skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't mind it, because they're not criminals.

This should be called the "other people" fallacy, the idea that bad things only happen to someone else. Similar to the just world fallacy. How could we get people to understand these fallacies?

probably aren't looking through all of their stuff

We understand that the risks are not just from humans creeping on us, but also inscrutable secret algorithms monitoring and/or influencing people in ways we may not agree with. Also, potential abuse just about as important as actual abuse, since we don't know who will have access in the future.

minor invasion of privacy with a huge law-and-order benefit.

Maybe this can be countered by demanding numbers, with documentation backing up the numbers. How many crimes were solved, or terrorist plots foiled, by invading our privacy, that could not have been solved otherwise? And even if that number is significantly greater than zero, what is the societal cost, and is that societal cost justified by the numbers?
It's not in the way of UBI schemes any more than it is in the way of people earning employment income.
Whenever I read topics like this I always think of Office Space.

Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter Gibbons: I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.
4 presidential candidates on 4 tech issues
That is awesome, I've always been super impressed with the technical depth I've seen in engineers that work in this field.
People are automating resource gathering all the time. See eg http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-worlds...
lower insurance cost, not paying for parking, shared maintenance fees, no car loans, not getting stuck when the car is broken, lower transaction costs surrounding buying / selling.

Basically all breaks down to capturing more utility from the vehicle. 95% of the time my car sits in a parking spot, 4% of the time I am driving by myself. There are upsides to owning a car but underutilization is not one of them.
With all due respect...if search engines can't crawl and index your site...everything else you do is worthless for SEO.
Get the technical part right and you are a mile ahead of the pack.

Building backlinks? Targeting correct keywords? This advice is obsolete for half a decade already.

With hummingbird and rank brain Google understands context, topics, entities and their relationships, etc...

There is only ONE sustainable seo strategy outside of getting the technical parts right and that's to be an indispensable resource for your target market...with content that cannot be found anywhere else...and that your users cannot live without!!!
Have you been able to "cash out" enough to do what you want?
You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

-Dickens
My understanding is that the significant part was that before this, throwing more hardware at the available Go AIs still didn't make them competitive against high level players.

Also, it feels like training the AI against many games with lots of hardware is somewhat equivalent to a human progressional who engrossed themselves in the game and trained since childhood.
Is it working out?
Optimization of consumer behavior through endless A/B testing optimizes behavior in favor of the corporations, not the society or the individual. So one of my bigger worries is that these optimization strategies will lead society into a dead end local maximum where everyone is perfectly conditioned to consume for the good of the corporation, when we could have taken a different path resulting in a more egalitarian outcome.

Another worry is that through subtle manipulation of search result ordering, page load delays, news feed filtering, etc., Facebook, Google, et al. could influence politics and culture in counterproductive ways, even if only by algorithmic accident.
That's a bit parochial --- I guess you are talking about the origin of copyright law in the US? The world is older than that country. Copyright law has its origins in censorship and rent seeking.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law and the linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne and even further back.
Technically no. Eventbrite still hasn't gone public.
Huh, Go doesn't require intelligence after all.
This was my argument against the StarCraft claim. If it wins, it will likely have just imitated human pros' thousands to millions of games like a smarter version of old chatterbots.

Whereas, good human players learned as they went with far fewer matches, trial and error, planning, and learning from pto games sometimes. We can even go from Age of Empires to Starcraft with little prrparation and still do OK.
Why is "looking at houses in Denver" depressing?
The discussion on "if SF (or wherever) didn't have X, we could..." is amusing. Communities have building regulations for a reason. Despite all the towers going in in SF around SOMA/etc., you can still venture out to the pan handle, the haight, etc. and find houses and neighborhoods that aren't high rises.

Here is Santa Cruz, we have progressives that tell us that we must accommodate every tom, dick, harry, and jane that wants to live here whether or not they can afford to do so. Bullshit.

Companies building and hoping to scale in an area need to take the cost of living, availability of housing, and how that impacts attracting talent into consideration. They shouldn't suddenly demand that blocks of 5 story buildings be replaced with 20+ story buildings.

As a bay area native, what people desiring to live in SF and what they have to pay amuses me. Yes, there is a direct impact on job growth and housing demand, but rather than insisting that a community change and build such housing, maybe the businesses wanting to grow, expand, and hire in said city should fund the development of said housing -- even if it is outside the location of the office. We already have "corporate buses", why not bring back company towns and corporate housing?

Or, maybe, rather than requiring people on-site full time, think about fostering distributed teams.

It's amazing how many companies refuse to even allow a modicum of "work at home" in this day and age. Any engineer is likely to get contacted by recruiters from some of the big bay area companies. Shuttle buses are better than driving solo, but you are still sitting going from point A to point B for 45-60min each way, plus your work day.
Good reminder. Not specific to MySQL, though. This happens in many languages that have unsigned integers. The underlying bit pattern resulting from twos-complement arithmetic is the same for signed and unsigned arithmetic, but when interpreted as unsigned you get one more high bit instead of that bit representing the sign: 0 for positive, 1 for negative.
> The Parallelism TS, a.k.a. “Parallel STL.” This includes parallelized versions of most STL algorithms

I hadn't seen this before now, this is super exciting!
Passively investing people still buy and sell. It's just that the triggers are based on their personal finances (got a windfall / need to buy new car...) rather than how the market is doing.
That's the purported intent of the framers of the American constitution. Of course, that's not the origin of copyright laws.

Did you know, that there were other countries before the US?
You're right, typo in the title!
Some people thrive on "solving puzzles", which is sort of what engineering is.

For better or worse, there are an infinite number of puzzles to solve.
To me, it represents a slower pace of life.

EDIT: trust me, I'm not bored.
The way I see it, this is great. Start up success means you get to live a lifetime of working in X many years instead of Y like everyone outside of tech, where Y >> X. You have the freedom to direct that energy towards family, yourself, and charity when you want to call it quits. Most people don't get that luxury. You also have the freedom to look back at a short, but intense career of (hopefully) successful products that you were a core part of. Even fewer get to experience that.
It's still ridiculous. Yes, if Vanguard were owned by a different set of shareholders than those who buy into its funds, then there'd be an incentive to charge higher management fees. That doesn't make doing so "anticompetitive", though. It's anticompetitive to "dump" goods/services on a market at an unsustainably low cost to drive competitors out of business (and then presumably raise prices once you control the market). However, it's not anticompetitive to, by design, have a lower price than your competitors and keep it that way forever.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with setting up an organization owned by its shareholders and designed to not charge excessive fees. Resenting that and attacking Vanguard for it is an underhanded tactic by those who want to make money charging fees, and thus have trouble competing with Vanguard.
Excellent article; at 3,860 words, it's a bit long, but recommended.

Here's a much shorter response, with more pathos:

"Oh. And if your reading this while sitting in some darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over whether housewife A should pick up the soap powder with her left hand or her right, do yourself a favour. Power down. Lock up and go home and kiss your wife and kids."

-- Linds Redding, "A Short Lesson in Perspective"

Read the whole thing:
http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-p...
It really depends. Most times you just need the money. Sometimes you have nothing better to do. Many times you just keep doing it because you are used to doing it. A few times is your dream job and you just can't stop doing it. Work is more than economics, is not a function of money. Work is action. My father is a 73 'retired' professional and scholar, now serving as a congressman, and already thinking what to do next. Action is life and you should never stop it: work til you drop.

Another question would be: why do we keep working so hard for money when technology could already solve many of our needs?
You can set up your tax system to exactly mirror the net effects of UBI. Negative income tax is just one possible implementation of UBI.
I can't help but feel training it with previous human games is fair as that seems the equivalent of how humans are taught. You don't just explain the rules of Go to somebody and leave them to learn on their own without playing anyone or picking up tips that have been passed along for centuries.
China’s Censors Denounced in Online Attack
It's nice to see they recorded the denomination of each bill. Too bad the article didn't go into further detail in its summarization.

The abstract[0] says $1 and $100 denominations were less likely to test positive. The latter is curious. Perhaps it's because lower denominations are more likely to be used by street dealers, or that $20 bills make up the majority of triple-digit ATM transactions.

It's worth noting that currency has a lot more than just trace amounts of cocaine on it.[1] Trace amounts of any common narcotic can create problems if probable cause with fur happens to get a whiff of your cash.

>There is cocaine dust around the machines. These bank tellers breathe in cocaine.

Here I thought handling large amounts of cash was just intrinsically exhilarating.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646272

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency#In_the...
>Governments have guns, Google does not. I'm not saying we should ignore corporate surveillance but there is a big difference.

That's a misleading analogy. Problem is that Google/ebay/Microsoft/Silicon Valley cooperate closely with the law enforcement and employ a lot of former LEO people who still have close connections with law enforcement.

Check out some of the Yasha Levine's articles. He's one of the best investigative journalists when it comes to SiliconValley and surveillance.

For example, he's writing a book, Surveillance Valley, precisely on this topic. Check out this short blurb that debunks this notion about Google not policing people:

http://pando.com/2015/02/23/support-yasha-levines-surveillan...

>Reveal how Silicon Valley polices our lives: There is a common misconception that no matter how much Silicon Valley companies spy on us, at least they don’t have the power to arrest and jail us. Truth is, they can and do. This book will investigate how the most progressive Internet companies — including eBay, Facebook and Google — engage in pro-active policing. For example: eBay’s massive private police alone has overseen thousands of arrests and convictions around the globe, and hands over complete criminal cases to government prosecutors “on a silver platter.”

Anyway, truth is a lot darker.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but Google is hardly the most creepy actor here. My top votes are for Facebook and ad retargeting.

One of the things people don't realize is how strict data hygene and log access inside Google is. Cross correlating data across major services in an attempt to demask individuals is a huge no-no and gets you fired.

Plus there is a ton of engineers and staff who deeply care about privacy. You don't push SSL to every endpoint if you don't care about privacy.
Well having done a few conference and course registrations through it, it works very well. Just don't let it turn into a Ticketmaster.
The value of the stock is divorced from the underlying value of the business. HFT algorithms trade across the breadth of the market - I.e. whether they buy or sell a particular stock is correlated not to expectations of a businesse's books but things like Twitter, news, estimates of other firms positions and the like.

So if you're actually trading rather then just collecting dividends (and even then), then whether a stock moves is based less and less on the actual position of the business.

Holding them is fine, but index funds are the exact same thing: they're an exercise in cheaply diversifying to the broadest possible scale, which is the only way the little guy beats the algorithmic traders.
I think flawed is a strong word. It's likely humans are stuck in locally optimised strategies though.
Do you maybe just hate most of humanity?
I wonder what they would find if they tested for fecal matter instead, for example...
Maybe you could stick CTOing but slack off a bit as the company becomes prosperous?
I bought inkjets for years because I was doing a lot of photo printing, but my latest one (or I should say last one!), a Canon Pixma, was just ridiculous this way. No ink = no scanning -- whaaaaa?? I don't print much anymore, so now the cartridges dry up in the printer and/or expire, I'm not sure which, before I get any use out of them.

I picked up a Brother laser a few months ago and I don't ever have to be annoyed by that crap again.
I think the OP perfectly reasons through your situation.

Perhaps the real madness would be trying to change something that is obviously very important to some part of your soul.
Are you sure it isn't just boring, vs. depressing? Maybe if you find a hobby or side project, it'll counter the boredom.
For the record the plan is to drop support next week (March 18th 2016). We will be reconsidering this.
Code.org Hacked: Emails and Location Data of Volunteers Compromised
> By virtue of being tied to the tax system, negative income tax operates on a year-based system and pays retroactively.

That's a naive interpretation. In practice people are already paying their income taxes every month via withholding, so paying out the negative income tax as you go would be possible to implement similarly.
The ones having monopoly on violence are a much stronger force. There is indeed a constant balancing act between them and the masses, but at the end the sooner you accept that that is the real and ultimate power, the world and its inner working, across cultures, will become clear to you.
Actually, the correct and only way to find out if ":latest" breaks your image you create your image using ":latest"!

How are you going to know if the latest version of the upstream image breaks your package if you don't try it? E whole point of continuous integration is that there are no surprises when it comes time to push to production.

If ":latest" breaks your image you had better know:

A) Immediately.

B) What went wrong ASAP.

The integrated testing (that you're supposed to use with Docker best practices) should reveal if there's a problem and if it doesn't you'll still catch it during QA testing of your image.

The fact that ":latest" breaks your image should be nothing more than a few minutes to days of troubleshooting. While you're doing that your existing production images will keep on chugging away.

The only rule that you must not break is that you have the next release of your image out the door, ready for production within 30 days. Why? Because that's the maximum (hard-coded) lifetime we (and you should too) allow images to stay running.
Because in a poor economy the most job desperate set ceilings for themselves they dare not touch. I know people who produce millions in profit a year, on 50-60k salary with any bonus over 3k for xmas is unheard of. Disparate power between employee and employer. I personally the problem is people dont understand the correct process of negotiating a contract.

In essence, making people desperate makes robots that are handy, but the lack of reward incentive creates demonstratably worse worke product.
Thank you. That makes a lot more sense.
Why give people vouchers? Vouchers are like restricted money.

As an example, a part of welfare poor people get in the UK can only be spent on rent. Thus subsidizing landlords.
Also assuming you are a tennis player...if you do not study your opponents' shots during warm up, you are doing it wrong.

The way the would play against a lefty is different than a righty. Someone with lots of topspin vs someone who hits flat, a pusher vs power hitter, etc.
That's not me.
Color me skeptical. The value of things like Elo is they provide a ramping scale with some degree of statistical significance, because they cover play over many games. I don't think a computer is going to be able to extrapolate with a high degree of confidence, because human play is variable from game to game and long-run strategies are non-obvious constructs for the computer.

You're thinking in terms of 'The AI has solved Go mathematically', but that's not the case; Just because you can run a Monte Carlo best-choice-picker/guesser algorithm doesn't mean you can meaningfully rank how deliberate choices compare with each other more than a few plays away.
This isn't a "rebuttal" of anything. It is just an expression of your distaste for SEO.
It does depend fairly heavily on the shared service provider doing it right though. Those cars are going to have to be spotless when they turn up, because there's a big difference between the stain I put on the upholstery and know the history of and the one which was there when it arrived.

Innovation in quick remove interiors seems like it'll be needed.
In general, I agree with all the ant-inkjet comments.

That being said, I've yet to see a laser printer with grayscale rendering approaching that of a garden variety inkjet.
> The black-box aspect, the fact that you can't understand what it is thinking is curious, to say the least

How true is this? Presumably you could ask AlphaGo to give you a list of the top 10 best moves it considered and perhaps, given a certain move, what it sees the board looking like 10 moves ahead.

If you're watching the commentary, one of the commentators (Michael Redmond) will try to explain the outcome of certain moves and this would seem to be equivalent although I imagine he could explain this in terms of the endgame better.
It's much more important that we get this right (as Ontarians). Sweeping generalisations like yours about 'the poor' are largely unwelcome here, and also a driving force for the incredible level of inequality in your country.

There are government systems in place to provide housing, food, and more already. The idea is to replace these many systems with one, which would reduce the occurrence of people who need benefits being denied, and also dramatically reduce administrative overhead.

The overall goal is not just to raise people from poverty, it's also to allow people a break from working to survive so they can take time to focus on personal development, family and mental health.
The risk associated with breakage from an automated upgrade is an order of magnitude less than the risk associated with being hacked because you weren't keeping up to date.
Don't you wanna express yourself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVyCK70BTUs
Yes, but with your permission we will request one from your doctor at no charge. It is baked into the order process.
And by the same programmer, namely the author.
Thanks for reconsidering. I applaude your security mindedness, but this seems a bit premature.

Do you know what percentage of connections to edge servers are still using TLS 1.0?
>I can't think of any other explanation

Many people have their dev environments sitting on remote hardware and ssh in. Terminal sessions or an IDE aren't that resource-intensive, and that's all you need.
Money is one kind of power, and it definitely takes power to abuse others.

It's not an indictment of Silicon Valley, sure. And I'd like to keep it that way, which is why I think it's worth paying attention to these things.
If you live in the city, the compelling use is that you never have to park. And on long enough timeline, if a enough people were doing this, much of the parking footprint of the city could be liberated.

"The right to access every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone owns such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city." -Lewis Mumford
Now that is awesome--those things aren't cheap.

I'm going to send this to my dentist (who's cool enough to appreciate it).
I had an essay for a Philosophy course in college (titled Critical Thinking) where the professor provided the following slide, aptly named "Who should I mistrust".

Point two of four said: "Mistrust the first internet sites that pop up when you search for debatable issues".

Hurray for SEO.
The issue has nothing to do with anticompetitiveness. It's about tax avoidance.
This is just amazing. I was waiting for how it might go horribly wrong, but the guy's mouth looks great.
Best article I have read in a while. Thanks for writing it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11274774
Imagining Hong Kong’s Future, Under China’s Tightening Grasp
I think the key point he makes (even though it's almost throwaway at the end of the paragraph) is that the community is rapidly declining. I agree with you completely on the syntax: it's not my bag (I prefer writing plain [ES6] JS), but idiomatic CoffeeScript is remarkably expressive. But the decline, which is undoubtedly accelerating, is problematic. I'm busy ripping CS code out of several big Rails apps simply for the sake of maintainability going forward. Good CoffeeScript code is not quite 1-to-1 translatable to/from JS; it's a simple language, but it is an actual language with its own constructs. I feel it's important to make it as easy as possible for others to maintain code I've written, and using JavaScript makes that easier than having it written in another language.

The Bluebird comparison I think is off for that reason - Bluebird is a JS library: you only need to know the API, it's still JS. If a developer understands promises, there's no great step between native and Bluebird.

(I totally agree with what you're getting at btw, I just think [maybe for the worse, maybe not] that it is pragmatically better, with the advent of ES6, to stick to JS; TypeScript maybe gets a let-off here as it's just a thin layer on top, not a different language).
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