skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this argument akin to something along the lines of, "A website is really a human because someone needs to maintain it and make decisions on it's appearance."

You are describing a tool. People don't say hammers are humans, either.

Netflix's special algorithm is indeed an algorithm.
I see how netflix's dataset helps them produce an addictive serialized drama like House of Cards. There are many examples to learn from, and the shows are basically built out of a formula.

What I don't see is how this would help you make a critically well received documentary about Nina Simone. Sure, you might be able to predict a lot of people will stream it, but how does that make it well received at Cannes? Nothing in their dataset is telling them about the art of film-making.
Microsoft's Spartan browser uses the Chrome UA string
Oh my fickle psychology is tricked once again.

I was put off by the referenced comment the other day and now my confidence is restored. I don't even own a mac...
Study on decision-making stokes controversy over power of distracted mind (2014)
The way the GP put it is a little harsh, yes, but i can see where they're coming from. Personally, i think a device that "just works" is great. Really. For certain people (i agree, not low-IQ people, just non computer enthusiasts). And this is where the iPad shines. My gripe, though, would be that it doesn't cater to the power user who wants to modify components and software / create (whether that be a novel, a song, or a piece of software) in the same way that a general-purpose (and i'd go as far as to say open-source/libre software) computer does. I like hacking at my editor and being able to plug in an Arduino, and an iPad wouldn't let me do that.

Having said all of that, my response is: if that is a deal-breaker for you (like it is for me), don't buy an iPad. Simple. The iPad has it's target market very well defined and served (even if i do lament the fact that it's such a DRM / walled garden / evil spying companies experience, where the user is the product).
Regardless of how good the tool is - that was an excellent demonstration clip! Within ~30 seconds I knew exactly what the tool did, why it was cool, and what I might want to use it for.

Startup landing pages could learn a lot from that single gif.
Since Riot is a "React- like 2.5KB UI library" the main purpose is to "muddle together" related layout and logic.
I defy you to post an equivalent amount of ongoing abuse. "Someone was mean to me a few times and I got over it" is a pretty lame response to someone who undergoes constant rape/death threats.
I find it funny how when no one has the faintest idea of what consciousness is, people feel they can already make predictions when and how machines will become conscious and state with confidence that when that happens it will be a bad thing.
I have no idea if or when machines will become conscious nor the effects that this consciousness might have on mankind (and no one else has any idea either, regardless of their fame), but if AI does become conscious, then considering the appalling record of misery caused by human consciousness, perhaps it's time we gave the machines a chance...
I studied the Cisco networking materials 5-10 years ago but never actually got round to taking the tests. Dynamips was a router hardware emulator for the 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700, and 7200 hardware platforms that booted up actual Cisco IOS images.

With GNS3, it was possible to set up complex network topologies of dynamips routers that would have cost thousands of dollars in real hardware without losing any of the realism as these were essentially virtualised routers.

I haven't kept up with the progress here but Cisco certification may not be the best example.
This is only a guess. Mere speculation.

Perhaps the QR scanning connects the phone and the browser via some token stored somewhere and used to both authenticate and send/receive messages.

Think of the "token" as a channel. Phone sends all messages to that channel. Browser gets messages from the channel.

This is obviously not the whole picture. For example, the web app can scroll back and "load" previous messages.

It's weird though. Why would they go through such a router? It would make a lot more sense to just use the QR scanning to authenticate, and then let the browser receive messages in the same way that the phone app does: directly from the server(s).
That's right: the voltage in this case will be proportional to the separation between the plates, so if you discharged them across a light bulb it would (briefly!) glow much brighter if you pulled the plates apart first.
I wish it were possible to effectively mass-communicate more complicated beliefs than "X has positive valence" or "X has negative valence". AI will be an enormous boon to every aspect of our lives for probably at least several decades, until it reaches the point where it's possible it'll accidentally become very, very bad. These are not contradictory in any way!
>Blocking access to pages from countries where the court order was issued seems entirely reasonable to me. //

Shouldn't you just let that country block for itself what it doesn't want?

If you have products available in your country that are unlawful in another then you wouldn't stop individuals from that country from buying them in your country, you'd let the other country police the import, surely? Seems analogous to me.
I just updated this on a CentOS 6 box, and it broke the server. After I rebooted, it never came online. Luckily it was a backup server, so it's not critical. Right now I'm just waiting for the customer to contact iweb to figure out what went wrong. This is a vanilla server with just some of my software installed (which couldn't possibly have prevented the server from rebooting).

Obviously there is some dependency that they forgot to add, so I would hold off on updating anything unless you don't really care if the server is offline for a while.
It isn't an either or.

Colonizing planets and producing space stations would only help enhance the technology, provide refueling and repair places, and much, much more. People will have preferences on where they want to live (dirtside or not) in the same way people have preferences on where they live now. I think it would be safe to assume there would be a little of both (spaceside and dirtside) living out there. (I think that resource-wise, there will be more on planets because of its benefits)
I know Bryan pretty well (we're both ex Sun people). He's not as bad as he can sound (coming from me that's sort of amusing, I've got a bit of a rep as being annoying :)

Bryan is a really smart guy, a lot of depth in systems, both software and hardware. He was also incredibly pro-Sun. I remember spending a day with him in San Francisco, he was still at Sun, I was elsewhere. We had a long discussion about operating systems and hardware that was a lot of fun.

Until we got to Solaris and SPARC. He just refused to hear anything negative about either. I tried to point out that Intel was ahead and he just wouldn't hear it.

I think he let loyalty to his company get ahead of the truth and that was weird.
People talk about "fuck you money," meaning the amount of money you need to make before you can never work again. Personally, my "fuck you money" isn't money per se, but the fall of Comcast. When I build enough value in the world to displace Comcast, I will retire.

We need to see more work in the areas of mesh networking, layer-3 routing, and consumer networking in general. This tool is a good step. Personally I'm hacking on some openwrt routers right now -- I recommend everyone try it. The documentation is dense, with a friendly community writing it.
You might like Clementine[1] it seems quite popular as an all-in-one music manager... though I usually use either `opusenc` or `fdkaac` via `ffmpeg` for transcoding with intact metadata.

[1] https://www.clementine-player.org/about
Consciousness has next-to-nothing to do with AI safety. People are concerned about software that acts like an agent, not software that has qualia.
That was a typo -- the assembly stub took about 0.8 ms as shown in the trace.
> Here's a question: what are the conditions under which Facebook will censor the content in the US/European market?

Breast-feeding mothers in Europe and US have had their images removed.

EDIT: Not sure if that still happens, but it's easy enough to find articles on WWW about it.
<rolleyes>
Was this made in response for more real version of https://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/ ?
Here is the link to download the app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puwf-push-ups-with-friends/i...
They serve different needs. The second scenario may well be better served by moving towards the first, but that's not a quick project, especially when uptime and reliabiity is important. Even with that, the for the third scenario a full VM infrastructure may by overkill. This whole topic can be summed up with "Examine your needs, examine your options, make the best choice you can at the time, try to make your life easier by leaving pathways to change your choice with the least problems based on expected future needs."

Just because someone looks to be doing something similar to you, doesn't mean their needs and constraints aren't quite different. I think this is the big thing most people miss.
I've had comments around 'how to pirate adobe software' removed from FB.
Announcing Firefox Browser Support for Amazon Linux
You're right though, it definitely needs a more literal description right up front.

You've had one piece of feedback that confirms what you believe. That doesn't make it right. This is exactly why we do split testing (A/B tests). At the very least, if you do change it, make sure you note when you changed it, what you did and why you did it, so you can see how it impacts sales.
Microsoft Puts Orleans Code on GitHub
Human consciousness has evolved naturally, and sits in some kind of local equilibrium with all of its rough edges for the most part buffed off. Who knows what kind of unbearable existence a purely artificial intelligence would experience. Just like communism versus religion -- the artificial and logical versus the organic and ancient -- I would imagine any sentience created from scratch by us is more than likely to be deeply pathological.
Sure, they might think that.

But I think it is highly relevant to distinguish "speech that offends" and "speech that incites hatred"

It might be useful to censor the latter and not the former. The purpose of a "hate speech" law might be to avoid/reduce the social breakdown of having a part of society discriminate against the other. In that sense, saying (for example) that "all arabs are terrorrists" is much worse than drawing mohhamad. The drawing offends muslins, but does not try to persuade me to treat them differently/believe they are different

(tl;dr you say they say 'it's relative'. I say it might not be relative, regardless of what people say.)
Alas, the trouble is that it's tremendously hard to learn (or teach!) the qualitative ideas without also learning the equations. (The only counterexample to that I've ever seen in physics is Feynman's amazing little book "QED", which isn't at all what you need here.) So I've got nothin' for ya. (And while I do enjoy conversations about this sort of thing, obviously, I can't possibly sustain one with my job these days: I'm already going to regret the time I've spent on this one. But it was fun.)
There are also plenty of "business guys" who know very little about business
see also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
That is wicked. Nice work.
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I had a discussion with a former co-worker that is the Lead for A/V and smart class rooms at my former work. They looked at Apple TV to do just that and decided that there were to many security/room for mischief issues for Apple TV. I can't remember who, but they are evaluating a air-play device that offers more granular control. might not be as big of a deal in k-5 as it is in higher ed though.
Nicer GUI/UX is subjective. I find that the OS X GUI kills my productivity, but others may feel the opposite. Linux is highly configurable, at least, so you could get near-perfect OS X UI on a Linux machine.

As for the hardware: I'm running Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro laptop, and it runs great. It boots much faster than my clean Yosemite install. In fact, Yosemite's performance was abysmal compared to Ubuntu.
From the NYT's article quoting Laszlo Bock: "Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is particularly good at hiring."

Google made the classic mistake of using the interviewer as the predictor of interest. Meanwhile, decades of research has shown it's not who does the asking but how and what you ask. For example, structured interviews are about 50% more predictive of job performance (r = .51) compared to unstructured interviews (i.e., the way almost everyone interviews; r = .38).

So why did Google run this experiment when they had an army of Industrial/Organizational Psychologists who already knew the research? They wanted to collect their own data and test the theories on their own employees, which I encourage and applaud.
It's much better for reading, that alone is enough for me. I have a new big iPhone but still use my iPad to read every day.
They're only "problems" to you because you disagree with the legitimate democratically elected government of another country.
Enqueue (available on Apple App Store) - simple, powerful interface, automatically finds/adds music to your library, support for many formats including FLAC
Here's how the AI worked (second-hand, because although I was semi-involved with the game, I wasn't on the dev team).

The original natural language parser was Velocitext, an engine we licensed from Virtus. I say "original" because our devs - mainly the super-smart Jason Williams - put a ton of tweaks and other new code into it, and Douglas ended up naming the new system "Spookitalk" (because it was spookily good).

Here's how to make spookily good AI:

1. When ST came out (late 90s), everyone had basement-low expectations of natural language parsers. These days things are somewhat better with Siri and Wolfram and the like, but back then the best you had - especially in games - were the Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls adventure systems. It turns out that all you need to blow people away is something that's slightly better than that; people expect computers to be useless at this stuff, so when they can occasionally come out with something smart, the impression is huge.

2. Jason and our test lead (Francine) put HUGE amounts of time in putting people in front of the game, recording text entered and the responses, then tweaking, iterating, etc. The AI's job was to parse text, add a little context and then return one of the several thousand pre-recorded responses. By the time the game came out, Jason had it handling the vast majority of things that people were actually likely to type.

But again, the secret: AI doesn't have to be amazing. It just has to be better than you expect at doing the single thing it's meant to do. (See also: Valve's relatively simple soldier AI in the original Half-Life, which was amazing at the time)
Wouldn't you have to decrypt and inspect all Tor traffic to accurately determine what percentage of it is anything?

If the DoJ could do that, they would necessarily have the ability to track and capture the CP-traffickers without bothering to "inform" the news media that such people are crawling all over Tor, in your Internet pipes, coming to get your children.

CP is such a universally reviled thing that whenever someone brings it up in an unrelated argument, I automatically suspect that they are losing it, they know it, and they are falling back to rhetoric. It is the "won't someone please think of the children" appeal to emotion, turned up to 11.
Pretty cool!

The dedication towards the goal is very entrepreneurial in itself :).
Veteran Hollywood vfx guy looking for startups needing help with video/audio
Hi, Demis here - London-based Hollywood visual effects guy, currently on hiatus writing a novel, also wanting some part-time work to keep my head in the game. I'm looking to speak to people/companies with a need for my broad production skill-set (video/audio/digital). Ideally, startups who need to engage their audience but don't have a massive budget, happy to engage a one-man (remote) operation to solve some of their problems, cheap.

Things I could help with include:

One-off videos: I've been around a long time (see: http://goo.gl/3jR1fo), understanding all the workflows. Big stuff aside (Godzilla, Marvel, etc), I've worked on several recent viral hits (this: http://youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI), as well as producing my own stuff (one even ending up in a museum: http://youtu.be/frUPnZMxr08). Shoot/direct/edit whole spots, or work vfx magic on a single shot.

Production for rich-media channels: You might need someone to run your podcast, produce for a YouTube channel, or film a Vine series. Anything's possible. I have an audio degree, worked as a video editor, and can manage any online audio/video project from concept through to distribution.

Blog + social + content: Maybe you need someone to unify an online/social presence - articles, content, engagement. I've written catchy articles hitting 20K+ views in 24hrs (http://goo.gl/lOlxpa - about eating rotten shark), love dissecting metrics, and am often brought in as an outside consultant for one-off creative brainstorming.

Something ambitious: I'm very much an outside-the-box type. Maybe you're curious about VR, or facade projections, or you want to emulate "this cool online video" but have no idea where to start? I'm 'that guy' people bring in to help.

Projects of any scale/location/budget, without the agency price-tag. Intrigued? Let's talk.
Until then, wish me luck with my novel! :)

Demis

demislw@mac.com
http://twitter.com/demis/
Guess a comedic sample of the dialog by bad AI wasn't welcome? Or was that not how it came across?
Yes, RHEL6 + derivatives, so I'm a little confused by that statement.
Go Report Card for GitHub Repos
You know your company sucks when its name has become synonymous with high latency, dropped packets and a all round shitty network.

Unfortunately i suspect they will just send a trademark claim to Github to get it removed.
We've had a robust way of doing code contracts since C# 2.0.

If you instruct the compiler to treat all warnings as errors (so that variables must be defintitely assigned), then the following code gives you what you want:

public PositiveInt SomeMethod(GreaterThanFive a, NonNegative b)
{
//do stuff;
}

public struct GreaterThanFive
{
readonly int n;

public GreaterThanFive (int n)
{
if(n < 5)
throw new ArgumentException("n must be greater than 5")

this.n = n;
}

public static implicit operator GreaterThanFive(int n)
{
return GreaterThanFive(n);
}

public static implicit operator int (GreaterThanFive n)
{
return n.n;
}
}

//Similar definitions for NonNegative and PositiveInt

We can even have nice diagnostic messages since the advent of C# 5's CallerInfo attributes (CallerMemberName, CallerLineNumber, and CallerFilePath).
I had the same problem. This must happen all the time. It just isn't complained about as prominently. It's always a bad idea to found alone. I knew that going in...
You, I like. That's exactly what the 85 years of research on hiring tells us are the strongest predictors of job performance and employee turnover.

Source: http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
I can't use an iPad for much more than reading books, casual web browsing, casual chess and a game or two.

For work I split 75%/25% between a PC and Mac, both with multiple large high-resolution monitors, proper keyboards, trackballs and a Wacom tablet. I couldn't imagine coding on an iPad or working on anything serious enough. The closed nature of the platform, with lack of file system access, user accounts, peripheral connectivity and lack of expansion (memory being a key issue) makes the ipad inconvenient at best.

But wait! There's nothing whatsoever wrong with this scenario. I am perfectly happy with what the iPad does for me. Sure, it can't match my 16 core PC with 24gigs of SDRAM, three monitors and five hard drives. It doesn't have to!

Different devices for different uses. And the ipad is great for what I do with it. Ideal? No, of course. Editing text is a pain in the ass, the screen is too small and some websites absolutely suck on it (Please STOP disabling zoom!). The iPad is very useful. I am sure people outside engineering/design might find a lot more use out of it.
I'd say there is also an element of evil.
So unless I criticize all the bad people on Earth I can't criticize anyone?
None of that is sharia. In fact, there's a huge contraindication which you conveniently left out - a constitutionally mandated secular government.
There are a few:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/support-tor-network-donate-...

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Tor

https://www.torservers.net/
> When a company blocks a page in the US due to a US court order: they're a respectable, law-abiding company.

Forgive my naivete. Is there precedence for this? Are there pages blocked in the US due to US court orders (and available elsewhere in the world)?
A New Year – A New You
Correct. Netflix does NOT work in Chromium on linux (just tested).
Obviously, he missed this Ted talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
I probably should have specified that my issue is with the Magic Mouse with Windows in particular. It just scrolls when I don't want it to, and when it does, it's stupid fast. I don't have that issue with any non-Apple mouse that I have.
Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)
I despise OS X for many reasons, and I have for years. However, I used to be pretty silent on discussions like these. My issues were (mostly) subjective and personal.

With the release of Yosemite, I'm now vocal about my dislike of OS X. It is objectively an inferior OS.

I believe many HN readers are in the same boat now. There have been quite a few threads about the decline in quality control for OS X/iOS in the last few years.
That's how many iPhones Apple sells – in real time
Taking no investments is the best investment you can make in your business.

I would recommend bootstrapping as long as you can. Then take investment in the future only when you really need it to scale things up, bring on employees, roll out version 2 of your app.

The longer you wait the more likely you are to maintain a larger percentage of the business when you do take funding.

Good luck in 2015, sounds like things are going well.
> My own view is that the risk of surveillance is predicated on the reliability and intent of the Watcher

This will never be possible because the surveillance is global, there will never be a Watcher that is globally considered reliable and well-intentioned.
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