skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-Reviews in the Amazon Alexa Skill Store
It's a milestone in the progress in AI. It's been nearly 20 years since Deep Blue beat Kasparov and an obvious next goal was Go. They're not quite there yet but it looks like next year.
> Much like IQ testing, requiring a college education is already illegal under "disparate impact" arguments

This is the first I'm hearing that IQ testing is illegal as a basis for employment. AFAIK the military and many police forces employ IQ/aptitude tests as part of their hiring process.
I think it's fair so say the idea that ingesting more antioxidants will cause there to be more in your cells despite homeostasis can be fairly called overly reductionist science. Science reporting in this case failed by essentially taking a side before the experiments came in and not backtracking afterwards.
Human maintenance is inexpensive.

Give every person:

- a "capsule"-style room (2m x 1m x 1m)

- a set of merino wool clothes (washed weekly)

- a pair of shoes

- a meal a day (1500 calories, high fat, low carb)

- unlimited drinkable water

- a weekly body maintenance (shower, nail clipping, hair trimming, mouth cleaning, ...)

- a bi-annual physical exam (weight, urine analysis, blood analysis, scan, eye exam, ...)

- a portable computer / tablet / VR headset (on demand)

- access to public spaces (indoor and outdoor)

Basically, this would cost a person about $200/month (all included). You would own nothing, but also have nothing to maintain or worry about (other than your mind).

The ONLY thing that stops this from happening, is the government and its regulations.
Static HTML pages are loading.
Example, my personal website:
http://peterburk.github.io

But my website loads the content from .MD files via raw.githubusercontent, and those appear to be down.
Um, the complications from general anesthesia are not fiction. There is a reason why a general anesthetics normally require the presence of an anesthesiologist.

A local is always a better option if available. It's less invasive and has fewer complications.
It means they are supporting a project that provides free SSL certificates. Which more than solves great-grandparent's quip.
Always funny when a DCVS is used more like a CVS like github.
They go down and you have all the same failings as if just using cvs/svn.
I find this is one of the biggest problems with object-oriented programming. The object is a terrible unit of abstraction, because it forces you to carve up your domain into rigid chunks which might map to your domain today, and fail to map to it tomorrow, and a terrible unit of reuse, because it couples methods to data, and bundles these methods together on top of that.
All GitHub services are down
As technology improves it is going to raise the talent bar required to be employable. Eventually it won't make sense to hire 50% of the population. A solution will be needed.

If housing, education, food, and energy were made super cheap through technology we could provide those services instead of a basic income.

Given plentiful resources what stops us from multiplying until we consume all available resources. Perhaps, if we had basic income it should only be provided once people turn 18. That way parents wouldn't keep having kids in order to get more money.

Housing: Looking to Buckminster Fuller. He wanted to have houses assembled from modular components that could be shipped. Standardization of parts would make things cheap.

Food: Robotics and biotechnology can increase yields and bring down costs. Also, aquaponics is an extremely productive system. It uses 5% of the way that traditional agriculture uses and fish consume only 1/10th the feed that cattle do. Also, duckweed (it grows like a weed) is easy to grow and feed the fish.

Education: Stop with the college model already. Technology is the answer. Look at Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, etc. For education that needs more hands on training bring back the apprenticeship model. Let them get their education / training for free in exchange for working for free in the field for a limited time.

Infrastructure: Public transportation needs to be a priority. Cars sit idle 95% of the time. Once we have self-driving cars they should be pooled. Just schedule a time to be picked up.

For basic income, we might want to only provide it for people age 18+. Otherwise parents will just have tons of kids in order to collect checks. That will lead to overpopulation and eventually consuming all available resources.
> Well, F = ma was a bad example, I grant you. It's actually a definition of what a force is, nothing more.

Although I would agree that it's fair to say "F=ma is a definition of what a force is", I think of it more as a law of physics than as a definition.

I would also add that Newton's second law is more than merely the statement F=ma.

The original formulation is:

Law II: The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impress'd; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impress'd. [1]

So in addition to stating what the word force means, the second law is also saying there are these things called forces which move things in a certain direction.

The way I think of F=ma personally, is that it means the laws of physics are associated with differential equations. So for me, the statement F=ma implies a huge number of other things, since without also having made the assumption that the laws of physics can be described in terms of vector calculus, the definition of force is rather useless and uninteresting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion#Newt...
Tails 2.0 Gets Gnome Shell as Default Desktop Environment and Debian 8 Upgrades
I'm not a 100% sure about this, but maybe you know. Do movie theaters and gas stations provide their core service at a loss so as to profit from the ancillary stuff?

I'd agree with you if movie theaters were giving the ticket away for free in order to get you to buy a $20 hotdog.
I'll give another perspective: In my industry at least, Google has become incredibly expensive due to a few unicorns spending ridiculous amounts of money just to put competitors out of the game (because they have the money for that, even if it doesn't make sense from a unit economics point of view, and Google is cool with it). By contrast, Facebook remains very effective for the same kind of goals, at least for the moment. I get the feeling this isn't unique to my industry so yeah, I'd venture to say there is a lot money shifting platforms.
Because they don't get paid to build their own stuff. They get paid to do work for clients. A variation on the "shoemaker has no shoes."
And I always thought TLS is the virtual equivalent to those TSA locks.
It's down now.

jim% git clone git@github.com:pfsense/pfsense.git
Cloning into 'pfsense'...
fatal: remote error:
GitHub is offline for maintenance. See
http://status.github.com for more info.
"On a Wednesday in November, he enters a conference room for the second of five meetings and confesses that he’s breaking the rules: Executives are discouraged from scheduling meetings on Wednesdays, which is supposed to be a day engineers and designers can work without interruption."

Mind blown. What a great idea to ban meetings on Wednesdays!
I'd actually like a gitolite-like system that takes my pushes and replicates them among Gitlab/Github/Bitbucket/repo.or.cz. I'm sure it's possible with hooks, but every time I get around to looking into it, GitHub is back up
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Possible candidates for your definition of "fundamental":

- CRISPR

- Machine Learning (the unsupervised variety, specifically)

- Quantum computing (not there yet)

I think these are the three we are "on the cusp" on. They're the ones we'll likely look back on 20 years from now and say "yeah, that sure changed everything, didn't it?"
Why don't I like this?

I don't think it's HTTPS.... I think I don't like that one company has this much power over the web.

This seems awfully familiar...
Initially I was control R spamming, now I'm just pondering what a complete apocalypse will look like.
The idea is interesting, but to call 2m x 1m x 1m anything but a coffin or a bed-in-a-box or a closet would be disingenuous. It's certainly not a "room".

Another point: Is anything actually stopping this? If a municipal government wanted to provide all of this to its residents, or even a magnate, I don't think anything stops it.
No need for thought experiments, we have history. Company towns are good examples of this (see [Roxby Downs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxby_Downs,_South_Australia)) as are cult headquarters. An oil rig is another example, housing costs are usually free (covered by employment), living facilities are provided free of charge and costs are usually fixed through corporate oversight and union opposition to changes. The funny thing is, most people don't want to live in places like that.
What the `zsh` working with `fuck` think of your comment on OSX:

git:(master) ok this is actually really annoying now

zsh: command not found: ok

git:(master) fuck

look this is actually really annoying now [enter/↑/↓/ctrl+c]

look: is: No such file or directory

git:(master) fuck

> No fucks given

That's kind of perfect.
Two little birdies have tweeted that there was an electrical fire at a key datacenter.
Here is a graph that says thats wrong:

http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/apec324/excel_lab1/xy_plot1.png

As people get more resources, they tend to have FEWER children than those with little resources.
> 1. Still WAY too complicated (look at all the stuff you have to know and type)

I didn't realise that people getting SSL certs and administrating servers don't know how to read a literally one-page rundown of what to run. They also have helper scripts to make it much simpler.

> Which is strange since, from my experience, installing certs in IIS is already far easier than in Apache and Nginx. (Although maybe that's why they perceive it as less of a priority?)

nginx literally takes less than 10 minutes to set up not only SSL, but also CSP and several other very important security features.
Interesting article and it is a coincidence in my life. My wife is pregnant and has been diagnosed with Group B strep and the dr has said she will be given Ampicillin during labor. I have some concerns regarding this, and now I read this article.

Dr says that there is 1 in 1000 chances of the baby getting (very) sick. With the antibiotics the chances are 1 in 4000.

I am wondering if anyone here has had experience with this.
To be fair, GitHub has scaled to the point where traffic probably isn't their concern.
This bot has a very flexible style. It is at ease both in calm point-grabbing positions (first game) and large-scale dogfights (see the second one), where humans used to crush computers.
Lee Sedol is so strong at fighting, this is gonna be a great match between touch opponents.
4) Many of them do not see opportunity in line with the cost of living and standard of living expectations they may have.

Good try! Maybe we will get some more. IMHO, this is a worthy discussion.
I've had all four of mine removed - all with good reason - but I was never even offered general anaesthetic (none of the surgeries were the US). I would have chosen local though if given a choice, despite its wide use, ask any anaesthetist, there's far less risk involved with local vs. general anaesthetic.
I don't like this because I've always thought that HTTPS shouldn't be a mandatory baseline. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that a random website with no financial transactions or anything should require HTTPS. [Edit: And thus, it makes less sense to me that the site should be penalized by anyone for NOT having it.]

"Ah, yes. Bob's Trivia Emporium has HTTPS. I know this is really Bob's site and that the data is from his site."

If anyone has compelling arguments to the contrary, I'm open to hearing them.
I guess it depends on the industry but from my own personal experience, fraud is non-existent if your targeting decently specific (i.e. specific interests).
Thanks. This is why HN is great, quick informative answers from lots of smart people :)
"...but you just might find... you get what you need."

Keep being you, JWZ.
I agree completely, and that is my approach. But not everyone agrees. I would prefer to study history, philosophy and literature because I enjoy them, not for class. On the other hand, not everyone who would be interested in those things would do that without some place to make it official, so I still see a reason for schools that make it their focus to exist. However trying to improve the populace through underfunded, half baked, required courses taught by rote memorization specialists... I don't really agree with that since most students are just there for "job skills" anyway.
The real thing makes me physically cringe, so I would count that as a success.
Relavant: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...)

The repo is at ... https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent, so just clone that and ... oh ...
I guess then we first need to establish what properties 'the worlds most important company' would be likely to have. To me, the company would have to be firmly established as a key player in so many different markets such that if the company were to vanish they would literally be chaos on the streets.
Thomas Paine wrote an excellent essay on this concept back in the day. It is worth reading:

https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html

You might want to look into Georgism and Geolibertarianism as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

The basic premise of all these is that land and natural resources can not be owned. If you want to use them you have to rent / buy rights to them. That rent goes into a basic fund that is then used for basic income. The basic argument is that land belongs to everyone, so everyone should get an equal share of the rent from the land.
None of this is outsourced, all in-house CPAs. You deal with the same person every time. I spend >10 hours last week Assem going over our business model (SaaS with free hardware that sits on our books) and exactly what we build on the hardware side, component by component. The goal is to set the customers up with the proper accounting system design that they need for their business and then the monthly reconciliation/reporting takes very little time after that.
What is the point you're arguing against? I know perfectly well that conservation of angular momentum is a thing. I know perfectly well that the intrinsic property that we call 'spin' of an electron is really angular momentum. I know that a spinning bucket also has real angular momentum.

So, I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me.

The central point made by colordrops is that angular momentum in a macroscopic object is 100% (accurate to at least ten decimal places) due to synchronicity of linear momenta.
The Economist: Glamorous tech startups can be brutal places for workers
Why can't you update to a new Go devel version? The code on github is just a mirror of https://go.googlesource.com/go
Scoble: Self-driving cars won’t take your job for at least a decade
Imagine all of the 1-2 decade old applets that no one will care enough about to update. I'm thinking of little physics simulators you'd find on a professor's web page to simulate projectile motion and such.
This is really, really cool! Where did you get the idea? Would you see similar results if you visualized other concurrency systems? I suppose if they were also based on the ideas of CSP? Hmm. I'd love to see visualizations like this for GCD on iOS.
Is this China again? Ughhh.
Thanks, I figured I was missing something since I don't know much about the ad business other than what I read about in regards to the impact of ad blocking and efforts such as Brendan Eich's company to mitigate the problem.
Interesting, I hadn't seen that! But even if it only works for finding herpes and other there-or-not infections, they still might justify their valuation.
The article claims "intensive" and "major" surgery. I had local anesthesia and 15 minutes in the dental surgeon's chair. Is it done differently in the U.S.?
They also sell full page ads now: https://support.google.com/adxseller/answer/6068103?hl=en
> Seriously this. I don't see why encryption and website verification have been wrapped up in the same thing (SSL certs). They're two different things. Encryption should be free, automatic and default.

Becuase you either have to do DH and all of the key negotiation anyway (at which point you already have a key, so why not encrypt and HMAC at the same time?). If you had two systems for this, it would be pointlessly inefficient (why have two DH key exchanges for the same channel).
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love it thank you so much. A back of the envelope calculations suggest 8 - 14 days per cycle so 25-50 cycles per year. Assuming no vacation. I can see how we just face an incredible amount of work to do. Parallelism of course will help. But it must be so amazing to be like a blind man wandering around in a dark room with a sense that there might be something warm in the distance but that's about it. At least you're doing real work.
I appreciate the angle and definitely agree. This is really what I think of in general -- when I imagine a new (e.g.) javascript ui framework, I"m hoping that the creator has experience not just in other JS frameworks, but many other UI frameworks. At my last job (for instance) the UI team was grouped together (rather then web ui into the web team), and I always loved comparing architecture for similar components with Windows, Android, etc., and especially the "embedded" guys.
You might want to check out True Link Financial (https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/). Not sure what the current state of the agreements are but you can use it technically for this sort of thing.
Maybe LinkedIn doesn't capture every worker? You think they have greater than 30% penetration into the market?
Google DFP allows it because publishers (e.g. the New Yorker) aren't ready to switch all their traffic HTTPS. If they wanted to they could turn the switch and be HTTPS and tell DFP to only serve secure creatives.

One of the larger difficulties for publishers is that many of the 3rd party SSPs aren't ready to go full HTTPs and so publishers are reluctant to make the switch because it reduces demand sources.

Disclaimer: Work for Google in advertising
> However, having one and not the other isn't totally useless.

> Having the browser be able to track and tell me that "Though we aren't sure this is actually google.com, we do know that the exact same cert has been used the last 50 times you visited this website" is something I'd consider to be useful. (Actually, telling me if it changes would be the useful bit).

Isn't that what you do when you make a security exception for a self-signed certificate? Having that enabled by default lulls people into a false sense of security.
The best approach to this was shown recently by Slack, where they had a huge team of people on social media while their engineers figured out the outage.
Tesla should've fund a way to license the design people would've paid much more than 100k for that one.
My wife is a dentist. She told me that you really should have your wisdom teeth removed in two general instances:

* The teeth are growing in a strange orientation.

* You have cavities on them and your jaw shape is such that you can't brush them properly.

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The major problem with the molars is that they are notoriously difficult to keep clean. They all eventually become abscessed (on a long enough timeline). Might as well remove them. So removing wisdom teeth is not really a scam, it's something you will need sooner or later unless you're really anal about keeping your wisdom teeth clean. Can you brush all the way back there? How about behind the wisdom tooth?

I have also noticed a trend here in the US that dentists put you under general anesthetic for this procedure. When in reality, unless you -really- need surgery, it's just overkill. For example, when I had my wisdom teeth removed in Bolivia, I was entirely awake, they only used local lidocaine (or similar) using a syringe, and they pull them out using hand tools and levers. Some antibiotics for a couple of days, and I was on my way.
Companies the spend the most on Facebook ads track the resulting revenue they earn very closely.

So even if lots of clicks were fraudulent, they're looking at ($ earned from clicks)/($ spent on clicks). Based on Facebook's continuing increase in earnings, it's safe to bet that lots of major advertisers are seeing this ratio returning >1, and are therefore increasing their spend.
I would say shelter is as much of a basic need, and places like the bay area show that prices are rapidly increasing due to demand. Would a basic income exacerbate the problem in places that already have an issue with high housing costs?

As far as food goes, wouldn't the prices of luxury foods, like porterhouse steaks and the cost of going out to eat likely increase rapidly? I mean, no one needs to eat expensive food, but isn't the purpose of the basic income to prevent people from having to eat ramen 3 times/day?
I think what happens in the media is small outfit bias.

Über is big, so what they do must be judged in that light, yellow cab is small, so they get a pass even though they engage in similar practices.

I listen to NPR and they had a bit about über and them being "unfair" to drivers, but never was that compared to how drivers are treated at yellow cab for example. So, because they are big they are looked at more suspiciously, plus they are "tech" so there must be a bad angle there somewhere. People have a thing for underdogs, I do too, but not so much in this case because cabs can often be worse for the drivers, at this time. No telling in the future when automation takes over. The point will be irrelevant then.
This argument is back at the lump labor fallacy.

With agricultural automation, the 30% change was filled mostly with new service jobs, not labor jobs. The same goes with A.I. automation - suddenly service jobs that were not possible before become possible. Jobs are not a zero-sum game.
* Provide help/advice for people making big financial decisions. For example, help them when buying/renting a house, buying a car or dealing with an expensive repair. Help students with career counseling and college decisions with an eye towards their future finances. Point out less expensive options and hacks (e.g. community college for 2 years, then transfer...consider not going to college until they are more certain what they want to do...). The startup could charge a fixed fee for advice (or maybe have a subscription model for advice at any time, a bit like Angie's list).
Nothing short of that will get HTTPS adoption to approach 100%. Many people have commented that it seems odd to complain about broken HTTPS but not about HTTP; I agree with that. As long as browsers show unencrypted HTTP as "neutral" rather than "bad", far too many sites simply won't care. This has been a long and gradual step, but it needs to happen for HTTP to finally go away.