skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the joke at the end where he correctly pointed out that Windows' logging is a total joke, and that discovering information from Windows logs is essentially impossible unless the tool writer specifically predicted your use case.

And that's the nub of it: text logs are for when you may have many varied, complex reader use-cases, and you don't understand all those cases well enough yet to lock them down forever, and you have a thousand excellent tools at your disposal that you would like to be able to continue to use.

Recent log spelunking for me included 'cat log.? | grep fail | sed 's/^.worker_id$//g' | awk '{ print $5, $4 }' | sort -n -r | sed 30q'.

There's no analogue in any binary logging system I've ever found.
I agree with you completely, I wrote this almost a year ago: http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/

Twitter really is what you make it. A self-curated news/information source. That being said, Twitter just needs to make that user experience as easy as possible - during the on-boarding process.

It could be as simple as figuring out your actual interests and recommending lists.

Instead, Twitter asks me to follow Taylor Swift. They also do some geolocation stuff - asking me to follow the City of Colorado Springs. That is slightly better.

But, what if, the "quickstart" prompted me to enter my interests? I would just type "#coding" - and @DHH, Carmack, and some others came up available as a list of Code Giants? I would be ensnared, instantly.
Switching between shaders is orders of magnitudes cheaper than spinning up and spinning down a process.
what was this article even about? I guess I'm not cool enough these days to even know what the cool kid apps are up to. Who are these guys?
There is a significant difference between the collaboration of surveillance of fax and telephone on one side and the internet on the other side. In the former case, specific justification was and is needed for each selector. In the latter, case that was not the case.
tweaking those features to something that makes sense would be the job of twitter's leadership. and if making money wasn't tricky, well, anyone could do it, no? :)
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Wow thanks for sharing.. this is really is beautiful!
Maybe because Tmux 2.0 has some breaking changes??
> The more likely situation would be that the logs are stored on a shared storage server, and the machine you are using to look at the logs doesn't have the logging system installed.

So expose the shared storage to a system running any current mainstream Linux distribution. I understand what you're saying, but this still doesn't seems like a huge concern.
I stopped blogging because my skin isn't thick enough. I wrote a post a few times, and several people complemented it each time. But then a few very angry people shredded my ideas to pieces. Emotionally it really bummed me out, so I deleted it.
Did you try googling, from a quick glance it looks like results 4-6 are relevant.
No suffering involved... Because killing is okay as long as you don't make your victim suffer.
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>Now we are scared of something we haven't even created

I don't see the contradiction or strangeness in that. That's the whole idea behind "caution" -- to be wary of the potential outcome BEFORE it happens.

>How could the "interests" of a machine conflict with ours? I mean, they work with electricity, and we are hardly good sources for it

For one we are quite good consumers it. How about they get rid of us, so they have all the electricity production by themselves?

Second, as creators we'd want to boss them around (have them be "useful to us"). Why would they tolerate that?

Third, why risk us creating a potential competitor to them (another AI) rather than get rid of us?

Fourth, why not use us as cheap labor?

Fifth, as advanced AI, it could develop actual feelings, including sadism, greed, etc.
I've been writing a blog locally that I haven't published since I don't feel I have an article that's really polished yet - but my plan was to publish in the blog format and also do a good job of categorizing my articles and indexing them, sort of like this: http://www.gwern.net/index
Pretty sure they are going to keep doing it anyway.
In what sense could gauss be considered a loner. He corresponded and collaborated extensively.
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In those cases you are correct, but what if you're building a cloud based SAAS that lets users manipulate photos, then save the result? This stuff has a lot of uses.
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I agree, what a terrible and childish thing for Atwood to write. Whenever he's strayed from restating others' programming aphorisms, I've found that I feel less for having read his essays.
But it's push left leaning voters to NDP. This cuts into the Liberals base something fierce, so unless Trudeau is trying to split the conservative vote (which seems insane) then they've severely stumbled.

They said they'd back it with modifications, no modifications were made, and they voted Yes anyways. What message he was trying to send to voters backing down so easily?
It makes me sad to see a respectable piece of open source software hosted on this site with its intrusive advertising practices such as ads with fake "install" buttons on the download page.

What is the advantage of using Sourceforge these days when github and bitbucket are free for open source?
Yes to that.
Internet of things won't make any less data either :)
Ships are not usually found in the middle of cities.
The biggest advantage of tmux over screen is its ability to automatically resize based on the smaller terminal connected to it. I know there are a lot other advantages, but this in itself was a game changer for me.
I may be an atypical and less social (more asocial?) than others. Or maybe I'm old and impatient. Or all the above.

Making me fill out, really anything, before I can drive the app around at all is a sure way to make me "nope" right out of there. Now, I understand that you said "don't have to", but a big screen of form(s) is an intimidating clue that you will want more from me than I suspect I am willing to give. I don't even know who you are yet.

Incrementally adding information during the use of the application to make operation/data/context more relevant or useful is fine. Not filling out a list of interests, for gods sake. And not 20 things, mind.

YMMV.
I feel the same way, even if its just one comment out of 20. That one comment can really get to you, and it lowers the mood to a generally negative level. I have a lot of respect for people can blog about "new" ideas on a regular basis. It takes a lot of persistence.
This is why I think per-site security settings in the browser are a good thing. Regardless of whether it's in an iframe or not, if I haven't allowed some site to run scripts/use cookies/etc., it won't.
There is no people. No dreams, no hope, no love. It's just cells.
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Sheryl Sandberg’s husband David Goldberg ’had a heart arrhythmia’
I don't see why you couldn't do a red-light camera sort-of thing. Spot emissions testers at ground level along with a photo of the offending license plate.
The machine does not hate you, nor does it loves you. But you are made of atoms, that it could use for something else.

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If you create an AI with a genuine utility function. And that AI manage to be gazillion smarter than you are (think the difference between us and chimps, only much greater). Then it is likely the AI will (i) convince you to unleash it upon the internet, (ii) become even more powerful and totally unstoppable, then (iii) accomplish whatever it was programmed to accomplished.

If the goal is to keep humans safe and happy, it might imprison everyone in playgrounds, and drug or lobotomise any unhappy people, or restraint any suicidal people. Or, if you specified "happiness" with pictures of smiling people, it might resort to facial reconstruction, or it might just tile the solar system with molecular smileys, because that maximises the "make people smile" goal much better than actually making people happy. And while we're at it, happiness isn't the only thing we care about…

If the goal is to answer some difficult math question, it could tile the planet with computer, destroying the ecosystem and all humans in it, so it can compute the answer, and display it on a screen, for nobody to see it. Or maybe you programmed it to tile the universe with paperclips, because that goal is easy to debug. Oops.

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As long as we're limiting ourselves to narrow AI (ordinary programs, really), we should be okay, and most of the consequences should be manageable. But as soon as we get to genuine AGI, we must worry about intelligence explosion and value alignment, so we can avoid creating a god that want something we don't.
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While I don't disagree that it is a strong political move, and an appropriate one, I have seen no proof that any of the NSA's operations have made the USA materially safer.
Sorry, yeah, it's obvious to you and me. That's part of the problem, of course. Why do they take money for actual spam? They're dragging both Apple's and their own brand in the dirt.
> In the words of 4th amendment jurisprudence, we don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in items we voluntarily disclose to third parties.

I would hope that thinking on this evolves, to the point that we have a reasonable expectation that information we've voluntarily disclosed to a third party stays between us and that third party. Because that is exactly my personal expectation, notwithstanding my other expectation that it will be violated.
> If they make you feel good, or convince you that they are doing good work then should they get more business? Is that rational? What if they are lying or exaggerating?

It is certainly more rational to believe a company should get more business if they can convince you that they're doing good work or better work than others. In order to protect customers from lying or exaggerations, there are (ideally) laws in place that should give you the right to return whatever it is that you bought. The whole discussion loses its purpose if we include fraud or otherwise illegal tactics.

> How about morality? How about if a charity uses these tactics in their fund raising?

That's a tricky question. I think you could reframe it into: Is it morally justifiable to do bad things in order to ultimately achieve a greater good? Morally, the answer is no since the morality of a society are a set of rules that determine what can be done and can't be done (instances of these rules can be found in the law). So, if something can't be done morally (e.g. child labour), you simply can't do it, whatever the context might be.

On the other hand, pricing tactics are not illegal and there's probably not enough consensus to derive morality from it. However, ethically, from my personal viewpoint, I would argue that it amounts to manipulation and therefore deceits people. Thus, I can not endorse charities that use manipulation, no matter the context. After all, if you want to do something good for people, why would you try to manipulate the ones trying to help you?
And 99% of those 25% are probably in the developing world, and the ex-USSR.

I've been all over the planet, and I have yet to see trucks which emit thick black smoke straight from the engine (no exhaust system) like the ones Russia and other ex soviet states are absolutely chock full of.

Edit: Also, only place on earth I've ever seen a petrol pump with the choices of 60, 80, or 85 octane fuel. Pinkpinkpinkpinkpink.
It varies by region. The other commenters in this thread seem to be from Ontario. In Victoria, where I'm from, your car does not have to meet any kind of standards at all unless it is involved in a collision, in which case an insurance inspector will tell you what needs to be done (if it's an old car they usually tell you to scrap it), or a cop tells you to get it inspected (this is called a Vehicle Inspection ticket). Otherwise, it's sailing rules - anything that isn't expressly forbidden is allowed.

Across the water in Vancouver you do have to pass an emissions test.
Say you want to attach to session 0 (use `tmux list-sessions` to see available sessions).

A trick I've found is not attaching to that session, but starting a new session sharing all underlying windows. The model in tmux is [session]->[windows]->[panes], but something I did not realize until recently is that [session] can be multiple.

So rather than `tmux attach -t 0` use `tmux new-session -t 0`, allowing you to interact with the same windows without disturbing the other session.
That tweet is too compressed to be googled effectively. The difficulty in internet searching is finding how to describe the problem effectively. Just yesterday I was doing research on algorithms for a graph traversal problem. Since my knowledge on graph theory is pretty low, googling was more of a hierarchy. First I had to google the words I needed to know before I could search effectively for a solution.
How about similar sentiments from a publication antithetical to the Daily Mail? The Guardian reported several years ago about how 'one giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars': http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-... - though that isn't focusing on CO2 necessarily, but earlier Guardian articles talk about how shipping emits twice as much CO2 as aviation, etc.
Hmm, now I am confused. I thought you were giving your identity, that's why I liked it
All I see after clicking download is a direct link to the file, which is in fact just a .tar.gz.
How does that work out on a per ton/mile kind of equation though? My guess would be that the big ships produce less emissions than say a tractor trailer on a per TEU basis.
if this challenge was meant to be taken seriously

If the roadmap contained a clear vision for manned missions to Mars followed by permanent colonization, they wouldn't even be bothering with public input.

It's a PR stunt, with prizes that fit into a PR budget. Note that the announcement says nothing about NASA doing anything with the winning submissions.

NASA has done -- and continues to do -- great things with robotic exploration of Mars. But they are hamstrung by politicians: both the ones that hold offices in their organization and the ones on Capitol Hill who hold the purse-strings.

The NASA of today doesn't do things today because they are easy, but because they will look cool and funnel money to the right states and congressional districts. Full stop.
Not having to move is a major plus.
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Are you sure you don't have any ad blocker installed?
Well, I would (should) change the database class and router to be DI, but as for the other (few) singletons, they aren't used that much and are only sprinkled in places. I prefer the cleaner look with lazy-loading, just my opinion...
Gmail allows you to setup an alias to send mail out from a different from address. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Reporting them is more difficult. If it's a known/legit company that is sending the spam like Target or Sears for example, usually you can forward the message with headers to abuse@domain.com. You can also look in the headers for a complaint address.

Next you can look for who the provider is that the domain is using and send the complaint to them.

If its a fly by night spammer, there isn't too much you can do.
That's worth remembering with a car as crappy as mine....
>It's ignorant of the entire literature on superintelligence because it assumes that superintelligences will behave like cooperating humans.

That's at best a peripheral detail to the parallel the parent tries to draw.

Real AI might as well behave in any odd way -- the real point is that something like "more powerful than human intelligence" already exists, in the form of these aggregate entities.
IANAL however my lawyer wrote up a very nice standard contract for me, and you should have your lawyer do the same. Mine basically states that I use open source libraries and code and that those libraries and code are licensed under the appropriate licenses and are governed under the appropriate laws for the countries and jurisdictions in which the software is being held or used. All code specific to the client, that does not fall under an open source license as provided previously, is owned by the client in full including the right to resell, modify, change, or destroy. As soon as the code is written, it belongs to the client. There are a number of other statements, but again you should get a lawyer to draft you a standard one real quick.

The question often comes up among my colleagues about the statement that says basically the client owns the code immediately. "What if they don't pay?!", they say. Well, ownership is 9/10 of the law... and if the client owns the code but doesn't pay it is much easier to legally pursue payment.
How to organize your files on your Meteor projects
It does. FF 36 on CentOS 6.6.
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he was a fuckin pussy who got caught doing something illegal then got all emo about it and killed himself. who the fuck cares about this faggot? seriously.
No, I do not think Java's crypto library is as well regarded as Golang's. For example, didn't Java SSL recently manage to reincarnate the Bleichenbacher padding oracle?
Withdraw to your bank account?
I would say any intelligent entity must be unpredictable to actually be considered intelligent.

Any person on the street could kill me for no reason whatsoever. But I don't live my life like that is a possibility.

I also don't think about future superintelligences in that way either. I don't worry that they will be holocaust machines teetering on the brink of genocide.
Why you should use curl and firebug to scrape
I'm looking forward to the combination of Tmux and Neovim. Both (will) support detached/shared sessions, both are scriptable/configurable, both can be driven by a remote process. I believe with Tmux and Neovim you could put together anything from a simple test/editing environment to a full-blown IDE.
Our odometers are in miles though - so it's not completely mindbogglingly stupid.

In the end realistically almost no one uses these numbers for range, what they do is compare car A to car B and know that higher is better. The figures from the manufacturer are meaningless and anything with an on board computer telling you your mpg can just as easily tell you range on remaining fuel.
It would have been around 6 months if he would have taken the plea deal. If he didn't it still would not have been anything close to 38 years.
A rails blog doesn't seem like a great soapbox to stand on here.
Exactly right. And the fact that such tin-hat conversations are at all credible (reality or not) today is an indication that someone has fucked up, very badly and very existentially.

We just can't take seriously any statement made by spies, whether they're false or true. Even statements that are provably true have a good chance at being in front of a bad motive. They game others as their day job, after all.
Just send it to a different session then switch back when you're ready.
Thanks, now mines out there I might clean it up. It was just sitting there and I figured, why not show someone and get some feedback...
It seems to me that a simple transitional tool for a binary logging system would be for the implementer of the binary logging system to also include a tool that consumed a binary log file on stdin and produced a stream on stdout in one (or more, selecting which by command line arguments) common text log formats.

That lets you develop an ecosystem of supporting tools that take advantage of any strengths of the binary format, while still allowing the freedom of using the (initially, at least, probably far more capable) set of tools available for the text formats.
Now what would be really cool is the ability to define a filter function in JS callable from the CSS. Of course one can do that with canvas.
NASA gives more information on its experiment aboard the X-37B
I honestly can't tell if you are being sarcastic because there are enough people who hold a similar view to this, at least in certain cases.
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Do you have a source for this?

For US listed stocks there is no fee throughout the entire transaction (deposit, buy, sell, withdraw): https://brokerage-static.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/robinhood/l...

Robinhood has stated for a while that they have a margin feature they plan to charge for: https://robinhoodapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202853769...
Scrapping a program beause it is suceeding (per its own metrics) but not finished yet, is insane.
tmux is an OpenBSD-influenced project. Those projects' version numbers often progress from N.9 to N+1.0 without having any special significance.
For those who are just getting started with tmux: I advise looking around others' .tmux.conf files for some sensible settings. Like Vim, Tmux ships with a lot of powerful features disabled by default.

My absolute favorite has to be binding a hotkey to opening URLs in the current window [0]. See [1] for a small demo I just recorded.

To get started, here's my current config: [1]

[0]: https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/blob/master/.tmux.conf#L12...

[1]: http://recordit.co/vdxy09GpYG

[2]: https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/blob/master/.tmux.conf
They took measurements in Toronto
i dont understand how that thing will develop intention. We perceive ourselves having it, but its really an accident that we do; if we didnt we wouldnt be here to observe it. Why would an artificial machine, no matter how smart , want to do anything?
>their intelligence is usually not the identifying characteristic

Intelligence in this context in the sense of a means to perpetuate their existance and get more power, not as some moral characteristic. Besides they can employ tons of Nobel prize winners (e.g. Feynman and co in the Manhatan project), and build crazily-smart stuff (for their purposes).
Is this a feature in 2.0? It doesn't seem to work for me - I still see a large part of my terminal window filled with the dots, since the other session's terminal window is much smaller.
The USA is BIG. Foreigners who come here often have little idea what an unfathomably huge place the USA is. And unlike say, Russia or Canada which are even bigger geographically, virtually all of that territory is navigable by car throughout much of the year.

In the USA, therefore, it was historically pretty likely that grandma and grandpa lived far away, say, back at the farm while mom and dad moved into the big city or the suburbs to get jobs and raise a family. So in America there was a much bigger market for grand tourers -- cars designed to go long distances and be fun to drive. Early consumer automobiles were promoted as such -- "See the USA in your Chevrolet" and the like. Now you know why American cars are reputedly so big and ugly: in Europe GTs are rich boy toys whereas in America they had to appeal to middle-class sensibilities which meant things like big engines and rocket fins on the rear and such.

So in this environment, it made much more sense to market a fuel-economical car not with statements like "you can use less fuel and save money over your trips to the market and to work" -- oil was cheap at least until the 1970s -- but with statements like "you can go this much further on a single tank of gas". Hence the metric of miles per gallon, rather than litres per 100km or gallons per 100 miles -- which is still in use today.
I'm Canadian and buy litres of gas, but I still check the mileage in mpg. It's just because I have an instinctive idea of how many mpg I should get, whereas I have no instinct for l/100km. I know 35mpg is decent and 50mpg is exceptional, and 10mpg is unacceptable. What does 10L per 100km mean? I have no idea.
I love the technical execution, but it's still tacky. They've created a very large billboard. Nice job?