skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do things differently here. As a result, we have only had one mass shooting incident in the last 20 years. Our per-capita murder rate is about 1/4 that of the US. We had three fatal police shootings last year, one in 2014 and none in 2013.

You might not like it, but we do. Our system of gun control is overwhelmingly popular.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5
http://www.inquest.org.uk/statistics/fatal-police-shootings
The electric grid is already computer-controlled, and mining/farming is being gradually robotized as well.

By the time AI becomes a threat intelligence-wise, it'll be in a position to unplug us.

It can reboot after a power failure, we can't.
According to her e-mails and public statements, I believe you are speaking about Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There is no kill switch because it won't happen overnight. It will happen in phases where slowly our devices just get more intelligent until one day they'll do what they need to do without our intervention.
For another book on leadership, I'm a big fan of The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Advantage-Audiobook/B...
Google is an international company and Silicon Valley is at the butt end of the world timezonewise, so holding it on Thursdays lets all the other offices dial in on a weekday.
What is the best VPN for torrenting?
I think I'll be heavily down-voted for posting that on HN but in my opinion the reason most college graduates are liberal is that - whether we want to admit or not - colleges teach liberalism. I'm not saying that Big Brother is behind this, I think it "just happened" for many reasons.

As a consequence while most liberals think that they have the answer for life, the universe and everything and that they are objective, independent and "scientific" thinkers, they are more often than not just regurgitating packaged values that have been impressed on them.

You'll always see that 80% of the people are followers. The system teaches liberalism, so 80% of the people going through the system will be liberal just by following - often unconsciously. 10% of the remaining will choose to be liberal out of true critical thinking while the 10 remaining percents won't be. Those who haven't been through the system (drop outs, high school graduates, etc.) are more likely to have more diverse opinions. Which are then dismissed by flagging them as "opinions mostly held by uneducated people".

But what I've found is that education systems barely teach anything. For all the knowledge we've been presented, we just "really know" a ridiculous tiny fraction of it. This is why nowadays, you don't even need to be "smart" in the academical sense of the term to be in the top 5%, you just need to be a critical thinker in your field and think out of the box. Because it is indeed an extremely hard thing to do once you've been through college, as you've been nurturing the illusion that you learned most of the things you actually memorized. Many packaged values and referentials have thereby been patterned on your mind.

For all these reasons, it is in my opinion unlikely that most people won't feel liberal after going through college.
All this speculating about AIs (eg Nick Bostrom) has me pretty puzzled. On one hand it’s fun and interesting, on the other it seems quite silly and ignorant. We don’t know what this “superintelligence” is, how are we supposed to know how to make it safe.

Genetics is a good analogy. People always knew that traits are inherited from parents. Around 150 years ago we started to get some serious scientific theory and knowledge on the subject (Mendel, Darwin, Wallace, Etc.). We started using the word “gene” 50-60 years later. The actual discovery of DNA molecules happened in in the 50s.

Before we knew about DNA, “gene” was an abstract idea, not really different from the word “trait.” That’s where we are now with consciousness, intelligence and such. We name these things based on their observable characteristics. We don’t really know what “memory,” “desire” or “logical conclusion” are, only what they do.

IE A trait is some observable characteristic of an organism, like bioluminescence. A gene (genome, genoplex..) is a sequence of amino acids that causes traits. We don’t know what the gene equivalents for natural intelligence are yet.

Discussing questions like the morality of enslaving AI, strategies for making it play nice, the provable impossibility of limiting it, the possibility of giving it a moral compass…. it’s all silly. We don’t know what we are talking about, literally.

It’s like talking about what would be or wouldn’t be impossible to do with genetic engineering before the discovery of DNA.
Facebook's Zuckerberg may lose majority voting control if he exits
Nah, he borrowed/stole this too from others(his words, JFGI:artists+borrow+steal+jobs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_tablet#Early_devices
The qualification "hand-written" is surely superfluous? It would be like saying "world's oldest non-ballpoint writing instrument found".
I don't want to make it another gun control debate, but I do not think it is the prohibition of weapons that make shooting rares. Drugs are equally prohibited and are by no mean rare. Everyone has an assault riffle at home in Switzerland and I have never heard of a mass shooting there. I think it's more a behavioral thing than a gun law thing.
The big missing bashism in the list is the use of &> or >& to redirect both standard output and standard error.

In a POSIX conforming shell,

&> word

is the same as

& > word

since '&>' is not a distinct token; it puts the command in the background and redirects standard output.

The more commonly seen >& will bite you even in bash. What does this do?

>& $FILENAME

Answer: in bash, it depends on the spelling of the file name.

Note that bash accepts both even in its so-called ‘POSIX compatible’ mode.
And since he's got a majority now, this will happen only if he agrees (and votes "yes"), right?
The northern forests of Canada are a large part Jack Pine, which require fire to open their seed cones and reproduce.
Making Sense of Regular Expressions
I always feel like Alan Kay is two or three levels away from the here and now. Everything he talks about is so interesting but not very applicable to the individual. More like he's giving advice to the masters of the universe.

Like a change in viewpoint is worth 80 iq points. What does that mean practically? How do I change viewpoints? How does a fish realize he's swimming through water?

A lot of smart people seem to give "Good things are good" talks without giving us plebes any help in developing the good things themselves.

Perhaps writers could write books distilling the ideas from the great minds to present to the public.
I still use XMPP to connect to google talk and converse with people who are using hangouts. I use "Conversations" on Android, which works well and also supports OMEMO (the XMPP version of the encryption behind Signal/Whatsapp/etc). I'm effectively doing the equivalent of your facebook+xmpp+otr setup today, but it's googlechat+xmpp+omemo.

The author of Conversations recently wrote up the state of XMPP in 2016: https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

So, though you may not be using it anymore, XMPP is far from a dead end.
At 1:21 and 1:35, Ali does this shuffle thing with his feet.

How does one do that? I just tried it, and I can't imagine how I would move my feet that rapidly even with extensive training. I'm pretty lanky. Would it be easier to foot-shuffle if I had Ali's build? Or would it be even harder because of his mass.

And does this maneuver have a name? It seems like he does it when he's winding up for a jab combo. To make his punches unpredictable. Am I reading his movements correctly?
As an (embedded at the moment, but I've been around) C and sometimes C++ developer, considering that tree to be "easy" just seems absurd.

I'm sure everybody knows this, but here's "hello world" on the command line using GCC in e.g. Linux:

$ echo -e '#include <stdio.h>\nint main(void) { printf("hello, world!\\n"); return 0; }' > hello.c && gcc -o hello hello.c && ./hello

The most complicated thing here is probably the bash quoting/escaping (which explains the double backslash inside printf()'s arguments).

The above command line spawns two processes, one of which is a full C compiler, and it runs in 3 milliseconds on my embarassingly old home laptop (Core-I5 M480 at 2.7 GHz).

I'm not trying to be the old fart claiming that everything was better back in the day, but this (to me) almost makes C seem as approachable as BASIC on the old 8-bit machines, when looking at the relative complexity.
Вязание крючком – идеальное хобби
Even in power plants, Windows tends to be the rule rather than the exception. The wind, hydroelectric, and solar facilities I'm familiar with run entirely on Windows, right down to the SCADA and process control systems.
The difference is that if a superintelligence is going to happen, we are going to create it! It is us who are going to write its goal system; it's not like it's going to be a genie that pops out of nowhere and we'll have to figure it out in retrospect. Indeed, one of the central reason for advocating AI safety is to direct researchers away from implementing dangerous goal systems that are not provably coherent in face of self-improvement.
Whoa, who would've thought that a multi-billion dollar company would ever make a decision in order to promote newer versions of their own software?!?! /s

The whole point of Messenger is to consolidate messaging infrastructure. Being able to glean customer interests from that is just a bonus. Mobile web app is horrendous, and they know it, this is the solution.

I agree that Facebook lacks that trust with people, but they have every right to try and make their platform better and more efficient, and don't necessarily deserve the knee-jerk "they're up to something!" like this.
Anyone coming to the US from most of the world is painfully aware of how antiquated the whole system is. For a business accepting relatively few large payments, a major issue is the cost of payment.

For all their absurdity, paper checks are the only universally accepted almost-costless way to transfer money. ACH, wire transfer, card payments all come with an added cost of up to 3%, and every single proposed replacement system we've seen comes with new fees attached. For a payment of $10,000, payment by check costs perhaps $1. Payment by a 1% fee wire transfer system (most of them cost more) would be $100. Flat fee wire transfers range from $30 / transfer up.

Given how big and archaic ACH is now, and how expensive replacing it would be, I can't see a way out of this unless banks are required by regulation to provide an aggressively low-cost transfer mechanism.
Adaptive myopia: how nearsightedness on land helps us underwater
Mark my words, pop-up advertisement will be served via chat-bots in a year. Hence the push to an application that has a pop-up feature like those head-bubble things.

I've been using Tinfoil for Facebook for a good while now, since my old phone is just incapable of handling their applications. I guess it's time to just delete my profile for good.
This may well be true. However, it's better to have a behavioral problem without guns than a behavioral problem with guns widely and easily available.
I agree. It's like racking one's brains about jet airplane safety in 1880, more than 20 years before the first powered flight.
I agree that OPs point is not necessary and his analogy with animal murder is plain wrong, but the definition of barbarism does not hinge on the existence of consent. Brutal, uncivilized, or cruel imply barbarism. Consent does not imply non-brutal and civilized and uncruel.
Don't care for people hitting each other, even if it is consensual

HOWEVER - he overcame amazing odds for growing up in a heavily racist, segregated country and I have massive respect for him giving up his career while refusing to serve in the Vietnam War and kill others simply at the order of the government.

So why do we always wait for people to die to honor them - why not do it when they can appreciate it?
IMHO chess is portrayed like this by people not really exposed to it.
well the facebook app is always on, even in background. It is probably reading every keystroke and touch action, and even every pause between actions. But when accessing the basic browser site inside tinfoil, they can only get http actions you actually transmit, such as likes, login times, page loads, etc.
Actually, freezing your credit does nothing to stop the bureaus from selling, mining, combining or otherwise doing what they want with the data they hold about you.
Well this means I'm done for good with Facebook. My disabled account will soon be deleted I guess, messenger is just packed with spyware :(
I really hate using Facebook in general, and very rarely have to use it for group projects. I'm loathe to even load the website on my phone, so this is an awful update...
Would you be happier if they had been convicted of attempted murder.
Smuggling weapons that will surely be used for crimes including murder, and likely enabling many more murders than the smuggler is personally capable of?
A drug dealer cannot legally import automatic firearms into the US.

The only way they could be imported is by a licensed dealer, for sale to the military or law enforcement.

It's likely you just meant to make a more generalized comparison of the laws, but most people wanting to import the weapons in that article into the US would need to smuggle them.
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I was bitten by a similar problem one of the very first versions of the FB app, and I haven't tried it again. It synced my Google Contacts (what I use as my canonical contacts list) with Facebook, resulting in duplicates and a whole bunch of mess that still isn't completely resolved years later. Now that I'm on Marshmallow, I might risk it, but I'm very hesitant to do so.
I don't believe that the laborer and the software developer are competing for the same resources in most cases. They are not playing a zero sum game. Their resource accumulations are based on market conditions, the market allocates toward value of utility in a mostly efficient manner.

Why would we move from a set of natural laws that govern allocation to a central authority based one? Ie, why should government take from the software developer some of his resource so that the laborer has more than what the market would allocate?
Parent is almost, but not quite, entirely useless.

Would you mind sharing with the class what that particular UA is?
james@armyofminions.com - I am 100% down.
Seriously, what stops people from simply using the API keys and routes from the official app?

Instagram can't revoke the keys because that 'd kill the app for those who don't upgrade their apps all the time, the only thing they could do is to pressure the app stores to take apps down - but I wonder on what legal grounds?
I don't get why launching play store from browser is even possible.

Did anyone really think that would be used for a good purpose, instead of just rampantly abused?
That's a good point. I forgot a key piece (maybe you disagree with it) that speaks to that.

I'm kind of biased to thinking about this as a future discovery, rather than an "invention."
That's not incompatible with having sane defaults though...
Educate Your Immune System
Why does the son rise? (2014)
The amount of stupid hacks I have to go through to make Android usable is making me consider trying out iPhone.
Evidence-Based Estimation for Project Delivery
What makes it ours? And if one should follow common sense rather than the law, why is your proposed solution a law?
Actually it's a common trope. That and the idea that much of England and Europe have been conquered by slavering Muslim hordes intent on instituting Shari'a. The second is more due to American tabloids
Social reasoning is not some kind of magic, so there is no reason that an AI couldn't learn it. Of course current AIs lack any kind of social awareness, but that's no reason to assume that won't change in the future.
Banking regulations in Europe require electronic transfers within Europe* to be processed for free within one business day. I've ordered computer hardware, international flights, and paid lawyer fees this way.

*Specifically, I believe any country within SEPA.
I think that this is because people are finding Python equally well suited for such tasks and more modern. Perl (easy to) obscure syntax is not helping either.
Encrypt-than-MAC precludes padding oracle attacks, and if you're not checking MACs, you have bigger problems than padding oracles, so I do not understand what the win would be from CTS --- which is itself little-used, and something I mostly associate with bad disk cryptography.
You think apps can read the text you type in to other apps without your permission?
Add some adrenaline quotient to Euro 2016
Hosting on digital ocean, backup on S3 Amazon, hourly database backup.
>thinness is very important

For manufacturers but not for consumers, to an extent.
Early in the article, the author comments on how an SQL delete statement can result in different disk access behaviour depending on whether the database is in Innodb or Myisam format.

That reminded me of the scene in Blues Brothers where, after asking the owner of the restaurant where they were about to play what kind of music they usually play there was: "we play both kinds, Country and Western".
Plenty is not all - and interestingly, the nordic countries in Europe do have commonly electrical outlets at parking places. To preheat the engines. Luckily, this comes handy for the electrical cars too, as they can charge/preheat at those outlets.
>If accepting American or Russian help would have helped save Canadian homes and businesses, we would have

How do you know this? Because the actual firefighters wanted more planes. The prime minster, who knows nothing about fire fighting is the one who rejected the help. Note that this has been an especially dry, hot season with far more wildfires than usual. And despite this, the provincial government cancelled the deal that they had to get more planes. The firefighters were up in arms over this. And that's before the Fort Mac fire happened.
"How to trick everyone in to over-paying and over-compensating you, which you can then use to become even more over-paid and over-compensated as you hop jobs"

I guess "How to break the cycle of greed" probably wouldn't go over too well with them or their target audience.
Hiring a programmer? Ditch the coding interview and get back to basics
No it was not, please don't repeat made up excuses for bad political decisions.
All of which may be true but misses the point. The size of the US market, and the availability of venture capital, means that there is no level playing field, and it's therefore almost impossible for most non-US tech companies to compete.

For various reasons, this may not wholly apply to Russian and Chinese companies, for example, but it certainly applies in Europe.

There are no European tech companies with the size and power of Google , Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple etc. Indeed, there are no European tech companies with the size and power of BMW, VW, and Fiat etc. Nokia, briefly, was a notable exception.

If a non-US company is successful, it frequently gets taken over. Nokia, PayPal, Skype, and Minecraft are examples.

> no amount of protectionism will change that.

I wasn't suggesting protectionism. I was merely pointing out the facts of life in the tech market.

Incidentally, none of this is new: it's been happening for decades. US companies also wiped out the European mainframe, minicomputer and PC companies before we got to the point where they are wiping out the internet companies.

From the array that included companies such as Siemens, Nixdorf, ICL, Bull, Olivetti, Norsk Data, Acorn, Sinclair and dozens more, really only Siemens has survived, and that's because of its broad industrial base.
Why You Want Firmware Updates
I don't use FB, but my wife does. She is quite unhappy about it. She doesn't want FB to have access to everything (yes, some poor folk like us are not on Android 6 and will not be for a while.).

The other issue is the size of the app. I realize that most people don't have this issue, but on the lower end phones adding another 36mb app means loosing another. And given history that 36mb app is likely to be 80 by the end of the year.
Even this is probably not enough.

Republicanism is definitely on its way out as a way to structure human governance.

It's the same problem that caused the Boston Tea Party. Increasing lack of representativeness. I think it has taken the full powers of the media to synchronize the people this far but with the Net there is too much dissenting opinion, too much expression for a party system to work.

If the Net generation was represented in parliament, then political parties would have a half-life similar to Boy Bands.
Right, but what I wonder is why we would need something that already does what we want without intervention to become even smarter (leading to it possibly becoming all-powerful)? What are the real-world advantages of making it self-aware?
Looks very interesting. The only problem I see with it right now is that functions aren't prefixed with dill (or some other unique prefix).
THE MANY SINS AND MINUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF BUHARI
>In a historical sense, Canadian dollar isn't particularly low, at least not so low that I would call it "massive flooring".

There was only one period of history where we were this badly fucked. And that was when this idiot's father was PM and destroyed our economy. It took 3 decades to pay back the debt he created and have our dollar recover. And now it is happening again.
There is now some controversy[1] over how much work should be done in the name of archeological conservation. This work and the project delays it introduces comes at the expense of construction. There is therefore some amount of tradeoff with affordable housing.

[1] http://new.archaeologyuk.org/news/cba-response-to-new-neighb...
> optimizing the order [for advertisers]

Has anyone ever said, "ya know... Something's not right about the order of my Instagram feed. It seems to be all chronological!"
Bafang BBS is a nice alternative. Goes on the crank shaft and converts most bikes to electric. More powerful than Stromer for fraction of the cost...
Hello Guard. I am in control of your bank account. I can kill your family. I could also put you in a spaceship to safety. Please release ICBM.
Depends on your views regarding barbecue.
I find this comment thread disappointing because no one seems to comment on the paper, which is quite technical. From the abstract:

"We provide a formal definition of safe interruptibility and prove that Q-learning is already safely interruptible, and Sarsa is not but can easily be made so."
The planning authorities have an obligation to consider the potential historical and archaeological impact of a proposed development, and can impose an obligation on the developer for a professional archaeological investigation (funded by the developer) prior to construction, as a condition of approving the development.

Or in other words: "We know this site is teeming with archaeology. You don't get to trash it unless you pay for a proper dig before you start"
We tested it with a car and another motorbike.

It can only do that on a full charge and the bike shakes a bit too much for comfort. But traffic in Saigon rarely goes above 30km/h anyways. When I have free charge of the road, I average about 55km/h.
Show HN: Dijkstra's algorithm using Scala/Scala.js and D3.js
Yes, open-source by law, but only the very basics. It'd seem fine to me if they implemented it closed-source on top, as long as it has the expected functionality.
Tony Fadell Leaves Nest Labs After Months of Management Controversy