skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are creating a "demon" with artificial intelligence, but it the origin isn't machine learning or Kurzweil-style AIs. In fact, the demon already exist, and is known by many names: "bureaucracy", "corporate policy", "work-to-rule", etc.

We already have many situations where important decisions are made by algorithm and heuristic. The "demon" is seen when the computer is followed blindly, even in the instances where it doesn't make sense. We have all seen times where the heuristic failed; sometimes this lead to stupid outcomes that "must" be followed where a human with decision-making power would make the obvious override.

To continue the metaphor, you can summon a demon if you know it's true name. Bureaucracy and "official policies" are hard to change once they are created, so this gives the people that control who can write the heuristics can control the demon, allowing attacks to be hidden behind policy.

As an example, consider youtube's "Content ID" system. The failure of the matching algorithm have been a problem for some time now, with user left with ultimatums and the brick wall of google's "support". Even more problematic are the cases where the Content ID system did match correctly, but the situation was covered by something outside of youtube.

I'm not saying automation is bad or that tools like Content ID shouldn't exist. They are merely tools. The problem comes when we try and substitute a tool for critical thinking and judgement. Those problems become a powerful demon when you are forced to deal with only that tool, no questions, no variances, and no appeals.

/* Incidentally, this is yet another situation where an episode of Max Headroom has become literal truth. ( http://www.maxheadroom.com/mh_episode_14.html ) */
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Pot smokers make a big deal of legalization but seriously, have legality issues ever prevented anyone from acquiring the stuff? I think many people are focusing on legalization because they want to avoid the real question, namely what is your personal relationship with this potent narcotic. Are you in charge of it, or is it in charge of you?
Perhaps you should consider the Diversity Immigrant Visa a.k.a. green card lottery. Japanese citizens are eligible.
The "problem" probably lies more in the type of porn people watch, than the fact that they watch porn at all. Exposing the former might be very embarrassing while the latter as you say - wouldn't.
Its the same, it just has MORE rules.
Google addresses this here:
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#Privacy
As a demonstration I traced date(1) on CentOS. Here are the file accesses, if you are running diskless, each of these needs a round trip to the file server. (except the final 3, of course)

access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=54185, ...}) = 0

close(3) = 0

open("/lib64/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0@!\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=43880, ...}) = 0

close(3) = 0

open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0p\356\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1921176, ...}) = 0

close(3) = 0

open("/lib64/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\340]\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=142640, ...}) = 0

close(3) = 0

open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=99158576, ...}) = 0

close(3) = 0

open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3661, ...}) = 0

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3661, ...}) = 0

read(3, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 3661

lseek(3, -2338, SEEK_CUR) = 1323

read(3, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 2338

close(3) = 0

fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0

write(1, "Tue Feb 24 08:57:58 GMT 2015\n", 29) = 29

close(1) = 0
Goodness, really?
It was for equal oportunity or something.
I hope the lesson learned from that particular story is "document why things are done the way they are". Not "when you don't understand why things are done in a certain way, feel free to break it".

No. Make sure to understand, deeply, ("speak to the great great grandmother") before you give in to that urge.
> I think averaged adjustments for cost of living are senseless as this is quite individual.

Well it's a base to work from. If it costs, on average X for Y things, and you know you are happy with about half of Y, then it'll still be cheaper to live in Cyanide Springs, Oklahoma, than in central London.
Nice! Would like to see similar rating for Europe. From my experience, Prague could be the leader.
Then you will be stuck with the C view of world of what a linker is supposed to do.

Just look at Modula-2 and Object Pascal toolchains as examples of compile speeds and incremental compilation features that could run circles around contemporanean C compilers.

Or the lack of proper module system, which requires linker help.
That's a ridiculously narrow and exclusionary definition of conspiracy theories, one that's set up to only include those theories that are clearly delusional.

If you asked a average person three years ago whether they thought that all their calls were being recorded and that the NSA was hacking into companies and stealing data you would have been called delusional and your explanation would have been bizarre and unreal. Yet here we are today with clear evidence that all these things are being done with no repercussions for the perpetrators.
Very nice work! I'd love to see it expanded and "opened up" in the form of a Google Spreadsheet or something else where people can plug more cities into it.
I suspect the cost of living data for Austin trails reality by some significant margin. The sources don't indicate the age of the data, but even if it's only a couple of years old, it's going to be wrong by enough to be a factor.

I have lived in Austin for a couple of years, and also lived here (and owned a house here) about 8 years ago. The cost of homes here has gone up tremendously since then. I was shopping for a house a few months ago, and was simply unable to buy one; those in my price range wouldn't accept my offer because it wasn't an all-cash offer (despite being $5000 or more over the asking price). Investors paying cash are buying aggressively here, driving up prices. Rental rates have risen at an even faster pace.

Certainly, it's cheaper here than in Silicon Valley. Five years ago, I was paying $2145 a month in rent for a house a couple of blocks from downtown Mountain View. Today I'm paying $1690 a month for a house quite far outside of downtown Austin and on the east side; renting in downtown is not an option, even at $2000+ a month. Apartments are somewhat cheaper, and buying a house is still notably cheaper than Silicon Valley, but the gap has been closing rapidly.

In short, Austin has grown incredibly fast in recent years, and the real estate market hasn't been able to absorb that growth in anything like a reasonable manner. So much so that I'd be shocked if the graphs in this article still reflect reality for Austin.
Yes, I missed the SF entry too.. Though, it will very likely be on par with NYC.
But isn't that effectively what the core team did indeed say? They just dismissed everyone's implementations of generics as having a downside, couldn't come up with anything better, then just left it at that. (Edit: This is just my knowledge from a while ago. There's some mailing list thread where every existing way to do generics is dismissed for one reason or another, and well, Go still doesn't have that one feature.)

Also, "Sans runtime"? When did that happen? Last I heard, Go had a fairly substantial runtime to it, making it unsuitable for many places, and not trivially possible to just link right into any old program. And without a runtime, it'd be hard to have a GC, eh?

I think you meant "Statically linked", and nothing at all about runtimes. Rather large difference. FWIW, you can statically link many things, including C#. Which is how C# is deployed e.g. in bestselling iOS apps (and running on iOS has gotta be far from being "tied to the hip" of Windows).

(As a comparison, Rust is actually what is generally meant by "sans runtime", as in you can just call right into a Rust function without setting up anything else (just don't like, call panic or something).)
Not quite. Most of the big ISPs were required to add an 'adult content' filter, which yes, basically blocks porn among other things.
When signing up for a new broadband connection, the box enabling this 'adult content' filter is ticked by default, meaning you have to actively untick it.
ISPs are also required to contact all existing customers somehow and ask them whether or not they want the filter enabled.

No laws have been passed yet to enforce ISPs to do this, just pressure from David Cameron and campaigns by the Daily Mail and 'parent' groups and stuff, although David Cameron did say if the recently implemented system was not effective enough they would have to legislate (the problem now, is whether the 4-8% takeup on all but one isp is 'effective'.)
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In case you were not aware, Kathy Sierra has a new book!

http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/...
https://www.academia.edu/7666373/An_Order-of-Magnitude_Estim... claims that the environmental cost of paper currency & minting alone is 10x greater than that of bitcoin mining and concludes that given the trend of Moore's law, bitcoin's relative environmental impact will continue to stay negligible.
There is a huge privacy problem even without browser fingerprinting. Some porn sites use google analytics. I find this irresponsible, especially since most people have their real word ID bound to their google account.
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If you read the article, it downloads the full sized binary later. So actually the size with the emterpreter is higher
The idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized marijuana business is just as crazy as the idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized prostitution business. It will not happen. Some stuff in life is just dark as of itself, and karma is real.
Yeah, I formally introduced the book when I presented the pearl 1: http://typeocaml.com/2015/02/02/functional-pearl-no-1-the-mi...
Implausible theories direct the course of systematic validation. Searches and studies are conducted entirely based on theories which all start out with high initial implausibility.

The issue with this plane crash is that most theories from the investigators have a plausibility level that has barely changed from the initial level. This is why it is worth considering to a certain extent some of the more non-mainstream theories.
Yeah, you are right, the example number list in the post was not that awesome. If I am free at any time, i will modify the example. Just refining the diagram will be quite painful.
There are some posted on the website: devdraft.com. Probably the best is to look at the testimonials.
what's the difference between engineer & developer ?
I think there is a difference between someone who is causally stating an opinion, and someone who has fully subscribed to a specific conspiracy theory.
Key to AI is clear. But, which is the challenge? Are we talking about predicting actually? Or is it rather about building a huge case-based reasoning system that can "replicate" known patterns?

Most recent research is focused on neural nets and deep-learning to that end, this answers the question wrt prediction, but this seems to be a partial solution.
I'm having trouble understanding this bit:

> In the DDC technique, source code is compiled twice: once with a second (trusted) compiler (using the source code of the compiler’s parent), and then the compiler source code is compiled using the result of the first compilation. If the result is bit-for-bit identical with the untrusted executable, then the source code accurately represents the executable.

Can someone explain this step by step? Which compiler compiles which source?
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This may or may not be an issue for targeted attacks on high-profile individuals (which in turn likely have the means to avoid them). But I don't think crosslinking moderately-reliable browser identifiers across different websites, so as to be able to extort "average Joes", will really be that profitable.

Remeber that there's a lot of people watching porn and a lot of people on facebook-like sites, so those unique broswer identifiers won't be so unique any more in the end. Also there's a lot of money involved in both porn and facebook, so trying to meddle with them get you sued if you endager their profits.

The real issue I see however is credit card data and how easy it would be for corrupt authorities to abuse it. I looked into options for anonymous credit cards just because of this, but sadly that gets you into really shady money landering territory really quickly.
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Has anyone done something similar for Europe or other parts of the world?
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That and Nvidia's OpenCL implementation is almost the bare minimum you can do to say you have one (unless things have changed significantly within the past year or so). Improvements to OpenCL libraries are unlikely to come from anyone already locked into using their hardware.
> Either way, it's another data point for "privacy vs. progress of mankind, pick one".

I read The Circle recently and thought "no one could possibly go for this". And yet here we are already in 2015
How many unique pieces are there in the space shuttle set?
If Iran-Contra was not discovered you'd think it is a 'bizare explanation' and a conspiracy theory. And it was only by a chance that it was discovered. This is even more evident in the case of Watergate.
Perhaps a huge coincidence but I pretty much wrote this framework in C# in 2004 (including rules engine) and was using it for mobile devices (wince/symbian). We abandoned it after 4 years for a simple CQRS system with event bus (before Udi/Greg went off on it or Fowler formalised it).

You know where we are now? Simple JSON REST API with local and remote queues per device updating a document store. All the queues have on receipt and on dispatch handlers attached and that is it. Each of these can modify the state or perform an external action.

YMMV but I'd probably start there first. It's much easier than the other two. I might write it up.
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Very interesting course, good job! I might give it a try.
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Your post can be applied to mostly any theory ever.
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Not bad. It's very awesome graphic and we can see the history of each cryptocurrency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167431
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So how would one implement Erlang-like functionality in Plan9, where the code of a server can be hotswapped while still keeping all existing sockets to the clients open?
I'm very thankful to you for taking time to answer in such a thoughtful manner!
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> If you really want simple, you could as well use SML, TCL, or Lua.

And if you truly want simple, you use Smalltalk, Scheme or Forth.
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My gut reaction is to tell you that you're wrong and look for evidence of that, and blame the worst problems of cannabis supply on its current illegality. The illegatity pushes the price up; that high price and illegality attracts criminal gangs who use violence and human exploitation to supply the drug. Making it legal would reduce the cost of the drug and allow suppliers to market themselves as ethical ("free range" / "fair trade" / "organic" etc).

But looking at cigarretes in the UK we see criminal gangs are still involved in the production of dangerous[1] counterfeits and supply of those counterfeits or of smuggled cigarretes from lower tax areas.
It reminds me of the original iPod backplate that was hand polished by a little Japanese company operating in a shack in rural Niigata, Japan -> http://color-metals.com/catalog/mirror-polish-ipod/

There are a lot of these small craftsmen in Japan, specially in metal working, supplying parts notably for aeronautics and space industries. For example, the nose of every shinkansen bullet train is hand hammered to shape: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...
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Now I'm picturing your body's immune system yelling at the wayward cells. "I don't know what your major malfunction is, but I'm gonna unfuck you, one way or another."

That or it was the Motrin, sock changing, and hydration. Cures everything, dontchaknow.
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No thanks; that is broken by design. HTML is treated as a typesetter device, more or less, when what is needed is a semantic translation of the high level document structure.

As an analogy to another software system, you wouldn't want to generate HTML from LaTeX by processing the DVI file.

What is needed is the high level macros of a specific package being recognized and translated to HTML at a high level.

However hacky, the man2html program does that (and I made it work better: it has better support for handling more sophisticated macros, and is less buggy. I likely won't invest any more time into it, however, and I'm not going anywhere near groff).
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Ok, here is strace of date(1), which is dynamically linked, on Alpine Linux which uses Musl libc not glibc.

execve("/bin/date", ["date"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0

mprotect(0x7777dcd5a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0

mprotect(0xdc2d89a3000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0

arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0xdc2d89a4268) = 0

set_tid_address(0xdc2d89a4298) = 2439

clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1424769563, 611556639}) = 0

open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = 3

fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0

mmap(NULL, 118, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7777dcd57000

close(3) = 0

ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

writev(1, [{"Tue Feb 24 09:19:23 UTC 2015", 28}, {"\n", 1}], 2Tue Feb 24 09:19:23 UTC 2015
) = 29

close(1) = 0

close(2) = 0

exit_group(0) = ?

+++ exited with 0 +++
I don't think it is promising to outperform the market at all

"Our fund aims to replicate the returns of the S&P 500."
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Is your argument heroin is the lesser of two evils when compared to meth and thus should be legalized to at least get people off meth into something less evil like heroin?

Sorry for the run-on-sentence but if that's your argument it sounds absurd.

There was a documentary on Sky TV[0] of of a heroin addict who recorded his final two years of life. I urge to watch it if you haven't a clear idea of what life can be like for a drug addict. On a number of occasions one could see he sincerely hated the drug but couldn't control his addiction. He jumped out the window of his house during one attempt at going cold turkey and broke his foot since he was locked in the house and wanted to get some heroin. His veins collapsed due to all the injections of heroin over the years. He ultimately died of brain haemorrhage due to withdrawal symptoms in a detox facility.

I don't use drugs either and when I hear people's arguments about legalizing marijuana, it makes sense in the context of a society that legalized alcoholic drinks and cigarettes. But meth and heroin are in a league of their own and I don't believe your argument makes any sense whatsoever. Lowering the bar from "the worst of all drugs" to "not as bad but you'll probably get addicted to it, may lose control of your life and possibly end up with a series of medical conditions and including death" is not acceptable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7thZbHTvZIQ
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Does markdown have macros equal in power to those of troff?

"The great strength of troff is the flexibility of the basic language and its programmability -- it can be made to do almost any formatting task." -- The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike.
I'm okay with (soft) drugs being legal.

But free ? You'd be creating a LOT of new problems with drugs being free.
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I remember once meeting an old high school friend in NYC. He was hanging out at one of those non-descript but unfathomably loud bars. Some of his coworkers stopped by. The conversation switched to the car one of them had bought. A Lexus SC430 convertible. He was complaining about how he never got to get out of The City and drive it enough. They were all super-sharp CS graduates working for one of the most successful hedge funds in the world.

My point with this story is that if you are making way above the median salary in NYC ($200k+ range at the time, this was 10 years ago) - the world is just different. You are making enough money to enjoy one of the top cities in the world. With the $125k-$140k salaries some software developers report making, they are barely getting to "enjoy" living in NYC. Finance has distorted the baseline of what it means to be successful in NYC. I mean, my school friends' coworkers were 2-3 yrs out of Harvard and talking about the travails of $80k car ownership like it was an Accord.

Software salaries outside of Fintech and top-tier companies like Google and Facebook and a handful of others in globally attractive cities are the equivalent of middle class in the burbs. You're doing OK but you're not going to be relatively 'really doing well'. In a city like NYC, there are more than enough free events to overwhelm anyone. However, in San Jose, what do you do? Hang out on the Palo Alto main drag?

Check out the size of the dogs being walked near Central Park. Where do these people live?!
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That's harder than h1b. The winning rate is around one percent...
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>I don't take drugs but I believe everything except meth should be free, totally legal, and freely available to registered addicts.

Registered drug addicts being supplied drugs by the government? The government would be rightly accused enslaving millions of citizens through control of the drug supply. Addicts would be at the mercy of the government, and politicians would use this dependence to force addicts to do anything they want - for which they would have the full support of the rest of society. Need to reduce the cost of road construction? Tell the "registered addicts" that if they want their next heroin dose, they better get down there and pour some concrete - and they better do it before withdrawal starts kicking in.

Decriminalization is alright with me, but what you're proposing is the reinvention of slavery. It kind of reminds me of A Scanner Darkly.