skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIXI-tl could use a CTC computer.

As well as performing arbitrary computations in one tick, we could also keep a CTC going as a "reset button": whenever we realise that an incorrect/sub-optimal decision has been made, we can go back to when we started.

This lets us 'brute force' our real-world interactions (ie. our IO), as well as "merely" gaining an infinite computing speed-up.

This could be exploited by something similar to the "Success Story Algorithm" http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/directsearch/node13.html . The CTC-AI would some way of "scoring" the world (ie. a fitness function), some probability of modifying its decision-making policy, and some non-zero probability of resetting the world. If the reset probability is anti-correlated to the world's score, worlds which score higher over time are more likely, hence the machine's decisions are more likely to increase the score than decrease it, hence the policy is more likely to improve over time.
That's an interesting twist on it; "unlocking" (unblocking) the pixel one at a time. Almost like a perverted Million Dollar Homepage of yesteryear.
thank you! Will correct in my post with gender neutral wording, which I should have used from the start.
Building My Own Home Router, Part 2 – 802.11
Organ donation 2.0 and prostitution 2.0.

But we're helping the poor to make their own decisions about how to generate wealth.
> the easiest way is to append some nonsense parameters to the url

I would advise against that...

https://i.imgur.com/XwzNt0Q.png
That rotary knob looks awfully easy to break.

There has to be a better interface than physically moving your hand up to the knob to change which device has focus.

Also if this could also charge your devices that would be awesome also.
One Simple Rule for Successful Consulting
Car dealerships and the three tier alcohol system seem so archaic and anti-consumer, both amaze me in their longevity and the amount of money that must be getting put into them to retain the hold.
> 3) It's not $590, it's $1500 (or more).

Just wanting to point this out, but the price for a single developer, with support included, is currently $590 according to this page: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html

> 4) Not many people pay for libraries or frameworks anymore, when open source alternatives are either better or just good enough.

Not many, sure. But then again, they aren't going for lots of smaller people, but instead, fewer large companies. This is smart, since they are pushing support services as well.
Samsung reveals virtual reality headset powered by a smartphone
> They're (not) profitably solved because the economic and political systems have been designed to make them unprofitable.

Not so, and even if it were, that would only further underscore the fact that you still can't solve them with capitalism. The author is effectively recommending that the local high school football team get out there and fix homelessness in the city. The best you can hope for is that they'll provide a nice photo op for the mayor.

> The basic problem is a feedback system which rewards certain activities as 'profitable' and punishes others as 'unprofitable'.

Could you go into detail? Because to me that "feedback system" just seems to be the market. You can't tell people what to want or what to like. That's the basic reason why we have markets.

You might be able to influence the system in small ways through social policy, but again, you can't dictate to people what they should want or not want, because they won't listen to you. The best you can hope for is something like the Fed. You manipulate the levers you have, not the levers you wish you had.

What the author should have done was offer up some ways for Silicon Valley to solve big social problems in profitable ways. Since they don't exist or are really hard to find, otherwise someone else would have gotten rich already solving them, all she can do is moralize.
CVE-2014-1564: Uninitialized memory with truncated images in Firefox
I don't think that is really the point. The point is that it can store the settings for 3x devices and you can switch between each one of them individually as needed.

For example, if you had an iPad and iPhone you can have them both configured as the 1 and 2 positions, and switch the switch as the relevant device was docked.

With a lot of existing Bluetooth keyboards you would need to re-sync it each and every time you switched devices.
People demonize these car dealerships because after dealing with their sneakiness and incompetence for years, only two words come to mind at the thought of their demise: Good riddance. If your typical car dealership experience was pleasant, there would be some bleeding hearts speaking out in their defense.
If you're a scientist, it's best for your career to do small incremental improvements on previous research. That guarantees a steady stream of publications.

If you go for a big idea and are wrong, then your career is over.

Also, peer review is censorship. If you're doing something radically different, it's less likely to pass peer review.
I think the model of time and space in Primer is more consistent because it's a very specific kind of time machine.

If I recall correctly, you'd turn on the machine, wait N hours, go inside the machine, and in the next N hours you'd be going back in time and come out the other end at the moment the machine was turned on. So you would have spent 2*N extra hours, the machine would have always been in the same spot, so there'd be no problem with traveling through space.

There are still problems with the paradoxes, but that's part of the plot of the movie.
It wouldn't seem to matter in the movie, since whatever you put in the device would get dragged around with the device as it traveled through space.
Right, and when you "drop down to a lower level" to get more performance, the entire house of cards comes crashing down with bugs that are extremely difficult to debug.

The issue isn't actor model on a virtual machine-- erlang runs on a VM-- the issue is that the actor model is insufficient. You need pretty much most of OTP to build reliable, stable, concurrent systems.

This is why goroutines, everything on the JVM, etc are not going to work.

The sad thing is, I think the primary reason people are not using Erlang is they are afraid of the syntax, but even that reason is obliterated by the existence of Elixir (an even better language on the erlang VM)
Node.js for dummies screencasts
What are the physical dimensions of K810? It is strange that Logitech does not specify them as it did for K480.
It's entirely possible and legitimate to be angry at both.
It's damning because, rather than outsource the issue like the library makes you think you are doing (or like anyone writing erlang code actually is doing) you still have to deal with the hassle and the risk, so you're not really buying much.
Installing MongoDB service on Windows 8
WebRTC chat with React.js
A war game that actually feels like being in a war
Lookaly closing down
Mozilla had a pretty decent Outlook converter for a while.

The other way to convert it was to forward it to another system.

Among the reasons I've vastly preferred Maildir / mbox mail formats (even allowing for mbox's brokenness).
How does Pillow compare to Sleep Cycle?
Modern Entrepreneurs Need to Learn How to Write
I may be mistaken about the battery time, so don't take my word for it. The Logitech site says about 10 days with backlight on (12 months(!) without it)[1]. And while I get the Ubuntu keyboard battery warning after 3-4 days, there still may be a few days left in it.

[1] http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...
Tesla Denies Georgia Dealers’ Claims That It Broke Rules
nice to know that. i will soon check that.
Neither of those disadvantages exist in the erlang system, as the scheduler spreads processes across OS processes. I can't speak for "Actor Model" libraries, though.
Boot times, although obviously benefited by inetd and parallel execution, were already improved significantly by the LSB-standardized init headers and the insserv mechanism to interpret them. Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, openSUSE, etc. all used them, to the best of my knowledge.

Also, the bad reputation around initscripts is, again, a SysV issue. Here is the rc script for sshd on OpenBSD:

daemon="/usr/sbin/sshd"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

rc_cmd $1

It's even shorter than a systemd unit file.
Reviews are actually pretty good with regards to that. The complaints I have seen is that the battery dies after a couple of years and is not easily replaceable. This would mean a new keyboard every couple of years.
OS X: iStats CLI
Interesting post, especially the mention of his father at the end. Sweet touch.

His virality equation piqued my interest, anyone know of sources I should check out in understanding it further?
Whoops, 404 for the demo: https://e33b72.stamplay.com/
Profit may be a strong driver however safety and security are equal if not paramount, while not negating privacy of the innocent while preventing abuse.
I was actually surprised when I read the summary, because that would be a surprising level of poverty in the US. If anything, we are unnecessarily generous with the food stamps here. (Which I am not necessarily complaining about, just observing that they are relatively easy to get.) And lo, it turns out this was in Britain, so saying they can't afford $44 is sort of deceptive. I well believe she couldn't afford £44.

There's a certain segment in American politics who really doesn't like to talk about this, but for all the drama, the poor in America are still better off than they are in almost any other country, which, yes, includes all (AFAIK) the European countries, and while that doesn't prove anything about what we do or do not need to do in that area, it does suggest that rhetoric about poverty in the US can occasionally get overblown. (It's a political thing where, let's be honest, there's a lot of incentives to keep promising more. I started listing them all out and the list of people interested in increasing poverty payouts got too long for a parenthetical. Again, not necessarily a complaint, but let's not pretend here that these interests don't exist. If you'd like, celebrate that often comes from something so crass as base political pandering ends up benefiting so many people, instead of a narrow interest group.)

I live in the Midwest and I don't know anyone living in abject poverty, but I know a lot of struggling families (as in, friends of the family that we socialize with frequently, not just "people I've heard of"). There's plenty of them that could afford $44, if you were somehow bringing something to them that was worth it. Which is, after all, the entire point here, to bring them something that will somehow improve their lives more than the cost of buying it, not to just pointlessly drain their wallets. This may very well only work right now in the US, where, yes, even the poor and struggling can afford $44, if it's worth it somehow. And on the flip side, while it's perhaps harder than you might initially think to bring $44 of value to somebody, it is also a very feasible goal. You don't have to work out how to bring them $5000 of value. (Although if you can somehow, awesome. That said the only thing that leaps to mind where you can pay back thousands for a small investment is budgeting apps, and that space is covered. The problem there wouldn't so much be writing the app as getting people to use it.)
Facebook Market Cap Tops $200B
I have absolutely loved using Highcharts on past projects. Just avoid the headaches and use Highcharts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain_(computing)
Regarding Free Market Environmentalism, the author mentions air tracers which allow the source to be identified, but he also recognizes its limits: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=DYBLDU8q (excerpt from his podcast episode on Econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/08/terry_anderson.html)
Two-legged robot able to run without ZMP control
I agree, but until Google gets the fix in you can have no way of knowing what it will look like because it all depends on the hardware and how it has been scaled.

I only came across this because my daughter's new laptop with an HD screen made Chrome look awful and I didn't understand why since it looked good everywhere else.
Google Glass Is Getting a Second Look from Businesses
Vim FAQ
Of the recipes that I read, cherry brandy is the easiest by far — you macerate several pitted cherries in a jar for several days — and not alien at all to a contemporary reader with an interest in these things. But should it have been quite so easy? 'Brandy' is almost as general a term as 'wine' or 'beer'. Which brandy available to an American in 2014 would be most comparable to the brandy available to an English cook in 1601, I wonder?
You're basically saying that nobody cares about these laws until they have an obvious negative impact. Why would you expect anything else?
ZenPayroll launches an API
Oh god, "no transaction support". I wish anyone mentioning that would check, what was the last version missing it and when was it released.

As for "how did it climb" the answer is simple: replication. Working replication was available in MySQL years ago too. Not perfect, but working.

Big companies usually do have competent people who make informed decisions, not based "I've read on the internet that PG is the real DB and MySQL is just a toy".
> Any ideas?

There's tons material out there about 'connecting with your why' and channeling intrinsic motivators. Motivation is important and your mindset matters.

But it's called work for a reason, you must suck it in and tough it out. Do build time-blocks into your day for things that give you energy. Action will make a you a better husband & father.

On a practical note, suggest reading up on Polyphasic Sleep, it will help tremendously over the next 12 months > http://www.4hourlife.com/2012/04/29/become-uberman-sleep-lik...
Wufoo as CMS
> The primary advantages center around the ergonomics of concurrency.

That is how most "frameworks" or those that try to copy this aspect from Erlang see it. But the trick is in Erlang this actor pattern is used for fault-tolerance just as much. That was the goal right alongside concurrency initially. (The third one was priority of low latency responses, I believe).

That fault tolerance is harder to copy and that is why most libraries and frameworks give up and copy the "class object+thread+queue" and call it "We have a fast Erlang now".

The closest to get to something like Erlang fault tolerance wise is to use OS processes and IPC (via ZMQ), with some serialization. But it would be hard to run 2M of those on a reasonable machine.

Plus Erlang is not just the language (which is rather small and simple) but the whole set of helper libraries and tools. Including a distributed database, distributed application controllers. Support for rpc and so on. Supervisor patterns you can use etc.
The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: An outdated calculator still holds a monopoly
Nodejs Internal Dependencies – The Holistic View
I take it you've never been actually poor? $44 can be a hell of a lot to invest in technology when you don't have enough money to cover the bills every month.
>1Password creates your data file using the password you provided when you first launched the application. This password is not kept anywhere and it is never logged. Furthermore, there is no “back door” mechanism to recover your data or password. This approach is very important in order to be able to say that 1Password keeps your data safe and secure. However, because of it, once your password is forgotten, there is nothing we can do to help you recover it.

https://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/forgot_password.html

I have my master password written on a piece of paper that is stored in a safe location, mostly so my wife can access my information if anything ever happened to me, but it also works as a backup if I ever forget my master password for some reason.
Usually the law requires two things. Separate ownership: musk couldn't own both. Open access: anyone must be allowed to open a tesla dealership.
Pervasive surveillence is too high a price to pay for the convenience of being able to type "hash salt" instead of "hash salt computers".

"Relationships" are built by two people, not by one person being followed around the entire interney by a multibillion dollar international conglomerate.
On testing Stdout with Golang
I don't think the problem is that highcharts costs money, but that there are no good FOSS alternatives(I embarked on a fairly extensive search last week for a FOSS js charting libraries and although I did end up choose one of those for the project, it was not nearly as fleshed out as Highcharts). One thing that tends to happen when you have a very strong commercial library out there, is it often discourages the creation of a FOSS alternative, which is somewhat unfortunate.

FOSS is one of the great enablers of modern software engineering and FOSS is far from "gimme software for free and I give you nothing, thanks!" type situation that some people make it out to be.
I was surprised (and a little disappointed) they were not using MariaDB, as it's made by the creator of MySQL, has more features, and generally is considered "upstream" of MySQL these days... seems the MariaDB project would be more receptive to making changes and working with the Github team in order to scale.
TheThings.biz - the anti-LinkedIn for disconnected job seekers
It's worth noting that the K810 is rechargeable, however. You can leave it plugged in over USB while it's at your desk, and unplug as needed. I carry mine around with a tablet as a laptop replacement and charge both every few days. I can handle 2 or 3 days of life if it means I don't need to stock AA batteries.
What do you mean by:

"This is why goroutines, everything on the JVM, etc are not going to work."

I've used Akka very successfully on the JVM for non-trivial clustered applications where performance is important, and I'm pretty sure the existence of most of google's infrastructure says that goroutines work at least a little bit.

Do you mean not work well? They won't gain traction?
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If someone showed up at your house and told you that you had to leave, would you?
Samsung's Gear VR Is a Portable Oculus Rift for the Galaxy Note 4
The defenders of anonymity on the internet
I thought it might follow backwards in space as well as time but when the book The Physics of Time Reversal by	Robert G. Sachs came out in 1987 it made me skeptical of that possibility. I haven't followed the theory of CP violation for many years so this may not be a pertinent point anymore.
Isn't it rather antisocial to pave over someone's home?
Synergy FOSS: Connect your keyboard to multiple PCs
Deals“ app with a twist launches at Yale
nice background information
>I find it quite patronizing that you assume the only reason anyone would use MySQL is that it is the default choice.

Really? Defaults are supposed to be sane and the best-fit-for-most-common-scenarios... so it's a little patronizing to automatically assume your project is just so special that defaults are not good enough.

Defaults should be good enough until they have been proven to not be good enough. Don't over-engineer your project.
This Google Glass App That Measures Human Emotions Is So, So Creepy
I don't see the point, you only have control over one of those groups.
I purchased a KBTalking Pro and it is the best keyboard I've owned, I like it better than my Das. Similar to the keyboard being discussed, it allows you to pair with 10 different bluetooth devices and switch between them via keyboard shortcuts.
> The subjective interview is academic, not a tally of your social contacts and social class.

Maybe, but I'm not sure how you can be so sure. It's an in-person conversation; class is very much apparent.

> It would be vanishingly rare not to get an offer for A * A * A * A if one were capable of scoring that well and few offers that I've heard of are for less than AAA.

When I went it was before A* was introduced, and the standard offer was AAB. But only about half of applicants got the offer; it was not "vanishingly rare" but quite common for someone to be rejected by Cambridge but go on to achieve AAA in the exams.
There was a time when Apple only sold through franchisees and were unable to sell direct.
This sounds like the Novikov self-consistency principle.

Say you have a wormhole on a billiard table. It curves around and goes three seconds backward in time. You roll a ball into the wormhole, aimed such that after it exits the wormhole, it will knock its earlier self off the path so that it never enters the wormhole. Paradox.

Except when you try it, instead of emerging along the pathway you aimed, it emerges along a slightly different path, and strikes its earlier self only a glancing blow. And why did it emerge along a different path? Because it was struck a glancing blow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princi...
How Rackspace lost its mojo
Wealth != income.

Do you know how many lottery tickets are purchased by the "unexotic underclass"? There are those with "virtually no money to spend," to be sure, but there are plenty of working poor with a combined large amount of money passing through their hands that never generates wealth because it is immediately spent, both to meet needs (often inefficiently), and to meet wants (often with little long-term thinking, which for various reasons can be entirely rational in given circumstances). The opportunities lie in trying to identify improvements in that cashflow (which is hard to do if you are so disconnected from the "underclass" that you can't even fathom why someone would spend so much on lottery tickets, and thus how you would ever convince them to spend money on your service instead...)
PSPACE is bigger than and contains NP. You still don't get ANYTHING=O(1), though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_(complexity)#Relationship_t...
It looks like they copied all the features of Sleep Cycle (and the companion app, Power Nap), made it look a little nicer, and tacked a few on like audio recording and achievements. The hardest comparison to make would be in the actually quality and accuracy of the tracking. I wouldn't even know where to start for that comparison.
Yes. Nobody is immune to judgment for evil deeds just because they acted in their own self-interest.
I really don't want to get into a debate over the merits of MariaDB versus MySQL, as a lot of it depends on your workload. I investigated moving a MySQL application to MariaDB and some of the features we were using just weren't there yet, and I don't think all of them made it into the most recent release (but don't quote me on that -- I don't maintain that code anymore, so my memory could be hazy on it.)

But the idea that MariaDB is "upstream" of Oracle MySQL is silly. Is Oracle even merging code from MariaDB?
If you work in the construction industry I imagine this is the equivalent of an IE6 user.
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Yeah, it's a neat idea, but my fingers wouldn't thank the switch from the Ducky.
> I think most people here are in a very firm or serious relationship with their keyboard.

Some of us are more polyamorous!
I'd love to hear from some iOS developers who have played around with HealthKit, and get their take its strengths and weaknesses