skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that fear is a very healthy one. I have had an idea for a website for a long time that I haven't gotten around to building yet, but may before too long. It would basically give people such a fear, in hopes that they become better informed and act not to stop the development of such knowledge (it has neutral and positive uses just like any tool which has negative ones) but to restrict its misuse. The site would be a simple one, and decidedly sensationalistic (I am not looking forward to media attention I would hope it would garner, but such is necessary to widely spread an idea these days). It would be machine learning system which has been trained on news articles (or, if I can find such a data set, information about their travel would actually be much better) about politicians and lists of politicians which were later shown to be secretly cheating on their spouses. And it would enable you to select your own politician of choice and see a prediction of how likely that person is to be secretly cheating on their spouse currently.

All of the public discussion around the NSA, and every single last one of the statements by the government about the NSAs practices, centered EXCLUSIVELY on the idea of human analysts at the NSA directly reading the fulltext of peoples communications. Not one single time did they address the (as far as I am concerned) actual danger - the NSAs automated systems having access to peoples communications, providing "summaries" and "ratings" and "predictions." Being worried about some random stranger reading your personal, private communications should maybe be a little bit squicky. Being worried about some random machine learning system teasing out predictions of how likely you are to harbor thoughts that threaten the status quo should be pants-shittingly terrifying.
At his childcare place here in Australia, my 2-3 yo gets involved in meal prep in the facility's kitchen. They have 5 meals a day with a great rotating menu. He'll often eat better than we do.

We involve him in almost all cooking we do at home too.
The 62 richest people have as much wealth as half the world
That's good advice to not to misunderstand other people, but it's much harder to figure out how to not have it done TO you.
Where? Much of this stuff you describe was true in the mid-60s where I lived (suburban MN), but not in 75.

>Woodstock was Snoopys friend.

And a famous '69 music festival.

In 75 my parents had credit cards (as did all of their friends). We shopped at a supermarket and shopping malls. We ate tons of pre-packaged food like TV dinners and spaghetti O's - far more than people do today. Fast food was MacDonalds, BK, etc. Milk came in cartons from the supermarket.

Newspaper once a day. TV had been color for many years and we got at least a dozen channels. Radio was FM for music AM for news/sports. 8 track tapes and cassettes were everywhere. Most people had touch-tone phones.

University was not free. I had been programming computers at school (junior high) for several years via dial-up time sharing.

I guess changes come to different parts of the country at very different rates.
61 agencies after warrantless access to Australian telecommunications metadata
I think the reality is that most cloud customers are approximately consumers. Some big/sophisticated customers may want precise knobs to tune their spend versus "capability" but many businesses just want you to store their data. Pricing models like Glacier's are scary as hell to any CFO, unless they're shown a plan that says "So we're going to save $XXM on this, 100% certain".

Adding on your utility company meme, there are different rate schedules for residential and business customers in most places. In Cloud, I think negotiated contracts with advanced customers probably make more sense than complex, unfriendly pricing models for everyone.

Big disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
It sounds like white patients should be experiencing the same scrutiny but aren't.
A user posted a long example below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921709

You don't have to pay $150 for retrieval of 60GB. And you don't do long-term storage for X TB / 5 TB * $150. You might have to rent space in someone elses datacenter to put your own external backup... or you could pay Amazon for Glacier and not deal with maintenance etc. Might be worth it even if you have infrastructure for all data that isn't glacier-cold.
Hmm, just out of curiosity, would it be possible to tweak Grisu to use the same error analysis as Errol? While possibly slower in the modern architecture, it might result in the compact, fast enough and hassle-free algorithm that is good for most [1] purposes.

[1] I have seen some performance-oriented JSON encoders using Grisu2 instead of Grisu3 in favor of performance. They may be willing to switch to Errol3 in spite of such configuration problems...
>So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality.

How much of our "discussion" on this issue is tangled up with the fact are that some people are greatly concerned with relative poverty and other are more concerned with absolute poverty?
I'm doing something similar using Docker to run tests on Ansible roles on Ubuntu 12/14 and CentOS 6/7 in parallel within Travis CI: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-apache/blob/mast...

I've been playing around with the technique a while, but a different contributor ultimately did the final work for me, and he wrote up a great blog post on the process: http://bertvv.github.io/notes-to-self/2015/12/13/testing-ans...

While I'm yet to find a compelling reason for me to use Docker for my production environments (though the is one SaaS service I run which may benefit as Docker's warts have become much more manageable), it's excellent in a CI environment!
Oracle ApEx, which is a competitor of the Force.com platform. Man how strange corporate tech is...
Presumably the data is stored in RAM (or potentially on a swap disk) by the browser. Most likely they are feeding the data into the Media Source Extensions [0] APIs.

I'm not sure why you can't seek to random positions. It seemed to work for me, after a few second delay (presumably to issue commands to start downloading different blocks).

Those IP addresses are private network addresses. The machine you are connected to is probably behind a NAT and is connected to you through a different address. The UI is probably just showing the local address that that node reports.

[0] https://w3c.github.io/media-source/
The Future of Software Development episode was complete rubbish. It was just a bunch of CEOs talking about their own products. The discussion was all about the past.
Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Say
Yes, but there is no reason to wait ~2 years. It can be built now.
Can someone explain to me what claim Professor Dweck has demonstrated that is both novel and true? I've heard a lot about growth mindset but I still don't know what claim she has proven that is not already pretty obvious.
If the brain was scale-invariant, it wouldn't matter whether you studied the large-scale behaviour or the small-scale behaviour (like the criticized Blue Brain project); both would tell you the same thing. But like noobermin, I think they mean something else.

But that aside, it's not clear to me that studying the behaviour of the smallest part of a complex system doesn't tell you something about the behaviour of the whole, even when that behaviour isn't necessarily clear from the smallest part considered in isolation. Specifically, simulation and emulation rely on precise models at some level of abstraction, but can then be scaled up to try and simulate aggregate behaviour.

Things like finite element analysis or soft body dynamics work on the basis of modelling a small part of a system in order to produce a large-scale aggregate model. Understanding the small parts more precisely leads to a better aggregate model because, given sufficient computing power, we can easily scale the model up.

Whether the larger model gives you understanding is arguable; but it can certainly give you information on how sensitive the whole is to the attributes of the part, and makes experiments on the simulated whole much easier.
How to convert video to PVP
A year of using Git: the good, the bad, and the ugly
What I've heard Elon say is that automakers who want to use the superchargers just have to share "costs". I assume that means electricity + property leases + maintenance + some sort of amortized construction costs. I've never heard anything about a license fee.
Yes that's one of the important topics covered in the book. The AI probably would probably value resources and self preservation.

Resources help it fulfil whatever it's goal is, and the more the better. That includes energy and computing power. Which it could gain a lot of by converting the mass of the solar system into a dyson swarm. Or covering the Earth with solar panels or fusion reactors and comuters. Etc.

Self preservation would be optimized by destroying anything that has even a tiny chance of being a threat to it. Even if humans are harmless, we could build other AIs like it which might compete with it. It's best to just destroy us.

The problem is the AI doesn't need to want to eliminate us. It will likely be entirely indifferent to us. We just need to be in it's way.
"Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die – but this is sensuality’s cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live." -Kierkegaard
I'm surprised at how primitive the response to pg's essay has been. None of it seems to respond to the central point of the essay (which is that economic inequality has many causes, and we should specifically attack the bad causes, not inequality itself).

In spite of all the noise, I do disagree with the central point.

Economic inequality may be caused by good things, but it is still bad. Wealth is opportunity and political influence. Therefore economic inequality is inequality of opportunity and political influence. Persistent intergenerational economic inequality is pretty much bad by definition.

Inequality - a bad thing - can be caused as a byproduct of good activity. It's still bad. It's a negative externality, like environmental pollution. In fact, there's some striking parallels - a buildup of inequality, like a buildup of pollution, can trigger the collapse of the ecosystem.

We need to agree that inequality is categorically bad so we can have a real discussion of how to keep it under control. It would be crazy to argue that farming is good so farm-related pollution does not need to be controlled. Likewise with startups and inequality.
The closest thing I've been able to find is The Old Reader (theoldreader.com).

Best thing is it was able to import all my old Google Reader subscriptions. Although by now, I think that ship has sailed for other people...
Seems like this is an opportunity for a tor like network over a webRTC peer to peer network, maybe? (Dunno maybe that's a bad idea for some reason...)
If there were a gag order, why would they have told him at all? Grab the disk, blame a hardware failure, done.
Running a server on port 80 (< 1024) doesn't require any elevated privileges on Windows?
Very curious about the legal implications if every site that I visit can transfer files to unknown peers in the background. P2P is, AFAIK, a big source of costly cease-and-desist orders in Germany. With WebTorrent, I guess I could tell the right holder to bring the matter to court and plausibly state that some malicious ad iframe must have distributed that MKV without my knowledge.
Isn't "In Defense of Food" the one that tries to alter the definition of "food" until it no longer encompasses many of the unhealthy things we eat? (EDIT: yes, yes it is.)

I originally dismissed it without a second thought because I associate that sort of puerile silliness with... well, things other than science. But now you're saying it gives a solid overview of nutrition science and I can't help but wonder.

> Vox is not a good start

Yeah, but why is "In Defense of Food" a good start? The author is a professor of journalism and the wiki page links to an opinion piece by a professor of nutrition titled "'In Defense of Food' is short on science," which is precisely what I'd expect from a professor of journalism and from someone who tries to redefine what food means. Which puts me back in square 1 of not knowing where to start.
"Following 27 high school freshman over one school year, researchers found that using a standing desk generally improved the kids’ neurocognitive test scores by seven to 14 percent. The tests, given both at the beginning and end of the school year, evaluated cognitive processes such as reasoning and working memory."

I'm not well versed in how to set up a study like this, but is 27 really a sufficient sample size? It seems like a small enough number that it would be very hard to draw inferences generalizable to all students in the US.
> Quote the specific passages you disagree with. This forces you to calibrate your mental model of what someone said with what they actually said."

He also says this.
I'm a consultant. While I can push for a lot if it's conventional, but I have to pick my battles. That's not one I feel I can win.
You're splitting hairs.
It depends on the organization, what they do with their data, and what value they place on it - so the answer varies. We've done some back of the napkin calculations this morning and at today's prices it would cost approx $1,000 to store 1MB on the Bitcoin blockchain. That's a LOT, but depending on what you want do with your data, it could be priceless. One benefit is that once that data has been encoded its available for the life of the chain at no extra cost, eliminating hosting overhead. You also get the added benefits of increased transparency, automated auditing, reduction in human error, etc.
"Wealth is opportunity and political influence."

Larry Page, net worth $29 billion, and Sergey Brin, net worth $34 billion, have so little political influence that they can't get a small city's government to approve a new bridge over a creek:

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/12/council-deadlocks-on...
obviously. I think it will become mainstream with technological people in 2 years. It will take time to, of course, actually be built. Then, have enough data fed into it to actually be useful. That will take about 2 years(ish).
Very cool. I started to do something like this with WebTorrent but hit limitations on the seeds available (especially if you go down the WebRTC seed path). What's your seeding set up like?
We've searched the skies exhaustively and found no evidence whatsoever of alien civilizations. And why is the Earth is still around after 4 billion years if aliens want it? If they didn't show up in the last few million years, they probably won't in the next few million. Same logic applies to most natural threats like meteors and volcanoes.

AI is a threat that is immediate in time. There is plenty of reason to believe we will build it, and probably within our lifetimes. And unlike aliens, there might be something we can do about it. Whereas aliens would be so far beyond us technologically it's very unlikely we can do anything to stop them.

I know you are just pattern matching "both of those things are from science fiction, therefore shouldn't be taken seriously". But there are actual reasons why aliens aren't taken seriously and AI is.
Poor, neglected Google Voice
How BuzzFeed News Used Betting Data to Investigate Match-Fixing in Tennis
Looks like "serverless" is the new buzz word for App Engine or Heroku?
It could be there was a lack of variety in mainstream broadcasting, but that doesn't mean it was bad. Underground music scenes weren't necessarily about quality; a lot of is is about rebellion and self-expression. Being able to express certain ideas lyrically as well as musically.

The Top 40 crap then was better than today, simply because it used real musicians and vocalists. Music wasn't put together like Lego blocks by some computer geek working with a music workstation. Let's not even get started on pitch correction of vocalists, good grief!

I was just cycling home in the dark and deliberately went the wrong way into a one-way street. The "One Way Ticket" Eruption song came to mind, man. I haven't heard that in over 35 years probably. Completely forgot about it. I didn't even speak English; now I understand what it's about, listening to it on YT.
The Tesla has a 12V battery just like regular ICE cars that is used to power blinkers, etc.

http://insideevs.com/a-peek-under-the-hood-of-a-tesla-model-...
Switzerland in Data Maps
I believe the Italian version would be "we live to eat like pigs", ;D
I've heard little about it but what I heard was the same as what you say.
OpenAI has nothing to do with AI risk. They want to accelerate research in AI and make it open to the public. Which is the exact opposite you would want to do to protect against superintelligent AIs. They are not focusing on solving the control problem, or anything meaningful.
It will be interesting to see how a robot walking around really works out. I mean, we know that when it comes to predicting reality, we're just terrible at it. 3 bodies interacting under gravitation outstrips our ability to predict. You want to account for the wind resistance and nonlinear behavior of everything around? Good luck! Chaos theory will eat you for lunch!

If an AI had decided that flash crashes were a way to get rich, you can guarantee that Goldman Sachs would be running one 24/7 right now. High frequency trading systems are actually quite constrained. Even if you hooked together all the worlds supercomputers and somehow got them into the datacenter of the stock exchange, you wouldn't be able to maintain the trading volume HFT systems do with a deep learning system.

Also, as far as I know, the successful videogame playing systems that accomplish some degree of 'long term planning' (meaning more than a few frames) all cheat. They actually "learn" by trying and then rolling the system back. In reality, you can't roll the system back. So that would be a fatal handicap to their methods.
I don't think he really was "burned".

Paying 87c a month for a couple of years, then 52c a month for a few more years, to back up 60+GB, and then getting a one off fee of $150 still averages out at around $2/mo. Hardly getting shafted.
I would say the FM in this case was unreadable. “starting at $0.011 per gigabyte”, "learn more" - no one would expect to pay $150 here.
I normally play the ALACs directly (most of my listening is done on my PC, streaming from my NAS). I used to keep an AAC version around for my mobile devices, but never really used it so don't bother any more.
Interesting, if the player never starts you never connect to additional peers. I'm running this in firefox 43 with flash disabled and the video never starts.
Nope. Windows got sockets before it got a reasonable privilege model.
I can't think of a bigger complement to a writer than to explain something clearly and yet that somehow turn into a controversy.

Because if the writing is clear, which in this case it is, it means the problem is the audience. It means the writer found a genuinely confusing and probably undervalued topic.

Good job, pg.
Two thirds of gun deaths are suicides too. Also not much helped by laws against assault rifles and high capacity magazines.
Will this keep a cache of all files I listen to, essentially building up my local music library as I listen?

How is incorrect meta-data handled?
I would make those bets. I'm not afraid of those other things at all. Nukes are really unlikely to be used, and even if they were it wouldn't destroy the whole world, let alone end humanity. Climate change is going to cause lots of economic damage at worst, but it isn't going to destroy the world, let alone end humanity. Same with many other proposed risks.

AI is the only thing I believe has a very high probability of destroying all humanity. Probably within our lifetimes. And there is probably something we can do about it right now - working on the control problem.
He paid $150 plus between 50 and 80 CENTS a month to hold a backup of 60GB for four plus years.
My site exploded 3 days ago, I cried hoping people would stop coming to it
>It was horrendously slow. And every single individual item had to have its own price sticker - which often fell off, holding everyone up.

One of my first jobs was at a store where we manually keyed the prices (and produce code numbers). We often got comments from customers surprised that we were quicker than the stores that used scanners. Missing stickers for unusual products could of course cause a slowdown (same as a product that won't scan). But for most things, you typed them in so many times per day that you could just glance over the pile of things as they were being unloaded onto the checkout counter and by the time the customer had put everything on the counter, your hand had already keyed all the prices/codes in by muscle memory. Things that were sold by weight had to be weighed, but otherwise it was quick.

It took longer to wait for the response from the credit card processor than it did to enter prices for a whole cart full of groceries. That gave us time to bag the groceries. When someone paid cash, there was no need to wait for the credit card (or wait for someone to fill out a check), so that's when we had to call one of the clerks over to bag.
Except when it just blew through my data allowance for mobile..... Just have a demo page for this.

Crazy
Finally a use for the GitHub heatmap.
The Resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
this was what I meant. thanks. You can buy a 5tb hard drive for ~138.00. You could likely buy several of them at discount to get started. As you go forward in time, these will become much cheaper, allowing you to continue purchasing them on demand from the market for much less money.

This allows you to trivially share, copy, move and retrieve that data quickly as well as fully control who has access and when.

I am sure there are use cases for this but in a situation where you have petabyte scale data, it is often the case that you also have the infrastructure to save it. How many places would need to store >5tb of data a week that

* don't have this capability in house

* will almost never need to access it again.

* will not need it in a timely manner, if they do need to access it again.

* don't have the money to implement their dedicated server and storage on site for this purpose.

I am not saying that this rules everyone out, but the prices are so low, and tape must be so annoying, I couldn't imagine why they keep offering this. Obviously, some peopel must be using it but in 2016 with storage prices being so low already, i don't know how many places have this amount of data and meet the above requirements.
Startup Step-By-Step: No Cryptocountry for Old Men
Why Tor-like? Why not just Tor? Seems like a great way for people to send messages that don't involve a cloud-based server.
Team Fortress 2 in particular is very interesting. The game started its life as an exemplification of product purity and exellence—only later did Valve decide to turn it into a test bed for microtransactions.

Obviously that experiment has been very successful, but we also don't know how it would have fared had Valve stayed the course and stuck to a more traditional strategy, continually updating the game while selling it for a reasonable price.

>What is more vexing in my opinion is when an organization creates works that are widely agreed upon as high quality, whilst still abusing monetization efforts to various degrees.

The production values might be high quality, but the product as a whole isn't, because monetization efforts detract from the overall quality of the product.