bryce prefers Van Patten's carrot to mine.
I'm sure if they are desperate enough they will overlook the drinking requirement. Maybe the hiring situation is not that desperate yet.

Edit: re "religious" argument: surely you can get some non-alcoholic drink at a bar? Water, if nothing else?
I have little fear of unfriendly AI for two reasons. One is that there is no reason to think artificial intelligence would work differently than natural variety and therefore could be be policed in similar ways: limiting access and physical opportunity to cause trouble. Plus keeping a watchful eye and deactivating anything worrisome.

The other is that the fear of unfriendly AI is being taken unaware by a sudden implementation of hyper-intelligent AIs. So far we haven't made anything smarter than a crab so I doubt we are in imminent danger. There may be a lingering belief that hyper-intelligence could be acquired in a quantum leap forward - skipping past all intermediate levels of intelligence. If we have learned anything from the eternal AI winter it is that advancements in AI are done via painstakingly small improvements.
I use Prompt from Panic on iPhone and iPad mini. Keys are transferred via iTunes "files" feature and it works well.
I still can't get why people waste life in virtual worlds.
"Anyone can design"
ALWAYS get a competent/savvy friend to review your resume/CV. (Also, dating profiles.)

But seriously, you need someone to be brutally honest with you about these things and employers will NEVER tell you what you need to know.
If you can't reduce your options to a single number each, your decisionmaking process will be either inconsistent or subjective. This is elementary topology - I sketch a proof here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404964

So which are you advocating? Inconsistency, subjectivity or both?

It's certainly possible that Spooky is wrong, and the right metric might have been a time-discounted approximation of long term profit, rather than simply short term profit. I doubt that - most companies tend to overvalue the long term. But that's a secondary point.
speech recognition is just as good as android EXCEPT windows doesnt recognize punctuation. It sounds like a small difference until you try to speak multiple sentences and it gets registered as a single run-on sentence
Yeah, but this was a "dollar store", which in the US typically exist to serve low-income areas. Unfortunately, "snitches get stitches" is a pretty common attitude in these areas. Source: years living in said areas.
They don't mention this anywhere, but for light based communication with more distant targets where the laser would need multiple seconds to reach its target, would they need to "lead the target" with the lasers pointing in both directions?

Also, what about the complications due to interspersed massive bodies creating gravitational lensing?! I guess this can all be accounted for in the aiming software... but it's not very simple!
Day of triffids scenario aside, no you won't lose your sight from a 2.5W laser pointing downwards from 260 miles up. The power level is too small.

People think that lasers produce a parallel beam. They don't - they are diffraction limited by the width of the beam. The narrower the beam, the more it spreads out. For example, a 1cm wide beam produced by a perfect laser would spread out to around 20m wide when it hits the ground from 260 miles away. That's assuming visible green light - if it's infra-red (or even just red) then the spread will be wider.
Thank you, that clarified the article a lot for me. I still stand by "Confidential Source" is a horrible justification because it's impossible to verify the validity of something confidential.

That impossible verification is what was being abused in this case.
I don't doubt it!
Disclaimer: Not a Wordpress expert. I don't know much about Drupal or Joomla. But what I noticed was back in the early 2000's PHP was the craze; a simple language for the web, it was those one-click LAMP/XAMP installers. All in all it was just a bunch of small circumstances drawn together that snowballed into enough momentum for the mainstream spotlight.

A ton of budding 'techpreneurs' whose $family_relative_or_friend 'knows PHP, therefore can wrangle Wordpress' could get them a site up and running when they 'come over to their house for some snacks and chips over a weekend'

"Why aren't there any contenders?" Those entrepreneurs are now successful businessmen who have enough budget to keep being on Wordpress, because 'it just worked'. That battlecry spreads like wildfire for a large amount of time, hence "production-ready/polished" comes into mind.

Moreover, depending on the businessman, it's not much about 'the synergy between JavaScript on the front and back end' or other technical detaiils. It's more of the can I get my $son to do that for me on a saturday afternoon given the following X things I need.

"Clearly WordPress thrives on its massive community, and maybe its just a matter of time until a worthy opponent emerges to gain the necessary momentum." Yes, empires rise and fall. It won't be sudden, like any piece of software, Wordpress will also slowly lose relevance in the course of time depending on the amount of people working on it.
The AI-Box Experiment:

http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
When the site was originally designed, there were only 4 or 5 sizes, one for the feed, one for the product page, one for related products, one for thumbnails, etc.

As the design changed, extra sizes got added to the image processing, and as with most early stage start-ups, it worked therefore there was no need to fix it.

We eventually ended up in the position of having 2.5M products all with preprocessed images of certain sizes from our design history. As we wanted more flexibility with design, but also knew that a lot of our images would have a very low likelihood of being accessed (fashion items have single runs and are never remade in future seasons), a big batch process didn't seem appropriate. Additionally, it would mean storing several different copies of images in our S3 bucket, even if we knew the product would not likely be seen again.

A more attractive solution (at least to us) was to do the hybrid approach, where we would resize on demand, and then cache for a long time. This way, we only do the processing for images that need it, in almost a functionally identical way to large scale batch processing, but the process is demand-led.
Many people do not drink for religious reasons. You are not obligated to hire people who drink, but by virtue of employment discrimination laws, you are obligated not to discriminate against women and minorities in hiring.
Wordpress dominates, I think, for a number of reasons. Primarily, low technical debt for users - it's as close to a plug and play application as i've seen, and nowhere are you expected to understand 'arcane' concepts like version control or the terminal. Want a plugin? Done entirely through the web GUI. Want to upgrade? Same thing. New theme? Same thing. The vast community also helps, obviously, but that community is only as big as it is because the barrier for entry to setting up and modifying a Wordpress install (assuming all you want is to use existing plugins and themes of course) is so low.

Also, many existing webhosting accounts come with an option to install Wordpress on the account. Wordpress even has its own self-hosted service. Many of the alternatives i've seen, in terms of frameworks and CMS software, haven't been able to replicate the relative painlessness of Wordpress' model.

A contender would, first, have to deal with the network effect of Wordpress which is considerable, but also (if it's written in a language other than PHP) the network effect of PHP. Since the UX in Wordpress generally works pretty well, switching to another CMS would be a difficult sell to the general user (why switch from something that's easy and works and you can hit a developer for by throwing a rock out of the window?) meanwhile most of what is terrible about Wordpress is only apparent to coders, who frankly don't really matter in this dicussion, since they're probably using Octopress or something anyway.
Well, it doesn't have as much to do with aggression as it does with payouts. The average startup doesn't have enough capital (or any revenue to speak of) to make it worth a lawyer's time.

Once a company gets bigger, the stakes change and they have to be much more careful in their hiring practices lest they tempt the flock of lawyers circling overhead.
Time-traveling photons connect general relativity to quantum mechanics
That idea is a lot more practical. It'd be tough to find your phone and pound the power button in a bad situation. A program/service that triggers on a lack of input is a lot more likely to actually WORK when it's needed.

As another poster pointed out, this already exists for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safetrek/id716262008?mt=8
Psychopaths can fake a personality test better than you can design around it. They can't fake a work-sample test.
Because it vibrates during the best times to run and pee. That way you never have to look at your bright phone in a dark theater. At the Alamo Drafthouse in Texas looking at your phone even once can get you removed from the theater if you're noticed.
To resolve the lack of edge gestures when the screen bezel is covered, they should configure the TrackPad to also work with edge gestures.
Crashes mount as military flies more drones in U.S.
> Where is this going?

Not far's my guess. If BTC gets too popular as a tool for extortion and money laundering, then the authorities in developed countries are going to start carefully monitoring people who sell large quantities of BTC for sovereign currency or commodities. It would just be another part of their general efforts to combat organized crime. That would make major speculators feel less welcome. If major speculators decide to take their ball and go play somewhere else, the price of BTC will probably tank. That'll discourage everyone else. At which point BTC becomes a terrible medium for money laundering because nobody wants to buy them. I also suspect that the relative anonymity of any one transaction is closely related to overall transaction volume in the BTC economy.
They said that the video was transmitted repeatedly over the course of the test.
Thank you! This is exactly the product I was picturing
I thought the problem was with the statement was the "we've got a strong correlation here" bit, as if that were a meaningful thing. Correlation is weak evidence for a proposition (and sometimes weak evidence is all you've got) but the correlation being strong doesn't mean anything at all past the threshold of pure chance.

Someone who claims it confidently like that is well into the area of making shit up then rationalizing it.
The CDN does not have all sizes of images. We use the ondemand resizer+cache because we may modify our website design in the future and need a new image size. Serving the exact image size makes our pages faster to render and saves bandwidth. Plus that image filter is quite limited and doesn't handle compositing.
Just before seeing this on HN, I randomly came across this article on "dark lightning" -- a burst of gamma rays that accompanies the RF burst that precedes visible lightning.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424210319.ht...
>One is that there is no reason to think artificial intelligence would work differently than natural variety

Of course it will work differently from the natural variety. You have dozens of different modules cooperating in your brain to form your mind. It has only a small handful.

Your mind runs on heuristics and biases, rarely employing its full power for energy-consumption reasons. An AI just runs at full brainpower all the time and pays for electricity.

Go read about how reinforcement learners actually work.
The "GitHub fiasco" would not have happened if they had only hired people who are like them. Bad example :-)

I personally don't think there is much to be learned from it. It was just a normal situation where employee and employer don't get along anymore - it happens thousands of times every day. I don't think because of that people should now shut down all emotions at their workplace and only focus on their work and never talk to each other.

You can not really demand that every employee has to be happy at every company and vice versa.
To add to the feedback of others, this was confusing to me as well. I saw repeated use of "call" and "calling," and understood that to mean using the phone, which was inconsistent with "feet on the ground."

Doesn't matter what you think it means - if it confuses everyone, just change it.
I can't tell if you are serious or not...

Are your children human rights activists at risk from attack, kidnap or torture? Do you anticipate them being in a situation that requires them to dial for help in a stealthy manner?

Do your children know how to dial you or 911?
This meme of "do things and blog about it" presumes a certain amount of extroversion. I'm rather fed up with it altogether.

Would you rather be thought of as the best developer, or actually be the best developer? The two aren't mutually exclusive, but I find it entirely suspicious that the rise in needing to "put yourself out there" has correlated so strongly with social media becoming pervasive. If I have a finite amount of time available for hacking, why do I want to spend a not-insignificant amount of it signaling?

Hacker culture has been corrupted by this 'need' for influence. Perhaps it isn't the same as the neckbeard culture I looked forward to joining in my youth.
But I bet that an equally significant part of why you are so interested in learning that new framework-generation framework is that you are nebulously worried about what will happen if you don’t.

Building an experimental Elephant As A Service side-project is no doubt going to be somewhat enjoyable in itself, but I don’t trust you to not be doing it for the CV and Hacker News points.

That rings true. I have a couple side projects I'd like to work on. That's not right. I wouldn't like to work on them. I would like to have worked on them. But the actual process of working on them isn't fun to me. That's why I do things like the Pomodoro technique to try and be productive (at home, no less -- I don't need it at work). I say, it's great experience, it's a useful time expenditure, it looks good to future employers. I don't say, wow I really enjoy learning AngularJS and wrestling with CSS to make a basic fucking responsive design that seems like it should take 30 seconds.
To me, although not a lawyer, doesn't matter. This is just my gut instinct of what is right.

If a person is a defendant then that person has the right to face all the evidence being used against them. If the defendant feels that a certain part of evidence gathering was done illegally then they have the ability to question that gathering in court, of which the court will decide the legality of the gathering method. If the prosecution has the ability to conceal methods of evidence gathering then that means the defendant has no recourse.

If a person is under investigation, the police use a method to locate and/or track the suspect, and that method ultimately leads to an arrest because of where they happen to be while being located and/or tracked then I feel it should be included as evidence.

But I'm not familiar with court cases concerning such technology so it's possible that all this has already been decided and I just haven't heard of it.
What about SMF? It's very efficient, even though the code is messy, and easy to setup.
Source code available at: https://github.com/xdamman/ReplayLastGoal
I never did before either, but something did change. It may be just the sunshine, it maybe the location (very close to the sea) or just the job, but I can say that now when I don't have the sunshine, I miss it, which was something I never did before.

I guess it may also depend on the difference between your winter and summer. I'm assuming a New York or London summer wouldn't be the same as a Florida/California/South of Spain summer.
conceivable that the 3.5 seconds includes some overhead related to getting the thing powered up and pointed in the right direction. Also conceivable that it peaked at 50mbps for just a moment. I'll also throw in that whatever protocol they're using...I'm guessing it's not bit torrent over HTTP over TCP :)...has overhead as well to account for errors and OUTER-SPACE related nuances! anyways I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I guess it is quite difficult to find shelter in another country in order to be safe from extradition to USA. Look what happens with Snowden and Julian Assange.

Sure it depends on how bad USA wants you to come back.
We've made some changes so we shouldn't be crashing anyone's browsers now.
Funny to read this, I was one of the 6-7 sommeliers that did these events (despite not being a sommelier). He was very quick to compliment all, and very friendly to chat to.
I wouldn't expect the bits coming down from YouTube to be a meaningful representation of what they transmitted.

This page describes the mission goal as 10 megabits-per-second or higher, I guess they aren't making that up:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
So we have our first ad from space. Mankind will never be the same again.
I hope it works better then owncloud - never got the replication to work reliable.
These organizations aren't in developed countries, so their potential cash-outs wouldn't be noticed. Going forward, I would expect even more of the expenses of running an online criminal operation to be payable in BTC, so you wouldn't even need to convert it.
Nobody's saying they should be obliged - but their complaints about how hard it is to hire people should now be taken with a larger grain of salt.

It certainly shows where on the spectrum they lie, between "wants to hire people to do a job" and "wants to hire people to hang out with".

Personally, I've got plenty of friends I care deeply about and want to go drinking with, and while I'm not opposed to grabbing a beer with coworkers from time to time, my primary reason for showing up is to do good work, not play developmentally-delayed fraternity grabass. A company that places "drinkbuddyability" before "workability" is a place that's toxic to me.

I feel that there is a growing disconnect in the industry, and a growing contingent of the industry that has reinterpreted tech's historical desire to be easy-going and not-uptight into some sort of frat-like organization.
Viruses don't have a fixed shape, so can't have a single resonant frequency. Take a look at x-ray crystallography of virus structures - even for non-eveloped capsid structures, there are many regions which can not be resolved. Also, any resonant frequency will change depending on the local environment; pH level, salt concentration, etc..

In any case, viruses are basically thermally coupled to a water bath, so while a virus "can't dampen its vibrations", the water it's sitting in certainly can.

Your [4] has nothing to do with the topic, that I can tell. I looked at your video [5]. It doesn't have enough information to be meaningful. I didn't see a control as the reference, and I didn't see what happens at other frequencies. The presenter had to set an alarm because the amp was getting too hot and a 25 MHz radio source is basically a microwave oven - how hot was the water in the slide? Simple heat would explain all of the observations.

In any case, many things can kill microorganisms in vitro. The problem is killing them in the body, without worse side effects - eg, how many human body cells will be disrupted by the same process?
Site is down. Here's a cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LtRGkef...
Opera Mail is a separate download, still using the old Opera 12 code base. I use it because I have multiple email accounts and it allows me to use them all as a unified inbox.

However, it's still at version 1.0. It hasn't received a single update since it was released and it has a few annoying bugs. It's still the best desktop email client though.
Yes I am aware of all of this and I disagree. Maybe we need to admit that our failure to develop any decent AI is a direct consequence of flaws in our current thinking. Or maybe you should continue to make the same mistakes and expect a different result.
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Sequoia tosses $12M into the maker of the LIFX connected light bulb
"Distances to satellites in orbit are very long."

That's not a fundamental limit. Existing satellites have high latency, because they're sited at insanely high altitude -- ~36,000 km (6 earth radii; 120 light-milliseconds (-> 240 ms minimum round trip)). This is for engineering and economic reasons which aren't solid: one, because geostationary [0] orbits allow dumb dishes that can't track moving objects; and two, because it allows small satellite networks -- i.e. one satellite covering a whole continent -- commensurate with the small size of the market.

If instead you had a network of satellites at say 500-1,000 km (unjustified guess), the latencies could be no worse than a direct optical fiber.

edit: Here's a sophisticated diagram, https://i.imgur.com/t1SOVpZ.png

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit#Geostatio...
Because discerning tone from ascii text is hard. How could you not have come across that fact before? There's even a law about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Also because is followup reference to "all the bikers there" is straight-up true, there are loads of bikers in London, really, though it doesn't follow from the statement before. Is that an attempt at sarcasm that fails because of a failed attempt at a false statement? Who knows. Why can't
funkyy just say what they mean? Who knows.