skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily to do with harder working alone - it's the stress from job insecurity. If you're an IT worker and lose your job, you can probably find a new one before your rent/mortgage is up. Worst case, you miss a payment or two or you have to cut down on nights out/coffee/whatever.

If you're working something unskilled or where there's no shortage of workers? And you're living paycheque-to-paycheque in the first place? That's mentally distressing on a long-term scale, on top of requiring more physical work. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed - education is unaffordable even before you realise that your kids are going to starve while you're seeking it.

CEOs do not do physical work most of their workday, by the way, so even if the point was solely about physical exhaustion your point would be moot. They are also broadly not worried about not being able to pay their bills.

Basically - there's an intersection of issues which low-wage workers suffer from. Job insecurity causes many of them. The solution is to ensure that people don't feel like they're going to struggle to keep their living-place and pay their bills when they lose their job.
Deep Work - Cal Newport (highly recommended)

A Mind for Numbers - Barbara Oakley

The Road to Character - David Brooks
Both of us were accidents - hence the seven year gap - kids had never really been part of the plan. To say we were unloved would be wrong - but we were inconvenient, and never allowed to forget it.

I'm glad to say that my dad seems to be getting it right the second time around, with wife 2.0, which underscores my upbringing being culturally rather than idiopathically driven - in the culture in which they lived, kids were there to convey status, and not much else.

Honestly, my family dynamic is all sorts of weird to most, but not unfamiliar to many who shared a parallel experience with me.
Yup. I've lived in SF since 2000 and every time I go to NYC it's way easier to connect with people. It's either I'm different when I'm in NYC or it's SF. Or maybe a bit of both but your comment resonates very strongly with me.
If I submit 10 ideas, where are the 100 new ideas going to come from?

Why would someone swap one good idea for ten bad idea?

What do you plan to do with "all" the ideas?

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Would you post answer to your own questions for your own site? Those being:

What's the problem?

What's the solution?

Why would anyone pay for that?

How would you reach your audience?

Are there other solutions out there?

How is your solution any different?

Will you reject bad ideas?
Same issue, and here's Moxie himself on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13054940#13056554
Its rather the opposite. It is unsupervised initially, just learns to predict its input. Note there is confusion: the unit itself is using supervised (by the future signal) but all in all nothing needs to be labeled cause the reality just unfolds. Then, once this is done, one can use the trained features (representations) to train supervised tasks, such as the street sign tracking.

PS: yes, there is a strong literature suggesting that the brain is predicting a bunch of things. Check this long review paper http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Whatever%20next.pdf for plenty ideas and details.
I don't support DRM, I'm just wondering if I can buy music I like, rip them, and donate the CD's to my sorority. They need to keep copies of all CD's they play in the building as a protection against our local copyright groups BREIN and BUMA/STEMRA, otherwise they'd have to pay a monthly fee based on the total area music is played in.

I think any restriction placed on general purpose computers ends up an assault on the whole thing. I agree with Cory Doctorow's thoughts [0] on this and it being an issue of human v. property rights.

[0] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
For those who use R, how hard is it to search for material on the web? I imagine in some cases the search engine may treat the R as a typo?
There is nothing random about where you are born. This is a false premise. It is about as not-random as it is possible to get.

It is not some majestic yet universal coincidence that people have more in common with those who happen to share the same genes, and less so the more divergence exists.
Sure, but none of those laws would prevent a superintelligence from generating more than enough electricity to power itself, in principle.
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-cl...
well, if i am not interested in keeping the conversation between me and the friends i am meeting or if i want to talk to strangers because they're late/i am in a foreign city etc. what works for me is to sit directly at the bar (is this correct english, i hope you understand what i mean). It's way easier to start a conversation there.
I can't wait until you discover that you can put .gitignore into
a subdirectory and also add the .gitignore to itself (e.g. by using an
asterisk or adding it explicitly).
Daniel Dennett's book Consciousness Explained.
This is nice and all but what about page load times? It can have all the bells and whistles but if you have to wait a minute for just one page to load, it's unusable.
The summary talks about a safety factor of 1000 on an extremely unreasonable scenario of 1MeV of average temperature, falling down to 10 in an incredibly more unreasonable scenario of 10MeV temperature.

I don't know the actual probabilities, but I do really expect a few atoms to get over 1MeV inside a fission bomb (as the reaction emits ~5MeV of energy). But they will almost certainly not hit each other. I also don't see how any atom anywhere can reach 10MeV.
Some big picture context on why federation is being built.

Federation enables "single-pane of glass" management of multiple Kubernetes clusters over different datacenters or failure domains think east, west, etc. I give a quick whirlwind explanation in my KubeCon talk[1].

There are really two relevant diagrams/concepts. First, a single data center cluster[2] which can handle thousands of worker machines but is designed for a single major failure domain like a datacenter. Then you add a federation control plane that runs across multiple datacenters[3] on top.

The really fun thing about this architecture is that it essentially replicates the exact same architecture of Kubernetes for a second tier. The Kubernetes Federation API speaks the same REST API (mostly) and backs by the same clustered data store (etcd). Only instead of running instances of the API and etcd across multiple machines you run them across multiple data centers. And instead of the federation API having individual machines as its client it has the datacenters as clients. Pretty neat.

Overall I see this enabling useful experiences for people running multiple applications. The big trick will be integration with global load balancers, DNS, etc in ways that people who care about multi-datacenter redundancy will find useful. But, Google Cloud already has some of that today as demonstrated in the blog here.

Neat progress. Love this blog series.

[1] https://youtu.be/3G8uWxVDQcE?list=PLj6h78yzYM2PqgIGU1Qmi8nY7...

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/philips/kubecon-2016-self-hosted-sca...

[3] https://speakerdeck.com/philips/kubecon-2016-self-hosted-sca...
Do you despise all people living in the place you live now?

Take this lightly, but I bet you can find at least one more person that "despises" your place and you can discuss that with them. :)
People have too much debt, housing costs are too high, and poorly designed social assistance programs discourages work.

Suppose Bob is unemployed and lives with his parents in the suburbs. Bob collects unemployment, is eligible for several social programs and has a deferral on his student loans.

Bob could get hired at $50,000/year in New York City in a second. But housing within any reasonable distance is $2000/month, taking the job would require Bob to start making $1000/month payments on his student loans and cause him to lose $15,000/year in unemployment and other benefits.

Which means Bob can't take that job. He would need a job that pays more than that, which isn't available. So Bob remains unemployed.

Construct a lot of new housing, replace existing social assistance with a UBI, and introduce moderate inflation to reduce the real value of existing debts and maintain the nominal value of housing while reducing its real cost, and we've solved a big part of it.
The SPM is not, by any means, the "accepted rate". Whether it's a more appropriate measure for any particular purpose is a legitimate discussion to have.
That's not to say that loneliness causes those things. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that lonely people are more likely to be depressed and sedentary. Many diseases follow from being depressed and sedentary.
I'm sympathetic to all of that, and agree fully with most of it. But my point is that nuclear power plants, in order to be insurable on the open market, with no government involvement, would necessarily be safe enough to address your safety concerns. Regarding decentralization, we'll need some substantial breakthroughs in fabbing. Either that, or some substantial reduction in technology level.
Did you look at these metrics? They're weak as fuck. Most of them are "there's a platform or chart for this now" which is meaningless and probably intentionally decontextualized.

To be clear, it's good that people have access to the internet and all the interconnectivity that it brings. I'm not slamming the basic premise.

What I'm angry about is the opportunity cost. Telecoms & ISPs roll out bare minimums and say "hey look, now poor people can [cherry-picked thing that doesn't alleviate poverty]" when the real question is how we live in the most prosperous nation of all time, in an era when we have solved every basic necessity, and kids still experience food insecurity in American cities. Meanwhile, telecom CEOs merge back into monopolies.

Dramatic improvement in the lives of the poor would yield better metrics than a 30% increase in Haitians using mobile banking. Christ, half of that increase could be from unconnected citizens dying from endemic disease & reducing the denominator.
There's a reason web browsers just don't allow users to easily get past the annoying pages when there is a chance they're being attacked. I see no reason that Matrix clients would be required to allow users to break security without having a persistent banner saying "this room is insecure".
We use python for all of our local and back-end ML processing pipeline. It's actually the reason our OS/Architecture intermediary was written in Python as well.
I think people want personal 'self driving' cars for themselves rather than Uber's 'automated' cars. Therefore the pie beyond the taxi service is just not there to be taken.

Soon plugs for electric cars will be ubiquitous and just that, a simple plug. There will be no charging station, an app in the car or on your phone will do the rest. For economic reasons plugs will be installed, street after street much like how broadband fiber was put down. Maybe lamp posts or other infrastructure will be used too.

Rather than the car just take power the agreement will be to supply power too, therefore electric cars will smooth out demand with owners paying an 'eco' tariff and their car providing them with peak demand power.

When this happens and people get 'free miles' for being there for the grid, the buy in for personal ownership will be compelling. Clever that the self driving cars are, all of it is just code and printed circuit boards, self-driving will be as ubiquitous as 'sat nav' today and complained about in much the same way. People will still want their personal space with their personal junk and, if there are 'free miles' for helping out power the grid, even if they are as useless as '5000 free texts', the lease/utility deal of the personally owned car will lock people in.

Before the mobile phone business settled there were business models such as 'Rabbit' where they imagined people would stop at places that showed the Rabbit sign and then make a phone call, to move on when they had finished the call. It made sense to thousands of people who put up the base stations, it made sense to investors but not to customers. I think that Uber are over-presumptive in how people will change for them and their business model. I don't think people will. They will get deeper into car ownership because their car is tied into their electricity and other utility bills. Self driving will just become a feature taken for granted as the new 'ABS' and people will adapt to it as they will adapt to plugging in - not that difficult. People aren't just going to revolve their life around Uber at the expense of personal car ownership.
> " instant openness in an environment that is against you will ruin you unless you are powerful."

You make some good points, and I especially like this one.
Google it like everyone has googled everything for the past 15 years.
You don't necessarily need batteries to store energy. For instance, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit....
My agency has a particular focus on working with startups to build their MVP. It can definitely be done and there are a lot of great suggestions in this thread. A few key things that we look for as the people on the other side of the table from you:

* Clear understanding of the problem you are trying to build an MVP for

* Wireframes / UI Mockups / User flows / User stories are so, so beneficial

* Being open and realistic in regards to timeframe which depends on the complexity of MVP

* Willingness to communicate often and stay in touch regularly throughout the build.

Happy to discuss offline if you'd like to talk about it more. My email is on my profile. We're based in Australia.
OP here, what I had in mind was simple propagation where only functions marked impure could call impure functions. While I maintain that in the abstract, one could design a language around that feature without incurring a huge amount of complexity, Graydon was right doing it bluntly with annotations is a very blunt tool and anything more granular would have been quite complicated. I never interpreted it as a burn, rather someone who knew far more about Rust educating an experienced Haskeller with essentially no direct Rust experience on some of their design decisions.
Bitcoin Now Worth More Than Twitter
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
About the we live in a computer simulation thing. When I look at the universe or subatomic particles, I see physical reality and I don't see anything that indicates a computer simulation. We just don't know the next step. Thinking we live in a computer simulation as the next physical phenomenon for the infinitely great just seems to me to display a lack of imagination rooted in our time and resembles the belief in a god. I would tend to agree with the author in that regard that some in our industry tend toward mysticism where computers are the religion.
I could be wrong but I feel like its generally more difficult to meet people at bars in small town, and its also tougher to fail fast.

Bars in big cities provide more opportunities but then I think people are generally seen as more "disposable" if that make sense.

This is coming from someone who also feels like they have been going to the wrong bars.
We've discussed this in passing previously. It's pretty bad.

[EDIT]

Here are Snowden's replies to this report -

https://www.cnet.com/au/news/snowden-disputes-congressional-...

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https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/812043563810914307

"Mistakes were made:" Less than 24 hours after releasing report claiming I lied, HPSCI is walking back its report.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/in-declassifi...

[/EDIT]

The guy who said Snowden should have come to him is subject in this story:

NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-land...

Some of the things where they charge him with lying or exaggerating are themselves duplicitous, at best. We discussed a lot of those things in detail back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13158163

In particular this claim from the report is both ridiculous and downright contemptible on multiple levels: "He claimed to have left A-y basic training because of broken legs when in fact he washed out because of shin splints."
XMLDSIG implementation in TypeScript based on WebCrypto
Demand and supply. It's that simple. The education you get from a "top" college isn't better than the education you get from an "average" college. They are using the same text books and teaching the same material. However having a "top" college name on your CV gives you an edge in the job market. Whether that edge actually is worth the money you pay is questionable though.
I would also argue that it's important not to conflate issues with the Linux kernel with any particular Linux distribution specific issue. The incident with Linux Mint is not reflective of the broader security of Linux in general, although it is good to point out that how one distributes anything can have security ramifications.

I feel the same way about the discussion of Mirai - the only thing broken embedded/IoT systems have in common with any given Linux distro, is the kernel, and maybe a few basic userspace bits (sometimes).

The site does have some interesting discussion about Core Infrastructure (again technically separate from Linux, although fundamental) and other Kernel issues and hardening though.
Of my own family, about 3 out of... 20(?) couples met locally. That was a big source of diversity. Match.com is a big source of indiversity. If you both line up on an ideological scale, live next to people who have that ideology, pretty soon you forget how to think.

Now you have to deal with these people at work.

That's one example from a list of examples. People live in bubbles to the point to where I see people in real anguish over who gets elected.

And WRT marriage- oh hell yes. I have access to a behavioral ecologist, and she can tell you how pernicious all this is. The easy story is haemophilia in the royal lines in European history. This will be hard on our genetic ( and mental ) diversity. She calls it "electing the President based on a multiple-choice test" for one thing.

But it's really more about people living in cognitive bubbles, which makes their thinking hidebound, it makes risks seem larger than they are and it stifles the culture.

Throw in a rising Mandarinism - that which is not required is forbidden, and that which is not forbidden is required - and we'll see.
Zero issue whatsoever.
Their might is asymmetrical, but power is mitigated by the willingness of an organization of humans to follow commands. There is a limit to how far a soldier will go, ethically.
If Signal was federated anyone could write a signal client to openBSD or Alpine Linux.
>However, the greatest joy for me is sitting in front of my computer interacting with you folk.

That sounds like my version of hell.

I think the best thing you can do is ask people to do things with you. Many will say no, but that's okay. Eventually you'll make friends.
May I ask - what's the biggest issue you've been facing? Anything we can do to make it easier/more useful? We've found that there are a ton of things that people just end up reinventing unless it comes in the box (e.g. autoscaling, rolling deployments, roll backs, replications, aggregated logging/monitoring, etc).

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
I like this idea, but I wonder how it would affect the business decisions of founders once they know they have a safety net.
Yep, can't repeat this enough. If you've solved node storage management, you've solved k8s storage management too. Use hostpath and call it a day.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
Errors have to be handled

This is a highly contentious assertion, and I don't think it's true for most programs, at least not in the way you're suggesting.

Most of the point of exceptions is that errors don't have to be handled; or rather, in most application software, almost all errors should be handled high up in the stack, near the event loop or server request / response dispatcher.
If it is foremost an artifact of population dynamics, then my money is on that. We're aging. 1945 was 71 years ago; the knee of that curve is 3-5 years out.
Please don't take it personally, I was more complaining about how slowly things evolve when the browser is the barrier. I very much enjoy your blog for knowing what's coming someday!
OK, so I ignore Einstein, and I miss general relativity. And then what? If it's proven true before I die, then I accept it; if it isn't, or if it is and I continue to ignore it, I die anyway. And then it's 2015 and it's being taught to schoolchildren. High-school-educated people who don't really know the first damn thing about physics, like non-hypothetical me, still have a rough idea what relativity is, and the repercussions are.

Meanwhile, rewind ~100 years, and suppose you ignored the luminiferous aether. Or suppose you straight away saw Einstein was a genius? Oh, wait... nobody cares. Because you're dead.

So I'm not sure what the long-term problem is here.

Meanwhile, you, personally, can probably safely ignore people that appear to be cranks.
I actually agre with you but wasn't going to go there - everything is fundamentally a selfish act, as self gratification is the motivator. Even apparently selfless acts are selfishly motivated - if irrationally so - if I jump in front of this bullet I'll be a hero.

Fair vs unfair works too, and to peel back Kant's rehash of the golden rule, "do as you would be done by" appears to still be the best maxim we have come up with.
What would it look like to be integrated? Could you just use your existing node solutions and hostpath and be set?

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
Check out this report if you don't believe me: http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-takes-primary-storage-t...

Several members of our team were core developers of EqualLogic (pre-Dell buyout). We have significant investment from Akamai. I promise you this is not snake oil.
There is an implicit assumption there that scale is colinear with sophistication. It could be that only 5 neurons give rise to the complexity of consciousness, it could be that the number of neurons is irrelevant but rather their configuration is important. Also, there is a problem there if it explains only some of the behaviors. What happens with the rest, where are they coming from, if we have fully mapped the connectome?
Wow thank you for the detailed response. Seems like you are much smarter than I am!

How do you know this would perform any better than what they are currently doing though? Do you think this would catch the cases which currently pass their filtering like videos with mirrored images? And would this produce less false positives?

According to this post, it seems they already do something similar to what you've described: https://www.quora.com/Does-Content-ID-look-for-a-match-of-th...

I suppose in the end this is all going to just be speculation since they haven't disclosed what they actually do to try to find copyrighted content. Can you even predict how well a machine learning or classification algorithm will do without just trying it empirically?
Is this similar to nuget, if your familiar with that? Ie, do you have "pinned" versions in a project and only need to access the internet when a package is missing?
By the way the reason why we know that the education you get at a "top" college isn't better, has been shown by looking at students who were accepted to "top" colleges but instead chose to go to a local college instead; and comparing the long term earnings etc. outcome. There were no differences. In other words, people do well based on their abilities. Not whether they go to college A or B.