skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how do you know that AI is not already advising the military on certain tactics? even an isolated system that analyzes data gathered by intelligence analysts, weather, radar, etc. and can suggest an a flight path and timeline for insertion or airstrike (especially in context with other operations in-theater) would basically be that, wouldn't it? i mean, i doubt it's guys on the DoD version of google maps plotting routes by hand.

i have a hard time believing something like that isn't already in use to some extent, at least for special operations forces. how long until they just hook that into the drone fleet? what if they already have? autopilot on a modern fighter/bomber is basically the same thing, except there's a human in the loop, right?

that would also go along nicely with the whole matrix / skynet plot that seems playing out in real life right now...
Please do not profess to speak for all Ontarians, or all Canadians; you do not. There is no general 'we', there are a number of disparate groups with their own views and motives. The average voter is not even so complex as to have a self-consistent integrated worldview.[1]

In addition, many of your fellow Ontarians disagree as to the cause of the province's malaise, and the potential solution(s). There are many areas without natural resources, which have still managed to do very well (economically) in recent times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
The @internetofshit Twitter account is already on this one:

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/708565761330176000

"On one level: this is a great idea
On another level: WiFi routers shouldn't be so shit that this exists"

"So many people saying they actually want this thing?! It's apparently real"
It is just a guess. Human thought, although highly complex, is in my opinion something actually feasible to be simulated. If I had a large research budget under my control, I would be betting most of it on AGI.
Can someone explain to me why universal basic income seems to be more popular than negative income taxes these days? To use some examples I'm picking out of my hat:

1. Universal basic income: Everyone gets $10K per year.

2. Negative income tax: Everyone gets $15K per year, phased out linearly across an income of $60K (i.e. if you earn $0 you get $15K, if you earn $20K you get $10K, if you earn $40K you get $5K, and if you earn $60K then the negative income tax is fully phased out).

Why is 1 preferable to 2? Is it just that it's less susceptible to tax fraud? Note that the amount that an unemployed person gets in UBI is less, because the same amount of money is being distributed to more people, even millionaires.
I second your recommendation, and feel that Review (maybe tied with You're The Worst) is one of the most underappreciated comedies currently airing. The show (and Forrest)'s uncompromising commitment to the central premise is both hilarious and crushing. Andy Daly deserves way more hype for his performance.
X11fs: A tool for manipulating X windows
Or used Bitcoin to buy anything.
I ask this in complete earnestness, because your remark is what caused me to read the article, but how is this related to the data in the article? Why are you asking this? Because I would love to know if I have missed some relevant detail that might be meaningful.

Thanks.
> The elephant in the room here is that Bitcoin is dodgy.

How people use is not its intrinsic property.
If it doesn't feel like a "one-click donation" I'm prone to skip it.
This is an eccentric collection, nothing wrong with that. But for something billed as "Complete" it sure is missing a lot of classics, not a single Hemingway in the bunch.
Pay 60€ a year for the amazon prime credit card, which amazon already subsidizes?

Or pay more like 200€ a year for one with better protections for your money, which I’d get for free with EC?
The problem is that it REALLY hard to determine who "wins" at play calling.
Counterparties wouldn't trade with HF traders if their prices weren't better.
I mean: a friend of mine has a 11 years old child. Another has two girls, one 8, the other 13... Should I suggest one of this games to them? If yes, which one?
What’s Next in Computing
Because smartphone sales started to rise rapidly around 2007/2008, just when that curve with teenage pregnancies starts to dive?
"who cleans the toilets? Who waits tables?"

The robots, of course.

I mean, the reason why this is an issue in the first place is due to rapidly increasing advancements in automating people out of the job pool.

Anyone who looks at the current state of self-driving cars and deep learning (ala AlphaGo) and doesn't recognize we are right on the cusp of a huge sea-change in how many jobs we can automate out of existence (at least in the sense that they won't be done by humans anymore) isn't thinking very hard.

And we are currently so far away from useful solutions to this economic problem that we really need to start seriously considering it right NOW.
Considering that plays are often called or changed by quarterbacks on the field right before the snap based on what the QB sees from the opposing team, I think it would be difficult to provide all that input to a computer AI.
I made a similar argument with Lavabit. Further analysis showed the situation was quite different from what warrantee search implied:

Physical: You usually received notice and could physically spot insertions of fake evidence or mishandling. Only one target.

Digital: They capabilities they ask for can be used invisibly on as many targets as they like. They allow undetectable insertion of forged evidence as well in many cases.

The FBI showed their true colors in Lavabit case where they acknowledged that getting the key or attaching their box could compromise ALL accounts. The FBI's argument? Do it then lie to customers that it didnt happen and their emails are still private. FBI said no harm to business that way. Judge agreed, too.

This is not isolated case. They abuse the other authorities similarly with coercion of affected parties and deception of US public. So, I fight backdoors or similar capabilities to avoid enabling tyrants.

A read-only, auditable search a 3rd party can restrict to just warranted targets woukd be a totally different discussion. They've usually rejected tgat stuff in favor of overreach and subversion. That's telling.
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Nope, I checked.

All of those require you to have taken at least one loan or credit in your life, or to have an income.

I’m a student, and I was raised to never ever go into debt – I never had a single cent of debt to any institution, the maximum I ever had to a single person were cent volumes.

I tried, seriously.

Even the "free" prepaid cards cost money (usually several euro) to recharge.
Confessions of a failed self-help guru
My guess would be simplicity and fairness: everyone gets $X per month, no matter who you are, that's a simple thing to get. It fits neatly into our pre-existing mental models of how people get paid in the world. Tying it to taxes, sure you could still space it out monthly, but we're used to thinking of taxes as a once-yearly (or once-quarterly) event.

Fairness: everyone, even millionaires, gets the same thing. The idea doesn't discriminate, so it's not just "the poors getting a handout" (n.b. I don't endorse that idea or phrasing).
I expect the government to eventually under NSL demand the source code be given to them along with any necessary keys. The question at that point is do the targets say no. This of course would create standing to challenge the constitutionality of secret courts and NSLs and the like which I don't think the DOJ and FBI want to lose.
“As of May 15, 2016, your Revolv hub and app will no longer work.”
Closer to their goal: Make a generalized AlphaGo program that runs on a computer no heavier than 3.3 lbs and uses less than 20 watts of power. Macbook pro is currently 30 watts and 4.5 lbs. So, that's pretty close. But the parent company, Google DeepMind, doesn't have go playing as their ultimate goal.
Yes, but you also have a database of answers from people, so even if you ask things like "what color is the sky" you're still getting the right answer.

Check out http://www.jabberwacky.com/

it jokes with you, it gives vulgar answers sometimes, etc.

it's NOT good enough to fool someone, but what if you just made it sound like it's a person with a disability? Is that still beating the Turing test? Is talking to a "five year old" still beating the Turing test?

Or does it have to be a 100 IQ adult person fluent in English? In which case that's just improving the bot a bit. To make it a funny and charming bot it would require even more effort. But it's just slowly improving the state of the art with some kind of techniques like reinforcement learning or neural networks or whatnot.

When a bot actually beats the Turing test it wouldn't be big news because it would just be a slightly better jabberwacky.
The questions you pose require solving the game, at least (ii).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game
Especially if you factor in refunds. Stripe, for instance, does immediate fiat conversion, so a refund will pretty much never be 1:1 Bitcoin. Imagine what happens when price shoots up, and customers ask for refunds, thinking they'll profit off of raised Bitcoin price. You'll either have pissed off "customers", or your store will quickly turn into nothing but an arbitrage tool.
I think:

First, basic income is a simple concept. Anyone can understand the idea. The idea is that everyone gets a check. Everyone. (The reality: It probably won't work that way.) Taxes are complicated and poorly understood and so on.

Second, I think a lot of people are incredibly scared right now. I have seen articles from very wealthy people about how afraid they are for the world these days. A great many people are afraid that automation is "taking our jobs" and that if we do not simply cut a check for everyone, vast swaths of people will be left out and there is just a lot of fear right now.

The world is more complicated than ever. An elegant solution in the face of that level of complexity is hard for many people to envision, much less fathom.

(For the record: I am not for basic income. I am for 1) Affordable housing and 2) making "gig work" a path to a real middle class income.)
What else is it other than being patronized?
"Universal" except for individuals with criminal records.

#Edit, for the downvoters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement
Isn't Ontario full of logged forests and mines? Not to mention hydro power? (as documented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo)
I agree with the sentiment, but am somewhat more pessimistic, and would say that the more usual case is:

'In social science, the people are the guinea pigs.'

and disturbingly often:

'In social programs, the poor are the guinea pigs.'
The linked budget announcement says simply that the government will begin consultations on how best to test and implement a Basic Invome scheme in 2016, not that it'll actually trial it this year. Not that a trial will begin his year. And, given the so-so response towards Ontario's supplemental pension plan, I wouldn't take support for this scheme as a given.
"easy" in the sense that you need an adequate FICO score. (as your credit habits obviously have rewarded you with, kudos)
Noticed that I said objective metrics? The objective qualifier is important, as it is impervious to distortion fields.
Interesting, I've had the opposite reaction. I find it to be about the nicest programming language to work with. I even started writing a little toy database in Julia, and find it really easy to reason about.

Package management system is its only weak point IMO. It makes a lot of counter-intuitive decisions (having to build a package from the packages directory? that's just strange). Cargo / Bundler to me feel like the gold standard in package management... most alternatives I've seen would be better off just copying those workflows unless there's a really good reason to try something new.
Basic income should be done like in the Expanse (e.g only for those with no/minimal income) and it should be dynamic - percentage based on the current economy size. It should also be spent only on domestic products to stimulate local economy. Otherwise, it will be another Ponzi scheme like the current pension systems.

Which would be a shame since it's a good idea and necessary due to technological advances.
> Except that debit cards in the U.S. are not covered by the same consumer protection laws as credit cards

Neither is bitcoin, so pretty sure that's irrelevant for this discussion.
Can alphago be defeated ?
Like perhaps https://forum.golangbridge.org ?
Hm, a clever little theorem. I'm surprised it isn't recorded somewhere. Perhaps it's just under a different name because of it's relative... simplicity? Not to belittle her accomplishment. This is something you'd expect Euclid to write about or something.
"hard-coding --large into the classname just makes it a hack"

You're gonna infuriate lots of CSS people! That's the basis of modularity: you can just move around a component anywhere on the page, it will keep its styling (thanks to classes like header--large) and not be disturbed by its surroundings.

Personally, I agree with you, and think it's a bad approach. Elements should be able to be styled according to context.

Let's say I have 2 columns: "main" and "sidebar". I have a list of my latest articles in "main". I want to show another list of articles in my "sidebar", but display them smaller, because it's secondary content.

Why should I have to add the ".post--small" class to all my posts? Why can't I use the context of the parent ".sidebar" and use that in my CSS? I could then keep the exact markup for all posts across the website.

"Ideal situation, parent container media queries"

Yes, that's exactly what CSS is missing, but you found the reason why it hasn't been implemented: circular dependency issues.
It's actually not. The US and the UK have the same percentage of adults using financial services (91%.) France, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, etc. have a higher percentage; others have lower such as Norway and Portugal (and Switzerland!.) The average for the US and Europe is 92%. http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Economic-Deve...
8 year old Thinkpad x200, Core2 2.4Gz. Bought second hand ~4 years ago, upgraded the RAM to 8GB, got a new 9 cell battery (still enough for ~7 hours of work). Got an SSD as gift. Currently running Debian unstable flawlessly.

For work I really use whatever workstation my employer provides me, but this is my main machine at home for entertainment and personal projects; I hardly power on my more poweful desktop.

Definitely the best machine I ever had: very light, still runs cool and completely silent when on battery power. It is not a speed monster, but it is still fast enough to browse even most complex websites (no webgl though). The screen is notoriously bad, but is more than enough for my needs.

I dropped it about 6 months ago, and it stopped working. After considering buying a replacement (you can get a refurbished x200 for ~100£) I thought maybe it was time to buy a new machine, and was eyeing a new XPS 13. Then that evening it powered on again (probably a loose RAM). Never had a problem since
Aren't they basically the same thing? In your example 2., you can say you still distribute $15K to everyone, but you set the progressive tax rate so that if you get $60K the extra tax amount would become $15K that cancels the flat distribution. (If you say UBI is for every person including kids, you can still adjust tax rate in 2. with dependent deductible/compensation).

The amount people get depends on the design of whole scheme (including tax increase to compensate UBI) so you can't say which is cheaper/expensive in general. Can you? (I'm not an expert, so my reasoning may be flawed.)
Quadcopter navigation in the forest using Deep Learning
AlphaGo was first trained with human data only to create an initial "predict the next move" network. Afterwards, they let the network play with itself to learn how to win. So it's quite possible that it has its own tactics.
You call it "Fear campaigns", others would call it "participating in the democratic process".
Parallelizing the C++ Standard Template Library
That might work; the concern is that this would take it too far off of the task it was trained on.
That is, if it doesn't have a lot of experience being significantly down, then it won't play nearly as well when trying to catch up-- but that doesn't matter in even games because it never gets that far behind.

You're right that it would be interesting to see, though-- we need to get better at understanding these sorts of systems, at least until they can start optimizing themselves.

Alternatively, we might train a different agent (OmegaGo?) to try to win by the largest margin possible-- if it works as well as AlphaGo, then that might give us some more insight into how strong both programs are.
Not sure where you live, but how easy is it to cash checks at banks with whom you don't have an account? Apparently, check cashing outlets (CCO) handle substantial volume in the US and business is booming:

"Cashing a paycheck at a [check cashing outlet] gives customers access to their
money the same day. [Alternatively,] Banks limit access to $200 or so and can
hold the money for up to five days. Further, low-income and low-balance customers
get frustrated with a bank’s fees eating away at what little is in their
accounts or sending their balances more into the red with low-balance and/or
overdraft fees" [1]

[1]http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2015/0115barr-figart.htm...
> In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the service in such a way that there wasn't a time/money equivalency to participating.

There always is, they just choose to pay in terms of company scrip. And they can -- and have -- arbitrarily remove karma from the system. It's great for them, because they convert user time into dollars for StackOverflow.
From the article:

> According to the new "Three Radii Theorem," if three or more lines extend from a single point to the edge of a circle, then the point is the center of the circle and the straight lines are the radii.

Shouldn't that be "three or more lines of equal length", and "to different points on the edge of a circle"? Or am I missing something?
At least there's a simple equation [0] for the deflection of light rays caused by a black hole. If your background is a UV map (for example), then it should be easy to compute the distortion effect. rantonels (whose raytracer was the source of inspiration for mine) has done a realtime version [1] -- I believe this should be close to what you're talking about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens#Explanation...
[1] http://spiro.fisica.unipd.it/~antonell/schwarzschild/
About 8% of US households don't have a bank account. [1] The number seems to be slightly lower in the UK. I believe in some Western European countries it's required to receive government payments so the unbaked rate is lower in those cases.

But the US isn't especially unique.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/
We can't really answer this question for you. You might spend some time reading startup post mortems. They typically include some analysis. Then, in cases where they get real discussion here, read the discussion. Don't assume that the people who failed know all the reasons they failed.

Edison made thousands of light bulbs that didn't work before finally making one that did work. There are a great many ways to fail. Their failure does not necessarily indicate anything about the odds of your product. It depends on a great many factors. Given that you have not linked to your thing or theirs and haven't even told us generally what you are making, this question is just way too vague. And perhaps that is part of your problem generally.
Right, but why would that be a connection and not just correlation?
So, there are two end positions - Apple/WhatsApp on one end and the FBI on the other. Is there a third one we aren't looking at? Obama and FBI director want a "middle ground". Is there a middle ground?

Since the US govt helped develop the technology behind WhatsApp encryption, now might be a good time to put money into developing a technology that creates a "middle ground".
Schools are a very a good place to learn about this stuff too :)
A neural net would be able to read the opposing defense more quickly and accurately than any human, but it would not be a fair fight (the human doesn't get a bird's eye view of things!).
Given the fact that the Canadian economy isn't doing well and the government is running deficits, how are we going to pay for this ? What are we going to cut ? What taxes are we going to increase? Given the fact that value of CAD has dropped significantly which has led to increased food prices, how will this not hurt the working poor and the middle class ?
> This is something you'd expect Euclid to write about

Which is what makes the lack its history so fascinating.
Skeptics have said that achieving this milestone would not happen within this decade, our lifetimes or even ever. It happened yesterday.

It took Lee Sedol many decades of his life to train to achieve this level. And his ability to pass on his skills is limited. Now that a computer has achieved this level, the state of the neural network behind it can be serialized and ran into an unlimited number of computers and have millions of systems that are more proficient at Go than the best player in the world.

People have said that achieving the cognitive level of the human brain requires to match its computational power. But if you take out all the parasympathetic and motor boilerplate, what is actually left for mental tasks is much less from that, most of that power is not even recruited for higher level mental tasks. That lowers the bar for strong AI.

Then, strong AI can be immortal, and never physically deteriorate from aging. Strong AI can multiply infinitely and communicate at a rate that would be equivalent to writing millions of books in a second. It could transfer all its knowledge in seconds. It can also recursively improve itself. This advantage will lower the bar for strong AI even more.
Microsoft seems intent on supporting Blockchains as a service, but that doesn't mean that they're going to accept them internally on a business level.

Microsoft's Blockchain platform on Azure currently supports Bitcoin, Bitshares, Ethereum, Emercoin, OpenLedger, Ripple, Factom, Eris, Coinprism, and more.

Just because they now support Ethereum as a service doesn't mean that they're validating Ethereum and plan to incorporate deep within their business units. It also doesn't mean that they think it's better than Bitcoin.

On a personal level, I'm quite excited by Ethereum and am more and more dejected by Bitcoin these days.
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