skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted you before I got to "going to be autistic because of advanced maternal age" - I'm going to have to ask for a citation there, as the etiology of autism is not well advanced and we're still recovering from the last guy who blamed it on vaccines.
>all you have to do is treat advanced chip fabrication processes the way nuclear technology is treated, and put a legal limit on processor power so it's somewhere where it was in the late 80s.

Are you a villain in a Vernor Vinge novel?

I may not like the numbers you're crunching, but I will defend to the death your right to crunch them.
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>Check your PC bullshit

Come on, it's an anonymous troll account with an obvious goal of ridiculing pro-PC argument. Check your #{x}!
What did you use for making them? I've been curious about those great looking diagrams for years.
Growing up in rural Ontario, I've seen plenty of these, but I was always given a different explanation for it: chains stretching.

The idea was that these concessions were laid out via teams with two sets of horses pulling a chain directly west, then when the chain was fully stretched, putting down a post to mark the point at which the concession ended, tying the chain to it, and pulling the other end ahead until it ran out again.

This worked, but if team A has the old chain, and team B has the new chain, team A will keep being a few inches and then feet ahead of team B, who are working a few miles to the south, because the chain started to stretch over time.

In hindsight, I realize now that I have no idea if any of this is even remotely true, but it was a plausible explanation that I'd heard from a couple of sources.
tldr; it helps us to perhaps understand how we recognize the world around us, esp. when we're dreaming or on psychadelics
the only interesting / relevant part of this article are the comments.
> ... what kind of society would destroy families on the slightest pretext ...

The kind that likes to pretend that family stability isn't itself a good thing. It's tragic when families are torn or broken apart, but minimizing the consequences doesn't make the effects go away.

Across all demographics, children do better when they live in stable homes with two parents. The data backs this up 100%.

We can talk philosphically about whether the costs are worth it to achieve various goals (equality, freedom, etc.) but it's irrational to act like there are no downsides to avoiding or leaving marriage. The data even indicates that it's a net negative, on average. Maybe not for the people who hang out on HN, but certainly for poorer people with fewer opportunities.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/marriage-am...
Prayers for Little Richard
Leaving the Evil Empire of Facebook
Evaluating the Growth of the 1099 Workforce
It was complicated. George Washington in discussions with Benjamin Franklin said to Franklin that he couldn't free the slaves because the unity of the United States was far more important. The British didn't give up trying to control the United States until Andrew Jackson destroyed them in a battle at New Orleans and the British came very close to succeeding.

"I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another." -- Fro the first draft of George Washington's inaugural address.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had to deal with more pressing issues at the time and put off freeing slaves for a later generation.
The Paris Climate Agreement Has Been Adopted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722228
Yes, I know about Wolfram's asides, tics, and shoehorning, as does everyone who reads a thing he wrote. But the Wolfram Derangement Syndrome it provokes in internet forum threads isn't interesting either. It's a mirror image of the thing it is annoyed by.

We're not going to ban what Wolfram writes because (a) he's a good writer, (b) however one evaluates him, Mathematica is significant, and (c) his best pieces—which this is one of—are interesting. That's enough to belong here, and I think we can expect HN to have the discipline to focus on the substantive bits and resist the hypnotic pull of the trollish ones.
Recently after Windows 10 performed an update it notified me that it had uninstalled a VPN client because of incompatibility.

Personally I would have preferred it not perform the Windows Update and allow me to connect to my client's network considering that's one of the requirements of getting paid by the client.

This is exactly why I keep a Windows 7 VM ready.
Jefferson and Washington knew exactly that slavery was immoral.
We do pull our own weight. Our kids will produce more than they consume, over their lifetimes. A fraction of the surplus goes to the government, and is in fact the source of any subsidy being considered.
Of course it is. Not doing so is about as sensible as a computer science book which says in the introduction "we have intentionally limited the mathematical content".
PubPeer and Anonymity in Science
Thank goodness it's not being used by the riot squad...
>and the NRA is not making the world a safer place.

There is actually very little evidence for this. Violent crime is not strongly correlated with gun ownership (and it may even be negatively correlated). Instead, it appears to be based strongly on factors like poverty.

Here's a good summary. http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/613/gun-prevalen...
"Look," the creator of Linux could not give the faintest fart about GNU and has said he'd use a different license if he could. Why should a political movement that specializes in lousy marketing campaigns and haranguing be given a nod?

I do like that attempt, though. "Well, they used a license that GNU wrote, so GNU should get top billing!" Do you want to talk about how well Apache/Dropwizard and PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL work with Apache/Kotlin on GNU/OpenJDK8?
> Why you make your argument not taking into account the actual science?

Why make this about me?

Personally I really don't get AGW but I very much want to reduce oil consumption which I feel we should anyway, I reuse and recycle quite a bit etc.

> Why I have to listen to some "wealthy warmings" and not real scientists?

Still there is a massive problem where anyone who cares enough to read the news but doesn't have time or possibility to read the reports will see massive support from celebrities who then go on to travel by private jet to climate conferences. This does something to people.

Why is it that everyone feel they are doing the environment a service by downvoting and patronizing everyone that asks, telling that we are all either stupid or shills.
You should, I would love to read that :)
>But we can't prevent it from killing the programmer and stealing the button for itself.

Not to be condescending, but do you have any idea what practical AI actually looks like? The scenario you've imagined makes about as much sense as a laptop sprouting arms and strangling its owner.
Interestingly I was all for this until one day when I wasn't able to log into my Router's page. The router used a self signed SHA1 certificate and Chrome outright refused to render it. Gladly the router was open to dd-wrt and I was able to replace the certificate manually. However I wonder how many other devices are there which people can't update that may be affected because of this.
the title has been changed to include a ? when posting here it seems, (or they changed it on theatlantic.com). Nevertheless your comment about ? equalling clickbait really made me think.

Edit: ok I just realized that the summary at the top was used as the title when posting here. I don't feel there is anything wrong with this.
Good example of a probabilistic algorithm/data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list
Clicking "pricing" doesn't seem to do anything for me.
Who is talking about banning what he writes?
And only a few updates are needed at most when you do need them, thanks to the new cumulative update model.
I should have mentioned it had a granular texture. shudder
Is it okay to mention https://ideas.lego.com/projects/102740 ?
I am not so sure. I have met a few famous developers and I used to be surprised just how "boring" their setups were. Rob Pike was the only person who seemed to really configure his environment. A lot of old school devs just continue to use the command line in whatever form it is available. Even to the point that some just used cmd rather than bother with things like Cygwin.

I was surprised to see Bjarne using a standard Windows XP machine. Not sure if he used Visual Studio or what but he didn't do anything special as far as I could tell.

Then of course you have RMS who still lives in the 1970s :)

Edit: Like I said in my previous post I quite like using whatever the default is. A few changes here and there but on the whole it is much easier to move around if you just learn to work with whatever it comes with.
Yeah, this as well! Cultivate relationships with friends/family who have good taste, and kids 2 years older than yours or so. ;)

This is pretty easy, actually... people also actively want to get rid of clothes rather than store them; and young kids in particular fly through clothes much faster than they can wear them out.

About other stuff -- my wife & I were stubborn about avoiding all of the "default" baby purchases unless we really felt we needed them. No value judgement intended on people who buy e.g., strollers! Sometimes a stroller would have been pretty handy... But we wanted to travel a lot with our kids, light, so we needed lightweight habits at home first.

So: no upgrade from the 2-door hatchback (though we did spring for good carseats). No strollers; we learned a few good ways to tie a sling instead.

No separate kids' rooms (and no furnishings and decorations of such rooms). No crib.

No disposable diapers (we broke this rule for compostable diapers at night when each child was over 6 months or so... more pee to absorb... and much of the time when traveling). Potty-training quite early (from a few months old) with no deadlines or pressure, etc.; that worked out pretty well.

No bottles, no sippy cups. (Yes to small cutlery, though). We did use cheap glasses when they graduated from nursing to drinking from glasses, and lost a 2-3 per child as expected. The girls learned not to let them fall.

Toys: we bought very few and still ended up with a ton; family & friends give gifts, and they'd be sad if you told them to just stop. So we just tried to avoid electronic "made to be broken" stuff, generally.

Books: we have tons of books. No intention of reining this one in!
Win10 actually improves things here BTW, with the new cumulative update model requiring only a few updates to be installed at most.
There's a paragraph basically saying "there's been some cool stuff happening (you may have even heard about) in this particular field". Extrapolating that to the entire organization thinking that "neural networks are the answer to AI" as OP claimed is silly.
Creating the perfect GPG keypair
A world in which 100% of water was owned by a single (or several in a cartel) company would violate rule 2 - no easy barrier to entry.

If the barrier to entry were lower, another company would form to sell cheap water at high volume.
It's really interesting to see services like this emerge.

In my opinion, the merchant processing/gateway revolution happened when providers (Stripe, Braintree, et al) started providing quality APIs for user/profile/subscription management and took the burdens of PCI compliance off of the companies building consumer products.

On the surface, I feel like this is a great way to offload the liability of storing sensitive user data -- though it also creates a central source of failure. Success is predicated on Luno securing their data; if they can't, the model would die.

If they can, it's possible we'll start to see a mass-migration of authentication-based apps switching to these service, if only for the legal intention of offloading liability.

Really, a fascinating model.
I haven't, don't, and never will have a Facebook account. Ditto all the rest. No need for all that to stay in touch with the people in my life.

What concerns me is the lack of anonymity being pushed. The real name nonsense. Real name policies prevent so many people saying so much. Also highly bothersome is the trend with websites to have a Facebook sign-in and nothing else. It's like the want to track you EVERYWHERE, not just on their own digital properties. No, thank you.

It's still chat and email for me, coupled with as-often-as-possible face-to-face coffee outings.
> I'm not sure b) is generally included in the definition of democracy. Could you reference something that implies that?

Its in most political science textbooks, and even on wikipedia, hidden in point 2 of the 4 point definition at the top.

Have a look at most socialist eastern european countries in the 1980s. You had multiple parties, and you could vote. But surly we both wouldn't describe that as democracy. What was missing? Formally, there wasn't much of a difference. Sure, you often had compulsory voting, but Australia has that too.

The missing part was the lack of an independent civic sector. You had no politically relevant NGOs, no independent unions etc. You couldn't simply create a new political party at will. The government was the only actor able to meaningfully influence the political landscape.
It scrolls down to the Pricing section where it says:

"Cloudcraft is entirely free to use! You can use it to create professional AWS visualizations and diagrams for any use, in both commercial and non-commercial projects.

"What you create is yours. We support and encourage you to export to Wikis, documentation, formal RFPs, posters on your team wall..."
That's just enough for the YC social network to incorporate OpenAI researchers, and Sam knows it. YC folks will be at the water coolers and ping pong tables with OpenAI folks, and once the OpenAI folks move into another office they'll still be in frequent communication with their YC social contacts, if not through official channels then unofficially as friends. That means they'll hear the researchers' in-progress ideas and details on how the platform works or will work long before that information spreads to the general public. I'd consider that a huge advantage, assuming OpenAI makes sufficient progress.
Artificial intelligence risk research
Thanks for the clarification. I agree that the categories we put on "styles" are constructed, but not sure that for me it follows that they don't "exist". For example after I shared this discussion with a friend, we talked about how the "wall of text" of Hacker News' UX was jarring to them and they much preferred a Pinterest-style UX, while I like the information density of HN (and Slashdot, and lobste.rs, and Reddit, and ...). To me it seems like this difference in our preferences certainly exists; and it feels like "style" is an okay word for it. Although of course "style" is usually thought of as generalized, which can be problematic.

So, I'll think more about it ... My initial reaction is that like gender (which I also see as constructed) it's still a useful concept, although you have to be careful with it, but like I say, worth pondering.
Even then it depends.

If it takes you 60 seconds to download as gz, and 50 as xz. The decompression needs to take less than 10 seconds more for it to be comparable and you've got to be sure that your end users have more memory and sufficient processing power to throw at the task.
Explanation of Historic Paris Climate Agreement
No worries! But, to reassure you on one point: I'm not a relativist :)
A lot of people don't realise but the weakest point in their setup (from a security POV) is things like the password used on their browser sync account. There is a huge amount of responsibility on the sync service providers. Firefox literally knows everything about me and my accounts. Hell it knows passwords for accounts I don't even remember opening.

Self hosting the sync server makes a lot of sense. I think I will spend some time doing this over the Christmas holiday.
Is it odd that this article describes, but highlight , that yahoo is a decade behind the industry here? Continuous integration and skipping QA has been the web standard for years now.
> But they don't consume the entire earth in a couple of days, because "the right conditions" can't be sustained. They run out of energy. They drown in their own waste.

Maybe, but not necessarily, and even if they do "drown in their own waste" they might take a lot of others with them. When cyanobacteria appeared, the oxygen they produced killed off most other species on the planet at the time [1]. The cyanobacteria themselves are still around and doing fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
He should check out `ssh` ;)
Drivers aren't profitable on their own?
Probably patented by Disney, so don't expect too much breadth/variety in the market.

Also, is this safe?
Christ, don't give them ideas! :(
My contact card is here: https://twitter.com/deezthugs/status/654457605650255872 I'll add you to my contacts now
Mathematica is significant

Mathematica is a proprietary software influenced by the earlier computer algebra systems Macsyma (of which Wolfram was a user) and Schoonschip (whose code Wolfram studied).

Maxima is a computer algebra system based on a 1982 version of Macsyma. It is written in Common Lisp and runs on all POSIX platforms such as OS X, Unix, BSD, and Linux as well as under Microsoft Windows and Android. It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

It would be the same to defend William Henry "Bill" Gates III, by stating that MS-DOS is significant, while MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS - owned by Seattle Computer Products, written by Tim Paterson. Development of 86-DOS took only six weeks, as it was basically a clone of Digital Research's CP/M (for 8080/Z80 processors), ported to run on 8086 processor.
Why wouldn't it work? You can write to a symlink.

$ touch file
$ ln -s file symlink
$ echo text > symlink
$ cat file
text
You seem to be moving the goalposts a lot. First you discussed sampling error and different observers, until I pointed out that these are the province of ordinary stats.

Now you are discussing whether social experiments in an alternate universe might come out different. Of course they might.

I don't claim to be doing feminist philosophy - given how rapidly the definition shifts, how could I possibly know if I am? I certainly do feminist philosophy as per your first definition (worrying about biased samples and observers), and I certainly don't do it as per your second (thinking about alternate universes).
ok, no proof, but how about a rationale at least? what makes you think that?
If all we needed was "billions of cores", we could have done it by now by simply putting together a million of GPU cards in a large cluster. No exotic architectures needed.
Yea, definitely much more complex than the update.exe that was used back in XP.
This initiative makes no sense. If AI could really become a technology which would endanger our civilization, when you clearly would not(!) want it to be useable for everyone. There is a reason why it is not the right of every american citizen to own plutonium, buy sarin or send letters full of anthrax around.

But if AI would be as dangerous to society as for example cars, then we don't need such an initiative. So for me the whole thing seems to be a marketing stunt of sleep-deprived billionaires who read the wrong books.
Was this after the 1511 upgrade? I think you can go back to a previous build pretty easily in Win10.
The update procedure works fine, the newly updated OS X seldom so. Far too often updating OS X means having something break.
In the post they state that Mozilla never sees your password and that content is encrypted locally, so Mozilla doesn't actually appear to know very much about you at all. See the link in the post: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/05/08/firefox-account...
First law of a cartel: everybody has an incentive to defect.
If you delete a contact they will not see anything you post after that point in time
World agrees landmark climate deal
Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 Key Free Download [100% Working]
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> Also, is this safe?

I think this is probably pretty safe, at least from an electrical perspective. One thing I would be curious about though is if there any possibility that this could cause known vibration disorders like white finger[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_white_finger
The way we are talking about space travel is probably the same way the people of Florence, Italy spoke of Da Vinci flying machines, submarine and his armored "car."

When you consider the dangers of just getting to Mars and how long that project will take, I suspect we are a century or two away.

http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/armoured-car.aspx
Why Mailbox died
> It's devastating that this is the kind of work that people deride now for its length and verbose cadence.

I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, it's the duty of the writer to communicate, and that means meeting your reader where they actually are instead of where you might wish them to be. But on the other hand, the best experiences I've had as a reader were with writers who challenged me, who forced me to really chew on their ideas instead of just sucking down a pre-digested Soylent slurry.

There's probably a point in the middle of that spectrum somewhere, but I write a lot and I still have yet to discover exactly where it is.
Cuban tech scene on display at the first Startup Weekend in Cuba
Show HN: Emono – Your own mobile game in 30 days
Obligatory: "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity" http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/491/Batshit.htm
This initial version is is very deliberate about who you share with. The idea is that the user is always in control of who anything is shared with. One way to help create your social network will be an "opt-in profile page" that others can view and collect your card via. Its in the works.
p384 is the standard, yes, however, any future implementation of Crypton will, I hope, move to Curve25518
Some applications write to a temp file and then move that over the old file.

One way to work around this is to symlink the entire directory.
That's fair, I wasn't aware that OPAM was funded by JS. It is definitely one of the better package managers that I've worked with too.

I'd like to ask you a question, as it isn't every day that yminsky responds to me. If you knew from the beginning that you would end up creating an entire ecosystem (including libraries, package managers, etc) mostly from scratch, would you have chosen SML instead? I know when you joined JS that OCaml was probably the pragmatic choice. But so many ML enthusiasts (myself included) prefer the syntax and semantics of SML and end up using OCaml/F#/Scala because the SML ecosystem is so non-existent.
> Why make this about me?

Because you're the one making arguments against GW using celebrities and not the actual science
As a canadian, I'm so glad that these discussions were held after the election.
Yes, that is basically an in place upgrade, but Pro users can defer it (this is called CBB). And when a new build is not being installed, the amount of time spent on each reboot should be much less due to less processing being required after each cumulative update.
Sure, but a PhD's area of expertise is increasingly narrow.
Just wondering what the motivation was for making this free?