skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your comment I'd like to segway into a discussion about how brand names are causing people to forget how to spell normal English words.
I mean if you made me a disembodied mind connected to the internet that never needs to sleep and can make copies of itself we would be able to effectively take over the world in like ~20-50 years, possibly much less time then that.

I make lots of money right now completely via the internet and I am not even breaking laws. It is just probable that an AI at our present level of intelligence could very quickly amass a fortune and leverage it to control everything that matters without humanity even being aware of the changeover.
> Google of course is betting big on Dart on apps side

Dart is dead (or at least dormant). Google is pushing MS'ss Typescript very hard with Angular 2.
As someone who greatly prefers light themes over dark, ayu seems to be the light theme I've been searching for.
I feel like "avoidance" and "intelligent flight" being Y/N fields is a bit misleading.

How did you score that one?

Seems like a large scale of abilities. Does the mavic really have avoidance if it can't do multiple directions like the phantom 4 pro? Is the avoidance 100% bullet proof?

As drones get more sophisticated and capable, the metrics will need to evolve too.
I've known people who had been in the US as undocumented workers. When they were, they paid state and federal income and payroll tax, and, as a bonus, had no expectation of ever being able to use the programs funded by payroll tax.
That's bullshit, because it assumes binary choice. People may hate DRM, but still prefer DRM to nothing at all (or to perceived risk of legal problems). Hell, they may not even know that DRM is a thing - as I suspect is the case with e.g. most of the Netflix subscribers.

It's like saying one doesn't care about healthy food, because one's buying the cheapest stuff in the cheapest store. But the real reason for this "revealed preference" is that one is poor, and has other necessities to spend money on.
The idea that huge quantities of computing power will lead to massively better intelligence is like saying huge quantities of barbecue sauce will lead to massively better spare ribs.
I disagree, it's not simply the amount of money that is of concern here, but how it is allocated. Throwing money at problems is not the proper solution.
I don't think an AI has to kill people to be super dangerous. What if a social AI was used by some group to sway/manipulate public opinion on some important issue? How much manipulation would it take to be dangerous?
My vote is for the first dark tower book. That one above all others I've read remains fun to think about.
This doesn't really make much sense to me.

If your systems support software level replication (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB all do) then why do you need persistent storage? You just need container scheduling anti-affinity and enough replicas.

You only need persistent storage for systems which don't support that replication. Ceph can certainly be deployed as performant for DB workloads.

You say "Cinder has the stench of OpenStack" but Cinder is just a Python based webapp which povides an API to arbitrary storage backends (Ceph RBD, iSCSI, NetApp ONTAP, whatever). How can it be "better now"? It doesn't provide storage on its own. If your ops team was using the default "proof of concept" LVM backend then I could see how you might get a bad impression but that just means your ops team doesn't know much about OpenStack.

Am I missing something obvious?
Yes, and even if you ignore philanthropy, the tech industry generates enormous amounts of tax revenue, which is supposed to be spent by the government to help improve the lives of "everyday people and indigent people".

A question people don't ask enough is: given that we give vast trillions of dollars to the government, most of which is spent on various kinds of social programs (health care, education, social security, etc), why is there STILL so much poverty, joblessness, homelessness, drug use, crime, and other kinds of suffering in the US?
Lisp does fine with separately compiled macros, which are more powerful than templates.
I think there's a significant idea hidden in your question. Seeing your username I hope that was intentional.

Well, it probably wasn't as well thought out as you might have hoped, but there's no question there's at least thin connection between my username and most of my positions on things.

The comment I made above was kind of just spur of the moment, off the cuff, to be honest. I have a fundamental and visceral disdain for government, and especially anything that hints at that Big Brother / Orwell-esque world of Nineteen Eighty Four. And it especially pains me to see technologists/hackers willfully taking part in supporting government oppression of free people. So of course I'm going to make an offhanded comment about how we should do the exact opposite.

And I feel a little snarky now, because people are always referring to Peter Thiel as a "libertarian" and this strikes me as extremely un-libertarian. And as a libertarian myself, I don't want Thiel misleading a lot of people about how libertarian ideals.

You could then use this to make sure you're not sending out data you don't want to send out in the first place; ideally you'd get to the point where your analysis tool can decrypt every packet, so that you're sure you're not sending out any data that you don't want to get out.

Sounds something like an inverse IDS. I know there are some tools out there now for monitoring outgoing traffic, but not sure if there's anything with that specific spin on it. You might be onto something there.
Reminds me of my second job. I have a firm rule of answering phone calls only when I feel like doing so. I didn't feel like answering the call about the job offer over the weekend :). Still got the job.
> There can also be a perfect LG that simply enforces the contract you signed with USG,

Thats not possible. LG would only enforce its own very minimal, objective & limited constitution. As a corporation within LG, USG would have to make USC enforcable without help from LG.

> or you can just imagine dutifully holding yourself to the contract.

Only if its in my interest to do so.

> If you sign the contract and stay, how would your basic situation differ from what it currently is

Its not. I am probably missing something, mind writing the whole question in one form again ?
If only it worked... Chrome error...

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Looks like you're not waiting for Threed to load... On reload it starts.
Ironic in the sense that I could have been using vim the entire time.
It may be the case they are losing money on rides - it may not be - you said it yourself 'I dont have all the data'. I dont think people should be so quick to say they are losing money unless you see the real numbers - which none of us will ever see until they do an IPO.
People are told repeatedly that Note 7s are not allowed on flights at all now. You get announcements in line for security, at the gate, and on board before leaving.
This is a really cool prototyping experience. I remember starting out trying to build a website with Python/Django using bootstrap and Heroku. The whole process was so intimidating and it took me weeks just to get my system set up so I could start coding. I would have loved to start out with something like.
such a great read, here's the video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPw
(Who was Swiss.)
A C++ Reading List by John Lakos
Tomos Library – Ethereum Database Smart Contract
A phased array is made up of lots of channels.

In sar, the speed of the medium doesn't change, in ultrasound it changes every few mm.
> Also any information as to lessons learned, etc? Basically why it failed? Looking at the marketing material I didn't see anything really remarkable about it (nothing that stood out as a "oh this is why I would give them money") so I'm curious.

My personal take on this from what I've red in the post (which is kinda harsh).

[First, containerization (read: Docker) is in its infancy. It's only 3 years old. Let's assume it's immature and not well understood.]

It seems from the post that ClusterHQ is about doing stateful containers + The company was born in 2014. Stateless containers are still a challenging and new topic as of now. Stateful containers are purely theoretical as of right now.

They had => No product. No market. No business model. Tech is not ready. Usages ain't defined. It couldn't go well.

They don't seem to have products or sale something? Were they an open source company by any chance? (I couldn't tell, never heard of them, site is shutting down so too late).
Anyone who never suffers in their life and is not aware of the total randomness of their own birth, is damaged in a way I would NOT want to swap with. One would have to have none to not realize how much infinitely more worth the personality one can become potentially is than even full control of all of the Earth's resources and command over all people could be. It's like the difference between making someone orgasm, and screaming at them, why can't they see how sexy one is and why aren't they aroused, especially since it was so expensive to get a room at this hotel.

Mind you, I think personal greatness is completely unrelated to social class. I'm not saying "elite education means you have issues", I don't think it's a zero-sum game at all. But having grown up in a town teeming with millionaires, I have to laugh at the idea that many rich aren't positively hunted by their own defects. Yes, they can buy an island, but they can't sit still on it, they cannot be with themselves, they cannot reflect on themselves. They are captured, driven, mad, and get hysterical when they are recognized and pitied. So they have to keep company that has the same fears, like an unspoken pact. It's like drug addicts hanging out with drug addicts instead of the people who would ask them wtf they are doing with their life.

They can't read many great minds and even get half of what they say; sure, neither do many poor people, but that's more because they don't have the time or the language is too bloated for them, not because there is some inherent vampire/garlic type incompatibility. If you discuss the exact same subjects with a "normal" person in normal words, they in my experience are less likely to throw up all sorts of deflections, while other people realize this stuff is fit to dissolve the lies their lives are and get scared.

Fear is not strength, and powerful people have many options, but when those options don't include letting go of power they are basically slaves as well. The highest echelons of power are impersonal and systematic, only entropy and madness gain from them, no human person; and it takes personal strength to sail in such an environment and not end up as a bundle of sticks held together by delusions. It takes fierce motherfuckers, which is the opposite of people who can't answer a straight question, as many people in the "upper echelons" demonstrate. Pester me not with their pocket calculator stuff :P
> Unfortunate that nobody checked/saved the MAC of that hotspot. I believe it doesn't change when you switch between the AP / client mode, so you could identify the person later on.

The person identified him/herself on the flight preventing the diversion, according to the (better) BBC account: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38404711?ocid=socialflow_...
How to Enable and Disable Call Forward on Yealink T42G: User Manual
it's also not an STW GC so the pauses affect only small number of processes.
They are banned on all US flights, so they're undoubtedly banned in many other countries as well. You are not simply asked to turn them off.
> Making it top front page: Uber and AirBnB are likely the two startups that most people are waiting to see IPO

I upvote those articles for a different reason - Uber is the single company I'm most waiting to finally die, possibly with enough mess around it to finally drive the point that sociopathic behaviour and blatantly breaking the law is not a way to run a company in a civilized society.
Reading 2% of your stuff is like reading 400% of my stuff, and I'm verbose as hell.

Edit.
>I see people starting conversations in subways all the time

Where? In New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, the only people who do that are begging, preaching, or rambling incoherently. The sense of community I'll observe on a public transit vehicle is when something has gone wrong, or when everyone shares a look of relief after someone who was trying to start unwanted interactions has left. Granted there are some magical moments like the sax battle [0] that could never happen on a freeway, but did any of those people exchange contact information or form any lasting connection?

There are people who will sit down next to you and start talking. Groups of friends traveling together will "rescue" each other from these interactions. People traveling solo will just get off and move to another car, or wait for the next train. The mood afterword is "can you believe that creep?" not "wow aren't we so connected!"

> It's easier to meet people in a city,

From a pure numbers perspective, there are more people to meet per unit area. But are there more people to meet per travel minute by fastest viable means? I doubt it. If we accept 50 minutes (time for a walk to bus to train journey from mid south side to near north side Chicago by CTA), well, that is 50 miles at 60mph.

If my friend lives in a distant suburb it is not a problem, I can drive to his home in 10 minutes. If my friend lives in a distant urban neighborhood, I'm looking at a 50-minute 3-segment public transit journey.

You also have less free time living in a public-transit-oriented city. A New Yorker whose primary mode is the subway spends 90 minutes per day commuting [1]. A national average car commuter spends just 51 [2]. What would you do with an extra 3 hours per week? I'd see friends more often.

> And what does living with someone have to do with it?

Parent claims it is a problem that people live in separate boxes. Density does prevent this, in that real estate contention means relatively few people can afford their own box, but I claim that roommates of economic necessity don't actually strengthen social ties that well, and may weaken them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_9IMZcbKHQ

[1] http://origin-states.politico.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazo...

[2] https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42...
Yes, almost all revolutions succeed because the army turns. It doesn't happen all the time, but some of the time is enough to put some checks on people wanting to take control.
I agree the same goes for everyone but how many of them become violent.
Lua is ranked surprisingly low, when I was getting started it seemed easiest to find good code examples in Torch (e.g. neuralstyle, char-rnn).
uber. talked to an intern there and they said it was standard to not leave until after 10pm.
Hey guys,

For the past few months I have been working on this framework that would allow people to code more powerful UX with more comprehensible and shorter code.
Basically it replace HTML/CSS/JS with only Coffeescript code.

The web should be easy, in my opinion current solution like Angular and React are far from being developer-friendly.
It is very easy to learn and there are no limit to what you can create.

I built the whole website using it!

Thanks!
Etienne

Here is a little video to give you a sense of what you can do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMPDII-trTY
Header files are not special in C. It is a common convention to put interface in .h and implementation in .c files. But the preprocessor expands all the #includes together into one big file before the compiler proper attempts to compile it.

Modern compilers have error messages that show you the whole chain of #includes, and on top is the filename and line number, whether it ends with ".c" or ".h" or anything else.
I'm perfectly fine with this.
Thanks Obama?
I think its important to regulate the potential runaway effect of these ideologies that satisfy the religious instincts of groups
Instantiating the templates at link time would probably make more sense. With LTO we're already deferring a significant portion of the compilation process to link time so this is an obvious extension.

This issue was also on the mind of the C++ standards committee when they began work on the new module system. I'm not sure how the current spec behaves with respect to template instantiation, though.
To be honest, this article is hardly written completely with a straight face. It has a cheeky tone throughout. Which isn't to say it doesn't provide interesting points for the layman.
This is not what superintelligence people are worried about, in general. The human brain is already embarrassingly parallel. I'm sure you can find at least one person who will advocate for the "Moore's Law=Doom" scenario, but you won't find that argument endorsed by anyone currently working on AI Safety.
> right now nothing does that better than a large display which lets me interact with multiple applications simultaneously

Well, the command line is already more powerful, if less accessible. Piping streams together, writing code. These are very powerful things that would give you superworkers if your staff could do them. People stopped developing command line UIs because there was a gold rush on WIMP, so command line usability stopped getting funded. It's also just proven a hard nut to crack. People in academia have been trying and failing a more usable command line for a long time. Seems like just a matter of time to me though. It's only been 20 years.

Mobile is interesting, not because it is particularly better at anything, but just the opposite: there's no space on the screen, so it forces designers to reconsider more stream-based UIs. I.e., return to the command line paradigm and pick up where we left off in the 80s. WIMP and big screens give designers a bunch of idioms to rely on, and lots of space to fill up and they get lazy.

VR doesn't inherently do a whole lot more than a rectangular screen in terms of productivity. I think most VR UIs will be things you could make a rough approximation of on a desktop screen, minus immersion. But it's a playground in which to explore interaction ideas that will become the fundamentals of AR....

AR is where there is a new idea, which is that you can leave things lying around in space. A desktop is a window, and a relatively small one at that. You have to keep tidying it up. You waste a lot of time context shifting. Most workplaces are much larger than the few square feet a desktop provides. The killer feature of AR is basically just "spread out".

So, combine those three things... stream-based UI, with programming features (iteration, DSLs, pluggable objects), and then spread that out into space and I think you get something that will make desktops seem quaint.

Lots of human-computer interaction PhD dissertations between here and there though.
I don't mean that people at elite institutions are mostly shitty, or even those who've said these things are shitty - I have great friends from my time in school. I hope I did not paint a picture of snobbish assholes who do nothing but sit around and talk about how great they were. I didn't want to be defensive and write a whole paragraph about how much I value the friends and discussions I had in school. I miss my college all the time, and I think there was something special there. It really was an extraordinary place, in large part because of those around me.

However, I did still see these patterns, in others, and in myself.
People seem to exaggerate the difference between Elite schools and State schools. The key difference between elite schools and other schools is entrenchment. Basically, how "sold" are students into society? At Yale, students hold a conformist, yet liberal attitude. They tend to take things much more seriously: grades, exams, clubs, events, etc. You'll find more expression at Yale than you will at a State school, but that expression tends to be low dimensional. Most people are worried about the same stuff -- it's just that they are all worried. That's what Yale is like. It's not that those students are smarter, it's just that they are more invested into the system, and they have been for longer.

That's pretty much 90% of the difference I notice between Yalies and State school students.
If your goal is to win, wouldn't you want to play the move that always leads to a win 10 moves ahead, rather than a move that looks immediately tricky but is actually escapable for the other player?

And given that you want to become a better chess player, isn't it better to start learning the best lines from the start?
That's like asking whether we really have to worry about global wars over resources since there are already knife stabbings and car crashes, or whether the Nazis were really that much different from having a bit of a cold. Sadly, being serious about this subject is not one of the strengths of HN it seems, I was kind of spooked when I only got 1 upvote for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685995
Source without TheVerge regurgitation

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/foreign-travelers-soci...
so is the capital gains tax only on the profit from the stock? wouldnt it be better just to sell instantly and not have so much of your money tied up into one asset anyway? Sorry if these are basic questions
Here is a partial list of the books I read this year. These are all books that stood out to me which I enjoyed:

Fiction Books:

* Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey

* Homeworld, Out of the Black (books 3 & 4 in the Odyssey One series) by Evan Currie

* Furies of Calderon, Academ’s Fury (1 & 2 of the Codex Alera series) by Jim Butcher

* The Aeronaut’s Windlass also by Jim Butcher

* The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp

* Giant of World's End by Lin Carter

* Batgirl of Burnside (graphic novel)

Non-fiction Books:

* Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle - the 1st of his books chronicling American soldiers in World War 2

* Vagrant Viking by Peter Freuchen - auto-biography of the Danish explorer/Nazi resistance fighter/writer/film-maker

* Voices of 1776 by Richard Wheeler - the Revolutionary war in the words of people who were there.

The non-fiction books surprised me because I really enjoyed all of them and I usually only read fiction or technical books. The Odyssey One books by Evan Currie also stood out to me because I found the first one for a low price on Kindle and I was blown away by the story.
> Is "old research" not good enough?

Indeed.. while waiting for the new research to come out, read Marcus Aurelius, Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt. Maybe throw in some Roman and Greek classics. That should "help a bit".

The problem isn't that we don't know how to live well and healthy and sleep soundly, it's that we want to be healthy and sleep soundly without living that way. We don't want to be simply just and honest and go from there. Well, joke's on us, the truth remains where it is, waiting for dithering people to stop being scared of it.
Ok, we put 'Palantir' in the title above.
You seem to have many misunderstandings on the power that Governors have. Real life isn't Simcity.
Read-write adapters for activerecord
Not to mention lack of motivation and tiredness. That being said, I'm sure we can make an AI that can think much faster than a human. I also think we can build an AI that can keep more than seven items in its working memory, as humans can.