skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> completely owning natural resources like lakes and forests

They wouldn't completely own them, they'd have property rights in them. Depending on how the property rights are structured you could have many owners of say a lake or a river.

> Those private entities would rationally take a long term vision

If there's anything we know about politicians up for re-election in two years or unable to run for another term it's that they take a long-term approach to problems. /s
That's a fair synopsis of the paragraph, but that understanding only supports "Keenan's point". If "parameter fiddling" is out of bounds, we're back to the drawing board for more climate models.
But back in 1826 Babbage had invented something he called Mechanical Notation—that was intended to provide a symbolic representation for the operation of machinery. [...] Undoubtedly people didn’t understand it.

So, Babbage invented VHDL?
I'd also really like an answer to this. I've read a few articles about the subject that allude to there being such a thing as "clan liability" in Japan but they've never actually gone into any detail on the subject.

I know that in feudal Japan personhood effectively didn't exist in the form that it does today. You were part of a clan, if you killed someone and died in the process the clan of that someone could extract revenge on your clan. They were the actor, not you.

I understand that much of this survives today in the form of shaming, you don't just bring shame to yourself, but to your family (clan).

But is there actually any legal system in Japan that treats a family or clan as a collective? Can the liabilities of adults that kill themselves be transferred to their family?
It sounds like your interpretation of rule 2 would require everything being cheap enough for anyone to buy without the price being a burden on them.
1. 100x higher? That's f'ing nonsense. (Although, I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, so maybe my baseline was vastly different.)

2. Mostly agree, you're not doomed, but it's certainly harder. Capital requirements are what make this difficult for most startups. Shit partners are just as bad if not worse than no partners though.

3. Lmao, accounting 101. Read a bit before starting your business.

4. Best of the 5 things here. If you think you're not a salesperson, then you're not and your offering is likely dead on arrival.

5. Plan for 2-3 years of no fun. However, if you're doing something you love (startups), learn to enjoy the process. Make work fun, but don't miss out on family/friends too much, but be prepared to not be as social.

Of all the things I've learned doing startups, I've learned not to be so concrete on the financial side. Money is important, but how you'll get there can't necessarily be planned out to mitigate all risks.

Essentially be prepared to work 3-5x harder than the hardest thing you've ever done. Then make it 3-5x harder than that. It's like working out, you never know what you can do until you try and push yourself.
Personally, I find it more convenient (and possibly safer) to use blueproximity to auto-lock my laptop if I forget to manually do so.
"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"

Couldn't you just have logged in with another browser or an older browser?
Taken to its limit, the original paper (without the BS filler) then becomes the abstract.
I'm not with 'nickpsecurity on this issue, but what you just said is not a valid argument.

Cryptography enables individuals to override the interests of any element of the state, no matter how compelling those interests are.

Any way you read the Fourth Amendment, even the wrong way that implies that the government requires a warrant for any conceivable search, there remains a pathway through which the state can compel the production of data. Congress may have to enact a law to authorize the compulsion, and a judge may need to sign off on the warrant, but at the end of the day, the government has the authority to compel production.

I think cryptography is mostly orthogonal to the Fourth Amendment, but to the extent it isn't, its main implication is that it thwarts the Fourth Amendment.
My understanding is they draw the line at updatability: if someone else is able to change the code, then they can exercise unjust power over you (i.e. there's a power asymmetry between you and the vendor over who controls the device), whereas if it is just a fact of life that you cannot update a mask ROM, it is possible that there is no malicious intent from the vendor. It makes sense from the historical perspective, when it was cheaper to use a mask ROM than to incorporate flash memory, and you had to think hard about whether you have an incentive to push updates to the device. The economic incentive to the vendor consequently acted as a proxy metric to distinguish hardware from software.

Admittedly, the line is more blurry now: you can do unethical things in mask ROMs (via crypto) to exert power over the user, a la trusted boot and DRM, and you can make things updatable by accident despite having no intentions to do so simply because flash is cheaper and more straightforward to install than mask ROMs.
I use Pyramid:

http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/about
That is the way to think about it. From my dad who worked for the government I learned something contrarian. The government doesn't waste much money at the level of a worker. The government wastes money at the program level. As an example the Reagan administration brought the USS Iowa out of mothballs. You can bet that the work done to upgrade her was done efficiently and economically (as efficiently and economically as any huge project like that goes). But on the big picture, they should have left her to rust.

Stuff like this is why I make comments about building public infrastructure. Say the critics are current, the California High Speed Rail project is a boondoggle. Well at least we get a high speed rail line out of the deal. Vs a couple thousand shiny new nukes which aren't useful to anyone really.
My first thought was I can think of many more pressing and immediate use cases for hacking DNA.

Or by analogy, it's a bit like articles at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution explaining just how useful the steam engine could prove for building armoured cars.
Global warming will not happen because The Day After Tomorrow is a movie. 12 Monkeys is a movie therefore weaponized biotechnology is without risk. "Hollywood made a movie vaguely like this" isn't much of an argument against anything.
This situation is still perpetuated to this day. All of US and Israeli foreign policy in the Middle-East basically revolves around containing the various states there to keep there from being a unified Middle-Eastern superstate.

Which creates instability & low-level wars, which they'd prefer to having a stronger state that would contain that sort of thing, but which might challenge them on the international scene.
$ ping localghost
Great tutorial - Well written and good patterns for TensorFlow usage, e.g. checkpointing, name scopes for cleaning up the graph visualization, and using summaries/TensorBoard, and also nice explanations of the concepts.

Though I'm curious why you used VALID padding not SAME for the conv layers? It seems like it would be simpler to use SAME.

Also, minor nit: TensorFlow and TensorBoard should both have two letters capitalized
So the AssetServlet had a memory leak? Serving stuff from nginx is undoubtedly more efficient, but it would have been nice to know the real cause instead of just the workaround. If you work around a problem it has the nasty tendency to come back to bite you at another time.
It says they die from burning wood or dung. When scientists say we need to move away from fossil fuels to renewables, they are not suggesting to move to wood and dung, so your argument is irrelevant.
> 100% of US soldiers who were shot at in
> the first world war are dead

I was curious about this so I looked it up. The last American survivor died just over 4 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
This, layers on top of a pressure sensitive screen, could very well provide the building blocks for the Star Trek UI.

The pressure sensitivity is important, as it will allow the screen to tell the difference between a searching touch (looking for the edge of a button) and the pushing finger (trying to perform an action).
Except, in the case of climate research, we have a plethora of evidence of the possible harmful effects and we can see it happening today. Everything about the potential harmful effects of AI is pure conjecture, because there is no human-level general intelligence AI system that exists today. It's, once again, something philosophers like Bostrom will make a career out of.

I'm 100% with Torvalds on this when he laughs at the prepostorous notion that AI will become a doomsday scenario. I think it'll become more and more specialised, branch out to other fields and become reasonably good. But there's a huge leap to go from there to HGI.

> any powerful system that optimises for something that's different from what humans want.

Except this notion rests on the premise that humans will not be in full control, which leads to the exponential growth argument which leads back to the Skynet like scenario.

> the point is that even uncertainty is enough for action

And that action is...what exactly? People won't stop building intelligent systems. There is no real path that we have from where we are to HGI, so it's not like researchers have a concrete path. Just what exactly does this research look like?

> "We've got no idea what the chance of run-away climate change is, so we shouldn't do anything about it."

Extremely Poor analogy. We have decades worth of concrete data that tells us the nature and reality of climate change. We demonstrably know that it's a threat. Can you say the same about AI?

Also, I'll take the time to re-iterate how heavily skeptical I remain of groups like MIRI that are spearheaded by people who don't believe in the scientific method, believe in stuff like cryogenics, have history of trying to profit off of someone else's copyrighted material and have someone managed to convince a whole lot of people that donating them is the best way to fight off the AI doomsday scenario. People should do their research before linking to stuff like that. :(
The goal of a QA person should be "shipping great software".
>I'm sure they were quite happy with it.

A significant portion of the world's population lives in poverty and the resulting misery. Misery is far from "quite happy," and I suspect most of them wish their parents had some self-control.
Thanks! I think VALID and SAME are probably giving the same results. The reason I used VALID is only because the original paper seems to be doing that as well.

I will fix the capitalization!
Atto – smallest functional Emacs in less that 2000 lines of C
Yes, Sync is somewhat reasonable. I've started with Accounts and immediately decided on bundling Sync into the same project because I wanted it so a single server would be completely self-sufficient.

The protocol is relatively well-documented when it comes to overall picture, but some nifty details are missing and have to be figured out by reading the source code and debugging. For example, usually keys and tokens in responses are hex-encoded but when issuing the token for sync server (/1.0/sync/1.5) you have to return the raw binary string. I've struggled for a good hour before I figured out why I'm getting weird tokens and authentication fails.

I believe most issues with documentation could be solved by having a full Accounts+Tokens+Sync session transcripts (annotated with internal state information and some comment about what's going on), which could both serve as a test vector and a good example of real-word use case.

My overall impression is that Mozilla Services are awfully over-engineered, though. It could've been much simpler than this if only Mozilla wouldn't invent their own unique proprietary service, but try to reuse existing solutions as much as possible. Like, say, WebDAV - it'd probably fit and Sync could require literally zero lines of new code.
> What would prevent someone from, say, buying up all the water and then not selling any of it, or selling just a little to a handful of rich people?

First, no one has enough money to buy up all of the water. Second, even if they did, it wouldn't make sense not to sell it. Most people like making a profit and having more money. It wouldn't make sense to only sell it to wealthy people, because they don't use enough more water to exhaust supply in most places people inhabit and they'd be forgoing a lot of profit from selling water to normal people. Also governments also often sell water to politically connected business and agriculture groups at a lower rate than they sell to normal people.
It's more a purity thing than "do you believe in ghosts." Many cultures, including yours, have beliefs with regards to purity which are not wholly explained by physics. For example, animal fat can be used to make soap. Humans are animals. You would probably feel very unhappy if someone informed you that, unbeknownst to you, your soap had been replaced with soap made out of people. It is not a property of chemistry that your soap remembers being a human, any more than your drinking water remembers being urine last week, but you're very concerned about ex-human soap and not at all concerned about ex-urine drinking water.
That's why the weight of most websites is out of proportion
Name: atto - smallest functional Emacs in less that 2000 lines of C
last changed/verified: Dec 8 2015
original distribution: Nov 16 2015
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base language: C
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scope of implementation: command set, multi buffer, multi-window, search, cut, copy, paste
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I was prepared to read something truly dreadful in the samples that he gives, but (while they're far from well written) they actually do have meaningful content. It's not content I necessarily find valuable, but I think it's unfair to take that article as an example of Sokal-style nonsense.

As an exercise, here's my translation of what she's saying [supplied in brackets]:

This essay discusses how the “urban” is currently being conceptualized in various worlds of urban studies [clear enough] and what this might mean for the urban question of the current historical conjuncture [reference to the economic historian Ernst Labrousse's idea of conjuncture, basically a middle-term historical trend on the order of decades rather than centuries]. Launched from places on the map that are forms of urban government but that have distinctive agrarian histories and rural presents [this is going to be a paper about urban centers in the developing world which were, until recently, largely rural], the essay foregrounds the undecidability of the urban, be it geographies of urbanization or urban politics [cities are complex and hard to figure out]. What is at stake is a critical urban theory attentive to historical difference as a fundamental constituting process of global political economy [the different historical points of origins of cities structure how we should think about them, e.g. urban studies of London might not tell us what we need to know about Manilla] and deconstruction as a methodology of generalization and theorization [the author basically says, I'm going to be drawing on the works of various French theorists here and I think it's useful.]

Likewise the final paragraph, while overwraught, is actually saying something substantive. Basically, "we need to study cities in terms of what they exclude as while as what they include. Many develping world cities were rural zones within living memory of the present, and that agricultural background continues to persist even as they become more urban." Really nothing very objectionable to me there - and I say that as someone who does think there are major problems with obscurantism in academic writing, especially various branches of philosophy and literary studies.
Additionally the book Lawrence in Arabia is a fascinating historical account of the events that led to this empire dividing.

http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arabia-Deceit-Imperial-Making...
See also PG. But the anti-immigration crowd don't seem to mind so much if the people immigrating are white.
If it's broken (which it is), it is no better than plaintext.
The Pirahã: People Who Define Happiness Without God
> I don't trust private owners to take the required long-term view

If there's anything we know about politicians up for re-election in two years or unable to run for another term it's that they take a long-term approach to problems. /s
Yea just rounding the coordinates is problematic at high latitudes. Curiously, the problem of finding a "nice" quantization set on the sphere is a well known mathematical problem called Spherical Coding [1]. But you don't need anything this fancy I guess, you can just round the coordinates if the latitude is less than e.g. 60 degrees , and if above you chose another pole and round the coordinates with respect to the second pole. It would probably be a good idea to add some hysteresis as suggested below too (so you're not localizable when you're at one of the edges). Then you can give it some fancy name like "Advanced location privacy protection" :)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCode.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammes_problem
For a policymaker looking for policy knobs to tune a labor population up and down, I suppose so, although there should probably be some quality filter.
If you're going to use the envelope analogy, also consider that we don't put our mail in envelopes to prevent the police from intercepting it; we put them in envelopes to prevent access by all of the people handling the mail between the sender and intended recipient. A cop with a warrant can rightly get access to a person's mail in transit. The envelope also isn't particularly difficult to get around - we don't secure our mail through technical measures but instead by putting stiff legal penalties on tampering with it.
It may be that if the clone didn't exist, the attention might have instead fallen upon it's predecessors, with the benefit of them being non-propriety. Being a successful clone does not imply merit, in fact "forks" can do damage...
I think another way to look at fear of ghosts is that it is a fear that something unknown about the environment contributed to the death. A house may be flawed in a subtle way that tends to lead to depression and suicide.. just as for cancers, problems like radon gas existed before they were identified.

Using such a view, past deaths on the same land in a different configuration are less "ghosty" as they no longer share as much in common with the suspect environment.

But by that argument, the landlord and/or builder should be paying up for their negligent design!
Landing, however unlikely, is probably ok.

Impacting (more, but still unlikely), is probably not.
Something like this seems like it would be more efficient: http://www.cadincadout.com/dronedefender-radio-gun-waves-dow...
I fail to understand the ambivalence not to mention hostility towards nuclear power. If people really believed that climate change was as dangerous as they say they believe they would be fully on board. Even a Chernobyl type incident once a year over the next 30 years would be preferable to the consequences of unchecked global warming.
The benefit of the models is that they force you to both explicitly state all your assumptions and also verify that your conclusions logically follow from your assumptions.

Further, it enables others who wish to criticize it to easily derive predictions and show that those predictions fail to match reality, while making it impossible for you to say "that isn't what I meant". If the math says it, that's what the model predicts.

Vague verbal reasoning just involves a lot of time wasting - "your model seems to show this, I think" -> "no that's totally not what I meant, you don't understand" -> etc.
Oil/coal companies could tank for any of a number of reasons.
How does human level AI make everyone unemployable?
Seems it would be equally effective, and a lot less weight, to just drape a bunch of monofilament lines below rather than a full-on net. Those would get tangled in the "bad" drone's rotors well enough, I'd reckon.
Books Are Getting Longer
Yup, that JSON is the response from the endpoint I'm referring to. Congrats on shipping!
Nothing will change as long as Capitalism is the force leading the World. All these summits mean nothing when all that matters is the results for the next quarter then the next.
WW3+YOU+WANT+2+KNOW+,ABOUT+ISLAM+COMING+TO+YOU+-+YouTube
Ganymede Gate: A Sci-Fi Roguelike in NW.js
> By October 1898, he had returned to Britain and begun his two-volume work, The River War, an account of the reconquest of the Sudan which was published the following year. In this work, Churchill warned against what he considered to be the dangers of the influence of Islam: "Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
>In a perfect world, that trend would be welcomed as an addition to the rich diversity of cultures and beliefs that make up any pluralistic liberal society. In practice, it will probably increase the strain on countries whose self-image of tolerance has clashed with the reality of lingering prejudice and unease toward people who are different.< A perfect world involves religion?
CEO of one of America's biggest companies: math degree is more useful than MBA
No context, not news.. it's been around for years. Why post it?
Begun, the drone war has.
You're definitely right. I think when you try to rationalize it though, the more sophisticated argument is that in the soap example, you're creeped out because you feel like you're using a person as a means and not an end in themselves. It feels like it is disgracing someone you never met, that was physically transformed by cruel inhuman processes, which in turn disgraces yourself.

In the instance of cremation, you are saying goodbye to a person and not using them as a means to an end, it is a form of respect. The individual isn't commodified on a practical level (though the funeral industry has something to say about that).
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London embassies run up £95m congestion charge bill
A different approach that i use:

Since i often work on systems i don't directly own or have an own account on, i use

eval "$(wget -O - https://myhost/.bashrc)"

to inject my bashrc into the current bash session to get my prompt, aliases and shortcuts ready without making changes to the fs. The functions defined in .bashrc help with managing pubkeys and loading other dotfiles.
You are right. My apologies. I won't do it again.
The "role that is about to open up" line is a huge red flag. Your boss may be trying to manipulate you into staying long enough to find a replacement, now that you're known to be "disloyal".

This is why people tell you not to take the counter-offer.