skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a question of what the AI is doing - makes more sense with an FPS:

1. The AI is a program running on the computer, so the input is the state of the game. This is basically just an aimbot, and would be trivial to do - just make it wander around randomly and headshot everything instantly.

2. The AI is looking at the screen like a human player, and has to parse the screen data (we could even let them have direct pixel input, not a camera). This would be much harder.

For a turn-based game like Go or Chess, the distinction is vague because the CV required to parse a board is fairly trivial and orthogonal to the problem of strategy.
Then maybe those platforms will finally implement it. In any case, there's an alternative: putting Cloudflare in front of the site. In fact, Google shows me a guide to do so when I search for "squarespace ssl".

Of course, that's hardly as secure as end-to-end HTTPS, but still, I trust the path between CF and SquareSpace much more than between the user's browser and SquareSpace.
I don't think you picked up on Jeff's snark. I read it as "the key to successfully getting funding is to be charismatic" and "successfully getting funding" is currently synonymous with the sentiment that you would be "changing the world".
To clarify, it's 10 days to submit a plan of correction. Problems often take longer than that to correct.
I think WSJ got to play the role where they finally pull the trigger on this company, to help it move along to its demise.
Sometimes you hope the management and the board get the message and unwind things when the reality shows you that that particular game is done. And if they don't, then somebody has to come along and provide the kick.

Theranos is done, for all intents and purposes: no proven new technology and nothing interesting at all on the business execution side. Just pure founder ambition and aggressive PR/marketing. Not enough to string things along too much.
Does TIME factor into the cost saving here, both to research and to go so far out of the way? Seems like the savings might not actually be saved, but spent as time, many times over.
It'd be nice to call it a stellar system for consistency, but that already means a group of interacting stars. Planetary system or exoplanetary system seems to be the right term to use.
Hmm, that doesn't make any sense to me.

You were very vague about what this "care" work is. For child care, as in your own children, somebody has to do it. It shouldn't be assumed to be women but it makes no sense for this to be a paid thing.

If you mean something like elder care, for example, and you don't feel it's worth doing it for free, then just don't do it. I don't know why you feel (or you feel anyone else) would be expected to do this work

With a basic income, if you think elder care is important and/or something you want to do, you can afford to do it for free. Because you have a basic income. If you want more than a basic income you have to do something that people want to pay for. But you have the freedom to walk away from any job without fear of homelessness and poverty.

Your worries about permanent slavery seem to have very little to do with basic income. In fact, the main reason for basic income is to free people from the wage slavery we have now. People are stuck in barely livable wages because they don't have the time away from work to get into a better paying career.
> An example: a 2 hour train journey from London to Manchester (approx 200 miles/321 km) one-way booked for a peak-time slot a week in advance can cost as much as £166 (approx €217 / $235), which is frankly ludicrous.

If you want a return then it's double, too, unlike many journeys where the return adds 10p to the cost. If there are two of you, it's actually cheaper to get a taxi (quotes from £250-300 each way).

However, one thing to point out is that the £166 price is not an advance fare, that's the anytime ticket. You may have reserved a seat on a particular train but you can travel on any of them (outward journeys on the same day only). Off-peak advance fares go down to about £25 each way.
The whole business model of journalism seems broken. I'd love to see a crowd-funded journalism portal that takes the 'patreon' model and extends it to a stable of well-trained independent journalists and provides them with an overall support structure of editorial oversight, illustration & layout support, etc, etc.

In place of advertisement, the portal could run their own messaging to fund various initiatives (raise x amount in order to bring on a tech reporter for x number of articles a year, etc, etc). Users could choose to fund specific reporters at x amount per month, or just donate directly to the portal for day-to-day operational expenses.
Engh. What I'd say really killed Java Applets was that Sun disliked Microsoft giving developers Win32 API access in their JVM (due to fears that people could then theoretically create non-portable "Java" programs) enough to sue them to prevent them from using the technology going forward, leaving the at-the-time most widely-deployed browser, Internet Explorer, forever stuck with a broken stack that was only compatible with the rapidly-limiting Java 1.1 unless the user went out of their way to install what I remember being a little-known and rather finicky package from Sun. In the mean time, Flash stepped in with a runtime that was equally supported on every then-major browser, which had a great IDE, and which was maybe even less complex to install (but certainly no more complex).
ONE GIRL DOES IT ALL
I only randomly picked a CFR to look up. This is totally a big deal! It just isn't the definitive 'none of these tests work' that many people have been expecting.
I mean, talking your own book is a thing. Did anybody really think that the money hovering over Silicon Valley wouldn't do this? I am put in mind of the parable of the scorpion and the frog.
There is that: http://beaconreader.com

caveat: i'm one of the founders.
I have a Dragonboard that I haven't really had a chance to do anything with yet. However I've noticed two main drawbacks:

1. You have to use some awful hacks if you want to ssh into it (IIRC it ignores ARP requests for some reason)
2. The GPS only works on Android

That said it's still a nice upgrade hardware-wise from something like a Raspberry Pi. The software support is just spotty in a few areas
"I guarantee most of the people burning fuel, creating congestion and stopping themselves (and everyone else) from getting home to their families on time have jobs that could easily be done from home."

Bandwidth.

No NBN and what you have is copper by default, maybe cable then a sat connection. This is the price paid for poor leadership. NBN should be thought of as the rail of the 21st century. Instead we get a few main lines, some branch lines, everyone else gets donkey carts. [0]

[0] Aus, Melbourne perspective.
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I've managed to get Let's Encrypt working on a shared hosting environment using letsencrypt-nosudo in less than half an hour from the time I started cloning the repo to finally pasting the cert into cPanel. And every step in that process except the final one of installing the cert using cPanel can be automated.
So, the reason we do this is because that's the real audience for imaging.

If you catalog all photos taken, they are mostly going to be of people. And, in particular, attractive photos of women - you won't see men take selfies as much as women do.

This should be your common use case in your software development. Optimize your software for that primary use case first, and then you can worry about other use cases like landscapes or men.
Minimalistic .NET imaging portable platform
Thank you for asking.

It operates on the assumption that because I am not wealthy yet, I am an incompetent dolt who has no hope of becoming wealthy. Giving me a basic income is highly likely to close doors, not open them.

Getting rich from your own efforts is extremely challenging, but the process changes who you are. You learn something important and you forge important ties along the way. Wealth grows out of power. Power does not grow out of wealth. Giving people money instead of a means to earn it is a means to erode their ability to access actual power. It is a means to disenfranchise people.

It may be done with good intentions, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I find it insulting. I was STAR student and a National Merit Scholarship winner in high school. I have mostly not been taken very seriously on Hacker News. I have mostly been treated dismissively. Giving me a basic income is much, much more likely to entrench the barriers I experience to trying to resolve my problems and figure out how to earn my own.

When I was homemaker, I never figured out how to make money online. I also couldn't figure it out while working for a Fortune 500 company. I didn't figure it out until I became homeless.

When people are still able to eat in spite of the fact that what they are doing doesn't work, they tend to not bother to do the very hard work involved in changing. They tend to not want to make the uncomfortable choices.

You are talking about the principle of "boiling a frog slowly" and applying it to all of society. To me, it looks like a doomsday scenario.
me too, but there's an X in the top right
Not only that, but encrypted content from an unverified source is fucking sin for every browser out there, while unencrypted content from an unverified source is fine.

Go figure.
The distinction is not a bright-line, and is not settled consensus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf
Antibiotics were first discovered around WW2. Use of antibiotics was rampant in early years (it's come down since then, but is still excessive).

Why do we see a rise in obesity only in the last 20-30 years?
Are there hardware requirements for encryption? And, if there are, who are these people building web sites on hardware older than 2005?
Keeping it real, nigga :)
This reminds me something I've read long time ago about the Heroes of Might and Magic game. At some point the AI was so good, it wasn't fun to play, and it had to be dumbed down.
And magnetic anomalies, apparently, if they're migratory, via polarisation of uv iirc.
SuperMicro still uses applets and Web Start to run their IPMI client. Surely there's a better way.
JavaScript, near if not at its inception, had native access to Java, and apparently at least quite good access in the other direction (though I don't have personal memory of this part). You could import packages and bridge seamlessly between the VMs using LiveConnect. The history of this is that Netscape and Sun were working closely together. That's why it got to be called JavaScript.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/LiveCon...
They are, however, paying their portion of the payroll taxes, disability, unemployment, etc. And perhaps softer benefits that still have costs, like paid time off.
I mean, not really.

https://twitter.com/williamalden/status/658705178523258880

Plenty of investors were straight up reaching for the conspiracy theory handbook. They did outright accuse the media of a smear campaign and suggested it was some greater corrupt conspiracy.

Silicon Valley has a very hard time accepting the possibility (nay, certainty) that there are some bad actors in our midst (even well-meaning bad actors). A very large portion of the scene seem to respond to accusation of malfeasance with hostility.

A certain amount of skepticism against claims of malfeasance, sure, but in Theranos' case there were a lot of comments not unlike Dave Morin's.
Wasn't she supposed to be God's own anointed founder CEO?

All kidding aside, wasn't there some other controversy or someone revealed something about Theranos not too long ago? I guess I was right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984035
If you're having your wisdom teeth out like most surgery it's prudent to get a second opinion. Also I'd strongly advise local anesthesia. IMO general anesthesia should be avoided whenever possible. I'm not a medical person but I've seen too many people who had bad side effects from general anesthesia and some who were never the same again.
The argument, as I've heard it, is that everyone goes to Google to find things, thus the "view" of the world is filtered by Google. If they like you, you are very visible to the world, if they don't, then you are not. So to some their very existence depends on Google returning a way to communicate with them in response to the appropriate question.

That said, while it makes it very important to an olive oil producer that they can be "found" it is less important to you and I that we find that exact olive oil producer in response to the question about where we could acquire olive oil. So Google is asymmetrically important.
If they could just wait until cPanel has LetsEncrypt support that would be great...
I've watched carefully all the Snowden interviews and available tape. While I may not agree with him on everything, I believe that the core message being discussed is important. I don't believe one way or another this means FSF, LibrePlanet attendees or GNU programmers in general all agree specifically with Snowden or his tactics. Some may, some may not. But all agree that the issues of lost freedom, privacy invasion and government overreach are critical to discuss and collaboratively find solutions for.
I know I'm at risk of sounding tremendously disparaging but, how critical is it to actually go to college to get a liberal arts education?

Can most of these aspects of a "more well-rounded education" not come from reading, travelling and extra-curricular activities (like music lessons and trips to the theatre)?
Thank you for your reply. Library is a new writing/publishing platform with a social structure built around the content to enhance the readers and writers experience. There are a lot of great and creative writers out there but it's hard for them to have their work seen/read if they don't have a strong social following and readers can't discover these great amateur writers if they don't know where to find them. That is why I thought of Library. Medium is attempting in going in the social networking direction but it's not there yet. I think that's where I can come in with Library. The app is based around the Library theme. I want to give users the illusion that they are attending a library as they would in person. So every user will have a library (aka profile) a real looking library card with the barcode and library number (aka about me section, bookcase (aka all of the content you have written) members who become members of your library (aka followers), memberships of the different library's you're interested in (aka following), and "checking out" content to read at a later time. Then there's a most checked out section to give writers an incentive to write more quality work. So as you can see all this is kind of what you see and experience in going to a library in person.

As far as the landing page as to why you should sign up I'm trying to use an "exclusivity" tactic in hopes to make it go viral which is why I stated you need a library card to attend the grand opening of library and that there are only 500 library cards to give out but will be guaranteed a library card if cards run out by inviting 3 friends.
Would it be possible for a company to issue profit earning shares to every US citizen? Right now, that would be on the order of $100 a person per year for the most profitable US companies but it is an interesting possible vehicle for a company to push for basic income.
I'm not convinced we need a monolithic, standard front-end web framework. If there is a framework, it should just be a collection of libraries, and integrations between those libraries. The libraries should be useful by themselves. If you want to integrate a non supported library(may God be with you), you should be able to write your own simple adapter.

What I don't like is a when a library sneaks it's way into all of my code. The rest of my application shouldn't care what technology I am using for my views. I should be able to swap between the DOM API, jQuery, React, mustache, etc without having to write a single line of code outside of my views.
I had a one-on-one once where a manager reassured me that although my vesting schedule was almost up, it would be replenished soon with new options. I thanked him for his concern but told him I viewed them as "monopoly money" (exact words), so I could take or leave them.

There was eventually an acquisition, and I made a nice sum, but I never planned on them being worth anything. It was my first startup; how are so many convinced that these things are some sort of golden ticket? Where does that narrative come from?
Plesk built a Let's Encrypt extension:
https://devblog.plesk.com/2015/12/lets-encrypt-plesk/
I know I'm at risk of sounding tremendously disparaging but, how critical is it to actually go to college to get a liberal arts education?
Can most of these aspects of a "more well-rounded education" not come from reading, travelling and extra-curricular activities (like music lessons and trips to the theatre)?
"As a dad" is the reason many men choose to work at the office... ;-)
Thanks, edited.
One concern is that, especially during the transition, job descriptions requiring "4-year college degree" would become a de-facto (and legal) means of discriminating by class or social status, assuming that the rich would overwhelmingly continue to send their kids to college.
If you're a digital health entrepreneur and treating what's happening with Theranos as a wakeup call to do rigorous science, you could do worse than to work with the UCSF Center for Digital Health innovation:

http://centerfordigitalhealthinnovation.org/

I'm a machine learning engineer working with UCSF cardiology. I certainly don't know all the answers, but I'm happy to try to answer questions or direct people to the right place.
I'm always curious why the US has so many power outages and brownouts. Here in the Netherlands, and as far as I know (but I could be wrong) in most of western Europe as long as you don't live in a very rural area, we have an outage maybe once every five years.
Option 3 - this was a pure linkbait play for moneysavingexpert.com dreamed up in the marketing department for link acquisition/higher search rankings and PR from "trusted" media sites.
I looked up what those laws referred to are, and... this is very very serious and Theranos is unlikely to survive it.

The first two laws they are cited as having broken are about quality control standards. The next two laws they are cited as having broken are about qualifications that must be held by the laboratory director and technical supervisor. The last law they are cited as having broken is about qualifications that must be held by technicians. They have ten days to come into compliance, but in order to address these violations they will have to either hire new staff for key leadership and other positions, or pull their product from the market. They will do the latter.

This same company was previously forced to pull their "nanotainer" testing system from the market because when regulators sent them control samples, they fraudulently tested them on different equipment and with different procedures than they used with patient samples. I will be surprised if no criminal charges are brought against Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
There is a high social status associated with his job. If he were a janitor with the same wealth, I doubt he'd be rushing in to scrub toilets all day.
I say this as a developer who, if it were up to me, would just spend all day refactoring existing code and not implementing new features or fixing bugs.
This is correct as of last year, and probably this year, too, but I can't say that for sure. They could very well have made some good tweaks and upgrades to the hardware/software.

Last year, Thinkpad X200 laptops (using Libreboot and Trisquel) were used in the 3 session rooms. The cameras were by Elphel, also running free firmware. The laptops processed the video feed with some complicated gstreamer pipeline and sent the result off to the FSF's Icecast server. The stream could then be viewed in the video player of your choice (such as VLC) or directly in a web browser. A small JavaScript application on the LibrePlanet site let you quickly switch between the 3 rooms and used Icecast's XML API to retrieve some fun stats like how many people were currently watching the stream.

It would be nice if they could get beefier machines on site doing the a/v work which really taxes the X200 (the gstreamer processes get nice'd to give them higher priority and the fan is set to max via a kernel setting), but there simply aren't any better options for fully free computers right now that can be reasonably transported. Or maybe the FSF has found something that I don't know about. We'll see!
Guess you're right, fair enough. I still don't agree with putting a scarlet letter on these types of sites though.
Strange, this bullet point appears in the summary but doesn't appear anywhere else in the article:

Avoid assigning the result of an expression with side-effects to left-hand-side with optional chaining
The 1986 ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations
I'm guessing you're referring to the series of events consisting of (1) the original WSJ investigative report, (2) the Theranos rebuttal pointing out a missing piece of information in WSJ's report, and (3) WSJ coming back the very next day after the Theranos rebuttal with the very information they were called out on.

It was all very beautiful to observe. ;)
It would be helpful to know the circumstances the black bar is applied. In the FAQ, maybe?
I recently read the latest book of the same author on the same theme "The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life".

I highly recommend it if you don't mind the higher degree of technical content than your average popularizing science book
Extremely long discussion here about how women get expected to do a great deal of "caring" labor for free, by all of society, in every imaginable situation (the discussion is so long it may have trouble loading):
http://www.metafilter.com/151267/Wheres-My-Cut-On-Unpaid-Emo...

Annotated version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUtabEk...

I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class. I am a woman and 50 years old. This is a problem space I have studied for decades because of my own personal frustrations with the fact that people expect a great many things from me, those things improve their lives, and I am not supposed to want compensation for them. I don't know how to make that any more clear to you. I think a Basic Income will make this a more entrenched problem. It will not alleviate it. Men already are nigh impossible to talk to about this, even with measurable negative impacts on women's lives that we can point to.

The fact that you can't see it just makes me feel all the more strongly that your idea that Basic Income "pays" women (for basically being society's slaves) is just going to make things worse.
For sure... But was it civil negligence or criminal negligence? Civil negligence is exactly what I'm talking about, with the courts coming up with an adequate remedy to make the car owner whole.

In Canada, criminal negligence is defined as: "219 (1) Every one is criminally negligent who

(a) in doing anything, or

(b) in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do,

shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons."

It'd be a pretty hard sell here for him to meet that definition, but the common law/civil definition would certainly fit.
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