skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a whole lot easier to write a convincing argument than it is to write a correct argument. At the start, at the education phase of learning, stuff needs to be engaging. It's totally worthwhile to invoke emotion, humor, whatever rhetorical trick is available to convince the student.

Later though, when you hit the frontier, and start thinking things no one ever thought about, stylized dry writing is easer to evaluate for correctness. You don't want an emotional investment, you want an objective view so it can be picked apart based on its own merits. If that stands up, seems correct, or at least worth more investigation, then it can be dressed up in the easy to communicate way.

Perhaps some ideas can't be evaluated without investing in their emotional content. That's a tough place to find truth.
Sorry, Blue Apron. The Joys of Cooking Can’t Fit in a Box. (2015)
waves hand Knee problems here. I can walk up the escalator, but I really don't want to. There's a reason I'm on the escalator instead of the stairs next to them.
Since when it's better to assume that everybody is guilty?
Is this your own insight or do you have references? It's a little hard for me to make sense of your position based only on what you've written here.
The stock should trade at $2 if you look at their financials. Growth stalled a while back. Etsy will never be able to compete with Pinterest. This is a $100 million dollar company in the guise of $1b. Going the same way as gilt group.
It's a similar concept that Tim Ferriss talked about in 4 Hour Chef. You'd (with a friend for accountability) put money in an escrow account for an organization you absolutely despise (political, religious, etc). If you fail on keeping your promise (in this case going to the gym) the money would be released. I think he calls it the Stickk method (there is even a site dedicated to it: http://www.stickk.com/)
Every time I go VM shopping, it's always going to cost around 30-50% more to run on Azure. Thats a pretty significant increase IMO, especially for companies where Cloud Servers account for around half of our expenses.
I'm reminded of the escalators and NY Penn station. People wait in big huddles to get on the escalator, stand crowded and unable to move with none of that "pass on the left" bit. Meanwhile, a massively wide flight of stairs stands in the middle of the escalators that will often be quite empty even as the crowds to go up the escalator start forming. Hell, they're empty enough people are putting ads on those stairs: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/364250541_49959802e8.jpg?...

So good luck getting people to do that.
I'm sorry you feel that way. You don't come off as unsure when you answer all your own questions and call these answers "undeniably true fact." But yes, I was more argumentative than I should have been. Best of luck to you.
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If you take a a purely reductionist approach to existence and sentience, there is no qualitative difference between comet dust cloud and alien megastructure. They're both natural processes, just differing in the degree of complexity.
I've never heard "escalump" in DC, but I have heard and used "escalefter" many times. There was even an ad inside the metro about it one time:

http://klaprothlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Tourism-to...
I use this all the time. Thanks for running it!
Protip for Web programmers: "No, you can't count on Javascript."

Yes, I block your shitty Javascript. If I enable Javascript, I enable for your domain only. The 18 other domains are not going to load.

Get over it.
It is only dramatic because you seem to think that Mike Hearn declared the cryptocurrency experiment a failure - but he did not. Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency - if it fails because of some social dynamic issues - there will be others.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Probably not true. E.g., do you think the average user of Tor takes this precaution? Thinking back to the times I have downloaded Tor, I never did that.

It reminds me of a time when I wanted to get in touch with an HN user... they had their pgp key in their user page... I tried sending the email but it didn't work (formatting issues). Finally I reached this user and asked what was up with it... and he responded by saying, "Oh, noone in the past 10 years has made use of this!" And this is a pretty smart security guy.

I think there are very, very few people who actually take the trouble of verifying checksums and everything. I used to do it /sometimes/ years ago, but it gets to be a hassle pretty quickly and you start taking shortcuts everywhere. A lot of us sort of plan to start doing it, but never actually do it. Kind of like exercising or eating healthy or whatever. :)

Anyway, as for this news about ISIS having their own encrypted chat app - I'm happy to hear it. If they made it on their own, it's bound to have a good dozen holes that NSA will have no trouble poking through. :)
HSBC has been doing money laundry for years, billions of dollars... It is proven. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...
IMO, you should learn at least C and likely C++ if systems level programming is your goal.

That isn't to say that there aren't successful databases, queues etc written in Java or other managed languages, but there are serious tradeoffs both ways. Good C/C++ is safe and very performant, bad C/C++ is dangerous and can perform poorly. Good Java/C# etc is safe and performs well with experienced hands at the wheel, bad Java/C# is just as dangerous as bad C. People focus on memory management, but honestly that isn't the only thing to worry about, security holes come from lots of places other than just forgetting to deallocate memory or doing so unexpectedly. Hence, managed languages might help protect you from poor memory management to a degree but you can still shoot yourself in the foot and wind up with tons of security holes etc which make your system software worthless.

In the end it will depend on what your goals are really. C/C++ are both still very viable languages and are still the core of most system level programming, at least in my experience. And honestly, I wouldn't consider anyone a system level programmer if they didn't know, at least, C, doesn't mean they are actively working in it, but they at least know it and know the tradeoffs between C and other options.

I have been programming C/C++ since the early 90's, my most active language in the past 3 years has been Javascript (node.js) with C/C++ being very close seconds. C/C++ is dominating my work right now though as more people are wanting the raw performance and more IoT/embedded projects are out there wanting that skill. And I frankly love C/C++. At the same time though, I will fully admit that I am more productive for business level applications in C# or even node.js.
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Being sexually harassed is neither acceptable nor funny. I don't want to relativize the real cases.

But being too thin-skinned in the office is also bad. In many european countries it is expected for new people to be (politely) kissed in the cheek as salute when introduced to coworkers of the opposite sex in the team. This is the common salute and social rule and is not seen as harassment at all. This can be a little shocking for people from other cultures; but most fully grown people should be able to fine tune quickly their expectations; and safely navigate around the most common social conflicts.
> had gone to Hong Kong on holiday. Lau noticed that passengers on that city’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) were standing calmly on both sides of the escalator and, it seemed, travelling more efficiently and safely as a result.

Is this new? When I visited Hong Kong in 2011, you had to stand on the right and walk on the left. In fact, this was one of the things that caused a great deal of anger towards "mainlanders" – tourists from mainland China – who ignored such social conventions.

EDIT: I just googled it and apparently the "no walking on the escalators" rule in Hong Kong is only a few months old:

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/artic...
I think the point is that Atom needs to be recompiled with certain options to make this possible. You couldn't do it with a package.
> Is this the attitude toward privacy and data isolation at Alphabet/Google?

It is a Twitter remark by an ex-Googler who had nothing to do with Abacus and never worked at Verily. That is, some combination of snark and wild-ass speculation.
It seems to me that the throughput on the left side is faster - and therefore even if it were more spaced out (not the case in rush hour when it is almost as crowded as the right side), the fact that people are moving faster and spending less time on it would make up for any difference.
We generally try to put options in source code or configuration files, rather than in command-line flags, because that's more repeatable. It makes the CLI much simpler.
Echo/Echo Reply only I believe; not done an exhaustive test to confirm all that are dropped. I've clarified in my post that I was referring to E/ER. Thanks for calling that out.
They haven't committed to making more, or if they do, to the $5 price point.
Ha, no, my credit is stellar. But I live in a nice neighborhood of Philadelphia. My 1000 sq ft 2 br apartment costs $2300/m in rent. (I'm aware it's a lot cheaper in other neighborhoods, but I love living here.)

To buy my apartment (and this is just for the apples-to-apples comparison) would cost in the neighborhood of $485,000. If I put $97,000 down (about 20% to avoid PMI) I'm looking at around $2350 inclusive of taxes. However, there's HOA fees. Here they cover all (yes ALL) utilities, but they're $890/month for this apartment. Now I'm out $97,000 in liquid cash, my monthly payment is $3240 inclusive of HOA.

I can easily get the loan, but in the city, it's not always cheaper to buy.
I spent about 2 hours on the phone with Chromecast support yesterday for an intermittent problem I was having. On the bright side, they have a phone number you can call for support, on the bad side, it seems their strategy is to keep transferring you to different people, each who makes you go through the same trouble shooting steps until you just give up out of frustration, which I did.
Capacity could be improved even more, without fuelling the obesity epidemic and inconveniencing those of us who prefer to keep moving . All they have to do is make walking compulsory on both sides.
So if it were bombs instead of surveillance you would bomb the target when you're uncertain about its enemy status?

And since we're talking about mass surveillance... I guess carpet bombing?
Not OP but from the perspective of the industrial side: no track record, no formal standard, changes too fast, incomplete documentation, doesn't have an extensive commercial and supporting ecosystem (e.g. Parasoft, Java Path Finder), limited pool of experienced programmers with embedded and regulated environment experience. Arguably, it falls under the heading of "too new".

I'd prefer to deal with known knowns rather than the known unknowns or gasp unknown unknowns of something new. It's a very conservative position, but it's borne out of the expense associated with mistakes and corrections of.
Ridiculous. The effective way to stick to hard goals is to figure out how to enjoy them. Weight lifting is difficult and strenuous, and when I first encountered it I found it ridiculous and demeaning (because I was terrible at it). I set goals, researched it, and did it long enough it became a habit I can't live without. Not doing it is more psychologically and physically painful to me than breaking my back on deadlifts at this point. Same thing took place learning physics, software development and machine learning.

I'm presently experiencing the lighting hundred dollar bills on fire every day (except they're thousand dollar bills) in that I've started a company. This is painful, and not in a motivating way. The easiest thing to do is to stop lighting money on fire and get a day job. It would be a lot easier to quit lighting money on fire and lifting weights if lighting money on fire was the only thing keeping me going to the gym.
Thanks for the reply!

I'm also curious in your answer to Eliezer about why you assume 1 GPU.

But a few other questions:

1. You say: "human evolution has spent quite a while in an adverserial environment - the smarter you are, the more you win". Again, maybe I'm missing something in modern evolutionary thinking, but why that assumption? I always thought the consensus was that we were as minimally smart as required.

2. You seem to be under the assumption that today's most popular algo's (namely neural networks) are definitely for sure the thing that's going to become an AGI, but why that assumption? The more broad idea of some algorithm/method bringing us an AGI is more probable than specifically neural networks.

You also write: "I definitely think you could do better, I just don't think you're going to do it with a paradigm that looks vaguely like the brain". Again, why the assumption that whatever will be built will have to even resemble the human brain?
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Given that there are two escalators per direction, making the middle ones purely for walkers would probably create the necessary incentives to get ~2/3 walking to bypass the longer queues on the sides..
> All debts and obligations were honored

British depositors with banks such as Icesave were bailed out by the UK government. Apparently 85% has since been repaid from Iceland, but you maintain "All"?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/11875720/...
Would this not be fairly straightforward to simulate? I see statements like: "and, it seemed, travelling more efficiently and safely as a result." and "His report prompted Harrison and her colleagues to wonder..." and think... they're guessing? They're going right to disrupting normal travel patterns of many people for a trial on nothing more than a hunch? Why not prove to a reasonable degree that this would actually work beyond the anecdotal feelings of a few employees before inflicting such a change on the public?

Seems like they are just shifting the cost for finding out from themselves to the disrupted travellers. Even if over longer periods of time this proves more efficient, disrupting normal patterns for regular commuters will cause a lot of stress and disorientation; such stress may be a soft cost, but most commutes already suck. I guess when you're a government agency, it's hard to fail your customers in a way that matters to you.
This attitude is counter-productive and will lead to only being able to get jobs precisely like the ones you describe, where you're over-worked and underpaid.

Work is what you make of it. If you want to hate work, that thing you have to spend 40+ hours of your week doing, then nobody is going to stop you.

One can make work into something that adds to your life instead of takes away from it. If you can figure out how to do this then you'll find that everything about your life changes utterly for the better.
I think that the article over-estimates strongly the influence of entertainment to a certain degree when it comes to our intellectual development. And I am someone who consumes a lot of media. While it's true some will profit from the intellectual properties, I would argue in order to see this side of an entertainment show, one must have the intellectual capacity to do so in the first place.

An "intelligent" person might see an existential moral conflict portrayed brilliantly in something like Breaking Bad, others see a story about Drugs, Tough guys, cool Misfortunes, funny incidents, black humour and they don't notice or derive any moral teachings from it. (I might misrepresent Breaking Bad here to some degree, I have not seen it completely. Could have also named examples like Spirited Away, Watership Down, ... simple cartoons to some, but they are missing the bigger picture.)

That's why shows which rate high among TV Critics and get a lot of viewers, normally appeal to both, those who see the big picture, and those who are appealed to the "superficial" version of it.

Academia does not have to entertain in the same way, but academia will also change radically when it comes to getting a point across. Technology will help incredibly with bringing abstract information to people outside of a specific scientific field.

We humans are not good at Maths, not at all. We humans are good at touching, smelling, visualizing things.

Albert Einstein was one of the most influential physicists in the 20th century, and even though his ideas (at that time) must have seemed incredibly counter-intuitive, it was through thought experiments with a large amount of visualization, that helped him form his theories.

Visuals are so important. And they'll become better and better, and we will be able to do them more effectively and in a whole new way as technology progresses. Think about proper 3D-Virtual Environments, 3D Position Tracking in a room with a VR-Headset. The possibilities we have there.

I remember very clearly when we talked about Retrograde Motion of planets in school. By the time we were finishing sketching it out everybody understood it[1]. In order to understand it, not everybody has to be able to reach the conclusion themselves. Why do planets seem to move backwards / stop and turn around? 30 Seconds of video will explain it to the layman, enough so that he is satisfied with the answer and actually gets it.

Education may progress particularly slowly, but eventually we will reach a completely different form of education and will have incredibly clever ways of getting information across. Academia does not have to primarily entertain, but it should also be able to quickly get the point across, we will get there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72FrZz_zJFU
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That assumes a phone-home feature that cannot be turned off.
what if they were getting the energy from this star system and "beaming" it somehow somewhere else? you would not get any IR from that because it would not be used in this system at all
I don't think this is one of those cases though. See Terry Tao's take on a similar problem about when to tie your shoelace: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/an-airport-inspire...
This isn't reddit. You can't post out of context EEE FUD here.
Cool thanks! I'm trying to figure out what blockers are so we can prioritize things; a lot of these are very reasonable, but not immediately actionable things for me. Sounds good. :)
"They should be terminated."

If only the governator were still running things.
One would assume that all mobile cell towers would be a priority target. Given that they are not I think it's safe to assume that it's a goldmine for the intelligence services.

Just imagine all the side channels they have access to if they get access to the cell network. Doesn't really matter if messages are encrypted on the wire if all phones in a certain area is backdoored through a trusted network.

It's not hard to locate a cell tower from a safe distance.
I wouldn't conclude that. There's a reason why everything on a posting was put there. There's not necessarily a reason why they would leave certain things off.
during the last years, master wasn't building a couple of times, it usually got fixed in a couple of minutes.
You could calculate price per (RAM, CPU, disk) metric separately, at least.
Here's an interesting historical fact I have dug up in some research for an essay I am writing about the relationship between liberty and security: That famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” does not mean what it seems to say. Not at all.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said

And maybe it doesn't matter so much what Franklin was actually trying to say because the quotation means so much to us in terms of the tension between government power and individual liberties. But I do think it is worth remembering what he was actually trying to say because the actual context is much more sensitive to the problems of real governance than the flip quotation's use is, often.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
Do any of them say it must be re-radiated omni-directionally as infra-red light?
I don't disagree that if you still have the bug you shouldn't go chase it. but your not using logic. investing in 1 company is way riskier than investing in 100. if your wrong once your screwed if its your own company. If your wrong 99 times investing in 100 companies you can still make out(power law)
This is disconcerting. I don't like the idea of biometric and other characteristic data being used to identify me, but at least with fingerprint sensors, retina scanners and other such devices I am aware what is happening and give consent each time. This system proposes to silently identify me by the way I type, click or use a device, constantly learning and improving. No doubt the processed data, like a signature, will reside in the cloud and eventually be used identify users on any device they happen to be using. Convenience above all else, yet again.
Not sure why this is a controversial statement.

Walmart is often critized for hurting local jobs - replacing successful independant business owners with lower-paid employee jobs.
If this is true, Walmart leaving an area should be (at worst) job-neutral.
I thought they can chat in Arabic and western intelligence agencies will have no clue what is going on.

There is very very little knowledge of Arabic language (with slang and such) in western intelligence agencies. As far as I now, there is less than 2,500 Americans are studying Arabic at colleges across the country right now. And 80% of them will be kicked out from country by "Trumps" as terrorists :-)
I walked up and down those many times as a student at the LSE. It would've driven me mad if I'd had to stand; very, very few things annoy me as much as being stuck behind people (or traffic) moving unnecessarily slowly.

While obviously not everyone will be able to walk, we should be encouraging more people to do so and certainly not slowing down those who are able and willing just to make more room for the lazy. I find it hard to imagine that the percentage of people who are physically incapable rather than just unwilling to climb an escalator is large enough to cause meaningful congestion.
This is Nadim (someone just pointed this link out.) Please don't upvote this. I'm not appreciating the attention, not looking for drama. Just needed to set the record straight on something that's been bothering me for months, especially given that Peerio was issuing statements with my not being allowed to respond due to lawsuit threats. This is not something I want to become a big story, it was a necessary statement I had to make to put Peerio behind me and move on with my side of the story fully expressed. Thanks.
That is simply wrong. The US housing bubble, while experiencing fraud at the margins, was neither a cause nor an effect of fraud. The bulk was really due to too much money chasing too few assets, and a bunch of foolish decisions made in good faith by both borrowers and lenders.

The idea that fraud lead a US housing bubble to cause a real estate bubble in the UK and Spain, and a banking crisis in Iceland and Ireland is just not correct.
Please don't.

Edit: off-topic UI question—my comment was a reply to a comment that its author subsequently deleted. Is that unclear to the reader?

I've noticed that replies to comments marked [flagged] or [deleted] seem to get downvoted more, and am wondering if that's because it isn't obvious that there was a parent comment and it's no longer there.

Edit 2: Thanks for all the replies. It's clearly a problem and I've put it on our list to fix.