skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you say that:

The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots

“If they were interested in us, we probably wouldn’t be here,” said Schneider. “My gut feeling is their goals and incentives are so different from ours, they’re not going to want to contact us.”

That’s a welcome divergence from Steven Hawking’s claim that advanced aliens might be nomads, looking to strip resources from whatever planets they can, and that all efforts to contact said aliens may end in our own demise.

“I’d have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at all,” Shostak said. We're just too simplistic, too irrelevant. “You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish. On the other hand, you don’t really want to kill the goldfish, either.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-dominant-life-form-in-t...

EDIT - HN discussion for that article, 212 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773778
There has been a partial attempt [1] to do central planning with computers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Do you think startups should focus on very small markets?
That's true, but it's dwarfed by the amount of data representing traditional cabs. If we're not just selecting for cases involving deaths, a string of cases implicating Uber drivers in violence against passengers[0,1,2] suggests - if nothing else - that the notion that Uber/Lyft drivers are qualitatively safer than taxis is false. And in the last case, it's clear that shortcomings in a system (namely, the thoroughness of background checks Uber runs) might have prevented such a turn of events.

0: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/UberX-Driver-Accused-of...

1: http://laist.com/2015/04/10/uber_driver_attack_van_nuys.php

2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/06/03/uber-driver...
The big difference is that a country in Europe has his own economy completely detached from the rest of the EU while in the US the federal state will provide money coverage for the basic state services and absorbs economic shocks distributing it on the whole country.
"devalue the amount of debt held, which is a form of defaulting on creditors"

Which won't work well if the loans aren't nominated in your national currency. This is why currency loans are the real trap when devaluation hits.
I actually like reservr
The Slowest Software Development Methodology in the World
Code isn't going to be safer in language XYZ if developer isn't proficient with it, no matter how awesome XYZ is.

There are safe languages that are similar enough to C that it is not hard to pick them up for a C programmer. I agree if the replacement is ML or Haskell. But e.g. Rust, Cyclone, or Go (if a GC is acceptable) are not going to be hard for most C programmers.

Also keep in mind that most of the "safe" languages depend on runtime which isn't written in a safe language.

Rust is almost runtime-less. The Go runtime is mostly Go since 1.4.

This is also true for C - there's some stuff in every C standard library that has to be written in asm, once for each supported platform.

I didn't say it's not going to be work :).

So you're just pushing the problem somewhere else. [...] So the bottom line is: there's always something underneath.

That does not mean that, say, Haskell is not tremendously much safer than C. First, because you only have to implement the icky parts once. Second, because a better type system and abolishment of undefined behaviour gives you more safety for a very small cost (if at all, the extra compile time for a better type system is probably negated by the cost of headers).
document.write isn't self modifying code - it's self-generating code at best.

What Mel was doing is the equivalent of document.edit.
Using a Pin Dialog in Your Ionic Framework Mobile App
I detest advertising. It's literally designed to undermine reason and supplant critical evaluation of ones needs and priorities.

As for web advertising, maybe I was the last person on the planet to figure this out but sometime late last year the web just became unusable on most popular news sites. Popover ads that come up before you can read the content and multiple large ads inline with the content and that "no mans land" on the right.

I seriously hope there is a way to make MS Edge default to the "reading view".
lunr.js is pretty small (5k gzip/minified) and does a pretty good job at providing client side full text search. Definitely larger than this but provides a few more (IMHO, necessary) features.

http://lunrjs.com/
Iran Deal Could Help U.S. Tech Recruiters
He does say that. He just doesn't trust you to get the price right. I.e., he believes that in "fixing" advertising fraud, the CPM will go up more than the value will go up.
SAI != ET.

The idea of SAI is that it progresses at a significantly faster rate than biological processes can. For example, if humans and chimps were on a "staircase of evolution" and were one step apart; SAI would be one step above us a mere hour after it is turned on. After 2 hours it would be multiple steps above us. So the theory goes, anyway.

This means that evil aliens would be unlikely more dangerous than evil SAI.

Not that he's suggesting we announce our presence to aliens, merely look for them.
Assuming one agrees that debt is the problem and we're on the brink of a crash, how would you protect your assets?
TL;DR; A guy who is not an expert on AI is described as disagreeing with another guy who is not an expert on AI, about AI.
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There's a few optimizations techniques that you can apply, like sorting.

You keep track of all the points the player is currently looking at, and sort them. Then when the world state is updated, the server check all clients whether to send the new update or not.
Block WordPress XML-RPC DDoS Attacks with NGINX
>>> If we don’t have 100% coverage, we will not know whether our code really works.

Um... your code might not work even with 100% code coverage.

Also, I think I read somewhere that enforcing 100% code coverage makes developers to write dumb tests that don't do anything just to reach that magical number. Do you really need to test a getter function?
I think Hawking would ultimately like ET's help in the coming war against AI.
Of course Google will take measures like this. I worry about other services being so easily enumerated. CloudApp is famous for this. Take for example: http://cl.ly/123ab

That does not point to a resource, but if you keep guessing (and this is easy to do with a script). You're going to get something eventually.

http://cl.ly/123ab

http://cl.ly/1234b

http://cl.ly/12345

http://cl.ly/abc15 << Image / Document
The C64/PC disc discussed here is also from the late 80s.
We need to get better at writing software before we do that. The idea of putting software as it's written now in charge of planning a national economy is terrifying.
Hey there! The tool already supports multiple analytics profiles and accounts. If you're like me, you have one Google account that has multiple Analytics accounts and profiles shared with you, which already works great with this tool.

You can also already choose a specific channel you want alerts and summaries for a particular profile (website) to go to. The only thing I haven't added yet is support for multiple Slack teams, but the workaround for now is to simply create multiple accounts with GA.TODAY Alerts, one for each Slack team. That's how I do it anyway!
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It's not. They are both fine.
This guy sings the same song in 15 different places
...I may add support for multiple Slack teams in the future however, if demand warrants it.
Intel CPUs are tied to specific Intel chipsets these days, with no third party vendors.

AMD used to be much better (they have some small firmware for a support function that was signed, but even that was so half-hearted that one coreboot developer managed to recover the key - but didn't publish it).

These days they support ARM Trust Zone (with an ARM processor), and that part of the system is all signed (as "Trust" doesn't mean that _you_ can trust it).

It's Hollywood, essentially - can't have you crack your movie-playing device to copy their precious bits. And what else would anybody use a computer for, if not for watching blockbuster movies?
No we don't, network protocols are what matters.

I like to have my email client, my native RSS reader, still jump to newsgroups occasionally, use my desktop chatting applications...
Just throwing this out there, but isn't it possible that a lot more performance can be squeezed out of a machine that offloads less to the CPU in binary blobs?
Would you ask a girl to consent to sex with an app?
More recent example is Whatsapp, it is app only and is wildly successful
most of the page doesn't make sense. in at least every sample of 'good pattern' there is also an implicit dropdown, whether airport name autocompletion, calendar, something about being in sale and pre market in the search filters...

the whole page basically contradicts itself.

yes the bad UI has a fugly stile sheet. that doesn't make the good UI any functionally better, especially because you can still see a shitton of places where a drop down is essential.

the only real improvement is that the date picker is one dropdown instead of three, but I don't think that warrants a whole blog page XD
Disclosure: I also work for a company that specializes in fighting advertising fraud.

I think this is either willful ignorance or a complete misunderstanding of the fraud ecosystem. It's not about click through rates by a long shot.

But since the OP's main argument seems to be how the bigger ecosystem of online advertising already accounts for fraud, let's take that further. With this attitude, he's effectively saying that:

- They're okay with indirectly sponsoring the spread of viruses and trojans (rationale being: it's cheap!)

- They're okay with paying some dudes with some smart scripts (eg. the fraud mechanisms) the same amount of money as hard-working content creators and publishers

- And they don't care enough about the budget either. Accountability is apparently a fairy tale in this context?

The industry is under heavy fire regarding this subject as it is, and I'm not sure whether this attitude is going to further the conversation.
I don't know of the specifics on this one, but in the UI/UX world it's rarely a good idea to "support both". They generally lead to bad looking UIs that "almost" work for everyone, but aren't a good fit for anyone.
Well - the idea of putting the people who regularly crash economies in charge of writing that software is terrifying.

A good model would be an improvement on what we have now. But you need to talk to heterodox economists to get the good models, and that's unlikely to happen for political reasons.
A timescale of hours is not required for most of the AI-doom arguments; if it took a year, that would have a similar outcome.
Serving React and Flux with Hapi and Webpack
Here's a bookmarklet you can use to enable zoom:

javascript:m=document.querySelector('meta%5Bname=viewport%5D');m.content=m.content.replace(/.*(width=%5B%5E,%5D+).*/,%22$1,maximum-scale=10,minimum-scale=0.1,user-scalable=1%22);

I found it on HN a while ago, I wish i knew where. To add it bookmark another page then go into bookmarks edit mode and change the URL to that.
Yes, it's a shame that you were not a reviewer, mid-2009, of my article published in September 2009.
Agreed... well-circulated research demonstrates maximum comfortable line widths for various mediums.

It's frustrating when someone decides "damn the system" in the name of a proto pre-design-standards aesthetic instead of just making sure standard zooms leave their content at 12-14 words per line.
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Please tell your friends not to use Comcast email, or anything else that depends on where you live.

If you move, and there's no Comcast at the new location, or you just opt for something other than Comcast, then you've lost your address.
The http://se-radio.net podcast series has discussed many architectural and design topics. The http://changelog.com podcasts frequently discuss problems at that scale because their pain motivates open source solutions. Finally, there may be no better software design talks than Rich Hickey talking about designing Clojure.

Good luck.
No, I mean Paris Review, not Desert Magazine.

Kind of like how AramcoWorld has all their back issues available.

http://www.aramcoworld.com/index/BackIssues2010.aspx
This website confirms the Illuminati in any picture you upload
Aramco World – All back issues
The article defines the overconfidence as a belief in an outcome despite what reasonable past statistics tell us.
"the kind of optimism that leads governments to believe that wars are quickly winnable and capital projects will come in on budget despite statistics predicting exactly the opposite."
On a second thought, project planning and making plans in general that involve duration, cost, etc, and "asking a girl out" or "asking for a pay rise" are very different things and I'd prefer not to conflate the two.

You might be able to generate some stats on what % of girls that are asked out (in some particular circumstantce e.g. at a bar in Kentucky, etc) agree or how many pay rises are approved.
You can then talk about over- or under- confidence if expectations of the outcome deviate largely from these stats. How much is too little or much? Who knows.
The point is that the average business can be started with little more than the savings of a middle class American? 1 year of savings for a software engineer might be 2 years of savings for a person at the median income of $50k - my brother is below the median and just spend about that much on his wedding.

I used "software engineer" as an example because it applies to most of us on HN, that's all.
Freedom and security on mobile devices is arguably more important than workstations, given the amount of information they manage.
I'm amazed there aren't large organizations interested in funding a Debian-on-free-hardware phone.
If you've got a team of smart people willing to drop $500k on a banner campaign and you can accurately measure the results and it's still worth it with all the fraud, good for you.

If you're a mom and pop store looking to spend $500 on advertisements they should be made aware there's a good chance they will be defrauded unless they know what they are doing.
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$30/month in 2002 was a lot of money for a grad student like me. If the Apple watch provides even a 5-10% efficiency gain in mobile device usage (by not having to unpocket their phone all the time), many will find it worth it, and once they are hooked, well, we won't be having this conversation anymore. For the record, I don't have an Apple watch, but I do see them selling very well where I live.

I've been to Basel World before, and the "I'm rich watches" start at around 40K CHF. And they aren't even very good watches given their mechanical movements, it has nothing at all to do with functionality or features.
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or worse. Doing a proper "Show HN" post will mean your submission will
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What evidence do you have that the "Millennials" value labour and services any less than previous generations? Napster is a good example - most Millennials were barely teenagers when it closed down. The bulk of users were certainly older.

Who is going to argue with upending an industry providing a living wage to mostly immigrant workers to funnel all of the money into investor pockets instead?

Yeah, immigrant workers like Evgeny Freidman: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/upshot/new-york-taxi-mogul...

This whole poor immigrant vs large tech company makes for good propaganda, but is there any evidence that Uber takes a larger cut than previous taxi companies? Being bigger is not evidence: they serve many more markets.
There is nothing new about the technology or the business model. Maybe it's an unusual one for Americans, but for everyone else, it's not.
I sure would. Can prevent some problems (think about Julian Assange for example).
AllAboutCompetitiveProgramming
https://github.com/prashantpandeyfun10/AllAboutCompetitiveProgramming

I am looking forward to develop this repository as "All in one" place solution to all the algorithms,tips ,tricks and other tutorials for aspiring developers to learn ,grow , contribute and iterate! I hope this repository grows to a good extend to be helpful for all kind of developers ranging from small school going developer (coder in making) to top ranked people who are struggling in some way or the other (I hope so :P).
How much do you know about web-dev technologies? Big data techniques? Java vs C vs Go vs Rust?

There's miles of abstraction between OS minutia and literally any other part of modern computing. There's miles of abstraction between different parts of the Linux kernel for that matter.

The point being made here is a very valid one too: its oft-forgotten, with the rise of Docker, that processes are a form of virtualization, they just have/had poor isolation between each other. Also worth while if you're wondering about whether bare-metal hypervisors are better vs something like KVM which runs VMs as processes.
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Ask HN: How does Weiqi AI work?
Anybody plays Weiqi around here and understands how Go AI works?

I have been playing Weiqi for many years and even represented Singapore several times when I was much younger and won 3rd place at the World Youth Amateur Tournament and 12th place at the World Amateur Weiqi Tournament.(though I play much less in recent years)

When I first started out, Go AI was weak, really really weak like 30 kyu or something and a 5 year old kid who had learned Go for 2 weeks could defeat it easily.

Now I see Go AI reaching strong 5-6 dan level like ZenBS and the program seems pretty strong to me. (I could probably win 50-60% of my games against ZenBS if I play seriously). And ZenBS even won a game against Takemiya Masaki even though it was given 4 stones handicap.

How do Go programs like ZenBS work ? Does it perform brute search or does the AI play "intuitive" moves that resemble human intuition ?

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Maybe when you go to a fraternity party you should sign a contract that forgoes your right to sue if you get injured in a fall, get raped, or otherwise get hurt.

I told my son that it isn't even safe to go in a frat house to deliver a pizza and it should say "abandon all hope all ye who enter here" over the door.
I keep repeating it, even though I do have lots of experience in web development, but I also do have even more experience developing native applications and came to realize the same thing.

Nowadays, when given a choice I always pick native projects over web ones.

But these type of statements usually earn downvotes in HN.
I wish someone would instead come up with a project to really capture the public's attention about space exploration. More interest means more funding. The U.S. Budget is measured in billions. The New Horizons project, for example, only cost $700 million.

The Lunar X Prize might have been that project but it doesn't seem to be making progress:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lunar_X_Prize

http://lunar.xprize.org/
I want to own and work on an Ubuntu Touch phone, but they are making it very hard for me. I don't live in China or in Europe. I can purchase an MX4 within a walking distance of my home, but it is an Android version, potentially bootlocked (vendor says some of their shipments are, some aren't, and they are not willing to accept a return in case mine is bootlocked) -- and even if it isn't, there's no sanctioned tool out there to install it.
This opens you up for disruption, if others with less expertise can write the same secure code using e.g. Rust (I have no clue about Rust)
Amongst other differences: there's far more internal migration within the USA than within the EU.
Solid State Storage, even in 2006, wasn't that heavy (or costly - of course, for 'space mission' levels of cheap)

So, yeah, I'm not saying it is as small and light as the SD card on my phone that cost a dollar value having 2 digits and has double that space, but it's probably 'as good as it gets'

If we're talking about a mechanical data recorder I would agree
Preventing the reposting of old content is undesirable. A story that was posted "2516 days ago" has zero value to the community today at most. If today it prevents a posting that provokes meaningful dialog the old story is likely detrimental. HN is a very different community than it was five years ago.
> see Reinhart and Rogoff 2010

Isn't that the famous study which turned out to be [edit: almost] completely wrong because of errors in the excel formulas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho...
State of Mobile Operating Systems and thoughts about their future
AllAboutCompetitiveProgrammingUrl
I'd like to think the podcast Radiolab has done more for generating interest in science then any other project I can think of.
The lectures that were put together into the Feynman Lectures on Physics were fabulous. I believe they actually originally thought the audio was lost, but later someone found a bunch of tape reels in storage. The audio is heavily distorted, but a lot of work was done to restore them. I highly recommend anyone with an interest in physics listen to them while reading along in the book. It feels close to actually being in class. He was an exceptionally good teacher.
Applepay screws up London underground payments
Just want to add Unity WebPlayer[1] to the list of interactive technologies.

It is not as popular or generic as the five you mentioned but I do see it pop up a lot if you want to do some casual web gaming, which I don't like, because it is just another plugin you need to use the "open" web.

[1]: https://unity3d.com/webplayer
Exactly. Ad networks will optimize for cost per acquisition but won't charge based on it since they don't control that part of the pipeline.

If advertiser's landing page is down for example, the loss shouldn't fell on the ad network.
What if something changes mid-way through? Is it a free-for-all once you've signed on the dotted line?
furthermore its not even the dynamic implementation.
m[i,j] = d(s1[1..i], s2[1..j])
m[0,0] = 0
m[i,0] = i, i=1..|s1|
m[0,j] = j, j=1..|s2|
m[i,j] = min(m[i-1,j-1]
+ if s1[i]=s2[j] then 0 else 1 fi,
m[i-1, j] + 1,
m[i, j-1] + 1 ), i=1..|s1|, j=1..|s2|
> effectively targeting a profit margin of 0%

Why would anybody want to invest in that? What am I missing here?
If we ever receive radio from another world, they're probably already extinct.
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PayPal are going to be doing the acquiring for a bit, they are quite large to be acquired. They have already been buying eg Braintree to consolidate, and now they will have more cash for acquisitions.

Ebay needs to do something, maybe being acquired is best. If it is not Alibaba maybe its Google...
A very noble endeavour indeed, but I still don't get it.

So let's say that by examining the petabytes of data that's received from the telescopes, at some point a signal is detected.

Let's say that somehow all the competing scientests and skeptics, religious and opinion leaders magically and peacefully agree: the signal is from an inteligent life form.
Somewhere close, just a couple of hundred light years away ...

Then what ?

Do we build rockets to travel there ? Do we 'tune-in' and decipher the signal ? Do we send them our own signals in the hope that they are listening ?
Perhaps the app should have a list of options, e.g.:

I consent with:
[X] Fellatio
[X] Intercourse
[ ] Anal
[ ] SM
[ ] …

So it's clear what is agreed upon and what not.