skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fear is that the Basilisk will have access to our past records and will be able to determine if we've been naughty or nice.
blogging tip: It helps if you proof read your title before submitting to HN
It seems that everyone deriding this as pointless may be unaware of the simulation argument. It hasn't been disproven, and it's more likely than not that at some point it will be proven, given the pace of technological advancement.

When you subscribe to the idea that this could all be a sim, the whole thing results in mental contortions that are literally maddening.

Baudrillard observed not dissimilar in Simulacrum.
I'm surprised that Papers Please is missing, given that the game has already been released on GNU/Linux release through the developer's website. I wouldn't be surprised if there is other such low-hanging fruit in their catalogue.
Offer your shares to the other shareholders first, chances are that you are required to do so anyway because of the shareholder agreement you presumably signed and/or the minutes & bylaws of the corporation. They are also the most likely buyers so besides the fact that you are likely obliged to do so anyway it makes good sense.

Valuation will be a problem, but you could use the last transaction as a starting point (and therefore a floor), the high end depends very much on the state of the company (growth and turnover in that order).

Just the fact that the company received an investment does not automatically mean your shares are worth something, for instance, if the company is about to tank they'll be worthless, it all depends on how the company is doing.

Good luck!
That's pretty much how I view them as well.
Dropbox' defence to Snowden statements
What about a Pandora?
Guests refuse to leave Airbnb host's house
Can you please show the correct answer when I get one wrong? I am not too familiar with TC or PH, so its hard for me to sort them out. This is especially true of the PH posts.
Nice..can you put a demo up?
Just in case anyone cares what the difference is - most possible Gods are about equally likely (no reason to think that one is much more likely to exist than another), while possible AIs which have reached SuperIntelligence status (to the point where they can simulate people for a start) are more likely to be certain ways (for example, self-preservation is not a consideration for an immortal God, nor is research something such a God must engage in, in order to gain knowledge, etc.).
It's based on the argument that a simulation of yourself is not just an exact copy but actually you and that you will experience what the simulation experiences. I remember reading about an interesting thought experiment where we imagine two separate people able to experience each others' perspective through some technology, being able to switch at will. The author was able to gradually blur the lines between both conciousnesses to really make you confused about where one mind ended and another began. I'm not doing a very good job of explaining, but I think that's what they are building on here.

I agree though, it's stupid.
It's interesting that they ported DTrace to Linux. I wonder how they worked around the licencing pitfalls with the GPLv2 and the CDDL, or did they relicence DTrace?
Air Algérie loses contact with flight from Burkina Faso to Algeria
Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
> If a massively powerful and knowledgeable AI was created by accident, it would have nothing to gain by being malevolent.

Indifference can be worse than malevolence. Think of every ant you've ever stepped on.
OMG. It's not. That's my point. I feel like I'm in an crappy sitcom where everything has to be explained.

Random people idolised does not equal anything.

As per the best reply to what about..... squirrel.
I guess the problem comes due to positioning. I am not looking for a low cost product. I am looking for a good product at a lower cost.
This makes him Yudkowsky the perfect lab animal! Think of the things we can learn, the lives we can save by performing experiments (that most think are unethical) on him!

Only if you have a way to stop the other people getting dust in their eyes. Otherwise you're merely increasing the amount of suffering rather than mitigating it by transferring it all to one person.
This document is almost as kooky as TempleOS
Here's how easy it is to send Emails from within your iOS Applications
Trello is now Trello, Inc
I agree, there will be lots of low hanging fruits. But I guess GOG is playtesting every single one of them so it could take a while. The linux testing team is probably smaller than the windows and mac teams.

Just speculation ;-)
How you reduce the chances of DDoS attack
Sounds like the writing of a paranoid schizophrenic to be honest
Or if you're even less lucky, PulseAudio still requires you to mute the "system sounds" thing because once skype starts, you get persistent noise out of the audio jack, after which you try to email Lennart following the guide on his page, only to receive no reply.
Trello, Inc
In some cases, coloring over parts of the image might still not be enough. Specifically, when all of the following are true: (i) the domain of possible entries is reasonably small (e.g., a number or a name and surname), (ii) the text is printed in a proportional (not fixed-width) typeface, and (iii) enough of the rest of the line is visible to infer the font size and kerning settings.
* Because Pascal's wager could apply to any possible variation of supreme being - including non-sensical ones and ones that will punish you if you DO believe in them.

* Roko's Basilisk isn't really a deity, it's a powerful AI with the capability of simulating you and everybody else (or possibly just you).

* Pascal's wager does concern itself with the possibility that you are currently in a simulation.
EuroPython 2014: How Pony ORM translates Python generators to SQL queries
Haven't we proven ourselves (us) to be warmongers too? :-(
That reads more like an opinion piece than a researched article. Not that the OP is different.
Uber failed on my wedding day: How software titans ignore customers
Don't be sad, doing paged layouts is quite an interesting challenge in CSS. Native apps use the routinely and newspapers is just one well-known example. See the spec for more examples. Also, the challenge here is not to replicate newspapers, but to make the content responsive on screens of all sizes.
It depends. I'm playing Enemy Unknown without a hitch with an older Nvidia card. The beta of Sunless Sea (arguably not a demanding game, but Unity seems to have a bad rep on Linux) runs well on Intel graphics. Gaming on Linux has improved by leaps and bounds, to the point where I gave up on dualbooting Windows a few years ago (though I'm not a avid gamer).

PS: don't know why you get downvoted. I wish it was possible to flag unwarranted downvotes...
Uh, SWAT teams are already making drug raids. That is what happened recently in Atlanta where they did a no knock warrant and flash banged an infant in his crib.

If anything we need to remove SWAT teams from existence as well as no knock warrants for any charge short of murder.
You don't have to go all the way back to the early 2000s to find poorly redacted federal documents. Rachel Maddow had a great segment on botched redactions, like removing the black lines from a PDF.

The best solution was to actually cut out the parts of the page you don't want seen and then scan in the result. All other methods are prone to mistakes.

Edit: corrected link to segment http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/redaction-rule...
Of course, we'd have to be sure first. But, perhaps we can start right away with splitting his organs among people who are on the waiting lists, surely, just with his kidneys we can already increase the life of two persons more than the kidneys can increase his life alone. Imagine if we harvest all of his organs!

What a guy and what a theory this moral utilitarianism! It's great! Think of the possibilities, they're endless.

I always thought that the only one who could put a value on my life was me. But this moral utilitarianism makes things so much simpler.
Check out Wikipedia, they use multi-column layout nicely for their references.
what's the nature of the project that you're managing?
also, what is the size of your team?
have you already worked with this process or are you about to deploy it?
cool stuff. a potential issue in India market for smart shoe in India is: in most holy places they need to remove footwear & also many a times they get stolen.
Why they're using Ubuntu logo in "Works on: X + Y + Z" instead of Tux or GNU symbols?
"So stupid. Roko's Basilisk and Roko's Infinite Blowjob Machine are equally probable."

I think the latter is a lot more likely and I predict we'll see it before the singularity.
Maybe they should start using a whitelist? That would seem to be more productive.
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Because they officially support only ubuntu and mint. The provide a tarball for other distros but don't officially support them.
Yes, that's how the spec is written: the style sheet specifies an optimal line length, but it will be adjusted somewhat to fill the whitespace.
Have you had any "portfolio" projects? That is, projects you can showcase? This goes a long way towards the lack of degree.

My story is too long to put into text, but the short of it is that I can relate to a lot of what you went through.
I'd refuse the job offer if the company would pay me in bitcoin. Volatility is not acceptable.

Having said that, there is a market for companies that hire remote workers and they could use it for automating the process of exchanging, accounting fiat1 -> BTC -> fiat2
>Roko's Basilisk isn't really a deity, it's a powerful AI with the capability of simulating you and everybody else (or possibly just you).

At the risk of sounding flippant: What's the difference? If the AI is so powerful that it can simulate my thoughts (which would imply that thoughts and all of life is 100% deterministic), it has to be so powerful that it's practically omnipotent, and therefore, a God.
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How Do You Know You Have a Good Sales Team?
I don't know if the latency on the original LCD would allow for temporal dithering, but it would be pretty cool.
This one [1] however looks more optimistic. While the disease is still spreading, how fast is is spreading is slowing.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak...
Can't help it: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/get_smart-tv.jp...
If you don't mind the vehicle scorching every surface it passes then it might have applications in that space. Otherwise, not so much.
No media queries are used, the HTML/CSS source of the document is linked to further down in the article.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html

Check out Software Foundations. It's a pretty gentle bridge from programming into the theory side. You do programming exercises in Coq. If you already know basic OCaml, the programming side of Coq will seem very familiar. I can't recommend SF highly enough.

gkuan's recommendations are good regular books. They might be a little more than you're looking for.
3 dead nurses don't beat one sick doctor. HN FTW.

Wonder what their names were?
The first sentence in the introduction is

> This book is about how to make a complete map of everything you think for as long as you like.

He then goes on for more than 100 pages (in reasonably logical sections) on how he did this. Isn't that interesting? There are many related topics to this. Here are a few:

- Has anyone done anything similar?
- How does this affect your thinking?
- Have any famous people done this before? Fuller comes to mind, as does da Vinci.
- What about unconventional notebook techniques?
- How can we make this type of note-taking better with modern tools (tablets etc)?
In Go at least, you can certainly enforce private fields and methods on a strict to be accessible only within the scope of the package.
Greenspan says bubbles can’t be stopped
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You can in fact do this, it is a technique known as Super-Resolution and has been around for at least a decade. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...
130 Environmental Groups Call For An End To Capitalism
Does this machine count? http://betabeat.com/2014/06/crowdfunded-electronic-blowjob-m...

(warning: language mildly NSFW, plus of course a video of a blowjob machine. No naked ladies, though)
Handling complexity by piling more complexity on top is sadly very common, even so common that people think it's inevitable. But it's not the only way. The other way can sometimes be harder, and it tends to take more thought, but in the end you may actually solve and get rid of complexity.
But they say "Linux" nearly everywhere, not "Ubuntu" or "Mint" (even though they're the only supported distros and the rest is best-effort tarball). There's inconsistency between iconic and textual data.

Obviously, one can't support "Linux" - that's abstract shortcut title for plethora of various GNU/Linux-based OSes. Yet, I think Tux is universally recognized symbol for those.
Not really. You would need to have a copy of an uncovered version to know how many lines of text, font size, kerning et al.
On a similar note, check out Northpaw, a project to help people develop a sense of north - http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/. This exact same method might actually be an easier way to get wearable navigational aids, as it will work with all shoes.

What I found interesting was that the insoles featured had a surprisingly similar height profile to my medical orthotic insoles for pes cavovarus (high arches, inward-turned heels)[1]. I'm all for tech that fits disabilities by default! (although this is probably an accidental by-product of the required space for the tech)
Has this attack actually been proved possible? He writes that he thinks it should work but doesn't have the time or inclination to prove it. If anyone wants to take a stab at it, I'll gladly submit a mosaiced photo of my credit card because I don't think the attack is practical. If you crack it, you're free to keep whatever you can get. :)
I refuse to believe there are people stupid enough to fall for this tripe.
Better yet: change the text to "you think you're clever, don't you" and then blur the image.

It's a little easter egg for the people with an unblur plugin.
Also, image formats like JPEG have a thumbnail stored in them, which may not be updated when you edit the image.
Lexmark have historically been badly supported in Linux because of their DRM shenanigans and their lack of interest.

Don't buy Lexmark, basically.
Chinese businesses withholding money from Qualcomm in antitrust dispute
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MIT Professor Proposes Better Traffic Light Timing
They forgot to add the key element.. Not choosing one will end up in eternal torment too..
Police == 4chan?
Dynamic way of building team page-Teambuild
I completely agree. I had heard of the incident you mentioned but it's not the first time that near exact situation has happened and I didn't realize it was just this year.

http://rt.com/usa/swat-billings-burns-fasching-312/

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/swat-throws-grenade-in-pl...

My comment was mainly referring to large organized crime or violent gangs that would warrant a SWAT team. I've seen SWAT called in for college students because an undercover smelled marijuana. Who were they trying to help? The students that wanted marijuana? Didn't we learn our lessons about prohibition 90 years ago?
Any app will require excess nested boxes to take care of most complex layouts. Plus the element tag names are presentation effecting, despite not being in the style sheet. (Element names are just corresponding to browser native CSS stylesheets) We aren't there yet so don't act all high and mighty pal
You say amazing, I say horrifying and a violation of the treaties against militarisation of space. Also the world's worst maintenance liability.
i love you gog.
Bad article title.
Chick's Cthulhu: http://jackchick.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/chick-parody-who-w...
Purcellville, Va. man who wants to build helipad, fly helicopter to work
Why we used Foundation Framework
Malaria vaccine: why has it taken 30 years to develop?
That was my thought too, until I realised the only correct response for the AI would be to also flip a coin. I'd prefer to take the million rather than a 50% chance to beat the AI.
Actually, using fixed-width would be even easier since it reveals the length.
Tell you what: I'll give you the history of the
solar storms, mass ejections, up-chucks, whatever,
and you tell me when the next up-chuck is.

If it can't be done, then independence has to hold.
If in practice we don't have a clue, then
intuitively we have to guess that
we have a good first-cut approximation
to independence. Here I'm omitting the
little derivation in terms of conditional
probability -- I've done it too often
in the past and am in a hurry this morning.

"The same source" doesn't have to mean much.
We can flip the same coin and get independent
results.

The internals of the sun are complicated
with, no doubt, a lot of randomness,
i.e., roiling and boiling.
For a good first cut in practice,
at least over time intervals longer
than, say, a week, we assume independence.
Or, I've got a pot of soup overheated and boiling on the stove, and occasionally it splatters and
puts a mess on the stove top.
When's the next splatter?
Who knows. So, first-cut, independence.
Really? Peter Thiel spends his time in this circle jerk? Let me give so life advice that will go unhedged, I am sure. If stuff like this gives you nightmares, get off your fucking computer. Get a different hobby so you can stop losing sleep over killer robots that you built just so they can torture you.
The existing banking system, for all its warts, is a proven, secure system for exchanging fiat1 -> fiat2. Bitcoin's use case has to be a lot stronger than merely being a substitute for TTs.
I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor
I don't think that there are articles in proper news sources about this yet. Here is the guy who found it:

http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4739669.html

And here's the call for bids on the government website:

http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/zkk44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0373100088714000008

The task reads as "research possibility of obtaining technical information about users (user equipment) of anonymous network Thor". It offers 3,9 million rubles (about $100k) for the task.
you just emptied my bank account
Wouldn't want to be paid in BTC either, also because of the volatility.

I do think it would be a nice thing for speculative side jobs, though: The extra income gets stashed away automatically, and I would only look again at it a few years later :)
There's about 1 confirmed person who got 'nightmares' from the basilisk (Roko), and possibly a very few others who have never said so publicly (as far as I know).
Body needs to know when to sleep. With all our artificial light it's easy to skew ones Circadian Rhythm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_clock
I think that title is just fine: 1 tip, 2 tips. 101 tip, 102 tips.
I agree that paged layout are both cool and terrifying. Scrolled layout are much simpler for the formatter as there always is more space to use. Splitting content into pages, known as pagination, can be hard when there are unbreakable chunks in the content. In most cases you can split tables nicely (if they are real tables and not typographical devices), but images should never be split.

Still, I think it's worth it. A nicely laid out page is a pleasure to read, and I've never heard of only who have scrolled through "War and Peace" -- the act of turning a page seems more graceful. And when you are reading for child on your lap, turning the page to see if there's an interesting drawing of a rabbit becomes an event.

Surely, scrollbars will not go away, but we should be able to support pages one the web, too. Web pages, for real.
I want to know why Sergey doesn't use capital letters in his email! Is there a reason for this?
Why does it matter if it was written by Schizophrenic or by a dozen monkeys jumping on the typewriter? Does it have merit or not? Is the content of any value? Is it a well-thought schema for keeping journals?

My assessment: I'd read a couple of chapters and it seems more complicated than necessary.
Wrap-contrast is a superb idea. This document is purely a spec though right? The image in the linked page was just a mockup or is there beta code for these features?
You might have just described backpackers.
Not sure why the downvotes, but I think for the application software that probably 98% of us here write, it isn't as important as we'd like to believe in comparison to a person's life.

Either that or life is really really cheap.
It would be great to follow this in one of the note taking software like evernote or voodoopad.
Sugar gives you energy, makes you hyper. Energy and hyper not conductive to sleep. nightime is sleeptime. As least that is what your body expects when not amped on caffeine, sugar and other stimulants.
Me and my business partner use it for everything work related.

It's been excellent.
The difference is at most the terminology. I'm sure that a lot of weed-smoking metaphysicists can say this better than I can, but the whole point of calling something God is that it's beyond your perception, and as such your perception can't help you understand it. Similarly, if your neurons are simulated by an AI, you can do nothing to prove its existence or non-existence. It's the same thing, IMHO.
Also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3857621.stm
Solving The Pricing Challenge – How Today’s Startups Charge Their Customers
Here is some advice from 1996: don't have equal partners. Make sure someone can call the shots or else no one will call the shots: http://yesatyale.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lecture_06-1...

EDIT This moves around so much I uploaded to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/234962516/Entrepeneurial-Death-Tra...
facepalm

101 items indicate a plurality. 1 tip, 21 tips, 101 tips...
Yanis Varoufakis is paraphrasing coase (1937).
Yes, we (at https://codeable.io) use Trello for pretty much all internal (async) communications, from Sprints (user stories) to features, to ideas,...

No learning curve, exactly the right features.

And also there's something I like in Trello that Basecamp (I know comparing apples to oranges, but both can be used for similar purposes) doesn't support: closure. When something is no longer relevant, you archive it and it's gone, no more mental burden. Quite important when you have 100s of tickets.
The essay encourages us to use encrypted services in order to prevent traffic analysis. I have no issue with the overall goal. I have only a nit to pick, with the quote "It takes the teen’s Web history into account when his family applies for coverage."

That specific scenario doesn't make economic sense. There's too much variability for the insurance company to make a good decision. Consider that a health teacher may assign students to research different common ailments, as part of a lesson to understand the available tools; a science teacher may bring up the story of H. pylori as a digestive disorder which was misunderstood for a very long time, and the student wants to learn more; the teenager may be helping a stressed out friend; the teenager might be interested in going into medicine and researches common diseases; and so on.
CSS constantly is moving forward. Reference books are for scrubs when you have the internet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
Nowadays native games usually don't have issues and for the other ones wine often works, even with a somewhat unusual tiling window manager (Xmonad).

Performance is still not as good as on Windows though. For example I can't play Dota 2 because of low fps on linux but on windows it is playable.