skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> reading the actual proposals it is much less sinister.

The whole point is that there's no public discosure of the proposals and only some leaked documents from a year before. If you have more information, please share.

Keeping a sceptical view and expect the worst case scenario out of these talks is the healthiest stance I think. We can always dismiss these when reasonable and scientifically backed arguments point at the contrary.
I think you forgot one major piece of the equation: You get that $22,000 back.
And even in machine learning, the vast majority of the work is in feature engineering, which is applying domain-specific knowledge (e.g. linguistics) to generate discriminative features.

You can only get paid for doing research on the mathematical side of ML if you work in academics or for e.g. Google. The rest will just use an off-the-shelf machine learning software.
If I had to trust all the code running on my computer, I would have no computer.
Probably quite a low percentage however it seems to be used as the proving ground for new tech such as IPv6 and ISC seem heavily into it so it's still really important regardless of market share.
Highly recommended. Beeminder implements it too (inspired by the Hacker's Diet).
According to the article that isn't true, mugshot sites have high Google scores because people tend to linger on them.

And you are rather missing the point that 99.9% of people don't have GitHub....
I completely agree. Google has a huge, possibly even insurmountable advantage over any competitor - the sheer quantum of user queries and clicks that helps it continuously refine the context of the information gathered by its spiders.

Information <--> Actual User Questions <--> Actual User Clicks

It is the continuous feedback loop between the three that makes Google what it is. Without the latter two, Watson is seriously disadvantaged.
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It's wise that you wrote "a basic income _voucher_" and not just "basic income". There could be not enough tax money for that.

A great influx of immigrants lured by the "basic income for everyone" concept will most probably greatly lower economic efficiency. This is not because the immigrants would be lazy; this is because they would mostly lack appropriate education, work qualifications, knowledge of the language, and the general culture fit. They'd have hard time becoming as productive as an average American even if they all wanted to.

Of course, the government would be able to print enough money to keep the nominal basic income sum the same — but not the standard of living.

Switzerland, a country with great and deep-ingrained work ethics, could consider such an experiment for _its citizens_. Doing this for any strangers that care to show up is another thing entirely.
We could ask.
According to the logs, quite a few telnet attempts until about 2003 then it tailed off. Connection was up for around 2-3 hours a day. No incoming calls and wardialers as the modem was set not to answer.

No statistics on SSH though as it wasn't even running and possibly wasn't even installed. I didn't check! :)

(not putting that bit on my resume ;)
With the disclaimer out the way that I work for JetBrains, we are using it internally for several projects and some parts of our tools, including for instance the LiveEdit functionality in WebStorm is written in Kotlin.
In terms of comparing to Java, yes Java 8 adds lambdas but Kotlin drastically reduces the amount of code required and adds several other features that are not in 8.
To understand how a traffic analysis attach works, you first need to understand how hidden services work.

The way Tor hidden services work is that the hidden service builds a route (called a circuit) through the network of Tor nodes through to a node which it calls a 'rendezvous point' (RP). It then repeats this process to establish multiple circuits, one to each RP. The IPs of the RPs are public information, but no node (not even the RP) except the hidden service knows the route the circuit takes to the RP - only how to get to the next hop. End-users build their own circuit with Tor to the RP, so the RP or the hidden service also don't know the identity of the end-user.

An attacker wants to find out the route a circuit takes from an RP to the private node, to find the private node.

Tor does not send masking traffic - it only sends data when someone is actually asking something. So when someone sends data through the RP, the RP receives that data, unwraps one layer of the 'onion' packet and sends the rest along the circuit. The next node does the same. Therefore, this creates a pattern that is observable to someone who is sniffing the networks.

An attacker with access to all the networks between the nodes cannot see the contents of the packets, since it is encrypted, but they can look for the pattern in the traffic to see where the traffic is flowing. If no one was using Tor at all except for one packet being sent along one circuit, it would be trivial to see the path a packet follows, since you would see the RP sending the packet, then a slightly smaller packet going to the next node, and so on to the destination. In practice, lots of people are using Tor, so you need to do statistical analysis and build up confidence over time about a circuit.

If there is an unusual amount of data traveling over the circuit you care about (e.g. due to a DDOS), this again makes it easier - just look for all the most active nodes. If you can send a pulse of exceptionally high traffic, you can watch the time evolution of the pulse through the system and see where it ends up. Even without a high traffic pulse, you can compute probabilities that observed traffic outputs from a node were caused by a given input (based on the timing, size, etc...) and over time, combine a lot of individual points of weak evidence to get strong evidence about a circuit.

The complaint says that the 23rd was when they asked a foreign government to assist them by imaging the server - so they know where it is physically, and who owns the datacentre.
Ah, I remember that days where you could buy rock-solid desktops. What would I buy now that would last a decade? HP own Compaq but they are not what they used to be.
The concept of the AI is not what I am disputing, it's this particular story. There is no expansion on how it will replace it and equally dismisses Google's algorithm as simple to replicate.

I don't see it as replacing search either, people search for websites. What is the end result, that Watson replaces all sites on the internet with it's own dynamic page filled with its own information?

How would Watson choose how to display the information it returns to me? Am I getting the full story?

This article breezes over so many specifics I cannot take it seriously.
> Nobody was sitting around thinking about how they were going to get and use personal info from phones into ads.

And how do you know this? Google is one of the smartest and richest technology companies out there. Is it inconceivable that they could foresee and plan 5-10 years into the future?
Let me offer a different advice: go for computer science and a major with practical application, e.g. biology, chemistry, medicine, economy, or even linguistics.

In our age we are increasingly seeing technology changing other fields. But there are relatively few CS majors who are proficient in another domain and there are relatively few non-CS majors who can engineer/program well. There is a lot of demand for people who can program and have domain-specific knowledge, e.g. in computer vision, market prediction, natural language processing, etc.

The other advantage is that, even if the demand for computer science majors collapses, there may be opportunities in the other field (well, perhaps not in linguistics ;)).
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I've always thought Google would want to buy some Watsons to help their search engine. I'm surprised they haven't yet.

That being said, I wonder if they're more interested in how their D-wave quantum computer will turn out.
If you are interested in high accuracy for highly diverged DNA, take a look at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20733242
https://github.com/akhudek/feast

Sadly, I haven't seen this research be applied anywhere. I'm not sure if it's a lack of advertising, or that there is nothing interesting at extreme divergences.
Have you compared it with ML or Haskell?
Complaining that a C native library has its examples in C is like going to China and complaining that the signs are in Chinese.
It's the question of the level of trust. Some code is trusted enough to run it. DRM is never trusted enough to run it (IMHO). You seem to be saying that since there is always risk, one shouldn't care about anything at all.
I wouldn't conclude that this is good customer service. More bad service as the support team couldn't (or weren't officially allowed to) kill the contract. This was just a case of ultimate escalation which was brought to resolution as quickly as possible.
> It was originally designed to run on guided missile destroyers in the US Navy.

Wouldn't that be in contrast to the license?
Indeed. HP's Z workstations are pretty good though.
Planet Fitness is known to discourage powerlifters and to focus on a more casual crowd.
I certainly think there is a place for a language that does not have the complexity of Scala, but reduces the boilerplate of Java. I also liked the support of non-null types in Kotlin.
Don't forget that filing an arbitration case almost always requires paying a fee of some kind.
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So it seems that you think that while anarchy would better achieve a true national welfare, it would not do so for any concrete concept of national welfare that one could define and measure. True welfare somehow is intrinsically unmeasurable.
And I completely agree with this, there is definitely a niche. Very much in the same way that Wolfram has a niche. It's never going to replace search but it definitely plays an important part in the way we look for information.

If anything, IBM could replace / merge with Wolfram
If a mortgage is underwater and the debtor cannot (or will not) pay, then it hardly matters to the investors whether the owner is foreclosed on, or the city forces principal reduction. Either way, the investor takes a loss. But seizing current underwater mortgages would be terribly shortsighted.

What intrigued me is the idea that investors would be willing to accept a principal reduction, but cannot because the logistics are too difficult. FTA:

Although it was in the banks' interest to write down the principal on loans to avoid an outright default... ...so many different investors would have to sign off on the change. Because of that, these "private label securitized" loans are much more likely to default than the banks' portfolio loans.

So maybe a deal could be crafted that is in the interests of both investors and homeowners. Home buyers might get the short end, with fewer foreclosed homes coming on the market, but I've heard that banks tend to sit on foreclosed properties for a long time anyways, so it may not affect the market supply much.
Moreover, the property values there will go even lower because of dried up financing.

This could become a textbook case of government power abuse backfiring at the people the politicians claim to be "helping"

There is a better description of what this city did: Theft
According to the hp Apache Cocoon is based on XML/XSLT and Spring. If it failed I bet not because of Maven ...
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That's not how it works.

Retirement savings goes into tax advantaged accounts like 401ks and iras. This is pre tax income. You pay the taxes at the end, when you're drawing from your accounts during retirement.
And also has extension methods and lambda extensions which AFAIK are unique to Kotlin (the latter), which makes some of the stuff I do with Wasabi possible.
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They say using Eminent domain as if thats the solution, take the banks property away.

I am thinking the fallout from this move will be disastrous. These are the ideas that fundamentally change the fabric of a society. Now the Government will use Eminent domain whenever a private entity is acting against the social interests of the citizens, whilst many will applaud such a move I fear it gives the Government and elected officials far too much power.

Also why bother obtaining property and wealth when the Government positions itself as the taker of all things whenever it suits them best?
Most people do have know enough to make sure they have accounts in their name on Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogspot, Pinterest etc. which tend to rank very well in name searches.
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"If a mortgage is underwater and the debtor cannot (or will not) pay, then it hardly matters to the investors whether the owner is foreclosed on, or the city forces principal reduction. Either way, the investor takes a loss."

Mortgage markets are not terribly liquid. The "market value" the City of Richmond picks may not be favorable to the investor. The extra-contractual origin of this market-value-by-fiat makes it doubly uncomfortable.

Further, collateral can improve in value. The housing market is presently appreciating. A defaulting debtor's prospects are less certain.
Richmond has decided to tear up a private contract to one side's advantage based on no pre-existing law. This is, generally, contrary to the principles of rule of law. The upside will be a short-term bump in Richmond's residents' balance sheets.

Courts are likely to strike this down. This will trash Richmond's public balance sheet. If courts allow this one would eventually expect private sector credit availability, to anyone in a low income neighbourhood, to dramatically re-price or freeze. It could also trigger a national housing credit, and price, pull-back.

Ironically either outcome will further impair Richmond property values, pushing more borrowers underwater and the city's tax income lower.
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Depression for example is a very real problem for those affected. Several drugs are available which provide repeatable relief. Countless studies show, that suicide can be prevented through anti-depressants which mostly don't cause major side effects, leaving the patient much better off.

A lack of understanding why these drugs work does not mean that the diseases they are often successfully treating is "phony".
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Maybe.

But keep in mind that the world's best-regarded borrower is the German federal government, which has defaulted twice in the past century. Past returns do not predict future performance, as the prospectuses say.
Now the Government will use Eminent domain whenever a private entity is acting against the social interests of the citizens, whilst many will applaud such a move I fear it gives the Government and elected officials far too much power.

Isn't the purpose of government to protect its citizens when a more powerful entity acts against them?

Also why bother obtaining property and wealth when the Government positions itself as the taker of all things whenever it suits them best?

I agree. That's clearly not what is happening here, though.

For one thing, the people who have taken the mortgage out own at least some of the property, and secondly the banks that hold the mortgages are profiting form fraud (ie, the deliberate strategy of selling sub-prime mortgages to people who couldn't afford them). Finally, this isn't what suits [the government] best. It would suit the local government if the problem could be ignored, which is what other jurisdictions (including at the Federal level) are doing.
How exactly is it supposed to work then? People don't recognize the symptoms of mental disorders in themselves or others. Sure, you can tell if someone is having an extreme psychotic episode, or an extreme depression. In less extreme cases outwardly "harmless" symptoms of depression or ADHD are wrecking people's lives.

The potential abuse of the system does not mean it doesn't do more good than harm.
For a good overview from one of the big math guys: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/03/talking-about-the-com...

Otherwise, I'd suggest taking a bit of time to think about the sector like a entrepreneuring hacker. Look beyond the well worn paths and take advantage of your current naivite.
>There is a core of very serious cases, like schizophrenia and some bipolar sufferers, but those are not mental illnesses, they are physical ailments with psychological symptoms. Purely mental illnesses have no scientific explanation, no reliable diagnostic criteria, and no treatments -- which is why the DSM is being abandoned.

What about depression? OCD? Anxieties? Are they "physical ailments with psychological symptoms"?
> I don't understand the local vs global dependency thing. What does NPM do differently from Maven?

As others have pointed out, NPM as a default is using "local" dependencies, (something I couldn't achieve with Maven easily).

"Local" means that the dependencies are in a sub-directory of the project, and that the transient dependencies are in sub-sub-directories too if needed.

With NPM, for us some of the implications of this are the following:

- being "self contained" I can check in a VCS and tag it "completely" or just zip it and send somewhere else, where it can be built "as it is", even on CI machines or production machines that have no Internet connection, nor do require a company internal Maven server.

- bugs and issues with building are reproducible. The "it builds on my machine" doesn't happen anymore. (Just search the different Apache mailing lists of how often this happened even in those open source projects). We had this problem very very often - to the point where several projects were migrated to ANT again.

- the availability of public Maven Repos, their mirrors and their sync is just bad (sometimes it's the corporate firewall/proxy the problem), so builds just fail all to often. Many companies don't use internal Maven Repo Mirror

- none where I worked had one, nor could we convince the management to finance one.

- very often (even visible in open source projects that build with Maven), there are some dependencies (maybe not from the start of the project, or maybe only temporarily) that are not available in the official repos, so need to be manually added. Doing this in a sub-directory is much easier, and it needs to be done only once, so others will just use it.

These are just a few issues that NPM seems to have been solved nicely (or just not having them because of of the "local" defaults).

Of course, there are also disadvantages of this "local" approach (like the redundant disk space usage - where the global one is very efficient), but from my experience all these disadvantages pale compared to the problems and frustration Maven brought in many projects that adopted it.
I've found that the upper limit of MBA battery life depends a lot on how heavily you're using it.

I stopped worrying about my devices running out of juice on the move by packing one of these in the backpack :

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice/External-Battery-for-Mac...

At first, it seems like a little bit of extra weight to carry around, but you stop noticing after a short time.
What types of apps are you trying to create?
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If you are not treating a child with severe or even moderate ADHD with Amphetamines, the risks are severe and not so rare at all.

Almost by guarantee the child will not achieve remotely as well as it could. Both in school and within social groups. Both of these failures will almost by guarantee lead to further problems down the road.

It has been shown that untreated ADHD multiplies the risk for other very real disorders, like bipolar disorder for example.
Or maybe lending standards will increase (ie, you won't be able to get a loan unless you can prove you are going to be able to pay it off), and valuations will be more conservative.

Neither are exactly a bad thing.
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Researchers in the area usually say that "undertreatment" of ADHD in the US is more common than "overtreatment".
Very interesting comment; I especially liked the content of your edit.

Say, if you were setting up a system intended to last over a decade right now would you use NetBSD?
You're right. You know what would be easier? For all of Richmond to default on their mortgages.

Sidetrack: I put $50K into a townhouse in 2007 (my mistake!). I lost it all when the real estate market flopped. I walked away from the property because I wasn't willing to work for several years just to pay the principle down.

End result: No matter what, the real estate lost value. Either write it down now, or enjoy the pain as you write it off later (ie "extend and pretend": http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/megabanks-extend-and...).

What's that? Default judgement? Oh no. Bankruptcy. I still get to keep $1MM plus in retirement accounts, and I just can't buy another house for ~7 years. How horrible.
I was wondering what niche this filled and now that you say it, yes, this does seem like a nice compromise between Java and Scala (The F# of the JVM?)

In general, these "traditional OOP with functional flare" languages are a very positive trend with functional idioms becoming much more mainstream.

"FP for the masses" is certainly going places.
"the people who have taken the mortgage out own at least some of the property"

By definition of being underwater they own no equity of value. When a company goes bankrupt, i.e. when a company's equity value hits zero, i.e. when a company's assets are worth less than its liabilities, shareholders are wiped out. At that point they have no residual claim to the assets.
If you were foreclosed on over a year ago, and were able to prove it was due to economic hardship, you can get an FHA loan.

Disclaimer: Both my parents work in the mortgage underwriting business, one of them forcing BoA/Chase/Wells to take back th loans they made during the boom times.

EDIT: I'm a sport, here's a citation: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/09/wsj-fha-cuts-waiti...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732398060457903...
ADHD has been well validated. Untreated it not only severely impacts "success" and "earning potential", it also leads to severe other problems like depression and social problems.

Face it: People with ADHD are way unhappier. And that isn't entirely the fault of society. If you are more impulsive, less able to take care of yourself or others, then it is really hard to imagine how you are supposed to feel as well as others...
They said the same thing about Iceland too :).
Couldn't agree more - default is the proper way to do this. Others include Richmond (a) buying underwater mortgages off investors and tearing them up or (b) making mortgage payments for its residents (an ersatz bail-out to investors).