skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair. I had originally wrote "One will not get to the same place...", but wanted to modify it to allow for exceptional cases. Went too far modifying it.

I agree that nearly everybody is unlikely to reach the same place in life as that CEO. If that were not the case, truly we would be living in a utopia.
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An Introduction to Migen [pdf]
The article mentions that it could be a reference to High Fidelity, Philip Rosedale's new project. However, it couldn't be that, because Hi Fidelity is totally open source, and the article also mentions that this world will be closed source.
This separation is entirely how US citizens invest powers into their own government. It's not so much that certain people have rights that others do not, rather, US citizens will permit certain parts of their own government to carry out some actions against 'others', that it does not parmit to carry out against itself. It's why the US has the Posse Comitatus Act - to have police deal with disturbances amongst citizens, and military deal with disturbances with other nations. There are separate rules when dealing with one's own bosses (even when different from the status quo), then when dealing with one's enemies. There is a significant difference in how one expects a hostile, unknown, or even an allied group to behave, and your own group. The US government is its citizens, so it would be quite dysfunctional (as a government) for it to become adversarial to itself in a way that does not occur were it to become adversarial to those whom it is not.

The idea that the government (of its people) can in any way justify killing those same people without due cause quickly leads to the government no longer being of the people (in a way that targeted killing of non-citizens does not).
When I was young I didn't know any better, and just spent my time doing stupid, unfulfilling things because I was a teenage idiot and didn't know there even were better ways to spend my time.

As I got older, I was exposed to more and more amazing and inspiring things in the world, which motivated me to spend my time seeking out new and cool things to do and places to explore. My time was way too limited and important to waste doing things that wouldn't expand my horizons in some way.

As I got older than that, I realized that I was killing myself by never allowing myself to just relax. Work shouldn't be 100% optimized and neither should life. It takes a toll. It might take 20-30 years, but it does take a toll. Now I try to always have some amount of time every week (every day even) where I don't have to always be doing something fulfilling or enriching. I just do whatever I feel like doing during these times, which is sometimes constructive and sometimes not. Point being, I don't worry about it. These times allow me to recharge and rejuvenate before diving into whatever epic activity I've convinced myself I have to do because life is too short, etc. etc. etc.

TL;DR: appreciating the finer things in life is important, but learning to appreciate both the finer and coarser things is Nirvana.
> -Can- we have simulators for Amazon Fire apps given that they're 3D?

I am sure it could be wired up to follow the mouse as if it were a moving head.
Actual malice on the part of an AI isn't necessarily required for catastrophic consequences. The canonical example in this school of thought is the Paperclip Maximizer [1].

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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Have you tried Insync which is a cross platform gdrive alternative. I believe its using python, so it might not suffer from 32bit issues.
>>> There are many developers that take a lot of shortcuts, with hardcoded passwords and the like.

This.

Last year worked at a huge, multinational,privately held company. After being at my job less than two days, I found out they store all of their server passwords in plaintext, on the server, together, in one file.

It took me about an hour to compose myself. It was like having a dream where you come to work and you suddenly realize you left your pants at home.
Looks fine to me.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/analytics.google.com
Does it come with improved "sharing" abilities as well? http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2344633/leaked-nsa-docum...
http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/82416436703/statement-o...

But also, straight from the mouth of a USCYBERCOM strategist speaking to our class the other week.

And also, just plain logic. I pointed out here on HN even before the ODNI released the statement I linked above that Heartbleed is far more damaging to the USG itself than any intel value NSA could have hoped to achieve from it.

With the other vulns NSA would have stockpiled they don't need Heartbleed, and leaving Heartbleed open would have hurt a lot of USG (and just as importantly, private US) infrastructure, so even going by crazy USG logic the right thing to do would have been to disclose it, just as NSA has fixed other open source security flaws over the years.
The Glass Explorer Programme. Now in the UK.
You should really take a look at HealthKit. It solves all of the problems you list under #1. I.e. It has a standard simple dashboard for health data.
It's not really changing history, just backdating commits. Can anything be done to stop people adjusting their system clocks, or writing false data into their commit history? There is no way to disprove those commits, especially since commit and push are disparate events in git.
Could you please put your price on the landing page?

I just got a download link and further down the page the price of a upgrade from a older version.

Before I download I am more interested in what I am downloading (is it a time limited demo?) and what the price is if I want a license. Otherwise its not worth my time to try the demo download.
I use paper most of the time, but for recurring things in particular I've found rememberthemilk to be very effective.
>Unlike normal data transmissions, which are encoded in radio waves, this one came to Earth on a beam of light.
>radio waves
>beam of light
Radio waves are light...
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There's not much information about the company, and according to wikipedia: "The company has been secretive about its plans and operations in order to maintain confidentiality - “operating deeply in ‘stealth mode’” - and has rarely spoken to the media."
Thanks for posting that. I used to have that article bookmarked long ago, and I had forgotten about it. It was a strong influence that lead to my early efforts to deprogram myself from the cult of work. "Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment."
Brilliant.
Yes, I did. We seem to be talking past each other.

Through manual detective work, Ryan Hoover was able to confirm that three companies (out of the several thousand that have appeared on ProductHunt) raised funding after being discovered on ProductHunt. Instead of doing the same sort of detective work, the OP, on the other hand, wrote up a post with a broad, bold claim, put together a bunch of statistics unrelated to validating said claim, and then added the caveat that her statistics did not show the causation her claim required.

Put simply, to establish that ProductHunt is widely being used for deal sourcing, you would need to contact the startups and/or investors and ask them. At that point, you could compare the number of startups that have appeared on ProductHunt to the number of deals that were sourced through ProductHunt and draw a legitimate, meaningful conclusion about ProductHunt's popularity as a sourcing tool.
An intelligent entity doesn't need to have actively hostile intentions ("want to kill") towards you in order to be incredibly dangerous. Consider a bulldozer operator on a jungle minesite, for instance. He wouldn't even notice if he ran over an anthill, and certainly wouldn't care if he did. There is only a philosophical competition for resources between humans and ants (humans don't care about the motivations of ants, even though we would win any such competition) and in this scenario we would have no motivation to kill them.

For the purposes of a discussion about the dangers of advanced AI, the question of ethics/morals etc. is not a prerequisite. An AI in this context is any system of matter that is capable of autonomous operation in a varied and complex envionment while fullfilling some (explicitly or implicitly) externally specified optimization goal.

There does not have to be a competition for resources, although if there is, it's worth noting that every human that's ever lived has lived its life at the finite-sized bottom of a deep gravity well which is very cumbersome to leave. Humans very easily anthropomorphize in discussions about intelligence, because all intelligences we have ever encountered were the result of long-term biological evolution and hence have very complex survival-and-reproduction-oriented goal systems. There is no reason to believe that our first truly autonomous and advanced AI systems would be similar, therefore this is a question which must be explored in detail. Sooner rather than later. Human moral systems (which is what we would like as a first approximation in artificial intelligences) appear to us to be obvious, but are in fact incredibly complex and contradictory.
Living the Fitbit Life
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Living the Fitbit life
For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJSQq494oV4
The call us button shouldn't be a hard link. Not everyone has VoIP integration yet...
Thanks!

http://superherojs.com look really good. I'll definitely check it out.
Though you haven't really provided anything to backup the claim that Buffet's managers stick with him (I'd honestly be interested to read more about that) I'll take it at face value, as it seems sensible. However, as a specific example this is at the extremes, to the point of being absurd really. Few, if any, companies are their industry's equivalent of Warren Buffet, nor will they ever be. That doesn't necessarily make them bad companies either.

Besides, I'd hazard a guess is that the issue of being paid "enough" is well past the point of being an issue for any of these top level managers. They are all probably almost absurdly well compensated. This doesn't disprove the assertion that for the vast majority of positions and salary ranges, differences in salary, as the article discusses are significant to the extreme. is a point below which it does make a difference.

In the end there is little real benefit to these managers to be gained from walking away from one of the best and most well known people in finance for money you don't need.
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I agree that they're being foolish (though hey, they're the ones paying me to waste my time), but I'm just as peeved at Apple for removing a perfectly-workable self-contained solution in favor of yet more platform lock-in.
> I agree we have little basis besides movies for autonomous AI just deciding to attack for no reason or for human-equivalent reasons.

Of the very many species that have become extinct as a result of human action, how many were the result of a deliberate attempt by humans to eradicate the species? Very few.

The others are, however, still just as extinct. AI doesn't have to "decide to attack us" to be a danger.
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Intelligence is appropriate as it really just means the ability to acquire knowledge and apply it. Theres no implied meaning re: effectiveness or quality.

I think you've nailed it with the second part of your comment.
I think you may be confused.
At the point at which you compile this, you are no longer dealing with JVM bytecode, but your own IR (translated from JVM bytecode), and can do whatever you want. Thus, you are not limited by what the JVM has in terms of instructions.

(and in general, you never are. You are only limited by correctness of program execution)

If you want to support it at the bytecode level, yes, what you are suggesting is correct, but it doesn't have to be done this way at all, and rarely is in any language.
In general, having to muck up source-code to get optimal data-layouts is a non-starter. Second, the actual optimal data layouts are rarely what programmers think they are due to cache/other complications (it's usually some very complicated nested struct layout with explicit packing and unions in various places)

In any case, i believe my base point stands: There is nothing that stops java from being fast in these cases, because you don't need any support from bytecode to do it.
You can track the amount through the transaction logs though, and mixers don't want to get stuck with bitcoins which will eventually be invalidated by other parts of the ecosystem.

Not a perfect idea at this point though, it'd require considerable organization to get this done, certainly better than throwing away Bitcoin or waiting for it to become criminalized. IMHO
> "They're clearly looking for social as well as technical fits, and I wouldn't be that."

I think the article argues that it's not at all 'clear' (as evidenced by the 'interviewee' who didn't realise what was going on - and probably the company as they never articulated what they were looking for).
The answer to why your employer isn't paying your "worth" is because there's no such thing (or at least it's incredibly hard to measure). There's no real price discovery happening (and even in markets where there is discovery prices can fluctuate wildly).

Here's one interpretation: People are willing to get paid less if there's something else that can make up for that fact. I wasn't looking to trade something else for money which is why the "deal" of offering me more money didn't work. I see it as more about culture.

But then again, if I look back, the things that I am looking for have also changed. So sometimes "It's not you it's me" :-) is really true. I used to work for a great company for a long while and I'd still be very happily working there if they hadn't been acquired and flushed down the toilet (culture + business broken). In a sense selling the company is the most selfish act a company can perform vs. its employees. Otherwise I might have been making a little less money, producing a little more value and a little happier. Our economy sucks at optimizing these things.
Try Firefox. I'm surprised almost no Surface Pro user recommends it, but I've found it very friendly with HiDPI and touch screen. Except for zoom, stepped reflow instead of continuous scale; although I like it like that).
There is a great deal of evidence that the great majority of voters (not the same as average Americans,) do not vote on the basis of their own self-interest.[1] The problem here seems to be a bias in favor of entrusting the government with a great deal of power, in the hope of creating a good and stable society. Individualism and collectivism do not seem to have much to do with problem, though one could argue that the public is insufficiently aware of Public Choice Theory, among other problems with collective action.[2][3]

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

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

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
Local businesses, particularly restaurants, bars and nightclubs, are extremely difficult to sell to these days, particularly in major cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, etc.

These folks are pitched on new "apps" all the time and unless you have a really compelling proposition, standing out from the last 10 people who walked in trying to sell a new technology-based service is tough. In fact, one of the first things you're likely to be asked selling to restaurants, bars and nightclubs is the size of your audience. If you don't have a meaningful enough number, drumming up interest is all but impossible for most.
Nope. Not a sausage. If just disappeared.
Every country treats their citizens differently than non-citizens, and every country believes surveilling and killing non-citizen combatants in an armed conflict is perfectly acceptable -- and that's what the government of the United States believes it's doing.

You may disagree with the government of the United States' definition of combatant or armed conflict, but once you grant them that belief, they're not acting differently than any other nation.
I think one of things for me personally is learning to price things appropriately. As an engineer, I tend to want things for the cheapest price, because if things are too expensive, I'll code it myself.

However when I started my saas service, I totally underpriced my services. I realized that price sensitivity was much higher for my clients than I realized when i put away my cheapo software engineering mindset.
Appapella: The Pocket-Size Production Studio
New app called Appapella, it allows people to sing and rap over instrumentals you can then add a audio filter, similar to how you would add a photo filter on Instagram, then instantly share the recording via Twitter, Soundcloud, SMS, Email or Facebook.

Here is a example of a user using it and instantly tweeting their produced track on twitter.
https://twitter.com/smokerule/status/479975634848862208

Here is a example from a user with the filter applied.
https://twitter.com/HelloAudibase/status/481035198008922112

List of filters:
Low Pitch
High Pitch
Add Reverb
High Pass Filter
Echo Effect
Chorus Effect
Boast Vocals
Silly Low Pitch
Silly High Pitch

It's a great way for people to either have fun or create versions and collaborate and share with the artists who have submitted the instrumentals.

Features:
Collaborate With Artists
Layer your vocals over one of our great instrumental tracks provided by talented musicians.

Add Audio Filters
Choose one of our great audio filters to layer over your vocals and enhance your track.

Save and Store Lyrics
Save your favourite lyrics so they’re easy to find for future recordings.

Share Instantly
Easily share your produced track with your friends via Twitter, Facebook, email, and text.

Attach Lyrics to Tracks
Attach the chosen lyrics to the track you’re recording for a mistake free result.

Add Your Own
Get yourself involved! Submit your instrumental tracks or lyrics for use on the app.

Website: http://appapella.co.uk/
APP DOWNLOAD: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appapella-sing-rap-over-instrumentals/id839622467?ls=1&mt=8
Just do it.

Seriously. What's the worst that could happen about pushing some open source code on GitHub? You don't have to start by contributing to openssl or something of similar magnitude. Just push some stuff to your personal one.

Trust me, I graduated college with an art degree and some of my earliest GitHub stuff shows this. But I keep pushing, literally. One of my babies has 1300+ stars and that's awesome to me. I don't think of it like validation, but more like "holy shit a lot of people like this." Some of my libraries are sitting at 0 stars, and that's ok.
how is that weird?
Movies in the U. S. used to have intermissions. _2001_ has been mentioned here. More recently, _Tess of the D'Urbervilles_ and _Ghandi_ in the 80s. (All of these from memory, I'm sure there are other examples.) It seems that after that cinemas just didn't do it anymore.

I understand that cinemas want you in and out as quickly as possible. At the same it would seem they can sell more high-margin soft drinks and popcorn if folks are given the opportunity to do so. In fact, there's no way in hell I'm buying anything at all even before the movie starts if I know it's a 3 hour "epic" that won't have an intermission. I'm going into that with a bladder that resembles Death Valley.
I would associate Discourse more strongly with Javascript or Ember than Rails.
https://deadmanssnitch.com/ is what we use.
Psst! They call the suite SeaMonkey today.
FNR: a small domain block cipher to encrypt small domain objects
Depending on the update interval you won't get the actual location. But you could develop the app and distribute it as source, for everyone to compile and upload to their phone. They'd need access to somebody with an apple developer account, but that's fairly easy to get.
Cautionary tale: They were bundled separately for Internet Explorer, and everyone assumed they didn't exist. Even now you can see people complaining that say, "developing for IE 6 was hard because it didn't have developer tools".
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(don't forget google drive's price decreases, which will also put pressure on Dropbox ...)
I think it is not just about "need for influence".

To learn somthing, is to 1. Read, 2. Do and 3. Teach. So blogging can be "teach" part.
That's a big improvement, then. The original Surface Pro was awful, with serious problems [1] in the mwifiex driver. I also found its wireless support was unstable when bluetooth was also in use, even in Windows 8, which was the final deal breaker for me.

I would recommend waiting on adopting any Surface devices until there is general acclaim that they got the hardware right, beyond a reviewer who just used it for a few days then rushed to press.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69661
The very nature of it makes it much easier for criminals to avoid authorities once payment is made though. Sure you can screw up and do something stupid like send it to coinbase and cash out but there are lots of ways to use it without the authorities being able to determine your identity or location.
I'm pretty sure it is Europe. If you mouse over the greenish parts, individual countries are highlighted.
So the speed of all fiber and radio is basically the same and it's the capacity that's different?

Does that mean that saying "internet connection speed" is a faulty term? We should all be saying "capacity" or data-rate?
Excellent product; I've used ExpanDrive in the past and it works remarkably well.

Curious--any chance you can put together support for OneDrive for Business? Microsoft currently lacks a proper client for that service on the Mac, and it's a minor pain.
> There's an interesting quasi-3D UI feature and a big flashing BUY button, in line with Amazon's role as the Sears Roebuck of the 21st century, but little that really changes anything or couldn’t be done on any other smartphone anyway.

Car manufacturers don't make new model cars because they "change" something or do something other cars can't. They make new cars because they need something sexier for people to buy so the manufacturer will continue to increase revenue.

The iPhone didn't "change" anything or provide new features. Nokia and Sony Ericsson already had phones with far more advanced functionality years before it came to market. What iPhone provided was a sexier, easier interface. This Amazon phone is just another badly executed new car that puts new technology over the "sexy" factor, which is why you're unimpressed. But it serves a bigger purpose...

> And that leaves people wondering why Amazon bothered.

To hook people on more subscription services like Prime. That's Amazon's entire business model.

The purpose of the Kindle was to incentivize additional book purchases due to the ease [of not having to ship a paper book or carry it around or keep it] and cost [lower than for paper books]. Envious of the green Apple makes on the App store, Amazon wants some of that mobile-market money, and a way to push their own competing "store" (music, books, etc).

Basically, the mobile sector is turning out digital Walmarts where you can get everything you could possibly need, and the retailers are providing mobile devices tailored to their shops. Amazon doesn't want their shop to get ignored, so they provide their own mobile retail interface to beat the incumbent competition.