skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the many ways to get exceptions, this little nugget....

>An employer who violates the WARN provisions is liable to each employee for an amount equal to back pay and benefits for the period of the violation, up to 60 days.

...pretty much says companies can do what they want. For a lot of these folks, that's a severance.
And times will be fantastic after they take over.

Or at least that could be the case. It's called post scarcity, and it should be something we strive for.
Lyft offers in-app tipping. Uber inexplicably does not.
These seem plausible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness#Aspec...

Awareness, memory, leaning, anticipation and subjective experience.

Empathy is a good example, will a computer ever "feel" empathy? Or will it be simulated empathy? Is there actually a distinction? I'm not sure.
I'm less concerned about AI "taking our jobs" (see the other comments on lump of labor fallacy, etc) than what happens if we cure all disease, which is the only thing keeping population in check. How many humans can Earth support? What happens when we run out of resources? Will the ability for humans to live much longer help us colonize space? I hope so.

That said, it would be really nice to cure diseases that are particularly painful or kill young people (cancer, etc).
One wonders that if the American health system had a public option- never mind single-payer- it would relieve a lot of stress on startups.

Higher taxes are one thing, but if the American government ran essential benefits such as this, businesses can then focus on, well, their businesses.
Some competition car audio set-ups are using tens of thousands of watts, usually at 14.4 or 18 volts, so the amperage can get into the thousands. The wiring used for that is usually multiple runs of 0-gauge or better. 4/0 is a bit less than half an inch and is rated for 300-400 amps.
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> elemental mercury, radium, and phosphorous were also used as medicines even when they did not have redeeming medicinal uses.

Well, mercury is a fairly effective antibacterial agent, it's just that we don't use it much anymore because it's also very toxic to humans. I think it still does have some (limited) medical applications.
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Yep. Run a network with some friends of mine. We're generally on during the EST work day shooting the shit. Servers on both coasts of the US and one in Europe. irc.binarii.wtf , we tend to be in #binarii but feel free to join your own channels if you prefer. Webchat available here: http://webchat.binarii.wtf/kiwi/
Fair enough; I haven't used that feature (like OpenGL, it's something I use "Real Hardware" for).
> without realizing that it's simply saying that there are diminishing returns above that point

But I thought everyone got that point. It's not as if people thought every additional dollar brought them misery. People who quote this understand that you don't need this additional money, and that the effort/sacrifices to get it are not worth it.
The only reason humans have had nothing to fear from machines so far is because of their brains. What happens when those are no longer a differentiator?
> You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must", then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse.

Rainer Maria Rilke
http://www.carrothers.com/rilke1.htm
If you make tips "optional", they will quickly become customary and expected. That does not seem like a feature.

When it comes to tips, I greatly prefer the European model, in which people neither expect nor offer tips under normal circumstances. Pay people to do a job, and pay them enough to want to do that job and do it well. Don't rely on customers to make up the difference.
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Very funny, these are verbatim quotes from actual congressional proceedings. For example the first paragraph is from Joe Baca, you can find it about halfway down this page: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/109th-congress/house-amen...
Suppose your object is the only thing in space, how do you tell that it is spinning? How do the particles in the object can tell that the object as a whole is spinning?

What you describe are particules going in straight lines, but over what space/grid are they going on a straight lines? If they are going over straight lines on something then your description is one of an objective space.

If pulling forces are still exerted on its edges in proportion to said "spinning", then there exist a static field in space for which the object is in static alignment when the pulling force are at minima.

Interestingly the same observation could be made of two objects in orbit or the electrons orbiting individual atoms in the object, with the static alignment being observed when the acceleration between the objects is at a maxima i.e. they are falling into one another.
Just some perspective ...

There was a time when a specific version of vmware workstation (version 3.x from ... 2001 ? 2002 ?) had a nice, detailed recipe to get it running, under linux binary compat, on FreeBSD.

So you could run the Linux version of vmware workstation on FreeBSD.

The problem was, this recipe and set of hacks needed to make this work only worked with vmware 3, and after 2003 or 2004, vmware wouldn't even sell it to you - you couldn't even download it.

But I kept a copy and continued to very happily use vmware3 until 2009, on successively newer FreeBSD hosts. No, it didn't have graphics card support and I couldn't plug in my USB flash drives, etc., but the basic value proposition was still there - run any guest OS I felt like.

My point is: don't trash your old install packages for (whatever version of vmware workstation you like) and keep your serial numbers - this is a piece of software that can continue providing very high value LONG after vmware abandons it.
OpenGL 2.1 has programmable shaders. GLSL shaders were moved to core in OpenGL 2.0 version. See here: https://www.opengl.org/wiki/History_of_OpenGL#OpenGL_2.0_.28...
"Alive" doesn't require human traits. Bacteria and plants are alive.

I'm with you though: consciousness and sense of "self" are just matters of complexity of the brain.
Official Google Blog post also has some background info:

AlphaGo: using machine learning to master the ancient game of Go

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-machine-lear...

Interesting that DeepMind was using Google Cloud for compute. I imagine that the MCTS expansion can become massive. Any chance DeepMind may publish some of the internals about how many instances were used, how computation was distributed, any packages or frameworks used, etc.

And congrats on achieving this impressive AI milestone!
This feels like changing something just to change something, maybe because some executive wants to feel they're doing something important. Is there some unspoken rule in tech that you have to change things every so often, no matter what?
I really like framing this situation as "a myth" (and especially as a foundational myth). Thanks for this perspective!
Agreed. I also instinctively closed my tab, and I'm a woman.

Totally unnecessarily sexualized (though very attractive, just not quite appropriate for work!) photos.
But there are a few languages that have both, such as Ur and Coq, and possibly others. Also, I know that there's work on a more powerful module system for Haskell called Backpack (although, I'm not really familiar with it). I agree that there are certain conceptual incompatibilities between the two as you mention, but they're both so useful that it seems like there must be good ways to bring them together, or at least make both of them available.
The version of AlphaGo used in the paper beats CrazyStone about 99% of the time. Even if we give CrazyStone 4 stones handicap, AlphaGo still beats it 80% of the time.
"eat fewer calories" is nothing like "eat less food".
For instance, today, VMWare is down 9% and dropped 19% on Oct. 21, 2015.
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And then ask, "what was your day job, because I don't need a wordpress themer."

I guess what I'm saying is that if your resume consists of setting up Wordpress sites, then you better like setting up wordpress sites because that's where your experience is.
I think it's a good question, and I'm surprised by the terse responses.

The link you provided seems to indicate that people with reasonable credentials, either in Philosophy, or AI, struggle with it.
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For folks only looking for a cautionary tale, who don't worry about larger security trends and only want to keep their own machine safe, that's a fine takeaway.

For people who do care about network security, it is a very interesting post for a few reasons.

If someone is harvesting IPs from NTP queries sent to Debian infrastructure for intelligence gathering, that in itself is a big deal.

It is also a somewhat novel technique - if an attacker is placed such that they can see the first NTP queries sent by a new install, they are well placed to target that device before it is fully hardened/patched, because they likely see some of the first packets sent by that install. It is really rather clever.

It also points to the sort of correlation we need to be getting better at - orchestration isn't just for devops weenies anymore, and this sort of thing is only going to become more sophisticated.

I've been noodling about with making a tool for making this sort of analysis easier, but there are a number of problems to fix, not least of which is the sheer volume of data generated watching the wire, even on my home network (which is a bit absurd for your average home, but tiny compared to a business of any size).
They won't get secure cookies [for the site they're attacking], though they could plausibly redirect the user to a similar-looking HTTPS domain under their control and get permissions requiring a secure origin.
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According to the article, Lyft will be making some adjustments which would presumably preclude another lawsuit for the same thing.
That post is more than 1000 words. Did he post this on his facebook page because he feels like he has to or because he actually thinks that facebook is the best tool available for sharing a long form blog post?
Yes, because "tractors" shifted the U.S. job mix from being 32% agriculturally related to just 2%. A gallon of gasoline is estimated to have ~600 man hours in it.

Again, automation isn't new, it just seems like it is because we're living it now.
I was trying to take a bus from a regular bus stop around 7 pm. Nearby shops where I could've bought a card were closed by then (in that part of London).
Market Makers sell the service of taking on the risk of bridging prices for a good over time. The price for that service is directly correlated with the amount of risk they take on.

HFT reduce the risk of the inventory they hold by being able to adjust the prices of that inventory fast.

HFT Market Makers can therefore price the service cheaper as their risk is less, due to the speed.
Eventually I'm pretty sure this will be an important question. Hundreds, or thousands of years into the future. It will matter one day. Will these artificial life forms have the same rights as humans? If there is no difference between simulated or human conciousness, then the answer is yes, they should have the same rights.

But will people accept this?
Do you play go? It has incredibly broad strokes and requires great strategy. I find this a significant accomplishment.
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Related question: Has anyone ever experimented with taking a really strong engine for one of these games and then simulating the sort of mistakes that humans make (overlooking certain positions, looking ahead fewer steps, etc) to try and simulate different skill levels of opponents?

I don't play Go, but I dabbled a little bit in Chess, and it seems like the engines with "difficulty settings" don't really make the sort of mistakes that humans make. They can, of course, just over-prune the look-ahead tree, but that's not how the human brain works.
AlphaGo
Lyft already has substantially lower driver fees. At 30 hours/week it only takes 10% and at 50 hours/week it takes 0%.
Very nice. How come you guys didn't enter the UEC Cup? (Edit: rereading this it kind of sounds snarky, not meant that way. Really impressive if you can kick CrazyStone's teeth in...)
PDF of the Canon for Fall 2015: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/isr2015/CMU-ISR-1...
Yeah, and it's too bad horses don't exist anymore.

Oh wait. They are fine. They're just not used as constant slave labor all the time anymore, much like human labor.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that.
> i.e., they might cruise around hoping to be near a ride, which medallion limits exist to prevent.

I'd be interested to see how the extra traffic caused by drivers cruising around compares to the extra traffic caused by drivers needing to drive back to a garage, only to be called out again.
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Agreed. There is a fetishistic element to the grid of sexy Emma Watson photos that is uncomfortable to look at. I'm a woman and a web devleoper. When I look at this plugin's page, I feel immediately uncomfortable and excluded, the photos indicating this is a place for HETEROSEXUAL MEN who will be drawn to this sort of imagery.
Does anyone know if the terms of the settlement agreement are public record anywhere?
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> I still fail to understand what does being one millionth of a second faster accomplish.

A simple example: suppose AAPL is currently quoted $95.00 x $96.00. A reasonable estimate for the "fair value" is the midpoint, $95.50. Now, a new sell order for $95.01 arrives at the market. AAPL is now quoted at $95.00 x $95.01. In the absence of other signals, a trader might reason that there's something wrong with the guy selling at $95.01 when everyone else thinks fair value is ~$95.50. If so, he'll rush to trade against the new order. First one to get there gets shares cheap; everyone else gets nothing. Hold the position for as long as you like.

There are a lot of details to get right, but this is an actual HFT strategy, not a toy example. Note that your speed matters only insofar as it lets you trade ahead of everyone else. All the infrastructure investment is required to stay ahead of other participants, but it does not confer a durable advantage: the arms race will quickly erode the edge. The investment is best-viewed as a tax imposed by other HFT firms, paid to technology vendors and exchanges. The big winners are those who sell the equipment and fast lines that certain HFTs desperately need.

> What if the regulators decided to ban all HFTs.
The market would look pretty similar to how it does today. The big change would be somewhat wider spreads: market makers need to compensate for the additional risk they take on by leaving their orders out. Any other traders here have an opinion?
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This kind of unintuitive UI was once also frequently used in Android apps. The long press.

But over the time more and more high profile apps removed these features simply because so many users never knew that they could long press on something to reveal additional functionality.

Also the Android old menu button was removed for the same reasons. It was a hidden menu that could show different options depending on which screen within the app you were.

I could imagine that it could be different for users with Apples force touch or 3D touch, but we'll have to wait and see.
In Google Inbox I was looking for "mute" the other day in the mobile app. Couldn't find it anywhere. Turns out it's a long-press on the normal "done" button (the checkmark), which I found by Googling. I never would have found it on my own, but now that I know about it it seems convenient and intuitive.
> If someone is harvesting IPs from NTP queries sent to Debian infrastructure for intelligence gathering, that in itself is a big deal.

Debian doesn't run the NTP pool.
The article sort of took a tangential direction from Reactions and went into Chris Cox's story. It was an interesting read, just that it would have been a better article had it been profiling him, instead of bundling it up here.

Good to have actual reactions anyways. "Someone announces her divorce on the site, and friends grit their teeth and 'like' it." Such cases are everybody's life events and there were no reactions to share unless you comment.
The more interesting thing it's also saying is that some of the *.pool.ntp.org servers are bad apples, and results in your NTP request, or at least its source IP address being collected and results in a scan back at you.
I've got a very clear model for what consciousness is.

Let's start by looking at how brains work for something that is much easier to reason about - vision. Light hits the eye, and it activates a set of neurons that are wired up to the light receptors. There's further out neurons that are set up to catch certain higher-level patterns, like edge detection or objects headed directly toward the eye. Deeper and deeper these connections go, until you get something that you subjectively experience as "seeing". It's at this point that optical illusions work - flat images on paper that are designed to make the higher level visual pattern recognizers fire. At a very high level, how parts of the brain work is by activating based off the sensory data represented by the activation of other parts of the brain.

Just like detecting edges in your visual field was important in the ancestral environment, so was answering questions like "what did you do on the hunt?" with a good story. Just like there's a portion of the brain the constructs edges from lower-level visual sensation, there's a portion of the brain that constructs narratives from lots of different kinds of sensations. Furthermore, this narrative module has access to remembered narratives (since consistent stories are better ones) as another form of sense data.

That, in short, is what consciousness is - the brain making sensible stories out of the sense data it encounters, and making those stories available to the brain (including the story-making module, which is why you can make stories about the qualitative experience of story-making).
Basically a glorified Markov Chain (with "topic tagging"). Not particularly interesting and the results are actually not very great. The sentence-based approach (discussed in section 5) would've been more meaningful I think.
Cisco does enterprise better than Dell does IMO.
Not when the transfer isn't made face-to-face. And it defaults to 0. So it actually is more like "the European model".
This is my last side-project which I built to solve my own problem:

Sending quick surveys to customer during the conversation(live chat) instead of the usual way, asking the same questions over and over again than spending time to enter the answers from the live chat to excel or sending links to google forms which breaks the conversation.

Initially I wanted to build a live chat widget with forms functionality, but I realized that live chat widgets works better for quick support rather than having an engaged conversation for feedback purpose, for example. So I build the live chat widget inside a separate page, which also looks great and you have enough space to have both the forms and chat in the same view.

After talking with some people, I found that this can be useful in other areas than SaaS feedback, especially when you can link to the chat page with a specific form enabled by default, not only during conversation. Basically everywhere you want to gather information(polls,survey) and you also want to respond live or chat.

It's not officially launched, only 10 free accounts are available for private beta.

Please try and and let me know what do you think.

Thanks a lot
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I really like Safari on OS X. It's my go-to browser on my personal machine, and on my work machine, it's my "personal" browser (I'm typing this into safari). I use Chrome for my work stuff.

But maybe this is down to your tab preferences. I simply hate tabs. To me, they're the sign of a failed window manager. I don't feel it's the job of every application to reinvent the UX wheel and implement tab functions differently from every other application.

Maybe some day an operating system will support tabs natively?
Ask HN: Measuring the IT job market using Craiglist and Dice job postings
I'd like to ask you all about what you have experienced & seen on Craiglist and Dice that would give you an idea on how good or bad the IT job market is or was. I hear conflicting stories of qualified people not able to find jobs after a year of searching and on the flip side, of companies not able to find people (the so-called 'IT talent shortage').

I used both websites on & off since the late 90s to find contract & permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003) that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it's around 80,000.

On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). Now, there's only a handful of postings per day.

I'd like to get an idea of the IT job market's fluctuation over the years by compiling these data points. I did a Google search for charts with these data points but couldn't find any. If any of you used these two sites anytime from the late 90s to today and remember the # of postings for that specific date or time period, please post it here. Ideally, I'd like to get month to month data with high interest on data points from 1999-2003 and 2006 to today.

Thank you.
You mean for France or for Brazil?
was it easy to convince the players to have a match with AlphaGo? or was there some reluctance especially now when losing is becoming more of a possibility at even strength?
how did it turn out?
Agreed, Very Wrong. I've been on SC for 4 years now, and never seen a dime. The original article is a fluff piece, fluffing up the "free exposure/audience building" falsehood.
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This is a more than 200 point ELO jump relative to previous results (see Fan Hui and Franz-Josef Dickhut http://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/createalleuro3.php?country=...).

We don't know how big it is, because they beat Fan 5-0, so that only places a lower bound on how good the bot is.
Uber Tops Car Rental in Business Travel for Q4 2015
This law is beyond stupid. So if the driver drops off a fare, and then checks their app, and immediately sees a request for a ride nearby, instead of going to pick up that rider, they have to go BACK to the garage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7CgWH8jX4