skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is definitely the future. In major cities, self-driving cars will be available in fleets to summon on-demand Uber-style at $.50/mile or less (which is similar to the total cost of ownership of an average relatively new vehicle in the city). The value proposition will be so strong that many urban dwellers will no longer need to own cars at all. Roads will be more efficient and safer; parking lots will be smaller and fewer in number.

In sparser areas of the country driverless cars will have less of an effect, but those are also the areas where parkings lots and roads constitute a much smaller percentage of surface area.
I disagree that it can't be argued against. It's a set of logical steps, any one of which can be critiqued:

1 - There's no real dispute that computers will eventually be as "powerful" as brains. In fact, it's likely that they will one day be far more powerful.

2 - Assuming the brain evolved naturally, there's no reason to assume humans won't eventually duplicate the software once we have the hardware. It's really only a matter of when.

3 - An AGI with equal/more power than the human brain will, eventually, be able change its own code and improve upon itself.

4 - Given the characteristics of intelligence as it has been observed thus far in nature, even small increases in IQ lead to massive improvements in capability that are difficult for lesser intelligences to comprehend. A sufficiently advanced AGI would not only be highly capable, but would quite possibly be too smart for us to predict how it might behave. This is a dangerous combination.

Further complicating things, we might hit step 2 on accident, without realizing that we hit it. Or some group might accomplish step 2 in secret.

What I'd like to see someone do is argue that the chance of these things happening so small and/or the consequences so minuscule that it's not worth worrying about or planning for.
It looks like they've changed the hardware, but the Hertz Neverlosts that I used in 2005 and 2006 were vastly superior to a 2015 smartphone.
Well, color me disappointed. I think there are many arguments against the viewpoints of MIRI and Bostrom, both discrediting the perceived risk of super-intelligences and the the idea that we could build a "provably friendly" alternative.

But I don't think it's at all a fair criticism to say that you need a technical roadmap to engage in that debate. I would rather say that they need to be willing to discuss specific architectural details in order to even sit at the table, sure. The field of "AI safety" needs more engineering and less philosophy. But that doesn't require unity around a single roadmap, or any concept of deliverable dates.
Chrome does not run on Android version below 4.0.
"On a standard machine, users worried about USB attacks could simply tape over their ports"

^^ Oh yeah, that would do it. Damn Apple for disabling the tape-over fix!
That's if you only have 5 repos. If you don't want to be forced into the 1-big-repo thing and have many discrete projects/microservices, GitHub gets really expensive fast.

I'd love to use GitHub for my personal projects but there are too many different ones.

I wish it were metered by what it actually costs them (storage) rather than stupid arbitrary numbers like repo count.
Lawyers never lie. that would be unethical.

Instead, lawyers "speak colorably"; If one takes the pure white light of truth, and puts it through a prism, all of those colors in the spectrum of truth, while not 100% of the truth, still contain a very strong thread of it.

for example, I was in court recently settling a criminal charge for someone about two months ago, and that someone asked the crown prosecutor (during the hearing) why the crown has gone silent on the civil process settling the charges. The crown, unable to lie, or even acknowledge a commercial default, stated colorably that the paperwork was "not necessarily valid" in a criminal case. not only was this true, but this kept the prosecution in honor, the court in honor, and the defendant in honor, all while allowing him his "Section 11" remedy (canada criminal code).

I'd suggest using colorable language any time you feel the need to lie.

TL:DR - In the eyes of the law, telling a spectrum of truth is still considered telling the truth.
Economic 101 course for you.
In your original comment you said:
> By definition, profit is extracting more than the 'worth' of something.

You are terribly wrong, because, by definition, there is no such thing as objective worth of something you buy. There is only subjective worth and it is different for different people. And that is the sole things that enables us to trade goods at all.

Example: what is worth more: 5$ or a pack of ciggaretes? non-smoking shop owner probably will choose 5$, average smoker will choose pack of ciggaretes. And they DO choose that every day - every time you buy something you prove that the thing you bought is more valuable to you than the money you spent. Otherwise you wouldn't buy it.

So, if two people make transaction volunteerly the price paid is always fair, and both people end up thinking that they traded something less valuable for something more valuable. That's called "mutually beneficial" :)
> We did. We made travel cheap and easy and it has benefited us massively.

If you're referring to ICE and automobiles, that "cheap" cost is bought by uncountable externalities that aren't on the balance sheet: many lives and wars to secure this cheap fuel, not to mention climate change.
It would be great to have these packages available for the fantastic https://alpinelinux.org
Have a nice day!
Herve This is not... uncontroversial among modernist cooks ("modernism" being the emerging accepted term for this style of cooking), and it is a weird survey of modernism indeed that leaves out Ferran Adria and El Bulli, Heston Blumenthal and the Fat Duck, Wylie Dufresne and WD50, Grant Achatz and Alinea, and, for that matter, Nathan Myrvhold and _Modernist Cuisine_.

Search for [dave arnold herve this] to see someone very reputable come pretty close to calling Herve This a fraud.
Can you show an example of an animation with more than 256 colors?

As you said, the hack to get more than 256 colors is to redefine a sub rectangle with a new palette. But that's also the mechanism used to make animations. Are you able to get fluid playback with that?

Note: I'm not talking about new frame being just a new sub rectangle, more about N sub rectangles for the same frame, then a delay event, then M sub rectangles for the new frame, etc
We didn't have roads 4 lanes wide (which is a huge amount of additional land lost), and we didn't have the insane amount of parking space.

Even a not particularly car friendly city like Amsterdam would look dramatically different if you removed the parking space, because it would free up such an insane amount of space.

Cars have multiplied the amount of space dedicated to transport, without actually adding much to human progress and development, what with most of it being used to carry individuals short distances from A to B and back again.

I don't see the massive benefit here. It's a pointless habit we shaped a life/work culture around with a mostly negative impact on the quality of life.
Feel free to use this template -> https://github.com/catalyzeio/HIPAA I made for our HIPAA docs. It uses middleman, slate, erb and sass. To password protect it you could use something like this -> https://github.com/agoragames/nginx-google-oauth
> Unfortunately, "the market is irrational" doesn't imply "you can name the ways in which it is irrational" nor does it imply even that there exists any single entity that is capable of correctly naming the way in which it is irrational.

Absolutely. The number of players involved and the level of information asymmetry mean that it's not even knowable how the market is or isn't irrational.

You're basically arguing that "alpha" is an illusion borne out of the quirks of distributed probability. I (along with many leading minds in finance) also believe this to be true. What many hedge funds call "alpha" is often just dumb luck. In the few cases that it isn't, policy changes at central banks are often involved (this is why it's taken the fed several years to choreograph the wind-down of QE).

But the irony here is that the fact that everyone believes they can beat the market is what makes the market as efficient and liquid as it is. If everyone traded with the same strategy, you'd see massive swings in volatility and information asymmetry would be an even bigger issue than it is. Because there are so many different trading strategies built to hunt out arbitrage in certain pockets, the market as a whole is incredibly efficient - or at least more efficient than it would otherwise be.

Whether or not they are capable of guessing the direction of the markets is irrelevant: if you take a portfolio strategy and make equal bets on enough different assets, you'll end up with something that is probably close to the market rate of return anyway. Note that this only applies to the "professional investor" class (as defined by the SEC); everyone else is simply better off in mutual funds. Professional investors have access to classes of securities with a higher average rate of return than normal citizens do, so they likely can beat the market as long as they're also able to absorb big losses in the years they don't beat the market.
>> your associated emotions are the reasons you have the beliefs you have!

I agree that egg or chicken first problem worth argumenting about, but saying that omelet comes before an egg is a bit of a stretch to buy into :)
Firefox on Android plays inline videos just fine. Sites like GFYcat work as expected, and loop appropriately.
In fairness, when someone makes a post specifically saying "replacement for :product:" it's probably fair game to discuss the merits of the product being supposedly replaced.

I mean, if only every CEO was connected enough to read like almost every comment or criticism about their product online...
precisely. In fact, you see it in the markets, even among quantitative Phds, only a very small fraction beats the market. It's broadly efficient, on long enough time scales. It's inefficient on extremely short time scales, which is why HFT works so well.
>But if the Billion+ people in China believe in their system, then it is important for us to hear their perspective.

I don't believe for 1 second that 1E+9 people in China believe in their system. In any case it's not an assumption to throw around lightly much less take it for granted.
Sounds akin to the outsourcing binge that went on a decade (?!) or so back.

Back then it seemed most companies did it not because they had done the numbers, but because a few big names had done it and so the others did it to apparently piggy back on the stock markets attention.
It's wrong in some scenarios, but it's still correct (to within many, many decimal places) in many others.

Theories and models aren't just right or wrong. Some are more wrong than others. Isaac Asimov summed it up better than I could:

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Newtonian mechanics isn't so much wrong as it is incomplete. Is anything in economics like that? It doesn't seem so.
the verbiage is crappy and vague, but I can see a use if you need support or help and they want to give you a personable experience. That said, this issue is two-fold...it is very easy to get riled up about security (especially as it seems we lose more and more freedoms each day to "securing" our nation). On the other hand, this offers them the ability to improve the customer experience. They just could not have picked a worse way to introduce the device, especially since they are not ready to publicly talk about its use-cases.

A definite gray middle-area, but technically you do not own the car and it is their property. If you want to rent the car then they definitely can record its use to ensure that damages were not from a dog pissing on the seat vs. "i spilled some juice"
It's a terrible metaphor, or at least it argues against your own position. If flying cars were in fact something on the horizon, we would need discussions about air spaces, commute lanes, and traffic rules. Otherwise lethal mid-air collisions would be much more probable, resulting in significant bystander and property damage as these wreckage fall out of the sky.

And, no surprise, we're seeing exactly this discussion going on right now about drones.
Funny story about one of Zapier's employees Danny Schrieber:

When he worked in Omaha at spn (silicon prairie news) he pulled me in for a interview at a coffee shop to get some information about a facebook app that I did that went viral.

When he pulled up the app on his Facebook account, he used a chrome extension that fakes your Facebook notifications to impress people.

SPN is pretty lame /b/ro.
The goal of Hamburg’s project is to replace roads with a “gruenes netz” or a green network of interconnected open areas covering 40% of the city. According to the official website, parks, playgrounds, sports fields, allotments and cemeteries will be connected to form a network, which will allow people to navigate through the city without the use of cars.

Why not just let people walk on the roads? Places like cemeteries and parks can be quite creepy to walk through, especially at night. Roads next to buildings with people in them are a more comfortable place to walk.
That is true, but I think the counter-argument is that the Fed does much of what it does to create price stability, not price accuracy.

Prices should be generally stable in the face of everything but supply and demand shifts brought upon by technological change and competition. If the price of a car rose/fell 20% "accurately" (per your comment) every few years people would have to hedge against the risks that those price fluctuations would cause. Our system reduces the need to worry about such risks b/c they are viewed as unnecessary noise.

In other words, when prices are generally stable we can plan for the future rather than hedging against the impact of random (though market-based) price volatility.
This article was talking about renting servers from Softlayer. All servers on your account in Softlayer have a private VLAN that connects them, even between data centers. Private networks for your servers are a feature of many server hosts.
The bit about how Riak resolves concurrent writes sounds backwards. As far as I know, it's last-write-wins by default. You need to opt into storing all the writes via allow_mult.
Good point "here's our Github account" would become a common solution for free private repos.
tl;dr "[...] Windows 10 leverages an efficient compression algorithm to compress system files. [...] removed the requirement for a separate recovery image."
Reflections on Julia
From my point of view, proof that someone is a crackpot.
Found this list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_country

As anonbanker noticed, Uruguay is where it is legal. Another one - North Korea. The rest of places are either sorta-legal, or "decriminalized", which often still come with fines or some kind of pressure from the law.
Thanks for posting this. I'm often surprised how few people know that almost all synchronization primitives can be implemented with each other. They are effectively equivalent.

However, as you say, some end up being hideously complicated. Some are "closer to the metal" than others - both in terms of the actual instruction set implementation, and kernel mechanisms used.

I've never been a fan of semaphores, because when used with count>1, they tend to be duplicating some other information in the system, which is easy to get out of sync. When used with just count 0 or 1, it's more intuitive (and closer to underlying implementation) to just use a mutex. And as you point out, the various mutex incarnations usually have an easier time of tracking ownership and debugging, by their nature.
Oh hey, I wrote that! There are plenty of apps that are distributing LGPL code on the App Store, for example, VLC for iOS [1] includes FFmpeg. The static linking requirement on iOS 7 and earlier prompted some proprietary app developers (like Sparrow [2]) to distribute their object files to allow re-linking.

Now that iOS 8 offers dynamic frameworks, I'm not sure if this situation has changed. Even though they are dynamically linked, it is impossible for the end user to replace a library due to the code signing requirements.

1. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20131013023029/http://sprw.me/lg...
Yes that is my opinion.
Allowing this waste is the opposite of a smart city.

Using 1,5 t of mass to transport on average 100 kg is also a massive waste of energy.
Ex Machina Is an Early Frontrunner to Be 2015's Best Film
What the Raspberry Pi 2's Overclock Settings Mean
Out of curiosity, why doesn't it work?
Well you could build a system which requires explicitly allowing HIDs. The only HID for which it's a serious issue might be a keyboard, and for those the OS could segregate the alleged keyboard and require specific actions to allow it.
That's a good option if the official binaries support all the codecs you need and have all the correct hardware acceleration flags set for your particular CPU/GPU. That's ... theoretically possible, I suppose.
I'm not a very experienced OCaml developer but after several iterations on a simple game engine in OCaml I found that there were a few places I could significantly reduce boilerplate by using objects. Entities in a game frequently need to carry around their own internal state.
Migrating Cover from Balanced to Stripe
One thing that took me a while to get up to speed on was the different in alt+tab here switching between entire apps vs individual windows as on a PC. To be able to get that functionality back, install Witch http://manytricks.com/witch/
Yes, but carts and horses don't habitually move at 25 MPH or more. It was possible to get run over and killed by a cart, but walking into a busy city street full of cars (without following the signals) is almost certain to get you killed. That's a pretty big difference in how the space can actually be used.

The first section of this article is interesting in this context: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
> The USB device you just plugged in claims to be a keyboard - did you just plug in a keyboard?

The problem with that is that you inevitably run into this dialog with nothing else attached to the machine. How are you going to confirm the dialog?

Better to focus on isolating the keyboard driver from the rest of the OS, so the only thing it should be able to do is read in input from the keyboard and report it back to the OS.
Sure most people can't afford charter jets for day-to-day use, but for an average middle-class person, if you had to make a choice between chartering a jet and never going home again, you'd probably find a way.
> We're going to need clear OS dialogs - "The USB device you just plugged in claims to be a keyboard - did you just plug in a keyboard?"

Of course there is the chicken-and-egg issue of allowing the first keyboard you plug into a machine which does not have any built-in input device.
Exactly. The Romans just parked their horses in a nearby field and got them fed at the same time! Renewable fuel and the perfect "green space" parking lot / local park
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terrorism-loophole-fly-list/st...

> Both TSA officials and FBI Terrorist Screening Center director Timothy Healy confirmed to ABC News last week that the effort to keep U.S. airspace off-limits to terror suspects has not included vetting the passengers and pilots on large private jets such as the one owned by Chagoury, which he has used to shuttle between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Europe.

I'd suspect there are similar loopholes for private jets chartered by friendly governments. But you may be right and someone in the Swedish government called in a favor.
Get 1,000 Real Followers on Twitter – Part 1
Eliminating rent control without also making it possible to build up (literally) to a degree that (afaik) is currently impossible due to building and zoning restrictions would do little to ease the problem. By my understanding, though, actually building new housing is about as unpopular with the locals than ending rent control. There's no point in 'signalling to developers that it's time to build,' as suggested in the article, if they literally can't build anything.

The annoying thing with the fixation on rent control over zoning is that at least rent control has some altruistic value to people who can't really afford their rents being raised. The zoning rules largely benefit property owners, I expect.
None that works with current browsers implantations, because they erroneous ignore no delay between frames and wait anyway. But that's a bug in the gif decoder, not a limitation of gif. OK, this is hairsplitting, but it illustrates how borken the state of gif is.
so, what about SMS on corporate phones? ... do I even want to know?
Documentation is one of those very unsexy things that's so important but so many people and companies just tend to overlook. It's good to know there are companies aiming to fix this.
Carbon Capture: Tiny Blue Bubbles Designed to Help Save the Planet [video]
The scientists did an AMA a couple weeks ago. Check it out here for more info: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2x3sja/science_ama_series_im_roger_aines_a_geochemist/
I know lots of my friends have families where single income would sustain them but both husband and wife go to work.

We have stigmatized staying at home and raising children as a society.
Memory Clean for memory optimization

Alfred for searching things on your Mac (better than Spotlight)

BetterSnapTool for window management (cheaper than Divvy)

GitHub for Mac and Atom are excellent as others have mentioned
> there was regular black market where one could buy contract for cheaper rent

A precursor to AirBnB!
Hetzner and OVH both use cheap hardware, but IME it's not hard to use the same primitives you'd otherwise use in something like AWS to build in redundancy at a price point well below AWS.

I wouldn't want to do it, which is why I'd rather work for somebody who'd pay for AWS, but I think there's a thing in there somewhere for those who want to dig.
Canonical import paths in Golang
Inbox Pause – Take a break from email
I'd look for a ship before I looked for a private jet.
Often times companies move because their organization doesn't deliver, and the hope is a cloud company will do a better job of it.

If you have a great team, I firmly believe hosting yourself is far, far, far less expensive.

If you have a terrible team, then cloud (hosting) is less expensive. Even if it was exactly the same cost, you're gaining by not having to have a staff to run it, and the costs of managing them, etc etc.

Most places don't have great teams. Insert random corporation here likely has a team that is a mess for whatever reasons happen in large companies.

In that case, the Cloud makes a ton of sense for them. They've already screwed up their own organization in some way, and this is a large reset button on the whole thing.

That's worth a ton in itself.
Hi, Mozilla Support volunteer here.

Thanks for spotting this! It is a known bug and has been fixed and rushed into beta testing (in Mozilla speak, this is called uplift). The fix is currently in Firefox beta and is scheduled to be released at the end of the month.

There's a bug logged here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124884

And a support article on how you can clear your search history here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-your-search-histo...

Hope this clears things up a little!

Jayelbe
Seems much ado about nothing. They had a use case, ordered the HW, decided not to use it.

Several of the comments on the article are over the top idiotic. It's fun to read a couple, but after that it just gets ya sick.
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