skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The method used for mimicking is not the same as the learning method in supervised learning.

From this article (which OP's article links to): http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/uow-url120115...

> research has shown that children as young as 18 months can infer the goal of an adult's actions and develop alternate ways of reaching that goal themselves.

> In one example, infants saw an adult try to pull apart a barbell-shaped toy, but the adult failed to achieve that goal because the toy was stuck together and his hands slipped off the ends. The infants watched carefully and then decided to use alternate methods -- they wrapped their tiny fingers all the way around the ends and yanked especially hard -- duplicating what the adult intended to do.

I think the idea behind mimicry is goal identification (i.e.: see human wash a single dish, and identify the goal of 'getting all dishes clean'), not 'learn the way humans would perform this task and then do it'.
> That used to be a problem, but by now cell phones are just as useful in emergency scenarios.

It is much less of a problem then it used to be, but cell phones haven't reached 100% parity with landlines.

Consider:

1. Cell phones require reception. At my house, cell reception is universally awful for all providers. I may not be able to even make a call to 911 on a cell phone and, if I do, I am not sure I can trust the reliability of e911. Work arounds include in-home Wi-Fi and femtocells, but...

2. Cell phones require power. In a prolonged power outage (or in the case of my daughter, even a five minute one), I can't gaurantee there will even be a working cell phone on the premises. Wi-Fi won't work, and the femtocell won't work, either.

3. Cell phones get misplaced. In an emergency will I even remember where in the house I set it down?

That's not to say that cell phones don't also offer many advantages in an emergency. They do. Cell phones are usually available and usually close to a person. They can be turned on and hidden but still allow 911 operators to hear what is going on. There is usually about one cell phone per person, etc., etc.

But, at my house at least, I can't completely forgo a landline (although I have at other locations in the past).
A termination guarantee is still good practice.
As far as the show is concerned, I don't think this is true. They approach it forensically, first determining if they should even cast doubt on the historical assumptions. I know this is mostly dramatized tv, but it coming up with some great results using technology where it's never been used before. Of course a show needs a narative, and that's a bit dangerous, but it doesn't mean the new evidence is invalid. Funding archeology and investigations like this can only come though tv sadly. I hope some historians review the new material and give their feedback because I really don't want to have to rely on the History Channels accounts of these events.
It depends a lot on the source of the binaries.
Personally, I suspect a lot of future reporting (both news and investigative) is probably going to become the domain of amateurs now that the internet has cannibalised the rest of the business.

Doing it as part of an actual, professional business is probably just about impossible at this point. News, ads and gossip funded stuff like this in the days before the internet, and with the way the net is going now (aka people are getting said things from dedicated sites), that's not really a model that's ever going to be viable again.

But yeah, I think its just amateurs and volunteers from this point on. The kind of people who do stuff like scambaiting and online predator hunting/trapping, except focused on slightly more low key affairs.
> which oddly don't count bytes, they count code points

Not so odd, but very sensible! I'm always saddened by this oversight in SMS messages — they're 160 7bit characters, so 140 octets. But those 7bit characters are the GSM charset. If you want to write in other languages than Western European ones, your message will be encoded using UTF-16 — now you only have 70 characters. It might be OK for Chinese, but it's absolutely unusable for Cyrillic.

Of course, the limiting factor in SMS is architectural, whereas in Twitter, it's philosophical, so there's your difference.
> indigenous law

Are you referring to some particular legal entity here, or just an overall concept?
Meta: Why is the HN title different than the title of the article? The HN title added unnecessary ambiguity.
> Go puts a big emphasis on documentation, and this often compensates for lack of power in its type system.

This could be reworded to:

> Any language X that puts a big emphasis on documentation compensates for lack of power in its Y.

I disagree this is true for those languages including Go.
Same with cell phones. 911 access works even without active cell service.
slightly OT: why is HN not ipv6 yet? why isn't reddit? why pretty much anyone except google and facebook isn't?
Kss, being compromised by a script kiddie is bad.

But I am puzzled: a running process like redis is supposed to run in a chroot, and /tmp is supposed to always be mounted with no exec, the chroot and process should have been runned with seteuid/guid redis...

I normally have backend technologies confined in a jails with pf authorizing only inbound & outbound traffic on the legitimate interface+port, and you need no ssh access in a jail.

Looks to me there is a cascade of sysadmins wrong practice.

Devops and modern "full stack devs" seems to have lost their basics.
This story mirrors and extends another story from the Atlantic, by Ta-Nehisi Coates[1], about racist housing policy in Chicago. Here, evidence that Chicago's redlining policy was the norm throughout much of the US, and further, consideration of how --- in some places --- it contaminated urban planning. Syracuse, then, is a city that was (choosing words carefully) destroyed by racism.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based...
Apparently we have to thank Bernard-Henri Levy for that http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/20/frances-sham-philosop... .
Why usage-based billing is a threat to the internet, what can be done to stop it
Well, in the US, sure. And I don't see anyone here proposing doing a UBI program globally...

There are a number of problems with the current system. One is the "welfare cliff" that severely demotivates someone who can take (or not take) the option of signing up for a marginal wage job. We all know that ladders start at the bottom, but we keep removing rungs. If someone is getting benefits, I'd also like him to get a job or training to slowly work up to not needing those benefits - not go backwards. Not many people will choose to go backwards.

Another one (to me, because I tend minarchy), is the obscene bureaucratic overhead. Of course this is because of our complex array of rules and means-testing. But, if we could eliminate the disincentives to work that come from the way that welfare programs are constructed today, do we really need to means test? I'd rather Bill Gates gets a free two thousand dollar check than hire someone to make sure he doesn't.

At some point, I suspect this can only be resolved by some sort of limited behavioral experiment. While I like to think that most Americans, given a choice, wouldn't choose to sit around and watch Jerry Springer - our current system's construction has given me little confidence that this is necessarily true.
Which is a CA reseller. Nice.
Is there something like this available, but in the <$250 segment. These I understand are > $1000 market.
In context, that expression refers to claims that contradict existing evidence.

For example, if someone finds a way to create mass/energy, that would be extraordinary. All existing evidence suggests mass/energy is conserved. Even if no one has tried XYZ before, the evidence of XYZ creating energy has to be weighed against the evidence of thousands of (other) processes not doing that. It's possible someone made a mistake, or the results are being interpreted incorrectly.

While there is an ideal, the reality is that "evidence" is of varying types and qualities, and that perfect evidence is not always feasible.

In the US, criminal convictions ("extraordinary" claims) require proof beyond reasonable doubt. But civil convictions ("ordinary" claims) require only a preponderance of the evidence.
I think some of that stuff is there, it's just buried. For instance, the first thing I thought of was Descartes, and his Rules for the Direction of the Mind, so I checked: it is listed [1], but there seems to be no discussion of it, and that page is the only mention of Descartes.

[1] on this page: http://www.ludism.org/mentat/BrainBooks
Mm. Reproducible builds have a really wide variety technical advantages, including implicitly removing non-deterministic or unsafe behaviour (such as downloading third-party code from the internet), detecting corrupted build environments, reducing time-to-detection of a build host compromise, validating cross-built packages, the potential space/time savings you mention as well as numerous other debugging and testing advantages.

In other words, even if you are an attacker, you want reproducible builds. :)
I hope they compensated for age. Youth is also correlated with risky behavior.
Science-fictional shibboleths
That argument (for patents) works just as well as an argument for many other policies that allows a business to exclude competitors from a costly-to-enter market.

For example, in 1993 when it became apparent that the web was going to become important, it would have been beneficial for the government -- at least according to the argument you describe -- to auction off the right to develop and distribute web browsers since that would have motivated the winners of the auction to incur the costs to develop a really good web browser.

The development of a web browser is after all a significant expense: Mozilla, Google, Apple and Microsoft each sink 100s of millions of dollars a year into their web browsers.
Because there is no benefit to running IPV6 if you have access to an IPV4 address.
With one caveat: Cell towers aren't mandated to stay up in an extended power outage, unlike landlines.

They have battery backups, but once those fail, it's a question of whether the phone company can hook up a generator in time. (Some towers in large metros have permanent generators, but not all.)
I know I'm not the OP but John Dewey came to mind when I first read OP's comment. If I really sit down and dig through some of my books I'm sure I could pull up a few more.
"since, we dropped our Photoshop license".. pretty telling.
> Perhaps I should add support for this to Parabola's toolchain

Please do. :) In writing this spec I intended this to be used throughout the entire software community, both closed and open source.
I certainly would. Some of my favorite passages ever, fascinating stuff.
Cut Web app development speed by 50% using complex source code generators
Imagine you should start a greenfield project for a Web app with modern UI (for example, a new micro service, which will have a Web app for the administration purpose).

And imagine, you have a starter-kit with a bunch of ready to use React UI components along with infrastructure for a Web app (for example, react-redux-starter-kit, but with React Bootstrap and React Widgets libs inside).

In addition, you have a tool, which allows visually combine any type of components on the Web page. Moreover, this tool has an ability to generate a scaffolded source code for UI components connected to any kind of frameworks like Redux, Relay, etc. (with actions, reducers, routes, so on…).

The tool automatically compiles all new source code and reuses all generated components on the page.

Of cause, you are not limited in editing the source code of the project in your favourite IDE, because compiler and hot-loader will patch pages with your changes in tool's workspace.

Would you like to use such a tool in your project?

And if yes, what type of the scaffolds for the source code you would like to use?

a) Infrastructure generators:

- Generate REST service with Swagger docs by entered Swagger configuration format.

- Generate GraphQL server by entered data structure in GraphQL schema format.

b) Component generators:

- Generate Redux wrapped components connected to existing REST API.

- Generate Relay wrapper components connected to existing GraphQL server.

BTW, such a tool is already existing: https://github.com/ipselon/structor
You could use ultrasound.
It looks like this was a town that sprung up around a silver deposit, not the other way around. That challenge of what to do now is the real problem.
> Nice to know we can still place a call if the power goes out.

Actually not entirely true. Following Hurricane Sandy, a majority of Manhattan from about 42nd street south to the Battery was without power for several days. A lot of the rooftop cells that fill in gaps in service lost power and so coverage area and capacity were greatly reduced.

Furthermore, a fairly significant (but definitely not majority) of landlines are over VoIP with FIOS. Battery backups for the Demarcs only lasted about 12hrs and even if yours lasted longer, you still might have difficulties because some COs were flooded and/or had generator failures.
Lighting a match from a match box that is thrown to you
Why?

The spaniards have been better prepared for war and overcame the local population in bloody conquest — this is a historical fact that no one will argue with.

How, from this fact, do people come to an assumption that local population had higher moral values than invading spaniards?

Have you completely no idea what pre-columbian era indian cultures were like? I mean, not today's "New Age" versions that have been adopted for Californian yappies, but actual kingdoms, chiefdoms and empires that resided there several hundred years ago.
The Photoshop-to-code problem is also well known in web design, where a third solution, presumably applicable here as well, is the emergence of transactional PSD-to-(whatever) services; designers make PSDs, and you pay $50 to have them converted to markup, which adds only marginally to the cost and only a day or two to the turnaround time.
many vulnerable people don't know what they can qualify for and what they can't. especially if they are not particularly literate as many adults are not - especially if they have a non-native background.

many vulnerable people don't claim even if they know they qualify because the whole process is demeaning. sometimes when you have lost everything, you desperately hold onto your dignity, even if that isn't profit-maximising. real people (as opposed to idealised economic agents) are like that.

many vulnerable people can't claim because they slip through the cracks. the process of verification can be intense, especially as the public demand absolutely no benefit cheats meaning everyone is treated as a fraudulent with a lack of empathy or compassion.

many vulnerable people have no incentive to save money (since that might disqualify them from receiving benefits in the future). this is similar to what happens with company budgets. you need to spend all that money or you won't get it next year when you might actually need it.

tl;dr its complicated. the end result depends on a ton of externalities.
I think what the article misses is that the mine is pretty much the only reason the city has inhabitants. The Altiplano is not exactly full of other economic opportunities or appeal.

The other problem is that although these people are "middle income" by UN standards, by any reasonable standard they're desperately, desperately poor. Which is why they stay for the mining-linked income opportunities.
If you live in an area with all copper lines back to the central office, you're probably good unless you have a cordless phone.

You probably connect to a neighborhood SLC hut (a filing cabinet sized green box?) that converts a neighborhood to optical or perhaps a T-1 or perhaps a HDSL T-1 and feeds that single line back to partner equipment in the CO. There is usually a short term battery on the SLC hut (sometimes they catch fire).

The bigger problem is the most likely reason to lose power is aerial lightning strike or tree downing the cables. Its very unusual to lose power for any other reason away from the coasts, never had rolling blackouts or whatever. So the only time I'd need to make a call (to the electric company?) is when the landline phone would be knocked out anyway either by lightning fried phone or cables laying on the ground under a tree. That was one of the nice parts of getting my first cell phone a bit over 20 years ago was I could call in power failures or whatever. Not that it happens enough to matter, LOL.

With modern smart meters the electric company gets pretty fast stats on downed lines anyway, so there's not much point in calling.

My uncle-in-law in a nursing home has a landline. Not a PBX extension off the nursing home but for whatever weird legal / financial reasons he has his own account with the phone company much like an apartment building has separate accounts rather than a business PBX. I suspect folks like him are part of the 8% who have a landline and no cell phone, and that number will never drop to zero.
Which leaves the question which one to occupy instead. There was the suggestion on the mailing list of officially getting an acme-port reserved, but I don't remember if there was any follow-up.
This is addressed at length - and quite early on - in the article. The correlation stands, apparently.
I'm not a server developer, but words "play around" in context of production server do seem like a red flag to me.
nah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star looks pretty ok even for today standards, and it was just a streamlined Alto from 73
isnt reddit pretty heavily invested in aws? aws doesn't support ipv6. nor does google compute.
+1 for tutor
I think that there should be someone who could sometimes answer for his questions and help if things don't work as he want.
Thanks for the advice. I will dissect my experience. Maybe if I explain my time management with the project it would help someone interested in creating an app but does not think they have the time to do so.
It's nice to have efficient markets that effectively price things... however I think that perhaps it's not the worst thing in the world to accept market inefficiencies in trade for the opportunity to not live in a shitty society.

My general sense is that merging the vacation/short term rental market with the long term home rental market puts serious upward pressure on the latter, thereby increasing scarcity of opportunity for middle income people in urban locales.

IMO, anything that puts downward pressure on the derivative of social mobility over time is ultimately putting upward pressure on the shittiness of society as a whole and really makes life pretty unpleasant regardless of socioeconomic class.

I'll take an inefficient housing market any day over that.
What do you take labor surplus to mean?

If it means that the economy is sufficiently productive without everyone working, a basic income solves the problem that some people have no access to the economy (by dictating some basic level of access).

(Of course the economy isn't sufficiently productive today, there are huge swaths of Americans that would like to increase their consumption, never mind less wealthy areas of the world. The reality is probably that we do have surplus labor at some levels of per job productivity though.)
If the house has previously had a landline it must be active for 911 service. You must be able to plug a phone in, pick it up and dial 911 - even without having dial-tone.

911 service from a landline is independent of having a paid account with the carrier. The same applies to cell companies - which is why you might see a "emergency calls only" flag in areas of poor service.
When was this? Wireless E911 is still relatively recent.
After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. But Mobileye, probably the most prominent company in the field, does object recognition? And they design their own ASICs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfwHsHUdVc
not really true. Let's encrypt is cross signed with IdenTrust. So whether the ISRG certificate is trusted or not, they can still issue valid certificates.
This isn't eliminating jobs. This is making it so people don't need to do the jobs, but the work gets done anyway. That IS unprecedented, historical examples are where machines made the work easier or more efficient but still required people. We're talking about a TON of blue collar work that's not only possible to automate, but that the vast majority of people would WANT automated.
Yes, this is why proper clients disable remote content by default. This technique has been used by spammers for ages. Surprisingly, the iOS Mail app fetches remote content by default - I had to turn that off.
There actually is. An increasing number of ISPs is going IPv6-only with central carrier-grade NAT for IPv4. Those gateways are often overloaded, resulting in vastly better performance over IPv6.
Many pre-made microwavable products use metal to direct/control heating. The most well-known is probably "hot pockets", which use a metal-lined sleeve known as a "susceptor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susceptor
The obvious answer is phonelessness. Sure enough, that's what the paper linked to in the article says: 3.4% of households surveyed did not have a phone.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless20151...
Prison is not exactly the most healthy environment in which to take psychedelics.

Set and setting are critically important. Psychedelic states tend to make one highly vulnerable and suggestible. I would be surprised if taking them in prison did not have some negative effects.

The same goes for CIA experimentation, which was often done on unwitting subjects.

There are constructive and destructive ways to use these powerful tools. Experiments on prisoners and CIA mind-control experiments would qualify as the latter.
I agree. Just wondered if that's where it originally came from. Could've been just from formal methods with difficulty of doing termination proofs.
And the center of a ton of small town economies.
This compares ipv6 vs ipv4 dual stacks between the same endpoints. The conclusion is that performance is equivalent but the establishment of the connection has a 9x higher failure rate for ipv6.

(Edits:grammar)
Iran gamed the CA system (DigiNotar?) to spy on their citizen's https traffic.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/06/diginotar_audit_damn...

So it's OK to be paranoid, IMO. The CA system is radically flawed in that it can be gamed by state actors.
Wind turbines meant to work at the South Pole and Mars
Would an increase in top income tax rate substantially alter income inequality? [pdf]
Complete guess here, but their analytics, fraud, spam, etc systems are IP based and don't work well with the v6 address space yet?

Cloudflare handles their front end, so it should be as easy as toggling an option in the CF admin page.
17% of americans read a newspaper every day. Now if only we knew if they all smoke and if they have a landline.
> 1. Cell phones require reception.

This is definitely a valid concern if it applies to you. My mother, for example, would never give up her landline because the reception at her house is definitely inferior to her landline.

I, on the other hand, have consistently excellent reception. I think in general people who have good reception are the ones going land-line only.

> 2. Cell phones require power.

These days, so do many landlines (especially handheld/wireless ones). I could keep my phone charged for 48 hours of normal usage (backup batteries) and far longer if I went into power saving mode.

> 3. Cell phones get misplaced.

A cell phone is always on my person, whereas I would have to hunt down where the landline is.

I guess there are tradeoffs to both, so I'm not comfortable saying you must have only one or the other.