skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in Ponzi schemes are being directly mislead. They don't think it's a gamble.
probably not once competition starts to rack up.
exactly, so you want to use text instead of images to write longer, that's my point, why limit text
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For some people, no. I tried to cover several different bases, but you get the idea: ask sensitive personal questions. Maybe the money one should be about credit card debt.
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Disclaimer: Cuban here (living in US)

Available in Cuba? Try to find the bandwidth... Seriously, why include Cuba in the list? That makes their statement a bit of a joke in my opinion.
SSDs are poor for long-term storage, as flash cells need occasional (=every few years) refreshing to not lose their data. Tapes or regular hard disks work better for that purpose.
It's been available as a "development version" for almost two years.[1] The price was $1000, and anyone could buy it on Amazon. This is a 40% price cut, which is nice, but not a mainstream price.

Is there a killer app for this yet? The roller coaster simulators are fun for about ten minutes. Second Life now works with the Oculus Rift [3] but few people care.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGIIQf3krMM
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Rift-Developers-Kit-Dk2/dp/B00F...
[3] http://secondlife.com/destinations/oculus
Thank you, this is kind of what I was scared of so it's good for me to hear it. And I'm glad to see no one has found it impossible so far.

I shall also try to find a mentor anyway, local or not, colleague or not, that's a good idea!
No, it's more like the wealth of other adjectives that follow the pattern of "having/with -ance" -> "-ant". Important, significant, brilliant, vigilant, cognizant, dissonant, exuberant, invariant, radiant, elegant, abundant, ...

I suppose you could say that someone using just about any of those words is trying to sound smart or overly formal, and so we should deny their status as words to bring the speakers down a notch.
So his plan by ending the crypto war is.... ...simply capitulating? anyone else clicked on article expecting some new crypto coommunication idea
Nice way to try and lock in more facebook users. If I ever encountered a business requiring Facebook for communication, that'd be the end of my patronage.

Facebook isn't doing a good job of masking their desire to force everyone onto their site (e.g. 'free internet' in India).
I enjoyed the discussion at least. I always enjoy these estimation algorithms. Most of the time, you don't really need a precise answer.
Seven figures is trivial if you're making software developer money and not living in a crazy HCOL area like SF or Manhattan. Live below your means and don't take on stupid debt. Invest what you can, ideally >= 50% of take home (after tax and health insurance, before retirement deductions).
Forgive me, I'm over 30. I barely want personal messages in Facebook as it is.
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> e.g. Child darts in front of car. Slam on brakes and hope for best or swerve off road (which probably isn't a cliff) or into traffic? And perhaps there is a different calculus if the car isn't carrying a passenger.

I think its fair to say that the car might have an engine that decides to preserve human life at the cost of human injury.

To avoid killing the child, it may serve into traffic if and only if doing so has a high likelihood of survival for all passengers.

If it can't determine that; it'll take the conservative approach and break to mitigate the damage of the impact to the child.

Regardless the decision engine of the car isn't perfect. I'd have a hard time seeing it predict serving left to cause a 4 car pile up, instead of right to cause a 5 car pile up. How could it know? At some point, it'll just short-circuit its decisions because time is passing, and its critical to do something rather than simply slow down and maintain course.
yes, saying pretty much the same I'm saying
>NSA, GCHQ, BSI/BND, etc. aren't the "bad guy" in theory.

Theory is not really relevant when the practical reality is monstrous. The five eyes are not redeemable.
First another country takes control over the place you live, then the US government bans everyone from letting you participate in global trade. I guess the same thing happened in Cuba.
Those same strong arguments might apply to alcohol, as well.

I don't agree with people being told they can't use their money irresponsibly. It's theirs to spend how they please.

Every poker site & casino I've played at allows self-bans, and we have treatment programs for problem gamblers just like we do for problem-everything-elsers.
It's great to hear that it is indeed possible, thanks a lot!
Here's an idea your comment made me think of: I wonder when are we going to see DLCs for movies?

Imagine - you buy the base Force Awakens for $10, and then they offer you extra movie parts - $1 for one in which Chewbacca does something silly, $2 for one which features an additional 10-minutes-long scene of starships shooting at each other, etc.
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>The problem is I never said it wasn't and that Japan is somehow more shocking that other far east places.

Well, if you're agreeing with me we have nothing to argue about. My point was about media and peoples' reaction to it in the west.
Read many children's books.

It may be of use, just because of the farness of the language from English and of the effort you will need to expend to learn anything, to get formal schooling, and to use formal textbooks. Yonsei University's materials are best in both these cases, with Seoul National close behind.
There are 2 sides to the transaction and it comes down to margins. If the margins don't exist to pay Harrison Ford $40M then either he takes less $ or another actor is found.
CoCs do layout some rules for engagement but I believe there should be a positivity in the engagement itself. There should not be abuse in any form , either by disrespecting others or pinching others that they are abusing this segment of Coc (which might happen in some cases) . Disrespecting others in any form is not acceptable and hence I think Coc may not be a perfect solution . I can completely see his point .
Yeah, and given the amount of cooperation the various Western intelligence agencies have demonstrated, distributing "control" over N governments is just about as dangerous as one.

The world does not need more sophisticated tools to pursue criminals, it needs more sophisticated tools to advance freedom which is ultimately the best deterrent of crime to exist.
The syscall overhead isn't the problem, that's dirt cheap as you say. The problem is the context-switch overhead. Calling into the OS flushes a lot of data and instructions from the cache, and that lost performance after returning can easily add up to around 30µs.[1]

[1] http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma...
This is really great! I remember not while back my parents visited me and I introduced them to Netflix. While I am at work, they were happy browsing the shows, thanks for the quality content. However, my parents doesn't have that much bandwidth to stream 720p at their home. Moreover, the ISP has a data cap as well. So, its good to see that they will be able to watch the shows they liked, but limited internet access will be annoying. Cant say if the ISPs will flow and adopt accordingly.
I guess we can all agree CES is drone central?
You can't visit. It's a one way ticket.
I have zero information about the challenges involved, but a remote control vehicle is presumably subject to control channel jamming in a way an autonomous vehicle isn't.
Apple itself probably doesn't really care. Just needs to cover its ass in case Uncle Sam looks and asks questions. They can now say "We have enabled these checks and features on our side".
SSDs are still faster than hard disks even with sequential reads. 15,000 rpm enterprise spinning disks read at about 260 MB/s [1] while NVMe SSDs (like those in a 2015 MacBook Pro) reads at >1300 MB/s [2].

[1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hdd-charts/-02...

[2]: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2900330/apple-mac/holy-...
It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Of course it's a land grab. The same way Google Fiber is trying grab North American broadband.
>The point isn't whether or not AI is possible (or could pose a serious threat), but whether or not discussing it as a threat given our current, near-zero, understanding of it is productive.

It definitely is productive. We can either slow research on AI, or we can research AI safety now. Or both. There's no reason we have to just accept our fate and do nothing, or just hope everything works out when the time comes.
Brits use "whilst" instead of "while". Thank god they didn't pick the keywords of any programming languages.

utilise namespace std;
whilst (performant()) {
pontificate();
}

Edit: bonus `problematic` operator for exceptions.
> Most people in Ponzi schemes are being directly mislead. They don't think it's a gamble.

Most people are being directly mislead. This is true for the vast majority of the human experience. Politics, love, advertising, the list goes on.

Why are Ponzi schemes less palatable than being fleeced by automated scripts on a sports-betting site? In both cases, people think they will make money because they are smart, when they actually will lose money because they are dumb.
In which country is that? Last time I checked, the common way for financing a house purchase in the entire Western world is through a mortgage loan, which makes the house price tied to the size of the loan a bank is willing to give to an average person.
That was a fun read.
Police should certainly be held to a higher standard - and when they shoot someone, they should be treated the same as anyone else, if not put under greater scrutiny, because of the greater responsibility their position entails.

But the fact remains that, for better or worse, every American by default has the right to shoot people with guns under certain circumstances. I am not a lawyer but I don't see a legal justification for limiting the ability of the police to defend themselves, without treating police officers like felons.
I once had an audiophile coworker describe how he listens to his favorite records. In his words, the way it was intended to be listened to is probably (but not always) the closest thing to the artist's desired vision. A 2016 blues album recorded in an old shack in Tennessee and printed to vinyl is intended to be heard on a record player. A 2016 pop album released in stunning digital clarity, but also released on vinyl, is probably best listened to on a good digital setup. All communication and art is about authorial intent. What did they want to listen to?
I love Jupyter for working on research problems, but I think it's helpful to have something simpler for learning about the concept of functions.

Of course, I would think that because I work on one: https://www.desmos.com
Oh, Wired, what are you doing?
By the letter of the law where I was, apparently it is the law. I was ticketed for it. I had it fixed and went to traffic court (hoping to at least have my complaint about the way the officer handled the situation heard, even though I would admit the light was in fact broken), but they thought the ticket was so ridiculous it was dismissed before I even saw the judge. So... technically illegal, but dumb enough to literally get laughed at by the court clerks?

edit: I am aware one can complain to the police department, but this was typical of their officers and I didn't expect sympathy from other officers. Not sure what I expected to achieve in court.
I'm probably the poster above. ;-) Yes, we layer on top of PCIe for the physical transport, but once an adapter's in CAPI mode, it's able to do translations, participate in locks, and looks more or less like a slightly-strange other thread as far as code running on the main CPU is concerned.

Since the logic inside the accelerator can do pointer chasing, it can communicate directly with the application and bypass a lot of the stuff that happens when a normal IO occurs to other FPGAs today.
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I don't think it's reasonable to expect cops to allow criminals to take the first shot in case the gun might be a toy. Even if you're "positioned defensively" you can still be killed by someone who's lucky or skilled.
Sent you an email. Thank you!
Once AI is invented, what's to keep anyone in the world from building one? And not keeping it in a box? And that's assuming the box even works, and the AI can't hack out of it, or trick you into letting it out.
One of the other constraints is the actual data copy. I don't have any benchmarks on hand, but you pay the penalty for the copy, potentially cache misses, and the potential TLB miss. Obviously, there are ways to avoid it without resorting to bypassing the kernel, but there's still a non-negligible cost.

Maybe it would be beneficial to have a coherent interface as well, considering NVMe.
I wonder it it would be feasible to tunnel the "real internet" through Facebook using (for example) their chat client (you'd need something on the other end to make the connection). Like tunneling a VPN over DNS queries. That would be a clever work-around.
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But how large will the corpus be in 3-5 years?
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True, perhaps... but whenever I'm learning something for fun, I apply it to something without any applicable human benefit.

I dabbled in machine learning algorithms... but just so I could play board games with my computer. As a student, I think it matters less what you're applying your emerging knowledge to.
Its interesting to see both responses to his tweet and the responses here. Pretty much everyone seems dead set against the idea. Personally i'm cautious about the implementation but im not against the idea. I post on FB far more than any other platform. It's not because I have more friends there. In fact I have more followers on twitter. Its simply because FB doesnt limit what I want to say. I completely get that brevity is a huge advantage. Honestly I do, but no matter how lean one is with one's words, there's only so much one can cram in. It's the only reason I dont post more to twitter. Heck i broadcast more out on Telegram than I do on twitter and i dont even have a large broadcast list. Yes, these problems can be solved with a blog but that introduces a new problem of distribution. Its far easier to get a large number of people to read your text on twitter than it is on a blog, even when you have a slick platform such as Medium. There's just too much thinking involved in something like that. A blog isn't something you write while you're jumping on the bus, but an extended tweet is something you might. I know for a fact I'd tweet more even if i had just a couple hundred more characters to play with. It doesnt need to be a huge change. As i said. It all comes down to how they choose to execute. This could potentially make or break twitter.

Edit: sp/grammar
I see. You're right, that is somewhat ugly.

I've actually considered the idea of hacking a JSX compiler to spit out Mithril output.

If you're going to mix mark-up in your JavaScript, may as well do it with "real" mark-up instead of some imitation language. I'm still on the fence about whether I like mixing mark-up and code, but I'm leaning more toward at this point.
> And there is nothing in the physical word that we have understood so far that cannot be ultimatly expressed computationally

Except for those physical phenomena that can only be modelled with a recursive form that doesn't start with coefficients defined with infinite precision - which unfortunately includes a lot of useful things like weather prediction, and even the classical mechanics of n-body systems.

How about telling me what tomorrow's Dow close is going to be? Or the oil price four years from now? Or which parts of the universe that electron over there passed through on its way to your monitor?

I think a lot of the responses here just make the point for Lanier:

"There's a whole other problem area that has to do with neuroscience, where if we pretend we understand things before we do, we do damage to science, not just because we raise expectations and then fail to meet them repeatedly, but because we confuse generations of young scientists."

Anyone who believes that consciousness is computable by definition, because it just has to be, has a dilettante-level view of the problem. Philosophers have been arguing about this for centuries, and on the whole they're not so certain about it.

So I'll repeat - we don't have adequate models for human or even animal personality, or for emotional responsiveness, or even for the self-aware perception of qualia, which is apparently one of the key things that defines consciousness.

Big data isn't a solution to this, any more than throwing the works of Shakespeare into a database and looking for clustering statistics about word proximity and sentence structure will get you a new Julius Caesar.

The reality is there are levels of intelligent behaviour - especially self-aware creative behaviour - that are completely opaque to any modelling technique available in current CS. I believe that anyone who thinks the problem is simple and just needs moar code and a faster processor thrown at it is expressing a faith-based position of hopeful belief, not a reality-based fact.

Shakespeare is Shakespeare because the writing isn't word salad. Shakespeare is interesting because of the unusual the density and richness of the experiences that are referred to - not just in the plot, but in the details of the metaphors in each sentence.

You need to model experience before you can recreate that, and you can't do that unless you have a deep understanding of what experience is. Big data gives you slightly more focussed monkeys and more typewriters, but it's in no way a solution to the basic modelling problem.
Are the "mini" versions of the flagships (64mm) too big? http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_mini-6252.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_mini_2-6345.php
Surely that's only news if they got hurt or hurt someone else.
which would describe, I think, most women and people of color who have participated in technical communities for more than a short time

This is an odd assumption to make.
I'm 28 and I have a 50/50 mix of people using Facebook messenger just like a SMS. It's definitely a shift that is happening in people's comfort level with social media as a primary comm channel.
Cops aren't expected to know the law? Does that hold for civilians as well?

As a comparison, here in The Netherlands, all citizens are expected to know the law. Not knowing it is never an argument as far as I know.
I've worked with the new Chat SDK and our customers' use cases aren't geared toward forcing (or even encouraging) users into using Facebook Messenger. Most of them are just trying to meet demand from their customers. In our particular case, we have customers with a lot of international travelers who have access to data while abroad but not necessarily SMS.

IMO it's a lot better than having a dedicated app you have to download to interact with a specific brand.
Even though it's obviously a land grab... no one other than massive corporations is capable or willing to provide this. I don't like it either, but that's how corporatocracy works. Might as well fight against gravity.
44 euro shipping in Europe. I could literally get Ryanair flight tickets cheaper, to pick it up in person.
ML may very well be overhyped and oversold in this domain (as it is many others). But to call it BS is a sophomoric oversimplification, to say the least. And for helping people sort out the various rather nuanced technical issues involved, not very helpful.
I love the idea of mini-pcs, but the specs are always dismal.

To me is teems like a single-purpose machine deisgned for web-surfing. People do more than surf and so I see less utility in this that I do in a ChromeBook.

Maybe with 4GB with root access and allowing me to change the distro and operate a lightweight server. Say SABnzbd, or plex media server(but not for transcoding, of course).

I bought a Zonbu when they appeared and ran mine until it died a few years back. It was handy for quick local network admin tasks and ran a few low priority cron jobs. Very cheap to operate, too.
Here's a gedankenexperiment for you: I instantaneously and permanently disable every car and car manufactory, thereby reducing all traffic fatalities to zero. Did I make driving safer?

I'm not missing your point, and cbr's reply makes it obvious that he isn't either. The prevalence of driving is a separate variable from how dangerous it is. Driving is far less dangerous and far more prevalent.
Exactly, supply and demand. He demanded what the studio could afford to pay. If the movie is no longer generating so much revenue (because streaming) then actors will no longer be able to (successfully) demand 8 figure payments.

I think some of the low to medium budget movies will make the transition to simultaneous streaming releases where it may be easier to recoup money early on. This may or may not force a similar thing to happen with big budget films, but too many lifestyles would be affected for this to happen in any short to medium term.
Yes, but I think experience can be improved dramatically if industrial design teams gets on the mission and if phones can have targeted improvements. For example, iPhone 7 is rumored to have massive increase in resolution which could be boon for VR. Add on to this a dedicated chip for generating stereo graphics that stays offline except during VR session to save power. Phones can also get two cameras to support AR scenarios as well as 3D photo/video recording. The headset can be equipped with eye gaze and depth sensors with easy way to slide phones in and out.
Your laptop computer does do what it was programmed to do, to the point of absurdity. It will keep executing a computer bug over and ever. Despite the fact that isn't what you intended, it still executes the code anyway. An AI will continue to execute, even when it stops doing what we intended it to do. Computers don't care about our original intentions, they just execute code.

A program "complex enough to simulate the human mind" would probably have even more bugs that result in unintentional behavior. Not fewer.
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> NVMe SSDs (like those in a 2015 MacBook Pro) reads at >1300 MB/s [2].

No joke. Just got an new MBP for work. Before had a spinning disk (well hybrid). Was running some silly benchmarks that I ran before and clocked my disk throughput at about 100MB/s. On MBP got 800MB/s. I thought something broke (was hitting page cache or some trickery like that) or didn't compile things right. But no, tried other tools, looked online and it seemed correct. It really surprised me.
People know exactly how much or little they will use a conventional display, that makes it easy to decide on a quality/price range. With a VR headset, it's like buying a guitar without ever having played a musical instrument. Most people prefer to start with the cheapest model in a situation like that and only get a better one once they know they will stick with the instrument. Actually it's even worse than that with the rift, because right now we don't even know if anyone would stick with a VR headset once the novelty effect wears off and all bets are off about social conventions regarding rift usage.

Of course we all understand why Oculus does not want to offer cheaper, low spec models that might fill the "beginner model" gap. In that kind of situation, maybe Oculus would do well offering franchise kits for rent-a-rift shops. The last remaining video stores might be a good match, the audience is open for technological home entertainment and their economic situation is likely to be desperate enough to try new side lines.