skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Camlistore seems like it would serve as a great foundation for something like that (or Ward's federated wiki).

It was created with a similar goal in mind (stop writing CMSes over and over) by Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal/memcached/etc).

https://camlistore.org/
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>Their site reminds me of the nineties

Buffett's always been very conservative about not changing things that don't need changing for example no stock splits in the 50 years, same office for years, same house since 1958, doesn't use a computer at work - emails get printed out and handed to him - the annual report cover looks like it did in '64. I guess keeping things that aren't broken the same frees you up to work on what can be improved.

The Geico ad's new but Buffett often writes about it. It's one of the earliest businesses he's been involved with which he first went to visit in 1952, aged 22. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Business_career )
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There actually is a PouchDB Node server already: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb-server/. Installing it is as easy as `npm install -g pouchdb-server`

Also, Drupal recently announced that they're going to offer a CouchDB-compatible server. So yeah, anybody can implement the sync protocol. :) http://wearepropeople.com/blog/a-content-staging-solution-fo...
I wonder if this affects the deal Costco reached with MasterCard in Canada. When the Amex deal fell through they made a deal with MasterCard to issue their own Costco-branded MasterCard. In Canada at least, that was the main reason people had an Amex card. Smart move by MasterCard and Now Visa in the US to nab that contract up as soon as it fell through.
more information here: https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/io-js-week-of-february...

armv8 / aarch64 is interesting on the (low power) server side.
This class of mistake is a cost of doing business when airlines have computers and people playing these ridiculous revenue optimization games.

Unlike virtually any other business, it's really difficult to accept the excuse of fare "misprints" when in many cases airlines reprice routes several times per day, or even multiple times per hour. I'm sure that if they were able to say "oops", the number of "mistakes" would spike whenever unexpected demand was encountered.

If they have issues with employees fat fingering fares, perhaps they should review the internal controls.
I can't imagine the NSA not having something worth blackmailing her on by now - or that they could possibly dig up more mud on her than the Republicans are planning to sling anyway.
Yet he completed the trip. How hard would it be for the airlines to code something that says if price/mile is less than $x.xx, do not post, do not complete transaction, alert development team. And yet they haven't and this continues to happen.
Isn't this bad for the community? If they diverge more there is going to be a bigger split that hurts everyone.
TBH I think keeping SMS separate from an ip based communications method is better. Lets not pretend that SMS is secure. The only thing I would find missing are quick reply APIs.
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If you are in Canada (or near a Canadian airport) you can check out YY#deals.com. Replace the # with the airport code.
Claiming you're from Denmark when you're not to receive an advantage is fraud. I wouldn't expect a company or a prosecutor to press charges over it, but demanding that your fraudulent transaction be honoured certainly seems like pushing your luck.
Flyertalk is probably your best resource. After that, I keep track of breaking industry news at http://www.pointsbuzz.com.
>IMO, Stephen King has not written anything great

In your opinion, who has? What should I read to see great writing? Genuinely interested.
What parent is saying is that if you have a high income level, it's not the end of the world to pay cash for everything, so you can live with a bad credit score.

You might have to buy a beater while you save for a nice car, but if your income is low the equivalent option is taking the bus.
The reasons for his regrets are ultimately irrelevant from an impartial position. They're only compelling if you've bought in to the reactionary yellow journalism narrative.

He played his part while authoring the thing, and then went on to join with the system that he was rebelling against. He's now fat and happy, has internalized the rules of the system he once hated, and is now examining his previous behavior using the framework of said system. This doesn't change the message of what he once wrote, or why it continues to resonate.
This is incredible. I wish more professors in universities incorporated this stuff in their teaching. I occasionally use Wolfram Demonstrations: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

But you take it to another level! Congratulations!
I've found that produce picked yesterday at the farm up the street tends to last longer than produce that's been trucked from the other side of the US, not to mention the difference in the amount of energy it took to get it to me.
Thanks for this observation; I've commented on the existing GitHub issue to add this information.

https://github.com/jackschaedler/circles-sines-signals/issue...
France wants companies to make appliances that last longer
What does that bring to the table? (Not trying to be facetious, just not sure what that would buy me)
"Intent requirement" can be used synonymously with "culpability requirement" or "mens rea" (how I used it). Though it can also mean intent rather than recklessness or criminal negligence (how you used it). To me, the "honest" part suggests simple rather than criminal negligence. It's not an "honest mistake" (imho) to lock the doors to a crowded bar from the outside so people perish in a fire.

EDIT: Though my wife disagrees about "honest mistake" so there's that.
I have a similar track record to you from Flyertalk. As I also mentioned below, I also check http://www.pointsbuzz.com for any breaking opportunities.
I imagine that he/she is looking at it from the perspective of the high-income person. In that case, defaulting is no more evil than losing money in the stock market or having one's business perform badly this quarter. Sure, the financial impact may be painful, but all parties involved should have been aware of the risks of making the loan.
Why?

Companies do all sorts of bizarro price offers. Megabus offers $1 fares to encourage pre-booking. Target sells $6 shampoo for 90% off when it sits for awhile. $1.86 may be preferable to an empty chair for some reason.

Pretending to be in Denmark to score a deal is acting in bad faith... But if you offer something for sale at a bad price, that's your problem.
Pretty cool, but I have a nitpick: reject() should be called when the loader throws an exception (e.g. if the response is malformed JSON).
5:45 - Wake up, go downstairs, take tablet or phone. If my youngest does not wake up I read HN, reddit, Twitter, e-mail until 6:00-6:10

6:10 - Shower, get dressed

6:25 - Wake up girlfriend if she's not already, start preparing breakfast for my 2 daughters

6:40 - wake up oldest daughter if she's not already

6:45 - eat breakfast with my girls

7:05 - clean up table and dishes

7:10 - change diaper and put the cloths of my youngest

7:15 - brush teeth, grab lunch, kisses to everybody and out the door around 7:20-7:30

COMMUTE

8:00-8:15 - arrive at work
Don't forget John von Neumann
This is kind of the lesson for any kind of connoisseur. A lot of it is pretense and the rest is just learned behavior --finessing it and narrowing preferences ever more for mostly narcissistic reasons. We know that for the most part all tastes are acquired tastes. Even for spoiled wines, or the ones with the most natural adjectives. Their chemistry and effect on the body are quite similar.

So yeah, most of it is in people's minds -- which is why even professionals fail blind taste tests of characteristics the have been amassing expertise for over years....

It's such a self-scam. It's not even other people scamming us. We willingly participate in an elaborate social scam of a game.

If you want to know what tastes good or bad, ask a two or three year old -- before they learn the socially imposed preferences.

[edit] There was a time when people used to exalt at the freshness of the fish at their local sushi (sashimi) bar. "It tastes like they just fished it from the ocean." The received preference now to love 'tasty' sashimi --it takes fish a few days[1] in the fridge or freezer to acquire a more mature taste, whereas fish out of the water have almost no taste.

[1]https://tasteoftravelroge.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/fish-to-a...
It actually seems to indicate that F-Droid has addressed every last obstacle Moxie has posed, even the more ridiculous ones. They're now even willing to distribute developer signed versions if reproducible by their build server. He seems to be standing by this ridiculous "F-Droid is harmful" non-sense with no good reasoning at this point. Hopefully someone will talk some sense into him sooner rather than later.
Because maybe you want your money to pay for the food and not the global transportation networks that brought you the food?

Do you really believe the only reason to buy one thing over another is the price?
It takes good hand-eye coordination to throw a touchdown and bowl a strike.
Why would it? I have a choice of hundreds of languages and frameworks. Objective C didn't make C worse, nor did C++, C# or countless other languages that don't start with a C. In truth, they all keep making each other better with competing features.
May be that's the answer: we domesticated ourselves with school, police and other institutions and therefore we no longer need all our intelligence to survive.

We evolved to be the master hunters and nowadays our children aren't even aware meat comes from animals.

This same limited amount of intelligence we evolved with, is then free to do something else, like literature, art and music.
I think maybe this falls under the EULA?

"6. Records and Audits

You agree to keep accurate books and records related to your development, manufacture, Distribution, and sale of Products and related revenue. Epic may conduct reasonable audits of those books and records. Audits will be conducted during business hours on reasonable prior notice to you. Epic will bear the costs of audits unless the results show a shortfall in payments in excess of 5% during the period audited, in which case you will be responsible for the cost of the audit."
I've just really started using F#, but the first time I used the Type Providers in FSharp.Data, I was blown away. That and F# interactive make prototyping a REST API client something I can do in minutes.
It's sad and surprising how often this pattern seems to repeat itself. For another example (that's probably not well-known outside Wisconsin), Scott Walker set up a private server in the Milwaukee County office for his internal communication with staff, likely at least in part to shield himself from scrutiny as his county staff did work for his campaign for the governorship:

- http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/court-set-to-rele...

- http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-...
Researching friendly AI seems far more useful than government regulation. But it sounds like you and Ben are acknowledging that there is a potential problem here, which we should spend resources trying to prevent. That's a view quite different from the glib dismissals I've seen from some quarters.

As Ben said in your link, "once we have AGI systems that are massively smarter than people, they are going to do what they want to do, or what other powerful forces in the universe want them to do, but not necessarily what we want them to do." That's not the most reassuring comment ever.
I set up a Yahoo Pipe to email me in realtime as any deal for SFO gets posted.
Yeah, no: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/2000/02/the_...
You're definitely right on the second point...especially with a few more decades of advances in transplant technology.

Seems like there is a innate human revulsion towards clones that has aided/led to the formation of this cultural bias. Unsure how easy it would be to replicate those feelings towards AI. Perhaps widespread acknowledgement of the potential dangers would be the first step.

Anecdotally, people seem to have trouble grasping the dangers involved. They think of the iPhone in their pocket and can't possibly see the risk. Obviously it's near impossible to put yourself in the shoes of an entity that could be orders of magnitude more intelligent than the most intelligent human.
If someone else were paying them, this wouldn't be a problem?
As I understand it, produce varieties have been bred to survive longer distance shipping, making them tougher and possibly less flavorful. Of course YMMV on that score, since it's surely a matter of taste.

I grew up in southeast Michigan, where there was a fairly robust market for local produce in the summer. Things that you could get such as local tomatoes were a cut above anything that I've been able to find in my present locale.

Unfortunately, I now live in a state that doesn't have as much of a produce crop, and it's harder to find farm stands that haven't discovered the "upscale farmers market" phenomenon, where prices are often 2x what you can pay for similar quality in the supermarket.

My present practice is to buy whatever is nice, local or otherwise, which depends on the season.
The CFAA defines no strict-liability crimes, as you well know.
Isn't that the use case for Level Streaming?
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I think this whole "local" stuff smells a bit like bullshit, and a lot like old time bigoted xenophobia. Farmers from my country are better and more deserving than farmers in other countries (while at the same time pushing US-made GMO seeds on other countries by any means).

We see the same reasoning in manufacturing, with an objective collusion between the left ("cool, it's made by tattooed hipsters in tight pants") and the right ("cool, it's made by god protected Americans, who are, frankly, the pick-up driving, gun-toting angels of this world") against "overseas" and for "re-shoring".
The MODE-B Imperative (iOS PDP-8 emulator by Uncle Bob)
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Notably, Borsheim's also operates the type of business where you could conceivably pick up the phone and order immediately upon reading Buffett's recommendation.
That doesn't mean they still aren't intimately connected. The fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims is about as old as it gets.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5717157
Yep. I did. I must admit I didn't even search the parent's post as I immediately dismissed it as a joke based around an oxymoron. That's why I tried to create a subtle oxymoron myself.

Oh well...
The Book Thieves of London
Here's a premise for you: autonomous cargo ships, incorporated as their own entities, bidding on freight contracts and offering transport through a system not unlike an AdWords bidding auction. They circle the world constantly, offloading and picking up cargo from sail-through offshore platforms, stopping only for maintenance, and occasionally doing really strange things for reasons only their algorithms can explain.
I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the month.

Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is highly unimpressive.
At the risk of falling into "ad hominem" territory, it is disheartening that Altman (Or Muehlhauser or most of the MIRI people for that matter) gets any play at all on this topic. The fact that Altman thanks Luke in his blog for review just gives you a sense of the "blind leading the blind" here.

I think however that says more about the lack of awareness on the part of the readers than anything. That combination is a sure sign of a very narrow field of study with big political footprint and is typical of similar fields such as climatology, macroeconomics etc... where rank amateur thinks they have insight to the same degree as expert by virtue of "just thinking about it."
Original mailing list thread: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-February/thr...

Scary times indeed.
When this came up on Phoronix, I suggested a jumper to disable it.
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I think that was my point. You said that ten thousand years of civilization was too short for meaningful evolution. At least that was my understanding.
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Could be. I'm just observing that there is a law of conservation of energy and that heat can be useful, so the question of using old computers in terms of environmental impact is not as clear cut as many internet comments suggest.
Second this. Put a switch under the memory door. Problem solved.
Store a copy of the original version of the modified part of the firmware and use it for the hash calculation instead of the actual version?
The first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that it happened in the middle of the great depression without outside help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan_%28Soviet...
Wow !

Me being PG in wireless (electircal engg), this should have been in the curriculum :)
> There is no higher social benefit to life extension, at least none that I can see.

One benefit would be people thinking increasingly about the long-term; which has implications for things like global warming and wars.

> It's a uniquely individualist/selfish technology.

And wanting billions of people to die so that a myopic status quo can be perpetuated is what?
Why is there always some comment that makes a point about the baseband, as if it's novel idea? This is letting great be the enemy of good.

Most of us are not going to be a target of state-level intelligence agencies, which are the only possible actors that have the sophistication to compromise the baseband processor. The idea is to prevent dragnet surveillance.
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It's a function of Dunbar's Number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

Or, more sarcastically put, the Monkeysphere.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

Hundreds of deaths is just a statistic because the vast majority of people only have close connections to a few people. We may have a strong emotional response if a child, a parent or a lover dies. We will have a response if friends and not as close family dies. But that response gets weaker in general as the the victims personal life is farther away and the less we relate with them.

Trying to associate a logical response to become more emotional to an emotional event doesn't seem like the right answer either. I mean, why not skip the emotional response altogether and go full Vulcan?

Instead of focusing on deaths, the better outcome to prevent events like this, or to get a deeper response from more people when a tragedy occurs focus on creating more relationships with the living. Instead of being isolated hamlets, cities, or countries reach out to the world and give humanity a reason to care when you die.
In the source you can see that it links to /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/
Absolutely. I refuse to read pages with this crap.
Wozniak Gets It Wrong on Net Neutrality
Google can and probably eventually will solve the bring-your-own-device problem by making WiFi-to-cellular call handover part of the default Android stack. Until they do, anyone else has to make the modifications themselves, which is about as time consuming as bringing a whole new phone to market. The discouraging of cellular data use is something that all MVNOs have to do because they don't have enough leverage against the major carriers to get reasonable pricing. Google's got part of a solution by being an ISP that can deploy WiFi (and perhaps some cellular service on suboptimal spectrum) to the kind of places that suffer from the most congestion on the cellular networks. The rest is just a consequence of the market being controlled by an oligopoly, and it's not the little guys you should be blaming.
The evangelism update offers "Internet of Things" possibilities as one good reason for this development: https://github.com/iojs/evangelism/blob/master/weekly-update...
Colour Symbolism in Ancient Mesopotamia
Over the last 50 years (that is, since present management took over),
per-share book value has grown from $19 to $146,186, a rate of 19.4% compounded annually.

Insanity.
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> Yeah but no user is ever going to be able to remember either of those passwords,

No, of course not. User-memorable passwords should only be used on devices physically controlled by the user or someone the user trusts; high-security passwords must be used on any device outside of the user's control.

It's okay to use the user's password to locally encrypt a secure key used to encrypt remote data.