skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great job in building this library! Can you share why should one choose Atlas over JSQMessagesViewController < https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController >?
As always, correlation does not equal causation.

According to the abstract, the effect was significant only at a "dose" of 4 to 7 sauna visits per week in the 20 years of follow-up.

Now, I don't know much about the availability of saunas in Finland, but one must ask: what kind of person can financially afford, or make time for, 4 to 7 sauna visits per week? Even with the statistical adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors, I seriously doubt that the people who use saunas frequently have the same income levels, attention to health, and all sorts of other habits as the people who never use saunas.

So I would put this study on the heap of interesting correlations that ultimately mean nothing.

BTW, they should look at the development of Alzheimer disease. There is suspicion that high body temperatures (e.g. with fever) can incite the changes in protein conformation that are thought to be essential in the establishment and progression of the disease. So, if sauna users stay a little too long, and get a little bit hyperthermic, they may be setting themselves up for Alzheimer disease. That would be a bummer.
Thats what circuit breakers are for to not have cascading errors.
I really wish the team I'm on could understand this!
I think that there are objective measures of complexity. So there are objective measures of simplicity.

ideographic writing is more complex and less composable than phonetic writing and yet can express the same ideas.

Subjectively, a chinese can understand Chinese ideograms while maybe he find written English difficult to understand. But a Chinese would learn phonetic writing in less time than ideographic writing and would be capable to express complex ideas using the most composable writing system in less time, no doubt.
I like the idea of using graphics to introduce functional programming to beginners.
From experience, I think taking the risk of introducing key concepts in an visually appealing way is much more effective than using classic examples (calculators?).
I'm starting to wrap some of my pyweek games in Docker because getting all of the pyglet/opengl/avbin dependencies to work correctly is a royal pain in the rear end.

Check out: https://github.com/pdevine/yoyobrawlah

You can use the run_docker.sh script to get things going. The image is also available on Docker Hub, but you need to pass in things like the dri device to get it working correctly.
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IMHO, flirting apps and websites all fail all over the world. All of them. And you cannot correct these failures by making the apps&sites paid, you get caught yet in other issues, such as unnatural shrinking of the prospects, diverting the expectations in the wrong way (money involved) and the huge # of unpaying people still interfering with the paying members.

Also not every member is a human! Many a number of profiles are fake, most of them unnatural, unresponding and the expectations clash all the time.

Any serious flirting application should find solutions to these issues first and that cannot be done by simply making it a paid app.
Those features were marked to be deprecated 2 major releases ago (2 years ago), per their deprecation policy. At some point features or behavior will need to be deprecated so the framework can move forward. That doesn't sound broken at all to me...
Movies don't look "weird" at 48fps, they just look different from what we're used to.

However watching 24fps movies on a TV with a higher refresh-rate that just duplicate frames, DOES look weird, and that's not a very pleasant experience.
I am getting a bit tired about this trend of articles about SMI and its dangers. We don't have (not even remotely) a sentient machine yet.

If any, we should be worry about an accident (like a bug in a high frequency trading bot that would make the financial industry collapse) but we are so far away from sentient machines that those discussion feel more like a Sci-fi talks.
1. Machine intelligence, traditionally called artificial intelligence, which surpasses human intelligence.

2. Your category (b) is generally the primary concern in these types of discussions.

3. The anecdote of the progress of humanity. Compare the impact of human life/intelligence vs. evolutionary relatives like chimpanzees. I do not know that chimps have hunted species out of existence, for instance, but people have. We have also incidentally wiped out populations in efforts to make our lives better (via things like leveling forests, etc.)
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RFS#23: Friendly Skynet.
The personal attack is totally unnecessary but his assessment of the quality of the article and general caliber of discussion and analysis is spot on.
>>> The NSA internet data collection is perhaps the most frivolous government program in the history of the United States.

This.

If you listen to the old NSA guys who worked during the heights of the Cold War, who keep tabs on Russians and all the chaos in the Middle East, and had some of these tools at their disposal, they all say the NSA was a great machine for intelligence. It was a great machine for developing assets and tracking bad people. As soon as those weapons and the machine were turned inward on the people they were supposed to protect, they all said it was the worst possible scenario.

Also, if you look at some of the higher profile hacker cases, and to some degree the Ross Ulbricht case, how were they all cracked? Not by the NSA and all its tools, they were all done with your standard, "feet on the street" agents developing leads, connecting dots, and capturing human surveillance.

It wasn't some Flame or Stuxnet bug that brought down these guys, it was just solid detective work.
I'm more concerned about AI law enforcement. NSA eavesdropping plus an intelligent agent assigned to you is a powerful combination.
This is exactly how I roll. I will never pay more than $200 for a phone and I will never, every pay more than $200 for a tablet or any computing device that comes with a walled garden OS.

I did pay over $1,000 for a Surface Pro and I will do it again when the 4th version comes out because that's a fully capable general purpose computer that I use as a portable workstation and/or gaming rig. I paid $350 for a Dell Venue 8 Pro because it's got full Windows 8, it fits in my pocket and the battery lasts 13 hours. I can easily install Chrome with Adblock on these tablets and it's faster and easier to setup than any Android or Apple device that I've ever used because I've got way more control.

I even upgraded that little 8" tablet to Windows 8 Pro for another $100 so I could add it to my company's domain and walk around accessing every single company resource that I need with the same native apps that I use at my desk.
Could you link to some of those performance benchmarks?
The problem with drugs tests is the test itself. Drug tests are very effective at finding thc metabolites (30+ days in some accounts) but rather bad at finding those for heroin, cocaine, ecstasy etc (1 - 4 days). So in reality its less of a 'drug test' and more of a pot test.
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If the statement was only given as a reason why cheating is prevalent nowadays it would be an explanation.

To take the next step and use that explanation to rationalize one's own cheating makes it is a justification (or rationalization, whichever you prefer).

GP certainly used it as his justification.

> Because, I agree: if there wasn't such a societal emphasis on material goods (ie the Benz), there would be less embezzlement.

Noting that that relationship might exist is entirely different from saying "this relationship exists therefore I shall embezzle."
Generally "free to access" doesn't mean "free to republish for profit". You'd probably want to find stuff that is Creative Commons with commercial use allowed, or contact authors individually with a proposal and terms.

https://creativecommons.org
How does it compare it with Pinter's Book of abstract algebra ? I have been planning to settle on either one of them.
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An alternative view: Development of superhuman machine intelligence is the only way anything resembling humanity will be preserved.

We are much more likely to be wiped out by natural disaster, asteroid impact, a dying sun, etc...

Unless we come up with some amazing new physics, I don't know how humans will ever make it very far from earth.

--edit Oh.. I just now saw part 2 which addresses this.
Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before moving (to Silicon Valley)?
I'll be moving with my wife (our first major move) from Utah to Silicon Valley in just a few months. I've done (and will continue to do) a decent amount of research to try to avoid stupid mistakes in our moving preparations, but I can't help but wonder if there are some things I don't know I should be researching.

What do you wish you had known before moving? Anything specific in regards to Silicon Valley?
That course is definitely targeted to people with previous programming experience.
How would you do it?

Bringing those dependencies in under one roof doesn't eliminate their risk. Though it does increase the chance that an error in one of these small dependencies brings down the whole system.

With microservices if one of the services runs into trouble, you can ignore it and still serve the other 90-99% of your site without it. You can also deploy updates to services without having to deploy your entire site.
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Good, I live in a Sauna, 8 degrees north of the equator. That bodes well for my health :)

Joking aside, this study seems unlikely to have actually discovered a real effect, rather than just a group of people with lower risk and higher sauna usage in common. (Wealthy people?)
These are the applications where the silent aspect of electric cars truly benefits those in the community. Having a silent garbage truck going around at 5am wakes significantly less people up.

Also not having to drive behind one that sends all sorts of diesel fumes to you would be a welcome addition as well.
I find Momondo to have one of the better layouts of prices when trying to find cheaper days.
http://www.momondo.com/
> you don't need to talk about pointer events or flexbox or indexeddb or whatever

But missing functionality is a deal breaker.

* WebRTC - web peer to peer connection: Chrome & Firefox yes, IE 11 incompatible by design (bought Skype for 11b, based on it), Safari no (would be Facetime competitor)

* WebSQL - web relational database: Chrome & Safari (also 95% of all smartphones) yes, Firefox & IE no (declared dead by Oracle and MS devs (biggest SQL vendors), in favour of complicated NoSQL API IndexedDB on W3C mailing list)

* IndexedDB - complicated NoSQL API: Chrome & IE 11 yes, Firefox yes but slow (implemented on top of SQLite, refused to implement WebSQL API, FirefoxOS is the only smartphone OS with no SQL API), Safari yes but buggy

* WebGL - OpenGL 3D accelerated graphics: Chrome & Firefox & Safari(since iOS8) yes, IE 11 barely (old 0.9 instead of 2.0 API, few extensions)

* CSSRegions - desktop publishing stylesheet features like Adobe InDesign/MS Word: Safari & Firefox yes, Chrome yes but removed again, IE 11 yes but older draft

* ContentEditable/HTML editor - a bug free implementation would make MS Word WebApp & Google Docs obsolete: IE 11 yes (invented, based on Frontpage, old HTML4), Firefox & Chrome yes but bugs, Safari barely useable (especially on iOS)

So basically every browser vendor is guilty to some extend. Apple protects its AppStore walled garden, FaceTime and "Pages" word processor, Microsoft its Skype/Lync, Office and DirectX/XBox eco-system, Google its GoogleDocs and Hangout, Mozilla community has some sponsored devs from companies with their own agenda (e.g. against WebSQL API, while using SQLite in Firefox to implement NoSQL API IndexedDB).
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"Official CIA proxies" is not an accurate way to describe either in-q-tel or TPG.
Exactly, It seems like the biggest threat isn't some dystopian future, its rather the ability for automation to lock in and increasingly enforce the inequalities and prejudices of our current system.
Atoms: Post Mortem of an iOS game
Show HN: An isomorphic deal-aggregator built with Node and React
With the caveat that public elementary education in Brazil is very bad, so the people who are able to qualify on those exams are the people who come from families who could afford private schools at the elementary level.

So in essence, it's a system that's geared towards keeping the rich educated and the poor uneducated, by using a slight Catch-22.

Of course YMMV, and it often does, Brazil is huge and there are exceptions, but what I've laid out is what most commonly happens.

In the past few years though, the Government has built programs whose goal is to increase the amount of poor people who get educated, either by subsidizing the cost with tax money in private universities (Gasp! Socialism! :P) or by affirmative action with a quota system in public universities.

This brings about worries of its own, such as "Will people who are granted access to well-ranked Universities based primarily on their low income be able to actually follow through with the course?", for example, but overall the situation is an improvement.
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> probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity

Wrong. Humans are the greatest threat to humanity. We almost annihilated everything we know during WWII - long before machine were intelligent.

It won't be machines that destroy us, it will be us.
It's a dream project for me this kind of adventure.

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"We will still be annoyed by people who pun, but we will be able to show them mercy because punning will be revealed to be some sort of connectopathic glitch: The punner, like someone with Tourette's, has no medical ability not to pun"

It took me until this point to realize this is satire playing parody of our fears.
Exactly. A lot of these doomsday scenarios involve people remaining ignorant, stupid, helpless bags of meat with no ability to improve themselves or contain potential threats.

It's like people freaking out that "superhuman strength machines" would spell the end of the world since why, if an electric motor is so powerful, would you need manual labor for anything?

SMI is another tool and the interplay between "machine intelligence" and "human intelligence" will be complicated and nuanced.

For example, biotech is filled with ferociously complicated problems that may take machine intelligence to solve. Once solved, these could lead to genetically engineered humans that are intrinsically smarter or better able to deal with the machines.

This doesn't even touch on the fact that the distinction between machine intelligence and human intelligence might become quite blurred.

Already I've noticed that people are "stupider" without their phones, they've offloaded a lot of cognitive functions on a device that's pretty much omni-present. A person with a smart phone today could be considered of superhuman intelligence since they're able to draw on significant resources a person without one doesn't have. A seven year old kid can tell you the capital of Tajikistan and the last ten presidents of Micronesia without breaking a sweat.
It's extremely hard to not be sarcastic when I respond to you, so I'm not going to try:

You're right, all problems anyone ever has are solved by the Walmart 10 minutes away.

I retract my assertion that sometimes consumers are willing to spend money for convenience.
> In most places, if your $200,000 house now has a value of $1 million, you cannot stay since property taxes will increase.

Property taxes in the US typically vary between 0.5% and 1% of market value; even in the absence of Prop 13 style limits on increases, that means an increase of property tax of between $4,000 ($1,000 to $5,000) and $8,000 ($2,000 to $10,000) per annum, and, regardless of rate, represents about a 5.5% annual increase in value (and, thus, tax costs for ad valorem taxes.)

With the posited increase having increased over ~30 years (GP's scenario had a house purchased in the 1980s), that's only about double the rate of inflation, so even with no increase in real income over the time, you'd have to have been fairly tight initially to be priced out of the home by tax increases.
I agree with you.

I have found that the beauty of the temporary nature of everything (especially when considered in enormous time scales) highlights the beauty of the here and now.. and the need to enjoy it. In fact, while some say not to think of the future and stay in the present, sometimes I find that imagining far into the future is precisely what brings me back to the importance of and focus on the present.

Also, there's a feeling of pure awe I get when trying to imagine the unimaginable scale of the future (for us at least). It's a specific sensation.. I am not even sure awe is the right word to describe it.
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> "one is entitled to employ any and all effort necessary to further one's interests"

This is a classic mentality of victimization. By focusing on the theoretical harm that been done to the extent of all other considerations, you can justify anything. It's a dangerous mentality that has resulted in many evils throughout history. Hell, this is the same justification ISIS originally used when recruiting Sunnis who were tired of corruption and discrimination at the hands of the Shia Iraqi government, only with the economic context replaced by a political one.

A more mature ethical position would recognize that in some environments, while evil has been done which harms or disadvantages you, the strategy of employing "any and all effort necessary to further one's interests" is likely what gave the advantage to those who have allegedly disadvantaged you. If you successfully follow through with this attitude you'll likely perpetuate a cycle.

If you are going to cheat, break rules, or whatever you should do so because those rules or prohibitions have little or no moral and social value in the context in which they exist. If GPA is just a meaningless filter enabling incompetent HR departments at BigCo to trim down their resume pile, then sure, game the system to your advantage. But don't draw the conclusion that you are morally entitled to do whatever it takes to promote your own interests. That path leads to psychopathy.
It's a good thing that phone metadata is protected by the telephone carrier and requires a warrant to access. Oh, wait...
This is the first iteration, looking to just get UX feedback and initial impressions.
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Can't wait to have Numerous on the Apple watch... Is that in the plans?
Take love seriously.

E.g., watch the 2014 Budweiser SuperBowl
commercial about a puppy and love at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4

There pay attention to the song and, as at

http://commercialwith.weebly.com/budweiser-puppy-super-bowl-...

to the words of the song, i.e.,

"Well you only need the light when it's
burning low,

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

Only know you love her when you let her
go.

Only know you've been high when you're
feeling low,

Only hate the road when you're missing
home,

Only know you love her when you let her
go.

And you let her go. And you let her go
(oh woah).

When you let her go."

So, when you do have her,

Lesson: Don't let her go.

And, if she lets you go, try to be a good
leader and guide her to seeing the
importance of her not letting you go.

Both of you need love, and together both
of your can solve that problem for both of
you. It's important.
This is an ugly situation because usually the geeks defend technology from the luddites, but in these cases the geeks are the luddites. I find the more someone sees themselves as an intellectual the more they are afraid of AI. I guess a cynical explanation is that AI will knock them off that intellectual pedestal. Personally, I welcome something smarter than us. We've just been tip-toeing through endless warfare, poor economics, poor social policy, and occasionally skirting with nuclear destruction.

Give the AI's a chance to contribute, especially if the solutions to problems we can't crack are because of human cognitive limits. This situation reminds me of how the Apollo landings couldn't be done without computers. There's just no way a person can do those calculations on paper. AI as a contributor of economic, technological, or social policy seems to be a similar step.
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I am personally most concerned -- as others have said -- about the fusion of non-sentient but powerful machine intelligence with malign human intelligence. I think it's the most likely and practical scenario. We're in a sense already there with high-frequency trading, algorithm assisted financial games, super-surveillance, etc.
Exactly. It's a travesty that Silicon Valley looks like a suburb in 2015. It should've been a great example of a dense, clean, urban region, which would also mitigate the commuter problems and the pressure on San Francisco rents.
Are we sure this is about "innovation" and not revenue?

http://www.nature.com/news/universities-struggle-to-make-pat...
Yes, but with scale, they'll get better at it. They might even be able to automate large portions of it.

Also, it's a person spending their minutes on it, who might not have a better job available to them at the time.

Don't get mad because someone is willing to OFFER money for a service that YOU would find demeaning to provide. Just don't take that job. Problem solved. Sheesh.
Funny to see the skepticism here.

It's hard to understand the danger machine intelligence poses to humanity for the same reason it's hard to understand the danger tiny startups can pose to big industries. Current implementations look like toys, humans have bad intuitions about exponential growth, and most will disagree on how _probable_ the threat is (something that might not be known except retroactively) while systematically underestimating how _large_ the threat is if it does come to pass (because it's so far off the scale of what's come before it)

Maybe Sam (and Elon Musk, and lots of other silicon valley types) are talking about this problem because they read too many sci-fi novels or are too privileged to worry about Real Problem X which affects Y group in the here and now.

But what if instead, they're talking about this problem because they've spent a lot of time seeing this sort of black swan pattern play out before, and they know the way to assess the impact of something truly _new_ is to see envision what it could be instead of looking at what it is now?