skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: what do you mean 'upgrade everything from human secure'? I think if we've learnt anything recently it's that basically nothing is currently even human secure, let alone superintelligent AI secure.

Second: most doomsday scenarios around superintelligent AI are, I suspect, promulgated by software guys (or philosophers, who are more mindware guys). It assumes the hardware layer is easy for the AI to interface with. Manufacturing nanites, bioengineering pathogens, or whatever other WMD you want to imagine the AI deciding to create, would require raw materials, capital infrastructure, energy. These are not things software can just magic up, they have to come from somewhere. They are constrained by the laws of physics. It's not like half an hour after you create superintelligent AI, suddenly you're up to your neck in gray goo.

Third: any superintelligent AI, the moment it begins to reflect upon itself and attempt to investigate how it itself works, is going to cause itself to buffer overrun or smash its own stack and crash. This is the main reason why we should continue to build critical software using memory unsafe languages like C.
That's my point. This would be an extra 20-25% on top of what I'm already getting.

Which is a big chunk of time.
It's easy to write an article poking fun at fern bars and pseudo-naughty drink names like Slippery Nipple. People in the past and their absurd habits - so unbelievably shallow. So unlike you and I, who have discovered genuine connoisseurship concerning drinking habits.

But history is unforgiving, and the laugh will be on us. In a few years the term "mixologist" and the whole discourse concerning bitters, muddling, and artisanal gin is going to be ripe for the comedic shredder. I look forward to it.
Define C(n) = [BB-(BB-(BB-....]
And define D(n) = [C(C(C(C(...n)]
And define E(n), and so on.

Then make the Greek letters the entire alphabet iteration process (meaning BB-n through Z(n)). And then make the Hebrew letters the entire Greek letter process.

Look at how much fun we're having!
Their motives are irrelevant if their findings are verified.
Marco makes a solid point. The challenge for Google of course is that their CPC has been eroding for years now. That means the only way to make their number is to increase the available ad slots on the page, which pushes organic folks off the page. You can of course spend AdWords dollars and stay on the page, but then your RPM is offset by your ad spend and you're margins just get smaller anyway.

Bloggers who use AdSense get stuck even worse, they aren't getting organic link love and they are seeing the CPC decline as a flat out revenue decline.

The trend to apps is to get away from that of course. Your app will always show your content. Sites like Reddit and HN become more relevant traffic generators. And "portal" type sites like Medium will provide variability with their 'stable' of writers.

I totally agree with him that to "fix" this one has to go at it to build the thing they want. I'm guessing that is a combination of advertising and subscription revenue but we'll see.
Both provide travel reimbursements and there are tons of HS-friendly hackathons on the west coast. HSHacks, HackGenY, LAHacks (IIRC they were cool with <18). Definitely could use more though.
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"Irish Bar" does in fact track far better over time. Though with that notable 1920s uptick:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Irish+Pub%2C+I...

Actually, its heyday was 1794 - 1886:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Irish+Pub%2CIr...

(And yeah, there's a reason I used URL shorteners earlier.)
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen already.
Even www.mummify.it is offline!
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Right Alt+[sysrq,r,e,i,s,u,b]

... and achieves the same thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
The EU is fixing to eject Greece from the union. This has been in the works since probably around 2010. It's not a matter of if, it's just a matter of when they get ejected. That's probably the best way for them to survive rather than be assassinated by debt.
Wait, is Mexico a "hostile country"?
right from the page you linked: "Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk"

If you carefully select the people you are going to email and the message is tailored to that person, it's no longer considered spam (or in bulk).
I got the idea his BB_2 is different. He's referring to a super Turing machine that can solve the halting problem for non-super Turing machines.

The BB-2 used in an iterative algorithm is talking about "A busy beaver number of (A busy beaver number of 10)", no need for super machines here. The iterative algorithm is short enough you can define it in your 1000 characters, no need for additional publication.
Hi! Did you consider modeling the fact that a blunder in the first ten move-pairs seems far less likely in expert play, given that they're usually playing from book and there are fewer pieces in motion to consider?

(I'm wondering if blunders after move 15 are in fact far more common than your model suggests, and they're just being extremely diluted in your stats by correct opening play almost every game.)
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Ancestor post explicitly apologized for being slightly off topic in asking how an individual could effect change within the workplace.

Both professional associations and labor unions have historically been successful at influencing workplace conditions within their industries. While that does not guarantee a change for the better with respect to this particular issue, it does imply that such a change is possible. It seems odd to me that an apparent majority of employees agree that sexual harassment/discrimination is unacceptable behavior, and the industry still has a problem with it occurring. I suggest that is because those who oppose it lack the power to enforce their will upon their employers.

The other historically effective solution is lobbying for government legislation, but the bad behavior is already illegal when certain lines are crossed, and uniform enforcement is by no means guaranteed.

When a person with no money and no power elects to fight someone with both, he will lose, unless he can convince a lot of friends to stand with him. Employers and investors alike have the money advantage. How else would you counter that advantage, if not with superior numbers?
It's not propaganda, it's a reasonable observation about the NSA's duties, and it's not meant to tell the whole story. The conspiracy types need to tone down a bit so that a thought-out and nuanced discussion can take place. You're just ranting and throwing Alex Jones and Greenwald buzzwords around, disabling any real insight.
> In what sense is the BB sequence even well-defined if we can prove that it can't be determined?

I think it may help you to understand how the BB sequence can be well-defined if you change your definition of "we can prove".

A proof is a sequence of logical deductions in an axiomatic system, so what "we can prove" depends a lot on which axiom system you're using. For some types of questions, it helps to make that explicit.

For instance, in weak axiom systems, we can't prove that every hydra game terminates. [0] In very strong axiom systems, ones so strong we call them inconsistent, we can prove everything! People argue over intermediate systems sometimes by pointing out things they can prove that are counter-intuitive. [1][2]

For any terminating Turing machine, there is a (possibly very long) proof in a very weak axiom system of that fact: the full trace of the execution. (For non-terminating machines, this is not true.) So, if ZFC, a rather strong axiom system, cannot prove a machine halts, it does not halt.

For another example of this kind of thing, see Terry Tao's discussion of the consequences of the independence of Goldbach's conjecture from ZFC on MathOverflow. [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiling%27s_axiom_of_symmetry
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
[3] http://mathoverflow.net/a/27764
For anyone reading this.

First rule: If the boat didn't sink, never abandon it. It is relatively easy for a rescue helicopter to find a capsized boat. Not so easy to spot someone swimming. Also, you can probably manage to stay out of the water on top of the hull.

If the boat sank, stay all together next to the biggest piece of floating debris.

Source: sailing license exam. :P
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A book released today with a 5 star rating about how much the reviewer needed this book? Horse shit. If it was your mom, I might buy it. My mom would give 5 stars and babble on about how cute I was as a baby. But Si Dunn rates almost everything 5 stars, and everything is life changing to this manning plant.
Those atoms were for peace, dammit.
Why not use.. Scientific Calculator (PowerCalc) for Android?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scaleasw.p...
I'm surprised the CPU microcode angle isn't mentioned.
They excluded a few countries and two usernames. Medium-level infection reached 18 countries.

I think it's foolish to defend alleged NSA operations when the NSA won't even acknowledge such operations.

If the government wants to have a debate about the rules of digital warfare (or a particular war), then let's. If they don't, then why should we defend their secret tactics? We have no idea what the motives and objectives are of these operations. And we have little knowledge about how they've affected people, innocent or otherwise.

Your casual analogy to parking vans outside homes seems reasonable. Until you consider what that actually means in our real life. For instance, vans outside homes has been a large part of the war on drugs which has imprisoned a staggering number of black youth. What do you think is the analogous fallout of this malware? Drone strikes? Defend those.
>Also, even if they were wrong to do so, something must have caused creditors to demand austerity

Austerity in Greece (much as in America) is pure class warfare: an attempt to break the back of the working classes so that their wages and negotiating leverage will be pressured down.

There is a reason that French and German creditors demanded that pensions and public sector salaries be slashed but "allowed" Greece to continuing purchasing expensive imported military hardware.

It's the same reason why Schaeuble and Dijsselbloem keep pushing for austerity despite the fact that it will never help get the debt paid back: they aren't actually interested in being paid back.
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> We should all be aware of the fact that these people are the enemy.

By "these people" do you mean the NSA or the other countries? Because your ending making it sound like you might be talking about NSA, but your content makes very little sense if that's what you mean.

> They don't do these things to "protect freedom", they do them to destroy freedom.

The hell are you talking about?

> Analyze and publish any evidence of government attacks.

A government attack on another government? What's the problem? That's what the NSA is supposed to do.

> If you work for the NSA, understand this: you aren't American. You are the Internet Daesh. You will lose.

I think we might need an amendment to Goodwins law. Seriously? You think spying on another country is the same as enslaving and raping children?

You need to sit down about think about your mental status that allows you to say (and think) things like this. There is something really twisted in your thinking, and you should try to find out what.

This is what the NSA should be doing. It's what I expect them to do.

Spy on your own country? Not cool. Spy on another country? Yes - keep it up and do more.
There should be an information sharing agreement in place.
The problem with allowing Greece to not pay the debt or part of the debt is what happens with the rest of the countries that are not only contributing with Greece (Spain alone I believe has given 26bn € to Greece) but are also enduring harsh economic measures to put their economies in order?
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This was a great way to see the human cost of economic stagnation and austerity in Greece, but it doesn't talk about the causes of these issues or the best way forward. Like others have said, there are many countries worldwide with poor quality of life and poor economic growth , but what caused it in Greece and what can be done to fix it? Playing into a game of picking sides in Greece versus the big bad EU powers doesn't seem credible or productive to me.
Well we are not directly involved in all the wars. For instance I want to be bullish on Nigeria but Boko Haram is a real problem. Also the Ukraine is out of our hands, no way we could fight the Russians on their own turf. Certainly nobody in Europe has the balls to do anything about it since Russia might quit sending them methane.

Even when you look at the terrorism issue I think Europe is much more vulnerable than the US. The US is by no means perfect but Muslims come here and get jobs and own businesses and they don't drink and their kids don't fk up cars at the mall. If you want to wear a Burka or some other kind of headscarf we don't give you trouble, we have the first Amendment because we know how much trouble an "established religion" caused in England.

In France and other euro countries they warehouse Muslims in Big Block apartments out of some Le Corbusier nightmare on the edge of town (where euro people don't want to live) and they live off welfare and it takes hours and hours to get anywhere on public transit. Muslims there have grievances that go far beyond the indignities of being dissed in comic strips. On the other hand I am personally pissed at the Boston Bombers because we gave them a safe place to live where nobody wants to kill you because you are a Chechen. (We do have idiots in the US who attach Sikhs because they hate Muslims or attack Iranians because they hate Iraqis, but this is really a lunatic fringe.)

When CNN is not talking about war it is talking about some plane that disappeared or how the daughter of somebody famous was drowned in a bathtub or how the Republicans and Democrats can't agree on the budget (i.e. fund Homeland Security so we can avoid the kind of attacks that hit the Euro zone, fund NASA so we can get astronauts home from the ISS...)
You're totally right about this. In general the efficacy of engines is different for different parts of the game. In the beginning players (and engines) are mostly playing from books so there's a lot fewer mistakes and what the engine thinks of as a mistake is just someone going outside its pre defined book. Mid game the analysis is very effective. In end game the engine can actually completely solve the game, so it really just judges moves as winning or losing.

Spoiler: We're planning to address a lot of this in an upcoming followup I'm working on right now. We're going to take this in to account in our analysis as well as giving people the raw dataset with info about when the blunders occurred so that can learn from it themselves.
Yep, it is exactly the same rhetoric, word for word as used in other NSA-praising comments on HN. Posted by a 1-year old account that had exactly 1 comment in their history until today.
7x in 2 seconds is ridiculously fast. I'm not even sure I can pull that kind of speed off.
They missed perhaps the most awful kick in the teeth by austerity - Greeks can't get lifesaving drugs:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119044917045765747...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/03/us-greece-drugs-id...
> (My thanks to Manning for providing a review copy.)

In England that line needs to go at the front of the review, but even so the reviewer is open about the relationship.
Grandmasters blunder more often than this. I would venture to say that what correlates with blunders more so than rating is time. Error rate goes way up in Blitz and Rapid.

IMO the more interesting thing about chess skill at the top is how much way way better GMs are than everyone else.

To me, ratings at the top feel more like an exponential scale than a linear one. For example, I have beaten International Masters at chess lots of times but have never once beaten a GM.

If I studied or cared (which I don't), I think maybe it would be possible to squeeze out a lucky win once in awhile. Aspiring to be a punching bag isn't a very appealing notion though, so you can understand my lack of motivation. GMs are crazy good.
Soon the Linux from Scratch guide will be:

* Compile kernel

* Compile systemd

* Boot

;)
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A whole week, yes... It all started exactly 1 week ago...
1) In general, for the european union to work, European national governments need to start dropping the 'us vs. them' mentality - all of the EU is a deadbeat if Greece is a deadbeat.

2) Corruption - Greece just isn't as 'well-run' as Germany - a lot of that money gets skimmed off the tops at the expense of the people. Yes, the 'people' elected the governments that took the money and skimmed the money, but if you think the U.S. government is slanted towards corporations than Greece's is backwards in comparison.

3) This matters for a lot more than just Greece - all of the EU is at stake, and yet blame seems to get layered onto Greece.
Oh, this is a timely discussion. I just wrote an article on this topic: http://bit.ly/recurse-iterate. What I thought was good about go to statement was that it helps us understand how recursion works and how one can eliminate it in favor of iteration.
if(getCookie("blah") == 0){
$.post("../count2.php",

etc.

If you really want to show your support for Greece, you certainly can.
I did not cite C as an example of ideal code style or convention.
> We long for a real basis for morals, but if all we are is matter obeying the laws of physics, morals cannot be anything more than arbitrarily-made-up rules.

That's not necessarily true: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/#2
But is glitchy and can be awkward to pull off. No guarantees this wont be as well, but we'll see.
This is a good criticism, allow me to answer your questions to my best of knowledge.

1) Greece was not always a deadbeat. a) misuse of money over many years (kleptocracy) b) lack of competitive advantage after merging economy with stronger countries (eg. Germany) and c) a large influx of cash from stronger countries that eased productivity and entrepreneurship is also to blame. Imagine if US slashed "bullshit jobs" tomorrow what effect this would have to consumerism and GDP in comparison. Austerity measures in Greece basically stagnated cash flow to the economy which like US is mostly service sector - based.

2) Structural reforms are far behind due to the Kleptocrats' influence till today. Clean slate, dealing with kleptocracy and a growth plan would do a lot to reverse this

3) Sensible management and right investments could mean no such fate for Greece. Gourmet-quality agricultural products and food processing, tourism by exploitation of natural beauty and rich history, and a strong shipping industry and tradition could help this country move forward. Mining also has some potential but I am not sure if it can account for a big chunk of the new economy.
The "problem" is that they have a recently elected government that doesn't want to be held accountable for what the previous governments did and/or spent.
There actually is a grain of truth to that, and it's already here. The LFS book has a separate edition specifically for systemd, as listed here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html
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Trendy brands are fashion items with limited product histories? Who would have guessed?

In any case, it's instructive to look at old menus and wine lists to get a feel for what was actually on offer way back when. For the most part, cocktails as we know them don't show up until the 1940s or so. Though it's worth noting there aren't a lot of speakeasy menus around.

On the other hand, generic types of liquor like "old tom gin" or "rye" date back well into the 19th century.

Wine brands certainly date back even further, and interestingly it's the champagnes that have changed very little in the top brands for centuries. Some beer brands, particularly Guinness and Bass have been popular on American menus for a long, long time.

Browse the New York Public Library's historic menu collection here- http://menus.nypl.org/
> Take 9^9^9, for example. This behemoth, equal to 9^387,420,489

...if the author is here, he should correct this.
Sorry to be that guy, (http://xkcd.com/1053/ and all), but this isn't new. It was discovered soon after the skills feature came out.

Here's a buzzfeed article from 2013:http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/heres-how-to-endorsmen...

Congrats on your independent discovery though :-)
Time definitely plays a huge roll in blunders. Actually if you look at the first graph there's a spike in blunders around 2800 which is entirely due to a single GM (Caruana) playing a string of blitz games this year in which he made several blunders.
I'm sorry, I realize that you're asking for clarification, but it is really frustrating to keep hearing this kind of crap. Greece the country didn't borrow all (or even most) of that money, private borrowers borrowed it from German banks (or Greek banks that borrowed it from German banks). The money ended up as public debt because the banks got bailed out.

The reasons for this were complex, but had a lot of do with German fiscal and labor policy. Once the loans turned out to be bad (because why on Earth did the banks expect that all of these funds could possibly to put to good, productive use, especially once credit standards were lowered), Greece was expected to deal with the situation. They did, and they bankrupted the country doing so (same with Portugal, Spain, and Ireland).

There is, of course, plenty of blame to go around, but this is not a situation where the Greek government borrowed a ton of money and wasted it. They borrowed a ton of money to bail out their banking system including a bunch of German banks (which is where a lot of the money originated). This is exactly what the global economic elites were telling everyone to do in 2008. Then, once things got ugly, those same elites decided that the Greek people should collectively pay the price for two bad economic policies that were only partially the fault of their government.

Suggested reading:

http://www.amazon.com/Austerity-The-History-Dangerous-Idea/d... - this book goes into great depth about what exactly happened in Europe.

http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/syriza-and-the-french-indemn... - blog post that describes how what has happened in Greece, Spain, and Portugal was effectively inevitable and not the fault of the respective governments so much as it was a result of a series of pan-European financial blunders.
I only make political comments on threads of conversation that are inherently political. In technical discussions, I make technical comments only. I take this commitment very seriously.
The postcode database is not Free (enough).
> what happens with the rest of the countries that are not only contributing with Greece (Spain alone I believe has given 26bn € to Greece) but are also enduring harsh economic measures to put their economies in order

They should exit the Euro. Better to default, deal with the temporary pain, and re-emerge vs being shackled to austerity-induced slavery. Like Iceland did.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/financial-recover...
I find emacs calc very fitting the RPN tradition (reminiscent of HP pocket calculators), since it provides an algebraic solver; always a pleasurable thing to witness.
Would you think http://bit.ly/recurse-iterate does an okay job of working toward that goal?