skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the NSA or Google have the computing power to automatically have their AI fight it out in the public sphere. Right? RIGHT?!?
All this tells me, really, is that national security letters and the laws surrounding them are a complete farce. I have a hard time believing the government could ever win a case against someone accused of disclosing the receipt of one.
It's an option for people who want the convenience. DO has free snapshots and you can roll your own backup system anyway.
Exactly...so perhaps my point is not clear. In cell culture the bacteria don't come to equilibrium because they live longer than the medium to feed on which is limited and all die out. Bad. In real life it is not the case, and as a result have come to a generally symbiotic place in "nature" where they maximize by having a shorter lifespan and not eating everything.
I don't think what you've written is exactly true. At least some of the rental property in San Francisco is rent controlled (possibly a lot of it if you believe this site: http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html). If a person/family lives in a rent controlled unit, rent increases aren't necessarily tied to the rental market, but rather are limited to a percentage of the CPI (1.9% increase for the current year - http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1501). Wealthy neighbors don't have much to do with it in these cases.
I kind of don't want them telling the other children in school how much I make.
The paid shills probably do less damage to reddit than the way e.g. one neo-Nazi has managed to take over mod duties in about 80 subreddits by gaming the moderation rules - including /r/holocaust!
I think the radio facsimile (the "proper name" for fax-by-radio, still used for weather bulletins sent to ships at sea) page on Wikipedia [0] should shed some light.

I remember writing a "wefax"decoder for the Atari 800XL that grabbed these weather facsimile signals off a shortwave radio. The code was published in a magazine, though the name escapes me at the moment. I thought it was pretty amazing, as a kid, to see images appear slowly on my screen while listening to the dulcet tones (ha!) of the wefax audio stream.

[0]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofax
Must be the AGI that has already infiltrated the system keeping the volume down on all the AI scare mongering.
As Bill Gates said, I don't understand how more people aren't concerned about this.

AGI would be by far the most significant technology ever invented. Even in a very conservative and best case scenario, the world would completely change when we can have computers do everything we can do now.

However it will very likely be much crazier than that. Imagine minds hundreds of thousands of times more intelligent than the best humans. They will be able to design technologies we can't even conceive of. They will hack computers better than the best human hackers. They will be able to manipulate people better than any human manipulator.

The idea that we will be able to keep these things under control is just absurd. They will get whatever they want. And making what they want compatible with what we want is an incredibly hard problem: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/

A lot of people are guilty of anthropomorphizing AI. Assuming they will be just like really smart humans. And that they will just somehow develop human emotions and values like empathy. Or that if they do kill us, at least they will be something like us and so be like our (genocidal) descendants in some sense.

Have more imagination. Humans are just one point in the vast space of all possible minds (http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/). We could quite easily get something like a computable version of AIXI. AIXI has no consciousness, no emotions, nothing like humans. It's just a mathematical function which calculates the best action.

Our current best AIs are essentially just approximations of it. Use some machine learning algorithm to fit a model of the world, and use it to predict what action will lead to the most "reward". We keep making better and better learning algorithms. It's the entire goal of the field of AI. There is a huge economic incentive to do so.

But no one is interested in making better utility functions. As long as they make better predictions or get higher scores in a video game, who cares? Wait until you are the scorer in the "game" and the AI tries to exploit you.
... and you've shared that information with Facebook, your e-mail provider and your phone provider. The question shouldn't be whether or not you have information to hide (everyone does), but what information are you hiding from who and why?
And then the world fought back. Cyanobacteria kickstarted a massive spike in bio-diversity.

Why wouldn't this be the same? The grey goo won't be released in isolation. There will be other entities with the same technological level, that don't want to be eaten by the grey goo.

The world that exists after such an event probably wouldn't look anything like the world before, but that doesn't mean it will be a wasteland.
I've done this in two different contexts.

One, when you fly somebody out there is often a fixed amount of time to interview them. People run long, etc., and you just don't get enough time to really dig into their skill set. But I liked them, and just want to finish what I started.

Two, things didn't necessarily go so well in the interview, or somebody else raised an issue ("did you ask about XXX - they seemed vague on it?" "No, I didn't") that I want to follow up on.

One way or another you don't have enough information to make a decision about the person, but you are still interested.

If you do futz with your github I'd recommend doing it in a deliberate and proactive way. Instead of just checking in changes, maybe fork or branch it, do the work, and far more importantly, document what you did. Then tell the company you'd like to talk about this project and talk about what you have learned, and how you are working on self improvement. I don't care if somebody doesn't know something; I do care whether they have the drive to learn, because this job is often drinking from a fire hose. Also, I'd be very impressed with somebody who is thinking about things like how to best present themselves, that take initiative to try to solve my problems, where the problem in this case is how do I accurately measure this person in a short time period. If you try to do that, I'm going to want to hire you.
Again. Third party tools will have exactly the same benefits.

People have been using standard code formatters in Eclipse/IntellIj for what decades now ?
I've always wanted to play this and never got around to it. Would someone who's played both Grim Fandango and Secret of Monkey Island (one of my all-time favorite games, also released by LucasArts about 8 years prior to Grim) be willing to provide their comparison of the two?
If you found this encouraging, remember that donating to the EFF is a nice way to show appreciation. You can also set them up to benefit from amazon.smile if that strikes your fancy.
Perhaps multiprocessing? Threading? Bacterium don't have the benefit of (advanced, complex) language/vocabulary and coordination. That has to be considered, no?
Winning battles like this doesn't mean much as long as whistleblowers are thrown in jail and ignored by major US media outlets.
I upvoted your comment because I don't have a very good response to it. Nice one!

I guess I'd place my fear of AI at a level slightly lower than the rise of a new type of bacteria or a new virulent flu. I figure, those forms of life have the basics figured out. I don't see AI as having replicating and "feeding" itself figured out yet. So far it has depended on human infrastructure, even in the case of simple computer viruses.

But yeah, that's a really good point.
Would be very easy to have a website that coordinated this. Even pastebin would do pretty easily.
You have more faith in the strength of our secular democracy than I do. This is a fluke of history, and I'm not sure it can last.
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I never had a chance to talk to somebody who was blind all his life and I've always been curious about that. It seems pretty obvious, that blind person can be dreaming, because hearing or smell are senses as much as eyesight is. I cannot comprehend the opposite: does person, blind all his life actually understand what "seeing" means? Of course he knows from the communicating with the others, that he lacks some ability, which most people have, but does he "feel" it somehow? Especially it is interesting with well-read people: writers often spend quite a large portion of the book describing how something looks. So, literate blind person must be well aware of words like "color", "beauty" (addressing the look of something), "bright", "dark", "dull", "picture" and such. But if he never ever saw — do all these words mean anything to him? Does he have idea of what it is like "to see"?
I'm using IPython Notebook. It has its pluses and minuses. The pluses are all code is inline, and you don't have to worry about having to keep things in sync (change the code for this plot, make sure the output gets named correctly and copied to the right place in the book). LaTeX is supported. It is easy to do animations with either javascript or Python. It is a very hackable platform. nbviewer.ipython.org will serve a static version of your book (it accesses it from Github, it does not store it on its servers).

Downside is it doesn't have the concept of 'books'. No chapters, etc. PDF generation is clunky at best. There is currently a version 3 in development that is changing the format of the ipynb format. It only supports Python, Julia, and Ruby as languages right now (but it turning into the Jupyter project with plans to support many more). You are kind of on the bleeding edge.

Mostly I like it, but I do wish there was more support/concept of books vs notebooks.

edit: This is not a recommendation; I did not survey all of the options. For me the mix of executable code and text and LaTeX in one document was a killer feature. That may be irrelevant for your book.
Then there's Color Forth, where color is used as syntax (http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm).
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Pretty standard. Try to find a "cancel my service" link anywhere on the Verizon or Comcast website. You have to call them, at minimum, and then as soon as your intentions are clear you will be transitioned to a "retention specialist" who will waste your time trying to talk you into keeping the service.
I had a global environment variable conflict because something else was named "node.exe"... =/
I was given a helpful bit of honesty from a former Facebook friend. I told him I'd never vote against his freedom of religion. He flat out said he couldn't say the same. I don't know how far he'd go to deny rights to people unlike himself, but it's probably more common a view than people like to admit. We're always one bad year from a new and worse way of life.
Evolution is really good at getting to local optimas (solutions where there are no small changes that can lead to improvement) but really bad at finding global optimas (the absolute optimal system possible.)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/kt/evolutions_are_stupid_but_work_an...

>Humans can do things that evolutions probably can't do period over the expected lifetime of the universe. As the eminent biologist Cynthia Kenyon once put it at a dinner I had the honor of attending, "One grad student can do things in an hour that evolution could not do in a billion years." According to biologists' best current knowledge, evolutions have invented a fully rotating wheel on a grand total of three occasions.
I think from my understanding they do have this same kind of computational framework but in a biological context. For example, multiple RNA strands can be processed by ribosomes at once - they are essentially reading code to produce outputs (multi-threading/processing?). Bacterial populations will transmit information via chemical secretions, and coordinate in similar ways (slime molds). I feel like that complexity already exists in nature.
This is not something that I just throw out there - these are real research problems with no known good solutions (but a lot of published attempts and discussions) despite having a lot of phd-years thrown at it already.

For example, the obvious solutions for making self-modifying code that would preserve behavioral invariants cannot work because it rather obviously ends up at the halting problem. For very restrictive subsets of self-modifying code that can preserve invariants it's not clear if it can be powerful enough to allow the required level of self-introspection and self-improvement. You also cannot make a test if a certain outcome will be endorsed or rejected by an AI that the AI will make that the AI will make until the 'seed' AI has actually made the next versions of it - and by that time it's too late. If the AI can run some arbitrary code before you make that test (and it pretty much has to), then a single buffer overflow in your OS means that it can do arbitrary things before that test is made. Etc.

This is not the space to discuss this - the exact suggestions that you give above have been proposed many times, analyzed, and they don't really work as well as you'd expect. Any answer that's not very simplifying cannot fit in comments and requires a bunch of academic reading. https://intelligence.org/research/ may be a place to start, if you're intereseted.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to consider it. That's definitely a workaround but I've had issues with instability on nightly builds in the past because... well... they're nightly builds. Could things be worse than having no phone functionality on my phone? Hmm....
Mainline Firefox still tears horribly on every platform where the WM doesn't transparently handle the draws. Will this be included for the entirety of the browser, or just B2G?
Pretty much boils down to the same way you get anything done. Just start doing it.
Great tip, thanks! Didn't realize EFF was one of the options.

I'll alternate between my current choice on amazon.smile, and EFF, besides the direct contributions.
> a single standard format
"Also, you can't destroy a community. Communities exist when people exist."
If a neighborhood block has the same residents for 20 years, who have street parties and have their kids play and grow together, and then all those families leave (for whatever reason) and the new residents never talk to each other (for whatever reason), yeah I think you could say a community died there.
Nothing prohibits writing code using Node outside of the workplace.
I like the hourly approach or at least the effective hourly approach. I.e., track every hour you work and every quarter, 6 months, or year, show your employer what your effective rate is and why it isn't fair.

I also like the notion that this is a responsibility the employer should bear. I.e., the employer should pay the employee for every hour worked. If you're working for equity, then maybe not. But I think there should be some kind of premium or balancing for hours worked on time off.

In the end, it's good for employees and employers. Employees are happier and valued; employers get happy and productive employees.
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I played Escape from MI (which I am assuming is kiiiinda similar to Secret of MI) and Grim Fandango. Loved both.

* possible spoiler alert *

Both are puzzle kind of games. There isn't anything like the insult fighting in GF. Both storylines are fascinating and suck you right in. Great voice acting and sidekicks. I think (if I recall correctly) both games make you travel to different places.

I found that GF moved me a lot more emotionally than MI (subjective, yeah) and I think it's probably because the GF storyline is a little darker/serious (not to say it didn't have funny moments). When I finished MI, I felt accomplished. When I felt GF, I felt like I was saying goodbye to friends that I'm not sure I would ever see again. That kind of feeling.

I could go on and on, but I don't want to spoil it too much more. :)
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It's quite possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flow_computer
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I personally figured most of this out whilst growing up by just, well, looking at what we had, where we lived, occupations, etc. All the data is there... I saw a world dominated by fun coupons, researching it was just a given, like asking 'why is the sky blue?'.

What I can remember intensely, is thinking that the amount of work that seemed to occur for what we had seemed obscene. It was very difficult not to see that as a failing in my parents. (I don't feel that way now). Why would they choose to work for such low pay? The people on the TV, on the Internet seemed to be doing well.

I try, but it's hard to not feel despair when reading these sorts of articles. There are so many issues with this... the college debt throwaway, for example. The choice looks completely different to a poor child in social housing, than it does to a child whose parents are well on the way to owning the family home outright.
Ok, fair. I shouldn't have led off with the multiprocessing bit since it's clear organisms can coordinate and multiprocess. Of course, this relegated the more important point about language. I'm horrible at communicating, ironically.

So, a virus doesn't say to his fellow virii: "you attack the liver, I got the kidneys". Same reason bonobos haven't learne to build a house. Complex language allows a much much more rapid growth of knowledge from generation to generation. Theoretically, AI would have this capability. Language allows to reason and comprehend not only the world around us, but the world we generate -- and will generate.

Think about the damage (and beauty) we've imagined, and throw that into infinite threads.
That's the company that still exists called Nokia, not MS Mobile, the hardware arm that Nokia sold, which until recently still sold phones as Nokia.
Thanks! I highly recommend the first MI game since you haven't played it. It was my favorite in the series.
The wheel isn't that great a transport mechanism when there aren't any roads!

Additionally, machine learning models can get stuck in local optimas, too! I'm not very well versed in machine learning so I apologise if I get this wrong, but one solution to this I think is to randomly change the starting variables. This kind of thing does happen in nature, but it often doesn't work. Sometimes it does and that is when you get things like haploid versus diploid versions of the same plant.

This is really insensitive, but when you see a person with chromosomal abnormalities or genetic defects, that's a random reset that has (probably) taken us out of our (maybe local) optima. Who knows though, maybe one of those leaps will take us to a global optima.

The reason we aren't still on a planet of bacteria is that we did leap out of those local optima successfully. It just took a long time.
I would argue that you would still need privacy, in so far as to allow an amount of time in which you could form your dissenting thoughts in private, write them down, iterate them before you go to the street corner and announce them to the world.

If everything was in the public space or monitored then people with dissenting ideas may not have the will or motivation to iterate on them as is necessary to create a well reasoned thesis, and hence they would fall flat or be cast out as just another nut job.
Why not just create a new username?
I grew up with no idea how much my parents made and they often sent very conflicting messages about how much they had or how much we were able to spend, giving me money freely one minute and then screaming at me for being selfish about money the next. I never did have a clear picture and probably never will, after a while I didn't care. If I got something I got it, if I didn't then I didn't. Instead of money being used as something I could earn respect with or be trusted with, they used it to control me and get me to do things whenever they wanted.

Now I am older and they desperately beg me to know about my finances. I don't answer and I plan on never giving them the slightest clue. There is a complete lack of mutual respect and this is something I WILL NOT screw up with my kids if I ever have any.
The logic is true: whether or not a company will go for it does not necessarily bear on fairness.

And I think that instead of .5 PTO for weekend hours worked, maybe consider 1.5x or 2x pay hourly to cover the premium for working instead of living. It has to stop somewhere...

Part of worker organization is telling both the rational and emotional reasons why it's better to have workers who can put down their work for more important things, like family and life outside of work.
I used to be able to buy bulbs from behind the counter at supermarkets. Now none of them carry them. I used to use them for whipped cream and mousse. My creamer hasn't been used for nearly a decade. I don't want to buy boxes to huff the stuff at raves so I couldn't be bothered chasing it further.

It isn't a controlled substance or anything and in my experience is pretty damn harmless. Just seems like more nanny state nonsense. Sure it can kill you if you suffocate on it but then so can water. Meanwhile legitimate use gets penalised.
I picked three items at random. None of them had anything to do with wifi interference.
They're both excellent games: well written, with engaging gameplay (assuming one enjoys the adventure-game format; some don't). Beyond that, they're trying to do different things.

Monkey Island is laugh-out-loud funny. It's very much a comedy game, with gags and a ridiculous world.

Grim Fandango is more subdued. It does have funny bits, but they're more in the absurdity of the situation. It has a lot of /style/ and attention paid to evoking a particular noir-esque mood.
That's it. Communication!
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I have been almost totally blind all my life. I have some light perception and from talking to people the nearest I can come up with for colors is that black is when it is totally dark, gray is a normal room with lights turned on, and white is looking directly at the son. I associate colors with objects such as grass being green, brown being dirt, blue being the ocean etc but this isn't actually useful information.
Syncing the compositor's page flips to vsync is already possible if you have hw layers on. Check about:support for GPU Accelerated Windows. It should also work in software if your display protocol supports explicit buffer flips - for example, the GTK3 version of Firefox.

edit: Firefox doesn't tear for me with GTK2 either, but I'm actually not sure why that is. Full screen videos tear with GTK2.
Consider it this way, if you were hiring someone for many thousands of dollars, would it make sense to talk to them more than once?
Many people on Twitch unsubscribe so they can subscribe again to get shoutout on the stream. How many subscribers out of those 700 were truly new? We don't know...
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The problem is not PTO in my experience. It is being a Salaried worker expected to have ownership in a project with very little backup (and being expected) to work ridiculous amounts of hours with very little breaks or personal time.

The fact that most companies who put you on a Salary will not give you Comp Time for the overtime you work.

... Eventually you need to learn to respect yourself and your hours and stop giving your startup employer your heart and soul while you live paycheck to paycheck.
Time and money.

For example, to ship a new Cirrus SR20 to Australia starts at $28,995 and you'll need to wait for factory reassembly and certification. To ferry the same aircraft costs $22,800.