skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find bizarre is how people put up with multiple useless browser toolbars that sometimes take up so much space that you can hardly even see the browser content area.
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Wait. You need to apply, give all kinds of personal information, then wait for approval before you can even see what it looks like ?

This isn't IRC-style at all :/
Well they use the SteamOS as an operating system
But what is "AI"? Once something in AI gains traction, it quickly becomes part of the standard computer-science-toolkit.

For instance, programmatically tuning some variables can be considered a standard task, either with some bruteforce or a small search between the possible combinations. This was earlier considered AI, but is now a common approach. AI now would probably be to do more advanced problems with genetic algorithms or similar. But where to draw the line?
That interview should be read by everyone who cares about the attack on Charlie Hebdo and subsequent "Je suis Charlie" worldwide movement. Many people, for all kinds of reasons (many good) are trying to make Charlie Hebdo into what it is not, and never will be, some kind of reluctant messiah of free speech.
Original paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093247/

"These effects were specific to episodic learning, with no between-session change expressed in procedural motor-skill learning, or in measures of alertness or reaction time"

The memory relevant for developers is mostly procedural, i.e conceptual memory, i believe. So napping might not be useful(or further research needed).
Nearly zero content.
Serious question, is there shareware which is not dead today?
Where are the shareware success stories?

Where is PC-Write, PKZip or Commander Keen of 2015?

I'd even settle for WinRAR of today.
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A lot depends on your specific rules of the game. Does "filled by tetrominoes" mean you have to use every tetromino at least once? If not, then you can always fill your contiguous square space with 2x2 tetrominoes. Also, whatever your rules, it is generally a lot easier to prove it is possible (or not) to fill a space than find an actual solution.
I hope the irony of replying with "nearly zero content" isn't lost on on-lookers.
2 days of battery life for you can mean just 2/3 of a day for someone else. So I'd rather all smartphones default to 2-3 days of battery life, just to ensure even the heaviest users get a full day. If you start your day with 20 percent battery life, then you have no one to blame but yourself, in that case, no?
I'd be very interested in a writeup on how you got to grips with node-webkit, if you were so inclined?

This looks like a very polished application - well done!
So... it's a slack channel that requires approval?
http://saltlakecity.broadway.com/shows/book-mormon-baa/
If you're going to use a parallel port, use a resistor ladder and make a crude DAC out of it.
The article, while informative, feels like a subtle Avast advertisement. It's mentioned 16 times in the damn article, and the author even vindicates it for not preventing problems and also compares it to AVG saying its better.
Not as a prophet, he wasn't said to have spoken the words of a divine force/entity.
"There is one significant drawback to this approach, at least for some applications: there is no way to know how much of the processing completed before the error occurred. If that information is important, a more fine-grained approach is necessary."

A more fine-grained approach which is conveniently omitted from the article, BECAUSE IT'S SPAMMING `if err != nil` EVERY OTHER STATEMENT...
It won't go to battery life, it'll go to higher performance, more screen brightness, additional sensors, more allowed background processing by apps, more GPS check-ins, more chatting with your connected devices like the Watch, and more awareness of the radio-transmitting devices around you. There's a LOT more our phones could be doing if they had 2x, 3x, 10x battery life, that would eat up every bit of juice within a typical day.
i can't stand when a tech company can't innovate their own webpage more than using a standard Bootstrap template any noob developer can use. No offense to your product I'm sure it's great. I just don't understand why every company, especially in the tech field can't even design their website to be just a little bit unique.
So long as we can pull the plug or disconnect the interfaces we'll be ok with AI. Once we can't, then we have a problem.

In effect the scariest AI is distributed, self propogating and can't be unpowered. Effectively a virus. I have yet to see a meaningful distributed AI, even in concept.
From the conclusion:

> If I was to make this again, I would do a few things differently. First I’d probably add a slightly larger screen like this one from Tindie [https://www.tindie.com/products/hwlevel/40-ips-screen-for-ra...]
I like your definition of "mess". It clarifies but is still subjective. :)

The answer in my opinion is "develop for Ubuntu LTS". Non-LTS changes too fast. In contrast to Debian, you can assume proprietary nVidia/ATI drivers. If it works on Ubuntu, it (usually) also works for Debian and Mint, although you don't have to explicitly support them. Arch users are probably used to and savvy enough to port stuff from Ubuntu. It implicitly means GTK/Gnome/Unity, although games probably just use SDL and OpenGL.
While I respect Secco and his work as well it's also wrong and out of context in some regards.

Ruben Bolling: http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2015/01/in-...
That's what he wants to know!
I think, the perceived danger here is more the lack of social acceptance of unemployed people. I think however, that if a large part or even a majority of the population is unemployable it will necessarily lead to social acceptance. People will simply have a lot of leisure time.
NEW IMAGE OF CHARLIE BEEN SHOT: http://goo.gl/CsFP8F
> not funny or disgusting

And therein lies the rub: would you subsequently gun someone down because they made photos of your loved ones which you find distasteful?

Almost nobody would.
My, is that bad rhetorics. False and stupid propositions won't come true by repeating them. In order to not “allow terrorists the safe spaces to talk to each other”, he's denying the same right to everyone else, making all of us a terror suspect 24/7, from birth to death. Not only is that abandoning the Magna Carta (among other civil & human rights violations), it also explodes your suspect pool from a few selected ones to the whole earth population. Sounds like a really dumb idea if you're actually interested in catching any bad guys. I'll probably never understand how someone like Cameron gets voted into office in the first place.
NEW IMAGE OF CHARLIE HEBDO SHOT: http://goo.gl/CsFP8F
Download.com took an executable I made, unpacked it, added a whole bunch of spyware and malware to the archive and re-packed it. I hate them with a passion.
Race is an immutable characteristic. No one could possibly change their race. It's barely a valid concept. Holding someone responsible for an inseparable part of themselves is both ill-conceived and futile.

Religion is software: adopt a baby from a family with a different religion and odds are that the baby will grow into an adult having your religion. It may feel like an inseparable part of oneself, but it is not: ideas can be reevaluated at any time, and probably should be.

You are responsible for the memes you host and propagate. You should be free to believe and say anything. But ideas have consequences, and you own the consequences: at least to the extent that your ideas are open to criticism or ridicule, but not to the extent of violence.
Resolve idiots problems on UI, not on file system.
I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
Getting started and set up is not the problem. Cost is even out of the question if you have the resources. But keeping up with security is my biggest question here. How do you ensure you get up to date security system? Is that something I need to spend on separately? Surely, there are other pros and cons to consider.
I think no religion preaches violence, including Islam. Its the followers that have their own interpretations.. Do we relate the acts of Hitler to Christianity?
If users should be trusted to push comments up, then why not down also? A down vote doesn't have to mean "this comment should not be on HN", it can be "I disagree with this comment" or "I think this comment should be lower down".
There are so many reports of normal people installing Ubuntu without problems that I'd rather guess he hit some obscure bug.
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>> And we're sooo far away from this being a problem.

If we're far away from this being a problem, we may be far away from understanding how to solve it. We certainly wouldn't want the former to outpace the later, given what is at stake.
Only name and email are required. But yeah, it's only similar to IRC in the sense that it's a chat with channels (it's actually a Slack chat).
Coverage of these events, with or without anti-Muslim sentiment, almost never takes the point of view that it is the fact that people are brought up to really believe that there are invisible, magic beings in the ether who care about the state of affairs on earth that is at least in part the root cause here.

And that is a terrible shame because not drawing attention to that fact is a tacit endorsement of extremist beliefs, as Harris, Hitchens, et al. have pointed out many times. You can't have it both ways. You either believe there are invisible, magic beings or you don't. There is no "tolerance" in between. If you think they exist, then you can hardly be surprised when someone takes this ludicrous proposition and bends it to their own political, social, or economic goals -- because you can bend it any way you want, by definition, since it's all made up.

I don't think it is at all obvious that if there were not implicit endorsement of religious beliefs of all kind all over earth, that it wasn't OK for grown-ups to walk around saying they actually believe this nonsense, that this violence would manifest itself in some other way. It's important to at least consider the possibility that religion itself is the problem here.
Nope, that really was the end of the story.
Wow, this is brilliant if it works well. If anyone from Unchecky reads this, you should repeat this experiment with your software installed and post it on your blog.
While what you said is probably true for obvious reasons, also remember that those cartoons probably offended around 1.5bn people. Seeing that three people decided to react violently after several years of the paper being put out weekly, it is fairly safe to say that this could be described as a clash of the extreme extremists (of whom there are very few).

I am pretty sure the outrage against anti-Semitic jokes would be ridiculous, too (which CH spoke out against and fired over).

I am not defending anybody here, just wanted to describe a slightly different point of view. Obviously it is CH's own choice to put out and condone whatever they want and that choice should be granted.
How do we obtain a copy in the US? Anyone have a good source?
Yes it's a slack team. Approval is required until I find a way to automate it.
I a way, you are correct. They KNEW something like this was going to happen. So in fact they were luring for a reaction. No-one actually claims otherwise.

That is of course irrelevant to the moral question of freedom of speech.
I'm sorry but I completely disagree with you. This is the kind of response that these extremists want.

There should be no topic off limits when it comes to satire and public commentary. The minute we start making exceptions then we start losing control of the conversation/discussion to those that want to control what can and cannot be said.

As a Catholic, I watched many cartoons lampooning our priests, pope, and Jesus. I can honestly say that sometimes I was offended and at other times, I had to laugh. But what I never did was go and kill those that offended my religion and my god.

We should hold accountable all individuals in any religious community that promote this type hatred and murderous attacks.
> "From a consumer point of view, everything above the Linux Kernel is a mess."

That's the sort of thing projects like systemd aim to fix.

> "Want to develop something for Linux? What's the display server? Proprietary or free drivers? What Desktop Environment? QT or GTK Application?"

You don't need to concern yourself with the display server if you're writing using a library like Qt or GTK+, but it's not a hard question anyway (X.org now, Wayland/Mir in the future). Drivers wise, most devices only have one driver to choose from, the only exceptions are for the GPU, and if you want to play games the answer is clear (NVidia card, proprietary driver). Desktop environment doesn't matter, they all support X.org graphics frameworks.

There are certainly challenges with Linux development, and there is a need for a bit more stability lower down the OS stack, but the situation is improving, and Windows proves you can offer both choice and stability. The only issue I see that is a time bomb with regards to Linux gaming is the sound stack, everything else appears to be improving.
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Very cool and inspiring. I'm doing something similar [1] by replacing the guts of a Toshiba Libretto 50C (a tiny laptop from 1996) with a Raspberry Pi and upgrading its screen to a 7" widescreen. It's slightly larger than your terminal, but in my opinion, will be much more usable as a PC with the larger keyboard. But, to each his own :)

What kind of battery life do you get with your machine?

[1]: http://restoringmylibretto.tumblr.com/
You'll have AI working the other side of the arms race just the same. Tools aren't just used by the good guys.
Yeah, thats the really big one here. Frankly i see the shooters and the "far right" as pretty much two variants of the same. Swap around a few words on various slogans and you would not know if it came from jihadists or skinheads.

In almost all cases we are seeing young men with no apparent future being scooped up by some "recruiter" and indoctrinated. Street gangs, cults, terrorists, all the same once you boil away whatever "makeup" they apply...
I don't know much about the philosophy of AI and I'm only familiar at a basic level with modern AI algorithms. From what I have been exposed to I don't see any reason to think AI is any more than a set of statistical frameworks. Is there any reason to believe that these statistical frameworks are comparable to biological intelligence?

Am I thinking about this the wrong way?
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Soon after I got my first computer in the late 90s, I figured out that free (gratis) / shareware proprietary software can’t be trusted and that I should be wary of sites such as Download.com. After a couple of years, I moved to GNU/Linux as my regular OS but I’d still use Windows in a work environment and after working in an Internet cafe, I became an expert in removing malware.

Since then, the situation has got much worse: you used to be reasonably safe downloading FOSS software but nowadays you can’t trust Windows binaries from Sourceforge. Even serious software producers such as Oracle have been bundling Ask.com crapware with Java updates. I feel sorry for new Windows users who want to get more functionality out of their PC.

I thought the battle of the malware to dominate the home near the end of the article was funny.
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So what's your suggestion here? It sounds like this person feels more proficient, more on-the-ball, writing Go.

So, you call them ignorant (incredibly ignorant, at that) because they're not using a language with exceptions or pattern matching, and they're wasting they're time on "C-style" error handling and... what? They're ignorant until they use something else?

You're also drawing a weak conclusion here: if you use Go idomatically, which requires more lines on your screen for error handling, and a majority of programming errors are a result of the programmer not being able to keep a sufficient amount of program state in their head because of code not fitting neatly on the screen, then using Go leads to more bugs.

Do you have anything that substantiates that?
They are doing it for years now especially after 2009 or something, before that download.com is not so much awful as nowadays.
My exact phrase was "there's no telling", which is meant to indicate uncertainty. We don't know who or how this was exploited (if at all).

But I agree with you that I shouldn't have written "probably lots of people". I have no basis for that assertion. I retract that sentence (but not the rest).

By the way, I didn't downvote you. In fact, I almost certainly would have even upvoted your comment if you hadn't made the edit complaining about the downvote (against HN guidelines) and accusing me of downvoting you (false accusation).

As a general rule, you should never assume that the person you're disagreeing with was the one who downvoted. Many of us on HN only downvote people who are making low-information comments (which your comment was not, indeed it made me reconsider an assertion) or comments made in bad faith (yours was not, as far as I know).
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It does not. It's entirely speculation at this point, though many, many of us want to have it. Everything has been so focused on getting 1.0 out the door, and HKT should be backwards compatible. Special pains have been taken to consider HKT when designing APIs.
I don't see what's so good about this. It's merely an uninsightful and flawed analogy with a deeply wrong conclusion. He completely misjudges Charlie Hebdo and the cultural context.
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Don't think for a moment that Western Christianity has 'left the violence behind' - its just being exported over the horizon to the Middle East, as modern crusades, beyond the view of the modern consumer. The difference between Christian terrorism and Islamic terrorism is that in the former, mass organizations exist to hide the results of Christian-fundamentalist violence, whereas in the latter the only chance they have is to expose their violence to the world.
More like android f-droid store.

Its mostly a windows problem. I haven't seen malware from .debian.org or more recently .freebsd.org.
But it's not inconceivable that in the near-future an AI could train itself to mutate (even if this means interfacing with mechanical turk or freelance websites and paying humans to do it).
>First that their have been many instances in the life of our prophet, when he faced not just harsh but inhuman treatment, specially in his hometown of Mecca. Yet he never lifted an finger or even wished for those people to get hurt. It is against the moral of our religion to engage in such "eye for an eye" notions.

that just a blatant lie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badr among the others fights against Meccans that the paedophilic Muhammad led the Muslims into.
You're completely right but I think it's more about <always> getting through one day. Even if there's heavier than usual usage, or even after your phone is a year or two old.

So we actually need a phone to last for 2-3 days of regular usage so it's up to the task of lasting a full day in the worst case.
It's more than that. You hit on it in the last part of your comment. This is about having tons of leisure life. How is it parceled out? How do people stay engaged in life and happy?

Remember, there are already lots of rich people who have as much leisure life as they want. And it's not a good thing for many of them. It's like a study posted on HN said a while back: you can have a meaningful life, or your can have a happy life. They are not the same thing. The more people that have meaningful lives, whether sweeping the streets, inventing new things, or writing novels? The better we all are. The more people choosing simply to be happy? Society will stagnate and die.

So this isn't some case of somebody telling somebody else what to do. Assuming we are entering the age of "robots do everything", our species has a crisis of meaning at hand.
The main reason Lua stayed small, is that its developed as an open source, closed shop software. I'm using my own PHP microframework called DataFace for over 20 years. Nearly no two applications share the same DataFace code, each of them is a little bit different. My current DataFace can create dynamic AJAX forms, but its still less then 1000 lines, because its my open source, closed shop code, where I'm able to cut dead branches, to grow new flowers.

I stopped using Turbo Pascal, C++ or TCL, because backwards incompatibility. A language implementation like Turbo Pascal, C++ or TCL is outside of my application scope. Any operating system distribution update could break compilation of my code anytime. It did and I decided for my self to avoid those language.

But its a total different case with Lua, or my own DataFace microframework, because those are inside of my application. The Lua interpreter code is not some library coming from operting system distribution, but a shared lib, I ship with my code, and a source code tree within my own application. My old applications do not need to care, if something in Lua 5.3 breaks them. But I can investigate the new features for next application.
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"both parties were at wrong here"..."it is a kin to playing with their feelings"..."such mishaps happen"..."the level of satire in question here, was perhaps too much".

Honestly, I can't help but come away feeling that what you're saying is that what Hebdo did was so wrong on their part that they should have seen it coming and it is their own fault.
if HN as a community cannot accept a simple, logical and apparently non-offending statement against christianity. Then it really needs to declare it as a policy, and endorse Islamic bashing officially!
could have offended, if they even saw them. The issue is, how much offense was their really. If Islam is like any other religion there is a significant number who just don't care. They don't want to be bothered.

What we have here is a bunch of extremist trying to incite violence against their faith in order to create more recruits by demonstrating oppression. It does not matter that their actions caused it, it only matters it exists.

Used to be you could isolate a country to make them come around, restrict access to trade and banking. With these groups your going to have to make sure they have no home. keep them on the move so much they cannot get established. It won't be easy or quick, but the alternative is allowing them a beachhead and being subject to their whims
I think the disparity here is that the "trigger warning" is warning that there's a possibility someone's feelings might be hurt which is ridiculous. If we start down that path, where do we draw the line?

Please edit your post to include a trigger warning: comparing epilepsy and religious belief may insult some people. See? Absurd.
Interesting question. There may be some aspects in the business that may need a growth team.