skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> right wing extremist

Right wing of where exactly? I am not American but I am assuming you're talking about the US. In that case, you should know that the clean tech industry in the US started and thrived during Bush presidency. The mainstream American right wingers are no less brainwashed than the American left wingers when it comes to renewables and climate change. Climate change deniers are a minority that even Trump disassociates himself from because he knows majority of the right would hate him for it.

>And no body is investing in Thorium R&D, at least not in USA.

People would invest in it if they thought it would work. It's like Solar and Wind, which are complete waste of money, except it is not "renewable" and hence not even cool.

>I know turbines do kill birds but they can move it away from migration paths.

As I already said, I know that it is okay as long as it fits the narrative.
I'm troubled by the DoD actions on AI, but not by who owns the supercomputers in the US.

It actually works out better if the US government computers are through various science organization labs, because it locates much of their computing power in places also accessible to universities and at agencies amenable to US universities using their resources. So funding computers through the DoE, NOAA, NASA, etc actually makes them more available for the US research community, while allowing the military to lease the time they need (eg, for calculating explosion dynamics).

The total funding for US supercomputers also could be higher, but that's a general problem with US infrastructure investment.

My main point was there's no real concern with the computers being owned by scientific institutions instead of the military -- they're still government funded, it just makes them more widely accessible for use.
American's don't need modern fancy cars either. We have surreys, wagons, and horseless carriages too.

(The sarcasm is real. Claiming that home internet access is unneeded implies a fundamental misunderstanding, a regressive misunderstanding, of how society has transformed in the past 20 years.)
An interesting quote from Hill, from the article linked to:

> It baffles me that some people thinks Firefox is becoming a “Chrome clone”, it’s just not the case, it’s just plain silly to make such statement.

He lists several ways in which FF is better, from a security standpoint.
The Radical Plan to Cool Down LA as the World Heats Up
Airline Performance in 2015
What's your point? You are still taking part of the founder's control away, and giving it to some third party.

Bezo's has paid a huge amount of taxes on shares of stock he's actually sold. He shouldn't have to pay taxes on money he hasn't received or is even able to spend yet. What's best for Society is that both he and his capital remains in Amazon as long as possible as investment, not being turned into consumption (which would slow Amazon's growth rate down, slow it's ability to increase productivity and raise our standard of living).
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It is a mistake, yes. But this particular mistake would have behaved very differently on a normal server. Just because there exist mistakes you can make that would have the same consequences on regular server vs serverless doesn't mean you can just shrug your shoulders and say all mistakes are the same.

The fundamental issue here is serverless is great at allowing you to automatically scale to meet demand, but it also is great at automatically scaling to meet unexpected resource usage caused by errors (or poor design). And so this means a mistake on your end can cost you a lot of money, because the system thought that it was real demand.
I live in North Carolina (not in the tech-heavy part) and "work in" SF Bay Area ... it's a good situation.
This has been in production with Power BI + Cortana for about a year now.
Google's published diversity report.
This is great! My smaller siblings say the wittiest things (often without realising) that brighten my day, I often wonder if there's a platform to 'record' them. I hope that your project will eventually turn into that!
If wind farms are going to contribute significantly, then there will be a lot of them. In terms of replacing fossil fuels they will likely still be a net benefit, but unless the Audubon Society has been captured by Big Oil etc (which I doubt, but possible) then bird safety still sounds like an open question.

[1] http://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-...
I agree with you, but I'm currently dealing with a Python codebase that is very verbose and is written in classes with 5 - 6 levels of inheritance - it's a nightmare. This type of code organization couldn't be considered "explicit", could it?
.NET has some speech synthesis and listener libraries. They work pretty well; I built a modestly-functional chat bot once with them. Not sure about the overall .NET licensing arrangement, but I heard it was moving towards open source.

Though they feel abandoned, and there hasn't been much recent activity around them. Microsoft probably has all speech engineers working on Cortana instead. (Though I'd be surprised if she's not using .NET at some level.)
https://jsonip.com

Been running it for years and supports millions of requests a day. Started off as a simple experiment with node.js years ago but turned into a utility thousands of people use every day.

* Ignore jsonip.org. Some Trump troll set that up in June. I made the mistake of not registering all of my domains. Oh well.
Salesforce 'Red Team' fired after speaking at Defcon
Why not floating solar panels, I've always wondered? Free space, free supports, clear direct sunlight.
When you realize your take home in Germany is higher than in San Francisco in absolute numbers despite 50% income tax... Mindblowing.
I guess the new line is that we can't trust the scientists, because they're all corrupt.

Which I guess is pretty similar to the old line. But at least back then the know-nothingism had the pretense of caring about the science with screams of "1998!" and "sunspots!"
The DS is arguably the most innovative automobile of the century.
> My point was moreso about how prevalent the phenomenon of ignoring obvious objective reality is when certain topics are involved, the key ones off the top of my head being: race, gender, sexuality.

Fair. I just wanted to add that it's not terribly applicable to the specifics of the memo and article. People are upset about systemic total representation and undervaluation rather than a lack of singular genius.

But I agree that there are people who find any conversation about statistics as it regards this subject as a form of heresy.
To download from SC, I just use youtube-dl.[1] It's free, open source, well respected, and works great.

In fact, I don't listen to SC (or watch youtube) any other way.

[1] - https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
I think it's more like Bill Gurley not fully looking out for the interests of Benchmark [0] while dealing with Travis when he held the board seat at Uber on their behalf.

Fun fact: Gurley has himself being sued by some founders of a startup (Epinions) in the past for misrepresenting material information [1] prior to a merger.

[0] "Mr. Gurley has remained one of Mr. Kalanick’s few trusted advisers, and the two communicate several times a week ... "

"Yet in many ways, Uber now epitomizes many of the excesses Mr. Gurley has publicly condemned, ..."

from

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/technology/bill-gurley...

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/technology/founders-of...
There's way too much money at stake here for this to be driven by grudges, emotions, or even reputations.

Benchmark's stake in Uber is worth $9.1b -- many, many times the size of their fund. They will do anything they can to protect this investment.

They very likely believe that the best way to protect their investment is to keep Travis out, and this is part of the process. Decisions like this aren't made at an individual partner level. The entire partnership decided to file this lawsuit, and that means it's a calculated decision.
Isn't nearest sun-like star... the Sun?
These press prostitutes know exactly what they're doing. Thank God for services like archive.is because otherwise they just blackhole everything scummy they do.

http://archive.is/j8cns
If you want to try another (cheaper) service I personally use Lunanode.com for most things. If you're willing to take a risk with availability find something on lowendbox.com.
East Bay (El Cerrito/Albany/Berkeley) is where it's at. Great weather, no suburban sprawl hell, easy commute to anywhere, great food and culture, top notch schools, decent rents. Every time I try to leave this place I just can't justify it.
Thanks, that was the intent :) Kids say a lot of great stuff, and it's often just forgotten. I'll add a json export so users can save off at some point.
>The founders themselves often started programming as kids

i'm not sure where you get this conclusion that those who enjoy extracurricular programming often started as kids.

Usually those who started as a kid means they were fortunate enough to have parents who were programmers. Even if they're parents weren't that case, then usually its the case of just doing html/css on myspace
Can someone please post any information on what this means for TreeStyleTabs? Will it stop working? Have they managed to work with Mozilla to build enough hooks to keep it working with the new restrictions? Thanks.
This political war between left and right is getting insane. Especially when the idea of firing people for their beliefs is thrown around so casually as it is in this article.

I think one of the main issues is that dialog is really difficult. If we can't express our views to each other the divide will continue to grow. But if you job is on the line the best policy is to keep your mouth shut.
Can we have an AlphaGo tournament with the StarCraft II AI, where pros fight the bot, lose horribly, and make them question their life decisions?
Isn't this already true? You are allowed to flaunt copyright under certain conditions, including if the portion copied is sufficiently small, or if the new work is considered transformative. I would imagine that many instances of sampling would be protected because of this.

SoundCloud's responsibility should be to defend the rights of their users. If a DMCA claim is filed in a way that SoundCloud deems to be unfair, then they might offer to litigate on behalf of their user. As it stands, the majority of artists will capitulate to studio even in cases where the law is on their side, because they haven't the means to defend themselves.
Snap Misses User-Growth Estimate as Facebook Copying Takes Toll
Not the user you replied to, but for me, Youtube's "automatic mixes" loop pretty quickly. Also, YT is a bit more of a pain to use on mobile (either leave a video running, uses up battery and data, or use a modded version of Youtube which pretends it's Youtube Red and has background playback enabled).

Soundcloud "just worked". It even caches your feed after you listen to it, so I was able to use it without it using my mobile data for a while.
If there was anything bad in the report they would have come out and said so in the complaint. It's not a magic game of telephone.

they would have had a material impact on Benchmark's decision is probably the weakest possible complaint.
I'm one of the authors of this post - look forward to hearing you comments!
I would incredibly surprised if he hasn't already thought about similar things. I remember in an interview last year he stated that the Interplanetary Transport System SpaceX is building for whisking humans to mars and other celestial objects in the solar system will be tiny in comparison to the spaceships that humanity will build in the latter half of this century. Bear in mind, the ITS has more than 3x the lift-off thrust of the Saturn V, which is the largest rocket ever built.
Given human nature, widespread belief in consequentialism as an ethical system would likely result is very bad consequences. So from the position that consequentialism is correct it is probably unethical to advocate as a correct viewpoint.
Mental Health and Machine Learning: Use Cases
Snap misses across the board for Q2 earnings
A JSON library in C:
https://github.com/kgabis/parson
See, just because STEM is less than 50% women means it's sexist against them... Just like nursing, HR, home care, child care, social services, accounting, and a bunch of other services being less than 50% men is sexist against men! Make them equal! Begin the gender wars!

Don't take my word for it though:

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/professions-wo...
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Equity should only count as a lottery ticket unless the company has IPO'ed and there is a place for the employee to actually value and sell those shares.

One could argue that if a company has had a public offering, they probably aren't at the low end of this pay scale anyway, but that's more speculative.
> In practice, I have yet to see anything concrete, but I haven't exactly been looking hard.

"In theory yes, in practice no" - sums up every explanation I've seen of whether blockchain technology could be applied to a particular problem. I still haven't seen a "killer app" that's not better suited to a traditional database.

Bitcoin became useful because it's an unregulated currency that has enough acceptance to be liquid and enough anonymity to be used for clandestine purposes. As soon as you try to use blockchain tech for "traditional" transactions you end up eating the computational cost of a distributed ledger for no apparent benefit.
I wonder if the Mormons will be starting their ship construction now?
C'mon man! Google allows one to check on their promises and their progress. For example, from 2012:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491635/vertical-it/sel...

"Such "autonomous vehicles" will be a reality for "ordinary people" in less than five years, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Tuesday."

How's that working out for you Sergey?

Self driving tech hasn't moved appreciably since the 90s. Computers are better. More people are trying it. Reality is, it's just collision avoidance with GPS. They rely on maps; what happens when the maps change? What happens when a kid runs out in front of one of these things?
Yes but they're not spending $100 to "dodge taxes". They're spending the money on positive NPV projects. You're mistaking an effect for a cause. Companies invest and expand and they pay less taxes as an effect. But in the future, they'll have to pay taxes on those revenue generating facilities they invested in.

And if those investments go belly up then the company will LOSE more money than it ever gained by "dodging taxes".
> 50% income tax

Thats insane
They won't. This is a necessary move in the Quantum push. Can't expose the browser's internal API (like XUL extensions) and put it through a big refactor.
> Do you not see the difference between prosecuting an action and a thought?...Even with "conspiracy to commit" laws, the conspiracy refers to an action which is unequivocally a crime.

Again, it is a crime to discriminate on the basis of age. If you ignore that premise, then this discussion becomes pretty abstract. You could make the case that companies would (and have, in the past) save a lot of money by employing child labor.

I agree that prosecuting based on what someone is "thinking" could lead down the slippery slope of Orwellian dystopia. Which is why these prosecutions are not based on thoughts, but on actions. If I were a restaurant owner, I have the right to use Confederate flags and Nazi memorabilia as decor. But as soon as I refuse to serve Jewish and black people -- even if I think such persons aren't a great return on investment because I perceive them to order/tip less than other customers -- I am in violation of federal law.
1) It's not clear how to derive a signal from that evidence. Is a thicker tree ring evidence of a hotter, wetter climate, or a "happy medium" temperature?

2) Such a record of tree rings, if it could produce any temperature signal whatsoever, would be a relative signal: Each year would be calculated in relation to other years on the same timeline for the same tree. How you could map that signal to modern temperature observations in any meaningful way?

Personally if you're talking about a global temperature estimate, I would only trust the gold standard: Satellite observations starting in 1978.
Yes, and it is quite good: https://github.com/root-project/cling#jupyter

I find it invaluable
According to someone, "According to one source Ars spoke with at Defcon, Schwartz turned off his phone prior to the presentation so that he couldn't be told directly not to speak."

If this is true, it speaks volumes. But, who expects security researchers to have a mobile phone turned on anywhere near defcon? That's like using an open wifi network at defcon.
Now, what would be the name of the new company ? nvintel ? intellidia ?
From the article:

"So is it fair to say 'most social programmes don’t work?'

I think this is a little ambiguous and potentially misleading. Individual projects mostly don’t work, but whole areas often do have a positive impact. So, if you pick an intervention at random, then on average your impact will be positive, because there’s a small but important chance of you picking one of the good ones."

Can we fix this to the proper, non clickbait title of "What fraction of social programmes don’t work?"
Likewise for SF, their estimate is $1250/month, which will rent you a garage or a converted living room with a curtain separating it from the kitchen in the far reaches of the city.

As a grad student, this is about my budget for housing, and I promise you I'm not exaggerating.
Incorrect link?
Looking forward to a YOLO or SqueezeDet or SSD+MobileNet version!
I try to use DDG when I can, but my problem is when it comes down to searching for GitHub stuff. Google is much, much better at handling that.
Well, there was this place called "The Turing Institute" which was in Glasgow. It was run by a very nice man called Don Michie. I met Don a handful of times, and he was extremely kind and generous to me. He worked at Bletchley Park and died aged 91 having hit a bridge at 120mph going the wrong way up the M11 at 2am sitting next to his wife who had defected to Russia thirty years before. Don was driving, at the time he had been blind for six months.

Anyway, The Turing Institute existed because of Don's drive to commercialise Expert Systems. Don was a driver in the Alvey project which was a grand project to solve issues around Expert Systems in response to the Japanese Fifth Generation project. A man called Lighthill then rumbled the Expert System movement. If you want to watch a demolition of it see the following video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReDbeY7ZMU

and the other 5 of them (you will find them in the sidebar!)

Fun fact. In video 6 you can watch Christopher Strachey have a pop at AI. Christopher didn't work at Bletchley, he was too young, but he did work at Manchester with Alan Turing and they created computer music and love poetry in collaboration before Turing killed himself. Strachey went on to be the first Professor of Computer Science at Oxford, he was a scion of a great family of artists and poets.

But enough of this. The Turing Institute was an attempt to say "we are right, look", but in fact it failed. Don was clear why, when you hit 40k rules knowledge bases became completely intractable. It was impossible to make improvements or changes. This was christened the Knowledge Acquisition bottleneck, and Don and others turned to Machine Learning (he liked to call it Behavioral Cloning) to solve it.

So :

1. It was done to death by peer review.

2. It died commercially.

3. It's main protagonists decided to do something diffferent.
RE the stroz report: from what I've heard, AL did take a bunch of files, and he planned to use as leverage against google/waymo to get his 120m bonus, and Uber told him more or less "dont let that shit touch anything we do". He also had some kind of big google earth photo taking kit at his house for long after he quit google.
AMD is already making a big marketing push about "you need 32 lanes for SLI/CrossFire!".

Which is utterly false, at 3.0 speeds x8x8 only costs you a few percent at most. Strangely x16x16 can actually hurt you in a few titles, which suggests we may just be seeing some other kind of variation/noise anyway.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-per...

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performan...

Threadripper is no better than a Ryzen 7 at gaming, and in fact is often worse (often closer to a Ryzen 5). If you really buy into the need for x16x16 then getting a 6850K is really the obvious answer, it competes with Ryzen core-for-core in both performance and efficiency and since it's a HEDT product you get the 40 PCIe lanes as well as quad-channel RAM. Somewhat pricier than Ryzen, given, but actually much cheaper than Threadripper.
This is a great example of incentives at work! All traffic-bound cities, including the prominent tech hubs like Seattle, SF, etc. can learn from this approach. Costs don't have to change in aggregate. The choice to drive solo and park just needs to cost every time. Otherwise sunk costs are in play, and people will try to get their money's worth, adding to the congestion.
Yeah this must be how climate change deniers feel about the scientific view of climate change. It really feels like it's just one scientist's work against another. I don't have time to actually read their studies so how should I know who to believe?

Of course this is much worse than climate change because that's 'hard science' where it's relatively easy to get good evidence. Psychology seems to be barely better than guesswork.
I'm not bringing up Wikipedia or anything else. I am going to one of the main alt-right people to define their beliefs and membership[0].

Vox Day is alt-right. That probably is not a controversial statement to anyone. I would assume that he knows who is alt-right and who is not. Given that he wrote an article[2] that declares Ben Shapiro and enemy of the alt-right and later tries to classify Mr. Shapiro[3], I am given to believe being someones enemy is a pretty good sign that you are not that same someone.

I think you desperately want to classify Ben Shapiro as alt-right for some weird reason. I would assume so you can ignore any argument he puts forward with a cheap label.

0) having to read some of this stuff to actually reply is truly painful and frankly its bad enough I have to read far left stuff, reading alt-right stuff is just as painful.

1) https://infogalactic.com/info/Vox_Day

2) http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-enemy-of-alt-right.htm...

3) https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/04/does-ben-shapiro-belong-...