skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) Not sure if MIRI is a spiritual parent of OpenAI. It's a different approach to the problem, and I'm not sure MIRI would spawn OpenAI if they had the resources.

b) Also, unfair to MIRI. They are not only researching the area but also creating it. A lot of early work want into socializing AI risk as an idea, and in that sense pretty much every future effort in this area owes to them. I've given noticeable dollars to MIRI and pretty satisfied with ROI (of course always room for improvement), would do it again.
You are saying that what I am doing will get me blacklisted, etc., but I am here to tell you it is not any of the things you say.
I learned of him through a similar path, although it was a slightly different encoding, the one used by H.264:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential-Golomb_coding
If you want to get technical, the algorithm for computing CRI is:

- take a specific set of arbitrary paint chips, and record their colors when illuminated by the target lamp (using the CIE 1931 2° standard observer, and the 1960s CIEUVW color space)

- perform an outdated and not very effective type of chromatic adaptation transformation so that the white point matches either a black body radiator (like an incandescent bulb) for lamps of correlated color temperature of <5000K, or a point on the “Illuminant D” series of approximations to daylight for lamps of CCT >5000K

- measure the distances in UVW space between those target colors and the colors of the paint chips as illuminated by the reference black body radiator or D series illuminant.

- sum up all the color distances, multiply by an arbitrary factor, and subtract from 100.

Everything about this process was totally ad hoc and arbitrary 50 years ago when it was first invented, and is absurdly outdated today.

There was an attempt at the CIE to replace the CRI with something better in IIRC the late 1990s, but the lighting industry didn’t want to follow the recommendations of the color scientists, so it fell apart. (I could be misrepresenting what happened; I’m not an expert in CIE politics or the history here, and haven’t ever researched it in detail.)
They say the best vehicle anti-theft device is a stick shift.
> Definitely bad for condo owners though.

Why? I would assume, as the area gets denser, more popular, more shops, more restaurants, that also condos go up in price?
You can compile elm code and run it with nodejs on the server side using Elm.Main.worker()
I have an unusual last name - firstinitiallastname.com was about $10 per year.
This is commendable. Gawker is scum.
What the Hex?
Your humble brag is not that humble. Try again.
It was easy for you, and that's great. Just because it was easy for you doesn't mean it would be easy for most people in the program.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753459 (331 points, 2 days ago, 202 comments)
Websites that choose display language based on IP address is the bane of my existence and google is the absolute worst site for doing this. I used to use ncr constantly for any google related task. I don't trust google enough any more to log in and set language preferences - I only allow their web properties to store session cookies when needed.
The best I can do with google is to write a dumb greasemonkey script to add 'hl=en' to any google URLs.
I was enrolled in a Business Calculus course (100 level) my freshman year. The "instructor" of the class at the front of the room could not speak English intelligibly. I speak multiple languages and am decent at interpreting broken English, but it was not even close to understandable. I left, never went back (except for exams). I still passed just fine, but really was a terrible intro experience to college at a large state school.
Wget/sh/sed/awk/perl soup
It sounds like you're only referring to the peak when you talk about downloads. If you superimposed the three games you'd see that Miitomo fell off much more rapidly than the other two; to me that says as much as all of the rest of your post.
Homebrew is not dangerous. Please don't spread FUD.

Your link specifically covers the case of Homebrew on the server. But Homebrew isn't meant to be a server package manager. It's an OS X package manager, and OS X is a desktop operating system, not something that most people choose to use as a server (OS X Server exists but is primarily used for intranet stuff rather than as a production server). The complaints that your link has are only problems for an external-facing server. They're not problems for desktop use. And the simple answer to that is: don't use a desktop package manager on your server.
> ...he was making sure that Makinde wouldn't be too politically assertive about race issues.

Well, if he were truely politically assertive, he would answer smoothly and to the interviewers full satisfaction, take the job, wear a microphone and follow up on the interview questions on tape and then sue the everliving shit out of the company.

It's strategically stupid in addition to being an asshole move.

The only people who really suffer are the ones that you actually want; reasonable, smart developers with options will wisely avoid this company like the plague.

The risk that your manager will continue to act this way or that they will have a deep-seeded bias against black people is high. The chance that they are merely good-intentioned but, inarticulate and socially awkward are low.

Even in that best case scenario, those are terrible qualities to have in a manager.
I would like to think that this is good advice, but I can't truly believe it because in many situations where the power dynamic is unequal, the rewards are greater for one person and the risks mostly go the other way. This decision of how open to be depends on how much risk you can tolerate for your survival (here, survival in a job, or a career or field, but sometimes actual survival.) It isn't necessarily about lying but about how open you are willing to be in a situation.
His stated goal, "deterrence," is the exact thing people talk about when they worry about a chilling effect.

The fact that people are applauding because it's someone they disagree with whose ox is getting gored is really disappointing for a community that espouses such strong freedom of speech principles.
"it's not unfair; it's just how it is"

It kind of is unfair. Why should someone get preferential treatment just because you happen to know them? Also there's a difference between recommending someone for a job and "Hey this is my buddy, don't look at her resume and we can also skip most of the interview process". There's different degrees of nepotism, they are all usually a bit 'unfair'. But then, life is unfair and so you just deal with it and do the best with whatever resources you have.
This boggles this mind.

And is unsustainable.
It increases land values, but more new development decreases the value of older improvements on land.
previous "discussion" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11767597
>He added: “It’s not for me to decide what happens to Gawker. If America rallies around Gawker and decides we want more people to be outed and more sex tapes to be posted without consent, then they will find a way to save Gawker, and I can’t stop it.”

An important reminder of exactly what conduct, on Gawker's part, people are defending. They have no moral high ground, noble principles, or higher purpose. They're scum, and it's pure karma that they're being destroyed by someone they outed.
I have seen hundreds of new apartment and condo units built within three miles of my LA neighborhood in the last four years. Dozens within a half mile.

What it has meant so far is additional traffic congestion, increased commute times for everyone, more demand for government education and emergency services and more air pollution.

I'm not quite seeing how the government can be taking enough money in to make up for the reduction in service levels and overburdened infrastructure. Based on the broken roads and sidewalks around my neighborhood and LA generally, it doesn't seem like it is doing that.
That's true but not why they use them. You can easily restrict the interfaces of many forms of media where firmware is hardcoded in ASIC as a state machine or restricted at interface points. The military also has systems available to do exactly that from Rockwell-Collins, General Dynamics, etc.

Nah, this is a scary example of critical capabilities depending on legacy hardware people might not dven make that they're afraid to replace. Sandia at least modernized some of our nuclear system. They need to deal with this, too.
java isn't that bad. there's a lot of crappy code-culture that comes from the uber-enterprisey arena, but in more reasonable hands it's quite capable.

it's also worth nothing that Java comes with the JVM and Hotspot JIT, which earn it a bit of swagger.
Maybe in rural America, but in SF it would relieve the downward pressure creating by outbidding.

Right now people are being outbid on homes they would normally win, and in turn are overbidding on lower-priced housing. Increasing the supply even at the high-priced end would help reduce the displacement.
It is extremely difficult to tell apart genuine stupidity from advanced trolling.
Not about cheating, but my friend runs a education consulting service in China and he recently got a call from a father saying that his 20 year old daughter was in the USA studying English but found it too difficult. The father wanted to know if my friend could help his daughter transfer to a school in a country speaking easier English, like Australia. He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English that would be easier to learn than American English.
What is the definition of "best" anyway? If you really just think about pure performance nothing can beat a binary code probably. When you say "best" it probably means most productive in the short/long term. In that case it's not about what the language is good at. After all it's humans who use the language. Just like how esperanto is such an awesome concept but nobody uses it and that makes it a useless language, the more people use a language the more valuable it becomes. And yeah Haskell is esoteric. I am confident that I know way many more programming languages than an average programmer but I don't program in Haskell. Try picking 10 random programmers and ask them if they can program in Haskell, at best you'll find 1 (actually that's even being too optimistic)
Are you serious? All you posted was your own opinion, blatant rhetoric. Then you reply with a snarky comment. You seem pretty miserable man.
I use ddg, but I also have a bunch of keyword searches in firefox too (about 25) because they've been supported for longer than ddg and I seem to spend more time in the URL bar than the search box.
It was a joy to find the keyword search extension for firefox [1] that provides a context menu and let's you highlight text on a page and choose from one of your keyword searches from a ciontext menu.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keyword-bookm...
I am obviously making an educated guess based on experience here, however I believe that answer to why the stress is high is what causes reduced code quality rather than the stress itself.

For example, if you're under the pump and have unrealistic deadlines, you are more likely going to write less quality code. Not because you're trying to cut corners, but because when you have the time, you go over your code an improve it about five times before submitting it and have a freer mind to do that.

What are your thoughts?
Amazing demo. Can it be used to separate two voices in a file?
Gawker posted revenge porn, not leaked memos proving the CIA created crack. I don't see this as a particularly slippery slope.
except, when you start looking into cash//fiat money (as opposed to promissory notes), it is anonymous and inherently dis-honest. What would be honest is a system where the "wealth" associated with an action could be traced. You could tell when wealth from a prostitution transaction, collected by a pimp, was paid to a councilman or official as a bribe. Our current cash system washes that stain and banks do their best to maintain that "privacy", with varying degrees of success.
I see "person of color" as a term of alliance against a white supremacist culture. There are many particular difference but the idea is that there are also some commonalities that make alliance and shared analysis valuable.
This is a big argument going on in Austin too. Housing prices are going through the roof, yet home owners don't want multi family units in their neighborhood.

I can't say I blame them, either. It's nice having some quiet - four families in the lot next door means 4x more noise, cars, dogs, parties, etc.

Difference here is that you can live insanely cheap in the suburbs, so most end up doing that, but with no reasonable public transport and no current ridesharing, it's a mess that will continue to grow.
I'm in favor of how "building in the Bay Area is approved by discretion", I call it having some power over what gets built. "Democracy" y'know?

I'm from SF. I grew up here. I'm also a computer nerd.

To me, the tech "industry" has been ruining the city I love since the Dot-Com boom. To me, they are an invading army culturally speaking. In a very real sense my home is being destroyed.

The saddest part is, this city kinda sucks. It's not even a good place to locate a business. The city gov is soft-corrupt. The weather NEVER gets better. We're on a damned peninsula. If I were starting a company I'd go to Davis CA! People aren't coming here because it makes sense. This is just where the game is being played. They are drawn here like aspiring actors are drawn to Hollywood, but the prospects are just as glamorous and illusory. A few will strike gold, the rest will toil and vanish.

This is a town for freaks and weirdos. If you don't believe me, visit Civic Center. ;-) It is said "The people who are too strange for the rest of the country move to California, and the people to weird for California move to San Francisco." (If you are still too weird you go to Berkeley.)

What concerns me the most is that the newcomers might lack the environmental commitment, and tip the scales from valuing conservation to valuing rampant development. San Francisco is the largist metropolitan area with the most wilderness/open space around it in the world. The last thing we need is more lux condos and freeways.

I'm going to be calling those numbers, you can bet, but it will be to urge "con" on this abrogation of the weirdo-freaks ability to stonewall development. This is a good thing.

Y'all "young gods" will just have to figure out some other place to hatch the singularity. Move away. Build a floating "Seastead". Just please stop trying to cram a million more people into the Bay Area. It's not actually a good idea!

Also, I hear Portland is nice.
I can't imagine an enterprise which would MITM employee web browsing but not block Facebook. Come to think of it, I can't imagine an enterprise that would MITM employee web traffic but allow personal smartphones on the network.
So how come you ended up not participating? What are the downsides of this experiment?
There is no suggestion that the human's driving behaviour is recorded.

How the telemetry works is an unknown. We might speculate about it, but I would not be surprised to see that Tesla has taken measures to prevent their tech being used to punish their drivers for driving.
In case anyone from the NY Times online is reading this, they have a bug in their super fancy navigation UI:

Left or right click drag opens a new story. This would be fine, except if you want to select text it de-facto opens a new story.
Freedom of speech does not imply freedom of consequences from speech.
Well... I'm sorry that you truly hate LinkedIn, and you're definitely free to use whatever services you like. I think you bring up a valid point about emails being default opt-in. Honestly, I'm just a junior engineer so I don't have much sway, but you can take my word that I'll try to find the owners of the email service and bring your issue up.
> It's widely known that the historical usage is pejorative.

Whoever told you this grossly misinformed you; it's just flat wrong. The term is offensive now, but the historical usage was decidedly not pejorative. The NAACP wasn't being ironic or trying to reclaim the term when they named themselves The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

> In 2008 Carla Sims, [the NAACP's] communications director, said "the term 'colored' is not derogatory, [they] chose the word 'colored' because it was the most positive description commonly used [in 1909, when the association was founded]. It's outdated and antiquated but not offensive."

It's tough to tease out antiquated from offensive in the modern day, when the average antiquated attitude towards black people _was_ pejorative per se. But it's just unambiguously incorrect to say that its historical usage was pejorative, much less that this is "widely known".
What about sort of appending site:GitHub.com and going to the first result there? Not always the first result you'd see, but it might work okay.
An important reminder of exactly what conduct, on Gawker's part, people are defending.

This is a lousy strawman. It's possible to both find Gawker abhorrent and think that Thiel's conduct is deeply unethical.
Bad policy. If you don't like what they are doing based on moral grounds, then use your money and influence to educate people on why what they are doing is bad. That has a better chance of stomping out this problem for good.

Taking a vendetta like this by trying to sue them out of business is just playing whack a mole. Another company will rise out of their ashes.
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As long as we're quoting someone with an obvious vested interest, how do you feel about what Gawker points to:

"Hillary Clinton’s secret email account, Bill Cosby’s history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise’s role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover-up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.”

It's not so cut and dry, which is why people are rightfully worried about a billionaire's personal vendetta to destroy a press organization?
Thanks for sharing. How do you go about taking a current website and building a PWA? Do I have to change my website architecture drastically?
I don't find it hard to imagine, as there are plenty of privileged white people in the U.S. who barely ever come into contact with black people in a social context. So they just say the first thing that comes into their minds. They feel entitled to start that conversation and treat black people as instant free learning opportunities available any time in any context. It isn't always mean-spirited. It's just vastly ignorant. People can progress beyond it but I think that takes time, listening, education, and learning some personal humility which not everyone has motivation or necessity to develop.
There's always a bigger fish.
npmsearch.com has its own bang! !npms
Affectiva raises $14M to bring apps, robots emotional intelligence
Ask HN: Would you pay for fuzzing as a service?
Fuzzing has discovered security vulnerabilities in a lot of production code, and generates useful test cases for programs - http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

It requires a lot of computational power, since it tries random (guided) inputs into the program.

Would you pay for a SaaS product that discovers security vulnerabilities/generates interesting test cases using a fuzzer like AFL?
I must admit, it is funny seeing the inversion on this from the usual free speech absolutists :)
It's a question of accuracy not maximum force. At some point you want to calibrate the things you use to calibrate the hydraulic presses. http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/index.cfm
What's wrong with just 'pro-life'?
After my first job after college, my personal social network is how I've gotten all my jobs, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I get a new job, the company hiring me knows what I can do, because someone they trust told them. No silly technical interviews required.
Only a small fraction of the Chinese admitted into Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Stanford return after their education. Neither does most of Google and Facebook employees who are born in China. The brightest talents of China serve the United States mostly (even though the US places a lot of handicap on them, e.g. the cap on H1B). Can you now imagine why Chinese government is not incentivized?
I think that "Advance Digital Intelligence"[1] is a pretty concrete goal. To me it means "make computers do things that only humans can do now".

For a research organization I'd question if you'd want something more specific?

[1] https://openai.com/about/
You might as well be educating Russian malware spammers on why emailing people phishing scams and keyloggers is wrong.

We could get some ethics professors to write a monograph on the subject; maybe that would enlighten them.
But, other people aren't there as your personal learning opportunity. Instead a little time to develop a friendship or working relationship will bear its fruit for everyone.
The Vikings at home
Thiel claims to despise "massive privacy violations" on the part of groups like Gawker, yet he was one of the co-founders of Palantir. These people are just narcissists who want revenge for someone splashing mud on their boots. They're not fighting for our privacy, or for the common good. Sorry buddy, you are worth more than 99.999% of us. That makes you a significant figure and thus newsworthy. Your sexual orientation gives people some insight into whether you would support a certain political party, activists groups, etc. I'm just astonished at the tone deafness of this guy's comments.
Depends on how you select the genetic material, I assume.

If you select half of the parents material and then just double it, that's sounds like it would be maximally inbred.

If you just select all of it, that's a clone.
All I see are slippery slope arguments claiming that, next time, Thiel might go after someone who didn't unarguably deserve it.
How to rip and convert Blu-ray to PS4
Mine was far too expensive, so I spent three years getting a Ph.D. and bought drtomallen.com instead.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist:

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$('#' + result).css({'background' : 'black', 'color' : 'white'}).text('me');
> [...] and keeping the stock market efficient.

Efficient allocation of capital is a noble endeavour.
If you reflected all the infrared light, the efficiency would be 100%, since all the light leaving the bulb would be visible. Normally, the vast majority of the light leaving the bulb is infrared, but if you keep 90% of it in the bulb, then 6.6% of the light leaving the bulb is visible light.
Can confirm. I'm a professor at a US university.

One class of 40 students, about 20 were Chinese foreign students.

Turns out, they were each doing 40+ credits that semester. About 20+ from the U.S. university, and about 20+ from a Chinese university (online).

How's that possible? They were sharing assignments and exams. Each one had the responsibility to do the same assignment and exam over and over for about half a dozen others.

They were on track to complete a 4-year program in 2 years. The actual degree was being awarded by the Chinese university, and they were transferring the credits from the U.S. university.
They were commercially successful.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/23/capcom-releases-lifet...

(NES) DuckTales outsold all their (NES) Mega Man's. It's an interesting comparison because DuckTales shares a lot of similarities with Mega Man.

Disney franchise sales for them ranks 4 in total which is high, but still misleading because Resident Evil is ranks 1 and they weren't making Disney games in that era where more people bought video games. I speculate the Disney number would be much bigger if they did.