skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement about needing rejuvenation treatments before we can develop strong AIs makes sense. The average age of Nobel Prize winners is increasing over time[1], we could imagine a future where this average age is greater than the average human lifespan. At that point only those scientists who have exceedingly long careers and lifespans will be able to further their respective fields.

[1] http://priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winning-scientists-are-get...
> reads like a plant from an industry pressure group

A useful alternate headline could be: Think tank funded by pro-SOPA MPAA board members Viacom, Time Warner, Disney Corp., and News Corp. attacks Google for doing the right thing and opposing SOPA.

The Stop Online Piracy Act was an awful bit of Hollywood-backed anti-Internet legislation.

USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab receives funding from BET Networks (Viacom), Disney, Paramount Pictures (Viacom), Viacom itself, Warner Bros. (Time Warner), Fox Broadcasting (News Corp), according to its web site: http://www.annenberglab.com/about

Those companies are board members of the MPAA. It's true that the think tank lists other donors as well; the question is whether the non-MPAA donors account for any significant part of its budget.

It was a well-written article, but the talking points, as you say, could come from an MPAA blog post. It's a shame because there are important things to say about these topics, and the linked article could have done a good job of framing them. :(
I love drag & drop with Trello, especially when dragging Skitch screen shots. You don't even have to save the file.
Its' definitely easier, but if you've configured a bunch of integrations to GitHub's API, it's a little annoying at the very least
> Uber argues that it provides more reliable service to minority consumers and underserved neighborhoods that have historically been discriminated against by cab companies ... User testimonials bear this out[1]

I don't see why Uber drivers, who often are or were cab drivers and which is less regulated, would discriminate any less. Does Uber require drivers to pickup specific fares (i.e., do they assign a driver to a fare in a poor neighborhood?). If they assign drivers to nearby fares, which seems necessary in order to pickup customers promptly, the drivers can just cruise wealthier areas.

"User testimonials" can't bear out anything; it's not data, especially from a company with such a massive lobbying and marketing operation.

[1] Note that this quote is another article, quoted by the this author
Why do you say bitbucket is a better technology?
This is a completely generic response which is not at all tailored to the above poster's specific situation (since I'm not familiar with the details), but the general idea would be something like this:

If you asked someone to do FizzBuzz at home and they sent you a git repo with 60+ commits, you wouldn't be a little puzzled about that? That would seem to suggest they really struggled with it.
There should be a time stamp in the exif data, so you could track progression from one photo to the next as a very primitive form of version control.

My original comment was mostly meant as snark, but I've had an interviewer take photos during a whiteboard exercise for this reason.
excellent project. as a scrabble player, i'm very interested - it would be a great way to run a blitz tournament, for instance.
Projection of circles onto a spherical surface in LaTeX
Regarding the baseball. Usually, if the miscreant that threw it then ran away can't be identified, you just eat the cost of the window. That happens rarely enough that I'm still in favor of kids playing ball in the neighborhood.

If heavy drones are crashing down often enough to cause problems (let's say more than a couple dozen times a year in the US), then rules will need to be put in place to curb that, sure.

I think you and I are arguing from different scopes here. My whole premise has been regarding Amazon-owned (or other commercially-owned) drones operating in our skies. You're--rightly--concerned about that guy down the street picking up a 30 lb. machine for fun, and not being responsible with it once it causes damage or injury. I think we can agree in that regulations on the craft and on the operator would apply before it's allowed to fly. Maybe the operator should be bonded and insured, and should have passed some sort of certification. The aircraft itself should meet some minimum standards of safety and redundancy. OR, if the aircraft meets some higher standard of safety and redundancy, then any civilian can operate it because it self-enforces flight safety rules.

Those same rules should also apply to any commercially-operated drones of course, but I've been assuming that, e.g. Amazon, would do this out of self-interest. They don't want to deploy a fleet of drones only to have a massive PR nightmare when things go south.

And after all these rules are in place, in the instances where someone does violate the law and flies illegally, existing insurance and law enforcement schemes would be able to handle it.

All I'm afraid of is cutting off innovation before it can occur, due to an over-abundance of caution. That's all.
The HBR article was written in 2008. It seems like more investors are wanting (or more like finally allowing or being forced by the market) founders to remain in control. YC started out as an experiment that founders, even young ones, were good bets on creating a lot of value.

Ben Horowitz wrote a blog post in 2010 about their preference for founder CEOs.

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I've seen a few 'I'm an Uber driver' op-eds in local papers. Are these part of Uber's vaunted marketing/lobbying campaign? How do they get them placed in the newspaper? Is this "native advertising"?

I don't recall many 'I'm a Lyft driver" or "I'm a cab driver" or limo driver or UPS delivery driver articles, so I doubt it's coincidence.
Bitbucket is not as good? Feature-wise they're almost identical.... I use github for my FOSS projects and bitbucket for stuff that shouldn't be public, like for-profit soft and side-projects. If you don't see added value in free unlimited private repos that's not the case for many of us.
Gladstone wasn't aware that the Greeks and other ancient peoples used brightly coloured paints on their statues and buildings.

Because articles like the linked one keep coming up, I've just submitted on HN an article from the British museum about the extensive findings of "Egyptian blue" on the Parthenon:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9972478

This shows that Lapis lazuli was available throughout the Mediterranean, not just Egypt.

Cobalt was used to colour glass during the Bronze age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck

The Mycenaeans used blue glass for necklace pendants:

http://www.cmog.org/artwork/necklace-glass-pendants-and-faie...

The colour blue has also been found in mosaics and paintings unearthed at Pompeii:

http://www.pompeionline.net/pompeii/painting.htm

When examining the existing ancient literature to extrapolate on colour perception, it's important to remember that only a minuscule fraction of ancient literature survives to this day.
I don't care if you believe it. What I care is that you have a good reason to believe it. And I don't believe you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy
This looks awesome, I just hope it's not too expensive or people will buy keyboard stickers instead.
Yep, that's what Disruptor is for. Here's a blog post by one of the devs giving more details about the ring buffer where she specifically mentions that objects are pooled to avoid the GC http://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/06/dissecting-disruptor-...
> and you're saying BI wouldn't help with that?

I think someone only earning BI probably wouldn't have the resources or motivation to do Bell Labs-style research.

> how do you think they got there? by being forced to be a wage slave, working long hours to come home completely burned out every night?

Unless you're implying that all of a sudden with the help of basic income, people's interests and preferences will change and result in a glut of engineering talent I don't see how it's at all relevant.
Ultimately headed towards an IPO? Probably.

How long? Probably a while.

More and more companies are staying private as VC/hedge fund/private equity firm valuations stay high, it's fairly easy to continually raise money through private avenues, etc. There is less of a need to go public for the founders and investors of these backed companies to get rich.
Reddit needs to stop pretending racism is valuable debate
Feels narrow and I don't see the payout.

"They just need an easier on-ramp to their internal database to do things like comparing projected revenue to actual revenue in order to close out this month’s financials."

This is a small gap. On one side, you have people copy-pasting CSV files into excel and doing it one-off.

On the other side, you have specialized SaaS products for business workflows. (Wouldn't you rather just use some accounting software to run your companies financials, rather than muck around in Excel?)

In the middle, you have people writing either code or Excel Macros to automate some of this. Looks like BlockSpring is meant to automate that group away. Just having spent 3 minutes with blockspring, there's friction. (Log into this service, fiddle with the parameters, clean up data, remove mess, etc)

I can see the IFTTT / Zapier comparisons but this is a lot more work and far less reward. Those tools give immediate results.

At the end of my integration with Blockspring, I'm left with a table of data that I STILL have to analyze in Excel.
What would be more interesting is the analysis of what went wrong in the optimizer with -ffast-math!
We can't rule out confirmation bias until we're sure that no other aircraft model has a similar-looking part. Boeing could have used similar designs in several different models.

On the other hand, it's pretty rare for large aircraft (or large parts thereof) to go missing, so there aren't a whole lot of places from which this piece of wing could have come.
Buying SourceForge and apply a svn-to-git converter on top of everything; that would really cement the monopoly.
TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library
I agree with you in terms of approach that AI will emerge first from brain emulation. I disagree with you on the timeline. I know you say 'starting around 2030', but I think that's a little ambitious.

While I'm an AI/machine learning practitioner now, my recent Ph.D. work was on computational modeling of the nervous system; namely the cerebellum. The reason I say 2030 is ambitious, is because there are still a lot of unknowns to perform whole brain simulation. To start, we need whole brain connectivity or wiring diagrams at an extremely detailed level. There are some efforts that are part of the BRAIN initiative that are taking a stab at this, but I don't think they're be ready by 2030. Second, you have to understand the physiology of these neurons in order to simulate them. This is incredibly complex and poorly understand. While we understand neuronal physiology in general, there are a great many details that vary by cell type. Additionally, you have to capture neuron morphology, synaptic plasticity, the effect of neuromodulators, ... the list goes on. By capture, I mean understand them well enough to describe them mathematically so that they can be simulated computationally.

Until then, traditional machine learning and artificial neural networks will be increasingly useful and interesting.
I am not a lawyer™ but the creators should definitely consult one to 1) determine how much risk they are exposing themselves to and 2) determine a reasonable course of action to limit that risk exposure. The question is not on whether or not we believe something to be "legal" or "illegal" but whether or not some part of their service might draw the attention of a group large and angry enough that might try to make them prove something in front of a judge. This is the real danger to a small group of developers: the RIAA has many lawyers on retainer while the upfront cost of dealing with a lawsuit would bankrupt most individual developers.
>And it never ceases to amaze me how the tech community so easily blows off legitimate safety concerns.

I seriously doubt any drone proponent will be dismissive of safety concerns. If there are people who don't care about the safety concerns drones bring, this is just the other side of the same coin with people so resistant to the ideas of autonomous vehicles. Both are people not forward looking in their own way.

When Amazon says, "hey we want to use drones," reactions shouldn't be, "hell no there's no way you can make that safe," and instead, "great idea, let's make sure there is a discussion at large to reach a consensus on the safety standards required to make that happen."
I disagree that the "meritocracy rug" story at GH is irrelevant.

It is another example of political correctness taking place (at GH, and elsewhere), but with a strong feminist-driven aspect to it. Fervent feminism absolutely tries to ride the PC wave and uses its methods - word censorship and name calling "if you don't agree with me, you are a misogynist".
Stock Market Is Not the Economy
> (except maybe USA?)

Even in the US, Nokia had a huge portion of the cell phone market. Maybe more than half? The 51xx and 61xx phones were all over the place. Can't find any sources for this, just my recollection.
is that where QT came from? I've used pyqt and liked it quite a bit.
Not true of YC, in my experience. A 1 minute video, done with ~5 minutes of preparation, is much better than a video from something else with high production values.

Spending hours on the video is probably worse, too. The peak is maybe around 15-30 minutes, from the videos I've seen of YC teams. Talking points, decent lighting, decent audio (phone headset is fine), not a memorized script, maybe a couple takes if you really fuck up.
Even if you don't mean this comment to be insensitive, it is pretty insensitive to people mourning the permanent loss of a talented and loved person who contributed much to their communities and friends.
I can say that object pooling is critically important on certain mobile devices.
What issue do you think that your going to avoid with python that you have with PHP?

On Golang:

1. There are a bunch of good frameworks out there for you to bootstrap with
-- if you pick one realize its going to have shortcomings
-- if you don't pick one and you think your going to use the standard library + tools like gorilla and alice, your going to end up doing a lot more work than you expect.
-- a lot of the info on this front is stale, look for the context package on the google blog to see how the thinking is evolving (and its pretty rational)

2. There are parts of Go that look great on the surface, and work for "small programs" but if your building in the large they are going to be lacking. Logging is the example that comes to mind, and a lot of the "solutions" are just coming up short at the moment. Profiling on OSx being broken is another (and this isn't the fault of the GO, but rather apple.

3. Your going to have a very different workflow with go than you do with a python or PHP. This same would hold true if you moved from PHP to C or java. The distinction is that C and Java have a LARGE toolchain to support your transition, here again Go is lacking.

All that having been said, I would choose Golang over Python or PHP for what your trying to do. Your going to pay a large tax upfront (in both ramp up and real time development costs) for something that (potentially if you don't screw it up) is much more maintainable in the long run.
I have a sneaking suspicion that we don't actually disagree on all that much, and that most people who are arguing with me here are doing so simply because I am using words that sound slightly different than the ones Corey Doctorow uses.

So far the most convincing evidence of this is that the original article didn't actually mention anything about legislating against general purpose computers.
Are there any examples of substantive AI work to come out of MIRI? And have they succeeded at all at engaging the actual AI research community?

The last time I looked at them, they were consumed with grandiose philosophical projects like "axiomatize ethics" and provably non-computable approaches like AIXI, not to mention the Harry Potter fanfic. But I'm asking this question in good faith - have things changed at MIRI?
What do you mean "regions new to passenger aviation"? Both Malaysia and China have domestic air flights operating way before the 1950s.
Yeah I got that, but I was just wondering if thats where the performance hit is.
Generating the map vs rendering outside visible area.
> privately-owned websites

If GitHub used their privately-owned website to deliberately offend people, would you be defending them? To me it seems like this argument based on ownership is chosen purely because it is convenient in this particular case.

> having to face the consequences of your actions

This sounds ominous, except the "action" we're talking about is forking a repository that used the "wrong" vocabulary in its assembly title. Taking that into consideration, the response is disproportionate and selectively enforced.

Nobody would say a word if GitHub sent a polite request asking (rather than demanding) the change. I am willing to bet the owner would gladly indulge them.
Wanting to learn more is a natural part of accepting an unexpected loss.
(Personal) Raleigh: who works at red hat?
Thanks. Most of you are busy professionals and have better things to do than read about me. Thanks for doing anyways. I'm a student in the area and I live on my own. I'd like to tell my parents I got a job at red hat. It'd be cool to work in the mailroom or something part time. All advice is appreciated
Internally, Amazon is completely serious about drone delivery.
The Stunning Geometry of Cities from Above
Nice! They should let you swipe left, swipe right the other passengers
C already has a very detailed specification.
Well... The option is called "unsafe-math-optimizations".
Oh yeah, those libraries are a PITA. I disabled them entirely (using some registry hack I guess). It's easy to forget about those little pain points once you have worked around them.
>Just because a movement/ideology is focused on advancing particular issues, doesn't mean they support discrimination against others groups, which is what sexism/racism/etc actually is.

White-pride groups that sing the praises of white people while not mentioning POC at all would be totally fine in your book, since they aren't supporting discrimination of POC? I think you're in the minority opinion here...

Don't get me wrong - I think that sexism/racism is about malevolent actions intended to harm or belittle or otherwise negatively discriminate against another group. But I'm of the minority opinion. Benevolent actions are considered sexist/racist nowadays, chivalry is extremely sexist. Always opening the door for women - but not always for men - is sexist.

Advocating for women's rights but not equally advocating for men's rights is therefore just as sexist as chivalry. One is an egalitarian if they're actually practicing behavior focused on equality. They can mislabel themselves as a feminist all the want, though I will call them out on promoting sexist ideology.

And yes - I've met a few "actually egalitarian but call themselves feminists". Most of them agree that egalitarian defines them better and they'd rather separate themselves from the extremely sexist "militant feminists" by labeling themselves as an egalitarian rather than a feminist.

In today's political climate, being an MRA and a feminist at the same time is like being a KKK member who's a member of the Black Panther Party.
Even 4chan censors various kinds of content, actually.
LE will mean a domain validated cert is free rather than costing 10-15 dollars, with the same proviso as other domain validated certs. That's a good thing.

But it won't change a lot of the things mentioned in the article: people will still need to configure servers, fix browser errors, researchers need a source for large-scale SSL scans, inspect packets, lookup domain contact info without junk results.

We're working on the configuring servers stuff BTW: we landed patches in node.js to ensure their TLS implementation passes SSL Labs out of the box and I'm hoping to do the same for nginx in future.
Did you read them? He says he can't confirm it either.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonostrower/status/62654627786247...
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While we are testing it, we reached high rank in Alexa in a short period. We would love to hear from you honest feedback about the site.
A precise definition could probably be cobbled together using computational complexity. Something like, a phenomenon which results as a product of deterministic processes that cannot be fully modeled by a polynomial time algorithm.

I think that's what people are really getting at, you can know how every piece of something works, and yet seeing how it works together can be much harder (potentially impossible).

Maybe that just makes it a synonym for chaos theory...
If you'd like to give them another look, here's an up-to-date list of their publications:

https://intelligence.org/all-publications/
I really don't see how digging up graves is comparable to killing things.
Also not the first time Github has deleted a repo for ideological reasons. See: C+=
HN title-formatting code doesn't properly handle domain abbreviation for .tw TLD
Do you plan on giving an encrypted filesystem?
okay, i'll bite. My employer recently made the switch from Hipchat to Slack, and I can't really tell any difference in functionality. The only thing slack has is that it's pretty/shiny, which doesn't really make any difference to me personally. If anything, I miss being able to arrange the channels like I could in Hipchat.

Also, what does Github give you over Gitlab?
Mark Zuckerberg is a certifiable AHOLE!
Twitter's Facebook fixation could be sending the company into crisis