skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect your notion of intelligence includes more than the quality itself. Humans are complex systems and exist inside much more complex systems. If intelligence were purely adaptive then there would be a lot more of it than there is. If the adaptation of an organism didn't dominate the expression of it's qualities then they would always be manifest; They are not. When they are not, happiness is also often not. It is true that a more fully manifest human is happier. Also that as their happiness and observable intelligence are correlated. But what would result from intelligence that hadn't been able to fully manifest? I suspect the expression of many of these concerns. Your final statement equalizes on this point. In fact, the expression of these concerns is absolutely not equal among humans. I can appreciate the hesitation to accept their indication of higher intelligence. They're not remarkable thoughts. They're absolutely not thoughts we want to reward. They are only occasionally the product of excessive intelligence becoming maladaptive. A person that is failing to cope takes a fairly regular form. This form is ultimately not an expression of their intelligence.

You seem to be talking about "adaptive" intelligence. I suspect this is in fact the nearness to an optimal quantity and not merely more of the quality itself. Also, that this fluctuates over time. Adaptation to it is a continuous process of the meta-mind. Ignorance can be recognized as a form of unconscious intelligence possessed by any finite thinking thing. The calculations of this intelligence precede the existence of any particular mind and needn't be known by it. Our capacity to know this form of intelligence is unlikely. Hence your perception of imprecision. The thing you wish were precise never will be. Psychology simply cannot talk about it. As a science it wouldn't intend to. It can only theorize about definable qualities. To understand and properly measure "adaptive" intelligence we would have to subvert the entirety of it's effects. We would have to know what it deemed unworthy of being within the finite knower; Merely to confirm that it was in fact unworthy of being known. We can only pontificate about what "adaptive" intelligence is. Perhaps we can assert it's the correlates of observable intelligence. This demands that it doesn't fluctuate over time. Anything we can know to properly define it is too finite. Knowing it would imply a more "real" intelligence we have yet to define. We cannot "know" the meta-mind.
It's completely broken for me as of now. Does not pick up any of my travel mails, I can't create a trip, and it does not show any places for cities that I manually enter...
Continuous improvement would start by fixing the typo in the title :)
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It's not, though. If you dislike both of them equally, and it doesn't matter to you who wins, and you vote a third party, the difference to you is the same... you just have less on your conscience now because you didn't contribute to a particular side -- and there's the slight, lotto-winning-odds chance that everyone else quietly did the same thing...

What the hell, I'll give it a shot.
Or, a different interpretation: what's the benchmark for gifted? Who's picking these people out of the crowd, and how? The programs I saw didn't test objectively, were absurdly vulnerable to parental arm-twisting, and in some cases were drawing from a student body that was, on average, performing well below grade-level.

(N.B. Amount of hard work still dwarfed by blind luck.)
They encoded real information into their primary key. They're going to run into trouble when they need to change one of these roads later.

(Like maybe rotate one of these North-South roads to run East-West.)
"Remind me ______ in two hours"

One day Siri kept hearing that as "into hours" and I almost lost it.
"creepy" has been adopted into younger people's language. And while there may be no direct translation that has all connotations of the words, I believe the concepts expressed with other words are basically the same. Do you have an article/other reference discussing the differences?
A book titled "Hillbilly Elegy" goes into this in great detail, and is a very important read for anybody trying to make sense of the insanity that is modern American politics (on both sides of the aisle, really).
$500M wouldn't last very long if you had to split it among the masses. It's easy for Soros et al to support mass immigration if they aren't the ones who bear the cost.
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I like what you're saying, but let's get real. The people playing games are looking for a different kind of feeling.
I haven't seen this statement, but i think everyone here would agree that it was a surprise to see tesla advertize autopilot, full hands off driving, while every other technology maker in the world were telling about technology not beeing fully mature yet.

I've seen a technology talk from mobile eye founder, and those guys look quite serious and down to earth. Very far from telsa's taste for shine and fame.
I think something missing from the list is "learn to say no".

This is not necessarily a very positive sounding message, but when you are pulled left and right to support or help people, you do not get anything on your personal task list done.

There is a right balance to find because in a way by helping, the whole team is progressing. Try to teach people how to fish rather that giving them a fish.
You ignore the obvious arrow of causality, it's hard to be motivated about cleaning toilets relative to other jobs.
Then the article should be about the inexcusable reactions of these women, instead of blaming ugly men for thinking they get to be human too.
Well sure. If your whole life consisted of work, you simply have no idea what to do with your free time.

I would study philosophy if I could afford it. Travel a lot. Go swimming more so my back would not be such a mess and so on.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be bad for my brain.
In many ways, the title is an example of a deeply flawed meta-analysis.
This assumes that nothing mayor is going to change. What if we somehow build a spaceship route from Earth to Mars and we power it through electricity. How much higher would our consumption be if we launch 10,000 spaceships every day?

Or maybe we want to terraform our own planet to counter climate change. These things could use amounts of energy orders of magnitude higher than we use today.

I'm sure 100 years ago didn't expect we would launch 100,000 airplane flights every day [0] :) Nor did they think we would send spaceships to Mars.

[0] http://www.garfors.com/2014/06/100000-flights-day.html
Multiprocessor AVR running Linux would be the next step, definitely.
The Register openly stated some time ago that they don't care about facts if they can cause a "good bun fight". I don't know if that's changed, but it's not a good source if you want civil and substantial discussion of a topic.
Not all of them are elves, but still most females are more elvish than orcish looking.
Bold claim, hope it's true.

I wonder if health related research will get a huge boost in funding and research in the near future, as tech billionaires get older and try to escape age related illnesses or death.
computing an avarage over one or two data points is questionable statistics
Near the beginning of the article it mentions the german word "unheimlichkeit" to mean creepy or uncanny. Is that not a word you are familiar with, or not the meaning you associate with it? There is are a lot of other German touch points in the article as well.
To clarify the other response, you've been able to use Stripe to send Direct / MoneySend for quite awhile now:

https://stripe.com/docs/connect/bank-transfers

Normally it takes a few days for the payment to clear. With the new Instant Transfers option it shows up immediately.
I was challenging your "Go is not set up to have a REPL" assertion.
we are in violent agreement about the (non) "REPL-ness" of _gore_ and the fact that "just keep compiling a module incrementally" is a dead end.

I don't see how reimplementing Go in Go but with a REPL (on top of, let's say, a SSA interpreter) is a Go-like REPL at best and not just a Go REPL.
Could you expand a bit?

AFAICT, once one has a Go interpreter (the x/go/ssa is basically just that), implementing a REPL is "just" providing a program counter to the interactive interpreter layer, together with the ability to modify that PC... (many details have been dropped on the floor, of course)
I’m leaving on a jet plane to Canada, and money is not an issue
Japanese games generally have been wedded to the console, and they have excelled at console engineering. America for the longest time ignored the home consoles after the big Atari crash, until the Xbox came out. And even that was more of a pc-ification of console gaming.

It's more the accident of being in possession of an entire market to themselves I think than anything.
> There are interesting statistics about Americans placing major countries on maps

I think you need to look up what "whataboutism", or "appeal to hypocrisy" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> I'd wager China has more foreign media consumption than the US.

With Hollywood being located in the US, I'd be surprised if this wasn't true.

> The only thing the link says is that rules for approval of games to be published in the mainland include that they have to be in simplified characters

This is a quote from the linked article: "SAPPRFT’s rules also forbid the use of traditional Chinese characters." How is this not "banning traditional characters"?
I did, and they are great. I even have the Continuous App on my iPad Pro which is an F# development environment. It's incredible, but I am concerned about having to still drill down to the Android API, which means Java.

I am thinking more and more against my wish, that biting the bullet and just going Java all the way is the key. Kotlin, Xtend, you still have to read Android SDK code in Java, correct?

In terms of books, a friend bought me "Android 6 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (3rd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series)" to get me off the fence. I am going to work through it as much as I can to give Java a fair shake. I used to program in Java 5 for little side projects, but never mobile except for demo or tutorial apps years later.

Is this a good Android/Java book, or should I stay on board with my interests and do an Android Game or Android AI book slant?
Keep in mind that my experiences are based on my preferences. YMMV. But for example, 20 years ago the licensing laws were set up so that pubs were open from 11-2 and from 4-11. Usually in London, they had an exemption to allow them to be open between 2 and 4. There were some bars that were open past 11, but you needed a special license. Now bars and pubs that are open past 11 is the norm in London.

It also used to be that you would have chip shops and sandwich shops and cafes that would serve an english breakfast. Now you have chain espresso shops and ramen shops and sushi shops, etc (hey, I live in Japan and love Japanese culture, so I will stick to complaining about that so as not to appear racist ;-) ). When I'm back in London these days I have to go out of my way to find the kind of food that was around every corner 20 years ago.

As for pubs, chains like Weatherspoons (love them or hate them) have done a great job of maintaining and even improving certain things like the availability of real ale. They have worked hard to lobby for reduced prices for beer so that it is still (barely) possible to drink a decent pint and not go broke. But the good independent pub in London is a rare sight now, IMHO. 20 years ago the words "free house" actually meant something. Now you'll see "free house" on the side of Champions League football entertainment centre that serves nothing but InBev products.

These days the city never sleeps. It never has a day off. You can obtain any kind of food or experience you like, practically 24/7. You can easily find high quality European restaurants. You can drink fine wine in the shop on the corner. You can find italian fashions (and pay your entire salary on a single outfit). These are all great.

But it's hard to find a quiet neighbourhood pub. Piano singalong? Ha ha ha ha! Wait less than 30 minutes for a good english breakfast? Drink a finely crafted English pint with Fuggles and Goldings hops? Find a non-chain pub that serves bangers and mash? Eat a pickle and cheese sandwich (even on a train)? Be able to not be disturbed at all hours by rowdy drunks when you live near a pub? All of these things are getting harder/impossible to do because they have been supplanted by non-English culture. Which is fine in one way, but like I said, I miss London of 20 years ago.
Actually I never dropped it. I'm still thinking of jumping but not sure what to jump to. Part of me is hoping value oriented investing (which is The Prudent Speculators' main principle of investing) will make a comeback, but I'm not sure how likely that is.

They say that value oriented investing wins out over growth at the end, but here is a graph comparing the two that tells a different story over the last 10 years, IWO is a growth fund and IWN is a value fund (unrelated to The Prudent Speculator, but same strategy):

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

I was thinking of Louis Navellier, he seems to pay a little closer attention to the winds of the market, where as The Prudent Speculator just ignores them for the most part, and follows their basic strategy, but his newsletter is kind of pricey.

I don't want to invest in mutual funds, because I have the USA Citizenship curse that means I am taxed on profits. So, I try to shuffle around my losers every year and keep my winners alone. This way, I save money on taxes (aka Tax harvesting)

If you don't mind sharing, did you decide to follow a newsletter based on Hulbert's? If so, what is it?
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Good idea, guys.
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> So if we have to do something bad to ensure a steady supply of oil at a reasonable price, sure. I can accept that.

aka robbing from the poor and giving to the rich
There's enough personal information in there to confirm his identity - a picture of him with that dog would already be enough.
There are also some people working on a 6502 backend for LLVM
Other than the fact that dozens of prominent Republicans have rejected him? Including former Republican Presidents of the United States... who have come out and said they will vote for HRC, and that they do so because they can't bring themselves to vote for a tyrannical monster?
im mobile and traveling. tried to find my links to research but not in my mobile bookmarks. there is a great page somewhere that lists each curve --- edit you found it:

https://safecurves.cr.yp.to

for reference google (pdfs so cant get links from google mobile):

security dangers of nist curves

and also the reasoning behind the curve chosen for bitcoin.

so edit 2: just, yes. but note the safecurves quote " The core problem is that if you implement the standard curves, chances are you're doing it wrong:"
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Any writing on this topic without a huge section on convergence is a BS. In practice, what you need to know is that algorithm almost never converges just like any complex randomized algorithm. If you want to train a reasonable model, you need to look for something convex instead.
meh, still better than developing a OS and a searchengine by myself! if I thought otherwise I wouldn't use any of google's services. neither should you if you are so concerned by the data they collect. checkout pwniephone, duckduckgo and hushmail: your data will no longer belong to google!
The above code is wrapped in a thread and runs non stop in each node. It's really not very complicated. It's basically sticking a def around the top block of code and then thread.start() in the main. It's extremely cheap because it sends then sleeps for a few seconds. Any node than then listen to the broadcasts on a known port (but no IP address needed) and will know exactly what the state of the system is and all the IPs. Then in the main loop you just make sure that you've gotten a recent pulse otherwise you reconnect. If you're using zmq it's just another short poller entry amongst the others that you will already inevitably have. Literally a couple of lines. It allows you to bring nodes up and down at will for robustness and scalability.

I think it's much less complex than running an entire database node just for this, which btw will also require you constantly to poll, and will require you to bring in an (often heavyweight) client library into each node too, as opposed to standard-library sockets which if you're running multinode you're almost certainly already importing. If you're looking for "simple" distributed computing my sense is that that has yet to be invented.
There's no "phenomenon", racism against romani is pretty well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiziganism

You can have a debate about the "Roma camp in your back yard", without resorting to racial stereotyping.
out of interest, what do you find lacking in https://github.com/gonum offering as a scientific stack?
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borderline unreadable.

http://contrastrebellion.com/
Are you sure about that line?

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The mind is blown that this can't be repeated with CO2 emissions: The rules should be simple.

1) auction permits for a single compound (create separate auctions for each worrisome greenhouse gas)

2) allow for secondary markets (e.g. futures) with some cost for permit transfers

3) disallow credit schemes. Trading offsets is too easy to game.

4) allow anyone who cares to buy off carbon permits in the general auction and let them go fallow.

Of course, that will never happen, because there are a host of politically favored entities that are interested in keeping things complicated for their own benefit.
>I agree that changing tax law would be the best remedy but I'm not entirely sure if tax "avoidance" on a massive scale doesn't have some ethical considerations.

Do you suggest that people are unethical if they choose to take a mortgage interest deduction or deduct business expenses? How about people that rollover their retirement accounts?

I disagree with the tax benefits granted to homeowners and parents. However, it is the current law and I don't rant that people are being unethical by limiting their payment to the government under the law that exists. I would consider them fiscally irresponsible to do otherwise.
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Are you kidding ? His talk basically explain that we're not there yet ( at 2min "this is a challenge that remains to be solved")... It's not a marketing talk. It's a tech talk on the general issues faced before we can reach the goal of autonomous driving ( and how mobile eye can help, of course).

Also, in his conclusion (38min) : " you have to take this tools with a grain of salt, people tend to overreach..." He is talking about his own tools, the tools he presented. I can't see how someone can be more cautious and humble.
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Another engine aimed at beginners is GameMaker[0]. It's been on the rise as some successful indie 2d games were made with it. The latest offering, Hyper Light Drifter, also seems to be getting some traction.[1]

[0] http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWufEJ1Ava0
Really you probably never hired people.
What are the uber self driving system based on?
What are the regulations regarding their safety?
The fun part is when you're traveling westbound on I-580 in Berkeley, CA... and you're simultaneously going eastbound on I-80... on the same stretch of road.
This:

$,="\t"; print readlines.map{|r| s=r.split; [s[0].to_i,r]}\
.max{|a,b| a[0]<=>b[0]}

It's a ruby one-liner that prints the largest first field and the lines that contains that field.
I-69 and its three branches (69W, 69C, 69E) in Texas always gets an emotional response from me.
So Linux isn't 'running' on your x86_64 cpu because cpu is microcoded... or transmeta? Or... Linux is written in C.. so it's not running on your computer because it doesn't execute C directly?

Come on. There is a 8-bit microcontroller running a linux system, the rest is implementation details and semantics.
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was reading about instruction sets a couple of hours ago, the performance bottleneck is often the memory pipeline not so much the size of the instructions
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Under 2.5 cents per a kWh is very cheap, but I'm guessing there are other costs like storage on top?

Anyways will be interesting to see for the future if solar actually becomes a more dominant source of energy worldwide.
Bias disclaimer: I'm voting third party, so a pox on all of their houses.

I can't help but fret, however, over how lame Congress has become in the last few decades. Congress is a separate but equal part of the government. In fact, if push came to shove, they're the ones who are supposed to have all the power. Congress can pick and fire a president under extreme circumstances. The president can't do the same with Congress.

But whether it's this fishing expedition or oversight of the intelligence community, Congress is missing in action and/or impotent. They serve subpoenas. Sometimes the people show up, sometimes they don't. They request evidence. Sometimes they get it, sometimes not. Sometime it takes years and they only get a little bit. Nothing happens.

If the Congress is conducting an investigation, even the idiotic political investigations they seem so good at, this is the government that is asking questions. People should be going to jail and/or disbarred for the types of shenanigans that regularly go on. But nope. It seems all too easy to say, well, it's just Congress, you know? Nobody takes any of that stuff seriously, right?

In the 1970s the Church Committee took apart the national intelligence apparatus and tried to fix a lot of problems. I don't see this Congress or any future ones being able to investigate and improve their own parking garage, much less anything of any national significance.

If your Congressperson is doing silly political stuff? Fire them and elect somebody else. But don't make the institution itself a politically powerless charade of a legislative body. That destroys a much-needed error-correcting mechanism.
Man v rat: could the long war soon be over?
You know what they say? Don't invest more than you can afford to lose :P
It only makes sense from a PR stand point: Drawing attention to the far outliers at the top. On a cognitive level, we all know that migrants are people not entirely unlike ourselves, capable of a wide range emotion sand behaviors, but what the news would organically expose us to are the outliers at the bottom - rapists, terrorists, organized crime. By creating this fund, Soros is trying to steer the conversation towards the top outliers, the innovators and job creators.
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I guess 15 years too late is better than never.
I was part of a fairly large acquisition by a big player. Support types got handcuffs of about $20k over 4 years. Engineers got anywhere from $150k/4 years to $600k/4 years. Some got even more.

This was all independent of equity. Any vested equity was cashed out. Unvested equity converted to equivalent shares in the new company, with the same vesting schedule as before.
How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to a layperson (2010)?

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/165/how-would-you-e...