skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give evidence to it only lasting a year? I print in PETG which is the same plastic used by Coke to create their 2 liter bottles. Even "if" it only lasts a year, the cost of the plastic is cents so I'll just print another.

I'll pass down the schematics which are more durable than even plastic.
Maybe he's talking about the area just east of Santa Monica and South of Hollywood: Silicone Valley.
Is this Facebook's future? After all, they're pretty much AOL 2.0 (2.0).
A bit late, but I read somewhere that you can't order a single dish in Korean restaurants. If you're alone you have to order two minimum.

This could help?
> nearly word for word)

Great minds think alike! ;-)
Or a 3D console Pokemon. Or Pokemon Snap 2.

I would be more interested in Pokemon Snap 2 than either an MMO or straight 3D title.
I like paying with it, from how the protocol was designed i feel like its less likely to have my credit card info leaked. I find that the biggest issue when paying is that the POS system is on its own mission (fucking hate that weight system (plz return your item to the bagging area)). So i might have to try to complete the payment multiple times before it submits.....
Let me try again.

I chose my words carefully. What, precisely, did gwern do? Describe their actions as if your Reddit link didn't exist.

Are you upset about the contents of that IRC transcript? Because gwern already said that had nothing to do with the investigation, and I believe them. They mention the Internet Archive as one way of verifying the authenticity of various internet posts / timestamps, for example.

Perhaps what's going on here is that bitcoin enthusiasts are upset that Satoshi may have been identified.

Listen, I believe in the principle of charity. I know you're smart, so there's something that I'm missing here. But you haven't described specific things that you believe should tank gwern's reputation. Again: What specifically are you upset with? Those signatures have nothing to do with the investigation. So I'd like to understand what else there is.
I realize that the thread of the conversation risks becoming a bit meander-ey through multiple authors, but if I follow the line of reasoning...

So far, we seem to be positing that: with some sort of UBI, people can move to more remote or less costly locales and do things that aren't valuable enough to be paid for by evil capitalists, but are valuable enough for them to ... satisfy whatever psychological need they may have to tell themselves that they are useful or worthwhile human beings?

Gosh, IDK, that's a thin stretch. I think that if society needs a UBI as a better (more effective and/or efficient) form of social safety net, we will need to convince people that it's OK if 25% or more of the entire adult population is really doing nothing more with their lives than consuming air/food/water and watching Jerry Springer.

By which I mean - it might still be the best safety net scheme we can come up with to get us to/through an age of automation, but we'd best not try to sell it on the idea that it will lead to a flowering of the a new age of the human spirit or some such. Rather, it's just a social safety net that doesn't disincentivize any particular incremental unit of work at the margin. Policy-wise, that may be good enough to make it worthwhile.
Love the illustrations. This is a great piece. An extrovert will still not get it though, or will think you are just joking, haha, and go back to treating everyone normally.
Where do you get $10m a year? Quarterly earnings report have much higher numbers...http://ir.aol.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=147895&p=quarterlyearnings

Beyond that I think Verizon bought AOL
1) for a company with some experience with digital advertising, which is where I think Verizon sees a lot of its growth potential. There's only so many mobile phone subscribers in the US and landline business isn't really growing too much. See its accquistion of the TV company from Intel (they spent $1 billion for a NFL contract to stream games on mobile for 4 years).
2) it's still profitable and $4 billion really isn't very much for Verizon (Verizon itself was the $130B buyout of the Vodafone share by Verizon communications)
Beyond contributing to the change in my thinking over the past year, I'm not going to suggest that any of these books changed my life in the way that the Bhagavad Gita or Leviathan or Foucault's Pendulum might. Particularly since these are Computer Science related per the RFP. Anyway:

1. Art of Computer Programming: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4a. This stuff is hard. It's harder than I can imagine. [It's worth noting that this probably clarifies my definition of "read", since I've only read a little bit of it so far and only really grokked a little bit of what I read].

2. Programming Clojure made me make sense of the truth underlying the joke "Clojure is just a Java library".

3. The Art of Unix Programming [1] made me understand my experience living through the transition from MSDos to twenty years of Windows and think about what I had lost and missed and how my understanding of software and design had been shaped. It also helped gain better intuitions when using Linux. [2]

4. Starting Forth [3] because Forth is worth learning. It's worth learning because it changed the way I think about programming languages.

5. The Art and Science of Smalltalk [4] for the same reasons as Forth, only more so. After reading about Smalltalk, I felt I began to understand the "Why" of Ruby. Ruby became many times richer with the context.

6. The weird one is The RSpec Book: Behavior Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber and Friends. It's also the one that changed my thinking the most [caveat: it's also the most recently read]. I saw someone's "port" of RSpec to Clojure [6] and had saw the Turing Tarpit swallow Lisp. Until then, my smug weeniness didn't allow for the possibility. But implementing an internal DSL for RSpec missed the beauty of RSpec's design. I saw Lisp through the eyes of it's detractors. It's a case where Lisp's parentheses make an elegant idea grotesque.[7]

7. [Bonus] The C Standard Library. Trigonometric values are produced via the dark arts.

[1]: http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/

[2]: Please note, I am not anti-Windows or anti-Microsoft. There are tradeoffs all around.

[3]: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

[4]: http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/Art/artAdded17418618...

[5]: http://www.thriftbooks.com/

[6]: https://github.com/slagyr/speclj

[7]: Please don't get me wrong. I don't dislike Lisp. I'm not arguing that the repository is typical, or that anyone else should find RSpec's design attractive. What I saw was that as an internal DSL, RSpec's design baby goes out with the Ruby bathwater in the land of Clojure internal DSL's.
So the guy, out of narcissism or whatever, made some imprudent edits to old blogposts. Taking advantage of that to publish an unsubstantiated article that potentially puts someone's life at risk is, for lack of a stronger word, wrong.
I would still implore you not to write your own EHR unless you are a tried-and-true data-security expert.

If you aren't positive that you are one or you haven't had this tested in the real world, then you aren't one.

It's not fair to patients to play fast and loose with their data, nor is it at all easy to develop and design usable software. It's not something you could do in your spare time while also working as a doctor. You'd most likely need to start a company and put together a team.
Well if people really want product-motivated engineers, I'm going into the video games field. Also becoming a game designer.

I guess the ideal place for the technically motivated is in large companies like Google/Microsoft or in open source. Should we get a masters and find something more suited to our interests? I'm not sure what the answer actually is.
> Yes, but presumably he can pay it out of his Bitcoin fortune

Thereby tanking the price of Bitcoin, and his fortune. Though on the bright side, a smaller fortune will mean smaller taxes.
Weird that a guy with the know-hows to prepare for such a situation didn't survive.
"Originally, none of the actual web crawling and data housing was done by Yahoo! itself. In 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo! Search became independent. On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
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There's a big difference between ingestion and inhalation.
You can buy instructions on bricklink.com, too, if you like paper. BL is a bit of an old beast of a site, but it's got (by far) the biggest collection of LEGO stuff on the planet - and I include LEGO Inc, in that.
Gwern has a long history of obsessive and misdirected behavior on this subject which is likely to cause harm to others. This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi"... and this time the evidence consists mostly of counter evidence.

For example, these pgp signed emails are signed with the key with short ID 5EB7CB21 which is not the well known key, does not exist in old keyserver dumps, and has a pref-hash-algos list of "8 2 9 10 11", which is the list that GNUPG started generating a year (commit e50cac1d848d332c4dbf49d5f705d3cbbf074ba1) after the date on the key. The well known key, which the new key claims to be generated within 24 hours of, has "2 8 3" which was an the prior list of hashes.
What exactly is your brain doing when you're on the Internet?
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Yeah. I was scanning the text, saw "EMC" and started having second thoughts, "rock star developers" appeared and I just closed the tab.

I honestly don't understand the term "rock star developer".

Are they trying to imply that the developer is moody; makes ridiculous demands like "i need a bowl of 271 all-blue M&Ms on my desk each day at precisely 11:12:13 AM"; cannot be trusted with hotel fixtures and furniture; is almost certainly an alcoholic and/or drug addict; will have on average 3 well publicised "shocker" moments that gain world wide media attention; expect to have sex with multiple young fans?

I mean, I know the tech industry loves to re-invent words and terms just because, but let's face it, rock stars sometimes produce good music, and almost always would make terrible friends, colleagues, employees or spouses.
> The research is clear: Children learn better and more efficiently from play and interaction in the “real,” three-dimensional (3-D) world with parents, caregivers, and peers.

> This resource provides guidelines for parents and
caregivers of children younger than 3 years on how to use screens in ways that minimize the potential negative effects and maximize learning.

> Although the body of research on the effect of screen media
(beyond TV viewing) is still relatively limited, it clearly points to the following implications for parents and other caregivers: • Be thoughtful about how you use media with
young children. Set limits on screen time to be sure that children have plenty of time exploring the real, 3-D world
with family and friends. ( ... )

Though the guide doesn't explicitly say it, 0 screen time still seems like the optimal satisfaction of the presented guidelines.
I think you have to be careful about what you do, versus what is common in the industry. It is pretty common to get asked coding questions in the Bay Area, regardless.

Most of the better interviewers work to understand how the candidate thinks and their aptitude to learn new things. Those can tell you a lot about how successful they will be in a job. And folks have shown that take home projects can show you what they can get done.

I found it interesting to compare the company's interviewer training at Google and at IBM. IBM is focused on finding highly qualified people compatible with their values, Google was more interested in finding people who were not intimidated by "impossible" questions. Both have their strengths.
Gwern, what would possibly compel you to do this?
My suggestion is that they are different sets of curves. We're interested in the properties of ice, and they are going to study the properties of tap water that has been put in the refrigerator for half an hour. You and I will have delightful conversations attempting to divine the properties of ice from chilled water, but political activists will declare ice fully characterized and of low viscosity while denouncing the "phase change" theory as a bourgeois boogieman.

Inflationary spirals are no joke. Some degree of caution is in order before deliberately engineering one.
And specifically not in the case of China. So the answer of OP's "What conclusions do you think I was warranted in drawing?" is exactly the expected one: "That you haven't understood well what they're saying."
I wonder what percent is people who can't be bothered to fix it. I've been telling my mother for the past two years she no longer needs to pay for AOL to access her AOL email account, yet she does nothing. She pays something like $20/month for the fucking service.
Which part of http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie... do you believe is unsubstantiated?

The situation is just confusing. Help me understand what's going on here. If part of that article is unsubstantiated, then everyone would be interested in that.
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Yep, there are all sorts of forms about material representations and liabilities for false statements. It seems like a well-run program, our contacts with the ATO were very sharp and knew which questions to ask. You could tell they've ferreted out fraudulent applications before.
Great article, I ran into this exact problem at work today. You can also get a very similar problem if the timeseries aggregation system you're using does any pre-aggregation before you calculate the percentile - for example, if you sample your servers every 90 seconds, then any latency number it reports is likely already averaged over the requests the server received during that time period, meaning your 99th percentile number is really the latency of the 99th percentile server, not the 99th percentile request. Using latency buckets solves this problem as well, however.
Well, OK, I could understand a position saying "We don't have a special-purpose module of our brain devoted to grammar," which is (I think) a direct opposite of Chomsky's position. I'm not a neuroscientist, so I don't really know how much we're close to answering this.

However, that is very different from the quoted passage. It sounds like these "neuroscientists and psychologists" don't think our brain has any notion of "grammar" at all, and everything can be explained better with statistical relations. I find that very hard to accept, and I wonder if a more reasonable position (= there is no special part of brain reserved for learning grammar) was summarized poorly into a much stronger hypothesis.

Well, of course, if we reduce everything as much as we like, then we could say everything is about statistical relation of a gazillion variables (or quantum mechanics, if you go far enough). But that's not useful, isn't it? Even if we cannot pinpoint a neuron and say "This neuron will fire if it sees a past perfect!", if the brain as a whole acts like it has an underlying notion of grammar, then I think it's fair to say that it "knows" grammar.

And, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that my brain acts like it has some notion of English grammar. :P

Edit: Hmm, I think I caused confusion by using the word "innate". Apparently it can mean (1) existing from the time a person or animal is born, and (2) existing as part of the basic nature of something.

Chomsky proposes (1), and many disagrees. (I don't find Chomsky's arguments particularly convincing, either.) But the sentence I quoted (which didn't use the word "innate") sounds like it was against (2).
Developers sneaking in pirated copies of software from companies like Borland into the office long preceded and anticipated their entry.
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This is scary, but probably accurate. And EA would have ended up owning it and ruining it.
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But does it have Generics? ;-)
> I chose my words carefully. What, precisely, did gwern do? Describe their actions as if your Reddit link didn't exist.

I also chose my words carefully. I pointed out that he was involved in making this accusation. He used faulty reasoning from poor misevidence to draw a conclusion that can bring tremendous harm to others. Article states his involvement, plus private correspondence of ~30 days of work on this article, plus I have known him for years and we talk about Satoshi speculation a bunch thus how I know that he has actually looked at the misevidence. I suppose the other issue is that he's from the "lesswrong" community which claims to be better at reasoning, but the only kind of reasoning that would be complicit with glossing over such substantially useless "evidence" is ... motivated reasoning.

> Perhaps what's going on here is that bitcoin enthusiasts are upset that Satoshi may have been identified.

Nah, I am just as curious as anyone else. I also know that finding Satoshi 4realz is going to bring tremendous danger to whoever that person was.
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Try 1 MLoC project written in dynamic programming language (in this case: javascript) and touched by hundreds developers for 3 years.

I guarantee you that you will deal with way more uncertainties than Java.

This getter/setter is a micro-issue/insignificant.
> It would be a step towards making an OS for PC Clones that can compete with Windows and GNU/Linux.

If they wanted to do that, they'd just release OS X for generic X86-64 hardware.

Apple tried the whole "lets officially support 3rd party hardware makers" thing in the 90s. It did not go well for them.
Anyone remember the Facebook phone?
If you believe that gwern has done something to warrant this criticism, I would really love to understand that.

Does gwern's reply on Reddit address what you just wrote?

And as I pointed out in my subsequent replies which you have left out, I am perfectly aware that PGP public key metadata (not pgp.mit.edu timestamps, since the keyservers are only reading what the keys say!) can be backdated at creation, and this is why we put our effort into nailing down the creation and modification dates of the blog post in third-party archives like the IA and Google Reader.

Our case was not based on the key creation dates and it is bullshit for you to imply that it was or that their unreliability torpedoes the article.

Can you point out which part of the gizmodo or wired articles were based on mistaken evidence from gwern's investigation?
I wonder if he could start his own consulting company?
What drives someone to keep pushing forward with something like this? They've had repeated, failed, public demonstrations of the technology. I mean, I guess plain old fraud could explain it, since they've managed to raise 20 million euros, and even the author of the post plans to buy one of these things (even saying, "Overturning science is an extremely high bar for Steorn to vault, but it's not necessarily impossible." after explaining in detail how what they're claiming to do is impossible). But, it seems like a passion project born of an actual belief that they've accomplished what they claim.

It's just so baffling. Are they mentally ill? Are all of their investors mentally ill, or are they merely deeply ignorant? (And, I'm not saying that as an insult. It just seems plausible that one explanation for flaunting the basic rules of physics repeatedly and with such gusto requires some sort of disconnect from reality in order to believe that the tests you're performing are producing results opposite of what everyone else is getting out of them.)
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> Related question: is it still true that if you are willing to pay (was like $100+/month) local telcos must sell you a ISDN BRI line? Anyone out there in oh say, the Nevada desert with such a connection? Satellite then? Or are you just on AOL?

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I was curious about this as well. Looks like there is no requirement, although AT&T will still sell a BRI for $55 a month "anywhere a normal analog line can be placed"[1]. But Verizon has discontinued it in some parts as well as CenturyTel.

"Or are you on just AOL?" Ha, you should rephrase that: "Or are you just AOL?".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Services_Digital_Ne...
Suing the government is not all that easy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit...
> where the countries are over burdened by this mass migration

Overburdened? We throw away half of our food and flush our shit with fresh drinking water. Overburdened? You must be kidding me!
Is it literally impossible for a Canadian without a bachelor's degree to work at or start a company in the US?
The stock Android on my Nexus 6 does a pretty good job actually. In a sense FirefoxOS is more limited than Android. You can't run an alternative browser on it for example.

On Android you can install a custom launcher to get rid of that annoying Google Search bar, you can replace Google Search with DuckDuckGo's app, you can install Firefox for Android on it and completely replace Chrome, you can install apps from third party sources like F-Droid or Amazon's Appstore. In Marshmallow the previously broken permissions system has been finally redesigned. Chrome for Android is pretty cool lately, as it also does push notifications, the app manifest and it does a much better job for making web apps first class citizens than Safari on iOS or Firefox on Android or whatever Opera is doing. You can actually run Facebook in your Android browser now and pretend that it's a native app.

And Android is also open source, I mean yes, while it's dependent on Google's Play services, like for push notifications or its location services, those can be replaced and Android is very much fork-able. Hey, Amazon did it.

Ubuntu was doomed from the start and Android is light years away from its competition imho. I mean, experiments are cool, but if your mobile OS is less usable than Android from 5 years ago, that's a failed experiment.
> This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi"

Not with this degree of certainty.
Why is he failing background checks if he's never been non-wrongfully convicted? Genuinely curious to hear from anyone with experience on the employer side of this.
"interest in ML as a negative signal"

Why, though? Is it because a candidate would be too interested in other things than focusing on mundane web development? Passionate about programming doesn't square well with passionate about ML, because the latter is not so much about programming?
Seems like these points glossed a lot of things as well.

I mean... what language that locks you down with one specific operating system (up until recently when they lost the market)?

I see other languages copying Java tools/ecosystems but I give you 10% point for which Java syntax was behind for years.

Your point #4 don't make any sense at all. The only reason Microsoft goes OSS these days because they simply _lost_ their bread and butter: developers. Back then, they haven't entirely lost them so there's no way on earth that Microsoft will be pulling whatever they're doing these days.

> It's ok to use mature tools to get shit done now but proposing them as new frontier doesn't make sense.

Unfortunately none of the current language seems to get shit done in a reliable, reusable, and ubiquity as Java.
While I'm sure it'll be enjoyable on a phone (Ingress still has quite the cult following) the video just screams augmented reality. I can't wait until augmented reality tech is broadly out there because I could see this appealing to many. The phone version like Ingress? Well not me at least but I won't knock it. It's an interesting concept.