skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I mean by restraint. They built up a vast arsenal, but never used it.

Imagine the alternate version of something like the Korean War in a world where WWII ended without the use of nuclear weapons. Are the Americans going to refrain from using nuclear weapons on their enemies when the going gets tough in that scenario? My money is on "no", and I'd also wager that the nuclear bombing campaign would last a lot longer, since it would be initiated against countries with a much greater capacity to fight. For example, Mao really didn't seem to care about the potential devastation of nuclear war: "Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world, and a third could be lost. If it is a little higher it could be half ... I say that if the worst came to the worst and one-half dies, there will still be one-half left, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. After a few years there would be 2.7 billion people again."
Colonizing Mars is a cool project, no doubt. But in order to let humanity survive, I personally would focus on earth. We must develop ways to live in balance with nature. And we should have started yesterday.

WWF just released its annual report. Shocking.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/publications
Do any other mobiles use a 64-bit processor?
If we don't do it now, we may never do it. In the past 20 or 30 years or so, at least until the advent of SpaceX and competitors, we had lost or stagnated in human spaceflight capability.

Besides, climate change won't kill humanity. We'll adapt, even as climate change makes life on Earth difficult.
Because general purpose package managers suck at dealing with the concerns of individual programming languages. E.g. installation paths, virtual environments, different compilation methods, etc.

There is also no single cross-platform package manager. Mac has macports and homebrew, windows barely got one, linux has yum, apt and others. As a language designer, you don't want any part in this, you want your code to work. So you make your own.

edit: To clarify, I'm suggesting that we're stuck in a local maximum - now that all these systems already exist and have widespread adoption and tool dependency in their own environments, there isn't much of an impetus to use Nix or something similar even though in the grander scheme of things it'd be way nicer.
He's probably doing more to tackle climate change than anyone else on this planet (Tesla). There is no 'we' making plans to colonize Mars, there is Elon Musk making plans.
Microsoft Begins a Push into the Polling World
Sorry, could you define 'ratholing'? I'm having trouble imagining my job search as

a. covertly taking my chips off the table during a Poker game, or
b. living in a small, messy room.

Thanks again!
Musk is also contributing to the battle against climate change via his work on solar power and electric vehicles.

Amazingly, he's working on more than one project at a time.
Really i/o bandwith probably isn't the issue here, latency will be an issue for communications between mars and earth but as far as getting to the colony and sustaining it will be a lot of hard math problems and impressive calculations.

Oh and node can easily do millions of connections and lighttpd beat the 10k problem a long time ago.
Comprehensive Overview of Storage Scalability in Docker
Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV
Chico’s deems mobile as critical for breast cancer social campaign
As humans, we tend to see things through our own lenses.

I happen to believe that if everyone played music together once a week, humanity's future would be preserved through the effects of mutual cooperation, trust and survival information communicated through music.

Clowns probably believe humanity's future is ensured through everyone laughing at squirting flowers and Bill Gates probably believes curing malaria will ensure our future.

These are all overly-biased, myopic views which when stretched to the point of determining the fate of the entire human race become equally absurd. They're little more than attention-seeking plays.
Agreed, and I'm old enough to remember their (cherry-picked) performance claims in the desktop/cpu world when they had to compete with Wintel machines.

What Apple doesn't do, is release products that compete solely based on these hardware specs. Their approach is "yeah it's fast enough, but it's also beautful etc."
I'm not sure how "it" is special". Because its possessive ends in an s? So do "theirs", "hers", and "ours" (which I think are the ones you meant).

I think you're having a hard time because you're overcomplicating the matter. "its" is the possessive of "it". "it's" is a contraction of "it is". Possessives adjectives: My, Your, His, Her, Their, Its. Possessive pronouns: Mine, Yours, His, Her, Theirs, Its. You have four less to remember than with most languages :)
> after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it

> the bending issue is very real

I'd suggest that the issue is that you're a guy who thinks sitting on $1,000 of glass and aluminium is a normal thing to do.
Well done Josh. Lots of competition in the Stripe space.
Opera did too, also the new one does.
The only thing that bothers me about the article is I can't find anything posted on RTHK's site stating that they will shut down the network.

http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/index_news.htm
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/clocal/index_news.htm?clocal&201409...

And I know people who work at central, and live on the Island.
When playing hvz, stumbling was pretty common. Out of 40 players, one or two would get scraped up on the concrete per game. Running into walls, poles, and trees pretty much never happened.

The streets were very strictly off limits. And if there was a car (like a Public Safety vehicle) patrolling the campus sidewalks, all play stopped until the car was a certain distance away. No running, tagging, or shooting on the streets or by a moving car (parking lots were okay IFF there were no moving vehicles). Anybody in violation was immediately thrown from the game and banned from the next.

Safety under these conditions was not ever a problem. A sprained ankle was the worst injury we ever had, and that's going to happen in all sports.
I think one of the most interesting things here is that this investment comes "as part of a new fund they’ve created for businesses on Stripe." This certainly sends a different signal to third-party applications than the signal Twitter was sending. If I had an idea to build on top of Stripe, I'd feel pretty good about that right now. Smart move.

Also, congrats Josh!
What kind of ecological disaster would kill off humanity?

As far as I know, humanity is dependent on several crops and a few animals(cows, pigs, and chickens) for our survival.
You're at an advantage. Swedish is essentially just an antiquated english (I mean that in a good way). The difference in learning Swedish between before and after I learned English was night on pluto and day on venus.
except for LEGO
Well, how bad climate change should be to make Mars a better place to live?
If we can make Mars habitable we can sure live on Earth.
Yes. All of the digital backups in the world won't help the species after a global catastrophe unless we have some human operators backed up somewhere offsite.
“Thinking that success must derive exclusively from either society or the individual is sheer absurdity, driven by a need to impose an idealized narrative upon messy reality.”

Very astute postmodern summation.

The only thing missing in this is the possibility that the myths of narrative (male hero), constancy (see genetics and scientism), etc. are all driven by ideology. In particular, capitalist ideology; the value of capital is predicated on foundational ideology. “Made man” for example, reinforces individual capital ownership as opposed to cultural byproduct.

A counterpoint might be other cultures with an Eastern religion based view chance / fortune as having a greater and more culturally secured role in the lives of an individual.
Have you flown a plane in the last year? Because then you've used up more than your CO2 share as a human being.

It's almost impossible to live in balance with nature in today's society
While I wouldn't try to argue that there is no distinction between public and private, a huge amount of government money does flow into both. Private really just mean that it is not operated by the government, and probably means that it doesn't receive direct operational funding from the government.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/universities-govern...

Private universities do receive a huge amount of government funding, particularly where it comes to research grants. They are also tax exempt where it comes to endowment growth. These two elements do amount to considerable government support for research universities.

Some very high profile public research universities (such as UC Berkeley and UCSF) actually receive a small enough percentage of their budget from the state that they are tempted, now and then, to withdraw and privatize. This temptation is particularly strong at UCSF, which doesn't have undergraduates to support and might very well come out ahead if it gave up state support, already a minimal part of the budget, in exchange for the right to behave like a private institution.
> They boast specs (as they boast "retina" displays and thinness and grams and materials)

They tend more than other manufacturers to boast brands and subjective description rather than the base specs -- "retina" rather than PPI, for instance -- but its true that they do sometimes boast specs.

They'll brag about their (completely meaningless) processor name (A8), but won't spend as much focus as others boasting measures like GHz or core count, etc. -- IOW, they don't spend a lot of focus on things that you can meaningfully compete with and compare across vendors.

Because they are selling magic and brands, not concrete features.
It seems like that argument's always going to apply though. The only way we're going to get better at sending people to Mars is to actually start doing it.
Awesome video of stevewepay using his iPhone the last few days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag
These are all overly-biased, myopic views which when stretched to the point of determining the fate of the entire human race become equally absurd. They're little more than attention-seeking plays.

No offense, it sounds like "deep" bullshit. You had yet to explain why Musk's views are myopic.

And curing malaria ensuring our future? Do you really expect Bill Gates to believe that? It seems far more likely that he see malaria as unnecessary harm and sought to eliminate it.
I think the Haskell folks would do well to consider a complete rewrite of Cabal and look at something like Leiningen, Npm or even Opam as a base from which they can start with their new version.
I'm just guessing, but fixing climate change on Earth seems a whole lot easier/more feasible than colonizing an entirely new planet which, by the way isn't very friendly to our flavor of life.
Content, like code, should be priced at the level the creator wishes it to be while considering the price the market is willing to pay.
Human computable password algorithm [video and slides]
Think about modern financial trading algorithms -- they're probably built to maximize the money that flows in, and there's nothing that says "I know that this money will be used for X."

I think financial algorithms are probably the best non-toy model of dangerous AI, simply because it's easy to see the flow from optimization to real-world consequences.

The problems with end-of-the-world AGI scenarios are practical, not theoretical, and I think a lot of people get hung up on arguments such as, "Of course we wouldn't allow a paperclip-manufacturing AI the ability to deconstruct human beings."

In a larger sense, I think Bostrom can restated (in part!) as the trivial observation that "optimization is insensitive to hidden variables," and it describes any kind of complex system, not AI and AGI alone. For example, the failure to capture environmental remediation costs in market pricing structures means that we improperly discount future costs for things such as global warming or lead exposure. In health care, the implementation of the Prospective Payment System led to hospitals dumping patients back on the street "quicker and sicker" to maximize margins on care. And thousands of financial systems focused on microsecond returns don't pay attention to, or even have any way of understanding, how their coordinated activities can be macroeconomically destabilizing. Any time you allow outcome optimization+general reasoning+real-world outputs, you have the opportunity for a killer paperclip scenario.
Should be interesting to see if the Chinese government brings in the tanks again, like Tiananmen Square.
Their pricing belies their origins, that is indeed standard enterprise data pricing.
Some package managers are part of build systems too, e.g. the Maven ecosystem. Now in what language should you write extensions or plugins? There will be djihad.
I found a better solution - abandoned the language.
I did this all the time with my iPhone 3, 4 and 5 without any issues which is why it developed into a habit. The fact that I can't do that with the iPhone 6 is a surprise and disappointment.
At IoT block party, Mobile app is the MC
Re-imagining Operating Systems: Xen, Unikernels, and the Library OS
After reading this and "the everything store," I wonder what Jeff Bezos & Blue Origin (which started in 2000) would feel about Elon's recent endeavors with SpaceX (started in 2002), considering his highly competitive character.
> It's almost impossible to live in balance with nature in today's society

To me, that is an indication that we need to change today's society, not a justification for doing nothing.
You've got this normative halo around "intelligence". All intelligence is, is an agent's ability to satisfy its utility function.

>But if it continues to work on the paper clips and decides that they are still needed even after people are gone - how is that super intelligent?

That is the correct action if all it cares about is making paperclips. Creating paperclips satisfies its utility function. Fretting over the existential issues of creating paperclips long after the last piece of stationary was destroyed would be judged of negative utility.
Weird, says not currently available for purchase - I don't even have the option to add it to the wish list.
So, where are the missing $9.5M?
My comment was made in jest, the site was initially returning 500 status codes. To their credit they got it back up within half an hour.
And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead

Judging by scope, being irrationally angry on the internet seems to be a hobby unto itself.
"Projects such as GNU Guix or Nix solve the problems quite nicely, IMO."

So long as you define the problem space as "package management for POSIX systems," and in the case of Guix you can scratch OS X and I think the BSDs off the list, too. If your package manager doesn't run on all of Windows, Linux and OS X at a bare minimum then your package manager is not solving the problems of Node.js, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby or any other cross-platform runtime.
What sort of existential risk is this supposed to protect against? The articles' examples are all wrong (these aren't Musk's examples):

"A billion years will give us four more orbits of the Milky Way
galaxy, any one of which could bring us into collision with
another star, or a supernova shockwave, or the incinerating beam
of a gamma ray burst. We could swing into the path of a rogue
planet, one of the billions that roam our galaxy darkly, like
cosmic wrecking balls. Planet Earth could be edging up to the end
of an unusually fortunate run."

Rogue planets are categorically not a threat to earth [0] -- the "cosmic wrecking ball" is pure fiction. And you get no risk reduction from supernovas / GRBs by spreading out across planets -- even collimated GRB "beams" are several degrees wide [1], a spot size light-years across (inner solar system is merely light-minutes across). Actually, those things aren't existential risks to a very advanced earth: their strongest effect is severe damage to the ozone layer [2], which other planets don't have in the first place..

(I'm not at all dismissing exotic existential risks. But is this a solution, or is it "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.")

[0] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/19/ar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Energetics_and...

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4710
"Have you flown a plane in the last year?"

Well, although I am a scientist and traveling to conferences is a habit that everybody does, I could limit my number of flights to one last year.

The point is, we don't need to fly. Conferences are boring, we have videocons. It is just a fashion to spend vacation overseas (even over the weekend). It is just the aviation industry screwing our minds.

"It's almost impossible to live in balance with nature in today's society"

You certainly have to be smarter than a hunter-gatherer to do it. But that's what makes us different.
I don't agree, or I didn't get your comment.

I'm a software engineer and I strongly believe that if every humans on earth worked all together with a single goal in mind, space exploration and conquest, instead of spending millions on wars (as an example) we would already been on Mars, or close to it. I kinda feel ashamed when I think about it, I would prefer to work into something which have a bigger impact on the humanity future, and that what I want to do later in my life.

Musicians, clowns, video games, movies, are all entertainments, it adds pleasure into doing things but don't contribute in the to the goal of a greater knowledge of the universe. (you could argue that if X wouldn't have listened to Y song he wouldn't have discovered Z, and I would agree).
I knew someone would likely make that response.

Fitness is related to, but not the same as, attractiveness.

Of course it's possible to imagine a scenario of puny or fat nerds vs gorgeous athletes, but that's adding in things that don't necessarily relate and it's pretty clearly avoiding the intent of the scenario.
The Milton Friedman set is enamoured by freedom of the market in places like Hong Kong and Singapore: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/fall97/hongkong.html. They paper over the fact that this comes at the cost of democracy: the government uses its monopoly on violence to protect the wealthy (property rights, etc), but the people are not free to vote for protections for themselves (labor laws, etc).
OK, he can go first.
Things that could only happen in a Hong Kong protest
... and then reporting them for flagrant breaches of security, as well as being quarantined yourself for knowing too much.

Whee, wartime is fun!
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sending people to Mars is, surely, hedging against climate change?
I've heard Apple talk about their 64-bit processor magnitudes more than I've heard Samsung or HTC talk about Ghz or core counts. I've heard Apple talk about GPUs more than every other vendor combined, but somehow we all need to roll with the ridiculous notion that Apple cares not a whit about specs, despite talking about them endlessly.
So then store the pointer implicitly right-shifted by 1. Means that boxed access is slower, but unboxed access is faster.

And, when you get down to the assembly level, it doesn't matter - you can treat an unsigned integer as signed for a comparison if it makes things easier.
There is also the possibility of dropping your phone...
Comeonnow above linked to another product of theirs; https://www.opencnam.com it has a "hobby" tier, might be worth a look to see what they have on you.
So then store the pointer right-shifted by 1.
Plus another million on the moon. Just in case.
"As far as I know, humanity is dependent on several crops and a few animals(cows, pigs, and chickens) for our survival."

Indeed, missing knowledge is most dangerous. That's why education is so important. Start by reading the WWf report ;o).
Really? We're "decelerating our technological progress"? That's a bold enough claim that I think the onus is on you to provide evidence for it beyond, "someone made a dumb iPhone app instead of curing cancer".
Climate change is more political, getting to Mars is more technological. If you can get the money and technology to go to Mars together faster than getting the money and political consensus to fix climate change, then going to Mars is more feasible.
It's pretty inarguable that, if an asteroid or other disaster strikes Earth, a human population on Mars would survive, however. You wouldn't try to run an important web site that had to stay up with one server, it is silly to expect a species to survive with only one planet when certain failure modes include an entire planet.
This is one of the only articles I have read that keeps Musk's Mars vision in check with doses of reality throughout:

On Mars, the best we can expect is a crude habitat, erected by robots...US colonies from Roanoke to Jamestown suffered similar social breakdowns, in environments that were Edenic by comparison...For all we know, revolutions in energy, artificial intelligence and materials science could be imminent. Any one of them would make human spaceflight a much easier affair.

The only thing that makes me feel better is that Musk seems to not be thinking through it all the way...and I mean that in the best way possible. At this point, from what I can tell he's still an evangelist and isn't putting resources to solving the minutiae of how to live on Mars.

He is so laser focused on the logistics that he likely wants to leave practicalities of the biology problem to someone else.
Fixing climate change required people to cooperate together on a huge scale.

Space colonization don't required that much cooperation. All it needs is an environment conductive to launching rockets and currently that is the United States.
Microsft to Monitor Windows 9 Usage in Real Time
I think the website illustrates perfectly what can be wrong with a landing page, I had absolutely no idea what the product is suppose to do. Is it a mocking api generating fake user data ? "A Simple Data API" is also to vague to get an idea on what the product is doing. (I had the answer when having a look at the footer but I'm not sure everyone will have a look at the footer).

The pricing page is also really terrible, I see a list of prices for data types but I have no idea how it's actually billed. There is a small infobox on the bottom saying that I'm billed for each successful request, but that should be on the top since I had no idea what the price meant (the button is not inside the box as any pricing page by the way).

It would be also nice to have a price average for the api, how much does it cost to look-up basic customer info on 1000 numbers ? I have to use a calculator to answer that.

(By the way does it work outside the US ? I can only see US phone formats and zip codes).
CGI...shell script...
Good. Its not just me. I almost wonder if this was a draft site never intended for release and someone mistakenly or prematurely posted it.
To be fair, I don't think Gates has ever used Malaria as an "attention-seeking" play.

Colonizing Mars? Sure, that's more about grabbing headlines. But saving lives from Malaria for Gates isn't about generating hype, or boosting stock prices ... it's genuinely about humanity and doing what's right (because they have the means)
Cabal is by far the worst thing about Haskell. With no other programming language have I ever had to deal with these difficulties. It made me stop using Haskell.