skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If your roadmap is rooted in prediction as the essence, the law of the hammer dictates that it’s a prediction problem. And when cast in prescriptive terms to an adoring industry, the question is no longer questioned. It becomes truth.
Prediction is the essence of intelligence. And it will remain so until a more dominant technology teaches us otherwise."

This was an excellent morning read. Thank you. I especially liked the quote above. What is interesting/ironic is that while we have these incredibly sophisticated machines (human brains) at our constant disposal, we just can't seem to get as excited about innovative learning models for them. We are more intrigued by the shiny, so we put nearly all our resources there, even though overdue revelation there could drive better AI research, or at least create better researchers! Even though we already have the kind of data in Actual Human Intelligence we seek in AI to advance AI further, we ignore this data and turn toward a new machine instead. (hey, I'm fascinated by it too, no disrespect meant-- just observation) So we stick to our old ways, even as those models (for example, our public education systems) show themselves to be costly, resistant to scale, and largely ineffective and underperforming. The other aspect that AI could give us if looked at from a slightly different angle, is the surprising interconnection of idea- I mean ideas that reach through and across domain or subject to reveal stronger, more influential types of knowledge-- a more "poetic" type of understanding that could give rise to novel understanding. It is almost as if we have plateaued, like a young student learning tennis or something, but are addicted to the rapid early states of visible progress, so we change sports so we can get that "high' again. It is as if we are not psychologically ready to pass that plateau and move into a more connection-robust model of education. So, we are now enthralled with machines, because they are (we wrongly surmise) controllable children for now. Thanks for posting this!
I could see this being successful by undercutting the Upwork fees alone
Is there a lot of demand for these jobs?

In the US I would have to pay 1.5-2x that for housework, which puts it squarely into a category of value that I just do myself
I didn't understand the question here (the /s was lost on me because I'm slow probably)
For sugar, we've started the phase of awareness of its harmfulness, and no doubt our children or grandchildren will have social norms not to abuse it.

But for the internet it's much more difficult: I don't think the habit of avoidance can be born without first general awareness of its danger. And the danger in all other substances Paul mentions is a physical one: you get terminally ill, or visibly unhealthy. But internet addiction is invisible; it masks itself as the person being just slower than their peers, or lazier.

Moreover, not buying a pack of cigarettes is trivially easy for someone that's not addicted yet. As is not getting drunk every day. But distinguishing the addictive internet from the non-addictive is hard, and avoiding the former while still using the latter is even harder. What shape can a social habit of avoidance take here?
I'd say both of these guys have limited understandings of everything.
There's quite a few nifty little things in this one.

I'm not sure I like the child_spec change, personally I like the supervision mode to be explicit when calling children.

I do like the developer tools, the breakpoint support, the UTF8 for atoms (which I'm realizing we may want in our DSL since we're converting user input strings to atoms), and the @impl that allows to explicitly declare which functions are there for an interface.

Overall, it's amazing to be part of the elixir community, rarely have I seen such emulation, positivity, speed of growth, and effectiveness achieved so fast for a language. Congrats @josevalim for bring the power of BEAM through a wonderful syntax!
AI is automation, systems of automation. People could automate to the point of leading to a constant flow of horrific things happening, creating a highly efficient war machine - whether against another nation or your own people.
I'd second this. There was recently a long thread concerning Reddit and r/the_donald and those ranks certainly showed up.

You can catch a few in this thread.
The software verification example is contrived and not at all realistic IMO.

>My plane could compare the code generated by its wing with the code stored on ledgers in the other 99 planes.

So you don't trust the code of your "wings" but you trust the code that verifies it?

And why do you need a decentralized architecture for this? Just ask the plane software vendor to certify a version of your software and use that? What does bringing the blockchain into the mix give you?

If you're in a truly decentralized scenario (e.g. a lot of open source software) then what he's describing is basically "web of trust" as implemented in PGP for instance. A lot of software is released with a PGP signature to identify the source. Again, blockchain is pointless here.

>If the plane was autonomous it could decide not to take off unless all the other 99 planes gave it the ok.

What? Why? How? How could the other planes validate that this plane is not lying about its code checksum? And how is the blockchain involved in any of this?

>And it's in contrast with how we'd solve this today. The plane would have to have communicated with a central server, a single point of failure, vulnerable to fault and tampering. This central server would be a closed system, owned by one company making it hard for other devices to inter-operate.

Ah, so we're going full FUD now. Clearly distributed and redundant architectures are impossible without the blockchain. Well, I'm dumping my retirement fund into Dogecoin, you've convinced me.

More seriously, the one thing the blockchain is good at is "timestamping" events. If I wanted to prove that I had written a certain doc right now for instance I could compute its sha256 and store it in the blockchain. Later that'll be very strong evidence that I actually did have this document at the time. That's the "immutable ledger" feature.

You could also have this certified by a notary or held in a bank vault or something. Basically it's Proof of Work (blockchain) vs. Proof of Stake (bank/notary, who would have a lot to lose if caught lying, especially for relatively small amounts of money as we use day-to-day).
Musk - Bezos
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

Some relevant shortcuts for filtering contents in Hackernews[1]:

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Ah, Yudkowsky... The autodidact "AI theorist" who does not understand simple math and philosophy concepts, is afraid of being resurrected and punished by a future super AI, has not added anything to human knowledge despite collecting millions of dollars to fund his research institute (which changes its name every few years for some reason) and has actually argued with a bot on reddit. Even when you ignore the singularity bullshit he spews, it is astonishing that anyone takes him seriously.
Beware, because it can make you hate your current day-job language
You was probably thinking about this: http://steghide.sourceforge.net/

It hides data in the least significant bits (at locations defined by a passphrase) of the image or audio data itself. This doesn't survive re-compression, though (there are methods that do).
Get it from the Windows Store! It needs camera and microphone access though. And it isn't actually a line editor, but it does install a browser helper and toolbar in IE.
Elon's Musk would win.

Edit: No playfulness on HN allowed today apparently
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/china-tri...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/china...
Any other options? For the small team I work with managing infrastructure is not really an option.
> There's no point in debating the moral issues when our world is anything but.

Some people have not given up on having a moral society and believe that there is great benefit in debating the issues. Because you are not open to debate doesn't mean the debate has no value, but I appreciate your perspective.
They're talking past each other because "AI" has become a useless term.

Musk's comments are about a potential (maybe conscious) artificial super intelligence and the risks that could come from that if we enable one somehow without understanding the preconditions.

Zuckerberg is just talking about "AI" in the sense that machine learning can solve a valuable class of problems.

The super intelligence risk could be serious or not - it's hard to know since we haven't really dealt with an intelligence that wasn't created through natural selection with those biases for survival. We also don't really understand how consciousness works either.

One risk of AI is that if Musk's argument is right we won't be as 'lucky' as we were with nuclear weapons. Enriched uranium is hard to get so nuclear weapons are easier to control and hard for an individual to make. Turning on an AI or copying the code for one and spreading it would probably be easier. If it does end up being dangerous that's not a great situation.
They were dumping it at 50% market price for ETH a few days ago. Don't know if they dumped it all or still sitting on a bit for when the market recovers.
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The person I replied to, sideshowb, explicitly asked about both design patterns and Design Patterns. Regardless, that book was what elevated design patterns into common knowledge within the object-oriented world. Their fate is tied together; the book and the patterns described within are practically synonymous.
Wow, XP?! Well, I still like it, and it's still better than the Windows 10 one :)
My best guess is that the author is referring to the fact that there are no rollbacks in Redis transactions, but I'm not sure. I'll try to ask internally. Thanks!
I'm not very surprised with this. Quite a long time ago I came across their Galileo boards but for the price point it just did not seem worth it - 2 - 4 times the price of a RasperryPi or Uno.

The appeal/benefit of having x86 was just never there for me or the agency I was at. I could see how it might be useful if you are writing a lot of assembly and low level at that but this seemed too much of a niche with the way they were marketed. If it had networking and I could use it with Python I was happy.
FaaS-netes (Functions as a Service) for Kubernetes and Docker Swarm
I wouldn't even say there was a burst of progress. There was simply a long time of incremental progress before the respective technology crossed over into practical viability. It's only at that point that people generally start to notice.
I work on IoT projects professionally, and we see a large gap between makers-grade hardware and production-quality systems. Every week we talk with startups and enterprise customers who start off on something like an Arduino, only to hit a wall because there is no good way to take it to production.

IMHO, the market is ripe for a hardware/software platform that bridges the ease of Arduino with a path to production. A bunch of the silicon vendors are in this space, but they offer weak solutions, and things like AWS IoT are really bad on the hardware side.
>As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much. The closest is the colloquial sense of "addictive."

Vice? Enchantress or siren? To be put under a spell?
Yeah, they're run that way to keep out homeless, riff-raff, scum, and tourists visiting for the Festival. They should be genuine public places, managed by the council.
> I am not willing to carry around a third device just for music. I am not willing to devote space in my apartment to CD storage.

You'll have to play by their rules then, unfortunately.
A fairly popular alpha release game Rust [1] is built on Unity and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/252490/
How to gain 20 lbs of muscle in 4 weeks
I wonder about starting a coin where everybody on Earth is assigned a set amount.
you could get the feature from any number of areas, I'm just saying that in a lot of cases, the GUI can act as a "gateway" to understanding the functionality of the application and the CLI can then be used to implement/extend/whatever said functionality for personal use. Handbrake is one that I think implements this well.
Another way of saying "I'm right, your wrong".
Computing Statistics on Terabytes of Data on Multiple Machines
Exactly. I wouldn't have a problem if people were saying "iOS is more secure than X" or "You should pick iOS because it's one of the most secure OSes, but you should still be careful." But nooo, the fanboys go too far and spew dangerous, misleading stuff like "it is secure" and "you don't have to be careful" and "it can't get malware."
Elon's an open holistic thinker, his thoughts lead him to the end point of what could happen.

AI is automation, systems of automation. People could automate to the point of leading to a constant flow of horrific things happening, creating a highly efficient war machine - whether against another nation or your own people. This is likely what Elon is thinking about - other than the possibility that a real AI system is developed that is given the ability to manage resources, e.g. Ex Machina (film).
Yes. Yes I do.

Look at R studio. Wonderful IDE, runs as a safari app. Having a whole extra browser and a node backend running for each app seems a waste, but using the browser that is already running as a runtime environment seems much saner.

I do most of my work in the browser, I wouldn't mind if some of that had better integrated UI.

I also wouldn't mind writing small, easy to produce apps that will work across systems.
It's up to the developer to decide what it means when an user's account has been overspent. The API will just return a 402. They don't have to disable service for that 402.
You'll have to give me a more detailed case for that. If we make money harder to tax and regulate the very rich will become less powerful? Won't that just make it even easier to concentrate riches?

Given how easy it seems to evade taxes nowadays when you're super rich I can't imagine how it'd be when anybody can basically generate a new untraceable wallet for any transaction. Corruption will never have been so lucrative.
At the risk of being labeled a dinosaur, this is still prob. the best book I ever read on structuring code:

https://www.amazon.com/Reliable-Software-Through-Composite-D...
Musk and Bezos are clearly smarter than Zuck and Dorsey.
Injection attacks including SQL injection are still at the top of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. They're still very common and very damaging. Don't expect those kinds of vulnerabilities to ever disappear.
>It also comes off as very monkey-centric. Is it so bad if human intelligence isn't what proliferates the future?

For humans, it's an absolute disaster - look at what happened to the lesser apes when Homo Sapiens became dominant. The odds are very good that a sentient AI will decimate us or make us extinct, simply by adapting our habitat to its own needs.
This seems to be the dominant use case for Elixir; migrate legacy Rails code to Elixir. When deciding between Go and Elixir for our startup I looked at both ecosystems. Go was significantly ahead in all categories: traction, articles on the web, packages on git, git activity, editor support ... I don't regret choosing Go but I always keep an eye out on Elixir. Pattern matching, pipe operator, immutability, supervisors ... I can only dream about that in Go.
Yeah, this is a good post. But the balance is hard. I've had a friend (who was not anonymous, because she had a real job in a public-facing industry) crash on my couch while she looked for a place to live because the GamerGate (anonymous scumbags) decided to take pictures in front of her house while wearing masks. It's a natural impulse to tear off the pimply-faced masks and show who's throwing around death threats like they're hard men. But, on balance, it's almost certainly a bad idea.

Which isn't to say that one has to care about the faceless mob; I'm perfectly happy not interacting with pseudonymous or anonymous people outside of--well, basically HN, but the problem pseudonymity/anonymity solves in many quarters is real.
Just watch minority report to see what a bad idea this is
Maven Clinic Landed a $10.8M Series A to Disrupt Women’s Health Care
"Turning on an AI or copying the code for one and spreading it would probably be easiear. If it does end up being dangerous that's bad."

That scenario reminds me of the opening of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep.
It does in contrast with account info.
Mark Recruited Yann Lecun, arguably the top "AI" practitioner in modern times (backprop anyone?). Lecun agrees with Mark and I would be surprised if Mark wasn't taking most of his direction in AI from Lecun.
Startup guide to hiring your First marketer
Here's a great post on the ins and outs of hiring your first marketer in a startup. When to hire them, what kind of person to hire and tips on interviewing them. From an x googler who ran googleplay marketing.
I'd be interested to hear more about which specific features of maker-grade hardware are particularly problematic for taking things to production.
In theory this sounds fine.

Bit here are two factors that together makes scenario 1 and 2 unlikely to play out IMO:

HN users seems to be a constructive crowd

and

mods only need to punish a few accounts visibly for users to be deterred from trying this.
> It cost £33, so wasn't particularly cheap

Not that I doubt your assessment of the knife but..

As far as kitchen knives go this is cheap, although you can still get very good and sharp knives for this price like the Tojiro DP Gyuto or Victorinox Fibrox.

Usually people don't judge a knife by it's out of box sharpness but the sharpness after sharpening, ease of sharpening, edge retention, balance, and overall craftsmanship.
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I've been in crypto since early 2013 and I only check my wallet balance when I need to transfer coins to/from it. I may have opened my wallet 5 times in the past 4 years. The risk is increased when you don't control your own private key, if you do, the risk of losing your coins is very small.
Beautiful static docs for API
> Why then do Windows 10 laptops get sold with HDDs?

Excellent question. These machines should do better with Win7 but Microsoft doesn't want to sell it.

Microsoft sells windows 10 and Microsoft sells laptops with Windows 10 on an SSD. I doubt (but do correct me if I'm wrong) Microsoft sells any computers with Windows 10 on a mechanical drive.

Various manufacturers sell underpowered computers with Win10 on it, but thats hardly microsofts fault. They do that because otherwise they can't hit the lowest price segments.

What IS Microsoft's fault:

1)Microsofts "hardware requirements" only say what's necessary to use it, not what's needed for a decent experience.

2) not selling Win7 or making newer versions of windows work with older hardware.
>Verizon

BTW, I predict Verizon will soon be the target of some hefty class-action. They are very shady when it comes to contracts. They also have periods wherein substantial numbers of customers report mysterious, frequently dramatic data overages for a time [0] that suddenly disappear. But, they refuse to acknowledge any issues.

And they specialize in making it extremely difficult to achieve resolution, with multiple phone calls, etc.

[0] https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2016/09/thousands-verizon-...
>where the encrypted message is overlayed into the picture data

You can play around with this idea using imagemagick.

It has a built it "stegano" option to hide one image within another: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/transform/#stegano

And, as long you're using a lossless format, it's trivial to encode arbitrary data with imagemagick. You do have to calculate the size beforehand, 14 bytes as a 7x2 image in this example:

$ echo -n "this is a test" | convert -size 7x2 -depth 8 GRAY:- output.png
$ convert output.png GRAY:-
this is a test

So, you create the png with your data (encrypted first if you want), then use the IM stegano option to embed the noisy png into a larger image so it's not so obvious.
These two are very different and don't compete in the same space as Jobs vs Gates.

Musk is a generation above Zuckerberg. 13 years older. Musk is better as an innovator while Zuckerberg is better at business. Zuck has like 69 Billion while Musk has about 16 Billion
Public spaces aren't anarchist lands of lawlessness. Cities can and do prohibit uses that have a negative impact on the space or other visitors. They can also invest in up keeping, and there are many examples of public spaces that rival anything private. New York's Central Park comes to mind, or Yellowstone.

But at the end of the day, US citizen always seem to agree when asked if taxes are too high and the government is wasteful, and that opinion does not correlate with actual taxation or spending. The result is the decay of public property.

A nice comparison that I recently came across, illustrating the last point: The government spends just about half as much on IT per office worker compared to the private sector.
Most of the time, there is no sale; it's just a planning application. Those are usually public, but there's a huge difference between losing a few square feet of footpath to a privately-owned bench/telco cabinet, and losing a previously accessible green/brownfield site.
Can be installed using internal package manager of radare2:

r2pm -i r2snow
>> It's nonsense to suggest that any two Turing-complete programming languages are equally safe or secure.
> Well, I didn't suggest it - it seems you are inventing that notion

You wrote: "Writing provably-secure smart contracts is as difficult as writing provably-secure software for any other Turing-complete platform". This is not true. Writing provably-secure smart contracts in something like C would be strictly harder than in Solidity because there are more classes of possible errors, and hence more properties to be proved. There are meaningful differences in the ease of proof even among Turing-complete languages. And some things you would have to prove explicitly for programs in one language are automagically "proved" for you by other languages' compilers.

So yes, you did suggest that any two Turing-complete languages are equally safe and secure.

> because you are obliged to agree with everything I actually wrote

Haha. No.