skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd think, if these countries also benefited economically (presumably more so than the US does, even) from being defended, then the cost of doing so could be made part of their budgets. Nobody's suggesting taking the US military off of these tasks; it's a question of where to send the bill.
> pharma companies have been using neural networks and machine learning to classify and select chemical compounds

You are describing what someone did at work.

We're nowhere near the state of full automation. We've merely automated some production facilities. Maybe one day, there will be an all-powerful AI solving all our problems without any human help from health to governance to clean energy. Realistically, this isn't even on the horizon though.

Until then, I'd rather that people continue to work on neural networks and machine learning to classify and select chemical compounds that may one day save a life of a person I care about.

EDIT: grammar
One of the differences is that a basic income eliminates the "welfare cliff". With any kind of means-tested system, there's a reduced incentive to increase your earnings because every dollar you earn reduces your benefit. With a universal basic income, there's no disincentive to work extra because you receive the benefit no matter your income, and earning an extra $5k is $5k more in your pocket rather than being offset by your benefit going down.
Show HN: Sidepyter, the missing sidebar for Ipython Notebook
There are always profits, and losses, to be had through attempting to beat the market. The trick is whether anyone can consistently beat the market, time and time again, such that their long-term return reliably exceeds that of the market itself.

For that, I'd refer to http://longbets.org/362/ .
Re spying vs prison

Yes, they're not caused by spying. Im pointing out that the Feds have plenty tools as aimed at Americans with tons of convictions while publicly talk like they're powerless and going dark. They have more than enough power.

Re conviction rates

Im basing those claims off things like this piece:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...
There's an interesting concept in here that governments should consider registering a personal identity TLD under their country codes, and just make it policy that everyone gets a unique one under their legal name + a word or phrase to avoid collisions.
Marvel launches contest encouraging girls to pursue science and tech
Seriously? First you get rid of pensions and force young workers into private retirement funds and now you want to eviscerate the one fund that actually has it in its mission statement not to fleece its members for all that they have.

Tell it like it is. The private retirement system was rigged to begin with, with sole purpose to line the big banks' pockets with management overhead uncorrelated to the performance of the funds.

Quote Goldman Sachs more. Let's see how seriously your source holds up the next time they orchestrate the collapse of the global economy and come to the taxpayers for handouts.
We don't need textbooks as dead trees. But the format is still useful, even if you read it on your kindle (or monitor).
I actually looked up the Pew polling data before posting. You found a contradictory point, but not a solid case. Look at the public's reactions to the 'Echelon' program for instance, and you will see their revulsion is ephemeral. In addition, the average citizen is against general surveillance, but in favor of suspect surveillance (as you will find if you look at the data a little more closely). The only way this works is to have backdoors, which everyone here knows are flawed.
It was flagged by users. That's why most items that drop in rank drop in rank.
Hi, I'm developing a new sidebar extension for the Ipython Notebook. If you write long docs with .ipynb, you may try it as well.

It's not ready yet, but I want to see your feedback. And if anyone could join me would be great, I'm not very good at programming.
The automatic withdrawal system has always seemed ridiculous to me because it inverts the dependency chain for my finances but still provides no one any guarantee they get their money.

It's a constant pain that there isn't a common standard scripting language for finances so I can automate this stuff sensibly.
That's not inverted. That's the proper order.
There's also over half a megabyte that could've been saved if he had scaled and compressed his images losslessly, probably up to 1MB with a bit of lossy compression.
Ha. Same problem? Communication issues?
Knowing all the details is key, though. For example, it's easy to vastly reduce the entropy of cryptographic keys, but still make them look completely random from the outside. The Debian OpenSSL bug is an extreme example of doing this by accident. It took a year and a half to discover that, and that was with the buggy source code available the whole time.
Blitz go would be even more heavily favored toward AlphaGo. AG didn't spend more than 10 seconds or so per move until the meat of the midgame. Human pros were losing blitz chess long before they were losing long game chess.
The much hated, not much understood, legal obligation for CEOs to always act in the interest of shareholders comes as a result of just the situation you describe.

It's called the Principal-Agent problem IIRC.
I don't see why we can't build such systems from simple elegant "mechanism" cores (like true 100%-of-population UBI) and then put "policy"-based compensatory mechanisms atop them, rather than mining policy and mechanism in every single thing the government does.

I.e., in this case, everyone gets a check from one (small) department; and then that check is treated as income, and so another (large) department will take some varying amount of it away, along with the rest of income.

Seems far better than trying to optimize treasury-need vs personal-need during both the giving and the taking-away steps.
More what I was trying to say is that we're focused on short term gains in affordable housing (the 25%) instead of maintaining our current 12% and focusing on total volume of new housing - whether it's luxury or not.
I am deeply disappointed by President Obama's remarks:

> President Obama echoed those remarks on Friday, saying technology executives who were “absolutist” on the issue were wrong.

We can't always look at two extremes and try to go the middle way. If someone said asbestos causes cancer and someone else said but it is a good insulator and I need approval to put ten feet of asbestos in the walls of the school, we don't automatically try to say "well, ok apparently it is toxic so what about five feet?" No, we'd say we can't put asbestos as it is bad.

It sounds very nice to be fair and balanced but sometimes the middle ground is not a good outcome. Not to mention seeking the middle ground in everything leaves us susceptible to Overton window. I don't know what to say other than that I am deeply disappointed.
Part of this is our fault in implementing security libraries though. Let's face it: SSL has a terrible user experience when it doesn't work. While "just fail" is good practice, it's way too difficult to use in development across multiple languages compared to just using unencrypted traffic.
I have confirmed this is NOT his account.
Compiling it yourself is not always necessary. If you are able to reproduce the build yourself (and match hashes of the build), you can be fairly certain that the binary is actually secure even if you did not check it yourself. If it was reproducible, some people would check that and point out if the hashes don't match.

You need to have a secure way to get the hashes from the build, though. One way to do it is to fetch the hash from multiple sources (e.g. your mobile phone (not connect over WiFi, of course), your PC (that is connected over Ethernet/WiFi), and maybe a VPN). MITM all these connects at the same time is hard.
If you are super paranoid you could always join an IRC and ask for the hashes. Real-time MITM the traffic is probably close to impossible (the attacker needs to read every message, and then decide to change it vs. just serving a different static HTML page).

Compiling the source code seems pretty useless to me. I do not want to read the 10000 lines of code such an app might use. There might be just a little line inside some auto-generate GUI code that is malicious and sends the unencrypted message to somebody's servers. And sending malicious source code is not that hard, either.
The poster you replies to knows the answer you've given. The question was rather: `Why is the system set up in such a way that this is the case?'
Public key infrastructure > 10 second video
Not a bad product idea, but the headline is clickbait.
I used to use a ffmpeg approach to make my screencasts [1], but now I use OBS. Great piece of software. I wrote some notes about it some time back http://dabase.com/blog/Screencasting_from_Archlinux_gotchas/ and I think they've addressed all my issues.

I publish my screencasts upon http://www.youtube.com/kaihendry

[1]https://github.com/kaihendry/recordmydesktop2.0
Steven Levy: Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
The solution is, of course, to build higher.

Eg even the plentiful office zoning could become even more plentiful by building higher.

The new homes for high income buyers could come as part of a tower where there was only a single home earlier.

Density, not McMansions. Rich people, by and large, seem happy enough to live in `luxury condos' stacked on top of each other. (Or at least enough rich people are happy to stack to drive demand.)
I think it's great that Prof. Edelman is dedicating his time to Julia and I hope he will be rewarded for it. However, I think that a statement of the sort you provided above should have appeared below the SIAM News article. This is something that would have been done in any major newspaper or scientific journal.
Not all games came from a database. It was initialized with a database. It has played millions of games against itself to improve beyond that. Next they will skip the bootsrap initialization and use all self play.
Looks like someone beat YC to it :)
If we fixed zoning/planning in SF at least you could build new homes / apartments on lots that already have buildings on them. You don't need greenfield space.

More relaxed zoning, including things like the density bonus, could mean turning lots that have 1, 2 or 3 residencies on them into 10++ units.
I agree and think the author doesn't provide a very critical look at the issue.

For one, he relies heavily on the expertise of a bank which is threatened by ETFs because it makes money in part by executing trading strategies to wealthy clients - very generally speaking, the more complex/active the trading, the more money the bank makes. Not that the Goldman guy is wrong, but the author should have acknowledged this conflict.

Also the idea that somehow the average person picking stocks can help make market efficient seems like a big stretch. It's really really hard to determine a fair price to pay for a stock. And anyway, there's an ENORMOUS amount of brainpower that already goes into outsmarting the rest of the market - probably more than ever - and it's that smart money that sets the price, for the most part.
Allegations, sure, and I haven't read them, but "haha" and "funny" are beyond-the-pale responses to something this serious, whether you've guessed right or not (and especially if you haven't).
Negative income taxes generally mean high marginal net tax rates for low-income earners. In your example, there's a 20% marginal tax rate for people earning less than 60K.
I was wondering the same things. He said that adding a second marker would be easy, so I suppose the idea must be to alternate between the objects.

Three markers and one base station ought to be enough to get 6DOF tracking, but of course a practical system will need many more to handle the user facing the other way, and that may not be practical.
On the Techdel test, and giving a shit about workplace diversity
When Microsoft acquires your favorite app
Good idea. Changed from http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/mindset/?print=pdf.
they add opprobrium
The point is is that it becomes easier to beat the market the more people are indexing. Thus there become more people consistently beating the market. Identification of such is still an issue, but not as difficult.
"I don't know anything about what you're talking about, but I'm going to assume it supports my point of view."
For reference, since whoever appears to own the account has deleted the old tweets (which are a bit odd):

http://cloud.harryh.com/0x111B1K2c0p
http://cloud.harryh.com/2d331L3L080E
That's not the reason at all. Did you read the entire article? Physical printing-press typefaces have always contained all sorts of symbols, or "dingbats". So it's completely natural to add these to a font. Especially as you want your symbols to be represented just like any other glyph: using vectors, not bitmaps, and with the ability to use hinting.

Modern fonts now include their own dingbats, as the limit of 256 characters has long since been lifted. So there's no need for a separate font like windings.
> I didn't know about

In that case, you might want to do more reading on the topic.

> What precisely, is the functional difference here

See the numerous other threads, as this has been explained many times.

> [many words restating the FBI's misleading framing of their order to Apple]

The FBI wants a backdoor into any crypto that gets in their way. To deny this is to deny not only the past 20 years rhetoric from the FBI and their current actions involving this case and the other phones they also want to unlock. If you think that such a backdoor can exist without breaking encryption, then you haven't been paying attention to how fast exploits spread.

Let me guess - you think that this is isolated to ONE phone? That the FBI isn't going to turn around and use this same order on every other phone in the future? Or are you calling Susan Landau a liar[1] and insisting that Apple can somehow keep a backdoor secret while maintaining a daily service to use that backdoor?

You seem to be going out of your way to try to blame Apple, while ignoring both the technical context and the FBI's actions and motives.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw#t=12944
My point is that compartmentalization allows secure communication through untrusted devices. It won't be convenient, but it's doable. There is no "computer". There are local networks of suitably isolated devices.

The device that decrypts can't send anything to the Internet, because it's behind receive-only optoisolators. The device that encrypts can't receive anything from the Internet, because it's behind send-only optoisolators. All intervening information processing may occur in your head. Or there may be other devices that are totally air-gapped, with all data transfer through single use flash storage. If you're using entirely untrusted devices, you move all crypto to such air-gapped devices.

It does help if these devices can be trusted, but that's not essential. You could, for example, do encryption manually with one-time pads. Or use that thing with decks of cards.

Maybe you claim that no trustable devices will be available. But that's unlikely. Consider how easy it is to obtain Afghani heroin in NYC. Also, if I were targeted by American adversaries, I could arguably trust devices backdoored by the Russians, or the North Koreans, etc. And vice versa.
Yes, I don't disagree. I don't know why the SIAM news editors didn't. I do hope my statement here makes clarifies the facts at least for people coming from here.
Is that contribute 1.3T or cost the economy 1.3T. Those "savings" is money not going to other people and businesses.
It's so infuriating though that laser printers seem like much cheaper alternative.

In reality inkjet are cheap, many companies (from top of my head I see BofA) use them to print bills, because it saves them cost.

It sucks that prices are so artificially manipulated.
Both React and Angular has existed for more than a year. Angular is a couple of years old and still works although they have new version.
?

That's not curl | bash.

That's wget | tar.
In addition to what's been mentioned in other comments, one big difference between basic income and negative income tax is who receives them. Basic income is given to everyone, and negative income tax is only given to those below a threshold amount -- creating two classes of people. The funding structure is substantially similar because in both systems some people pay more in taxes than they receive. However, by only distributing the payments to a subset of the population, there is a social stigma associated with receiving benefits. With a universal payment, there is no stigma.

By virtue of being tied to the tax system, negative income tax operates on a year-based system and pays retroactively. Regardless of whether the year's overall income would qualify for negative income tax, individuals must self-fund any time off. A negative income tax does nothing to help those who are temporarily out of work, or who only want a few months off to help with childcare, learn/improve skills, or address an illness. Implementing negative income tax by making adjustments to withholdings would help employees with low incomes, but does not address the self-funding issue for low-income independent contractors, or those experiencing temporary/long-term joblessness.
Why nobody talks about steganography? Even if there are laws forbidding cryptography, the interested parties can use that today, if they have plausible deniability.

That's in the worst case when majority doesn't care, minority isn't strong enough and there aren't enough education about how to implement cryptography reliably in the absence of companies which would offer the product.
Parfit thinks we need an absolute proof for goodness because humans have only desires. But lots of science shows that human beings also have many inborn moral instincts, such as for fairness, group loyalty, and the concern for the well-being of others. See, for instance, Larry Arnhart's book, Darwinian Natural Right.

The real problem is how you make society such that inborn desires and moral senses lead to the the best oucomes.
Using the Force on Shabbat
> The only way this works is to have backdoors

That is a lie. Targeted surveillance is easy if you can justify spending more resources per person than would be economical for mass surveillance. Because you don't need their own device to do the surveillance, you can use your device. Put a bug where the suspect is. You'll get surveillance of them entering their passphrase and then you can decrypt their device with it. No backdoor required.

The Apple case is bizarre because the suspect is dead. Normally you don't investigate the dead because it's hard for the government to punish them.
How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market?

zero.

"Look more closely at those gaudy returns, however, and you may see something startling. The truth is that very few professional investors have actually managed to outperform the rising market consistently over those years. In fact, based on the updated findings and definitions of a particular study, it appears that no mutual fund managers have."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/your-money/how-many-mutual...
You've introduced a means into your goal:

goal: "encourage better intellectual works"

means: "granting their creators temporary control of them"

There are other ways to meet that goal.
Yes. But my point is that not every discussion needs to be dominated by the well-known split between two factions who both have strong feelings about type systems.

You have every right to evangelise - but try and try and avoid making top level comments on the matter unless it's on a post that specifically is discussing static vs dynamic typing. The subject gets enough airtime and it's good for other topics to get a look in. :-)
Silicon Valley engineers need to seriously ask themselves if its OK to be enabling a future like this.
Where there is humor, it will be lost.
The neuroscience of why daylight saving time might boost your mood
Advertising doesn’t work – Thoughts from an ad-agency Web Developer
Not necessarily. Maybe just individual enhanced humans. Or small collectives.
No, no it's really not.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10 and that's only Web security.
In the age of Deep Blue, do young chess prodigies have a future?
I actually edited my top level comment immediately after writing it to try and engage more directly with the topic at hand and tone down the 'meta-ness' of my post.

Even so I'm slightly embarrassed that it's the top voted comment. I'd prefer it if a more strictly on-topic comment was above me.
Here we go, the war on cash begins...
I didn't get your razor analogy at first because you can have inexpensive and high quality with safety razors (eg - Feather blades).

The ones you reference are aptly called disposable razors and electric razors. Disposables are sham products through and through, but a large portion of the electrics market is high utility, fairly inexpensive basic function devices, like trimmers.

A Fill-ups(tm) that pre-warms the lotion it squirts on your face and starts your car for you on cold days for an extra $150 over the previous model is a bit of a gimmick, but there are plenty of standard models that are low cost, long lasting, and well priced if you know what you're shopping for, which was part of your point about cheap vs quality printers.
You don't need to be a millionaire to abuse women and take advantage of sex trafficking.

But it can certainly help you buy silence from your victims.

Until you default on your payments, that is.
I think we all look at this and think that it has crossed some line. But I also have to admit that I find myself lusting for one glyph or another, so I can't say where to draw it.

All of which means: amazing job.
Someone should ask Magnus Carlsen.

Edit: fortunately the fine article brings this up and goes further to point out that go is fundamental to self improvement in some cultures and will likely have a long life after AlphaGo.
I don't think that officially says the libertarian party supports it. Just that it may be compatible with their principles. I'm quite certain many libertarians would not go along with that at all.
This is the kind of discourse I was looking for! Is there anywhere I can read about the public's reactions to Echelon?

And in terms of suspect surveillance, do you mean terrorist suspects? While it is true that most Americans are okay with terrorist surveillance (e.g. 64% think it's acceptable, ibid.) I don't think that equates with supporting blanket 4th-amendment-breaking government surveillance on US citizens.
In the age of Watson, does Jeopardy have a future?
This is an example of why planning doesn't work.

You misunderstand.

Any system taken to its logical extreme then becomes its opposite.

Ivan Illich advises pragmatism over dogma.
Planting a flag is meaningless, as this article shows.

There are two ways to claim land.

The first is to conjure up some de jure rights (some way to justify legal ownership, such as 500 years ago your ancestors owned the land until someone illegally invaded or you inherited the title to the land from your great-great-great-* grandfather). It can be flimsy (or outright forged), but it needs to be recognized by other countries to be effective. Religious significance was once recognized as basis for de jure claims, but it is not anymore.

Then you have de facto control. If you can exert physical control of the territory, it's pretty much yours. There are companies you can pay who will do this. Reflex Responses might be one, but there are a number of them out there.

Of course having de jure rights without de facto control is pretty useless. It's a long game strategy. Spain one day hopes they will be able to take de facto control of the Gibraltar, but it won't be in the lifetime of anyone alive today.