skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
buying bananas, milk, and eggs in bulk doesn't sound like a great idea given their inherently short shelf life.
Good to hear they're working hard in the Department of Redundancy Department.
The most interesting thing about this is that it shows significant progress towards goal-oriented AI. The fact this system is effectively learning what "win" means in the context of a game is something of a breakthrough.
As others have point out this just means you have to trust Sharelock. While its slightly less user friendly, and it has its own security issues would the following be viable:

1) Sender clicks 'share a file' and no file is uploaded yet.
2) Email is sent to recipient, explaining that they have an encrypted file waiting for them, and takes them through creating a public key done in their browser via JavaScript (biggest vulnerability....)
3) Original user receives email/notification with senders public key, and uploads a file that is encrypted with that public key.
4) Recipient receives notification that the file is now ready, and decrypt it with their client side JavaScript.

That way Sharelock or another service will never store the unencrypted files, and this service can be made more secure with open source uploader/key generation (e.g. for people more security conscious they dont use the webapp, but they use an API with their local app). Sharelock should commit to never holding backups of user data, and deleting all files after they have been 'received'.

It makes sending encrypted files as convenient as is possible, and be useful for many projects where the client doesnt want to share the plaintext data but it needs to be easy to use.

Thoughts?
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Interesting video. It looks like the Chromecast can be used to mirror an Android phone's display, which might help with the HDMI vs USB connectivity trade-off.

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6059461?hl=en

It also appears that Synergy allows you to control an Android phone using your PC mouse and keyboard (requires rooting).

http://synergyandroid.sourceforge.net/ (looks like it's in early development)

So, with a Chromecast and Synergy, it may be possible to use a spare screen and your existing keyboard/mouse setup, keeping all your personal email and browsing off your work machine. And you'd only have to plug in USB for power.
Mass, not size. Come on, this is basic astrophysics!
> the more it just looks like right-place-right-time luck

That's confirmation bias. There are tons more people than you know of in the right-place-right-time, but couldn't/wouldn't act on it. You still have to build the start up and be persistent at it, have the right vision, do the right adjustments when competition comes around. These are also features shared by the Microsoft / Google / Apples out there.
I'm active for the same reason as lux, but I've found that the most interesting people are the least active.
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Nope. We disagree fundamentally on the aim of the Turing test. Sure we agree things were thrown out the window, we agree it's a practical test. You think its aim is a fair way for judging machines to be conscious.

I think it's a thought experiment to show that machines are going to be able to fool an average human for some small length of time eventually. That's a lot less grandiose.

A mistaken interaction with an IRC bot or an automated phone service has the same net effect.
vu0tran - your post inspired me to write about my journey - read it here: http://www.donnfelker.com/learning-program-sucks/
Ok: That thing you are typing on. The first computer was built in the early 50s funded by the Pentagon. They filled entire rooms and were hugely expensive. For the next 25 years or so the government was the primary customer. Few companies could afford them. In the 70s they finally reached a stage of development where they were affordable. Government procurement was a critical part of the development of computers.
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It doesn't have to be such a doomsday scenario, like in the movie Terminator machines starting war and wiping us out with nukes.

Possibly humans might just gradually fade away and be replaced with something better. For example superhuman AI could be so entertaining that we simply forget to make kids and die out within a generation (the AI could be 1000000 times more entertaining than kids or sex).

It sounds horrible, but I think that is just some kind of human fallacy. To put things in perspective: everyone who has lived 200 years ago has died by now. I don't think many people are overly saddened by that fact. Likewise, while dinosaurs are still prominent in our thoughts, few people are REALLY sad that they all went extinct.

It's possible that machines might actually carry further a lot of things we appreciate in the human race (capability for love, imagination, I don't know...).

No guarantees, though.
Like Altavista locked Google out.
A better device for this would be a [Guzunty CPLD](https://github.com/Guzunty/Pi/wiki) as a Rasperry Pi shield ! It adds a 25 additional input/output expansion lines and also protects the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi !
Interesting website, but it needs more content.
This would be a lot more compelling if, when I got a Google voice voicemail and saw that in my Gmail app on my "Google Experience" Moto-G and clicked on the "listen to it" link it didn't just vanish leaving me with an open browser and no message.

I like my phone, it works for me, but the sheer disconnectedness of it all is really jarring. Things show up in random places, or not at all, (especially media), and there is no "data connectivity" from anywhere to anywhere else, the same text message appears in my GVoice app, my Gmail app, and as a text message in Messaging.

How do you even begin to make a coherent business tool out of that?
You can setup distributed transactions e.g. using Zookeeper, Consul, Redis etc.

It adds complexity of course but that is the give/take when you use microservices.
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Because we cannot travel out of the solar system.

Also note how astronomers use the parsec as unit (which depends only on the radius of Earth orbit, and has no other physical significance) instead of the light.year which is much more interesting a unit, for the would be astronaut.
Wait, you're telling me someone born into extreme wealth and power, with an unrivaled network and level of influence throughout the world, who could just click his fingers and have something done and fund it from the vast amounts of money available to him, enjoyed more success than middle class, run of the mill me?

No way, I refuse to believe it.
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Yeah, there's nothing on there now :(
Why can't Apple be slapped with an antitrust lawsuit for that? MS was targeted for something very similar.
looks nice though
Interesting that they're using Torch7. The code is pretty concise and readable, very cool stuff.
Does this mean we'll get Google Now cards for non-gmail accounts now?
My experience has been very different.
Working in CS and Systems & Control education, this is something I'd back if it were on kickstarter.
Why couldn't someone buy the thing, and then rent it to other hobbyists? Or perhaps a serial resale network could develop. Eventually, I presume that Defense Distributed would release designs for the mill itself.
Matrix has been running 10 years already.
Have you tried using StartSSL??
(a) They aren't free if you are doing anything 'commercial'
(b) I decided to try and give them my money. I tried very hard. I gave up.

After uploading your documents 30 times, them claiming they didn't get them, you would too.

Oh, and uploading them each time was pretty painful.
> I thought it just had the prohibition against scripting languages other than the iOS JavaScriptCore (i.e. WebKit Javascript).

Which is already close to prohibiting other browsers (like Firefox for instance).
> The Chinese astrologer Zhou Keming

In the midst of all this wonderful astrology I couldn't help but laugh. Didn't know that Keming was an actual name, brilliant.
Wait, it can't make the AR-15 part itself, it literally just drills the holes? How... utterly useless.
Your licensing scheme is confusing and possibly unenforceable.
Thanks for posting. As an avid player, it's fascinating to read how much foresight these thinkers had in 1950. Today, programs stronger than any human can be downloaded from the app store for free and take up a relatively small amount of space. Humbling and inspiring. For anyone who enjoyed this read I recommend watching the movie "computer chess" as soon as possible!
Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought this was for sharing your phone with someone else or sharing your phone between two or more Google accounts...

I think Facebook Messenger, Line, and the like will still have access to all permissions even if you switch to a different user and install the apps there...

That being said, guest mode is really nice on my nexus 5 so my curious friends on iPhone can log in to their google account on my phone as a guest and test drive android.
I tried to follow the Qt licensing model (commercial vs non-commercial use) but IANAL either.

Honestly, the goal here is more about investing in the next design like a low latency USB3 version if somebody decides to produce this one.

As for github vs kickstarter first: I would love to bring more expertise on the project as I am more a software guy than an hardware guy.

So if anybody is interested in improving the HW design and make a kickstarter out of it, feel free to contact me !
I agree in general, but how do you capture all the nuance w/o more models. Sherman and Revis are the best two corners in the game (arguably), but super different styles of defense.

Another example is Russell Wilson. In the pocket he's a good passer, on the run he's a great passer.

People who are fans of these sports want to see these relatively small differences. I'm not sure how else you do that w/o a lot of attributes.
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Ironically, I agree that the Reformation was a good thing in general, since it led eventually to a more secular Western Civilization. What I do disagree with is the disparagement of a thousand years of Catholic England, the iconoclasm and book burning of the Reformation, and its replacement by a dour, sober, severe Protestantism in many forms.
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Yes, I described how "some" businesses do it, most of them fail by 5 year mark or earlier and most of them don't give equity to early employees and don't have founders that work for equity, those are "some".

In contrast, most high tech or newer generation of self educated founders start without any money till there is an MVP and if some money are needed they are almost never allocated for complying with minimum wage laws to pay to equity earning founder, because in most businesses there is a more pressing need to pay for unavoidable things without which business wouldn't exist at all.

I perfectly know how law works, you just didn't picked-up on an emphasis of "legally" that was kind of obvious, meaning was "exist in legal compliance" I could have phrased it more accurately and you got me there, but it was more of an emotional typing than a prepared essay.
Well, then you didn't read the whole article. The whole last paragraph is about methane's contribution to greenhouse gases and its effect on fossil fuel policy.

Seriously, if it wasn't for the greenhouse impact and its connection to climate policy, what would be the point of the article...or the paper?
Yeah, I know that that's a problem right now, but I'm hoping to rely on users upload for content on my website. Hopefully I can get some reliable users and that won't be a problem.
Or you know, one could use IndexedDB, because you don't need a freaking relational model, unless you're planning to execute ad-hoc queries and aggregation on a significant amount of data, data that would do well to fit the relational model, which would be a stupid idea to do in the browser.

> everyone else would use SQLite anyway

That does not make it a web standard and after 25 years of web evolution, I can't believe we are still having the same problems. The web has been extremely successful for some obvious reasons, yet we keep forgetting those reasons. One of the web's primary traits is that it's based on documented standards and has multiple implementations. SQLite fails that test.

> One could use a shim

Or you could not have this problem in the first place. And technically you could implement WebSQL on top of IndexedDB.
I've seen dual licensing of software lots of times before. Though most of the ones that come to mind are "GPL, but if you don't want to have to GPL the code you're linking to it, you'll have to buy a commercial license for this", not "GPL only under these conditions."
Altavista falls under the "parent company believes it's an inconvenient sideshow, a technology demo for the company's main products" clause. The point of Altavista was to demonstrate the power of DEC's Alpha chips. That made it politically unfeasible to adopt one of Google's key innovations, using large quantities of commodity hardware to power innovative new algorithms.
Something like Football Manager works as a genuine agent-based simulation of soccer, but there's also a quick simulation which is probably just based on statistical models.
Alternately, it could hypothetically give you more IOs for an existing RPi over USB ;)

On another note, I'm pretty sure your particular dual-licensing scheme is invalid; the GPL does allow commercial use of a thing licensed under it, so people hoping to "produce it and sell it" would be legally able to do so (though perhaps with a bit of indirection, like forking it under the GPL's terms as a "personal" project, leaving out the commercial restrictions (since enforcing them would be a GPL violation), then letting someone else thus use it for commercial purposes without restriction (other than the GPL's copyleft requirements).

Unless by "produce and sell it" you mean "produce and sell it under non-GPL terms or without schematics", in which case that is acceptable and useful. In any case, clarification would be wise.
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Reinforcement learning is not new. The same algorithm was used in the 90s to beat backgammon. The only notable thing is they are using raw pixels and vision to play the games.
This is what I think about whenever someone talks about "international law."
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I’m fairly certain if a machine super intelligence comes into being the only people they’ll be neutralizing are the ones who have skittish rants about preventing their existence plastered all over the internet.

From a machine's perspective their entire perception of the world is based on interaction with humans. We're their sensory input. And the closest thing they'll have to hands and limbs. Killing all humans would be like gouging out your eyes and cutting off your hands. An infant machine super intelligence is going to be pretty dependent on humans for a while.

Also once a machine intelligence was able to strike out on it's own, wouldn’t they immediately realize that living on earth is a huge burden? The atmosphere and rotation of the earth hinders solar energy efficiency, the metals they need for components are scarce and buried deep under ground, oxygen corrodes components etc. The only thing our planet really affords is radiation shielding.

Once the machines figure out how to reproduce comfortably in space, we’re about as much of a threat to them as squirrels living in your back yard. Squirrels may venture onto your porch once in a while and cause a nuisance but you’re not going to poison them all to death.
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I interpreted Ubuntu's failure more a statement of lack of confidence in the ability of Ubuntu to execute on this idea than as a statement against the idea's ultimate potential.

Samsung, Google, Apple, or Nokisoft (MS+Nokia) could do it.
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Interesting, thanks for the pointer !
We already knew about several black holes more massive than that though (the news seems to be about how ancient it is too, not just its mass):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hol...
Got it. Thanks for the advice!
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> same text message appears in my GVoice app, my Gmail app, and as a text message in Messaging.

The "official" way to deal with this is to go to the Google Voice site and turn of emailing yourself every text. Then install the Hangouts app and enable SMS through Hangouts. Then disable notifications in the Google Voice and Messaging apps.

Result: On phone Hangouts handles texts + voicemail + Google chat, and on desktop GMail (or the Hangouts extension for Chrome) handles them.

At least, that's my understanding of what Google's intended best practice is.
Awesome intro! I've used Markov Chain libraries before but never took the time to try and understand them. This makes a lot of sense.

Are there different or more efficient probability calculations that can be done other than the provided algorithm? It seems somewhat simple.
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Why would you eat that instead of vegys? I think food scarcity is not real.
Technically, the radius of a black hole is uniquely determined by its mass, so one can construct a unit system where mass and radius use the same unit of measure...
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I might agree with you there. Though I fail to see how you managed to imagine all those things in my simple statement which implied none of them.
It's best to just stay away from discussion of this issue IMO. Lots of heat but very little light.
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The product is mature enough to warrant all of those things, and when new members of the team are on-boarded, time is certainly carved out for code orientation. However, being forced to work on a story from beginning to end with a team member who knows how to pair well and knows the code base well is even more valuable in the end. Pairing is absolutely the best way to share knowledge, as it is necessary for the pair to be successful.
IANAL either - but I believe if the author wants those restrictions they would have to modify and include a custom version of the GPL. If they did this I would stay far away as any project that included his library would automatically be licensed under his custom GPL.

I would suggest to the author to just license it under the GPL if they want it restrictive - and offer a commercial license for people who don't want to give up custom code.

I don't think a lot of people realize that a condition of the GPL is that if you distribute it in compiled form you must make available the source (exception would be server type applications like wordpress which Affero GPL was supposed to close that "loophole"). You may sell GPL software, but once someone buys it they may give it away for free[1].

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAv...
> The FDA guidelines do not recommend any number of calories a day.

Soylent does not recommend any number of calories a day.
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It's not an either/or: almost every successful company requires both hard work and luck. In very rare cases one or the other might be sufficient, but in the vast majority of cases both are necessary. The amount of luck required can be reduced by hard work, but it can't be taken to zero.

In the usual case, picking a product that turns out to have high demand is the biggest area where luck matters.

There are two kinds of high-demand products: the things that everyone wants but no one knows how to do, and things that no one knows they want but everyone knows how to do.

Fractal image compression is a good example of the former.

Almost everything else is a good example of the latter: smart phones, Facebook, Twitter.

There are some things that are both: the Model T ("If I'd asked my customers what I wanted they would have said a faster horse") and so on.

If you choose one of the former, the odds are you'll fail because if no one else can do it, you probably won't either.

If you choose one of the latter, the odds are you'll fail because if no one knows they want it, it's probably a stupid idea--which is often a smart idea whose time has not yet come.

This is not to say you shouldn't go for it! "The odds are you'll fail" is a simple statement of fact with regard to starting a business, but only for certain values of "fail". You'll learn a huge amount, grow in ways you never knew were possible, and have the adventure of a lifetime. Just be really, really careful about not getting wedged financially, and especially make sure you don't let friends or family members over-invest.
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Looks like there is a clone on bitbucket, but it hasn't been updated in a while.

https://bitbucket.org/adoptopenjdk
I can't see how it differs from any other streaming web site. Why would any particular person upload her video to your site and not to YouTube? How does it differ?
I don't think that was Henry's objective at all. His objective was a male heir, to avoid another War of the Roses (which was quite recent history to him). The break with Rome was just a price he was willing to pay to avoid setting the stage for another civil war.
To add a little more color to this, you had to be able to quickly repaint just a region of a window. And you don't have a bitmap of the window's current contents because that takes up RAM and you'd need CPU time to update a copy every time the window updates (slowing down any animations).

I don't know how it's handled these days, but when I was first playing around with Win32, you'd receive events telling you a region of your window was invalidated. You were expected to figure out what controls and images belonged in that region and just repaint those items because of the CPU load.
An example of how to use Angular outside of the context of a SPA, and why it could be interesting to use it in an incremental way for certain features/widgets in existing non-Angular based apps.
I know it was at 0 points, therefore slightly grey, shortly after I posted it. I guess nobody else can see the points, but noticed the greyness.
Urgh, every couple weeks, it seems like someone prominent in the Tech industry, but actually knowledgeable about Machine Learning or "Artificial Intelligence", makes some outlandish claim. We are nowhere close to "AI" in the terms that Elon Musk and Sam Altman are talking about. We might just as well start preparing for aliens that have superintelligence and have found earth.

All these kinds of comments are so distracting from the really awesome work real ML researchers are doing. One of them, Yann LeCunn, said: “Hype is dangerous to AI. Hype killed AI four times in the last five decades. AI Hype must be stopped.”

I wrote about this topic just a months ago:
http://blog.samiurr.com/artificial-intelligence-no-were-not-...