skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government)

I store them as PDFs and put them on a NAS that with backups to S3

> Printing registration forms for the many places that aren't computerized

Generally have found I can fill out the PDF and stamp a signature on it and it's fine.

> Faxed contracts for real estate

Same as above.

> Scanned *

Not a printer, I just use a phone app for 'scanning' documents.
I have an Apple Laserwriter 12/640 PS, bought in 1997 and still going strong.

I think the guts of it are actually Lexmark.

I have to hack the driver for it on new versions of OS X, but it runs fine without it.

It's just to control some of the optional print features.
Maybe this is the reason for the false positives from drug dogs ;)
I've had 3 of the Brother multifunctions in various offices (7920, 7940, 7960), and a couple of the color multifunctions (9340 right now). Generally happy with them in every way.

I was pretty surprised when network scanning worked out of the box on Macs. I scan about as much as I print. AirPrint works on the newest ones, too, from iPhone/iPad.
I wonder if 3d printers will go the same way. You're 24 carat gold reel is a little low so I am not going to let you print plastic. Muwhhaahaa!
Anti-money laundering laws and copyright laws are similar and should be revised
Isn't it better to contact those resources?
Neat! My understanding is that AlphaGo is a stronger player, and so will likely have different estimations than the darkforest. But this is still really cool.
You are assigning value to "us" beyond what might actually be there. What if our only evolutionary value is to give rise to machine intelligence [that will go on to explore the universe] and die off?

We are primitive forms of life after all and are at the point where we should be able to say, with certainty, that machine intelligence will be objectively superior and something that we should feel OBLIGATED to give rise to, regardless of consequences.
Same printer, same experience
> If a majority of a society wants only to barely survive, rather than improve themselves and/or humanity, that is a problem itself.

Yes, thank you. There might be lots of problems implementing basic income in our current society, but the fearful reaction to the idea itself has always struck me as fundamentally misanthropic and nihilistic.

If the fear of death is all we're living for, then it might be time to rethink our way of life quite a bit.
Has anyone tried Epson’s Ink Tank series? They have a ridiculously low cost per page, with new inks costing as low as $5/bottle. I’m thinking of buying one to replace my aging Lexmark E-232 which has printed more than 70k pages without a hitch.
Thanks, a great read! Still the fact that so many brilliant thinkers can not agree on the definite answers to the ethical questions seems to me to be not the evidence that they are all climbing for the same summit from different sides (like it was for Parfit) but rather the evidence that the questions themselves are misstated.
Fear as always been a great motivational tool. I'm pretty sure in Rome, they told thing like "if xxx happens, barbarians will be at the door of Rome"
It's the business model that is the problem no the tech. This dude spent 5 hours trying to hack his printer. He is the problem! Just value your time and go out and buy a decent printer ffs. To get a printer this bad you have to spend next to nothing on it :-)
Perhaps this is how they find large amounts of hidden cash, with the same drug dog?
>Google isn't our enemy here, they're probably in the same boat as we're.

Google is the enemy. Like Apple, they're a PRISM participant, and while that doesn't necessarily mean they offer "direct and open access to all user data" like some believe, it still means they willingly collaborate with the NSA, because they're required and obligated to do so under the law. Any company subject to US law is also subject to NSLs, with which they can be forced to act as covert agents for the NSA.

We're all in the same boat, but that's because the enemy is us. The entirety of the United States' IT and electronics industries is the enemy, here, and the victim.
This is not just for me though, I consult and regularly recommend printers to clients. If they are business scale we always go laser, but home users do not want to hear they should buy multiple printers for b/w + color printing, and they don't want to buy a scanner separately (the 2340D is perfect except it lacks a scanner).

In many cases, it is hard enough to get them even remember what the print icon looks like, how to use ctrl-p, or that the word "Print" is in the file menu. Trying to get the tech illiterate to not only manage two printers, but also replace ink and toner for both of them, is crazy.

And the thing is nobody in this is printing often. Frequent printers should always buy laser, we know that, that is established. But we are talking about the once a week printers who just want everything for cheap. What better alternatives are there for that use case than an Epson 420?
It's worth remembering that AlphaGo was partially, initially trained on the previous game records of professional players, to form the basis of its policy network and so on. AlphaGo's victory over Lee Sedol is impressive, but it does rest on the combined total experience and long study of humans. That's why it's even more exciting to me to hear that one of the DeepMind team's next efforts will be to see how AlphaGo plays when it starts learning "from scratch".
> Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income.

Because individuals are better at determining their priorities than are central planners.

It sounds like your parents were bad with money -- but it also sounds like your assistance with budgeting has been more valuable than the government could ever hope to be.
Just register it as a standard postscript printer and it will most likely work.
I'm originally from the UK, and the idea of using a cheque for anything at all is hilariously outdated.

I've never written a cheque in my life. We're phasing them out by 2018, apparently.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8414341.stm

I think I've only ever received cheques twice, both times were gifts at birthdays from grandparents (80+ years old).
Hi. I didn't complain mainly about the quality of the printer. It's cheap and it's expected to just work. But not working because a cartridge is available or "malicious" pricing of printer/cartridge is not honest business.

At least, that's how I see it.
I'd like to see 2 or 3 or 4 step authentication in place whenever someone tries to USE my data.

Your data is over the place, in many hands. While it should be protected, it should also be much harder to use it to pretend to be you.

You should be able to set up 0 or 1 or 2 step authentication for trivial purchases, 3 step for larger purchases or accessing credit, or even 4 step authentication for things like buying a car or house.

Some steps could be approval require or denial required. Its enough to be able to deny the purchase of a latte, but you might want to always have to approve spending thousands of dollars.

And we need to be able to set up new kinds of authentication steps, like fingerprints or the approval of one or more trusted relatives for an older person or child. Or even use a notary public. And you might have to use more of these if you are from home.

And none of this should be manditory, but there should be sensible defaults that individuals can change. AFTER being well authenticated, of course :-)

If we raise the difficulty level of stealing MOST people's identity, this will largely solve this problem, especially for those most wanting to solve it.
multifunction printers are great, if you scam the scammers.

I got an epson all-in-one (WF-3640) and bought a continuous ink system off amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OIC1MAS?psc=1&redirect=t...

works great, i print a ton, and still less than half way through the ink.
Michael Goguen appears to be on Twitter attacking Sequoia: https://twitter.com/negars

It's not clear that he realizes this account can be traced to him, however.
The killer feature in the Thinkpad line for me is the military-grade sturdiness. Does Dell have the same kind of resistance to spills, drops, heat, etc.?
Something I need to try... I haven't yet dig into all the wonders of the Pi gpio and that sounds like a fun project.
Individuals in that situation usually are not.
Out of curiosity how much electric power is alphago burning while playing ?
Does someone know it ?
I used to think the same way. But gyms vary widely in quality and culture. And you can go at your own pace, nobody is going to make you do more when you're ready to stop.

I personally would prefer to just lift. But unless you're pretty lucky, or are willing to invest the time and expense, you won't have access to a gym with decent equipment. Since convenience is a huge factor in lifestyle choices like working out, you need to choose amongst the activities that are close to you. Once I graduated from cardio at Planet Fitness, the only place to go really is Crossfit.
I hope dude kills himself.
I bought a brother dcp7040 and am still on 1st full size cartridge after the sample toner ran out. Absolutely love this printer!! Ink junk can go to hell.
My Brother 1650 is over 10 years old and still printing as well as the day I bought it.
Yes I know you decided to define the word and its intent as you saw fit, which is why I posted the definition...

I'm aware you do not want to accept that most acts of terror have been in retaliation to government oppression, I can list of dozens of organizations throughout modern history who's reason for terrorism was/is oppression. I'd be interested in knowing which groups and events have led you to believe other wise.

Logically if you state
> Note for your statistics: I'd count the number of major terrorist attacks to date as zero.

And you state

>Eventually, though, as technology advances allow smaller groups of people to inflict larger amounts of damage with fewer specialized resources, how do you imagine that society could be kept secure without surveillance.

One would conclude you believe there will be an increased number of attacks if any occur...

Why would a terrorist attack cause anyone for encryption to lose their credibility? Would a terrorist event prevent the need for encrypted financial transactions, encrypted messages containing proprietary information, encrypted emails in regards to internal corporate directives? I assume you understand the importance of encryption in transactions?

There are Unintended Consequences to implementing a Police State which aggregates all communication and outlaws encryption as you are advocating.

Living in a free society incurs a small percentage of risk. "I don't think giving additional power over to our government at its current levels of incompetence and corruption is a good idea." --> How do you think the government will ever change if there is no check to their power. A corrupt institution can freely monitor the communication of their opposition, if that is the case how can they ever be removed from power?
I view all such arguments about "friendly AI", "emotion", having machine intelligence "understand us" as wishful thinking at best and laughable delusions otherwise.

I think the writing on the wall is clear, to anyone who cares to take a look. The moment we create an artificial intelligence capable of self-improvement and let it loose, we will have fulfilled our function (others say destiny) and will therefore be obsolete in every sense of the word.

What will happen to humanity after that point is irrelevant.

You don't see humans trying to keep bacteria "in the loop", why expect otherwise from our artificial progeny?
"ink is cheaper than toner" is just not true for B&W printing.
Not sure why you got down voted, Apple's single most insidious, egregious rip off? Memory.

To upgrade your iMac from base 8GB, 4x4 to 32GB is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.

Alternatively you can buy this aftermarket from Crucial, same timings, etc, for $139.98.

There is no earthly way that can possibly be justified - a four hundred and thirty per cent mark up on retail prices - even more when you consider the after market lets you keep the original 8GB, whereas your six hundred bucks at apple.com does not.
Crazy stuff, indeed. Scumbags at every level of society.
It's a race to bottom of costs, not some market teeming with innovation. Sure you could build the most amazing printer in the world but no consumer is going to spend $1000 for it vs. the $50 special at the big box store. Think of them like razors and razor blades--they'll throw an extra blade on to amp up the marketing but in the end it's all about selling some plastic and electrical bits for a few pennies less than the next guy.
In the UK we're phasing out cheques within 2 years. They're incredibly uncommon and used by pretty much nobody.

The majority of, if not all, government benefits are paid directly to a bank account.

It is essentially impossible to live as a functioning adult without a bank account in 2016 in the UK.
> the AI took its time when it thought it was ahead, and played exactly as aggressively as needed to win

Don't human professional players do exactly this? They care about playing the best move and winning. The difference is that AlphaGo is likely much more accurate at determining what "95% probability of winning" means in terms of gameplay. A human has a harder time judging the eventual outcome of a game, and so plays more "aggressively" (favouring point margins to account for variance in the estimate, etc.) than AlphaGo might.
Sparkle vulnerabilities finder (bash script)
I'm not really inclined to spend time on a detailed analysis at the moment, but given what the US wastes (imo) on military spending and healthcare (relative to other similar nations, e.g. Canada), you could get a good portion of the way to a UBI just by cuts to those and similar programs. A previous back-of-envelope estimate put it at around $6,800/person just for halving the total military budget (not just DoD) and switching to single-payer.
To the author :
It's 2016 if you still insist on buying original cartridges you seriously need to start to Google better options.

Injects can be refilled at home with a simple injection and syringe!
All you need to buy is some good quality ink from eBay (or aliexpress)

If not that
There are "compatible oem cartridges" at 1/4 the cost available EVERYWHERE!

or if you do the slightest bit of printing :
Invest in a CISS (Continuous ink supply system).. Even Epson makes original CISS systems.
" a prayer before every job " Amen to that!! Dcp7040 here going strong for 6 years on 1st full size toner. I will never look at inkjet again.
Take a look at GiveDirectly, which focuses on direct cash payments to the poor instead of traditional centrally planned aid actions. https://www.givedirectly.org/

One of their early findings was that people in Kenya in thatched roof homes used their money to get tin roofs, an intervention that was on nobody's radar, and greatly improved quality of life.

People are in poverty /by definition/ because they don't have money, and are generally painfully aware of what their biggest challenges are.
Huh? IBM Watson was able to answer trivia questions based on some impressive NLP (that I'd like to see more widely available) and a huge database of factual information. Oh, and it was able to beat humans in buzzing in. Watson was impressive, no doubt about it. But it certainly didn't have any meta knowledge of its place in the world or in a contest.
Can we please stop submitting and upvoting things like this. There is literally zero value in articles like this. These are no better than national inquirer articles and should just be banned wholesale.

I've already flagged. If a few more people flag it it will drop off the front page.
AABACO SMALL BUSINESS. That's just perfect branding.

All aboard the SpinCo!

See http://yahoosmallbusiness.tumblr.com/post/109624934574/yahoo... - the deal/transaction that fell through.
Personal search where it accesses your email and personal data can be abused to invade your privacy. Even using GPS to see where you drive. This is part of Siri and Cortana and everyone wants to do it. Windows 10 uses it and critics blast Microsoft for invading privacy.
I believe a plane is two-dimensional by definition. But I get where you're going. Isn't geometry fun!
While some poor people are bad with money, I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of them are capable of deciding between paying rent and buying a new TV.
I have an HP LaserJet 4L. It's noisy and has an inconvenient Centronics interface. This is because it's over 20 years old, but it has been similarly reliable and repairable because it dates from the era when HP were a respected engineering company.
That's a good strategy.

I own a printer, because I need to print shipping labels. I didn't own one until I started doing a lot of shipping. Even in college the CS lab let us print for free (the library charged) so I used that to print out assignments. I bought the cheapest black and white only laser printer in existence - $25.
Smells fishy - 13 year ongoing abuse? In the States where one can just walk to the police freely? After paying $10M out of $40M extortion to her? Stripper with only one sexual partner? Red lights everywhere...

How is it possible to terminate a guy in the US with unproven allegations? Guilty by default? I am not saying he isn't, but was there a due process already?
After leveling up on typography and what it takes to define a nice typographic grid I found REMs to be a revelation.

A key concept of good typographic grid design is that the body copy line height (or font size as a proxy) is a very important measurement to be reused across your grid.

TLDR; By using your body font size as a basic unit of measure for other visible distances eg padding, margins it's possibly to make your design look better and feel more unified.

My crude rule of thumb for beginners is to use REM for everything by default and then change over to EM anywhere this is not working for you (and this is a crude summary of key advice in this article)

One style guide I read suggested that pixels were ok for anything up to 5px and that REM/EM should always be used otherwise (towards ensuring a nice typographic grid) and I think that's a good practical approach.

If you're essentially thinking in REMs and just translating that to px in certain circumstances to get around crazy numbers, great,if that works for you. But I think that generally REMs provide free design benefits for those that switch to them rather than adding arbitrary non-proportional pixels lengths everywhere within a design.
Printers (for consumers) need development. They still function like the old days with all the bad stuff comes with that.

I personally just have a B&W Dell laserprinter that cost almost nothing. It's fast, prints everytime, and one cartridge lasts very long time.

Before my Dell, I had a 3-in-1 HP printer. It was the worst printer I've ever had. Paper jammed all the time. And half of the time it wouldn't pick up the paper, and told that there was no paper in it even though the paper tray was completely full. And those problems started on day one.

I'm still looking forward to seeing a printer that's really useful and user friendly. Silent. Easy to replace cartridges. One that doesn't jam paper every second page. we need the iPhone of printers.
OBS can't be simpler and works great.
Dogs can be trained to the scent of many items, some are trained to specifically smell for cash. The TSA black labs are designed to sniff out explosives and not drugs. Some dogs are even being trained to sniff out electronics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-197623/Dogs-help-sni...
I had an Epson 3800 photo printer. It once ran out of ink in the middle of a print and stopped mid-stream. I replaced the cartridge and it started back as if not missing a beat.

Paying more upfront for a printer saves you in the long run. Avoid cheap multi-function printers like the plague.
It's well-known that banks do not pay top dollar for engineering or IT talent. Further, for the less-than-top-dollar pay, you often work in horrible conditions. It's loud, relentlessly interactive even if your job function has nothing to do with intraday banking activities. Banks are notorious for using legacy technology, having arcane legal restrictions (e.g. you can't use an open source project without weeks worth of approvals and paperwork), virtually never pay down technical debt, have an unholy mixture of off-site consulting teams with too many cooks in the kitchen, and require you to work an unreasonable number of hours purely for the sake of appearing, visually, to do a lot of work.

I am not in the fin tech space, but if I was, banks would not be a serious worry. When large banks "mobilize" to compete with faster moving start-ups it is a hilarious failure, like when a cat is trying to take off a cat Halloween costume.
There's some anti-trump bias in reporting, but if you watch interviews with him, reporters never take him to task for anything. They'd rather help spread his message than risk losing interviews (and thus ratings).

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/09/anderson_c...
Well, no casualties among the people ordering the AI. Kids going to their aunties' wedding, a bit less so.

To say nothing of the casualties that'll be inflected on the AI warriors...
How do you know it's him?
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I imagine the costs are negligible, because the average person is probably only going to call once or twice and be told to reboot the router (which works), before they just start rebooting it on their own whenever they have a problem.
I agree I am learning Elm mainly to learn FRP and do some 'haskell with my hands tied behind my back' because I believe you can get a lot done without resorting to the advanced language features of Haskell.

So for me it's a kata for learning how to be a better functional programmer. Once I feel I 'get' the FRP model used I may just go and do the same stuff in another language, see how it plays out in Haskell or Purescript.

I feel FP will remain a hobby though and the best I can hope for is to convince .NET colleagues to make immutable classes, use code contracts to avoid null problems, and generally try to minimize state and maybe use Rx. Even F# would be too much of a push for most .NET shops. I have a mortgage and fixing bugs caused by ridiculous state and null references in .NET code pays it and then some :-)
Is there a name for the scenario where market forces push new products to be objectively inferior to older ones?
Graphene battery has (HPG) tech to get high-power – Graphene Uses
Hilarious! I hate X-Windows, but this is fucking brilliant.

Who needs a window manager when you can use emacs and bash scripts to do anything?

Has anybody written ICCCM mode for emacs?
That's a very interesting concept! My prediction is that it will turn into Celebrity Coin very quickly. Which may or may not be a bad thing. Giving incentives for celebrities to endorse his currency sounds like a powerful idea.