skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The safest best for sectors of the economy that will continue to prosper under a hard-AI regime are those that involve making humans, especially the rich (eg, owners of AI-based companies) feel happy via human interactions. Go instructors are such a niche.

Actually I would expect game-players and game-instructors to do better than the median profession under such a scenario, because playing games against other humans for entertainment & pure enjoyment of competition is a very human pursuit.
> their proposed fix is more expensive than a HighwayTreeHash round.

For longish-strings, most of the cycles are in the preliminary rounds, so appending whatever you want onto the end should add negligible cost. This includes bitmixing (their proposed smhasher fix) or a HighwayTreeHash round.
Interesting read. But the repeated notion that surveillance capitalists are only taking from the people by selling off the behavioral surplus omits that fact they they are providing services that those people want. Yes, appearing to be free is a subterfuge for many who don't understanding what they are giving away. But for many others they feel it is a fair exchange for services they really want.
It might not be the goal that they serve in practice, but if you ask a random person why they think some sort of copyright is a good idea, provided that they do think that, uh,

actually nevermind a fair number of them will probably talk about the rights of the creator of the work instead. Hm.
i added a search feature, works pretty well!
I have been using asmallorange.com they're great with support and technically. They have a no bullshit policy opposed to many other hosting providers who give "unlimited" plans but still have restrictions. They use Marian for data bases and they also give you jailed shell access to your server even on shared hosting plan that's pretty awesome.
deployed some bug fixes, new ideas, new features
The maker illusion
I print my occasional shipping label et al. at work (shh!), but did the same for my parents. I don't like Samsung with anything creative, but their simple black and white laser printers seem great and even have official Linux support.
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Technically, it's two neural networks, each calculating reasonably simple functions (an estimate of the value of a board position and an estimate of which moves might be good) combined with a tree search algorithm.
There are comments from current and ex yahoo employees floating around the web and the consensus is that basically MM burned it to the ground. Its game over for yahoo, let it serve as an example to others of what happens when people doing the actual work get the f out.
A reminder to those writing open source READMEs: People coming to your project have probably never heard of it before. Tell us what this is and why, don't bury the lede.
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>What makes GO so much harder than chess is how hard it is to evaluate the board.

And the 300-fold increase in branching factor.
I can't speak from experience for most of these, but I just bought some Ruckus APs and have been through review hell. The Ruckus APs were clear winners; the reviews (of the R500 and R600) were glowing and said the devices were easy to configure. (They're also very expensive.) They haven't arrived yet, so I can only recommend them based on my research, not based on experience.

I'm replacing a hodgepodge of hardware, including some Apple routers and APs. The Apple products worked reasonably well. I had to keep them fairly isolated (for heat) or else they required reboots. But given their price point, I would probably look somewhere else.

Throughput was a major complaint for many reviewers of the Unifi models I researched. No individual reviewer convinced me the units themselves were the problem, but the sheer number of such reviews did.

Peplink's Pepwave units look awesome and were my second choice.

For all the others, I could either not find enough reviews to reach any conclusions or could not find a model that fit my needs.
When a gun fires at a human, it is a suicide or a murder more often than it is self defense.

Ultimately, though, I do agree that these numbers are all negligible: there are more car deaths annually than there have been civilian gun deaths in the last ten years. The argument that is important to me is that gun rights simply aren't very relevant any more, and they are being used as a talking point for political forces who are causing a lot of harm to much more relevant rights.
> Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to.

Governments have guns, Google does not. I'm not saying we should ignore corporate surveillance but there is a big difference.
From the start copyright and anti money laundering laws have very different intents and act upon very different subjects.

Based on the article, the similarity seems to be largely "two areas of law that the author really dislikes."
I feel like the author completely misunderstood why AlphaGo is exciting. It's about advancements in technology and soft AI, Go has almost nothing to do with it.
It may be true, but the Daily Mail is definitely not a reputable news source.
It's well-known that banks do not pay top dollar for engineering or IT talent.

Doesn't jibe with my observation -- my sense is that (upper-tier) banks do pay significantly higher than tech startups (leaving aside equity, of course), on average. And offer a lot more security, if you can stick it out. Again, on average -- for average-schmoe Java/C++/what-have-you devs.

You're definitely right about the horrible technology and working conditions, though. That's why the banks know that have to dangle above-average salaries for all kinds of humdrum role descriptions -- deep down inside, they know that to a large extent, they're paying people for being willing to hold their nose, day in, day out, year after year.

And of course for the willingness to pee in a cup, because someone told you to.
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This fund?
https://hedgefundranks.com/fund/909
That may be true. As for me, I would experience something that is beyond the norm. I have spent 7 hours so far today with a clear head, able to work, with no desire to escape.

Having days where I just stare at the computer for hours with zero ability to really engage in a task is not normal. It didn't happen every day, but enough to help me realize something was not right.

btw, another symptom that I had is zero patience for certain sounds. Clicking pens, dishwasher, and more. My mind would fixate on it. Background noise made it so much harder to focus. Now it is less of a issue.
This has been an interesting conversation. I found it particularly interesting that my communication came across as disrespectful to the Chinese.

Few people that I've met have any real world experience with contract manufacturing. Of the ones I do, they have mostly dealt with Chinese manufacturers, although I do know one person who worked with a Japanese contract manufacturer and one with a Vietnamese factory. Everyone who has ever asked me about this I point to Bunnie's "Made in China" blog entries [1]. Which convey the challenges and rewards of taking manufacturing to China much more clearly than I ever could.

That said, people who have had experiences with contract manufacturing in China have all had a very similar experience, that experience was that the contract manufacturers have an exquisite expertise in squeezing costs out of manufacturing through creative techniques, not specifically disallowed by the contract. Bunnie writes about this at length in his blog.

The thing here is the law of large numbers. There are so many contract manufacturers, and their business is so competitive, the ones who develop this expertise survive and the ones who don't, they don't survive because nobody accepts their bids. It is important to understand that they are this way because they are good at what they do, not for any negative reason.

It is this exact asymmetry of information which I expect befell the hotel in its attempt to have "cool programmed light switches and TVs." This mechanism, which many people who have used contract manufacturers have experienced, is that an inadequate specifications on the final product can give the manufacturer room to economize on their costs, which increases their profit, and also increases the chance that the bidder will be around for the next bid.

And it is the large number of Chinese contract manufacturers, the ease with which they can be located and contacted via Alibaba or other web sites, that means so many people have had a chance to experience this effect first hand with them. Using Chinese manufacturers as an example of the challenge in my post was my way to communicate what I was talking about in a way that folks who might look this up could find additional resources discussing this challenge (and they would probably find Bunnie's blog too).

The leap here, was to take what I wrote and assume that I said, or believed that because something was made in China, is was cheap.

That was not what I said, and certainly not what I meant. But a mix of people have both read it both ways. So it certainly could have been written more clearly.

I really do recommend Bunnie's blog. Everyone should understand the challenges of working with contract manufacturers, regardless of their nationality. Not tightly specifying a contract (and worse not knowing how to tightly specify a contract) will create situations like the one with the Android controlled light switches.

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=7
I do not understand this debate. The project should decide on which autotools version to use and everyone contributing should make sure everything can be generated and installed with roughly the following:

> autoreconf -ivf

> ./configure

> make

> sudo make install
WebSockets are one of the most underestimated value-adds in modern browsers. Pub-sub. Real time. Ease of data transfer and client-to-server synchronization. I can't think of a modern project that wouldn't benefit from sockets, unless the site is literally 100% static. But then, why use most of the stack outlined in the article?
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One thing that changed is storyboards became more modular, and you can load them programmatically just like .xib files. So you can break apart UI into multiple storyboards.

Which is good, because some features only work inside storyboards. For example, the Interface Builder component of Xcode cannot lay out a "static" UITableView (one whose content and subviews are set at design time) unless it's inside a storyboard. No idea why.

I used to avoid storyboards as much as possible, but things like that made me decide it's too much trouble to fight The Man, so now I just usually use them like he wants me to.

I think it's fair to say that storyboards have gotten better, but they still suck.
Different people have different goals for the laws. For a sane comparison, you should look at the most laudable goals, otherwise it's going to be a fruitless discussion, trying to divine the "real" reason behind copyright laws.
One thing that a lot of people who haven't been unemployed seem to not recognize is that it's really, really, REALLY boring. I've tried the whole "sit on my ass ripping bongs for 16 hours a day every day" thing and it gets old real fast. It's like eating pizza every day, after a while it makes you feel sick and you just want a damn salad.

I have no doubt whatsoever that if we woke up and had full automation tomorrow and everyone could live comfortably forever after, we'd achieve far more than we are right now. The scientists, doctors and engineers of the world aren't going to suddenly throw away their goals and dreams because they don't need to work anymore. If anything, they'd be free to work on the most important things without having to worry about whether they'll be profitable for their companies.

Do you think if we had a full automation society that we would have never gone to space? In a world without work, I have no doubt that eventually enough people would get together and decide to make it happen. People will still have goals they want to achieve and give their lives meaning.
...Have Chess players had a future...?!
Yeah, the dying thing's a bitch.
> There are always profits, and losses, to be had through attempting to beat the market.

In this context the problem is that buying into an index fund does beat the market, because it simultaneously creates and then takes advantage of a bubble in the price of stocks in the index. The price of indexed stocks goes up because index funds are buying them. Then people buy into index funds because they're going up.

In theory non-index investors will then sell the indexed stocks once they're overpriced, but they can see the feedback loop. If more people are expected to invest in index funds in the future then the future demand for indexed shares will be even higher and the indexed shares will be worth even more tomorrow, so they become part of the bubble instead of correcting it.
Michael's response:

https://t.co/kZiaYd076U
This one unfortunately isn't analogous with the others.
What kind of configuration would you need to run the DeepMind setup? Looking at the wikipedia page if we assume the setup [1] there then it seems like at this time it would be out of the realm of feasibility at this time of setting up this software for cheating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo#Hardware
I see your poll, and raise you another! 60% favor renewal of the bulk-data-collection programs. (Ha! Since 60% is higher than 54% I win! That's how you do statistics, right?) http://kron4.com/2015/06/01/poll-6-in-10-back-renewal-of-nsa...

Interesting thing about all these polls, it's not split on party lines. The two major parties (and independents as well) are divided about whether they favor or oppose it.
If money is considered speech than the free dissemination of money is anti free speech as copyright is.
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That's a very amateurish and closed minded comment.

There's a reason professional sports team and players study the styles of their opponent. Teams employ statisticians for this exact role. Before games, teams study the style of their next opponent. After every after game teams go and study the recordings of their last game.
I use a lenovo z500 3rd gen core i5 6 gigs of RAM and 250 gb samsung 850 evo ssd with Windows 7 and Linux mint. It's ssd runs like a charm. You gotta love the stability and simplicity of Windows 7 plus I experiment with stuffs on linux mint which is really awesome with mate as desktop environment and compiz window manager (you can do a lot of awesome window tweaks with it).
The link seems to be invalid; here is a working one: http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/money-laundering-is-...
Simple question - in ideal world where UBI replaces welfare system, what happens to person, who takes UBI check, spend it all in casino and next day is due day for rent, health insurance, no food in refrigerator, etc?
>20 stories is what a lot of SF residents fear from new construction. "Manhattanization" was a big fear there.

As a political compromise, consider low-rise (~5-7 story) buildings. This is what most of Paris and some of the trendiest Manhattan neighborhoods (West Village, East Village) have, and it feels nothing like what people picture when they think of densities at 80k+ people per sq. mile.

I agree mid- and high-rise buildings are best for transit and commercial hubs, but low-rise in all other walkable areas is sufficient to make a huge difference in SF with less dramatic change in character, sunlight, etc--the usual NIMBY concerns.
The New American Home 2016 is big and beige, as usual
Yup. E2E crypto with keys stored on the conversing devices shuts down all MitM attacks. It doesn't stop targeted attacks (warranted or unwarranted), but I expect that law enforcement considers passive data scraping to be much less serious than targeted surveillance.
The first one isn't even a real argument. That is claiming new initiatives just won't happen - if you stop being passive for exploiting this new market, not everyone is passive anymore. And about disposing, well, this is where the profits come into.

The third is mildly concerning. If a few companies are swimming in money, they may disturb every market around. Historically this don't last for long, every time the market gets like this, there comes a crisis and destroys those big players. Worth keeping an eye to a "this time is different" event.

Now, the second one is the real problem here.
If you're going to make posts on this internet forum, you should stand by them and own up to the consequences, which generally speaking are limited to watching a number go down.
Maybe that's why AlphaGo is exciting to you. I don't give a shit about technology and AI compared to how much I want to watch AlphaGo play more games of Go, and I suppose that professionals probably feel the same way.
There's a difference between having skills and having knowledge.

In your case you have knowledge but lack skills.

When Federer was losing to Nadal he changed his practice and game to counter Nadal's style. He took knowledge and applied it to his skills.

When Federer came out with SABR people were like wtf. Now they know of it and put more umph on their second serve. See. Knowledge + skills
You're right. My comment went a bit far.
The article is going much farther than just targeted advertising - it talks about predicting and manipulating behaviour in general, and about power, power in the political and personal, such as the question of who we are and our values.

In combination with the article I read just before, the one about statehood in no-man's land, there is also the question of sovereignty raised. If our behavior can be predicted and manipulated by supranational companies, how much is a democracy - a state - still worth? (Note that state actors could of course do the same, though hopefully there is at least a semblance of legitimization.)

This is a very high price to pay, in this described world, and I don't think most are able to even start judging fairness here, or even care enough to try and see.
If a library author makes such a fundamental change their public API by making a method return more specific, I might actually want to know about it. I don't find it particularly problematic since it seems like code smell for that sort of change to happen in the first place.
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It may have been meaningless, but it's all the information the researchers had either. I don't think they misrepresented anything.
The clause in the US Constitution that gives Congress the power to create copyright laws says

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The original intent is actually written into the Constitution.
"You’re giving them information; they sell your information."

This is a common misconception about Google, so one can understand why the authors came to this conclusion. It would be very interesting to see evidence to the contrary.

https://privacy.google.com/about-ads.html
This is a great article, and I hope it gets read widely. I love the phrase "toxic data spill". We won't have reached maturity in the IT world until it becomes completely accepted and assumed that your systems will be broken into and whatever data is accessible there will be stolen. Only when we start designing with that in mind as a first principle will we actually have a chance of making people safe. For now, virtually every system I come across is designed around the principle that nobody bad will ever get in, and all we have to focus on is layers of encryption and network security to stop them - it is honestly just ludicrously naive. Even with perfect security, one day someone you let in will turn bad and expose data.
I wouldn't say Lee is unchallenged. Ke Jie defeated Lee just before Lee played AlphaGo.

But I would say he might feel like crap having lost his title to a 19 year old, and now losing to a machine all in the same week.
Dispense UBI weekly or daily. If the person spends it on gambling, then tonight they go on the streets just like they do today, and tomorrow they make better choices. If the pattern continues it serves as evidence that the person isn't fit to fend for themselves and needs to be institutionalized.
Let's say all of the most sensitive data of a person can be fit in 20kb, SSN, CC, Bank, your dogs's high school's mascot's sweetheart, etc. The entire US would just about fit on a 6tb drive.

The rest of the data is not that valuable in comparison.
> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem.

There is a money-management problem in the US, but it crosses class lines and is a different problem than addressing/ameliorating poverty. Financial literacy would do a lot of good for a lot of people, but money management advice/lessons don't address the needs of those without money, regardless of whether they grok the message.

My experience with poverty in the US, both first- and second-hand, is that the money problems are mostly a money-deficit problem. Being poor is expensive in many ways: financially[0], emotionally[1], intellectually[2]... and poverty closes doors in ways many don't realize[3].

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21663262-why-low...

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/122887/poor-people-dont-have...

[2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976

[3] http://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-peo...
But given the strength of the distributed program, the desktop version is already professional strength because of diminishing returns.
Would it? Or would the discoverer of the method be more inclined to keep the knowledge to themselves in order to maximize their own potential profits?

The thing about competitive edges is, if you share them with everyone else then that causes them to disappear.
They actually do not.
I'm pretty sure Vanguard has a standard "good governance" policy that controls how they vote their shares.
Pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) seems to perform a similar function but with more features.
I wonder, in the future, might Google (or similar) be able to make a government use those guns?

If we as the sovereign of democracies can be influenced massively, I can imagine that at least in tipping-point situations.

There is a lot of money in wars too, so even without state-level actors paying, motivation is not unthinkable.
This way of approaching human rights as a set of legalistic technicalities nauseates me.
Great find! So I may be wrong, but at least we can agree that the outlook isn't as bleak as some people think.