skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK has had a few of these things now:

1. Lots of dirty USA bank business pre 2008 conducted through London which arguably hid the scale of the crisis building up, making it worse

2. Russian dirty money into London, which culminates in some Russians getting killed in the UK. Not easy to get the dirty money in without the dirty behaviour.

3. CLS/Cambridge Analytica - this has effected not only the UK (Brexit) but also USA elections.

All three are directly linked to the UK establishment and the Conservative party and The City of London.

How many chances will the rest of the developed world give the UK before deciding it's just not worth engaging?

And this is before the coming collapse as the UK cannot raise interest rates, makes very little and is about to jettison itself from the EU.
The fairest matchmaking system is one where you can advance ranks when the matchmaker predicts you will lose.
Well... The project was originally named KImageShop. Not entirely unexpectedly, that ended in lawyerly trouble. Not initiated by Adobe, though!
I think the joke is lost on you my friend
Undercover reporters investigate Cambridge Analytica:

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

The information commissioner is still waiting for her request for a search warrant, made on Monday, to be heard by a high court judge:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/22/cambridge-an...

Meanwhile, crates with documents have been removed from the building:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/information-commissio...

Doesn't look good.
Oh sure, no doubt. It makes sense to spend $10 a month on something if it saves you 10 hours of time and you can potentially make $10 million from it.

I was mostly just surprised at how quick the process was. Hedge funds are much more afraid of missing out on something than they are of paying a monthly fee to someone.

That might sound a bit silly (what business isn't afraid of missing out on something?), but that's definitely NOT the case in many other enterprise sales discussions.
A can think of a few objections to that argument. First, evolution isn't 'over' for any of the species on that list, and if any of those seemingly maladaptive traits really do cause serious problems for those species, we would expect them to be selected against (there are some cases where they are associated with other traits that are important and helpful, and so won't be tossed overboard even then). Evolution also proceeds fairly slowly, in the sense that it may take many generations for a mutation to really become a positive adaptation and not just an oddity.
350,000 species of beetles.
> Around 2008, I read some public filings by banks. I made only two back-of-the-napkin adjustments: 1) I combined off-balance sheet assets and liabilities into the balance sheet, and 2) I changed the expected % losses to approximately that of Wells Fargo.
With those two simple adjustments, I saw that some big banks were in the hole by (combined) tens of billions of dollars.

The market prices for these banks made it clear that major investors either didn't read or didn't understand the data in the public filings.

That's impressive work, but I interpret that a little differently. There was definitely irrational exuberance going on, but plenty of major investors understood what was happening well before 2008. The reason the valuations were still out of whack is because having the correct data and the correct analysis isn't enough, you have to correctly forecast how the market will react. So there was an unfortunate feedback loop: many investors savvy enough to see the problem were not betting against it because there are far easier and more consistent ways of trading profitably.

This is why the most successful funds don't really try to replicate the process you're talking about. Their process is data and hypothesis agnostic. A lot of their work happens to align with the sort of analysis you've described here, but they don't start from the same place.
Obviously unpopular opinion, but the reason I enjoy online games is the wild-west attitude. CS:GO, Dota, League, etc all are very exciting to me because the point of the game is engineering your team mates, learning who is going to be obnoxious, shit talking with them, etc. Every once in a while games will be 100% ruined by someone, but I find it's very rare. Cost of playing the game, and it happens equally as often on the other team no doubt (I'd argue more, because my entire focus is on team cohesion).

I really don't understand why people think it's okay to push a perfectly sanitary online gaming atmosphere. To me the whole point is that it's NOT sanitary.
I miss games that allowed players to host their own servers. Players could find a server with a community they like and play there. Ultra-competitive players, people who wanted to mess around on weird custom maps, and people who didn't want to see or hear any swearing could all find a server that fit them and enjoy playing.

In the past 10 years or so new games have mostly stopped including this, in favor of matchmaking systems. I guess having a single, official server makes easier to enforce "progression" systems and sell microtransactions. I'd also suspect the the disappearance of community servers has to do with the rise of online multiplayer on consoles, which never really had that as an option.
Bossa Nova robotics in Pittsburgh.

http://www.bossanova.com/

Scanning the shelves is tedious, slow and prone to error. The robots are not error-free but they are a bit faster.
For the discussion we have to decouple that he works for Google.

But he is right we are at a crossroad and the path that will be taken is clear for me. Manipulating/controlling populations is where the money will go and people will create those tools because those jobs pay well, its that simple.

In the next elections we will see deepfakes videos of candidates instantly responding to problems or defaming videos will be put out were you cant judge on the spot if its real or not.
The trend of echo chambers will continue as we see it right now.

The only thing i can see is education if we look back at the recent history going from only a certain amount of people can who read/write or have access to books to everyone has to learn and has access to libraries.
This is the next level.

And on the other side we have to fight for our right of privacy and kill some business models on the way. Right now this is for me on the same scale as Atomic / Chemical Weapons.
Canadian taxes include health insurance, possibly also obviates the need to buy a $500k house in order to be in a good school district (not sure if Canada is like this, other first world countries are) So could be a net savings.
Facebook needs "like" buttons, Google have other, more invisible ways: mainly Google Analytics and Google Adsense.
I don't care about stats, I care about my freedom. As to whether I'd be counted among the droids or the fruits is of no importance.
Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5
2010 actually: https://krita.org/en/item/last-week-in-krita-week-8/ -- though my own focus has always been painting, and I started working on Krita in 2003.
> Software is significantly different from buildings in that it can be substantially upgraded or redesigned after going into production.

I used to think this was true, but after talking to architecture/civil engineering friends a lot about this, I've learned that this is less true than I believed. There are often changing requirements for buildings due to different use cases, changing regulations or building codes, or a change in energy prices (or the social cost of using a lot of energy). Sometimes new technologies are used without a lot of experience with them, leading to high operating expenses for the lifetime of the building.

I asked my friend about your comment and he gave me a few interesting examples: 1) "flying form construction" that leads to exposed concrete slabs on buildings that bleed heat in the winter. This was really cheap to build but turned out to be really awful for energy efficiency (once we started caring). 2) a building in the 50s-60s that was built with automatic window blinds. The maintenance cost of fixing the blinds when they inevitably broke led to them not getting fixed, and the building becoming basically useless.

If you're interested in reading more about this, Stewart Brand's "How Buildings Learn" is a really good read for laypeople. I was really surprised by how much of the book could be applied to software engineering.

(This is not a field I'm familiar with so any errors are mine, not my friend's.)
Actually, there's plenty reason to be surprised here since it flies in the face of the efficient market hypothesis a bit.
The transparency aspect is so cool! They look like they'd be awesome for AR goggles, although I don't know enough about the optics to know if that'd be feasible. We may also be close to getting those Star Trek style clear displays! Exciting stuff.
You missed an important qualifier. OP is talking about players who play badly relative to their rank on purpose in retaliation for perceiving a team member's skill level as not being high enough. It sounds like it's overly specific, but is indeed a common issue. Especially in LoL.
An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language (2017)
The only real solution I know of is to not play multiplayer games.

Every single multiplayer game suffers from toxicity at some level. Even in 1 vs 1 games the other play can mess with you until you go full tilt.
Part of it is decentralized, the challenges module. Planning to move further on decentralizing more and more of the product (during the past 3 years we developed it in a centralized manner), but its not that practical now, given the fact that we need storage, tons of micro-transactions with 0 fees for the end user.

So, yes, using Ethereum blockchain, not fully decentralzied, and we might switch to a dPOS blockchain in the near future (if EOS, SMT succeed).
Valve have traditionally taken a hands-off approach to the communities surrounding its games; I would be surprised to see their name among the list and I like how they do things currently. Though I have experienced toxicity in CS:GO, it has been no worse than in other competitive games.
Texas is arguably one of the worst states in the US to live in (unless you're a high net worth individual), which doesn't bode well for a comparison against Canada.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texas...
Neat, but this'll be far more usable once someone sets it up as a nice web service ala waifu2x
There were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/
It wasn't clear if he was specifically referring to employment arbitration or binding arbitration in general.
Energy and Commerce Committee Calls on Zuckerberg to Testify
That picture is shockingly clear. I have trouble imagining how any human driver would not have seen that pedestrian. The road seems incredibly well lit.
Inside the bizarre upside-down bankruptcy of Mt. Gox
Here's a recent survey / observational science paper by some prominent "neuroevolution" / A-Life researchers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453. I found this refreshing because it's rare that science papers talk about the debugging and experimental process and debugging journeys underlying this research.
Yep, the media is now busy with another message of Mr. Trump with which he attacked Mr. Biden[1], but soon they will discover the social media thing and it might cause more unpleasant questions for Facebook.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/97676541790877696...
While mostly true, we have to be careful with words like "authentic". Tex-mex has variations in every area, even among metropolitan areas (same deal w/ Fort Worth, except many "authentic" ones are in North Fort Worth). For example, I consider a chimichanga to be quintessential tex-mex even though it's probably not Texan or Mexican and not "traditional" or "authentic". Some tex-mex places may laugh at you for asking while others will serve it proudly.
It seems the majority of philosophers (whose job it is to think long and hard about these things) are compatibilists [0]; i.e. believe in both free will and determinism. If you're actually interested in this rather than thinking you already know the answer, there is plenty of reading available online [1,2]

[0] http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13371

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

[2] https://samharris.org/reflections-on-free-will/
Having studied this extensively back when they were called Genetic Algorithms, I would like to offer a few insights.

1) One of the biggest reasons they fell out of favor for more "mathematical" approaches was that no one could really explain why exactly they worked. It makes sense on the surface that "survival of the fittest" and doing something akin to multiple stochastic gradient descents would work, but no one has really been able to produce a mathematical proof as to why.

Since other folks are producing good examples of "explainable AI", I don't know how Genetic Algorithms/programming could be made 'explainable' as to why they achieved an optimal solution other than hand-waving to how evolution works in nature.

2) The most important thing to define is the fitness function, this defines what the search space looks like and how easily a globally optimal solution can be derived. For a good example of an interesting search space that a genetic program would have a difficult time with, see Schwefel functions [0]. Back when I researched these things closely, my intuition was that reality rarely fits neatly into good fitness functions and I felt that at the point you are understanding the problem, you may just be better off with a direct approach, which leads to

3) Genetic programming should only really be considered when there are no known alternatives or they are way too computationally expensive.

In either case, I would welcome a resurgence in a topic I once knew quite well, though I haven't been in that field for a few years now.

[0] https://jamesmccaffrey.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/schwefels...
Apparently the person who compiled this has never tried to actually count items in Japanese, to figure out which of the two number systems to use and which counter words to use.
Lombok (https://projectlombok.org) exists and takes care of the attribute issue you mentioned.
Facebook can simultaneously measure everything about us
I upvote links that promote discussion of interesting concepts, even if the article itself is really bad - like this one.

I couldn't bother reading the original article, but designing neural networks via evolutionary algorithms is a very interesting concept I wasn't aware of.
Canada has good schools and bad schools, although not to the same degree that the US does. You pay for better schools primarily through housing. Houses in good school district cost 10-30% more.
> A robot taking a job means that a human can be freed to do other things...

Yeah, like being unemployed.
Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself
I miss the days when I used to play DotA/LoL etc., but I don't miss the toxicity.
The article doesn't seem to talk about it, but why do people crave authenticity anyway, as if they were afraid that they were getting scammed by their food? Nobody cares that spaghetti bolognese isn't from Bologna or that Haägen Dazs isn't a remotely Scandinavian word, and nobody had cared for a long time. Why are they caring now? More internet? More migration?

What's changed that's making everyone realise, in abject horror, my god, we have seen this food's ethnicity, and it is ours!
A person working a menial inventory job at Walmart is unlikely to be at a point in their life where they might also be doing medical research.
The problem is in the genotype-phenotype map and getting that right. We should be looking at developmental evolutionary neural networks. That is, evolutionary algorithms evolving the genetic architecture (genotype) that generates (development) neural networks (phenotype).
Ouch, when I have experienced problems like that in FF it tends to have been something I've done to myself, fiddling with prefs in about:config. Do you see the same behavior if you spin up a fresh profile?
> People are always taken back about how much classic staples didn't exist prior to the discovery of America.

> Yet we talk about 'authentic' cuisine we usually use it in context way before 'America'.

I can pretty much guarantee that's not true of discussion of authentic cuisine of the Mexican or Tex-Mex varieties, since “Mexico” and “Texas” are both post-Millenial identities, and both identities of the Americas. Sure, it might apply to some views of authenticity of European, Asian, or African cuisines (and if by “America” you actually mean the “European colonization of America”, which some parts of your comment suggest, it might apply to similar views of authenticity of Native American, including Inuit, Aztec, Inca, etc. cuisine.

But, even where it might apply, I don't think that is what people usually mean by authenticity; they mostly mean before changes made to support mass commercial distribution or production, and without adaptation to ingredients they are locally cheaper or more popular in places outside of the place where the cuisine originates. (In America, that concern might often be phrased as “before Americanization”, but that's not “before any impacts of the discovery of America”.)
How much have you played as far as ranked games go?

Throwers and leavers are a huge problem in ranked competitive games, like League of Legends or Overwatch. There's a difference between having a poor game, and throwing with Hanzo because your team needed you to play a healer.
No, none at all, I'm afraid. That would need a really dedicated person interested in working on both Qt and Krita. We did have a summer of code project where a student updated Qt's painting code to work with Apple's openGL implementation, though.

And Krita shouldn't be more unstable on macOS than on Windows or Linux, but it doesn't get tested as well, and there are so few macOS developers who want to take a hand. Personally, I develop on Linux but use Krita on Windows, when I find time to work on my own comic. The macbook pro only gets opened to make builds or fix the occasional macOS-specific bug.
The UK establishment are directly involved in CLS.

Are you sure there will be a genuine investigation? UK Saudi arms inquiry was withheld because it didn't fit UK aims:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-...

No prosecutions for 2008 banking collapse.

I think it looks pretty good (for CLS).
It isn't like creationism because it is based on some otherwise currently unexplained observations such as quantum mechanical behavior and magic physical constants. The idea is that these are exactly the sort of observations you'd see if you were in a simulated universe.

Now if we were to observe new species being created in N days, for small integer N, then I suppose your assertion about creationism would also hold.
never thought Facebook was worth a penny left alone billions.
People work with the best hardware and software they can. And for a lot of people, both components are shit beyond coexisting with other members of a "tribe". A lot of people absolutely suck at abstract thought, although "suck" is a relative term.

If AI flourishes, it'll consider even the smartest human as a hillbilly swamp creature, a mockery of the possibilities of intelligence.
Do you understand that outside of obvious moral ethics - that a law against murder doesn't stop someone from murdering. It only gives lawyers a way to punish it.

It's the punishment that is the deterrent.

Why should law abiding gun owners be punished again?

Adding punitive laws is not a deterrent. Enforcing those laws is. We don't enforce many guns laws, then you come in yelling about adding more laws.

The logical conclusion isn't that laws have no meaning if they're broken, it's that they have no meaning if they aren't enforced, and we're not.

Parkland could have been avoided in at least 6 different ways. So tell me how your new-laws that make illegal things illegal-er would stop people with no criminal record from being bad.
FWIW, Cliff Asness disagrees with you:

> we are not high-frequency traders

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/High-Frequency-Der...
FF definitely supports VP9 (at least on Linux). Easy to check by loading up a YouTube video and right clicking to get the "Stats for nerds".
This was the contract you agreed to when you clicked the sign up button. I don't get why people are mad at Zuckerberg and not themselves!

Zuckerberg is the one with control over the terms in a contract of adhesion. A contract of adhesion that gates access to a popular tool, that people want to use and don't bother reading or understanding the terms.

Whether or not you like contracts of adhesion, Facebook is taking advantage of people. When society finds terms in contracts (especially contracts of adhesion) to be immoral, they're allowed to voice that. And sometimes that causes the law to act to void contracts or prevent parties from certain actions even with contractual connect.
Dunno, seems like suggesting that PageRank is impossible because you could just spam a link thousands of times on your site to pump its ranking.

That seems like the weakness in someone's naive weekend-ware implementation, but is there a reason it cannot be improved?
This to me shows the biggest problem with games. They aren't made by gamers anymore. It's Yet Another Media Outlet so it's been cash cowed to death.

Split screen is gone too. It used to be mandatory in the 1990s-2000s for FPS, now your lucky if a current gen title has split screen at all. This ruins one of the primary fun things to do with a game which is couch play.

Both of these things make it harder to microtransact and make games RPG like, so I get it. But I hate it really. The games are worse.
YC company: https://eligible.com/
We had two videos this time! I always give people who volunteer a free hand, but I have to admit, my computers are always muted. They should be seen, not heard, so I never listened to the music myself.
Japanese curry sounds a bit like Pueblan mole! Delicious! :9
That, is the problem with transliterating into English. Otherwise it is quite staight forward (even the pronunciation).
Also, language's ability to conjugate words has to be considered. Languages branching from sanskrit,
If it passes, it'll be inevitable for its scope to expand beyond sex trafficking - little by little.
I couldn't help thinking of V for Vendetta:

But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It's at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He's a man seemingly without a conscience, for whom the ends always justify the means

Perhaps such people are in short supply?
Conversely, even the low-level AI projects/systems currently deployed for stuff like ad targeting would fare better at finding cures for cancer.
Part of the thing with Blizzard is they have the Overwatch League which they're trying really hard to legitimize as a true spectator sport. I don't know the specific person you're referencing in your post but there are players like xQc who have been banned as they're official league members who have agreements about their public behavior and repercussions if they break those. Blizzard does go pretty hard on the ban hammer in Overwatch overall, but most of the news worthy bans have been about Overwatch League players, who have a bit more of intimate relation with Blizzard than regular professional gamers.
Can’t have causation without correlation.