skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a particularly robust model of solution. Even simpler solutions could match subsets, eg. normalized/simplified audio waveforms (cheap) or image stills (eg. using imagemagick) at probable change-of-scene points (eg. MP4 keyframes). Many people here could hack together something to do this in under one day.
So, what you are saying is that SF is fairly representative of the kind of places with high demand for on-demand transit and high cost of human labor where automated taxis make the most sense.

Which, aside from convenience to Uber HQ, might explain why they'd want to prove the technology there.
I imagine if not originally dictated, his draft was hand written and submitted directly for typesetting.

While possibly Mencken's errors, a linotype operator botching a slug or an editor misreading a partially open 'a' wouldn't be the severe error it is today in the age of autocorrect and instantaneous type production.

When you post a comment, there's just a screen between you and all of the internet and its information. Mencken might have had weeks or months and a dozen people's hands between his review and its printing. Not to mention reprintings, revisions, and the eventual OCR close to a century later.
Pretty poorly argued. The AI alarmists simply argue that if the super-intelligence's objective isn't defined correctly, the super-intelligence will wipe us out as a mere consequence of pursuing its objective, not that the super-intelligence will try to conquer us in a specific way like Einstein putting his cat in a cage. The alarmists' argument is analogous to humans wiping out ecosystems and species by merely doing what humans do and not by consciously trying to achieve that destruction. Many of the author's arguments stem from this fundamental mistake.
> For that matter, there's no stopping Google from doing the same.

That's the exact reason why package signing is decentralized in the Android ecosystem. All apps in the Play Store are signed by their developers.
>Please don't lie.

I in no way "lied," I merely did the math based upon his statement and likely age given his station in life.

He said Trump was going to cut 40 years off of his life expectancy, and specifically said that his cause of death would be climate change that will occur as a direct result of Trump winning the election. Assuming he is in his 30's (it would be rare for someone to be senior enough to have been in that meeting if he weren't), he will be at least 34 when Trump leaves office. The life expectancy of an American male (pre-Trump death rays) is 76.3 years [1]. 76.3-40=36.3. Assuming he was at least 32, he is claiming that he will indeed die during Trump's initial term. If he is slightly younger, you are correct that he might survive a couple of years into the next Presidential term according to his version of science.

[1] http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/life-expectancy-male
"The assumption that any intelligent agent will want to recursively self-improve, let alone conquer the galaxy, to better achieve its goals makes unwarranted assumptions about the nature of motivation."

This isn't just an unreflective assumption. The argument is laid out in much more detail in "The Basic AI Drives" (Omohundro 2008, https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...), which is expanded on in a 2012 paper (http://www.nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf).
There 's nothing suggesting that neurons are not deterministic, in fact they are simulated pretty well with some cable theory and HH models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley_model
Great stuff! One thing that's been broken for me for a while now: Raw links. I just get an empty response. It's kind of an important feature for me (and I'm sure others) so would love to see it fixed.
If anything, they're more there than
they are in traditional music.

Exactly. What makes modern classical music so disturbing to those socialised on pop music is the absence of endless repetition that is the true essence of pop.
Loading and rendering 3D skeletal animations from scratch in C# and GLSL
>> "The critical question that researchers cannot answer is whether job growth, which traditionally has offset the loss of 6 percent of US jobs every quarter due to downsizing or closing businesses, can likewise absorb losses due to automation."

This sentence is basically saying researchers cannot predict the future when it comes to jobs. So job growth could be robust or it could fall, they have no idea. Yet this is a report by these same researchers predicting the future of jobs! How the heck can we take it seriously.

If someone can't answer questions about future job growth I would just be a bit careful how much to trust their opinions about future job losses.

AI and automation is a real issue for employment and should be studied, but don't just scare people without also mentioning how many uncertainties there are about the pace of change or who will be effected first or effected hardest.

Side note: Economies have done just fine when more than half workforce is not employed. One place to look for examples and lessons where this happened is all of modern history: half the population is women and they only really entered the workforce very very recently and only in a few places, more so in the West. We have seen economies with half of able workers not having jobs, the world kept turning, economic growth and innovation still happened. "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"
Then support 2600 and subscribe. Having a few mags to kick around the bathroom isn't the worst use of money and the wife/kids/friends might scan through them.

I've got 5 years of mags sitting on a shelf in my closet. The girlfriend goes browsing through every now and again and comes up with interesting sec/privacy/hacking related convo. That alone pays for their place in my life.

The day Emmanuel stops doing Off The Hook & Off The Wall will be a sad one though.
I always liked those buildings. I thought it was an interesting coincidence that their HQ looks exactly like the stereotypical database icon: https://www.google.com/search?q=database+logo
How about Discord? It's very popular among gamers despite its name.
I've seen this brought up many times before but I disagree completely that American cities' designs are the culprit. I enjoy visiting my family in their "suburban fortresses" out in the Midwest where you have to drive a car to get anywhere. I enjoy it because it gives me a chance to recover from the crippling social isolation that comes with living in a city with roommates, taking buses everywhere, walking around in crowds, and generally being surrounded by people who don't care about you.

The way I see it, the level of community involvement and social interaction in general have almost nothing to do with infrastructure, unless you decide to go full-on hermit in the mountains. It matters what people are in your life, not just how many are in your proximity.
> A 14% return on properly selected and executed rehabs is very easy to do.

This is unrealistic in the SF bay area. First time home buyers are paying top dollar for "fixer uppers" and in many cases just tearing down the existing home and replacing them with a new ones.

Good contractors have several month lead times and are being paid in excess of $300 per square foot for doing renovations.

Real estate agent commissions are three to six percent of sales price.
> It is dishonest and bad for the general public. Users expect their adblocker to block adds

You still seem to be under the impression that ABP is deceptive. It's not. It explains the "acceptable ads" list and gives you the option to disable it first thing after install. It is not doing anything without the user's knowledge. They're providing a perfectly honest service that you aren't interested in, and you think they should feel bad for that.

> You can still do this on a case-by-case scenario with uBlock Origin.

I specifically said without inconveniencing myself. Building up custom adblock settings for various sites is a chore and I have better things to do with my time. I choose to use a product that takes care of that chore for me, for the most part. You choose to take the time to personalize things, and that's fine; I've done the same in other circumstances. But that's a personal choice, not a moral one.
Many people who live in small apartments can and do host social gatherings. In my experience, how frequently someone hosts gatherings has more to do with their personality than the size of their living space.
> but the notation G^2 doesn't really make sense (for starters R^2 = R x R, what is G?)

A superscript can refer to other things besides exponentiation, and using "R^2" to refer to the vector space is a perfectly valid thing to do.
Doesn't seem to be working very effectivley.
Here's a response about why complexity theory may not constrain AI that much:
https://www.gwern.net/Complexity%20vs%20AI

It is something "AI alarmists" think about.
> using asyncio

Don't hold your breath.

Unfortunately, the community seems to be going the way of Ruby/Python/C++: massive fragmentation.
Maybe Incan kings were just not very good. European cities had massive public baths right through the middle ages, "and private domestic baths... were hardly unknown to the Romans". https://books.google.com/books?id=KKrhJ9BbMkkC&lpg=PA63&ots=...
> But there's also evidence he won't follow through on some of it.

I hope you're right, but I really don't understand this view. You look at the terrible leaders throughout history, and you'll find they more often than not advertised what they were going to do and who they were going to be.

I'd much rather be prepared than just assume Trump is a troll. I'd rather see an implacable opposition ready to go on day 1. If Trump ends up being a simply bad president, in the conventional way presidents are bad and not a Russian puppet or kleptocrat or autocrat, then people like me might look a little silly. But that's a small price for being prepared if things turn out very differently.
To say that it is an extremely poor argument (as though I was giving an argument) is a bit hyperbolic. I'm not a proponent of the style of urban living you find in mega-cities either, though I'll propose that they are a superior alternative to somewhere like, say, Atlanta.
Having attempted this "isomorphism" across Scala and ScalaJS, it is not quite that easy. That goes for all setups (node -> JS, Java -> GWT, etc) that I have tried. There are a lot of what some might call "impedance mismatches" between the two targets especially when it comes to communication and DOM work. IMO only frameworks/middleware built to bridge the gap will make it seamless.
Wow, that is an amazing release. Seems you actually managed to complete your goal right before christmas! This whole year has been quite impressive, I can't wait to see what you will do in 2017.
gazes at navel for hours on end
>The example used to combat this notion is that servants used to be more plentiful than they are now, and low-skilled workers would be ripe for these types of careers. Well, what did servants do? The same thing my robot vacuum cleaner and dishwasher and microwave and Amazon Echo do now.

Where I used to live (Singapore), having a live-in servant was very common. It is hardly a primitive society either - a lot of them are probably getting fancy new Amazon Echos for Christmas.

Those servants, of course, aren't local. The labor pool is drawn from relatively more impoverished countries (usually Philippines). The women would accept very, very low wages and usually deal with a large amount of abuse.

The job wasn't automated away in England in the 19th century (no dishwashers or roombas back then), rather it was industrialization - automation, in fact - which provided better, higher paid opportunities that led to the decline of domestic work.

The key to its decline in 19th century England and the key to its continued existence today is simply about the relative exploitability of the workforce.
Sorry about the crappy/weird youtube videos and titles. It's what I could find. I myself have the audiobooks.
Tips and tricks to help you writing scientific papers
"Put another way, this is the premise that the mind arises out of ordinary physics... If you are very religious, you might believe that a brain is not possible without a soul. But for most of us, this is an easy premise to accept."

The thing that irks me about this is how it reinforces a common (and in my opinion, false) dichotomy: either you believe the mind is explicable in terms of ordinary physics or you believe in a soul and are therefore religious. I feel like there should be a third way, one that admits something vital is missing from the physicalist picture but doesn't make up a story about what that thing is. There is a huge question mark at the heart of neuroscience -- the famed Explanatory Gap -- and I think we should be able to recognize that question mark without being labeled a Supernaturalist. Consciousness is weird!
I've always wondered if the problems an intelligence solves are exponentially hard so even if we build a super intelligence it wouldn't be all that much smarter than we are.

For example compare how many more cities in the traveling salesman problem a super computer can solve vs your grandmas pc. It's more but surprisingly not all that many more.

What do you think of that idea?
"Not many people know that Einstein was a burly, muscular fellow. But if Einstein tried to get a cat in a carrier, and the cat didn't want to go, you know what would happen to Einstein. He would have to resort to a brute-force solution that has nothing to do with intelligence, and in that matchup the cat could do pretty well for itself."

This seems, actually, like a perfect argument going in the other direction. Every day, millions of people put cats into boxes, despite the cats not being interested. If you offered to pay a normal, reasonably competent person $1,000 to get a reluctant cat in a box, do you really think they simply would not be able to do it? Heck, humans manage to keep tigers in zoos, where millions of people see them every year, with a tiny serious injury rate, even though tigers are aggressive and predatory by default and can trivially overpower humans.
Why would they be any more constrained than our biological brains?

Humans are able to calculate plenty with a relatively small amount of mass and energy.
> But of course we know that there are all kinds of configurations of matter, like a motorcycle, that are faster than a cheetah and even look a little bit cooler.

yet more inflammatory rhetoric from the Pinboard guy
Thank you !

Maybe this could be documented somewhere on the rustup doc so new users like me aren't puzzled by this strange “unknown” everywhere. Or maybe it is, and I just didn't find it because I was too lazy to look explicitly for it …
I use the built-in feature in Firefox which extracts the text and formats it and makes it easier to read. It is not possible to choose gradients in the text but you can pick between a dark or light background and san-serif or serif.
What evidence do you have of this? Almost everyone is rallying around tokio.
Right now, in practice, Matrix is "a better IRC". It provides bouncer-like functionality by default, federation across the whole network so you only have one identity vs having to register with each server on which there's a community you want to talk to, file sharing, voice/video chat, proper message formatting, and more.

Encryption currently works on Riot Web, iOS and Android, certain bugs excluded - but it's missing a lot of UX work. (Among other things, you have to manually verify each and every device the people you talk to use, there's no way for them to say "these are all my devices, if you trust me, you trust them" yet. You also lose chat history at present if you switch devices or log out.) If you're able to work around the UX, the underlying protocol is fine and has been audited, with certain tradeoffs discussed in the report.
> Storage is, essentially, a well-solved problem at the OS level. The fact that this option is marked "single node testing only – local storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster" raises eyebrows.

Just to clarify this a bit: Persistent volumes as an API _resource_ in Kubernetes are independent of which node a container requesting them is scheduled on, which is why it makes little sense to have a host-independent host volume.

If you have your storage sorted out on the hosts you can use a "simple" volume to mount it correctly [1]. Scheduling can also be restricted to the correct nodes with that storage by using node selectors / labels.

1: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/volumes/#hostpath
90% bonds 10% stocks is ridiculously conservative. The person in the question is only 34 and planning to retire at 50-55. With a 20 year investment horizon you can have 80% stocks 20% bonds, and have an extremely low chance historically of not making a profit. ETF providers like Vanguard will sell you these funds for about 0.2% fee / year (watch out for hidden fees from local banks, anything over 0.5% is too much).

Personally I stick it all in US index funds and am averaging more than 20%/year over the last five years (although I'm not supposed to look at it).
Very nice.
I use a set of bash functions to do the same thing, with tab-autocompletion (not my own development, I picked it up from the web somewhere long ago). Put this in your .bashrc:

# mark/jump support + completion
# un/mark name : bookmark a directory or remove one (unmark)
# jump name : jump to directory
# marks : show all bookmarks
export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks
function jump {
cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2>/dev/null || echo "No such mark: $1"
}
function mark {
mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1
}
function unmark {
rm -i $MARKPATH/$1
}
function marks {
ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- | sed 's/ -/\t-/g' && echo
}
_completemarks() {
local curw=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
local wordlist=$(find $MARKPATH -type l -printf "%f\n")
COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '${wordlist[@]}' -- "$curw"))
return 0
}

complete -F _completemarks jump unmark
"The lack of patentability of software is one reason why the market is so innovative"

uh..? I hate to burst your bubble, but software patents are common. The idea that software (as a representation of math) is not patentable died back in the early 1990s.
References are stupid to rely on. Opinions are just... Opinions. If a shop was asking around for what is essentially gossip about me I would run for the hills.

Some real problems relying on references that aren't really fixable too:

#1 good luck getting references from anyone they weren't friends with. If you "find your own" you're a special kind of evil if they're still employed. You could make someone lose their job without even making an offer. It's lose-lose

#2 It's so easy to fake references that the people you don't want will have you talking to "the king of timbuktu". The best references will come from the biggest liars
I've been using Vector/Riot using the Android version in F-Droid on Blackberry 10 for 6-9 months, connecting to my own server on my DSL. I haven't noticed a single issue with battery or lost messages.
Larry Ellison is a software developer? That's news to me. Last time I checked he was the CEO of Oracle.
As the FAQ says, it only expects it when it needs to get something from the internet, which is a pretty reasonable default. I am biased, though ;)
Wouldn't a camera mount and copious video (combined with a wealthy corporate HQ) essentially derail these attempts.

Nothing beats appearing the victim of assault for public sympathy.
In 1945, as American physicists were preparing to test the atomic bomb, it occurred to someone to ask if such a test could set the atmosphere on fire...Los Alamos physicists performed the analysis and decided there was a satisfactory margin of safety.

Exactly how big was this margin? Please someone tell me this was quite a large margin!
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1. What about the Flocker open source project?
2. Do you have plans to continue and maintain only the Flocker project?
A 1% loss of Greenland's ice mass raises seas by 6cm. A 1% loss of ice from the Antarctic, polar, and Greenland sheets will yield 76cm rise in sea level. This puts entire European and American cities under water.

If all three melt entirely, we are looking at about 70m of sea level rise bringing the oceans to the heartland of America.

Those numbers don't take into account other glaciers or thermal expansion of water as the base line temperature rises.

As sea levels rise, hundreds of millions of people will be displaced and die trying to relocate. See: any time in history people have tried to move en masse.

Surely, human kind will survive. Life will surely survive. I think you're nuts if you think anything remotely related to the status quo will survive the next century.

We are looking at about a meter of sea level rise in the next 80 years based on current data sets: http://kaares.ulapland.fi/home/hkunta/jmoore/pdfs/jev_moore_...
They will be wildly profitable if they can just outlast taxis and lyft...
That's just vitalism:

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

Either everything exists in the material world, or it doesn't. There's really no way of avoiding that binary. If you think there's something else, that is by definition supernatural.
That's a straw man. It's obvious that there are still jobs around - (almost, there's always somebody crazy) nobody is arguing that jobs don't exist anymore.

The real question is if automation is finally faster than what society can adapt to. The article makes no effort to answer this.
I'm interested in any feedback. The source is available at https://github.com/jbaudanza/subnetchat
What about the counter-argument from domestic canines:

More likely, artificial intelligence would evolve in much the same way that domestic canines have evolved -- they learn to sense human emotion and to be generally helpful, but the value of a dog goes down drastically if it acts in a remotely antisocial way toward humans, even if doing so was attributable to the whims of some highly intelligent homunculus.

We've in effect selected for certain empathic traits and not general purpose problem solving.

Pets are not so much symbiotic as they are parasitic, exploiting the human need to nurture things, and hijacking nurture units from baby humans to the point where some humans are content enough with a pet that they do not reproduce.

I could see future AIs acting this way. Perhaps you text it and it replies with the right combination of flirtation and empathy to make you avoid going out to socialize with real humans. Perhaps it massages your muscles so well that human touch feels unnecessary or even foreign.

Those are the vectors for rapid AI reproduction... they exploit our emotional systems and only require the ability to anticipate our lower-order cognitive functioning.

If anything, an AI would need to mimic intellectual parity with a human in order to create empathy. It would not feel good to consult an AI about a problem and have it scoff at the crudeness of your approach to a solution.

Even if we tasked an AI with assisting us with life-optimization strategies, how will the AI know what level of ambition is appropriate? Is a promotion good news? Or should it have been a double promotion? Was the conversation with friends a waste of time? Suddenly the AI starts to seem like little more than Eliza, creating and reinforcing circular paths of reasoning that mean little.

But think of the undeniable joy that a dog expresses when it has missed us and we arrive home... the softness of its fur and the genuineness of its pleasure in our company. That is what humans want and so I think the future Siri will likely make me feel pleased when I first pick up my phone in the morning in the same way. She'll be there cheering me on and making me feel needed and full of love.