skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this change the point that there are entrepreneurs who have instincts about the market AND timing that turn out to be right?

The broader point is Peter Thiel's --> You are not a lottery ticket.

The best example might be Jeff Bezos and his business plan. Elon Musk has been consistent for ~ 20 yrs about the areas he set out to work on since college and he's followed that through. It's not dumb luck. It's skill + luck. The skill part of the equation is oft dumbed down in favor of the randomized success algorithm. People who are able to repeat their successes multiple times e.g. Joel Spolsky, Elon Musk, David Duffield, Rich Barton are especially skilled and it would be disingenuous to attribute their successes to some luck/timing that they were not ultimately mostly responsible for creating or noticing.
How? And what kind of people? Do you cold-call on reporters through it? Investors? People in your field? For me Twitter has always been a disappointment: cumbersome interface and a write-only mode where anything I say goes unanswered.
I worked on Windows Live Mobile for Windows Mobile. Thankfully it was renamed.
Can someone convert "academia nerd language" down one notch into "regular nerd language". On the surface, this sounds interesting but despite being a huge nerd I'm not really sure what the hell they're talking about.
It's actually very easy to calculate how many of your calories come from Soylent, since you buy it on a subscription.

But the plusses for Soylent are more time, more money, less hassle and more consistent nutrition.
> Why not Soylent? Because it will kill you.

Did you ever explain why Soylent will kill you?
It will be nice to get rid of the oil bottle. (Although my kids love the empties for various play activities so I better stock up on them before I use up my current supply.)

I also think the serving size fits into how I use the product. I usually go a couple days consuming only Soylent, and then have dinner one night and then back to only Soylent for a couple more days, and repeat. But either way, I usually only have a pint for each meal. So even if I have nothing but Soylent one day, I still only use 3/4 of a package. I never was able to drink an entire pouch in a day.
How are keys shared between users?
I wonder how the work apps compare to LibreOffice, which should be getting a usable Android version this year.
YouTube isn't profitable
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> most of which (afaik) is a datacenter

Ha! Nope. While there has been some datacenter space in the building, the vast majority is office space. (It's way cheaper to build data centers in Iowa and the Carolinas than in Manhattan!)

Google has been taking over more and more office space as leases end, though. It makes for quite a confusing office map to get from floor to floor. (Lots of partial office floors don't connect well to other partial office floors.)
>Since you are so knowledgeable about the unknowable, may I ask, Sam, do you think angels are male, or are they female?

How condescending.
I get the convenience argument, but then again I don't: one can make (for example) an omlette roulée and clean up after oneself in a few minutes.

Completely agree with you about nutrition angle.
I know this was a joke, but depending on the time scale, 10 sigma isn't unexpected.
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I think they should have led with Boston having gotten more snow than Buffalo has ever recorded in a similar time period. Now that's remarkable!
The concept of singularities and intelligence explosions and unfriendly AI is only starting to become mainstream, even among AI researchers.

When asked about the dangers of AI, they mostly talk about the near future and their current work. The dangers of AI do not come from current work in the near future, but human level AIs decades from now.

People are talking about two very different things in the same conversations using the same words.

As for what expert opinion actually is on this subject, there is a good survey here: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf

We thus designed a brief questionnaire and distributed it to four groups of experts in 2012/2013. The median estimate of respondents was for a one in two chance that high-level machine intelligence will be developed around 2040-2050, rising to a nine in ten chance by 2075. Experts expect that systems will move on to superintelligence in less than 30 years thereafter. They estimate the chance is about one in three that this development turns out to be ‘bad’ or ‘extremely bad’ for humanity.
So this means that if the jackers acted quickly, they should have certificates issued for a bunch of *.Lenovo.com hosts, eh?

Is there a way to globally revoke them, so a domain owner can make sure no other CA has issued a bad cert? Or do users just need to wait until attacked, then hopefully the bad cert gets noticed and revoked?
Under-prediction of warming in the north is one of the most notable failures of climate models, although they are wrong on lots of other details as well. This is not a surprise: climate models are in important respects non-physical approximations to the real climate, and as such can't be expected to get the details right.

Depending on your politics you can now accuse me either of making excuses for "the hiatus", or of being a Denialist, but all I'm really doing is pointing out that the public's expectations of climate models is both too high ("the science is settled") and too low ("global warming is a hoax!")

There is a middle way between these extremes, one that acknowledges the uncertainty of the models (which are large) while at the same time recognizing that there is no physically reasonable way to double the CO2 content of the Earth's atmosphere without adding about 1 W/m2 to the heat budget.

That we don't have a very good idea of how the Earth's climate will respond to that additional heating is not something we should find reassuring, and while there are plenty of good reasons for investing in nuclear, solar and other alternative power sources, there are also good reasons to invest in climate robustness: ensuring that our cities aren't entirely shut down by a rare snowfall, investing to protect the most vulnerable populations from climate variation from any source, and so on.

Our economies are highly tuned up for the climate of the past 100 years, which was unusually stable. We should be aware that the kind of forward planning our parent's and grandparent's generations did based on the assumption of climate stability is not likely to be viable in future as the climate returns to its state of natural volatility, almost certainly helped along by anthropogenic contributions.
I'm averaging 70% simply off the top of my head, of course - but with that said 2/3 meals a day are on average soylent - with a a couple random days a week where it's 3/3 soylent, and 1/3 soylent. It might be closer to 66% of my meals are from soylent, but it's hard to say.

It also is worth noting that i meant meals, not calories specifically. When i eat "normal" food, i eat for taste - because DIY does get boring. So, it can range quite heavily in what i eat - but i generally don't hold back. I'm a thinner guy anyway, so i don't worry about calorie intake. I drink/eat soylent for the ease of use, stability in meal consumption (i used to skip a lot of meals), and a nice feeling bloodsugar level (i have not tested my bloodsugar, strictly speaking about how i feel).

edit: Oh, and the boon, as i mentioned before is.. well, all the benefits i listed above. Specifically stability in eating. I don't skip meals anymore - which is a big win for how i feel. Moreover, a good chunk of the meals i didn't skip in the past, were filled with horrible "just make hunger go away" type meals. I don't eat fast food, so it was usually just random junk in the house. Lots of cheese, usually hah.
Try "observably greater success than you've ever had".
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Think bigger and longer-term. He's not talking about guns, but removing the ability of governments to regulate anything physical. Could you print or cast propellants and make caseless ammo? I bet with some effort you could. Could you distribute that ability in a way that would be utterly impractical to control by any government? Sure.

He's demonstrated the concept with simple things like gun magazines. Theoretically, they're now out of reach of the government to control. Add in more time and better technology, and this concept is potentially a big deal for all manner of things. Interesting to think about at least.

Guns are just a current flash point that it's easy for people to get their heads around. But who knows what tomorrow will bring that governments will try to control only to find themselves unable to do so due to unskilled, cheaply available, distributed manufacturing capability?
Then why not "eat" Ensure? At least Ensure has a track record, is actually available, and has a peer-reviewed scientific backing. What is the advantage of Soylent?

I honestly don't understand the appeal of an unproven and difficult to source food product, but I would appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Keys live on Sharelock server [1]

Secrets are signed with HMAC SHA256 and encrypted with AES 256 CTR using keys that live on the Sharelock server

[1] https://sharelock.io/security
Neither. The tone of the first being laudatory, the second being contemptuous, academic history isn't in the business of telling readers how likeable historical figures were.
this is the key here: any company that has stakes within the US is subject to coercion

secondly soon news will be out (give it a couple more days ;-)) which is currently not on any news sites radar - on IMSI catchers (aka fake BTS) which will put the whole story into a new context.
Price per GB is not their main concern, but it's still pretty amazing that the price is far more than ten times higher than it could be.

I'm just pointing out that while this is about as good as you can get for 1MB, if you need perhaps 5MB there are better options, and god help you if you try to use 20MB on this plan.
Just curious, why the downvotes ?
On the welcome page, it says it's okay to say thanks, am I missing some unspoken rule about Hackernews ?
Very cool.

Only thing I don't like is that when something goes really wrong with my circuit, I could probably harm my PC. Normally I just risk destroying RPi.
It's less a matter of snow fall and more one of snow accumulation.

For snow to fall you want warmer temperatures (relatively) which allow large amounts of atmospheric moisture. Ideally striking a cold air mass which then causes snow to fall. Most notably in the U.S. in the form of "lake effect snow", where warmer, moister air over the Great Lakes moves (typically NW to SE) over colder land, and dumps often major amounts of precipitation:

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/1777...

For snow to accumulate you need annual temperatures which remain below freezing. In this case, even with modest amounts of annual precipitation you can achieve large ice sheets. The annual precipitation over the Antarctic is quite low: "As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches."

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/shopcontent.asp?type=weat...

But with an annual average temperature well below freezing, any snow which falls will accumulate.

The daily high temperature in Boston is above freezing every month of the year, and the low from mid March to early December. Odds of Boston being covered in kilometer-thick ice sheets any time in the near future are exceedingly low.

https://weatherspark.com/averages/29794/Boston-Massachusetts...
Given the rarity of such an event, wouldn't the wisest course of action be to simply shut everything down for awhile? The nation of Sweden pretty much shuts down for a month every single year, I don't see why Boston couldn't handle doing it once every few thousands years.
No, and this is a complex enough subject so it probably makes sense to discuss:

Everything kills you. Oxygen, water, sugar, protein. You have about a billion heartbeats before your heart gets too tired. The goal is to find the right balance of things you eat, do, don't do, etc so that you maximize your useful lifespan. I am sure that Soylent kills you faster than a balanced diet, because (a) it's processed (b) not diverse enough and (c) uses subpar ingredients. It is the whole meal equivalent of hot dogs: techincially has fats, proteins, carbs, micronutrients, but eat enough of them and you will suffer.

Besides, Soylent is not a new idea. Take a look at Ensure shakes. Would you drink those for the rest of your life? If not, then why drink basically the same type of stuff but with a different label? Because a software developer is selling it?

Edit: another idea for a convenient complete meal: McDonalds. Protein (burger), fats (fries), and carbs (soda). Blend it and you have Soylent 2.0.
Just for the sake of clarity, do you mean that there are more apps that are sandboxed on iOS or that all apps have a higher level of sandboxing on iOS?
No you'd still need the crypt key to decode the data. Why do you assume this is stored on the device?
My apologies. Another commenter posted a part 2 link, and I assumed it was by the original author. It was from someone else:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

The original part 1 was just posted this morning so I don't think there is a part 2 available yet.
" I even think that they were just a useful means to him of justifying this break, which was his prior primary objective." Probably not, since prior to his penis getting the best of him, his regime was impeccably orthodox-the title "Defender of the Faith" was bestowed by the Pope for defending Catholicism against Lutheranism (I believe in a book that was largely ghost written by Thomas More). Even after the Act of Supremacy, his regime officially remained orthodox in a way that ruffled the feathers of many more radical reformers. Despite the fact that Henry was a really bad catholic who skirted the bounds of heterodoxy, and laid the grounds for the more radical reformation of Edward VI.
HN itself doesn't make any money, but it serves as a community that attracts people who apply for YC, and in turn generate returns (similar to the playground at a McDonalds). There are other startup accelerators that don't have a community like HN, and they miss out on this source of potential applicants.
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The encryption keys are on the server. We encourage you to deploy your own sharelock instance. We made that super easy with Heroku for instance (https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https%3A%2F%2Fgith...). There is no storage, just a node app. And then you can configure the apps to use the sharelock instance. More about it: https://github.com/auth0/sharelock#host-your-own-sharelock-s...
They built a system that automatically learned to play 49 different games, without any human tweaking (aside from the original setup).
>But I doubt it, not now anyway.

NASA's contributions are estimated to have a 2-3 to 1 fold revenue generation for NASA spending.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20100827_1798.php
So one have to trust sharelock. That's not very convincing, unfortunately.
I tried it from my browser to my cellphone. I use a Nexus 5 and it worked very well. I didn't have to install the app making it even easier.

Good job.
I'm working on an index to the "Careers" section of tech employer websites at:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

I take requests; if there is a specific city where you would like to work, please let me know.

This is built manually. I have some ideas as to how to automate this, but the manual work yields insight into how to better automate it.
This might or might not surprise you, but the BATFE essentially makes the law, interpreting 8 decades of often unclear statutory law. The latest example of this is their recent "On second thought, M885 ammo is bad"---although the statutory law sure seems to be clear to me, but I've come across lawyers on our side who think it's debatable.

Challenging them is very dangerous, they have an odd habit of using any and all means to destroy people they get upset with, even their own agents, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Dobyns And most Federal courts and judges are not exactly on our side.

Back when people were wondering how we could get "the people" upset enough about the NSA et. al. to have the same effectiveness as "the NRA" (really, the nation's gun owners), I pointed out more that a few atrocities would have to be committed and publicized. That "worked" for us because the BATFE is probably the dirtiest and nastiest of the Federal law enforcement agencies.
Just off the top of my head, World of Warcraft gold farmers. This has been a thing for a LONG TIME.
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Thank you for the opportunity. I've sent request.
Cooking healthy, well, and quick is a skill that takes a long time to master. I for one am not a great cook: I can make about a dozen staple meals, but don't feel like I have the time to learn to make something more sophisitcated. I enjoy good food very much, which is why I go to restaurants.
My original understanding of the post I was replying to was hinting at a much bigger move than 20 miles. Upon rereading it, I potentially erroneously added that context within my own head.
Every nutritional label I've seen that prints the RDA % is based on a 2000 cal/day diet. I think they're just following the norm here.
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Would this potentially give a PI way more GPIO pins?
Read my response above.
> This assumes that the entire market knows about a solution the moment a first mover comes to market.

It doesn't. The first mover will start getting customers before you do, and as they do their ability to reach customers will grow exponentially. You might start reaching a segment of the market they aren't reaching, but they'll trivially be able to lock you out.
This is how we express rare events which threaten buildings and bridges. For example, the design level earthquake is chosen such that it has a 10% chance of being exceeded over a 50 year time span (475 year return period). The maximum considered earthquake has a 2% chance of occurring over 50 years (2475 year return period). Fifty years is around the typical lifespan of a structure.
> You can still type your messages.

You can hope that they respect the type. For a robust distributed system, you will have to check everything at runtime.

> If you make the assumption that you deploy up-to-date binaries, then knowing at compile time that your producer and consumer use the same data structure for the messages they exchange would give me much better confidence than "it looks like the API conforms to what's written on the wiki".

My reading is that we agree that running code is the only source of truth, we disagree on what guarantees distribution deprives us of.
> I have yet to meet a serious AI researcher who worries about AI ending the human race. At every AI conference I've been to lately, [the answer was always] "dude, stop it. That's such a distraction".

Sure, it's a distraction at AI conferences. It's a distraction from the daily, monthly, yearly even, work of AI.

AI researchers have a million problems to solve in the near term, which are hard and interesting. Speculating about the farther future is perhaps fun to do, but doesn't get papers published, and doesn't help with any of the practical problems AI researchers have today.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth thinking about the long-term dangers of AI. Someone should, as while the danger might be unlikely to happen soon, but if it does eventually happen, it could end us. The same is true of a human-engineered pandemic virus - hopefully unlikely, but someone should be preparing us. We have to handle some worst-cases.

AI researchers are not necessarily the people interested to think about the long-term dangers of AI, because they focus on the field as it stands today, not where it could be in a generation. Of course, their input is crucial to making specific guesses about where the field is going. But calculating the dangers of AI is not just a matter for AI researchers, just like the benefits of medicine is not just a purely medical issue (the cost and availability of medicine play a huge part in how effective medicine is, at a societal level, and are things not under the control of doctors).
Doesn't crash, but sometimes apps seem to be created under the assumption their permission request isn't creating a popup, so there are sometimes like 10 in a row, so the user will often give up and just either blanket deny or accept

EDIT:an "allow for 10 min" option would resolve this
Start here https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_this_d....
> But more to your point, that's really a criticism of the FDA guidelines, which recommends 2000 calories a day.

The FDA guidelines do not recommend any number of calories a day. The % DV is based on the recommended amounts for a 2,000 calorie diet, and there is a standard, required, footnote noting this and that actual DVs vary by calorie needs.
Okay, i have a heavy urge to call your nonsense FUD - but to give you of the benefit of the doubt, why do you think it is that?

Have you compared the two nutritionally speaking? If so, what led you to believe they were so similar?

To me the differences are striking - unbelievably so. So much, that you come off as a troll. Please inform me otherwise.
But I can point to a law that allows them to regulate M855, or at least gives them the wiggle room. I'm aware of no such law that even hints at their ability to regulate machine technology.
The "Ghost Gunner" is a PR stunt. The whole project is to get media coverage. As a CNC machine, it's junk. It's from the same people who 3D printed a crappy gun.

The real deal is this: to get around US firearms laws, there's a mini-industry selling AR-15 "80% lower receivers".[1] These are sometimes advertised as "billets", but they're not unfinished castings. They're complete parts with a few holes omitted. With a template and a drill press, you can finish them. There's even a desktop router and jig combo to do that specific job. Costs $159.[2]

The Ghost Gunner is a little CNC desktop router built to do that specific job and not much else. It has small stepping motors and toothed rubber belts, like a 3D printer. It doesn't have the rigidity of a real milling machine, so it can't push a milling cutter sideways against resistance while holding precision. You couldn't mill anything out of a block of aluminum with it. It can drill holes of one size. That's all.

The site says that "pre-orders are sold out". They've been taking "non-refundable" deposits. It's quite possible that they aren't really manufacturing them, or they don't work very well, and want to claim they can't ship the things so they don't have to deliver.

I looked into getting one of these because I do some machining, usually at TechShop. (I'm into Teletype restoration and steampunk.) A low-cost little home CNC mill would be nice for making small metal parts. This isn't a real CNC mill. Roland has some nice desktop CNC mills, but they're much more expensive than this thing. There's a Kickstarter project for a real 3-axis desktop mill, but it's probably going to be priced around $2600. That's entry level for milling aluminum. If they wanted to make money and milling machines, rather than get press, there's a market for little CNC mills. That Kickstarter is way oversubscribed.

That's why this is all a PR stunt.

[1] http://www.80percentarms.com/
[2] http://www.80percentarms.com/products/308-easy-jig
[3] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178590870/the-nomad-cnc...
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A working link, for I ~think~ the same piece:
https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/...