skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never seen it. Looks interesting, though very high level? I'll check out the youtube videos they mention: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaG5BW72It4c...
Why not have your environment defined when you run something like the following in Bash:

. clarkm.env

That way you can each effectively have your own .bashrc. You could also have the following in your clarkm.env:

unlink .emacs
ln -s .emacs.clarkm .emacs

Or, if emacs supports it, alias in whatever command line flag that emacs uses to read from a different config file. Eg

alias emacs="emacs --config .emacs.clarkm

I don't use emacs personally so the above will be inaccurate, but that kind of thing might work for you.
Thanks and noted. It's a work resume in progress.
>computers still suck at simple games like Go that, unlike chess, can't be brute forced.

Do they really? I'd be very surprised if probabilistic AI methods hadn't made a dent in Go, even a little one.
For a long long time I have wanted to do a language for programming music. I like how easy this is to get started with it almost feels like the old tracker days.
There are a lot of ways we can define adolescence, but I think most people would agree that it is a stage that precedes full maturity.

Likewise, there are lots of ways we can describe maturity -- physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral -- but I think a hallmark of adolescence is that decision-making is (generally, at least) more impulsive, more hedonistic, and more selfish.

And that, at least, is what I have seen among friends and acquaintances who have taken a long time to leave their adolescence behind them.

It's not just their living situation or their financial situation that can be called adolescent -- it's their general maturity and decision-making.

Perhaps, as Prof. Steinberg argues, the negative of immaturity is balanced out by the positive of brain plasticity ... but I wouldn't be surprised if immaturity + plasticity could be even more problematic than immaturity alone.
On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters
Also have a look at http://earsketch.gatech.edu

Python + music
Are you trolling? If you don't know anything about haskell then making up random nonsense is not really constructive. You can ask for help learning, there's tons of good resources.
>The interesting thing for me about 50s and 60s SF was how much of it was about humans developing psychic and intellectual superpowers. Through 2001, Dune, and hundreds of short stories you had writers redefining what human minds were capable of.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind! -- the Orange Catholic Bible

I like to think the Butlerian Jihad actually involved a real war against a real UFAI.
As a totally blind user I won't buy this app. There isn't that much printed material I need to deal with now and there are $5 apps that will generally let me get good enough oCR to determine what junk mail I am getting. I would pay the $99 if it were an in app purchase and the app was limited to say 5 scans a month but with no trial type thing I will not be buying it.
Is there (somewhere out there) a protocol for a distributed social network where participants have control?
New York City's Most Accessible Ruins
Don't think I said that environments would be outside of nature. That's not what I meant.

I wouldn't capitalize "nature". We are part of it, we can consciously direct its evolution if we do it in a sophisticated enough way.

We are not separate from nature and we are not inferior to nature.

My point is that instead of sort of shutting down and reverting to feudalism in the face of environmental challenges, we can continue to create a more sophisticated technological system that integrates information about the biosphere and continues to evolve it in new ways. My point is that humanity should not worship untamed wilderness. Rather, we should continue to respect the fragility and complexity of the biosphere, but still recognize our own abilities and shape the universe.
Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]
Other uses of the term 'Larch' include a formal specification system[1], and I could have sworn there was a '80s/'90s programming environment research project. (Perhaps a structured editor?)

[1] http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/spd/larch/
Huh, I was driving by the Marcy projects today and was wondering what the cops were doing just hanging out.
What is more important to keyboard? Themes or usability?
When iOS8 got released, there are lots of keyboard coming out. Among the most popular keyboards, some of them are focusing on usabilities(swiftkey, swype), some of them are focusing on color beautiful themes(coolkey, kiwi) but with crappy user experience. My question is which are more important to the end user? And if we make a keyboard which should go first priority-wise. When I started OneKeyboard https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onekeyboard/id893897829?ls=1&mt=8, I tried to make it with better user experience but my gut instinct told me I should focus on themes and visual stuff that attract more users.
Science fiction is not only stories about where we want to go, but where we are at currently, and where we are at in the field of AI, at the moment, probably isn't all that exciting to the masses.

At the moment, what I'm seeing are a lot stories of how we managed to survive being ourselves, and that just barely.

Sci fi itself seems to be a little low on hope.

I find myself sympathizing.
Interesting. I had an idea similar to the first part of your comment, in which 'reinventing-the-wheel', everytime you start to write a new program, is avoided by 'autocompleting your code' based on the vast database of open source projects on the internet. If a programmer starts writing a code that declares some variables and opens a for loop, the smart editor starts searching the open source projects and lists the code chunks with beginnings most resembling what you've typed so far, and then you can pick one of those if you like, or keep writing. I haven't thought of what could be done afterwards though.

I tend to think it also has connections with a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8308881
Peter Thiel on the Bilderberg Group
Peter Thiel says scariest thing about the Bilderberg Group is there are no conspiracies, no concrete plans for future
Please read again what I wrote carefully.

Almost everything that you said, to a certain degree, is understood as a starting point.

The place where I differ is I believe that now that everyone understands those things that you say, we can use our science and technology to overcome some limitations.

Think about what nuclear power means, especially fusion.
>Why can't we work to create something out of companionship even if its towards not so idealistic ends?

Because people enjoy signaling high status and masculinity derived from personal independence by throwing out cheap put-downs at the very concepts of companionship or family. After all, Aristotle said that one who does not need friends is a beast or a god.

Of course, the beast half of the fork is what usually comes through, and if you claimed godhood I'd have to ask what sort of divinity involves total apathy towards others. Likewise, if you said that you are putting your work towards the cause of human brotherhood or whatnot, I would call it extremely idealistic.
How to create nested folders in iOS 8
Wait... without actually clicking the link... it solves all the world's problems and is the antagonist?

Goddamnit LessWrong, just write one damn story with a properly Friendly AI, just for once, just to show it can be done.
No, good and evil are clear choices.
Irradiating the flying public, taking pornographic pictures or molesting children are all evil, and Obama could have stopped that.

Domestic spying, Obama could have stopped it.

Hell closing guantanamo, he didn't even do that. And that's a straight up operation in violation of the constitution top to bottom.

We may have the choice between two evils at election time, but no politician is forced to choose evil.
This was definitely not one of the better talks of the conference (though I was embarrassed to say so given the way people [rightly] idolize Armstrong), so I highly recommend checking out the rest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw/vid...
This model - much like the Crystal Cove prototype is likely not available to purchase. It is not a dev kit, but rather a proof of progress, and a stepping stone to CV1. I believe there will not be a DK3. All estimates point to CV1 being likely available in Q4 2015.
Looking at jit_codegen.c, seems it compiles a low-level IR to C, throws that in a file and invokes cc on it (see cgen_freeze). Functions are pulled out with dlsym.

Pretty heavy machinery for a JIT... but there's a comment about an LLVM backend, so I suspect this is a temporary arrangement. It seems this project is in its very early days.
Great to hear details laid out on stage, too bad Twitch muted the beginning of his talk.
Xavier Noria did something like this a while ago. https://github.com/fxn/tkn
Sounds like Diaspora: https://joindiaspora.com/
Slide Show: Nuclear Visions
Why is Microsoft buying Minecraft?
Iceburg lettuce, let's see.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable...

Remember that the par value is 10% daily value per nutrient per 100 calories. This is for only 10 calories, so anything at 1% or greater is a good supply.

The nutrients measured: potassium, fiber, protein, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, zinc, and vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, and K

In order lettuce has: lots, lots, par, par, lots, lots, par, none, lots, par, lots, lots, none, lots, none?, par, massive

Again I'm ignoring bioavailability but 18 looks about right once that factors in. Lettuce has most of the nutrients desired per calorie. Not just one.

edit: fixed b6 and b12. And I hope whoever downvoted my first comment replies saying why...
Oh, just realised it’s not Markdown but Ruby instead. Sorry for confusion. Great tool anyway.
Awesome! Won the first game, was feeling a bit worried at first!
Been having a great time attending the conference via Janus, http://vrsites.com/assets/Firefoxg/9/convcenter.html
Harold Finney, futurist and cypherpunk, died on August 28th, aged 58
> what I mentioned is still different scoping rules

You're probably right, I don't want to argue about terminology.

What do you mean by "scare quotes"? Honest question: English is my second language and I'm not very good with it.

> You can.

You're wrong. Here, take a look:

iex(4)> f = fn() -> a = 0; (fn()->a=9 end).(); a end
#Function<20.80484245/0 in :erl_eval.expr/5>
iex(5)> f.()
0

f.() should evaluate to 9 if what you said was true. Either there's a special syntax for doing this in Elixir (like nonlocal in Python 3) or it's absent, and then the scoping rules are the same in Elixir and Erlang, with a bit of syntactic sugar for SSA transformation, which you need to do by hand in Erlang.

Again, I'm not Elixir programmer, so this is a honest question: is there some special syntax which would make the example above produce 9? I doubt it very much because it wouldn't fit very well with BEAM, but everything is possible and I'd be glad to learn about another nice feature of Elixir.
I honestly have no idea what you're going on about.
Why the Uber-for-X Wave Should Stop
Holy shit, mind blown.

I've done this before, but usually take modulo 8 rather than bitwise-and negative 7 as the final step.
I think that Home Depot could have done more to prevent this. From the NYT article, it sounds like Home Depot managers failed to act on the advice of their own cybersecurity team.

This is no different than when Kenneth Lay failed to act on the warnings from Sherron Watkins about improper accounting practices at Enron prior to its collapse.
I wouldn't really call it "high level" -- it appears to me to interface pretty directly with underlying C++ classes and methods, and the actual flow of the code is exactly a sort of single-threaded flow of "ordinary" programming languages.
Would the downvoter care to offer any counterargument?
Yes, that's exactly how it would be handled, but it's then dynamic destruction, not static.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-stop-and-...

FTA: "Shootings are up in East New York from 34 to 43 through Aug. 10, a spike of about 27% compared to last year. In Brownsville, shootings are up from 38 to 56, an increase of about 47% over the same time period."

It's probably too early to draw broad conclusions, and more data is certainly needed across more precincts. I also do not entirely trust self-reported police data: politics, pay, and funding might interfere with protecting and serving.
Actually it is a very serious topic relating to human biology:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=light+exposure+breast+ca...

I would give a big upvote to Philips Hue Bulbs if I could. When those are too expensive nightlights are fine with me.
Is it recorded anywhere? I'd love to watch it.

Edit: I found it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzpAbK9qFk.

And the original source points to http://www.twitch.tv/oculus.
It is remarkable that in the comments here, present day norms are accepted as natural, even though they were different in recent history, and are bound to be different in the near future as much as the 40 hour work week might become 30, and flexible work hours might lead to adoption of objectively healthier sleep patterns than what industrial society has imposed. Diet, alcohol consumption, coffee drinking, smoking, sleep, the prevalence of prostitution, education, etc., have all changed faster than any claim of being "natural' could set in just by being the current norm.

So much in-the-box thinking.
Nothing about readability... I guess there really are no studies on what readability is and how to measure it and how to write readable code :)
It's a fun trick I've used for years, I think originally I gleaned it from http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html (or maybe not, now that I look through that page - though it is full of goodies)
LightTable will continue on, but it seems to no longer be the main focus of Chris.

The curse I speak of is http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm Not that I'm implying Chris is bipolar at all but it's an apt description of the trap many great Lispers fall into.
Isn't there a rule that ship can't touch?
Android tablet records and recreates 3D scenes
While many, if not all statements made there are true, the page seems to be adding the biggest mistake itself: The virtual tag-line is apparently, "How to make a flashing website, if you've nothing to say and no intention to do so, but for your interest in making money from it." (At least for me, this is oozing through most of the lines, since there is seemingly no notion of any interest behind engaging in a website at all.)

To paraphrase #1: Do you really think people will visit your site just for you to make profits on it? – Actually, there has to be some honest and credible commitment, one way or the other, in order to create some link to your visitors. This is your major investment.
It's meant to be. It has the infrastructure to be. It just doesn't have the documentation and ecosystem to show how.
I think developers should consider spending $1-$10 on graphics from sites such as graphicriver to spruce up the design of their apps.

I for one am happy Apple rejects ugly applications. There is no place for them on my phone
I'm not a mathematician but last year iPython saved my bacon big style when I suddenly needed to convert a dozen pages of dense math to an API with no notice.

I checked it all into iPython and then poked around playing with the equations to get a grasp of how they worked and what sane outputs would be, it was an incredibly powerful experience as it allowed me to visualise what was happening in a way I'd never been able to before, it also made me think there is a huge gap in the way math is taught in the UK, if I'd have had iPython when I was 15 I might not have needed to resit.
Why? If you're a developer wanting to get in on this at the ground floor, why would you cede months of time when you could be testing with a working beta unit?

Or is everyone just ordering these to play games as a consumer?
Okay here is an example. Enigma machine in WW2. Do you let a city get bombed and lose 10k lives or reveal that you have broken a code and lose the war?

How do you act and why?
There's no type error at all, we're talking about delaying the destruction of some_string so that the `s` (which is a &str) is valid outside the if. The string literal is a &str with a infinite lifetime, and so can of course be safely restricted to have the same lifetime as the other branch (done implicitly).

However, it's easily possible to have the &str come from temporaries of different types in the two branches. This would restrict the static destruction case to only working through an `if` when the "parent" values have exactly the same types; which doesnt seem nearly as valuable and possibly not worth the effort.
However, a 2 liter bottle costs between 21 and 26 krone in a supermarket, so, apparently we're even :)

It just feels way more expensive due to the purchasing power differences I guess.

And yes, a 0.5 liter coke in a gas station also costs 3 dollars here :P

Edit: we might need a Coke index in addition to the Big Mac index :)

There's Expatistan.com and Numbeo, but I think it gets outdated or inaccurate sometimes (for example, the Coke price in Montevideo is outdated).

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?coun...

I can't believe rent in Copenhagen is U$ 2.500/month.
"A user" unnamed "noticed" and complained to another unnamed person, etc, etc.

Yeah. Sure.
presumably beng the keyword ;)
Watching the promotional video[1] of the iPhone app, the one question that springs to mind is how the blind people know how to orient their phone to the objects shown in the video. For instance, reading the hours a store is open: there is no standard place to put that signage, so how likely is this use case to be applied in real world scenarios?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS-i9rn9nao
Because if Apple didn't reject them you'd wake up one day and find 50 of them pre-installed for you?
Strategies like desalination (see San Diego's new huge desalination project), hydroponics/aquaponics and (ultra)local production can make these problems more manageable.

Instead of giant agricultural fields that are open to evaporation, hydroponic or aquaponics inside of greenhouses could vastly reduce water usage.

Instead of huge farms or corporations producing food tens or hundreds of miles away from where it is eaten, community/neighborhood or even household food production could be an alternative. This would be more efficient and save on energy and other costs needed for transporting and retailing food.

These things will probably become more economically viable and popular as solar becomes a consumer-level reality. As in, people are buying solar kits at Walmart or Home Depot regularly. The prices are almost already there.

Pretty sure that a lot of this is related to network effects and trends. The neighborhood urban hydroponic farming thing becomes more economically viable as it becomes more popular, simply because more people are cooperating (via the market) in order to make that more convenient.

Of course, there is a limit to how much food we can produce locally. Right now, even if we converted every Target into an urban farm, and every home and apartment used advanced technology to pull in solar energy efficiently and dedicated a full 1/3 of its space to hydroponic or aquaponic produce, we might only be able to supply a fraction of our food needs that way. What fraction that would be, 10%, 20% or 50%, not sure.

But I feel like that more local production is going to be more efficient and robust in the end, and more and more popular as we start to distribute production technologies more evenly.
No, because if Apple didn't reject them you'd download 50 of them in the process of finding one good one.
This is why Transcendence was such an awesome movie. Morgan Freeman and a team of rogue government agents save the world from the cure to cancer.
Do you find it credible that one request every 2-3 seconds could create a noticable load?
Reminds me of London's "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" campaign: http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/news/2002/11/5615...
Ex-Suns guard Rex Chapman accused of stealing $14K in Apple merch
Or for consistency with the rest of the code. It is one way, if not the fastest way to do alingment. Every systems programer knows that pattern, it is easily recognizable. You find it plentiful in kernels and low-level system libraries.
I'm in for a tour!
Can someone explain to me the difference between "visual programming" tools like this and environments that have existed for years such as VisualBasic, MS Access, Flash, Dreamweaver, and XCode Storyboards? (Yes, I know many are mainly about UI but they all allow programming to some degree).

Are tools like Larch and LightTable aiming to be "visual programming done right" or is this a completely new (buzzword warning) paradigm in programming?
Doubly agreed -- similar patterns appear elsewhere to avoid off-by-one errors and bitmasking is fairly intuitive to anyone regularly working at that level. I was surprised at the author not recognizing this idiom, but you have to learn it sometime!

I was further stunned by the seeming naivety of the author's align_2() implementation, but then it does get the job done, eventually. My naive approach would've been roughly align_3(), but using integer math and modulus.

On the other hand, younger team members were recently stunned by code I did for translation of a binary protocol into more easily handled pieces using what I think of as typical idioms, so this article might get sent around Monday morning.
That is unfair. From what I understand, Chris and company had ambitious goals for lighttable that were not achievable because of the Clojure programming model, so rather than give up, they are taking the next step that they see as necessary.
I don't plan on developing anything serious for the oculus, I just wanted to play around with it.
Doesn't Apple show you screenshots and reviews?
They certainly could have done more.

I'm not as confident that doing more would have prevented this. Not at the larger scope.

Perhaps additional investments would have made Home Depot a less attractive target and Walmart would have been attacked instead. Or Sears. Or Best Buy. Or Lowe's. Or Petco. But then we'd be having this exact conversation about those companies.

Let's follow the money.

If Home Depot does not make security investments you lose money. Because they get hacked. The hackers make money.

If Home Depot does make security investments you lose money. Because they are not going to shrink their margins. The customer is going to take the cost of business in this case. Hackers are going to target someone else (maybe), were the customer will again lose money. The hackers make money.

Hacking costs you money. It either costs you as a business expense or as an upfront investment in infrastructure/technology.

Yes Home Depot cost you money. But it costs you money the same way that banks cost you money when they get robbed. Is it the banks fault? The arguments in this thread say "Yes. Because the bank left the vault open."

I'd agree, except I don't see a way for any bank to close any of its vaults. The current state of cybersecurity is that bad.
No. I don't think that follows.
What's funny is that ugly apps actually do alright on Android. I don't know how many times I've seen an app have 5 stars and hundreds of thousands of downloads, only to install it and find out the UI is horrendous.

This seems to reinforce a pervasive stereotype that Android users are utilitarian while iOS users are much more concerned with aesthetics and form.
Since Apple has the dominant appstore, they can afford to be choosier, which, at least in this instance, helped a developer improve his app.

Over at BlackBerry, "OMG somebody wants to publish an App!!"