skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my plan https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/a-possibl...

I'm aiming for General Intelligence Augmentation, rather than AGI, but I it could be adapted.

I think the trick we are missing is always developing AI systems that need external programmers/maintainers. If we get away from that mindset, I think we will be more successful, even if it is not my particular vision.
Could you elaborate on the concepts and effect they had on you?
Insight into Apache PredictionIO
glib seems to be a common go-to even for otherwise non-gnome projects
Notice the talk on American studies, because American corporate culture and hardcore greed has resulted in lots of fake, confusing and counter studies, protecting the meat and sugar (corn syrup) industries
Three Things We Don’t Understand About Climate Change
> Carbs are the destructive force.

That's not what this 'study' supposedly says at all:

>> "The message of our study is moderation as opposed to very low or very high intake in consumption of both fats and carbohydrates."
If any private individual made similar claims he would be sent to the psychiatric ward.

If the ruling "elite" claims it, it must be true.
I eat what I like, when I like, but keep my dietary true north calibrated to low carb and do alternate day fasting and cardio when I want to drop a few pounds. Once your get used to it the tools are simple to use and don't require much will power to keep the body and vitals well maintained.
Lost almost 15 lbs in Atkins induction in the early days and my cholesterol rebalanced to a very good hdl ratio.
Yeah... I love IntelliJ. I use it for everything.
This is, of course, a brilliant comment. Well stated.

The only thing I can add is perhaps a corollary to this, which is "nothing causes a business to fail more than solving a non-existent problem" which is what Juicero did.
Hey.. i'm 42 now, But I was also programming at 13 (at that time we were trying to convince people that computers could be useful, and teachers to allow us to be in the computer lab).

A few things I picked up over the years: Keep going, don't get too into any one technology / keep moving, expect to continue learning forever, keep your body healthy (it's not just there to carry around your brain), avoid bad habits that start to emerge early (100x red-bull ++ etc). The brain requires a LOT of energy, feed it with respect

Intelligence = Speed of the car | Smart = Good at driving it | Wisdom = Where to drive.

Bye! Good luck!
Poor Charlie's Almanack is a fine book, but as it's just a collection of speeches and short stories the content is somewhat unstructured. I prefer "Seeking Wisdom from Darwin To Munger" by Peter Bevelin: https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Wisdom-Darwin-Munger-3rd/dp/1...
or you know, live a little and learn a language (or enough to get by).
Thank you so much! I started programming basic HTML when I was about 8 years old. After that, I pretty much just started making websites, and when I didn't know how to do something, I just looked it up or asked my parents to help me fix it. With that I've been able to learn a lot. Progressing from HTML to CSS, Javascript, Node, and now into Python and C.

I definitely will enjoy being young :)

I program in my free time, when I'm not playing soccer, doing homework, snowboarding, or playing guitar.
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Requirements:

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Familiarity with automated testing and build systems

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Hmm. Not to repeat, I think I must dig deep into the archives...

Korzybski, Alfred. Science and Sanity. Institute of GS, 1958. [1]

The Institute of General Semantics has a current website [2], is on Facebook, and has several articles on Wikipedia.org [3].

One of the mind-bending premises (Wikipedia.org):

"Non-Aristotelianism: While Aristotle wrote a true definition gives the essence of the thing defined ..., general semantics denies the existence of such an 'essence'. [...] In general semantics, it is always possible to give a description of empirical facts, but such descriptions remain just that—descriptions—which necessarily leave out many aspects of the objective, microscopic, and submicroscopic events they describe. According to general semantics, language, natural or otherwise ... can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone."

[1]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Science_and_Sanity.html?
[2]: http://www.generalsemantics.org/
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics
He jacked up the price for insurance companies, individuals paid 1$ if they have no insurance. He considered it a robber baron technique to get funding for new drug research to charge the insurance companies, whom have lots of $$ for PR firms to twist the narrative in the MSM, big pharma is a thing. If you think he some sort of evil villain you've eaten the PR.
You have tremendous insight and determination. Good job and btw, love Wade!
[1] Balthasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Timeless classic, 300 short maxims containing sage advice, written in beautiful prose. One of those books you can read just a few pages whenever you feel like. Currently re-reading it for the third time since I first read it 10 years ago. Still updates my mental model.

[2] James Allen, "As a man Thinketh"

At 21 pages, by far the most impactful piece of work on an impact-to-effort ratio. Very simple, yet very true. Changed my mental model completely, also 10 years ago, and also a book I'm re-reading for the third time.

[3] Nassim Taleb, "Black Swan"

A much more modern business book on the now-mainstream concept of "Black Swan" events. But the true value of this book goes beyond the concept – it changed my view of statistics, knowledge, empirical scepticism, philosophy, cognitive biases, societal dynamics, and sure, made me quit investment banking.

[4] Brian Greene, "Fabric of the Cosmos"

Mind-blowing primer on physics, all the way from Newtonian physics, to General Relativity, to Quantum Mechanics, to String Theory (and beyond). Concepts explained without a single equation.

[5] Douglas Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid"

What a unique masterpiece. Covers a wide range fascinating concepts through the three geniuses in Math, Art, and Music. Most mind-blowing is his meta-writing style, using short fictional dialogue interludes (sprinkled with easter eggs) to convey each concept in very subtle manner. The joy when you see it.

[1] http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/index.htm

[2] https://wahiduddin.net/thinketh/as_a_man_thinketh.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(Taleb_book)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabric_of_the_Cosmos

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

UPDATE: format
I think you are right that we could, in theory experimentally brute force intelligence. But if we try and do that, we are basically trying to simulate an entire universe and wait for intelligence. But the amount of computing power that that would require is beyond even what we can imagine. And even if we could find some ways of simplifying it, it still seems like a waste of our intelligence.

Like when it got cold for humans, rather than just dying and waiting until they evolved fur, they just made clothes. Evolution is inherently able to do great things but is very inefficient. We have the power to reverse engineer nature and use that knowledge to our advantage, and if our goal is to create general AI, then not trying to understand the one sitting in everyone heads and just trying to throw more computing behind it just seems like a waste of a tool that has allowed us to get this far.
> How does one prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that I haven't actually forgotten the password?

It appears the disk wasn't fully encrypted (since they found hashes of individual files), so they likely know when the computer was last used and possibly when the data in question was last decrypted. I don't think the former being very recent should be enough to establish that he hasn't forgotten the password, but the latter sure seems like a good standard.
Those were some expensive mistakes. Some of the gear mentioned: Canon C300 Mark II ($9,999) and Canon 600mm f/4L IS II USM ($11,499).
Dude! Keep it up, that's awesome!
there are hashes of known child pornography content on the drive

On an encrypted drive? Sounds like bullshit to me.
I'm sure many colonialists burn books, doesn't distract from the fact we have lost knowledge and replaced with Christian and Islamist propoganda, they couldn't have people thinking we lived for more tHan a few thousand years as it contradicts the Bible and Qur'an!
I think I may be stupid, in that I can only really get details of a model I already sort of understand from most books -- I need it pretty short'n'sweet to get a major model revision.

That being said, two papers that have radically changed my mental model are:

Einstein's 1905 paper -- I'd never actually thought about what a clock or time was before, or what it meant for two events to happen "at the same time".

http://hermes.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Einstein_1...

A 2007 summary of MS's approach to (topological) quantum computers significantly changed my model of how physics worked -- likely because I hadn't gotten particularly far in physics before, but also because topological effects seem like they'd be more prevalent than I had initially conceived of (and we might need to rewrite physics to include topological features more explicitly).

https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1889
Landing on concrete isn't likely to melt the sensor though.
The Urantia Book[1]

There's a peculiar richness, depth, and inventiveness to it that has kept me coming back to it on occasion for over 20 years of intermittent reading. I haven't come across another book quite like it. Of the few people who have heard about it, most bounce right off after skimming it, very understandably so.

But taken as a human project it's really quite an extraordinary piece of work. Having written short fiction and most of a novel before, I feel like I have a sense of the hard work it takes to master the craft of writing, and I have a lot of respect when I see not just good writing but writing that innovates, keeps pushing. The Urantia Book is like a fractal in its simplicity vs the narrative spun out from the seed ideas. The mental model is to merge both a science mindset and spirituality.

Recommend the iPhone app of it (is free, and has a quotes collection included).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book
StreamUpBox
Someone should just do C# for Java and be done with it...
We are kinda of files gulu and hassler who understand files more than anyone and we do highly know what developers need in file System ecosystem.
There is a lot of chaff being produced and sold in the watch world.

For those who like the design of the watches I think the style is called "Bauhaus", for further online searches.

For some more durable and genuine brands who prominently display Bauhaus design elements, take a look at the collections of:

-Nomos

-Junghans (Max Bill)
Haha I think your link is wrong ;)

I do have plans on finishing it, but I have a lot of projects right now. I'm trying to get Moon v1 out, working on my OS, Slash, and some other new projects. If you have any recommendations for what the code samples should be on, I'd be glad to try and write it based on that.
Yeah, and water!
What ramifications does it have for our legal system if you can be convicted without solid evidence, only circumstantial online activity?

Encryption, once you lose the key, effectively destroys data. If you wanna charge someone with destruction of evidence, then charge that.
If only you had taken the initiative to do it earlier!
The chances of a hash collision are drastically lower than the false positive rate of a DNA test, and US courts have accepted the latter for a long time.
Understanding Transducers in JavaScript
Yeah, if you use a super-telephoto lens, then take your camera body off and change the focal point so that you are using your lens as a magnifying glass like they did in the video. No doubt. For the rest of the sane world; however, it's not quite that risky. For reference, that Leica I used in my shot is a one of a kind as it was the first lens to roll off the line when Leitz branding was changed to Leica & estimated to be worth between $12,000 to $22,000. I wouldn't have risked it if there was any risk whatsoever.
Most embassy "diplomats" are spies or spy handlers.
Awesome! Thank you so much for the tips, I'll definitely keep these in mind.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124906
> That isn't a "benefit". That's "some people are using it for some things".

It's not something intrinsic to Docker, but you asked "what exactly is the point of docker with a golang project?" and being able to use those thing out-of-the-box is absolutely a reason to use Docker. Something like Kubernetes is not easily replaced in-house.

> They use Docker to provide lightweight VM's which the project build/test/whatever script can run in (which usually involves installing build/test dependencies), when Docker's whole "thing" is one-process per Container.

Thanks to layering, you can install those build/test scripts and dependencies without affecting the base image.

Also, they don't use LXC/LXD because - everyone else is using Docker! Like I said, there's a real advantage to having a single standard image.

> Not at all. You mentioned using Docker with Go. I asked why, and you responded "I don't use it in production... but". Which is what my whole point was about.

Like I said, I don't think your previous post actually replied to mine. Only this one did.
> It's not clear from the article what doesn't scale…

This is the main problem with the article IMO.

Many IIoT technologies and platforms will be used across vastly different industries. Others will be industry-specific. As they always have, industry-specific vendors will integrate industry-specific elements with more "scalable" elements to provide complete solutions for specific customers.

OTOH, every complete IIoT solution will be bespoke. Sales, marketing, and integration will not be scalable.
Glad it helped!

Feel free to submit issue or PR or some other form of feeback ;)
It doesn't happen like that.

They know he downloaded files which have the same hash values as known images of child sexual abuse.

They arrest him and search him. They can't find these images but they find an encrypted hard drive.

In some countries (England) they can ask for the keys, and not handing over the keys is its own offence (with 2 or 5 year sentence depending on the supposed contents).

I have no idea what the legal situation is in any other countries.
In Vietnamese, there are some noun used as pronoun. Therefore the number of pronoun in usage is much more diverse than say English pronoun. For example, the word pronoun "you" in English is used for both addressing the second person both singular and plural. However, there is no one translation for "you" in Vietnamese.

How you would address the person you speaks to depend on the circumstance:

- If you are a child and you are speaking to your parent, "you" would be "ba/cha/bố" (father) or "mẹ/má" (mother).

- If you are speaking to your sibling, then "you" would be "anh/chị/em" (older brother/older sister/younger sibling).

- If you are on the street and speaks to a person around your age "anh/chị" (even if they are the same age or younger than you a little bit, it's show polite to refer to them as if they are your older sibling). This show that you can express politeness through the usage of pronoun.

- On the flip side, if you are really casual, you can use "mày", which usually mean "you" but very impolite. Some people can take offense if you use this to refer to them.

- Also the word "you" translate to different word for each person in your family tree (same thing with Mandarin if I remember correctly) as you refer to people in your family by their relationship to you, and there isn't just a direct translation for the English pronoun "you" for conversation around the family.

One of the thing I appreciate from English is that you just need to say the word "you" when refer to the person you are speaking to. You never have to worry about the context of the conversation that you are having and adjust your pronoun usage accordingly. When I speak Vietnamese, I often just estimate their age and use "anh/chị/bạn" (older brother/older sister/friend" accordingly. Also I try to use their name in place of the pronoun, which can sound weird sometime.

On the other hand, you can get away by not saying any pronoun in some case, mostly very casual case.

Non exhaustive list can be found here (along with an in-depth explanation of how this mess works): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_pronouns
>Every time a major advance is made in AI the computational neuroscientist say: "why didn't you talk to us 15 years ago? We could have told you that!"

Can you name one time that has happened? I can't think of any.
That's a good point. I very fortunately left interview mode a few months ago, and have pretty deliberately blocked that part of my life out. As you might have guessed, I'm not great at it.

You could argue that the fact that memorization is helpful illustrates how flawed those programming interviews are. It's just like any test in school, memorizing things for a short time before the test is effective, but it doesn't really help you in the long run.

Good luck with your interviews :)
Given that how common it is to find massive stars in multiple systems, it would be surprising not to find systems of compact massive objects that are remnants of these.

OTOH, who knows about intermediate mass BHs and beyond. Aggregation of these multiple systems of CMOs? Let's look!

- --

sec 3.5 and table 1, Duchêne & Kraus, https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3028

multiplicity counts are all over the map:

Eggleton & Tokovinin 2008
Guerrero et al. 2014
Lada 2006

but pretty much nobody thinks they're extremely rare.
If you're implying that $1k/mo will have zero value, I think you're mistaken.

This would undoubtedly cause rents to rise, along with other things, but it will still be far less hopeless to have some money than none.
If there is such overwhelming evidence that it's a foregone conclusion, then I wonder why they haven't charged and convicted the man already. Why do they need any cooperation at all?

It isn't about childporn, or whatever this guy is accused of doing. This is about "you are not doing as you are told, citizen, and we will fuck you up for that".

It is about control, in the same way that security theater at airports isn't about security.
Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts aided by walkie talkie app Zello
A camera is repairable, so it's not like they throw out the entire "broken" item. Dropping the camera would have just created a second problem.

It's an interesting line, between accident and neglect. Reading the article, my initial reaction was that it is ridiculous for their insurance to not cover this damage. But yet in general I do enjoy the non-diligent actually retaining some moral hazard. This "absent agency" problem is usually addressed with a deductible, but that still doesn't fully price in the cost of easily-prevented damage.

Recently renting a box truck and not wanting to be on the hook for a $150k piece of capital equipment, I got the damage waiver. But I had wished for a cheaper policy that would have excluded damage from low drive-throughs and parking garages, which presumably makes up the majority of their claims. Alas.
1984. A very powerful book. It really made a strong impression on me and definitely changed my views on politics, propaganda, governments and so on.

Capitalism and freedom. Helped me to understand capitalism and American right-wing ideology.

The grapes of wrath. Actually, I haven't read the book, only watched the movie. It puts into perspective what we see happening with refugees in Europe.
I can envision N ways that they could make a platform that wouldn't scale, but I can't envision any valid excuses.
That's good for you but I personally feel like crap in the gym without eating a decent amount of carbs in the preceding ~6 hours.
I hope the writers of "Silicon Valley" were paying attention to this saga. There's some juice left to be squeezed from it.
I shorten lots of terms on irc and elsewhere as well, just because it's faster to type. I doubt this is really a twitter only thing, though of course twitter has a huge influence in spreading these things.
This includes a call for help on Photon, the "new user interface."

"Since the UI is written in major parts in JavaScript and CSS and an HTML-like language called XUL, anyone with webdev skills can improve it!"

I thought 57 was dumping XUL completely. Wasn't that a major point of 57?
Check out this $1M bet Warren Buffett looks about to win
Based on a bit of Google-ing, it looks like this is what the GP was talking about:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/06...
Farming? Are you mad? It contributes as little as 0.5% of the country's GDP.

Not everything is about GDP. You belittle farming, but without food to eat, Londoners would not be generating a lot of economic output at all.

The original point here was that London generates disproportionate tax revenues, but only because it is home to more scalable service industries and relies on the less lucrative but essential supplies and infrastructure from elsewhere.

What other natural resources are being "harvested" to enrich London so much?

Almost none of the UK's electricity supply originates within London, even if we take that to mean Greater London.

London also has no major sources for fuels.

Your whole thesis is laughable. You seem to be upset

Why would I be upset about anything? I only commented that London is able to generate disproportionate tax returns because it's service-based and relies on the rest of the UK for support. That's not a "thesis", it's a simple economic fact, and everything I've mentioned in support it of is readily verifiable for the price of a Google search.
> XTS-mode AES absolutely protects you from known-plaintext attacks like the investigators apparently claim to have pulled off.

1. I didn't claim XTS-mode AES is vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks.

2. I don't believe the investigators claim to have pulled off a known-plaintext attack. What is your source for this?
The Conquest of Bread
> Debt, the first 5,000 years

It's often cited on HN, but I've found it very dense and difficult to read.
Kabir +1. You are remarkable guy and inspiration to the rest of us oldies. Keep up the good work.
One reason they want him to unlock the drive is to protect children. Each of these images is a child that has been abused. Some of these are historic cases, and the child is now safe. But some of these are new, and the child is still living with the abuser, and the abuse is continuing.