skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what universe could interest rates ever be negative and considered "natural"? Or even a zero interest rate being considered "natural".

If you believe that to be true, what rational entity would take the risk of loaning out money to either lose money or get back solely their principal at some future time?

And considering prices are inflating, this makes zero and negative interest rates even worse. Market interest rates reward the savers by risking their capital and loaning it to borrowers who can put that capital to work and pay back the lender both principal and interest.
Yeah, MIT kind of has a rep[1] for being particularly unfriendly to students in legal trouble. Really, it doesn't seem like a very good place for people who want to push the envelope.

It seems like something a student ought to consider, I mean, that MIT seems to be more concerned about it's reputation with the legal community than with it's reputation with students.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
In the past I've thought about using the an ec2-meta-data style endpoint for secrets that would accessible by an agent with some sort of key. that way the application always dynamically requests the secret as oppose to setting it statically at launch.
I wasn't actually arguing for water privatization, but rather I was arguing against blaming the free market for the current situation, one where the government owns most bodies of water and allowed this pollution.

I'm no expert on water privatization. I know a few economists have written about it, but it's unrealistic to expect them to come up with a great solution on their own. A good solution would have to evolve over time with decisions by judges etc.

AFAIK most proposals don't have a single entity owning a river, but rather people own rights to a certain amount of water from the river at a certain quality.

I wasn't referring to Walter Block's book on roads, but this one: "Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers." I haven't read it.
^ Yes. Clearly people can't take jokes here, already downvoted.

Edit: Even the above got downvoted and I get reminded again that HN is full of stuck up, overly sensitive and unhumorous engineers. With the exception of this being a great place to find interesting things to read the community aspect is uninviting and unforgiving.
Sure, but you would get the baby situation I posited years before what you're envisioning. You're skipping a bunch of steps. My hypotheticals (if they ever do happen) would occur way before your hypotheticals. Progress does not go in "Foomp" steps.
Official and better quality version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
You do it so you can compare what they say they would do to what they actually do. Think Bradley effect. You can survey people and ask them if they'd be less likely to vote for a minority candidate, and then you can look at the voting results. Afterwards, when you do your regression analysis, you can say that statistically speaking, the only explanation for the gap (between people who say race doesn't affect their vote and the votes a minority candidate actually received) is that voters factored in race.

But yeah I mean, you can't take what people self-report as evidence. There are tons of problems with that, social desirability bias, etc. etc.
It's such a shame that so many slow moving 'enterprises' still have RHEL 6 servers, it's so incredibly outdated - not only does it limit what they can do, but it negatively affects peoples impressions of linux.
Or maybe the AI would fracture into warring components after every network partition. Maybe it would be unable to maintain cohesion over large areas due to the delay imposed by the speed of electrical communications.

Why should one hypothetical be assumed true and not the other?
Finite maybe, but there are still innumerable skills to "tick off". And different problems are of differing difficulty to solve. We also do not even know what the problems are, considering that we don't have a full understanding of consciousness and how it arises. How are we so sure that we can solve a problem quickly if we don't even know what the problem is?
High-detail system-generated graphics using Fragmentarium
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

http://www.moralcaseforfossilfuels.com/
What problem is OpenAI going to solve?
I would start with customers and the end product.

Then think how would you build business from scratch to deliver products that customers need.

Then come back and make adjustments into the existing operation that fits your vision.

SAAS, hacks, shmacks may (or may not) be part of the process to optimize the business.
Nothing wrong in paper, excels, quickbooks and order forms per se.
If business is a smooth machine in operation - be careful in making drastic changes.
Bzip2 doesn't handle multiple cores as far as I'm aware, but tools such as pbzip2 can. I wrote about this some time ago: https://hackercodex.com/guide/parallel-bzip-compression/

That said, parallel XZ is even better: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
I'd vote for having a QA team. Not for quality control purpose. But to have someone think outside the box. Sometimes, you will be surprise when you talked to the QA team. And you could not get those ideas from dev peer review.
I think jondubois overdid it a bit. Just slightly less, and I wouldn't have been able to tell.
> But are they really chasing a limited resource?

Of course. There is not infinite value in existence, nor is there a means of creating value from nothing.

> If investors think you're product is going to be profitable, you're virtually guaranteed to get funding.

Well... this is always the case. The only difference is that as capital is more scarce, potential investors are more critical in their analysis of the product's potential.

> Lots of capital doesn't mean investors are going to throw money at losing propositions.

Right. As available capital approaches infinity, the expected ROI of ventures which obtain successful funding approaches zero.

This is an oversimplification of course - if an asset is deflationary, the limit is the rate at which the asset gains value; if an asset is inflationary, the limit is the rate at which the asset loses value (i.e., a negative rate). The mechanic holds true, though.
>I would suggest you read the history of the Manhattan project if you want to continue in your belief system regarding "impossible" deadly technology.

To quote Carl Sagan:

>They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Boston "solves" this problem by removing all the stations during the winter. Okay, not all, they leave a few, but they take most of them away. The people who use the Boston bike share, are fair weather riders. Most cyclists are. But yeah, maybe a better bike would help encourage more riding. As a year round rider in New England, there aren't very many of us, so it's not the bike design that keeps people from riding, it's their attitudes towards the wet and cold weather.
DuPont IS Delaware. The reason the state is so business amenable is because DuPont effectively floats the whole state, tax-wise. Everything in Delaware is named after DuPont, and massive chemical plants dot the landscape. The DuPonts founded gardens, estates, schools, performance halls, everything. They're the first family of Delaware. And Delaware was the first state!
>How to prevent Future ISIS from getting Future AI, or do we just shift from us trying to out-think them to our AI trying to out-think their AI?

Uh...mind control I guess. Maybe my AI will have a better idea.
> Why is competition good for private goods and services, but bad for government goods and services?

Oh, it definitely is. But here's the thing: in this case it's like your salepeople selling below cost at the end of a quarter to meet their targets. That's not good for the company.

States should compete on overall tax, not on exceptions given to a handful of well-connected companies and individuals.
There's causality in both directions, which is not in dispute when saying that these issues are tied to education.
Played around with it for 10-15 minutes. Looks like there are some good ideas in there but the UX on the iPhone version lacks polish. Not sure about the use of fixed width fonts.

Will play around with it some more but it does look promising.
Show HN: Jscodemigrate – Migration-like interface for jscodeshift
Defense Contractors Laud Themselves for Steering Candidates Toward Militarism
Stupid AI in healthcare is a drastically greater threat than human controlled autonomous weapons will ever be, unless you're talking about WMDs.

It's not a close risk comparison. The world is far less dangerous today than it has ever been, that includes both terrorism and war. AI and autonomous weapons systems are not going to suddenly make the developed countries that deploy those weapons want to slaughter each other.

How many people die from medical mistakes per year in the US? More than died in all wars and all acts of terrorism combined globally in 2015. The AI that is no doubt going to show up throughout healthcare over the coming 30 or 40 years, will probably improve on the rate of human mistakes - while it still kills tens of thousands per year through mistakes in just the US.
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Thanks, security is a big concern and as a school we don't have access to a huge amount of technical resources. My goal is to develop a storage system which will help us maintain collections of accurate and normalized data to support our students; if I'm the gatekeeper that might be the way it plays out. Much better to create something other staff can interact with via an interface- but I'd never even attempt to support use by students and families; as you say, the surface area is just insurmountable.

We're a fairly new school, but I can't fathom how other schools must be running their infrastructure even after having numerous conversations on the topic with other schools in the district...
From what I've seen, MIRI's work is primarily on rule-based systems. Is any of it relevant to neural networks?
Totally agree with this. As someone with a commit bit to the project, as well as a long-time user, I'd like to second the recommendation. Pixz is a terrific parallel XZ compression/expansion tool. I find it indispensable for logs and database backups. Link: https://github.com/vasi/pixz

Fish shell users can take advantage of the Extract and Compress plugins I wrote, which utilize Pixz if installed: https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle/tree/master/plugins/ex...
In this case we're talking about embedded industrial control systems, I doubt they're easy to modify in that way.
Citigroup Funded Loan to Syed Farook Made Through Prosper Marketplace
> Though I am all for an open internet, that doesn't mean that the internet should allow for the breaking of laws.

...

Laws should not exist when they are extremely easy to break (morally and technically) and extremely difficult to enforce. They degrade the general respect for the rule of law.
We hit a few last minute technical issues, so the game will not launch publicly until Saturday afternoon (Chicago time).
Or employers who don't actually exist, because the agency is secretly trying to collect enough résumés to convince employers to engage them.
LaTeX template for a software cheatsheet
Probably something like this:

$ cat zgrep
#!/bin/sh
# zgrep FILE ARGS...
FILE="$1"
shift
gzip -d <"$FILE" | grep "$@"
Web Application security checklist
Those are the old bike model. There are plenty of the new one on the streets now which have an extended rear fender. (I think the front fender is longer too.)
Powerful AI has already caused mayhem in the human world: http://www.wired.com/2008/09/six-year-old-st/

You can be malicious and destructive without traditional weapons... perhaps even more so with AI presiding over all our data. I mean we already have AI that answers our emails for us... won't be that long before its slipping things in that we don't notice.
You use Windows for games, and other applications. Why not just develop on that machine?

"My travel computer can't run Windows for free!" - this doesn't seem to be slowing down the development of open source software on Windows at all.
+1 to what whisk3rs said, as that's how I feel, as well.

For example using Vault v. Keywhiz [1] since I made that comparison earlier, this page feels like it's written to say "Vault does X. Keywhiz does too." That's not really what I'm looking for; I can diff the two projects' features in that way as well, but I want to know why it is that Vault is better, i.e., why is it that it exists, what sets it apart from other solutions I can use? Why should I invest my time and port my infrastructure into this project? Should I expect it to be around or abandoned in a year if there is no adoption?

I probably should have clarified this in my original post; sorry for the confusion.

[1] https://vaultproject.io/intro/vs/keywhiz.html
Univelo NYC is a great app as well and pulls down updates very quickly.
> A mandatory class in statistics and applied probability theory could maybe help the next generation to accept that what is fair may not look so at a first glance.

To be honest, I don't think this will help much since most people won't interested in it and will forget what they learn as soon as the class is over. Also, being an expert in statistics can help you better understand reality, or it can help you present data in a way that confirms your biases (even unintentionally). It's sort of like sophistry, except not quite to that degree or moral ambivalence.

edit: If you want a good example of this, see Scott Alexander show how parapsychology can actually come up with some pretty good statistics while appearing to check off all the right boxes with regard to experimental design: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
Everything goes in foomp steps if you condense time enough. Condense the last 200,000 years of human evolution to a couple minutes, and it goes 'Foomp', and the super foompy part doesn't happen until the last 2/10ths of a second with industrial civilization wherein the development of global networks compounds our collective intelligence exponentially, yielding unforeseeable emergent properties.

So certainly you would get the baby situation first, but going from manageable baby to astral foetus could potentially happen rapidly and unexpectedly as the rate of progress accelerates to unfathomable speeds, which is what's happened already in going from tribal man to modern civilization, and if you extrapolate that very consistent and reliable trendline, it leads to progress happening in a foomp step perceived as a foomp in real time. Really, all life is just one big accelerating foomp.
It's been quite a few years since I've lived in the US so maybe I'm out of touch. But where I live you can send money instantly to anyone if you know their bank account number. You can do it online via your bank's website, via a mobile app, or at an ATM. Can't you do that in the US via the ACH system? I recall ACH was slow, taking a couple of days, but I don't recall if you could ACH money to other people or only between accounts you control.
You missed the part where they say OpenAI is incorporated as a non-profit.
This example of a human error has nothing to do with AI.
The laser itself might be compact enough. But---where do you get the energy from?
To us a bread bored is just a piece of plastic, to the common person it is something scary.

Would you take a suit case with a bread bored, exposed wires, and a 9V battery through security at an air port? How about higher security areas than that?

There is a very, very big difference between what was worn and something that one would associate with being a light up sweeter.

When I heard the story I assumed this ( http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0070/8002/products/g513a-ch... ) was what was being worn.

There is a big difference between exposed wires, batteries, with blinking LEDs stuck together on a breadboards and Legos. When going to an area with elevated tension, security, and crazed guards the gap between "weird" and "threatening" is quickly closed.
For me, its mainly because of React Native. React is a pretty decent View layer abstraction, and being able to use same concepts in developing UIs for all the platforms I want to target is a very big plus. I was fiddling with mithril before react-native came out, but ever since its release, I have just stopped looking at any other JS framework.
Well, what I really wanted to post was his quote on "Fear of AI", not really the whole video, which is https://youtu.be/qP9TOX8T-kI?t=3836
Google starts testing “Hands Free” payments
The economy is the strongest it's been in 5 years, and you can't keep rates low forever.
What is your preferred 12" tablet?
When I was working at ThoughtWorks, we had devs writing automated unit tests with close to 100 percent coverage, and also QA (who also automated as much of their testing as possible, using a variant of the FIT framework in those days) finding significant bugs and show stoppers,.

In my experience, one is not a substitute for the other.
I'm not against it, I'm just pointing out that even with an equitable ownership of a business the value of your labor is still being leeched upon via your factors of production.
I'm not calling them dumb, just trying to point out that a scenario in which there is a very small number of people with direct and explicit knowledge of the cheating (or at a minimum, with no plausible deniability) is at least possible. An ECU is a big, complicated thing, much of it closely-guarded trade secret. So it's at least conceivable that it's developed in a compartmentalized way and that the bits and pieces that when combined enable cheating can be developed legitimately and independently.

There can be a legitimate reason to develop test cycle detection. And obviously, any ECU has the capability to put the engine in different regimes. Combining these two specifically for the purpose of cheating on emissions tests is not some major engineering project, if the pieces exist. In fact, you can make a decent argument that if you wanted to be maximally sneaky and evil, that's exactly how you'd do it. You'd keep the number of people without plausible deniability very, very low.
> Most arguments that the free market can handle these problems start out with the recommendation that the resources involved (rivers, lakes, ocean) should be privatized.

Either that, or you need to use the tax system to internalize the externalities. (Think carbon tax or London congestion charge.)
Sending and receiving "money" within the same network is fairly trivial from a technological point of view but once you tell customers that it is "money" that they can technically convert to and from cash, I imagine there are significant bureaucratic hoops to jump through, at least in the US. I bet even something as seemingly simple as Chase QuickPay is actually pretty complicated to implement (step one probably being: be a bank)
> being owned by a private company for financial gain

This doesn't necessarily follow. Private ownership can be structured as something other than for profit. Non-Profit Land Trusts are big thing in many areas of the US for example. But even industry motivated groups might be a choice. Think a home-owners association of beach property owners (including resort hotel conglomerates) or fishing rights cooperatives. If either had stronger property rights and standing to remedy damages they would be motivated by longer term aims to ensure water quality. You might be right that this could have adverse consequences but I wanted the raise the possibility of options other than BigWaterCo.
Nicely written! Also interesting how this essay is on medium and not on a Google owned property. Medium has become a place for serious long form essays.
The abstract provides zero information. There is some effect, apparently. Who knows how big. For all we know 51% of women match the headline, compared to 50% of men.

Yet to the world, the news is "women like this".

Apparently I would have to pay $40 of I wanted to know the truth.

Because Academia is not a business.
According to roadmap https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/ "Django 1.11 is likely to be the last version to support Python 2.7". Django 1.11 is planned to be released April 2017.
Last time i checked lz4 did not had a streaming decompression support on their python lib. It will be problem for larger files like common crawl if you are not planning to pre-decompress before processing.
Have you tried tortoise-git?
Looks awesome by description but last release is from 2012 which makes me worried slightly.
> got me from nothing to L1 to Green Card in about 13 months

European citizen + EB2?
$ ncat -C --ssl news.ycombinator.com 443 <<EOF
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: news.ycombinator.com

EOF

Works for me, no compression. Maybe you messed something up or maybe there's a non-compliant proxy between you and the rest of the internet?
http://i.imgur.com/SCU1k0S.jpg
The first lesson in any experiment is to understand the question you're answering. This is a great example of that.
Seconded. That sounds like a really useful resource, and could be an awesome recruitment tool for ianamartin. (Just like Matasano's crypto-challenge already is.)
Really like the idea. Unfortunately name might work against them in Scandinavia and other places where kloak means sewer (it has the same origin as "cloaca" in English).
This seems buried. Is there a reason it's not mentioned or linked on the kloak page? I actually went looking for the code and couldn't find that repository.
> I dont think the NSA is the 99% threat model. It is data miners who are building up dossiers on all of us to sell to the highest bidder which will raise costs for all of us in the long run. think Insurance companies raising rates on how often you visit the online whiskey store.

If we banned life insurance companies from considering age or medical status, rates would not go down for everyone--they would go down for the elderly and the very sick, and up for everyone else. In exactly the same way, insurance company "dossiers" would not "raise costs for all of us"--they would raise costs for the risky and decrease costs for the less risky.
Community and consent: property rights in online roleplay
> Most cyclists are.

Most cyclists are in the US, yeah. In places with better infrastructure, that's not necessarily true: http://wintercyclingblog.org/2014/10/17/oulu-finland-winter-...
Fun! Now I'm going to watch the whole 'Compressor Head' series. Thanks, Googler Developers!
>If someone were to discover a very effective treatment, they would surely profit nicely.

That would depend on how much it cost them to develop the treatment, and how much money the patients can pay. It's not sure that it would be profitable.
I always assumed toothpaste was regulated by the FDA.
These are just some good-time bikes for fair-weather friends, man. They're not all-weather mil-spec bikes for the intrepid explorers safari and mountain climbing club.
Darn it!

I signed up for MicroCorruption a while ago, but never even did the first level until reading the posts about Starfighter here reminded me of it. And I'm hooked - I've done some reverse engineering and exploit work before for fun, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is doing crackme type challenges.

I'm really looking forward to the Jailbreak arc of Starfighter, and also trying my hand at the stockmarket one (despite my knowledge of markets coming exclusively from the summary in your team's blog posts...). Best of luck with your launch!
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