skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snark about 'actual statistical evidence' notwithstanding, people losing their jobs is entirely compatible with an increase in the number of available jobs because, unsurprisingly, not all jobs are fungible.
Never Mind Oil, Iran’s About to Shake the World Pistachio Market
So they do reference checking...huh...that would mean Google News doesn't strip out the ref like their search engine does
Couldn't planning in big work sessions but making sure to use something like the Pomodoro technique achieve the same "Background processing", only it will happen during breaks?
First archive entry is from 1999, but it seems to have been continuously updated since.
Picture element support, yay! One less browser to polyfill for.
Read it in Russian, if possible.
The current situation reminds me a lot of the time when Firefox replaced Internet Explorer as the most popular browser. And of the time when Chrome replaced Firefox as the most popular browser.

Currently there is only one Bitcoin implementation. And the developers a) refuse to implement what users want. And b) implement bloat that users dont't want.

So Bitcoin will "break up" in a similar way the WWW "broke up" when new browsers were introduced.

It's a good thing.
Linking and Transloading
Second part of the talk is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FXy3cT5C8
I'm going to try and stay polite, but as someone who's has had family members die from dementia, you are an idiot.

Your mind failing you slowly over time so that you are aware for periods it is happening slowly with each one becoming more and more infrequent, going in to see a relative who was one of the wisest strongest people you knew now wetting themselves and crying because they are frightened because they don't know where they are or who they are or how they got there.

There is no hubris in wanting to go out of life on your own terms with your mind intact.
Personality Switch
1. In a virtual environment the computer knows about all the objects in the scene. It's a whole other level to have the computer interpret the world through light alone.

2. If you meant that it learnt to play 2d games through watching pixels, it still didn't interpret any meaning, and it's still a huge leap to go to interpreting the real world.

3. The real world is noisy. You don't see it because the brain handles all that part for you, but even something like different lighting or a smoke cloud can throw a computer off completely.
There's a crucial bit of ambiguity there- when they say "on-target," do they mean that the rocket is now sitting on the barge with a broken leg, or did it bounce off and explode like on the previous attempts?
If they are wise, that is literally what they will do. It won't undo the fork, though, the fork is really in the blockchain (as he's using the term fork) rather than in the source code.

For some period of time there will be two versions of bitcoin running on the machines that mine, and it will take some time for them to switch over-- but since Classic is doing the switch with major support now, the transition should be smooth.

Bitcoin the protocol can and is run by a wide variety of software... the blockchain is a consensus agreement of that software. Basically its an agreement on protocol based on the rules in the software.

For most of its history, that software has been based on Bitcoin Core. That may change in the future to Bitcoin Classic, or both may be running at the same time with different variances, but supporting effectively the same protocol.

Nobody wants %50 of the network to be running software incompatible with the other %50.
kinda sad that a web app for managing security failures has XSS directly via the UI (you can just copy/paste HTML into it).

I'd be extremely hesitant to put sensitive information into an application that lacks even a basic understanding of how to secure itself.

https://github.com/certsocietegenerale/FIR/issues/50
Economic force has always been part of the informal toolkit of imperial states and their corporate allies (just ask Iran or Cuba). Now the TPP is formalizing that practice. It remains to be seen whether or not this formal arrangement is sufficient to dissuade the informal ones or if actors such as the US decide to do an end-run-around the agreement any time it disfavours their interests.
It could indicate that, but the satellite connection that far out at sea is pretty flaky. A standard landing — with engine exhaust could also have cut the feed. Hell, even the pitching of the ocean could be enough to break the satellite connection.

I think we'll have to wait and see to know more.
Then it seems to make even less sense, no?
David Deutsch on why it is so hard to create general AI (2012)
I found this article to be fascinating. It reminds me of a few other rare disease stories, like those of Matt Might's [1, 2].

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/one-of-a-kind-

[2] http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/
Download it using youtube-dl and copy it to your phone using ssh. Should be trivially automatable.
"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."

As a 40+ parent, I savor the time with my children, parents and friends and I prune the bullshit in work down to minimum.

The big problem: How do you choose what matters if nothing matters on the grand scale?

Life is so short that at 40+ you realize you will never get to do even 0.1% of your bucket list. So which rock do you push uphill?

In other words at 20-30 you can be adventurous and make mistakes. At 40+ you have promises to keep and miles to go before you sleep.
Abstract:

In UNIX terminal sessions, you usually have a key like C-c (Control-C) to immediately end whatever program you have running in the foreground. This should work even when the program you called has called other programs in turn. Everything should be aborted, giving you your command prompt back, no matter how deep the call stack is.

Basically, it’s trivial. But the existence of interactive applications that use SIGINT and/or SIGQUIT for other purposes than a complete immediate abort make matters complicated, and – as was to expect – left us with several ways to solve the problems. Of course, existing shells and applications follow different ways.

This web page outlines different ways to solve the problem and argues that only one of them can do everything right, although it means that we have to fix some existing software.
I'm fine with relying on other people because I do it for every other part of life already. I don't grow my own food, I don't produce my own medical supplies, I don't build my own wifi devices and I don't pave my own roads. No one engaged in modern western-civilization does; we all rely on everyone around us all the time to live and do things.

Cloud backup services, VPSes, photo-hosting sites, Twitter, whatever, they're the exact same thing. If something about these services isn't fair or just, the answer is to find an alternative, inform our friends and neighbors, work to change laws, etc., whatever, not just try and do it all ourselves in some pointless attempt at individualism.

If cost and time were no object, I'd pay someone else to manage every single bit of my infrastructure, and task them with the responsibility for making sure it kept working. I wouldn't ask how, it'd be their job, the thing I'm paying them for.

(If I had any knowing of the details, I probably wouldn't want them to build a server and buy colo space, though, because of the resource consumption that would imply. All that electricity for redundant server hardware to endure disk crashes and so on? What a waste!)
It doesn't sound like he's advocating that everyone run their own server. He said that if you require your data be available all the time, then you should run your own server; otherwise, you should keep your data on your computer.

That being said, I don't see a problem storing data on someone else's computer as long as that data is encrypted and I alone have the ability to decrypt it. Trusting someone to encrypt your data for you when you give them your data is essentially the same thing as giving them access to the unencrypted data.
The video feed from the drone ship is via satellite. You need a gyro system to keep the dish pointed at your satellite. These systems often can't keep up in rough seas.
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After watching the Florida landing a number of times, and taking into account that this maneuver is made more difficult by the fact that at its lowest thrust setting just one engine has more thrust than the booster weighs, trying to reach 0,0 velocity at a point and time, where the point is moving (the platform is rising and sinking in the swells) is likely not possible.

As I understand it, deep sea oil drilling platforms provide stability by using a very large "keel" under the platform with air pumps to keep the overall displacement relatively constant so that the platform's position relative to the drill is maintained (the drill being in the sea bed). The SeaLaunch vehicle that Boeing built has similar sorts of compensation strategies.

And that is a problem in that if you have to recover to land, you limit the missions where you can recover and that will impact the bonus of recoverable stages.

One wonders if there is some way to adapt a technique the Navy uses for landing helicopters in rough seas, where the helicopter "hooks" the deck and then applies a net positive collective to hold that line under tension, then the line is winched in bringing the helicopter down to the deck. Meanwhile the helicopter has matched the pitching of the deck because it is pulling against the tether at that point. A very complex system and I cannot fathom the challenge of building something like that on an autonomous landing barge.
By analogy, the US 4th amendment protects against "unreasonable search and seizure", yet in reality non-criminals are having billions of dollars' worth of money and property seized by the government. Why, because of a literal and technical interpretation of the letter of the law: ( "The rights of the people" vs "we're not prosecuting the people, we're prosecuting the assets, see, no law violated ! " ).

So what's going to happen is, laws that protect people from leaded drinking water are going to be annulled because they aren't "consistent with the provisions of the Chapter".

TPP is really simple: it protects corporations at all costs. Dont make this into some complex legal production.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
1, No, that's not how Deep mind works. The games are unsupervised and the computer knows nothing about the game.

2. Not at all. Haven't you seen the videos of computers walking around recognizing things? This is already here.

3. The real world is noisy, yes, but a factory is not. It will have a limited set of components to be recognized.
Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser among users worldwide. Chrome is the most popular browser among certain techies. Chrome is also popular among users tricked into installing it via forced bundleware with Java updates, free antivirus engine updates, and (ironically) Flash plugin downloads for Firefox.
Maybe http://cr.middlebury.edu/bulgakov/public_html/howto.html

(I could have sworn I had submitted it a few days ago, but it seems not)
> You payed by cash or check

You can still do this using a debit card. I'm not 100% sure how your credit is affected if you never get a credit card though. I know there are other ways to build up credit. Also, credit cards make products more expensive, there's probably a transaction fee for debit cards too.

> There were no ATM's. To get cash out of your account, you went to a bank teller, and there was no fee.

But you could only get money out of your own bank? You can now get an account at many banks/credit unions that waive atm transaction fees.

> Only rich people had credit cards. If you had debts, a credit card was harder to get.

100% agree that we need to bring this back. If you don't have good credit, 760+ you shouldn't be allowed to have a credit card with high interest rates.

> Nobody went into debt for college. You either saved money in advance or worked your way through.

Why is college so much more expensive now? Even online/"low cost" programs.

> There was no pizza delivery. Even supermarkets had much less pre-made food, so people had to at least try to cook.

Really, no pizza delivery?! Well I guess with oil shortages that's believable.

> The work week was five hours shorter. You can still see this in the old phrase "nine to five." People actually did work nine to five, with a paid hour for lunch.

There are many people who work multiple jobs to make ends meet and the vast majority aren't doing what they want.

> Tapping a phone was difficult, both technically and legally, and you could safely assume your phone calls and letters were private.

:(

> Everybody was afraid of "crime" (illegal acts by people of lower social class) and "terrorism" (political violence outside a state monopoly).

Yup, more of that now even though we're safer now than at any other time in history.

> Doomsayers were worried about something they called the "greenhouse effect". They said if we didn't reduce our carbon emissions soon, the world would heat up and we would have ecological disasters.

Not just doomsayers, but looks like oil companies knew about it too but decided to keep it hidden.

> There was an oil shortage, and people responded by driving less, in more fuel-efficient cars.

I saw the first Hummer H2 I'd seen in years a few weeks ago costco pump in the bay area when oil prices were ~$2.15/gallon. It all boils down to economics.
You might look at youtube red, which is included with the google music streaming service. Will let you download videos to your mobile device for offline viewing. Combined with your youtube "to watch" list, it works pretty well. Unfortunately doesn't support an "add on desktop -> auto download mobile" workflow.
Real computers are finite precision. There are very real issues with numerical stability where you are running along fine for many many cases, and then there is a catastrophic cancellation that wipes out all of your accuracy. There is a huge difference between writing a paper on bounds of matrix multiplication, and delivering performance in a finite precision world.
Narrator's law of headlines is : one should prepend "We would like you to believe that" to any headline that ends in a question mark.
You could vent the LOX. "Venting" the kerosene would just mean dumping it all over the deck. That doesn't seem like an awesome option...

My guess is there was 'plenty' of propellant left (to use a technical term for quantity...). The rocket could have flown back to the launch site, but they weren't able to get environmental clearance. While they may have adjusted the trajectory to take advantage of the downrange landing (letting the first stage burn longer), they wouldn't have had any reason to skimp on the propellant left over for landing, so I'm sure there was a healthy margin left in the tanks. More than enough for an impressive fireball.
This was previously submitted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919666) but with a very non-descriptive headline: "Creative Blocks", which is just the name of the column the essay was published in. So I've deliberately subverted the dup detecter in order to re-submit this piece with a more descriptive headline.

It's really worth reading.
So you believe that whoever was upset with the blocksize/management changes that would have been introduced in XT has been placated by this more inclusive effort? And that this actor will not attempt to sabotage the rollout of Classic as they did with XT?
Stropping (syntax)
First, Brad DeLong is an economist, not a lawyer.

Second, the site you're pointing to alludes to concerns about the newness and untested nature of the settlement process in TPP, but contains none of the sovereignty arguments that thread is concerned with.

Third, the site you've linked to only alludes to those concerns, which he must have written about elsewhere. It does not "focus heavily on the dispute resolution process".

Brad DeLong has a lot of negative stuff to say about TPP (he's a longtime opponent of rent extraction through intellectual property; it's one of the "beats" on his blog at NBER, and if unifying Asia and the Pacific Rim in a trade agreement against China is the #1 goal of TPP, harmonizing global IP laws with those of the US is the #2 goal), and I find a lot of what he says persuasive.

But I'm not commenting here in defense of TPP. I am happy to substitute DeLong's opinions on the economic impact of TPP for my own.

But the annotation FFTF wrote on TPP is misleading and wrong, like much of what FFTF writes.
I think that Instapaper (https://www.instapaper.com/) can handle videos, although I haven't tried it out much myself.
The WWW's fundamental job is not to establish consensus. It is to communicate information. Incompatible changes to the web and incompatible changes to the bitcoin protocol have very different significance.
Yeah that thing seems way overpriced, or at least far too high-spec for most applications. Quadcopter flight control boards containing gyros and accelerometers can be had for less than $20, and those do just fine.
Simple steps to ease your programming life in an extreme way
We did have video tape recorders, though. Setting up and running them for classes was part of my college work-study job around 1971-72. The units I operated were made by Ampex and were about the size of a suitcase. They used a wide tape which had to be threaded onto the take-up reel, similar to an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. The tape head had to be cleaned with alcohol between each use, and there was a tracking control which you often adjusted to avoid getting a stripe across the picture.
The training is most certainly supervised. The fact that people commonly draw a distinction between standard supervised learning and reinforcement learning isn't really relevant here (the distinction between a single datum and a sequence of observations), because the fact is the label is the score. If you read their DQN algorithm (or try to code an implementation, or look at any reinforcement learning algorithm, really) you would see that.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf: In Algorithm 1, see variables r and y_j.

Addendum: My broader implication is that if you misunderstand such a basic aspect of machine learning (and reinforcement learning), it makes me question whether we should lend credibility to your predictions about the field.

Edited to address reply.
All laws and treaties are forms of persuasion. They exist only to regulate people's behaviour. They are prescriptive, not descriptive. That qualifies them as rhetoric.
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My guess: Hit the target, leg broke, rocket tipped over, then exploded.

Especially when empty, the main structure is very fragile - having the side hit the barge would almost certainly rupture it, resulting in a boom.
>>The population in Britain was 58.95 million in 2000 and is currently 64.04 million.[1] In the same time house prices have risen by an average of 153%.[2] It's reasonable to subtract baseline inflation from that at 55%[3], in which you STILL end up with a 98% increase. And I'm not ignoring the silliness in London; nearly every region of the UK has seen near-doublings of house prices since 2000, with a population increase of about five percent.

>Simple supply and demand dynamics are not at work here.

Price curves aren't linear. If you have a market with inelastic demand, small shortages can produce huge price increases.
Just like IE is popular among users tricked into installing it via forced bundleware with Windows?
Oh, my personal favorite! Didn't expect to see it on HN.
You're saying a tree of FSM states is more difficult to convey than linearized coroutine code, with emphasis on informal programmers/designers?

You may want to take a look at visual FSM solutions, which do what you specify and more, easily.

You're not even wrong.

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/animati..., for an example in an Animation program
The article doesn't say much. Google has two humanoid robotics companies, Boston Dynamics (near Boston) and Schaft (near Tokyo). Schaft has better actuators and Boston Dynamics has better control. There's no indication that Alphabet has been able to integrate the technologies. That was the whole point of acquiring ten robotics companies. But if they can't be brought together, the acquisitions were pointless. None of the companies have significant revenue or sales, so running them as a conglomerate doesn't do anything.

Alphabet is so secretive that no one can tell from the outside if they're doing something great or getting nowhere. Boston Dynamics stopped updating their web site after the Google acquisition. Schaft has no visible web presence at all.
Raibert, Boston Dynamics' CEO, is 67, time to retire. Who replaces him?
Does even radical life extension technology "fix" this? If I live a year longer or until the heat-death of the universe, I still face the same existential questions... and I'll still feel like it flew by and wonder where it all went.

I existed. Compared to that fact, the duration is nearly meaningless.
It's the argument in this thread that doesn't make sense. In technical language, there are reasons other than persuasiveness and eloquence for the selection of specific words; in fact, those other reasons usually control.

It's the difference between the (rhetorical) Declaration of Independence and its "unalienable rights" and the (technical) Constitution.

This argument in this thread is trying to extrapolate an emotional argument from the selection of words in a technical document.
Why is this #4?
In what way is anybody ever ‘surprised’ by a horror movie's relatable narrative (as opposed to those entirely circumstantial moments that “make you jump” and that — significantly — you cannot really express)?
I suspected as much. So, what are you reading these days?
Detachable cabin could save lives during plane crashes
"the little fact that people usually miss is that repeat accuracy is a very important factor in reducing part and product failure so betting on robots means that you get a much more reliable and consistent product out the door saving you a fortune in re-work and warranty claims"

That is a very good point, the other factor is that robots can collect massive amounts of data faster and more accurately than their human counter parts.
"Why is college so much more expensive now?" there's only a bazillion posts on HN about this, look up student loan threads.
Russian state TV did a 9 hour long miniseries about it in the mid 2000s that was really good. It had good acting, special effects and production value and they included almost every single scene in the book. Some people complain that some of the subtitles are inadequate, so I recommend reading the book first.