skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions hairs of the deceased sometimes being stuck in these death masks. I wonder if those could be used to clone these famous people. A clone of Newton or Whitman, anyone?

Of course, the clones wouldn't be like the ones we read about in science fiction -- not duplicates of the orginals, with memories and personalities inact -- and no one's cloned a human being yet. But it's conceivable that some day in the possibly not too distant future there will be more or less direct descendants of such people being born.
That's a good point. It's good enough a reason to be able to run AS/TS on Windows code base. Not actually sure it works on Windows though.
Nicotine is not that addictive. Coffee is just as physically addictive in my opinion. And I've actually managed to quit using nicotine several times whereas I've only successfully quit coffee once (and I'm back on it). Also, it does have health benefits, if alertness, relaxation, and mental clarity are health benefits, which are some of the effects of alcohol and coffee. Why does everything have to have a health benefit? I think some people would just lose it if they didn't have nicotine. Anyway, what's the harm to you?
From the article:

> NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time
I recall there were issues if you tried to modify those files in Windows. Maybe they've fixed that in recent updates, but my impression was that while I could see the files, I shouldn't be touching them.
Careful: the Linux permissions of these files are stored in attributes of the files, and many tools don't preserve them properly. You'll likely lose access to files if you try this.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...
And I'm old enough to remember Wasabi as the proprietary vb-to-php compiler that FogCreek developed for a few years. And I think there was something related to OpenBSD or NetBSD, some company called Wasabi System...?

It's definitely one of the most common codenames in IT, together with Phoenix, Firebird and Panda (and in the enterprise, all greek/roman gods).
You're right. I'm thinking of AeE2. Will definitely have to check out the remake! Thanks for the rec. Ah, I remember the Mongols too! Nice!
I think Xming works
Heh, nope you're right I was writing to quickly. I meant to say to take a log of of the probability term in p(c_1|w). So you take p(c_1|w) = 1/(1+stuff) and turn it into p(c_1|w) = 1/(1+exp(log(stuff))). stuff is a product, so log(stuff) is a sum. Good catch.
From its website at Manning here https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python ... 42% discount code is deeplearning , as provided by Chollet himself... the ebook is complete already, little work still needed to finalise before commercialisation in October
Why not just run Linux? Or use a Mac?
Typically if you start making crazy claims the onus is on you to present actual arguments.
Unless you're going to force your users to install WSL up front(which is a pretty poor first contact) I think you might be better served by keeping it around.
Well certain Linux distros (Gentoo comes to mind) are designed to support their users compiling applications from source. Some users just want to be able to compile using -march=native, and aren't interested in fixing compiler warnings that they didn't introduce. I personally would hate it if I wanted to compile an application from source but -Werror stopped complication through no fault of my own.
I've been using vcxsrv.
Forget features. Just make LO usable again. I had to revert to OpenOffice recently in the middle of pitching a client for a desktop db conversion from MS Access. On OS X Sierra LO has regressed.
I had it break on me a while ago because there was no inode support and that's needed for hot-reloading of code when developing with web frameworks.

I'd rather just use Linux and not be surprised by anything.
FinCEN Fines BTC-E $110M for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Getting 7k visits a day and $130 per month is overall a very good start. 80-90+% of people that attempt something like this either never launch or are getting much less traffic.

The thing that people don't realize is, there are literally hundreds of thousands of games or apps for people to occupy themselves with. No exaggeration. I am including all the different app stores and also the retro gaming. The retro gaming counts because there are plenty of people that play old games through MAME or whatever.

There are only so many famous youtubers driving giant traffic numbers. Not everyone can be friends with them, and so not everyone is going to have wildly popular games.

In terms of this .io stuff, there are hundreds or probably really thousands of other projects to compete with. The most successful ever was NOT particularly clever or new. It was a variation on a very old game. It was well executed but, I believe the main reason it became so popularwas from luck and viral social network effects. Not everyone is going to get those things on the first try.

People very rarely click on ads. Getting $130 per month is something to brag about. Its something to build off of.

Just because something does not become wildly popular does not mean it is a failure. That's just totally unrealistic given the amount of competition out there for people's attention and the tens of millions of dollars being spent to create immersive interactive experiences.

Maybe I shouldn't say this. Maybe I should hope everyone continues comparing their income and views to PewdiePie or whoever. That will make for less competition for me.

Here is what I think the dev should take away from this. They have done a great job of solving these hard networking issues. They have people coming to visit their game. Keep trying to promote it and adding small bits of functionality or whatever. Keep trying to get famous youtubers to visit. But that is the side task you work on for an hour or two every week.

The main new side task is taking this awesome engine you have built and creating a new variation. It might look like a totally different game. Or be similar. The point is this time you have more time to focus on marketing and content and other things.

If you can get it down to release a new game every 3 months and not get even a tiny bit more traction from them than that project --

- months 0 - 3 $130 per month

- months 3 - 6 $260 per month

- months 6 - 9 $390

...

- end of year 5 $3120 per month

It might take 5 years to build a successful business. Not everyone is an overnight success. But I am happy if most people want to give up after 6 months. Makes for less competition for me.
I did a CEF-based project last year. I didn't built Chromium myself; I used a pre-build copy, from Spotify I think. The CEF build process sets this all up for you, so I expect this is typical. So this should mean that provided the clang builds of Chromium look the same to the outside world as the VC++ builds of Chromium, there won't be a problem.

(It works well. The PDB files and the corresponding source code are available, so you can step through the Chromium code in Visual Studio and so on.)

CEF is built as part of your program using whatever compiler you're using. I don't know what the mechanics of it are... I assume it uses the Chromium stuff via an import library? I didn't look very closely at this aspect of it.
LMAO. I didn't even get a chance to read illegal_in_ca's reply before it got flagged. What did they even say to generate this much controversy? (Probably something really stupid).

And even aside from the obvious moral problems of extreme wealth inequality, it's not even economically efficient. You can't have a strong and growing market economy without a middle class. Hong Kong could get away with it for some time because their economy is based on international trade and finance, but that only takes you so far. Eventually you need to develop a domestic consumer base. Their current political crisis is caused by this inequality catching up to them, though the HK business and political elite conveniently pass the blame to Beijing.
I run Linux at home on a laptop (arch), and had been dual booting my desktop for a while. Games, easy access to Office, and software compatibility issues for work software limit me primarily to windows. Plus I've been using Windows since '95. And with WSL, I don't need to dual boot anymore.

Never used a Mac, and never will. Don't see the point, everything is ridiculously overpriced. I build my own PC's
> ...but is it really the best use of resources to throw $1 billion at reinforcement learning without any similar investments into addressing... <important things>

The precise same sentiment could be made about his plans to go to Mars- people are starving on Earth. But a Martian "backup civilization" might someday save humanity. Similarly, godlike AGI might be mere decades away and apocalyptically dangerous- predicting scientific advancements is generally impossible, but some people working in the field don't think it's an unreasonable possibility [1]. That humanity, via Musk, has put a billion dollars into worrying about this somewhat plausible existential threat seems reasonable, to me.

Musk is not a staid, Bill Gates-style philanthropist optimizing for dollar-for-dollar benefits. He's picked a set of flashy, long-term goals and started manic efforts to promote them. Perhaps it's a character flaw. But given that, I think he's at least chosen well.

[1] http://aiimpacts.org/2016-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/
https://www.jefftk.com/p/detecting-tanks
How are people hosting their Phoenix projects? I'm used to Heroku or Laravel Forge. I don't really want to mess too much with servers.
Would you mind elaborating a bit? What's the exact functionality that's required? Is it like notification support for file modification or something?
was wondering the same thing, i.e. signal might be doing it already for most users?
> If your app is a database server, probably yes.

They explicitly don't support that. From the article:

> Linux distro's [sic] running atop WSL are for interactive user scenarios, NOT for running production workloads on Apache/nginx/MySQL/MongoDB/etc.

And the last time I checked, it's not suitable for services. The moment I closed the bash terminal, all the processes I had running through WSL terminated - including nginx and tomcat.
No plans to support specifically, but a surprising amount
of things work simply due to their effort making the rest of it work.
Not coincidentally, all the Nordics also take a hardcore prohibitionist line to drugs.
Since you have to uninstall and reinstall WSL to upgrade it, it makes more sense to store your files on the Windows file system and symlink them into your home directory.
Another subtle point (one of many) involves transfer of knowledge. My most recent system "learned" by self-modification (similar in concept to growing new synapse connections but done by self-modifying code). This kind of modification will eventually arrive with Neural Nets as they move beyond simple 'dropout' techniques to more context-specific additions of specialized subnets and/or cooperating subnets (e.g. the room-recognizer adds a 'table'-specific subnet).

Assume two systems start out in a similar state. After interactions the systems are no longer identical and they gradually diverge over time (think twins). One is used in accounting and thinks of a 'table' as a kind of spreadsheet. Another is used in woodworking and thinks of a 'table' as a wooden object.

The implication is that one cannot just 'copy' what the first system knows to 'teach' the second system. There would have to be some sort of teaching mechanism (aka college) to transfer the information.
It's not exactly how it works but there is lots of precedent that allows the SEC broad discretion in this regard & upholds their very broad view of what is a security.

So while it's not true it's a fairly good starting point for a group to take when they float securities looking item.
It's a pretty interesting design -- Microsoft created a new class of processes called pico processes; these are native processes run without the normal Win32 overhead and are managed by a special pico process driver. For WSL, the driver implements the Linux kernel API and process loading. Linux API calls are mapped to existing Windows APIs or implemented directly in the driver.

Everything else in the WSL is the regular Ubuntu user land. So all the processes are "native" and they make calls to a kernel that acts just like Linux.
Tighter tolerances can produce higher rates of fire and improved accuracy at the expense of reliability.
While I generally agree with most of what you state I'd like to offer the unpopular opinion that the personal decision to use hard or addicting drugs is something of a moral failing.

Not that there aren't extenuating circumstances, not that it's a "terrible crime", but, it is a vice in which people for the most part, at least initially, have some choice.

Again, I'm in favor of most everything you suggest, particularly decriminalization (which just makes sense). Still, in my view people need to take a little more personal responsibility. There are always excuses if we look for them.

The best way to encourage people to take a little more responsibility? Probably most of what you suggest as well as giving people healthy environments and opportunity and something to be optimistic about.

But traditionally shaming works a little as well. As unpleasant as this may sound. We appear to have come to a spot we think people shouldn't be shamed for anything. Well, except for being a racist or using PHP maybe. Shame was an effective social control for a long time and if we are going to do away with it we need to find a replacement.
Yes. Updates to those files didn't seem to be reflected in bash until I'd closed and reopened the terminal.
That's fair. Regardless of Musk's talking points, I'm still worried and I don't care how many people here think I'm paranoid. Engineers during the Industrial Revolution had no idea they were sowing the seeds of global warming [1]. We're putting a lot of money into AI under the assumption that it's all going to be a smooth ride. There's this notion that even if neural networks become more sophisticated than those of human brains, that AI will be completely subservient to us and we can just pull the plug whenever we want. If there's one thing humans are good at, it's self-destructive hubris.

[1] http://theconversation.com/the-industrial-revolution-kick-st...
Yep, but they fixed it already, fix rolled out with the last major Windows 10 update.
In retrospect, even the pretext was bunk. It turns out that turfing old people out of their giant, valuable houses is a benefit rather than a problem. Today, thanks to Prop 13, Boomers are massively over-housed.
You cannot realistically get one without the other. Treatment often cannot be cold turkey, which means the addict will have to keep consuming (and hence carrying and buying) for a period; if that's illegal, treatment is not going to work. And no, methadone is not the same.

Taking Sweden as control, for example, they spend loads on health services and treatment; but without decriminalisation, their numbers are still terrible.
It requires writing a plugin for Pelican too, but I was a little irritated with the claim that Jekyll will do whatever you want without needing to write Ruby.
Chromium will continue using link.exe as the linker even after migrating to clang-cl. See the bottom of the email that's linked.
So they're not built on some proprietary piece of tech (say, a search algorithm), but I don't see how that makes a difference for their valuation. Their business is the same as just about every "disruptive" tech company: replace a population of middlemen with a website that does the same thing more efficiently. Not that the label matters - the market will decide what the company's worth regardless.
systemd and nohup:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394#221

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782364

systemd and Netflix:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837110

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/24/underscore_domain_n...
I don't know that I would call it a subset either. It's bash, all of it. And you compile for Linux, and it works.

I develop a rails app on Windows using WSL daily. Ruby runs in Linux and gems compile to Linux, not win32. So there is no weirdness compiling something like ImageMagic.
When do you charge your watch?
> So because the process has flaws (like all processes), we should all just take a breather and tidy that all up to be rock solid before we move forward with anything? The earth would literally grind to a halt if we applied that reasoning to everything.

No, not necessarily. I think that what the original poster was saying was that when a person questions climate change, they are met with the same type of response as when a person's religion is insulted. And for most people who believe in scientific truths, to them it is a religion in the sense that they personally cannot prove it. They are picking a group for its general beliefs, social acceptance, camaraderie, etc, but to not know any more about the science they believe in than most religious people know about the religion they profess to believe in.

> The system will never be perfect, if you take take a small number of instances of academic dishonesty and use that to debase something as enormous and researched as climate science, how could we ever hope to make decisions about anything?

Can I paraphrase? Say we were talking about the religion, and someone points out that there are cases where religious people abuse their power to hurt others. The response is often,

"The church will never be perfect, if you take a small number of instances of abuse of religious authority and use that to debase something as enormous and researched as god the almighty and the 10 commandments, how could we ever hope to make decisions about anything?"

Assuming that you are not religious, how would you respond to a religious person who made that argument?
With the Creators Update there was major improvement. Here's how I'd put it:

I used to bring a picture of home with me on business trips, now the house just comes along more or less (there are the occasional plumbing issues on the road and it's jarring sometimes when I go outside and realize I'm in some weird neighborhood with maple syrup coating the sidewalks and immediately I'm getting hustled by some guy with his arm around my shoulders and people aren't walking anywhere, just standing there looking at me without blinking and even with the hustler spinning his yarn there's this eerie, heavy silence like a summer storm always on the horizon and I start to miss the fresh clean mountain air back home all the while trying to disengage myself from the hustler without starting too much of a conflict but when I step away my right shoe stays stuck on the sticky street and I stumble over and the hustler, before I've even hit the ground, he's already got his fingers around the wallet in my back pocket and still everyone just stands there watching as I smack pavement ... you know?).
Yep, it's good that LastPass seems to respond quickly to reported vulnerabilities. Who knows how long those issues existed before getting discovered, though. And some of them were quite serious.
The reason there are so many is that instruction decoding and other digital logic can be made simpler if includes "don't care" states that reduce the amount of logic necessary while ignoring effects of out-of-spec operation.

(Cue the review of Karnaugh maps.)
Even with clean heroin, there is still a danger from overdose.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

You could perhaps consider it as a Darwin award...sell heroin to anyone who wants it, and then if they become addicted and overdose, at least it clears the gene pool of people who are too dumb to use it responsibly. /s

Note, that is not my viewpoint, but I wonder if that's what some of the proponents of legalization are thinking. Obviously heroin has a huge effect on the brain and personality, and it's very difficult to get off it once you're addicted. So there is some rationale to the idea that keeping heroin illegal is helping prevent people from getting involved with it in the first place.

Right now it's (arguably) mostly thrill-seekers or people self-medicating psychological problems or chronic pain (which in itself has a large psychological aspect) using heroin. If you legalize it you potentially open it up to a much larger group who might not have otherwise considered using it.
There's a certain irony that your original comment sounded like you think your time is much more valuable than everyone else's too, which is probably why it's gotten so downvoted. In any case...

I probably do sound like the colleagues you've worked with. It's not that I think my time is more valuable than everyone else's, but I do this my time is valuable. It sucks that your colleagues have treated you this way. I've worked with colleagues who would interrupt me every ten or twenty minutes, just when I'm getting back into the flow of concentration needed for programming which they broke ten or twenty minutes ago, often for what seem like very simple or trivial things. My frustrations with that probably bled through in my writing.

I also agree with the principle of treating others as I would like them to treat me. Looping that back to the original topic: that is exactly why I strongly prefer not to just receive a, "Hello," with a wait for response in instant messaging, but an initial message more in line with what the article suggests. This is also what I do when sending an initial message for the same reason: I value the other person's time and want to be cognisant of that.
Can you give a ballpark total comp for your ballpark years of experience? Atlanta is one of the places I've thought about moving to since it's not too far from my home town, but I've heard traffic sucks.
Ah okay, awesome.
You're working under the assumption that no one will attempt to use AI to assert power over others, and that the human race will come together to pull the plug when it becomes a problem. Looking at our current geopolitical situation, I'd rather be silly than naive.
Depends on your definition of "emulator". Since it is a thing that emulates Linux kernel calls on top of the NT kernel...it is definitely "emulating".
Not quite. Another popular example is the cnn learning to distinguish wolves from non-wolves, because the wolf was always photographed on snow & the other animals not on snow. It just learnt to distinguish snow vs non-snow instead of wolf vs non-wolf. It then failed catastrophically when you put a non-wolf on snow.

There's no leakage in either case. The model is learning one thing and you think it's learning another.
Yup. It's regurgitated, lazy blogging.
If you live in the United States, a significant number of people believe that getting sick is a moral failure. Drug use? Forget it.
Happy to see Rorty showing up on hn. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is a must read. Even if you disagree with his views, the value comes in hearing out one strand in the lineage of Kuhn.
These competitors are catching up with shipping because of the way Amazon's demands changed the entire shipping economy. UPS offers entire categories of delivery products now available to Amazon's competitors because they developed them originally for Amazon.
It still works. X is a protocol, install a server and point at it.

It's unsupported, which means it doesn't necessarily work well and they won't help you out.
"how existing gender and racial biases are being encoded in our algorithms" sounds like a great first problem to work on for those worried about super-intelligence, as it's basically a concrete instance of the value-alignment problem.

IMO, as long as you accept that human brains run on physical processes (no souls) and that computers continue to improve, super-intelligent AI is inevitable; but it's reasonable to think it's more like 150 years away than 10. Given the magnitude of the consequences here, it's still worth spending some resources to work on.