skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that this article didn't mention sucralose (Splenda).
As mentioned before, it sounds like they wanted the patents.
Your system of morality has an astonishingly low bar for "evil" if "requiring a Google+ account for access to a service" qualifies. I don't think something that harmless would go past "somewhat dickish" for most people. If that's evil, what's the word you use for people who kick puppies or otherwise cause harm to the world?
Your system of morality has an astonishingly low bar for "evil" if "requiring a Google+ account for access to a service" qualifies.
Its an old philosophy problem. Expand it - a healthy person walks into a hospital (to change the water bottles on the water cooler). They are kidnapped and taken into a back room, and their organs are 'parted out' to save 10 people.

A definite Win! for society, right? In a utilitarian sense.
What are the advantages of the MS stack?

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What are some good C# learning resources? I have been using Safari Books' videos so far.
Where can I learn more about Entity Framework?
I thought the primary argument against artificial sweeteners these days was that they cause the body to expect a large inflow of sugar without actually delivering on that promise. This, in turn, leads to the consumer craving sugar even more, in many cases leading to higher total calorie consumption that if we just ate the sugar in the first place.

It seems to me that by far the best option would be to limit consumption of both added sugars and artificial sweeteners.
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Tactically to survive the immediate onslaught, perhaps, but strategically you don't fight autonomous weapons by attacking the weapons, but by attacking the people controlling them. 1 minute after the nuclear/neutron/EMP bomb has detonated, the next wave of killer robots is released from the hardened bunkers by the remote staff, and you're back where you started; it's the remote staff - and anyone/everything they care about - who must be taken down until surrender.

An "open borders" policy, tolerating & assimilating anyone who brazenly bypasses the checkpoints, is a gaping security void with a giant "STRIKE HERE" sign in flashing neon. [I don't say that to start that argument, but to point to the stark reality of the parent post's premise.]
That's not completely fair. I just mean any AI with the capacity to self-improve. We might know how to specify goals for some of those AIs, but none of these are proved safe. And we have pretty strong arguments that any goal that's not proved safe is most likely unsafe, making everyone end up dead or worse.

For example, if you make the AI "learn" a utility function about making cheeseburgers by using observations and reinforcement learning, and then the AI self-improves, you are most likely dead, because the learned utility function didn't include all possible caveats about not killing or torturing people to make cheeseburgers faster. And if you think you can keep applying negative reinforcement after the AI self-improves, think again.
Damn, i did not know Ouya was still relevant. I had assumed that the idea had fallen down to obsolescence land. Jokes on me though, they just pulled in 10M.
Url changed from http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249573/Ouya_buyout_confir..., which points to this.
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Can admin please change source to Wikipedia instead ? It's spam site that's getting all the click, thanks
Sounds cool.

There has been a huge upturn in "sandbox" style games, mostly thanks to Minecraft or Garry's Mod, but this one has the storyline element too.

Edit: could an editor improve the title of the submission? The title of the article is "'Submerged' is the type of game I dreamed of creating as a kid" and the blurb is: "Submerged is a third-person, combat-free game from Uppercut Games in which players explore a mysterious flooded city. There’s no combat, no health bars and no death – you simply explore the virtual sandbox as you see fit."
The Techcrunch article linked in this article has a lot more details, including statements that sound a lot like "your Ouya console will be useless in 12 months - go get a Razer Forge box after that."
They made product decisions, those were wrong, they tried to hold out, and now they're backing away from it.

No company is immune to that cycle, not even Google.
http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=2

I suppose this is downvoted because it doesn't apply to most people but the quoteId (I assume is sequential) indicates that this person understands my suffering.
Had a chance to see him in person long time back.. Very down to earth.. Simple man with very high and clear thoughts. He always liked to remain close with students.. Always going to different universities.. Guiding .. Inspiring them..

I think it was a dream death for him. Till last breath he was contributing to the nation.. Salute sir
If you like video-based training and your company's paying, Pluralsight has a ton of Microsoft-stack content, much of it with downloadable code you use to follow along with the author.

If you prefer books, anything published by Microsoft Press is usually very good.

StackOverflow is very .NET friendly for questions.

One of the things that Visual Studio and many platform components (like IIS) have going for them is discoverability via UI - spend some time opening menus, right-clicking things and poking around to see what you can do.

Linqpad is great for discovering C# and trying little things out quickly; I highly recommend it.
Note that without a separate Linux privilege escalation exploit, running QEMU in a least-privilege "container" for each VM should help stem the bleeding.
Thank god. However, the G+ debacle was a wake up call to the fact that at any point the use of my good ol' email account and search page could become an absolutely complicated mess, and completely out of my control.
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He'll be missed by billions. The Ace scientist, the missile man and above all a great human being. RIP Kalam Sir.
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Really a big lose for us :(, He was and always be a true hero for us. RIP sir
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> The wails from YouTube in particular have only just died down.

This isn't past-tense yet. Until this change, which isn't fully deployed yet (http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/07/youtube-comments.... , "in the coming weeks"), YouTube still requires a G+ account to comment or upload videos.
G+ has not required a real name for a while now.

The problem with a profile that spans unrelated services is that your persona on one shouldn't necessarily be tied to your persona on another; Google Accounts with different public-facing per-service personas are okay in a way that a single public-facing persona spanning all services isn't.

But it's still an underlying single Google Account, so Google gets its unified view of what you do, which is what they care about.
Here specifically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3eret9/science_ama...
My own interaction with two developers there several years ago was that the web was clearly the redheaded stepchild of Valve. I think they said something like maybe 7 people worked on those features back then, one of those two only sort of worked on it. Additionally, they only really had something like 3-4 people focusing on it most of the time.

For years they had prototype.js included, yet the library was essentially dead at that point for at least a year. Now they have jQuery and are running 1.8.X version, which means they are using a 2.5 year old version. I think this kind of speaks for itself.
Only if people are fungible. What if the healthy person was about to invent __ that would improve __ survival rates?
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> I don't care if it's 1% versus 99.99%, my organs are mine.

Morally, yes. Legally, no. You can't sell your organs because you don't own them. You don't own yourself because who knows why? It's the government's way of solving a variety of problems regarding people who aren't exactly in their right mind.

Sadly it has some other unfortunate outcomes as well, like you can't legally take your own life no matter how much you're suffering.
What do you think this does under the hood? You're basically saying, "why don't you use a correct string comparison function instead of a broken one?" which isn't a particularly valuable insight and has nothing to do with Go.

Also, unless you're familiar with how Go implements string comparison you don't know if it's exploitable in other ways like timing attacks.

Valve's failure was in testing, not language choice.

Also, why not just return userToken == token?
> 3. Everyone else has to beg dozens of manufacturers to ship an update for a device which brings no further revenue to the hardware manufacturer

> 4. At least in the U.S. everyone then has to beg carriers to ship an update to existing devices rather than using this as a chance to push you to upgrade to a $$$ new device and extended contract lock-in

The solution is for Google to pay manufacturors (or share revenue, however you want to put it) to update all existing phones:

- Google is accountable for shipping the bug. They should pay the costs.

- Google is currently taking almost all the profits. Android phone makers, as we've all read, are running on thin margins, if they aren't losing money. The media stories that say Apple makes 95% of all mobile profits fails to include Google's profits.

Google not doing this is, IMHO, an ethical breach and putting profits before users greed. What shinratdr said.
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Eh I'm not sure about that. I think the real problem is that it was clunky and made people mess with something that they had no interest in using.

It was a weirdly forcing move which reminded everyone how much power Google wields in this kind of user/company relationship. People are probably generally okay with how that works, but only if they aren't made painfully aware of it (kind of like DRM - just look at Steam for an example of that).
The Nymwars is why Google+ lost, but they'll never admit it.
Yep, and they stopped it because the CEO they hired to replace Ben (or Jerry I forget) was horrible and mismanaged the company
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> G+ has not required a real name for a while now.

Which is why he said, "Had they stopped the delusion from the outset ... "
Jessie is using 17.3.4 (if I am reading the version correctly), see https://packages.debian.org/jessie/erlang

17.3.4 was released on 4th of November 2014, according to the link you provided.

Jessie "freeze" happened on 5th of November ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00... ), so I even wonder that they are shipping that version.

In my opinion that is not "way behind".

If you need bleeding edge you should move to unstable or testing releases, move to a rolling release distribution like Arch or build your own.
Julie/Julia Lerman is the resource for all things Entity Framework. Anything authored by her (blogs, books, videos, trainings) will be valuable.
One of the best benefits of Itanium are its security features:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

These are rarely discussed. However, Secure64's SourceT OS got plenty of mileage out of them. You might not be able to argue for Itanium on cost, performance, or ease of use. However, one could argue for it as a better start on secure OS's or appliances. Unlike academic prototypes, it's also in production with high speed and reliability. Let's also not forget you can do reverse stacks and other bug prevention tricks with less performance hit or clunkiness on a RISC architecture vs x86.

Personally, I'd just rather them have modernized the i960MX, minus other BiiN stuff:

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

Targeting a robust, UNIX-compatible OS and C toolchain to it might have let it survive and get continually updated. Then, when HLL's got popular, we'd have a good hardware target for them that supported POLA inside applications. As usual, I'm speaking of great stuff in a past or never-happened tense. Least Itanium made it so far.
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It's really not all that bad, there's also the cache coloring and memory ordering stuff, but it's well documented at least. There is a lot more historical baroque stuff about x86, like int 80, syscall, or sysenter? For extra credit how do you find-out and are you sure your approach works on Cyrix and Via too?
But what about sugar? We should acknowledge that when I,
and many others, address sugar in contexts like these, we
are talking about added sugars, not the naturally occurring
sugars or carbohydrates you find in things like fruit.
Those are, for the most part, not the problem. *Added*
sugars are.

In a world where extremely sugary products such as fruit juice and even sugar cane juice can claim "no sugar added" prominently on the label, I find this statement to be problematic.

It seems a little bit akin to implying that you can drink all the applejack you want without worrying about intoxication because it has "no alcohol added" - instead, water was removed. I can guarantee your liver is not playing pedantic word games around the process by which that beverage got to 40% ABV, all it cares about is whether you're drinking too much alcohol or not.
I would start off by getting more familiar with Visual Studio - https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/get-started/overview-of-g...
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd prefer some more automation, but that's also a possible solution.
Adieu to a great man, https://twitter.com/APJAbdulKalam

"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep." ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

Some of his books : http://www.amazon.com/A.-P.-J.-Abdul-Kalam/e/B001H9RNS0/

Brief from Wikipedia : He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
Do artificial sweeteners have any of sugar's other effects beside providing calories? Do they trigger the sweetness taste receptors in the digestive system or trigger an increase in insulin? Or do they simply become inert past the tongue?
Google Reader never had many users. Feedly claims to have captured 80% of the Reader userbase when it shut down, and they have 15 million users. That is incredibly small by the standards of social networks, much smaller than even the pessimistic active-user estimates for G+.
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If all it took to create a nuclear reaction was some dirt and a microwave, we'd be fucked. All it takes is one angsty teen and they'd level a city.

This box, once opened, won't close. And it only serves our interests in the worst of ways. People we don't want having this stuff, will have it. This is just the tippy-tip of the iceburg though. There is a SLEW of technology coming out that has intimidating implications that really makes things super easy to control and exterminate a populace.

So that's the thing. We need to realize we can do anything. Really. you want to blow up the world? I'm sure we could find a way. You want to type a name into a computer and a drone finds that person and kills them? no problem. And thats not to mention all the other things we'll discover along the way.

It is far more likely that we will be the creators of our own destruction, than it is that we will be able to reign in our behavior and wield our intelligence to serve the interests of our species. We haven't gotten past killing each other, so we're just going to keep doing that, but get REALLY good at it. Our technical abilities have far outpaced our philosophical ones, and that doesn't bode well.
I was expecting them to put forward an existential risk (rogue AI), but this seems much more mundane. Granted, they might be downplaying that angle to taken more seriously. However, from a mundane perspective, the main issue that you have with arms races is not both sides having a technology, but one side having the tech, and willing to go to war to prevent the other side from getting it (see for example, Cuba, Iraq, Iran).

Furthermore, as they point out, you don't need access to special materials, or laboratories. The main reason that nukes are controllable is not primarily due to the science being secret (it's mostly not at this point), or hard to rederive (it's really not), but that you have to build up a ton of ore refinement plants to get enough U235 (other fissile material) to actually build the bomb. And it's really hard to do that in secret (or cheaply). Nothing makes the Manhatten project any cheaper today, and it cost about 23 billion dollars in today's dollars, and it involved 130,000 (twice the size of Google) people.

However, with Autonomous weapons, you don't need anywhere nearly as many people (Google X has on the order of 250 people[1]), or resources, and it can (as the article itself points out) be done much cheaper. In a few years, all the necessary components could even be conceivably cobbled together from Github projects. Any nation could easily fund it, likely without being detected, or even it being clear that they were aware that the "R&D" dollars were being used in such a way.

Given that, banning it seems like it would actually lead to more warfare, as the US would take it on itself to enforce the ban, and declare 'pre-emptive' strikes on nations that had a secret Autonomous Research project.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3028156/united-states-of-innovati...
But the bulk of the time consuming work is "when user clicks button, track event x," I'm guessing it's a system similar to heap analytics.

I imagine though this only works for uikit applications, and not games as they tend to do all that custom.
Is outing someone against their will and possibly ruining their life merely "somewhat dickish"?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/

I'm not saying that annoying people by forcing G+/YT integration is evil. But presuming that an annoyance to you is an annoyance to all is faulty.
good bye!!
Definitely a step into the right direction. At my previous jobs I remember having to read through lengthy documents about compliance. Especially working in finance related companies, the insider trading rules are a real pain and involve so many different, difficult to remember scenarios. Can employees use these on the go or will companies set aside time for them to go through the documents at work?
I always imagined a system where robots would seek targets and ask a remote human for clearance to destroy.

Such a system could have a 1:20 human to robot ratio with a human just repeated pressing a red button like George Jetson to issue a kill command.

In Connecticut recently, there was a teenager who mounted a hand gun on a custom quad copter and posted a video of it shooting live ammo on his own ranch. I was shocked by how well the recoil was handled. The future is now.
I was expecting them to put forward an existential risk (rogue AI), but this seems much more mundane. Granted, they might be downplaying that angle to taken more seriously. However, from a mundane perspective, the main issue that you have with arms races is not both sides having a technology, but one side having the tech, and willing to go to war to prevent the other side from getting it (see for example, Cuba, Iraq, Iran).

Furthermore, as they point out, you don't need access to special materials, or laboratories. The main reason that nukes are controllable is not primarily due to the science being secret (it's mostly not at this point), or hard to rederive (it's really not), but that you have to build up a ton of ore refinement plants to get enough U235 (other fissile material) to actually build the bomb. And it's really hard to do that in secret (or cheaply). Nothing makes the Manhatten project any cheaper today, and it cost about 23 billion dollars in today's dollars, and it involved 130,000 (twice the size of Google) people.

However, with Autonomous weapons, you don't need anywhere nearly as many people (Google X has on the order of 250 people[1]), or resources, and it can (as the article itself points out) be done much cheaper. In a few years, all the necessary components could even be conceivably cobbled together from Github projects. Any nation could easily fund it, likely without being detected, or even it being clear that they were aware that the "R&D" dollars were being used in such a way.

Given that, banning it seems like it would actually lead to more warfare, as the US would take it on itself to enforce the ban, and declare 'pre-emptive' strikes on nations that had a secret Autonomous Research project.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3028156/united-states-of-innovati....
the lib seems very small, and will come in very handy. nice work!
In my opinion the use of 'dark patterns' to trick people into signing up to your money making service is 'evil'. The fact that there are worse things in the world doesn't change the fact that they were deceiving people for profit.
Coding is not a spectator sport.
Just write code.
C# is powered by an amazing CLR. .NET Framework has very comprehensive and highly optimised libraries. For most of the simple tasks you don't need any external libraries.

You don't have to bother fighting dependencies hell.

MSDN is an almost exhaustive documentation, proper documentation, for most of all available methods and objects inside .NET Framework in all available languages.

Visual Studio is years ahead most of the IDE in terms of productivity tools, speed, integrations with other tools, plugins and debugging.

Just write some more code.
Facebook has, and has long had, a real name policy. If you want a reason why Facebook succeeded and G+ didn't, you'll need something that's actually different between them.
To me, the UI of Google+ feels so bulky and slow. Everything seems to be out of place.

It's a mystery to me, whom they are targeting.

Does anybody like their UI? If so, what device are you using? What do you think of FB vs G+?

I mainly use Firefox on the Desktop. And Facebook is somewhat ok. G+ feels completely out of sync.
Why not just grow organs in petri dishes. Then you don't have the problem of the immune system rejecting these foreign organs?
My wife and I limit our children’s consumption of soda to around four to five times a week.

That's limited?

Once a week, that's limited. Once every weeknight isn't limited, it's a habit.

Given the choice, I'll take a naturally sweetened beverage weekly over an artificially sweetened beverage daily, if only because of the awful taste of artificial sweeteners...
Thanks for the response justin. I sent you an email with a couple comments to the address in your profile. Assuming my team decides to go with k8s, I'd be interested in helping create some of that documentation.
It's been a common trend to actually add sugar via this method too, using e.g. pear juice concentrate as an ingredient to sweeten the resulting product. This is not really any less "adding sugar" than sweetening a product with sugar concentrated from sugar beets or corn.
You can't do passive MITM of TLS if the server is properly configured to use ephemeral key exchange, even if you have its private key. And even without ephemeral kex, and you somehow obtain a secondary trusted CA-signed cert for Steams domain, you still can't do passive MITM.

JS crypto really is worthless if you can't trust the connection.
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