skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All AI researchers I spoke to laughed at this "SkyNet" like fantasies. According to them the reason why some people peddle these sort of horror stories is because they seek to get more funding by exaggerating the achievements of their field.

Snowden like episodes have shown us that we should not trust our government. The government does blatantly illegal things, lies when confronted and in many cases kills or jails our own citizens just because they are exposing the government. I am more scared of government using this AI to oppress its own people.

Imagine this, a person who is 18 years today becomes a potential presidential candidate or major activist in future. Some clerk at DC would simply run a computer program that will bring up the fact that this guy sent a sext to his 17 year old girlfriend in past, smoked weed when 19, bought beer when he was 20 etc. Such government would them implicate him in various court cases and jail him or even worse simply blackmail him to shut up.
So... they reject too many jobs and Uber stops asking them?
How about the experiment in Greece? Oh yea, I forgot, we're never supposed to mention that.
I assume that they mean, "No email [address for the target in your contacts list]?"
Not sure I follow. Can you explain it another way? I'm curious what exactly you mean.
I hire PCB layout contractors. If I call with a layout job, and they decline due to being busy on other jobs, I eventually quit calling them. You could say I "blackballed" them, but really I'm just logically calling those who I have reason to believe will get the job done on my time frame.

Why is it OK for me to do this to a contractor, but not for Uber to?
With $160k you can get a E2 visa
Yes, it looks like my observations were a little off.

What looks more accurate is Fed teases rate hike, market plunges for un-related reasons, so Fed doesn't go through with the rate hike... and the cycle repeats.
The problem with trying to restrict the supply of money without removing the demand is that it is very hard to police. There is also the citizen’s united ruling from the supreme court that makes it unconstitutional to restrict political advertising.

Much better to remove the need for advertising rather than try to police where the money comes from. Of course doing this is not easy, but it is the only solution that will work.
Isn't that inevitable with any sort of plan to stimulate the economy? Seems like there will always be some sort of bubble(s), and that it is impossible to ever reach equilibrium or a smooth state.
You should read this! [1] Unfortunately, the problem is not nearly as simple as you make it seem to be, otherwise this thread wouldn't be here. :)

[1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
I think these people are Waiting for Superman. Watch their ads after they decline to offer you - it'll run until they just take it down without filling the position.

In the end, it's still just a job. Hopefully, it's fun and all but I can attest that it's possible to take it all too seriously.
Yes, it is a eDSL on top of Lisp (but I also have a proper ML which runs on top of Lisp, so it does not matter much).

The issue with the existing type systems is that they do not solve the expression problem, for this reason I had to build a new one from scratch.

I'd suggest taking a look at Nanopass (there is a Racket port). I doubt it will play well with any external type systems, but at least some of the ideas in it are very valuable.
Hah! Dow High Class of 98' here.
The+Week's+Best+-+Our+Favorite+Articles+On+Trading+Strategies+and+psychology
Nah, you write the code you write the tests.

Then you do a code review and make sure that the reviewer examines the code for missed cases.
I am not sure that just hoping computation growth will level off at some threshold below human level is wise planning.It is like assuming that a singularity level intelligence will be nice and so saying we don’t need to think about the consequences.
Currently under OPT visa co-founding a startup. How would a resident visa from my home country work?
The free-for-all exploitation of ocean resources that we have now is from the free market.

Fishing quotas that are enforced by regulatory bodies are what still prevent it from running rampant within the waters of said organizations.
They could be encrypted with a random symmetric key that is then itself asymmetrically encrypted individually for everyone in your network and provided to them through some means. This is also how the OpenPGP works.
Can't say I've had any experience with magnetic dimmers, but the cheaper dimmer compatible LEDs seem work fine on Triac dimmers.
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When testing, you are the headlights of the project. ... Testing is done to find information. Critical decisions about the project or the product are made on the basis of that information." [1]

I recently became a software tester, and I really didn't understand the role for quite a while. Is my primary responsibility finding bugs? Logging defects? Analysing requirements documents? Writing test scripts? Writing Status reports?

Answer: Do enough of each to fulfill your goal of gathering and sharing information with your management and dev groups.

If the software tester has problems testing, then the customer will have problems using it, and the company will have problems supporting it.

1. Kaner, Cem; James Bach; and Bret Pettichord. 2001. Lessons Learned in Software Testing. Wiley.
"too low too long"

Is there something inherently wrong with being low for a lengthy period of time? "Too low" is obviously bad (if true - my understanding differs, but I'm no expert), but is there any concern over "too long" if "too low" isn't true? (honest question - is a too stable rate itself a problem?)

On to the "too low" part - My understanding is that Fed targets 2% inflation, and we've just not been there. Do you have reasons other than gut instinct to dislike the low rate? (Again, honest question, my understanding could very well be wrong).
Thanks for speaking up. To answer your points: There's a line, and people are crossing it.

There are words in the english language which are offensive because they are specifically employed to be offensive. Swear words, words used in offensive (as in, literally offensive) contexts, verbal abuse etc.

We avoid using this words in civilized discourse not because we're afraid to offend, but because we have no need for them. We don't intend to offend. If we intend to offend, we use them - there is no political correctness involved in not using actual offensive terms.

Now when a word has a non-offensive meaning and actually offends people, it's important to look at why this happens. Does it only offend one person or does it offend many? Is it meant to offend, is it used in an actual offensive context? Is the person being offended themselves or by proxy?

This is a conversation I've had before when the Django PR came up, so I'll save you looking these up. You'll note that in that PR, almost everybody praising the PR was white, 18-30 years old. The people being offended are near-unanimously fighting a cause that isn't their own.

There's nothing wrong with that of course - I'm not gay, yet I fight for gay rights for example. But was this ever actually an issue for the black community?

Do you know why it's important to answer that question? Because if the answer is no, then you are fabricating problems for a community you are not even a part of. It is not harmless - it is actively harmful.

If a word, a technical word, was not a problem one day, and is a problem the next, you have now artificially widened the gap a certain minority needs to cross in order to be part of the programming community.

And if you look at it closely, you'll see this is exactly what happened. This issue got artificially popular with Django (just about a decade after the LA nonissue). Now it's causing problems in other parts of the technical community. Something which wasn't a problem a year ago, is now a problem - your FOSS project which was open to all, is now perceived as potentially racist.

I don't get pissed off at these things because I get a kick out of discrimination. I get pissed off because they make things worse.
I seem(anecdotally to be seeing the same).
This article covers setting up Common Lisp with GADTs and exhaustive pattern-matching checks. https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/metacircular-adventures-...

> We note that we get a non-exhaustive match warning at compile time, not run time. This is the behaviour we would expect for example from OCaml. Indeed, in our little game we might change the simple use of keyword symbols to algebraic data types and thus add compiler hosted verification of our pattern matches. To bring our exploration of the meta-circular abstraction to a full circle: Abstract data-types are an ideal medium in which to represent Abstract Syntax Trees or ASTs. Indeed the whole of Lisp syntax is itself fundamentally an Abstract Syntax Tree. So let’s see if we can represent trees using the cl-algebraic-datatype package. That would amount to an Abstract Syntax Tree represented inside an Abstract Syntax Tree. We will close with that that little teaser.
World in 2045, according to DARPA
This is not the best way to post this content to HN. The title is a poorly written list of three different articles. There aren't really many things linking the three topics, so they really shouldn't be grouped together. Which one is someone supposed to discuss in here?
Crypto Wars, Déja Vu All Over Again
Improvements in AI aren't linear, though. Artificial Superintelligence, after reaching AGI, might happen in the span of minutes or days. I imagine the idea here is to guide progress so that on the day that AGI is possible, we've already thoroughly considered what happens after that point.

Secondly - it's not necessarily about 'evil' AI. It's about AI indifferent to human life. Have a look at this article, it provides a better intuition for how slippery AI could be: https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/russell-bostrom-and-the-risk-...
I'm currently under OPT visa until next August. How would getting a resident visa work after incorporating the company in my home country work? (the company has already been incorporated in United States under the other co-founder). Thank you!
So you think that when we finally have smarter than human AI, it's just going to make completely objective decisions?

First off, we'll never let such an AI to be completely objective, because, well, the paperclip scenario. And second, the AI will be about as "objective" as Google search is - in other words, not really. At the end of the day it's still humans that decide the algorithms for Google search, and it will be humans that decide the algorithms for the "smarter than human" AI.
> Unless I am mistaken, this is a clear reference to Roko's basilisk. EXCEPT Yudkowsky didn't dream it up. Roko did.

Correct, I was conflating things. But his unfriendly AI scenario is pretty bad too.

My issue with it is that it's a symptom of an over-confident belief system naturally leading people to such conclusions. And now I don't want to get into refuting it, it's been done numerous times to varying degrees. I think the whole underlying system is problematic, there is no superficial mistake in the reasoning, once you accept a few philosophical standpoints and value judgments that the reader is spoon-fed while reading his blog posts.
> am not at all convinced that our natural resources and spaces would end up better off being owned by a private company for financial gain

Your faith is weak. If your opinions were subject to a Free Market, we could solve this problem.
Not to be rude or anything, but this should be good news for the gene pool.
Yea, you use your own equipment. The equipment is a 2008, or newer four door vechicle. It can't be a salvaged title. I don't care how well the repairs are carried out. Uber even has the tenacity to list what vechicles are appropriate to drive. A list I can't figure out? Are they going for safety? Or, is it aesthetics?

There's a lot of people who are desperate for extra income--short of ditch digging. I looked into driving for Uber a year ago. While I haven't bought the four door sedan, it's still on the back of my mind.

My biggest fear is spending eight grand on a Uber approved vechicle, and it not working out, and I'm stuck with a boat anchor--that's depreciating daily. Four door vechicles are a hard sell. Wether new, used, or a classic vechicle--
a two door almost always sells faster than a four door. (I'll pass this along, if you want a classic car--and don't care about resale value, look for four door vechicles. Car guys just don't want them. They are a good value now.)

So, after looking into that list. A list that changes. I believe Uber is a employer. What really gets me about Uber is they use your insurance. You take on most of the risk, and they have the nerve to tell you what's aesthetically pleasing, or safe.

http://www.driveubernyc.com/vehicles/full-list/
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/google-our-patron-saint-of-t...

that sums it up fairly well.
Well negative interest rates could be appropriate for negative economic growth. So if we never allow for negative interest rates we never allow for negative economic growth.
But if we ever want to achieve singularity, we have to allow our economy to shrink to (zero).
It's a documentation change, but even documentation changes need time and effort to be done properly. That's why this hasn't happened yet - everyone was on board, but no one actually stepped up to do the work, until now.

Not a lot of work - it's not a significant part of the grant to buildbot, and completely insignificant in the big picture of the other grants.

I can understand if you personally don't consider any efforts on such a topic worthwhile, and respect you for your position. But a lot of people do care about it, buildbot has wanted to do it for a while, and it harms no one to finally get this accomplished.
If they were much lighter than water it wouldn't be as much of a problem for water filtration - they'd float, and settle at the top rapidly. It would remain a large problem as far as untreated discharges though.

Stokes' Law gives settling times (or terminal velocities) for small spherical particles. Terminal velocity is proportional to (difference between particle density & water) * (particle diameter ^2)

A 0.1mm microbead at 0.9 specific gravity will float to the top at 0.54mm/s, or at 1.1 specific gravity will drop to the bottom at the same speed. A 1mm microbead will move 100x as fast. A 0.01mm microbead will move 1% as fast.

I don't see the technical issue with trying to incorporate them into settling plant workflows, only the sociological issue that we routinely underfund municipal works. It's much cheaper to ban the selling of microbeads than to deal with them via settling in a universe where engineers run everything and the environment is sacrosanct, but even so, we don't live in that universe: Raw sewage discharges are common, and such things are not seen as important so long as we're not getting cholera outbreaks. Municipal works don't have the power, political or regulative, to levy new taxes on specific consumer-good industrial practices to pay for any expansion.

Food for thought:
"there are 330,000 plastic beads in a single bottle of Clean & Clear facial scrub"

Edit: From a student study of microbeads, it looks like sizes have a mean of 260um with a standard deviation of 100um. http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/es196/projects/2013final/...
is there any proof that AI capable of having a moral disposition will ever exist?

Why does an AI need to be capable of moral reasoning to perform actions we'd consider evil?

The concern is that computers will continue to do what they're programmed to do, not what we want them to do. We will continue to be as bad at getting those two things to line up as we've always been, but that will become dangerous when the computer is smarter than its programmers and capable of creatively tackling the task of doing something other than what we wanted it to do. Any AI programmed to maximize a quantity is particularly dangerous, because that quantity does not contain a score for accurately following human morality (how would you ever program such a score).

If you're willing to believe that an AI will some day be smarter than an AI researcher (and assuming that's not possible applies a strange special-ness to humans), then an AI will be capable of writing AIs smarter than itself, and so forth up to whatever the limits of these things are. Even if that's not its programmed goal, you thought making something smarter than you would help with your actual goal, and it's smarter than you so it has to realize this too. And that's the bigger danger - at some unknown level of intelligence, AIs suddenly become vastly more intelligent than expected, but still proceed to do something other than what we wanted.
No, it is fully open source from day one: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp
Does this mean that I can't have your autograph after all?
I can see that for intro courses, especially because of the book, though it varies a lot by school and instructor. On the research side it's been a big part of the field, though. The proceedings of a big conference like AAAI [1] are a decent proxy for what researchers consider "AI", and ML has been pretty well represented there for a while.

[1] http://www.aaai.org/Library/AAAI/aaai-library.php
Remember, when Engines Of Creation and Nanosystems were published, and there was a great fear that uncontrolled Nanotech development would result in a GreyGoo that would consume us all?

With stuff like CRISPR, perhaps Elon should invest to stop the zombie apocalypse. :)
The closest this article gets to a location is the quote mentioning the proximity to I-15. NYTimes reports it's a suburb of Las Vegas [0]

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/automobiles/faraday-future...
PS: The 2/20 aka 2% management fee and 20% performance is the real killer. Huge VC funds are a great way for VC's to get rich so they are all about selling them. There are also a few back channels to do insider deals.
Books come in an enormous variety of shapes and sizes. E-book readers, tablets and smartphones, in contrast, come in very limited sizes.

You cannot always successfully transpose the content from a physical book to a smaller electronic device, at least not without re-designing the layout of the book.

Plain text books, such as fiction, are the most easily adaptable to smaller electonic displays. But many other books require a redesign to make them suitable for reading electronically. For example, the simple act of scanning a two-page spread with your eyes is difficult or impossible to do on mobile devices (and not very comfortable if done on a big monitor compared to holding a book or magazine in your hand).

So E-books will evolve, but physical books have a long shelf life ahead of them.
I don't know about the superintelligence risk. As a line of reasoning, sounds way too abstract at the present time.
But what about the very predictable and obvious risk detrmined by the end of jobs? That is scary. Are there any analyses of the impact of that on society as a whole? It's not just mass unemployment - that has a different dynamic when it's temporary and in response to a contingent downturn. We talk about the end of jobs for good. How will that work out?
What will happen is that devs will ask their QA counterparts to report issues through an undocumented side-channel.

If you give an engineer a career incentive to optimize something, you'd be surprised how seriously some will take it.
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>The USA economy is clearly weak by any of its own measures

I'm sympathetic to your greater point about keeping interest rates low, but it's simply not true that the US economy is weak by any of its own measures. The US economy is strong by many of its own measures:

US GDP is at its all-time high, $18 trillion. It has NEVER been higher.

The S&P 500 is near its all-time high, sitting around $2,000. Before last year, the S&P 500 had NEVER been higher.

For the past six quarters, US real GDP has been growing at about 3.0% annualized, far faster than the historical 1.9% annualized that the US experienced from 1860 to 2007 (a time period over which technology improved massively and the US became a global superpower).

US unemployment is down to 5%, back to the levels during the pre-recession boom.

By many, many measures, today's US economy is the strongest economy that humankind has ever seen. Certainly, the US economy is not as strong as it could be. And certainly, it would be nice if more people were employed. But overall, the US economy is doing better than ever.
We do?? Humans have been known to eat practically every animal, even those they use as beasts of burden or as working animals.

EDIT: Just to be clear when I talk about enslaving animals I'm referring to use of animals in law enforcement, medicine, war, farming, hunting, for companionship, for food production, material production etc.
Kloak's threat model is advertisers and data-miners. It is an experiment in private social networking. It is part of a set of new applications we are building at SpiderOak. Kloak is more or less a lab experiment in the UX of private systems.
I really appreciate this comment - you raise a bunch of good points. Your comments about children, though, are a perspective thing on your part - yes, society is very protective of kids and, yes, children are overly self-centered and (basically) insane...

But actually - the opposite is also true. In general, communities want men participating in kids' lives. You do have to build a little trust - but IMHO time well spent. And (elementary age) kids are also the best kind of people - usually they're not shouting, yelling and bawling - most of the time they are genuinely lovely people. Now this is a generalization - and it varies from place to place - and my school is only half comprised of lower-income kids - but yeah - kids this age are at an age of wonder and discovery.

Teaching is just programming a child's mind. I wish more programmers had an appreciation for that. I would venture to say that computers are MORE stubborn than children. :)
> In other words, the Uber drivers ("contractors") don't own their own equipment ("the car") rather Uber's partners name is probably on the title.

That's now how car financing works.
Probably dependent on your computer ;)
I don't feel bad about the animals I eat or the chickens I get eggs from (and will eventually kill and eat when they stop laying). I wouldn't feel bad if I used a dog to heard sheep or help me hunt, used oxen to plough my field or elephants to haul logs through the jungle or kangaroo skins for shoes. Why would I feel bad about any of it?

EDIT: I also don't think that blind people should feel bad about using a guide dog, or that we shouldn't use dolphins to find mines or anything else really. If you can use it, use it! I only object to senseless torture and torment.
Making the location fuzzy was a notion I had - it's still not great. One problem here is doing location name without calling any external APIs. We store all place names in the app. Not ideal.