skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. The previous government was against binding agreements that did not bind China or India or other developing nations (for reasons that we've seen as China has exploded into the most significant polluter), and which actually might have been negative to the actual cause. Kyoto, for instance, would have been devastating to the environment, however much it might have been illusory of progress.

So right now you see a lot of Canadians who villainized the previous government celebrating what sounds like it is effectively nothing. The new Canadian government sent 388 delegates to Paris, the vast bulk having nothing to do with negotiations and just enjoying the photo ops and a vacation junket, which was more than the United States, more than the UK, more than Australia. Indeed, it was more than all of those countries combined.

I don't mean to politicize this, but there is a detached "words versus action" argument that appears when Canada comes up and it is deeply disconcerting.
No fossil fuels between 2050 and 2100? I am unimpressed.

I have a better plan. Here's how to reduce worldwide carbon emissions by 44% in 15-25 years.

Step 1) Replace all coal power plants with nuclear plants
Step 2) There is no step 2
New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be a Hoaxer
Yes, I would like to see the logic of Sam & Elon's discussions that caused them to opt for this route. Let's have them post it on the internet and give everyone an opportunity to shoot holes in it. (I hope I'd have the guts to do this if I was a billionaire.)
the problem probably is human-level intelligence is still stupid, so it's a risk either way
Name one single framework that is perpetually backwards compatible while being even remotely modern.
The legal aspect was taken care of by the Bill of Rights.
The govt is trying to erode them and so now we need to "fight" against it.
Yes I realize what it takes, but as Feynman quipped "nature cannot be fooled". At some point the piecemeal dilution of what we actually need to do will come back and bite us badly.

No amount of negotiation between the hypothetical scientist and the bureaucrats about not cutting down the last tree on Easter Island that doesn't 100% go in favor of the scientist will come out well. The trees will still be extinct.
In short, because human intelligence evolved in a different environment than AI. We are the results of the need to survive and reproduce, and the majority of our "intelligence" is based on this foundation. Algorithms have no such darwinian pressures, and there is no point in developing AI replacements for them, since humans abound.
How Would a Quantum Computer Handle Transcendental Numbers?
Wikipedia: "In quantum computing, a qubit (/ˈkjuːbɪt/) or quantum bit (sometimes qbit) is a unit of quantum information—the quantum analogue of the classical bit. A qubit is a two-state quantum-mechanical system, such as the polarization of a single photon: here the two states are vertical polarization and horizontal polarization."

Wikipedia: "In mathematics, a transcendental number is a real or complex number that is not algebraic—that is, it is not a root of a non-zero polynomial equation with rational coefficients."

For example, e, Pi, and Phi -- but there are many others.

OK, so let's say I have a Quantum Computer.

Questions:

1) How do I input a Transcendental Number?

2) If, after inputting a Transcendental Number, I then want the Nth digit of that number, where N is a super large integer, like say the trillionth digit of Pi, how do I ask the Quantum Computer for that, and will the result be accurate if checked against a conventional computer?

3) Using Transcendental Numbers in repeated functions which take Transcendental Numbers and return other Transcendental Numbers as their results, will the Nth digit of the resulting number be correct, if checked against a conventional computer?

And finally:

4) In cases where N is so high that a conventional computer can't check what its value should be, and we ask a Quantum Computer for it, how do we know that the Quantum Computer is correct?
That layout is pretty wasteful. The title of article isn't even shown until somewhere into the second page.
"It simply does not outside of the realm of science fiction."

If you could prove that, you'd put a lot of minds at ease. By "prove" I mean not necessarily a full mathematical proof, but certainly more than a few paragraphs of English text.

I'm skeptical myself, seems like the more we learn about biology the more it is doing that we did not realize, but skepticism is at best the first step to proof.
I have been using xmarks for years and switched to firefos-sync a while ago, so far so good. I did not know the code is open and I can self-host it until now, will try that. I do agree that we shall also own the firefox-sync login/password and it should have nothing to do with mozilla/firefox.

even better if it can support other browsers, but it seems I'm using firefox everywhere so I don't really care that much these days.
Great job with this, I can't wait to play around with it more. The bane of my life is creating graphics but this is something I will actually use.
I thought much the same once. This paper convinced me otherwise: https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...

I'd be interested in your take on it.
>These drones could be programmed to target specific groups of people, for example of a certain ethnicity, and attack them almost autonomously.

Are these drones also self-replicating and fully independent?
Upvote for a really accessible explanation. I wish I had posts like these to read when I was learning Haskell half a decade ago. You've got a knack for conveying concepts! Write some texts or at least a blog!
The annoying thing is he was close enough to fool me.
no wonder. click around and read this (or similar) for context: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/banksy-u...
"devops" really terrifies me. I think the idea is that you have less friction if you have an operations person that also understands development, or vice versa. But! You're still asking one person to do two jobs. And they really are two very distinct jobs. Are they being paid double? To me, it just seems like cheaping out on having a proper operations person, which really is a full time job. It's understandable if you're a cash strapped startup.. but lets not pretend it isn't what it is.
This seems like a good use case for a 400 Bad Request.
Leslie Lamport: Computer Science and State Machines (2008) [pdf]
It's more ridiculous. I've seen people claim that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the West to stunt economies of developing countries.

Now only if they could talk to global warming "skeptics" in "the West" and engage in some kind of verbal death match...
> Facebook's proposal is that only organizations that are a) demonstrably using this technique and b) validated at a higher level than automatic domain validation be allowed to get new SHA-1 certs

b) may help prevent collision attacks, but I have a hard time viewing a) (requiring downgrade-proof cert switching) as anything but security theater.

Edit: it's not even clear to me that b) is an integral part of Facebook's proposal. Their blog post says (emphasis added): "Such verification can be automated or manual, and appropriate measures can be put in place to reduce the risk of a collision attack. Those protections could include requiring LV applicants to have already passed OV or EV verification" [https://www.facebook.com/notes/alex-stamos/the-sha-1-sunset/...] CloudFlare's blog post [https://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-deprecation-no-browser-lef...] doesn't mention it at all.
They disabled zoom on the iPhone. I couldn't see much.
My second claim is not there to invalidate the first, but rather to point out that there are two "AI problems", and that one is a lot closer to science fiction than the other.

I've expounded on the denial: we will need to first figure out what motivates humans before we can replicate their levels of intelligence. So in order to solve HGI, we will need to understand HGI, which means we will be able to control HGI. We will understand personalities and values in a systematic way, and we will be able to choose the personalities and values of any one instance of HGI.
I can only speak to this anecdotally, but in my observations, yes, especially so when you're in areas of far less socioeconomic success than that of Western Europe, financially-driven city-states like Singapore (or Hong Kong, if you can call it one still), or Japan. Whether it is organized religion or superstition, there is a lot of folk knowledge that people still hold as equivalent and valuable, probably due to confirmation bias or the pain of cognitive dissonance in recognizing that an old adage is incorrect.

Look at a good chunk of the Mideast as it exists today geopolitically; even wealthy areas like the UAE exist under pretty much strict Sharia interpretations.

I have also observed this appears to be the case for a large chunk of the Muslim world, a decent part of Africa, Central America, and the Philippines, from my interactions with people natively from those areas outside of a scientific or professional atmosphere. I have a strong tendency to talk to anyone and everyone I can about their cultures, whether I am in their native land or they are in mine.
Something interesting to do from now on: Search in Google `site:https://cloudcraft.co/view` You will see the shared links from existing diagrams.

Right now Google had just indexed one https://cloudcraft.co/view/d3908616-4d96-4d5c-8747-6856e8801...
It's indeed just a spectacle, political theater, but it is based on a wide-ranging acknowledgment of man-made climate change, which is of great importance.
No, this isn't a treaty see my comment above on why it was worded the way it was to avoid Congress ratification. Our country will now join the world to fight climate change, with or without the Senate. This is huge because more of Senate is deeply indebted/paid by Koch brothers.
And since oil prices are near 10-year lows, I think it seems the market's reacting.
Question for the HN audience: what exactly would Deep Dream do it if were trained on 'everything'?

When it came out, people asked why its output was full of puppyslugs, and the answer was "Because it was trained primarily on a corpus of dog pictures."

Well, suppose that it was trained on a corpus of pictures of 'everything'. What would its output look like then? Would they look more or less like the input image?
http://banksy.co.uk/index1.asp shows much more than (spoilers) just a face.
Ask HN: How do you documenting/visualising a microservices architecture?
I was wondering how do people documenting or visualising a microservices architecture. Do you use a particular tool? If you do versioning, how do you keep compatibility notes? Something else you are using?
Why blindly? I can audit the browser's code, lock the updates and know it's reasonably secure against this kind of attack.

With the current implementation, with the page served from the network, there's no reasonable way to check that I'm not suddenly served with something malicious. I mean, I could be served a different page next time.

Well, of course, to be precise, after auditing the in-browser login dialog code I would also have to check the XUL and JS engines that it's using, the compiler that was used to produce Firefox, the system libraries, kernel, firmware and CPU microcode and so on. But that's another story.
"I must make it clear that I stand that both legal and technological measures are necessary and are equally important. And I believe that neither would work well without the other one."

100% agree. The overall solution will combine technological methods and legal reforms. We continue developing and implementing what technical solutions we can for privacy and security in general. Just have to never fool ourselves on what it will take to stop the huge internal threat.
Since it is not clear what the point is: This depicts a mural by Banksy (a well known British street artist) indicating that Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant.

>EDIT: Title has now been changed to make it more clear.
You can also just click on each picture to view the next.
Breakout (Brick Breaker) Created in 60 Minutes with Pygame
At first I didn't get it. This link is better. I guess you can say 'spoilers' but it makes sense with this link. :)
Is the argument here "don't worry about immigration because children of immigrants have potential to be great people"? Steve Jobs Syrian nationality has 0% to do with how he was raised, or the life he lived.

I am not trying to argue one side or the other, but I find this more of a "fun fact" than something that should matter at all for this topic.
> That's a lot of dancing to avoid condemning hateful, repressive beliefs.

I guess I missed the dance party. All I see is the statement:

"Any US citizen may maintain their own practices just so long as those practices are compatible with US law."

Seems pretty simple and clear to me.
Also be aware that everyone finds out if they won the lottery at about the same time, regardless of premium processing. So if you trust your lawyer to do the job correctly, and you're not trying anything sketchy, if you win the lottery you should get a "yes" decision eventually, and there's really no reason to pay the premium fee except for reducing anxiety waiting for the "yes".
I'm talking about the surveillance state in America. My points apply to surveillance states in most democracies, though. China is a rather extreme situation. Yet, the points still apply: their people at the mercy of a corrupt government means the government can use laws and money poured into harmful tech to continue to hold them down. The solution, even there, will be aimed by the people straight at the government.
Click on the image repeatedly. It's awesome.
It almost seems like the most practical solution at this point in time. Even though "green" energy has come a long way over the past few decades, it's not going to power the industries that cater to our comfy lives.

There are certainly downsides and problems with nuclear power, waste is coming to mind and safety seems to be the other. I think that if we built nuclear power plants today they will be a lot safer and cleaner than the ones we used to built in the 60's and 70's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EviEN0ScOwg
Ah! This would explain why those times I felt the driver was intentionally taking a (much) longer route where always late at night, when going home to an area where it'd be unlikely for them to catch a fare going back the other way simply due to there being little to no foot traffic around.
But that's like coming into a movie 25 minutes late. No, go to the original link, and click through.
Worth listening to after reading the piece: Gay Talese being interviewed by Alec Baldwin.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/gay-talese/
What -precisely- are you trying to say?

Stop for a few minutes and try to distill your argument to its essence, then take some time writing an explanation of that argument as clearly as you are able to.
I think it will be obvious once HGI is sufficiently understood, in a way that will not need more than a paragraph, if that.

The fear and idea of somehow creating an HGI without understanding how to control it came from The Terminator. It's pure fantasy.
> Steve Jobs Syrian nationality has 0% to do with how he was raised, or the life he lived.

But that's the point, isn't it?
Not encouraging.

“The current text is weaker than the final agreement that came out of [the failed] Copenhagen [summit in 2009]”

http://www.thenation.com/article/scientists-warn-paris-clima...

"James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'"
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-han...
Come to say hello on Hacker news chat: http://lerochat.com/join/hacker-news

Any feedback, questions... You can post on feedback channel or here, I would love to hear it!
Don't forget involuntary genital mutilation AKA circumcision.
The purpose of the profile isn't to argue a risk exists. We largely defer to the people we take to be experts on the issue, especially Nick Bostrom. We think he presents compelling arguments in Superintelligence, and although it's hard to say anything decisive in this area, if you think there's even modest uncertainty about whether AGI will be good or bad, it's worth doing more research into the risks.

If you haven't read Bostrom's book yet, I'd really recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-N...
Yes, it has that optimization for short data (though it's not restricted to English), but the PR and specs say it's still meant to be a general purpouse compressor. And it does very well on most types of large data.
I don't think anybody doubted they would sign something in Paris, and that is baked in, but the actual content wasn't known until after market close on friday.

Professional traders will have diversified away from fossil stocks due to the uncertainty, but on monday they will either jump back in, or stay even further away, depending on their take on the agreement.
I'm of middle eastern background and fully sympathetic to the Syrian cause. I was very happy about Canada welcoming Syrian refugees and I really don't like Trump.

That said I do agree with you. His father was Syrian but Steve was raised in an American house hold and has zero cultural/emotional connection to Syria and the middle east.
Cube? I was almost sure it was square
Yes, crude oil is at record lows.
> we will need to first figure out what motivates humans before we can replicate their levels of intelligence

I would not assume this with certainty.

There are many systems in nature that consist of simple pieces, when composed, yield enormous complexity. Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives. We might get lucky and discover the means to generate intelligences without understanding them.

As an example, "Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic...
I follow how there can be liability, but unless the families are co-signing how can they be liable?

Can families that fight back recoup legal costs potentially getting a judgement against some or all of the landlord's property?

The post raises more questions than answers. Seems like a "proper" legal system should deal with this soon enough without any extra legislation. Granted it's Japan.
Couldn't've put it better myself.
You could make basically the same argument for why humans will never invent heavier-than-air flight - because avian flight 'evolved based on a need to survive and reproduce', and 'artificial flight doesn't have darwinian pressures'.

But humans did make artificial flying machines.

I don't mean to be unkind, but your argument doesn't have close to the level of certainly that we should bet our species on.

No one knows where the roadblocks to AGI are, or what the timelines might be; but there is what seems like huge progress happening recently in an area which might eventually lead there. While no one knows the path, many intelligent people have thought about this without finding any theoretical roadblocks. Please don't publicly dismiss the concerns as 'science fiction' without a little more thought.
Sorry about that. I've added controls to the videos so you can pause them. Hope that helps!
> This week I learned on this very forum the US opened up to non-EU immigrants only after 1965?

What?

The stereotype of Asian laborers working (and dying) to build the great Western railroads is grounded in a fair bit of truth. Moreover, San Francisco's Chinatown acquired the Asian residents that lead to its name long before 1965.
We want people to be able to experience Stockfighter like a fun game. Part of the expected, baseline of experience for games in 2015 is that you can play them socially, either a) with your friends or b) with your cast-of-thousands watching you play them.

We're thus OK with folks streaming our games. (And, ooh, thanks for reminding me to put up that policy note for the platform IP reviewers.)

We'd appreciate folks trying to not spoil folks who aren't looking for spoilers. I'm not too worried about folks being able to find solutions if they turn over the Internet for them; I'd just prefer that they not be pervasively available.

As to whether this causes us issues as a recruitment platform: don't worry about our business model. That's my job. You can search HN for "patio11 stockfighter cheating" if you want to hear a little elaboration on why I am not too worried about this.
Except it's not entirely painting the whole picture since Steve Jobs was adopted and not raised by his biological parents.
Some interesting points but it isn't limited just to academia. You unfortunately see similar cliques in industry for things like databases, languages, MVC frameworks, etc which is rather thin knowledge that can be picked up quickly by competent hires.
"potential to be great people" From all accounts I've read; he was in no way a great person - great business man, yes.
How to Know What Most Men Really Want for Christmas as Gift
Sir Karl Popper will blow your mind.
Stanley Kubrick Confesses to Faking the Moon Landings
Sorry to spoil the fun, but I've disallowed /view/ from robots.txt to prevent accidental shares. I think this one must have been from someone sharing on Twitter or some other public place where Google would have picked it up.
Introduction to A* algorithm
It matters because given the current climate of anti-immigrant rhetoric, immigration may become nigh on impossible. If this had happened a few decades ago there would be no Steve Jobs and no Apple, and an important contribution to American culture/technology/economy would never have happened.

There is a rather long and impressive list of Billionaire and influential recent immigrants or children of immigrants.
You're right, I was looking at the wrong page: https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/

I still think the primary goal and profit is made on the core driving service, not the leasing program.
Also check http://www.dismaland.co.uk/ (few clicks away after Steve Jobs).

They are recycling Banksy's 'fun park' into houses.
That's an interesting hypothesis. How would you do a longitudinal study on which couples are forced to stay together? I think we skipped some empirical work and jumped straight to a narrative in the way we reformed family structure over the decades.

Ironically, women and children (especially boys) seem to be the hardest hit, at least statistically. This is distressing since they were supposed to be the reason we started rethinking family structure in the first place.

Regardless, the census statistics are for all single households versus all married households. The never-married are also included in the statistics, so trapped-in-a-relationship certainly doesn't always apply.

Here's an LA Times column breaking down a few more studies:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1027-goldberg-fam...
French has less hybrid linguistic heritage than English, so its orthography is much more regular. Scrabble is a very English game.
Politics these days. It's like politics before, but even more so.
It matters because a lot of the debate was about letting in 5 year old or less orphans. And those children have as much chance to be successful contributors to society as Steve Jobs had when he was an adopted child.
Well to be honest, if somebody gets the password to your email service, they get everything as well.