skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of people who are fearful that Facebook probably knows too much about its users and that could be problematic. But what do you expect? How do you want our future to be shaped? Innovation, including AI, requires tremendous amount of data. Suicide is a serious problem and being able to accurately identify that in the future could save tons of lives. Accurately diagnosing mental illnesses will take a while for sure, and I believe this is a necessary first step.

Now, if Facebook is selling the data for profit, that's another story. But if we assume that Facebook is acting purely for the benefit of the society and the people, I think this is a great step.
This is a pretty good idea. Google has been aggressively anti-competitive in the video space and the US government has made it abundantly clear that they don't care. Losing hundreds of millions a year for a decade just so no competitor could ever even hope to begin building infrastructure for a competitor has been very effective at shutting out all competitors. When traditional means are cut off through bad faith dealing like that, people have to get creative. And after reading 'The New Digital Age' where Schmidt makes his case for Google taking control of all of human culture with no more justification than 'we are rich, therefore better', I more than welcome anyone who stands even a faint chance of taking them down a thousand notches or so.
LinkedIn aims to provide an experience like the one you've mentioned.

It's been hit or miss and it gives them a little too much leverage, but it's been effective to some degree.
There will be enough marketplaces in the world that will provide a solid legal structure for ICOs. The US certainly wont be a part if them.
Switzerland, Singapore and Japan already moved ahead with the legal structure.

The world is global, money is global.
He would have had to mine initially to keep the network alive. In the early days people mined on their desktop CPUs, it wasn't common to mine consistently 24/7 so Satoshi likely mined for the first 6 months at a minimum. He was not the only miner but he would have been the miner of last resort. Some analysis has been done on the blockchain from the time and work done to tie some of the early addresses to known addresses of Satoshi (payments to more public early adopters). So whilst it is correct to say no one knows who he is we do know that there is a high likelihood that he mined and that he probably mined around 1m BTC. Those coins haven't moved but they are probably watched by thousands of people.
This probably puts me in the “not a people person” camp but “Starting and maintaining business relationships.” Most great human interactions I’ve had simply have nothing to do with business. Yet relationships are so important to most businesses around the world, and simultaneously most of the motions seem really mundane and dull compared to family time, dating, or even sitting at a bar with a random stranger.

Oh, and web infrastructure security and identity management including derivatives like ssh configurations. I have to do it every dang job I go to and despite it having surprisingly little deviance in terms of requirements in most places, nobody has the same setup. Ever. It drives me up the wall every time and it makes me somewhat dread starting new companies because it’s such a time sink yet so important.
>War is a horrible thing, but sometimes the alternatives are worse.

That's why so many in this thread are rightfully decrying the plans of our government to start a war with a false flag attack against our own people.
Thank you for more clearly demonstrating the hostility and lack of empathy that I'm talking about.

Your own words are a better proof of the hypocrisy than anything I could write.

When you use fat shaming to support your argument, you've leapt off the high ground.
The interesting unasked question here is why he seems to like FileCoin (the reference to decentralised storage markets) - what does he think that FileCoin gets right that others are getting wrong?
Having sex only once would be so sad...
I'd maybe add expense tracking to that, too.
Credit Cards are an example of non bank loans.

The difference is people fronting money for loans would need to take on real risks without FDIC protection or have safe deposits but need to pay for bank services.
Alright guys, let's plot. How can we crash Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is obviously a bit of a new bird when it comes to what sort of financial instrument it is. To me it seems to be half gold, a hedge against currency and other economic troubles and half ponzi scheme, a lot of the valuation is driven by the belief that there are more people in line behind you than there are in front of you.

So if we take it that there is a bubbley aspect to bitcoin built upon ponzi scheme psychology but also the new aspect which is that many participants are aware it's a ponzi scheme and still believe in it anyway - is there anyway to pop it? It seems all the normal methods of popping a bubble like this have been eliminated by the completely decentralized nature of it. Is it even a bubble anymore if that's true?
Which one is more likely to be around in 10 years?
Black Friday Online Sales grew 17% to a record $5.03B
Can you show us a comparison of GDP growth rates, before and after wealth taxes were promulgated (and, where it happened, repealed)? Also, please, a comparison of GDP history between countries that have and lack wealth taxes.

Near as I can tell Europe has lagged way behind the U.S. in economic growth since the 1980s. I remember back in the 90s when catching up to the U.S. was stated goal of the incipient EU. How did that go? How does that relate to overall tax rates, public spending as a proportion of GDP? Are fertility rates artificially lowered by a high tax burden? Are they improved by the welfare state? Or is something else the matter with Europe?

I think "disaster" is an appropriate adjective for wealth taxes.
>It starts by claiming that there is no such thing as general intelligence. What specialized intelligence, then, is human intelligence?

I think there are two usages of the term 'general intelligence' floating around:

(1) the ability that humans possess (but which animals don't) to create universal theories,

(2) the measure of one human's general cognitive ability or potential (in all fields) relative to another human's.

Note that IQ tests are concerned with (2). The quest for AGI is concerned with (1), though the additional prediction of intelligence explosion or singularity assumes the validity of (2).

I think the author would claim that (1) exists but (2) doesn't. He explains the predictive power of IQ tests by claiming that general intelligence is a threshold ability and that people who score highly on an (arbitrary) test are more likely to have exceeded that threshold. Beyond the threshold, achievement is limited only by other factors.
Very easy to do, even for your average person if you know the right sites.

Easiest way to protect yourself, get a virtual mobile number from someone like Twilio, as the location will always appear as them, and call forward to a number you don’t advertise or even an App.
What is allowed that horrifies you?
I never got round to get rid of my watercooled dual G5, as I was hoping way to long to find some neat use case for it. Mostly because it's probably the most performant non-Intel computer readily available (i.e. not some SGI Onyx cluster).

Anyone has a better use case to either inspire me or get mine donated for the cost of shipping from Gernay?
I'm sure advertisers of pharmaceutical companies can't wait to take advantage of this in their ad placement strategies.
This is the approach I'd use...

* Take the previous frame.

* Warp to the shape of the new frame using motion vectors.

* Dither the new frame using the warped old frame to modulate the white/black threshold when carrying forward the error to the next pixel.

That will lead to a pixel remaining white/black, and only a minimal number of pixels changing color between frames.
>because they hacked the voice mail of a girl who was murdered, and therefore delayed the police investigation.

This sounds like a fabricated implication. Lots of people (famous ones) were hacked, and I can't find a sign that delaying a police investigation caused the NOTW to nosedive.
Your suggestions are great for restricting cases in which guns could actually be used and thereby increasing safety, but not terribly practical (in the sense that there's not a chance in hell of getting national legislation passed without a massive shift in the country's culture).
Given the track record of social interventions, what if this backfires?
That isn't physically possible. You would deplete the nutrients in your muscles within a few hours and then "bonk", unable to continue cycling.
I would be interested in reading on this phenomena. I've heard this 10% before, but didn't find there to be much of a bump myself. The diet at no point was particularly difficult to stick to once I'd developed the initial discipline. I did find my strength performance to decrease after about 3 or 4 months, but I don't know if that's due to a particular hormonal shift, or being on a caloric deficit for an extended length of time, and a general decrease in mass making lifts harder.
I was recently exploring this case, where you accurately isolate particular applications to using a VPN. The best guide I found was this one (https://coldfix.eu/2017/01/29/vpn-box/) which goes into more depth and looks at alternative approaches as well.
Yes, but you could just buy $400 worth of bitcoin and the risk is the same.
Interesting. I've thought for a while now that this is the only long-term solution that works at all.

But getting there is going to be a huge mess, with the establishment fighting every inch of the way.

So it's nice to see someone whose voice will be heard saying it's the way to go.
Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often.

I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers. Dev tools showed a minimum of 20MB transferred when visiting my site, and it quickly ran up to 60+MB if you touched the scrollbar.

That is a lot of prefetching.

Just visiting tumblr.com while not logged in currently transfers 8MB, and displays a content-less landing page.
>what is bitcoin useful for right now

Drugs, ransomware, and maybe web hosting or a remote shell.

>if all my money is tomorrow BTC instead of USD, for instance, how will I survive without converting it back into USD every time I needed to use it?

You won't. Crypto-libertarian dweebs are convinced that someday somebody will accept their Dunning-Krugerrands in exchange for goods and services, but right now the price is so volatile that everyone who owns them won't spend them to pay for milk and bread if it's likely they will be worth twice as much next week as they were this week, and nobody selling real world necessities gives enough of a shit to go out of their way to accept them.
Wallstreet has a monopoly on IPOs, they are clearly threatened by the ICO boom.
Its just the internet all over again. Candlemakers wanted to ban light bulbs. Newspaper wanted to regulate online media. They all failed. So will wallstreet. Its just a matter of time, the forcing function is way to strong.
I can't pay you in real dollars, so here's some nwah1-bucks
Many 3rd party ereaders run Android, I'm not sure if they can use bluetooth keyboard but assuming they do that is a good start.
A cluster of 10+ machines was processing data for a whole week (7 days). Think Hadoop with counting and grouping numbers. The output was slightly over 2GB. The user specified his home directory as output. The home directory was NFS-mounted and didn't support files over 2GB, thus no file was written and the job had to be rerun.
Currently, ISPs strip/normalize the TOS bits on incoming traffic. ISPs could enable DiffServ (especially at the CMTS/DSLAM) and charge content providers to respect their TOS bits, allowing traffic like VoIP and gaming to get lower latency/jitter. But they don't do that.

Instead, ISPs are creating artificial congestion on their transit links (by leaving router ports unplugged) and then selling that bandwidth to content providers via paid peering to avoid the congestion. Basically "it would be a shame if massive packet loss were to happen... never mind, we already did it". So yeah, paid peering probably does have lower latency than congested and bufferbloated transit links, but it's not like ISPs are using any kind of QoS as the term is traditionally understood.

ISPs always talk about low-latency applications (think of the deaf people!) but then they don't do anything that would actually reduce latency/jitter.
Netcat
Buying stuff from pretty much any other online retailer is still a frustrating and bad experience. E.g. Williams Sonoma will accept an order then just never ship it and when you call asking what's up the rep shrugs. I'm struggling to name one other retailer that nails service like Amazon. Perhaps Apple, but I buy something from them perhaps every two years.
> The main issue of concern seemed to be about powerful individuals -- with individual agendas -- being able to wield heavy influence in other parties' legal processes.

Why is this an issue? It happens all the time in the other direction -- large corporations who hire leagues of lawyers to draw out proceedings for even the most open-and-shut cases. As quoted elsewhere in this discussion:

The sad take-away from Hogan v Gawker isn't that a millionaire can spend money on a whim to exert justice where he so desires, it's that you need that level of money to seek justice in the first place.
Disclaimer: Most of my cypto money are in bitcoins.

My biggest problem with Bitcoin these days is the developers pushing Bitcoin to become 'store of value'.

Originally Bitcoin became popular because it simply let people transact over the internet quickly with low cost. This was what gave Bitcoin its utility, and thus value.

Now that the Core team has decided that ease-of-use is not important, they are literally trying to hype Bitcoin as something intrinsically worthless except for people's perception of it. Bitcoin is now coasting on its reputation it accumulated in its first 5 years of life. So what makes Bitcoin _not_ a pyramid scheme?

Other cyptocurrencies have their own uses-

Litecoin - Buy stuff over internet cheaply and quickly

Ethereum - ICO and contracts

Ripple/Steem - Pseudo-decentralization allows for huge number of transactions.

Monero/ZCash - Privacy

Gold - People have liked shiny and non-degradable stuff since the stone age

Stocks/Bonds - Dividend/Interests

Tulips bulbs - Grow tulip flowers

Bitcoin in 2017 - ??? Store of value

The first 4 example cryptos actually have real world usage that could potentially justify their prices. What use does Bitcoin have right now? Every transaction costs >$1 and takes hours to process. What could Bitcoin do that other cryptocurrencies couldn't do better?
We're definitely seeing it fully down across all 30 of our Realtime DBs on there. Hopefully they'll fix it soon!
My experience (Mechanical Engineering) was that laptop banning was only an indicator as to whether the professor was "old-school."

IMO, some hardcore practice-until-you-bleed cornerstone topics benefited immensely from an "old-school" professor (Thermodynamics, Mechanical Design, Heat Transfer, etc) whereas softer, more conceptual classes (Calculus, Linear Algebra, Physics, Mechanics of Materials, etc) benefited from "new-school" professors that were savvy to the benefits of interactive software and additional visualizations and knowledge multipliers afforded by a computer.
The funny thing about ICOs is that anyone in the world can invest anonymously AND GET PAID BACK anonymously even if they have no money, don't have a bank account, are a fugitive, in Iran or North Korea, are in prison, have unpaid child support obligations, have large unpaid IRS tax liabilities, or government fines and penalties or are using stolen funds. All the little knobs and levers that governments use to financially control people are rendered useless. The guys taking the money don't know who their investors are, so they can't discriminate. This is probably why they are so popular even though the risks are ludicrous.
You're assuming that IQ will scale linearly with processing power. So far as I know, there is no reason to suppose that is true.
end to end certificate renewal and deployment.
We're about 80% there, but the last 20% is a PITA.
I'd automate automating things (aka strong AI)
PTSD: An Overlooked Consequence of a Cancer Diagnosis
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784520

But I'm very glad this article is getting more attention.
if you're eager to separate the idea from the sanctity of life (or whatever), you can just throw this into the huge bucket of things we do as a society to dissuade behavior with significant negative externalities. and suicide does come with a lot of negative externalities
Now they are showing it on their status page: https://status.firebase.google.com/incident/Realtime%20Datab...
I know this is horribly cynical, but dead man's friends will probably be highly engaged with the platform afterward. Facebook will find a way to monetize it.
Nope, just normal coffee. Sometimes made in a cafetiere, sometimes from the (rather good) machine at work, but I mostly make Greek or Turkish style these days. It's never given me a dose of the shits however its made though!
Given the recent uptick in posts about people investing their life savings into bitcoin and bragging to friends and relatives about their wealth, it seems like the community hasn't learned anything from past turbulent times.
World War Three already started, 15 years ago, by the Coalition.
This is great advice but just be aware that calorie calculations in Strava are often way off: too high for walking / running and too low for cycling. So you can't reliably use their numbers to see if you're ahead or behind.
Why not start with issuing equity for cities/states instead of a country? It would be nice to start small and it seems that finding a mayor that supports easier to make the President to support it.
That's effort not expense, regardless don't you think that Satoshi Nakamoto put in the same, if not more, effort and didn't pre-mine BTC.
This was the sentiment of everyone outside of SV when Altman was considering running for governor this year. I'm glad Sam actually cares about helping people, I really do, but it reminds me so much of Obama's quote about tech entrepreneurs giving him advice:

The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences -- setting aside my Syria and Yemen portfolio -- then I think those suggestions are terrific. (Laughter and applause.) That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked. No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.
That's kind of easy to do these days. If you add one more requirement, "and doesn't spy on you" - the task becomes impossible
I think it is too early to push this. Wait for marijuana to be fully integrated throughout the state before pushing something like this.
Depends... is it accounts for people who opened them to invest now, or is it for those who want to be prepared for the crash and some quick gains.
Because individual people have inherent worth, and society is built on that assumption. People with suicidal thoughts often just need a good friend.
>If your shooting for an 8% avg return. You're a stuntman in real life.

Over a period of 30 years, a 7% inflation adjusted gain is "easy" (as in "do no work"). Without adjusting for inflation, I'm sure that exceeds 8%.

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2015/Dec/pay-down-mortgage-or-in...
So get rid of the state. If automation can take over every other job, there's no reason for a state that employs humans either.
If it helps expedite the process of getting an offer, I would go for it. I will not consider it if coaching starts to feel more like a detour than a straight line to getting a job, especially when I am "overdue" for a new job. However, there's also the issue of cost. I only have a few hundred dollars on my account, and life coaching seems too costly to sink into if I go on more meetings.

Job interviews have a great variety. It could be that the variety of job interviews, at least locally, does not easily extend to fit people with my personality type. But I do not consider myself to be one-of-a-kind. I know there are many more like me. I want to find that niche that people like me fit into.
Hi, what is market signaling?
It's an abstraction. You can tax people/things at a rate that causes a number of dollars equal to 20% of the GDP to end up in the state coffers (which brings up its whole own class of issues - what, exactly, do you tax to get that money? Income? Wealth? Stocks? Vanity license plates?).
Demystifying Blockchains
Right there's a pervasive "I'm fine so can we not rock the boat?" instead of a "fuck you got mine". BI could be real good, but I'd kinda like to see it implemented on a smaller scale first...
While I agree with you that we almost certainly won't see an ARM macintosh, I wouldn't be surprised to see an ARM laptop exclusively running iOS at some point. We probably will see an ARM core with single threaded performance in Intel's realm once Intel is fully backed against the wall that is the end of Moore's law. It'll probably always be slower than an intel core if it has to emulate x64, but the iOS ecosystem gives Apple control of it's on chips in a world after the commodification high performance chips.
I would phrase that more as how does Sam propose to specify a tax or set of taxes such that it represents 20% of the GDP.
How does one start a municipal ISP, or advocate for the creation of one?
- Buying illegal drugs.

- Transferring "value" to another person without oversight.

That's pretty much it. And the latter wouldn't exist if you couldn't do the former.
The problem here lies not with the laptops or with their use. It lies with the continued existence of such radically and absurdly inefficient and pointless traditions as 'lectures' and 'meetings'. They were started because physical co-location was necessary for knowledge transmission. Physical co-location is no longer necessary for, and indeed is severely hampering of, knowledge transmission.

Anyone who proposes an in-person meeting is planning to abuse the frailties of human biology rather than meet with you honestly. They intend to use bluster and charm to convince you of ostensibly objective claims - and it will probably work. It usually does. That's one of the reasons they fight so hard to avoid being put on an actual even playing field where their ideas must stand or fall solely on their own merits.