skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...it's a pretty novel interpretation that financing somehow transfers ownership.

Its not uncommon for lender to be on the title and hold title until the loan is paid then transfer it to you. Hence why if you default they can repo, because you are not the owner, otherwise it would be stealing.

>And where is there any evidence of Uber owning the equipment.

https://www.quora.com/Does-Uber-pay-for-driver-iPhones-and-c...

Some drivers claiming they paid for the Uber iPhone, some might have to put a deposit and others getting it free. FWIW every driver I have spoken to in person said they were given an iPhone for free.

As to the cars, I did originally understand Uber was acting as a Lender, it is anything but clear. Moreover, Uber has financing, leasing and rental programs. If you lease a car through the Uber program your payments go to Uber not the dealer or a lender. Eventually there will be a case where the discovery will answer the question if Uber ever found its way onto the title of any of the vehicles being driven by its drivers. Separately, they are currently being probed in CA for at least the leasing practice (not having to do with the IC issue).
A Catalog of Amazon Box Dimensions
Raising the rates prematurely, you risk accidentally triggering a recession or weakening the economy, then you're forced to raise rates to prevent a recession caused from prematurely raising rates.

Interest rates aren't something you can slowly raise without effect.
> in a millennia copyright is looked back upon with the same disgust and insanity that human sacrifice, child wives, and genital mutilation are

1000 years is enough time for our contemporary culture to change. Those things you listed may even become acceptable by then. Just to compare with what we already accept - capital punishment, abortion, children being controlled by their parents, and even forced to eat food, circumcision.
Well that's great news. It wasn't always that way. I'm glad to hear it is.
Ultimately, a good development process is about building in checks and balances. Code reviews, QA, automated testing, etc. are all part of that. It's up to each to team to decide which pieces they want. There's no right way to do it.
I was mainly thinking about food supply and medical testing but I think the rest apply as well. For instance I think it's generally considered more ethical to perform lethal medical testing on rats than gorillas. I think that's got a lot to do with species intelligence.

There are plenty of people who don't weigh the ethics at all and just eat whatever animal they want, but in many societies eating a dolphin or a gorilla is considered repugnant.

Perhaps it's more correct to say morals than ethics here.
Fair points. I do wonder how gradual the 40 fold increase was however. If it was slowly increased over a long enough time period perhaps it could have fooled even the most suspicious person who isn't a trained and experienced engineer.
Andrew Ng on What's Next in Deep Learning [video]
So the idea with differential safety development is that we want to speedup safe AI timelines as much as possible while slowing down unsafe AI timelines as much as possible. I worry that this development isn't great when viewed through this lens. Lets say that DARPA, CAS, and whatever the Russian equivalent all work on closed source AIs. The idea here might be that open source beats closed source by getting cross pollination and better coordination between efforts. The issue is that the government agencies get to crib whatever they want from the open source stuff to bolster their own closed source stuff.
Why did you choose to try and put together a curriculum yourself instead of working through one of the existing ones on the web? Do you plan to make yours available online for others?
Perhaps they are all scared. I'm sure many, if not most, CEOs would gladly hand over a golden parachute to avoid criminal (or even civil liabilities that can interfere with getting another executive position).
One word: Arms-race.

If everyone has to signal what percentile of competence they are, and you offer cheap loans to people who provide a certain signal, then everyone will start having to buying the service that send that signal. People are collectively blowing a lot of resources to signal the same thing (and irrespective of how much they value having such a vacation).

Scott Alexander provides a great exposition of that dynamic in "Against Tulip Subsidies": http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies...
Grammar Is Hardwired into Our Brains
I could not possibly disagree more. Poverty, income inequality, hunger, broken homes, homelessness, mass incarceration, mental illness, lack of healthcare - all of these things are so much more broken, and when kids find themselves mired in one or more of these things, fixing "schools" won't do a darned thing to help them.
Can node-tar untar .tar.xz? This is what Meteor uses to parse tarballs.

https://github.com/npm/node-tar
>“my politics are closest to that of The Economist newspaper: mildly Libertarian, fiscally conservative, socially liberal where it’s practical and pragmatic, cautiously globalist”.

now everything falls into place: just like The Economist you are also virulently Russophobic
Twitter Told a Bunch of Users They May Be Targets of a 'State Sponsored Attack'
The Thinkers Behind Musk’s Fear: Russell, Bostrom, and Omohundro
> If you're hiring for a Haskell developer, and you're a startup, you don't have time for a top python engineer to spend 2 months getting up to speed in Haskell.

I'm curious. Are there projects/organizations anyone can think of that were in this position went on to success?

I have a suspicion that by the time an organization gets itself in a position where it needs a dev with niche skills and the need is so urgent that it can't spare even two months to get a top generalist developer up to speed... it's already made some bad decisions that might mean that it's not going to survive.

Highly specialized knowledge directly in the product domain is one thing. That's understandable. If what we're talking here is language/stack preference, that's something else.
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I am not even close to a designer by any means but the scheme you are using on your site is an absolute no go.

Use literally anything else except neon green on dark grey
It also doesn't have prevailing wage requirements, so a lot of companies use this as a way to get a worker for even less than an H-1B. I've seen oil&gas engineers with Master's degrees and 15+ years of experience making $37,000 on an L-1 visa. It is the most commonly and widely abused visa.
You probably just have a weak resume / cover letter. Post a link to your LinkedIn, I'd be happy to give some constructive criticism. I'm sure your school also has a career center which can help you polish them up.
Dow High represent!
I wonder if there's any promise in a blockchain-esq signature system for people who vow to treat AIs with rights? Sort of like a hedge against Roko's basilisk.

The only downside is we've wasted some entropy and time on it. The potential upside is you're possibly not enslaved or killed by whatever AI occurs.
Sunde is probably coming at this from a point of complete fatigue. Assuming this is not some PR stunt from him, he sounds like he's pretty broken.

> I disagree with the idea that an open internet is gone forever and that we will forever be under the thumb of our capitalist rulers.

I don't think latching onto Sunde's socialist rhetoric is the real message here; the greater message is that the larger Internet-using populace gladly supports the majority of the centralization he is targeting (Facebook, Airbnb, et. al.) because it reduces the cognitive load and latency between them and the panem et circenses they're really consuming on the Internet.

This whole open/decentralized/wild-west cyberpunk game is unfortunately the vocal minority, and if we want the internet to change, those that feel this way should probably try to come off less like a parody of some brogrammer in (HBO) Silicon Valley or an ancap cypherpunk. (Myself included in this criticism.) Neither side is broadcasting a message that is resonating with the greater population that is not worried about the centralization of their content sources. I'm not sure what the message is, but with some empathy toward that use case, I know the age-old messages we've all been pushing might as well be directed to /dev/null for those that don't live on Hacker News, Reddit, mailing lists, et al. I'm reminded of John Oliver's rhetoric toward Snowden and his rephrasing of mass surveillance as the government taking records of their dick pics.
Why I left consulting and joined a startup
I'm very interested how bad the fallout is going to be on the S&P when the Fed ticks up interest rates. If today's market activity was any indicator, hold on tight.
You can believe whatever you want, but most systems of justice recognize things like proportionality and imminence.

While a nearby coal power plant is likely to harm your health, it's unlikely to kill you, so killing someone over it would be disproportional.

Also, even if it were going to kill you, it's not going to kill you right now, so shooting on sight instead of exhausting other avenues would be avoidable and hence not self-defense or justifiable.

Most people would sympathize with you as a victim of this coal plant, but find you guilty of a crime.
All the issues you outline are very much tied to education. We have such a bad education system in this country that it very well leads to homelessness, hunger, low income, and yes, eventually mental illness. More people trying and offering new ideas to help fix this very important issue is welcome.
> If you increase the accuracy, you have to increase the mass. Which makes it bigger target.

Boeing is developing compact portable laser weapons technology that could conceivably be mounted on drones.

http://www.livescience.com/52121-laser-weapon-destroys-test-...
I have seen a lot of mid-cap companies trashed by people trying to go for the brass ring.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with CRUD. It's all CRUD to an extent.

To your last sentence - yep.
Grids are problematic because one can observe you at the boundaries, moving from one cell to another, so there are moments when you are very accurately localizable.
MDN is written in Django: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma. The add-ons site also uses Django. http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-s...

They have around 15 django libraries on GitHub as well https://github.com/mozilla?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=django
For anyone looking to stop making compromises, I recommend pixz. It's binary compatible with xz, and is better at compression speed, decompression speed, and ratio than both gzip and xz on multicore systems. I've adopted it in production to great benefit.
If you're here working on a B1/B2 visa, you're already breaking the law.
He was joking.
As a declaration it also seems a little premature. We don't yet know whether narrow AIs (extrapolations of what we have now, autonomous drones etc.) will favor defense or offense. If it favors defense we would like to spread it as widely as possible, but if it favors offense we would like to contain it if possible.
Not efficient at the start is a little different than "we have no reason to think it will ever be more efficient".
I'm not an encryption guy, so I'm probably totally off base, but how does this work in terms of decryption?

When you 'friend' someone, are you sharing your decryption key with that person? That seems very vulnerable to mass data collection when you start emailing it around to friends. Does each friend get a different key that you can disable if you believe they've been mismanaging your key?
Tar isn't great about any of those files either, it's just building a list while decompressing to /dev/null

http://serverfault.com/q/59795
As far as I know, copyright doesn't expire even if the work is "abandoned" or even "orphaned" (like when a company folds without transferring it). There were two bills to change this, but neither went through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works_in_the_United_Sta...
I'd say they run internal audits in nearly all heavily (or even moderately) regulated industries. They may not be a mandatory obligation but it certainly seems to be frowned upon if they go missing. But they do seem to perform mostly the same audits as the official ones–only more frequently. With a primary emphasis on being prepared and in compliance for the next audit.

That said, I think you're right. Happy employees always think of new ways to improve things and I'm sure there are plenty of innovative compliance people that are out to do their jobs to the best of their ability.
I hope there was some consultation with existing AI researchers as this might screw with their funding (willingness of donors etc.). Would not be a good sign if this announcement is about coordination and it failed at that right out of the gate.
AI can probably actually improve this particular incident. Having a "rocket" that doesn't explode but drops an AI controlled drone that kills (or even just disables) exactly who is targeted seems like it would be far superior from both the military perspective and the moral perspective.

This sort of thing: https://youtu.be/DTqa-NEwUbs?t=94

It could even drop "phone home" over radio, allow the operators to point out the targets at that point, and then fire.
Eh, Google gave one example where Brotli does well and you gave one where it does poorly; we're not exactly in science territory here.
guanxi and corruption is not the same. you hard to do thing without guanxi (kind of good relationship). guanxi is part of chinese culture, more like, long term relationship.
As far as I can tell, detaching a thread moves it from the parent comment to the parent post. Marking it as off-topic moves it to the bottom, just above downvoted comments.
They won't succeed. Nobody can compete against Elon Musk. Elon could build a better manufacturing plant using nothing but his bare hands and a couple of paperclips.
Can we get that in Weissman Score? ;)
I like how your comment goes from no issues to alarmist.
I'm not a lawyer, but as a Canadian that does not have a degree in Comp Sci and has been looking for work in the United States since 2006, I'd like to share my experience.

In a nutshell, I've been told time and again that having a degree will help, although how much one that isn't related to your discipline may not be worth much more then the paper it's printed on. To give my experience, I've been told by multiple companies within the last year that it's basically no Comp Sci (or equivalent two year college course), no chance. Your degree in an unrelated field might help a bit, but I wouldn't put much weight in it when it comes to immigration VISA time.
Git is definitely a tool of the sort that you need to learn before you can use it well. Once you do, it's not really nightmarish at all, it's quite convenient.

I would never argue that it is user friendly though.
It's in German but just feed it to Google translate or something: m.morgenpost.de/politik/article206703521/Radikalisierungs-Hotline-beraet-immer-mehr-Angehoerige.html
Now Working from Home Can Be Working While Seeing the World
There sure are a lot of these systems these days. While I'm always happy to see innovation in this area, I'm personally beginning to get confused as to why I might prefer to use (and probably then contribute to) one of these projects over another. After all, there's this, and Lyft's Confidant [1], and Square's Keywhiz [2], and plenty more that don't come to mind right now. They all have nice documentation about what they do, but none of them sufficiently explain to me what architectural differences they have, their pros and cons. I think it would be great to see that added to these products' pages at best, or at least some guy write a blog post about it.

[1] https://lyft.github.io/confidant/
[2] https://square.github.io/keywhiz/
Ecosystems are hellish malthusian processes rife with extinction. I'm unsure why they think an ecosystem of superhuman agents will be any different. What sort of selective pressures would exist in such a world that would ensure the survival of humanity? It's pretty naive to think a competitive ecology would select for anything more than very intelligent entities that value replication.
bzip2 can take advantage of any number of CPU cores when compressing.
They certainly intend fusion to occur. Otherwise it's a scientific device; not a power plant.
There is an update on that at DConf 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA
> Abbeel is at Stanford's AI lab.

Uhhh.... https://www.google.com/search?q=Pieter+Abbeel
That's a lot of results showing how he's been a professor at Berkeley since 2008.

He received his PhD at Stanford, then went to be a professor at Berkeley.
I'm not a lawyer, but as someone that is in a similar boat degree wise, my experience has been that the chances are next to none, and have been told more then once in the last few years that any sort of related degree will help get over the hump that is immigration over just having experience.

Source: Fellow non-university professional, looking for work in the US off and on since 2006, with no luck.
You can set exclusions for the OOM killer to prevent this. See:

http://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions...
It looks like we're talking about different magazines called The Economist, but I appreciate your interest anyways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720369
It would have been better for you to have submitted that or another interesting post, instead of submitting this list of posts.
The Weissman score is less than worthless, it "isn't even wrong". This comes up in most HN discussions about compression algorithms and I'm waiting for it to go away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
First plasma generated in the Wendelstein 7-X
"We have such a bad education system in this country..."

Assuming we're both talking about the United States, no we don't.

"All the issues you outline are very much tied to education."

I agree, but apparently in reverse.

There's a constant backwards causation that people place on education - that it causes the issues outlined. That's wrong. These issues cause failings in school - huge swaths of children don't eat breakfast in this country, but we want to blame teachers and the education system for that child's educational shortcomings.

Of course there's always room for improvement, but this pervasive idea that education is at the root of all issues is just wrong. A good education can't do anything to help someone in deep poverty because they once had a medical emergency while un- or under-insured. It doesn't help someone that can't get a job because they have a felony conviction for minor drug use.

And cycles as they are, it's almost impossible to educate a child that lives with hunger or homelessness or violence or incarcerated parents...

I'm fine with people working to improve education, but a top-down approach hasn't worked yet, and isn't likely to work. It's like trying to improve hospitals without consulting doctors. Teachers are demonized but are rarely (rarely, not "never") the problem.

And surprise, surprise, the districts with the highest number of failing students and underachievement happen to be those with the highest level of children routinely immersed in poverty and crime and violence.

No amount of "No Child Left Behind" or standardized testing or Chromebooks in those schools will increase student achievement until the root issues in the communities are addressed.
As someone that went down the experience route instead of degree, I'd strongly second this advice. Without it, you're effectively locked out of the US barring a radical loosing of their immigration laws.
I remember seeing him give some interviews a few months back where he looked quite tired and overworked. I hope he has the wisdom to take a break when he needs one.
Proxy Checker Toolkit
Yeah, we might not be capable of producing magnetic fields strong enough to noticeably alter the chemistry of anything. I'm not sure at what intensity the effects would begin to be noticeable.
"fixing schools" is a fundamentally different kind of problem - it's one where we can't even agree on what a "big success" would look like. For who exactly? (only "low-performing" children?) To what end? (jobs? liberal sentiment?) How mandatory?

"fixing diseases" and "fixing poverty" are things where maybe we don't agree on the best way to go about them, but we probably mostly agree on what a "big success" would be.
List.mapi was added in OCaml 4.00.0 [1], so it's likely that you are using an older version of the compiler.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/List.html
> none of them sufficiently explain to me what architectural differences they have, their pros and cons.

Have you looked at https://vaultproject.io/intro/vs/index.html ?
The $ figure is not really my point. It's the focus and attention. The world is not lacking in research interest in deep learning.
There's probably some strategy tax at work here since Hashicorp is trying to build a self-contained ecosystem of devops/microservices tools.
Current discussion (original URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712058 (125 points, 1 day ago, 95 comments)
Ah yes good point (you'd be briefly localizable to a line), you'd need to add some hysteresis and delay for dynamical targets.

So something like

shown_pos(t) = mode(quantize(pos(t-j)),...,quantize(pos(t-j-k)))

For some delay j and hysteresis k.
I stand in the middle ground on this one. I fully believe that rote QA testing with huge volumes of test plans is a waste of everyone's time. However automated testing doesn't take into account the fact that people are almost always the primary users of your software, and so I feel somewhere there should be a person or persons who occasionally smoke test the application to make sure that things are working cohesively from an end-user perspective and just making sure everything makes sense. If this person is the prototypical product owner, that's great, if you can find one that's not in meetings all day...
Seconded. Look at the comments here briefly: ACH? That's US-only. Debit card? That's first and second-world only. No discussion of the political or engineering implications of any of the options discussed. No discussion of opening hours, transfer reliability, best and worst case transfer latency, maximum value cap, legal framework for dispute resolution, etc. No discussion of what is probably the biggest recent development in the sector: Europe's IBAN (now live in many non-EU/SEPA locations). The picture is clear. (PS. If anyone needs a global perspective on business and consumer finance, tap me on the shoulder)
> Doesn't matter if it's full body tattoos, 30 body piercings, electronics plastered all over you

So not only do you agree she deserved to be arrested, you also claim that anyone with tattoos and/or piercings who goes to an airport should also be arrested?

Unbelievable.

Civil liberties should not hinge on looking just like everyone else, following the herd, never daring to be creative, etc.
> Why not provide a future tax break? Put the taxes you'd normally pay in escrow and release them when the company meets it's obligations?

See race to the bottom. Companies simply shop around for a set of tax breaks that doesn't come with strings attached.

> A private company is pulling the wools over a sovereign power with the ability to create and enforce it's own laws?

You mean people with money are influencing elected officials who need their money to win elections.
Science and math PhDs earn about $65,000
Really? How?
My bzip2 has no option for it and when tested it stuck to one CPU.
xz on the other hand has

-T, --threads=NUM use at most NUM threads; the default is 1; set to 0
to use the number of processor cores
Make Printers Great Again: Creating a virtual printer using Node.js [video]