skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is not an example about intelligence, it's an example about uncontrolled actuators. A paperclip making machine could be made without any intelligence involved, and many people have been concerned about a grey goo type scenario which is similar.

"There is no plausible scenario in which we build a strong AI... and it doesn't take over the world"

First off you are using polemic here with the "plausible" card - it seems to me as a reader that you are saying "I won't consider any other argument". I think you should.

There are in fact no proofs that a strong AI will take over, I can't imagine any way that anyone could construct such a proof given that it appears that we are dealing with concepts (consciousness, intelligence, freedom of will) which are under defined. Additionally there is no indication that "intelligence" beyond human level is at all possible.

What if the strong AI doesn't want to take over?
Ok, but what is internet.org? From what I gather it seems like they made an ISP but select who the ISP connects to.

This response is very ironic.
- "It is not a closed system"
- "You will [only] be able to access services from operators around the world."

Who/what are operators, what was internet.org, are there technical details for us to see, what is it's goal?
The problem with those statistics is that they don't account for location. Software developers may indeed make more salary than the average plumber, but to do so they're mostly required to live in a tech hub, with a high cost of living. I would hypothesize that to maintain a comparable standard of living (i.e. housing, food, etc) to plumbers their average disposable income would actually be lower.
If you're missing niceties like gemsets around this, there are various companion projects to provide bells and whistles. I've written a couple myself:

https://github.com/regularfry/gemsh
https://github.com/regularfry/rv

The wonderful thing is that these projects are so small and simple that writing your own tooling to interface with them feels quicker and easier than evaluating someone else's code...
Show of hands: who didn't see this coming?
They'd make a great Dr Who enemy
Regardless of major, to move past a certain level, some knowledge of business fundamentals is necessary. Things like accounting, marketing, sales, management, finance, etc.
This page says it's free for hobbyists for as long as you need it. http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/try-buy
This isn't quite hitting the core of the problem. If someone only has Facebook's Free Basics, then they can't conduct business on the Internet with anyone who hasn't partnered with Facebook. Not reading content, not publishing content, not downloading apps, not shopping, not email. They can only do these things if they pay a telecom for real internet access. From a user's perspective, that's still an improvement, because they would've had to pay for real internet access and now they have the option of maybe not.

But what if you want to conduct business with those people who only have Free Basics? Then Facebook has a veto over your ability to do so. They will make you partner with them, jump through hoops, and maybe pay them money. If you're thinking of competing with them, they can destroy your business with a flick of a switch. It's a power that begs to be abused. Free Basics isn't bad for users, it's bad for everyone else.
How do we archive this?
Actually, you can use it for free if you're a business making less than $100,000/year. Or something like that, I forgot the exact terms, but it's quite generous. The terms are shown when you first install and register the program.
Basically, all traffic to the sites on Internet.org is sent to Facebook's proxy servers (including HTTPS with "dual-certificates", as in MITM attacks), and no charge is collected from the user. Users can use either an Android app or mobile browser on featurephones. Facebook decides which sites get on this platform. (Hence no Twitter, Telegram etc)
Such sites do not facilitate elaborate, modular hierarchies:

"' . . .if a society does increase significantly in size, and if at the same time it
remains unified and integrated, it must elaborate its organization.'
A common reaction to this scale-complexity relationship has been to account
for increasing complexity of social organization through population growth."

http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/ISCOM/GAJ1-17.pdf

The future successes in social networking will come from people who leverage social science and not just computer science.
They are useful when you want backend-independent orm (say you want to save your objects as JSON in ceph in deployment, and in sqlite in development)
Can you give a link to your tweet here?
So they have made up a way to ruin the internet for a select--small--number of people.

It's nice to see the crap that facebook does get put in the spotlight recently.
Why MySQL’s binlog-do-db option is dangerous
Stock options: a balanced approach
But commercial ISPs with full access to the Internet existed in the USA since 1992. The first one was The World. Details at http://www.indra.com/homepages/spike/isp.html
Hi, I kind of keep that Twitter username/ID and this one separate but please have a look at https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveTheInternet and you'll find many similar ones.
It is still increasing, but the slope of the curve is decreasing. It will peak in the next few decades and then start to decrease if current reproductive trends continue.
Just three years ago, someone I knew had to find another gynecologist for the same reason.
This is exactly why I proposed this (rough) idea that nodes should have to ratify hard forks in some way.
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3y2ev1/what_if_node...
Actually for years if you were a registered developer (which cost ~$500/year iirc) you got a monthly CD-ROM and issue of develop magazine (which was very good). The CD-ROMs periodically had archives of pretty much every major stable OS release (along with the current and bleeding edge releases, developer tools, and an On Location free text retrieval index that worked better than Spotlight does now).
Harumph. I was an editor for NeXTWorld magazine [1] at the time TimBL invented the web. "WWWNeXTStepEditor version 0.12" was the first web browser I used.

Mass adoption of the web was held back by lack of ISPs. It may seem strange now, but in 1991 there was no way to connect to the Internet unless you were affiliated with a university or a big R&D company. in 1991, TimBl's WWW wasn't any more relevant to NeXT than Gopher or Brewster Kahle's WAIS or, for that matter, CompuServe.

Some of us at NeXTWorld, including John Perry Barlow, Simson Garfinkel, and Seth Ross saw the potential of the WorldWideWeb, but we never wrote about it at NeXTWorld because most NeXT users couldn't connect to the Internet. I don't know when Jobs first saw the WorldWideWeb but he had many opportunities and it never was important until he got excited about WebOjects at Apple. By that time, Marc Andreessen had released Mosaic, the first web browser for Windows, and ISPs were sprouting up to enable consumer connections to the Internet.

NeXT computers would have needed to provide a modem, and PPP for TCP/IP over dialup, and NeXT-provided connection points (through a 3rd party partner?) to make the web useful to NeXT users outside of academia and government.

[1] http://www.fortuityconsulting.com/danielkehoe/earlyweb.html
There is a trick for parsing "indented" syntax which is not covered by this tutorial: the lexer (not the parser) keeps track of indentation. Lexer inserts Indent and Descent tokens, which the parser considers like { and } tokens in a C syntax language.

Now your parser implements a context-free grammar although the language is not context-free.
Debian is still changing
Is there something like this, which enables me to edit scenes with humans? Like Poser or DAZ 3D?

I would DIE to have something like that in the browser!
Non-linear Thinking with CUDA
Juguetes para niños, Tienda de juguetes online
The history of the universe is an elliptic curve (2014)
A windmill attached to your house might generate a lot of noise inside and might put repetitive strain on the structure.
So nobody should sell insurance, because it's risky?
'All of a sudden being a CTO at a bank is sexy' Tech could revolutionize finance
Show HN: 12-words – File transfer with client-side encryption
Ask HN: PHP 7 local development server?
What's the easiest way to get that going? I'm not a fan of WAMP any other options to get the AMP stack on a Mac book pro?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10587031
Lightning is a very interesting long term scaling solution. It may allow us to keep fees close to zero on the main chain while at the same time keeping space requirements efficient, and supporting all the transactions the world needs.

I feel it is though, very much at the research prototype stage of a project. How a transient network of piecewise connected nodes can efficiently route messages between disparate endpoints is certainly possible (as it is how the internet works) but certainly with the extra meta data required, and the connection based nature of the protocol, it is more like TCP and it is not trivial. So I agree it is something which needs a lot of work before we can realize its effectiveness.

I don't however see any need to throw around accusations of pivoting or deceptive intent. This is a new field and it is necessary and healthy for ideas and goals to morph and change as required to serve the market need.

We should not discourage new ideas.
So, any chance of this particular kind of auto-vitrification could work as a preservation method for human cells, alternative to cryopreservation or plastination?
It's not just America, in Japan the country is attempting to eliminate humanities and social science programs entirely [1].

1. http://monitor.icef.com/2015/09/japanese-government-asks-uni...
Show HN: Made a canvas animation to send as holiday greetings
This actually is great. Although Terraform is nice, it's too focused on supporting everything instead of doing one thing and doing it great.
Minus: might become a barrier to entry to other services

Plus: provides "some" internet for a billion people ... including wikipedia and various info apps. Includes photo sharing, chat, ...

Which of these is more important ? That's the big question being discussed here. And of course the people discussing how this might stand in the way of their future profits feel absolutely no need to provide an alternative ...
you get the feeling players sleepwalk through the season until it gets closer to playoff time

I've also had this feeling. What I think should happen (so of course it won't) is for players to only get paid their absurdly high salaries for the games they win. Lose and only get league minimum. This would give players an incentive to play hard each and every game. I'm sure there's a lot wrong with that idea, and I haven't really though it through.

I don't think that sort of salary structure would work quite as readily in the NFL. There's much less guaranteed money, and marginal players are always getting cut. So most on an NFL team do play pretty hard. Also coaching decisions affect football far more than basketball. Suck for Luck is more on management than on the players. How do you disincentivise management from doing that?

And, every so often in the NFL, an Albert Haynesworth comes along and stops playing after getting a lot of guaranteed money. But that's mostly owner stupidity at work. Probably a little of that going on this year with Ndamukong Suh. Certainly a lot lot more of that going on in baseball and basketball with their ridiculously high guaranteed contracts.
The one where you don't think of a degree as an intellectual commodity, and instead realise the intellectual returns come from yourself and your own work. You could do an English degree in the worst university and still come out knowing higher Maths. Anyone doing just the set work from lectures hoping for a quick intellectuql fix completely misses the finer points of going to university. It's an environment of self learning. If you bury yourself in that and dedicate your time to learning whatever you want, any degree and any university is equally worthwhile. Some it's just a more pleasant experience to do that, given what you want to put in and get out. Chemistry for example is a lot better provided for at rich universities. Making contacts in the world of academia if you wish to begin an academic career is one of the few other reasons to choose a specific degree and location. If you aren't interested in academia, choice of university and course is a lot more irrelevant... other than prestige and tuition fees. Unless you plan on getting in to the most prestigious univsersity in the land an employer wont care too much. A vocational degree title like "Software Engineer" matters more for many jobs. Even if what you learnt far outstrips that role, or you avoided learning half of what is necessary to be any use. Ultimately the best degree with highest return will fit your interests and life goals enabling you to engage with self learning, no one can tell you what that is, or suggest it without a lot more info. For me I did three different degrees in three different subjects at two different universities. There wasnt method to the madness ibfollowed my interests. Now I work in a job that uses a broad set of my skills I otherwise couldnt have done with the time only learning a single subject. I managed to jump degree subjects through learning a lot of foundational knowledge for the next during the time of whatever course I was working through. It didnt feel like hard work because I was having too much fun learning new stuff, and interacting with cool people along the way. Once you live for learning any university dept becomes a great environment, but any prescriptive degree course is highly limiting to your intellectual return. Engage with learning and thebuni environment not with course soecifics, treat modules like a box ticking exercise, the minimum knowledge in areas others identified as important to learn.
"... by throwing in short-sighted plans, you are preventing the Government and the market from thinking up plans for giving permanent access to the full Internet for these poor."

I am on the fence on whether to support Free Basics or not, but the scale tilts here for me towards Free Basics. This response is like saying, "No, don't help them - you'll prevent us from helping them at some point in the future." The poor person in the village, on the street, shouldn't have to wait five more years for the internet(in whatever form) when a solution (though partial) is available now. Suppose the government does introduce a proper 'Free Internet' plan two years later. I don't think anything would stop them from switching from the biased Free Basics to the better plans.
If you've never managed to throw a nice curveball, or hit a homer, or make a great diving catch, you'll never understand.

I grew up watching baseball on TV. But it was only after watching my daughter play competitive softball for a number of years did I really begin to understand how much was happening. On every single pitch of every at bat.

It's totally different than "standing around".
> That's not the GPL's fault, proven by the fact that there are commercial software companies that sell GPL software.

You cannot "sell" GPL software. You can provide it as a service (one time fee, the customer can reuse it without additional payments) or just charge service fees. But for most commercial software the development costs can be financed only if you have the traditional selling model, it would not exist otherwise.

> There are reasons to not use GPL, but you don't want to follow the community's rules, you don't get to steal their work. Nothing is free; either pay the price the community sets (follow the GPL), or negotiate another license from the authors.

No one talked about stealing. I very careful observe the license of any software I touch - this is exactly the reason GPL makes me sad. I can't touch it, I have to treat the software as if it not existed. With the software I can use, I often can enhance it on paid time and donate back, but there is just no way of doing so with GPL software.

> Yes, they prefer being able to take code for free without any ethical obligation to give back, a very narcissistic attitude. This meme that the GPL is "bad" or "less-free" is just a cheap excuse to try to get free code.

You got it exactly backwards. Developers at companies are very aware of the ethical obligation to give back and usually are able to do so - LGPL is mostly fine for this reason. But GPL requires them to open source something else too, and that is where the conflict arrives. The GPL license does not only involve the software it is on, but it also tries to affect others people software.

I think every developer has the freedom to choose any license she or he wants and the license should be observed. I have seen good software pass away, because the developer was not willing to share it at all, and there is good software which does not get used, because the license terms prevent it. So I can only hope every developer chooses the license carefully, and as discussed GPL basically excludes the software from commercial environments. If thats what the author wants, fine. But it needs to be considered.
Thank you for the honesty. It is a touchy subject.

Whereas there are several examples of graduates or dropouts within humanities who did very well for themselves (most famously superstars as Zuckerberg, Jobs and PG) it's almost always outside the fields they studied.

PG didn't set up the most famous philosophical school, Zuckerberg didn't make the largest psychological experiment (or did he?).
This timeline shows the entire history of the Universe, and where it's headed
The poster successfully conveyed the insight that made it brilliant film for them and their enthusiasm makes me wish to see it again.

I don't know what practices are actually taught in 101, but the greatest artists won't be those that think themselves above them, but those who really appreciate them.

You wish to suggest you are superior but multiple stories to give different angles of a concept isn't symbolism, its a theme. The narrative structure is definitely unusual in the genre, frequently described as clever/innovative by reviewers and stands as a substantial achievement to have brought so many stories together successfully. None of that means you have to like it but the cheap middle-brow dismissal fools no-one.
> A paperclip making machine could be made without any intelligence involved

And very much should be, yes. It's extraordinarily dangerous to build any strong AI (or optimization process) with a value function less general than one that will best satisfy the value functions of sapient beings. (Side note: that doesn't necessarily mean we need to build the AI to itself be sapient; I've seen the term "optimization process" used as a substitute for AI, to imply that it need not have any agency of its own, only a goal to satisfy people's goals.) Any strong AI that doesn't specifically value "people" will hurt people as a side effect of maximizing whatever it does value.

>> "There is no plausible scenario in which we build a strong AI... and it doesn't take over the world"

> First off you are using polemic here with the "plausible" card

I very specifically mentioned "strong AI": AI capable of self-improvement to better satisfy some value function. We could quibble over the word "capable", but I'd argue that a computer with the capability of self-improvement that specifically chooses not to do so seems rather pointless; why build the capability if not to use it?

> There are in fact no proofs that a strong AI will take over

I used "take over" very loosely there. A strong AI will self-improve to maximize its value function, whatever that value function is. Most interesting value functions tend to benefit from more resources. Even seemingly trivial value functions can potentially blow up if the system decides it could benefit by expanding the amount of computational capacity it has available; more computational capacity requires more hardware, which requires more matter; you're made of matter, and that matter isn't currently being used optimally to maximize the value function.

> Additionally there is no indication that "intelligence" beyond human level is at all possible.

In which case my statement is vacuously true. :)
Facebook!=the Internet. If it's only Facebook and friends, this is not at all anything like the Internet. It's a closed platform, like 25 years ago, with walled gardens.

So people need to stop saying those criticising Free Basic are in favor of depriving poor people from the Internet.

Quite honestly this Free Basic thing is so absurd to me on the face of it I hope Facebook doesn't modify it as a result of all the increasing criticism. Then it can just face plant, which is where it ought to end up.

Even my ISP doesn't MITM my 443 connections to other services.
I don't think that part implied that the movie is brilliant but that the movie is brilliant in itself as a work of art.
Free VPNs do not mean that ISP's won't charge you for the data.
>This is presuming you or some human has control over the lifecycle of an individual process.

No, that doesn't matter at all. It's like with DBMS transactions. I want a defined point at which the system is in a known good state or fail in some detectable way.

For long running processes that get bounced automatically, there needs to be some sort of monitoring anyway. Monitoring is easier if the application does not linger endlessly in an inconsistent state.
So which 'parts' are actually printed? I cannot believe that the turbopump blades could possibly be printed additively as they would lack proper crystal structure.

Piping can be printed, but given the stresses at attachment points, I cannot see that printing pipes would save many man-hours.

The turbopump casings could certainly be printed, but not in "one piece". Someone needs them open to insert the bearings and blades. So two pieces at best ... exactly as if they had been milled rather than built additively.

So what's left? The combustion chamber and bell might do well. They have some internal voids/plumbing that probably suits such printing. But the stresses?
The support is really only on firefox: http://caniuse.com/#search=brotli

Chromium is still milling on this:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=452335

But there seems to be some progress:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+log/lkcr...
Lots of fun with that one.. Fake (but valid) credit card generator, mail bombs.. I'm surprised users of that didn't get arrested. Luckily the statute of limitations ran out on that a while ago! Not that it would affect me or anything..
I wonder if we'll ever see the day Apple makes a windows machine
Because there's no good reason to implement it as an altcoin.
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So the US isn't supposed to gather intel now? IS that what you're saying Glenn?
Sockpuppet accounts and promotional voting are against the rules here.
More detailed comparison: https://www.gstatic.com/b/brotlidocs/brotli-2015-09-22.pdf
New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic Divide
>In the US, we can't go to university for $500 a year, like in some European countries. Or like our parents did a generation ago.

Since we agree it need not be this way (for it hasn't always been), it's prudent to ask why we choose to enrich the few at the cost of the many.

The derision is not towards the fiscally prudent, but towards the stewards that have squandered the nation's intellectual birthright in favor of social Darwinism.

It's sheer opportunism on the part of money lenders upheld by the old guard of "Protestant work ethic." A perfect storm of exploitation in which we should refuse to participate.