skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's do some research!

Pew Research states that "A majority of Americans (54%) disapprove of the U.S. government’s collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts".[1]

So, right off the bat, we know that most people care about privacy. And maybe this meme that so many people are uncaring or ignorant about privacy will eventually die.

1: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/29/what-america...
I think just about everybody cares about privacy, but many care about it so differently that it looks a lot like not caring.

A lot of it comes down to essentially having faith in law enforcement. Basically, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Nobody wants to be watched while they get dressed or use the toilet, but government surveillance is looking for criminal activity. People don't mind it, because they're not criminals.

Another big chunk is what I'd call theoretical versus practical privacy. The NSA is capturing all our phone calls and internet activity. Us techies typically see this as a massive invasion of privacy, because NSA employees might be looking through all our stuff. I think the average man on the street does not see it as a massive invasion of privacy, because NSA employees probably aren't looking through all of their stuff, as they have more important stuff to do.

And then there's just the question of tradeoffs. We usually see government surveillance as a huge invasion of privacy with little if any benefit. Lots of people see it as a minor invasion of privacy with a huge law-and-order benefit.

I think just about everybody cares about privacy, but that doesn't necessarily translate into opposing government surveillance.
Things that this does not cover:

Transportation
Education
Health
Childcare
Clothes
Job-seeking expenses

If you want the flexibility to cover every avenue of "i and my family have a shot at making it," you either arrive at a combinatorial explosion of complex needs-tested programs, or basic income.

Since every program you make will induce some unique form of leakage, corruption or freeloading, the expectation of BI is that it limits that to "some people do not have the personality to manage personal finances, and will always be broke in any given situation." But that doesn't take anything "away" from people who can be responsible - they will in fact be insulated from the drag-the-family-down dynamic that prevails in the deepest instances of developed-world poverty, because they get their own BI at adulthood and can just run away from the situation without severe risk or hardship.
It's the worst possible investing method except for all the others.

If anyone could come up with a method that consistently beat passive investing, the situation would change in a heartbeat.
Hah, I just tried to pronounce it with coarticulation of [a] and [o], and it came out as [ɞ] [1]. /niɲɞs/ sounds totally alien.

In reality, probably “niños y niñas”.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mid_central_rounded_vowel
But in Go you can only make one move at a time. So even if a move is optimal for one part of the board, there might be a different move that you should have made first.
I believe the OP refers to global/local as they are used in Go. There, global/local play is a concept taken for granted by humans, with explicit names like "sente" and "tenuki".

I think the OP simply implies AlphaGo doesn't seem bound by these human cognitive crutches.

This is not the same as "global" in the theoretical sense, as in "finding the perfect solution / exhaustive proof". See also "game temperature" [1]

[1] http://senseis.xmp.net/?Temperature
The European weather forecast model already kicking America’s butt just improved
You know what? You're right. I'm tired of doing boring work for lazy rich folks. My basic needs should be taken care of and I should be free to live my life pursuing whatever whims or flights of fancy might make themselves manifest in my mind.

But why wait for our professional policy makers to bring basic income into reality? We can make it happen right here, right now. We'll free all the wage slaves from the bondage of their forced labor, one at time, and starting with me.

Here's an opportunity to act upon your principles and bring the world you want into being.

Send your donations to the following bitcoin address:

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One difference that comes to mind is that the negative income tax requires all of the government machinery of the income tax to operate. If you decide to abolish income taxes in favor of something else, like sales or property taxes, you'd still need income reporting to compute everyone's benefit. A universal basic income is much simpler to operate because it's the same amount per-head.

If we're going to stay on an income tax system, then the negative income tax is probably smarter.

Interesting aside: Milton Friedman was a proponent of a negative income tax.
Yeah, but also this is nothing new.

In a recent Planet Money episode (#688: Brilliant vs. Boring), they talk about how when John Bogle first introduced the index mutual fund in 1975, it got a lot of criticism (and not much adoption) with people claiming that they were "un-american" and "Bogle's folly".

It's possible that there's some sort of concentrated media push going on here, but the story hasn't changed much in the last 40 years. And I would hope that if people with a lot of money were trying to smear index funds, they'd at least come up with a new angle.
What happened in 2007 that the refusal rate for Mexicans grew from 10% to 33%?
So what stops you from mining ahead secretly?
Having owned more printers than I can remember, including Epson, Brother, Ricoh, Tektronix, HP, using laser, inkjet, and even other technologies, I think there are a few conclusions to draw:

+ For printing documents laser printers are by far the best choice for reliability, economy and quality of output. Color lasers have become quite reasonably priced, so if color printing is needed, no need to get something less.

+ For photos, nothing beats a high-quality pigment inkjet printer, but they can be expensive, especially large-format models.

About 12 years ago I bought an Epson Pro 4000, with 17x22in capability, it was at the time used leading edge tech. It required 8 ink cartridges. I preferred the 220 ml size, but those cost ~$100 each. The main problem with the 4000 was the heads clogging easily, a big annoyance and costly too.

But the Pro 4000 made absolutely gorgeous prints. Now it needs to be replaced, though spending >$2000 is not a pleasant prospect. Newer machines no doubt have much better print heads, probably lower TCO.

AS many here point out, small desktop inkjets can be expensive to operate and document output quality is often poor vs. laser.

+ It's been pretty consistent, printers and printer drivers cause 90% of system admin problems. Windows has always been by far the worst on this score. Amazingly, I had tremendous issues with a 6 year old Ricoh under Windows, but absolutely no driver problems with Linux. The customary Postscript-based printing in the Unix world is a predictable standard and usually easy to work with.

Many laser printers have built-in Postscript emulation, though a PS option for high-end printers or plotters can cost upward of $1000. Still might be worth it to avoid the Windows printer driver hell.
Canada isn't responsible for keeping the peace and keeping trading routes open in Europe, the South China Sea, the Persian Gulf, etc. Nor is it responsible for defending Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Nor will it be be able to make any decisive contributions to the defense of the easternmost NATO countries. The West's military might rests almost entirely in the United States. You don't want to see a world where we don't inspire fear in the halls of power of China and Russia. Never have the good been so much more powerful than the bad. Let's keep it that way.

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That's a good point. I've heard the argument that the US's defense of Europe has infantilized Europeans into thinking that they don't need military might, that institutions like the ICC and the UN can actually keep them safe. Much like a child doesn't understand the value of money because he's never had to work for it. I think there's a little more to it than that; the horrors of the two world wars are surely part of Europeans' distaste for military power. Unfortunately, if the US just withdrew its defense of Europe, I have no doubt that Russia would conquer the rest of Ukraine and the Baltics. Japan has been trying to become more responsible for its own defense under Prime Minister Abe, but look at the vicious opposition he's gotten for it.

Maybe one day the political tides will shift in Europe and elsewhere and the US can responsibly hand over some of its current military obligations. For now, I reckon it's a price worth paying for a world of peace and commerce. And in which America does exceedingly well.
That's not true: strongest products ever made were high-assurance closed source. There's also been strong FOSS apps. Most apps, open or closed, are insecure due to lack of rigor or specialist skill. Key things are right development, review, and distribution.

I broke it down in the essay below:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...

Review and identification/possession of what was reviewed are important points. Mass publication or distribution of source hasn't proven to be a determining factor.
This is a snapshot, when the issue has been brought to the fore; if you look at the historical data, it appears that people were more comfortable with continuous monitoring and intrusions in the past, and that they will again become more comfortable with it in the future.
Denmark.

I wasn't particularly looking to move here, though it was a country I'd thought about. Then someone forwarded a job advert to me, and I ended up with an offer I couldn't refuse :-)

Anywhere in the EU is easy to move to, and easy to move away from if you don't like it. The big differences are probably the ease of getting a job, speaking the language (or not needing to) and meeting local people.
In the case of the Bay Area, where are these new homes for high income buyers supposed to go? There isn't a whole lot of green field space left to develop into new, high-end, homes, so that the old homes can filter down.

Silicon Valley, by-and-large, has always zoned for lots of cheap office space to keep light industrial rents cheap, in order to create jobs and reap the resulting tax revenue. But it has created an imbalance. Really, if you believe the thesis of this article, the only solution is to declare Sili Valley (and the peninsula) "full", or maybe even overflowing. Then rezone some industrial areas, bulldoze them, and build McMansions. Oh wait, industrial rents will go up and companies will move out or start elsewhere. It is hard to have it both ways.
I agree with the excitement. A possible outcome is that the AlphaGo trained "from scratch" will not be as strong--but another possibility is that by eschewing any bias for human tradition, perhaps it will come up with even better strategies that no one has thought of before.
The counterarguments, which I don't find super compelling but are nonetheless pretty reasonable, are

1. You may not even be able to acquire shares or to dispose of them (everyone is passive!)

2. Low liquidity + required multiyear holding times = dramatically increased risk

3. Businesses are affected by the markets their shares trade in. Earnings can be depressed by increased costs of capital, sentiment and anti-competitive pressures from shareholders who hold the entire market.
Yes, I shouldn't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that.

Anyway, yes, it will optimize whatever function it's told to optimize. So you'd better hope that whoever gives it that function 1) cares about people's wellbeing and 2) is good at expressing that in a way the computer can interpret.

1 is pretty obvious, 2 may be a bit less so. For example, a superintelligent computer commanded to maximize global average happiness might decide the best route would be to work towards killing the entire human population except for one individual, who is kept constantly drugged out of their mind.
Plenty of people.

You can still clean toilets and wait tables to make extra income so you can afford the nice things you may like but aren't needed to live, such as vacations.

If you stopped cleaning toilets you don't starve. That's the idea anyway. You don't have to clean toilets but that is an option if you want to earn some extra spending money.

Not everyone considers cleaning toilets beneath them. I didn't mind having a job where I cleaned toilets, that sort of work doesnt bother me - it's only the pay that is terrible.
> someone should theoretically be able to extract the entire dataset as static files

Yep, not only possible but trivial. One has to just figure out where the hash links are in each blob and follow them.
http://90plan.ovh.net/~lafrancep/atableRelease/Help.html
Okay, I have $10k says Plank beats the computer in Calvinball until at least 2020. At that point, I'm only willing to bet $1k/game.
> I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer.

I haven't used a Dell for a long time, and never a laptop, but the other commenters seem to be discussing a logo on the bezel itself, directly visible to the person using the computer.
2015? MacBook Pro retina, a also had another 2007 MB pro before that. I run Windows on it.

Pros:
It runs 2 big monitors, 3 if you count the laptop screen.

More dependable in my experience than Think Pads.

I can get another one in a day if this one breaks or gets stolen.

Has NVidia GPU for running Cuda.
I don't understand why you use China as an example. The example you raised happens everywhere when your contract is exploitable. Pointing you finger to China does not help your case, only shows your prejudice
It isn't about the anonymous payment parts, it is about the restrictive terms anti-laundering laws force upon any form of currency, in a time when we are trying to push the boundaries of what "currency" or "money" should even mean.

We cannot achieve the potential of technology in the scope of economics if this entire aspect of market cannot be explored because of archaic laws mostly made as draconian as they are to complement a war on drugs that is even more draconian.
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (Slack, 2013)
Spain's rate went 11% higher too after 2011. Was there any policy change?
How new domains are building better brands
Ah OK. I was thinking strictly operational costs, while this comparison includes the price of the printer and assumes other constraints. Got it. Thanks.
Yep, gotta push new boundaries of Sorry For Your Loss.
yes the problem is that games are the only formalizable apps. We need an AI to formalize the rest.
>Avoiding money laundering is a laudable goal, while avoid the dissemination of information is not clearly so.

You're not comparing apples to apples. The goal of money laundering laws is to make it harder to profit from crimes, achieved by the means of e.g. violating financial privacy.

The goal of copyright laws is not to "prevent dissemination of information" but to encourage better intellectual works by granting their creators temporary control of them; this is achieved by the means of restricting some kinds of copying.

Both intents are noble; to characterize the goal of copyright law as "preventing the dissemination of information" is the wrong comparison.
This reminds me of wmutils, a set of standalone programs for x11 manipulation. A couple people I know use it, and it's pretty popular at /r/unixporn. It lets you essentially create your own WM with bash scripts or any other programming language, or extend minimal WMs like 2bwm vka sxhkd.

https://wmutils.io/
Maybe it's not what you're looking for, but it would be easy to just write a cron job that runs wget and emails you if the error output is non-empty.
Given how well games like Mario have been mastered by machine learning algorithms (to beyond expert human levels), I doubt a motocross-maniacs-style side scroller would present too much of a challenge.

It would be interesting to see what, if anything, they've changed in the game to make it harder for a computer to play.
Matt Levine has a pretty balanced perspective on the matter: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-22/index-funds...

His opinion iirc is that at some point there will be an inflection point where there will once again be profits to be had through information discovery, and the two forces will balance out.
As long as the absolute number of units in that 75% is large enough, it can still successfully kick start this filtering process.

Fascinating to see actual studies supporting what the free market is already pushing for, more luxury housing.
It's more like HFT which wipes him out. He can't possibly react on the timescales involved, and the market is unlikely to reflect actual business realities compared to the current disposition of several automated financial instruments internal state.
ShareX is a Windows GUI wrapper around ffmpeg (when recording video of the screen).

I think it makes sense to mention even platform-specific tools that can make ffmpeg command line parameter incantation easier!
This repo worked for me on a modern Debian install: https://github.com/floren/ching
Except for the fact they no longer run Linux well or are even good hardware. The MBP -is- the new Thinkpad, atleast for everyone that used to rock the T60 era gear.
The $8 key that can open New York City to terrorists
It is a clipart font! This article is a bit like these linkbait things, where young people are presented with a audio cassette and a pencil
> the ThinkPad has really good keys and typing is just such pleasure on it

Might be just the one I have but my keyboard, even after replacement, does not register some keys even when they're fully pressed (they have to be pressed further) and since I'm used to Apple's keyboard, I can't use it for more than a few minutes — It misses half the stuff I type.

> It has taken a few beatings — filled backpack falling laptop-side-first onto a railing from a height of a half-metre, dropped/slipped from a sitting desk to the floor, thrown across a (small) room and (upon a failed catch) rolling on its side

I have re-assembled this unit fully and having seen the hacked together inside of it, I highly suggest against physically abusing it.

As for mine, I bought the 16GB version and threw in a Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB SSD and it's faster than a Ferrari. Overall I like it but in build quality department, it's in league with likes of Asus and Acer. It'll be my last Lenovo for sure.
The API of this lib is probably surprising for the typical use-cases because a MemInfo object only represents a path and not a reading/snapshot of the file (each subsequent call to get() re-reads the meminfo file).

> https://github.com/mrsmn/hazelnut/blob/master/hazelnut/core....

So usage like:

snap_pre = MemInfo()
# Do stuff here
snap_post = MemInfo()
snap_pre.get('Mem')
snap_post.get('Mem')
snap_post.get('Mem')
# All three would likely give different values.

I would suggest caching the read on instantiation or making them top level functions instead of using a class or MemInfoPath()?
They were fine with it until they realized their private pictures and everything else belonging to them on the web were accessible to the government. In other words, no one cared until they were made to care. No one knew the government was watching, and people who thought they were had no evidence.

But that's tangential to the fact that a statistic has poked a hole through your argument about today's day and age, for which you haven't provided a counterargument. Is there a logical reason you think that people "will again become more comfortable with it" or is it just a hunch?

I'm tired of the nonsense and FUD surrounding American attitudes towards privacy.
Sorry but more research will reveal massive progress in the fields connected to those ideals. Please research some more, you have missed quite a few developments.

For example, long stays in large space stations, landing craft on Mars, successful isolation sustainability experiments, 14nm chips and understanding of quantum concerns, multi-layer chips, beginnings of optical computing, biological/genetic chemical synthesis, neuromorphic chips, etc.

Deep reinforcement learning is undeniably a major step forward for general intelligence.

You and others with your belief system will still be in denial up to and past the point where your species becomes irrelevant as the superintelligent AIs arrive within a few decades.
Racing Extinction
I, in the end, got the main ways to use the chart but it never really seemed to solve the main issues they had "[...]current tables on the web do not support such changes very well, are generally hard to read, and lack dynamic interactions." It instead introduced new problems of buried navigation, and seemed even harder to read.

It seems like a problem that can more easily be solved by just having a table and a chart side-by-side.
The Taoist concept of the uncarved block, referenced in the title of the koan, refers to naturalness and simplicity. I'm sure someone more expert than me can give a better explanation but it seems highly relevant to the idea of learning to play Go based only on the rules, rather than any human tradition of strategy.

http://taomanor.org/pu.html
I think there's a real opportunity for a grand compromise between the left and right here. If a basic income/negative income tax is bundled with abolishing most or all other government handouts and retirement plans, small government minded people like myself could get behind it.

One thing I worry about is that this could cause massive inflation and a recession (stagflation) as people drop out of low-wage work in droves. What percent of society will decide to live on solely the basic income if it's high enough to pay for basic expenses? Work is virtuous and builds character. Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

And what would it do to our democracy if a huge portion of the population is living on someone else's dime and not even trying to join the workforce. Isn't it fair to call them children? What insight could they possibly have in the democratic process except to vote their own immediate monetary interests? I believe in universal suffrage, which is why this is a conundrum for me.
Alan is one of the people who started the language (which is mentioned in the article). He is also one of the cofounders of Julia Computing (the company we formed to provide support and other services for the company). So from my biased viewpoint, the language is both truly amazing and Alan has a motive to promote the language, if only since he has a significant chunk of time and effort into making it a reality. I don't think it's fair to call it undisclosed however.
Doesn't it only have like 64GB of storage on it? How do you survive?
Awesome,it is a hard work
Security is easy. Do not trust user input. In any framework or library just identify user inputs and treat them carefully. Hard part is to remember that.
One could trace the protocol between the phone and the network to see if it conforms generally. Specifically is another issue.
Why not link to the html version? http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/mindset/
Psychiatry has convinced a lot of people that mental disorders are often caused by 'chemical imbalances' whatever that means.

The neural structure of the brain is very complex and involves dozens of neuronal molecules acting on a wide variety of neurons.

It's incredible that we have psychiatrists prescribing all sorts of inhibitors/activators to alleviate various disorders. A lot of these drugs have unknown mechanisms. Even when the mechanism is understood no one understands how these drugs are working on the whole brain.
Is HFT/Robo trading considered passive investing?