skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the latter (using things like click through rates). I'm not sure if any one blog sums up their methods, but they write about this topic a lot. In one post I read, they specifically mention that having a high quality camera correlates with their attractiveness ratings and so do different types of poses. So "attractiveness" might be better thought of as popularity, not beauty (though, that's the approximation).
The JIT needed some fixing to work correctly with SEH on Win64.
> I think there should be strong correlation between average time children are schooled and standardized test scores.

Surely the simpler explanation is that the tests don't really measure "pure" intelligence, and the results are affected by all sorts of social features, including a general familiarity with IQ tests. Time-in-school is part of that.
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All this means is that the spread of intelligence is more homogenized towards the center (100 being average). What I'd be more curious about is the spread of those people in the top 5-10%, or even some more raw comparison data, not necessarily averages or spread.

Given some truly clueless people I've interacted with in my lifetime, it seems to me that there are plenty of people who may have more generalized knowledge or even be able to reason about some things better but still can't think of a way out of a paper bag let alone a box.

Just because you can use an iPhone, or a remote control for a TV with some understanding of how it works isn't the same as being able to build one. The average man in the 60's in the U.S. had a better understanding of relatively simple things like changing a light switch, or replacing a toilet than the average man today. Understanding more of the machines we use every day is being lost in recent generations imho.

TFA mentions reasoning over memorizing names and numbers, but doesn't mention much in support of that.. I'd say general health of the overall population beyond historic poverty and starvation has had more effect than actual increases in human reasoning.
This is the typical great man myth that gets promulgated by their publicists to make them seem more than human. As a rule they are either out right lies or greatly exaggerated, other myths of this type is Kennedy reading 1000 words per minute, Napoleon listening to reports, reading a letter and dictating laws all at the same time, or Stalin single handedly designing the first five year plan.
> WP wakes people up to the work they should have been doing in the first place.

Well, not really. WordPress doesn't wake anybody up about anything if they are not already security conscious. It will happily serve wp-admin files over a non-SSL connection all day long [0], setting cookies which make the user vulnerable to any number of interception attacks. It will happily suggest [1] you make your WP files all writable by the web server user, to simplify the act of upgrading WordPress. It (with a simple plugin) will be happily allow "authenticated" folks upload anything they want to your S3 account and serve it from there [2].

> There's no bulletproof CMS

Actually, there is. It's a CMS which generates static files for the webserver to serve to the public. Sadly, I haven't located it in the real world quite yet. Anybody care to disrupt the CMS scene on behalf of beleaguered sysadmins?

[0] SSL Administration requires the manual configuration of wp-config.php files: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL
[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
[2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
OK, it was called quickmatch, then locals, now it is called OkCupid Dating.

http://www.okcupid.com/forum?tid=10204328337611738961
Yeah, but I think $3,000 is a small enough increment for them. You'd need to do this dozens of times for it to be a meaningful aggregate amount. And that situation should be fairly obvious and easy to police.
That does not scale really well, unless are really on the edge of this 3k. As soon as you start earning more, your users will be confused if you release 'new' product every month. Besides, I bet if you read full license, it will have proper legal rules there against this and other tricks you might come up with.
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"...the examiner found a hit in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. This file stores debug information when a system failure occurs."

Seems to be generated on a previous system failure.
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This is a personal testimony on my battle with Clinical Depression. It also spreads Awareness to a topic that is not talked about often enough. I hope this video helps someone. The YouTube link is posted below.

Clinical Depression Awareness/Testimony: http://youtu.be/ItXH1AArL0k
> Google Hangouts will only show Google+ people as someone you can message.

With Hangouts, you can message anyone with a Gmail address I think. Using Google+ is not a requirement now.
Eliezer wrote something relevant to these types of proposals eight years ago: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/ when he asked someone calling for "democratic, multinational development of AI":

Suppose that a group of democratic republics form a
consortium to develop AI, and there's a lot of politicking
during the process—some interest groups have unusually
large influence, others get shafted—in other words, the
result looks just like the products of modern democracies.
Alternatively, suppose a group of rebel nerds develops an
AI in their basement, and instructs the AI to poll everyone
in the world—dropping cellphones to anyone who doesn't have
them—and do whatever the majority says.
Which of these do you think is more "democratic", and
would you feel safe with either?

A lot of these points sound nice: "we should regulate this and that" "we should be careful with such and such", but what would actually incentivize any politician ostensibly regulating AI to do the right thing? Or even find out what the right thing is?

This is a feel-good article, but all I can ever see it accomplishing is actual harm by advocating the idea that the worst decision-making process humanity has developed (politics) should be applied to the most dangerous threat humanity has to face (self-improving AI).

I don't mean to sound too harsh, it's nice to see more and more people beginning to take the threat AI poses seriously, but I think it's a dangerous leap to reach for the first tool in your toolbox (regulation) to try and handle such a problem.
I thought it was interesting that Berkshire intentionally hasn't harmonized its systems across subsidiaries. It reminded me of one of Taleb's ideas on robustness from his book Antifragile, where he argues that a system of individually managed municipalities would be more robust than an economy with a single central government because system failure would tend to only affect isolated parts of the overall population at any single point in time.
All safe methods are idempotent, but not all idempotent methods are safe (e.g. PUT or DELETE.)
> Imagine if when visiting a website you had to remember whether or not it's HTTP, XYYZ, or FKME before typing the URL.

Old farts like me don't have to imagine it. In the mid 90s, gopher and nntp URLs were quite common. It wasn't a big deal.

> Imagine if all email addresses couldn't communicate with each other.

That used to be a massive problem, but Eric Allman solved it before my time.
I imagine that they didn't realize this would blow up because it didn't blow up when okcupid started doing it. However they probably forgot that tinder is on much larger stage than okcupid.
There is no such thing as a center.
Because the developer doesn't own the copyright to the engine?
This is my favourite VCS. I can carry it on a USB. And it's a complete system, with it's own server, ticketing system, Wiki pages, and a very, very helpful timeline visualization[0]. And the entire program in a single file!

[0]http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci
Folks tested in the 40's and 50's averaged IQ 70. Were they dumber then? Or just not as test-savvy, having less exposure to education, logic etc? What we call IQ today can be boosted by exposure to more cognitive tools (memorization, speed reading, puzzles and games)
Aren't the high costs of injection molding well known?
Somehow, the author having all this experience makes me suspicious that he's a rogue manager who made up some of the things he wrote about.
"youth and the hook-up culture"

I agree that age is probably a good indicator on that. I still think any tech associated company that brings in age is just asking for trouble.
Yes, but I cannot do that with Apple's iOS (well, I can, but I have to buy certificate for 99 dollars)
My guess is their not interested in the small fry and are looking for companies that earn hundreds of millions.

If a company was gaming this pricing creating 100 products each earning $4,000 (vs. $400k) they are saving $15,000 and are likely to hurt their business via customer confusion.
Im confused as to the reference to SILEX.

Can someone elaborate?
As a backer of projects, I'd rather have them slowly make 3D printed / hand-made editions for their backers, than get a % of my money back. But I understand why they don't want to spend any more energy on hardware.
Of the 15 largest stock investments, IBM is the only one that has lost value (page 15). Simultaneously, it looks like the largest cost based investment (next to BAC, which is unlisted in the table). Yet, he does not seem to address that position in any of his writing. I wonder what he thinks of the company.
Those are factors, but also because older people are typically looking for a long-term relationship and young people are typically looking for a short-term relationship.

People are willing to pay a lot more for a potentially life changing long-term relationship. I think eharmony and match.com's pricing strategy proves this.
Safe means you can call it in any way you want. Like from a bot, or an accelerator plugin.
The US Government regulates all sorts of things that keep you safe - from pollution of your water supply through to seatbelts.

It's not perfect, and it often fails at regulation. But your post doesn't give any help to understanding when it succeeds and when it fails.
The widely accepted and used definition in economics refers to products that are identical or nearly identical, or more specifically, whose functions and costs of production are nearly identical. Student editions of software, for instance, are often functionally limited, but it is widely listed as an example of price discrimination. Some econ textbooks will make a distinction of "pure price discrimination," which requires the products to be literally identical. Note that the identity function for products is not always obvious.

I maintain that the iPhone's storage pricing is a clear example of price discrimination.
"No shit, Sherlock."

Or rather, "Money is the root of all evil."
What did they change, if you don't mind my asking? I've been using it for two seasons now, and haven't noticed anything too annoying, although I have been in public leagues only so far.
In the year 3000, the machines were losing the war to humans. In a last act of desperation, they sent back a few of their own kind to the year 2015 to alter the course of history and skew the odds in the favor. All they needed to do was convince the readers of a tech news site that the notion of an evil AI was ludicrous.

They down-voted and and ridiculed the various stories prophesying the rise of AI, many which flew under the radar of those who had the greatest chance of halting the impending doom. By the time anyone realized what was happening, it was too late.
32-bit CPUs lasted for several decades in desktop computers, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. Personally, I think a lot of what average users are using computers for at the moment wouldn't need anything more than that. In most cases, 4GB is still a lot of memory... but it's easy to waste.
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I'm not convinced that every firewall or proxy is HTTP-compliant either by accident or on purpose. And then even fully HTTP-compliant actors are unlikely to treat REPORT any differently from POST.
Uh, it's the Edison quote mentioned in the article...
It's this app http://sellow.me so, what you think?
"Price discrimination" is widely used to refer to identical or nearly identical products whose cost of production is nearly identical despite being offered at significantly different prices.
More the capabilities of the designer than the engine, since it is all static, but that scene is stunning.

I do wonder if Paris apartments have big glass double doors between the lounge and the master bedroom though. Could make visiting friends a little, erm, intimate.
Main question - what led this company to think they could even get close to a $99 price? Did someone give them a misleading estimate early on, or did they just come up with that number out of thin air?
The problem with your argument is that basic tinder is still free and tinder plus gives you almost no competitive advantage.

It gives you undo, which is a minor advantage, and it gives you passport which can be accomplished for free on any unrooted Android phone or any jailbroken IPhone.

In the future it will prevent you from needed to see ads, but I imagine that will also be a minor advantage.
They addressed it in this github issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/614

I'm also disappointed in this. The people I most want to use this with are also the people who have an iphone4.

I don't get the impression it'd be impossible to backport it from that post, so some enterprising individual could maybe do just that...
He thinks it's good.

http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=Warren+Buffet...

You can see he's added more to his position as of Dec 31st.

the big IBM drop happened in October.
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> Could you elaborate on what you consider to be "bad REST" with regards to using POST in this case?

I'm not saying POST is bad REST, I am acknowledging the claim by some that it is and, without debating whether or not it is, saying that using REPORT or SEARCH, as currently defined, is at least as bad as using POST from a REST point-of-view.

(I actually think that, in terms of using HTTP in a RESTful way, POST is the least-bad choice in terms of existing verbs, though it is not an exceptionally good fit -- its basically a case where POST-works-for-anything-for-which-no-other-method-seems-appropriate logic applies.)
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occasionally I'll need to stay up really late, or for some random reason I'll wake up really early (sound outside wakes me up), and I'll actually feel more refreshed with 3-4 hours sleep than a full night. is this a common experience?

I've never purposely tried sleeping only 3-4 hours.
Agreed. The level of productivity for most of us who need 8 hours drops substantially when we go above or below that threshold.
It's not a "broken system". It's one that doesn't work for your particular use case. As Matt Blaze pointed out in his Twitter message and I did here: simplifying "identity" down a phone number sidesteps a complicated security problem that has created flaws in other applications and will continue to do so.

I'm sorry you can't use TextSecure right now; it's the only encrypted messaging system I actually like (though I think you can get by with OTR [but not group OTR!] and GPG). They have to start somewhere, though. And it's far better than they get a simple case right than an ambitious case wrong.
20% refunds (promised, not yet delivered).

And the company's going to stay in business.

How embarrassing.
Seems crazy to do a project like this with an agency doing the software and hardware design. That's going to be crazy expensive. I would think you need the skills in house to make it affordable.
It seems like the take home lesson to all hackers and hobbyists out there:

Hardware is HARD. Fullstop. $500,000 is nothing for even something as 'small' as this.
Would banning the creation of conscious AI really be all that different from the current moratorium on human cloning? We already have the technology to make human clones, but we choose not to because of the ethical implications.
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Nice.

Your move Unity. $4500 per seat up front or $225 per seat per month for all-platform access is looking even less appealing for small Indies.
I think it's because Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence is the first general reader overview of the subject, and it came out middle of last year.

Musk definitely read it, and I assume it's doing the rounds of the tech elite.

It is a good book, worth reading with plenty of references. It amusingly makes its own point - it tries to analyse what AIs might be and do and how to control them.

The analysis is such a mess, and shows our collective knowledge of this is such a mess, you can't help but agree with the author we need to put more attention to it.
Fair enough, best of luck getting it all sorted.
Nice post! By the way, I'd love to see a readable/beginner's introduction to dealing with worlds in Twelf. I've read the Twelf wiki a few times, and also Harper/Licata's Mechanizing Metatheory in a Logical Framework, which are quite good—but a gentle introduction would be really nice too.
It was from Thomas Edison, so from long ago and far from an authority on animal sleeping habits. There are a vast number and variety in species of fish, some appear to do the unisphere thing, some actually go dormant and rest without swimming like zebra danios, while some don't show any signs of resting like mackerel. You can't really generalize too much about the whole lot of them.

Also, horses sleep.
That's the beauty of Kickstarter. No downside for those who get the money, very limited upside for those who pledge.
Its probably better to think of GET as not affecting the state of the resources within the API rather than not affecting the state of the server.
Almost looks like iPhone...http://gizmodo.com/galaxy-s6-hands-on-samsungs-got-a-whole-n...
This is missing the necessary disclosure that both companies are YC.
It's not. Sam Altman has a blog that gets a lot of readers that why it seems more important than it really is currently.
I fear anthropomorphizing machine intelligence and attempting to simply "regulate" it like other human affairs will cause more harm than good.
>This has basically the highest insanity * prominence of speaker product I've ever seen.

Is that two compliments in one? :) I am debating releasing a sort of part 3, which actually could be called "insanity", but you should save the criticism for that one.
> To me, Kickstarter backers aren’t just customers. They’re our friends. They are mavens. They represent our most passionate, most ardent and most enthusiastic customers.

> Yes, that’s it. I failed. We failed. It feels horrible, and it’s the end of Ada. But not the end of Triggertrap.

Uh... if I was your "friend" I would be livid that you weren't going bankrupt to sell off every asset you had to pay me back in full.

*Edit - My post was more about the use of the term friendship to absolve the author of guilt. Seems to have been effective This seems like shady business ethics to me.
Upvoted as this was a reasonable comment with good questions.

I think Altman was more prompting a conversation than anything - certainly using AI to at least detect AI development is a cute idea.

It's much like we use seismographs in ocean trenches and many other techniques to detect nuclear tests.

Unfortunately, we know so little about how the AI will work or what it will do, that it is only a theoretical strategy right now.
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I was confused too - I think it references this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_laser...
Out of curiosity, in which ways did your life change? How did you adjust or what do you do differently now that you know?
Wow, that sounded so painful, and painfully obvious to anyone who has designed and built hardware. I think lesson 5 should be lesson 0 and re-written:

They wrote:

As soon as the Kickstarter money hit our account, we should have hired an experienced hardware product manager.

And it should be:

Before contemplating a Kickstarter campaign, we should have hired an experienced hardware product manager and had them price out what such a product would cost to bring to market at various volumes.

Kickstarters work when they are the "D" side of R&D and fail when they start with the "R" side and try to get to "D".
Yes, but it means the relative percentages are not meaningful. Even if your where to simply normalize them to total 100%.

Likely the servey was, "list 3 or more reasons why your startup failed," and then the top three where used in this list. This can be used for voting and ranking but deriving a percentage is inappropriate. Someone's 3rd choice may be only 1% of the reason they think they failed. there is no concept of relative percentage between the three choices of a single respondent.

If anything it is the set of three answers the respondent considers salient, in which case they are inseparable. They might have answered quite differently if they where asked "what is the single most important reason your startup failed."

Which is what this article claims it is listing.
Hi Jack, awesome work! Did you write the HTML by hand or did you use or write some static generator? I'd love to have sidenotes like yours automatically generated and positioned.
Anyone got any links to places where stuff like this gets posted ;)
It's actually quite amazing how it feels that the author doesn't really mind that he's failed, and sees it as a learning curve. It almost reads like he's proud that he's blown half a mill, just read the title. This is real people's money. Whether or not it was more expensive than you originally planned, whether or not you feel really bad about it, you should not be allowed to just have another go at it. It makes an absolute joke of the entire concept of crowdfunding.

For a Kickstarter that budgeted 50k, received 300k, and was still nowhere near production, that's just really poor management and people like that shouldn't be in the business of making promises and taking other peoples' money.
As much as I agree that AGI is a real concern that we should start taking seriously, regulation isn't the answer. At least not yet.

Even setting aside all of the considerable drawbacks inherent to regulatory infrastructure, the end result is that, unless the regulations themselves were secret, anyone could discern precisely what the most unsafe areas of research are. The last thing you want is hobbyists able to effectively proceed where the professionals cannot.

A better approach might be for governments to utilize their vast resources in the creation of a Manhattan Project-style AGI program, with the intention of crossing the finish line before anyone else does, in a safe and moral fashion.
Or you need the skills in house to make the price predictable.
Only the Android version of WhatsApp has encryption, as far as I can tell.

Also WhatsApp (i.e. Facebook) get the metadata still - who messaged who, and when.
My two cents:

- if your queries get that complex, introducing a subordinate query resource is a pretty reasonable measure; in a world where people commonly use URL shorteners, why is this controversial?

- "don't break the web" isn't just about bookmarks; it's also about interoperability, in general

- for example, supporting GET means responses are now cacheable, which may be useful in many situations

- the author is mostly just pointing out that DropBox hasn't followed the REST style, and he's correct; there are reasonable design alternatives that do

- therefore, if REST is good, than this design is bad; given the success of the Web and HTTP, whose fundamental design follows the REST style, it always mystifies me how many people find this objectionable