skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it was a simple reading comprehension fail, not specifically related to the subject at hand.
Avoid the baggage. Make your own identity
"Everything libertarian leads to an everyone for themselves hellscape."

When you take a black and white perspective like this, it's evident you don't have any intention of understanding your fellow man's position. In this way, you yourself are proving logically inconsistent. You have deemed yourself intelligent enough to judge me as being wrong, in my decision to judge others?

So let me get this straight, I am wrong because I believe myself intelligent, rational, thoughtful, and considerate enough, to pass fair judgment on to others. Yet you are not wrong for your rational and thoughtful analysis and subsequent judgment of my belief? That's not just logically inconsistent, it's hypocritical.

Regarding your example:

Again, things are not as black and white as you would like them to be. Each scenario takes a requires a multitude of factors be considered.

Yes, the driver chose to drive in bad weather, which certainly put themselves at risk. I tend to have no problem helping people, who just hurt themselves. But what about the other drivers? Did he put them at risk too? Sure, but those drivers implicitly took the same risk, when they chose to driver in bad weather.

There's an additional consideration, that of the acceptability of someone's behavior. Driving is a socially accepted practice, and one that is sometimes a necessary task. I can extend compassion for them, by assuming the needed to engage in this socially accepted practice of driving, despite the risks.
I didn't mean to imply that not doing stupid things is easy, merely that it's possible.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/amazon-shutting-dow...

http://www.cpcstrategy.com/blog/2015/08/amazon-product-ads-d...

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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/09/amazon-discontinues-disappoin...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-discontinues-amazon-ele... :)
> And now an AI without emotion, philosophy or personality

Why do you think AI has no emotion, philosophy, or personality? We too are mere machines. Magnificent machines, no doubt, but machines nonetheless.
this is pretty awesome. something similar to this is being used by Silver Push to unify devices to the same owner: http://blog.silverpush.com/silverpush-says-its-using-audio-b...

i'm not a fan of this kind of covert ad tech but i feel that this trend won't be slowing down any time soon...
Perhaps I should have labeled it author-ultrasonic ;)

I haven't really found much data about the distribution of hearing capacities, so it's hard to tune this to be truly ultrasonic. The average sound equipment starts getting really distorted at around 19kHz, which doesn't leave much space above 17,5, unfortunately.

Thanks for trying my demo!
http://stingergraph.com/ - From Georgia Tech
I had at least 2 people who never did it because it felt like someone got high at burning man and tried too hard.
Reprocessing trash for recyclables is not always possible due to contamination. For example, my trash company won't take pizza boxes in the recycling stream because they are often greazy. The grease in the cardboard not only affects the cardboard it's on, it affects the surrounding cardboard that might be in that recycling stream.

I would imagine that mining trash for aluminium might be more feasible but the quantities would have to justify the operation.
So, how fast does it reboot, and how much does this affect the other software components and operating the plane?

Not that I expect it, but this could be a minor issue, if this 'radar system' is as good as stateless (and not, for example, a component that tracks friends and foes over time) and if it reboots in milliseconds.
Some U.S. states are doing away with license plate registration stickers; instead, police cars will automatically scan every license plate they see and check the owner for expired registration and any other violations or crimes. In other words, police will investigate everyone they encounter (on the road), with no probable cause or other requirement.

The technology to do it is not news; it already exists and will improve. Only laws can protect you.
I agree, but I think you may be overly optimistic about the viability of bootstrapping indefinitely.

If you're sustainably harvesting profits from your niche then eventually that's going to attract other firms, some of whom are going to be big fish that can dump a lot of marketing and sales spend, take your customers and acquire the sustainable profits you've been harvesting.

There are exceptions for when people have really strong "moats", but defensible moats are a lot harder to come by than people realize.
It's interesting to imagine an extreme case. Imagine if self-driving cars were absolutely perfect drivers, except every 100 billion miles the car accelerates to top speed and then drives straight into a bridge support.

Such a car would be immensely safer than what we have now. Would people willingly ride in one?

I think I'm pretty good at rationally weighing the risks, but just imagining this still gives me the willies.
Hah, I just read that a few weeks ago and that's the first thing I thought of also. I wonder if the author was a member/participant in this.
>The reason they don't have roadmaps to AGI is because they do not want AGI to be made before the Friendly AI problem has been solved

Right, which is an impossibility in my opinion. There is an inherent conflict between systems with asymmetric power and capability in a resource constrained environment. Trying to get around that fundamental principle is an exercise in futility.
Sidechannel bypass for airgaps?
Once it gets to enough nines, its monte carlo trees will run out of sample resolution. If it can resolve to three nines, then a 99.93% win branch has a 70% chance of being reported as 99.9% and a 30% chance of being reported as 100%. When all the branches here get rolled up, they report some average around 99.93% but not necessarily exactly it. This propagates upwards in the tree, adding more meaningless digits. Adding the evaluation network in increases the number of decimals, but doesn't really change the effect.

It's similar to how ray tracing renderers start to return weird speckle patterns when the room is dark enough.

And the policy network chooses branches to investigate, not which one to choose. It adds sample resolution to places pros might play, but doesn't add to the estimated probability of winning.

Edit: Actually, since places pros might play have higher sample resolution, they're less random. So worse moves get worse evaluation, and a higher chance of leading the pack. This might actually bias AlphaGo to play some pretty bad moves - but, again, this is all assuming it's going to win anyway.
The opposite would ethical.
> Humans, I think, have the natural instinct to "hedge" themselves in games like go and chess, by creating positional/material advantages now to offset unknowns later. Of course, that advantage becomes useless in the end game, when all that matters is the binary win/lose.

That's actually an excellent way to win chess games. Keep your eye on the mate while the other person is focusing on position and material.
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Note that the author is an "airport owner". So he has a direct interest in more general aviation.

Airline pilots today rarely fly light aircraft recreationally because they can't afford to. Airline pilots are paid much less than they used to be.[1] Regional airline pilots make $30K - $60K. Some bus drivers are paid more. Only senior pilots of major airlines break $100K today. Also, in the US, pilots usually have to pay for their own training.

As for "losing the basic skills", the author doesn't mention the best known example - the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at SFO. The pilots had to make a manual landing in clear weather, instead of using autoland, and they undershot the runway.
Some of that was a lack of manual piloting skills, and some of that was mode trouble with cockpit automation. (This is a huge issue. Read crash reports, and all too often part of the problem was something being in the wrong mode.) On the other hand, the "miracle on the Hudson" of US Airways Flight 1549, which he does mention, was a triumph of automatic control - once the pilot decided to land on the river, the Airbus control system did a very good job of providing a smooth descent.[2]

[1] http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/professional-pi...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Fly-Wire-Geese-Miracle-Hudson/dp/03126...
https://grid.ac

It's a free, entirely manually curated, database of research organisations around the world with associated metadata and other linked IDs (wikidata/geonames/NUTS/crossref/fundref/ucas/ukprn...). Everything has a persistent ID so it doesn't matter if a university changes name.

It's awesome because this is the kind of thing you assume exists but actually doesn't, and is really quite hard to build yourself. If you want to aggregate data from multiple sources you need IDs. We built it because that's what we do and it's what we need. Then we released it CC-BY :)

It's not glamorous, but I think it's pretty important. It lets you analyse things far more easily than you would have been able to do before. I wrote a blogpost about pay in universities vs regional averages in the UK [0] and the analysis itself was really just a case of joining a few things together.

On the business side of things, we work with people to get their data cleaned up & linked to GRID as well as offering other bits with . Please do get in touch if you either want some help using it or just want to talk about these kinds of things :) i.calvert@digital-science.com

[0] https://www.digital-science.com/blog/tech/north-south-divide...

Edit - We're continually adding stuff, so get in touch if you think something is missing or incorrect, you can raise a ticket here: http://gridac.freshdesk.com

We tend to release once a month, so it might be a few weeks before you see the fix go out.
Tailorbrands is great! I'd love to see move than 6 designs though. Previewing the generated brand on various objects is a great idea!
Unfortunately this happens to create lots of frustration on the part on newcomers to HN. Karma is King, so you can be downvoted by the Elite, you should check the HN guidelines.
What about shotguns with birdshot?
Pypy is really cool, and I hope it becomes the default interpreter down the road. However, little py3 support makes me edge away from it for now. Hopefully, all pythons will merge in the near future
Go may not be well known in the west, but it was extremely well known in AI circles. Even before DeepBlue, Go was considered the holy grail of competitive game AI.
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Tor Relay Configurator: https://tor-relay.co/

It's a simple configurator for generating a script that sets up a Tor node on your server. I hope that way people with who are less proficient in Tor and Linux can support the network.
Percy is awesome, no doubt. We're a little different than Percy though.

We don't require any code. Setup is just entering a URL. Percy doesn't really require code either, but it relies on you having already written integration tests.

We do structural diffing, not pixel diffing. Pixel diffing can be challenging to view as a developer since innocuous changes can cause massive visual pixel diffs. With structural diffing we can have a better idea of exactly what changed and highlight those regions.

We're definitely going to be integrating with CI workflows and non-production sites as well :)
Open source banking software written in Go: https://github.com/ksred/bank

The project is an answer to "what would a bank look like if it were built today?"

- iOS Client: https://github.com/ksred/bank-ios

- Visa package to hook into the bank: https://github.com/ksred/visa

- Articles on the process: https://ksred.me/tags/banking-infrastructure/?hn
Nest's New Features Signal a Shift for the Smart Home
Make sure that if a lot of other people are starting to leave, that you're not last out the door. What usually happens in that case is that everyone else gets pushed to "make up for those that left". Deadlines don't change, but with fewer people, that just means longer hours with no bump in pay.
What use would a major defense contractor have with C#? And on what basis do you assume their code base is poor?
Weird. I've experienced a similar thing, except most people I know haven't given up on Uber, they just prefer Lyft. Not sure why.

And I don't think network effect is all that sustainable of a competitive advantage here. Switching costs are just downloading a new app and entering your credit card information.

Frankly, I think this market is still open in the very long term.
Maybe that's a good solution for the particular problem you mentioned, but the only way to banish "moral crusades" which seems in this thread of discussion to be an allusion to the political aspects of economic activity is to price everything correctly everywhere and reduce transaction costs to 0. Not convinced it would work, and if it could work, the only way we could approximate such a solution is by incrementally restructuring the economy as new solutions are developed in order to test them and keep the ones that work. This is a fundamentally political process.

There's always an undertone of banishing the political from human activity leaving only economics in conversations like this one that doesn't sit right with me.
What version of CPython does this match? The announcement doesn't say.
JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference
"such as binding two rings without breaking them"

I can't wait to see that.
Seriously, isn't this to be expected? I know a lot of people have a massive hate boner for the f-35 because they read a lot of shitty war blogs but for a bunch of coders to act incredulous towards this information is absolutely ridiculous.

How many bugs have any of you introduced and fixed in the past week?
In all seriousness, what do you do that you're so secure with your manager that you have no fear of getting fired for saying or implying the wrong thing?

Every place I've ever worked at groans at the expense of people, and will use every means available to reduce that cost.
Live Recorder: http://www.undo-software.com

Record a process on Linux and save an exact copy of the program's execution; replay it later on a different machine, and step backwards and forwards through the recording at the source level to figure out where it went wrong.

There are a few main things that make this possible:

- lightweight copy-on-write process snapshots

- re-executing (rather than recording) code we know to be deterministic

- a lot of time spent on handling corner cases to create a mature product
Nice LoTR reference :)
The whole subthread is nasty, but this crosses into personal attack. Please don't do that here, regardless of how others are behaving.
BedquiltDB (https://bedquiltdb.github.io)

A JSON document store built on PostgreSQL's jsonb columns.

These days I have client libraries done for Python, Clojure and NodeJS, so I've been focusing on getting deb packages ready and gearing up for a 1.0 release.
Yeah, I got a fear of flying also. I live and work in one end of Europe, but come from another end, so when I go back home for the holidays I ride a couple of trains and take a long boat trip at the end. It takes me three days to get home, but I don't have to think about flying. Think about it - it could work for you too.

To be honest, lately I started flying again after almost ten years I avoided it like the plague. It's not that I'm less afraid of it, but it's eating away so much of my holiday that I just can't afford not to anymore.

I guess in a way you could say that getting sick of the long journey by land and sea did help me get over my fear of flying a little bit.
But then there are the people who've only started their codebases within the last five years, and so have been Python 3 all along.
An audio-reactive, programable, super-awesome, buggy, free tool for visualizing animated gifs: http://ludovico.io/
It's important to recognize that they're using C/C++ and the associated ecosystem of static checkers, validated compilers, coding standards, etc.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

The subreddit list definitely needs some attention. The aim was to bucket them into categories, so I either need to flesh that out or sort them.

Skipping media that doesn't load is doable. Some content won't play or advance automatically because a lack of an api to control the api (gifs, Liveleak, Basecamp, iTunes, spotify) but I didn't automatically filter them out because a lot of it is good content. Probably a good option to add to a settings page.
Magic !

You can broadcast data without a network.

Edit: I actually prefer this to the clumsy QR code scanning, maybe I'll use it for device pairing.
Would also be a great tool to pair devices which don't have a display.

But the sounds produced remind me of the background noise in a forest.

Which makes me think that maybe if you used this lib to listen to the noises in a forest and then try and look for interesting patterns in that data..

Anyway, cool lib, will bookmark it.
Our property is getting full of small (10'x10'ish) sheds, greenhouses, and the like. It's so soothing to be able to just make and follow a plan and have concrete solutions to straight forward answers.

That being said, building the old-fashioned pole barn (36'x54') using logs, sawmill, and kiln to make the lumber, almost killed me. There needs to be some sort of limit to everything.
A VR desktop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyUZk3TGZ8

Futzing around with the operating system calls is the hardest part.
I'm about to ship an app that lets you build and deploy crud web applications in the browser.
before the Friendly AI problem has been solved.

That's like saying they aren't telling us how to make time travel because the grandfather paradox hasn't been solved.

They aren't withholding some unique secrets of the universe because we have unsolved problems... they are just slightly crazy people who can turn a phrase and pivoted that ability into an endless series of "grants" as to avoid needing to get real jobs contributing to GDP.

The output of their work is amusing, but just because someone runs around with veracity of purpose doesn't mean what they say is part of a ground truth reality.

Read it for enjoyment, but don't read it for belief.
I'm also disappointed to see the downvotes the parent poster is getting. It certainly adds to the conversation. Most places I've worked, a 1:1 with your boss appearing on your calendar meant you screwed something up, and you need to be very careful to make sure you don't say anything career-limiting.
The problem isn't displaying the pages. It's the rating and asshole management system for the questions and replies. How does that work?
We trained our own models. We have ASR PhD students on our team.
Pindigo - Social score-tracking for pinball players.

We're building an app to provide the first non-forum social network for pinball players.

- Score logging w/ image uploads

- Machine look-up w/ links to third-party resources

- Likes, comments, and following

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- Oauth integration of the world's leading pinball forum, Pinside

- Plenty of stuff in the works!

After 5 months of development, we're starting our v2.0.0 closed beta next week! http://www.pindigoapp.com
I was thinking the same thing. I'm interested in trying it out, but do I really feel like setting up slack for a side project when I'm the only one that works on it?
If people didn't know AlphaGo was a machine, and simply played anonymously online against masters, I wonder how they would interpret AlphaGo's personality?
randomly found a plane registered to none other than Donald Trump using the interesting filter.

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Fascinating tool! thanks for sharing!
The whole thing is misleading and mostly clickbait. Merely running Oracle's JDK on docker does not violate the license nor break any law.
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Last time I checked you couldn't add HTML properties that don't exist. It's not valid HTML code. The exception are "data-*" properties. So the HTML markup should be <span data-desc="whatever">whatever</span>.
CriticalStack acquired by Capital One
What makes the weapon you described any better than something like this[0]? Even if we decided to use hexacopters like you described, you still need a vehicle to deliver them, you aren't going to be flying from the US to Syria or wherever on a 3S LiPo.

[0] http://www.raytheon.co.uk/capabilities/products/sdbii/
This has absolutely nothing to do with installing at launch time. This has to do with installing, then not distributing. Distributing is a very well defined term in the industry, and does not simply mean making copies, or deploying to your own machines.

Distributing means giving the built artifact to a 3rd party.

Yes, you can create your own JDK docker base image. Yes, you can deploy it at will on any of your systems. No, you can't push it to a public respository for other people to use.
Agreed. I can't explain why I found it so hilarious. But I cracked up pretty hard at it.
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Youtube compresses audio above 17kHz so it shouldn't be audible at all past that.

Note: It's at some random value that isn't exactly 17kHz, I think it's 17.6kHz? So it no longer making sound for you at 17.5kHz could be because of that, not because of your hearing.
As a program manager, I have many spreadsheets so this is very interesting to me! :) I would like to see more upfront description of about RowStack's uses and workflow. Just replacing the animated screenshot with a slideshow (with short slide descriptions) that I can step through at my own pace would help.

Are there any plans for integrations with other services? For example, tools like Trello or Waffle.io can read and edit GitHub issues.

Does RowStack have a blog or Twitter account I can follow to watch for updates?
Make the substances and use of them legal to sell and use on one's self. However, make it illegal to market / advertise the substance since that is much easier to control just using fines instead of incarceration.

Attach stigma to it, like we have done with cigarettes (though not e-cigs...). The art / film / literary world will still try to make it sexy (rebellious) on occasion, but without full on marketing it's unlikely you'd see widespread use.

Possibly tax it, although I'm not 100% onboard with that, since it would eventually motivate government to lift the marketing restrictions.

For anything that's instantly addictive after one or two uses, perhaps it would be possible and worthwhile to try and create a diluted version that's safe for people to try it out without completely destroying their life.
If it was ada I suspect it wouldn't be in such poor shape
While true, you can still heavily tilt the odds in your favor while driving by being attentive, being in control, and avoiding bad weather when possible.

And, on the flip side, it's unlikely that another plane is going to run into you but you're probably a lot more exposed to events out of your control such as unexpected weather (e.g. crosswinds) and mechanical failures with serious consequences in a plane than in a car.
So AlphaGo's reign will last only until QuantumGo arrives on the scene? It would be sort of ironic to have spent decades developing practical AIs with classical computing to have them swept aside only when they started to really deliver results...