skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is some (not initially necessarily net for all users -- benefit being, after all, something that varies from user to users, but significant for some subset of users) benefit, the point is to mitigate the cost of moving out of a native text format, and increase the number of users for whom there is initially a net benefit, which also increases the initial use of the binary format and the effort likely devoted to building auxiliary tools which leverage it to some advantage, increasing the speed at which the net benefit of the format for a wider range of users is increased.

This may or may not ever make it a net benefit for every user, but that's okay. There's a whole lot of space between "this technology is the best choice for everyone" and "this technology is the best choice for no one".
I also use C-s on my local machine because:

1. I can still use C-a with readline (go to first character)

2. If I ssh and then use screen, I can use C-a to navigate my remote screen and C-s to navigate my local tmux.

3. C-s is closer to C-a then other letters on my keyboard.
Indeed. That is what I meant, but alas that is not what my brain wanted to type.
In addition to having a fairly large libertarian-leaning contingent (especially in rural areas), people in Michigan tend to associate personal vehicles with "freedom" at a level probably unmatched anywhere in the country (if not the world).
The original question was, why use a host that tries to show you ads in the first place?
Newbie here. cURL is a command line tool, firebug is a browser tool. So how can I use the two tools at the same time?
There is a significant nuance: blogs are most likely indexed by google. Comments are invisible. So blogs are generating much more noise, obstructing an access to information much more dramatically than even a 5000-strong comments thread could ever do.
Because it's how 99% of websites get their funding, allowing them to survive. Why have an adblocker installed when you can avoid the sites with obnoxious adverts?
We may be glad with what he did but do we want to encourage this type of thing? I think quietly "being nice" to him is fine but a public pardon, a welcome hope party, adoring media coverage may inspire some idiot to be the next Snowden and we probably do not want that.
If you apply the sandbox attribute to the iframes it should be ok. It allows fine grained control of what the iframe is allowed to do. Scripts, navigation, popups, etc. are forbidden except explicitly allowed.
yeah but that's bad design or terrorism, there is always another person to blame here. I think we are talking here about machines that take the blame themselves.
This may be true, but as true is it also that when one has checkmated the opponent's king, one is no longer winning at chess. Instead, one has won at chess. And if play continues, the game is no longer chess. This would not mean though that one has not won at chess.
I think there's some over-anthropomorphization of the AI here, in terms of it picking up human qualities as if they were Things outside our brains that we possess.

But I feel like this particular argument is (please correct me if I'm wrong) saying something like "Well of course we wouldn't let them go crazy! That'd be ridiculous!" I agree -- a sensible solution would be to have good design and introduce safeguards. That's the point of people like Bostrom when they're advocating for this, because before they started writing about this, it seems like a lot of people weren't even thinking it could be a problem. How many systems will be built without good design, because they were made to solve a short-term problem. Will the finance bots doing transactions at the microsecond scale in order to maximize the assets of some particular company have been built to not let them go haywire?
You’re not counting labor costs, tracking down an issue with an older car can be seriously time consuming, and that time costs something like $75-100/hr.

For instance, my fun car had a persistent miss that made it basically undrivable. It took me something like 20-30 hours to find the issues and fix them. I have OBD2 scanners (the real deal, not the toys), all the tools needed, and the ability to read the service manuals and follow the dianostic proceedures.

Someone driving an old pile, isn’t likely to have the time, know how, or funds to fix the old car. So instead of spending $5k to fix the thing, they spend $300/mo on a new (or new to them) car.
Cocoa – password generator service
Someone should read Catherine Malibou and Francisco Varela :-)

Neuroscience is already bored with not only subsystems, the holistic nature of the brain, but also the notion of the brain as the body's sole processor of cognition.
I would agree that root being an option is a huge win for consumers but I still believe that root not being the default is good for computing as a whole.
There Are No Experts in the Web Industry
This. I haven't been able to watch this, because even __reading__ about it makes me cry. I didn't know Aaron, never knew anything about him before this, and I still feel profound loss and tragedy whenever I think about him and his experiences. He sounded like an amazing human being.
Because it's easier for an average person to multiply than to divide.
Ask HN: I'm considering trying a 4-day work week. How has it worked out for you?
I'm considering experimenting with a 4-day work week for a few months. Does anyone have feedback on how this has worked or not worked for them?

A little background with some of the reasons why:

-Not convinced I currently have 40 hours of work to do. Either I'm wasting time or not finding enough work to do.

-My wife and I have a 3-month old daughter and I want to spend more time with them

-Errands that need to be done during business hours (dr. appts, dmv, social security office, etc..)
Twitter blocks promoted tweets by notorious white supremacist
Because it's Michigan. Smog checks could pass in other states. But probably never in Michigan.

This is the state that wants to revoke healthcare from victims of automobile accidents ( http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2015/04/senate_c... ). Automobile manufacturers and related industry still controls most of the state.

It's hard to overstate how small the chance of smog checks happening in Michigan is.
For those catching up, I made a timeline of the events of Swartz life and arrest: http://newslines.org/aaron-swartz/
Also, diesel engines have problems with carbon buildup over time, which reduces the combustion efficiency and causes the notorious black clouds of soot. (http://www.bellperformance.com/bell-performs-blog/blog/carbo...).
"Stop paying up to $65 for every trade."
I am assuming this is in reference to 10K+ trades not the average trade that last time I checked was around $19.

Either way Congrats on the big raise. Good move on focusing next on a financially savvy market like Australia!
Or we might end up with something a bit like the Culture - which is pretty much the best case scenario for humans co-existing with god-like AIs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Vinge and Stross both hint at the worst cases - and they would be pretty bad, simply having using atoms re-purposed might not look that bad by comparison:

"There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life."
"Never, ever trust another company for your business model."

Or, to quote the '90s, "Where does [Microsoft] want to take you today?"
They tend to be the worst, but they're not terribly plentiful. The bigger culprits are those oldish (10-20 years old) vehicles that have busted (if not removed) emissions control systems. As long as you enforce the emissions standards in effect the year the vehicle was built, you can get around a lot of the grandfathering issues.
> do you believe everything that you read on the Internet?

Only when I put my tin foil hat on
Can someone explain the value of Twitter to me? I certainly can see its value for advertisers, or even to get breaking news, but I have a Twitter account and don't use it at all.

What do you guys use it for? What's the target market for this exactly? I certainly don't expect people to follow me, some random guy on the internet, so there's no incentive for me to tweet myself. Besides news articles, what interesting things do you read from tweets?
Pareto principle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
> Can somebody explain how a constitutional challenge could be dismissed under the pretext of "it was authorized by Congress"?

The Constitutional limits on what the executive can do on its own authority are different than the Constitutional limits on what the Congress can authorize the Executive to do. So, its quite possible that "it was authorized by Congress" could be a decisive consideration in a case challenging an executive action as unconstitutional.
German Spiegel reports, that mostly European agencies and diplomats were being spied on by the NSA with the help of the German Intelligence Agency, but

"Schindler [Head of Germany intelligence agency] tries to play it down: Most european agencies and most diplomats from the EU don't communicate through unsecure emails. Connections over a Vpn would prevent the capturing of emails by the BND [German intelligence agency]"

And obviously, no terrorists would ever use a Vpn.

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bnd-kann-daten-wei...
Indeed. That is why I specifically stated on high performance cars. High performance turbo cars, for example, at WOT generally aim for 11.2-11.8 (pending tuner preference etc etc, but ballpark) AFRs.

GDI cars have the capability of going extremely lean under highway speeds to drastically increase mpg and decrease emissions. This is the beauty of GDI.
Show HN: Hunt – Android App for Product Hunt
if (nearby() == human) {dontTouch(); abort() ; }

There, i solved that. The question is under what conditions would a machine remove that instruction and how could those conditions be reached?
It's important to stress the usefulness of monthly donations, as opposed to single donations, even large ones. Monthly donations let organizations like the ACLU and the EFF plan for the future based on a reliable source of income, instead of individual donations which can be peaky.
Good for each of us now, but what of the people that were convicted on evidence found through parallel construction in the past that might not even be aware of it or able to prove it? What exactly can the courts do to help those people?
Thank you for mentioning this. Things have to get to their destination somehow, and if you replaced these ships with their equivalent carrying capacity of another form of transport you would probably get even more pollution.
Bitcoin Exchange Receives First License in New York State
“Nice Ivy League Degree. Now If You Want a Job, Go to Code School”
It is called AMP, and it happened:

http://www.portoflosangeles.org/environment/alt_maritime_pow...

There has been push back from cargo shippers, but cruise ships are using it. The port of LA has been pretty forward-looking about improving operations efficiency.
Things that aren't work
Indeed. The way I explained it to my ex-girlfriend (it ended because of my depression, though I didn't realize I'd fallen back into it at the time): In the moment I was perfectly rational, based on what I believed or "knew" to be true. But what I understood to be true wasn't, in fact, true. Or it was, but the scale was far less significant than what I perceived it to be. Which means that, to the outsider, I was clearly out of my mind (and was), but if they saw what I saw, and heard what I heard, they'd have come to the same conclusions. Goes back to this and other recent posts on things like catastrophic thinking.

OTOH, I generally make these comments when I'm in a more positive mood. That's the only time I can put words to what I experienced.
>Fine. How would you deal with the forensics people deliberately presenting DNA evidence that never existed?

Heard about the FBI and their recent DNA scandal. Our current system isn't preventing the problem already. Police already are known for falsifying evidence.

As for a legal basis, you still have the ability to sign away your rights (well some of them at least), which is how an NDA would still be legal. You can choose to enter into such a contract with the government, but with the key difference being one of choice. You don't choose it, then you don't get to be a police officer, judge, etc.

>Suddenly you turn a mostly reliable court procedure into one where literally nothing said by anyone can be trusted. Sure, eyewitness testimony can be unreliable, but there's no need to turn it into a kangaroo court.

It already is for the majority of the players too poor to pay to win.
It's not the only kind of pollution, no, but the title is both incorrect and clickbait in that it just says "pollution".

16 ships do NOT create as much pollution as all of the cars on the planet, period. They create as much of a specific type of pollution as all of the cars on the planet.
> When people are actively looking for something, telling them about relevant somethings can create value instead of destroying it. So I'm fine with Google search, but less fine with Twitter's in-stream ads.

Can you explain how twitter's in-stream ads are any different? You can apply any number of arguments that are identical to your Google one. "If I'm following News Outlet XYZ, telling me about News Outlet PQR can create value as they might have another take on this particular story". "If I'm following Pop artist M, telling me about similar Pop artists Q might be useful". You can also apply the other argument - "I know what I'm looking for just feed me the data and get out of the way" to both scenarios.

You can break the activities down to - 1) Are you 'exploring' or 2) Are you just wanting to 'go to a particular data source X'. If you're exploring, of course you're going to be more open to other inputs, and in that scenario, ads - well not ads - but recommendations, are useful.
Yes, every time I'm behind or passed by a "classic" older car with carburetors, even one that has been restored and looks like new, I'm surprised by how clearly I can smell the exhaust. By contrast modern cars emit almost no detectable smell. Hard to belive that pre-1980s all cars had exhaust odor like that, I certainly don't remember it from my childhood.
That this tone-deaf quote is the top post on an article about such a delicate subject says a lot about HN's community.
And Pholcidae are not even the creators of the stronger webs in the world. With about 200.000 different types of spider silk in the planet, is really exciting to dream about what major league players like Nephila or Caerostris could achieve with this stuff.
Me too. I did know about him through his activities. The name popped up on my radar a long time ago.

What I didn't know is he was so young. I also didn't know how many great advocacy efforts he helped to setup or founded. It's amazing! And that, I could feel, like white hot, and to be honest, got me far more politically aware.

When the Jstor event happened, I found out a lot more, and when he killed himself, I just felt loss. Profound, basic loss. And it was a hard loss, because I just began to know, and was interested in following Aaron, feeling like good things were going to happen, and then just like that, he's gone... :(

This work is really good. It communicates that aspect of Aaron to people in a meaningful way. Yes, it will be hard to watch. I found it worth it though.

I question more now. And I think about limits and norms a lot...
Except they're not really superhumanly intelligent in the sense that AGI is superhumanly intelligent.

Sure a lawyers office is probably able to to tackle more cases that a single lawyer. A big multinational with momentum probably a lot more power than a single human.

But say you put 5 Einsteins together, before he invented his theories. Do you think that his discovery process would go 5x faster? Does the team-einstein suddenly get 5x smarter?

I think not, the point here being that while corporations are super-human, they are not in the same league as true AGI. And that containment of corporations/governments is not a good place to learn about the containment of true AGI.
I would consider a name change as I first thought this was a OS X Service for password generation. As Service and Cocoa are both names heavily associated with the platform.
I recommend the book "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer (Springer-Verlag, 1990) if you want to explore the mathematical systems behind plants like this. It covers Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) in detail, of which phyllotaxis is only a part.

I happen to have a first edition, but it is these days available as a free PDF:
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf
First of all, the history re-writing of both git and mercurial do not throw any history away[1], let's be clear on that. The history re-writing allows you to commit willy-nilly as often as you want, and then allows you to clean up those commits to make them readable, useful, and presentable to your team by combining commits, reordering commits, deleting commits, etc. The freedom to commit (and have an undo-point to go back to) at any time is very liberating and anxiety reducing :-)

Using VCS's other than git and mercurial people still end up doing essentially the same thing, they are simply required to do all the cleanup outside of the VCS before they commit. Almost nobody commits every sloppy, intermediate, untested edit of their files to svn or perforce. Users of those VCS's "rewrite" and "throw away" history just the same.

Footnote:

1. They both keep the original commits around after they are replaced by "rewritten" or "edited" commits. git does eventually delete the old history with its garbage collection, but it takes a number of weeks for that to happen. Mercurial saves backup bundle files (or obsolete changesets if using the evlove plugin) indefinitely. You have to manually delete them.
I concur, with the slight modification:

s/current/any/;

Not only that, but any bill that successfully passed could, given past history by several presidents, be effectively ignored via executive order.
It isn't just depression. Look at a teenager in love. They will do something today fully defending it for being true love, but in 10 years they will lay awake at night cringing at the very same action.
That's the future I'd hope for, too (ignoring having the currently powerful become inconceivably more powerful and the havoc that could cause), and I don't feel myself qualified to properly evaluate the likelihood of each scenario.

My main disagreement is the phrasing of "create an intelligence with free will." I tend to disagree with the notion of "free will" being like this Spark of Life that is placed into a system to imbue it with a new nature. A system doesn't need to have free will to be dangerous. There could be AI systems that are built not to be independent in determining goals (which would, as you say, be less practical to humans), but to be very good at figuring out how to achieve the goal its creators gave it. Even the simplest systems we have now involve determining sub-goals to achieve in order to achieve the main goal.

The problem arises when it turns out that the creators of a system gave it, just slightly, the wrong goal.
That's not true. SELinux is something developed by the NSA (well, one of their contractors) and it has undergone intense scrutiny. Yet, it's an important part of Android.
Because assembly is safer than C? Did you read the article?
I agree that a mobile-only interface is just not enough when you're dealing with something as intricate as investing. They've tried to abstract away the many layers of paperwork from investing/trading, but it leads to things like the problems you've had.

I tried Robinhood for a few days and started to feel that it was turning investing, something that should require significant forethought and research, into a bit of a toy. The fact that it specifically targets a younger millennial audience who most likely have no experience investing makes me a little uneasy.

That's not to say the app isn't well designed and good-looking, but that a mobile-only app just might not be the best medium for investors.
Nvidia GTX 980. The sad part? I honestly don't run anything that requires the GPU horsepower that often. But OH. MY. GOD. it renders that console sooooo hard!

All kidding aside, I've also been an 'Nvidia guy' for years due to their Linux Drivers. I know ATI does pretty well nowadays and I've owned exactly 1 of their high end GPU's (cashed in when the bitcoin frenzy crashed a few years ago and all these cheap GPU's were coming on the market).

It was a fine card, but all things being equal, I tend to stick with Nvidia unless there's a strong reason not to (like a super cheap upgrade, LOL!)

edit:

And it's kind of weird the bias' you get as you age. I will never own an MSI motherboard. I would rather compute on an old 6502 processor than deal with them again (I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea). I've had so many people tell me MSI does perfectly fine, but I've had 2 boards and trouble with both. Asus/Gigabyte or bust. I know it's silly and I don't even care :)
> Thank you Snowden. Fuck you NSA.

I'm going to turn that into a sticker and stick it on my laptop.
Appeals court rules NSA bulk metadata collection violates 4th amendment [pdf]
1.56MW to run the projectors; 1,560,000W

"Presently, Hoover Dam can produce over 2,000 megawatts of capacity and a yearly average generation of 4.5 billion kilowatt hours"

2,000,000,000W capacity, but if the annual production is 4,500,000,000,000W then it's far short of the 17,520,000,000,000W max if it produced at peak for 365 days.

So really, the Hoover Dam averages 513,698,630W (arbitrary precision).

1,560,000W / 513,698,630W = 0.3% of the Hoover Dam typical production to power the projectors.

Well, that answers that question.

http://www.powerauthority.org/hoover-dam/
I'm using dvtm, after trying screen and tmux in the past. No particular reason other than it's Xmonad-like layout switching.

It's crashed once, in a few months of usage. Make of that what you will.
I didn't realize that. He was accessing student services allocated to him under his enrollment with the university. I won't try to litigate the case here. I see why it might be complicated by that fact.

I want to know who called in the secret service/electronic crimes division here? MIT (who's only concern was trespass) or JSTOR who might be able to enforce contract terms on MIT or a EULA on Aaron at best?
I don't even bother with the Twitter website anymore, I only check twitter on my phone.
Does anyone else wish tmux were modal like vim, ie. without a "leader" key? My conf file has a ton of custom key bindings for window / pane management, and I'd love for them to go away or become simplified by simply dropping into a "window management mode". Likewise, I'd like the command mode to stay open until I close it. I have some scripted hacks to do this, but it's nowhere near what I'd expect from true modality.

One of these days I guess I could get around to writing a patch. This single feature is probably my most wanted for any software at the moment.
Economists: H-1B visas suppress wages
"Some conceptual problems not yet solved, e.g. destructors for state monads"

I'm not sure what you're talking about here - could you elaborate?

My best guess would be that by "state monads" you mean streaming libraries like pipes and conduit, where there have indeed been some interesting questions around finalization. Calling these "state monads" is surprising enough that I seek clarification, however. Regarding those libraries, I don't know the current status of that discussion (which mostly took place a couple years back) but I do know the libraries themselves are quite useful.