skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this with my friends as well. A frozen burrito is cooking to them.

When I have a friend house sit, he complains because I "don't have any real food [in the freezer]" despite cabinets full of pasta/rice, a freezer full of chicken, and dairy products and vegetables in the refrigerator.

I made apple/orange juice from concentrate and my gf of the time (we're late 20s) had never seen it done before (she had only bought bottles of juice).
With a powerful enough computer the learning curve of a simulated baby could hypothetically be condensed to minutes, or seconds. Which would appear to us in normal time to be an intelligence explosion.
What's incorrect or out of date about it?
>Uber doesn't do any of the leasing itself, instead sending drivers to 3rd party leasing companies

https://get.uber.com/cl/xchange/ or just Google it, Uber certainly did begin leasing cars. The lease payments go directly to Uber's subsidiary.

>Uber gets either zero or very little kickbacks since Uber's primary motivation is getting drivers in nice cars on the road.

These drivers, as independent contractors, are supposed to provide their own tools/materials to perform, not finance/lease/rent the tools from the company to perform.

>The California decision was by some employment office with no real authority on the case of a single driver and so pretty much irrelevant.

No real authority? I'm assuming you have never run your own company and had a former employee with a complaint with "some employment office".

They found the Uber driver improperly classified as an independent contractor, as a result Uber was ordered to pay the employee's driving expenses of $1,000's. If Uber loses its appeal in court all the sudden that single case becomes precedent for all California Uber drivers.
This is a cool idea but it'll be tough to get people to switch from FB and Twitter.
Mozilla gave out $503,000, only $15,000 of which went to Buildbot (that's 2.9%), and only part of that money is going toward the Buildbot docs change; the rest is going towards "improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud".

It is a bit strange that the blog post listed the smallest donation first, which meant that the documentation change was the first task mentioned. But it's a tiny part of the whole picture.
||stormpages.com^

Is in the malware domain list. If that helps you figure out why uBlock is not a fan..
Or you sell the right to abuse the land or waterways. Then turn around and when all the clean water is gone, purify it and sell it!
My son's school just uses Renweb:
http://www.renweb.com/

They have a website and Android and iOS apps for it. The mobile apps charge a membership fee, but website access is free for parents and students.

I used to write web apps, I can tell you that you no only have to build a SQL database to store your data in, you also have to build web apps that work with almost every type of web browser. You never know when a parent will use Opera for example instead of Firefox or Chrome or Safari or gasp Internet Explorer.

You will get stuck at certain points and things will break, you'd best have a development system to work on before moving changes to the production system just in case something messes up.

If you are a small high school it might be just you who is developing such a system and it really takes a team of talented people to develop such a system. Even then there are going to be problems that need solving.

When you build your own system, for example, you might not know how to plug security holes and students or hackers can break into it and modify data. Even worse they can delete the entire database.

Let me give you this website on how to prevent SQL injection:
http://bobby-tables.com/
I don't see why a program needs to be a self-improving Charles Stross monster to have an impact on the world, for good or ill.
True AI will require several breakthroughs. The fact that we don't understand neural nets means that much of the progress thus far has been hand-wavy and hacky iterative improvement (engineering, vs. theory). This means progress is very likely to plateau. When everything is hacky and you don't understand what's going on, those breakthroughs are not going to happen.
The Skynet scenario seems farfetched because we're very far off from that kind of AI.

But on the chance that some day we do reach that level of advancement, even if it's 100 or 500 years, can't hurt to prepare, right? Better to waste time preparing unnecessarily than to face destruction from improper planning.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but Vault on its own (without an agent) would be quite difficult to use in a simple web application setup, no?

For example let's say I store an API token in Vault and want to use that in my Node.js application.

That means I can't do "var api_token = MY_API_TOKEN;" because the secret needs to come from vault and get refreshed, etc...

I'd imagine you will need some agent to manage the secret lease/expiry and for that to reload your entire application to ensure you don't end up with old secrets hanging around in the memory.

This topic is not addressed anywhere in the Vault documentation, I looked everywhere I could.
It's possible to determine negative externalities before a product goes to market, and this 'pre-filter' regulatory framework and barrier to entry is decidedly not 'free market'.

Any solution that does not implement the above is a 'post-filter' approach which can result in permanent, irreversible damage to a system.

Even if we accept your post-filter scenario (which is not rational from a system design perspective), your 'privatize common resources' suggestion relies on the erroneous idea that public property rights are not equivalent to private property rights from a legal perspective.

Either type of right can be reduced to a legal right which gives the rightsholder standing to take legal action. Whether a rightsholder enforces those rights is simply a matter of whether the rightsholder is competently managing those rights, and both public and private entities can be good and bad at this.

In a situation where there are shared resources used by all actors in a system the simplest and logical solution is to have one entity which represents all actors managing those resources.

Your suggestion of transferring ownership / management of shared resources to a narrow subset of beneficiaries seems unavoidably complex, convoluted and illogical to me, having surveyed various arguments online for 'privatize all the things'.

What is the best resource you'd cite online? I've reviewed Walter Block and to be honest he seems like a total lunatic, but that won't necessarily stop me evaluating his arguments.

I just don't want to read a 494 page book on privatizing roads to get the gist of his arguments.
Sure, but who will pay for that time and energy? I guess no-one, which means not producing the product in the first place.
Actually, we've funded lots of things that we don't directly use. For example, we funded the development of OPAM, which we don't use internally at all. Moreover, the funding of OCaml Labs was aimed broadly at improving the OCaml ecosystem, rather than just addressing our narrow internal needs. Our work and funding on compiler improvements like Flambda is aimed at things we want, but they're also of broad utility to the users of the language. Merlin is another example of something we've supported that is useful to us internally, but also useful more broadly.

This is of course self serving in the sense that we think the OCaml ecosystem is important to our future, and so we want to help it flourish. But it's a relatively enlightened form of self interest...
Wonderful message. I agree 100% with Pichai's stance on diversity.
But flying and transportation is mostly required for a functional society. We can easily live without micro-beads, so it's a bit easier to outright ban them.
The simulated baby would extremely tax to the limit the entire resources of whatever supercomputer trained it. People have to run deep learning programs on multiple GPUs right now, and performance is constrained by memory bandwidth, which does not follow Moore's law.
This page does not adequately address many of the practical questions that orgs with secrets should be asking.

Examples:

* Does it integrate with my existing infrastructure security policies?
* Does it introduce a new set of principals for me to track and manage?
* Are the configurations stored in a cleartext manner suitable for storing in version control?
* Will the audit logs integrate with my existing audit log tooling?
* Does it help or hinder continuous deployment? In other words, will my code be littered by conditionals to support non-prod jobs?
* Can my devops team run this or does it require additional staffing?
* How many layers is this adding between me and the security primitives offered by my platform (Windows AD, AWS IAM, etc)
* Is it serverless, or does it require me to run additional servers?
* How do I ensure continuity if the software is no longer actively developed?
* Can it deploy secrets to dev and test environments in the same way?
* What's the revocation story?

The answers to most of these questions for most of the tools that have made it to HN recently are not promising. For AWS the best choice seems to be using KMS directly and integrating your app with the declarative configuration tools AWS offers (IAM, CF, MFA).

Outside of AWS, Vault is the only one that I've seen which handles real-world end-to-end in a responsible way. For example, Vault is the only one that doesn't focus strictly on storing static values: Vault can integrate with services such as Postgres and SSH to dynamically provision time-limited credentials (https://vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/postgresql/index.html).
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>By 'entire field' you mean handwriting recognition?

Classification of high-dimensional data is a huge portion of machine learning.

>They reduce the search space by limiting themselves to combinations of typical pen movements.

"They reduce the search space by limiting themselves to gradients of nearby pixels. Very smart, but I don't see how convolutional neural networks can be applied to machine learning in general."

All of machine learning involves some prior knowledge -- the question is always how much and at what level of abstraction.
>For example, in order to be legally employed on an H1B in the "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA" MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), you must be getting paid at least $98,342 per year or $47.28 per hour.

Wow, i had no idea the prevailing wage was that high. Does this mean literally everyone on an H1B in the bay area is making at least $100k/year?! I should have negotiated harder...
@jerf, @silentplummet (all of 39 days) the article is posted on "thecrimson", expect it to be a bit bio-ish. What title would you give the article? For me I only change the title if it's too long. This is a fault of story posters web wide. A bug bear of mine - there is no universal editor on the web.
It could have been Uber.

Seriously though... Ayn Rand and all that.

Prepare for Uber to take control of the Internet.

Welcome your new overlords.
The site straight up says "deep learning." Which is neural networks.
Surprised? Man, this is HN!!
I actually could not stand fluorscent lights for many years (I would get massive headaches). I recently moved into a new place, and after I light burnt out I was surprised to see a CFL. No issues with headaches and a nice warm white.
Ask HN: AR Hackathon – is this video real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxM4vN_4jJY

A friend sent me this video, which is from a few months ago. I've seen some VR presentations that allow people to code in VR and such so I know it's not that far of a stretch...but from your knowledge and experience, do you think this video is real?
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Clickable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxM4vN_4jJY
>Ahhh... The power of not knowing what you don't know.

Ok: what don't I know, that is interesting and relevant to this problem? Tell me.

>I mean, why can't I live forever?

Mostly because your cells weren't designed to heal oxidation damage, so eventually the damage accumulates until it interferes with homeostasis. There are a bunch of other reasons and mechanisms, but overall, it comes down to the fact that the micro-level factors in aging only take effect well after reproductive age, so evolution didn't give a fuck about fixing them.

>Let's just list the problems and solve them in the next year!

I said I'd have a plan with lists of open problems in nine months. I expect that even at the most wildly optimistic, it would take a period of years after that to actually solve the open problems and a further period of years to build and implement the software. And that's if you actually gave me time to get expert, and resources to hire the experts who know more than me, without which none of it is getting done.

As it is, I expect machine-learning systems to grow towards worthiness of the name "artificial intelligence" within the next 10-15 years (by analogy, the paper yesterday in Science is just the latest in a research program going back at least to 2003 or 2005). There's no point rushing it, either. Just because we can detail much of the broad shape of the right research-program ahead-of-time, especially as successful research programs have been conducted on which to build, doesn't mean it's time to run around like a chicken with its head cut-off.
The submitted article is quite interesting. It is a review of the new book The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There by Vincent T. DeVita,[1] and includes many surprising details from the book's account of the history of cancer treatment research. We see a lot of gee-whiz submissions to Hacker News of press releases about untested "cures" for various diseases, many of which have not proven effective over the years that I have been reading Hacker News. If you are curious about how new medical research findings turn into standard medical practice--or don't--you will enjoy reading the article submitted here. I think I will read the book, as I grew up with a parent who was involved in cutting-edge medical research.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Death-Cancer-Pioneering-Winnable/d...
Economy is doing better than in 2013. So many more applicants. So lottery needed. In 2 days in April there are way more applicants than slots. If you apply 1 month later you're way behind, you're not even in the lottery.
Can you elaborate on what guanxi entails?
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>Figuring out how to make neural networks work at human-comparable levels for tasks like machine vision was the hardest part IMO. Once you have that, if you break down how the brain would have to work (or could work) to perform various functions and limit yourself to using neural networks as building blocks, it's not that difficult to come up with a synthetic architecture that performs all of the same functions, provided you steer clear of magical thinking

Actually, you need a number of things other than neural networks, but... nevermind, everyone here is clearly fixated on pro-Musk-Bostrom-bloc vs anti rather than on the science.
Sweet, nice work.
Amusingly, "news.ycombinator.com" serves its pages with .gz compression. Even if you send an HTTP header that demands plain text only.
We need more, not less democracy
Journalist and researcher for the Tor project, Jacob Appelbaum talks about technology, freedom and resisting surveillance at the World Forum for Democracy.
Is this ( http://i2.wp.com/boingboing.net/images/cfa4827569_20070921de... ) the hoodie that Star Simpson was wearing? I could understand the police being a little suspicious. If you are going to do any electronic project, you need to hide anything other than your display/LEDs.

I could understand MIT distancing itself from what would have been a PR stshow because of how obviously threatening that device looks.

If anyone is wondering where I found this image, it can be located here ( http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html ). It seems hard to find a photo of this with any article on the subject. It took a bit of digging to find that few year old BoingBoing story. This link also contains more details on the incident that were not covered in the story.
Why I decided not to enter the $100k global warming time-series challenge
I read your answer and I don't think it's compelling.

A better reason is that naming things is hard, and changing master/slave to leader/follower dilutes the accuracy of the metaphor. That's why hard drives and databases, etc use master/slave, and consensus algorithms or self-organizing networks use leader/follower.

After all, if you don't lose meaning from changing the terms, there's nothing to argue aganst from a technical perspective. Then it just becomes your ideologies vs. their's and now people are arguing about politics in pull requests instead of being productive.
Be aware also that it does not not increase your probability to be a winner in the H1B lottery. You just know faster.
As a perl programmer I wish someone would fund mojolicious
I think capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate because of inflation. Let's say I buy something (anything, really) and hold onto it for ten years. In that time the CPI goes up 20%. If I sell that thing I bought for 20% more than I paid I really haven't gained anything - the spending power I have after ten years is the spending power I had in the beginning.
What Microsoft Can Do to Make Me Hate Windows a Little Less
>Just as one discovery enables many, human-level AI that can do its own AI research could superlinearly bootstrap its intelligence.

Of course, that assumes the return-on-investment curve for "bootstrapping its own intelligence" is linear or superlinear. If it's logarithmic or something other than "intelligence" (which is a word loaded with magical thinking if there ever was one!) is the limiting factor on reasoning, no go.
Will miss Prismatic a lot, I use the app everyday. Anyone know of a similar app?
Some of us have been using Unix tools a very long time. For example, I'm pretty sure I started using tar and gzip in 1995.
It's a hypothetical, not expected to happen in conventional supercomputers with the current state of machine learning.

Imagine a massively parallel optical computer with the same transistor density as the human brain, the size of an olympic swimming pool running at the speed of light, and networked with 1000s of other similar computers around the world.

Foomp, superintelligence, you won't even be able to pinpoint the source.
If it's a larger company, then the hiring manager is negotiating with the HR department to come up with a list of keywords and other criteria that HR can use for filtering. This can be a nauseating process, and it may take a couple of tries at crafting the position before any appropriate candidates get through the filter.
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you can; you can receive emails sent to the address via the website.
The other problem is if AI can be programmed to commit physical crimes then only a select priesthood of vetted developers will be allowed to program them at the service of a concentrated elite.
Being a windows user these days, I am getting kinda frustrated with how anemic everyone is at even trying to google for 20s to find the windows solution.

7zip is the program you want to handle most everything, with both gui and command line options: http://www.7-zip.org/

Given how radically MS is trying to reform itself to be an open-source friendly company and how ineffectually inoffensive they've been the last 5 years, can we at least try and throw them a bone or two?
Yeah I've been considering a CI container + data volume with a CD pipeline to do that; zero downtime if you factor in anything but your own load balancers is tough though
Until that "soon" arrives, there's a far greater chance that people will wipe out humanity. We have more suicidal terrorists today than ever in history.
From what i understand, to get on O visa, you are better off being one of the top 3 specialists worldwide in an obscure combination of OS language platform running on an old mainframe, instead of being in the top 1% of all Javascript/PHP developers.

A good immigration lawyer would help you figure your strategy here.
geezip is fun to say. Until there's a catchy name for "crosszip"/xz/whatever, I think we're preaching to the wrong choir. There's a human element in toolchains. Address it.
AirBnB racism claim: African-Americans 'less likely to get rooms'
I don't know how they are doing it, but one way this could be solved is with assymetric encryption.

If a person wants to see your data, that person asks you for it, and you use their public key to encrypt your data, send it over, and then they can use their private key to decrypt said data.

I doubt they are actually doing it this way as I imagine the overhead would be very high, but it need not be as cumbersome as sharing a specific secret key for each person.
They could at least offer automated exports of the links we've kept.
I guess I fail to see how that is any more obviously threatening than, say, gluing a bunch of legos to my shirt. I mean, it's weird, and if the point of security is to make us all try not to be weird, that's one thing... but I'm not sure how "weird" has anything to do with "threatening"
If the macro can open a connection to a database, query the schema, and use the results to construct/inject types into the source, all at compile time, then yes. That is basically what Slick's type-checked SQL API is doing in Scala.

It sounds like something that might be a practical disaster if you don't have incremental compilation though.
I actually prefer japan's approach. They know exactly how to build nukes. They don't have any on hand. If they're backed into a corner, they'll produce as many as they feel they need.

Unfortunately during the cold war, neither side could really rely on the other to just chill out for a couple of days. So now we can deliver hundreds (thousands?) anywhere in the world in about 45 minutes.
Not to mention the C8 fiasco in WV, courtesy DuPont.
IMBA is another unknown but excellent Javascript library for UIs and is also a language derived from CoffeeScript. So far I've used it on two projects and I am really liking it. It has some quirks and not much doc. Your best bet is to look at all of the sample code and read the Issues forum.
No I don't, Google and Apple do. They are distributing the app and are responsible that the content is compliant with all the countries where they sell apps in.

Aside from that I don't understand what point you are trying to make here.

Are you suggesting that a developer should not release apps without first making sure that the app doesn't comply with any laws of any country?
Alpha 2, the First Humanoid Robot for the Family
I would really like to see an emphasis on education rather than training. No child left behind sort of moved us to this pure metrics approach that makes things kinda sucky. it's hard to measure education.

Rather than define precisely what i mean, consider the difference between sex education and sex training, i think you'll get the idea.
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AOL bought Time-Warner. It was only later that the inept AOL management was pushed out by the TW old guard.
This. WCF is SO broken but you don't notice if you use it on both sides. It has been a few years but it used to require your soap attributes to be in predefined order and would break otherwise.

so if it expected:

<object>
<a>A</a>
<b>B</b>
<c>C</c>
</object>

And you sent in:

<object>
<b>B</b>
<c>C</c>
<a>A</a>
</object>

The parsed object was:

{"a":null,"b":"B","c":"C"}

Java Soap libs normally creates the request by reflection and attribute order depends on the exact JVM and compiler implementation and combination. This one took way to long to figure out.
"Stream of consciousness writing" or whatever it's called =)

I don't consider the two viewpoints expressed to be contraditory.