skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not blaming anyone, I'm simply pointing out that some patients would not be "over the moon" if an effective psychological treatment was shown to them. You can see this in any forum, where there is hostility towards any type of treatment like this. Even many doctors and researchers have hostility towards this kind of research.

Also, I'm not really sure if patients have "tried and not responded" to these techniques. (If you're talking about CBT, relaxation or positive thinking, that is not what I'm talking about). I think you're perhaps assuming that because CBT isn't very effective that no psychological treatment is effective. That's like saying that because one drug doesn't cure a disease then no drugs will work.
>Many of our buyers how low incomes and mediocre FICO scores.. our blue-collar borrowers have often proved to be much better credit risks than their higher-income brethren.

During economic downturns, people with higher salaries are cut first.
Was the ticket mispriced or do you think Etihad was just running an aggressive promotion?
quote near end for the many people who won't read the thread:

- This change makes it so that `autocomplete=off` does not stop the Password Manager from working. Normal form autofill can be disabled as usual.
- The password manager *always* prompts if it wants to save a password. Passwords are not saved without permission from the user.
- We are the third browser to implement this change, after IE and Chrome.

More clarification: password type input elements already never autofill/autocomplete like other input elements do. autocomplete=off on password type input elements just makes password managers not work (until this change). Other input elements still honor autocomplete=off.
Good try AI, good try...
Looks like I need to swipe few lefts from now on. http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/tinder-tests-limited-right-...
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You're right, but on the other hand it should be a little harder so that you can't make a habit of dumping the loss onto others. For example, it might be reasonable to be barred from crowdfunding websites going forward, and have to raise money through other channels like regular VCs.
It actually looks as if there have been some changes to the Kickstarter TOS. For a long time, it seemed to imply that you needed to return the money if you didn't deliver the rewards. (However unrealistic that was--blood from stone and all that.)

Now it seems to explicitly refer to returning remaining funds. ("they offer to return any remaining funds to backers who have not received their reward (in proportion to the amounts pledged), or else explain how those funds will be used to complete the project in some alternate form.)"

Kickstarter has been tiptoeing this line forever between Not-a-store and Not-giving-people-what-they-paid-for-is-a-very-bad-thing.
A quote from near the end sums up the entire article: "All hippies at one time or another renounce themselves. Sooner or later they put a tie and a coat on."
That letter is not about "superhuman machine intelligence", it is about "ensuring that AI remains robust and beneficial." Among the threats cited are: autonomous vehicles, machines that need to make ethical decisions, autonomous weapons, surveillance, and issues of verification, validity, and control. Words like "singularity", "superhuman", and "AGI" do not appear.
> Root yourself before you are rooted.

Too true. I want this on a T-shirt.
> 1. Design the cheapest-to-manufacture rocket with a 99.99% success probability of getting to Mars with all crew healthy. A human looks over the designs and confirms they don't involve destroying all humanity.

psh, halting problem.
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If he's so concerned about America exhibiting the signs of a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps he should take a long, difficult, critical look at the ideology that actually accomplished it: Progressivism.

We aren't "headed toward" Fascism. The Progressive Movement and their fundamental changes to the government of the US was a core inspiration for Fascism. This is old, old news.
Yeah, but he manages that and productive stuff. I can't even fit in one or the other as well as he does with both. Besides, he's not entirely without standards for his media (that'd be another of my friends, without the low-sleep thing) so a fair bit of it ends up being enriching anyway, aside from being enjoyable, which isn't without merit.
How long it will take your password be bruteforced
Where did you post the link such that you were getting people to sign up on your landing page?
Found the post, by Rob Pike of the Go team:

"I was asked a few weeks ago, "What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?" I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++."

http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
Perhaps you missed this: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature1...

A neural network that learns to play 40 different atari games at human-competitive level given only raw pixels and a few days of play time.
The tone of that letter was "Here's a general framework for responsibly building more powerful AI systems", whereas the lay press is reporting "Musk predicts Skynet in 5 years"

http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior...
If their company isn't folding they need to refund 100% of the money they raised from Kickstarter. There is a clear expectation of Kickstarter being a pre-order system no matter what the fine print says. I bet if the backers sued them they'd get a judgement in their favor.
Mahout and especially Weka are popular in the field, both written in java.
I thought the summary at the end was true though, but I still think that the takeaway for hobbyists and hackers is that getting a hardware device to market is HARD (caps intended). Cloning software is trivial, while getting things from China or wherever is not. If you are a hacker with all 3 skills you mentioned, then you probably can say that it is merely 'tough', but then again, you probably already have a great job with stock options, as you are rare in these fields.
One issue with SMI and what is known as "The Control Problem" is that you are trying to come up with rules for something that is not just smarter than you, but is 'vastly' smarter than you, and in fact the entire human race put together.

You are basically trying to figure out a way to 'in-effect' cheat a god, which in relation to us, yes that is basically what it would be. An SMI is pretty much the definition of a god (and a possibly crazy greek god as well).

The idea that something like that would turn the universe into paper-clips, is somewhat silly and most of the arguments along these lines discount that "S" part of the whole thing.

What is the answer..

There is none.
"This has basically the highest insanity * prominence of speaker product I've ever seen."

(I edited this post to remove my shock-induced LULZ and other flapdoodle and concentrate on the important stuff.)

The more I re-read this and reflect on it, the more shocked I am. The first post in this serious was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me, but it still remained on the sane side of the fence. Yes, dangerous AI is worth thinking about. Lots of things are. Alien invasions aren't completely implausible either, and the Fermi Paradox is definitely worth thinking about. But this has jumped from thinking about the Fermi Paradox to arguing that we halt all radio emissions and space exploration now or the aliens will come for us. This is not a rational leap.

As I said elsewhere in this thread: could this be some kind of ploy to make basic CS research illegal for anyone but deep-pocketed VC-linked concerns (and governments)? Probably not, but that could very well be the result. The sorts of regulations discussed here would make independent CS research illegal. Please tell me this "conspiracy theory" is insane. I really want to believe it is. Someone please tell me I'm crazy. Please? Anyone?
By the time the atomic bomb was truly imminent (in the sense of it being within the reach of massive dedicated investment by the most powerful nations on Earth), scientists knew very well of the dangers [1].

As for global warming. No expert denies global warming, and you'll be hard pressed to find many that deny anthropic global warming [2]. This has been the case for many decades.

I am not an AI expert, but from what I can see thus far, our knowledge of cognition seems to be as far from human or post-human intelligence as Nitroglycerin was from the Atomic Bomb (e.g. fundamentally different principles at work, which is not subject to exponential improvement without one or more breakthroughs or qualitatively different approaches). Also, our AI-Nitroglycerin seems scary enough: autonomous weapons (think self-driving self-firing drones, not terminator), massive changes in our means of production that reduce human labor/employment and might cause social earthquakes and the ability to draw meaningful conclusions from surveillance data of 7 billion people...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_... (and this seems to have been understood as an approaching risk in the physics community way before anyone thought of telling FDR).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy#Sci...
The funny/sad part is web browsers alone (I believe) have experienced the most growth in RAM usage, compared to many other categories of software. Hell, even Outlook still uses only 50-100MB. So if you wanted to use the box for anything other than web browsing...

Edit: oh, I forgot about flash. Earlier today Firefox with one tab was hovering at 400MB and flash was at 200MB.
P4s have a horrible stall happy pipeline, the RaspPi has a decent GPU, I'd call it even. For a school environment and a good minimal window manager, the new RaspPi would be excellent for web browsing.

> I haven’t tried any normal desktop applications (other than Chromium), but I’d say the Pi 2 is finally worth considering as an full-fledged educational computer (i.e., beyond the introductory toy stage).

from http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2015/02/07/1200

With a newer monitor and the current generation raspberrypi, it should powered directly from the USB hub in the monitor. With a bolt through VESA mount, a wifi dongle and netbooting off an NFS, a rapidly deployable Raspberry Pi school lab should be easily doable.

Yeah, this. http://www.adafruit.com/product/1320 PiBow VESA Mounting Layer Plate

Monitors I would look at are (needs HDMI, speakers, internal USB hub):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R42AH7073
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116141

Finding the perfect monitor (internal powered usb hub) for the right price point is difficult, the device that needs to get built is a VESA case for the raspberry pi that has a NEMA 5-15R input and AC pass through, a USB powersupply for the RaspPi and a power switch that turns both the rasp and the monitor off.

DC in is nice, could run the lab off batteries or direct solar for off grid installations.

The problem is the software configuration for the NFS bootserver and making the netboot images.

Someone should make a VM image that can netboot a cluster of Raspberry Pis with a choice of roles (scratch, web browsing, quake 3, etc). With remote mounted home directories (served from ZFS, for snapshots).

One modification I'd like to see for the raspberry pi is better sleep support. I don't know if the SoC could do it, but if it could go into extra low power mode, possibly powered by a supercap, it could wakeup on external events (like an RTC) and not take any power from the USB.
It's just a little prototype I threw together over the weekend. It's marginally fun. Kept me entertained throughout my train ride to work this morning.
> Isn't this exactly for what HTTP SEARCH was intended?

Yes and no. This use case is approximately, on an abstract level, what RFC 5323 "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH" is intended for -- sending a query as a request body and getting back a list of results matching the query.

Unfortunately, however, the actual specification of "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH" is -- as its title suggests -- deeply tied to the rest of the WebDAV infrastructure, specifying that servers supporting it must support XML requests, must handle them in a particular way tied to WebDAV, and must respond with the WebDAV-specific 207 Multistatus response code with a response that uses the WebDAV-specific multistatus format for the response body.

While less specific on an abstract level to this use case, the WebDAV REPORT method is defined in a slightly more general way (but still has some WebDAV baggage that makes it not quite general.)

In a perfect RESTful world, we'd have one general purpose HTTP method (call it QUERY) that is safe, idempotent, takes a request body as well as a URI, and returns a representation of the result of the transformation defined by the request body applied to the resource specified by the URI, and searches and reports of the type addressed by the WebDAV SEARCH and REPORT methods would just be different types of request bodies that could be sent in a QUERY.

(I don't see WebDAV multistatus response code as really needed, a 200 with an appropriate content-type for the body serves the same purpose.)
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'Investment' generally has connotations of owning a financial asset, and potential future profit-sharing. It's a legal term of art, and that's why Kickstarter makes it very clear in the terms of service that backers are not investors - otherwise Kickstarter would become subject to a lot of complex regulation which would wreck their business model.

Casually, you might say that you 'invest' in a new computer that you bought at the computer store (because you plan to make money by using it). But legally, a purchase and investment are two very different things.
"If you would have asked people in the 70s if the most influential software of the coming decades would be written by lone wolves in their garages or a group of very smart people with a lot of resources, they would have bet on the latter. But the smart money turned out to be on Gates, Jobs, Wozniak and countless others."

This is a myth. Gates, Jobs, and Wozniak were all smart people (Harvard, Reed, genius) with a lot of resources (access to mainframe as a student, access to Silicon Valley infrastructure and talent, which emerged originally around military contracts and DARPA grants.)
Newspapers can't be responsive.
Here's a walk through from an earlier UI where we build a simple auth system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYJq37Qe6eM
I've flown from SEA-NYC for $1.86. I flew from YYV to Romania, and onto Turkey, for $200. I flew with my family of 5 in first class from SEA-YTO (Toronto) for $0, on Air Canada. Too many others to count. All from flyertalk. It's not as good as it used to be but there were times I've taken whole flights full of flyertalkers headed somewhere basically for free.

Key to success: Find some friends who also like to do this and who will wake you up in the middle of the night if they find a great deal (and won't complain if you reciprocate). It's hard to watch flyertalk all the time and the deals go quickly.
> By the time I reach 75, I will have lived a complete life.

The author seems to reach this by asserting that the things he currently values will not be possible when his health declines. How does he know that these values won't change by the time he's 70? The things we value constantly change. As kids, we value playing games, eating candy, making friends, etc. These values change as we become young adults, and seem to change throughout different stages of life.

The things the author seems to currently value can be found here:

> It (old age) robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us.

Not all people value creativity, and ability to contribute to society equally though. The author seems to be defined by his work and ability to keep up the image as a highly-functional, productive, independent member of society. If this is how you define yourself, then of course old age looks like a loss.

> Americans seem to be obsessed with exercising, doing mental puzzles, consuming various juice and protein concoctions, sticking to strict diets, and popping vitamins and supplements, all in a valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible.

People do this to live a higher quality life too, and the benefits are short-term. Ironically, not doing these things can arguably "rob us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world", something the author seems to value more than anything else.
Always? Really? So a bunch open, unprotected baskets in plain view are better than a single closed, locked and hidden basket? I'm glad you're not in charge of my security.

As others have said, the single-basket concern is perfectly valid. The reason you're getting pushback because you have a single-minded focus on that one concern and vehemently deny the possibility that there might be tradeoffs. That comes across as an irrational attachment to a single issue, even if what you're really trying to say is that your assessment that enough other baskets have hit a good-enough baseline that diversification is a good strategy. The latter is something you could have a productive conversation about. As for the former, you can insist that multiple baskets are the only thing that matter until you're blue in the face, but I doubt you will convince anyone.
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While unlikely, I particularly like that idea.
I don't see why this is even an issue. You publish a bad price due to your own incompetence. You should have to honor the fare.

If the airline overcharged someone due to an error, do they give refunds?

If you accidentally buy 100000 shares of a stock when you meant to type 1000, you don't get a redo. Why should airlines be any different?

I once saw replacement electric shaver heads on sale in Rite-Aid. The price should have been $30 but they charged me $1. When I saw how it rang up, I bought another two. Can Rite-Aid demand $58 from me? How is this different?
> To me, Kickstarter backers aren’t just customers.

No , the people you took money from aren't even your customers, because you didn't give them the service they paid for. So don't even insult them saying they aren't just customers, they aren't even customers to you. If there were, you would have delivered what you promised. They are just easy money with no strings attached.
Planning is a big part of AI. One example is a recent system[1] that learned to play 49 Atari games, most at better than human skill. It had no specific programming for playing those games, or even video games in general. Its only input was the game video and the score, which it tried to optimize, and it was programmed to learn from its mistakes.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a14276/why-th...
Your line of thinking is interesting. If you actually look at the research, you'll see that stress is still a factor in gastric ulcers (see for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111233 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16581366). Just because H.Pylori can cause ulcers doesn't mean there can't be other causes. Given that psychological stress increases stomach acid, it's plausible that stress can cause ulcers.

A lot of CFS patients bring up the subject of stomach ulcers. It's almost as if they want to prove that psychosomatic illness doesn't exist.
Your math is wrong - it's a 21.6% annualized gain.
Strict REST doesn't require normalization; there is nothing in the definition of the REST architectural style that prohibits resources that are aggregates of -- in DB terms, equivalent to whole tables, or rows from a complex view, or whole complex views -- of other resources, and allowing those derived resources to be directly retrieved or manipulated (with the latter also affecting the "base" resources.)

The kind of REST that simply maps resources to DB rows with collection resources for base tables and does nothing else is naïve REST, not particularly any stricter REST than more complex and application-suited resource models.
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They are using a modified OTR protocol: https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/
It often does, and if not, the above approach is to inform your client of the failure so it can switch to using POST or whatever else is best.

Edit: As I mentioned on another follow up, you may need to vary on your checksum header to play nice with proxy caches, etc. Or mark your responses as uncachable.
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Maybe you should try an anxiolytic?
We don't force them. We just recommend it for best experiences. It really does make a difference.

We have google analytics but I am unsure if it tracks this automatically. We do not manually track it I believe.
Nope, it's either FF or IE, and I'm not sure if she uses it in tablet/tent mode or standard laptop mode. One of them gave ridiculously small icons in fullscreen.

When she's back I'll see if I can figure out what combination it was. But it basically rendered them @1x size and then shoved them right at the bottom of the fullscreen display.
I should point out if you use my above approach and vary on the checksum/hash header, you don't even break the semantics here either...
> We're nowhere near anything resembling general intelligence even at the level of a toddler. Barring any kind of hardware innovations we will not get there any time soon either with just software.

Should people have discussed the control and proliferation of nuclear weapons decades before their invention? It seems to me that even a century beforehand, the conversation would have been productive. If anything, we got very lucky with nukes. Physics could have easily turned out differently and allowed people to create bombs from substances more common than a few transuranic isotopes.

AI is, potentially, more dangerous than nuclear weapons. If you poll experts, they estimate a 50% chance of human-level AI by 2040-2050.[1] That's 25-35 years away. They also estimate that superintelligence will arrive less than 30 years after that. Lastly, one in three of these AI experts predict that superintelligence will be bad or extremely bad for humanity.

It seems like now is a great time to have this discussion.

1. http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf
12+ hours and still tired with exercise? Something is wrong. Have you tested for Lyme?