skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an embedded developer, should I spend time on this course? What are my gains if I do so?
Except that if you fail to include a transfer fee big enough, your transfer may take weeks, or never even get confirmed at all. Case in point: I've been trying to actually buy something with my BTC in the last few days, but because my wallet is an older version or something (with a small default transfer fee), my transfers are seen by just one peer and then are not confirmed. I dunno, last time , 2 years ago, when I paid / transfered bitcoins, it took 10 mins max. I guess the mining business has increased or changed since then.
Yes, they still haven't replied to a question about this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4p5xgx/ai_hedge_fu...

Based off that article they don't seem to understand the homomorphic in homomorphic encryption.

The mix of technical BS and seemingly expert advisers is weird.
Idea for luxurious and expensive food (for people, who have too much money): thousand years old honey.
Any major players in the market using this tool?
"Live and let live" can absolutely be made to sound absurd by taking it to the extreme. Does the amount of taking-far-enough needed to make something sound absurd vary? Sure. But the post I replied to was doing a whole lot of taking-far-enough.
Those are pretty low security keys, just picking the lock might be easier than going to trouble of making them from the picture..
What you should really be doing is finding a way to consume as little news as possible, only picking up what really matters. Most of it is useless. Even HN has an inordinate amount of stuff that's either clearly political or local US news which I don't care about, that's why I generally don't follow the news page.

The AskHN is however a source of good discussions which can often provide you with new and useful insights into things.

The must read on the subject:

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...
the PSLV's payload to LEO is 3.25 tons. Wikipedia gives the cost of a launch at 15 million USD so that gives about $4600/kg to LEO. For context, that's nearly twice as expensive per kg as a Falcon 9 launch but they're difficult to compare because they serve different launch markets.
>this is stealing my life

Really? Because I quite enjoy my "Wasted" time. I can't imagine what situation you could possibly be in that not only is it not enough for you not to "waste" time being happy, but you need other people to do the same. You are whats wrong with the world.
I realized that while my iPhone 4s used to fit into my shirt pocket (which was one of Steve Jobs' original design specifications), the 5s I now have is so large that the camera peaks out from my pocket. Plus there's a camera on either side, so if somebody did hack into it, they could at least see something other than the inside of my pocket.

Simple solution: I now put the phone in my picket upside down.
Its similar in Ireland. The cows here are all grass fed (I grew up in the country, lots of farming friends) and the health standards don't allow the "pumping full of antibiotics" that we keep hearing about.
> The chairman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), Kiran Kumar, told the NDTV news channel that launching 20 satellites in a single mission was like "allowing birds to fly in space".

'What, what does that mean?'

> "Each of these small objects that you are putting into space will carry out their own activity, which is independent of the other, and each of them will live a wonderful life for the finite period for which they have been designed," he said, ahead of the launch.

'Oh! That was... surprisingly poetic.'
When I left my previous job I had documented, cleaned up and transitioned everything without anyone realizing I was doing so before I gave my two weeks notice. "Not giving a notice period" and "not tying up loose ends etc" are totally orthogonal concepts - it is equally possible to work out your two weeks notice and still leave your colleagues in a pile of incomprehensible crap.
Is it actually possible to verify that the "1000 yo" honey is actually 1000 years old? Because if not I'm totally relabeling honey I bought at the supermarket and disrupting the luxury food sector.
> Think of bitcoins as tokens or as tulip bulbs - it can be used for something

I do not see what that "something" is, which makes it a ponzi in my eyes. (An open, honest ponzi, but a ponzi nevertheless)

> If a bank lend out x times the value of the bitcoin you deposited, they will not be able to pay them out as bitcoins.

But of course, if x < 1 (as is in fractional reserve banking), the bank can pay out bitcoins.

> If you dont have access to your bitcoins as bitcoins, but only as a bank statement about how much they owe you, you effectivly traded your bitcoins to an IOU.

Exactly. And if that IOU is from a credible enough institution, there is no reason[1] why I would differentiate taking a payment in that IOU or bitcoin. In which case that IOU is bitcoin-denominated currency and the amount of bitcoin-denominated currency in circulation is no more constant.

[1]Well, actually there may be at least two reasons to differentiate. First, the IOU may pay interest unlike bitcoin. Second, the practicalities in transacting bitcoins or IOU's may differ, which in all probability dictate that I prefer the IOU...)
@dang that seems reasonable, but can you detatch it starting with the parent post?

This thread is about tptacek's claim that I "attempted to whip up an Internet pitchfork mob".

I think his accusation and my response should be in the same place. Thanks.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. It's possible to dismiss an idea without providing an alternative. Yes, finding a reward function is equivalent to figuring out what we care about. Both are about as hard as teaching a bacteria to play piano.

The goal is avoiding unsafe AI. The reason such pointless efforts are wasted on this approach is we don't have a good alternative. The only thing I can think of is delaying it's creation indefinitely, but that's also a difficult challenge. For example, in the Dune books, the government outlaws all computers. That might work for a while.
Preprints for the POPL'16 conference
^ This made my day
They should really show what they are doing with their CPU. How many requests per second and their characteristics? Generally Python (Ruby, etc) is terribly inefficient relative to the next tier of languages like Java and Go. At Twitter we were able to reduce number of servers by 10x and decrease latency by 10x by moving the web application from Ruby to Scala/Java with no architectural changes, essentially byte for byte (and bug for bug) compatible. My guess is they have done this math and would rather pay for more servers and take the latency hit rather than rewrite it.
Why a system that encourages interparty infighting is not a good thing for democracy.

Just switch to OMOV and have each state democratic party vote on a leader and have them run for president would save a vast amount of cash being wasted.
Ha ha ha ... he he ...

I remember when I was 21 in the Valley ...
My grandfather has a theory that it's the PG&E Smart water meters that have been rolling out that's doing this...

I'm not a radio guy, so I don't know how plausible that sounds.
it's an interesting problem. I understand why these engineers and scientists went through the anti-nuke network to get this thing done, but then the media will frame this as an anti-nuke thing instead of legitimate concern for one specific thing.

I came up with an analogy to help me think about this. Say you are a medical researcher and found some serious adverse health effects to an abortion pill and as a medical professional you think it's unsafe to be on the market. Who do you go through to take action and how will this be portrayed in the media? You have a problem on your hands.
A 𝝺-calculus interpreter in less than 200 lines of JavaScript
The main power loads are during daytime. So solar is a pretty good match to that, especially, if you like the US have large desert regions, where weather related changes are unlikely to reduce the solar efficiency a lot. Add to that wind power, which runs around the clock, you have a pretty good cover of the load. Of course you need also storage. That can be batteries on the small scale (also a good way to reuse old electrical car batteries), and hydro on the large scale. Just limiting the Hoover dam to produce electricity as a backup to solar should cover quit a bit of the storage requirements. If the remaining gaps are filled with natural gas, its a good balance. Natural gas produces much less CO2 than coal. And if only 10% of the energy load is done with gas, we should no longer worry about the CO2 too much.
Just as a n=1 anecdote, I'm (mostly) vegetarian, and this wouldn't really appeal to me. I might try it out of curiosity (just like I tried chicken and fish), but it isn't something my brain has learnt to crave, and in fact will probably trigger the same kind of mild nausea that non-vegetarian food currently does in me.

I am curious to see how it works out in practice though.
Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?
> but I'd never want to eat a "fish stick" - ick.

Are you not a gay fish, then?

(sorry!)
If the risk-adjusted return on those bonds is fair for their price then why wasn't there an independent third party buyer at that price? Isn't it more likely that SpaceX has overpaid for the bonds due to Musk being overconfident in Solar City?
Not really "disrupting". More like fraud.
title needs fixing, cannot read the unicode char.
> You're dismissing the paper for not asking the right questions, but you don't propose any questions that you think are better.

One might wish to point out that the emperor has no clothes and yet have no desire to plan his majesty's outfits for the next 6 months.
Ubeen.io – data visualisation tool for your Uber ride history
>more likely they add sugar to make extra money

That's actually illegal to sell as honey in many countries. It's known as "false honey" here, it's typically something Chinese producers will do. Either that or just have the bees convert sugar water to "honey". It's also the reason why local and smaller bee-keepers (like myself) aren't having any problems selling our honey. I have more people wanting to buy my honey than I can supply, because they trust that what I sell or give them is real honey.

How liquid the honey is, is mostly down to the flowers the bees visited. Rape seed honey will crystallise in the hive, if you don't extract it quickly enough. The flowers in my neighbourhood will yield honey that pretty much refuses to crystallise.

Interestingly enough, due to Danish regulations, the minute I put honey in a jar to sell, it's required to have an expiration date 1 year and 6 months into the future.
When you’re standing at the beginning of a super exponential curve, that’s the time to buy insurance against any negative outcomes along that curve. So today, we’re allowing users to donate Bitcoin to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) as a hedge against things going horribly right.

If you're the kind of person that falls for this kind if thing, then you should know I'm also standing in front of a super exponential curve raised to the power of infinity and beyond. You can also send me bitcoin as a hedge if you wish.
I had a few friends making money on it - I was a dreamer for sure...

At the time I remember there was a team working on hashing functions in hand-tuned assembly for the PS3's Cell processor that would take advantage of it's vector capabilities. I wanted to take their implementations and learn assembly well enough to write my own bitcoin miner. This was long before ASICs became a thing so the PS3 looked like a big money-making opportunity. :-)
Criticisms of mathematical modeling in economics were most definitely given by Mises and Hayek. Historian of economic thought Mark Blaug was also very critical of how neoclassical production theory (particularly Edgeworth's formulation) distorted the meaning of "competition" from a dynamic process to a quantity. Ironically, it is the same far-left heterodox demagogues like Varoufakis (though he's hardly the worst) who nevertheless use it in this sense to argue for mercantilist programs. Neoclassical when it suits them, heterodox when it doesn't.

Anyone who uses the term "neoliberalism" is a charlatan. It is an absurd conspiracy theory that has since blown into an amorphous meme out of Marxist historiographers who struggle with the explanatory power (or lack thereof) of their framework.

Mathematical models do have their uses in formalizing assumptions and analyzing dependencies, so they're not all bad, even if the Cowles Commission did go overboard.

(Also let's not forget that the modern methodology of economics came as a result of the Keynesian research program, particularly since Hicks (1937)'s introduction of IS-LM, first modeled by Keynes himself in 1933 as four simultaneous equations.)
I see they've got Packard from Prediction Company as well. Bass, Thomas A., The Predictors, 1999, gives a good account of Packard & Doyne Farmer's work on market prediction.
Not really 53.1B pixels if you can't pan the image.
A lot of amateur radio HF range projects use what is known as the "manhattan style" construction where, a copper clad board is used as a ground plane, so to speak and then tiny round pads are glued to it, which act as islands. The pads can be made using paper punch of appropriate grade. I have used cheap punch used for cutting paper and have made pads in the past. The parts are then soldered directly to these island pads.

Not sure if these can be applied to digital circuits, perhaps not very easily, since a lot of components are SMD these days, at least in the high speed digital domain.
Cast in epoxy. Cheap and quite durable.
Many things rely on RF signal to operate.

More noise means a worse signal-to-noise ratio. This means that things that rely on RF may stop working, or not work as well.
Person of Interest (TV Series)
A visually stunning simulator of seasons changing
4 seasons on your screen.
Conclusion: Internet is not made of honey.
This is true of course. But it is ocamlyacc compatible and uses a separate lexer.

I'd at least say that it is using the lex/yacc approach, which I actually like.
Seems like the NSA would have all the data the the FCC needs, is this right, or no?
Ethereum: update on the White Hat attack
I'm guessing Zuckerberg can afford to spring for something more elegant: http://eyebloc.com/
I really like the idea of using a token like this, but how do you back up the data if the key is not copyable?
> You would need to either have a keylogger on the target users machine to grab their master password, or compromise the software. Neither is impossible, but both are a little harder than simply break in and access Lastpass's storage.

That reasoning only holds if it's in fact significantly harder to compromise the software than it is to "simply break in and access Lastpass's storage". If you believe that might be possible, then the security of your password vault basically depends on the differential difficulty compared to "simply break in and compromise the login form / browser extension / update channel to make it do <whatever>".

My point is not that this would be easy, rather that if someone went as far to break in and grab the storage[0], given the sheer value of the data, the barrier to go a step further and compromise the software isn't big enough to make me go "okay well that's all right then, that might happen, but this surely won't".

The biggest difference in risk between those two scenarios is that yes some cybercriminal that is "just poking around" might easier stumble upon access and just grab the vault than to set up a compromised login form and wait--not so much more difficult but just more effort.

[0] which I agree is fair to trust Lastpass to have properly encrypted, cause if you can't trust the people you pay $12/year to keep your most sensitive data secure, then who can you trust?
Taken to an extreme, intential noise injection is malicious:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
Carnivore here.

I like vegetarianism in concept, and would like to eat less meat, but I like meat, A LOT. If alternatives were more meatlike (fingers crossed for indistinguishable) I'd gladly eat that regardless of label. Some reservations about macro contents.

I understand where you're coming from, but some people don't want to change a habit, but are fine with substitutes.
Did you at the time compare it with a JIT implementation like PyPy (for Python, not sure what would be the Ruby equivalent)?
As Eric Schmidt has put it: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

So if you don't want people to know you put a tape over your webcam, maybe you shouldn't do it. ;-)
Disrupting is all about challenging antiquated regulations :-)
Carbon dating would work?
My point was that often drone operators are taking landscape shots of scenery which just happen to include people. Why does this person with the untenable expectation of privacy get to claim the recording rights to the scenery that belongs to everyone? How can they assert their right to privacy over the public landscape? It's infuriating. Believe me if I could avoid the people I and my friends would. It's impractical to ask everyone on the beach if it's okay to film them and I wouldn't have to if I were walking the beach with a handheld camera. Drones just make some people feel like they are personally being followed - and that's entirely their hangup (not mine). Take issue with the surveillance your local government asserts over its citizens with license plate scanners and red light cameras before you go threatening drone operators.

Anyway - people who attack cameramen very often say "What you're doing is illegal - I didn't give you permission to record me." - not, "Please don't record me, I would appreciate not appearing in your video." There's a HUGE difference here. They have every right to record you in public view, and you can ask nicely to avoid being caught in their view. This does NOT include threatening violence. What gets me is you only care about the 1 camera out of hundreds because there's a person behind it you can immediately see.

You are exactly the type of person who needs Civics.

Side note: If drones become a problem for hikers I expect to see certain areas like state parks adopt rules about drone usage to curb bad behavior. Hopefully such bans on drone operation will be carefully enacted, as drones have done a LOT to enable new perspectives on tired landscapes.
For some it is. There's a reason suicide is much higher among victimes of rape.
These are baseless associations. Perhaps Diablo Canyon and PG&E aren't flawless and honest, but you aren't establishing risk. Do you have some reason to believe there is a meltdown risk?

I don't really think a reactor being retired at 40 is the worst thing (though I'm sure it could be run longer), but have you spent as much time worrying about the oil refineries within miles of fault lines all throughout the state (think the numerous oil refinery explosions that occur regularly worldwide)? What about oil train explosions (think the other oil train explosions)?

People express serious concern for some of the most outlandish, obscure risks on any project if it somehow involves the word 'nuclear.' Every project. A lot more lives could be saved if the same effort was used to create real safety standards on oil, coal, and gas.
I believe the simplest solution on Apple's side is to add a physical indicator of when the camera is on or off. It must not be software controlled, not even on system/FPGA level. Best if attached on power on/off. With a hysteresis so that even quick on/off will be noticed.

Edit to add: Here's what may happen if the indicator is software controlled: "iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook
Webcam Indicator LED" https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
I mean it would be crazy for them not to do oppo research on HRC either way. How could they have HRC defense docs unless they also have oppo research...
If you want to oppose power plants on the basis of safety, fine, but do not exempt the types currently unchallenged. Coal-fired plants kill more than 13,000 Americans every year [0]. Nuclear plants could kill 0. Their worst accident killed 4,000 [1].

Climate change aside, it's hard for me to see anti-nuclear activism (to the extent that it results in coal plants continuing to operate) as anything other than mass murder.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053-600-fossil-f...

[1]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/25/chernoby...
With the headphone jack on the bottom, this makes more sense anyway.
I think there are some important points that is not mentioned when discussing Indias doing it with much less money than what NASA did.

Questions comes to my mind are;

- How well(deserved) the engineers were paid during the development?

- How much of the budget were invested in research?

- What are the positive outcomes of the mission?

I think they have some direct effects on the budget as well.
I would feel a lot more comfortable with a cover for the webcam on my 2015 MBP, but the anti-reflective coating on the display is so famously, ludicrously sensitive and prone to delamination that I'm really reluctant to affix anything to the webcam/display. (This is less of a concern if you are Mark Zuckerberg.)

Any recommendations of a nice, soft-touch (perhaps silicone?) cover that can be left on while the machine is closed and won't damage the webcam lens or display surface?
Varoufakis' philosophy is contra Chomsky I believe.

When I've heard him speak, he attacks overly simplistic mathematical models which badly fit complex real world behaviour.

If Chomsky's generative grammar provided a better model of language, Google translate would be running of that rather than statistical models.

Chomsky's ideas don't explain the butterflies. In the same way Varoufakis targets theory led economics which don't explain recent events.

Stats led models take the opposite approach, explaining the butterflies very well. The trade off is decreased ability to act in novel situations.
From my cold, dead hands.
The problem is, how do I the consumer know that its not software controlled? I have to trust Apple or whoever that its not.
Kenya's First digital martyr
It gets a trifle harder when you stop asking "what is consciousness" as the mentioned articles were driving at and start asking "what am I?"
well, in this talk it sounds like you do advocate tool building - isn't tool building a way to try elliptic orbits instead of the circular ones ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs 'Power of simplicity'
Are you one of those 'special little flowers' ignoring the impact you might have on others? - the physical impact that follows threatening violence?

Seriously wtf.
Here's a working link for Medihoney: http://outside-us.dermasciences.com/medihoney . (Warning, photos of some big and nasty skin uclers.)
>"Putting the GPU into an oven and baking it for a while fixed the problem for a few days by resoldering cracked solder points, but then it returned. This is probably related to the switch to lead-free solder in 2006, which is more brittle."

no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Nvidia makes faulty GPU chips for 9 years now (underfill between die and bga carrier package). Starting with G84, up to at least Fermi, EVERY SINGLE GPU will die from thermal stress is used extensively at high temps. This is very well documented in numerous lawsuits that forced Nvidia, DELL, APPLE and other manufacturers to do repeated expensive recalls.
The Greek clock
To make chocolate healthier and tastier, all you need is an electric field
The "anti-ioerror camp" is not a single group, the idiots attacking the building have very little support I would imagine.
Do you have any information on what you need to buy and how it works? Do you need a hot air station?
Stack overflow command line client
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