skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's rather easy for a wealthy person in the EU to move to a low tax country as well! "

This is exactly why many people in the EU argued for a closer union, to harmonize taxes and thus avoid the kind of tax evasion that you mention.

I don't know what to do with this:

"The system that I've proposed seems to be working quite well in the EU."

By what possible stretch of the imagination is the system working well in the EU? The EU has been on the brink of breaking apart since 2008, and Britain just voted to leave the EU this summer. The EU is even more federated than the USA, and they have suffered even more problems with federation. Both the USA and the EU must eventually move toward consolidated governments.
That nova was in another galaxy, albeit a close one. The one we're talking about here is about 1-2K light years away.
> You only need like a couple of syscalls for an image decoder, it doesn't need anything else from the OS and is supposed to be short-lived.

Not if you're going to take advantage of hardware acceleration.
Relationship penalty.
Unfortunately, a lot of people need safespaces these days.
That is a very interesting point, but I wonder if Lojban's avoidance of ambiguity is the root of the translation difficulty - I doubt that Kant is unambiguous.

I think the quran and new testament issues arise from theology, not linguistics.
I dunno, I hear similar things about all of the big 5
> memory safety is still not going to make it free from vulnerabilities to accidental DoS attacks

What kinds of DoS attacks are you thinking about that aren't covered by simply limiting the size of the images you need to parse?

I mean, I've written a PNG decoder and the only dynamic allocation I can think of that I needed was the actual decoded image data.
by only looking at the source (haven't installed it) I'm guessing this leaks ipv6 addresses and probably shouldn't be used. this is the second openvpn install script to match that description today.
Okay, I will go along with your scenario. Suppose we have a system with human-level intelligence, according to your definition, and we set up the following conditions:

1. The AI is embodied in a computer the size of a laptop.

2. The AI is given the objective "increase your skill in Go as much as possible and play to the best of your ability when presented with a specific position".

3. The computer has one input: an electronic Go board with a button to submit the position to the computer.

4. The computer has one output: a second electronic Go board.

5. The electronic Go boards indicate the status of positions by rotating cubes to white, black, or beige ("no piece") sides with a slow servo motor for each position.

Under what conditions would this AI escape its container or murder its opponents?
It's bizarre that you try to force things into a conservative/"liberal" linear continuum. These are not real categories, these are media categories, "liberal" as Americans use it is simply a made-up word, and many right-wing traditionalist nationalists all over the world tend towards socialism.

This is about power, and how sovereignty has moved from the sovereign to the populace, but now to the powerful. The sovereign was expected to be ruling on behalf of the deity (or as the deity) and had a responsibility to tend and care for its creation. With popular sovereignty, representatives of the people were supposed to focus the people's will in order to accomplish the people's goals. Under neoliberal capitalism, the wielders of power are specifically admonished to only be concerned about their own interests, so as not to break the forces that automagically put everything to right. To the extent that our governments are controlled by the wealthy, we live in a laissez-faire system, with laws as assets to be manipulated.

When the wielders of power have no moral obligation to anyone but themselves, they are untrusted, and untrustworthy. When the system recognizes no moral obligation, being caught in deception doesn't disqualify you from being rehired, it shows that you are willing to do what needs to be done to win.

People recognize this, and use what's left of their control of government to disrupt the current consensus as much as possible. Without Brexit or Trump, they would simply start murdering each other and the particular wielders of power who they feel hurt them the most.

Of course, I'm pretty much restating the article in a different way.

The reason people don't trust scientists is because they shouldn't.

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edit:

To make it personal, the reason I believe in global warming is because the profit motive tends to point in the other direction, and because my naive understanding of the mechanism sounds plausible. The fact that it remains the dominant theory when the dominant financing all goes in the other direction makes me attribute that dominance to a residual dedication to truth over self-interest in many scientists. It is not because scientific consensus is truth, which is a form of vulgar market-worship. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it turns out to be horseshit, and in retrospect should always have been seen as horseshit. It would surprise me if that happened, and there weren't also some other competing channel to self-interest that I wasn't aware of. I think that many suspect that the academic hierarchy represents that channel, and that's why they are suspicious of global warming.
In some sense, this problem at least indicates we're trying to do something right.

Some knowledge is both necessary and testable: arithmetic, geometry, algorithmic solutions to common problems and properties of those algorithms, spelling of common words, basic grammar, many scientific facts/ideas/techniques.

The learning objectives of Common Core and other curriculum are ambitious -- they want to capture that "deep knowledge" you mention, and are often informed by input from subject matter experts.

However, the realities of modern schooling and assessment are not sufficiently resource-rich to fulfill and measure fulfillment of those standards.
Thank you for that. At some point soon, I hope to write a follow-up to include what I've learned over the last 2 years -- I have some additional insights that I think strengthen my original thesis.
"By what possible stretch of the imagination is the system working well in the EU? The EU has been on the brink of breaking apart since 2008, and Britain just voted to leave the EU this summer. The EU is even more federated than the USA, and they have suffered even more problems with federation. Both the USA and the EU must eventually move toward consolidated governments."

I would argue exactly the opposite. The primary criticism that member nations have of the EU is that there are too many regulations imposed at the EU-level. This was the non-xenophobic argument in favor of Brexit.

By enacting what you would propose: total control at the federal level, we would move closer to such an unpopular reality.
Well, there is a very good reason to use analogue: it's already in place and working, and there are hundreds of millions (maybe billions) of analogue radios.

The problem is that attempts to introduce digital systems have generally not been successful.

If radio didn't exist, you'd obviously start digital services. But it does exist, and it's deeply entrenched.
> I know the first sentence is one of those things you just can't say

Evidently you can, as you've said it here.

You alt-righty folk seem to mistake "something you just can't say" for "something you just can't _defend_".

But yes, let us try to find a "humane" way to make America an ethnically homogeneous country. A kind of cleansing, shall we say? Once everyone has the same ethnicity, they will all behave the same. Science vult!
There's a difference between physical and psychological addiction.

Currently we think cannabis is not physically addictive, and we think it might be psychologically addictive for some people.

People de-toxing from alcohol addiction can literally die if they do it wrong. That's never going to happen with cannabis.
Alphabet’s Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%
Take their advice but be warned that bootstrapping and mimicking their success is also hard.

We are a huge fan of Basecamp (customer for 5+ year), DHH, Jason, and Rails. However, please also consider the unique talents that they had.

Both Jason and DHH have exceptional skills. Jason is a great writer, designer, and speaker. DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails is a renowned programmer. Some of the advantages that they had

1. They were the one of the first company to put project management on the "cloud" (early mover advantage)

2. The 37signal team are great writers. Their main advice they had for marketing is blogging. Some of us, especially foreign born founders, can't write as well.

3. 37signals had one of the most famous programmer at that time. (expertise and marketing advantage).

4. They have been honing basecamp for 15 years.

For the rest of us who aren't exceptional ourselves or don't have a brilliant partner we might need some outside funding so we can hire the best talent. Some of us want to do more than having one exceptional products for 15 years.
Nothing is encrypted fully. Example IPhone collect every keypress before application developer get it to handle.

So much of the "full" encryption in any mainstream platform.
the OP's script embeds the script you're linking to. neither of these should be used for anything mission critical.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7DDBwPwzs
I've been waiting decades to play a surf sim that utilizes proper fluid dynamics. Maybe before I die it'll happen.
I prefer Sovereign for this. Sets up OpenVPN as well as a bunch of other goodies. https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
> but corporate offices? No.

I wouldn't be so quick to offer that conclusion. I've been to several "corporate/fortune 150+" and "commercial/satellite" offices that use "cloud-based" physical security products.

You actually do manage the users and credentials (and everything else) through the vendors website. The security system also periodically connects to the same website and downloads any updates that it needs to apply to itself.

The building engineers and physical security guys are typically not educated/savvy enough to know to avoid these systems, so they _do_ get installed in many surprising places.
Do anyone know about a good user friendly OpenVPN client for Windows? The official one requires a lot of fiddling with administrator permissions to work, which most non tech people have no chance to do successfully.
For an AI to become "uncontrolled" requires quite a lot of assumptions. I don't dismiss the concern as invalid, but I don't think the assumptions implied by the question are necessarily plausible either.
The specifics should surprise you. For example, the fact that evangelicals voted for a guy who publicly bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, was accused of raping a minor, and bought beauty pageants for the sole purpose of being able to walk in unannounced on the contestants naked in the backstage, should have reviled anyone who considers themselves a devout Christian. But it didn't, apparently, because... I don't know.
I'm facing the same dilemma with a hardware project of mine (http://tooner-test.moshozen.com). In the past month alone, I've been stuck on several things (public name, dealing with constant ID creep, finding a mill that can resaw, among others). Though they're contradictory, it seems that half of the roadblocks get solved through putting them off (and usually thinking of a better solution, or a workaround), and half get solved by #JFDI.

'Shipping' means something much different for hardware projects of course, but nonetheless I think the advice to ship on day one is really foundational. I've always been fond of the idea that 'if something hurts, you need to do it more often'. Make the game about iterating and not shipping.
>Sure it was. It was all they had for 'science' for a thousand years. Something about the 'dark ages'

There was not much "dark" about the dark ages (as 20th and 21st century scholarly research increasingly showed), and what little was was due to the collapse of a huge organized empire, not because because "that was all they had for science" (I guess "that" being Aristotle).

In any case, this is an extremely shallow assessment of the role of philosophy -- like someone reading Cliff Notes on Shakespeare and thinking they got all there is to it.
> we are chasing more after trends than the fashion industry.

Larry Ellison made the same observation many years ago:

> The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
Last I heard, Slava was working on the Linux kernel at Google.
You're being extremely condescending, everyone is capable of free thinking. Prisoners of Plato's allegorical cave are blind through a lack of opportunity, not a lack of ability.

Critically-minded citizens should act as Socratic teachers. Our job is to ask the right questions, gently probing until we've disassembled their chains and lead them to the light.

It's a slow path, taken one question at a time.
Something can be fun, technical, complex and laden with responsibility.

Very strange article.
Google's trip data is an ingredient in their secret sauce.
Xenko – open-source C# game engine designed for the future of gaming
Oh, they were meant to be individual axioms, not a cohesive argument. That's what makes them interesting - they're four things that say essentially the same thing, but with profoundly different implications and preconditions.

> otherwise it becomes mostly a practice of defining axioms within the realm of thought and manipulating concepts and relations, much like mathematics but without the practicality (in most cases)

That tradition in mathematics comes from analytic philosophy. That's not to say that all philosophy is about defining and manipulating relations (it isn't, and shouldn't be), but that language-games (to borrow Wittgenstein's term) are a subject of valid inquiry.

> It appears to me as if philosophy is in the unfortunate position where on one hand, it is ill equipped to answer the deepest questions and on the other it can't arrive at any important and empirically falsifiable conclusions.

Yeah, it often appears that way. However, we except such a sorry state of affairs in theoretical physics and the workings of the mind -- why should we be any less charitable with philosophy?

> Would be happy to be proved wrong, though.

With emphasis added: wouldn't we all? ;)
Very similar.

However, for EC2 Linux instances you'll need to enable IP forwarding by disabling Source/Destination Check for the instance in addition to setting net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 for the VM.

Also EC2 uses layered security, so you may have OS level packet filter, then NACLs (if used - stateless), finally Security Groups (stateful).
Clojure doesn't just "strongly prefer" immutable data but syntactically ensures that all data is immutable unless governed by one of four concurrency mechanisms. Persistent data structures aren't just a popular convention in Clojure--the language is literally built around them.
Men are easy though. They let you know they're an asshole right up front.
It's really interesting on that front to see what is happening in Japan:

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21713868-there-arent-many...

Japan has developed world birth rates and very low immigration.

Japan's population has decreased by 1M already. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/26...

Globally as poor countries get richer and emigrate less this is what is likely to happen in many places.
I'd guess before, they've been in the CGI business for quite a while. I saw a presentation from Milton back in 2000 (I'm also a VUW CS grad) with pictures of the render wall.

At one point they bought the building of an ice cream factory in Miramar because it already had a massive electrical feed.

They employ a fair few people in Wellington, my neighbour used to work for Weta as a sysadmin. Everyone was a contractor, doing 10 hour days. Not my scene.
Ctrl-T for SIGINFO is pretty useful, it would be good if Linux could pick this up.
"desktop" is a totally useless and nonsensical classification, when they do not (which is obvious from their numbers) count laptops plugged into a screen & keyboard for the duration of a workday as a "desktop".
1. Privacy
2. Google doesn't have the same incentive to release data to local governments as Uber does (to improve regulatory relationships).
UK has 60,000,000 people and it manages.
I'm reminded somewhat of the PS1 cartridge saving bug: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...
I'm currently struggling to learn this by myself (not fatherhood but surviving on my own) in my mid twenties. It is incredibly difficult only because I am in such a state of comfort that forcing myself to face difficult situations to learn and grow from, is hard.
Maria Leal processa dois adolescentes por fazerem uma foto viral sobre ela
‘What’s the Big Deal?’ Ask Trump Voters on Russia Hacking Report
The US has the obvious issue where healthcare is tied to employment and working less hours is mandatory, not voluntary.
I use viscosity, which has the added benefit of allowing multiple VPN's (e.g. to multiple VPC's on AWS or w/e).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352155
Indeed. Also, you'd actually want 'conv=noerror,sync'. The 'sync' keeps the input and output block counts in sync (if an input block can't be read, it writes an output block of zeros to keep the block counts in 'sync').

The arch wiki page is very useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning
Maybe. But identity politics mixed with big welfare surely is a recipe for disaster.
No one is fooling anyone.

http://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/hitle...
I had to stop surfing, so I started playing table tennis. Five times a week.
This and playing Pokemon Go, i.e. walking a lot the extra mile.
Existential comics vaguely addresses the point: http://existentialcomics.com/philosopher/Roland_Barthes
Interesting. Is this true of `tail -n +2` as well? (On mobile, can't test at the moment).
> The whole point of concatenative languages is the simple syntax and implementation.

That’s a major part of it, and certainly the selling point of Forth—you can build, understand, and extend everything yourself, from the ground up.

But the reason I came to concatenative languages in the first place was that I saw the power of a compositional style of programming in Haskell, and I wanted to bring that high-level thinking over to a lower-level language with a simpler performance model than laziness+GC.

Remember also that the Forth family and the Joy family are a case of convergent evolution: Manfred Von Thun chose postfix syntax and a stack-machine implementation for Joy because it was a natural way to reason compositionally about programs. The Forth similarity was discovered soon after, and certainly had an influence on the design. But Joy wasn’t really a Forth, and neither are its descendants: Factor is more of a postfix Lisp, Kitten a postfix ML.
How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.
Yeah, "general practitioner" in the UK = "primary care physician" or "family doctor" in other countries, more-or-less.
I tried to cancel a CC Photography plan (that was month to month) in 2014, and had to do so by chatting with an adobe agent. The agent offered me two months, and then when I declined, offered me three months free if I didn't cancel. I confirmed that I was not renewing a contract, and that I could cancel after the three months were up. I thought, what the hell, three months free with no commitment is fine.

Flash forward to ~9 months later and I try and cancel the plan on chat again. The agent says I'm on a yearly plan and would be penalized for cancelling. I insist I'm not, and ask him to check the previous chat log. He says there is no previous chat log, just a summary left by the previous support person that says I agreed to it.

I start disputing this, and then the support agent literally starts copying and pasting quotes from the previous chat I had, despite insisting such a log didn't exist. I call him out, tell him to refer to the part in the log where I verified I asked if I could cancel at any time. Agent went quite for a few minutes and then promptly agreed to terminate my monthly payments with no penalty.

I was flabbergasted. How toxic must Adobe's corporate culture be to foster this kind of pressure on sales people?
By shipping.

The are tons of issues that show up only after you have shipped so striving for perfection before shipping is pointless.
How so privacy? This data is anonymised, they could do the same.
>It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it.

Aaaaand this is why I opted away from Linux and back into the Windows world after university. I'm trying to get shit done, I want to install and go and almost never have to touch anything but my code and solving my problems - NOT solving the problems with the tools that I'm ostensibly supposed to be using to solve my problems.

For all the flak it gets, since 7, Windows Just Works for me.
> You've just called into question a race car driver's driving ability because you saw them not use their turn signal.

They're calling into question the driving ability of a self-professed race car driver, who seems to be struggling with the basics of driving.
He’s working on the Swift compiler at Apple these days.
This has been common feedback, my monitor must be quite high contrast, I will fix when I get home tonight. Thanks for the feedback!
It's about time. I'm not willing to put in the time to attempt to enlighten some guy on the internet who's claims imply that he considers himself considerably more intelligent than the great thinkers of history who have struggled with issues in philosophy.
I'm curious what techniques they will use to anonymize the data. I would guess some sort of differential privacy technique.
Horrifying read. Ive seen this play out in my own personal life.

It reallys make me wonder how of human behavior is really just evolution and not conscious choice.
some kind of just after fact rationalization
I've used Linux and FreeBSD (desktop|laptop @work/home) for everything since 2002. Within the last five years it really has been a very simple and feature rich environment with acceptable stability for most distributions.

Think if I hadn't started with KDE at that time I would be much more fond of OS X.
Dare I hope "arguments against anthropomorphic global climate change" was not a typo? If not, please share!
Past submission with YouTube link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290362
Left versus right is about labor versus capital, not local versus national versus transnational.
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