skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two competing responses:

1) Check out the AI of Iain M Bank's Culture series [0]. In it is a benevolent society of AI machines (the Minds) that generally want to make the universe a better place. Shenanigans ensue (really awesome shenanigans).

2) In response to the competing AI directives, I'll reference another Less Wrong bit o' media, this time a short story called Friendship is Optimal [1]. Wherein we see what a Paperclip Maximizer [2] can do when it works for Hasboro. (It is both as bad, awesome, and interesting as you might expect it to be.)

Personally, I think the general idea is that once one strong AI comes about, there will also be a stupefying amount of spare idle CPU time available that will suddenly be subsumed by the AI and jumpstart the Singularity. Once that hockey stick takes off, there will be very little time for anything else to get in on being a dominant AI. It's... a bit silly written like that, but I get the impression it's assumed AI will be just like us: both competitive and jealous of resources, paranoid that it will be supplanted by others and will work to suppress fledgling AI.

I have no idea why this is prevailing, aside from it's like us. Friendship is Optimal makes a strong point that the AI isn't benevolent, merely doing it's job.

> The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/efi/friendship_is_optimal_a_my_littl...

[2] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

EDIT: I feel it may be appropriate for me to share my opinion: AI will likely be insanely helpful and not at all dangerous. But there will be AI that run amok and foul things up - life threatening things, even. But we already do that with all manner of non-AI equipment and software, so I'm not terribly worried (well, no more so than I usually am).
I realize this isn't the top issue being discussed right now, but I've also heard that the isotopes preferred for RTG's are in very short supply these days - I believe they were byproducts of the old nuclear weapons programs.
AI preprocessing ai priori code. I found that Tcl is the best for this. It includes some efficient structures acute to Tcl. I use Tcl as a rapid application programming and proof of concept language. I find it to be the best at it. Used to use it for chip design too. After that at Berkeley Lab for knowledge discovery and gene discovery.
Last I had checked, using the browser bundle in Tails with javascript disabled puts the fingerprint to about 1 in 22,000, but it's been a couple months since I last tested. Going to fire up my machine and see what it shows now, will report back with results shortly.

Update: Tor Browser in Tails 1.2 with javascript disabled returns a fingerprint that's shared by 1 in 2,615 with 11.35 bits of identifying information.
Because they're actively slowing connections to their benefit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/netflix-slow-fcc-ve...

When was the last time an ISP actually truly did something innovative that has stood the test of time outside of offering faster internet speeds? Or multiplexing cable/telephone (aka more delivery of content aka a utility)?
Rosetta had to aim to launch Philae in the first place, right? Why can't it aim now?
It didn't take me several hours. I think I asked to be transferred to the credit dispute department and they resolved it immediately. Explain you never signed up for it, wittingly. That they refunded it so easily made it feel even more scammy.
Intentional congestion went on for over 8 months; it's not a hypothetical problem. http://www.measurementlab.net/static/observatory/M-Lab_Inter...
It's not pre-emptive. "Toll roads" on the Internet are a reality. It's also not a case of unilateral regulation imposed on a free market. ISPs have their monopolies due to regulation, and have in many cases received public funds. It's not and was never a free market to begin with.
I knew they are partially shaded, but are they literally only getting ~2% of the power they expected? Is this just a thin sunbeam or something?
I've heard same thing happened in Europe to a research of mechanism of flea jumping.

Which, as you can imagine, is very important in both tackling flea-borne infections in animals and, potentially, in jumping mechanisms.

The truth is, further a person is removed from productive activity, more fierce they become towards "wasting on needless research" or whatever. Politicians are a good example
>>> the more I want simplicity and ease of understanding over typing a few less characters

True, coming from Java where you have to type a lot to get a simple thing done I seem to be gravitating towards languages which have clean, simple syntax that allows you to actually think about the problem. I've been playing with python and scheme, I'll have a go with C# soon, now its been open-sourced.
Very interesting! What could be done with this type of exploit? Custom SmartTV OS?
here's a real life example that's happening right now:

tmobile will cap your 4G data on certain plans.

UNLESS you're using that data to access their approved partners.

that's clearly anti-competitive because a new streaming service now needs to negotiate with tmobile to be competitive on top of actually having a better service.
Try it and see! Tor Browser contains modifications specifically to make fingerprinting harder. Panopticlick gets 11.36 bits of information from Tor Browser on my computer, compared to 22.16 bits from unmodified Firefox on the same machine. With Tor, Panopticlick says "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 2,620 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."

That said, browser fingerprinting is very hard to fight, and it's a lot easier to come up with new fingerprinting techniques than it is to mitigate them. So I expect that determined fingerprinters have the edge in this arms race.
My Experience Building a Small Mac App in Swift
I have the same problem, except that an incognito window doesn't solve it...
Latest from Ms.Lakdawalla on the location of Philae [1][2][3] :

So after a tip from Gerald at
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?
showtopic=7896&view=findpost&p=215245 … I wonder if
bright spot is Philae and dark spot its shadow?????

[1] https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/533385159564095488

[2] http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type...

[3] http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=af65642091d8b...
Here’s Proof Some Pollsters Are Putting A Thumb On The Scale
The problem is not tobacco or nicotine, it's smoke.

Nicotine alone isn't really addictive and yields almost no reward [0], which is why nicotine replacement therapies are so useless [1]. It's only addictive due to other substances, majorly MAO inhibitors. However, these same MAOIs protect tobacco users against Parkinson's disease [2]. Given all that, along with mild caffeine-like effect from nicotine, smokeless tobacco (including tobacco extract eliquids) is probably beneficial. Banning tobacco in general would be very bad.

[0] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593.full
[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12429/abstrac...
[2] http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/155/8/732.full
There must be a huge overlap with this c-ty:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-w...
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896404
Let's assuming they did something bad here. Is the best response to give the FCC more control over the internet?

Before answering, consider that the current head of the FCC is a former lobbyist for ISPs including Comcast and TimeWarner.

Or is the best response to increase competition among ISPs? How many people would choose the ISP that throttles Netflix?
So the latest news from Darmstadt is that telemetry is coming in! Philae is alive! :) That's fantastic news, because there was a real concern that it would have died off due to the limited solar irradiance. The most important thing to figure out is whether the drill that was extended 200mm actually grabbed hold of anything. Also, it's possible that Philae got displaced in the meantime.

Getting live updates from mission control at the moment ... exciting! They're in the midst of performing a "lift and turn" maneuver to try to get Philae into a better position.
That's an interesting idea. I'm the creator of Giraffe[0], a graphite front end using Rickshaw[1]. I was just toying with idea of trying out a branch / fork that uses this instead...

Mostly out of curiosity, but I liked some features of it and was wondering how they compare to Rickshaw.

If anyone wants to chip in, I'd love to hear from you. Generally looking for more core contributors to the project.

[0] https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe
[1] http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
I think this story buries the lede. Which is that the author made a 'fake' emerald with things found around the 'house.' As opposed to the modern manufacture of crystals that are chemically identical to gemstones, varying usually only in their improbable purity. There is at least a modest wage in making 'fake' emeralds and rubies at that Renaissance Faire :-)
More correct is tax deferral.
Every thirty years, we have to break up AT&T again.
It would only windle if people could leave their service
If video processing is what you want to do, I can very much recommend Avisynth[1] (and while it's Windows software, it runs quite well in Wine). For a more natively cross-platform alternative, there's also Vapoursynth[2], but I personally prefer Avisynth's DSL much more over Vapoursynth's Python scripting, not to mention it's generally got more filters available for it.

[1] http://avs-plus.net/
[2] http://www.vapoursynth.com/
any traffic tips guys?
These days i like submitting to reddit and FB groups. I just try to write a good article and submit to relevant social media. Things change so fast. Used to do alot of ppc.
Good points I'll grant, but it naively seems to me that this issue with batteries running low is a perennial problem with spacecraft.

Unless the RTG/solar mass ration is very high, your points about having most of the experiments already ran in the first day, or about RTGs not helping with other failure modes, don't matter too much. Either way when you include a power source (RTG or solar) you are doing so for the purpose of getting data after the first day.

Besides avoiding the shading problem, I believe RTGs are also more robust to unfurling issues and to impact damage.
True enough. And I realize we're a ways off from full AR, just for hardware reasons. But some token gestures in that direction would have helped. Something to show the promise.
I guess so. The rated power [0] is 32 watts at 3 AU (current distance from sun), and it's getting 10% of that, for 20 minutes a day. (I'm not sure what a "day" is; maybe it's the comet's rotational day, which is 12.4 hours).

[0] [PDF file] http://www.dlr.de/dlr/Portaldata/1/Resources/documents/Phila...

20 minutes per rotational period, does sound like a very narrow sunbeam!
Like the article says: it's about buying commodities (alkaline batteries or their components) and selling a brand. The difference in value is entirely in people's heads but that's still profitable.

From my perspective, I haven't bought an alkaline battery in years. Low self-discharge batteries (especially newer Eneloops) are so much better for most tasks that disposable batteries seem crazy.
I understand that, but it's not what I meant. I meant is how he knew that other products such as Play store are not profitable? I don't think Google breaks down the profit reports to this level of granularity, so it might be just reported as an ad revenue/profits.
Seriously, fuck who does that; it's ruining the frickin web.
As an example, these are 64 random bytes (521 bits) passed to the paq8hp12 compressor, using the text of "Tom Sayer" as context:

----

Most of the prisoners was almost to be resonated from the heads; I was, Tom, they no no alley to the old man's face. For some yellow the insert wing, and
muscle and the reg'lar great world to his haunched.

Tom becamethen because it's a distance, I'll get any.
The calm

----

It needs to have a stronger prior on grammatical rules, but overall making sensible sentences with a given amount of entropy is a good way to go about this.
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You don't really have to know much about what it is and is it Google Glass or Microsoft Eyepatch or Toyota Lens or whatever. If you are not just out of the forest you'll see that it's some very rare in your society tech-thing strapped to your face, that it's probably expensive and it's not what "normal guys" do, which already can make one hostile. It's pretty obvious and you don't need to study psychology to understand that.

But it's incorrect to assume that this thing being "weird" is the only reason to make people hostile. I myself would be hostile to someone wearing that stuff, not because I'm some swain who never saw a computer, but exactly because I know what it is, I know which company made it and what that company does, I know about their business model and remember all these stories about them grabbing WiFi traffic from years ago and all the other things that make them "evil" in some way. And I see you as this company's drone for filming and recording audio around you all over the world, and not some weirdo who spends $1.5K on useless things. The fact that it's you who pays $1500 to be the drone isn't the reason for someone like me to be hostile, it's just funny.
Broken for me as well, and I do not have NoScript.
I am talking about the automatic damages and the requirement that it must be fact not opinion for example.
It occurs to me that if a company like Amazon could sell a competing device for like $300, they would. My guess is that nobody but Google currently sees a market for this type of product.
Cost, mass, thermal management, vibration/structural considerations (mostly launch), regulatory, fitting in the launch vehicle.... doing anything with a spacecraft is insanely complicated and you have to carefully engineer, test, and report on the tiniest of details.

It seems the only benefit would be speed, and space folks are patient.
Reasoning by analogy ( http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that , "proof by analogy is fraud"), I can't help but compare this to toll roads and roads that are free to drive on. I don't know anyone who likes toll roads or toll bridges, and I grew up in an area where they weren't common: I was a married adult before I actually saw a real toll booth. If the choice is between "toll road" and "non-toll road," then voters always choose a non-toll road. So toll roads are only ever built when the alternative is "no road."

Clearly AT&T and others have the ability to abuse their power over the infrastructure in ways that aren't possible in the world of toll roads. But, fundamentally, why would AT&T upgrade the infrastructure if they can't guarantee they'll get a profit from the improvements? In other words, is the debate really between "net neutrality, with little or no infrastructure improvements" versus "no net neutrality, but the infrastructure gets upgraded regularly?"

For the record: AT&T's current move is a simple strong arm tactic: they were willing to install fiber last month when they had no guarantee of an ability to collect a "toll" over it, the world hasn't changed so much that the project won't turn a profit. But I still think it's a useful question to ask: how do the companies providing infrastructure get paid, and why would they bother upgrading that infrastructure?
I've done some experiments packing gunicorn+ a wsgi app with PEX[1] to have a standalone executable.

Seems to work pretty well, although I haven't tried it for anything production related.

[1] http://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/index.html
Looking at pictures, I believe Philae solar panels are on the external shell, they don't need to be extended.
War on Science in US is astounding. It is amazing how US still manages to be ahead in most areas of science and technology.
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And how do you plan to increase competition? The current climate doesn't do that. The barriers to entry are far too great for realistic threats outside of companies like Google that have money to burn.

By regulating the ISP as common carrier, you are actively encouraging competition, by forcing them to lease out the last mile to smaller providers who can give real service and actually have to compete. Net Neutrality is aimed directly at providing more competition on the last mile, where our current providers have failed so badly.
You do realize that a majority of all PE-type transactions are based on EBITDA multiples right? VC-type (the ones you and I read every day on TechCrunch) are multiples on users/revenues because they are high-growth. Duracell is not a high growth equity.
A bit off topic. Looks like Duracell has a cloud storage service, which is really strange.. https://www.duracellcloud.com/
As someone with depression, it's clear to me that our knowledge of mental health is where medicine was in the late 1700s. We know that certain treatments work for certain people, in certain situations, but we don't have the theoretical frameworks to figure out where to experiment further. Reading the psych. literature, it really feels like a lot of the science in that field is just random shots in the dark. When certain therapies or substances work well, we don't why they work and in what circumstances they won't.

IMHO, psychology is still waiting for its "germ theory" moment.
An ad blocker plugin on Chrome disabled scrolling for me.

Works fine when the plugin is disabled.

I've noticed this before with several other sites - sometimes even the video won't load on local tv news sites.
> why do we need net neutrality right now? It seems to be pre-emptive legislation. (The ISPs might do something bad, so we need to prevent it.)

It is not a pre-emptive response to a speculative future threat, but a response to actions that have already occurred. The Open Internet principles underlying the FCC's recent regulatory efforts in that domain were first articulated as principles that would be policy objectives to preserve (but that did not, at that time, need specific direct regulatory enforcement) several years before any direct regulation was attempted. The direct regulation came after several issues in which those principles were violated by ISPs, and in which the FCC had attempted to rein those in based on its ancillary authority rather than specific directed regulation, but failed [1].

The 2010 Open Internet Report and Order -- the first "net neutrality" regulation from the FCC -- was a response to both the violations of the Open Internet principles already occurring and the court decisions preventing the FCC from administratively enforcing those without specific regulation.

[1] Most notably, in Comcast v. FCC, 600 F.3d 642 (2010), see, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Corp._v._FCC
Typelite is good for this.
Ah - I do see what you mean. We will adjust the site so that a "submit" button appears whenever the text is edited so that the text editing is not interrupted. Thank you for the feedback.
Elm FRP in Clojure core.async
For Calc 3, Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha really helped me.
Philae has been successfully rotated (post on twitter 6 minutes ago here: https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/533393729156308992)

I hope the adjustment will mean more power
The last thing I want is an innovative ISP.
Because positioning doesn't work like that.

It's possible that Rosetta could have carried a detector that could get the time of flight of Philae and so get a rough sphere where it could be. However, over the distances that we're talking about, you'd probably need a powerful laser with a very low divergence in order to get any signal there/back. LIDAR will break a power budget easily.

If you're thinking why couldn't we use some kind of GPS type positioning, remember that you need four satellites minimum for that (plus ground stations to correct things). There was some discussion about using multiple flybys of Rosetta, but it's not clear whether there'll be enough time to do this before the batteries die.

We can locate things on Mars because we have excellent cartography of the planet and the landers were the right way up. We're able to figure out where things are based on the images they send back. Once we know where a lander is the first time, it's easier to figure out where it is afterwards based on this imagery.
In an ideal world, any traffic entering and leaving a private network would be encrypted, but the issue is with near-realtime services like VoIP and remote presence where latency isn't acceptable. When you add the large number of users that use these networks, the amount of hardware for both redundancy and performance load balancing becomes a problem.
>EBITDA seems like such a poor metric for valuation

Why? Its got stacks of research & history behind it so you'll have to provide something a bit more substantial than "it's hard to understand why it's taken seriously".

In fact I'm struggling to see anything of substance in that post.
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How would you go about increasing competition among broadband ISPs? I think we all would prefer to see that, but I don't see how to make it happen.

Lobbyists are already making it illegal for local governments to address the problem by entering the fray themselves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Controversy
> Or is the best response to increase competition among ISPs? How many people would choose the ISP that throttles Netflix?

That's really the core problem. Coming from Europe, the US has terrible telecom infrastructure* that is controlled by vertical monopolists. Of course bad things happen then. Cities are difficult about letting companies add infrastructure (it's costly and disruptive to add cables to the ground, it's ugly and disrubtive to add cables to poles), and in some cases the telecom companies themselves have succesfully lobbied to prevent cities/counties/states from building that infrastructure themselves.

Ideally, you'd have a public infrastructure (wire/cable/fiber), that is then leased out at cost to the actual ISPs, kind of like the power industry in texas (wire's public, power plants are private).

But that would be too large a change which of course the existing monopolies are fighting tooth and nail to prevent, as it would break their vertical monopoly.

* and don't people go whining about "ah but rural this and distance that". Even the cities suck.
Thanks for the tip on trying it out incognito. Would likely have just skipped the article altogether otherwise!
ebitda is not a poor metric for a stable business like duracell because interest charges (the most suspect component of ebitda) are not going to be wildly outside industry norms. it's also an interesting metric in general because it seeks to normalize true operating earning power across businesses if all other things were equal (tax rates, interest charges, fixed asset related charges).

if you're evaluating a business and they tout ebitda as the only thing you should care about, you should look at net income in relation to it. for example, a mountain of debt or stupid financing terms would lead to high, maybe unsustainable, interest charges and ebitda would obscure the businesses' true circumstances. otherwise, it's reasonable to consider ebitda.
Forgive me if I'm totally clueless, but isn't the idea of the unikernel basically a throwback to the earliest, pre-OS days of computing when all programs needed routines to initialize the base hardware resources before they could perform tasks?

The idea of the unikernel and the libOS in general where applications can be linked with their bare minimum OS runtime and packaged is certainly nifty, but it's kind of funny that people are being so hyped over what sounds like a more advanced form of what was regularly done in mainframes 60 years ago.
It was broken for me on Firefox. When I disabled AdBlockPlus, scrolling suddenly worked just fine.