skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually done this and my former co-worker wrote back and helped me out. So...

Lately, I've trended towards not trying to work with people at future jobs I've already worked with as I don't like the pressure of having to live up to whatever expectations they or others have. I'd rather someone have reasonable expectations that I can actually beat and vice versa.
These aren't aimed at people making bad AGIs deliberately, but rather, at well-intentioned developers launching AGIs with serious bugs.

That is precisely the approach that does not make sense to me. By the time friendly developers can launch AGIs, unfriendly developers will not be far behind. And AI safety seems likely to be an issue far before the development of AGI - a non-general malicious AI that can only hack internet services or trick humans into running arbitrary code via conversation is already quite a serious problem.

So to me focusing on "unfriendly developers building narrow AIs" seems more logical than focusing on "friendly developers building AGI".
No problem. It's legitimate to ask for citations in the face of "common knowledge" claims. I should have initially called out that the parent's own citation supported and provided deeper citations for my claims.
I can imagine a public or private entity that goes around and fines people that do not switch off bad equipment and fine the manufacturer (or bar them from doing business in the country).
Zeno's paradox also conveniently ignores that the time chunks are getting smaller alongside the distance chunks.

An item going at 1m/s will cover half a meter in half a second, and still have half a meter to go. Then after another quarter of a meter, it still has a quarter of a meter to go... but now only a quarter of a second has passed. If you keep on making the time units smaller, then of course it will 'never arrive'. It's not much of a paradox if you take a time-based characteristic and then don't give it enough time to occur :)
The FPH function was banned from Reddit a couple of years ago.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951165 and marked it off-topic.
Also, there is a finite limit to the signal delay that can be reasonably endured. Neuron signals travel at around 50 M/s. The giraffe probably represents the evolutionary limit of how far the brain can be from the feet before you start stumbling and falling over. This is a rather interesting post on some of the potential mechanisms of giraffe balance.

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-dont-giraf...
There is also the option to only use sites that respect your privacy. This rules out Facebook for me, and so far I don't miss it at all. I am happy to email or IM people I want to communicate with, or actually call and talk to them. I don't care about people adding likes to photos of my lunch.

I personally am hopeful that there will be a better solution over the horizon.

Zeronet is very interesting to me as a proof-of-concept, not perfect but very interesting and a glimpse into what I would like the future of the internet to be.
In the last 15 years every news (on /. and HN) that mentions MySQL is interrupted with such questions from Postgres fanboys. How about: MySQL is the very best solution for such tasks and Postgres isn't the universal holy grail? Wouldn't it be better to try to convert people over from (Postgres direct competitors) MSSQL, OracleDB, DB2 to Postgres?
I bought an older Android tablet (Galaxy Note) because I needed a light-weight device to take notes. It has an integrated pen for writing.

Also, there is MyScript Notes [0][1], which is an incredible app with text recognition, where you can add images and formulas and export your notes to PDF or LaTeX (even converting the formulas to LaTeX code). You can easily select and move, resize or copy/paste everything and it is quite fast on my tablet. You can also take pictures from the camera and paste them directly into the notebook, which is really neat.

I use it for everything I do, and thanks to text recognition, you can easily search all notebooks for specific keywords. There is a limited free version you can check out, paid is $2.

I am not affiliated with them, just enthusiastic about it.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-smart-note-handwrit...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myscript.s...
> Most of my meat eating friends won't even try any of these, sight unseen.

I don't want to speak for your friends, but I'd be unwilling to try any veggie burger, sight unseen, either, due to a long history of disappointment with people trying to get me to try veggie burgers that aren't tasty.
A very similar Gmail "trick"[1] resulted in the humiliating downfall of CIA Director (nee General) David Petraeus.

I'm not surprised that this tripped up a random crook, but the CIA director should have been about 100x more paranoid about how he communicated.

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2223513/data-center/gene...
The billing redundancy argument would be applicable generally but in the case Netflix on AWS is not something Netflix has to worry about.

Netflix is a marquee AWS customer. The PR damage of Netflix even making noise about leaving AWS would be terrible for the service as it fights for market share against Azure and Google. Netflix will get their way.
Was the programming language Scratch[0]? Because Scratch is flippin' awesome. My 8-year-old programs a new game in it every week, without prompting or coaching from me. They're getting progressively more sophisticated, with variables, loops, and everything.

And yet his first exposure to it was dragging little icons into a list to make an animated character move... which is exactly the right material for a 90-minute course presumably designed for total neophytes.

[0] https://scratch.mit.edu/
Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group
The manufacturer is often nearly impossible to find, and they're not doing business in the country, some enterprising ebay power seller is.

Baby monitors, wireless yard cameras etc are often absolute garbage from an RF point of view, and sold with brand names such as "best for baby". Good luck trying to nail that company.
It seems as though he did leave the rental market and went into the hotel market.

so I think they have a good legal argument and IAML.
> If you find yourself with lots of money at the casino, the best course of action is to leave.

And if you find yourself with not much money at a casino, the best course of action is to leave. The casino provides no insight into who should bet on investments with positive expected returns.

I'm talking about how people should invest anyway. Actual behavior is largely irrelevant to that.

> If you try what I asked you to do, you'll understand.

Physically going to a casino and winning or losing fifty dollars is not going to explain anything.

> I'll repeat what I said. It makes perfect sense for those who are wealthy to invest conservatively.

Sure, it's a fine strategy. But it's even better for poor people to invest conservatively, in my book. How about you explain why you think it's a bad strategy for poor people?

I'll put that again, to make sure nothing is misunderstood: I think investing conservatively is an okay strategy for everyone. But I think the wealthy should be more inclined than the poor to pick up risky bets with high potential rewards, with part of their money.
That's all true, but I hope the damages are significantly large that this landlord can never hope to recoup them from renting the property in question. Otherwise it'll just become a cost of doing business, not a deterrent.
I believe you misunderstand the cause of a nuclear winter.

The cause isn't the nuclear radiation per se. It is the extreme destruction of many large urban centres simultaneously. The problem is that all of those cities burning simultaneously would send up a tremendous amount of ash and smoke that would block the sky for quite a while.

This would cause a reduction in the amount of sunlight that would be available for growing crops and combined with the almost total destruction of global economy could result in the destruction of the entire human race through mass starvation.
Freenet comes close, no database or torrent iirc though. Or dynamic sites(to my knowledge).
It's the bottleneck effect duh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck As others have noted Polynesians are huge and didn't turn into dwarves.
It not illegal potentially. He left the rental market and entered the hotel one.

The courts have to decide if that is legal or not.
These are not asking the right questions, although they kind of hint at it, and they are not fundamentally questions about AI. Example: "Can we transform an RL agent's reward function to avoid undesired effects on the environment?" Trivially, the answer is yes; put a weight on whatever effect you're trying to mitigate, to the extent you care about trading off potential benefits. They qualify this by saying essentially "... but without specifying every little thing". So - what you're trying to do is build a rigorous (ie, specified by code or data) model of what a human would think is "reasonable" behavior, while still preserving freedom for gordian knot style solutions that trade off things you don't care about in unexpected ways.

The hard part is actually figuring out what you care about, particularly in the context of a truly universal optimizer that can decide to trade off anything in the pursuit of its objectives.

This has been a core problem of philosophy for 3000 years - that is, putting some amount of rigorous codification behind human preferences. You could think of it as a branch of deontology, or maybe aesthetics. It is extremely unlikely that a group sponsored by Sam Altman, whose brilliant idea was "let's put the government in charge of it" [1], will make a breakthrough there.

I don't actually doubt that AIs would lead to philosophical implications, and philosophers like Nick Land have actually explored some of that area. But I severely doubt the ability of AI researchers to do serious philosophy and simultaneously build an AI that reifies those concepts.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2
My wife is more of a troll than I am... I saw the comment and was pretty floored, she said:

Maybe he should tell his daughter not to use Firefox.
I'm not a market absolutist, but even after all the massive government support nuclear got, they could not make it pay. And if anything bad happens, it kills the profits from the next 20 plants, like the RMA from hell.

When equity startup investors (not utility bondholders) get rich off a nuclear technology, then I'll believe it can solve some real-world problems and not just be showpiece technology.
2004 study found that for
each extra inch of height
above average, someone could
expect to earn per working
year of his or her life up
to $789 more (about $976 in
today's money)

The disturbing statistic there is that in 2004, whatever you could get with $789, now you need $976 to do the same thing.

Kind of terrifying.
s/C\+\+/golang/g
But humans are made of many atoms, and the measurement is averaged over some time period in which molecules vibrate many times, so there is no limit to the precision with which they can be measured.
3 things about this photo of Zuck
I don't think that continuing to include serial abusers is in any way rehabilitating. It's just enabling.

I'd be interested in hearing how allowing someone with a consistent pattern of sexual harassment continue to participate in the community will result in anything other than more of the same.

To be clear, shunning this guy from the community isn't likely to result in him being a homeless criminal. He has marketable skills and clearly people have in the past ignored his behavior because it was beneficial to business. He can undoubtedly find a job. What he might not find after this is a position of power and influence, which is a good thing. (Of course assuming the accusations are largely true.)
How Tencent is taking over global gaming
Heh...I also ran into an issue with ActiveSupport::Duration, though in my case when passed as the only argument to a method with a signature along the lines of `f(time = 30, [star][star]options)`, with the error involving #to_hash. Since newer versions of ActiveSupport fix it, I didn't look into it too careful (just called #to_i). I'm glad you did!
India sets new record in space mission; 20 satellites injected into orbit
> But there are a lot more people than businesses, and an order of magnitude more people than businesses who both need custom hosting infrastructure and choose AWS.

The first part is irrelevant, because almost none of those people will ever buy a service from AWS. The second part is false.

An order of a magnitude more businesses are utilizing AWS than 'people.' AWS doesn't exist for consumers or average people, it's for businesses. That was the whole point of its existence: the primary customers of AWS are businesses, and always will be. It's where the radical majority of their sales come from, businesses with greater than 10 employees; not from solo developers spending $37 per month, and absolutely not from your average person that doesn't know anything about cloud computing.
Teach kids to code. They’ll change the world
> The SSA pays out something like $870 billion per year (2015) with fewer than 70 thousand employees

You sound like these employees produce those $870 billion. In fact they take them from one set of people and send them to another set of people. Getting handsome pay, union benefits, pensions and what not on the way.

> That's way better than most private charities.

Charities do not have IRS, FBI and the police to jail anybody who does not pay them and take their property. So they have to do it the old-fashioned way - by convincing people to give them money voluntarily. So if you want to compare, add the costs of enforcement to it.

> the right wing darling of the military industrial complex is far worse

I just heard couple of days ago Hillary Clinton boasting about almost everything in iPhone being fruits of government-sponsored research. I don't think it's true, but to the measure it is, most of this research is done by the military industrial complex. In fact, the left often mentions the internet is rooted in government research - to the measure that it is, it's the same military again. You can't have it both ways - either it's bad, and the research they do and money government funnels to them is evil, or they actually do cool things and money funneled to them are great investment. You can't have both.

And btw the whole military budget is 16% of all federal budget. And that doesn't take into account what state and local governments spend.
Cows produce a huge amount of methane, from their digestive system. That alone is enough to cause significant environmental impact, and if we stopped eating beef we would see a decrease in the amount of methane released.
That's just a different kind of malware payload, and probably a more consequential one.
As I understood it, the violation was because they re-rented the property without notifying the former tenants and giving them whatever the legal term of art is for "dibs." I could be wrong, not a lawyer.
Beyond SGD: Gradient Descent with Momentum and Adaptive Learning Rate
I think that's a tautology. I'm not sure what "overall effect is a push" means... Is "incidental noise" the dominant factor in the overall noise floor?

Maybe you could call this another kind of "global warming". Any existing historical data readily available?
Numerai comes across as fraudulently abusing cryptographic buzzwords like homomorphic encryption https://medium.com/@Numerai/encrypted-data-for-efficient-mar...
How Kip Uses Slack Message Buttons to Simplify Team Shopping
I work in energy research for a large financial institution and would love to see the data you're drawing this conclusion from.
Show HN: Please Stand Up – macOS app reminds you to stand up every 30 minutes
Developer productivity is crucial to figuring out a business and then in the rare event that you actual get product/market fit, scaling is trivial (ie, no one ever failed to scale, not even Friendster).
So, we all know that correlation does not imply causation. Yet it sounds like this paper does some fancy dynamical systems theory stuff to prove causation based on correlation. Can anyone shed some light on how this works?
A couple benefits cryptocurrency brings over the traditional finance system, off the top of my head.

* democratic access. I don't need to ask Visa, PayPal, or any other payment processor to accept payments online. There are plenty of businesses underserved today. Some of these are in "gray" areas, others aren't.

* disintermediation of middle-men. There are tons of rent-seekers in finance (eg, banks protected by a regulatory moat). An open system that competes with them will lower prices for everyone.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2591154.
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Don't forget the large amount of water it takes to raise cattle.
If this is their plan they aren't doing a very good job at executing it. Their mobile app is honestly outclassed by others. And their mobile web browsing experience is unpleasant to say the least. Each page takes a very long load time to load, despite it being a single page web app, and the load times cannot really be explained by what it is downloading, as other apps, and the desktop site, can load the same amount of data very quickly.

If the plan of trying to monetize mobile fails, I wonder who, or if, someone will just try to buy them out and try to do it better themselves. I am convenience that the reddit brand is very popular. The other day I started compiling something, and reflectively I alt tabbed and went to reddit, after realizing I was in the middle of doing something I closed it and got back to work, but I went their out of mussel memory - and I think that just goes to show how valuable their brand is.
I'm guessing that you're working on something that is fractionally as successful as Instagram. Getting to the point where you need to scale is hard, scaling is easy.
I'd guess that a lot of the debug info has to be regenerated during global optimization. Line information, function information and all that often won't make sense afterwards.
People can already build robots with guns that run around shooting people, but they usually don't. We still have laws to protect us from that. Nation states have the resources to build armies of gun-shooting robots and they already do! But again, they don't use them to destroy humanity for other reasons, like politics and retaliation and all that.

So I don't think we need to worry about someone maliciously making an evil robot. That's already a problem and we already spent thousands of years figuring out systems of society to protect us from those dangers.
Yes. Small startups that don't care too much about turnaround time love OSH Park and Seeed Studio.

My last company did care about turn time but also wanted affordable boards. They used PCB-Pool: http://www.pcb-pool.com/ppus/index.html
If I'm not mistaken, Solar City bought a solar panel manufacturing outfit in Buffalo about 9 months ago when it seemed that solar panels would be hit with a supply shortage. I think now the supply of panels has rebounded much faster than expected and perhaps this has put Solar City in a difficult spot financially.
We sit at our desks for hours each day, wouldn't it be nice to have a dead-simple app to remind us to stand up every 30 minutes? I just create such simple app. Enjoy and love to hear your feedback :)
Hell, no.

People may be eating what they choose to eat with just as much moral conviction as your vegetarianism. That is not for you to decide.

You have no right to deceive others about what they are putting into their body, let alone in hopes of "convincing" or converting them.

You have no right to physically force your own morality upon others without their informed consent.

Think about what you have just argued for here.
JSCodeShift – write reusable, shareable codemods
Its not that slight. 2-3 inches
CodeMod –  tool/library to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors
Hahahahahaha what? That's not how balance sheets work
It narrows the market, it requires explaining and justification, and it's unappetizing. It sounds like they've figured out a good approach to heme, why bother using actual blood?

I was thinking a similar thing about "veganic" farming:
http://www.veganic.com/veganic-defined

>Yet although organic crops are grown without the use of chemicals, an organic certification does allow farmers to use animal waste, including blood meal and bone meal, to fertilize fields. Some organic farms purchase these animal by-products from slaughterhouses and other non-organic sources. The animals have been given antibiotics and hormones throughout their lives, and exposed to pesticides and other chemicals.

So why isn't there an organic+ that only uses organic animal waste? My guess is that it's because it's not worth advertising. Most people probably don't want to think about what kind of waste their produce grew in, and hearing that these potatoes grew in hormone free blood meal doesn't really make you more inclined to buy them. Whereas veganic can explain it's advantages without making you think it's gross. Plus the potential audience for veganic is all inclusive.
Hope to see some cool music made in Overtone being shared in this thread!
Home Assistant: The Python Approach to Home Automation
This is absolutely true. Many, many strategies that are viable at small portfolio sizes fall off very quickly when millions, tens of millions of dollars start to be used for them.

Although the world's financial markets are massive, the little inefficiencies that can be exploited for profit often aren't.
The FCC has great fun giving out 5- and 6-digit fines. They're pretty reasonable about it too. If it's an honest mistake or misunderstanding, a first time, or you're under some financial hardship no- or readuced-fines are common.

If you willfully continue to violate, especially if you've been warned, huge and or daily fines are common.

...

Equipment is regulated and you can't sell things that break regulations. If fining the retailer isn't effective or possible, they use the financial system against you and threaten the payment processor.

All of these fines are adequate to pay for enforcement.

When it comes down to it, many of the threats which might annoy the public could just as easily be threats to national security with slight tweaks to frequency. With that, there's no problem getting continued support for enforcement all the way from the top.

...

Here are some warnings http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/

Here are some orders
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/rfo/ActAct.html
I want knowledge, but it seems without anyone testing my knowledge it seems quite fragmented. Degrees help consolidate the knowledge.
There is a guile remake of this, skribilo, which is what I have more experience with, but scribble is the bomb diggity.

Scribble-style markup languages aren't "markup", they're merely a series of reader macros on top of a full lisp!

Lisp I tell you! It's wonderful when you compare it to markdown/rst or those horrifying template languages.
Making small talk with people is something I have found useful. Discussing (even debating) things I care about helps me get a natural flow of language.
Announcing the Unicode Standard, Version 9.0
ISRO places record 20 satellites into orbit
See also: http://spacemacs.org.
There's no way in hell they're doing ML on cipher text. It's like orders upon orders of magnitudes too slow.
They can fine the seller as well, though. The ARRL complained to the FCC about Home Depot marketing commercial lighting ballasts to consumers, for example: http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-complains-to-fcc-about-the-hom...

Not sure if anything has come of that particular case though.
Video: Quadcopter Navigation in the Forest Using Deep Neural Networks