skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens when you show cheap Ikea paintings to art 'experts'
I’d have said AI safety, but it’s already on your list. Excellent.

But, why? Nothing about "AI safety" is remotely useful. It would be like researching "alcohol safety" (something everybody has access to and nobody can restrict) or researching how ants can influence "human safety" (tiny things trying to influence massive things). It's nonsense no matter which way you think about it unless you just want to write SF novels.

Open-source infrastructure.

Sadly, we don't need "research" to study how it works, we need direct payments to contributors. As a "startup culture" we need to stop the trend of billion dollar companies using free open source labor to reduce corporate costs and boost corporate profits while paying highly skilled professional volunteers nothing.

Yudkowsky Ambition

A key part of _research_ is you need to have a plan of attack. Saying "We're going to fund research into antigravity, time travel, and zero point energy" sure sounds like fun, but it's an absolute waste of time.
Creating Loading Buttons with SVG and Segment
Objectively no one has to fear starving to death as in our societies we collectively make sure that this is not possible.

It doesn't matter how exactly this is organised, but it is a fact that we do.

This can also be proven by the fact that there are exactly 0 cases of people starving to death here.
So the root problem is oversized bureaucracy, corruption is a consequence?
Funny thing is, there's plenty of rebuilding we could be doing, which would be quite stimulative, but it's politically unpopular because it would involve some tax and spend upfront, which would put a bit of a pinch on people in the middle and upper classes. Ironically, those same people stand to benefit from the lower classes having more discretionary income.
No economists believe that ridiculous straw man nor is it relevant to this article.
Also: VLC, uTorrent, BitTorrent Sync, XQuartz, Sequel Pro, CotEditor (at least the versions installed on my Mac, should be the most recent)
I wrote the Python CBOR implementation you get if you `pip install cbor`. Source project here: https://bitbucket.org/bodhisnarkva/cbor
It's getting pretty extensive use at a few places I know, so I hope it's good enough!
> --Should be browser based solution.

Why, oh why? Browser is a crappy environment and its unsuitable for any kind of bigger application. It's too bloated and too constrained. Google is barely able to make WordPad equivalent run in the browser - I don't see any actually usable EDA as a browser solution any time soon.
Gene therapy - It is known that modified virus vectors can fix DNA. I believe this approach can be used to cure wide variety of diseases related to gene mutations.
Stack Risk. We need to know how much CPU power entities have at their dosposal.

That's actually a great idea and almost impossible to make reliable.

We could measure "stack risk" for registered, 100% above board companies with their own data centers and employees, but we can't really measure the risk of some guy in eastern europe with access to a 1 billion node, globally distributed and illegal obtained, Android bot net.
Single line awk commands that are not in awk1line
Soon You'll Hate Group Chat as Much as You Hate E-mail
The printing money concept is due to the monetarists, not Keynes. Keynes would recommend deficit spending.
Can we try to rally for discarding cfaa? Who benefits from it?
It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
34 little POS machines
Furnish JavaScript - Let the classes on DOM elements generate the CSS for you
The per capita part is key. Sweden's population is 1/35 of the US.

(I haven't checked the numbers, you may still be right, but I the claim doesn't sound unreasonable)
The higher the voltage the higher the current through the body. Now the exact resistance of a person varies enormously, in particular if we take into account things like rubber boots or if the person managed to ground herself. But as long as the system can deliver it, the current through the body will be 250 times higher when the voltage is 25000 V than when it is 100 V.

Now a very low current through the heart might kill you, so with a little bit of bad luck or stupidity you'll die from a 100 V source. Like you are replacing a lightbulb in an old fixture with one wet hand resting the other one on the kitchen sink.

25000 V will almost certainly kill you. The moisture outside you rubber boots probably has low enough resistance to let a deadly current through your body.

The exception is of course the static shocks. Here you are saved by the extremely low total charge.

To summarize, yes it is the current that kills you, but it is the voltage that matters.
I think that's cool and could lead to more collaboration/others also being able to easily reproduce experiments too (assuming the tool for them collaborating over the internet is really good and they want to use it).

The tricky part is that the current system may act as a filter where the best people will still try to hide their methods and get into the existing Journals because it's best for their career - so you'll get lower quality requests for funding.

I don't understand why Universities don't work together to push towards open access, but I guess they're interested in Journal prestige too.

As a side note there's also the issue with papers hiding critical components of their research so they can't be reproduced (so they can make companies later) - this is really not in the spirit of science.
There are still millions of UK people - young and old - who either do not use computers at all or are barely beyond beginner stage, and therefore cannot make intelligent, relevant use of it. See statistics at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access-quarterl...
This is despite the work of Martha Lane Fox's Digital by Default project, very generously government funded and rewarded by a seat in the Lords. The obvious solution was not acted upon, and I would like to put it to you, having already done small scale research on it.
Anita Pincas a.pincas@ioe.ac.uk Univ. College London
They won't walk away with better understanding, they'll walk away with worse. It's better to not understand a graph at all than to be mislead by it.
Because I don't need that many physical goods as I used to? My phone shows me temperature, map, music player. I can buy tickets which I don't need to print. I read book on Kindle. I don't need a car - I have a bike, public transport and Uber. As a result I need to rent smaller apartment.
Trust the French to do something so romantic and pointless.
I've more or less given up on Reddit due to the overzealous moderators. Many huge events are censored from /r/worldnews because the mods seemingly found them not interesting or too hot topic.

Many perfectly valid posts are removed by mods, there was recently linked a version of the homepage based on votes alone and something like a third of the posts were deleted. I would much much prefer something more organic where what the people declared good was shown, and that power largely stripped from the mods/admins.
/TODO: Prophet- you know the drill.. i want some PID control here- but i am busy chatting up the secretary. Good Boy. Also Rick from Recruiting was fired today- with no replacement..
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Dogs may have evolved to handle our bad tempers
Regarding your edit, exactly. The issue could be considered a security issue, but this fix is not a security fix. A security fix would be something like only allowing touching EFI during startup and then somehow securely and permanently disabling that ability until the next reboot, or a physical write-protect switch on the computer.

Or EFI firmware not being so stupid, but we know that's not going to happen.
Regarding Volvo truck orders, btw:

These are the global numbers from their latest quarterly IR release, regarding Q3 2015 (Their Q4 report is due next Friday):

http://www3.volvo.com/investors/finrep/interim/2015/q3/q3_20...

Net order intake, number of trucks:

42,648 (Q3 2015)

50,449 (Q3 2014)

and, also:

58,024 (Q3 2007)

This last (global, not european) number from: http://www3.volvo.com/investors/finrep/interim/2007/q3/q3_20...
Jade, Node.js template engine, is being forced to rename due to trademark
This is a good example of why you shouldn't take that saying too far.
As the difference engine computes result of polynomial equations (upto x to the power 7, if I remember the demo correctly) , I don't think its turing complete enough to drive a 3d-printer completely. It can, perhaps, drive the generative design of a 3d printed art based on the result of a polynomial equation.
> I'm still outraged that members of my Congress proposed violent conflict with China as an appropriate reaction to a data breech, as if their own organization had never accessed Chinese systems without authorization

This +1. We are supposed to be intelligent adults but this behaviour is more like schoolyard bullies that behave one way and then cry foul when another does the same.
"how do we suck the carbon from 150 years of burning fossil fuels out of our atmosphere?" Stop destroying forests, stop burning fuels, start growing more plants. The real question is, how to accomplish these.
I don't know why you are being voted down. If you sound harsh it's because the whole project sounds pretty crazy. Did YC really back this? Insane.
Apple reportedly has a ‘secret’ team with hundreds of employees working on VR
Elasticsearch Monitoring with OpsDash
In Israel we would mostly get tomatoes or peppers that were considered too misshapen to export, but holy God they were freaking delicious. The heavily vegetable-based diet over there makes perfect sense when you consider how their vegetables contain actual flavor and nutrition.
US government confirms Clinton emails contained top secret information
Thanks for sharing the ribbonfarm blog. I found the essay on clods and snowflakes quite interesting.
These are all arguments that apply to the house you live in, the blankets on your bed, the medicine you use. You are absolutely fine with all of those - you don't live in a cave, shun treatment for infectious disease, and wear furs. In fact I would go so far as to say that you probably think that modern technology is a good thing, and you are better off for it. Yet that already greatly manipulates your proposed optimal condition for the human species. So why does treating aging as a medical condition bring out this view? This seems like a very selective appeal to nature.
I don't think it's a trait of just large communities. Cynicism, negativity runs deep on just about any forum, comment sections and social media site connected to the Internet. The anonymity that the Web provides seems to reflect a widespread layer of angst (at least in western society) that's otherwise hidden/masked in the real world.
Monetarism is just a theory of the transmission mechanism going from money supply->price level->output, with some variations. Their policy proposals have been quite diverse.

Keynes himself had differing policy recommendations, as well, but ultimately settled on what he called "socialization of investment" where the state would fill in certain entrepreneurial activities that the private sector is deemed to be lacking, though the specifics were elusive. Contracyclical fiscal policy was actually popularized by Alvin Hansen IIRC, and the more extreme functional finance favored by Post-Keynesians was formulated by Abba P. Lerner.
Why is it pointless ?
Peersuasive/luce: Luce – A GUI Module for Lua Based on JUCE
The track record of open source projects being non-malicious is decent, especially if you have a bunch of other people looking at the project, you briefly consider the author's reputation, etc. The track record of random unknown MITMers being non-malicious is much less decent. You vastly increase your attack surface if you download and execute code over HTTP.
Agreed. Which is why I said On the other hand a certain amount of skepticism and criticism is very much in order.

The problems systemd tried to address are real, and some of the ideas behind it are appealing. But the way it attempts to replace several important pieces of the system at once, and the way it is being forced on people in a "eat it or leave it"-style feels uncomfortable.

Part of what made Unix what it is today is the idea to build a system that might be very far from perfect but that is easy to improve in small, incremental steps so one quickly gets a feeling for what works well and what does not.
excellent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Rail traffic plummeted in December also, extremely low even though there is clearly a seasonal dip during that month. 2016 is starting off lower than the previous 3 years as well.

https://www.aar.org/data-center/rail-traffic-data
Collecting sales taxes in most states.
30 million moves. I'm pretty sure you can download that many from Go game databases listed here:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?GoDatabases
Redhat based distros absolutely do enable alias rm='rm -i' out of the box, but only for the root user. As a career SysAdmin, that seems like a good compromise. If you want to take the safety net off, you can escape out the alias (or any alias) with a slash i.e.:

\rm -rf somedir

Yet by default, if you don't include the "\", you get rm -i
The Baltic Dry Index chart IS zero-based. It is at an all time low, that's not just some weird illusion.
Can you provide a source for such a story? I live in Israel and am politically opposed to settlements in West Bank yet can't think of a single example of what you're describing.

Settlements are built on undeveloped land. Some urban settlements (East Jerusalem, Hebron) are in houses purchased from their Palestinian owners. These usually entail a lengthy legal process, but settlers are forbidden from entering before it has resolved (just this week some settlers in Hebron were removed from houses they claim to have bought legally, the case is in court).
Also factor in the trend of millennials living at home and declining family formation.
But the main reason for the drop is the collapse of the emerging markets and the fact that China has dramatically slowed down.
It must contain null if only for JSON compatibility.
There are new companies working on applying AI to epigenetic data to extend human lifespan including this one "On a global basis and in aggregate, wet lab experiments in human biology produce one of the most important forms of data known to mankind, especially when it relates to epigenetics, genes, proteins, genomic pathways and environmental factors that can improve human health and extend human lifespan. We are a start-up with a focus on Life Sciences in the area of advanced artificial intelligence analytics connected to extending human healthspan and extending human lifespan." http://45.55.135.97/index-life.html
Many do. Not the sectarian economists hired to develop capitalist theology, but the ones you take seriously when you need to run a real capitalist economy. Here's a lucid explanation:

"If you take an economics course, they’ll teach you, correctly, that if the government spends n dollars to stimulate the economy, it doesn’t really matter what it’s spent on: they can build jet planes, they can bury it in the sand and get people to dig for it, they can build roads and houses, they can do all sorts of things—in terms of stimulating the economy, the economic effects are not all that different.² In fact, it’s perfectly likely that military spending is actually a less efficient stimulus than social spending, for all kinds of reasons. But the problem is, spending for civilian purposes has negative side effects. For one thing, it interferes with managerial prerogatives. The money that’s funneled through the Pentagon system is just a straight gift to the corporate manager, it’s like saying, “I’ll buy anything you produce, and I’ll pay for the research and development, and if you can make any profits, fine.” From the point of view of the corporate manager, that’s optimal. But if the government started producing anything that business might be able to sell directly to the commercial market, then it would be interfering with corporate profit-making. Production of waste—of expensive, useless machinery—is not an interference: nobody else is going to produce B-2 bombers, right? So that’s one point."

— Noam Chomsky, "Understanding Power"
That's an interesting idea and angle.

While reading "The Dispossessed"[1] and thinking about the way syndicates work there, I had this (generic, not-worked-out) thought about some form of protocol for creating co-ops of the kind mentioned, and then running and enforcing the rules (including e.g. equal dividend payment / whatnot).

I wonder if someone has considered implementing some kind of a co-op system in Ethereum (where contracts are transparent and enforced and no single node is responsible for running the code). :)

Hmm, taking ideas from anarcho-syndicalism and implementing them in Ethereum....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed - this is a nice book indeed.
Because roads that carry a lot of traffic will need resurfacing before the solar panels have reached their economic break even point.

There are a lot of bull-shit renewable energy projects, which is a real pity because there are also a lot of good ones and the bad ones give all of those projects a bad rap.
Ask HN: Innovative startups, why do you outsource webdev work?
I was wondering why startups outsource web/app development work to agencies or freelancers. I am specifically focusing on innovative startups which are trying to improve the world. The replies would help me better focus my freelancing efforts to actual problems that exist.

* Which qualities do you value when you look for digital agencies or freelancers?

* What were the specific challenges or problems that you tried to solve by outsourcing work?

* What were the expected results?

I am looking forward to your replies, thank you very much in advance for taking the time and effort to reply.
Every new product needs to overcome the formula "product value >> adoption cost".

You can simplify and call OpenTable shitty, but they met this threshold with their customers. Their customer looked at their product and said, it's new and different, but it is worth it.

If you can't displace an existing solution you haven't got it right.

If the value is significantly greater and it is only about UI familiarity there are many ways around it. One way is to emulate the UI of the product you are displacing. This famously happened in the Word vs. WordPerfect wars.
You're putting an expensive functional product in a location that guarantees a much shorter lifespan. Take the same panels and put them on rooftops, empty fields, practically anywhere else reasonable you can think of and you will get lots more electricity out of them because of longer life.
It is important to recognize that arguments for quality over quantity are written from the perspective of operating within an absolute and unchangeable limit, and an absolute and largely unchangeable high risk of unexpected death before that limit due to infectious disease. We've done a lot to reduce the latter, and now the former is up for grabs as well. This is not the same landscape for the human condition as occupied by Seneca and his peers.

We can work towards both quality and quantity. That is the point of technology, to make everything better, to remove limits, to enable the human condition to be more than it was before, to give us choice where there was no choice. The choice to fly, to talk to distant people, to be healthy, to live rather than to die before we want to.
Research Distributed Internet.

Our current model of the internet is some kind of hierarchy, and access to it is controlled by a few selected players. While some celebrate their new hipster web programming language libs, the underlying Internet is dying.

The Internet used to be a place where you can pick a remote address, invoke connect() and have a TCP connection. Now you need a Phd to be able to connect two computers on the internet. If you want an address, so that other computers can connect to you, you have to pay. This money goes to people at the top of the pyramid, for real estate they have invented.

Internet companies recently began "protecting us from bad websites", but this is just the beginning of a larger scale censorship, of governments that tell us what is good for us to read and see. I don't know if this applies to you, but at the place where I live, this has already begun.

In my opinion the main unsolved problem of this domain is how to route packets in unstructured big networks. We really don't know how to do this, and this is one of the main reasons for the current structure of the internet. Solving this problem is a game changer.

I summarize results about this subject at
http://www.freedomlayer.org
Terraforming. Shorter term how do we bring temperature and CO2 levels down here. Longer term how do we make the moon and Mars habitable?
Heroku! I can assist if you like, email is in profile.
The problem with starting a community made of the banned members of another
All great points. Thing is you just provided additional support to the idea that premise in the article is flawed :)
Volume would be a much more important indicator.
It's an okay use of NSA/GCHQ. Certainly more useful and preferable to spying on citizens and politicians. I remain unconvinced that it's necessary, or even always beneficial. We don't really need to know every detail about everything that every country does. I can't say that the specific capability here is never needed, but I do think it ought to be held very closely and used sparingly.

>what's the public need to know here?

If you don't think the public ought to know, then perhaps you'd consider the notion that the more spying we do, the more likely it is for leaks like this to happen. One potential good thing, the public gets to know how bad we are at counterintel; that's a good thing if the public can figure out what to do about it.
I am using this since I've seen it on ProductHunt. Pretty good stuff.
That's a stupid highbrow attitude. I suppose the same concept applies to any form of information? If we don't understand the whole story, it's not worth knowing any part of it?
Wow, you seem really angry. How is me using a mac hurting you so much?
Well CSS is older than XML. SGML was considered a (meta-)markup-language, i.e. a format for adding semantic info to human-readable text. It was never considered an universal data format. As an example DSSSL, the style sheet language of SGML, was not itself a SGML language, so it is clear the SGML community never considered SGML appropriate for all kinds of data. For that matter, DTD's are not in SGML language either.

XML was initially thought of as a simpler SGML, but when it took off it started to be used for all kinds of data including data which are not based on human-readable text at all. XML is fine for markup, but needlessly verbose and complex for non-markup languages.
By suitably modifying queries to make them "differentially private" (technical term), one can allow queries on the data set which have an arbitrarily low probability of releasing personal information.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74339/dwork_tamc.pdf

Building a database which can be locked down to differentially private primitives (differential privacy composes) would allow researchers to partially unlock this data while ensuring that your medical records are private.

As long as we choose epsilon (the privacy parameter) sufficiently low there is then no ethical need to ask a bunch of fickle data points for permission.
On the other hand, if they do it piece meal and are willing to back out if the initial phases don't succeed, what better stress test for the material do you want?
The blind leading the blind.