skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i would say the relevant "this is how it works" is having a globally trusted CA system that isn't abused by large CAs just because they think no one will dare punish them.
What would any of these large Symantec customers says if in the future their security was compromised due to mis-issued certificates? I doubt they'd be thrilled they were saved some dev time getting their certificates signed by another root in exchange.
it's very clear from Symantec's language here and elsewhere that they wouldn't be doing shit about this is chrome weren't taking it so seriously
Symantec should have thought about this before using half ass processes and half ass people in a business that will cost other people money because of their screw ups.
> The human brain is only the very first intelligence to evolve.

That may not even be true, we're just not smart enough to make the call one way or the other. Dolphins come to mind, as well as several other creatures (Squid, Apes). The fact that we can't rule it out is in a way proof that maybe we're not as smart as we would like to think we are.
There's a certain distinction to be had between understanding memory addresses, and understanding pointers as part of a type system. I remember the former was very straightforward in various BASIC dialects running on DOS, and it never really confused me. C pointer types, on the other hand, did. Sure, there's an obvious mapping between the two... in the retrospect. But it wasn't obvious at first.
I'm still trying to figure out if my 36 month wildcard carts from RapidSSL are going to be distrusted. Their intermediate is signed by GeoTrust which is owned by Symantec, and a blog post says with Chrome 59, certs with a period over 33 months will be distrusted. Chrome Canary on v60 shows them still working.
As a rider I would report that. If the license plate doesn't match what I see in the app I also wouldn't get in the car. Maybe not enough riders care enough and some drivers can get away with it.
First, let me say that I'm generally a Kevin Kelly fan.

That being said, I think his article shows extreme arrogance for one simple reason: To suppose that superhuman AI (AI smarter than us) won't exist is roughly the equivalent of saying that humans are at the limit on the spectrum of intelligence. Really? Nothing will ever be smarter than us?? Highly doubtful.

That should stand on its own, but I have other critiques. For instance, why does silicon have to be assumed? Why not germanium or graphite, or something else? I have little faith that a CPU circa 2050 will be built exclusively on silicon. By 2100, no way.

Second, there is a simple definition of intelligence that is applicable to many forms: intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns and make accurate judgements / predictions based on previously seen patterns. The higher the accuracy or the more complicated the pattern, the higher the intelligence.

My final point of contention is the idea that AI must emulate human thinking. Why? Maybe human thinking sucks. Maybe Dolphins have much better intelligence, but due to a lack of opposable thumbs, they don't rule the world like we do. And lest you think that less intelligent species can destroy others, could you really doubt that roaches and ants will be extinct before us?
Lots of Ryzen motherboards support ECC.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/#Specific...
Unfortunately, you can't keep multiple chains in a single X.509 certificate. While you can have a given key signed by multiple CAs, AIUI, this just lets you switch easily, not tell a client about both, and just work if they trust either CA.
Well, if you are thinking of moving on and he won't offer you any compensation, you probably have leverage. Did you actually sign anything assigning the IP you created to the company? If not, you're in a good position to demand compensation, as he'll lack clear title over the company's IP. Bad position for him to be in.
You do know that the oldest millennials are turning 37 this year?
To play devil's advocate on that, if there's some super sensitive life support system that's indirectly connected to the internet it's probably going to be turned off until it's actually in use.
However being in a foxhole is an entirely artificial situation, and people in foxholes aren't known for their long-range planning and forethought. If you're being shelled, you're not going to be thinking about whether you can service a new mortgage and whether you should refinance, for example.
The gain is in being able to clone the bot perfectly. Once trained you can make many of them. Also, if you look at what happened in Chess, the lessons learned from the large machines was absorbed and resulted in your smartphone now being able to outclass the human world champion.

You can expect a similar thing with Go at some point.
> For the rest, using sigwaitinfo or signalfd works just as well in Rust as in C/C++, but not really better or worse. There aren't any good libraries for it (which I keep meaning to do something about), but the underlying POSIX APIs are usable equally well in all three languages.

There are a couple crates which should suffice for basic SIGTERM/SIGHUP/SIGINT handling:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/chan-signal creates a sigwait thread which sends signals over a channel.

https://github.com/alexcrichton/tokio-signal uses the self-pipe trick to integrate with a tokio event loop.
Uh, I think you don't understand how compounding works. It's not 2.4% a day. Do you know anything about finance?
I've heard elsewhere in this thread that blocking ads/tracking breaks their site.
I recall a lot of horror stories from mobile telco providers when the US government proposed to users to take their phone number from one carrier to the next. It was just one terrible prediction after another that involved so many risks and complications.... until they had to do it and then it just worked.
That's hard to say since that general idea is probably among the most common elements of religions going back as far as we have records of religion, e.g., Mesopotamia, etc. -- curry favor with the gods through some act of devotion or virtue (though the latter works only if they're "good" gods) and they'll owe you and grant you some token in return. On the other hand, cross them and they'll smite you.

There are relatively few strains of religious thought that decouple prosperity from pleasing gods or God, but the Calvinist strain in Christianity is definitely one of them.
> For Palantir’s software engineer position, for example, Palantir hired 14 non-Asian engineers and 11 Asian engineers — even though 85 percent of the 1,160 applicants for the position were Asian, according to the complaint

Another interesting issue here is that 85% of software engineering applicants were Asian. Is that typical in Silicon Valley? Or is Palantir special in attracting Asian applicants?
I suspect that if commissioning an artist to make portraits of any size was as cheap and easy as taking a selfie or eating junk food, we'd be balls-deep in portraits right now. Cost & effort vs value.

The implication being that narcissism is nothing new or changing in prevalence, we just need to discourage its more overt forms so that we have a healthy and thoughtful population.
Outhouses fill up very quickly with lots of people using them. You need regular service with someone picking up the shit. Exactly like Port-a-Johns, really.
>An article I read at one point supposed that our brains could have, as a way of example, a linking to quantum mechanics that we are not aware of due to not having yet discovered it that causes self-awareness.

That's not an article but a whole book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
it was mesmerising.. this video needs to spread more.
I haven't read Bostrom's book. I don't think I would enjoy it. Maybe I need to grudgingly read it to be able to respond to what Bostromites say.

Here's the thing. If Bostrom's claims about AI are so strong, why does everyone who's referring to his book as their source of beliefs about the future spout non-sequiturs about AI?

Here's an example. 80000 Hours has a mission that I generally agree with, to find the most important problems in the world and how people can most effectively work on them. But somehow -- unlike cooler-headed organizations like GiveWell -- they've decided that one of the biggest problems, bigger than malaria, bigger than global warming, is "AI risk" (by which they mean the threat of superhuman AGI, not the real but lesser threat that existing AI could make bad judgments). [1]

To illustrate this, they refer to what the wise Professor Bostrom has to say, and then show a video of a current AI playing Space Invaders. "At a super-human level", they say pointedly.

What the hell does Space Invaders have to do with artificial general intelligence?

For that matter, what the hell does deep learning have to do with AGI? It's the current new algorithmic technique, but why does it tell us any more about AGI than the Fourier Transform or the singular value decomposition? I would say this is a bias toward wanting to believe in AGI, and looking for what exists in the present as evidence of it, despite the lack of any actual connection.

Has 80000 Hours been bamboozled into thinking that playing Space Invaders represents intelligence, or are they doing the bamboozling? And if Bostrom is such a great thought leader, why isn't he saying "guys, stop turning my ideas into nonsense"?

[1] https://80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problems/#artifici...
> A progressive percentage of earned income

Highly dense young-urban-professional work-centric neighborhoods low on kids (SF, LA, SJ) would receive more money, suburban, rural and single-industry neighborhoods (towns in San Bernardino, Fresno counties) dominated by families with children would receive less money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13932041
That's per year. It seems like an awfully high number to me. To contrast, something like 2.5M Americans are dying in total from all causes every year.
I think they are fine. The way I look at it one just needs to get educated before they become a pattern day trader. Ideally that means they grow their account to $25K and have experience before they are put into a position where they can screw up bad enough that it affects others. Of course people don't do that, but at least there's some incentive.

In the end margin is irrelevant if you only trade with money that is actually available. Robinhood is for traders that know even less than the twits on StockTwits. I'm sure it's fine for investing but I'd bet that the vast majority of the people that use the app don't know what the difference is, just like StockTwits.
It's too bad nobody can even tell a joke anymore.
My main issue is that it isn't just a choice between ECC memory and not, but I'd also need a different motherboard and processor, right?
>supported by Tim Berners-Lee

An endorsement from Mr Berners-Lee means little, having caved on the DRM issue.
China, India, Korea, and Japan all used pig toilets. In some places, usage was 22.7% as of 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet
from the link

>IB accrues interest on a daily basis and posts actual interest monthly on the third business day of the following month.

from investopedia

>Interest accrues on loans, such as a mortgage, or on savings accounts and investments. Daily accrual means interest amounts are added to the account balance every day. Interest can accrue on any time schedule; common periods include daily, monthly and annually

it would be different if the rates were annual percentage rates, but your site doesn't specify that.

no I don't know anything about finance but I got google.
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Why cut it? Explosives would be much easier (think IEDs), and could be improvised from simple sources like gasoline and petroleum jelly. No need for a tool to "cut" a power line, regardless of it being above or below ground.
> since they've got to eat, they panhandle

They don't spend the money on food.
Here's the tl; dr....

The major risk factor for dementia is ageing.

Approximately 30% of dementia cases may be attributed to seven key modifiable risk factors:

* Diabetes

* Midlife hypertension

* Low educational attainment

* Physical inactivity

* Smoking

* Obesity

* Depression
Thanks for the Google cache reminder. When I view that, it also spins forever, with no page display below Google's header. If I click on the Text link, then I see the text version. I wonder if there's a problem in the source itself, rather than the server.
> An example of this is recognizing the importance of costs (like schools) from which I receive no direct benefit (if I do not have children in those schools).

Property tax (and subsequent education funding) is semi-voluntary. One can always downgrade to a smaller/cheaper abode and [somewhat] opt out of the system. This makes even more sense if one is childless.

Let's say two people have a net worth of $1,000,000 each. Person A has a $950,000 house and $50,000 in the bank. Person B has a $200,000 house and $800,000 in the bank. 80% of B's possessions are not subject to property tax.
It cost Commonwealth Bank of Australia a ~$1 Billion to convert their old system from COBOL (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol-idUSKBN17C...). That took them 5 years and they're about a third of the size of most of the larger US banks. So you're asking for 20-30 banks to devote 5% of their operating costs over the next 5 years just to fix the problem in the U.S. Or they can put the problem off for another few years and see what happens.

This isn't a "basic infrastructure" problem, it's a problem where the people writing the software didn't plan for obsolescence and many of the "best practices" we take for granted weren't even in place when this was being written. And it is about tracking real money, so if the system isn't exactly right, they could end up being tied up in court which makes it even tougher.
The fight for net neutrality is officially back on
If you find Erlang a bit weird at first, try out Elixir. Its syntax is more familiar, so it's a bit more approachable. One nice perk is modules can be shared between both languages.
> Copying is perfect and can be checksummed. Unlike learning in a university, say.

What if exactly this flawed way of copying information allowed us to make discoveries?

I mean what if exactly because we have a human transmitting the information/theory with not the same confidence as the one who discovered/invented allowed the possibility to doubt it so making the next discovery more possible?

Edit: formatting
Storage, [yes](https://storj.io/). Computation ... sure if you don't mind the server viewing the contents of your computation and can verify the results. Sadly, fully homomorphic systems incur waaaay too much overhead so you are constrained in what you can do (i.e. specialized DBs, zkSNARKs, etc).

Then, of course, there is the problem of network latency and bandwidth costs vs just keeping it all on one datacenter.
COBOL has been "dying" since the late 70s. Since that time I have seen several languages and platforms come and go. Where I work our core application driving the business is written in COBOL. Estimates are between $500 million to $1 billion dollars to replace it due to the number of systems interacting with it and all the business processes affected by it. For that kind of money the business wants a technology they can hang their hat on for twenty to thirty years. So what are you going to choose? What languages and platforms in widespread use today are going to be around in twenty to thirty years? Here's what I think it will be: C, C++, Java and COBOL Hmmm. COBOL is in that list. So if I think COBOL will still be around in twenty to thirty years and the system is working fine now then what reasons do I provide to the business for spending $500 million to $1 billion for the upgrade? Yeah - I can't think of any either that warrants that kind of expenditure. So COBOL remains.
TL;DR is that the each TCP stack has unique characteristics that are hard to spoof (you'd have to bypass the OS TCP stack and build your own that mimics another) and definitely out of reach for tools that run in sandboxed environments (like browser extensions)

If you are behind a NAT, the TCP/IP stack of the NAT machine will probably present some of its characteristics too.

It is also possible to modify your TCP/IP stack settings so it behaves like something else, a simple search for "defeat TCP fingerprinting" or similar will be a good place to start.

I remember reading about a few universities whose networks would, via fingerprinting, identify your OS and only Windows machines would be required to install some --- intrusive, invasive, and flaky --- additional monitoring software, while Linuxes were allowed completely open access. The solution was obviously to make your machine look like Linux, and this was not hard to do with a few registry tweaks, if I remember correctly.
"Plans within plans"

-Dune
Words like embarrassment, inferior, and not bbq. :)
Taiwan hasn't seen the immense shift of rural to urban population than mainland China has.
I have to say this sounds like complete bullshit.
I'm not the OP, but here's a few thoughts...

Highly distributed rotating masses would handle a large part of the storage, turning it into more of a power smoothing problem.

Secondly, I presume that at some point we'll be covering every building (rooftop and window) with some sort of solar film that converts electricity.

Why don't we have those today in large scale production? Probably for the same reason that the US builds more roads instead of mass transit - it's a bias to build what we've alway built, not a real technological limitation.
> In C, for example, you cannot reference one object from a pointer to another object (there is one exception to this rule).

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if it's a reference to strict aliasing rule, then it's about types, not object identity; and there's more than one exception to it.
I searched for a good Linux laptop recently with ecc but didn't find much so settled on a kaby lake i5. Does anyone make them?
It might be:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808
Investing or trading on margin is intended to allow you to trade while you are waiting for previous trades to settle. It's not meant to be a loan, but it is exploited that way by both banks and traders at their own risk. It's simple enough to fix, only allow margin to cover the amount of money waiting to be settled. In other words if a trade hasn't settled then the funds are not available for trading.
If I gave an example of something machines can easily do today, but no human could ever do, does that show that human intelligence is not general-purpose? If not, what do you mean by general-purpose?
My 3 year old daughter isn't impressed that her favourite movie, Trolls, isn't in your list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679335/
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A little knowledge is dangerous.

You found the right terms but totally missed the meaning. Daily accrual means that your interest for that day is calculated daily. It doesn't mean the interest rate is 2.4% a day.

Did you even think about this logically? 2.4% a day would be 876% a year. That's obviously insane.
> The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get.

Sounds like Pai should talk to someone on a cardiac pacemaker.
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Pyton practitioners are ponzi artists
Seen twice in a row - dumb scam artists hit firm for $20m/year promising integrated Python base....delivered nothing!
Yes, the original client (Bitcoin Core) and some others enforce it, while others (Electrum) only rely on the proof-of-work, which of course is more risky, but acceptable for some users.

You need to follow the chain back from the very first block (the genesis block), not only to verify the following blocks but any blocks in the future (you could spend an unspent output from the very first block and it would be valid). Luckily, you don't actually need to store the blocks, just the parts that affect future validation (the UTXO set), so you can throw the blocks away after this (called prune mode in Bitcoin Core). As long as you can put up with the initial sync (several hours) the costs aren't too bad. In fact, I would argue the very limited powers given to miners is one of the most important parts of Bitcoin.

When even a single transaction in a block is invalid, the entire block is rejected wholesale.
I've been visiting this weekly for 10 years.

It's easy to take for granted now, but ffffound was before tumblr and really before Facebook was a household name. It predates the current use of the word meme.

It's very much a bastion of the 2000's internet. In terms of long-term personal internet use ffffound for me is only second to boingboing (which I feel is nearing an end as well).
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Reliably changing someone's weight for the long term probably requires swapping environment and altering their peer group/friends. Kinda like getting off of drugs.
> fundamentally the only way to stop some people from doing stupid and dangerous things is with force.

Yes, that's true. But the law is not the only way to apply such force.

> Most libertarians would say that the mere threat of him missing the target causes me harm

I don't think they would. But I think there are plenty of libertarians who would say that a homeowners association, neighborhood group, etc.--i.e., a private organization, not the government--has the right to tell your hypothetical neighbor that the rules prohibit him doing shooting practice in his back yard. And people who really, really can't live with such restrictions will, under a libertarian system, end up living far away from anyone else, because no one wants to live near them.

> I've yet to encounter a system that didn't require edge cases and exceptions.

I agree with this. But different systems can have very different edge cases and exceptions; and it seems reasonable to me to judge systems based on which ones have edge cases and exceptions that are more manageable.

In our current system, the edge cases and exceptions are instances in which regulations prevent people from doing things which would benefit them but which some rare people can't be trusted to do safely. Such cases are common: for example, to go back to the topic that originated this discussion, lots of people get stopped for speeding that would not have caused an accident had they not been stopped. And the fact that everyone knows such edge cases and exceptions are common means that people have less respect for the law--which spills over into the cases that are not edge cases and exceptions.

In the kind of libertarian system I envision, the edge cases and exceptions are instances in which private preemptive action is not sufficient to stop someone from causing harm. I would expect such edge cases and exceptions to be rare, since most people don't want to cause harm and will respond to reasonable requests to curtail potentially harmful activities. Furthermore, I would expect there to be much more respect for the law in such a system, because everyone understands that the law has a clearly defined boundary: cause harm, get punished.
You have to have planned for this (or be lucky) though. Some people just put their api on www.example.com; assuming you have clients in the field which have pinned BIG CA, and you've got HSTS preloaded (because you're forward thinking). Unless you can detect Chrome N+1 from your existing clients during the TLS handshake, you have to pick between browsers or existing clients.

If Chrome ships this at the same time as re-enabling TLS 1.3 support, that would be a decent way to target, since presumably very few of your distributed clients are using TLS 1.3.
Depends on the style of genius. Napoleon, Genghis Kahn, Alexander the Great . . . they seem to have done pretty well for themselves.