skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad we're discussing this because there is a point I'd like to raise...

I always like to remind people that Tor is funded by the USG (currently, actively). I think it's very important that people understand that and adjust their threat models based on that.

However, it's not all bad news ... in fact, I think there's a very significant upside to the USG funding of Tor:

It provides a very compelling defense in the event that simply participating in Tor begins to be prosecuted.

There is very often a worry put forth that simply participating in Tor (as a client or by running a relay, etc.) can in itself be considered an illegal act. I think that as long as the USG is funding the development, people in the US can rest easy that they can't be prosecuted in any way for simply participating on the Tor network.

"If the USG is funding it and the state department is encouraging people to use it (think arab spring) then how could my use of it be illegal ?"

IANAL.
I'm not sure you understand the definition of entitlement.

OP isn't saying the Ruby community OWES him a windows installer; instead, he is expressing disappointment that the Ruby community doesn't seem to care about its Windows users, which is why he is moving on to some other language--probably Python--that does appear to support the most popular, corporate desktop environment in the world.
Here you go: http://cl.ly/0C25161f2T1q
I'm not surprised by that at all. I would theorize that there is a strong correlation between tech consciousness and privacy consciousness, and that where the presence of both is high, the privacy conscious aspect dominates.
If you have nothing to hide, why do you have curtains, blinds, frosted windows, or no windows in various rooms in your dwelling place?
Hehe, wow. It's actually xan_tronix. I'll update my HN bio!
I think the friction is because the statement is much worse than "I am a turbo nerd."

Glass (rightfully or not) has come to stand for both useless trinkets for the tech-wealthy and pervasive surveillance of the masses by a large corporation, so wearing it really comes off as saying "I have more money than you and I'm going to use it to let Google record videos of you too!"

A camera-less Google Glass at a lower pricepoint would simply say "I am a turbo nerd" and would probably be much more acceptable.
I might be wrong but isn't that a faulty argument. That's the same as saying that you pay tax in the US(or any other counter) and you therefore condone of all the behavior of said country? Or saying that if you use any Google product you promote corporate monopoly?
There's quite a way from paying for a service such as Github to promoting misogyny.
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"This sort of line of thought is so harmful."

Even if the argument you mention is wrong, it's only harmful in a sort of fluffy world where good things die when looked at critically.

There's nothing magical about programming that makes it different from any other industry.

These days there's immense competition in every industry. If anything, your argument seems to be that programming is different from other industries and that just skills can get you anywhere even if there appear to be many others who also have skills and better looking resumes. I hope that's true but let's at least look critically.
I would expect that most naval weapons have included autocompensation for pitch and roll for quite some time.
Interesting, I just looked up the Polya book here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%B3lya

and found this:

"In How to Solve It, Pólya provides general heuristics for solving a gamut of problems, including both mathematical and non-mathematical problems. The book includes advice for teaching students of mathematics and a mini-encyclopedia of heuristic terms. It was translated into several languages and has sold over a million copies. Russian physicist Zhores I. Alfyorov, (Nobel laureate in 2000) praised it, noting that he was a fan. The book is still used in mathematical education. Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician and Eurisko artificial intelligence programs were inspired by Pólya's work."
The main issues are:

* Does not work with certain hardware / UEFI firmware implementations
(due to bugs in either our implementation, or the firmware).
* No support for UEFI nvram variables.
* No integration or documentation for dual-boot configurations.

Basically, if you can boot the UEFI-enabled USB stick image, UEFI booting an installed FreeBSD should also work fine.
Usually, the tools themselves aren't built in TCL (they're usually C/C++), but the interface is in TCL (and some other proprietary languages, depending on which tool you're using)...

And yes, unfortunately the tools end up being old and crufty, and that was my impression of TCL.

I did a bunch of TCL while working at one of the aforementioned companies, and I got to use it enough to see the lisp-y awesome parts (if you squint hard, [ ]s are just oddly shaped parenthesis), and the smalltalk-y stuff, but I still would have preferred using a different scripting language as my interface.
Years ago, I developed large parts of PDF::Writer on Windows. I lived the pain that the GP lived, so I understand it.
US spies on mobile phones from the sky in 'man-in-the-middle' operation
there are third party libraries (bluebird, co, Q, etc) that use generators to yield promises (or lightweight alternatives such as 'thunks'), and then a helper function that handles waiting for those promises/thunks to return and then resuming the generator. annoying that its not baked into ES6, but it means async code can be basically written like sync code (including typical error handling)
No, content you upload is not kept in your local cache at all. That would open you to the threat of being singled out as the uploader.

Instead your node is no more statistically likely to have any portion of the objects you've uploaded than any other objects throughout Freenet. When an upload is complete your node doesn't have a full copy, all the chunks are spread out amongst the nodes within a few hops of you instead.
I had forgotten...
I swear there was a comment here earlier--did they delete it? Hey! Any comments? This was my first stab at writing a personal blog post and the most difficult for me. I hope it helps everyone keep their head up!!
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I'll keep this in mind for the next post.
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Mine was going back to school to get my MS in CS after getting a BS in a field I didn't much care for. It has increased my income and job satisfaction many times over.
I was just looking into this book recently; these links may be of interest to everyone:

* An essay by the author on Chinese science fiction and his trilogy's place in it (in English):

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/05/the-worst-of-all-possible-u...

* A very interesting review by a blogger:

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2014/09/review-of-three-bod...

* A couple professional reviews:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cixin-liu/the-thr...

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-7706-7
Thanks for putting this up! I'm trying to finish up a paper today on vectorizing VByte decompression, so have been thinking about some of these issues a lot recently.

It would be help orient people (like me) if you added more description of the data format you are using for each approach. It's difficult reading templatized C at a glance, so I'm not certain what's happening in each format. For example, since the average bit widths for your SimpleV are less than 8, it's clearly doing something different than traditional variable byte integer implementations. Nothing wrong with this, but would be helpful to know the details.

I'm mostly with you on the "Realistic and practical benchmark with large integer arrays" part. There are some arguments for variations, though. In particular, reading from memory but decoding to cache can be a more realistic benchmark for search engine applications. Feel free to write email to me or Daniel if you'd like to try to integrate your benchmarks with ours.
Agree, but then again, isn't there some psych theory that explains that (figures, since the PhDs probably formulated them) -- that once you get so fixated/advanced on a certain object, you lose the ability to do the super basic stuff (or are at least bad at it since you haven't done it in so long?) -- but maybe that's just apologism.

And definitely, tech is arguably the most meritocratic high-paying field out there. Just the ability to build something on your own with your skills without anyone's permissions is not common (i.e. you can't just open a bank).
and autofocus systems.
If the social problem of Glass were its only challenge, the product still could have launched properly. But that's only the beginning of the Glass troubles. I mean, they were demoing prototypes over two years ago and they still don't have a real product?
The idea is to avoid overlapping and emulation. You can for example pass through physical devices to the unikernel.
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Let's hope IBM does a better job than they did on Blue Waters
Unbound is in now included in the base system as BIND's replacement.
I guess such recent works as Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World, among others. Who knew that sci-fi could be something else than alien invasions and scantily clad women in pulp covers?
If I'm typing a URL out, I'll generally remember the name of the product but not the actual .xxx, so I'll assume .com. But I imagine Vine doesn't really drive much of its interaction through people typing out the URL.

Vine is used primarily from within apps. If anything, having a .co is a slight helper as their primary target is Twitter where characters are often a premium.

I don't mean this as opposition to you, tmmm, merely that you got me thinking on why one might prefer a .co or be fine without a .com.
As for what I think on a particular detail such as 20mbps vs 500kbps ... it shouldn't be up to me, and it shouldn't affect the overall point. The system should have things in place where it would be able to balance the size of the "free layer" against various other expectations in the economy. There are diminishing returns going both ways - having REALLY CRAPPY INTERNET available to poor kids for example who could otherwise create some great stuff online - vs having free high speed wifi on every airplane for everybody.
A lot of amazon's costs are shipping, which may be close to a wash with Walmart... also, Walmart is setup to sell more perishable goods than Amazon... Given Walmart's supply chain, and Amazon trying to get closer to consumers with Amazon now charging tax in a lot of locations, many larger items may be a wash in terms of profit margin between the two.
Will FreeBSD start making releases like 10.1.1? Ubuntu and Debian always provide updates to fix bugs, including kernel bugs.
It is consistent with how other .Net libraries work (particularly the string ones). It also works fine on null as long as the type of null is string.
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Fuck this shitheel.
I think hands-free access to your phone's screen could have been sold to athletes and people who work with their hands. But that didn't need a camera and certainly isn't worth $1500.
Neat, Boeing has a 'Directed Energy Systems' division.
Congrats on sticking it through! This apparently happens more often than you'd think. I went through a similar experience a couple years ago:
http://brandonb.cc/what-happened-when-my-co-founder-quit-the...

EDIT: I commented before reading the whole thing! Glad the blog post helped. And I'll bet your story will in turn help others. :)

I'm really surprised two YC founders gave you advice to throw in the towel. Doesn't seem very YC-like. Glad you didn't!
Validation of JSON responses is the big win.
This sort of thing is why containers without a full OS underneath are probably the wave of the future. You don't need, or want, 95% of the stuff that typically runs in the background on Linux.
Take a look at this: https://intelligence.org/files/CEV.pdf

But also, what in particular makes you think that experiencing human emotions are fundamentally required in order to optimize for human values?

A different mind might have different emotions, or it might have no emotions, since emotions are a kludge that came about by natural selection, and may not be optimal safeguards in ensuring that an intelligence acts to optimize for the values we want.
Good point. No reason not to have tools in the toolbox for when you need them. You might be interested in https://github.com/Raynos/continuable for dealing with async, it is an extremely simple library that allows you to build up async ops step by step. When you call the resulting function, it runs all the steps in the order you defined them.
Seems like he's not really talking about AI so much as the business model of the web. Elsewhere Lanier has talked about what he calls "Siren Servers" -- the web business model of baiting people with free services, collecting their data, and then engaging in uncompensated monetization of that content. A lot of "big data," which drives a lot of today's "AI," is in the same category.

When you look at how much money Facebook and Google make from your content via indirect monetization, these services are not free. They're actually fairly expensive.
I came here to talk about Kenyatta, too. For sure thought I'd see his name in the article.
While that is true generally, I don't agree in this particular case; I think context made it clear.

Furthermore, it's factually true - he hasn't been ruled innocent (or rather, not guilty) of the crimes he is accused as of 2014, which are not the same as those from 2012.
People definitely know what Google Glass is, nationally. It was covered extensively by national news media, and featured (and mocked) on shows like The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live.
Moral dilemmas are easy to solve if you have perfect information. In the train-track problem you reference, the utility of saving 10 people at the expense of 1 life is obvious and I would do so without hesitation (though not without regret). But life rarely presents us with cases where the utilitarian calculus is so clear; our powers of foresight and analysis are so limited that we get better results by establishing and promulgating rules that cover the most common situations - imperfectly, but with tolerably low error levels.
Test the latest attacks including this one against yourself continuously. Are you going to do this tinfoil?

Seems like a lot of security products demand trust from their users (even gnunet). This implicit bossing is no less pretentious than a gas pump that says "Thankyou".
Didn't cross my mind to check there. Thanks for the link.
It wasnt always this way. What do you think accounts for the trend?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/nov/19/better-angels...
I got Glass in April 2013. I realized that I used Google Glass to solve two problems:

1) Taking pictures and video of my day.
2) Telling the time.

The notifications features were not useful to me and being seen in public with the device on was embarrassing. I ended up deciding to make my own version of Glass (called Lambda Hat) that was more discrete and solved the first problem above and left the second to my cellphone.
There are probably other reasons, but the NVLink interconnect is expected to show up on Power systems long before Intel, putting the GPUs much, much closer to system CPU and memory.

This thing is going to be a beast.
Thanks!
For a while I've had this notion that the best way to understand differences in gender is to picture some situations of everyday life with reversed genders, and then I thought while reading this, maybe there's a sci-fi book doing exactly that? Turns out this is slightly different, but it seems interesting, I'll give it a try.
Yes, but my point is that nobody has actually seen one IRL. If most folks saw one on the street today they'd have to rack their brains to try and recall some tech story from 2 years ago.
The confidence band example comes close. Might work until real candlesticks are implemented.
Ah that would be cool. We actually code generate interfaces for our responses which is really helpful.
Thoroughly enjoyable! The voice you're writing with here is really fun and easy to read. I hope that feedback makes it easier for you to keep writing more with confidence!

Just as a heads up, on Roo's landing page there is one screenshot has a typo on the button. "Rread More." :-)
- Learning Linux in the early 2000s

- Learning Python around Python 1

- Learning JS at the same time node was beginning

Current investment is learning Unreal Engine, AgiSoft Photscan and Maya now WebGL is in all browsers. I'm making a bet that the best 3D stuff on the web will be created using the best 3D tools, not the best JS 3D tools.
He appears to be at Pleasant Valley now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
They already do that. Right now I'm running 10.0-RELEASE-p12. See the UPDATING file for the 10.0 branch for example: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.0/UPDATING?view=lo...
Why treat AI like a single thing? Wouldn't the openness of code lead to a plethora of AI with different demeanors, towards humans, life, and each other?
I'd put it even more strongly. Even if programmers who have been at it since childhood have an advantage, I think the job prospects of a decent-but-not-great programmer are still at least on a par with other careers that inmates could be training for in jail. Just look at those same bootcamp programs you mentioned - their graduates may (or may not, actually, now that I look at the stats) have a lower employment rate than coders from a good university, but the job prospects are still by today's standards very good, and when they do get jobs they're still pulling down comfortably upper-middle-class incomes.

Convicted felons would probably find it harder to find a job just because they have to put that fact on their job applications, but they have to deal with that whatever line of work they go into.
True, monopoly players distort markets as much as governments (which are in fact also monopolies in a certain real sense).

I think that, in general, having the government guarantee something and then regulate it should be done only for the "minimum layer", it should have a limit. Above that, there should be a free market where only negative externalities are regulated.
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google (2009) [pdf]
Why not purescript?
If they would allow to set up a nice ttf font, like Source Code Pro via libfontconfig, like fbterm does I would fall in love immediately.)
Still wish they would implement something better for INotifyPropertyChanged like key-value observing in obj-c or object.observe proposed for js. Basically automatic property changed events. At least this removes the magic strings in the boiler plate.
Empirically disproven by all the high-achieving Jewish and Asian parents for whom that's the default mode of relating to children.
An AI in a box is only going to be as good as the problem statements and axioms that you load it up with. What you actually want is an AI that can make useful inferences on our behalf, which is going to require some sort of self-concept.
For the split second it takes a round to leave the barrel, thats why GP was asking about the length of time that stabilization would be required.

EDIT: Adding to that though, the reality is that ships large enough to be the platform for something like this don't get affected much by normal seas. Seems like it would have to be some really rough seas, and ones that wouldn't have targets flying over them due to storms anyway, to cause much pitching/yawing?
I have never heard a good description of how you can practically cap spending on political speech. How can one operate an independent tv network or a large website under such constraints?

Are there any actual proposals?
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And as I understand this attack it is possible only if connection between target server and client is not protected by SSL.
I think the author should say the UK Government, rather than just the UK, I don't owe Alan Turing an apology, gratitude yes.
Sensible hover effects are essential IMO (not just for prettiness sake) and is a basic thing that quite a few libraries seem to miss out.

Also, an easy way to customize all styling, tick intervals and min-max ranges would be good.
Hi - yep, certainly on the horizon.
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I think that perhaps none has stopped to consider what is a life without emotions. In the same way that one can't grasp the concept of nothing, for us the concept of not having emotions is impossible to imagine. Perhaps you make hide your emotion in a rationalization but the emotions are there perhaps are the source of your thinking, the fountain of your ideas and vitality.
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Indeed, she credits your blog post for giving her "confidence that someone else had done it before" (and noting that your situation "was way worse")!

I'm glad you both took time to share your stories. There are so many factors, known and unknown, that influence these kinds of outcomes. But, as pg has written [0], the one constant is simply ... DON'T GIVE UP!

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Say I program a drone to constantly fly in front of you.

Every time you open your mouth to speak, it blows an air horn away from you, noise-cancelled towards you. Your person has not been violated, but your ability to be heard has been obliterated.

Have I interfered with your first amendment rights?

That is what Citizens United means to me - asymmetrical free speech warfare.

Additionally, is the "money == speech" relationship a transitive property? Why not?
I disagree with the characterization of SF as forward-thinking. There are many people with big ideas and willing to undertake risky endeavors, but there are also many people who vehemently resent "techies." I think most SF citizens regard "techies" as mildly obnoxious. Overall, I find that SF is relatively tolerant of diversity, /except/ when it comes to people working in STEM disciplines, and so wearing Glass in SF is really asking for trouble.
Thanks; it's just a present irritant because the Hangouts client for iPad is presently broken (no video), and Skype doesn't support video conference calls in their tablet clients, so I don't have a free cross-platform multi-way tablet-based video-chat protocol that works, and another entry in that space would be convenient.
That's a very nice code.
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One bright side of an AI apocalypse is the robots will have better haircuts.
Majority of Americans fear for their privacy online
looks okay to me.