skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Figuring it out" might be the point. You do realize that you are referring to some of the very few people who have actually already built an amazingly successful product.
> The answer to this proposition is that the fact we aren't aware of the evolutionary advantages which were obtained en route doesn't mean there weren't any.

Your argument begs the question. It is the same as saying: "since evolution actually happened, these mutations must have conferred some evolutionary advantage".
No, I meant the one I posted. What I neglected was to add that the picture of the slider is in the comments. :-(

Yours is the better link, though, as it has a pic right in the article.
Statistically, you can expect to get into a car accident once every 18 years. So it's not a low probability event. If your lifetime odds of getting in a car crash were 1% I wouldn't wear a seat belt.
> The bottom line is people don't have the representative power they think they have. And other, most concentrated power centers make decisions for them.

The sheer volume of people who think the two parties are the same and/or their voting is pointless would disagree with you.

> Whether it is one person or 20 large companies doesn't matter much. I can't quite be one person so on paper it will never be dictatorship

A large number of opposing poles on a spectrum are involved, it isn't just "20 companies". This competition allows it to function in a reasonable stable manner that appears similar to a Republic as everyone with the power to change the status quo is represented roughly equal to their ability to do so.

The simple truth is revolution requires it to be backed by people with resources.
The issue then becomes this:
"uberFAMILY provides one forward-facing car seat for a child who is at least (a) 12 months old AND (b) 22 lbs. AND (c) 31 inches. A child is too big at 48 lbs. or 52 inches."

What if you need two car seats, or if your kid is outside those parameters? You still need a seat. Likewise, adding these options can add significant delay to your getting a car. Most people are used to transportation being reliable. When you step out of your home or office, your car is there, ready to go. Having to wait an extra 15 minutes for the car to show up is not what most people want to do.

I think car-sharing services will change things, quite a lot, but I don't think it will eliminate private car ownership. Most families will own one "family car" for road trips, etc, etc.
Hrmm... maybe you are doing something you're not aware of? I go in to grocery stores all the time by myself and never get weird looks. Really, I'm pretty sure I'd notice after 20+ years of being an adult male in grocery stores (nearly all the time by myself).
There are some techs which are heavily used in Africa to bring out innovative solutions, like Kannel used in RapidPro [1]

[1]: http://knowledge.rapidpro.io/knowledgebase/articles/603507-a...
The title on HN understates the case at this point. It's not just remote code execution (more than bad enough, by itself). If you are foolish enough to trust Trend Micro, they install a password store, whence:

Then you can use the decryptString API to decrypt all the strings, and then
POST them somewhere else.

So this means, anyone on the internet can steal all of your passwords
completely silently, as well as execute arbitrary code with zero user
interaction. I really hope the gravity of this is clear to you, because I'm
astonished about this.

You can convince their shit product to POST ALL YOUR PASSWORDS to an arbitrary server.
Ok, that made sense.
Actually if you don't have any other information about life expectancy, that's a perfectly reasonable prior distribution. We have much more data on life expectancy, and so can give much more accurate probability distributions. But if you didn't have that, the uninformed prior is the best you can do. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability#Uninformativ...

J. Richard Gott famously invented this method to estimate the lifespan of the berlin wall, and predicted a 75% chance that it wouldn't be there by 1993.

Also relevant is this article, Risk-Free Bonds Aren't: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hy/riskfree_bonds_arent/

>A list of major governments in 1900 would probably put the Ottoman Empire or Austria-Hungary well ahead of the relatively young United States. Citing the good track record of the US alone, and not all governments of equal apparent stability at the start of the same time period, is purest survivorship bias.

>But even if you don't share those particular assumptions, do you expect the United States to still be around in 300 years? If not, do you know exactly when it will go bust? Then why isn't the risk of losing your capital on a 30-year Treasury bond at least, say, 10%?
You can patent a shooting technique?!?
> using a primitive console based browser

Be careful which you choose. Some of them are extremely primitive compared to the major GUI browsers. For example, I was shocked to learn recently that there is no upstream for w3m, and that w3m doesn't do SSL out-of-the-box. And yet, w3m is used to render HTML by all sorts of other console-based applications.
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By rotating the piece twice (and never reifying the intermediate position) immediately before/during the step that moves the pieces down
"Don't trust for profit organizations."

I'd qualify that. If you are a for-profit or there is no alternative (as in the case of this tool). There's nothing wrong with using commercial systems, just don't expect their interest to align with yours.
There's a simple solution for that. Use a unikernel and make the entire OS immutable.

I'm really looking forward to the day where the tools are mature enough to make this an option.
And when those humans fail, we punish them. They pay fines or have their license suspended. When they are really bad, we lock them up.

I'd be all for Teslas if, should they every brake a law or hurt someone, the car was physically locked in a box for a year or two.
Racket has a great teaching environment from HTDP. Its part of the default install also.
> When you solve ALL of those possible issues, then you can beat that drum all you want. Until then though, this comment is petty at best...

Would you say this in response to someone who harshly reprimanded the designer(s) and implementer(s) of the original Therac-25 control software? [0] If not, why not?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
As another comment noted, some of the participants in this thread about the interesting article kindly submitted here appear to be unaware of the factual basis for evolutionary theory. For anyone who wonders how we know that the earth is much more than 600 million years old, or how we know that current living things descended from a common ancestor, more or less remote depending on how closely related the current living things are, see 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent,[1] which is a very informative and interesting website with a lot of information about biological facts and geological facts that have been discovered since you and I graduated from high school.

[1] http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
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"All of these complaints are anecdotes! No way they are universally true."

Sees link with numbers.

"Source is biased because they mention Ellen Pao. Data is invalid!"
Yes, why bother?
That wasn't an argument. That was pointing out a flaw in the counter-evolution argument.

The fact that we are not aware of any evolutionary advantage conferred by a change yields no information in either direction about the validity of the evolutionary theory.
Yes it would be great to get more public exposure about stock option policies and encourage the status quo to change.

@holman has started a GitHub project listing companies with favorable exercise windows.
https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
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Speaking of books, have you by chance read Weitz's new one? https://www.apress.com/9781484211779
I did that when I got sick of people bugging me about the same questions over and over.

They still kept asking me. The same people. With the same questions. Every. Single. Day.

I got yelled at for doing the internal equivalent of LMGTFY in our chat room.

Some people just don't want to learn unless they are forced to.
>Since they do not have any evolutionary advantage, they cannot spread in the population

This is not true, the question isn't whether neutral changes can spread, but simply what percentage of molecular changes that spread are neutral. In fact I think that molecular evidence has shown pretty convincingly that on the genome scale most changes are neutral, vindicating the Neutral theory of evolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_theory_of_molecular_ev...
I can't find the clip, but cosmos has a great segment on this. Here's a non-animated view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHgHI8YnsF8&feature=youtu.be...

Basically, they go through each of those stages, and shows what it would look like from the creatures point of view
Reliability varies with branch. I've been generally quite content with the USPS, but my current home has:

* mail regularly misdelivered (1-2 piece of mail/month, including small packages that fit in the mailbox). Who knows what mail I've missed that went to someone else's house.
* They won't deliver larger packages to my house (busy street), BUT the office remains ignorant of this despite regular visits and I usually have to get bumped up to a manager before they "find" my package after insisting it is on the truck.
* ...But they do deliver packages on Sunday (When Amazon is paying them to)
* Package slips aren't always given. Followup slips DEFINITELY don't happen.

After being happy with the USPS most of my life, I now have all my amazon packages delivered to a locker because it's easier to always have a small amount of inconvenience than have general convenience (UPS and FedEx to the house direct) mixed with extreme inconvenience (USPS making me wait longer to get the package, at hours that don't work well with a 9-5 work schedule)
No. For people on a capped data plan that is just a waste of data. Much better to buy a 32GB Micro SD for under £10. Of course that means you need a phone with a Micro SD slot but if space is an issue for you then I highly doubt you own a phone without a slot.
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That's a good policy (while noting the fact that setting the risk slider that conservative greatly curtails the software one is willing to create).
I agree and, except for the "terror plots aren'the norm" conclusion, im with you.

What I am driving at is that while the blanket "people" who watch fox news and are scared of brown people label terroists as myslims, i am proposing a different idea of "distuptive event".

It had nothing to do with edgecases like 9/11. Look at it like gun violence. I think people should be able to own guns, but the more people own guns, the more ahootings there are. If 0 people had guns, there would be 0 shootings.

So, suppose you were (i am) willing to accept x amount of ahootings to keep this right and we know some people will legally pr illegally obtain guns and do ill with them.

My point, is that eventually, people will have the same access to the strike capabilities of small governments in the 90s for very little money. I believe we should retain these rightts, we will have casualties to such freedom, but we also need to expect that as peoplehave the ability to affect global change positively, they do negatively as well.

Whena group of small people have the power to go to mars for example that is great, however similarly many peoplewill have access to satellites in > 10 years. So we need to be pretty cognizant of how we handle this.
There are plenty of objections. Polls consistently show that something like 40-50% of Americans are creationists [1]. And this doesn't mean something vague like God guided evolution, but that evolution is an outright lie promoted by scientists and possibly invented by nefarious metaphysical creatures and that in any case the Earth is only a few thousand years old, so there couldn't have been time for Evolution to happen. The fact that you probably don't know these people is more than likely a testament to how people self-segregate into like-minded groups who reinforce each others' beliefs.

All these Creationists have heard of evolution and have reasons not to believe it.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...
Stop twirling your mustache and saying "nyah, nyah" when you're by yourself in a grocery store, creeper.
I know. Would be pretty cool to have the same on the iPad as well, with the kind of polish that Pythonista offers. I'd pay for that.
> To think that you can magically recompile the existing GC's that V8 or WhateverMonkey are using to WASM is naive.

I don't think it is. What I would like to see is that compiler writers keep control over their GC.

> Waiting until WASM has the ability to do threaded memory management at the same level as the existing GCs and have them rewritten (or refactored) for it may be too long.

I don't see the big problems. We already have assembly without GCs, and it is called VirtualBox (or VMWare). Why not use something like that? (Yes, there are still some security issues, but these can be solved much easier than when the hairy GC code becomes part of the game).

In other words, let's first create a real assembly language with a simple but adequate instruction set, and make it secure. This is what I would call "assembly language" anyway.
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> Work weeks of 50, 60, or more hours are common at companies in the area, and even more so at startups.

To be a little glib: is that just something you've resigned yourself to because you think it's inevitable?
> Since they do not have any evolutionary advantage, they cannot spread in the population.

I think it's more the case that things may spread if they don't have any disadvantage (like causing death).
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Their wording implies that they are encouraging people to use the Notes app as a password manager. That's super weird.
Thanks for looking into the original document and providing a detailed explanation. You are basically saying that the journalists sensationalized the findings. The researchers do not claim that they traced the most ancient mutation responsible for multicellularity. The researchers also do not claim that this single mutation created an almost functional multicellular organism.
Am I getting this right?
Wow I find this really glass half full.

Firstly I can see any of these being fairly easily solvable. We're still in the early days in this tech. It will likely take decades to really nail it.

Secondly, even if half are solved, that's half of things I would have had to do anyway (well scraping ice of windshield instead of sensors).

Thirdly I do recognise there are issues e.g. "Ford said it had instead programmed the Lidar sensors to detect landmarks above the ground, such as buildings and road signs." This would still be problematic in heavy snow and away from distinct fixed landmarks.

But can we just appreciate the advancements that we are seeing year on year!
I'm equally confused by their continued practice of making it harder to see my queue. I mean, these are shows I've said I want to see, why make it hard to find?

Add to that that they haven't created an "add to my queue when new episodes come out" option and how shows have been on/off availability rapidly and Netflix isn't nearly as useful as it used to be.
But why would a single mutation immediately disappear? Isn't it possible that several generations carried on without significant advantage or disadvantage, experiencing series of mutations until the last one provided the true advantage? (I would love to know if this is completely wrong)
Id just like to say that I really like the design of your site, and logo in particular. Well done.
Wasn't Meerkat done in by the fact that Twitter launched Periscope around the same time? Twitter cut Meerkat's access to the API at SXSW (mid March), and published Periscope to the iOS App Store in late March.

On top of this, I've noticed some celebrities I follow on Twitter using Periscope and advertising it to their feeds, which I wouldn't be surprised to find out is fueled by some form of payment from Twitter.

I can't comment on Peach, but I get the feeling Meerkat's demise was because they were out muscled by Twitter.
The Go team does use Github Issues.
At first it was the salary, now I find it being on the dev side of things and general company strategy. I'm always wanting to be included on every discussion within the company(30+ employees, I was employee number 6 or 7) if it relates to something I know about. It feels like an obsession. Sorry for the late response.
Simple, repeatable builds, almost no learning curve. I do agree that this is a vastly less potent value proposition than "build your C++ in minutes instead of hours", but it's a start. I think Google will offer the distributed cloud piece for this at some point. They'd be stupid not to.
Here is a list of all rotations systems known to be in use by various Tetris implementations: http://harddrop.com/wiki/Category:Rotation_Systems
Oh, I know it's dangerous. It does take work. 'C' is an improvement over the stone knives and bearskins we'd used before.

And I appreciate the heads up that I may be repeating myself/others, and that this subject is really for long form stuff.
Isn't this interesting.

Effectively Google are saying that they have rights over the design of the API interface.

Yet isn't that their argument in the Oracle Java case, that an API itself isn't a protectable thing?
I do hope that it doesn't ship with that godawful animation seen at the top.
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I think API access is closer to commercial lease than residential ones. Commercial leases are way less regulated than residential ones - generally it's expected that if you sign commercial lease, you know what you are doing.

If state sets onerous reqirements on API, most companies will just stop provide it for free or at all. Why do you want to commit long term resources to something that does not make you any money and sets you up for legal problems if you want to make changes?
I can confirm this is the case for my company. The software we produce can be classified as security software, yet nobody is trained in secure programming or even basic security principles (e.g. validate all input, defense in-depth, etc). I'm by far the most security-minded developer on a team of about 20 developers, but everything I know is because I'm interested in the realm of security.
And he should probably thank BofA that they tipped him off 30 days in advance!
> Searle uses a lookup table argument in the chinese room.

I know that. I was asking about your claim that a lookup table can be Turing complete, as opposed to merely able to pass a given Turing test. A lookup table does not express universal computation, at least not on its own. For instance, you couldn't use a fixed-size lookup table (with fixed, immutable content) to express some floating point number of precision N, where N is so high that even just the bits required to represent it outnumbers the available space in the lookup table. You'd need something "outside of" the lookup table that could mutate its memory, or hold state of its own while reading from the lookup table. The complexity class of doing any of this would be irrelevant to Turing completeness.

On the topic of the complexity threshold for sentience, I think the reasons are extremely simple and obvious. If you take a Turing test to involve convincing a human being of something (as it was originally conceived), then there are inherent time constraints to performing actions. If you can adequately respond to any question posed in English, but it takes you longer than the age of the universe to do so, then as far as anyone is concerned, you actually can't do it.

Imagine that one day we create an artificial being which we all agree is sentient. Suppose, without being too precise, that the entity "runs" in some amount of time -- like it can answer verbal questions in matters of minutes, it can solve complicated problems in matters of hours or days, and so on.

Now suppose we can play around with the insides of that being and we have some sort of dial that lets us "slow it down." We click the dial once, and the being now takes hours to make verbal responses, and takes weeks to solve complex problems. We click the dial again and it takes weeks to make a verbal response, and months to solve a complex problems... and so on.

I think it is reasonable to believe that after enough clicks the entity is not sentient even if the underlying software is conceptually similar and just differs by controlling its complexity class.

I'm not saying I agree that this definitely defines sentience. I'm just saying it's extremely reasonable that it might and it's not at all obvious to me that an exponentially slow entity, if we could wait long enough to verify, is "just as sentient" as an entity that is verifiably more efficient.

Even further, the particular argument that I pointed out actually used estimated numbers to come up with space bounds, not time bounds. Basically, the argument was that even if you truncate to considering merely 5-minute-long English conversations (or shorter), then creating a lookup table to be able to look up responses is physically impossible -- who even cares how long it would take to actually use it if you could create it -- you can't even create it, and so it is somewhat fallacious to even begin a thought experiment by saying "suppose there is this big lookup table that physics logically excludes from possibility." It's just not even useful, not even as a thought experiment, because it doesn't speak about what is possible, from first principles.
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

I guess it would only loosely be called "passive" as I spend a lot of time on it. But, I can take vacations and it continues to earn... for a while :)
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