skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a list of companies which are ethically compromised. Apple has publicly taken the opposite side of the fence on this one. I'm not sure they want to be associated with Facebook, Google, Amazon or Microsoft using AI to strip apart user's private behavior and reassemble it as advertising data. Would we trust a cooperative of tobacco companies funding scientific research and ethics surrounding the use and promotion of cigarettes?

Does anyone contest that Facebook's AI is going to pull apart their user's public social feeds and private FB conversations to advance their own business model?

A unification of a large group of tech companies could even be seen as an anti-OpenAI. A singleton could certainly emerge as a co-operation between multiple large corporations and/or a government. An Amazon & Google partnership is particularly terrifying considering how much computing power could be rolled over to a unified AI almost instantaneously.

We do not need an organization engaged in PR for for-profit companies attempting to placate the public while lobbying regulators while unleashing their AI on the public at large. That is what this looks like. We've seen their business ethics already. It isn't a good template moving forward.

I would be less cynical if I heard anyone else besides Apple taking a public stand on keeping personal data private and AI contained in boxes. There does need to be AI ethics and safety leaders, but Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon should be following not in the lead.
Sometimes a law is detrimental to human good. In such cases we should break it.
I buy potassium bicarbonate from Amazon in bulk -- ten bucks a pound. Winemakers use it to reduce acidity in their product, but it's easy enough to mix half a tsp in water twice a day. Lot of research on bicarb, too, so useful outside of keto issues.
"No change" alone is worth legalizing though: because it means you can scale down the militarization of police lead by the war on drugs. It won't happen overnight, it might not bring savings and it will be resisted, but it can result in a significant cultural change that will help in other areas ("black lives matter" and so on).
170k is good. Winters are mild. It might get into the 20s, but not every year. Some are very mild and do not get below freezing. The yearly average low is 40F and the average high 70F. In addition to all the normal hobbies you can pursue in a major metropolitan area, there are quite a bit of outdoors activities available as well.
I wish Apple would troll like that.
That's not how quantum annealing works. This is a pretty good walk through expected and actual gains. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/215.full

I've never heard anyone claim it'd be exponential. In fact, there are proofs showing it can't be.
That was one of my big concerns when I looked into the Priv around the time it launched. I think they were on Lollipop at the time. It seemed their tools would tell you what apps were doing with your data and sensors, but there was a notable lack of any claims about actually stopping that behaviour if you didn't want to allow it.

Since Marshmallow had been released a few weeks earlier, that meant Android on the Priv, even with BlackBerry's software on top, seemed to be less secure against typical app abuses than any of the flagship Android devices updated to run Marshmallow.
Cash up front is the only thing that matters. Promises are worthless. Tell us the base salary and I can answer your question accurately.
Your confusion here is exactly why everyone is so down on D-wave. All the parents points are true which is why it's hard to take their hype seriously.
Salary is a tricky topic - especially in terms of total comp.

I think the bigger concern should be whether you will live and be happy with the lifestyle that you are currently accustomed to with the dollar amounts involved (live and save).

170K is certainly competitive, don't get me wrong. And in my brief visits there it looks like a very nice place to make a home. But there's a very personal aspect to relocation and money is a big part of it.

If you are looking to have kids, does that salary put you in a position to live in a large enough place that is a reasonable distance in an area with a good school district? I don't know, but I do know that it's plenty for that in a lot of areas and not nearly enough in others. People without children don't really understand how much a desirable school district affects the cost of housing.

There's also the question of relocation expenses, how they get paid, how it affects your taxes, and what term they commit you to.

My advice would be to take a two week trip with the idea of spending the entirety of it looking at areas to live both currently and in the future.

I found a good calculator here: http://www.areavibes.com/cost-of-living-calculator/ I used something similar during my own relocation and found it to be a decent guideline (I'm sure most of these calculators use a common dataset).

Once you do the initial comparison, click into your current location, adjust the salary, and re-compare to get the right numbers. Look at the detail of how your area appears and use that as a basis for understanding the statistical impression it has of Seattle.
I think that the fact that nothing changed is literally proof that it is bad law.

If prohibiting something doesn't help anything, even if it doesn't hurt anything, then we shouldn't prohibit it.

I would like to hear an counter example, I can't think of one.
I use Google translate offline on Android when in China and it is great. Seems uploading the trained NN to a phone when online and then using it privately/offline is a great way to go.
Typically $150-180k is salary, and then benefits on top of that, so if you're at one of the bigger companies that offer RSU's your total comp is closer to $200k. But $170k is fine, and unless you're in a great tech area already, you'll likely make more connections.

Rent for most software folks is $1600-2500, the UW district is cheaper since it's a notch down from other areas. Ballard or Capitol Hill would be better, that or Ravina or Freemont. All great places for 30-something yuppies.

Depends on where you're coming from to say whether you'll like the weather, but it's not cold in Seattle, it has a lot of overcast and drizzly days though. Folks that like the weather here appreciate the mildness, not too hot and not cold. Outdoor stuff galore, lots of mountain related stuff, craft everything foodie scene, nerd gaming galore.
It's not that everyone 'wants' to claim the Egyptians did it first, it's that their history is the best documented of all ancient civilisations. We can put actual dates to most events pertaining to even the Old Kingdom period of Egypt, whereas there's a lot more guesswork when it comes to the Indus Valley, Peru, India, and even Mesopotamia and China.
The content is ripped off from http://thenewstack.io/oci-building-way-kubernetes-run-contai...
Somebody please point to the original article
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12602706.
So you don't benefit at all from other people's taxes?
As someone in Sydney Australia, isn't this a ridiculously good salary? Average Google engineers wouldn't make this.
> I cannot wait for Amazon to put USPS out of business.

Lack of competition would raise the likelihood of eventual declines in service. Better for Amazon to put pressure on UPS to do a better job of running their business than to eliminate them all together.
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Economy follows the path of least resistance and AI that path in some cases.

If you lead an organization and receive quarterly bonuses based on financial performance, laying off everyone and hiring robots and AI for a fraction of the cost might be the best way of being rewarded.

We are clearing cut forests, driving many land and marine species into extinction due to poaching, overfishing, habitat loss, acidifying the ocean, releasing green house gasses into the atmosphere, we are melting permafrost (including the one containing methane), warming the planet, we are killing off natural pollinators like bees, we have industrialized the killing of animals for our consumption... believe me, downscaling humanity to a higher level of sustainability might not be bad.
Sure you can. When people working on the Manhattan project calculated how far away they could stand from an atomic bomb detonation--that was an appreciable precaution.

There are AGI risks that are well-reasoned and have detailed descriptions. If you aren't engaging with those arguments, proving them invalid or providing a well-reasoned protection, you aren't representing a coherent point of view.
It's the transition period. We're moving from 9PM sunsets to 4PM, and moving from 90F days to 40F.
Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games
No problem.

There were still some bolded elements, so I switched to a different color scheme and further removed bold elements.

Looking through the doc I can't spot any cases where alignment would be unintentionally wrong. I think the next thing to do to improve readability would be to add some spacing around groups of definitions. This way different alignments used in side-by-side groups should cause less visual interference. I suspect that the visual interference from side-by-side groups is what makes the alignment look distracting.
I think it's possible that "intelligence" is by definition always a chauvinistic property: it is whatever we possess that nobody else does. It is defined precisely by that difference between anything else, and "us" (for varyingly inclusive definitions of "us").

E.g. whales and giant squid are almost certainly intelligent in an absolute sense, relative to the average self-replicating organism (which is probably a bacteria or yeast at best, maybe an overgrown protein depending on who's doing the computation), but we frequently define "intelligence" in such a way so as to exclude them. I would argue that this says little about the quantity but a lot about those doing the defining.

"Intelligence" will always be out of reach for anyone other than humans because as soon as machines get close, we will simply move the bar a little. The nebulousness of the definition allows us to always maintain a je ne sais quoi that is all our own, and will never be approached by machine or beast.
Both Google and Apple are extremely important, valuable companies that have had a very significant impact on the world and culture.

Google created Google - they more or less are the internet (that and Facebook) for the world. To 'Google' something is a phrase that entered into the vocabulary a very long time ago. Both their enormous presence in Internet/search, plus more cultural things like Youtube makes it unable to imagine a world without them.

Apple created iPhone. Holy shit, the iPhone. More or less, they invented the smartphone and the ecosystem around it. I really do wonder whether things like Uber would exist if Apple never made iPhone. I doubt Twitter would be as popular. Entire industries have been created now because Apple made iPhone[1].

They're both world-changing companies that have had an enormous impact. This pissing competition of who's bigger and better is so unimportant and just misses the point entirely.

[1] This is actually an interesting thought exercise, for me at least. What would have actually happened if Apple didn't make the iPhone? It's been shown that before release Android pivoted from a Blackberry device (btw, Blackberry just announced they're going to stop making hardware) to a more 'iPhone-like' device once iPhone was announced.

The most favourable approach is that it would have taken Android and Microsoft longer to get to the stage that iPhone was to create the type of influence things like the App Store has.
> All these are examples of claims that are misleading because they're misleading, not because of who is making the claim.

I think you've got it the other way around. Claims like that would not exist in the first place if someone wasn't either ignorant or purposefully trying to mislead you.

> identifying the author doesn't automagically lift the responsibility of coming up with a refutation.

I never said it does. But what it changes, is that once you figure out what their biases are, you know what kind of facts are they may be omitting, or know where to look for opposing opinions.
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At what level, company size, and cash/equity split?

I'm co-founder of a local startup here w/~140 people and that's pretty comparable/above average to what I've seen depending on the cash/equity split. The big co's (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, et. al) will be higher than average due to the nature of how hard it is to hire good folks here.

Seattle is fantastic for people that enjoy the outdoors - hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, ski/snowboarding, camping. The closest ski/snow area is 45 minutes from the city. It doesn't get _too_ cold in Seattle proper - usually around 40° F. The nice thing is that you have the mountains nearby, so if you do want the cold weather it's a quick trip.

One word of caution around UW - your age is definitely on the higher end of other people that will be living in that area. Although the rents are cheap, that's usually for a reason. Reddit is a great resource for info on moving to Seattle --> https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/wiki/index
The op was saying sept to may is bad. It looks like all of sept was pretty nice though.
Right, which begs the question "What is AI?"
A fair immigration policy for US citizens would take into account the effects of immigration on them and also take their concerns into account --with rigorous studies, not just cherry picked ones (higher income immigrants, for example, contribute more to the economy than unskilled immigrants, irrespective of country)

That said, to be fair to all potential immigrants, we should grant all of them equal potential access (i.e. someone from South Africa having the same chance to legally ingress into the US as a Canadian or Mexican who are right next door --it might also take into account their population, so someone form Indonesia has the same odds as someone from Belize.

And, to be fair to the American population, we should ensure those who come here are here to fill gaps in our society --so ensuring they don't undercut Americans jobs (that is let meat packers have to pay $25/hr to get locals to do that job rather than say have them say that no American wants to do that job. I'd bet many poor whites as well as many poor blacks would take those jobs at those wages.

Also, any underdeveloped population which moves to the US (or Kuwait or Chile) will typically increase their own per capita consumption (from a global perspective) also if they come from a country wallowing in economic mismanagement (say Albania) allowing Albanians (or Georgians) to flee means even less stability for those locales as it takes their motivated people and transplant them into a place that doesn't need them as much. There are many incidental things which a policy can affect. We're not a nation of 120 million or 200, we're at 330 and climbing and most with a voracious appetite for consumption (including the fast learning newcomers).

That said, fairness in immigration should be a priority rather than just allow those who runt the gauntlet successfully. And in addition, tie it to the ease of Americans's ability to migrate into these other countries, if we choose.
Beyond dimensions
It's one of the largest ferry systems in the world.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Ferries

> The agency maintains the largest fleet of ferries in the United States at 22 vessels, carrying 23 million passengers in 2014. As of 2014 , it was the largest ferry operator in the United States, and the fourth-largest ferry system in the world.
This is completely untrue. If you're a software dev worth your salt you're not gonna get fired. Even if you did you'll probably easily find another job.

Obviously like any tech giant work life balance and general experience varies from team to team.

Just to broadly say that amazon is a terrible organisation to work for is a disservice to devs.

I personally know people who work and Amazon and have experiences ranging the spectrum from Amazing to terrible, it depends a lot on on the team you work with and the managers that you have.
And it's OSS: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
You should think about your career rather than your salary. If you go there, will you be employed for 150k at 40 or 300k at 40? (Not taking inflation into account)
>The latitude also means that in January, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark around 3 PM.

No it does not. I grew up in Vancouver, and the latest sunrise is at around 8 am, and sunset at 4 pm.
The countries where cash is on the verge of extinction
Unfortunately it's not COMPLETELY untrue, but it is an unqualified exaggeration. Some teams are a complete shit show, others are as good as you'll find at any large company.

Amazon pays pretty well, but people will have to work hard for it.
Yes, this is possible. The Azure A8-A11 VMs have Infiniband, as do the 'r' (RDMA) variants of the new H series. Azure Batch includes support for MPI-like runtimes although you need to get the MPI runtime and application onto the virtual cluster yourself. There's documentation for it here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/bat... and some more Linux-focused material here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowshpc/2016/07/20/in...

Disclosure: I'm an Azure Batch engineer.
Confused: what was the date of the ruins? Can't find any date in the article. Without that info there's no mystery. You can buy Roman coins via Ebay.
Looks like The Onion has branched out into goofy wind power stories and gizmodo picked it up.

Wind turbine power combined with solar is an unbeatable combo, but this isn't the real thing.
Sure there may be the energy in a single typhoon equivalent to Japan's power usage for 50 years, but how do you store that energy? Sharp bursts of energy just aren't as useful as sustained power generation.

This kinda just feels like a clickbait headline.
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There are services for this already, actually, such as wit.ai and api.ai. Wit.ai is free.
Better: "Solar cell could power human civilization for 1M years from one second of light!" since the sun puts out that much power, total.
> - Anarchism has always been aligned with communism except in terms of the question of the state.

As an Anarcho-Capitalist, I must disagree with this assertion.
I guess so? Marge and Lisa both have major ticks/obsessions that kick in, just like the other two.

When the plot is about Home and Bart, the other two play counterpoint. But the opposite is true. Homer just ends up getting the main role so often that we assume that to be the default state of the universe.
should read

"Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on marketing"
I believe the parent was sarcastically referring to SVG.
Maybe it was buried in there but what I didn't see is a graph showing the amount of money spent on dealing with marijuana related crimes that is now going to other crimes.

They pointed out crime didn't go down. Fine. All that could mean is that the police etc focused on other crimes instead of the mostly victim-less marijuana crimes from when it used to be illegal.

Even if expenditures on crime don't change the fact that whatever money that was being spent catching, processing, and incarcerating marijuana users and dealers can now be spent on something else seems like a huge win
You don't have to worry about it with Amazon. Amazon definitely doesn't pay 170k to 99% of their SDEs. SDE2 total comp is under 150k and that is at least 95th percentile.
They are very scenic, affordable, and convenient.
This law allows Saudi Arabia to be sued in American (presumably federal) courts. Enforcement is up to the terms of the law, but presumably can be taken on any assets that the US courts can get their hands on - probably anything held in the US, or at US banks.

There's not a great general answer, because normally the answer to your question is "they can't." Setting aside the fact that in this case the Saudi Arabian rulers are obviously horrible people who more or less deserve to have horrible things happen to them, the problem with allowing this sort of thing is that, from the outside, it looks like the United States unilaterally seizing property of a sovereign state, which is something that international law usually frowns upon. For that reason, foreign governments are normally given immunity in American courts, because upholding the system of statehood and encouraging other countries to recognize American sovereignty by reciprocity is seen as more important than whatever sense of justice would be gained.
I deliberately left two trolls in there. Just for you. <3
Fair? You mean, maximum benefit to Americans. We're supposed to believe all people have inalienable rights to life, liberty etc. I'm willing to allow folks suffering abroad to find a haven here. That sounds fair to me.
No, they're in their 30s. They're concerned about their 50s.
Government jobs like the people that takes care of mental illness, policemen trained to act in a thoughtful way, teachers, etc.

I'm happy to live in a country with high taxes and a good level of services for every one. To be in San Francisco, for example, was a sad experience. There was so much money and good people, but still you could see so much homeless people in the streets.
For those that missed it, IBM showed some promising stuff in the "Going Server-side with Swift Open Source" talk this WWDC:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/415/
Anthropic principle. You are not observing the counterfactual universes where people weren't careful enough around certain dangerous technologies, because in those universes all the observers are dead.
The temperature swings on the moon are a major engineering challenge. 500f difference between noon and midnight.
Reproducing the intelligence of an insect is incredibly more difficult than following a list of rules for a board game. Like I said, the A.I we have today cannot even simulate the brain of a cockroach. In fact we don't even fully understand their brains, how they work and whether or not they even have consciousness. When we do figure it out perhaps we can start building real A.I systems, but until then programs beating humans at board games isn't real A.I - it's just a computer iterating over all of the possible moves and picking the best one.
Lyle McDonald: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/meal-freque...

Probably the best and most researched article on this.

Bullet point 4 here:
http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun... has an article reference.

Basically, you can certainly go into starvation mode, but not in any reasonable amount of time. Skipping meals or even fasting for a whole day will not cause "starvation mode". Prolonged calorie restriction can affect hormones like Leptin and affect energy expenditure.
Of course I mean fair to Americans (just as every other country wants to maximize things for their own populations). Do you think when immigrants come to the US _they_ are not going to try to maximize their own advantage? It's not like they're going to say, ha, we made it, time to underachieve, let's not ask too much.

It's not as if we don't have our own poor --blacks and whites.
I lived in Seattle for the last 3 years, but just recently moved to Sydney. I was making ~150k in Seattle and I had a very comfortable lifestyle. Housing costs are low enough that I was able to save a substantial amount (especially compared to SF) while still having fun.

Winter is definitely colder than the bay area, but in the three years I was there it only snowed once. UW is fun and there's a lot of good places to eat on the cheap up there, but as it is near a university expect a young crowd.

I loved the city overall though. Good music/food/living, great summers, amazing hiking in the area. Really close to Portland as well which is just a bouquet of culture.