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Ask HN: What Was the Takeaway from the Sony Hack and the Movie “The Interview”?
It ended up getting released for free... What did the profits look like?

Did we end up knowing exactly who was responsible from the hack?

Is there a takeaway?
That doesn't require root though, just enable fake locations in dev settings and use an app for it
This only works for blatantly terrible articles. There is a lot of gaming of ok or mediocre startup announcements. I have personally seen it being done (and even participated!) to great effect. It's called bugging your friends for up votes.
The author of this article posted a follow-up a few days later, and more or less acknowledged that he should have done a bit more vetting of this "research" before going to press. The follow-up worth the read: http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/07/4-key-problems-with-m...
In the US, the overwhelming majority of long trips have a lot better supercharger coverage than this particular one.
> then why wouldn't natural selection have created many examples of it by now, after some billion years of multicellular life? Yet it hasn't.

It has, all animals display intelligence; I think you need to update your definition of the word, you're using it as if only humans have it and we haven't believed that in a very long time.
Weren't you the one advocating flagging of surveillance-related news articles?
Would proguard be able to prevent (or at least make much more difficult) this kind of reverse engineering?
MIT OCW's class Intro to Programming using Python will teach you general programming concepts that are common to many languages. You will start with basic things like iterators and work through some algorithms and the basics of object-oriented programming. It is an awesome mix of challenging and a lot of fun.

There are two versions but I think they are largely the same, just organized differently. I took the earlier one:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Feel free to e-mail me (address in the profile) if you have questions about this particularly.
The bits here that are particularly interesting to me are the Steam refunds data (given how controversial that topic has been) and the accuracy of SteamSpy. It is amazing that Valve hasn't shut down SteamSpy, but it is good to know that the numbers do in fact appear to track reality pretty closely.

It's also a pretty cool contrast between the early stats for this game (part 4). I remember reading that post when it came out two years ago, and being amazed that the author was so happy and optimistic at the pretty miniscule Looks like sticking to the project rather than giving up worked out well!
what is a good dalvic decompiler at the moment? are you using smali/baksmali for re-compilation?
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Not as exciting as thinking that China's going through a massive stock market crash.

This is actually the first mainstream coverage I've seen of the last 2 trading sessions.
I'm a huge Tesla fan but I have to admit that the Tesla doesn't seem great for such a road trip. 15 hours instead of 9 is a big deal. Of course most Tesla owners keep a gasoline car too. So everyone already knew that.
No, this is pretty easy in c. i think the python docs even apologise for it somewhere.
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I do the same, with the exception of docker-compose. What I have found to work for me is running mysql/memcached on the vagrant box and running docker with --net=host (in development). I deploy to Elastic Beanstalk with RDS and Elasticache though which contributes to my reluctance to completely set up multi-container configurations in docker-compose. My experience there has not been so smooth, would love to hear more about how people are doing that.
Nothing surprising here. People don't buy Teslas because they want the same thing as those who buy an expensive gas-powered luxury car. They buy them because they want to be early adopters of cool new stuff. If I bought one I would not expect the ease of road tripping afforded by gas -- at least not today and not for a while -- and thus would not be disappointed for not getting what I never expected to get.

The review seemed gratuitously negative. Fact is that almost everyone in the traditional car industry wants Tesla to fail. I know some folks "back home" who are into cars, and when they talk about electrics it's like mockery mixed with a tinge of dread.

If you're a CS/software person, imagine if a new computer came out that is far superior to existing computers but has almost nothing in common. The way you program it is alien to anything you're accustomed to. That's the situation car people will find themselves in if things go electric... not to mention the waves upon waves upon waves of bankruptcies as entire swaths of the economy find themselves obsolete. Electric vehicles are armageddon to what probably accounts for a double-digit fraction of our economy.
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Somebody seems to have found a way to constantly broadcast system messages and is flooding chat.

I really like how simple it is. I do like how it works similar to Mozilla Hello. Just give somebody a link, and they can join.

Also, I'm getting a cert error. Identity cannot be verified.
I've yet to see an existence proof that a machine can do that

So you'll consider it impossible up to the point when such a machine exists?
What do you mean by embedding is missing inline commenting? What's inline commenting?
The author discusses concepts around intelligence without articulating what definition of intelligence he is adopting. When he discusses the innovation in understanding planetary motion, or chemical substances, it represents examples of where scientists could place observed data amongst a common frame of reference (ie, a meaningful definition to contextualizes observation leads the way to a theory which explains the data).

A more meaningful direction for article, imo, would have been to adopt a concrete definition of intelligence, and then talk about how ferrets, chimps, babies and adults fall on this continuum. Perhaps, connectomics, molecular biology, psychology or neuro-anatomy help us approximate the 'atomic number', giving us the opportunity to speculate about the underlying equivalent of quantum mechanics.

Like the article states, evidence is lacking, and we're somewhere between 1-100 nobel prizes away. But, the power of a concrete definition helps point to what we know we don't know, and discussion about whether the definition of intelligence itself needs to be re-framed to answer a question like this.
I guess all scientific progress has been by coincidence then? That's what I mean by disingenuous; some credit has to be given to those that are right. There are an infinite number of wrong intuitions.
At this point, I too am trying to find "it will 'just click'" moment for docker, though I have only been looking at the two for a few days only.
1 - The fact that you were bored does not mean the place was boring. Your ability to make this distinction reflects A LOT on your ability to perform critical thinking and objective evaluations, both of which are part of most technical jobs.

2 - If you chose multiple jobs and were bored in all of them, the problem start to look like it's in you, not in the jobs. Therefore, it's a problem you will bring into your next job, and few companies want that.

When explain that I left my job at a bank after 3.5yrs to go back into videogames dev, nobody bats an eyelid if I say I was bored. Even so, I do not say it, because the important bit is where I wanted to go to, not where I wanted to get out of.
Computation is a lens
Could be they rejected 4000+ other spams and phishings?
Show HN: Escher – build visualizations of biological pathways
"Because if we can make your photos smaller...we can make your cancer smaller!"
I once met David Chalmers when he was teaching a philosophy course at NYU. And I asked him after the class ... What can you say about consciousness in the "hard probem of consciousness"? I am having trouble making any statements about it which are objective.

I have begun to suspect that our concepts of consciousness and morality are the result of our language and the way we have defined them. With morality is has become clear to me that personal duties are relative to personal goals. That is, "X should do Y" is incoherent, it really implies "X should do Y if X wants Z to happen" which is what the colloquial understanding is. Always being careful to mention Z removes any feeling of mysticism from morality!!

Perhaps with statements about consciousness, the situation is similar. I couldn't really formulate any sort of mystical question once I was carefully adding the SUBJECT of each sentence explicitly in.

The main question I have about consciousness is not about the processing - that can be explained mechanistically. But about the final result of perceiving this orchestra - why am I in my brain and not anyone else's? What is this extra element that is required for the conscious experience and can we ever be sure a machine we built is really subjectively perceiving anything in that metaphysical sense?

Thoughts?
Not entirely true. Synfuels, including direct analogs of petrol and diesel, can be created from electricity and seawater. The fuel is carbon neutral, though somewhat more expensive than present fuels. US Naval Research Lab estimates are about $6/gallon.

You retain energy density and storage stability of liquid hydrocarbons.
I was just wondering how many logic gates it takes to get to certain milestones. Is there a table somewhere saying feature vs. logic gate count? You seem knowledgeable, and the last FPGA I played with was a cyclone II.
> Please do keep in mind that this is an international forum, and the people you talk to mind come from wildly dissimilar societies than you.

It may be, but largely the people here are from the United States. The international audience is by far a minority. Beyond that sexism and racism run rampant throughout the entire world, that you might be from a place you don't think it's very evident doesn't negate that reality.

> instead women were often the stronger people who more commonly fed the family

That's still sexist, just against men. Sexism doesn't mean putting down women. Not treating the sexes equally is sexist.
Those stages are quite interesting. I suppose the United States is somewhere between Intellect and Decadence? Commerce being the turn of the last century (Industrial revolution) and Affluence being post-WWII.
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It's a git repo and it's GPL so I might move it over to GitHub when I get a chance.
AIXI solves a useful class of problems, but definitely does not solve all problems [1].

The main class of problems it fails to solve are ones where it has to model itself as an agent in the world.

For example, AIXI is a bit accidentally-suicidal. Its world models have no term for "I am here"; e.g. it will fail to realize that disconnecting the power to save money would stop the inference process instead of informing it. It needs many many examples of dying in order to learn to avoid it, but you only get one chance. (Evolution worked around this problem by making copies, and preferentially keeping copies that were less accidentally suicidal.)

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg1/solomonoff_cartesianism/
I enjoy the planetary motion analogy immensely. However, a curious complexity is evident in biological systems - it's physics imbued with 'meaning'. A cell that behaves one way instead of another will die. This is true from e. coli up to skin cells. I suspect this adds a lot of complexity to the ultimate 'algorithm' of intelligence.

In fact, it's probably prudent to stipulate whether the goal is to specify the developmental algorithm that gives rise to intelligence, or intelligence itself. The generating process might be a lot more simple than the finished product, in the same way that the output of a pseudorandom number generator is very complex in terms of entropy (but not kolmogorov complexity, I guess), but the generating algorithm is very simple. Or the Rado graph, which is sorta maximally complex in the sense that it contains all finite and countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, yet it has a simple generating scheme. As a last example, consider No Man's Sky - relatively simple algorithm compared to the astonishing complexity of the worlds.

I do believe there is a relatively simple high-level description of neural development. But it's curious how it's relatively robust to genetic manipulations. I remember early in graduate school listening to a lecture about a particular mouse model for autism, caused by just one gene. The lecturer excitedly told us that it had a very high rate of behavioral manipulation - 75% or so. Not coming from a mouse-model background I was astonished that it was 'only' 75%. What happens in the other 25% - the gene doesn't just magically reappear, there are other compensatory mechanisms. What drives those? I suspect that's the more abstract level of description that a simple algorithm might describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rado_graph
On the 'comparison' pages, the Equality Index score is listed as a horizontal bar chart, which makes at-a-glance comparison impossible. If you need to keep it as a bar, please consider making them vertical, so you can easily compare visually. Currently, I'm only able to compare that score based on color, so places with the same color aren't comparable on that metric. Personally, I'd prefer if you just put your number there.

Of course, I can just keep using right click -> Inspect Element :)
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Doesn't seem right - morality is often intuitive or blind. Else why did Socrates say "The unexamined life is not worth living?" Why, because most (almost all) people don't think about Z.
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> You have an app that doesn't need to perform actions in sub 10-milliseconds. 11 milliseconds is just fine.

Why? This is cumulative, across everything in your app. Why are you spending the user's resources on yourself?

> You don't require access to a whole host of system processes, but maybe access to the file system, or the clipboard, would be a big help to your users.

Native integration is a lot more than access to the clipboard and file system. Drag and drop. Editing key shortcuts. Consistent components.

> Your users are not super technical and won't even know what a hybrid app or native app means.

You don't need to be a professional chef to tell the difference between home baked cookies and chips-a-hoy, and you don't need to be highly technical to know that an "hybrid" application doesn't work as well as any of your other well-written apps.

> You want to get your app to market on multiple platforms in days/weeks, not months, and without spending a ton of money.

Blah. So we'll ship things that suck because it's a better product for us, the person making it? What if shipping genuinely good applications is actually integral to your success?

Remember: MVP is all about reducing the risk to VCs by decreasing the costs to get a product to market, by increasing the risk of a "false negative" market failure due to your shipping a poor product.

If you're that false negative, MVP hasn't done you any good.
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Glad to see the effort getting attention in any regard. Thanks to you and the whole team for working so hard on all of this. Keep up the good work.
Did you use separate docker container for each of the stacks? From what I can gather, the docker way is to reduce each complexity to a separate container solution.

And, I agree that docker way of doing things is a bit tricky at first, since we are not used to doing things that way
I'm not so sure this is actually the case. If you look at the supercharger map:

http://www.teslamotors.com/findus#/bounds/49.38,-66.94,25.82...

you'll notice major corridors like I-64 from Lexington to St. Louis have no intermediate chargers, and from St. Louis to Kansas City on I-70 is similarly devoid. It would look like if you don't live on the north east coast or out in California, you'd be in real trouble. The chargers probably don't have to have the same ubiquity as gas stations, but having 400-500 miles of _interstate_ (god forbid you need to go somewhere like Ithaca, NY where no interstates run) without any way to refuel the vehicle still would certainly make me nervous driving it cross country.
I suspect that a valuable application of deep learning will be learning how legacy UIs operate by watching real users, and implement an easier to learn / nice UI / mobile interface on top of the legacy app. Probably with a human UI designer stitching it all together. It might even learn a voice interface by observing call center operators.

Could be easier, less risky, and more urgent than learning to recode the whole system.
I meant a electronic computer, but well put.

> In short, you can reduce a subset of the human experience to algorithmic emulation, which, in effect, reduces a human to a computer.

You're underestimating everything associated with being human. The computer won't make mistakes because a familiar is sick. He won't perform slower than usual because he slept less. He won't have a urge to poop affecting is performance, also. This is somewhat what I meant: these thought experiments are interesting, but if you look closer there's really not much to them. Human computers were, of course, computing. They didn't, however, became "not human".
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I lasted about 1.5 years each at my first 3 jobs, then I moved to a company I've been at for 4 years. No one questioned anything at any job about past employment lengths. I'm starting to think I should have moved on long ago.

> I had long term plans but found out the IT department is just kind of support and even to make simple changes decisions take weeks. On top of that I got an offer to be first in house employee of a company where I am expected to do everything now and manage as company grows.

No one would want that kind of job, changes taking weeks. They should have made that clear, that they basically do all maintenance. The new job offer sounds more challenging and full of opportunities. Staying at your current job sounds like a really bad idea.

Just be aware and look for more opportunities to do interesting projects at your new place.
Interesting. I haven't looked into it much because I like the concept of having a completely separate system virtualized for the sake of being as similar to the production environment as possible (Ubuntu), and I typically have been coding on Arch.

If what you say is true, Docker would be a great way to do development through SSH on a VPS with minimal RAM and resources. I'll definitely take a look at it.
I believe his point is, such a process wouldn't ever be feasible if we can't "create" awareness. You'd have a sack of meat that would not interact. Or if it would, it'd be a vegetable capable of computation but little else (that's my random assumption).

If you forget your fear of "soul" and other terms not ratified by science journals, you'll find out there are plenty of theories in metaphysics and spirituality on what it means to be and what awareness is. It requires you to at the very least read those philosophical/theological concepts instead of dismissing it as "woo". Cattle dwellers in India wrote many things about it eons ago. Joseph Campbell's work is a nice place to start.
Talk about fear-mongering... that could happen anywhere!
No, scientific progress comes from empirically chasing down and disproving false intuitions so that only the few true ones remain. Intuition creates hypothesis, empiricism makes them useful since nearly all intuitions are wrong. It's the empiricists that deserve the credit, they are why science works and of course are generally the ones with the intuitions that are correct as well.

And you can't say vitalists were right, they've made no predictions: calling something magic woo woo isn't a hypothesis that can be proven right.
Point is well argued and carries a lot of weight. It's uncomfortable reading.

As a white person coming from the UK to the US, I noticed a stark contrast in black participation in society between the two countries. While not claiming Britain is perfect, my metropolitan southern experience included a lot of black people on an equal or senior footing on various axes of professional, financial, social, etc. That experience simply didn't carry across to the major east coast city I moved to. It is unusual for me to interact with black people at client meetings, in my middle class neighborhood, when I need professional advice from a doctor or a lawyer, really anywhere other than public transport or as a customer of a service function.

While I can't discount that my ignorance of any racial tension around non white people in England was a simple function of youthful naivety, I'm absolutely more aware of 'difference' now I live in the US and I'm a lot less comfortable as a result.

In short, it's obvious to me on a superficial level that the black experience in the USA is pretty bad, but this article is a deeper look at something that's quite hard to confront.
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> Of course the Model S can be road-tripped. Whether it can be accomplished with the sort of ease we assume buyers of a $140,000 luxury sedan expect, well, that depends on your planning.

On the other hand he paid $0 for energy, which would be very different had he brought along a comparable gasoline-powered car (Audi RS6?).

In my experience taking long road trips in expensive cars is a fools errand, electric or not. Expensive cars are either fast, heavy, or both, and get horrible milage. Sure, an Audi RS6 would have had fewer stops which also would have been quicker, but you'd be there in the same amount of time at a quarter of the cost in a Miata, which would have been a lot of fun at the race track, too.
I thought he already said that? I kid! They've banned everything else in Canada, so it's no surprise that they've outlawed firecrackers too.

http://www.nationalfireworks.ca/banned-illegal-fireworks/
Thank you for clearing that up. So, does this work like Vagrant's mount folders? Does the container then find the path to the host's development artifacts?
Ask HN: Is it feasible to have children wear “worldview protectors” in school?
The idea is that parents could require their children to wear "worldview protectors" in school that automatically censor the teacher's speech whenever it conflicts with their parents' worldview.
I agree with this statement. I lived in the Twin Cities for a decade and worked for four (4) different companies--the last three of which recruited me away from my then-current position.

As another responder said, the Twin Cities is very tech centric. While there are quite a few enterprise jobs, there are plenty of opportunities across the corporate-size spectrum--from startups (a large startup community exists there) to global Fortune 50 companies.

It truly is analogous to Silicon Valley.
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Speaking for the chemical reaction - yes. That is exactly what should be possible. Some reactions are hard to reproduce and labs spend years trying to figure out how to do so. Without that you really don't have good science.

The key is .. can someone read your paper and reproduce your experiment and the results. If not, it's not valid; it's just a paper.
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