skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificial means man-made. Intelligent in this context simply means "that which can make good decisions on its own."

So artificial intelligence is really designing and building self-suficient machines that can make good decisions on their own without the help of an outside decision maker. This way we eliminated not-well-defined words "intelligent" and "artificial" without a loss of meaning.

As humans make self-deciding robots some other self-deciding organism designed and made human body as a self-deciding organic/chemical machine.
The world has been broken since agriculture. The system has gotten less rigged than its inception. Imagine instead if a middle class existence, you only had a life of slave drudgery. True slave drudgery. The kind where myths of a world without work are created. Your diet is a monoculture grain. You are mentally slower, more lethargic, and have stunted bones than your ancestors a few generations before.

Meanwhile the surplus of your labors goes towards a small priest caste and he priest king. He musters up your young, with the storable surplus you helped create, and gets them to raid other stores of surplus (other towns and cities) so that he can get more loot and women. Did I mention that your wife is always at risk of casual rapine by the boss man?

This world is stupid in its way but, at the beginning of the rigged games during the Neolithic, it was even more stupid.
Poorly, like the rest of you suckers.
The LIRR is a separate union with a totally different retirement system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Retirement_Act

The subway workers are represented by TWU local 100; LIRR workers are represented by 7 different unions, all separate from the subway workers.
Came here to say this. The "White test" is even worse, applying the 50% requirement to three metrics. In a totally unbiased world only ⅛ of all movies would be expected to pass this test.

Most of the other tests do capture the spirit of Bechdel well I feel. Their "humbleness" as you put it makes the results (e.g. of the Waithe and Villalobos tests) so much more poignant.
This is really the saddest news I read today.
It's amazing they don't get that they can't block the site by blocking the domain name, and that it will come back under a new domain each time.
The monster beneath
Ah. So do you think I’m wrong about his assessment as a cold blooded operative who only supported Civil Rights because it was good political strategy that would give him more power?
Even now Gemini's volume is pretty low. I just checked and BTC is 36k, last time I saw GDAX today (won't load for me now) was around 88k I think.
"It's the financial system of the future!"

"Only techies can use it!"

Pick one.
Stripe does it wrong, so it's wrong everywhere? Nah. That's bullshit.

For emails, you can very easily fake a second signup with the same email and ping out an enhanced verification email "Somebody just tried to register with this address but you already have an account".

Building the username into that flow is harder. That's why I preference not having separate usernames but some people would argue this is itself a bad thing (removing a factor or somesuch).

Either which way, Stripe's approach is broken. That doesn't make the whole idea nonsense.
It’s simpler to just make every field always save all input.
I don't understand this section.

>What’s so special about this site? They made one mistake. They opened some of their analytics statistics in the period 2014-2015, probably not something they intended to do.

Does the author mean they made available their stats for the period of 2014-2015? The last sentence seems to imply it was a mistake? I'm not sure how the author got access to the page view data.
I think I understand what you are saying but in macroeconomics it's usually stated the other way. On the aggregate debt and financial instruments net to zero. One person's debt is another person's saving and if you add all financials up, you get zero (or depending on what you are counting, you get the value of the physical assets behind the financial assets such as stuff, factories etc. On the other hand, for sub parts of the economy or for individuals there can be positive or negative financial equity or debt meaning some individuals or parts of the economy owe are are owed more than others.
They have adjustable sit-stand desks these days.
> the cost to get enough shared ledgers to agree that user x has 0$ (previously had $5M) is less than or equal to the amount of money that could be divided amongst the thieves

That's the trick. In some cases, you'd be correct and the thieves can get away with theft. In most cases though you are incorrect, the cost of getting that many ledgers to agree with the thieves is prohibitively high.

This theory underscores the importance of having many full nodes running on the network. If only a small number of people run validating nodes, the cost of committing some theft like this is substantially reduced. This is one of the biggest and most important arguments behind having small blocks instead of large blocks.

Large block supporters tend to think you only need a few full nodes to get immunity from these types of attacks, and small block supporters tend to believe that a small number of nodes is easy to compromise relative to the reward for doing so.
Definitely interesting stuff, but it is a different scheme that involves hundreds or thousands of sites. We are talking about a single insanely high volume site and that makes a big difference.
Saying every other coin is unproven is disingenuous.
I'm using amdgpu on FreeBSD (-CURRENT, drm-next-kmod), with Vulkan (RADV) + Wayland, it's awesome :)

Yeah, OpenCL is a problem, clover crashes, the new AMD OpenCL driver is not ported yet (I guess it depends on kernel 4.15? we have amdgpu from 4.12 for now)...

I wish people started using Vulkan for compute instead of OpenCL!!
With respect to (B): I do try to write out the full verbose names (Verb-Noun) when writing scripts, as a maintenance goal. At that point when you are writing a script the verbosity is often less of a problem because you can write in an IDE of your choice that provides strong auto-completion. (You can also get basic tab completion in the command prompt and use an IDE as your command prompt, if for some reason you are entirely allergic to the short aliases and want to spell out the full things even for random REPL work.)
People rarely do this. However a lot of accountants do this.

Nearly all large and even mid sized companies have customers who use a different currency and have to deal with it. Big companies hedge foreign currency risks. It is common for the press release for a companie's earning to say "we made $x per share driven in part by foreign currency values and ..." Which is to say when looking at a press release they believe their investors (perhaps a legal requirement?) will want to know that a significant factor wasn't sales but just currency trade.

Now bitcoin is super-volatile. That isn't relevant to a general discussion, but it is a major factor when discussing bitcoin in specifics. There are other foreign currencies that have similar considerations at times though, it isn't unique to bitcoin.
And yet, torrents and free streaming are still more convenient than buying. That tells something about how bad official sources are.

As for the non-English-speaking audience, pirates tend to deliver better translated subtitles much faster than the official sources, and the latter frequently don't even bother - not a target market? Tough luck.
Talk to your government about their drug policies enacted at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry. That's a much bigger problem than the teenagers in your industry.[1]

Of course, that'll also mean actually getting out the corrupt autocrats currently in charge. So... get politically engaged. (And by that I mean, do real work. Posting on social media is not getting politically engaged. Get out. Organize. Hold your politicians accountable. Run yourself.)

Going after the teens in your neighborhood might feel more satisfying, but the drug problem is a systemic problem. It's not caused by a few teens, it won't be fixed by locking up a few teens.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...
>I recently asked a friend whether he thought people were deterministic. He didn't think so (I don't either.) What do you think?

It's the wrong question. People are deterministic, but that doesn't mean they're always predictable .

In some sense, it's trivially true: we're physical systems, so of course* we're deterministic. The underlying physics that govern how the subatomic particles that make up the atoms that make up the molecules that make up the brain, is pretty well established at this point -- so if someone wants to assert some kind of special exemption for human brains: "everything else in the observable universe obeys physical law, but this is different!" the burden of proof is going to be pretty damn high. And nobody has ever put forth anything like real evidence for such an exemption -- the fact that "we don't understand how the brain works" doesn't mean it doesn't work in some fundamentally knowable way.

However, that doesn't mean that brains are (at least with current or reasonably-foreseeable-future technology) "ultimately tractable" even in principle, much less that we have any way of getting inside brains to see what people are going to do in real time.

And the reason people care about whether people are "deterministic" or not is because we want to know how to influence them, and for what we should assign praise/blame etc., and there's a common hidden assumption that determinism removes our ability to do that in some way. But I think that assumption's false (you don't see determinists just throwing up their hands and declaring ethics don't matter). There's a massive amount of physical evidence for determinism and no evidence at all against -- I'm not sure how anyone with a science background could believe otherwise at this point.

* "Predictable" here means something like "predictable by other humans, including via reasonably foreseeable technology". If we're in a simulation, the simulator can, by construct, "predict" the whole thing.
at some point, you'd hope that the enforcers would grow the Dignity to stop responding to the Boss's un-achievable orders.
> Another way of looking at this is that whoever controls greater than 50% of the network cannot be considered malicious from the network's perspective.

What people forget about in these imagined 50% attack scenarios is that 50% attacks only work if the attacking nodes generate valid blocks. All the hashpower in the world doesn't matter if your blocks do not pass validation. So no consortium can just start mining bad blocks and get away with it. The problem is that there are a non-trivial amount of clients that don't do any validation themselves and so rely on full nodes to tell them the true state of the network. Those clients would be subject to losing money. But any big exchange should be validating blocks themselves so the risk to the entire network is minimal to non-existent.
> The problem with legal movies are DRM, vendor/device lock-in, forced ads, regional policies etc.

This, right here. I recently tried to start watching The Crown. So I go to Netflix on my tablet and start it up. I get an error 5.2[0]. Following Netflix's advice, I force-restart; I reboot my tablet; I uninstall & reinstall. Hmmm … I am running LineageOS, so I do a bit more googling. It turns out that this is actually a DRM error. Oddly, I can still play e.g. Stranger Things.

Why the #*&@ does Netflix do this? I've been a customer for a dozen years; they've made quite a packet from me over that time. All I want to do is watch their content, that I'm paying for, on my tablet.

[0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/65574
Thank heavens we never invented copy and paste, would certainly make this more of an issue.
But what happens if the market moves rapidly in one direction? They end up selling low and buying high.

So, they need to reset the market making algorithm. Or shutdown the exchange for a "fix", long enough that the volatility comes back in their range.

Disabling a feature during live trading in order to ensure your company doesn't lose out on profitability, which in effect impacts market trend and activity implies manipulation. As a neutral platform whose sole purpose is to provide a place for people to buy and sell, you're essentially influencing the market by disabling/enabling buy/sells, especially at heightened times of flux.
Not on GDAX sure.

But, when buying and selling from users, yes they are. They don't create a two way market on coinbase.com. If they did, it will be called an "exchange".
That picture at the top is such a hilariously bad photoshop. I can't imagine anyone using this with a rolly chair on a wooden floor. The scratches!
> But any HR department worth its salt has a good idea of the company's needs in general (i.e., the other 1000 functions that Google has), and could ascertain and recognise talents and strengths in Max, and find a fit.

The more I read stories about hiring, the more I get the feel that all too often hiring people are preoccupied with trying to come up with reason -- any reason at all -- to reject a candidate. Instead of looking for talent to cultivate, they look out for "losers" to show the way out. They must be the bad applicants, and thus anyone who makes it through must be good, right? So clever, aren't we!
> Storing your coins on coinbase (or any other exchange) is pretty much always a bad idea. If you don't own the private keys, you don't own the coins.

The problem here for most of the people currently FOMOing in, is that there are no "good ideas" as far as coin storage goes. Storing on shady exchanges is risky, but due to lack of knowledge / technical skill, many/most would also be at risk of losing their coins one way or another if they held the keys themselves.

What this tells us, is that this technology isn't ready for mainstream use.
> Techies will complain that trivial problems of life in the Bay Area are hard because they involve politics. But they should involve politics.

... SNIP ...

> In a world where everyone uses computers and software, we need to exercise democratic control over that software.

Tighter control over targeted advertising by Facebook won't suddenly help with crappy zoning or infrastructure projects designed to maximize the extraction of wealth from taxpayers while minimizing the results.
No. Transparency in elections won't fix a system where there is no clear opposition, and where attempts to create one are met with state-sanctioned violence.

Examples: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexei-navaln... and https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/21/world/crime-leg...

Semi-related: http://www.dw.com/en/washington-to-honor-slain-russian-polit...
I was sender as well as recipient which makes the risk less. Anyway, the order just progressed (and I did nothing), it (2 consecutive orders) was stuck for 33 hours at 600 satoshi per Byte (twice). BTC is really dead in its current from.

Problem was mainly that family started knocking on my door as I'm the tech guys that has been playing with BTC since forever. All of a sudden people want BTC so I recommend a paper wallet for the long term. Family members agree but panic completely in a time period of 1 week. Insane, I gave so many disclaimers (I literally said I feel BTC is dead in its current form and that they already missed the forks that may, or may not, save it)! So here's a free tip to anyone reading this: Say no. Say: Get your own wallets, get your own Bittrex/Gdax account. If they can't then they shouldn't have BTC or any coin in the first place. Past 33 hours took years of my life.
> Insurance companies almost always win, that's how they make money

Not exactly. They make money off pricing their insurance higher than the chances of it happening.
The longest valid chain wins. People can't add invalid blocks to the chain and have them be accepted by the rest of the community that is not in on it.

The power of >50% is that you can keep some (valid) blocks on the chain, like some payments to a service provider, for as long as you want and have them accepted by the community because that's the longest chain that everyone's seen, and collect the service for that payment. Then whenever you want release another chain, that's longer and doesn't include the payment blocks, invalidating the payment.

The rest of the 49% of the users can still agree that someone has 5m, nobody's gonna take that away from them. But they're not going to be able to agree on any payments on the chain, because the 51% could invalidate them at any point.
Overlaying signalling systems is a complex issue for 2 reasons. First, you have limited track and train access because the train is running at capacity. Second, you can actually create unsafe situations by combining two systems that are actually safe by themselves.
I think their biggest risk is a compromised/rogue employee.
Declining to allow trades during high volatility times is definitionally market manipulation - you're capping the volatility of the market, unpredictably.

Volatility is traditionally where many styles of traders actually make money.
Funny. I was just throwing together a little website and was trying to decide whether I should include Bootstrap for the sole purpose of laying out a grid. This looks like a better option.
I’m not sure Bitcoin knows if it’s a currency or a commodity yet. Seems to be in flux depending which interest group is currently commanding the headlines.
I tend of think along those lines as well for most sprawled cities. But I don't think that will be true of dense cities like nyc that need mass rapid transit. Even with increased capacity that AV's will allow, roads don't have the capacity to move the millions of passengers during rush hour.
We no longer live in a past-is-prologue world. Now we live in a if-the-business-plan-works world where human inertia is no longer a big factor. All of the discussions below assume that most cars will be personally owned. My guess is that most passenger miles and commercial ton miles will be logged by robotaxis and robotrucks in the near term (five to ten years) because the convenience will be so high and the cost so low. The robotaxis will have smallish batteries and will charge often, but the charge stations will be more centralized and will be fed by small utility pv installations dotted around the periphery of the city and yes, these same robotaxis could be used for load balancing storage, but I suspect that their used and/or obsolete batteries will provide the storage.

No need for parking space chargers or for that matter for parking spaces.
My bad. I realised, I said exchange. I didn't mean GDAX rather the coinbase site. Corrected now.
Too bad Android basically ties my persona to the phone, making it difficult and awkward to use this on more than one device. Is there a RPi version?
I once heard it said about cycling that "it doesn't get easier, you only go faster." After a decade or so of mountain and road biking, I agree with that sentiment. If it's easy, that just means you're slacking. Which, on a commute I could understand -- who wants to work up a massive sweat before plopping yourself down in a chair for 8 hours?
> Lots of traction!

If by traction you mean massive, wild speculation. If by "traction" you mean "shipped a functional product that does something for the mainstream", bitcoin has a long way to go. In fact, Bitcoin's flaws are so deep and unfixable it will never see non-speculatie mainstream adoption, period. Same with pretty much the entire crypto "space".
> You seem to think the TWU has power that it really does not have. All the TWU can do is stop the MTA from eliminating jobs, they cannot stop the MTA's plans to install new equipment.

I don't think you understand how much power the TWU does have. Not only do they have the power to stop projects altogether, like automating the trains (which they did, as noted in the article), but they do have the ability to either delay or stonewall projects that they oppose by framing them as issues of labor allocation. Even if they can't unilaterally kill the project outright, they can make it expensive and painful enough that nobody will ever pursue it.

There's a symbiotic relationship between the TWU and MTA leadership (and one that's parasitic with respect to the state). Other aspects of this have already been described elsewhere in this thread and the linked article, and it's not possible to understand the way public transit infrastructure projects happen (or, more commonly, don't happen) in New York without accounting for this massive force.
The technology is there, it's simply a matter of disseminating knowledge.

It's not as if people are born with innate knowledge of personal finance skills. These are skills which must be learnt like anything else.
PhantomSQL: A front end substitute for SQL
Game theory. While the mining community understands the value, whoever is committing the theft is probably just interested in short-term gain. A few thieves have not broken the fundamental trust in crypto, but there is definitely a tipping point.
This transaction was too expensive for Ooma so they picked up Butterfleye a few days ago instead.
Belarus leader creates tax-free hub for blockchain projects
Meanwhile, the libertarians in the crowd are nodding, having expected this... and protected themselves from the fallout ahead of time.
give technology a chance!

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Tangentially related question - is there any good Vulkan tutorial/online class one can take that would allow learning how to build own 3D engine/VR/AR system from the scratch? I am in the mood... Thanks!
With greater than 50% of capacity, you can do a lot of bad things.

For ASIC blockchains like bitcoin, a few companies in china dominate the network so they could easily collude and do just this.

For non-ASIC blockchains, you can do it through the cloud. Here is some math i did on it the other day:

digiconomist [0] estimates that current etherum mining cost is 1.3 billion a year, or 3.6 million a day, or 151,000 an hour, or 2,500 a minute.

Multiply by 5 for cloud on demand premiums and you could dominate the etherum network for an entire day for 18 million. You could also do it for free if you can manage to do it with stolen credit cards.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
The gross mismanagement of the Iraq war and its aftermath does not demonstrate that security and freedom are incompatible. Yes, it's much more difficult in some places than others, and a despotic leader is all too happy to point out the failures in order to justify their own tyranny. What really sucks is that so many people fall for it.
... and then we had 2008, where you can violate all of that with reckless abandon and still get bailed out.
The point of a ”better” desktop linux would be to have a FOSS desktop OS. Linux isn’t important in itself. The Kernel in that OS would without doubt be (more or less) replacable, just like it is in android.

To rephrase the topic to a more relevant form “when will there be a FOSS desktop OS in widespread use?”.
It's 2017 and people still haven't figured out that humans weren't meant to do repetitive things for 8 hours a day.

Sitting is not bad for your heart. Sitting for 8 hours a day is bad for your heart. How many times does this need to be said?
Wait Vulkan is for compute like opencl is?
> It always amazes me that a group of volunteers can do a better job than huge companies that are dedicated to the same thing.

That's a general fact of life, applicable beyond piracy scene.
It’s all about opportunity, risk and reward. Hack a phone and you win some bitcoins. Quickly patched. Hack an exchange and you’re rich beyond belief.
As someone who ran a fairly large, mostly reputable website (reddit), I agree that you are off by an order or magnitude or more. There is no way they get close to $1 CPM. They'd be lucky to get 10 cents, probably closer to 1 or 2 cents.

They most likely barely break even after paying themselves a modest salary.