skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it will be a money and resource sink. His estimates of the total costs to transport everything needed to create a self-sustaining colony is in the $200 billion range over a century.

However consider this. He's discussing replacing a good chunk of the airline industry. Per https://aviationbenefits.org/economic-growth/value-to-the-ec... the airline industry is worth around $600 billion per year. Suppose that he captures $100 billion of that. With about $10 billion profit per year.

He's just paid for the Mars colony 5 times over. And he WASN'T planning on colonizing Mars as a charity!

It only sounds crazy. The numbers actually can add up.
Agreed. Haters going to hate. This is art. Thank you.
In china, people are banking on urbanization: because poor farmers are really going to be able to afford a small apartment in the city for $1 million. Really.
The unrestricted Turing test has been around since the 1950s as a test that hasn't changed.

No one is moving the goalposts, I think it's rather the opposite. Every ten years computers learn a new trick or two and people rush to claim that this time, it's intelligent.
This is the point where I would say, 'i don't care, let's talk about it'.

Perfectly correct for them? Okay, cool. Also perfectly correct for the rest of the world to discuss... On freely accessable platforms...

Look I'm not blaming you mseebach, and thank you for the insightful information, but from an outside point of view. 'I don't care' what the Constitution says.

I can't do pretty much anything frm where I am, but I'll certainly pay attention to censorship for profit. It may not be useful, but perhaps one day it will.

As for you personally, stay safe mate, be careful. I hope everything goes well for your country:-)

Edit:big thumbs :--
Facebook built its vision of democracy on bad math
Obviously not, but that's not what happened here. The app is still available in other countries: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cat.onvotar1oc...
Then why do they pay for the Kithchenaid mixer.
It'd be great if they fixed the memory leak so I could leave tabs open for more than a day. at about 2.4 gigs it crashes.
Edit: valid problems get downvoted. Great job guys.
I would say that having a healthy skepticism (which is not the same thing as pessimism or cynicism) helps make it more likely for things to work out in the long run.

It's the difference between saying, "Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars, wouldn't that be cool?" and "you're going to be living on Mars someday, better get ready". It's also the difference between saying, "self-driving cars would be great, let's try to make that happen" vs. "I'm not going to buy another car until I can get a self-driving one, that's how sure I am that this is imminent".

Really it's the difference between underpromising and overdelivering vs. overpromising and underdelivering. The people who are the most enthusiastic and vocally certain about the inevitability of these things in the near future are more of a threat to making those things happen than the people who are cautiously optimistic but skeptical about them.

IMO that's the reason to be skeptical- just to be realistic and to help the general population set their expectations appropriately. Nothing to do with bracing yourself for an emotional letdown. If overenthusiastic Mars/self-driving cars/AI people are vocal enough to convince the media and the general population about the near-term revolutionary inevitability of these things, then after a few years of those things not happening, the public will flip in the opposite direction. Then voila, no more tax breaks or research funding or other public support for those things, and they go from "might happen in my lifetime" to "will never happen in my lifetime" in reality, not just perception. Right now if you want to work on autonomous vehicles and know your stuff, then maybe there's a job or a grant for you someplace. If public opinion flips to "these people have been saying this stuff is just around the corner for 20 years, this has all been a waste of time and money", then boom, no more government assistance, no more venture capital, no more big companies spending lots of money on R&D for this stuff.
If you are being oppressed based on ethnicity, it is fine to band together based on ethnicity to secure your rights.
Worst case scenario Earth still has 1g of gravity, a breathable atmosphere, a magnetic field keeping most radiation out, and a temperature that you can live in without dying in most places. It'll still be way more livable than Mars.
The US is more than 300 million people which is nice and big, but the most nationalistic people here have yet to transition into "working towards the unity and integration of the human tribe."
Airports are in cities. Even 10 miles out to the ocean would make a massive difference without taking that long.
Actually, that is more about rare earth elements being recovered, ever since the Chinese supply scare a few years ago (which is also related to the environment as rare earth processing is incredibly dirty if done cheaply). Anyways, there is a lot more effort to recycle and re-use these elements for economic reasons.
Opinion polling put Statehood at 52%, with a 3.2% margin of error. Sounds close, but the referendum had 3 choices, and neither were very close.

It seems like those opposed to Statehood realized they'd lose as they split the vote, and ran a boycott campaign, effectively turning it into a yes/no vote on statehood, with the fringe benefit of claiming all non-voters as on their side, which going by 2012, is a free 20 percent of the vote.

For better or worse, there's not really an objective way to evaluate this state of affairs =/
You could sell a Kitchenaid-mixer quality toaster for much less than a Kitchenaid mixer.
Edit2: Forget everything I said :) My geometry is quite rusty I guess. Not only any non-isotropic metric cannot have an Euclidean equidistant projection, any non-Euclidean metric clearly can't have an Euclidean equidistant projection. Metric spaces are defined by pairwise distances! What you can do however, is make the distance to 1 or 2 arbitrarily chosen points correct.
This is basically how Signal avoid being blocked in (IIRC) Saudi Arabia.
Wild guess: the Catalonian government had that idea and challenged the view of the courts that the vote is illegal.
If my government did that, I'd certainly want independence, too.
Amadeus and Sabre systems are probably the biggest single point of failure in the world. I cannot find any other service which, when made unavailable, will cause workdwide chaos.
That didn't work, because the question of how to define 'political' is itself highly political. We knew that before we tried the detox experiment but boy did we know it afterwards. And it wouldn't be in HN's mandate (like, not at all) to try to limit it to technical stories. Our core audience, even if it feels like a minority sometimes, is readers who are interested in both technical and non-technical things.

> the signal-to-noise ratio on HN has been lowering over the past year

People have been saying that since the beginning. Is it true? Maybe, but there are strong biases (e.g. it always feels like things are getting worse) and it's hard to measure.
Yeah, here's one: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...

"...some studies have shown that the asymmetry reported by Kruger and Dunning (i.e., the smaller discrepancy for high performers than for low performers) actually goes away, and even reverses, when the ability tests given to participants are very difficult."

Dunning-Kruger is almost a meme, people throw it around casually like it's blanket truth and applies in all situations. What is rarely discussed is that the original study only measured very, very simple tasks. And (importantly, I think) they are tasks that you don't learn in school, so nobody has metrics or good calibration for their abilities. The ability to get a joke was one of the tasks they measured. You can't really compare the "skill" of the ability to get a joke to the skill of writing computer programs, but that's what's happening. When task difficulty was controlled for, the conclusion is the effect depends on task difficulty. So I pretty much agree with the author: using DK to explain people I can see in my life is probably confirmation bias, rather than evidence.

*BTW, note the two spellings of Kru[e]ger, I may have mistaken the Krueger referenced in that article as the same Kruger in Dunning-Kruger. I thought that the DK authors had clarified in a later paper, but I'm not sure now.
And if my children would want to commit suicide, steal and crash cars, or enter in a sect; who am I to deny them such reasonable demands?

... their loving father or something?

for Pete's sake, you, bad parent, they have rights!, and politicians that advise them well! Break the law, my minions, is funny (Specially to me, when I'll run with your money and deny to even know you... fools).
In case people don't open the link or miss the disclosure:

Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Zcash Company, the for-profit entity supporting zcash's development.
I have only spent a week in NYC but this place was amazing, granted I am a jazz enthusiast so potentially biased.

https://www.smallslive.com/
The Bitcoin apocalypse is coming November 1 to a block chain near you
I don't think that's always going to be possible, but yeah, that's probably the first choice.

I imagine the most problematic abort in something like a NY to London flight would be if multiple engines fail several hundred miles out. All kinds of velocity in the wrong direction if you want to fly back, not enough thrust to maintain the proper trajectory towards the target. I think there are bound to be some scenarios where you can do a limping, powered landing (the vehicle probably only needs one or two working engines) but you have to do it downrange.
I absolutely need zero days rougly ever 8-10 days of full-time brain work. Nothing recuperates my fried circuits better than the occasional single day with absolutely no agenda and not even the tiniest of goals, the rare day of anything goes, nothing must. Motivation drive and interest comes back so swiftly and with such vengeance on the next morning, I doubt there's anything that remotely compares.

Guess that's what this whole "weekend" notion was all about in the first place! =)
Google Photos does it, and does it well. My favorite trick (though largely useless) is to search "people sitting" or "two people sitting."
And how could you not include Uridium, Way of the Exploding Fist, Summer Games and Paradroid?
I don't really understand the MariaDB love around here. If you look at actual production usage, MySQL gets the lion's share, looking at the customers each lists at their website. Oracle has been surprisingly benevolent as stewards of MySQL. That Business Source License that MariaDB put forward for new code at one point[1] looked like something I think would have cost an awful lot of goodwill if anyone else had used it.

1) https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb
Sure if you are prepared to go to war. At some point, a company will have enough funds to purchase its own military (aka corporate security department) to go toe-to-toe with a nation state's military. At that point, it would be a return to an era, for example, when the British East India Company can trade opium and wage war on behalf of the English government because they disagree with a country's internal anti-drug laws.
The iOS Photos app can already do this. It scans your photos on-device with a subject classifier. I just said "Hey Siri, show me pictures of dogs in my photos library" and it successfully showed me (completely untagged) photos of dogs that I've taken on my phone.
You're right, I think it's broad and there are several subproblems. For some people it might mean: opening their first savings account, teaching them to grow a safety net, introducing retirement accounts and their benefits, helping people understand tools like HSAs, helping people understand and take advantage of credit card rewards, coming up with approaches to pay down debt, understanding the repayment of student loans in fields that are special cases like education.
it is possible to read comments on runtime in js and do things based on what you read with a while loop + if else
First, are you form the USA? Because America has also Venezuela, Cuba, and more countries.

Second, are you telling me we are worse than you because of this after what your president have done?

"Nothing to see here unless you want to talk about politics". The law is the law, Catalans supported the law and that law is what forbids an unilateral movement to break the country. Bear in mind the Catalans said this vote is valuable to consider themselves independents. There is a big discussion about this topic in Spain, with a lot of free speach. You should consider understand better the country you are talking about before make those claims to fulfill your "American ego".
> I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.

It could be different now, but the last time I tried to answer this the answer was that preference is stored in a cookie and not globally. I have my browser set to dump cookies when it closes so I kept losing that setting.
Wisdom tooth removal is no different from any other surgery, and as such you are likely to get the same "blah blah you could even die" speech. I did.
Didn't read article responding purely to the title:

AI is a three-trick pony
-Regression
-Classification
-Clustering
Nothing more and nothing less.
don't discount your 40's and 50's and beyond!

so, so, so much time to make awesome shit. good luck getting through it all. <3
Yes, a Smalltalk computer. Very nice. Are you working with SiliconSqueak? I can never tell what the status of that project is. I would definitely pick one up / build one.
> While that's true, its only a small, mostly racist white minority that is really serious about secession.

Are any of them still serious about it now that Obama is out of office?
Renovate: JavaScript and docker dependencies pinning and auto-updates
The 1939 Porsche 64
This article mentions Zcash, which means that folks will be showing up shortly to talk about Monero.
I'm sure they'll dig up quite a few AOL disks a couple thousand years from now
I wanted to try Firefox, but 2 hours into using it I had a meeting in Google Hangouts. Firefox no longer supports Google Hangouts.

Back to Chrome it is.
Gender is "dragged" into it because our social norms are keeping unequal balance of relationship responsibilities alive. The article touches on this when the author describes the difference in behaviour between her children. It's possible to see this anecdote as something that reflects on the innate difference in the personalities of her children, but there is something to said beyond that. It's the whole nature vs. nurture debate again. I can see that the experiences in early childhood shaped the person I am today, and I don't think it's any different for the children of today. How a child is praised (or not praised) shapes what they think of as normal. Can you see that it's possible to reinforce a certain view of what's "men's work" and what's "women's work"?
People fight wars where millions die and billions of dollars are spent so that they aren't told what to do by another group of people.

Colonizing Mars is, by comparison, vastly cheaper in blood. Just not in treasure.
> Why would the practice of updating a product eliminate the concept of ownership?

Regular updates = expensive to develop = monthly or yearly fees = reduced/eliminated concept of ownership.

> The expectation of updating also seems to be making the software industry even more slipshod and crappy, with a just ship it now ans fix it later attitude.

Possibly. Or it's the other way around: Companies don't get all the money upfront and have to continue to deliver. Otherwise they get complains, bad ratings and customer churn.

> But that would require competence and forethought.

And much bigger wallets from consumers. I think most people wouldn't pay a few hundred bucks nowadays for an operating system, or for MS Office, or Photoshop. And surely not for most software these days: apps.

Don't get me wrong. Your points are valid, but I think the market has spoken. People want software that continues to work on the newest OS. They want new features, compatibility and whatnot.

Back in the day, you bought Office 2000 and knew it'd be outdated at some point in time. Your Windows XP Professional you bought for 200 bucks is worthless today. Try using Photoshop 5 – works on your XP machine I guess – but can't open files from other designers.

Software 10-15 years ago was delivered once. Updates were an annoyance. But the upfront cost could still be divided through the number of months you actually used the software – and for most software, it's probably not that much different from the monthly subscription or yearly license fee you have today.
That’s completely wrong.

TLS today depends entirely on DNS – because anyone can receive a certificate for your domain if they control your DNS.
>Yes, it's bananas that the central Spanish government has this reaction, but it's a perfectly correct and legal reaction, and this is part and parcel of the idea that Google should abide by the law in the countries where it operates.

No. "Perfectly correct" and "legal" are two completely different things.
They say the vote is binding, so if they get more than 50% they will start the secession.
> This shouldn't surprise anyone. It's basic psychology that should be taught in school.

Sure, but maybe they should also teach that Puerto Rico is part of the US in school?
>It's pretty clear by that statement that you don't understand the government of Cuba or how it has been funded.

Fair, fair, it's communist not tax-capitalist. I shouldn't have said "tax."

>Ok, so 75% of medical students come from families in the top 50% of incomes. That doesn't seem too absurd to me.

Top 40%. It does seem absurd to me, did you look at Figure 2 that I linked? That is the inversion of a meritocracy.

>As to your Wired article, the statement that "In effect, Cuba that poor communist country is to a certain extent actually subsidizing vital parts of our healthcare system that happen to be less lucrative" is a bit ridiculous, because that article mentions a total 100 doctors using the program over a 17 year period. Yes, Cuba may train 6 American MD's a year, (actually, more like 4 - not everyone graduates) but that isn't really subsidizing vital parts of our healthcare system, not in any meaningful way.

But totally true! 100 doctors here working in geographic areas that don't normally attract doctors and/or fields that don't attract doctors. It may not be super large but I bet you there are some Americans out there who are very happy (any may not even know it) that Cuba invested in our doctors when we wouldn't.
Have you tried meditation? I can't promise it would help, but my own experience makes me believe it's a least worth a try. If interested, I would suggest finding one simple source (don't buy an expensive course or anything) to learn from and then practice meditation for a few minutes each day. If it helps, good, if not then stop wasting time on it.
Isn't that an entirely different threat than the one we're worried about here?

The issue here is what happens when someone gets a hold of your phone and tries to get your data off it. This is NOT even remotely the same threat as someone secretly getting your phone, secretly opening it and installing a backdoor touchscreen reader, then sealing it back up perfectly and leaving it somewhere for you to find it with no trace without you realizing anything has gone wrong. The latter is far harder to pull off and far less likely to occur. Even CBP officers who take your phone wouldn't do this sort of thing. I don't really know of any evidence that this is the threat that Apple has been trying to mitigate, let alone that they have had any success in doing so. It's a non-argument as far as the discussions about Apple's existing security measures go.
24% in 7.5 years? Stock market returned 100-150% over the last 7.5 years.

Seems pretty close to break even when you consider interest rates, upkeep, commissions.
New venture from @mbostock, @tmcw and @jashkenas. Probably based on d3.express, which Bostock announced earlier this year but is still in private beta: https://medium.com/@mbostock/a-better-way-to-code-2b1d2876a3...

Looking forward to it!
If you want to strive for a more integrated world, be the change you want to see! Take a homeless man off the street and let him sleep on your couch.
It's not so much that you're not productive when depressed, as the awareness that achievement in other spheres of activity are not actually all that satisfying absent a nurturing relationship - also a problem for many lottery winners who find themselves trying and failing to consume happiness.

I'm sorry that happened but you shouldn't treat it as an insurmountable problem. If you're just 20, your body isn't even completely done growing and you're also relatively inexperienced in dealing with intense emotions. You'll always bear the scars of the pain you felt from this relationship breaking up, and have regrets about whatever parts of it were caused by you, but you can and will heal. Being willing to accept help through therapy and reassess yourself means you're already a long way towards that.

Be careful of the hesitancy to get into another relationship - a natural doubt, but one that can stiffen into a 'reaction-formation' is taken too far. It's certainly tempting (especially when you're younger) to just date casually for social and sexual companionship, but if you systematically avoid relationships then undertaking and sustaining new ones will be more difficult, and as you get older the frustrations and loneliness that can result will weigh increasingly heavy and result in bitterness.

It may help to think of relating to others as a skill to be developed and continuously improved rather than as an achievement to be unlocked (which is way overstressed in media and marketing). A pet animal can help a lot with that. The obligations involved impose a sort of emotional discipline on you, but the rewards are unbounded as animals are generous with their affections. If you end up with a dog it will also improve your social life - people are well-disposed to the owner of a happy dog, and it also makes small talk much easier.
It would be amazing if those workers supported WebSockets. Running game servers in them would be tempting, as long as they don't charge exorbitant prices for bandwidth.
The most relevant part of the article:

David Duvenaud, an assistant professor in the same department as Hinton at the University of Toronto, says deep learning has been somewhat like engineering before physics. “Someone writes a paper and says, ‘I made this bridge and it stood up!’ Another guy has a paper: ‘I made this bridge and it fell down—but then I added pillars, and then it stayed up.’ Then pillars are a hot new thing. Someone comes up with arches, and it’s like, ‘Arches are great!’” With physics, he says, “you can actually understand what’s going to work and why.” Only recently, he says, have we begun to move into that phase of actual understanding with artificial intelligence.

Hinton himself says, “Most conferences consist of making minor variations … as opposed to thinking hard and saying, ‘What is it about what we’re doing now that’s really deficient? What does it have difficulty with? Let’s focus on that.’”
That's cool and all, but you still aren't carrying out the secession by voting for it.
I was a Firefox user since it was called Phoenix, and finally switched to Chrome in mid 2015. With the latest release, I finally feel comfortable enough to switch back. FF is a true competitor in the browser space again.