skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should you trust me if you have never met me? If you like what I do, trust me, and please give me money.

What if a customer who trusts you returns to your site, but ends up on an impostor's site instead? He was no way to discern the difference.
The Sotomayor and Kagan Dissents in Utah V. Strieff
This is extremely exciting. I've been supporting these folks since the beta. It's great for offering free SSL to clients.
Imagine that I visit a cloning facility that can flawlessly duplicate a human, memories and all. The techs there put me in a medical gown and sedate me, and a while later I wake up in an empty room.

Without any additional information, I have no way to determine if I am the clone or not. I know only that there is another me in the building somewhere, having the exact same thoughts as I am having right now.

In fact, I have no way to know if the cloning was even successful or not. There is no way for me to distinguish from this room if I am the clone, if the other copy was disintegrated, or if no copy was made at all. The room I'm in could be on Mars for all I know.

Does it make sense for me to worry about the fate of the other potential copy if I know absolutely that nothing of my essence has been lost either way?
(disclosure: I work for AngelList)

Much-needed article. Worth adding some color on AngelList syndicate incentives:

Syndicate leads are compensated by earning carried interest on the additional capital that follows them. [1] [2] [3]

Carry creates leverage for syndicate leads. Which is cool because syndicate leads have a bigger stake in a company's success, and often want to help the company more.

This also means a lead may want to invite as many investors as possible in order to get more $ into their syndicate and create more leverage. If left unchecked, this would create conflicts with a founder's interest in privacy.

Part of AngelList's job is to ensure lead behavior doesn't conflict with a founder's interests. Here's some of what we do:

* 80% of syndicate deals in the last 4 months were private (invite-only).

* AngelList has tools to block specific users / competitors from seeing information about a deal.

* Probably the most interesting tidbit: AngelList is undergoing a professionalization of capital. Most syndicate deals have fewer than 20 investors participating, and much of the capital is institutional. These investors are vetted by AngelList and act more like LPs in in a VC fund (for example, most institutional investors on AngelList have signed confidentiality agreements)

If you've got ideas or questions about syndicates, feel free to ask below or email me at kapil@angel.co

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[1] Some syndicates (both on and off AngelList) do charge 0% carry, but they're uncommon.

[2] Leads earn carry deal-by-deal vs. on a portfolio basis, where gains net out losses. This creates a different set of incentives, but IMO doesn't impact founders much. (http://avc.com/2016/02/fund-level-vs-deal-by-deal-carry/)

[3] Currently no management fees on AngelList.
There have also been a few PSAs that I've seen over the past few weeks. I'm sure not every subway rider saw these and was thus okay with what was going on, but a fair bit probably did. I learned about the tests all the way up in Albany, I assume there was a more robust announcement in the city itself (but maybe not).
I'd like to see a tool that sits in your browser, probes the two search engines maybe via the search apis, and then tries to infer what GOOG thinks about your demographic or interests.
Thank you. We hadn't, but that's a great suggestion. Might try that.
The equation is not in a causal form, I will grant. But:

If I hold n and V constant and change T, it tells me what change I caused to P by changing T.

If I hold n and P constant and change V, it tells me what change I caused to T by changing V.

And so on.

The equation is just an equation. But if I control some of the parameters, I can still cause stuff to happen, and the equation tells me what stuff I will cause.
This isn't about trusting you, it's about trusting that your domain belongs to the IP address it's supposed to.
no, he just has an axe to grind from other threads.
If I'm not mistaken it's not like just-now new, but of course still fascinating and relatively new. Just from a quick search:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25894-meet-the-electr...
Flagging stories because you think they're off-topic for HN, or should be because of the threads they'll create, is legit.

Using the flag button as a downvote button for stories you disagree with, while allowing stories on the same topics you do agree with, is an abuse.
Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Set to Total 45.1 GW in Next Decade
Alright so this is mostly OT, but I figured people who are into IoT might be able to help; does anyone know of a setup that would easily let me control a remote AC outlet by plugging a sensor into an existing hard-switched AC outlet? I'd rather not deal with installing a hub and programming scenes etc. Thanks!
How much does Parse self-hosting cost?
Is there a resource you have been using to learn how to format and submit FOIA requests?
If you are pointing out that the author has certain anti-Google biases I would think it would be incumbent upon you to point out that you work for Google and might have biases on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I think most people can read criticism about their employer and not immediately dismiss it because they happen to like their employer. However, after your reading your responses here it seems hypocritical and downright dishonest that you didn't disclaim your affiliation before posting a comment that basically says "Oh it's Epstein lol whatever he's a hack"
A guy in one of my old units used to carry a clipboard in the Army everywhere he went. He explained to us some years later that the clipboard was how he avoided being chosen for work details for years and years. Phenomenally clever idea.
And how do you isolate a robot "individual"?
> There's suddenly a forced market demand when the port drops, which opens up industry incentives to push wireless price/performance ratio improvements which I feel are around the corner (and partially announced already).

Bluetooth will be great next year!

(People have been saying this about Bluetooth since 1999.)
Fear is a huge part of any terrorist endeavor and small invisible particles killing you while you commute is far scarier than someone with conventional arms. Further, NYC subways would be closed for weeks, the US's largest city and an economic powerhouse would grind to a halt. The economic damage is such an event would be huge.
Also, not implementing autolanding means pilots constantly practice landing airplanes. This is surely invaluable in the case of an emergency landing.
Another similar thought experiment is what happen if we cut ourselves laterally exactly in half and then fill back in the missing half on both parts. In the case of both halves, we are continuing an existing consciousness.

Would you be OK killing off one of the halves?
Because it's what people pay for. Unless a news outlet is publicly-funded (NPR, the BBC), they all eventually face a choice: give the people what they want, or go out of business.
Shenzhen: A new breed of intellectual property (Part 3) – Future Cities
We do, in limited cases for large providers (we can only handle so many requests), adjust rate limits. Such adjustments are never dependent on sponsorship, though sponsorship is nice.
The author seems to believe continuous consciousness is necessary for identity. I hope he never falls asleep. If he does that means he is dead, and tomorrow morning an usurper with his memories will wake up in his bed.
I can see a case for obligations much more than I can see one for rights.
> "It’s okay to not have an opinion about everything."

Though I may be misunderstanding, I interpret this as meaning: it's OK not to come to a conclusion about everything.

Take the moon landing for example. Most everyone has heard it expressed that there is a possibility it did or did not happen. Most everyone has a conclusion that they associate with.

Personally, I prefer to avoid becoming emotionally invested in something completely outside of me, and am happy to leave my synapses open-ended. Since there is very little practical relevance, there is very little consequence of my inaction, and I can get back to processing more important decisions.

He may simply be advocating we stop talking every once in a while, too.
>There is no minimal to extensive checking. That is a scam.

You generally have to modify the root domain to host a random value in a text file the cert company gives you. This demonstrates that you have control of the domain.

Aka, minimal checking.

Granted, that doesn't prove that you're the domain owner, but if you aren't the domain owner and you've got enough access to pass that challenge, the real own has security problems a cert isn't going to fix so hey.

All things considered, it's a hell of a lot better than nothing.
AFAIK, helicopter's rotors cannot be used 'like a wing', that is, for gliding. They can be set to auto-rotate in the direction opposite to normal and thus slow down the descent (even a completely vertical descent) and provide some control during it.

I suspect that there can be a way to relatively passively control auto-rotation of drone-style rotors. Pitch control is much trickier. It's not unheard of (even model planes sometimes have variable-pitch propellers), but it would noticeably complicate the rotor, lowering its reliability. I suspect that a fixed-pitch rotor with an independent mechanical axis brake could be much more reliable with comparable efficiency.
A Guide to Sales at Tech Startup–Lessons from Pipeline Summit 2016
NASA had a workshop on that topic in 2015, the "TRANSFORMATIVE VERTICAL FLIGHT WORKSHOP" [1].

They were specifically asking: "Why is the Silicon Valley a great Early Adopter Market for civil VTOL?" [2] (Spoiler alert: getting from A to B on the road takes too long due to traffic...)

And yes, that study imagines 200 helipads scattered throughout the Bay Area.

[1] http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/tvf
[2] http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/Ant...
Exactly. My employee is going to do the travel from now on as much as possible. He's younger. :)
There was no valid arguments. Just bogus claims interspersed with irrelevant quotes and a pretence of authority.
Look at it like this:

You are placed in a box. Moments later, you are told, "We have successfully made a copy of you. We are sending it home now. You must be disposed of."

Will you allow them to dispose of you?

This is the question being posed, not whether a copy will have no idea if it is the original. The point is that it isn't relevant if one is a copy. No one was moved, it's only that a second person now exists and killing either is murder of a unique person.

(Again, uniqueness is not a question of whether these people will think or react to situations in the same way, but rather that there are two different conciousnesses at play.)
This seems to miss a very important incentive, which is to change the world in a specific way.

For example there is a growing informal network of angels and VCs associated with the SENS Research Foundation / Methuselah Foundation community and the so-far handful of companies that are emerging from the past years of research funding into treating aging by repairing its root causes. The goal here is as much to produce specific new capabilities in medical science and get them to the clinic as it is to make money. In many cases these investors have the view that the only use for making money is to funnel it back into growing this research and development community.

There are analogous groups in other spaces.

This is an important motivation because it lets you look further than just for-profit funding. If I were launching a fund today, I'd try to set it up as 90% for-profit, 10% non-profit investment, with the latter going to nudge promising research across the line into startup viability. With the right connections in the research community, a group that is split between scientists, advocates, and funding sources can be meaningful minority owners in the creation of an entire new field by shepherding the research and seed funding the startups. Modern day early stage life science research, and proving mouse studies, are so cheap in comparison to later development for the clinic that this is a great investment model.

One reason most people don't do this is that they don't understand how to understand the spaces they invest in at the level of research and seeding new companies, and finding things that are a year or two away from viability, and could be pushed across the line with a little money and coordination, and the people who do understand that typically have little interest in investment. It is very hard to gather the necessary knowledge and will in one room.
Possible liquid ocean discovered on Pluto. Could it be Pluto Water?
Great to see Carlos Castaneda in this. The ultimate Troll and still good enough for New-Age ideologies.
It's also possible to do "native" and go the other way (even longer form). Consider something like Colin Furze's YouTube Channel.

He gets paid for doing things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OyoWAZEcIE - which is both interesting and a 6 and a half minute long commercial for a video game.
> The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) includes biofuels in consumption of petroleum products. In 2015, the United States consumed a total of 7.08 billion barrels of petroleum products, an average of about 19.4 million barrels per day

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6

Germany consumes 2.403 million barrels per day.

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=de&product=oil...

Germany has also created a 1 billion Euro subsidy program for electric cars:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/28/germany-subsid...

# Removed information about Germany EV mandate #

It is not a matter of technology, it is a matter of will.
> The proofs of trivial facts are not necessarily trivial

The proof 2+2=4 is trivial given the peano axioms.

I suspect you know this was the point being made.
The term 'proxy lawsuit' is completely valid. It means he's bankrolling a lawsuit someone else is pursuing in absence of the ability to sue for what he really wants to. The EFF, ACLU, and NRDC bankroll lawsuits because they are trying to actively set precedent for other cases. Thiel backed this because he has a personal vendetta against Gawker, but he knew that his own lawsuit wouldn't succeed because it's not illegal to out a person as gay.

Similarly, when the US supplies rebels in central america against their country because they know they have no legal grounds for waging war against that country, it's a proxy war.
"Whenever you make something idiot proof, God invents a better idiot."
How often is File Locking needed? I thought that was one of the beautiful things about Git - merging de-conflicting is not only a thing, but easy to do...
> plus U2F integration, so now i won't hear anymore how "terribly slow" it is to have to whip out a phone to grab a TOTP code...

I don't know if this applies to you, but 1Password 6 has support for generating TOTP passwords (they have a neato QR scanner built in, or one can always just input the key or key URI by hand)

It's been a revolutionary change in my day-to-day frustration level
Also https://www.newscientist.com/article/2094848-pluto-must-have...
It's fantastic for us that Gitlab keeps putting pressure on Github. I hope they keep this strike for a long time. Having said that, they really must improve the performance. I tried to make the switch from Github to Gitlab a couple of months ago, but the general speed and responsiveness is just below the line.

Keep up the good work.
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> I can't even browse a lot of https sites with some of my older devices.

What devices do you have that don't support TLS?

Also, the point is not to trust you or not, it's to trust that I'm actually talking to you and not a MitM.
Spawn of the Old Ones.
...and they will keep trying to get it until someone higher than them either forbids it outright or we change their culture from within. It is clear that a cultural change at the FBI, CA or NSA is decades away, leaving us only the first option.
Absolutely. This is only interesting (and that is a generous description) because of who is being interviewed, not what is being said. Surprised YC would post something like this, because it is much more towards celebrity worship than providing value to the readers. Exactly the opposite something like a PG essay.
If a site uses key pinning (e.g. via HPKP), the site is in control of telling you which keys are acceptable, so there would be no way to pretend it's a routine rotation after your first site visit (unless the site is cooperating, in which case you're screwed anyway).

Certificate Transparency would also help here, as it would allow site owners to monitor the logs for any certificates they did not request. This is more about detection as opposed to prevention (though the chilling effect of easier detection would help with prevention, I suppose). Admittedly, this is probably something only a couple of large, security-conscious organizations do (like, for example, Facebook, which detected that someone was issuing certificates against internal policy, though not maliciously in that case).
Sure, as much as it makes sense to worry about the fate of any other independent human being - and perhaps even more so, if you feel more affinity with your copies than you do with random strangers.

I wouldn't use a facility that killed a stranger at random every time I used it, and I sure as hell wouldn't use a facility if it killed a living person who was identical to me.

Frankly, I don't see what your 'essence' has to do with it. Killing people is morally wrong.
Drop into IPython shell from your code
I don't think many people believed it. Actually it was more of a satire than a hoax. A mockery of the BS wave that befell on gullible and unprepared audience upon Perestroika.
You will most likely get a chance of upgrading your macros into scala.meta before dotty comes out.

Also xml support as the scala-xml library will continue. Though as the xml literals are removed you have to use string interpolation (xml"<your><xml/>here</your>") which isn't as nice to use. (hopefully someone comes up with a nice DSL or something instead)
As interviews with founders go, this one is not very enlightening.
Elixir is currently already compatible with Erlang 19. The work for adding support for the new features to Elixir is being worked on/tracked here: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/4617
Mark Zuckerberg is protecting his privacy with tape over webcam and microphone
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This is one of the best threads HN has ever seen and we couldn't be more thrilled to have had such an interesting and wide-ranging discussion. I know I'm not the only one who will be going back over the wealth of insights, ideas, and pointers here in the weeks to come.

Alan, a huge and heartfelt thanks from all of us. The quality and quantity (over 250 posts!) of what you shared with the community surpassed all expectations from the outset and just kept going. What an amazing gift! Thank you for giving us such a rich opportunity to learn.

(All are welcome to continue the discussion as appropriate but the AMA part is officially done now.)
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951096
Not to mention the incredible amount of nearby water that is poisoned
Can you clarify what you mean? It gets subducted by plate tectonics and becomes steam when heated, presumably it's still there..
What do people think of Alchemist Accelerator?
What do people think of Alchemist Accelerator? And the terms they offer.
The author of the article is asking a bit of a different question than the the authors of the articles he cites. The cited are more about "what is consciousness" in the context of can a computer be. The author is asking "what am I" That's a little harder isn't it?

He's asking if he got copied instantly and sent to Mars which one of the copies would still be me? Well, they both would wouldn't they? Each having a continuous experience leading up to the point they were copies and stepped out of the machine.

The fun part is that, barring quantum hooey that the articles bring up, there seems to be no scientific reason to doubt the physical possibility of this eventually occurring. If you can get copied, and both copies are you, what happens to the underpinnings of most world religions? Delightfully subversive thought right there.
So, let's see, a $950k penalty for illegally tracking "hundreds of millions" of consumers' locations works out to ... ($.0095, $.00095)/consumer.

I'll bet InMobi really feels chastised now! Thanks, FTC; you sure showed them!
Ah, OK, sorry for misunderstanding.
I suppose you could do it by appendage, but then a humanoid robot would be 4 persons.
Thanks for the references, these are good articles, and I am happy to see that I was wrong and there are in fact some defenders of the term. Still, it is very predominantly seen in a critical context -- quite unlike, for example, "libertarianism" or "economic liberalism" or "classical liberalism".

But, even here it does not look well-defined at all: at best, authors simply classify specific policies as "neoliberal".
It looks like its more intended for asset files like PSDs and more where Git conflict management isn't as helpful.
Comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956196
Flight is something computers can simulate very well, but are unable to adapt and make intelligent decisions in real-world situations on par with pilots. Airbus A320 Pitot Tube freezes that caused fatal and non-fatal issues is a good example.
One of many problems with trying to use Unix as "modules" and "objects" is that they have things that aren't objects (like strings, etc) and this makes it difficult for arranging various scales and extensions of use.

It's not so much "scale-free" but this idea I mentioned elsewhere of "find the most difficult thing you have to do really nicely" and then see how it scales down (scaling up nicely rarely even barely possible). This was what worked with Smalltalk -- I came up with about 20 examples that had to be "nice", and some of them were "large" (for their day). We -- especially Dan Ingalls and Ted Kaehler -- were able to find ways to make the bigger more general things small and efficient enough to work uniformly over all the scales we had to deal with.

In other parts of this AMA I've mentioned some of the problems when extended to the whole world (but go for "galactic" to help thinking!)

Almost nothing in today's languages or OSs are in the current state of "biology".

However, several starts could be to relax from programming by message sending (a tough prospect in the large) to programming by message receiving, and in particular to program by intent/meaning negotiation.

And so forth.

Linda was a great idea of the 80s, what is the similar idea scaled for 40 years later? (It won't look like Linda, so don't start your thinking from there ...)

Etc.
A tronc is born
1) You park in a garage or a parking lot, as you would a normal car of comparable size.

2) There's no "the battery", there are several cells, each capable of giving you enough juice for a landing if all others die. OTOH catastrophic failures are of course possible, as with cars. A parachute pushed out by a small charge can help if the altitude allows.

3) Because cartoon physics look good (and funny) on screen. I suppose the rest of Fifth Element does not look boringly realistic to you either.
They just want taxes and the ability to control robots "replacing" workers.