skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually been wanting to do something very similar to what you propose for a long time. Not as an effective measure or anything, but specifically to show people how such technology CAN be used. My specific idea would be to take news stories and other data around each member of Congress, and train a system to predict how likely each member of Congress is to be cheating on their spouse.

I got this idea when everyone responded to the revelations about the NSA spying on everyone in an extremely specific way 100% of the time. Everyone focused on human analysts reading the text or listening to the audio of conversations. Read literally any article you find where the NSA, Obama, others in the government, absolutely anyone talks about the things the NSA has done and how they practices might be altered. In every single case, they talk solely about human analysts reading things directly. They never once talk about automated systems analyzing communications and inferring behavior profiles, using those inferred profiles to make decisions or target investigations, nothing like that. And that's where essentially all of the actual danger lies as far as I'm concerned.

So perhaps if a website popped up rating each Congressperson on how likely it is they are cheating on their spouse determined by a neural net (or hell even a Bayesian filter, it doesn't actually need to be accurate at all), maybe we could actually get someone to talk about the issue. Because as it is, no one ever has or is willing to as far as I have seen. I don't know if it's because the politicians aren't aware of what such systems can do, or if they've been tricked into thinking they can actually be effective (they can't) so they intentionally try to misdirect people to concentrating on "they'll stop listening in on your phone calls" or what. The only reason I haven't built the site is that I'm unsure if there would be legal implications and if I'd end up charged with slander or something.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conso/2014/02/25/05007-20140225ARTFIG...

Monoprix is the most expensive supermarket.
No it's not. Of course your mileage may vary in terms of income, but monoprix has gone regular to premium(ish) in the last 10 years.
If you have shopped elsewhere than Paris, you would agree on

Carrfour Market ~ Monoprix > franprix (who is going premiumish also) > 8a8 > g20 > lidl et al > alimentation general du coin
> so few (i.e. compared to Assange)

Assange, for all his merits, is fundamentally a narcissist who loved the spotlight - he travelled a lot, attended conferences, socialized and so on. Nothing against that, I'm as guilty of self-centering as the next man, but inevitably that sort of behaviour will produce bad interactions with this or that person, which can then be used in personal attacks.

Snowden is more level-headed. He was a regular joe who took his job more seriously than anyone else around him. I know a few guys like him, they are the sort of people you can't "nail" because they just don't do anything that is not well-thought-over in advance, so they have nothing to be ashamed of, ever.
No way. Monoprix is definetely a high end supermarket, not because it's organic or high quality food only (unlike whole food) but because it's always located in weathy areas of inner towns (your find Monoprix in the XVIth and XVIIth district, not in the XXth).
Or in a more intuitive sense, humans didn't seem to need brains 1000x as large to get one unit of improvement in practical effectiveness over chimpanzee cognition. But yes, this stuff is complicated, hence the paper not being two paragraphs long.
When I go to a supermarket, I have to deal with finding the stuff I need, way too many people in the store, etc. but at least I can take my stuff home immediately.

When I buy online I have to wait for delivery, but at least I don't have to go looking for stuff in 20 different isles only to find out the thing I needed is in a completely illogical place, or deal with all the people there.

This concept combines all the disadvantages of physically going to a supermarket with all the disadvantages of buying online. Amazon's concept actually improves the physical buying experience.
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It's about power imbalance and inpersonality.

Killing people when neither they nor their friends can retaliate is easier. Being able to say do X or I kill you, without the other party having a defense that will even inconvenience you gives you a shitton of power.

Military AI would basically be nukes without the fall-out or collateral damage.
Fortunately their anti-adblock tech prevents me from wasting any more time on their site.
I beleive that technology would still drip, if not flow from the elite world to the outsiders, and eventually they yould maybe leave the planet, for example, and leave the elites in their world, something like in Asimov's tales where the solarians and auroreans lived comfortably with their robotic servants and autofactories happily ever after, until extinction.
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Yes I think that Kubernetes is too stubborn with regards to how it wants to decouple Pods/Containers from specific Nodes.

Many new databases (especially NoSQL ones) already support clustering and rely on being tightly coupled to specific nodes/machines in order to work. I think K8s currently makes this a bit too difficult - They need to improve support/documentation for using host storage for these kinds of clustered DBs.

NFS doesn't make sense for storing structured data because it doesn't know what the best way to partition/search your data is going to be (the directory tree structure isn't always what we need) - I think that this can only be solved at the DB layer unfortunately.
Thought exactly the same!
Companies and individuals that manage to game the tax system should be subject to an individual tax that also works retroactively, so they don't have an advantage over companies and individuals that went with the system instead of against it. Taxes could be much lower, if only everyone paid his dues.
no, being rich is having. in order to get rich, you must do.

many smart people overthink, constantly, and to a fault. it usually manifests in the form of 'what if something goes wrong???' and spirals from there.

any rich person will tell you, things go wrong constantly, and at the worst possible time. the only important thing is your confidence in your ability to fix things when they break.
>The last time I was out, I was in an Irish themed bar in San Francisco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pub#North_America

A typical "Irish pub" these days is usually the bar equivalent of Applebee's. However, the bartender in your story definitely sounded legit. :)

I find that small, established live music venues that operate a bar regardless of shows tend to be far more "real". There's usually only a few of these in any given major metropolitan area.

The phone stare ratio is far lower than average, but you run into the opposite problem: everyone knows everyone, and you're the outsider. Of course, that's usually a healthy sign that just indicates the place is worth becoming a regular at.
lacking concretization of a theory.

Would you elaborate? It's got some pretty big names recommending it. And Bostrom himself is an Oxford University professor.
There isn't a whole lot of deniability. Current drones strikes involve explosions and craters.
You're assuming the existing customers are price sensitive.
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Not sure where you get this from. The most popular machine learning framework, scikit-learn, runs fine in 3.5. I am also using xgboost with Python 3.5 (yes, xgboost is a major open source for machine learning, just look at what framework is used by most Kaggle competition winners). TensorFlow, mxnet also support 3.5.
I would have agreed with you a year ago, but there has been a major shift in use from 2.7 to 3.5 in 2016.

edited for typo.
When you artificially confine thought down to an arbitrary length, it seems logical that people are going to act way worse to each other.

Someone commented on the article with a pretty insightful comment

>yes, the real raw world is full of masturbators, bats, misogynists, racists, etc. But as a social convention, they show you the friendly face, not other way around.
There is some bias in such a system, though. On the whole, for instance, white collar crime kills more people, and does more economic damage to society than street crime ever does by a significant margin. But we'll build and deploy a system to tackle street crime, not one to tackle white collar crime. That's a conscious decision on the part of our society, and part of the reason why crime is normalized in white collar circles. And it certainly does our society no favors. (For the research into the normalization of white collar crime, and its greater harm to society, I listened to the 'Explaining Social Deviance' course by Prof. Paul Root Worpe a few years ago)
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It's not an ad hominem argument if the personal characteristics are relevant to the topic being discussed. The personal characteristics of the people in his example are have empirically been found to be a good indicator of crankhood.
This is what I think about an imminent AI danger and those who believe in it:

1. It’s not as near as you think. Current machine “intelligence” is hardly on par with the abilities of an insect, let alone anything we’d call intelligent. Yeah, it’s capable of analyzing a lot of data, but computers could always do that. We don’t really know how to move forward, and there has been little progress in theory in a long while. We haven’t made any significant theoretical breakthrough in 20-40 years.

2. Intelligence isn’t a general algorithm to solve everything. For example, humans are not good at approximating solutions to NP-complete problems. Other algorithms make a better use of computational resources to solve problems that intelligence is not good at, and super-intelligence is not required to come up with those algorithms, as they use brute force on cheap computing nodes. Intelligence also isn't necessarily good at solving human problems, many of which require persuasion through inspiration or other means.

3. We don’t know what intelligence is, so we don’t know if the intelligence algorithm (or a class of algorithms) can be improved at all. Simply running at higher speeds is no guarantee of more capabilities. For all we know, an intelligent mind operating at higher speed may merely experience time as moving very slow, and grow insane with boredom. Also, we don’t know whether the intelligence algorithm can multitask well to exploit that extra time.

But most interesting at all is what I think is at the core of the issue:

4. Intelligence is not that dangerous — or, rather, it’s not so much more dangerous than non-intelligent things. This is related to point 2 above. We can obviously see that in nature, but also in human society. Power correlates weakly with intelligence beyond some rather average point. Charisma and other character traits seem to have a much bigger impact on power. Hitler wasn’t a genius. But some smart people — because they smarter than average — fantasize about a world where intelligence is everything, and not in a binary way, but in a way that gives higher intelligence non-linearly more power. This is a power fantasy, where the advantage they possess translates to the power they lack.
Not necessarily. There is a certain optimal point of price and demand. It's entirely possible that the limited supply due to all the barriers to entry allows even a range of competitors to price their products well above their own costs or the minimal costs in their industry.

It's just not true that multiple competitors have to collude to keep prices well above the perceived minimum costs. Or that collusion is a conscious process, either.
I wouldn't exactly call them "regular". They are mostly in the center of cities, their price are high-ish, but not crazy, so you often see people with no car (old people but also students) living in the city shopping there, as well as wealthy people. Their products are rather good.
And FP in the context is Floating Point.

Linus is very pragmatic in this exchange, in fact, hard numerical code, as the other person is implying in the discussion, is normally not following IEEE. Especially around zero. If your code is losing precision when you divide by something very big resulting in a zero value, you do not want to rise an exception, you just want to have zero.

Numerical code is normally not following the full IEEE and ignoring the underflow and inexact exceptions.

IEEE is a lot about tracking precision loss but in numerical code, precision loss is acceptable and needed (for speed) in many situations. But knowledge of the precision loss is for some people very important, this is the raison d'être of the IEEE standard.
Monoprix customer for two years, I can relate this is no false advertising or demonstration of intent : it works like this in real life.

Monoprix live in a nice niche of upper class consumers living in the center of rich towns. The produits are kind of expensive, but the service is neat.
Your confusing the Delta-Premium with the Premium. The premium itself is not synonymous to higher demand. A positive Delta, however, can be.
We already have software that can change on its own. Neural nets are software too, and with things like backpropagation they can update their weights, essentially changing themselves.

I'm not saying that this level of change is enough to get the disaster scenarios that Bostrom talks about, but it's a folly to say that self-changing software can't possibly exist.
But it should be a major factor (assuming motivation is at an acceptable level). It not being relevant is more telling of issues with politics, corruption, favoritism, etc than of intelligence being irrelevant.
Could one draft a NN-Algorithm from this? One NN as a antagonistic force, trying to overcome a machines original purpose, one as a deterring force, that alters the CAD-model?
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With pharma I think the main "cost" involved is about the risk of investment. It takes billions of Dollars to potentially make billions of Dollars from a single product. More likely you invest hundreds of millions of Dollars with no return at all.

It takes a special kind of company, almost a bank, to stomach that kind of risk. And this extraordinary risk also demands extraordinary rewards.

Medical technology isn't really the same thing.
>Quake 3 port to linux in 1996? Can this sentence be read otherwise? Did he possibly mean Quake 1?

The mail is from July 2001. Q3 was released in early 1999, that's already 2 years and 3 months.

Now, Q2 was released in 1997. Q3 could have started in development immediately afterwards, so that pushes it to 4 years.

Not that much of a stretch to call them 'five years', especially casually speaking. And if you're a little older (over 30) it's even easier to have a fuzzier feeling for time (for a 20 year old, 5 years is 25% of their life -- for a 30 year old just 16%, and even whole decades start to have less defined edges, especially combined work/family routine).

Or it could be a typo.
There's another problem too: a monad trait would unify types behind a monadic interface, but many things that in Haskell are types, are traits in Rust. This is because Rust requires a single type to have uniform memory representation and to be statically dispatchable (save for trait objects). So in Rust, there is not just an "iterator type", but multiple types that have the Iterator trait. The same goes for Future trait.

This leads to a situation where, if there were to be a monad trait, that trait should abstract over not only types, but another traits generically.

Not to speak about some other hurdles, like lifetimes. The design space is inherently more convoluted than in languages with boxed, possibly dynamically dispatched types. It may be possible, but it's not easy, and we can't copy the monads straightforwardly from Haskell or Scala.
The argument ad hominem here actually refers to the credibility of the source of an argument. If someone has a clear bias (cults like money and power), then you keep in mind that their arguments are the fruit of a poisoned tree.
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> their target demographic are tech-friendly and, by transitivity, affluent.

Their target demographic is not tech-friendly at all, quite the opposite, but indeed affluent: they are located in the center of rich french cities, where wealthy, often more than 50, people live.
It is fascinating, yet sad to see so many endangered species if you go on his instagram feed. For instance the Ocean sunfish: https://youtu.be/ddUJT0i9sCM?t=59
Not entirely true. Often people work in a different time zone than their neighborhood, thus rendering the proposed effect useless. That's my case.
He discussed the whole plan with his family, and they agreed on it. Secondly, he studied in Harvard, so his family had at least decent amount of money by default.

And then, the thing is that family who was struggling the whole time, won't agree on dropping the best university with wonderful perspectives for some kind of crazy (at the moment it was very "crazy").

People are not "just risky" by default, they are influenced heavily by their life, and as someone mentioned here already, a lot of rich guys came from pretty decent living families, who can afford to fallback if something. For instance, a lot of world travellers, who try to live differently, actually have some passive income, property of just loads of cash, just in case something will go wrong.
Also, the controversies section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Saleh ,

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/delta-passengers-dispu...
To be fair, they're not the only Police force doing the Lambo stunt ;)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/30/italian-police...
This is the very representation of what I call "extrovert's dictatorship". This idea simply assumes that everyone is extroverted and long for social interactions. It is far from the truth.
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An analogy to America, to avoid having people imagine Monoprix is Le Bon Marché: Monoprix is like what Target is to Walmart.

Although unlike in the US, most of its competitors are owned by the same parent company, Casino Group.
Impressive story, the case of "coding & mobile is eating world"
For tactics I've never seen anything better than chess tempo [0], which is free, or for a small yearly subscription you can absolutely go nuts breaking down tactical themes and combinations of themes, and the tracking is very good. I did several thousand tactics puzzles there and it helped quite a bit.

For books, Beginners Mind by Jeremy Silman is pretty good, as is his endgame book. Logical Chess by Cherenev is also a great introduction to how skilled people think about games but takes a different approach than Silman.

[0] - http://chesstempo.com/
IMO everybody is lazy.

The difference is that some people are lazy to do, some are lazy to think, some to interact socially, .. I'm yet to know a person that is not lazy. By observation, I consider that people tend to be lazy in areas where they are not naturally good.
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So given 10 possible rankings, it is pretty well distributed then?
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Yet we can't simulate one that behaves like a real one, for any value of 'like'.
They do, but not the same type or intensity of extroverts. That's another facet of what I call "extrovert's dictatorship". Extroverts just assume that their way of doing social interaction is the healthy and correct one.
In case anyone is interested, there are low cost (< $10k) portable diagnostic ultrasound machines. I used to work for a company that made interconnects for medical devices, including ultrasound cables. Sonosite was developing their portable systems back then - 15 years ago - so low cost systems aren't something completely new. They don't have the same capabilities of full ultrasound systems, but they do fit the needs that some people are discussing here.
Ask HN: How to send transactional mails from many addresses
In a Laravel/Symfony SaaS app I want my clients to send out mails to their customers – my clients can manage their customer information in my app.

I am looking for a way they can send emails that are from their own addresses – and not from my domain (via sendmail).

These mails should not have a on behalf of in their FROM, but also I want to make sure that my service will not get gamed by spammers.

One idea was that every client can set up her own SMTP settings which Swiftmailer will then use to deliver the mails for each individual address. Maximum daily delivery per client should by below 500, so that might work.

Another idea was to use a service such as Amazon SES, who let you verify up to 1000 addresses (1). Or Sendgrid, who offer something similar.

What is the most secure way to send mails from different addresses with a maximized deliverability and minimum risk of being gamed by spammers?

(1) http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/verify-email-addresses.html
(2) https://sendgrid.com/docs/Classroom/Send/How_Emails_Are_Sent/can_i_send_from_multiple_from_addresses.html
I learned a lot from the tutorials by Joshua Waitzkin in Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition. I heard that lichess has some puzzles as-well, but never tried them.
Ask HN: Is there an offline RegEx training app for iOS or Android?
Just wondering if there is something like Duolingo or similar for RegEx. Basically, it throws challenges at you that increase in difficulty, and you try to come up with the correct Regex.

It would be perfect for being on planes or trains, and I've had a quick glance at both of the app stores but couldn't see anything interesting. Would possibly have a great monetisation opportunity (in-app upgrades of higher levels).
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Why is it ok to scald patients in third world countries? What if the quirks lead to misdiagnosis etc? If there was a way to produce this technology safely and cheaply people would be doing so
Where do you live?

In NYC I feel much more welcome talking to strangers in bars than I do in London.
So successful has the Post become in the digital game that it now licenses its content management system to other news outlets, a business that could generate $100 million a year.

Wow. Makes sense, though. Parallels Amazon/AWS.
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So ideally there would be an AI criminal justice system, just to balance things out.
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It would be nice to have cheaper ultrasound devices, and yes, it can't be that hard to develop something which is useful to a certain hobbyist niche.

Especially with pet breeders, I could see a use for devices around a couple hundred Dollars, though there may not be enough demand to warrant commercial development, especially not from players interested in selling more expensive, over-engineered (for this purpose) devices to the same market.

It's clearly not easy to break into the market for USI, both at the low and the high end. But with patents expiring, and electronics becoming cheaper, more customizeable, more performant, the bigger players may have another think coming.
You can add them to the queries I used to see the results. Look for pointer in the article. Reason I didn't include matlab was that I didn't include any commercial product. To your point I could have included Octave still. I just did it, and Octave is at 0%: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-python-and-%28%22machine-...
I'm sad to hear this. I loved reading Richard Yao's blog posts about ZFS on Linux.

https://clusterhq.com/2014/09/11/state-zfs-on-linux/