skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I.J. Good: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control."

A merely human-level AI is one that can match to some window of performance a random human in the intellectual outputs of that human, which are vast and general -- playing games, writing poetry, critiquing film, building small rockets, having conversations, programming, carving wood, teaching a class, diagnosing and fixing a leak, constructing mathematical models... For things that require a body, it suffices to instruct a human what to do, but this thing might as well help design a robot body that's at least as versatile as a human body since we humans do that too even if Atlas is still pretty far off. We're unlikely to have an AI perfectly human-equivalent in the sense that it would probably by default already be superior in some ways by virtue of its ability to not need sleep, do calculations efficiently and correctly, have access to perfect memory, and so on, and unless it's ultraintelligent then it's probably not better than a random human at everything (say directing a movie) just like you aren't.
They are not worthless. They are a form of social signalling showing who's trendy, who thought of it first, a form of personal aggrandizement. The fundamental outlook behind them is the idea the general public is inherently inferior, savage, and without rules it would be a world eternally red in tooth and claw, and only I am a superior enough leader, better than all the rest of you, to set the moral and ethical standards of our culture, now everyone get in line behind my moral authority, and appreciate my public declaration of my own superiority. They're obnoxious, unnecessary, and counterproductive, but not worthless.
Just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s good.

Now, that IPv6 is becoming more popular, and we might be able to provide globally unique IPs for every end device, and that 24/7 connected internet is standard, it should be a thing of 2 or 3 clicks to host a webserver.

It should be a no-op to set up a raspberry pi to serve websites – and it would definitely provide a lot of kids and students the ability to experiment a lot easier.

Remember, Facebook in its early days was hosted from a dorm room at college. Google from a garage.
> Go find someone who uses Facebook Messenger and has never heard of Hacker News. Ask them if they care about interoperability.

Many do complain about it, but can't do much to fix it. People either end up installing 20 different clients to reach those who use other services (imagine installing 20 browsers to read different sites or 20 e-mail clients to use different e-mail accounts), or simply don't communicate with those users when that number grows annoyingly large. This problem affects everyone, and it's pretty apparent even to those who don't visit HN.
Looking at the Bosox 2009 schedule, it looks like the horizontal line indicates home games.
"Free Basics by Facebook provides free access to basic internet services to a billion people all over the world. Your service can be part of it."

Basic internet service. Ok. One app constitutes basic internet according to Zuckerborg.
because you are analyzing the situation at this moment and my prediction is 5-10 years in the future when --

-- there will be 100-200 m Netflix subscribers who can access all the content anywhere in the world

-- there won't be any physical media drive in existence in which you can slot your DVD.

-- economies of scale for Netflix with dirt cheap internet will force people to consume content cheaply and easily.

-- there will be so much advancement in Televisions and Home theater systems that it would make cinema screen inferior.

Won't these reasons be good enough?
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Gernot is a smart guy. I learned a lot from him on this stuff. Moreover, the ideas Im pushing here were described and implemented by his people at OK Labs then deployed in millions of phones. Also used in desktops and servers by US, UK, and German firms.

Rust is a good choice given its adoption. Only if they focus on a runtime instead of POSIX, though.
Also, they keep your trip data forever with no way to opt out of data collection.
I have been partly and admin of a urban terror server for years with my team.

This game has always been a troll magnet of milfan boys with too much testosterone. I was one of them, except I had a girl's name.

By kick/banning appropriately with clear reasons we (as a team), we made even women and teens feel welcome (shit happens). I kicked/banned consistently people for personal reasons (I don't like discriminating people). I also kicked/banned other people because they were not enjoyable. So were the others doing. We never asked permission to have a server we would enjoy ourselves playing, we were paying for it. And it was bringing people. And it was fun for everybody, even women and kids.

CoC is just an excuse for failure and lacking balls and that thinking just being "the owner of a digital place" makes you a leader.

Money, title, even skills don't make you a leader. Just succeeding in leading.
Sounds all good to me, but good luck getting Congress to go along with that.
I started reading Mein Kampf in 8th grade, but I just found the speaker so whiney and irritating that I lost patience before WWI. I should perhaps go back to it sometime.
> What is the difference between the following two statements?

Nothing, I like the second. And the second one will be used anyway. But I was talking here more about the people who gave it a -1. Maintainer spent his personal time and put some work into creating a guide. So let the guide be.

If it is not enforced, it is not enforced. It will just stay there. If it is enforced I might help people kick abusers off a mailing list or IRC channel.

Perhaps I would understand if it was a question of well we don't have a guide, how wants to come up with one, or let's go write one. Then perhaps discussion its value vs time it takes to get it edited and committed might be in order. But if it is already done, just adopt it. There is nothing onerous or crazy in there.

If it doesn't work or causes terrible problem down the road -- throw it away.
More important than an apology would be a statement that it is no longer true (if that is, in fact, the case).

Anyone have a link to such a statement?
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Publishing customers were at least sometimes paying million-dollar advances (which I appreciate isn't quite the same thing).
Wow Finland is pretty well off, I figured we had it much worse. Yeah, there's a decent amount of stuff on Netflix here but not everything.
I guess my reply wasn't worded so well. I don't really mean in-class notes. In class, I do the same thing you do - I write everything down on paper. In the past I have tried to type everything and ran into the same problem you stated. What I currently do is move most of my written notes into class independent documents on Overleaf. It then become easy to create study guides for exams since all of my notes can be printed and shared from a single document. Sorry for the confusion!
Netflix data from across all regions is provided by the great folks at uNoGS.com — by far the most accurate Netflix database on the Internet. Check them out!

Now that's useful!
It's purely a signaling issue, the text of the CoC is completely irrelevant.
UK. This was '88-'94. Small prep school in Hertfordshire that has since modernised and gone co-ed.

It's almost a shame. Our lives there bordered on abusive in many regards, but it was brilliant - we were allowed to run around with rifles, go off exploring the countryside unsupervised, play with explosives, and the education was ridiculously good in hindsight. We had a lot of freedom within the rules - but if you broke them... Corporal punishment! Usually just a birch to the hands, and oh boy did it work - never got caught the same way twice!
The main reason as a developer that I'm trying to stop using anything related with the Facebook platform is that more and more of their APIs are private and only given access to a handful group of companies. This includes: messenger apis, graph apis, the recent shop/section tabs on pages, payments apis etc. It's becoming a huge walled garden.
It's fine to go around saying we're offering free facebook to users who want it. That's the big mistake that Zuckerborg made. It should be free facebook.

Do you want free facebook? Many people would say yes.

"Free Basics by Facebook provides free access to basic internet services to a billion people all over the world. Your service can be part of it. "

The fb site makes it "free access to basic internet" which it is not. It's free access to facebook. Just say that, and maybe you won't get all the push back.

It's not the critics who made this distinction or picked this fight. It's Zuckerborg.

If you really want to offer free basic internet, then do that. I am sure fb could if it wanted to offer a limited amount of bandwidth to any user who wants it for free to do with as they choose. Then they might actually be doing something positive for the poor of India, rather than trying to corral them into fb in the name of free basic internet.
The problem with these analyses is that nobody invests in "the market". What I have wanted to see for a while is returns on an average investment.

I've seen charts, for example, showing the Dow Jones from the 1929 crash to the present day, showing better returns over the long run than other investments.

However, nobody invests in the Dow Jones as a whole for 80 years. More likely, an average investor invests in a mroe or less random retail mutual fund for 20-30 year.

So, I would like to see the returns on the most popular mutual funds, or stock investment vehicles, over a shorter period of years. I think that would give us a more realistic pictures of what returns on "investing in the stock market" are likely to be like.
India didn't turn it down, it introduced it, and then other megacorps, Microsoft up front, lobbied until it got outlawed.
What makes the seat belt analogy shaky is that society pays for the people who don't wear their seat belts in the form of 1. increased insurance premiums and 2. increased health care costs, both of which are spread over the entire population, those who wear and don't wear seat belts. If you don't wear your seat belt, and hurt yourself, that comes out of my pocket. Society has the right to keep those costs down and collectively decided the best way is to ban this costly behavior.

It's a bit harder to argue that there is a great cost of gambling that is spread across society, however I'm a poker player myself so a bit biased.

A problem with that argument, of course, is that it leads down the path of banning everything that's risky and where society shares the downside. We don't want to do that, so society picks and chooses the highest risk (or worst downside) activities to ban.
How is it gambling? The same guys with the skills consistently win? Elements of luck, sure, but the fact that the predators exist in the game demonstrates that it isn't gambling.
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29, my parents and their friends 60, 70+ all use whatsapp instead of SMS. Whatsapp, Messenger, Google Talk, even Jabber… With modern smartphones it's all the same, the only difference is who's on what which is why I hated when everyone moved away from XMPP.
As a Londoner I and most of my friends hate black cabs. The drivers hate going more than 2 miles out of the centre of town, the cabs spew out diesel and the fares at night are 4x uber.

The drivers have the knowledge admittedly but it is not enough. I give them 5 years. Max.
Okay, let’s give the users of Facebook predecessors of Free Basic a voice.

Here am I, a German who used to use Facebook Zero (free access to Facebook via 3G) while I was in middle (and later high) school.

As soon as it became available, I – and some of my friends – stopped using SchuelerVZ, the social network most people used to use at the time – and instead actually tried to convince others to switch to Facebook, too.

"It’s free! You don’t need to pay anything!"

We tried to get as much content as possible inside the network, and never actually left it – because we had literally no money on our prepaid SIMs, and therefore couldn’t access other pages. Everything that wasn’t on Facebook didn’t exist for us.

In only a few months after Facebook Zero launched, the user numbers of SchuelerVZ and StudiVZ rapidly declined.

Today, we don’t have a choice for social networks anymore, Facebook has a monopoly.

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Facebook Zero: http://0.facebook.com/
If I understand correctly, the main goal here can be summarized in the quote below:

"The motivation: modeling Docker containers as regular processes

[...] we want processes to behave just as if they weren’t running inside a container. That means handling user input, responding the same way to signals, and dying when we expect them to. In particular, when we signal the docker run command, we want that same signal to be received by the process inside."

and that seems to me as the core reason why they can't just use a simple init system (like e.g. runit I suppose?)
(1) The bandwidth is being entirely consumed. It is all needed and the process is performing nominally.

(2) The bandwidth is being entirely consumed, but it might only be because the process is misbehaving and consuming more bandwidth than necessary.

Speed only translates to performance if the resource being quickly consumed is actually needed. Example-- a game might always use all CPU cycles, but only when rendering the most challenging scene is reaching peak performance.
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It also looks like Xbox Live has been experiencing problems all day. What is going on over there at Microsoft??
Y Combinator more prestigious than McKinsey in 10 years? (2008)
I hate to be the logical positivist here (I really, really do), but I'm not sure what your first two sentences mean. What would "smarter than humans" mean and how exactly is it going to happen?
Has anyone considered skipping the opening credits of a tv shows? With all the user data you have, it would seem easy enough to detect a pattern. Button click goes to most common skipped-forward point.
I don't think that policemen's lives are "forfeit," but that it's their duty to not have self-defense as their very top priority, which entails taking risks in some situations that we wouldn't expect of other people.
> Also, they are debit cards, not credit.

Indeed, but they work as "Visa" if you use them like that.
tl;dr: It routes your Netflix traffic through proxy servers in other countries, thus granting you access to content available in that region.

It seems to me that Netflix could easily just block traffic from the proxies' IP addresses, should this start to bother them or their licensees.
Hi, project lead/main/pretty much only developer ( ;) ) here.

I didn't plan on posting this for another week :( There's a bunch of stuff that still needs doing, especially with docs and tutorials. The writing on the website is only a first draft. There are also no easy tasks for new contributor onboarding at this point in time, which I think is really important before anouncing a new project.

This largely started as a learning project by me and a few of my friends at uni last semester. A lot of people were interested in it, so we (I) decided to take it somewhere.

Here's the announcement email draft:

https://lists.robigalia.org/pipermail/robigalia-dev/2016-Jan...
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That's still a good description of these devices.
Ask HN: Finding open-source contributors to sponsor?
Supposing I'm in the position to sponsor someone full-time to work on open-source, are there any resources out there to help me find such a person?

My current strategy is to look at the core contributors to certain projects and reach out them in a manner similar to recruiting for an open position at my company.

Wondering if others have had success here or if there's a better resource than cold-calling people? I'd like to cast a wide net and be as inclusive as I can.
Applies to human behaviour as well - we overestimate how much we will achieve or change in the short run, and underestimate the same in the long run.
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Multicore support + verification is in the works, see https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/nictaabstracts/Peters...
> Absolutely, but that's nothing new. We had direct-to-video or direct-to-tv movies for decades. Direct-to-streaming isn't really that disruptive. What we don't have is big budget movies bypassing theaters, because why would they? Why wouldn't they have theatre run, and then a streaming/video/TV run?

If they can keep selling in theatres then they will. But if Netflix can deliver high enough production values (coupled with higher quality home equipment) then it may put theatres out of business. Since I got a $500 projector I've hardly ever gone to the cinema, and regretted it when I did.
>> "drivers took my word over the GPS every single time when I gave directions"

So wouldn't a driver knowledgable of the city streets that you don't ever have to give directions to be better?

I use Uber all the time but I find that regular taxi drivers are better in traffic as they tend to know ways around it the GPS doesn't provide. I also regularly get GPS focussed drivers taking 1 turn too early and driving in a circle to get back to where they started to make the correct turn (twice this week already). I still prefer Uber overall but dismissal of street knowledge because GPS is 'better/more accurate' doesn't gel with my experience at all.
That's a good point. How is AI worse than a smart, amoral human?
Yeah, really okay with that. Assuming I'm still paid a Software Engineer salary, I'd have enough disposable income for a then-new sports car (Corvette Stingray, thank you).
People getting nauseous from first person games was and still is fairly common.
I noted that a set of statistics was being misused as evidence for the specific claim being made and added a source that supported that claim, abeit less strongly. That was 'uncharitable'?

You then 'charitably' missed my point twice, and argued against a strawman. You followed that up by 'charitably' accused me of only arguing semantics rather than responding to any of my actual points.
Yes, mobile apps would be free, serving as 'trials' for the desktop app, which is paid.

CloudMagic Mac app has already reached #2 in Top Paid App on Mac App Store within hours of launch.

Over a period of time, we'll introduce more power features like email tracking, CRM integrations, etc.

I think we are building a ethical independent business here.
You've got it exactly right. AFAIK Linux can already be run in userspace on seL4, and there is also a VMM.

This is a different project.
Well in that case, they should expand the other two. Things would probably be a lot more efficient in that airspace too after downsizing to only two airports.
I have an Android app which contained (among other things) two works which are in the public domain in the US - one is 93 years old and one is 95 years old.

A media conglomerate sent a DMCA notice to Google for my app, and Google took it down. Then my Admob was cut off for the app (luckily I had ad mediation). The DMCA notice said the 93 and 95 year old works were in copyright in some country, although they were not specific as to which country exactly.

I had to go through a whole rigmarole to get my app back on Google Play, which almost didn't happen (I had to appeal). I removed those two works and shut off access for my app to Australia, the UK, India and Canada. Not that this was required but I can't go through this again and lose the income.

It wasn't Disney, but Disney is big in supporting these laws. Yet Disney started off by ripping off Alice in Wonderland in a cartoon. Disney made his money ripping off a book published not long before he rips it off, now they have a media monopoly and want to shut the gates up behind them for eternity. Which is not even possible, because the nature of the Internet, mobile etc. is such that this doesn't work any more. It's an old model which does not and can not work and will not work as things are and as they are going to be, yet there will be a lot of waste and problems as they continue to try to do this.
I assume an overclocked i5-2500k will also work, hopefully. Performance hasn't changed all that much from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell.
I used to fly to SF from Chicago often. I was surprised by how poor the quality of the taxi's were in SF vs Chicago. I understood then why Uber started there. My taxi experiences in Chicago were far better than SF and I suspect a company like Uber would not have started in Chicago precisely because the cabs are better here. Also of course public transportation.
I hope they get a C&D from Netflix, I see services like this ruining Netflix for the rest of us who actually know what they are doing, rather than Joe user who could care less and just wants more movies... causing push back from the industry.
Same anywhere I've lived in the UK. After a certain time and on special occasions fares are 1.5x.
Microsoft was in a class by themselves in terms of how their ruthlessness played out. Harsh negotiation demands plus technical bullshit like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

I haven't heard stories like this about Facebook, but perhaps they're better at covering their tracks.
The main benefit I see of import is for client-side code, so that you can statically determine a file's imports ahead of time without actually having to run the code.

Require is a regular function rather than a directive, and is probably needed for this framework to automatically find and load all controllers, models, etc.
A single line of circles allows for less information density. If you force it to have the same information density then you lose a lot of legibility. Secondly, it's possibly harder to see where outliers are. I find this especially true when the vast majority of the dataset is 0, and you're looking for the outlying 1s.

See this example I mocked up, where each line has the same number of data points: http://i.imgur.com/xRoY41c.png
It's not that they don't see other alternatives. This is true, but the reality is that other realistic alternatives don't even exist.

Their realistic option set is: (a) free access to an incredibly valuable set of resources, or (b) nothing.

I would take (a) over (b) any day. I would hope that broader alternatives would eventually come along (and history tells us it will), but the crowd that wants the Indian poor to have nothing until that day comes is, in my opinion, despicable. Heck, I might not even mind some gated internet in the US if I was free to opt-in/out of it and it reduced my internet costs.