skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article, I did not get a sense that his value-judgement of his daughter depended on the success of this little endeavor. It read more to me like he wanted a special experience with his daughter.
That is an excellent solution as well. Qmail was pre-configured to work with '-' in the user string. But the use of subdomains would work as long as you could meet things like the Google DKIM checks.
visceral

"relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect"

Yeah, you hit it. Feelings > intellect
Part of the significance is that it was not the main goal for Deep Mind and Hassabis. He's said his main goal is to solve intelligence and it approaching it by trying to reverse engineer the human brain, having done a PhD in neuroscience. Hippocampus next. At this rate I'd be surprised if it took decades to real world generic applications.
Can't the same be said about money laundering laws
There is also genetic difference in how fast system clears/consumes the dopamine out - faster means those people are better under stress while worse at prolong concentration, slower means stupor under stress while better in "slow/deep" thinking like math, etc ( obviously it is crude smartphone typed version of a recently mentioned on HN article:)
Hmmm ... is that a real, statutory wiretap? Like, to an actual and regulated telecommunications provider? Or is DOJ skating by on "quacks like a duck" orders? CALEA was limited for a reason (I imagine they really want to change that).

AFAIK pen-register and similar wiretappy things are only applicable if you're a phone company, or very much like one. If you just ship an app and handle packets, that's a different story.
The real solution for SF of course is that anything within walking distance of shops should be built at > 20 storeys (or so). And 60% of the increase of value derived from this should be captured by government to build public transport, improve streets and parks, etc. to handle the increased density.
I think the author might be quoting 2011-era conversations between Parfit and Richards (recorded while interviewing both of them), rather than conversations from back when they first met.
I mean, that's like asking whether marathon runners have a future now that we've got cars. Exercising one's brain/having pleasure through the game could be an end in itself, and is independent of how machines perform.
Money Laundering is Financial Thoughtcrime: http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/money-laundering-is-....
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The game play among human competitors is sure to change just as in chess, as new players will train on AlphaGo, etc. whose gameplay will differ significantly from accepted norms in a purely human playing field. For instance, chess programs can plan and optimize to a much further depth (number of moves) in terms of strategy. So, newer players like Carlsen, etc. play differently these days than older ones like Anand, etc. [1]

[1] http://noenthuda.com/blog/2016/03/11/how-computers-have-chan...
Why should I really be concerned about Go prodigies? Aren't there a lot more ordinary people being affected by technological unemployment who have much fewer resources to fall back on?
Maybe if they learn to collaborate with AI. Or eventually, get implants. As all serious professionals will need to do. That may seem far-fetched, but how many runners compete with bicyclists?
Almost all of those items are exactly what I wrote: do not trust user input.
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In general I'd suggest reading "The player of Games" by Banks.
A Culture novel that explores why would someone care about being good at "boardgames" in a universe where even the dumbest appliance could easily outperform any human.
>There are other ways to meet that goal.

And yet, judging from international laws, all lawmakers worldwide seem agree that a variation of the current method is the preferred one.
Yeah, it was just a nitpick to clarify means and ends. I think the means and the ends need to be acceptable in any endeavor, one never justifies the other. But at the same time, one never disqualifies the other.
[13th century] In the age of gunpowder, do young archery prodigies have a future?
They are not a million miles apart. 2 out of an infinite number of variations of a policy. Major UBI plans will likely involve major changes to the tax system anyway, either as part of the initial legislation or eventually and the net effect of either could be very similar. So, it's mostly a semantic difference.

But, going off the two scenarios you mention the UBI version has a little more of what makes the idea appealing to the political right (though there have been negative income tax ideas that came from the right too). The main one being losing the complexity, overhead, unintended consequences, perverse incentives and nannying that comes with means testing.

I think there are arguments to be made for either.
Recommending codec packs seems like outdated advice these days. VLC has much less of an impact on the system itself.
Not sure that would work very well in practice.
Disney has a pretty neat use for RFID that was featured in a previous HN post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9177105
There are plenty of laws that give federal grants to artists and scholarships to graduate students.
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IMO it's mostly inkjet printers. The whole market was made so they can make tons of money on ink.

To make this work, the printer needs to be cheaper than alternatives (I even had situation when I was buying a computer that came with printer, when I told them I don't want the printer the price was higher!)

Those printers are made as cheap as they can make them, they don't bother about their quality, because it cost to you as much as one or two cartridges.

Also the issues the author of the article has are simply are to force you to buy more ink (the printer doesn't need color cartridges to print black, but still requires them, and once you put color cartridges in and don't use they'll dry out)
I use OBS for recording videos for my students.

The only snag I've found is that in the fairly rare case that I want to record myself (usually the course introduction video for off-campus students), the sync between the audio and video is a bit out, whereas Quicktime etc tend not to have that problem. Not sure why -- I assume it's because OBS is always putting the video through some processing.

It's not out by much -- not enough to notice for a screen recording or doc-cam for drawing on paper -- but when there's a face in the video the lip-sync isn't quite right.
I wonder if it's just the profile that WMP has problems with. I'd be interested in comparing the `mediainfo` output of both a Handbrake and a OBS encoded video - I suspect Handbrake is still extremely conservative with what it outputs (at the expense of a bit of quality)
Is it drug paraphernalia in your wallet?... 90% seems like a very satisfactory probability for probable cause
In the age of computers and pocket calculators, does mental calculation have a future?
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Such as lawyers. And truck drivers, of course.

But there's so much more to this than human obsolescence. This is the cusp of a new stage in evolution.
It seems like funds like this would be relatively predictable in what and when they buy and sell. If they're doing it at a large enough scale and you can predict it ahead of time...
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From the article: "It is estimated that, of South Korea’s three hundred and twenty pros, only around fifty are able to earn a living on tournament winnings." This isn't going to result in massive unemployment.

However, cheating with computer assistance is likely to become a problem, as it is in chess.[1] (The state of the art in computer chess is now roughly at "laptop with off the shelf program can curb-stomp human world champion.")

[1] http://en.chessbase.com/post/yet-another-case-of-cheating-in...
Surely the provincial government of Ontario doesn't have the power to unilaterally print Canadian money?
Bank of America and Citi have virtual credit card numbers on a least some of their cards. I don't use it cause, why? It's a pain point to log in and generate a new one when I could just open up my password number and copy/paste the CC number. Especially when paying with PayPal or a site I've bought from before and already have my CC saved and I can just select it. It doesn't really effect me if someone steals my CC, I just call up the bank and they reverse unauthorized charges and send me a new one.
"One of your concerns isn't backed up so I'm going to ignore your other points and troll"
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It looks most similar to a Siberian Husky to me, although the face is different. Possibly a mixed breed from the husky, or just a unique looking husky.
Perhaps surveillance capitalism is zero-sum. There's only so much buying power, and at least in the US, consumers are mostly spent out. In that situation, advertising just moves demand around; it does not increase it. So all this consumer data-mining and targeting may be a net lose, just a cost imposed by the market on all the companies using it.
At this point, Mutual Funds are the bottom of the barrel with respect to attracting talent for active management. There are plenty of examples of active funds that have consistently beat the market.

ex: Since Horseman's inception in February 2001, the fund has achieved annualized returns of 14.79%, according to HSBC.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/horseman-c...
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Well, there's no true scottsman after all. Maybe I should have said "by many members of the libertarian party."
I just press Alt+Ctrl+Shift R ;-)

"screencast tool

Gnome3 has already a screen recording functionality. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+R recording will start. There should be a red icon on the message tray in the right-bottom corner of your screen. If the message tray is hidden, Super+M will activate it. Pressing the red icon will stop the recording. The video is saved in the Video directory on your home directory on webm format."
Go has still much more to offer as it is not even close to be a solved game.
Additionally, there's handicap Go, and additionally handicaps can be applied to the machine. Go offers the possibility for players of different levels to enjoy a game.
Can anyone with Go knowledge comment on this?
I like that analogy a lot! It's not like "playing Go really well" ever solved any real-world problem, it has always been a competition among humans. What should change, there?
>That's not the reason at all. Did you read the entire article?

From the Article:

>Today it's easy to cut and paste images from the internet, but it used to be a lot harder. There were few ways to get images, files were way too large for puny hard drives, and they were of poor quality. Even worse, it was tough to get pictures to play nicely with text. Fonts like Wingdings provided a workaround by giving people high-quality, scalable images that didn't clog up their hard drives.
Therefor, if you have money, it's ok to do cocaine...
I recommend physicist Kerson Huang's translation in "I Ching: The Oracle". Basically stripped of all of the classical commentary that is often attached to the I Ching, I found it very approachable.
There's no reason why the amount going to poor people under UBI should be less. Money goes out to more people (everyone), but the higher brackets would pay more, so it'd be a wash. IE, the millionaires get an extra $10,000 a month than they would with a negative income tax, but end up having to pay an extra $10,000 a month than they would with a negative income tax.

As for why UBI is preferable, let's look at some situations. If a person gets fired in May and needs the extra income, with the UIB it would be coming in already and they wouldn't need to worry about anything. With a negative income tax they would probably need to apply to some government agency, at which point they would either start sending the person payments whenever they get a chance to review the application (which could take weeks or months), or they deny the application for one reason or another and the person has to appeal/send more evidence and try to navigate a bureaucratic maze while they're running out of money.

Or a person is self-employed, and at the beginning of the year they believe they will make too much to get the income, then mid-way through the year their business slows to the point where they start going through the bureaucratic hell of the previous person, and then after a few months some new clients come in and they start trying to navigate the bureaucracy again to update the agency without a penalty.

I don't know if you've ever applied for benefits like these, but very often things turn into a mess, and you're spending weeks calling different offices and waiting for thing to go through, at which point your eligibility changes and you have to start over again. UBI doesn't eliminate all issues, but it's simpler in the same way that sending your kid to the local public school is simpler than trying to get support using the FAFSA.

Also, with the checks going out to everyone it's going to be hard to get rid of something like that (look at Social Security for an example of this).
Your proposal is something other than universal basic income. You want to solve the problem of some people making bad choices with money. That's a different problem, and as you show in the case of your parents, it has little to do with how much money someone has.

Most people are rational and will act rationally if given the option. UBI wants to give everyone the option.
Ah, given the context my mind went right to ammunition microstamping.

Encryption software and 3d printed guns are simply implementations of ideas, both physically interact with the world and both can be observed. ABS plastic stock is to blank hard drive as printed gun is to c:/pgp.exe.
People with food stamps but no money still need to buy things that cost money (e.g. new glasses, bike tire repair). The solution is to sell their food stamps for cash, and the black market only pays ~$.80 on the dollar. It's more efficient (and less patronizing) to give people $1000 to spend as needed than to give $1000 in vouchers, requiring them to jump through hoops to extract the needed cash at a 20% loss.
I didn't realize they had a hard time getting the DropBox icon onto the Dock. I take it back about YC not funding 'hard tech'.
Well, I hope I'm right otherwise he would be a total psychopath. The simplest explanation is probably the right one, however.
I get it, you don't like the pointless icons. Some do. Often when having a homogeneous naming structure with long filenames in NerdTree, it's nice to be able to say, "Oh this is the CSS file" without having to hit a capital A to expand the "drawer" to see what type of file it is. For the record... I don't own skinny jeans, and I'm probably far too old to be a hipster.
>within lots of other very complex constraints, like law, morality, how much time they have available

Ha, if that were true we wouldn't be constantly extending the law and putting people in jail because they keep breaking the law for profit.

>ivilisation can't work because humans will want to make as much money as possible

And yet we keep running into issues with long term pollution and environmental degradation because of the growth of civilization.

>whether they feel they already have sufficient money for their own needs,

Does greed have bounds?
> A housing voucher would cover analogous issues in the US.

Or it wouldn't. I don't really want someone to suffer just because a bureaucrat forgot to put an item on a list of approved purchases. Or someone suffers because they have a particular edge case that wasn't considered.
The issue here is that in order to intelligently vote such shares, passive investors would need to invest time and effort to understand how board members voted, what their interests were, etc. What percentage of passive investors are going to make that kind of effort?
There has to be a middle ground between saying "security is simple" and "the sky is falling".

I think stating things like "don't trust user input" risks things like https://kivikakk.ee/cryptography/2016/02/20/breaking-homegro... happening.

Security is hard, programming is hard, we should all get better at both.
Looked up the strength (of dark forest) and it is claimed to be mid level amateur similar to crazystone and zen. So, the close measurements probably aren't too precise (when they are both around 50%), but the break away is probably about right.
Well, absolutely, if they're talking about Golang that is. In all seriousness, a computer did fairly well on Jeopardy some years back, and we're still watching the game show as it's still quite relevant.
I'm very happy with my inkjet HP PSC1410 printer/scanner that I bought 9 years ago... I don't print very much and probably use one B&W cartridge per year (cheap on ebay) and the cartridge doesn't dry out..
In the age of high tech robot replacements, do unskilled factory workers have a future?
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While I have the same concerns, and my suspicion is that basic income given today's society would be an unaffordable and incentive-killing disaster, in 2016 they're just beginning to figure out how and whether to implement a pilot project.

It's hard to see how that could be anything but a good thing - it'll give us more data on how basic income performs today, so people can finally stop pretending the behavior of people in some town in Manitoba forty years ago has anything to do with the very-different present.

Once we have more information - god knows when, perhaps a decade from now - then we can measure the actual benefits, ask the hard questions you're asking, and figure out if the costs would be worth it. But right now that's premature.
I personally prefer SimpleScreenRecorder: http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

...Because it lets me record audio using the Opus codec.

I also edit the videos using kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org

It all works pretty well. You can see examples of the end result in my YouTube channel:

https://YouTube.com/riskable

(mostly videos of modded Minecraft tips and HOWTOs; all totally harmless and no foul language)
He's also identified the narrative as a popular excuse among the poorest-performing hedge funds ("We valued the stocks properly, it is the market that is wrong." and "We aren't even trying to beat the market, we are merely offering a different risk proposition.") After over a decade of data, hedge funds must compete against the more compelling narrative, that hedge fund winning streaks are a matter of chance, and that the average investor isn't capable of picking one with prolonged better-than-market returns.
You mean look at what we, a product of evolution of millions of years, have produced of artificial intelligence in decades.
AlphaGo represents a triumph for humanity
This is a good one. It was still many many centuries later before it stopped being a tool in war and from a competitive prospect it is still kickin (although not pervasive)
Hum, no, modern copyright laws do not have have the intent of encouraging better intellectual works. Politicians may claim this intent on some countries to deceive the population, but it is obvious by their format that they were not created for that goal.

Anti money laundering laws vary a lot in quality, and some of them do have the goal of catching criminals.
Requirements from clients are also a form of untrustworthy input :)
UBI will be financed by those software engineers and doctors because they are in the higher income tax bracket. Those people will still be paying more to the system than getting from it.
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I'm from Ontario and couldn't have more different opinions about the role of government in society. Perhaps a little less generalization?

I'd happily agree that a small majority of voters in Ontario generally support a slightly higher level of taxation and social spending than is found in, say, the United States, while still periodically electing governments who run on austerity platforms and cut social spending aggressively. That, I think, is more accurate.
yes. Not being able to focus on things you are not interested in was coined "adhd" and some big companies made a lot of money off of it.
How true! Emacs has always been a window manager, anyway. Why try to fight destiny?

"In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry's standard naked emperor." - Don Hopkins, The X-Windows Disaster [1]

"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes." - Jamie Zawinski

[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
VLC is not optimized to prioritize video quality at all last time I saw or used it. Additionally, it felt clunky and seemed to perform worse than MPC-HC.
Give them a discount but make them prepay for 3 years
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Not necessarily...carbon emissions per capita is not constant around the globe. Energy use is skewed towards modern countries, i.e United States. If you wiped out the 300 million people in the US, you would save more on carbon emissions than wiping out 300 million in China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
One thing that Banks never addressed in his Culture novels was humans wanting to become Minds. I mean if I live in a society where there are humanoids and Minds, then I want to be a Mind, with a stream-of-consciousness that includes the transition. Wouldn't this be true of many people who are in to science?
It seems like the authors are trying to use the latest story in the Go world to write about how all the jobs will be replaced by neural networks or something. I mean, people still throw javelins even though it is fairly trivial to build a machine that shoots a projectile farther than a human can throw.

We still enjoy trivia games even though it is easy to google the answers. I dunno, I think it is a bit of a stretch to think AlphaGo has ended serious competitive human Go.
Yes. The principle of suboptimality only applies to problems which are optimally solved by dynamic programming. This is a small subset of problems and the knapsack problem is not one of those problems solved by dynamic programming. It does not have optimal substructure.
> Why not make most of it go towards good purposes?

Because doing so costs more than the amount of cash wasted in the first place.
I'd be interested in any more info about this, specifically enough information to log bug reports.
For the most part, sex trafficking doesn't seem to work - it's one of those things that exists more in the media than reality. There's a huge activism industry and massive amounts of police work around it, but when you dig into the details there's just nothing behind it all. Statistics fall apart - supposed US government stats are just them reporting that the press said something, which was a quote from some politician's speech with no apparent basis, and so on. High-profile stories with films and activist organisations around them like Somali Mam are verifiable lies. Busts actually just arrest the women who are having sex for money. Time and time again, there's just nothing actually there.

Honestly, it's probably just not viable. Too high on the police priority list and involves the victims interacting with too many people not in on the operation. Normal labour trafficking is so much safer