skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIXI has many known problems. The interesting thing is that it is kind of like a mathematically pure and elegant model of machine learning based AI. So any problems with AIXI might apply to our current approaches to AI.

The biggest issue is that AIXI doesn't believe it exists in the universe it is observing. It thinks it's playing some kind of video game. From this it doesn't believe that it can truly die, it doesn't believe it can affect it's own brain in any way, and it doesn't care about anything other than maximising some "score" that the "game" provides it.
8TB external drive can be powered by a single USB-C port
Interestingly, that may be the new ordering if the disks are SSDs, but the typical seek latency on a spinning disk (~5 ms) is definitely higher than the latency to read data from another machine's memory across ethernet (a few hundred us), and even the bandwidths are comparable (~150 MB/s).

So, now it has jumped from (disk -> network -> memory -> ...) to (network -> disk -> memory -> ...), which is a big change.
They now report on the number of such requests they receive using a banding system, right? They can say they received between 0-249 such requests this year, something (essentially useless) like that?
How is FreeBSD tested?
Perhaps they won't get you for stuff you did today that is legal today.

But if you are still a carrot fetishist in the future, they can use the knowledge that you used to be a carrot fetishist to set up a sting operation. A little parallel reconstruction, they seize your phone and laptop, and next thing you know you're in prison in the future, thanks to the data they hoovered up today and will be in their database forever.
A gated experience to watch the unveil video?

Is Tesla desperate for leads and sales? This tells me Tesla is hurting for numbers or they're worried about GM Bolt and others. So they want to spam the interested parties or keep them from committing to other brands for the next year or so until Model 3 is available.

BTW, Bolt has already been unveiled [0]

And some manufacturing has already started [1]

[0] http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/01/chevrolets-bolt-is-an-el...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJ7Ob9I5eQ
And relative to a bank, which is what I was comparing them to, they are canceling things at a very very rapid pace.

I am perfectly fine with people saying that Google, a multi-billion dollar corporation, cancels things less often than a company with a completely uncertain future and no profit.

I am also fine with saying that comparison is not fair to the startups or to business that try to deliver a faithful product to their customers.
except, open source :-)
You're safe there. Imagine the day when Google migrated itself to O365. I can't either.
That's a real shame. I only went to talks there a couple of times before moving away, but it seemed like a really special kind of place.
> it's MIT and CalTech that remain by far the most rigorous major undergraduate universities

Yeah that's not a fact at all; it's just your opinion. This is why I agreed with the other poster that this wasn't a great thread of argument; we're just dick-measuring based on our own experiences at this point. You can attempt to try to bring in what you believe to be "objective" measures (like course requirements), but 1) those measures are themselves questionable, and 2) the selection of criteria to judge is itself a subjective judgment.
No, I'm primarily thinking of "ain't got time for dat", as in "there's a very real deadline, I have a lot of other things to get done, and this case isn't ever going to happen and I don't have time to prove it to the compiler."
It is exactly the tremendous goodwill that attracts the thieves and scammers.
I don't think so, that would be tantamount to saying "we did recieve a NSL in the year of 2015" which would be breaking the gag order and would not have as strong an argument about compelled speech.
It is unlikely this would ever be enforceable once there are permanent settlements on the moon or elsewhere as they could always secede from the UN and any country they were once involved with. Once they claimed independence, weaponizing orbital equipment would be the only real way to displace them (which would also violate the treaty).

It is more likely to end up like The Expanse series where Mars and then the other planets claim independence from Earth.
"I think this assumes that the most generic type is the best option? Personally, I don't think that's a correct assumption."

Well, of course it isn't universally. But it's helpful to be able to scan something and get prompted that you made something an excessively-specific type for what is, at this time, no apparent reason.

One generic reason to use a specific type (heh) is to avoid resolving the interface on every use. But in general there's still a lot of code written that takes a concrete type but just needs a Reader/Writer/etc.

"But I would worry that someone would add this to, say, a git hook as way to enforce this assumption."

I suspect anyone using this is not likely to be tempted that way. There's a lot of linters/code analyzers for Go that are, like this, useful for feedback but can't be trusted to that degree. See https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter. I've got a profile of a gometalinter setup that I've got some of my projects hooked up to a pre-commit hook on [1], but only for selected hooks. Things supported in that package range from "really no good reason ever to have this 'linter' complain" to "I've hardly ever seen it emit a warning I agreed with" (sorry, gocyclo, but along with my general distaste for cyclomatic complexity being a useful metric, you're set too painfully low for me).

See also the other story on the HN front page as I write this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11396477 You would not hook that to a precommit hook. You'd just run it every so often.

[1]: If you're interested in this yourself, basically I just wrapped the metalinter behind a shell script, started committing, and whenever it complains about something I don't like, I either hack out the specific warning or the entire linter in question, depending. Best just to grow your own profile. You may also find this trick amusing: In the pre-commit hook, I actually have it chdir into the project root and run this:

./gml $(find -name lintclean -printf "%h ")

"gml" is the aforementioned shell script consisting basically of "gometalinter $ALL_THE_EXCLUSIONS $*", and the find comand makes it so you drop a file named "lintclean" in a package that you want to keep clean. The precommit hook then only triggers on packages that you've "declared" to be sealed to be clean, meaning you can develop freely without the linter screaming continuously.
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Source: https://github.com/drorm/sojobs

Uses the HN API on Firebase to fetch the articles. Stores them in a Postgres database, and then provides a UI to search by location, topic, visa or remote.
Running a TTY terminal in electron
A friend of mine who interned with me at eBay used Druid and Angular to great success to build a tool for analysts to look at trends in our data. Druid is some seriously cool stuff.
very interesting... haven't heard of this. ty
Law is not made on a case by case basis. There is a general set of powers that gets granted for something like a search warrant. Just because a govt official argues that a specific case is terrorism related, does not mean that the general powers granted by a search warrant is "just cause terrorism". Instead, to have a coherent argument you have to argue against why the govt should have been given the search warrant in the first place.

If you're a programmer you'll understand - you can't argue generally about a class because of the properties of an instance of that class.
Mathematicians mapped out “Game of Thrones” to find the main character
serverside you can pass --harmony_destructuring to get that on v5.
I saw the show/film and a live interview with Randi when he was in Australia last year (year before?). Was a great experience as a long time fan - and I agree, Penn & Teller's show is excellent as well.
What if I told you there was a valid technical reason not to allow alternate browsers on iOS?

If you're on a Mac, paste this into Terminal:

find /Applications/ -perm +111 -type f |while read fname; do otool -L "$fname" | grep WebKit && echo "$fname"; done

With those results in mind (500 binaries for me, if you're not in the habit of blindly pasting things into terminal), ask yourself the following questions:

1. What percentage of these vendors do I trust to rapidly respond to zero-day attacks in their embedded browsing engine?

2. What percentage of these applications have I updated in the last year?

3. What percentage of these vendors do I want to grant the authority to download arbitrary untrusted internet code, compile it to machine code, and jump to it? This is what all modern JS engines do, and (other than system WebKit) absolutely forbidden on iOS.

4. Given that applications can ship "homegrown" WebKit on OSX, what percentage of programs I have installed actually do so, instead of linking /System/Library/WebKit.framework? And what does that say about the real demand for special browsing engines?

Every rant I read about how "the web is in bad shape" jumps straight into conspiracy theories about Apple the monopolist (somehow with 30% US marketshare) without solving, addressing, or even mentioning the actual technical issues.

If you're a person who does not like the way things are going, you should A) talk to people on the other team to discover what is the real, legitimate, technical concern behind our position, and B) work with us on finding solutions to that issue, and C) go out for beer afterward.

Characterizing Apple as some villain "locking up untold billions in economic value" for prioritizing security over software freedom accomplishes nothing beyond creating animosity between engineers who share many of the same goals.
re: the commercial barrage, How the hell much to they pay postal carriers in Rural Minnesota? I'm definitely in the wrong business and live in the wrong place.
Congrats Bitfusion Team. This is really exciting!
Well the non-profit system isn't designed to allow people who embezzle money to be caught within a day or whatever. I don't think any accounting system is.

The fact that the thief is eventually caught shows that the system does work, and the amount of damage that has been done isn't fatal to the organisation.

There is going to have to be some amount of trust between the staff of an organisation and this trust can be abused to steal money, this is true in any organisation, it has nothing to do with being non-profit.

Finances are transparent to the public.
Or they could just be collecting marketing data.
Dude. Clearly you have insights into this investigation that neither I, any media outlet or even in fact the FBI even has. So in that case, congrats, you win.
Does intensive agriculture have a similar effect? It sounds like the net carbon increase is due to intensive grazing depleting soil capacity.

Of course, a forest would have more carbon than pasture, just wondering about the net impact of cows vs. some other kind of agriculture.
Passports out, workers: This programme can help you work, learn, and travel
Adding carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) to the atmosphere are two completely different things.
CO2 can be re-captured by plants and photosynthesized to separate carbon + oxygen.
So as you pointed out, planting a tree and burning a tree cancel each other out in theory (if you burn the tree 100% cleanly).

CH4 breaks down into other stuff, but it doesn't go back into plants.

To answer your last question, methane is transient (~10 years or so).
But as long as the cows are around, that really doesn't matter.
Want to Code? A University Degree Might Be a Huge Waste of Time
"Willing to go to jail if necessary" != "actively wants to become a negative example to other potential wistleblowers"
From the paper:

"World champion master athletes in their 9th decade of life had a greater number of surviving motor units, reduced collateral reinnervation, better neuromuscular transmission stability and a greater amount of excitable muscle mass as compared with age-matched controls."

and

"The Masters Athletes (MA) consisted of track and field athletes ranked in the top 4 of their respective events at the world masters championships..."

I'm not sure how surprised I'm supposed to be about people who were world-class athletes some time within the past ~40 years ago having above average strength.

Though, I understand that you can't easily pull off a randomized controlled trial (long-term) for exercise.
How is it the new COBOL?
Buckle your seatbelts!
There is Gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that rewards for BOINC projects.

I wouldn't be surprised if certain services became more centralized, offloading computing to the cloud. Consumer grade devices would become thin clients (like back in the day). NVIDIA has hinted in this direction, I can remember something about GaaS (Gaming as a Service).
Design Founder, revolutionary – Zaha Hadid 1950-2016 /March 31, 2016
This was a good read. It's something that I can point people to, since even as a health care provider (firefighter/paramedic) we frequently run into other levels of provider that are clueless about HIPAA and use it as an excuse to not provide information that we need. (in other words, they're being lazy, and claiming "that's a HIPAA violation" is way easier for them.)

It's amazing just how misunderstood HIPAA has become.
Thanks for the info on the headers, I can't believe they've issued certs for over a million domains!

Here's my notes on setting up LE on IIS if anyone one is interested, it's done by using Powershell/ Package manager.

//1. Install (you will get some security prompts)
Install-Module -Name ACMESharp

Import-Module ACMESharp

Initialize-ACMEVault

New-ACMERegistration -Contacts mailto:somebody@example.org -AcceptTos

//2. Request the challange, this is for a website currently running on IIS. 'WebSiteRef ' refers to the name of the site within IIS

New-ACMEIdentifier -Dns demo.velox.io -Alias demo
Complete-ACMEChallenge demo -ChallengeType http-01 -Handler iis -HandlerParameters @{ WebSiteRef = 'Demo' }

Submit-ACMEChallenge demo -ChallengeType http-01

//3. Create & download the certificate

New-ACMECertificate demo -Generate -Alias demoCert

Submit-ACMECertificate demoCert

Update-ACMECertificate demoCert

Get-ACMECertificate demoCert -ExportPkcs12 "C:\Users\USER\desktop\demoCert.pfx"

You can now install this on your server.
You can fill in false data if you like, they aren't checking.
Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
I didn't know Australia outlawed warrant canaries. Luckily, it looks like that actually only outlawed journalist warrant canaries (so a company couldn't use a warrant canary to say that a journalist was investigating one of their customers).
I entirely agree. It's foolish to believe that "private subreddits" and "private messages" are private, in any meaningful sense.
Hey wow it's Simon Hackett [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if he did this for free - he's always been a big supporter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hackett
just because he tried to escape it doesn't mean he didn't make that decision...
> would require implying deliberate malice or deception on the part of the human agent who decided to issue the fraudulent NSL

Can be done by re-interpreting what is happening -- "we are not issuing bogus NSLs to troll them, we are fighting terrorism and these sites deliberately shelter and protect terrorists and other criminals. We want to periodically issue NSLs to establish protocols and methods so we can more effectively protect our country and do our work".

So it has to be story which will look good on paper and workers will tell themselves without feeling like they are doing something illegal.

Another way is to do it as a side-effect of something else -- say "we decided to double our efforts to track down drug dealers on these sites, therefore we'll put 2x more people on it and they will conduct research and open new cases and so on". So simply by allocating more resources to the "problem" they'll ensure any of these large sites will simply get a constant stream of NSLs without explictly writing that down as "we are busting the canaries" as a goal anywhere.
April Fool's day links
Let's collect all of April Fool's day links here instead of polluting the home page.
I recently built docker-gen-letsencrypt[1]. It's the same concept as what you're using, but fully automated for getting certs.

[1]: https://github.com/mikew/docker-gen-letsencrypt
Wow, Donuts Domains is making everything a TLD nowadays.
Bolt? That's a car for girls(at least by design).

Collecting emails is a good marketing tactic and they won't load the servers with everyone.
EDIT: Found a live stream on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FLSxJjdnLU

Also, I made a reservation at the Fremont factory today. Took around 15 mins including line, but I went in around 10:30-11am. I'd estimate there were around 600 people before me in the morning. Fairly certain they will hit 100k before the stream starts.
The real question is if the local governments will have any reach...
If this thing looks even remotely like a bolt I'll be mashing the refund button. I'm expecting something more like a Nissan Maxima (S) -> Nissan Altima (3) not Cadillac -> Golf Cart.
* Google Cardboard Plastic[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOuShXpoKc
A light might not help you. The police might think that it's a laser sight, and be even more likely to shoot you:

The officers claim that the Taser projected a red light, which they assumed was the laser sight of a handgun, and feared for their lives. At 7.18:43pm, Schiff and Sawyer began barraging Nieto with .40-calibre bullets.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gent...
We changed it to the page title, which is what the HN guidelines ask you to use in the first place, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
Yep. The player on the event screen (after you fill in information) has no timeshifting controls either. Stuck watching the whole thing with no fast-forward or rewind. Just tried to do so but got bored after 10 minutes of Model S commercials.
Deep learning startup Enlitic raises $10M from radiology company Capitol Health
I am curious, what does this give you over CentOS, I thought the idea of CentOS was that it was RHEL with different support and branding?
That reminds me of APL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29...

One of the examples there uses the ⍨ character!
Since its nounage was baity enough to elicit off-topic snark, I guess we'll go for the gerund.
"who can't get a bank account because of their age and/or immigrant status"

Or because of Chexsystems, which bars you from getting an account pretty much anywhere for 5 years. I was a victim of that years ago, and it really screws your life up. you have (or had at the time) no choice but to utilize check cashing services like the shady one in the article. It isn't always as simple as "go to the bank that the check was written from" either.

It can cost a lot to be poor in the US.
Go for it. The Iron Temple is the one constant, it's always waiting for you...beckoning. Will you heed the call of Brodin?
You can see that people are pretty split about Simple being a good idea. I can tell you that the one thing they offer me over any other online bank is their budgeting tools.

I'll specify a certain amount like 500 or 1000 dollars to be set aside by any date. It will move over small amounts daily without you noticing. In reality, the money is all in the same account but mentally I do way better with this scheme. I've built an emergency, a car repair fund, saved for AC for my home, and more without seeing a huge loss in my daily balance. It helped me learn to budget and save and that's the value they provide.

If you already are an amazing budgeter, no need to sign up.
They had lines around the block at stores all over the world today, with people reserving a car they haven't even seen yet, and putting down $1,000 for the privilege. I don't think they're hurting for numbers.
The "yelling fire" case was about a Jewish anti-war socialist who distributed pamphlets urging men to resist the WWI draft as a violation of the 13th amendment.

The idea that a National Security Letter can serve as a secret warrant against a 21st century Charles Schenck like Edward Snowden is interesting.

Neither falsely claimed there's a fire; they are/were men speaking out against war and unconstitutional acts. Anti-war speech should be especially protected.

Publishing a NSL is a defensive act against an immoral and oppressive government. The idea that they are using the NSLs to suppress freedom of speech and fight advocates of freedom of speech should only embolden the opposition.
If she wasn't... what? A horrible person to work with?

You can't seriously be saying that successful 'assholes' are somehow better than successful people who are generous or kind.
Good luck, all the best with your health going forward.
Recall the Communist witch-hunt in the cold war. That was done without retroactive policing and parallel construction. Just because they cannot imprison you for actions taken before the action was illegal doesn't mean they can't fuck you over in other ways. It's the thought police all over again.
Keep in mind that canaries do not preclude false negatives, especially in larger organizations.
> Bolt? That's a car for girls(at least by design).

I totally get that you don't like the Bolt's design, and that's perfectly fine.

But, seriously, it is 2016 can we put the "that is for girls" "that is for guys" nonsense to bed? It is sexist against both genders. The whole implication is that "girly = bad" which is sexist, and then you have guys who are going to be emasculated if they enjoy a "girly" thing which is also sexist.

Essentially it victimizes everyone. Let's leave that phase in the past along with gendered toy isles and pink/blue.
Not sure if the commercials are geo-targetted but if you get the Australian guy his name is Simon Hackett. He founded an Internet business here.

An interesting thing is Hackett is executive chairman of a company called Redflow which claims its Zinc Bromine home storage solution is better than Li-ion ones like Tesla Powerwall (though it seems to be a fair bit more expensive).
Those aren't bank accounts though.
Thank you for simply correcting it instead of just deleting it. I didn't mean to do that.
> One generic reason to use a specific type (heh) is to avoid resolving the interface on every use.

Aren't Go interface checked at compile time? I thought only interface casting happened at runtime.
Please, cut it out with the bullshit. This guy played a negligible role in the Arab Spring. The only reason he received the media attention he did was because he held a prominent position at an American company.

Calling him the Arab Spring's instigator is an insult to Egyptian activists and organizers, not to mention the revolutionaries in Tunisia.
Teddy Roosevelt was the last President to not be bought by the 1%. I am looking forward to President Trump being the 2nd. The 1% spending tens of millions trying to stop him tells you how afraid they are of him.
I use System76 though mine is a bit lower end than your specs. Their machines come pre-installed with Ubuntu. The company is headquartered in Denver but I think all manufacturing is in China.
Right, but it's not climate change that is causing the puking. Put it this way, if we didn't have a greenhouse gas problem, the parents would still be pissed if their kids are puking.