skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. This wasn't really sold to me as a contract but rather as a full-time employment situation. I think I might be willing to make that sort of compromise if I knew I had a chance to decompress after the six months are over and I'm on to the next thing.

And yeah, part-time software dev jobs seem to be increasingly rare these days. People either want your soul or they don't want anything to do with you. I would be totally happy working half as many hours at the same hourly rate with lower living expenses than working full-time or overtime with a high salary. We all have different priorities. I need my tinkering time.
There is only one way to win and that is to publish. Innovation in this field doesn't happen in a vacuum but by multiple simpler components combine in ever more emerging complexity.
That's a fairly strange reason to question their machine learning claims
Baidu has an office here in US, they could build it here...I guess
Passive House Explained
Not quite. No one's publishing papers to that effect. What casual science fans and some popular scientists do posit is that the universe is so big, our solar system so average (as far as we know), so it's highly likely that life exists or has existed elsewhere.

The alternative is the anthropocentric view that the entire universe was created merely for our viewing pleasure on Earth.
Apple sends their employees to ML/AI conferences with fake company names on their badges to avoid leaking a single bit of their knowledge. I don't know how any AI researcher resists working at Apple!
Black MIDI (okay... it's actually a "genre", not a song, which is even worse)
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp

0.20 c
well, you need rotation to create a dynamo, and these rotate rather slowly; once per orbit only. Now, it does seem this is still quite fast enough to produce a dynamo, but still the issue is whether it can still be strong enough to create a sufficient magnetosphere to save the atmosphere from completely eroding away, given both how close and how active Proxima Cent. is .
Here's a paper that tries to see how much atmosphere planets in habitable zones around red dwarfs could lose given the activity of the star and the magnetosphere they could produce: - http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0275 . I guess its quite possible various other models have different takes on it, but anyhow that's the worry. I hope we'll see such modelling work done for Proxima Cent. b soon.
When searching for a literal string, the bottleneck tends to be memory bandwidth. When doing regex searches, the bottleneck is usually CPU. If caches are cold, then disk I/O is the limiting factor. Even in that case, technologies like NCQ allow some degree of concurrency.

If you have ag[1], you can play around with the --workers option to see how various numbers of threads change performance. (The default is for ag to use #CPUs-1 workers.)

1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
I've made this comment before, and I don't intend it to be flippant, but am honestly curious.

If Common Lisp is a failure, how is it that there are multiple commercial offerings for it?[0][1]

I would take the continued presence of these commercial offerings as a sign of health in the Common Lisp ecosystem.

[0] http://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/
Maybe possible with two terminal windows? One to enter commands only, another for displaying any output -- chained together via named pipes.
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reminds me of the movie White Dwarf: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114926/
not op, but i assumed the 'upfront' would fund the rides as well, vs. just 'unlocking' them. i read it as more of an initial prepayment.
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Back in September of 2009 JetBlue offered an all you can jet pass because September is traditionally the worst slump of the year. Summer's over, people start schools and jobs, travel drops overall.

This is the same trick to get you out there more. It's also inevitably the end game for Uber. Deliver value for less than your monthly car payment.

Someone is crunching the numbers right now figuring out exactly how much LTV they can extract from you in exchange for paying $500 a month every month to Uber.

Then when Uber wins that game by the end of next year many other CPG and big box retailers will follow suit, riding along the subscription box model.

By 2020 it will be normal for you to receive income from the government just so you can hand it over to lifestyle providers of all stripes every month to live how you personalized it to be.

Latest fashion every month from WalMart! Semi-prepped meals every day from Safeway! 30 day supply of customized toothpaste from Target! Just insert token.
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Oh my gosh. This all looks like a big pile of steaming "how about no".

"Getting started" that has hundred pages, dense with acronyms meaningless
outside Distributed Management Task Force committee. Dozens of functions that
could be easily and clearly described by terms like "monitoring",
"hardware/resources inventory", or "configuration management", all packed into
one product.

One more example of Microsoft "not getting" what sysadmins need.
C++, C#, Javascript and now Swift.

I know many others who have been programming their whole lives in one or two programming languages. Once you get good at something and are well compensated, there may not be enough motivation to learn new languages. Specially when you have kids and other hobbies.
Because that's the lazy answer
One should always endeavor to enrich the most powerful gangster around, so giving the money to the state makes sense
The Pyramid Principle
Even without the speed limit, you can expect to reach this point. Let's say your technology gets 10% faster every 25-year generation, you should launch a 200-year trip but not a 250-year one. We'll probably keep improving at that pace or better for a few iterations at least, but eventually space travel will be a stable technology, speed improvements will be rare and incremental, and 1000-year journeys will be justified.
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I'm not so sure you actually read the article.

It explicitly talks about how they've accomplished a lot of this without violating their users' privacy. And that the fact that they deny AI researchers big hoards of data, hurts their reputation in the AI community, because most AI researchers want mountains of data.
Apart from traffic data, where Google is slightly better, maps has been fine for me on ios9 and is better on 10. Apple even learned from the errors they made with the initial launch and have these big open betas for a reason.

Safari is perfect for my use cases. Way better battery life, feels lighter than chrome, etc, etc.

What exactly in your opinion is worse about modern safari and maps that makes a worse experience for the user?
My prediction: we're going to invent alien intelligences on this planet a long time before we find them in outer space.
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You could just as easily 'invest' $150 in freemium apps over the course of a few years...
In Florida Keys, Some Worry About ‘Science and Government’ More Than Zika
Perhaps they seek to win a game other than the one you have in mind.
Safari is my browser of choice and I have no issues with it (I much prefer it over Chrome). Maps has occasional issues but it's a solid product now. I use it for walking and transit directions and can't remember the last time I had to fall back on Google Maps.
Apple can free ride on other people publishing and synthesise in house. The field might lose out (but there are always free riders) but does Apple?
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> Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic.

You're welcome, thanks for responding.

> i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, been in and out of the system since i was 12 and witnessed a LOT of ... let's say bad practices.

Having seen the inside of this world (as a visitor), I can sort-of imagine what you've been through. People do have problems; the system knows not that it does not always help.

> do you have any other suggested reading / sites for someone in my position?

depends on what you're interested in. I switch to this account whenever I have something to say about mental health, so there might be some other links there. (I just surveyed my comments, there aren't too many. I post the link to Robert Whitaker's work fairly regularly, but there are a bunch of others. They depend on the context...)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974769 - this has a link about the monopolists' approach to medicine. I posted that comment from my phone, and didn't feel like fishing out the full link. But the article is quite helpful for illuminating the source of bias in the "Medical" world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974230 - I responded to this person's comment to thank them for their link about "SSRI's"

What are you interested in? anti-psychiatry? self-hacking mental health? The history of Medical Monopoly?
Developing Prometheus alerts for etcd
Also no one knows how to shield a spaceship from the interstellar medium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Interstell... over such distance.
> What I see there is wildly unfiltered

Actually, what you see there is heavily filtered.
I've never used this, and it's incredibly shady considering the users probably do not realize that their Hola browser plugin does this, but Hola runs a paid VPN service where you can get thousands of low-bandwidth connections on unique residential IP addresses, provided generously through their "free" VPN users.... It's essentially a legitimate attempt at running a botnet as a service.

But if the end justifies the means... http://luminati.io/
That's because Vin Diesel is a gamer and didn't want games starting him to be run-of-the-mill movie tie/cash-ins, so he founded Tigon and tasked them with making good ones.

Fabulously geeky dude, I like his style.
That comes out to a guaranteed $73k/year, even if you take 3 weeks of vacation. For a family where both parents are driving uber, that comes out to a family income of almost $150k/year. Considering the only skill you need is the ability to drive a car, that's insane.
> Due to the high taxes here in Europe it's incredibly difficult to become very rich

With all due respect, but you don't understand what "getting very rich" means. You don't get money and place it in a bank. The money is the firm or firms that you control, and that is where it remains. If you reinvest and expand your business you don't pay a lot of taxes. The personal tax rate has nothing to do with becoming a billionaire.

When it is harder to become a billionaire it shows that there is less of a "winner takes all" system, which has advantages and disadvantages. The US is much more "winner takes all" than Europe. That Europe still is a lot of countries, the EU did not change that, is part of why that is so, but I would not go so far to say it's the major part, even if Europe was "one" I think we would still not be the same. That's from some business observations I made while living in the US for a decade (I'm from Europe).

For an example what that means (winner takes all), when I worked for a tech startup we found it pretty easy to get initial customers in Europe, Germany to be exact. However, scaling was hard, getting a few customers helped with the next ones but not all that much. It was very different in the US: It was very hard to get even medium-sized companies interested, but when it started it was like an avalanche. And most of those companies purchased from the market leader (our competitor unfortunately), even as #2 we were far, far behind. That obviously helps with wealth concentration. I'll leave it to you to decide if you think that's a good thing, or to find a nuanced view.

> We also lack the tech scene which created a lot of self-made billionaires in the US.

Food for (your) thought(s): Secret History of Silicon Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
A truly remarkable lecture form the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. TL;DR Silicon Valley was made possible by huge amounts of money spent by the US government during WWII on R&D. The "billionaires" happened on that basis. Also, and since I saw this first hand on both continents I feel very comfortable making that claim, much of the current-time explanation for this lies in what I wrote above - "winner takes all" plus "one market" sure helps to concentrate wealth and more quickly too.

IMHO the US does have something important: They have people and networks of people who understand scale and what is important and what isn't for business success. More so than others, although I can only compare with Germany. I completely reject your "analysis" though, well with that one sentence that makes a statement about a reason (taxes).
$2.37?! Wow. I use uber pool almost everyday and I never get deals like that!

Eg:- http://m.imgur.com/a/5CtfQ
Ah, sorry, I wasn't familiar with the above law, I was more talking about the incident in France, but was off-topic in replying to you.
Tesla Motors cut its employee handbook to 4 pages
This looks like a great product. Perhaps there's a lot of potential for add-on services, that might reduce the hefty 2million$ cost of litigation.
Ask HN: Should “unvote” and “un-favorite” be consistent?
On HN, revoking a vote is called "unvote" but revoking a favorite of called "un-favorite", with a hyphen.

Is there actual justification for this distinction? Really curious if this was deliberate or not.
The descent of a sci-fi guru (2007)
I think the weight of the ice would an interesting point to consider in these models. Glaciers definitely deform a planet's crust. The Great Lakes region lies in a depression that is still rebounding from the last ice age.

Reading this, my first thought on the "hot eyeball" would be that the massive ice cap would cause a depression on the night side. So no rivers would want to flow to the day side. Then I remembered a study regarding icecaps melting actually lowering the local sea level [1]. Since the ice is so massive, it actually attracts the sea locally with its gravitational pull. So when the ice melts, the pull is released, and the sea level lowers locally. So with the oversize icecap on the night side, it would attract water to it, even further preventing it from flowing to the day side.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/how-melting-ice-sheet...
It can be done with a sound recording of the tapping of the keys too: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs6431/zhuang.pdf
Presumably (hopefully) the socialist government for this hypothetical nation would have been voluntarily put in place by the voting public.
...That's what I said.
Pony (ponylang.org) is really interesting but it is a compiler with its own target and doesn't run on the Erlang VM.

(Perhaps you meant 'or'? Apologies if so.)
That's an interesting idea. But it doesn't quite translate because each individual copyright infringement case has its own facts, you either did it or not. With patent infringement, the validity of the patent affects every potential plaintiff the same way. But it's something to consider in the future. Thanks.
Ok,
I will try to descript some of my memories.

At that time I had an XT with 4.77MHZ and a "turbo" switch where the CPUs go to 10MHZ. We are talking about real power here and a 30MB HD Seagate.

A lot of games/programs run ok with only 640 at that time.
But graphic ones and heavier ones need more memory as 1MB or 2MB. Remember that time 1MB was a serious investing or cost.

So what we used to do at that times:

Several configs.sys and autoexec.bat for each application. Eg.:
1. Boot with CD-Rom drivers;
2. Boot with CD-Rom drivers and others;
3. Clean Boot

So I had to choose how to boot my PC before choosing the boot menu, and each menu has its configuration.
The more drivers/configs more options becoming an exponential function.

So later came Qemm[1] that optimize all options for best scenarios (more free under 640kb or higher mem free). That was a game changer.

There were several details, but that was it.
Ask me about stacked or other techniques from that time if you are curious :)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
so i suspect they are trying to kill of Lyft, then replace drivers with autonomous driving and keep the prices relatively constant by having loyal customers join in on a subscription model like pool pass and use it as your daily commute. I am actually already taking Pool, with pool pass every day in DC for $1.00 per ride, $30 up front fee. Only way this is sustainable is to eventually replace drivers. Also to really have high customer volume and keep occupancy high they have to keep prices relatively close to a metro fare.
I would agree with that – it's a convention which the FontAwesome project uses for reasons I haven't looked into (I'm assuming not wanting to type 6 more characters).

I use <span> on all of my projects.
Yeah Tim Cook is the all defector.

http://exomemory.wikia.com/wiki/All-Defector
(I posted this as well with the same title, unusually it didn't show as a dupe.)

Certainly reflects my experience. There must be some reason beyond technology (contracts with advertisers perhaps?) that it's so difficult for TV networks to make available content for a fee.
> If what AI/ML talent wants is to do research and draw a Silicon Valley salary then you're right, they're not going to work at Apple.

Let me simplify that further: "If what AI/ML talent wants is to publish...then you're right, they're not going to work at Apple". Money may or may not be a factor, but Apples secrecy won't allow the talent to publish their research. Given that AI is highly driven by research right now (no "if" about it), what talent would want to work somewhere where they can't publish research papers?
Now extrapolate that to all datacenters in the industry.

To all factories, power plants, homes, etc.

Imagine you can cut the cooling/heating bill of 1/2 the industrial world by 40%.
Good to know some are already trying to do that.
> What should people invest in when you are in a zero interest rate and zero growth stock market?

As usual, scarce, durable things. Houses, land, gold, bitcoin.

Apparently printing of new stock in Japan is in line with the need for it. I don't see why it shouldn't be this way.
Those users who were only in it for the cheap fares would have left anyways in a world where Lyft survives but fares increase to profitable levels.

If Uber succeeds in killing Lyft, they can dictate pricing more effectively and harvest a surplus from the remaining consumers.
It's been that way for a long time, though authorship and merits were (and arguably still are) very intermingled. It started with the simple fact that really good artists were those that made really good art, and once somebody had a reputation it would be both to the artist's benefit and the collector's to have that front and center: for the artist, as advertisement to attract buyers, and for the collector to brag about.

I think the things that are very different now (i.e. since about the 80's) are:

1. Much, much more money is involved.

2. In many cases there is a huge gap between what insiders would consider the "underlying work's value" and what average people would find inspiring.

3. Media, obviously, and the Internet.

(And of course even insiders can differ on #2: there are plenty of cases where the market says Yes but the academics say No. The market works hard to "correct" this in its favor.)

Here's a great article on a great artist whose name recognition was a big part of his career in the 1500's, for instance:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/mystery-of-hieron...
> it is that we have created a needlessly complex instructions set.

Sounds like the English language.

The words used in this discussion, btw – like instruction set – are also rarely ever used in English, but still necessary.
A classic gwern post. Exhaustively well-researched, and with reams of context and examples provided for every point and sub-point. Unfortunately, in dire need of editing and essentialising.

Like other writers in the Lesswrong-rationalist sphere (Scott Alexander is even worse in this regard), Gwern overwhelms his reader with so much extended discussion, parenthetical comments and tangential points that the actual structure of his argument is hard to make out. Normally when I encounter a writer making several points I disagree with, I'm able to grasp the overall structure of their argument and see whether those points are essential or not.

His basic point seems logical: computational complexity theory probably doesn't establish a fundamental barrier to AI. However, I think this is simply because we lack anything approaching a mathematical definition of intelligence, making it meaningless to apply a mathematical tool like complexity theory. How does the complexity of, say, a conversation, scale with the length of the conversation? Linearly? Polynomially? Exponentially? Is the question even meaningful?

Then, there are lots of specific remarks I disagree with, e.g:

"Turning to human intelligence, the absolute range of human intelligence is very small: differences in reaction times are small, backwards digit spans range from 3-7, brain imaging studies have difficulty spotting neurological differences, the absolute genetic influence on intelligence is on net minimal, and this narrow range may be a general phenomenon about humans (Wechsler 1935); and yet, in human society, how critical are these tiny absolute differences in determining who will become rich or poor, who will become a criminal, who will do cutting-edge scientific research, who will get into the Ivy Leagues, who will be a successful politician, and this holds true as high as IQ can be measured reliably (see TIP/SMPY etc)."

Again, exhaustive evidence, but (to me) an obvious conceptual flaw: why do similarities in measurements of basic brain operations between humans imply that the range of intelligence between humans is small? Doesn't the range of human achievement instead imply very large differences in mental "software", which is what should be measured instead?

Think of the mental achievements of researchers pre- and post-Newton. There was a huge leap, not because of any increase in basic brain power, but because the later researchers could learn, apply and extend the methods discovered by Newton. I think it's precisely the accumulated set of such methods which seems key to any definition of intelligence (remember that language and conceptual cognition were themselves methods discovered at some point in prehistory).
Those 4 cores in your 1024 core processor would be embarrassingly underpowered.

In a recent, high frequency, aggressively OoO CPU, a large part of the die is used by caches, the register file, vector ALUs and the OoO machinery; by comparison scalar ALUs and especially decoders do not take a lot of machinery. In particular microcode for all legacy instructions takes only a tiny amount of space. Legacy support might have a cost on tiny embedded processors, but it just doesn't matter in a large desktop/server class CPU.

And yes, some of those specialized instructions are rarely used (there is a reason they are called dark silicon), but it means that Intel (or ARM, IBM) doesn't need to spin a new CPU for a specialized workload. Intel is even rumored to add custom instructions required by large customers (FB, Google) on all its CPUs, which are left disabled for other customers.
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