skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is true, they also, through TextSecure, support many android phones that are probably in much worse shape on that front. It's also not like web browsers refuse to use TLS because your computer's running a compromiseable version of Windows.
I just don't understand this. I read this to mean that they only started looking into the cost of production after they finished R&D...

No matter how you look at it that's pretty retarded.
There are plenty of angry KickStarters in the comments. I'm not sure all of them did realise just what KickStarter is.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/triggertrap/triggertrap...
Current theory is skull size was adapting based on temperature not intelligence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_size#mediaviewer/File:Bra... Also, there are likely more people alive now with larger brain volumes vs five thousand years ago and the same apples to just about any trait you can name due to the rapid population boom.

The important thing to note is the human population covers the globe. There are plenty of sifts in populations like Lactose tolerance becoming widespread over the last 7,500 years, but even that is a long way from becoming effectively universal.
> To me, Kickstarter backers aren’t just customers.

quote from the article.
and funder or backer doesn't have a legal meaning. They are customers.
I think the Go compiler, runtime, and GC would need to mature a lot before it could be used to create something competitive with Redis. But it is moving in that direction. A pauseless GC[1], a numa-aware scheduler with lower overheads[2], more efficient atomic operations[3], all these are/have been discussed by the Go team and are actual goals AFAIK.

I'm building a database in Go, keeping the data off-heap (which solves the GC problem for now.) The performance will lag C currently, but I do think it will eventually get close.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/GvA0DaCI2...
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sL...
[3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8739
As a non-US person, I think it would be laudable for US to put up with a little disadvantage for the safety of the world, just as US expends a lot of resource to keep world peace. I have no standing to demand anything, but "I do not want the US to be at a disadvantage" sounds very selfish to me.
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His link works for me right now, but it is these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Compa... http://www.red.com

They really should have seen it coming. Red is pretty well known, even if you aren't in some sort of camera-related industry.
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I had a recent project that I built with go 1.3. It was a small project ( < 4 weeks ) but it had some interesting requirements -- my app had to be deployed to ARM (raspi), and on an OSX laptop for control, and I use a linux laptop.

The cool part was that it "just worked".

GOARCH=arm go build myapp.go
GOOS=darwin go build myapp.go
go build myapp.go

All three "just worked" with absolutely no surprises, including use of the http engine, json, and a third party serial port library. The native binaries run like a champ.

Looking forward to the continued evolution of golang.
Here's a better link (I hope).

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77668132&caseType=SERIAL_N...
That's not at all the impression I get. To me he sounds almost burnt-out, and it is admirable that he is being completely (?) honest. No need to get hysterical and all teary-eyed. Obviously they got in over their heads. It sounds like a harrowing story.
Somebody opened an issue on the Chromium bug tracker asking for the ability to customize those parameters. The Chromium devs added another preset and marked it as "fixed" even though it clearly isn't.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441858
As someone who needs a lot of sleep every night to be functional, how could a "short sleeper" ever feel anything but privileged? It seems to have tons of pros and almost no cons, with the exception of being careful when living with people who need more sleep.

Do you actually feel any disadvantages from needing less sleep?
sure it would. you don't have to load it all at once
Yes, I'm definitely not disagreeing with that.
You may feel better, but as the day progresses your critical thinking skills are going to be negatively impacted, in many cases without you realizing it.
No kidding, this project could have been accomplished with a cheapo PIC. I've basically already built this project...Hmmm, kickstarter idea. :)
> The syntax of go feels a little "expert", while the syntax of C seems more friendly and easy to grasp. I doubt anything will replace C if it's not as easy and simple.

I think C is a lot harder to grasp. e.g. manual memory management, dangling pointers, unchecked casts, etc.

> One thing that could improve on C, might be very simple things like (immutable?) string as a native type, hashmaps, lambdas, etc. I would love to see some pythonic stuff into C.

Have you used Go? It has all of those things...
At the time they launched this project the TOS said "deliver the product or offer a full refund".
PUT is idempotent, why not use PUT instead? Semantically wrong, I know, but better than POST.
Yup. I wasn't sure if this is what he meant, but if it was this, then indeed, Red is a very known name in camera-related industry. Hell, even I know about this (via HN) and I have absolutely nothing to do with photography.
It's possible there is one, but I think I'm a counter-example. I have anxiety issues and also am restless and have great difficulty "turning off", but I need 8-9 hours every single night to be functional at all. Unfortunately, the anxiety just results in insomnia and me feeling terrible when I wake up and even more terrible all day long. I sure would love to have the anxiety and insomnia without the "feeling awful" part after getting insufficient sleep.
WOW I didnt even notice the 3rd l...Yeah I would recommend that you figure something else out.
I find it somewhat funny that the term "machine intelligence" seems like it was coined in part to distinguish it from "machine learning", but, while this project is clearly part of the latter, they have chosen a moniker using "machine intelligence". Obviously no one owns the word, but it just seems people love using new buzz words and efforts to distinguish these things are quickly muddied.
Congrats on the launch of Signal 2.0. I hope it'll be a popular app, but I have a question slightly off topic: Why can't we get an app like Signal for the desktop? Yes, I'm aware there are alternatives for the desktop (mainly Pidgin + OTR), but none of them work like Signal does (ease of use) and frankly I don't really trust using them. I'd like to think I'm ignorant on the subject and there's a good alternative out there, and if so, please do tell.
That's different because it's not obvious to them, especially since you waited so long. Your parent comment is referring to situations where it's obvious some sort of mistake was made and yet you jump on it and exploit it knowing that something wasn't right.
This sounds more like "Mantle 1.0 will have a lot in common with DX12 and glNext, but expect even more from the later 1.X versions."
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Fair point, though most of the advances are still coming from the Western countries, which can agree on a regulation more easily than the world as a whole.
It certainly varies a lot by person. Modafinil only really works for me if I take it once a week, max twice. Otherwise I seem to build some sort of tolerance.

Also, when it wears off I very often get awful tension headaches and "mind fuzz", kind of like from caffeine but much worse. Unlike caffeine though, I can go a good 9 hours feeling energetic and only feel the pain once I get home and am done with the day, which is an advantage I suppose.

Interestingly, I also seem to get fairly powerful euphoria for about 2 hours after it kicks in, which to my understanding is unusual. (And yes, I'm sure what I'm taking is really modafinil.)

I only take it in "emergencies".
nah, you have to be up for random trips or have a list of places that you would be willing to go if free. It's much less likely that one will pop up conveniently for a trip you need to make any time soon.
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> 1. Firmware must be properly audited.

> 2. Firmware updates must be signed.

> 3. We need a mechanism for verifying the integrity of installed firmware.

I wonder how many bricked devices (or devices malfunctioning in a creative way) it would take to convince hardware manufacturers that these are good ideas?
I actually think radio silence is a very rational thing to do, and Stephen Hawking agrees with me. Do not describe that issue as cut-and-dry.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/apr/26/stephen...
At the time the triggertrap ada completed funding the TOS said full refunds if the product isn't delivered -- according to comments on the kickstarter page.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/triggertrap/triggertrap...
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I still enjoy reading the outliers (not the cranks, the ones who could be the next Pauli).

(emphasis added)

Yes. If everything operated on a pure consensus basis, progress would come to an end.

This doesn't even have to be at the fringe; for decades, just about every textbook claimed that normal human cells have 24 pairs of chromosomes. The correct number (or maybe I should say the currently-accepted number) is 23. This was even stated in textbooks that had accompanying photographs that clearly showed 23.

Consensus is a useful tool, but it's not infallible, and sometimes it goes spectacularly wrong.
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This is terrific work.

On a related note, Atomwise has been doing this for over a year. And they've been able to make predictions that have been tested in the real world in areas such as multiple sclerosis, C. Difficile, and Ebola.

http://www.atomwise.com/

Full disclosure: They are my YC batch mates.
All they had to do is release their protocol specification, kind of like they did with SPDY.

It's quite obvious that when they started they were small compared to AIM, MSN, YIM and others so they used XMPP to help gain traction, once they became huge they dropped interoperability to lock users inside.

Do no evil my ass.
I actually just started a service to do just that. For $8/m, I'll email/text people when the craziest deals drop. It's temoprarily sitting at amazingairfare.zaccohn.com, if you're interested.
They don't necessarily need to do a lawsuit. They could just shut down your UE subscription until you file the relevant proof of earnings.
Consider that this enterprise chose a product name that was clearly suggestive of the trademark of the 800 pound gorilla in the space.

I'll be starting a build-it-yourself computer company soon. I'm going to call them Apple iBuilds or IBMs (I Built Myself!), I haven't yet decided.
It was a mistake fare, but Etihad jumped all over the opportunity for good press.
The Net That Lets Fishermen 'Preview' Their Catch
Did the NSA Hack Other Sim Card Makers, Too?
1 unit = 1cm in UE, so 20km has some value as a measurement in game.

Of course, what matters more is what you do in that 20km, but it's also a limit coupled tightly with distant mesh performance and float accuracy issues.
How do I know what fares are obviously mistakes? Fare prices are all over the place. They quite often charge less for a round-trip than a one-way to the same destination, which is not a mistake at all, that fact makes it clear that it's not obvious which fares are mistakes and which aren't, or I'd think all of those were!
This 2012 Gizmodo article talks about their previous kickstarter efforts.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/triggertrap-the-story/
Do you program for both Java/Android and Ruby currently? I'm developing for Android but also I'm generally like Ruby and I have an opportunity to get into free Rails courses. Does it make much sense to know both things from the career benefits point of view? Rails as a backend for Android app maybe? Or should I just continue improving my Android skills
This is a very good point. And I understand why my argument might not appeal to a non-US person. I have lived outside the US for more than a decade, and experienced many other governments. While I can see that the US is a deeply imperfect country, I believe it is less corrupt and more functional than many other nations both domestically and internationally. Therefore, I do not wish to see it at a disadvantage. Many of the alternative hegemons are worse.

In addition, the US has a special relationship to technology. We export innovation. If we stop innovating, then we have very little to export. This is very different from other countries. Asking the US government to regulate innovation is like asking the Saudi government to crack down on oil exports. It is the foundation of our economy. Without it, we fail.

What I'm really saying though is that US regulations will not increase the safety of the world. They will merely shift the locus of research.
Actually, the main basis of my theory is research into how chronic stress affects the HPA axis, and how treatments appear to reverse this dysfunction in CFS patients.

The "hand-wavy" stuff you refer to is really just to try to explain things better to patients, however the actual theory itself (https://peerj.com/preprints/860/) should be solid. However, now that you point it out, I can see there are some sections of the website which I'll need to take a look at again.

Actually, rather than blaming victims, I'm actually saying that most patients don't really have good information about the etiology of the illness, which is what I'm attempting to address. (There is some anti-psychiatric bias as well, but that is present in the general population as well). Anyway, if you have any constructive comments I'd love to hear them (email is probably easier). Otherwise there's probably no point discussing any further.
The people concerned about AI are not talking about current ML research the near future, but where the tech will be decades from now.

Surveys of AI and AGI researchers generally agree that it will probably happen with int next century and there is a high chance of it going badly.
I wonder how many lines of code contribute toward throwing that error? ;)
"When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward."

https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use

A Kickstarter project is not a charity. You are legally obligated to deliver the promised rewards. I'm sure you can weasel out through bankruptcy or whatever, but you can't just shrug and move on.
The advances are happening in Western countries, for now. Members of the top teams come from all over the world. It would be very easy for them to relocate.
This is an amazing, thank you for sharing!
I don't see how either of those things is any more or less obvious than the other.
> Severe alcoholics often don't get a full night of sleep
> because they wake up when the depressant effect of the
> alcohol wears off ... the same reason people shake in
> the mornings

I don't think I'd have ever classified myself as an alcoholic, although I used to drink a lot, and now I drink nothing.

For a while, I ran a party-promoting business and held down a job as a programmer at the same time, typically going to bed at 2am having drunk maybe the equivalent of ~20 shots of vodka, 3-4 nights a week, and getting up to be in work by 10am. I was definitely stumbling around a bit by the end of the evening, and I needed some strong coffee in the morning, but seriously impaired I was not (although I imagine driving would have been a bad idea at any point in this cycle).

Assuming I distributed my drinks fairly evenly from 9pm to 1am, and using the British system of "units" of alcohol, peak blood alcohol was at 1am with ~ 15 units. Less 1 unit an hour, means at 9am wakeup time, I have the equivalent of about 3.5 pints of beer in my blood, and the alcohol doesn't properly drop off until about 3pm in the afternoon - which anecdotally was when I used to feel dreadful.

I can't imagine a "severe alcoholic" running out of alcohol in the blood stream overnight.
I think the point is that it is going to be worse than just laggy UI, it's going to be very painful if you try to use that computer for developing using UE4.

Which isn't to discourage people, there is a lot you can do with that kind of mid tier machine, but you are probably much better off trying to something else than UE4.
>I'm asking whether the popularity of a policy morally justifies it. I guess you think Jim Crow was morally justified.

No, I think "morally justifies it" in the absolute sense (which you use it) is BS, since it assumes some pre-existing morality framework.

"Morally justified" only has sense in the "is it acceptable by the moral standards of a society/era". Of course, most people naively only take it to mean "is it acceptable by the standards of OUR society/era", which they consider as some absolute definition of morals.

Fact: for the people of time it WAS morally justified. Heck, slave owners themselves were respectable and celebrated members of society.

Owning slaves was just what one did if he could, just like for business owners today setting shop in impoverished areas not to offer the same wages as elsewhere but to take advantage of poverty to offer lower wages (as if those people are worth less) is "just what you do".
What's the Actual Lower Bound?
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This graphic helps with understanding the metric expansion of space:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Expansio...

The Big Bang is better understood as a Big Stretch, which is still ongoing. As time progresses there just happens to be more space added between things. The balloon analogy breaks down because the galaxies themselves, or the dots on the balloon don't get bigger due to gravity. The expansion of space is only relevant on huuuge distances, not interstellar or even intergalactic, only when one gets to galaxy clusters and superclusters.
Unsurprisingly they've taken the Plan 9 approach, sardonically contrasted with the GNU one here: http://aiju.de/rant/cross-compiling
Show HN: Git Flow for Selective Feature Deployment
You'd have thought they'd have learnt some lessons from their first kickstarter.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/triggertrap-the-story/
Does asm.js count? :-)
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This is a good article but that modal popup for the newsletter has to go.
I really don't like this vulture culture. The main defence seems to be "the airlines are bad too". My six year-old now knows this doesn't cut any ice.

This vulture behaviour even extends to ruining small companies. In the UK recently I read of a company on amazon with a far lower price on a product than intended and the twitter crowd were all out demanding the company "honour" the price even though everyone knew it was an error. Amazon were of course siding with the customer but the company was saying it would put them out of business.
Guess I'll start working on the algorithms to capture that regulatory system. Who wants to be co-founder?
I can't speak to how he did it, but it looks like he's just using tables and line breaks & divs to separate sections. You could easily do that by hand.

Alternately, you could use Bret Victor's technique from "Magic Ink": write a paragraph followed by a span, typically with absolute positioning. http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk
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What, no free software?

We don't need source code? We don't need GPLv3? None of this is important to truly own our computing?

"Hardware manufacturers could also release the source code", almost as an afterthought? Isn't this a "must", not a "could"?
Honest mistakes do not just "get you off the hook". Depending on the crime committed "intent" vs "accidental" may result in differing severities of the punishment handed down.
NSA/EquationGroup is just in the news right now. There have been growing concerns about UEFI for years as well as a lack of reporting. Note this from Dick Wilkins UEFI report:

"Examples come from Intel, Microsoft, Mitre, NIST, Linux
distros and others. Some are public and some are available
only under NDA via direct communications with the involved
companies."

Is it likely to be seen in the wild often? Likely not, but that's not the point. If it's seen more than once, then you have a problem if you build an entire business selling "trusted platforms" based on recycled equipment. At that point, expect your claims to be busted. What happens the first time someone actually finds a confirmed trojan in a firmware component of a product they sell? It doesn't matter if it is legitimate or a plant, it will reverberate through the news cycle like Lenovo-Superfish and the damage will be done.

This isn't to say this business model is a bust. Just be very cautious about claiming it supports privacy. There are plenty of educational scenarios where hardware which has been compromised would be of no issue.

http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/2014_UEFI_...
That seems like completely unrealistic terms. How can you afford to pay for a refund if the product fails?
Despite telling their children the opposite, I think most people have a strong belief that "two wrongs make a right", or equivalently "what goes around comes around".
> This company literally just moves on to the next product like it's nothing with no repercussions.

You just flatly assert that. Is it actually true? I don't know, but surely they've at least got their reputation, with backers and others, from this failed product.

> Failing at something is fine, being naive and irresponsible with other people's money - without repercussion - is not.

You're failing to acknowledge that kickstarter backers know -- or should know -- the risk. It's their choice to back a particular project.
I have anecdotal evidence of this from the recent housing bust. One friend who's worth several million walked away from a $700k mortgage when he realized how upside down it was. Another friend who's worth less than $100k stuck with a $300k loan and even doubled down, sunk in her entire life savings to refinance and reduce the ballooning payments. Despite my pleading her reasoning was a moralistic attitude of "I gave my word". The friend that walked away recently bought a new house and is doing better than ever financially while my other friend will be feeling the pain for years.
I just want a browser that runs on Android with developer tools built in.
Ectomorph Transformation
Good luck. When I tried TextSecure about a week ago I couldn't get it to work with Voice. I never received a confirmation.
There are no citations more recent than 2002 in that article.
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If it helps, think of the Universe as always having been infinite in size, even in the microseconds after the Big Bang. What was happening, is that the space between everything inside of the Universe, was inflating extremely rapidly.
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Climate change could make some cities uninhabitable, and nuclear war could set a country back a century. But AI will exterminate every organism alive. We are playing with fire and saying its ok since the rusty knives and paint chips we were playing with first didn't kill us.
Ok, piqued my interest, can you explain further?