skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would highly recommend reading Debt the First 5000 Years. It goes into the history of debt, money and slavery (which are all very closely related to war).

I think things will change dramatically if we can solve energy scarcity. Much of our wealth in society is based around the availability of resources. What people forget about with 3D printers is they still need oil; and you can't (easily) print circuit boards. Humanity needs something on the level as replicator technology from Star Trek.

I want to believe, but I don't think that type of alchemy is feasible; at least not until we solve the energy problem. A breakthrough in LENR or tokamak fusion reactors could change the world dramatically.
See also: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/11/20/static-and...
Oh guys you talk nonsense. I do dabble in time travel at times, so I know :).

(Why I'm here today? I'm particularly fond of this time period; it's the perfect time when humans had enough computing power to do something interesting, but before the whole industry went to shit. Remind me to tell you about the future some other time.)
Of course it is. If it was worth less than the US dollar, Obama would've paid it out of pocket change by now.
I'm pretty sure that drone-tracking equipment is mounted all over NYC, and more is being deployed as we talk. I can also imagine that a rouge drone arriving from afar and large enough to carry a bomb will be shot down by police if it can't be identified. If it does not carry a bomb, police will apologize.
Give time for word of mouths, to spread in non-English markets (ie. EU), to people who are not 20 year-old-grew with-smartphone-type.

Everyone who doesn't have a car could use a Uber at times.

The struggle in some places (e.g. China) is real but irrelevant. Should focus on the sizable markets where there is a chance, given time and some efforts (e.g. localization).
Is a GC planned for wasm? I was hoping not.
If that's the way we "should" be living, why then as a society did we mostly chose to live separately in family units? It must have a survival advantage or we would have stopped doing it.
It says it works on imported games.
Or Putnam's "Bowling Alone"
> It was launched in 2016

It's been around at least as far back as 2010. Here is a 6 year old HN submission about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1927188
Automated trains are substantially different, and I do mention them in the original article I referenced:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
FWIW Cordova/PhoneGap was certainly not intended to be anything more than temporary work around until the web caught up.
That's fine, you should be skeptical.

But do you really expect a nation state to say "hey, this is exactly how were are damaged. Please exploit us." That's just the nature of the intelligence business, it's hard to provide proof of damage without causing further harm.
Other than some superficial syntax similarities, I find Elixir to be nothing like Ruby. Pattern matching, immutability, OTP, and the actor model feel like building blocks from a whole different universe.
Entry level offers made to students are really an entirely different ballgame. They're usually made months in advance of the expected start date, often as far out as 8-10 months.
You really can't think of any other? AirBNB? Ran by a spammer from FBI Top 100 list??

http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...
Thanks for those recs I'm checking theM out now!
He mentions "technical assistance orders" but doesn't really elaborate any more on them. I'm having a difficult time finding any information on these orders, does anyone else have information on the capability of these orders?
LiChess analysis is free and better. I don't know what the Chess.com paid analysis is like, but on LiChess you can just run Stockfish on your games and analyze different lines as you like. On Chess.com you have way less flexibility (at least with the free option).
The remarks here on HN dissing this article piqued my curiosity, so I began to read the article. It's been a long ..year...and I am super tired, so I am not going to manage to actually read the whole thing.

But, I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class and I turned down a National Merit Scholarship to one of the top two universities of my home state. I think I made the right call and I think I understand the impetus behind the writing of this article.

In a nutshell, if education is empowering, but pursuing that education actually narrows your life choices, then perhaps there is some flaw somewhere. For people who go to Ivy League schools, most of them can only imagine rabidly pursuing the next rung on the career ladder and this may come at great personal cost.

I was in my late 40s before I really understood how incredibly upper class my mother's values are. We didn't have much money when I was a kid -- or so I thought, though it turns out that is not as accurate as I believed at the time -- and I never thought of myself as upper class.

It took me a lot of years of intentionally walking away from this deeply rooted expectation in order to really reclaim my life for myself in a way that allows me to get what I want, not for me to become what society expects me to be.

So while I get that most people are not going to understand that there is a genuine cost involved and will simply sneer at the idea that there is any down side, as someone who recognized that downside at a young age and walked away, I will say that the ability "to not be rich" is, in fact, a choice not psychologically available to many upper class people and it does harm them and it does definitely harm their ability to be good leaders for the common man.
Next person who tries that will likely end up in jail.
I've read about 20 books this year and most of them are fictions. I am a late comer in reading English books. At this stage of period, I still finding joy in reading fictions books than non-fictions. I feel that I should be reading more non-fictions but I can't help.

Some of the books I've read this year and recommend are

1. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (Found this book through the author's essay (basically, an abstract from the book) in NY Times. I love it. It is the story about the life of the neurosurgeon who was battling with his cancer.)

2. The Bridge to Brilliance - Nadia Lopez (Found this book from Humans of New York page. It is the story about a school principal trying to open up a school, getting school and other struggles along the way.)

3. The Phoenix Project - I think HN audience would know it. Fun read.

4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (This is the book I've been meaning to read but only did it awhile ago. It's beautifully written. It opens up my minds about aging and the struggles that elder people face it. It also reminds me that it is most important that one gets to enjoy life till it ends.)

The other books I read are 5 books of Haruki Murakami. Among them, I really enjoyed Wind Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark a lot.

My Goodreads for "read-2016" (although I am hoping to read a book before end of the year) is at https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/22920556?shelf=read-20....
Why a Traditional Driving Test Isn't Enough for a Self-Driving Vehicle
>> Until you realize that unless you play a perfect hand with every dime, the slightest expense can cripple you at a moments notice.

From orientation to graduation, the message is implicit in every tone of voice and tilt of the head, every old-school tradition, every article in the student paper, every speech from the dean. The message is: You have arrived. Welcome to the club. And the corollary is equally clear: You deserve everything your presence here is going to enable you to get.

You're literally just reiterating the arguments the article makes except with a clearly visible chip on your shoulder.

Edit: Perhaps you should make your statement in one post instead of editing over and over again. You seem far too emotional to make a rational argument here.
I was under the impression it can be a massive pain if an illegal immigrant pays taxes with your stolen SSN?
Oh, wow. So really this allows prediction of a complex input, in a general sense?

If I understand correctly, in context of that visual example, if it were trained with a moving camera and a static scene, then its prediction would only be able to predict scene transformations caused by that moving camera. Maybe this explains how the tracking somewhat fails when the ball is moving along the grass towards the end the scene. It doesn't "know" much about moving objects, just moving cameras? So then training with moving objects, would let it predict those, as well?

In what the video is showing, if it can predict perspective transforms from camera movement, like it seems to be doing, does that means it's making something like a 3d model, or something like a depth map used for its motion prediction, somewhere in there?

I would love to see the error video of some sort of rotating 3d wireframe that it was trained to.

This whole approach of a general "predictor" seems extremely incredible.
How (And Why) Intuit's QuickBooks Uses WordPress
A tool to find in-stock AirPods
> Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The speech that the blog was paying homage to when it picked a name.

* The American Scholar || http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm
Well, as a cat owner I give you this: like with any other animal, there are tricks you can exploit to coerce a cat without using physical force.

One way to get a cat into a carrier - well, the catfood industry created those funny little dry food pellets that are somehow super-addictive. Shake the box, my cat will come. Drop one in the carrier, it surely will enter. Will it eventually adapt to the trick? Maybe, but not likely if I also do this occasionally without closing the carrier door behind the cat.

Yes, we can outsmart the cat. Cats are funny because they do silly, unpredictable things at random, not because they can't be reliably tricked.
If you're deploying kubernetes to AWS, you should probably be using kops (but then I would say that, because I started the project. But OTOH I started it because nothing else fit the bill!)

Also, if you aren't already a member, come join us in #sig-aws on the kubernetes slack - we're a group of Kubernetes on AWS users, mostly happy - and working together to figure out the pieces where things could be better!
Around here, every interaction with a hospital employee involves a recitation of your birthdate, allergy status and other crap.

When my wife was having our baby, the nurses had to log into three different systems -- an OBstetrics system, the hospitals charting/EMR and the pharmaceutical system. That meant going through the ritual 3 times.
> It's interesting (albeit depressing) to think about how every generation in the television (and now internet) age seems to have at least one of these events that occurs right on the border of adulthood;

Which would that be for people born in 1990-2000? I was born in ’96, but I’m not sure anything really traumatic happened in the past years.

Well, the Paris attacks might be the closest thing, but even that isn’t really traumatic.
> no one has right to imprison anyone for any reason whatsoever

Sorry, I chose the wrong word and have since adjusted it. Not "right", but mere "option" - based wholly on the contract you signed specifically agreeing to such.

> because LG would be very minimal and limited

This has no bearing on what I'm saying, since in this example USG is a corporation. There can also be a perfect LG that simply enforces the contract you signed with USG, or you can just imagine dutifully holding yourself to the contract.

> Lets say I sign it... Then USG claims

Don't add another hypothetical twist. If you sign the contract and stay, how would your basic situation differ from what it currently is (assuming you are currently in the US) ?
havent used this, but icc ftw!
Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect is a bit less than 7000 words.

It is part of the foundation of quantum mechanics.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is in the range of 100,000 words (348 pages * roughly 300 words per page).

I'm not familiar with it, but looking around it isn't even clear if it even lays out any sort of concrete theory.
Nice to see lichess.org on here. I'm a huge fan of the iPhone app. I usually just try to solve the puzzles of the day to and from work while on the train. It has helped my chess game a good bit.

It can be rather addicting, also. On more than one occasion, my wife has gotten annoyed with me just sitting on the couch for hours trying to solve the puzzles :P
I have been to too many bars over the decades.

I usually went because I wanted to meet someone new. I had very mixed results. While I had mixed results; people did seem to interact with eachother. Yes--it was small talk, but interaction.

Fast forward to today. The smart phone seems to have just ruined the experience all together.

I can blame myself--I'm not the same social person? I've aged? I don't find people and their stories as interesting? Blah--blah--blah?

I don't know? I do know that Phone Stare is really played out. It seems like everyone is engrossed in that screen?

The last time I was out, I was in an Irish themed bar in San Francisco. The older Bartender was asked a question by a patron. "This place is dead?"

He then said, "Maybe you should put the phone away? Plus, the led light brings out all the fine lines around the eyes?"

Yea--it was kinda rude, but he said it in a joking way, and with that Irish accent it came across as kinda endearing. Someting a father might say?

The phone eventually went into the bag. A person sat next to her, and asked her if he could buy her a drink. They talked, and talked. They genuinely seemed content--

I walked out, and it seemed like 90% of the patrons were still staring into that screen. All looked kinda misserable. I thought--what could be so interesting? A fifteen dollar drink, and waste the time on the screen?

I don't know if we are going to put the phone away, but I hope I'm still around if that day comes.

(I understand pulling out the phone if your socially awkward, or shy, but after awhile of Staring into the Abyss, put it away? And yes, if your at lunch putting together that huge business deal; I get it, but most of us just arn't that important. You're in a bar because your lonely. Admit it! Own it! Life is short--no one is judging you, nor cares. That phone is a huge turn off on so many levels. This goes two fold for guys.)
Thanks for the article and the project. I also was skeptical at first of requiring one or more centralized web crawlers to add functionality based on global knowledge of posts. Still your proposal has the advantage of user control of content. To some degree you can get this with the current web by "following" the Feeds of certain blogs and construction a timeline for yourself.

What do you think of GNU Social? I am a fan and enjoy it.

Off topic but, I would like to thank the people who created the Decentralized Web Conference in SF in June. Really nice conference, and I look forward to the next one.
The assumption here is that everyone sees the accumulation of wealth as the most important goal in life. I don't think that's accurate.
And the NSA has slurped it all up - they won't delete it.
My big problem with lichess is that you are allowed to pick white when you set up your game request and/or if someone starts a match with you and they have black pieces they can cancel game after you make your first move with no penalty. If you query the top players games in blitz or lightning their ratio of white/black games is ridiculous.
What Is Peter Thiel’s Endgame for Palantir?
reminds me of https://www.chess.com/blog/eXecute/a-capablanca-story
Wow... I was under the impression that he had given them carte blanc to WikiLeaks too, an action I thought warranted punishment. I have no idea where I picked that up. Maybe a subconscious association made over time somehow?
Half of machine learning is data wrangling. Python is so easy to use and elegant, that it feels good when you're using it. When was the last time you enjoyed data manipulation in R/Java/C/etc?
I do the same thing. If you have reason to suspect me, stop me, but otherwise I'm going to keep walking, especially if it's Fry's. I purchased the item, I'm under no obligation to volunteer for inspection.
These aren't the disadvantages of an elite education, it's the disadvantages of not having sufficient breadth of experiences with people from a sufficient breadth of social-economic backgrounds.

Get your kids to do extracurriculars where they'll meet kids from lower-income households. It'll make them able to relate to them and understand them better.
I very much want another Mac Mini. For what I need at home, it's the perfect little machine. I don't need much for graphics or onboard storage, and the Mac Pro is wicked overkill. I love the iMac line, but I like being able to use my own monitor as well and just upgrade. The Mac Mini physically fits in my life better too.
I'm aware my position is the uncommon one, but that's irrelevant to the discussion.

>To me, the next step is treating your country as nothing more than a business-transaction - I pay taxes, you give me services. I don't like that viewpoint.

I guess that's my ideal world. I think that's where we're all inevitably moving, though it'll be slow.
isn't it a felony to use a stolen SSN? there is no such thing as a fake SSN.
Had any real scrutiny been paid to Trump's business dealings or numerous lawsuits, his newly minted persona of anti-establishment populist hero of the people might have seemed as fake to the stereotypical "common man" as it did to everyone else. He publicly supported Hillary Clinton for President and praised her work as Secretary of State before he was running against her...

...and then suddenly she's the most corrupt, incompetent and evil person ever to hold American public office, and Trump would never want to align himself with the system she represents.

When exactly did Trump prove he was for the common man and against the system?
> If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking etc all expressed belief in UFOs being from aliens, and you didn't know a lot about UFOs and affiliated cults, what would be the smart thing to believe?

That Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking etc are all a little nutters when it comes to UFOs and aliens?

I don't know a lot about UFOs and affiliated cults, but I'm going to guess that those mentioned are not UFO experts just like they aren't machine learning experts.

> That's not really a premise. A better version would be "a likely path to super-intelligence will be a self-improving agent".

Excellent point, but that doesn't give a self-improving agent the ability to ignore computational complexity or the uncertainty of chaotic systems.
Pretty much, yes. It's a lot harder to avoid the IRS than Immigration Services, and AFAIK the IRS doesn't give a shit as long as you pay your taxes.
Honestly the vest isn't even required in many cases, it just effectively covers up for a lack of confidence. You'd be surprised how frequent you can do things you otherwise couldn't if you walk with authority and act like you belong.

Not saying it's a good idea or that I've personally done it, but I know it works more often than you'd expect.
The article doesn't mention the FBI most wanted list, where did you get that from? Are you confusing ROKSO w/ the FBI? Spamhaus is a crooked extortion organization ran by former spammers themselves, not some squeaky clean protectors of the Internet.
>Maybe because you've been through hardships together

Maybe, but that's a special exception. Usually this is not the case.

>maybe your neighbors ancestors owe yours a tremendous debt of gratitude

Who cares about ancestors? If my ancestor was a murderer, do I have to honor his legacy? I couldn't care less what my ancestors did, unless I've interacted with them while they were still alive.

As for war: that's the one big exception. Of course nationalism is required during war. But the West is not currently in a state of war.
numerous studies going back more than
a century have shown that immigrants
—regardless of nationality or legal
status—are less likely than the
native population to commit violent
crimes or to be incarcerated

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-...
I hope you don't mind if I challenge you on your very last sentence. Why do you consider losing the opportunity a plus?
I'm not buying that.

In fact, the only reason such drone attacks don't happen, or why people hadn't been casually blowing each other up for the past five decades with explosives attached to RC cars / planes is that in general, people are nice to each other. There's plenty of tools out there for dedicated people to wreck havoc in populated areas. Such people simply are very, very rare.
I was thinking precisely the same. I love both games, but I'd love to see the equivalent for Go.
1. Plenty of academics write books.
2. Comparing a paper and a book for length is obviously unfair. Bostrom has also written papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom#Journal_articles_...
3. "Concrete theory" is vague. Is it a stand-in for "I won't accept any argument by a philosopher, only physicists need apply"?
It’s not just a skill. If you’ve been mostly around people of the upper class, and in such schools as well – as the article says – you might be able to hold small talk with people from other countries, but not with people from your own country’s lower class.

There’s an entirely different way of life there, entirely different life experiences, which lead to entirely different priorities, things you think about, and so on.

I’ve been in both circles due to family, people from the very bottom, and people from the very top, and you can’t just say "making small talk is just a skill".

And the other things you mention are also artifacts of this education: You only see this one perspective of life, which is so very different from what many other people experience, that you never even consider what their life might look like.

Smalltalk, like any communication, requires that you have a mental model of the person you talk with, but if you share none of their experiences, you can’t build such a mental model.

Although I wouldn’t recommend skipping college, I definitely recommend people to at least try to find a way with which they can experience the life through the eyes of a person of another social class at least once.
"Books read: 40"

WOW. How did you find time for this?
Wow, riot has a ways to go. With signal you install it from the app store, it creates an icon, you click on it. Similar for the desktop client, go to the chrome app store, click on it, and it tells you to use your phone to scan a barcode.

In both cases you can start chatting with any signal user in your address book in a minute or so, no expertise (other than using an app store) needed.

Tracked down the http://riot.im, it has a "try now button", that just scrolls you to the top. Didn't see any way to actually try it.

I tried the ubuntu app, they make you manually create your own /etc/apt/sources.list.d, from only the base URL. Then you have to know how to add the pgp key. Then apt-get update, apt-get install riot-web. Then... nothing. Nothing called riot or riot-web in the path. Thought maybe there would be a daemon running (it's called riot-web afterall). Can't find any processes running, nothing listening on a new socket. I track down /var/lib/dpkg/info/riot-web.list, look through the list and find they dropped a dir in /opt. So I run /opt/Riot/riot-web.

It worked, not exactly the kind of thing I'd ask random friends/family/colleagues to do though.