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I've had the opposite experience.

I remember being very young and starting to think about death, and thinking it the most horrible thing imaginable. That the beautiful experience of life as a human should end in annihilation. That we would just stop existing at some point.

Now I'm watching my oldest daughter suffer the same realization. I tell her that there are a few people who are working on solving the problem, that I hope they can figure it out fast enough, that I understand and share the same fears she does. I tell her to live each day to the fullest anyway, and to enjoy life and not dwell on death too much. I don't know what else to say.

I've been in extreme pain, and I've been pumped full of enough morphine that I've been pretty incompetent. At least I still existed! And even in all the pain and incompetence I still found my own existence precious and worth hanging on to. Assuming we don't solve death in time for me, I have an eternity to not exist. Why would I be in a hurry to get started?

(Still, I found the article interesting and respect the decision of anyone who decides they actually prefer annihilation to pain and incompetence, even if I don't understand them).
http://www.site24x7.com/ has a cert monitor that does exactly what you want and more. If you have 10 domains it will run you $10/month. (Although you probably also want an uptime checker, so really it's more like 5 domains on the $10/month plan.)
It is ridiculous that after months of Obama telling people to "just read it", he dumped the agreement as ~268 separate PDFs.

No body has time for that. It's nice that they have pared this down to 31 different sections, but my guess is that they are not showing the full agreement here.

It would be much nicer if someone just dumped it all into a single PDF and HTML file.

Edit: Care to leave a comment rationalizing your downmods?
Interesting, we've got a mix, The recent ones we put in are all Cree, but I have some of the Reveal ones in my workshop (with the Hue bulbs I got). If you could point me at an image of something with the kind of green you're talking about I'd love to try it under the Reveals I've got.
Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Did you mean the landing will happen after ~40 mins?
Good point, I've added mousewheel zooming now. I'd been putting off adding zooming but it really does make it nicer. Thanks for the feedback!
Wow, that's a pretty unimpressive response. It's bad enough you did it, but I seriously doubt you realize how wrong what you have done really is when you discount that wrong doing so easily.

To make it clear: You advertised an anonymous service to a community you're a direct member of and didn't disclose your involvement in it. You not only willingly broke a moral code that you knew about, but you actually misrepresented the service in your advertisement and broke any trust you had with everyone who participated. That's a pretty serious wrong doing that warrants a little more self reflection and much more empathy towards the people you screwed over.
I haven't used it, but I do see that they have both data in and data out on their Snowball pricing[1] page. Data in is free, but data out is $0.03/GB(plus $200 per job). So it would cost a minimum of $500 to use Snowball to transmit 10TB.

Still, it does appear to reduce the price of getting data out of Amazon compared to using the internet.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/importexport/pricing
They are saying over at r/spacex that it crashed on landing
"Human or superhuman performance in one task is not necessarily a stepping-stone towards near-human performance across most tasks.

By the same token, the ability of neural networks to learn interpretable word embeddings, say, does not remotely suggest that they are the right kind of tool for a human-level understanding of the world. It is impressive and surprising that these general-purpose, statistical models can learn meaningful relations from text alone, without any richer perception of the world, but this may speak much more about the unexpected ease of the task itself than it does about the capacity of the models. Just as checkers can be won through tree-search, so too can many semantic relations be learned from text statistics. Both produce impressive intelligent-seeming behaviour, but neither necessarily pave the way towards true machine intelligence."

So true, and this is why I don't listen when Elon Musk or Stephen Hawkings spread fear about the impending AI disaster; they think because a neural network can recognize an image like a human can, that it's not a huge leap to say it will be able to soon think and act like a human, but in reality this is just not the case.
This seems like a perfect proof of concept for genius.com if they're serious about becoming a way to annotate anything (not just songs).

[1] http://genius.com/web-annotator
A discussion from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503640.
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To be fair, that hope exists with proprietary software as well, it's just that the end user is excluded from the set of eyes watching the code.
The reason it don't have CPU microcode though is that ARM is a RISC architecture I think.
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Thanks! When I saw the title, I new somebody on HN would come up with a few shell commands for this :-)
It said that for a brief moment, now it says "No word on landing yet"
Proper handling of SIGINT/SIGQUIT (2013)
I liked the UW Coursera class that gave a broad overview of these topics with some applications: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ml-foundations

It's part of a Machine Learning Specialization on Coursera (5 courses + a capstone project) which goes deeper on some areas after the foundations course: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning

I am taking this specialization and I have learned a lot so far. The material seems like it's at exactly the right level of depth (balances giving a high level overview of the field, with enough depth in specific areas to understand how things work and be able to apply them). Disclaimer: I work at Dato, and the CEO of Dato is also one of the instructors of this course.
When it seems like there's an obvious dismissal of serious work, the odds are low that the researchers don't know about it, so it's best to check. In this case, if you search for "ants" in the article, the first hit is:

Many species, from ants to orcas to our primate cousins, cooperate in the wild. But Tomasello has identified [...]

I'll leave it to the reader to learn what Tomasello has identified.
I don't think they are afraid of current technology and neither am I. However, I am afraid of a breakthrough or new model of AI that does approach human intelligence. I don't know how, when, or why but I think it's reasonable in the next 400 years that we approach something like that. 400 years is not very long in terms of humanity but this technology could do things to humanity that we can't grasp right now.
There really should be a stronger push to scrap this undemocratic monstrosity.
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Yeah, that's fair.

I think what seems to be bothering people about the design is how much it deviates from BMW's brand styling. If it came out from Toyota or Nissan or something I don't think people would have really noticed or cared.

I think what's kind of odd is how little media coverage electric cars that aren't Tesla get.
No, boostback and (attempted) landing was ~10 mins.

GP is in reference to the polar orbit insertion burn for the stage that's in orbit.
See also Proper handling of SIGINT/SIGQUIT (http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html).
That's a reasonable middle ground. But it does show clearly that those 'annoying but high paying jobs' have a place in the armory.

Good to see you on this side of the line after two heart surgeries.
This headline is a great "grabber" for older bankers and financiers. It implies that the whole "bitcoin thing" is finally blowing over, without going out and saying it. Music to their ears.
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I love this comment from over at r/spaceX

"Schrodinger's rocket: simultaneously landed and not landed at the same time." - retiringonmars

Edit: someone opened the box...it crashed
Edit2: What's up with the downvotes? Are you not supposed to re-post a quote?
What Are the To-Dos for Launching a LegalTech Startup?
That one guy is the only one currently contributing code (a slight exaggeration, but very slight).

That info by itself seems HN worthy as many of us have likely used Express as the "safe" choice when starting a new project. Time to rethink that...
Express needs a collection of first party middlewares for logging, strong params, cookie-jar and etc with extensible ORM ActiveModel for more than regular SQL, e.g RethinkDB and MonogDB.
Sure, the left wing has plenty of weirdos.

The difference is that the fringe, radical right wing beliefs have been mainstreamed. The left has nothing like that.

David Neiwert (Orcinus) has done a great job chronicling the steady encroachment of hate speech, eliminationist rhetoric, white supremacy, etc. As a journalist, Neiwert has long history with many of the players. He attends their events and interviews them. Kind of like watching Fox News, so we don't have to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neiwert

Every person has some goofy beliefs. If the wingers keep to themselves, I don't mind.

But some things do push my buttons.

#1 Hypocrisy. Like hating on "illegals" and then hiring them to work on your house. Or railing against welfare while sucking on the government's teat.

#2 Victimhood, persecution complex, clutching at pearls. There's a subset of the right wing that are just a bunch of cry babies, with no real equivalent on the left.

#3 False equivalence. Personal example. A political colleague wrote that our senator should be burned at the stake for some imagined betrayal. Flat out hate speech. So I called him on it. In turn, he stated that the Rodney King riots in LA were an example of left wing hate speech. Um, what? And then he wanted me to be accountable for the actions of some people 20 years past. Um, okay.

Like goofy beliefs, I don't mind cognitive dissonance either. But trying to wrap an opponent up in one's delusions is just trolling.
I wasn't going to reply to this because, well, bullshit. But ...

You took the worst possible interpretation of the original comment and then took it, out of context, as a personal attack. Then you posted a very nasty reply. Then, when you got called on it, you claim rudeness on the other parties.

Think about that. Re-read the entire thread. Because you not only missed the point of the OC, you missed the point of the original essay.
also this: https://twitter.com/underyx/status/688798317770354695
In the case of perceptrons, point taken -- I agree. However, my original statement still holds. The loss and error functions presented on the slides are still valid. Whether or not they are easily optimizable, they are still examples of loss and error functions.
Thanks for the link, I always enjoy a good talk.

I use Pocket to save text to read later. Sadly, I don't know any similar program/service for video. I would love to have a service where I could send videos from youtube or a file or a torrent, and it would save the oldest one on my phone, so that I can watch it offline on my phone when going on the train.

If someone makes this, I'm def willing to pay you $5/month for it, and I'm sure many others are as well.
Rumor: Intel Xeon E5-2602v4 Pushing for 5.1GHz Stock Clock
From webcast just now: - Landing was on target - hard landing - landing leg broke - not standing upright.

footage later (in a few hours)
This is great and all and is something that should absolutely be shared, however, if the intent behind this project is to share it with 'the average' person it's completely useless.
No one's going to read through that entire thing, I'd expect them to at least put up a summarized version.
Original describing measures intended to reduce hazard: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_...
A leg broke while it was landing on the barge.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/688799901463883776
That's why we go by consensus. Of course any one paper could be BS, but if 98% of scientists agree on something, then I feel fairly confident in that consensus.
I wonder if it exploded this time, last time they didn't stay upright the remaining fuel ignited and it blew up.
How is it different from just pressing "t" on the project's page?
I opened this page up, skipped forward to the first highlighted section (18. Intellectual Property), and skimmed to the first annotation. The original text:

1. A Party may, in formulating or amending its laws and regulations, adopt measures necessary to protect public health and nutrition, and to promote the public interest in sectors of vital importance to their socio-economic and technological development, provided that such measures are consistent with the provisions of this Chapter.

The annotation:

In other words, the TPP overrides any domestic laws protecting public health and nutrition, or socio-economic development.

That's not at all how the TPP works. The treaty doesn't allow foreign governments to "override" local laws, but rather allows for damage claims against the governments themselves if they enact and enforce laws contrary to the agreements in the TPP itself.

I'd really like the TPP annotated by legal experts. Instead, it's annotated by the CTO of Fight For The Future. I'm not sure that's a win.
OK at best this appears to be Hacker News comment policing, not legitimate (scientific) downvotes. understood, but disagree.
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Stallman does a good job of calling out cognitive dissonance, as do most individuals with wisdom.

The question is why are you and others "fine" with running your services on someone else's systems? I think the answer lies in what Stallman said about keeping your software and data "under your control". If someone has control of the services you use, or the data you store in those services, there exists a clear manner in which revenue can be generated, the product improved and their ability to run it better than you increased to the point they can market it as the only way to do it. In a way, the public cloud exists because people don't want to spend (or have) the time to understand how to run the services in a reliable way themselves, on their own equipment, in their own domain.

The argument becomes exactly what you hear everyone from software interns to VC parrot: I trust Amazon to run my servers better than I can.

By taking a bit of trust from a bank account, and giving it to someone else, users are able to "put off" having to understand how services and systems operate. They are, in a way, willing to ignore the fact the service and data is outside their control in some use cases that actually matter. This is what Stallman meant when he said "put a cloud in your mind".

That "cloud" is actually cognitive dissonance. Literally believing your data is safer on someone else's servers because you could never run it better than they could, while at the same time being totally OK with not having any control over where it is stored or who has access to it.

If cost (and the time associated with it) were no objection, where would you choose to run your services and store your data? If you had a choice between running it at my house and running it at your house, which would you chose?
I think the positive benefit of this effort will likely be undermined (and it’s already underway) by reactionary comments from uninformed people. They'll play well to people that already know the TPP sucks, but not from those on the fence or really wanting to learn about it.
The Bitcoin community is rapidly coalescing around an effort to increase the maximum allowed blocksize to 2MB as soon as possible. This increase is being implemented in a new client, Bitcoin Classic [0], which is a fork of Bitcoin Core that changes only the single line of code that sets the blocksize limit.

Bitcoin Classic was created by Jonathan Toomim, an American miner and developer who went to China to talk directly with Chinese miners and to test the effect of bigger blocks on mining operations behind the Great Firewall. Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin Core's former lead developer, and Jeff Garzik, another prominent Core developer, as well as many others, are collaborating with Toomim on further changes that Bitcoin Classic may implement later.

The big difference between Bitcoin Classic and Mike Hearn's failed Bitcoin XT is the concerted effort by the people behind Classic to garner the explicit support of miners (and other important members of the Bitcoin ecosystem) for a blocksize increase. At my last check yesterday, mining-pool operators representing 72% of global hashing power had explicitly expressed their support for Bitcoin Classic's blocksize increase, as had the operators of many popular exchanges, web wallets, and payment providers. (There is a growing compendium of prominent supporters on Bitcoin Classic's website; the complete list is on the project's Github page [1].)

That means that Bitcoin Classic is very likely to break Core's monopoly on the protocol soon. The blocksize increase, and the fork of the blockchain that it will create, is tentatively scheduled to take place after March 1. Get ready.

(By the way, the best sources for information and discussion about the Bitcoin world are now the /r/btc sub-Reddit and the discussion forums at bitcoin.com and bitco.in; the community's former hubs, /r/Bitcoin and bitcointalk.org, are both controlled by the same operator/moderator, and he has strongly censored and perverted all discussion of changes to the protocol that are not supported by Core's intransigent cabal of developers.)

0. https://www.bitcoinclassic.com

1. https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/website/issues/3
Nice implementation! I would like my team to get Slack notifications...
I mentioned the dialog in IBM's back channels because Doug himself was pushing a participant there once he got some traction in that more appropriate venue: "Now, please stop contacting me as a side channel without the context of the conversations I have been having with IBM. Please get involved in the existing IBM channels I have, so you have context here."

You are correct: Doug does give excellent reasons for supporting the project under the expressjs org, the same reasons brought up back when the github ownership of the project changed (as in the issue you linked). The public debate only served to confuse and frustrate watchers, and that is the "soap opera" I refer to.

It's unfortunate that sometimes such public drama is necessary to effect change, but as evidenced by the issue raised when the repo was taken over originally, public drama wasn't going to effect any change here. It now serves only to foment ill-will and promote confusion, regardless of who is "right".

You are also right that we should be thankful for OSS contributors' efforts. I am thankful for his. For StrongLoop's too, in fact. I am, however, not thankful for the wasted energy in maintaining the debate on a github issue, when the debate didn't do any good the first time 'round. I am not thankful that politics have derailed the work.

EDIT: I think you misunderstood my "be the best..." comment. I was merely suggesting that Doug would find himself less stressed if he was able to focus on doing what he loves and not playing politics.
> That's not at all how the TPP works. The treaty doesn't allow foreign governments to "override" local laws, but rather allows for damage claims against the governments themselves if they enact and enforce laws contrary to the agreements in the TPP itself.

Isn't this just semantics though? If you can use economic force (damage claims against the governments themselves), its just as effective as using executive/legislative force to "override" local law [1].

> I'd really like the TPP annotated by legal experts.

Luckily, they can! It's on Github. Its just a matter of finding legal experts willing to mark it up.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...
> I don't understand what you mean by humans are really cheap

Seriously? I can rent a human for $7.50 an hour. In other countries they're even cheaper. If you want to sell me a robot to clean my house, that's your competition.
We should hire someone to do the summaries for us. And since they'll already understand it, we should have them vote for or against it based on our best interest.... wait...
Good point, no fuel no boom.
Bankers and financiers are nowhere near as worried about bitcoin as many bitcoiners seem to think.
> But what if you know that next year there will be 20 cans of beer? Then you don't buy any beer this year, because each beer you buy this year costs you two beers you could have had next year. If the number of beers goes up year after year, then it is always advisable to wait to buy beer.

Do you realize that this makes no sense whatsoever? How many people do you know that would give up beer for a year if they knew that beer was going to be twice as cheap next year? And if we look at the recent history of technology, the prices of devices, the prices of processing power, consistently drops year-over-year yet that has not hindered the business at all. Lots of people buy stuff because they desire the utility of the product, and do not want to forgo a year of that utility. Some people buy the newest model on the first day, some people wait for a year or two, it all works itself out.

To the extent you have a point, is that high inflation overall encourages consumption over saving. This is hardly a good thing though. And if you inflate really high, you may just get the same net amount of saving/hoarding, it will just be hoarding in gold or real estate rather than in dollars.

> Deflation is a prisoner's dilemma that is solved by printing money to match, as closely as possible, the rate of economic growth.

This doesn't make sense, because each product has its own growth curve: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/620814301289316352/photo/1 So even if you inflate at the average growth of all prices, you still are not accurately tracking any particular product.
With some left-over LOX and kerosene, of course it blew up. Rockets don't stay in one piece after they fall over.
That's true in the sense that politics is war by other means. But the materials of politics, like war, can to some extent be studied objectively. The forces that make this hard—e.g. tribal identification—impede other forms of objective study too, though to a lesser extent.
No one was misinterpreting his inequality essays. He just hadn't thought it through enough and was putting a straw man forward.

Other than that what other controversial essays have he written? Maybe one other?
I seriously doubt this is the case. Most bankers I know have regarded bitcoin with a keen curiosity rather than some kind of malignant threat.
No, it's not just semantics. The plain wording of the annotation, by one of the site's sponsors, is that the TPP "overrides local laws". It does not.

The equivalence between allowing a trade treaty to literally rewrite our laws and allowing a trade treaty to settle economic claims is not at all clear to me.

This does not seem like a minor detail.
What does it mean that a leg broke? Correct me if I'm wrong cause I'm no expert, but I'd assume that there'd be some 'emergency' backup legs to address this kind of event?

What does "not upright" mean? Did it crash? Or is it simply in limbo, leaning, at an x degree angle?
Sixty-two people have the same amount of wealth as half the world, says Oxfam