skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was. But the rest was good so let's give the benefit of the doubt:

It seems that the argument from the "liberal" side has been that these "conservative" militias are being treated differently than those "thugs" in (all of the recent protests that degenerated in violence). However, these "liberals" don't see that these "conservatives" are fighting the same system of oppression that had caused all of these "problems" that "liberals" highlight (prisons, police brutality, etc). What is different then is that the "liberal" movement has failed to a) articulate its point on its constitutional basis and b) be willing to arm themselves to defend and fight for these points of view in a strong yet peaceful manner (i.e. Without degenerating into a "a riot" and "stealing TVs from the store" and "burning down your own neighborhoods").

That is the way I read that. I agree it was a weird way to put it.
What is the significance of the depth being reported as 10km?

Is that some sort of minimum for a quake, or did they dig down 10,000m to fire this thing off? That seems rather deep even for a large bomb, which this wasn't.
Your personal site is irrelevant. A business that is public facing should have a good website, and theirs simply is not designed well. If you can spend $x building this service you can spend .01x on your website.
I think "we need a X gallons of oil to run the factory" is a demand in the supply-vs-demand sense.

In contrast, "our profit is low because oil is expensive, let's lobby the government to build a new oil pipeline" is somehow different.
> Who is the government? It's people. People like you and me. If people decide to make assumptions based on data they collected and the assumptions aren't correct it's their own fault for assuming something in the first place (because...you know...it's an assumption...it can be wrong).

What if the assumptions they make raise the premium on your health insurance because someone sells your data? People (or, more likely, algorithms) making wrong assumptions, even if it is their own fault, can affect you negatively.
Funny how they casually throw in the fact that facebook knows how much time you spend on an article.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/27/434667722/one-thir...
> PS you guys flagged a recent post with Obama's gun control executive action, but leave this one on??

Well, obviously a startup product launch post is going to show up popular on HN. Considering the community here you _would_ expect posts about startups to be more popular than some political discussion (unless directly affecting startups in some way). What does the former even have to do with the latter?
I agree. Consider an example on their website:

>User: Can you get me an Ipad pro tonight?
>M+: Sure. I'm assuming you want the best model - 128GB with LTE in Space gray?
>U: Yeah

This process of comparing available options against prices, data plans, and features would have taken at least half an hour for me.
Right now, they can just disregard the price completely and offer whatever is the easiest to do/get/access.
Hm. Wouldn't have expected NK internet propagandists to be paying attention to Hacker News.
North Korea has done within a rounding error of nothing since the armistice. It's working fine.
I believe it is a flaw of the human personality that makes us want to hide information and eventually lie about it.

Who said anything about lying being a part of a desire for privacy?

I don't care if Google or the government knows that I'm searching "[insert embarassing keywords for you here]

Would you care if a prospective insurer knows you're (hypothetically) searching for "atrial fibrillation management" or "opiate addiction"? Or a prospective employer who knows you're (hypothetically) searching for "corporate firewall security exploits"? Or a prospective romantic partner who knows you're (hypothetically) searching for "genital rash"? Any of those searches could be legitimately borne of pure, unadulterated curiosity, but taken out of that context by people with whom you're hoping to establish some kind of relationship, they could easily doom that relationship before it begins. Hell, those searches may not even be made by you but by someone in your household, but if decisions are made and opinions are formed based in that information, you've suffered an unnecessary loss.

Who is the government? It's people. People like you and me.

Indeed, people like you and me, except those people have the authority and/or power to incarcerate you, or impinge on your rights in other (less direct/more insidious) ways. Privacy isn't about hiding the truth from those who have a need to know it, it's about controlling the context of that truth, or at the very least, having a say in any response that comes from the truth being discovered.
Correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...
I see your point. If society ends up believing in the fact that assumptions based on collected data have suddenly turned into "facts" then we will be truly...let me say it frankly...we are done for.

I believe when this happens Hacker News won't exist anymore because the intelligence of human beings will be comparable to that of a fly.

Luckily...this didn't happen yet because I can still have intellectual discussions, even on the internet.

I like your separation of "ideologically" and "pragmatically". I agree, it's not a pragmatical approach.
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> like the ones that regularly innovate and push the boundaries of science and attract millions of people each year because of a higher standard of living and less taxes. oh, wait...

Propaganda Americans seem always believe, as if the rest of the world were a third world country. The Nordic countries top the world standard of living, America, not so much. Quality of life, the U.S. doesn't even break the top 10. The U.S. isn't a shining city on a hill, it's a waning rotten empire slowly sinking back into 3rd world status for its average citizen.

> The "market" is just a synonym for individuals co-operating together for their mutual benefit.

That's a nice theory, it's just not true in the real world.

> I have lived decades with a single payer system and left in part because of it.

And which country would that be?
Another alternative would be to use a language without runtime exceptions, like Elm or PureScript.
The issue, as always, is cost/benefit. N. Korea has always tried to walk the line between wanting to seem strong enough that you can't just toss the leaders out and not so threatening that you actually worry they might mess you or your allies up.

It's not worth it to the U.S. or anyone else to invade, lose 30K-100K soldiers and then have to rebuild the country, and it never has been. The nuclear arms race serves partially as a deterrent against possible invasion, and partially an attempt to get people to the negotiating table for some resources by scaring Japan and N. Korea enough that they want to deal with this.

But if they had the capability, they still don't have the desire to use it as a first strike since that would give every country around + the U.S. a reason to bomb them to the ground.
I have a simple question: according to the prosecution, where was Teresa murdered? In the garage by being shot or on the bed after a violent rape ? In Stevens case it seems to be the former, in Brendan's case the latter. There's virtually no evidence for either hypothesis.
Amusing idea: conceal a flash chip in the film cartridge and record video to it from the camera used for the viewfinder. Put in a sound generator to make clicky film advance mechanism noises when taking pictures. The film in the cartridge is just a dummy and is not exposed. When the film cartridge is mailed in for processing, download the video, run it through Filmlook to give it grain and jitter, then upload to the cloud server. If the user orders the "return processed film" option, print the video to film stock at the processing plant.
1) Define intelligence, knowledge, truth, proof (deductive and inductive)... how do concepts work?, etc. I am not being facetious here. AI is an epistemology problem not a technological one.

2) I agree but we have to solve the problem of induction first but LW/EY are certain that there is no problem of induction. How can one be certain in a Kantian/Popper framework where statements can be proved false but never true?

3a) Here is where we part ways. It is a common assumption that AI implies consciousness but I think that is an unwarranted assumption. Whatever the principles behind intelligence are, we know that consciousness minds have found a way to (implicitly) enact them. It does not follow that consciousness is necessary for intelligence (just the biological manifestation of them) and I think good arguments exist to think that they are not correlatives. If they are correlatives then it will be easier to genetically design better babies, now that evolution is in conscious control, than to start from scratch.

3b) Goals, values, aims, etc. are teleological concepts that apply to living things only because they face the alternative of life or death. Turning off your computer does not kill it in the same sense that a living thing that stops functioning dies forever. 3a) & 3b) diffuses all the scary AI scenarios about AI taking over the world. It does raise the issue of AI in the hands of bad people with evil goals and values, like the dictator of North Korea who now apparently has the H-Bomb. This is the real danger today.

4) I agree. Computer aided intelligence will allow us to accelerate the accumulation of knowledge (and its application to human life) in unimaginable ways. But it will be no more conscious than your (deductive) calculator.

5) Non Sequiturs. Possibly psychological projection of helplessness or hopelessness.

6) As the joke goes, we can always unplug it.

7) Granting your premises then the goal of LW/EY should not be AI but the scientific, rational proof and definition of ethics but their fundamental philosophic premises won't allow it.

8) For me the threat is bad, evil people in possession of powerful technologies.
Show HN: AutoTempest's new homepage
We just released a new homepage for www.autotempest.com, and I would love any feedback you have to offer. The primary goal for this design was to make it as straightforward as possible to grok the site's purpose and to run a search, while also removing barriers for power users. (All advanced options are available with a single click, no page reload, and if they are used, they open automatically for the next search.)

There are certainly still areas for improvement. Our next iteration will improve the first impression at mobile widths. Right now there is too much stuff crammed into the hero image, so it really doesn't convey anything well, and both looks bad and gets in the way of what people really want - the search form. We've got some ideas of how to fix that and hopefully have the best of both worlds. We also need to port some of the design elements from the new home page - header and footer especially - to the results and other pages.

After that, we need to focus on improved curation of our make and model lists, and then we plan to move from selects to comboboxes to make model section faster and more user-friendly.

Of course we have plenty of plans for the longer-term as well, but those are the main ones for now. Thanks for taking a look!
I find it hard to believe that the author of this post didn't know better than to refer to Andreas as a "pundit". I have my many disagreements with him personally but it's ridiculous to treat him as a tech media talking head when his opinions on the subject are clearly based on multiple years shipping an Android-derived operating system on phones. Not to mention Firefox for Android, which I think he had some involvement with as well. The post as a whole seems to be intended to frame disagreement with Mr. Kuhn's PoV as coming from uninformed rabble and media talking heads.

The post itself is well-written and thoughtfully argued, so it's disappointing that it's undermined by the author's choice of tone. If anyone is qualified to share their detailed thoughts on the OpenJDK/Android move, former/current officers of Mozilla are high on that list.
No, it doesn't, because all the mixing and mangling of your precious entropy inside drivers/char/random.c is not information-theoretically secure.
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That's what I was going for, yes.
The lawsuit has (mostly) nothing to do with the license the implementation is under.

Oracle's argument is that an API is copyrightable, and cloning an API is illegal.

The only known way to obtain a license to use those APIs is to use the GPLed Java implementation of those APIs.
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i think this is the death of link shortners
I understand that you believe that privacy is hiding the truth. It appears that you believe that the only reason someone would hide any information is because it only allows one to lie. Thus you conclude that since lying is bad, privacy is also bad because it promotes lying.
If the above chain of reasoning is accurate, then let's do a thought experiment.
What if you personally hold a belief that is contrary to public opinion, in fact, let's say it's a crime to believe this, but you still believe it? And for some reason you decided to make mention of it to someone and you are outed for holding a belief. Do you think that even though you disagree with society at large, you should be punished for that belief?
Who is correct in this scenario? You? The people? ... privacy isn't just about lies, it's about being able to have space to have thoughts and develop concepts that may not be ready for public consumption. It's about freedom to think about concepts or beliefs without State retribution for not holding the party line. It's not about withholding truth. It's about being able to control the information that you personally generate without fear of judgement from external parties.
I keep reading and i keep finding that his references either do not back his point, or are basically a problem because of intransigent proprietary suppliers (see Torvalds "fuck you Nvidia").

Then again there are no singular "desktop". There is the media consumption desktop, the media production desktop, the gaming desktop, the office production desktop, etc etc etc.

In the end though, the basic problem is that unless some company pulls an Apple and start selling Linux preinstalled out of physical stores with knowledgeable staff for walk in support, the market will be stuck with Windows.

This simply because that is what everyone tests against, because that is the largest market, and you got your catch 22 going. Never mind that MS have a history of playing lip service to standard definitions (embrace, extend, extinguish anyone?).
Awesome article!

Seems a reasonably complete assembler too with one notable exception: Forward jumps, conditionals specifically. These may be a tad tricky to fit in to a monad because they require either knowing the future (eg. how far away the jump target is) or rewriting the past (eg. leave a hole and fill it in later).

I'd really like to see both approaches in Haskell, since they're kinda different. My guess is that in the former case, you'd have nested/delimited monads with buffers. However, I don't know Haskell enough to figure out how to accomplish the hole-filling approach.

EDIT: On second thought, I guess both approaches (traditionally "two-pass" vs "one-pass" assemblers) can be accomplished by changing labels to be opaque rather than addresses and storing a symbol table in either JITMem or the two-types that would replace it for a two-pass approach.
I no longer consider gcj since it is dead since 2009, as the majority if the guys left to work on OpenJDK.

It hasn't yet been removed from GCC due to the set of unit tests it provides.
This was the main idea behind the South African nukes as well. If memory serves, the country had only 6 nuclear warheads, but they were never meant to be anything but a deterrent (and probably a display of power and capability).
Did you use it?
Who knows? They are just talking big - it's even more ludicrous for the only nation who ever used nuclear weapon on civilian population to still have them, am I rite?
Except Dwarf Fortress has so many mechanics (not a complaint) that almost any game could be considered a "clone" of Dwarf Fortress!
A nuclear weapons expert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lewis_(nonproliferatio...
What happened to Brenden Dassey was so egregious that I feel comfortable describing anyone who helped put him in jail as either hopelessly corrupt or stupid. (Or both.) Ken Kratz included.

So I'm disinclined to believe Mr. Kratz when it comes to the Avery case...
What's the point of a multiplayer notepad when we have editor-independent version control?
Cars with AI are already here (BMW)
The OP is talking about running $0.027 worth of computation (1000 cores for 10s at 0.01/core/hr) and you think he should spend tens of thousands on hardware?

I'm not doubting a custom build will give him much greater bandwidth. I just doubt the workload has to be "extremely" spiky to make the cloud cost-effective.

Of course, he's going to get billed for 10m or 1hr minimum (Google or Amazon), so that's assuming he can amortize his startup across multiple jobs.
China would retaliate or threaten to. If, in your scenario, you imagine China would be join in with "rest of world" then your scenario is about as likely/realistic as NK saying "sorry, jk, our bad" and surrendering to US/SK (who, btw, are still at war with NK).
> I just use the MIT license.

That's good, but there other options too that are practically similar to MIT. Most notably, the APL (Apache Public License), MPL (Mozilla Public License) and even the old BSD public license. They just differ in legal gobbledegook in their content, but essentially, you can pick and use any software under these terms and you can use/modify them in whatever manner with a peace of mind!

APL more explicitly/specifically transfers the legal rights to the user of the software through the legal wordings used. In this manner, APL is an improvement over the MIT, which in turn, is an improvement over good old BSD license. Even BSD license intended to do the same thing, but it appears that the modern law prefers every intention to be explicitly stated, rather than leaving room for assumption/derivation of that intent.
Privacy is not deceit. Privacy is the right to be left alone.
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I know about that, but as of today you can only get it for free with Mono or Windows Store with VS 2015.
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> I think Transcendence did a halfway decent job of showing some possible applications of friendly AI.

Interesting, I hadn't seen that one. While that doesn't give a very good impression of what the timescale could be (though it actually seems fairly plausible for an uploaded human that just runs faster with more data but doesn't attempt iterative self-improvement), it does suggest at least some possibilities in ways I haven't seen in other movies, and in relatively few short stories.

> That said, I don't think I'd constitute the conflation of any human mind and supercomputing as friendly.

"Friendly AI" is a specific term of art, referring to AI that values sentient beings, and whose value function involves modeling and satisfying the value functions of sentient beings. (Its opposite, "unfriendly AI", refers to any AI that doesn't value sentient beings; that doesn't just mean "actively hostile", but also simply "doesn't explicitly care", either one of which would create an existential threat. For instance, a paperclip-building AI that sees people as another source of matter that isn't paperclips yet.)

Almost all sentient beings tend to hold their own continued existence in high value.
George Carlin explained this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMwXR-1oajE
Sure, but part of the point of investing is so your money at least keeps up with inflation. Because by not investing anything and keeping it in savings, your money will eventually trend toward worthless.
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I'm guessing this app looks cool; you might like to know that older systems remix it into glitch art like this: http://imgur.com/a/o3YVy

I thought I'd give it a whirl on the old ThinkPad T43 I'm using at the moment. I never really expect much from its tiny Mobility Radeon X300, but this was especially hilarious, and a most unexpected, refreshing change from the usual "oh, the disk LED is solid... again..." that I usually get. :P

FWIW, the http://aframe.io/ examples all work perfectly - I was actually slightly gobsmacked when I saw them, I can tell you with a fair amount of confidence that the simpler demos run on my system as fast as yours - so this GPU isn't a total lost cause with WebGL, and if it's moderately trivial to fix this, you'll net a small extra niche in your userbase (along with mobile users in 3rd-world countries using really entry-level smartphones and tablets).

If the fault lies with Phaser.io, and you feel like poking their ticket thingy, I'm fine with you passing the screenshots along. I'm also fine with testing potential fixes, if there's any room to explore there.

If your build environment can split out 32-bit Linux binaries without too much effort, I'd be happy to test that too.
Initial reports had it at 10km deep -- which would've been far too deep for a bomb test -- they've since been revised to 0km deep, which is what you'd expect for a test beneath the surface.

The 10km was interesting since if it held up, it would have likely ruled out a test, but it turns out that the first readings were wrong.