skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit surprised to find graph databases described as "efficient", and wondered if I'd missed some new development.

No, it's just that "efficient" is relative. The charts at the end indicate pauses of thousands of seconds before any data gets through. This matches my experience.
Buffett claims he can achieve 50% annual growth if he had less money to invest. Berkshire as it is now is currently too big to achieve 50% growth.
"In the 1940s, no one envisioned the smartphone, the Internet or GPS satellites."

Except Arthur C Clarke, and the creator of Dick Tracey? So, no one but comic strip creators and short story writers?

Or are smart phones substantially different from portable communicators? I guess so. Nobody saw the 'fart app' from 1940.
Why are you singling out Kickstater? You statement holds true for any form of investment.

There seem to be a misconception what Kickstarter is. Their FAQ is clearly explains it is funding. I'm sure if everyone who backs a project would read it, there wouldn't be so many complaints.
That goes hand-in-hand with how simple Berkshire's home-office system is, right? It seems like, by design, BH itself does as little as possible. It runs out of a small office suite with something like 30 people. That system can't be harmonized across companies like Geico and Gen Re, even before you realize that those companies run alongside a furniture store and a jeweler.
It presumably affects people on the margin.
Great!

The TextSecure brand is unfortunately dead to me. Although I liked the idea in theory of the SMS backwards compatibilty layer, in practice it confused people and caused technical problems which stopped many of my friends using it.

With a reboot as a product with the new name Signal, I can market it again. Needs an Android version first though!
Cap’n Proto: how to catch integer overflows with template metaprogramming
> it has given us the iPod (the prototypical MP3 player), the iPhone (the prototypical smartphone), the Macbook Air (the prototypical laptop), and the iPad (the prototypical tablet).

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe none of these were prototypical.
Terminators did not have to be self aware or have desires to do their job, killing. They simply had to follow a set of rules. Intelligence will merely help them follow the rules when circumstances go beyond the originally coded set of conditions.

The real threat of intelligent machines is the people who would use them. Not everyone with ability acts rationally and why would we expect them to use such ability correctly?
This is the future of textbooks.
But one of the big reasons wikis are unpopular (with those who aren't already fans) is the chorus of voices. The relentless-consensus part is seen as just a symptom of that larger disease.

I guess it's still not clear to me what the real use case is for Federated Wiki.
Maybe we're seeing all the way around, and back to here again!
Wait until he visits Rotterdam. It's all robot cranes and robot vehicles.
Is "boring" the right word? BH owns a huge chunk of DIRECTV, the whole BNSF railroad (can you imagine how complex that business is to run?), and NetJets.

I think there's a difference between "businesses Warren and Charlie feel like they can get their heads around" and "boring businesses". Also: I don't understand why they bought DIRECTV.
If you want to regulate SMI, how do you define what, exactly SMI is? This is important. Is a spreadsheet 'superhumanly intelligent' because it can do calculations more accurately than a human can?

Secondly there is a 'rational basis' test for what ought to be regulated - different people will decide what constitutes the rational basis. A progressive might call 'in the best interests of society' a rational basis and therefore 'redistribution of wealth' would be a 'regulation'; a libertarian might restrict rational basis to 'something which provably causes harm to another'. Regardless of what political bent, the specific scope of regulation should be aimed at addressing the rational basis and proportional to the decided damage.

Thirdly, shouldn't a sufficiently sapient SMI be PROTECTED by regulation in the same way, that, say anti-murder laws are regulations that protract human behavior; or less hyperbolically, animal welfare laws exist? There is a spectrum of protection that we afford intelligent beings - how do we decide where SMI belongs?
If I was his friend, I'd buy him a drink and tell him that we all fuck up and things will get better.
"you should not be allowed to just have another go at it."

Yes you should. Since when did we get the idea that failing at something (even spectacularly) should preclude you from trying again? Nearly everyone who reads HN has benefited enormously from the mindset that allows entrepreneurs to keep trying.
Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
That's what he says and while what he says is true, clearly he left out a big part of his strategy.
Sam mentions airgapping as part of the regulations. I think this is the safest general solution. Consider using an airgapped super-intelligent AI only as an oracle.

"Oracle, which crops should we plant in which regions this season?"

"Oracle, design a rocket with X Y and Z specifications."

"Oracle, design a more efficient processor with X and Y requirements."

Rather than giving the AI control over fleets of automated tractors, rocket factories, and fabrication plants, you still have humans in the process to limit runaway-AI effects.

This significantly reduces the possible rewards of super-intelligent AI, but also significantly reduces any risks. You can be sure that in designing a new rocket, the AI doesn't include a step that says "harvest all humans for trace amounts of iron" ;)

So a process might look like:

1. Design the cheapest-to-manufacture rocket with a 99.99% success probability of getting to Mars with all crew healthy. A human looks over the designs and confirms they don't involve destroying all humanity.

2. Draw up a proposal for resource allocations to build this rocket design [input rocket design]. A human looks over the write-up and confirms they don't involve destroying all humanity.

3. Write a program to control the thrusters on this rocket [input rocket schematics]. A human looks over the program and confirms it does would it should, and doesn't involve destroying all humanity.

4. etc.

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You of course run into ethical issues such as basically using this intelligent entity as a slave, but I won't get into that.
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I'm ideally hoping to work in a professional software-development role to complement the skills I've learned on my own. I've had a chance to build software solutions in a fast-paced Harvard research lab and want to learn how to do the same in the 'real world'.

I would be interested in an intern role, too, if one were available.
The title is definitely a misnomer as 3753 Cruithne isn't a satellite of earth and isn't affected by earth's gravity (in any impactful way).

For a natural object that is affected by earth's gravity, check out 2010 TK7 [0]. It is the only known object at one of earth's Lagrangian points and is our only Trojan.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_TK7
Archetypical?
The Muse (YC W12) is hiring for all engineering roles
Yeah, my disbelief just kept growing as it became more and more clear that they seem to have completely outsourced the software and hardware. I'm completely astounded, especially given the aggressive price target that was an integral part of their product.
Criminal negligence
Consider that a "major camera manufacturer" cost this enterprise many thousands of dollars by sending a letter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

I use this pattern when I have a lot of work to do outside of my day job.
Because in a standard investment there is a potential for a huge upside, the product is a huge success and and you make a bunch of money. Kickstarter the upside is capped at getting your reward.

I've read their FAQ and I won't participate in Kickstarter. I consider it a bad deal. If I see something on Kickstarter I want, I'll wait until it gets retail release and buy it for probably the same amount and have no risk. And if it doesn't get a retail release I'll live without it.
Thank you for the clarification. I should have read through everything.
Atom just had an update this week that's supposed to have improved the DOM interaction. It might be a bit better now.

Out of curiosity, what's your use case for changing a token that appears several hundred times with multiple cursors? Wouldn't find and replace be more effective?
Interesting.

But the pre-existing variance in people's productivity is already an order of magnitude or more. A 50% bump might be significant, but it's hard to imagine it would be society-changing.
Show HN: CryptoShare – Encrypt what your app stores on Dropbox
Thanks for sharing that.

The pain of all this would much greatly lessened if they would make a decent non-browser-based desktop client, or at least open up their server-side conversation history API to third party client development.
If you would have asked people in the 70s if the most influential software of the coming decades would be written by lone wolves in their garages or a group of very smart people with a lot of resources, they would have bet on the latter. But the smart money turned out to be on Gates, Jobs, Wozniak and countless others. The idea of regulating AGI/SMI is based on the premise that it will be developed primarily by people who can be identified, detected and influenced by regulation. My opinion is that the odds are 50/50 at best between the very smart well resourced people and random guys or gals working in their garages, and most likely some combination of both. If that view of the world is correct it does not bode well for the success of any kind of regulation.

There are people who believe that high level machine intelligence will take massive computing resources. It may, or may not. Most of the recent big advances in traditional machine learning were implemented on easy to obtain personal hardware. I hate to invoke buzz words, but even the much hyped deep learning was first developed and proven by Hinton on commodity machines. Other advances, like IBM's Watson, required 1940s style buildings full of servers. Hardware/power usage seems like one of the only reliable ways to tell who is doing any kind of serious AGI/SMI research and that looks like another 50/50 at best. It just doesn't have the resource and logistical signature of other kinds of research.

AGI/SMI is still so theoretical that it can be hard to see as a clear and present danger. But if it is a real threat, it's the stuff of nightmares because there isn't anything we can do. I know people who are working on it right now. It doesn't seem like they're making a lot of progress, but they are trying and doing so completely outside the reach of any regulatory framework. I know that if I'm struck with sudden inspiration for a new approach to the problem I'm not going to ask the government for permission. I'm going to spin up 100 cloud computing instances and see if I'm right or not. And if I am, even god won't be able to help us if sama's worst case scenarios come to pass.

I wrote more on this topic in a comment yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9130671
I don't think Warren purchased DTV. It's likely purchased by one of his prodigies.
REPORT definitely still has the linking problem. REPORT only solves the issue that POST is unsafe/non-idempotent. This is just a marginal improvement, and would not qualify as restful.

The 'creating a query resource' would be an option for those that do want a linkable resource.

Why linking is important? I don't think I can quickly sum that up in a comment, or properly do it justice. If you're genuinely interested I would be happy to look for and suggest a few resources that do a much better job than I ever could.

Regardless, I don't believe that HATEOAS/RESTful design is the be-all and end-all. I think certain web api's are particularly well-suited for it, but it's a type of design that is not appropriate for every problem.
Far more lucrative, and easy to screw over customers, become a supplier to the kickstarter projects, rather than start your own KS.

Naiive business people who have suddenly received 100,000s in capital are the easiest to con
I put exactly as much stock in predictions like this as I do in those that say that Terminator-alikes are coming.

Zero.
I don't think that is the correct lesson. The lesson is that if you are building a product and you don't already have all the expertise in house to finish the design, then you cannot predict what it should cost.

Building hardware is actually "easier" in some senses than building software because it is so testable. More importantly building to the 'proof of concept' stage, or prototyping, is essential in a hardware design.

I expect that building their device for $500K was eminently doable, with an in house hardware engineer, embedded software engineer, and a mechanical/manufacturing engineer or someone who is really talented and can do all three acceptably well. You don't get their fancy injection molded case, you get something much more boxish, and your controls are simpler.

Perhaps the better lesson is don't assume anything you cannot do yourself but can describe is either easy to do or simple to do.
I think the main problem people have with this, is that REST is not necessarily easy. And easy sometimes wins over 'good'.
The entrepreneurs you're talking about lose a lot more when they fail in the real world. Networking contacts, trust, even become bankrupt. This company literally just moves on to the next product like it's nothing with no repercussions. Failing at something is fine, being naive and irresponsible with other people's money - without repercussion - is not.
Throw in a used 19" LCD that uses 32w (<$30 on ebay) and you're still ahead.
>That new TV show that's supposed to be really good? He's seen it. All those Criterion movies you've been meaning to watch? He's seen them all. Twice. This year's Oscar nominees? Yes. Even the documentaries and shorts. Video games? All of them that matter and most of the ones that don't. That one comic book series you heard good things about? He's read it.

Thanks. After reading that I don't feel too bad for not being a "short sleep mutant".
Also, wasn't Edison a huge proponent of cocaine use?
Why Non-Blocking?
Not seeing the screamingly obvious trademark problems with using the name 'Red' before launching the Kickstarter is sort of astonishing to me. That sort of naivete would have been a huge red flag from the outset. These days 99% of trademark collisions can be avoided with a Google search and a little time to get familiar with the basic legal issue involved. I mean, you have to call a product something in order to sell it to more than 3 people, and if it has a name it seems like basic common sense that you'd want to avoid overlapping with similarly named products in the same market sector.
Kickstarter is not a form of investment. It is at it's base a donation with some purchase aspects for some the projects.

With an investment you get the upside for the risk as well as the downside.
Ah yes, the old "sell shovels" game. You might be on to something.
The forum linked in the first paragraph of the article?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-discussion/165403...
Perhaps the most straightforward, albeit seismic, explanation for this and the recent supermassive black hole is that we've misunderstood either the age of the universe, or the nature of time.

The black hole is one thing, but a old yet seemingly ancient metal rich galaxy is another - you only get heavy metals from fusion and time.
I'm one of those people with a yahoo email account, mainly because I'm on the old side now and got it way back when yahoo email was, well, kind of like hotmail for people even older than me. The article refers to people like me as loyalists, but I'm really not. I honestly don't like my yahoo email account.

It's not technology, it's the the nature of the company itself. I know all websites want to keep you around, but the difference between using gmail and yahoo mail is remarkable.

I just went to mail.google.com, and I see my email. Now I'm going to yahoo mail… there's a big ad for life insurance next to my messages. Above them is a slightly larger link, intended to look like an email messages, for "rich dad, poor dad." Actually, something interesting has happened lately… the link expands in size about 3 seconds after the page has loaded. I'm starting to wonder if yahoo has noticed that if they do this, they will expand the ad just at the moment that the users wanting to check their email click on the first, top message, leading them instead to click on an ad, increasing "click through".

I'll admit, I'm leaning toward the tinfoil hat side of suspicious with that last one, but there's a reason I've started to think this way. Go to yahoo's front page, and it's click bait city. It seems like yahoo will do everything in its power to make sure I don't do what it is I came to the site to do, run a web search, or check my email.

In short, it appears to me that yahoo is still a media company, following the portal model, trying to get people to stay on the site for reasons that had nothing to do with why they came to the site. And by click bait, I mean titles like "the one medical test you shouldn't skip!", or "the 5 signs that he's manipulating you". In short, I'm starting to wonder if having a yahoo email account is actually a risk to my ability to concentrate.

Maybe yahoo is becoming more of an engineering/technology company, maybe not. If Mayer can make this happen, that'd be quite an accomplishment. There's definitely a huge legacy of specifically intending go not be an engineering company.
student ID-- yes. senior citizen ID is probably just a drivers license with a DOB on it.

not sure if you were agreeing or disagreeing with my point?
I have mild apnea (not enough to need help, yet) and my Dad had a much more sever form. In fact he was one of the first people in the world to have a sleep study done on him.

Anyway, signs you might have apnea: Never feel fully rested, wake up to your own snoring, your sheets seem like someone pushed them all off.

If you have a partner that sleeps with you, ask them if it seems like you're choking in the middle of the night and/or your legs twitch at night. Mine is mostly the leg one, so my sheets never stay on the bed and when I was a kid I would wake myself kicking the rail off my bed.
(a) No reasonable investor believes GEICO is doing badly.

(b) GEICO is unique among BH companies in that consumers can purchase its offering immediately upon reading about it. The nearest Dairy Queen is a 30 minute drive away from me, for instance. Look at the list of BH subsidiaries and try to imagine what they'd sell on a 24/7 1-800 number.
It appears that this company is taking the "lessons they learned" and the intellectual property they developed from spending $400,000 of other peoples' money on R&D to get VC investments for their next thing. They've taken other peoples' money and turned it into personal gain while giving nothing back in return. This isn't behavior anyone should encourage.
E.t jaynes: confidence intervals [pdf]
Mavenlink Engineering Blog
Yes her mandated Quarterly Performance Review system in which managers were forced to put a % of employees in under performing buckets single handedly damaged the moral more than anything in the companies history.
Everything needs a firewall. I'd like my own local wifi MiTM proxy that my devices connect to, running privoxy all of the time. Those devices should run inside of a VPN, they run inside of the matrix.

IoT is both wonderful and scarily dystopian.

I'd like my eeproms on those devices to have their write enable pins snipped, I'd like to know when someone attempts to reprogram it. I'd also like hashes of my firmware compared globally so I knew my firmware isn't special. Fuck serial numbers. Root yourself before you are rooted. Backdoor yourself so their firmware hacks fail. I have > 10 mems microphones within 20 feet of me. So probably do you. How many gates does http://opus-codec.org/ require? 600GB stores 5 years of continuous audio @ 32kbits. Serial EEPROMS already in your devices can store 10s of hours of audio, recording while suspended, while _off_. Nothing is ever off anymore. Instant on, soft switches, privacy traded so we don't have to watch dmesg.

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Spansion/S25FL512SAGMFI0...

I'd like all sensors to have an on-off switch that I control. I'd like phone to turn off when I tell it to, not just sleep. I'd like my batteries to have bluetooth connection that forces devices to be off, not just the power button I do not control.

We should assume every piece of hardware we own is backdoored and remotely controllable by any state level actor.
I have a hard time taking these kinds of posts seriously. Maybe I'm not up to date on AI research, but I draw a distinction between a conscious program and strong AI. So what, a program can identify the type of clothing specific person is wearing from a video using cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision. So what, a program can interpret the movie I'm talking about just from hearing me describe a scene in it. So what, a program can beat the human champion in Jeopardy. Are those programs super intelligent?

I don't believe we're close to building something with any sort of self-directed "purpose." The fact that we can't even discern a purpose for ourselves makes it all the less likely. I think we're implementing very advanced machine learning algorithms, but I don't think those translate to consciousness. The consciousness we have is a product of an unfathomable amount of time being molded and naturally selected specifically for this world.

Now, do I think that AI capabilities are something to worry about? Sure. If you give a sufficiently "intelligent" AI mobility and a weapon, I think that becomes a serious threat. But am I worried about using AI to efficiently manage our resources, and have it go rogue and choose to wipe out humanity? Nope.
Yes, and it seems clear from the article that this was understood going into the project. They got screwed when their production volume dropped from 50,000+ (viable for injection moulding) to 2,000 (not viable for anything), after it became clear that the product they had designed was not sellable in the market.
At least it is better than http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com !
Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
I'm guessing this is the trademark he's referring to:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:9r4...
Start Saying No
PhantomCI adds parallel test support at no charge
Thanks! This would definitely make it vastly more popular!
uhhh.. yahoo mail? for a while years ahead of the competition and even today still one of the best mail services around
All browsers, that I know of, treat localstorage as part of your profile and store this inside your home directory somewhere - which is where all your other stuff is, so if you're not backing that up... I can't help you.

For example, Chrome stores it here:

on Windows: %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage
on Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Local Storage/