skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this book. Got about 4 chapters in before I had to give up at the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing. The problem with this entire line of reasoning is that at this point it is nothing more an a thought experiment. Many of the key underlying assumptions that are required for Artificial General Intelligence simply have not been realised, and while Weak AI is progressing at a strong rate, we are hardly anywhere close to a place where we should start worrying about all this stuff.

It's about as likely as a meteor hitting the planet and wiping out the entire human life. Possible? Sure. Should I be panicking about this right now? Nah.

The book is nonsense. I'll start paying attention when someone who has real experience in the field of AI research (and I'm not talking charlatans like Yudkowsky here), but someone like say Norvig come out and say it's a reasonable concern today.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I have any familiarity with the Japanese legal system. My guess would be that the landlord can make a claim against the dead tenant's estate. Because this estate would usually be inherited by the family, and the family is the party responsible for handling it, this situation is effectively the landlord suing the family.

And, of course, as the article identifies, you have families who do not fight it, in which case no legal justification is necessary.
You're not making it any better.
I'm reminded of author Peter Watts' _Blindsight_ where travel beyond the asteroid belt required genetic modification (to allow the squishy hairless monkeys to hibernate for the required time).
Could someone explain or point me to a resource as to why using multiple buckets in the HyperLogLog algorithm makes it more accurate than a single bucket?
I'm in precisely the same boat, with a Linksys WRT54g router.

Linksys have no firmware update for this device. Looks like dd-wrt (or another alternative) is the way to fly.
I don't know that the insertion of the author is the problem - DFW was I think a master of the genre, and many of his pieces are completely self-absorbed.
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What is HGI? Google/Bing/Wikipedia disambiguation are no help.
5 years is way too low a frequency, IMO.

Edit: s/to/too
That....is an astounding misconstrual.
Not only did his nationality have nothing to do with his success, his father had nothing to do with it. His father was not in his life, and until a few years ago, he was a hardly-successful manager at a small, grungy casino outside of Reno that caters to truck drivers called Boomtown. To say he was not well-liked among the staff would be an understatement (I've been there, and have asked dealers about him...the term "asshole" came up more than once).

It is entirely possible that some Syrians will create the next Apple, and that others will create the next horrific terrorist attack. People are people, and they're all different. The only thing that matters when it comes to immigration is math. Syria and surrounding areas have produced more terrorists per capita than other places. That's a reason to be careful with them, whether or not that is politically correct.
At first, this seems to me like a false conspiracy theory. But those texts ARE needlessly obscure.

I propose another possible explanation: signaling. By parsing and writing complicated text, they show their verbal prowess. Or their mathematical ability.

I thought "write simply and clearly" was basic in technical text writing.
I found the historical storytelling to be the most fascinating part of the article as well -- however I think the article does also lend potentially interesting fodder for discussion of wolfram himself.

One can clearly see why wolfram would be interested in the ideas of Lovelace and Babbage -- but I wonder what kind of introspection he experiences as he reflects on his perception of their Victorian personalities. People who talk explicitly about nobility and "bequeathing" ideas to future generations, while also being actual visionaries as regarded by these future generations. There's Babbage who believes himself to be under appreciated by his contemporaries -- a character flaw which frequently causes him to fail to act in ways which would've been more effective at recruiting support from others and might've resulted in a deeper execution of his vision. And Lovelace who seems very able to see herself as an abstract object of public perception, due to the controversy and celebrity of her father -- and who devotes herself completely to authoring a version of her story that is unassailable by controversy -- an actor who explicitly asks that her contributions be portrayed only for the merit of the advancements they contain -- and no more.

One wonders which personality wolfram self identifies with more ...
The technique used for No 3 is here and other documents suggest they work with many agencies rather than just DEA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/parallel-const...

Number 4 we're not going to get examples of: TAO & TAREX operate in a bubble. There are two known efforts to do this sort of thing but tactics are unknown. One is BULLRUN:

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/17577/intelligence/nsa-b...

Additionally, the ECI leaks mention that the "FBI compels" firms to "SIGINT-enable" their stuff. This means the FBI has some way of coercing companies to backdoor things. The specifics were left out. That they've been doing it for years with no details public indicate even talking about it must be a crime. Like the other stuff.

IRS, SEC, whoever being used against people is a tactic with a long history. My bookmarks aren't giving me a link right now. I do recall Nacchio of Qwest claiming government came after him for being only ones not helping NSA. A quick Google had Binney saying IRS and NSA worked tight together albeit with speculation on Tea Party rather than obstacles to SIGINT as target.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/whistleblower-irs-in-cahoots-with...

And FBI raiding and seizing opponents stuff is well-known, happening to most leakers, too. Civil forfeiture is another weapon with a long history at FBI and DEA especially. Some journalists during Bush-Cheney Administration ended up on Do Not Fly list. Tor project people like Applebaum get harrassed at borders. So on and so forth. Many methods they can use without ever doing time for the abuse.

What they will do to you depends on who you are, what you're doing, what dirt they have on you, your resources, and so on. The uncertainty is one of their most powerful weapons. Never know when hammer will drop on you or how hard.
Can you hear the difference between 320 Kbps CBR and VBR? I have to say I have never tried slowing down the music to try and hear the difference so it is possible under these conditions that it might make a difference.
You mean, I seem to you to be moving the goalposts a lot. Earlier in the thread you mentioned that you have a hard time understanding philosophy that isn't presented formally, so maybe some of what's going on here. So, get outside your comfort zone, and try taking a step back and rereading the discussion with the goal of trying to understand, rather than win a debate.
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Actually, joining the NSA and pulling another Snowden would be great. In fact, if a handful of people did this it could get the ball rolling and encourage more people to speak up who have long felt uncomfortable, but aren't willing to risk the consequences.

I think the real danger is that the student would join with great intentions and then lose the nerve to stand up for his beliefs.
> Just like we know that abortion and death penalty immoral.

Heh.

It's fairly clear that the justice system arrives at the wrong conclusion too often for it to be trusted to determine that a person is both irredeemable and needs to be killed.

Even a cursory search of relevant medical literature reveals that there are situations in which abortion of a pregnancy is the safest and most correct course of action. This topic is substantially less clear-cut.
A claim on the estate isn't a claim on the family. AFAIK you can't inherit debt or liability unless you actually signed on to the debt.

So they can sue the estate, but they can't sue the family. They have no claim on assets that are not part of the estate.
It wasn't: that was only the beginning. Democracy, like security, is a process rather than a thing you do once. So, people have to be "eternally vigilant" fighting off advances against their established rights in legislature and in court rulings. People can sit on the sidelines of corruption and have a democracy. That's what's happening now. It's why we're pretty far from the Bill of Rights in practice but still have enough to reform with.

People just got to put it to use.
Unfortunately, this sort of cartel is not unusual in Canadian agriculture. I have mixed feelings about Stephan Harper, but abolishing the Wheat Board and pardoning protestors [1] was a definite achievement in my books.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-pardons-farmers-arres...
For those who are interested, Berkeley has publicly available lecture notes for their Randomness & Computation course. They go over some randomized algorithms as well as the mathematical tools necessary to analyze them. Just a heads up, the content is fairly theoretical.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sinclair/cs271/f11.html
This is why people think Banksy is a hack now. He rehashed a meme that has already been discussed to death weeks ago and presents it as original art. What a joke.
I'm not saying that HGI is impossible, but that the "risk scenarios" are complete fiction. In our journey to achieving HGI, we must first achieve an understanding of HGI ethics, motivations, and behavior. This will change the questions of risk into something that's tangible and addressable.
Specific examples are more interesting than raising the specter. You've doubled down on raising the specter.
Chromium (and Chrome) also have option to self-host sync server. However, the architecture and encryption are significantly different so I believe it's impossible to create an "universal" sync service that'd accept both.
The real impact of terrorism is only the fear we feel as a result. Alcohol is much more dangerous.

Compromising the principles on which the country was founded would be a victory only for the terrorists. For US citizens, and the rest of the world, it would be a tremendous shame.
Human-level General Intelligence.
Thank you. This is not new though is it?

" The old divisions of left and right seem to be falling apart and we don't know what's going to replace it yet"

The right is now collapsing into isolationist farce (Trunp being the epitome of what has happened across the Western world), the left is, well we aren't sure what. I agree with the final ideas - utopia is not destiny.

Thanks
That's exactly the issue multi-factor authentication was invented for.
The expert consensus says 10% chance of human-level AI in 10 years: http://www.givewell.org/labs/causes/ai-risk/ai-timelines

Many computer science professors have publicly said they think AI poses significant risks. There's a list here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-ri...

Also see this open letter, signed by hundreds of experts:
http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/
I'd like to think that a secure Internet is not too "perfect", but rather that an insecure one is broken and should be fixed.
Huh, so the data in that link actually seems to agree with climate change
the 3d representation comes straight from the official "corporate" style used by Amazon. I think it's only logic for him to use that style, plus that perspective has the benefit of fitting more information in less space comparatively to a flat 2d diagram.
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I understand (and agree to some extent with) the argument but I think the excerpted paper doesn’t work well as an example of the issue. The concluding paragraph is lucid and a bit poetic, and upon clicking the link it turns out the title (and general question it explores) is an allusion to another well-​known paper. It’s almost literary compared to what sometimes passes for writing in academic articles.
I understand the urge to write your own Accounts server, but I found Sync to be fairly simple and straightforward. It's just a small Python script using SQLAlchemy. Could anything built on Django really beat that? How well did you find the protocol to be documented?
This really sums up what I've been thinking about Critical Theory. It seems like such a stark contrast from science & engineering where the idea is to explain something complex in the simplest terms. Whereas it seems Critical theory exists to disguise simple ideas in complex terms.
This page says at 128 Kbps all the encoders were the same (a 5 way tie). Their wiki says at 192 Kbps MP3 is transparent [1].

1. http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transparency
But are they statistically more likely to be rich than native born?

I wouldn't confuse "anti-immigrant" with "anti-mass immigration".

We may be better off with a simple, more modest, legal only, citizenship oriented, points system.
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Climate Action Tracker [1] provides a summary of all pledges, and per-country assessments. They have a recent post regarding the Paris agreement [2].

> As the CAT has previously noted, the national mitigation contributions, now associated with the Paris Agreement, would lead to a median warming of around 2.7°C by 2100 (a full range of 2.2-3.4°C, which means there is a likely chance of holding warming below 3°C, temperature would continue to rise after 2100).

> Compared to the 3.6°C by 2100 warming that is projected to result from current policies, the climate pledges submitted in the INDCs lower warming by about 0.9°C – but only if all governments fully implement their pledges.

[1] http://climateactiontracker.org/

[2] http://climateactiontracker.org/news/257/Paris-Agreement-sta...
Thanks, I added Terraform import & export to https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap
What type of components would you need to map your service internals?

BTW, I think it's key to stay clear of trying to become an orchestration/deployment tool in itself, but integrating with formats like CloudFormation and Terraform should be doable.
Maybe even become ordained so you can exchange free rent for a cleansing.
Look at where we are now with ML, and ask what we would need to do to "accidentally" create HGI.

That title's wording is clickbait, not an argument. Mathematicians know exactly why neural networks work – because they contain a model of the data, and they try to develop ways to build (train) those models so that they do it better. The model may not have human concepts associated with it, but that doesn't mean it's somehow "out of control".

In order to achieve HGI, one would have to train models of quite a few domains (the same way schools create models in people's minds), as well as tons of ethical and practical heuristics to weigh an infinite number of reasons for or against doing something.
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>how much of a discount would you need to continue living there?

$0.

But that was an interesting read.
`tar -xf` is not "explicitly asking" for gzip. `tar -zxf` is "explicitly asking" for gzip.

I don't really care what vim does, that's a different argument. There have been many vulnerabilities in gzip, and in tar implementations that let untrusted input choose how it gets parsed, those vulnerabilities might as well be in tar itself.
It's unfortunate but predictable that a movement that started off as an attempt to find a way out of the swamp has been coopted into the service of the standard ideology of extracting as much work from labor as possible.

Fixing the issues with both development and operations that result in bad, insecure software and poor user experience all the way around is a worthwhile goal.

Putting the team focus on delivering complete software systems that support traceability, manageability and testability is the whole point of "devops" if the term means anything at all.

It's not about running Ruby scripts as root, or containerising every last script in your environment. It's about building better systems in a manner that's more humane to all concerned.
>So tell me, would you live in one of these suicide apartments?

I would probably seek them out, as they seem to be much cheaper.
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> But I'm sure that comparing me to a child will fool everyone here into thinking that you actually did state a clearly defined axiom somewhere.

A non sequitur: I compared you to a child because you insist on arguing claims no one has actually made and insist on not trying to understand their claims; you insist on not listening. I have said over and over that I will not "state my axioms" in discussions with you because there is no chance in the world that you will in fact listen. You're not interested in a reasoned argument; you are interested in an argument against claims that you have made up. It is absolutely impossible to have a reasoned argument with someone who intends to misinterpret everything you say. Of course, I could be very, very precise as to reduce any chance of misinterpretation, but that would make my job very tedious and my comments far longer than they already are. I find discussions to be much more intellectually satisfying if each party tries their best to understand the others' arguments -- even if they vehemently disagree with them (of course, I'm not even sure you would disagree; you never bother to try and understand what those arguments are so you can't possibly even know whether or not you disagree with the actual claims). Otherwise, it feels more like third-grade taunts.

BTW, have you stated your axioms somewhere (other than the implied "axiom of the other's stupidity" which is implicitly used in every stage of your arguments like the axiom of choice from hell[1])?

> This is why good philosophers clearly state their axioms and then follow the logic to the bitter end.

If you ever try to actually understand what I'm saying (and that requires willingness and real curiosity) rather than try your hardest not to, I am certain you'll find that I follow this very path.

I will just say again that if the word "power" does not appear in an argument you attribute to feminism, then you can be absolutely certain that that is not the actual argument.

[1]: I would really suggest replacing it with the "axiom of the other's genius" (and I don't mean that the other side never makes mistakes; even geniuses do make mistakes). It is certain to make these discussions more challenging, interesting and intellectually satisfying. And hey, all parties involved (including passive readers) might actually -- god forbid -- learn something rather than just yell at each other!
Be sure to de-lurk if that's the case!

I guess. A lot of people already did.

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/if-youre-an-ai-safety-lurker-now-...
And twitter is not doing nothing (except unverifying it -- which is nothing).

I am pretty sure you wouldnt behave in the same way if @potus, @whitehouse or other government account is kept by the leaving party.

Spread the word: https://twitter.com/federicolois/status/675780543171207168
It feels like the loses from a suicide apartment should be covered by insurance, rather than estates or families of the deceased. I'm not saying this insurance does or doesn't exist (I don't know); but this is the "ideal" case for it.

This way, families can grieve in peace and the landlords can't bully their way to get "repairs" done.
no, the point is that what you consider a "simple idea" is actually extremely complex, hence the need for very specific or obscure (and often German) terms
Saudi Arabia is that way. Even poor people have a driver and a housemaid.
I suspect at some point JavaScript developers got together and decided: why say "server-side rendering" and "editable" if you can say "isomorphic" and "mutable"?
And what conclusion should a person that does not like Jobs or his vision of closed computing make, based on this?
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Of course, when these "rich warming enthusiasts" do that, they will be blamed for supporting the cause so that their properties in Canada can have higher value.

Damned if you do, damned if...
Yeah, it didn't seem any more elaborate than, say a Stripe capture the flag. I'm guessing he did it to have a little fun. When the Wired article moved from all the compelling evidence to the part where they run down how all that compelling evidence was tampered with, I was shocked they continued on thinking they had their guy.
If the principle you are referring to is unchecked immigration, that has never really been a principle in the US, even going back to the Ellis Island days. Alcohol, deer running across the highway, and bathtubs are currently more deadly than terrorist attacks. You can be sure that there are people that want to nothing more out of life than to change those statistics, and there's no reason to make it easier for them to accomplish their goals.
in local politics I hear about plans to buy out large polluters (here we have coal-powered electricity generation).

they're usually variations on:

1. a big pile of (typically public) money is given to the most polluting companies

2. in return those companies exit the industry

i don't think such policies are a great idea, but they might be an example of action that would (i) be actually progressive re: greenhouse emissions, and (ii) might make the share price of such a company go up, supposing the pay out were large enough.

this little thought experiment aside, the heuristic of following the change in the market is probably a reasonable one.
There should really be something to change the old organisation scientists -> politicians -> population.

Education should double down on creative ways to make kids click on subtle abstractions in order for them to see issues and proactively discuss, seek and enjoy working toward solutions.
This is true even in engineering --- I was shocked by how much B.S. I had to add to a paper to get it published. Same content, twice as long, and vaguely implying stuff way beyond what it's actually about.
I hear you, but I at least want to make it work on tablet sizes for some quick editing or presentation, and for viewing the results on phones (probably no editing).
While I agree with you that following the money is best practice, there should only be a movement in price if the final agreement is significantly different to what was expected on Friday.

In regards oil the big producers are already flooding the market to try and kill alternatives. If something scares the likes of OPEC more than anything else it is cheap renewable energy. Wind and solar are getting very close to knocking out everything else at an oil price above $60 a barrel.
> "Normal people don't take a gun out of their safe, load it, throw a bunch of rounds in the back of their car, put on a bullet-proof vest and go shoot-up the neighborhood community center, church, school or mall."

You've missed the point of the article I shared with you. The point was normal people under extraordinary circumstances can be pushed to breaking point and take it out on others. Normal people do not always behave normally.
I agree, I love the original construction. It's extremely compelling, big-league copy. How about just tuning slightly simpler:

"Somewhere in the difference between your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight."
Needs an account. Can it be moved to Medium.com please? :)