skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some advocates of code "expressiveness" would like (or perhaps dread) a word with your lead... ;)

Joke aside, for anyone curious: we use such i, j variables for abstract logic like a counter (e.g. i=0 at the beginning of a loop, and gets incremented by 1 each time the loop runs), or booleans maybe (e.g. P=0 or 1, true or false). But generally it is considered good practice to give names to variables that are self-explanatory (e.g. studentName or vehicle_age) for readability and ease of understanding. Even counters and booleans should be significant when possible (e.g. "hasResponded" or "day_num").

On topic, I think english or not doesn't matter theoretically. Its cultural and indeed 80% of computing/code happens in english on earth (no source, waddayathink!). What matters imho is that semantics are correct (both human and machine language...) and reasonably meaningful to a collaborator.

To anybody wanting to know better: read open-source code. Best school there is, actual practice.
https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/821105716069023744

> Scoop: Balaji Srinivasan met w/Trump, but the VC is not up for FDA slot, source close to transition tells me.
Thanks. The starting paragraph made me think he was the last person ever worked on moon alive until now.

> Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, surrounded by his family.
>RAISR produces results that are comparable to or better than the currently available super-resolution methods, and does so roughly 10 to 100 times faster, allowing it to be run on a typical mobile device in real-time....For example, in addition to improving digital “pinch to zoom” on your phone, one could capture, save, or transmit images at lower resolution and super-resolve on demand without any visible degradation in quality, all while utilizing less of mobile data and storage plans.

> In our proposed approach, the run-time is more than one to two orders of magnitude faster than the best competing methods currently available, while producing results comparable or better than state-of-the-art.

From the blog post & article, I think the idea is that you ship a small CNN (a few MB model size, which will accordingly run in realtime on mobile GPUs) to the Android device, and then when browsing, it downloads a small thumbnail (cheap on bandwidth, quick to download), and upscale it as necessary locally on the device.
So the work companies like SpaceX are doing can't culminate in something that continues our expansion off a single planet?

I mean, honestly I'm not so sure what the huge rush is to expand to another planet when we're having so much trouble with just one.

It's not that I don't want to see us move past the boundaries of this planet, but on the list of things I'd want to see before my time is up on this planet, there's plenty of things like the end of world hunger or bringing the poorest people in the world to an infinitely better standard of living that come way before us living on another planet.

In the very long term moving to another planet is a way to stave off the end of our species (amongst other positive things), but in the very very long term the odds are we won't live on indefinitely, I think improving the lives of those who come before now and that time is probably the most worthwhile thing we can do.
Yea, I hear that a lot more with MBAs and law degrees. For my CS masters I am concerned with advanced technical content.
Yep this was used by Jeff Dean et al. in one of Google Brain's earlier experiments
https://research.google.com/archive/large_deep_networks_nips...
In terms of what there is to gain, Habitation of the moon would promote the development of more self sustainable technology, new and improved materials (lightweight rad shielding, cheap building materials such as regolith construction, etc), higher semiconductor yields, and cheaper methods of producing previously very expensive compounds and structures for the pharmaceutical industry.
You're right, why should we build a city in Illinois when one already exists in New York.
I live in Harrow in a nice one bedroom for £995. It's in Zone 5 which is far out, but the Metropolitan line has fast trains that go straight to Zone 2 in the morning so you can be in Liverpool Street in around 40 minutes.

That said, if you're thinking of dropping £1500 on a 1 bed you'll have no problem IMO. I was paying £1400 for a 2 bedroom with garden and huge living room in Leytonstone only a few months back. As long as you're not planning on living in Mayfair or Kensington that's a nice budget to work with.
Do you work in France?
Most ancient people were smart enough (or learned the hard way) to not build their cities on the coast. Most major coastal cities you can think of today -- New York, Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo -- have only a couple hundred years of history as a city.

Most cities that were sizably developed in ancient times -- such as Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Rome, Kyoto, Xi'an, London -- were not built on the coast for good reasons. I suspect that the humans in North America would have also avoided living too close to the coast if they were smart.
Not only that, it also guarantees there's no MITM.

HTTPS without certs means you are talking securely to your attacker :-)
I find it believable and surprising at the same time. Believable because despite what everyone claim, lot of people put money on top of everything else and they will head to where they are welcome to make more money.

Surprising because if a first world nation with high quality life in so many ways faces this problem what about the rest of the world.
Yes. I hesitated to put Sigfox.

The thing is, it's in Toulouse (a major French city). That might be the only good place[1] in a 100 miles radius.

I find it incredibly risky to play all hopes on a single company with zero backup plan. (I've worked in France, I've seen how bad it gets when you loose your job).

[1] I have higher standards than the average Frenchie, just like anyone who's worked at top web and financial companies.
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Nice idea, but the domain name - not a fan, just saying. I'd better reserved astronaut.io for something actually related to being an astronaut.
I know that over the counter Mackas isn't very good. It's cold soggy and generally going to disappoint.
stupid desire to incorporate identity along with encryption.

It's not a stupid desire. Encryption is pretty useless without authentication.
You're making a huge mistake if you think we have to pick between solving social issues and colonizing other planets. Spacex is doing what NASA should have done in the 80s. That's the tragedy.
You know you can just look up the Maryland public employee health benefits package and see that they directly offer both Blue Cross and United PPOs and do not in fact require their employees to buy insurance on the exchanges in the individual marketplace, right?
Yes; derivative Mark 3A/B loco hauled stock was later also built for the West Coast Main Line (plus a bunch of sleepers).

I don't know whether the crash standards for 125mph running were higher at the time. The Mark 3s are generally very strong, and have held up to high-speed crashes better than their predecessors, so something was definitely done right.

They weren't fitted with central door locking until the early 90s, though, and even now it's not interlocked with either the train power or an 'actually closed' sensor - so it relies on the guard to make sure the train doesn't set off with a door open.
A lot of his advice is good a lot is bad and one needs to know quite a bit to distinguish one from the other. IMO not a very useful site.
Cool! I made (almost the exact same) thing as a twitter bot awhile ago: https://twitter.com/sub500
I'm pretty sure I know what city you are talking about and I've definitely been caught in the tracks all over town. At least the active line on Girard has bike lines running parallel
That used to be the case but recent updates do the processing on the device now. I don't know how they managed it but they did.
Correct me if I am wrong, but https://riot.im/ seems to fit the description of a decentralised and federated team chat app.
I think the parent post is saying that you'd know that you're talking to the "same server" in a very literal sense (ie. if you were MITM'd, you'd know you're talking to the same server that MITM'd you the entire session).

Not exactly sure what that'd buy...
* If all Americans stop paying for Cable TV, it will also shrink the trade deficit by 8%*

This guy...writes :)
And how does one defend themselves after being falsely identified? I'm sure there's more that one guy that lived in Indiana 17 years ago that looked kinda similar to what that guy looked like then.

Having the FBI come into your workplace and arrest you is bad for your career whether you're guilty or not.

I remember when I was doing online dating -- I had the same name, had lived in the same area, and was about the same age as the brother of a serial killer that was quoted prominently in the news. I told new matches that when they googled me, that that guy was not me.

Not sure how to do convince my boss that when the FBI leads me out of the office in handcuffs that it's just a case of mistaken identity.
> The world is analog, not digital.

While true as far as our current mathematical models are concerned, there are good reasons to expect that deep down the world's fabric is discrete. (Whether that counts as being "digital" is probably just a matter of language.)
I think "potentially permanent" is just a historical oddity. They used the same term 25 years ago when I was in school, and there was still an expectation of people going into tenure track position.
This should not be surprising.

I'd say two things, which are related:

1) Profanity itself is a form of crude honestly - in any remotely genteel social setting - 'profanity' is usually politically costly. Would you swear in an interview? No.

Ok - there are some times when 'people in power' can swear as a form of strength/power projection - but that aside ...

People who 'control' their behaviour mostly to 'be polite' - will use that communication control to gain political favour in every little social interaction. Some do it aggressively.

We all know this kind of person.

So - the 'swearers' are just using less 'filter', and so 'what you see' is really more likely their actual thoughts - 'no filter applied'.

2) If you step outside of professional circles and hang out with 'working class types' (I don't mean to be crude with generalizations) - like guys on a construction crew - you'll find that these people swear sometimes. I'm originally from a small town, a lot of working class types there - and if there are only guys around, you'll hear some cussing. These people generally don't have 'learned filters' that most professionals would use to communicate - because there is no reason why they should have developed those filters. They're just 'honest' by nature.

I've always kind of felt this way.

'Smooth communicators' are the one's you have to worry about :)
Nothing I said implies that I "think we have to pick between solving social issues and colonizing other planets.", it's not really fair to imply that I did.

SpaceX is doing what you feel NASA should have been doing in the 80s with 3 decades between then and now, with all that comes with 3 decades.
Amazing, so many moments.
It's very unfortunate there isn't a way to force more responsibility/accountability onto CAs who issue phishing certificates.

It's very easy: get the browser vendors to remove them from the root store. It's exceedingly effective. The "problem" is that the browser vendors seem to agree that CAs shouldn't be content watchdogs.

Did you read the linked position paper from LetsEncrypt?
I've read a lot of SF with post-scarcity futures and thought a lot about what approximations to post-scarcity might be available within the real constraints of physics and engineering. I've yet to see a plausible solution to the problem of violence.

In the excellent Culture novels of Iain M. Banks, it was safe to have self-replicating machines and titanic energy sources all over the place, because omniscient and omni-benevolent AI watched over everything. The Minds could prevent violence far faster than biological intelligence could initiate it. Strong, friendly AI and physically impossible Space Opera Science are required to prevent violence this way.

Authors Marshall Brain and Alastair Reynolds (in Manna and the Poseidon's Children trilogy) were more respectful of physics but creepier when they posited that you could use machine surveillance plus controls wired directly into the human central nervous system to interrupt violent actions. Even discounting the creepy-factor, even assuming the biomedical engineering is possible, it's hard to see how you reach 100% global participation in a scheme like that.

No doubt crime rates will decline if everyone grows up in a safe, stable environment and never faces hunger or other serious unmet needs as adults. But there are other outbursts of violence that have nothing to do with poverty. Someone who leaves the UK to join ISIS in Syria isn't doing it because they are hungry. Someone who shoots their ex-spouse and a bunch of the ex-spouse's coworkers isn't doing it because they want better clothing. Universal prosperity isn't going to completely eliminate irrational violence. It's going to be interesting times indeed if someone with an unhinged grudge can fab up a jug of nerve gas just as easily as Americans today can buy firearms.
That medal is specifically for people who go above and beyond the call of duty, meaning their act of heroism was not simply the job they signed up for.
This exactly what Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter last year) does.

https://www.inverse.com/article/17200-twitter-buys-london-vi...

There's an example of them finding a low res image of Barack Obama, and filling in the missing detail via ML to make a compelling high resolution image that still looks like Barack Obama: https://fsmedia.imgix.net/25/36/be/9d/fd04/4c51/9f79/ef675b0...

(Upvotes for anyone who a) replies with a better link and b) is Zehan [if b) then HI ZEHAN!])
>The heyday of FORTRAN in physics was a long time ago.

Ahh, how I wish that were true...
I am increasingly at odds with the concept of curation. Youtube, Netflix, Google News, Facebook and many other web portals increasingly try to serve what "suits me" using sophisticated algorithms, but what if I don't want that? Every traveller knows that the best trips are those that you didn't really plan that much, which end up being an adventure. If you are driven by curiosity the unexpected is a blessing. For this reason I enjoy Astronaut and other projects such as GeoGuessr (https://www.geoguessr.com/) because they are a reaction to an overly curated, safe-space, no-surpises web experience.
I took 7 years from the start of grad school to my PhD. The main reason was that my first thesis project was an utter failure.

My impression from talking to a lot of people, is that the European schools simply manage the PhD process to make sure it doesn't drag out too long. It's expected to be shorter, so it's shorter.
I agree with the goals, and one day the dream will come true. But that day requires a breakthrough like energy to matter replication.

But I salute you, it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
High false positive rates are the one genuine concern, but requiring juries to be instructed about false positives (and ruling frankly misleading statements about probability of an individual match being correct inadmissible) and investigating for corroborating/confounding evidence seems like a more fruitful approach than resisting the technology.

It's not like other forms of police work don't involve many people inconvenienced by being incorrectly dragged into criminal cases and sometimes put on trial. I doubt the false positive rate from biometrics etc is worse than any other method of criminal investigation, and it's not to incorrectly-identified suspects' disadvantage that they're further removed from the crime than suspects incorrectly identified via more traditional investigative work.
I don't think you understand how strong a claim you were making before, using phrases like "persuade all who are unethical" and "persuade sociopaths to become moral people."

> Well, Plato tried to make Alcibiades into an ethical person.

Plato (probably didn't, but put that aside) used Alcibiades as a character in some dialogues. Does it go beyond that?

> Kant, for instance, argues we can't rely on our feelings so we need to have a set of absolutely clear moral principles to follow

That is quite a different claim. It doesn't follow that such a set of principles will be somehow persuasive to all.
Well earlier in this thread I heard someone talk about spending money on the moon instead of wars. We all have our own priority order (or partial order perhaps) for how we'd like public money to be spent.
Yes they can. See smart meters. With analytics, they can determine every appliance in your house, and know exactly when and where you come and go at all hours of the day.
I don't believe it's reasonable to expect a CA to police the content of a domain that they have issued a certificate for.

As the original article points out, you can perform these kinds of attacks with any address by setting up sub domains ("https://www.paypal.com.safe.com" looks pretty similar to "https://www.paypal.com" to most users).

I personally think this is an issue with the browser UI/UX as it currently stands. "Secure" sends the wrong message to your average user. I would like to see something like the prominent display of the second/third level domain at the top of every browser tab (depending on the TLD). i.e. "ycombinator.com", "paypal.com", etc.
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I think they mean lack of tying two notions of identity together: domain name and "real world" entity.

DV certs tie encryption to a purely digital identity while EV ties that identity to a real world identity as well.
I've settled on a similar setup.

I built my desktop box three years ago and coupled it with a 449 50" 4k monitor, and am still on a four or five year old laptop.

I see now that the 7700k is 23% faster than the 4770k I built my box with. 23% improvement in bzip2 time is worth it to me.

It's great bang for the buck,
Also means you don't get paid 8 weeks a year.

I remember very well when French employers forced me to get more holidays, which destroyed the income I needed to actually afford any holidays at all.
They can't manufacture either of them, so complexity of manufacture doesn't enter into it.

So I assume they like LED's for the same reason you do, less battery.

If they did make incandescents (I suppose if they tried they could), then the comparison would be harder for them, and I would expect some communities to go one way, some the other.
This feels like I'm inside a sci-fi movie set in some space colony. While being the main character, who is sick of being out there. Alone. I watch videos to remind me of Earth. Of people. Its a beautiful sense of sadness and longing.
>there are good reasons to expect that deep down the world's fabric is discrete

There are no reasons to expect one way or the other. As far as we can measure, spacetime is discrete. However we can't probe very far in the grand scheme of things. Without experimental evidence, and without a particularly strong argument one way or the other, it's useless to be speculating.
Remember that I'm talking about this on a 100+ year timescale. (Actually, now I can't recall if I made that clear...)

I think the energy problem for mobile robots will be solved. Lithium batteries are already decent there as long as you can recharge often.

As far as massage, I'd say that's one of the things I'd envision people doing for pleasure. Or perhaps you will just pay for it, nothing about this system prohibits the use of money.

And the primary reason I work is not for money. I work because I believe automation can solve an ancient problem with humanity - the problem of exploitation of humans for the gain of others. The ultimate embodiment of my work would be The Machine.

In truth even if it existed we would have many problems, but I'm very concerned with problems related to exploitation of labor.
24/7 is in fact a negative as the state of the DC Metro and NYC system show especially in comparison to Tokyo's multiple system.

There's not enough time to do proper repairs and improvements.

What I don't understand is why more cities don't operate like Philly and operate 24 hour bus service in place of the trains at night. With a system like that the night workers can still get to work as early as others and the bar crowd can still go out with out the craziness of last train like in Tokyo.
Using p2p between viewers as distribution for videos
What happened to the link? It just redirects
It's 4tb in Raid 0.

Why not buy the biggest disk that fits in the space your case and sata cables will support?

All that I am proposing is a maxed out micro-atx case -- it only costs about ~1200
I don't think this should be downvoted, I think it is essentially correct.

Only people who are 'learned communicators' have the amount of self control to both 'not swear' but also use their communication skills to curry favour, which may involve manipulating the truth subtly or egregiously.

About 50% of the time, the 'raw truth' is a little rugged, and smart communicators learn how to 'change the tone' of information so that it's more palatable.

I don't think it's a matter of 'energy' at all, it's just behaviour.

Also consider this one:

Germans are known for being 'more direct' - and to an 'Anglo' person, their directness can sometimes be interpreted as 'blunt' (You've heard the saying 'honest to a fault'?), sometimes ruffling feathers. The German may perceive Anglo 'redirection' as somewhat deceptive.

But in German - there is usually only 'one way' to say something - the language is very strict, and you usually don't have a lot of wiggle room. So - aside from any cultural issues - language itself really shapes the way information is communicated.
Clicked a previous post about this without a subtitle and thought I was going to see something space related. Lol.
Are there no provincial or city income taxes?

It's the CA income tax that distorts the comparison. Had you chosen TX or WA (for example), they are lower than Australia.
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> Move Over, Coders

"Coders" - sure, but not software engineers.

Incidentally, the skill of "coding" (i.e. using a programming language to automate tasks on a computer) should, in my opinion, be taught in school at an early age along with the multiplication table.
Same, I don't understand with 45K of raw salary how he can only have 5k of tax.

According to: http://www.salaire-brut-en-net.fr/
The after-employer-tax, he should get: 34650k

From which he still need to substract the income tax which is paid directly by employee. It is roughly a month of after tax salary -> 2880.

In total, I would say that a 45k gross income becomes 31k after tax.
Airlines are subsidized? Not according to this article.[1]

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2015/04/14/u-s-airlines-...
They sound like a startup version of Watson, it's nice to see an AI startup having some success in the industry.
Fund managers who come from poor backgrounds are better investors than rich ones
100x This.

As a corollary: If you're not motivated by getting rich a job at a big tech firm will probably satisfy most of your non-monetary motivations while at the same time giving you more impact and a much easier life than going the startup route.
Its honestly hard to be mad at the thing, I was laughing for a good minute. I want more youtube like this.
I like how comedian Jerry Seinfeld put it: "If you have to use profanity in a joke then you failed to nail it." Applies to other things as well. It may be a (crude) indication of honesty, but it is a clear indication of failure.