skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to see that people like you are replying to some of the misinformation that occurs in threads like these. It's a shame that on HN the people with the least knowledge are the most likely to cast their opinions in broad sweeping statements grounded in hyperbole rather than fact, particularly when the topics of AI and ML come up.

In fact a number of the signatories that Luke cites are quoted as saying on no uncertain terms that fear of AI is widely out of proportion to its capabilities now and for the foreseeable future. The most prominent I'm aware of saying thing to this effect are Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton, and Yann LeCun.
The technologies leading towards AGI/SMI are advancing. The technologies needed to make it safe are also advancing. The goal is not to ban SMIs - it's to ensure that it's safe. Think of it as a race, between research into capabilities into safety and control measures. If the safety and control research is sufficiently advanced when SMI appears, then it can solve humanity's other problems for us. If that safety research isn't sufficiently advanced, then we're in very serious trouble.

This is the idea behind differential technological advancement: favor technologies that help us make safe AGIs that will help us, over technologies that are too risky. Right now, safety-oriented AGI research is severely under-funded, so it's hard to tell the difference. Hence the need for monitoring and research. And while we certainly hope that safety will get on track to win the race, if it looks like it isn't, a regulatory body and regulatory framework may provide a saving throw.
I bought a mac mini in 2011 and swore to god I would never buy a huge case ever again for no reason whatsoever.

Sorry guys, make it smaller and I may bite.
Worthless is a strong word.

When you consider the number of unstable nation-states that have nuclear arms, I would say that non-proliferation has been very ineffective. Likewise human trafficking laws. I agree with their intent, but they are not working well.

What I am arguing here is that the nation that regulates first is at a disadvantage. I do not want the US to be at a disadvantage, and I do not believe that this problem is one the law can solve.
> we trust that the positive effects, on balance, will outweigh the negative ones.

So far, the positive effects from technology definitely seem like they've outweighed the negative ones. Technology has raised our standards of living, and we've managed to work around many potential downsides.

Most technologies to date have a fairly limited per-use radius of impact. Guns for example, are local: bullets don't travel more than a couple miles. Mishaps with guns (e.g. shooting sprees) can be terrible, but they have a small radius of impact, so they're not the end of the world.

As technologies become more powerful, it's reasonable to assume that maximum radius of impact will also increase. If a radius of impact is the size of the earth (or larger), we have to worry very much about accidents, even if we can expect accidents to be rare.

AI might be one of the first technologies humanity comes up with that has a global per-use effect radius. Extreme caution is warranted.
This is an issue, and United is allowed to deny the tickets, because the non-Danish citizens that tried to enter a purchase contract with United did it under false pretenses (i.e. putting down their country of citizenship as Denmark to trigger the pricing error when they were not Danish citizens). Contract law gets pretty precise under these situations.

Airlines have been held to task when people found legitimate fares and honestly purchased a ticket. This was not one of those situations.

More generous airlines and other large corporations have been known to honor the price anyway to avoid a P/R fiasco and generate goodwill. From my experience, UAL is not one of those companies. =)
Looks a lot like https://offerupnow.com/
If you prebake the lighting and use ridiculously high-rez textures, you can make any 3D engine look like that. Static geometry is cheap.
Do you mean to say that you would like me to elaborate?
disclaimer: I don't think there's anything wrong with what Berkeley focuses on. My favorite classes here so far have been discrete math & probability/stochastic processes. What I do think should change is the emphasis employers put on coming from a top cs school. And also I wanted to point out that for students whose goal is to become a software engineer, learning stuff outside of school is extremely valuable since the curriculum doesn't focus on what's important for them to get a job right now.
Hardware manufacturers actually do pay money to try and prevent some attacks(the main problem of course is that preventing side-channel attacks has a performance cost) The article even notes hardware manufacturers worry about firmware attacks. Admittedly, a lot don't, and the race to the bottom on commodity hardware only encourages cutting corners on something customers don't pay more for.

But just because flaws in security are inevitable, that doesn't mean they aren't worth considering. It's some protection - it may be too expensive to break for all firmware. The NSA is hardly the only organization with an interest in doing so. Even if the NSA can break verification in it for no cost, it's better than NSA + criminals being able to.
The Tangled Web of Venture Investing, and Why VCs Like More VCs
Trying again is perfectly fine. Trying again with other people's money is perhaps less fine.
Forcing will not work. If there in anything that the old 55mph limits in the US showed, it's that.

> You can't have sane limits because people don't give a damn about them out of habit

Look, there is science behind this--people drive the speed they feel is safe--they basically don't listen to speed signs. If you want them to drive slower, you have to engineer the road so that they don't feel safe at 45 but do at 35.

> Another thing. Have you ever seen a driver maintaining safe distance? Me neither.

In San Diego? Never. In Pittsburgh? All the time. Guess which one gets frequent enough bad weather to clean the idiots that don't leave following distance off the road?
It is Apache 2.0. The library has been developed for several years as close source. But now it is Apache 2.0 although the source files need to be updated. Don't worry.
That depends. If they happen to heat a small area around the user, then it will allow the ambient room to be at a lower temperature overall, leading to a net power savings because (counterintuitively) of lower efficiency.
Overtraining is well known to be linked to Insomnia. P90X is pretty hardcore, so maybe you are overtraining?
I hope no one is surprised by this. Once they started with Android, it was glaringly obvious that their eventual goal was to offer free mobile phone service with ads service.
It may also be a case of people you don't want as your customer. I can only imagine that someone with this kind of attitude would use support resources very heavily if they had access to paid support. Maybe not to the tune of $15k, but who knows.
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Yes, we don't want it depending on third parties.
I totally disagree that the tone of that comment sums up the article in the slightest.

While the article makes it clear that Powell now regrets authoring The Anarchist Cookbook, it is also made clear that the reasons for his regrets are far more interesting and nuanced than the quote above would have you think:

"When Powell was in his late twenties and teaching special-needs students in New York, he returned to White Plains High School. At the school he had struggled academically and socially, and looking through his results from two intelligence tests, he found what he took to be a clue to his unhappiness. “There was a huge discrepancy between my verbal and performance I.Q.,” he says. “That would have been a clear red flag in today’s world that something was going on. But at that point in time, nobody paid attention to it.” Powell thinks he likely had a learning disability of some sort, which contributed to his trouble in school, his alienation as a young adult, and his current work to support learning-disabled students."

Powell spent the rest of his life trying to help frustrated young people like his former self, which is far more profound and noble than an old hippie selling out.
This Hawking-lead AI panic references the European colonial genocide of indigenous peoples as an analogy for how groups with different intelligences interact. As such, it is hideously offensive. Colonials and the indigenous peoples they slaughtered — like all humans — had similar intelligences. The differentiator was technology. Being on the side with inferior tech was fatal.

If America follows the recommendations in this paean for suppression of intelligence, they'll find out what it's like being on the losing side. If it is possible for computers to achieve superhuman general intelligence, it will happen regardless of regulations. 'Safeguards' like hardcoding in Asimov's laws presupposes such an entity would have inferior programming skills than its comparatively stupid creators, hence it would be pointless.

And what about the risks of not creating AI? Humanity has a host of non-theoretical existential threats contend with. A super-duper intelligence could help with those. Just imagine the example a superior being would set: it would demonstrate the bootstrapping of intelligence from nothing. Precisely opposite to the preaching of the worlds major religions. If this being of our creation doesn't kill us, it might inspire us to stop killing each other.
I guess I'm much more worried about "the cloud" aggregating lots of people's data on connected machines where hackers can score big with a single vulnerability. The recently-exposed NSA firmware hacks seem like they require per-target effort, and since I'm neither wealthy nor wanted by Mossad, I don't see myself being worth that effort. (EDIT: e.g. stealing $20 apiece from everyone affected by the Target data breach equals big bucks, much more than bugging the firmware in my laptop and trying to clean out my bank account.)

OTA firmware updates being signed would be a good thing, but I'd rather spend the time and energy keeping more things local, and avoiding the "internet of (broken) things."
For speed readers, 1000 wpm is actually pretty standard.
> Look, there is science behind this--people drive the speed they feel is safe--they basically don't listen to speed signs. If you want them to drive slower, you have to engineer the road so that they don't feel safe at 45 but do at 35.

I've heard that idea before somewhere, and I quite like it. Making the environment seem unsafe on purpose so that people adjust their behaviour. I'm interested if anyone tried that on larger scale somewhere, and what were the results.
Many DC devices have capacitors on their power rails. When they are plugged in, they generate a huge current spike as the capacitors charge up (limited only by the resistance and inductance of the capacitors/wires). This is enough to overwhelm the power supply and cause a reset.

The solution is a current limiter of some sort. Sometimes this is as simple as initially powering the USB port through a resistor, watching until the USB voltage gets high enough, then switching over to a direct connection.
> in which managers were forced to put a % of employees in under performing buckets

... except other managers, of course! ;-)

I'm an ex-Yahoo, and I feel that Yahoo has too many layers of management. Marissa would be well served by reducing the ratio of managers to engineers to something like 1:10 (currently I've heard it's close to 1:3, but that's just rumor and speculation).
Fair warning: Pandoland is not that kind of conference
Note that in this case many of the ticket purchasers were held to be "acting in bad faith" since they falsely declared their location as Denmark to obtain the deal proced in DKK, in which case I have no problem with the airline voiding those transactions. When customers act in good faith I agree there is more of an issue.
Lessons from a 'local food' scam artist
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I live in the South, and I know it is very conservative. I am not surprised by her story at all, especially this part:

"I am from Tennessee and love that I have a very real business reason to spend more time there and shine a spotlight on some of the creativity that lives outside the coasts. And yet, it’s been made abundantly clear to me over the last year or so that a small, but influential group of men in the city do not want me or Pando there. One story that makes the point: As last year’s event was drawing to a close, one male attendee, apparently a Nashville local, stopped Pando reporter James Robinson to share his thoughts on the conference. Specifically, he wanted to share his opinion of me, or as he called me “That Pando lady.” “I can’t believe you let her leave the house,” said the man. James was left speechless. Some were bold enough to tell me to my face that my personality made them uncomfortable: I was told I “have a mouth on me.” I was even warned to “watch myself.” And, best of all, I was told that my occasional use of profanity on-stage is unbecoming for a mother (never mind that most everyone on stage at Southland swore except Al Gore and Christy Turlington, and we raised hundreds of dollars for charity through a swear jar.) The male attendees were expected to curse, but when I do it it’s just plain unladylike. Won’t somebody think of my children!
The WFH policy literally impacted about 1% of the people. And of those impacted, many of them got an exemption (based on performance) and continued to WFH. It really was made out to be a much bigger deal in the media, than it really was.
I was going to point this out, as well. There is a certain level of physical pain where your ability to focus on anything external to the pain is severely diminished. Having recently spent time with people in end of life situations, I have to say that the urge to "fight on" is definitely championed more often by those who are far removed from the day-to-day details.
I think it's merely been relegated to its proper place. I think both 'sides' in the debate now will often agree that segmented sleep provides more hours in a 24-hour period in exchange for fewer daylight hours and reduced ability to do difficult mental work in those hours. Another way to look at it is that some people should sleep a lot and work for short, concentrated periods and others should work a lot and sleep in short, concentrated periods, and each of those two patterns is suited to a different type of work. At least, that's what I've seen in the community/meta-community.
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Awesome stuff! :)

In case someone wants to try out this cleanly in a docker or virtualbox without breaking their host machine's golang install, it is now available as a commented-out ansible role in the vagrant box I created over the weekend:

https://github.com/samuell/golang-vagrant-ansible

(Instructions for enabling the Go 1.5 role in the repo README ... but in short, just uncomment "- golang-1.5" in playbook.yml, and comment out "- golang" instead, before running "vagrant up docker" or "vagrant up virtualbox").
You Do You
This is exactly the kind of design that creates overly complex software. It's design for the sake of purity rather pragmatism. Some guy like Roy Fielding proclaims the "right" way to do things and developers end up doing backflips to accept the dogma. Dropbox is correct in this case, and this would make a good interview question to see what kind of engineers you are about to hire and what the long term impact will be on your code base.
I find it sad that there are people who think because someone makes a mistake you should be allowed, in fact a 'right', to take advantage of them.

I understand if you don't realise and their mistake sets you back you should get some sort of resolution.

But come off it, everyone in these groups knows when it's a pricing error.

These groups are fun, I do like them, but when some members think they are entitled to something because mistakes happen I have issue.
It's an interesting thought for sure, I just don't see how you sell it to shareholders. If I had to make a baseless assumption, I'd say the bulk of yahoos users are seniors who moved on from AOL, and don't know any difference.

I would be really interesting to see yahoos audience demographics to confirm or deny that though.. Perhaps they have a larger international audience I'm not aware of.
Let me come about this from the point of view of an employer:

If you are fresh out of school, you are a huge potential. The better the school, the greater the potential. We think you have so much potential that we expect you'll be a leader at our company.

We can teach you what you need to know about our system of doing work. All that stuff you listed? Don't care. You're smart: you'll pick it up.

Being interested in your profession is key: We want to hear about stuff you've done and the interesting problems you've faced. Learned some extra stuff out of interest? Tell us. Done a project just for fun? Tell us.

Someone won't hire you because you lack certain line-item skills? You're not missing out.
Stalin designing the first 5 year plan doesnt sound impressive. It sounds like an idiotic idea resulting from an idiot, with predictably idiotic centrally planned results.
Cool! And now it has a lot more features, allowing one to further improve performance by integrating with raw C code, see:
https://github.com/jimthunderbird/php-to-c-extension#example...
https://github.com/jimthunderbird/php-to-c-extension#example...
https://github.com/jimthunderbird/php-to-c-extension#example...
Yes it is, particularly for women.
Don't listen to some EE expert tell you the product can't be developed for less than a million. These guys are used to working at big shops that routinely throw that kind of money into the garbage. This product could have shipped, if only they had run the numbers first.

With a cheaper chip, better project management and using a shop like Proto Labs for tooling they could have made it happen. Resourcefulness, not resources. $99 is pretty aggressive, but it could be done with a slim margin.

Run the numbers first, THEN spend the money.
I'm not sure what the typed array limitations are, but Javascript numbers are able to exactly represent integers up to 2^53 - 1, which is quite a bit more than 32 bits.
Oh, by the way it is working on MAC OS too.
>we've misunderstood either the age of the universe, or the nature of time.

Or both. += [Gravity, energy, conscious observation of the cosmos]. :-]
Even at $10/barrel, oil can’t match solar on cost
Tempests and Tedium in the Transatlantic: Shipboard Life in the 18th Century
They let you get away with less sleep in the short term, but your body will pay it back by doing deep sleep instead of healthy cycles. Pardon the extreme laymanism, but mod lets you pull long days in the same way that getting excited does. There's no currently known drug that pushes your need to sleep past the end of your life if you're more than days away from it. I will be interested to see what genetic therapies can accomplish, though.
Many of the advances we know of are coming from outside the US. Notably teams at the Universities of Toronto and Montreal, DeepMind in the UK, and Juergen Schmidhuber's group in Switzerland. Geoff Hinton is British, Yann LeCun is French, Andrew Ng was born in the UK to Hong Kong parents and graduated in Singapore, Quoc Le is Vietnamese. Machine intelligence research is very international.

When you consider all the data being processed in the world in different ways, and all the optimization algorithms being run on public and private clouds and various in-house data centers, I think you will appreciate how difficult it is to even detect advances in machine intelligence.
"I'm not a newbie, this isn't my first account."

What uid range?

"In the spirit of civility you might want to spell out why it's not a good idea to "try and piss-off a Marine" instead of resorting to implying things."

Because as soon as they mention their profession, they stand out. Because they stand out it makes them a target. A lightening-rod to anyone who is looking to rant and let off steam about their POV, Ad-nauseam. @woodman has clearly answered your points. Marine & service men & women just want to be treated like everyone else, no more, no less. Polite, tactful, restrained, but won't back down. This is called bearing.

Don't piss-off a Marine. A lesson from Sgt. Shamar Thomas USMC ~ https://youtube.com/watch?v=WmEHcOc0Sys

I ask about your uid range because your continued tit-tat, isn't indicative of a long time user. You can do better.
I feel this is the appropriate place to bring up that we're not all confident that the Big Bang actually happened at all.

http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/BB-top-30.asp
To be fair to Wired, I have a good idea what a magazine subscription should cost. :) I just think they haven't considered that hiding the price and agreement on a payment form signals an unintended negative impression.
Especially taken with the recent news of the monster blackhole, also seemingly too developed for it's age, makes me think we might discover that we're wrong about something fundamental like that. It would be an incredibly exciting discovery.
I'd always though of it a strictly a sleep disorder, but maybe treating it as a more general anxiety thing would work. Good idea.
30 reasons the “Big Bang” of our universe may be false
There are a number of factors influencing that conclusion. Many people opined on this issue a little while ago, "heating people rather than spaces" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9034678
took me a long time to get the code too.
Signal ties into your phone's existing address book. You can add someone new using the iOS Contacts application.
N++ on PS4: Graphics ++
Install textsecure from F-droid.

EDIT: not only is textsecure not on f-droid, but f-droid itself is woefully insecure: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
Airlines have taken advantage of me for making a mistake so many times. Once I booked I accidentally booked a flight for February 12, when the conference I was going to was actually March 12. I didn't realize until the day of my actually purchased flight. There was no sympathy for me, I simply had to buy another ticket.
> I have found I sleep less the more I exercise

In my experience this doesn't scale infinitely. Once I reached the average of 1.5 hours of strenuous exercise a day[1] I started needing more sleep than I did without the exercise. Sure, it keeps me mentally more engaged and productive, but I most definitely sleep more than I do when I'm working out less.

[1] I do 3 boxing sessions of 1.5h per week, run about 30km per week, and do about 3 hours of lifting per week
Did YC Just Start a Campaign to License and Regulate CS Research?
Yeah, yet another example of "Gee, hardware is actually hard."

These guys should be crucified. $100 retail means $30 BOM. This is easily a $30 BOM project provided you supply the labor.

Yeah, you're going to be working your own 3D printer. Pouring your own silicone rubber for molds. Soldering your own chips. etc.

However, you got $500,000. That's enough to fund two people (one hardware and one software) an entire year and still have $250K left for development.

They didn't learn crap.
Neat. Any ideas on how people could use this for serious applications?
MMS messages are sent and received by your cellular carrier.
Google Talk is a great, lightweight client that I've used for many, many years. Google Hangouts is an obnoxious pain-in-the-ass that I stopped using after a couple of days.

I just want something lightweight and not dependent on my browser. I use Chrome, but Hangouts just gets in the way. Google Talk does not.
Calling it "reporting" is a stretch. It's a blog post.
Io.js is one step closer to ARM64
I would argue that the orbital resonance necessarily is the result of Earth's gravity.