skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. You might appreciate some of my recent blog posts:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/ubi-we-tried...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-conversa...
The CMS example fits in with what the article is about, and really, what 99% of us will see on a day to day basis.
Who knew there was "science" involved in those things.

I mean apart from the technical expertise on freezing etc, the rest is mostly wishful thinking about how such a facility will survive long enough in tact (and the US wont itself go the way of the Assyrian, the Persian, the Roman, the British and other empires, in 1 or 2 centuries time), technical/medical resurrection will be possible, and future people will care to resurrect those in there.

Even if a great current mind was preserved there, if people of the future are, say 2x brighter than us (not to mention having access to advanced AI) it would make little sense want to resurrect them for that alone. And as for having access to 20th-21st century info, with our trillions of bytes of video, images, texts and sound recorded every day, they'll likely want LESS, not more information about our times.
Until it isn't. Once humans are handily beaten in both games, it's kinda hard to tell which game is harder (I guess you could compare the amount of computations needed to beat the top human player, but that does not let you distinguish if it's harder for computers or conversely easier for humans.)
Searle's Chinese Room experiment always bothered me because it feels like he is too tightly constraining "understanding".

Because an airplane doesn't flap it's wings to fly like a bird does, should we say it isn't really flying?
Here is a basic sub-piece, that I think is a cornerstone:

"Basic" (i.e. guaranteed, for non-esoteric treatments) health care.

My personal experience has profoundly introduced me to the principle that the rest of my well-being and performance is founded upon my health.

If basic income is too difficult or determined to be counter-productive, what about this?
It doesn't need to be a competition. The better computers get, the more we can use them for to do for us. If we can let computers do everything then that leaves us free to do anything. Besides, maybe they'll get really good at comforting our hurt psyche, like the machine intelligences in banks' culture novels.
> Any argument that goes "But if we switched genders, then it would be fine!" is completely missing the point that we are still living in a de-facto patriarchy, where objectification of men is not even an issue.

Is not an issue to who? Just because women face it more, does not mean that men do not face it. Winner does not take all, everyone just loses.
One of their special reports. Below are three direct links.

LEADER

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-b...

BUSINESS

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570837-nordic...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570834-nordic...

---

In this overview (right column; top) all articles from the report are listed, with links:

http://www.economist.com/printedition/2013-02-02
Much of the increase in admin staff and university spending has come from all of that free government aid money we keep giving them. If we make tuition "free" for everyone, then universities will get a bottomless pit of money to spend on useless things. They will be almost totally divorced from the incentive to keep costs low. Right now, universities don't compete for funds on the basis of the quality of education. They compete on a political basis to collect as much money from the government as they possibly can.

We didn't have a problem paying for college in the US until everyone decided that the government should help pay for it. Throwing more money at the problem won't fix it; in fact, it's been a huge part of the problem!
Tested it for about 30 seconds & found numerous bugs. Scrolling with my Apple Magic touchpad is very buggy. As I scroll up it zooms in 90% of the time, but randomly 10% of the time it reverses the zoom direction so scrolling up zooms out. When I click on the "zoom out" button on the bottom of the screen, the image zooms out but starts moving off the page, as if the width/height are changed but the left/top aren't updated. This does not appear to be production ready.
How is the graphics performance on Linux and Windows guest VMs?
>The times that BI has been tried have not had the outcome you describe

You'll need to make a citation for that claim.

>After that, if they want a nice car, a nicer house, they would have to work

In your second paragraph they only need to work in order to have nice things, in the next paragraph there is no work to be had, so basic income is needed to eat...

"The times that BI has been tried, people still work."

vs.

"You need a job to eat -- it's just a shame that there are no jobs anymore."

You're in open contradiction of yourself.

EDIT - To add, I think you misunderstood my analogy. It's not that the kids are suddenly lazy and don't want to work, it's that one more piece of candy isn't that inciting. You're going to have to break out another bag of candy before they're even paying attention to you.
For one IIRC it kills referer headers and so search engines/ad networks can't build out a graph of where a user was prior. Google OTOH sends the majority of the traffic and it's reach in ads allows it fill in the gaps better than any other network.
I didn't say there isn't a diminishing value of each dollar, but your comment seemed to imply that at a certain point, people will be "content" at a certain income level and not try to get more money.

Rich people are a counterpoint because there are people with incomes the size of a small country, and they are still striving for money. Given the diminishing utility of familiar pleasures, I think its likely that constantly reaching for "more" is the norm, rather than the exception.
Congrats! Lever is a joy and probably my favorite hiring tool I use at RealScout. Can't wait to see what is to come in the next few years.

(HackerRank integration would be awesome!)
SSH gets this right -- create a host key when the server is installed, and have the client check the key and only warn/error when it changes. Sure, this isn't super-secure for first time visitors to their banking website or whatever, but those websites can continue to use the current system.
Yes, it pretty much assumes shared housing.
Since Windows 8, Windows now ships with client Hyper-V. I imagine this is affecting sales as well.

Not to mention, slowing revenues on the server front means they can't subsidize the cheaper or even free client solutions anymore.
try veertu.com
I make sure not to talk about work when I'm at lunch.

I step away from my desk to eat lunch when I'm in the office to explicitly take a breather from work.
Isn't that what Let's Encrypt is aiming for? Install a package, which configures a cronjob for you?

https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/

Which could just even become a default but optional dependency of your distro's web server package, or part of your Docker container, or whatever.
Syndicalism? That'd produce the opposite extreme of what we have now, but at least it'd sorta be a poke in the eye for the exploitation of all the lower rung workers.
You are forgetting KOs and super-KOs, as well as newly created spaces from captures.
Joy, regret, etc. are emotions, not consciousness. Some humans don't ever feel shame, for example (some sociopaths?), yet they are conscious.
A good (and bad) thing about the nordics is that the countries are small. So, any successful nordic company will have a significant international presence. As such, one might perceive them as non-nordic (which is partly correct, of course).

This is the case with Unit and Zendesk, as well as many others.
I get in trouble with HN by suggesting that general intelligence is both real and important in life outcome, but I really can't help point out how, when we require a four-year degree for an HR director candidate, we're not really filtering for candidates with a particular body of knowledge, but filtering for candidates with the intellectual capacity to acquire one.

Any college replacement scheme is going to have to perform the same kind of filtering if it's going to be useful, and anything that performs this kind of filtering will be subject to exactly the same controversies the college system is subject to today. This outcome is because disparities in intelligence matter, and as long as we these differences exist and we need jobs with a certain cognitive threshold, we'll need something like college to indicate that certain candidates possess the needed traits.

It's important that it be very hard to lie about these qualifications, because anyone who could, would, due to the clear economic benefits of doing so. The only surefire way to determine whether someone has intellectual chops is to make him or her do something intellectual. That's what college is.
That's probably outside 18F's scope, as they are cost recoverable and must be hired by a federal agency. So getting that done would require convincing a federal agency to spend the money to hire 18F to build the platform. USDS could do it if it were a presidential priority, but while creating a one-time snapshot of that list would already be an incredibly huge task, actually keeping it updated would be very difficult just because of all the points of contact involved. Especially if it went down to the city council and school board level, which would certainly be useful to local communities, but really difficult to keep track of on a national level.

*I'm an 18F employee speaking in a personal capacity.
How Typing Saved My Life
Please read the article, this isn't about google the search engine, it's about google the browser vendor. Firefox nightly is doing the same already by default.

I'm always wondering if there's a correlation between the relevance of integrity for a site and the relevance of the site itself.
As a Norwegian I know I am supposed to say something nasty about Sweden, but hey Go Sweden! Good job! They earned it, they have gone through a long difficult time of some tough changes. Almost a generation of young Swedes have ended up working in Norway due to the difficult times in the past. But now with the oil price crash and Swedish tech sector so hot, it might look like things are going to go in reverse.

Anyway it is great to be able to show the world that high tax welfare states, like the Nordic ones can be just as innovative if not more than the free wheeling capitalist ones.

I think there is positive message here that says you can be nice to your people and still have a strong, innovative and growing economy.
Wasn't the margin in the 5th game b+1.5?
Good job guys. The SMB space desperately needs some new players.
Many modern web stacks fall into that trap. Huge amounts of complexity in order to satisfy buzzword compliance.
The counter that you made relies on transitions in the job market. That requires people learning new skills on large scales. But what if most people can't learn to do the new tasks as quickly as the top few can learn to automate them?
Neo4j is out of Malmö Sweden, but we also have offices in Stockholm, London, San Mateo and about a third of us work from home. We're always hiring.
Hopefully costs for certificates will come down to encourage it as well. Services like letsencrypt can help.
I tried doing that just now in Chrome, and immediately upon typing the interface with the I Feel Lucky button disappears and I start getting the usual results interface, with autocomplete.
A lot of people see problems in getting basic income funded. But is there is a simple solution :)

Generate the money, just print it!

Everyone on earth will get an equal quantity of money, every month.

Now this money can be used in two different ways.

1) Buy natural resources

2) Buy services

This distinction is important:

When somebody provides a service, like fixing your bike he gets money and can keep it.

When you buy a 'natural resource', like wood, corn or oil the money must be destroyed.

What I hope to accomplish this way is several things:

- Equal chances for everyone, everybody can buy the same amount of natural resources on earth.

- Destroying the money keeps the total money amount balanced. Natural resources are limited so a limited amount of money seems fair.

- The system makes adding value to the world profitable. You are stimulated to be creative and do something for someone else!

- Perhaps the total amount of money will increase. This is not bad perse, rich people will get less rich. But everyone always has enough money to live a good life.

This is the basic idea. How this should work in practice needs lots of work, but I'm really curious how you guys think about this!
> Seems like this should be "more time with your friends, less time with your colleagues"? Unless your friends happen to live near where you work and you can meet up easier afterwards. Very situational.

> but you shouldn't be having dinner with your colleagues anyways, since you shouldn't be at work at dinner time.

You've never become friends with any of your co-workers? I mean I've worked places where we've gone out for dinner on our own dime after work simply because we enjoy spending time with each other.
Japanese 9-dan pros and former Japanese cup holders who played against CrazyStone beat it less than 80% of the time [1], while AlphaGo's win rate against it is 80%, according to a comment below by inufu, an engineer at Google DeepMind.

If transivity applies then AlphaGo is likely stronger than the average of those former Japanese champions, including Norimoto Yoda, who is currently ranked at 187th (about 300 Elo rating below Lee Sedol and 300 above Fan Hui) [2].

There's a saying in Go circles that there is a substantial gap in playing style or intuition between pros and even top-level amateurs. Whether that is true or not, AlphaGo has definitely crossed the threshold to pro-level play in Go.

By March 2016, Google DeepMind would have improved AlphaGo somewhat at least through self-playing and perhaps more processing power.

The game with Lee Sedol will be an interesting one to watch!

[1] http://www.computer-go.info/h-c/
[2] http://www.goratings.org/
Directly from your link:

"Note:
The programming models of the two component systems (web components vs. react components) differ in that web components often expose an imperative API (for instance, a video web component might expose play() and pause() functions). To the extent that web components are declarative functions of their attributes, they should work, but to access the imperative APIs of a web component, you will need to attach a ref to the component and interact with the DOM node directly. If you are using third-party web components, the recommended solution is to write a React component that behaves as a wrapper for your web component.
At this time, events emitted by a web component may not properly propagate through a React render tree. You will need to manually attach event handlers to handle these events within your React components."

It's worse than that, though. Web components that maintain their own state can be randomly squashed by React's virtual-DOM diffing algorithm because of the way elements are held in memory. They are just not compatible, and the React Core team has made no apologies about not agreeing with the overall concept of Web Components.
So what about the overhead of https?
> By reversing that, you could make negative income tax payments year-round rather than at tax return time.

Withholding adjustments would help those in low-paying jobs, part time workers, etc. But how does it address temporary or long-term joblessness without requiring individuals to self-fund until refund time?

> A negative income tax is basically equivalent to a basic income funded with a progressive income tax.

I disagree. The funding structure is substantially similar -- some people pay more in taxes than they receive. However, by only distributing the payments to a subset of the population, there is a social stigma associated with receiving benefits. With a universal payment, there is no stigma.

Consider food stamps. The funding structure is set up so some people pay more in taxes than they get from food stamps, and some pay less. But because only some people receive food stamps, there is a stigma associated with them. By contrast, consider the Alaska dividend, which is given equally to every citizen, regardless of income. There is no stigma associated with receiving or using an Alaska dividend. It isn't seen as welfare, but as a right.
To risk getting sidetracked, what browser doesn't have zoom controls in the main menu? I just checked the default layouts of all of them and other than IE's cryptic "Tools" menu shaped as a gear, I wouldn't call the zoom feature hidden. Perhaps the problem was he was looking for the icon of a magnifying glass. That had to be abandoned because it conflicted with the standardish icon for "Find".

But I generally agree with your sentiment. You can't rely on users to poke around and find features on their own. I recently talked to a teenager who despite having used Windows all his life said he only "just" learned about Alt-Tab.
Sure it's half the price, but at the cost of foregoing an aesthetically pleasing design, backlit keyboard (paid upgrade), gaining over a pound of weight and 40% more thickness.

For me personally, and I think a lot of us, design is more/just as important as performance at the threshold these machines have reached. I work better and enjoy the feeling of using well designed tools.
I've noticed that if I am very sick, even with antibiotics, I don't start getting better until 5+ days after first dose. Wondering what my body would naturally do with those five days, I've basically stopped going to the doc and just fight it off myself.

Really haven't noticed a difference. I'm talking stuff like ear pain, pink eye, severe sinus pain, ect. Don't know what I've had (since I didn't go to the doc, though I don't think they know half the time anyway..), but I survived it.

I'm sure there are valid reasons for antibiotics, but they are clearly over prescribed.
"Color blind accessibility on Bootstrap and JQuery to make Vim more accessible"

This made me physically cringe.
Edward Snowden will kick off LibrePlanet 2016 in Cambridge
Supply and demand would dictate otherwise
I'm not so sure that there's a fundamental difference between "simulating" consciousness and actually having consciousness.
.... oh boy. I laughed, cringed, shook my head.
It's funny that vice themselves doesn't automatically forward to https.
just spin up a separate network namespace and macvlan device to run your ntpd in. it'll get a separate v6 address via router advertisement and ntpd will be the only thing listening on that address.

just wrap ntpd in firejail[1].

ipv6-per-networked-process pretty much brings an end to portscanning.

[1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Wouldn't it be possible to compare the "top" move with the "runner up" move, compare outcome percentages, and declare whether there is a small or large deviation? Or comparing the "top" move with any other possible move? Or is that too much calculation?
For your second question, of course, a grandmaster can only tell you why they think they made the move. It may be a postrationalization for the fact that they feel, based on deep learning they have acquired over years of practice, that that move is the right one to make.

It doesn't seem too difficult to have an AI let you know which other strong moves it rejected, and to dig into its forecasts for how those moves play out compared to the chosen move to tell you why it makes particular scenarios more likely. But that would just be postrationalization too...
What additional money is needed to implement HTTPS? It's like an afternoon of a sysadmin's time; it doesn't require any more opex.

If you have a favorite library or NGO that doesn't support HTTPS for lack of funding, I am personally happy to donate an afternoon's of a sysadmin's wages to them. (Or to set it up for them, honestly.)

Project Gutenberg is already over HTTPS, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you think they were strongarmed by Google into it, instead of having decided this long ago as a simple and obvious step for the good of their mission, a reference for that would help inform the discussion.
HTTPS does not kill referrer or referer headers. See https://referer.rustybrick.com/
Just because there is a way to explain a certain behavior doesn't mean it's the right way for the code to behave. This definitely violates the law of least surprise.

Furthermore, no one who writes "00-00-00" means "2000-00-00" because that's not a real date. We can say with certainty that no one actually wants "00-00-00 00:00:00" to mean a date in 1999!

That string -- a date with all zeros -- is common in MySQL when an empty value is passed to a not-null date field, so we can be even more certain that interpreting that weird date as "some time in 1999" is going to introduce lots of bugs.

It would make much, much more sense for PHP to just fail to parse the date.
> insuring child care

What do you mean by this?
So is there a lets encrypt solution for shared-hosting systems?
Obligatory: RTDA. Surely people who read citations before posting won't ask these questions?
I work for a SaaS company, we absolutely have customers who email us complaining about putting credit cards in a page served over http.