skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it just won't help them in the long-term unless they take it regularly.

Which is why many ADHD sufferers take stimulant medication regularly. However, that doesn't mean the medication doesn't provide relief that improve general life functioning.

Similarly, chronic pain may be treated with morphine, which provides short-term pain relief and improves general life functioning when taken regularly.

> Stimulant medication is also more about trying to maintain steady levels of dopamine in the brain at all times

I don't think this is accurate. Rather, it depends on the attention and performance requirements of the sufferer. Children may only need symptom relief while in school, whereas adults may need relief through most of their waking hours.

It seems unlikely that someone would really need relief from ADHD symptoms while sleeping.
You accused alykhalid of acting in bad faith. You made it clear you don't want any questions about the whys of that so instead of asking I shall simply write this and downvote.
Then you should definitely give a try to Meteor framework (https://www.meteor.com/). Using it, we have built and run a production-ready service + Android app for a local flower shop delivery-messengers in about 5 days.
Open source is not a panacea here.

The situation is largely the same with Signal: Unless you manually build and install Signal yourself, there is no guarantee that the App Store or Play Store versions are actually built from the source provided by OpenWhisperSystems.

And even if you compile Signal yourself, there's always "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
Apparently it is still strong on a single machine
https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576
Opening it up in lynx did wonders.
Sedol said that it was doing tactics he had never seen before --
like the now infamous move 37 that caused Sedol to get up and walk out of the room.
Neuronal pathways are based on a specific neurotransmitters. Dopamine usually means limbic system and seratonin usually means the cortex.
Same scenario here (author of the original post): moving from HTTP to HTTPs did hurt my revenue for the first couple of months (I switched 2 years ago), but advertisers seem to have caught up.

For tech-oriented sites, I don't see a difference in revenue for HTTP vs HTTPs sites anymore. In fashion or other markets, that may still be a different deal.
> - The logic of Golang is straightforward, e.g. you need to import the package fmt to do a fmt.Println("") in Golang but you do not need to explicitly import anything to do a System.out.println("") in Java.

You don't need to import println in Go[0]. The logic is exactly the same[1]: there's a pre-imported "prelude" (java.lang in Java, builtin in Go) and you import the rest.

> - Golang works on every computers and installing it is simple (simpler than installing Java and Eclipse).

Why do you have to install go alone but java and eclipse?

[0] https://play.golang.org/p/ZWLaVuJNgq you don't need to import append or cap or complex128 either

[1] and the same as in more or less every language out there
I see a lot of parallels between what you're doing and StackOverflow.

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.

Mostly this took the form of outward public recognition (scores, badges, etc.) and incentives aligned around that. If there's a path forward for Bugrex I think it's probably along those lines.
"Also, every debit card I've had for the past 20 years acts as if it were a credit card."

Except that debit cards in the U.S. are not covered by the same consumer protection laws as credit cards[1], so it's harder to do stuff like disputing charges. It's also possible for an erroneous charge on a debit card to wipe out your bank account. For that reason, I specifically ask my bank to give me a card that does not work as a debit card, only as an ATM card.

[1] E.g., the 'Fair Credit Billing Act', a federal law that protects credit card transactions, doesn't apply.
I had Lexmark before, it was never a problem! unbelievable, the thing is that I never used the colors, they dried out! You have to buy all of them just to print in black!
This isn't exactly what you were asking for, but here are some graphs from a different Go AI (Facebook's "darkforest") showing its estimated win probabilities: http://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/yuandong/20639694
The long term problem for broad adoption of end-to-end encrypted mobile messaging is closed software ecosystems; the government will just pass a law to force Apple & Android App stores to stop distributing apps like WhatsApp that facilitate it. Game over.

add:

I suspect that code itself and the act of posting it on the internet could be interpreted as free speech. Even if not, it would difficult to stamp it out from international sites or bit-torrent. Distributing via an App "Store", even for free, could be more likely to be construed as commerce, which is already heavily regulated and for less important reasons than criminal/terrorism investigations. Google and Apple as large public corporations have fiduciary duty to their stockholders to protect their profits, which the US government can easily threaten. So there's a big weak link (and an easy lever for government to pull on) in the closed distribution of secure communications code.
I think you have identified better solutions than the current ones. What is more interesting is that many underlying processes already exist, for example any gmail address can be "customized" by adding "+<string>" to the end, Google ignores the +string and delivers it anyway. You can then filter on email sent to the +string value. Not everyone however accepts an email with + in the name part. Paypal has the ability to send you out to Paypal to authorize a payment, the vendor never sees your banking details. Their API works well and could be adopted by any bank if they chose. At Blekko we separated queries from IP addresses, from userid (if they were logged in). You could do it, still get ranking training data from it, and be completely unable to turn over "the last week of searches from this IP" to federal agencies. That was driven by the CTO.

So at the end of the day there is a lot of things which make data toxic easily avoidable, and it takes people at the company willing to invest in making the data "non-toxic" and to some extent non-useful to people outside the company.
I'm not challenged in the same way someone making $30k a year is. They're not challenged at that level. They're just stressed, poor and have a lower overall quality of life.

The only real challenge in my life is to keep some perspective and maintain a positive outlook. So from where I'm sitting this sounds pretty patronizing.
Maxed surface pro 3 with Windows 10 (.net developer)

Pros:

- Form factor is great for travelers. Since it's technically a tablet by TSA guidelines I don't have to take it out at security.

- screen resolution is excellent

- handles VS reasonably well

- battery life can be 5-6 hours with a local instance of tomcat and SQL running

Cons:

- expensive

- kickstand is kinda clumsy when I'm working in my lap

- high gloss screen

- loooong wake up time and it's easy to accidentally put it to sleep by hitting a button the side of the frame. This is my biggest complaint. It sometimes takes up to 10-15 seconds to come back up. This wouldn't be an issue but it is way too easy to accidentally put it to sleep. I've thought about disabling this button, it's enough of an annoyance.
Of course they decided not to have it. It's not like they aren't capable of implementing simple features. I just think it's a dumb decision.

For many Twitter accounts, the top tweets are a lot more interesting than the latest tweets, especially if you've just discovered the account for the first time.
You talk of "removing adversity and creating dependence" which is a pretty classic Calvinist trope. What else am I to conclude from you comment?
Not genes, memes.
Not explicitly, but since it's syntax is derived from a Wirth language (Oberon), and Niklaus Wirth had always had a focus on teaching in his languages, it's kinda implied in my opinion.
Basically productive people bribe unproductive to avoid crime. Even better idea is creating part-time paid charity work. This way egos are not harmed.
I personally think that the other parts of Yahoo have negative value because they're part of Yahoo. If Mayer took a holding company approach, they could each spin out, IPO with 49% of their respective shares and suddenly be valued at something much larger. Overnight Yahoo (the holding company) would increase and raise cash purely through this change in organizational fiction.
Is this a US specific thing? Why would you need to keep your SSN and bank account number private?

Ok, I know US citizens are not automatically given ID cards, so if everybody takes the SSN you give them at face value, I get that.

I don't understand the bank account especially. Like I have some automatically deducted monthly payments, but I remember I needed to specifically authorize the receiving account to be able to ask for the money with my bank.

With cards,the standards are starting to get there, i.e: I can enable with my bank that every time I use the card for internet payment, I need to confirm my identity with code they send me in sms. As far as I know, I could ask for different second factor of authentification, I know my dad has standard rsa token.

Unfortunately I had problem using this with some foreign site (I think it was Amazon?), so I had to disable it. I live in Czech Republic.
But you do have a significant amount of confidence that -unless their signing keys have been compromised- the versions of the software in the app stores are the versions published by OWS.

If you don't trust OWS to fail to publish malicious copies of its software, why would you trust them to fail to subtly sabotage their software?
I'm afraid you misunderstood my comment entirely.
Framed in the way that the article presents the data, then, yes, I guess, we do have more leisure time. Although, how much? The article cites that the number of hours worked per week (since 1900!!) has only dropped 1.4 hours a week. Or, extending it out and assuming that the trend is linear, the typical American can expect to finally have 100% leisure time sometime around 4516 AD.

But, then also consider that many of us are working (i.e. as in 'working for the man') many more hours than our parents did in fields that require significantly more focus, concentration, and mental energy. Even the article notes that people have been facing increasing stress and feelings of being rushed since 1900 and 1965.

Maybe you're in a cushy field. But, most people that I know only have time for 'zoning out' and recovery, rather than in pursuit of true leisure.
This is awesome, finally AlphaGo has beaten Lee Sedol. Congratulations to the team at DeepMind and Google. But I will go straight to the really interesting point: My completely baseless intuition tells me that we will have full AGI (artificial general intelligence) in 5-10 years. Maybe not very powerful at first, but a least working. Real general intelligence. I say this as a programmer with superficial knowledge on ML (machine learning). All that is needed is to figure a way, to make neural networks handle the flow of thoughts of human consciousness. Reasoning, short/long term memory, basic controlling "emotions", etc. Then to assemble this central thought unit, in a system with various neural networks to handle more specialized tasks: Vision, natural language processing, audition, motion,etc. The task is of course extremely difficult, but I have the feeling that it will be possible to overcome.

Once this have been achieved, it is downhill from there. The singularity. In my opinion, we must start to consider how this tremendous breakthrough will affect the human race. Our lives, economy, culture, etc. Awesome things we will be witnessing in the coming times. It would be great if it were possible to make public, the progress made researching specifically AGI. I wonder how big of an effort is currently being done. This would be possibly the biggest discovery ever for humanity. It deserves a fantastic effort.
Just got diagnosed with ADHD at 42 years old. Strattera has been a HUGE help.

Of course there are varying degrees of ADHD. But if some of these descriptions fit you. You might have ADHD.

"Everyone encounters some task he doesn't particularly enjoy, but most people are able to find a way to complete the boring aspects of their job, says de Marneffe. People with ADHD, however, have a hard time doing that."

"If you (sometimes) fly off the handle in a fit of anger or frustration one moment but are completely over it in the next, it might be a sign of ADHD."

-you have a hard time sitting for multiple hours

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20490145,00.html
--15 Signs You May Have Adult ADHD--
My take on the accretion disk isn't very physically-based. It's really mostly meant as eye candy. However, the distortion (the form it takes) is physical and due to the Schwarzschild geometry.

The physical explanation of an accretion disk would be some matter that is orbiting the black hole and emitting radiation, so it makes some sense at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk
Lenovo Y480, 128SSD, 4GiB, Gentoo. Reliable, fast-ish, plays nice with multi-display
I am not up on current stats and have never been that familiar with European trends, but, in the US, girls in some poor neighborhoods actually see their quality of life go up by having a baby in their teens because their family of origin is so poor that having a baby qualifies them for welfare benefits, allowing them to move out etc. They are still poor, and now they are trapped in long term poverty, but there are short term benefits.

I have seen study results indicating that one contributor to high pregnancy rates is shame concerning sex. For some populations, this results in less use of birth control because use of birth control involves planning to have sex and if you plan it, you "must be a slut." Whereas if you are emotionally swept away and "it just happens" that is okay because it is "love."

So one thing that helps is generally healthier attitudes towards sex in the general population and easier access to birth control. A big difference between teens who get pregnant and teens who don't is use of birth control. The teens who wind up pregnant aren't necessarily any more sexually active. In some cases, the two groups see comparable levels of sexual activity, but one group uses birth control and one does not.
If they make a decent AI for Total War I'd be impressed. Or an AI in Civilization that doesn't cheat. But of course requiring a mini-datacenter in hardware and time to think (probably seconds) would make it unrealistic for both.
Thanks for the compliment and suggestion! The redshift would be interesting to do, I'll consider that.
For per-service email and occasional single use credit cards, I've been pretty happy with blur from abine: https://www.abine.com/index.html
I don't know if you're serious, but how can you make such grand predictions, considering you yourself admit to having only superficial knowledge of machine learning?
It's related to the intentions this guy had in his head.
If someone would find this vulnerability in Updrop after plenty of files were uploaded and the service became popular, compromising the security with any evil intention would bring a disaster. Now that PHP file uploading is already closed both at the client and server sides, it became relatively safe to operate.

Although, until filename(1), (2) etc issue is fixed, this service isn't worth any serious consideration anyway. Too many newbie mistakes here.

Update: this seems to be fixed too for now (not a perfect variant, as the original name is lost forever, but a plausible solution that's much better than it was). Nice!
If Julia had Go-style concurrency primitives (channels and lightweight threads), and M:N thread multiplexing, it would be the perfect language to implement my upcoming data flow based scientific workflow language (http://github.com/samuell/scipipe).

Now I'm instead trapped with Go, which lacks a REPL, and leaves a lot to wish in terms of metaprogramming capabilities needed to create a nice programmatic API.

The lack of the mentioned features is my biggest concern with Julia.
There's a larger context here - the dearth of owner-operators. Perhaps Google and Facebook are exceptions, but the mind-numbing risk avoidance and Wall Street cadence quarterly earnings mentality are not always good.
I don't view it as benevolence so much as one of the few realistic solutions to the issue of increasing automation resulting in having way more people than we need to produce the needed goods for that same population.

The options are either embracing some form of socialism or violent, society-ending revolt.

I'd much prefer the former to the latter.
Thank you!

A comparison between different integrators is in the plans. It would be certainly interesting to try e.g. velocity Verlet and some other symplectic integrators.
Deep Blue wasn't a full brute-force search, and AlphaGo does perform plenty of brute-force searching too.
Such a law may well be unconstitutional. I would expect Apple and Google to forcefully petition for an injunction (or whatever) that would prevent FedGov from prohibiting them to distribute such software until the constitutionality case was decided.
I'm pretty sure the force required to click can be adjusted in the latest models.
memetics
Wikipedia says:

"the stronger player will typically play with the white stones and players often agree on a simple 0.5 point komi to break a tie ("jigo") in favor of white."

Which suggests ties can occur in practice with human players, but are then broken wrt an external parameter.

In terms of optimality, is it known in Go whether an optimal player can force a win against (i) all suboptimal players; and (ii) another optimal player, based on whether they play first or second?

I realize we don't know the optimal policy but sometimes we can decide (non)-existence anyway. Anyone happen to know for Go?
> At best they ought to be compared to a severely mentally disabled human. Still deserving of dignity, but hardly treated as equal.

Is it OK to eat severely mentally disabled humans, if we do so "humanely?"
Funny enough, I remember people having this exact sentiment about PayPal in 2001.
Have they already fixed the need to "devectorize" the code to make it fast? This was the major drawback for me since I wish the code to be concise AND fast.
If you don't trust OWS to fail to publish malicious copies of its software, why would you trust them to fail to subtly sabotage their software?

I don't believe OWS would do this voluntarily, unless compelled by the government.
Apocryphal, but romantic -- he left the room ten seconds earlier.
edit: I'm sorry I'm a bit tired, this post is needlessly critical. The idea of the paper is fun, and can serve as a source of inspiration for good thought, I myself have enjoyed thinking about proof-of-play for a long time and I still hope I'll think of a way to make it work some day. (/edit)

This system is in no significant way distinguishable from proof-of-work systems. Unfortunately the only 'difficulty' introduced here is that the computer has to interact with a physics engine. There's a lot of claims made in the paper but no references to any scientific research.

Some examples:

The article claims playing the game is hard for a computer, but never says how hard precisely, what's the complexity?

The article claims games exist that are easier to play for humans than they are for computers such as Go, obviously for Go this has been shown to likely be false the past week, but also in general. Are there really games that are hard for computers but easy for humans? I played with the idea of a game-based cryptocurrency, as the basis for a MTG like economy in a roguelike game, but failed to come up with any mechanism that would be easier for humans to play than computers in a fundamental way, but I didn't get so serious as to look up scientific work, and neither has the author of this paper.

The article claims that should a bot arise that can beat this game like humans can, they can simply increase the difficulty. Can they? he didn't calculate what effects the variables of the game have on the complexity. Who says that if the game becomes more difficult for computers, it is still playable (let alone fun) for humans?
The main issue I have with either of them, is sometimes having to resort to using crazy values like 15.974rem or 2.0736rem (taken directly from the author's website). Using pixels shouldn't be frowned upon, considering all the preprocessors available, and how CSS variables (the next big thing) are around the corner.

But I would always use EMs for any WYSIWYG generated value, where the design solely relies on HTML tags, not CSS classes. It's then easy to alter the container's font-size while maintaining consistency and balance between all its children.

For borders, in any case, it's better to stick with pixels. Some people started writing things like "border: 0.065rem solid #ccc", which would make the border disappear if you either zoomed out, or set the font-size to something smaller than 16px.
If you think of it as art then it's very impressive. As a reliable method of predicting the future[1]... not so much.

[1] Wouldn't we all like that?
Couldn't these companies use a public/private key to encrypt a special message that their apps could receive and verify it's signed by the mothership and then proceed to relay message or send unencrypted traffic? I mean, there are technical ways to make this work in a secure way (maybe not using my example).

This discussion seems old and all safeguards are supposed to be in the law (warrants and other legal devices), IN SOME COUNTRIES. And here's the key of this discussion, should FB/WhatsApp and other be above the law? Why is the government being so careful with them and it wouldn't be if this was, say, Verizon withholding phone records in a specific case if there was a warrant?
I anticipated the word games, which is why I wrote "or at least the dystopian society that the term is intended to conjure."

I did not admit that most terrorism is in response to oppressive governments nor did I posit that there will be an increased number of attacks. Re-read what I wrote.

Hopefully you're right that terrorism will forever remain a "boogey man." I doubt it will. Unfortunately, if and when there is a major terrorist attack, all of the people saying what you're saying will have lost credibility and the chances of us ending up in a police state, at least for a period of time, will be quite high.
http://dl1.joxi.net/drive/0013/1215/898239/160312/1c4f03127b...
The placement of the webcam in the lower left corner is truly idiotic.
Pretty sure none of these apply to Microsoft, which are the kinds of companies the Bitcoin community gets excited about when they adopt.
You could say the same thing about the GPL. It's not just "griefing" — it's using your software as a political wedge (however small) to try to change the world. I'd strongly consider using a similar license if I were ever to release something as important as JSMin. (Or maybe something more specifically itemized: "not for military use, not to be used as an aid to violence" etc.)
I just thought of an interesting (and somewhat more "real-world") task for AI research: Can an AI outperform a human at play-calling in [American] football?