skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure the Chamber of Commerce won't be asking me to write any ad copy for them. That said, it's not an uninhabitable hellscape west of the lake and over 680,000 of us are doing just grand. I'd still rather live in the city (our schools are just fine and we still have some of the most amazing parks in the Pacific Northwest) than anywhere else in the region.

You've hit the nail on the head, regardless of where I live. As long as the Eastside can fob its problems off onto Seattle, it will continue to do so. I kind of fear for the day when those of us who live in Seattle get sufficiently fed up with the situation that we push back.
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Voting is not the only human right, nor does it prevent the majority from oppressing minorities.
"In this case who's fault is it? The drivers , tesla or the safety board for allowing autopilots to be sold?"

Obviously the insurance. In Europe you need to have insurance to pay whenever is your fault.

With autopilot the only difference will be that the event of having an accident will be less probable. This means that paying the normal driver fee the insurance company will be making money if you autodrive.

But most of the time the fault will be on the other side, because the autopilot is not going to drive like a drunk or slept person. It will be deer or dogs or children on the road when they should not be there.
What great news. Congratulations to all those working hard in that area.

"Underlying explanations include declines in the prevalence of smoking and improved nutrition, and a major cause is social policies that target the most disadvantaged."

It will be interesting how history treats smoking in the long term (next century). I am still interested in the solutions proposed (and defeated) in Singapore and Tasmania where persons born after 200x may not purchase cigarettes. I lean libertarian but this is one area I think government is needed. Taking (or taxing) a pleasure away from someone who has enjoyed it for years is not nice, but preventing people from falling into the trap is different.
Apparently neither cpython, pypy or gcc manage to remove the loop in this case. I actually think it is interesting that this "slow" code in cpython is within [ed: ~10x] of pypy/jit/machine code (c++ probably should do better, I'm not all that familiar with gcc - maybe -O3 isn't enough to try to unroll loops and/or try to vectorize).

Actually code like this arguably should be a win for a high-level language with an optimization pass; ideally the whole thing should be translated to a constant at compile-time.
This is (AFAIK) the basic idea of Integrated Information Theory: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 .
These alarmists and extremists do nothing but block any progression to real change. Stop making it an all or nothing battle: perfection is the enemy of progress.

Speaking of, anyone been to China or India lately? These folks need to be held accountable.
Never mind differences: are there any similarities between, for example, C and Prolog?
It would be very interesting to see this method used for other elections to see what unexpected results can be found.
Although still interesting, it is not a huge surprise that there has been large vote fraud in Russia.
Should try it on the USA election results...
A "[2011]" in the title would be appropriate.
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It feels tech invests money into a city. Not enough housing so rent goes up. The investment ends up in landlords pocket.

Isn't it wise for a company to invest in a cheap place with a lot of area around for housing? E.g when MS first started, Redmond was pretty much a large forest.
Hence why I say "Barring some sort of massive action to counteract the resulting economic deprivation..."
No, they are all implemented as browser addons.
They might be good hackers, but have no idea how a VM should be implemented. That's why you got this mess.

Just look how they designed the ops, the primitives, the calling convention, the stack, the hash tables. This is not engineering, this was amateurish compared to existing practice.
> We used election data from three countries
besides Russia: 2011 general election in Spain, 2010 presidential election
in Poland (1st round), and 2009 federal election in Germany (Zweitstimmen,
i.e. party votes). These three elections were chosen because the data are
publicly available down to the single polling station level, and because the
number and size of polling stations are comparable to those in Russia

I guess this means they found the data first, then decided to try to analyze it and compare it with similar data elsewhere. It's probably not their work-related research (http://www.fchampalimaud.org/en/the-foundation/mission/).
From a utilitarian perspective one can invest too many resources in making specific things more secure. That happens when other causes of death dwarf the probability of incidence to cost of fixing ratio of a particular failure mode.

If you're accounting for micromorts then we might be at the point where TSA checks destroy more human life-hours than terrorism and normal plane crashes combined. Simply reverting airport security to pre-9/11 levels could save more lives than infinite spending increases for airplane crash safety.

So yes, at some point it becomes an overreaction when resources would be better spent on other ways of saving lives.

I'm not saying that we're there yet with self-driving cars. We probably are with planes.
I thought this would just be an application of Benford's law, but they note in the beginning that using Benford's law doesn't work for elections (citing this paper: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/sites/default/files/benford_pdf_...)

Does anyone know why Benford's law doesn't work here but does work for other made up numbers in applications like accounting?
They measure your reaction time to sways and curves.
Nothing is forcing people to use the internet.

All the States already had complete access to the internet anyway - this is about to end users.
Is there a field that studies inconsistencies of this type?

Recently on HN there was a related test (the Grim test) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787560
In short, I would like to see Firefox empower and inform its users.

The current implementation of the Adobe Flash plugin warning does neither, and by the looks of it, add-on permissions mentioned in the OP will be the same.
Play and sport are fine-tuning the animal for survival (eating, or avoiding being eaten, or finding a mate). It's practice.
Interesting: it would be unconstitutional for the UK government to trigger article 50 (announce to leave the EU) without support by parliament. Except the UK does not have a constitution, at least not the way other countries do...
heh, I wasn't really ready for this to be posted widely yet.

Anyways, I'm here to answer questions.
Bigthink is not a credible source of information IMO
It's feeding you information that you'll accept as fact and you think both sides of this arrangement are equal?

It's already how certain institutions have ingrained themselves into society, but they don't have the efficiency of being able to instantly impart their knowledge or the holistic view of it's goals and progress that AI could have.
Interest can be increased. Not just a blue collar issue from decades past, its the white collar future.

Its incredibly important to note that the last couple decades of misadventure in analogous situations have failed. The worst possible outcome would be to convince ourselves to reimplement Detroit, for example.

A stealth UBI seems likely. Much as America will never tolerate socialized medicine but we love our medicare, we'll have aggressive opposition to UBI while none the less having a stealth UBI under a different name.

Note that on a personal level, not societal level, "we" threw those guys to the wolves. Its likely that when its "our" turn we'll get thrown to the wolves. That IS completely non-useful for society and fixes no large scale problems but is very helpful for small scale individual planning. Tradition is throw them to the wolves, and its likely in our lifetimes we'll be thrown to the wolves. So think up personal scale solutions to avoid their fate... No one will be coming to our defense.
Benford's law best applies to data that spans multiple orders of magnitude.
This makes entirely too much sense. Bring back the CCC.

I had one of the better summers of my life doing something similar working for an Appalachian trail club.
Absolutely fascinating research!

I wonder if someone has some free time to run the models on several recent elections that were filled with fraud. I'm interested in: Austrian presidential elections [0], Turkish elections [1] and Democratic party primaries [2][3]. Each of them was analyzed for voting fraud and fraud was found in each of them (some were full of massive vote fraud like Turkish elections).

PS: What's with all the downvotes? Is the evidence of massive voter fraud in the West so unsettling that you have to downvote me?

[0]
>Austria presidential poll result overturned

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36681475

[1]
>Turkey Elections Massive Vote Fraud

https://erikmeyersson.com/2015/11/04/digit-tests-and-the-pec...

[2]
>Hillary Clinton Favored By Election Fraud In Democratic Primaries

http://www.inquisitr.com/3127046/hillary-clinton-favored-by-...

[3]
>Election Fraud Watch 2016 (J: awesome blog that tracks election fraud in primaries)

https://electionfraud2016.wordpress.com/
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This is a misconception largely born from thanksgiving and christmas time warnings. The issue is cooked bones from anything, not just poultry. Cooked cattle or pig or goat or sheep or lizard or whatever all post the exact same hazard. In much searching, I was not able to find any credible evidence that raw bones pose a threat.
This is great!

I was wondering why there was a cluster seemingly not near anything in southwest Oregon; it looks like some of the remote positions are showing up as located in Remote, OR.
Are you telling me you don't enjoy the taste of Irish Spring??
Yes indeed, context is everything. I've had my own troubles with activerecord as well.
Does it mean, then, that as the people who are anti-immigration such as Donald Trump get elected and geographic mobility (potentially) decreases, we can work our way backwards and say that these languages are less likely to die? In other words, does the trend towards anti-globalization lead to the unexpected side effect that some languages may actually take longer to die?
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I worked on the radar systems personally and we tested them with the Lidar hardware that Google uses. When the systems are raised they become more difficult to engineer (Caterpillar uses similar sensors on its large trucks, which are raised). Ultimately we solve this with more capable radar hardware in the bumper, not multiple mounting points, though Volvo's innovation in this area is significant and commendable.
I would love to spend a few days there just taking it all in.

I visited Europe for the first time last year. My favorite part of the holiday was walking through the streets of the old village's in Germany and Switzerland marvelling at the history.

Here in New Zealand a 100 year old building seems ancient. So a 1,000 year old bridge was mind blowing.

We got invited to a mass in the church at the local castle in the village we stayed in, that was an unreal experience. Something I will never forget. I don't think Europeans realise how lucky they're to be so connected to there past.
>Cavities are formed when sugar reacts with bacteria in the mouth. Normal dog food has very little sugar in it, especially if you avoid feeding your dog human food

Lots of dog foods contains sugars, and even more contain a ton of more complex carbs, which the bacteria do still feed on. This is why species appropriate raw fed dogs don't have calculus, they don't eat carbs.
>> What we are talking about is a new, higher form of real intelligence.

Which if the author is right and our brains have already been shrinking means that within a few hundred years, there won't be any humans left - just "higher intelligence".

I've never understood people's naivety thinking we're always going to be at the top of the evolutionary ladder. At some point, we will be replaced and humans in whatever form they take now will cease to exist in the very near future.
It shall get a chapter in the orange catholic bible, the prelude to the butlerian jihad. ;)
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Although I have no idea what the NHTSA will do, it's clear that people are treating Tesla's autopilot as more than a driver-assistance system.

Hopefully in the future Tesla will add some additional checks to make sure the driver is actually using it as an assistance system instead of an auto-pilot. And when their auto-pilot actually becomes an auto-pilot they can remove those checks.
True. Just find out. But Chrome's console yield undefined to me...Weird.

Edit: find the reason. It is because I am trying to assign a property to int. Seems JS won't allow this to primitive type?

Edit: Python won't allow assignment to primitive type bject either. The handling is the same.
The London Library may be wonderful, but it embodies one side of the old "two cultures": disdain for the technical (quantitative) side of science and technology.

From Wikipedia (sorry):

"Pure and natural sciences, technology, medicine and law are not within the library's purview, although it has some books in all of those fields; books on their histories are normally acquired."
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I'm not sure where you're coming from education-wise, but monocultures are viewed as negatives even in computer science [1]. They reduce resiliency to unexpected disasters in both cyber and meat spaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture_(computer_science)
I did suspect that "I've never been burned" just meant I hadn't developed enough for browsers...

This also seems like a good reminder that transparent updating only works if your team is good and responsive enough to fix mistakes on the fly. If you're rolling out one update a month, you'd better give people a choice so they can decline when you hand them faulty upgrades.
I lamented watching new sets. Then I heard my father lament over the same thing. Odd.

weird parallel : new legos are like new games, every thing is more realist but lost the "limited" old one charm.

ps: some twitter magic https://twitter.com/LegoSpaceBot/status/749731872507367425
Anyone interested in the effort to catalogue all the world's languages should check out the nonprofit Wikitongues: http://www.wikitongues.org

They have a fascinating collection of videos of people speaking in their native languages.
Wages are comparable to most western countries, just not SF. Also when you work remotely the remote companies often pay local wages and not SF ones.
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AFAIK, Tesla doesn't even have stereo cameras. It's a single, B&W camera behind the rear view mirror. The camera is used for object recognition, but the radar does all distance stuff.

It's rumored that the next version will have three cameras looking forward, so camera can be used for distance calculations.
How is that true?
It depends on what kind of failure. If there is a red button next to an slightly darker red button and you get the instruction from your boss to press the red one, you have a 50% of failing. But maybe the designer of said buttons should have thought about giving the buttons different colors instead of similar ones.

"The Design of Everyday Things" talks about this, that sometimes it's the designer of something's fault, rather than the user of the something. Also called "Human Error" by statements.

Search for "https://archive.org/stream/DesignOfEverydayThings/DesignOfEv... here https://archive.org/stream/DesignOfEverydayThings/DesignOfEv...

Point being, unless Tesla makes it safe to be used as autopilot, you probably shouldn't say it's autopilot. Otherwise it's not good enough and you would fault Tesla for the design rather than the users of the autopilot.
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That is a huge generalisation, and in fact this article is about affordable housing which therefore contradicts your point.

Auckland is not affordable, but Wellington has higher wages and relatively affordable housing. It's still probably high by international standards (but not by the companies that we get directly compared to, namely Australia, Canada, and the UK).
This is fascinating.

I'm tempted to argue the improbably-round numbers might be due to lazily counting/sampling the ballots rather than actual malicious fraud... but I guess sloppily running the election still constitutes fraud in some sense.
For Benford's law to apply, the numbers (the non-fabricated numbers) need to be coming from a source/distribution covering several orders of magnitude. The fabricated voting percentages are limited to between 0 and 100.
For the purposes of an article like this, I don't think technical prowess would be very useful. He's providing an opinion informed by speaking with a variety of people with clearance speaking freely about their work. That's pretty rare in its own right.
Benford's law applies when the underlying distribution is approximately exponential. Because candidates with an exponentially small chance to win are not likely to run, it wouldn't make much sense for elections to have an exponential distribution. Much more plausible distributions are (truncated) normal or uniform, neither of which satisfies Benford's law.
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This is a road to madness. If every time you wouldn't understand something you would just plunge into the material and get familiarized you would do nothing else for the rest of your life. I think Eno means managing ignorance in the way of making a decision on when to stay ignorant (whilst being aware of your ignorance) and when to learn and hence "fix" this ignorance.
As someone who lives in Santa Cruz, CA and is in Seattle/Kirkland/Redmond with regularity, honestly, being able to go to a park, sit down and not run the risk of someone mentally ill screaming at you, trash and human waste strewn about or needles, really is a treat.

I've seen the camps along the highways when driving from the airport and heading north. It is a problem.

Big cities (especially on the west coast), as mentioned in other threads, have a problem with homelessness. SF has reported numbers around 6600 for a city of 850k, Santa Cruz reported about 3500 for a city of 60k.

The problem here isn't just homelessness, but acceptance of bad behaviors and almost no penalties for crimes committed by those without means -- citations are ignored, many arrests are catch and release.

I don't know what the solution is, but as someone living in a city with severe issues and no will to change it, I enjoy visiting some of those places mentioned on the east side.
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Maybe we should all program C on Windows - and only teach it - because any alternative that is not "dominant" has no value or importance?
> Are you willing to stop speaking, reading, thinking, writing in English and use Mandarin?

If only 321 people are left in the world speaking English, and billions speak Mandarin, absolutely!

It means that the world has basically said "to hell with English", and you're best off if you do too.
I liked the talk, but when he talks about the GIL keeping Python "fast" I have to laugh. It's so slow already, who cares? He is talking about a factor of 1.3 to 2X to remove the GIL in a language that is already 30-100X slower than C/C++.
Wasn't [2] already refuted? E.g., http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/upshot/exit-polls-and-why-...
It doesn't matter how many arguments there are.
My point was that calling the function will mutate one of its arguments and in fact, in the example the returned value of the function is irrelevant because nothing is assigned to the return value of the function when it is invoked. So it's actually just plain wrong. The function is called and a side effect of calling the function is the mutation of the supplied 'result' argument. Call the function 4 times and you get a different result every time. Not a pure function.
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tl;dr Max Nelson's meditation on internantionalizing film dialog that largely prefers subtitles over dubbing. The title refers to an inadvertent sigh by the original actor that a dubber can't hope to authentically recreate. Nelson also laments the common obscurity of subtitle authors and hopes more of their work were analysed as translations of literature are.
Austria is actually not suspecting any fraud. About 100 000 postal ballots were counted not fully following the protocol demanded by law, and the elections were decided by a difference of about 30 000 voted. They have no evidence or suspicion of actual fraud, but the legitimacy of the result can still be questioned, so they decided to re-run the elections.
I wouldn't be so quick to say insurance companies would pick up the tab. I don't know which country you're from but in the us getting insurance companies to pay for a claim is very hard and until a set of laws are established I would expect dramatic pushback from them. Furthermore in most accidents insurance companies try to seek out the party at fault if it's not crystal clear to avoid paying.

But an interesting situation would occur if the incentives from the insurance companies would be directed towards automated driving because of reduced risks and costs to the driver. That would be an interesting scenario
3. You can teach millions of computers to obey a new language just by copying its implementation onto them. You can make something that reaches countless users even if you're the only person working in your language.
I still think your examples are more of the "powerful tools" kind of AI. And I think the general argument about "hard AI problems, when solved, cease to be AI" is also along those lines.

I think we've proven by example that what we thought of as things that require "real" intelligence, like chess, go, jeopardy - really don't. They're not a good yardstick for intelligence. Or intelligence is not as closely tied to (self) awareness and consciousness as we once thought.

I do worry about the "autonomous system" problem. The link between meta-data and drone strikes have brought us uncomfortably close to a real Skynet - without any need for an emergent consciousness per se.

But I always read discussions on AI (the kind that "Wake up") to really be more about AC: artificial consciousness.

> I don't fear people becoming dependent on AI.

Indeed. I fear AI that stops being dependent on people. Such systems are still far off, I believe. But I don't see why we couldn't intentionally or by accident create a new form of life that could out-compete us, and in the end make us extinct.
> "I prefer series where they stop airing the series for a year to continue production"

I agree to a point. A year seems about right to keep interest high. Sometimes the wait can get too long though. I enjoyed the first series of Attack On Titan, but it looks like we'll have to wait until 2017 for the second series, meaning there was a gap between series of 4 years. It'll have to be something pretty special to make it worth the wait IMO.
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