skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we talk about immediate, final threats to ones life, not something that might kill you one day in the future. If you hold a gun to one head and tell him to kill another person there is a certain assumption that he will do so.

If you count possible long term threats then of course people don't care. I just think about normal things like smoking, drinking, eating, couchpotatoing.
I think you're underestimating the power of leadership. Of course, replacing one person in a large organization isn't going to make a huge difference statistically, but it makes an enormous difference if that person is directing all of the other people. If there are 4,000 people towing a ship, a change in the captain could change which way they're rowing.
here is a link to better docs site the article doesnt provide them:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
From half a mile away, even.
"judging by some of the latest plane crashes, a complete autopilot may not be that bad of an idea."

Until something[0] goes catastrophically wrong. The FMS on that flight threw so many errors that it couldn't compute landing performance metrics. In other words, because it couldn't handle the sheer number of aircraft system failures, it couldn't tell the pilots if the plane would be able to land on the runway and not overshoot it. The pilots hand to manually select which errors to override in order to have the system run its calculations.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
Stop loss, stop limit, GTC orders were rolled out recently. See below: http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2015/4/23/introducing-robinho...

They've started that they will be releasing margin trading in 2015.
Three things about Twitter's advertising:

F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explains data mining and Twitter's ad targeting at re:publica 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbF0sVdOjRw&t=12m42s

Here are two recent ads ("promoted tweets") on Twitter:

weev tells white people they need to stand up and defend yada yada. White supremacy is apparently a-ok with Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ReginaSmall/status/595211478648651776

Apple has an ad in Swedish. It's gibberish. Here is my best shot at translating it (if it makes no sense, my translation is good):

"the good news is for the inhabitants of Sweden now can get iphone 6 set price at 10 kr, beatings not until late"

https://twitter.com/ehsanfadakar/status/596304927724548098

Let me just say I'm not surprised if it doesn't work out for Twitter financially, 'cause if they have all that data Mikko is talking about, and they can't do better than spreading nazism and basically 419 scams, they deserve bankruptcy, so as to make room for someone who can do it right. That's how, I understand it, capitalism is supposed to work.
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Reminds me of Zecco and another company I'm forgetting the name off. Offered free trades for a year or two and then charged the same fees as the rest of them.
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Yeah, it's the same mental arithmetic. These arguments just don't make sense for making some kind of change.
I hate this argument just as much as I hate the one-word phrase "This". It's ignorant of the entire literature on superintelligence because it assumes that superintelligences will behave like cooperating humans. What people are actually concerned about are superintelligences which operate in completely alien ways and outperform even cooperating humans.
In my experience, "legacy" is used by sales types to mean "that which I did not sell you." Yet that may include complicated logic to enforce business rules, adhere to regulatory requirements, etc. Do you think that Amazon really has a technological advantage over the biggest banks that would offset their other advantages?
And it can vary within the states. Texas only requires emissions testing in the most populous counties (no point in testing cars in Brewster county with less than 1 person per square mile population density). In the counties with testing, new cars get a 2-year emissions exemption, after which they get tested yearly.

Testing is generally done via the OBD-II port, so the vehicle self-reports it's condition. Vehicles without OBD-II and "other" vehicles use a tailpipe probe to report on exhaust gases.
Thank you for a thoughtful, detailed response. It seems like a mix of job exposure and natural curiosity led you from language to language.

Throughout this thread, I've noted a distinct lack of dogma about everyone's evolution as a programmer. While I imagine there was some of it during the popular phase of many of these languages, it's nice to see mostly pragmatism in everyone's career journey.
Apart from the Romanesque cauliflower, these images mostly just show examples of phyllotactic spirals, which are not really fractals.

Fractal models can generate patterns reminiscent of some organic structures, particularly branching structures, but their importance in doing so is often overstated. Generally speaking, they don't capture the underlying biological processes giving rise to the structures; models that do (reaction-diffusion, optimal transport networks, models of specific genetic developmental programmes...) achieve more realism.

"The problem with a field such as fractal theory, which can be visually dramatic and practised without much background and sophistication, is that uninformed proselytising and inappropriate use can raise unrealistic expectations as to its relevance and applicability. ...Although chaos and fractal theory have been proposed by some as biological panaceas fortunately there are enough realists to counter this view and generally keep them in perspective."
–– JD Murray, Mathematical Biology
Good, the more political fallout, the better.

These kinds of cold shoulders are the language of diplomacy and power. In some small abstract way, the US's ability to defend itself has been reduced by this action-- power has been reduced. The power players in the government will take note of this, and ultimately tiny intangible reductions will be unsustainable and policy will have to change.
Presumably the author is familiar with the Google paper - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4555v2.pdf which should get the people, scale, and laughing bits out of the image. There are a remarkable number of technologies converging here.
Fun to play around with for a minute. I have fond memories of that OS.
This is a bit disturbing, I wonder if this is just a case of the DailyFail inflating headlines bombastically with the modern age yellow journalism they are known for (I'm not even saying this in a negative way, people subscribe to them just for this, its their thing, its what they do).
Now we are scared of something we haven't even created . We are far from real AI, but even so, how could the "interests" of a machine conflict with ours? I mean, they work with electricity, and we are hardly good sources for it. I cannot see how our future electric horses are going to be anything but useful to us. I 'd be more afraid of modified humans than computing machines.
All is cool except one thing - it's vendor lock and vendor is known for absence of customers support, often API deprecations and products shutdowns.
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It depends. There is value to having a progression of one's understanding and ideas and this is ideal for a blog. It can be technical or not. Obviously a post for the ages that one wants to craft over time and update should be its own page. It all depends on the purpose. If it is to learn by teaching, a blog is fine. Ideally new realizations would be added to the blog and linked to in the older articles.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9504939.
Sorry to add to the downer chorus, but I think that would require a majority in both houses to exhibit some integrity and a desire to wield Congressional power.

I don't see that happening. Obstructionism, pandering, lobbying and abdication of responsibility? Oh, we've got that in spades.
Here is the write-up from the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-...
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Aaron Swartz was not a MIT student. From the MIT report:

"Aaron Swartz was neither a member of the MIT staff, nor an enrolled student nor
alumnus, nor a member of the faculty. He was a regular visitor to the MIT campus and
interacted with MIT people and groups both on campus and off."
This assumes that the other competitors aren't vastly overcharging for their services. The current commission structure for most brokerages is still based on a time when computers couldn't execute a trade nearly instantly and a lot of paper and people were involved with the execution. There's really no good reason for a trade costing between $5-10 dollars to execute today. So far my experience with the Robinhood app has been pretty great. When you aren't trading thousands of dollars per trade, not having a commission is pretty dang nice and removes a good sized barrier for light hobbyist investors like myself.
This of course reminds me of the story about a lawsuit Winnebago fought about a guy who activated cruise-control and went back to make a sandwich.

Does anyone else see the possibility of seeing some very strange activities associated with drivers with way too much time on their hands being reported in the near future?

I've seen some pretty wild things going down highways but the possibilities are endless with autopilot.
You missed my 'just about'. And while it might be a little overstated (I haven't seen anyone do a massive sampling to compare what the charges were compared to what they should've been, which is probably a bit subjective), I would consider it in the majority of cases based on the anecdotes I've seen. Anecdotes are definitely imperfect and worse than peer reviewed science, but lacking the latter, the former is better than nothing.
Yes, you're right - I somehow thought 1L was 1m^3, when it should be 1L = 0.001m^3.
You realise that's not a real Apple ad don't you.
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In a nutshell I don't see how any kind of adaptive intelligence can bypass the reinforcement process of trial and error through interaction. Then again you could have simulated interaction, but that may be the equivalent of the machine dreaming :-)
Of course, speaking from physics - yes. Its a local maxima.

Its one of the shortcoming of natural selection and genetic programming.

We have better tools to do sequential computation than biology can match. And soon we will be able to harness the power of quantum mechanics to do our bidding.

But the point I am trying to make is whatever approach we use, sequential or parallel, Just in terms of computational complexity. The brain's capacity is greater than the sum of the computers humans have ever produced. Just using that metric we are still far away from having the tools to simulate brains, how long will it take for Intel to compress the complexity of ALL computers ever produced into a single chip ?

Surely its not tomorrow ? maybe 20-30 years ? I do not know.

What I do know is in 2015 it seems that there is a lot of work that needs to be done just from a hardware perspective.
A great argument! In fact humour is a tough task for humans as well. We do it all the time but only few people can be consistently funny in the eyes of other people. Also different cultures experience humour differently. E.g., German jokes aren't funny to Chinese and the other way around. It's nearly 100% excluding.
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You would think those groups would be in favor of regular smog testing, as it accelerates the retirement of old vehicles.

The automakers resisted adding smog equipment (which did increase costs), but that battle is already lost. They already make exclusively 49- and 50-state emissions legal vehicles.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493171
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I'm an Apple fan (well, actually a NeXT fan that went with the flow), and I can think of no way I'd trust an EC2 competitor from Apple given their history with the cloud. I don't doubt your right, but I just couldn't see using it.
| [0]: terrorist in quotes because I don't believe in the word. Terrorism is doublespeak, and it always has been.

Under C-51, you just broke the law if you are Canadian.
I wouldn't be so optimistic. A bit of fearmongering here and there. Some idiots from the middle east (or wherever) spreading fear and terror... et viola: New justification for more funds.
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Wait, there is no mention of Periscope or Meerkat in this post. Have I been moved to a parallel dimension?
That's why it's going back to be reviewed but it's not why it was dismissed in the first place.

The government asked for dismissal because

1: The ACLU lacks standing (denied)
2: Sovereign Immunity (upheld but reversed)
3: Bulk collection was authorized by congress (upheld but reversed)
4: bulk collection does not violate 4th or 1st amendments (upheld)

tl;dr: Court: Authorized by congress and constitutional. Appeals Court: Not authorized by congress, therefore we can ignore any constitutional aspects of it.

https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/order_granting_governments...

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20150507.pdf
That's an interesting experiment.
The demo is extremely underwhelming though. I have to wait ~5 seconds for each screen to load, while on a wifi network. I don't know if it is dues to Dart framework or the http code loading, but it is way too high to be acceptable.
The stocks app demo is a trivial exemple. A simple list with nothing else except for a nav drawer. It is very fluid but also extremely barebone.

Same thing for the square spinning at 60 fps. Call me back when there are 1000 of these.

Don't get me wrong, it is a very interesting experiment but it is hard to get excited for something so limited.
This is a wonderful bit of news, but I fail to see how it will change anything.

The spymasters will cry "terrorism!" and Congress will either be bought or intimidated into submission. Again.
Brains can definitely learn without supervision. Observe any child playing; they explore and learn from stimulus in ways far more sophisticated than our current machine learning models.

An interesting aspect of brains vs machines is how brains can learn from other brains indirectly. When someone tags a database for a machine to learn from, that is a form of direct communication (the kind machines are good at). A crow can watch another crow use a stick as a tool, and in turn learns that a stick can be used as a tool. This requires a complex understanding of the situation.
We had a similar program in British Columbia, called AirCare. Unfortunately, people realized that you could use solutions to flush impurities out of your engine, and then if you let your gas tank get close to empty then put a quarter tank of premium in, your car would burn cleaner and get you a pass, even if it would normally fail.

Eventually the program was scrapped, due to fewer cars failing (8%, down from 14%, which is still too high IMHO), and likely as a way of gaining political capital with the public in advance of an election.
It isn't a dichotomy, but it is like a person trying to support their weight on the floor. The straighter they stand, the long they can keep the position. Have them lean far enough over and it is near inevitable that they will eventually crash to the ground. If you have them plank a few inches off the ground, you could probably hold your breath longer than it takes for them to hit the ground.

(I think I need a better analogy here, but it'll take me some time to come up with one.)
I had a job when my wife and I decided to have a baby. She was about 8 weeks pregnant when I told my manager. I ended up leaving that job when she was 4 months pregnant and disclosed that she was pregnant to prospective employers during offer negotiations.

I wouldn't have taken a job at a company that wasn't supportive. It also allowed me to transparently negotiate around the things that mattered to me.
Surgeon Simulator and Goat Simulator to extend this into the ridiculous :)
It might be a little far-fetched, but there's a thought experiment called the "paperclip maximizer" that illustrates how even a well-designed, non-malicious AI could be an existential threat. See here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Most (if not all) cars decrease the air/fuel ratio on wide open throttle, which ensures lack of air to burn pistons, etc., as well as cooling the charge to allow greater volumetric efficiency. Carburetors had a "power valve" to accomplish this, fuel injected vehicles usually have a vacuum hose attached to the fuel pressure regulator to increase fuel pressure temporarily. A fouled O2 sensor, mass air flow sensor or manifold air pressure sensor could throw off the ratios during normal operation. I'd venture to guess that "badly tuned" implies a misfire (probably a fouled spark plug) causing an entire cylinders worth of raw gas dumped into the atmosphere. This excessive fuel will melt down the catalytic converter which exacerbates the problem.
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I agree with the other comments here. The images are beautiful, and "fractally" in some interesting ways, but they are not images of fractals per se.
Ah, I now realize you were objecting to this:

Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate.

I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant within the context of "things that have been used as a basis for communes", religion stands alone.
Yes, vulnarabilities are corrective measures.

This becomes clear when official are too safe in their seat. Power corrupts.

Nothing should be undefeatable. In this context, making a country vulnarable - to some degree - can be good.
Pretty well?
I'm not suggesting his app will do that, I'm suggesting the top 10 does that :-)
The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC):
http://www.nrdc.org/international/china-controlling-port-air...

NRDC info graphic:
http://www.nrdc.org/international/files/china-controlling-po...

Industry Tap:
http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-mo...

The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-...
I recently discovered Tmux after years of using GNU Screen. I love it. It feels much easier to use and more intuitive, easier to script. Also integration with terminal emulators such as iTerm2 on OS X or Byobu on Linux is fantastic. Tmux earned a place in my list of favorite daily used tools.
I find carbureted vehicles the most bothersome (the exhaust stinks of fuel at city speeds), so I guess enforcing emissions standards wouldn't solve the problem (because of grandfathering/exceptions).
I assumed the author took the statement "we are really, really close" and then replaced "close"with its opposite, "far". This is the sort of thing a non-native speaker would do, and I suspect he was unaware of the ambiguity caused by this. The implied idiomatic continuation '... far from the goal' or '... far along the path' is what throws native speakers, however non-native speakers simply parse the sentence the way the author intended in a much simpler way.
He would never have been sent to jail for 38 years.
These days "air pollution" means a lot of different things.
This article is talking about air quality and particles, such as soot.

This impacts mostly the local air quality and environment, whereas CO2 is a global problem and impacts the climate in ways not necessarily detectable in the local environment.
I see your point. Also, in reading through your other posts ITT, i see my response was heavy handed. I just think, in terms of the investigation of the Event, the piece was good.
absolutely. in fact jail could have been a way to gain more attention, Gandhi?
Except that it's quite literally impossible to ensure data-independent timing in Java - or, for that matter, in any language that does optimizations without a way to disable them. Yes, this includes standard-compliant C / C++, ironically enough.

JITters are especially bad for this - what is data-independent today may not be data-independent tomorrow. Or even in a couple minutes when it decides to re-optimize.

You ultimately have to dip down to assembly, or something that can be relied on to not do data-dependent optimizations, to ensure resilience against timing attacks.

JNI can work, as can inline assembly in things like C / C++, or specifying compilers. But that's just punting things to another language. And you lose portability, among other things. Or worse, you end up with something that looks like language X, and is valid code in language X, but breaks evilly if it's ever run as though it was in language X.
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Sails.js (is based on ExpressJS) is a great for creating APIs, saves a lot of time if you're doing a MVP or testing something, and you can use a package to integrate PassaportJS which will give you the ability to use OAUTH2 well integrated to the framework.

I always use Sails when I doing an MVP or a simple API.
The question here is, if it is only a temporary halt until the dust has settled. As much I read in the source, phone calls and faxes are still submitted, so it appears to me very half-hearted.

I know, that the German intelligence agency "BND" always wanted to have a more tight corporation with the NSA.
skype well known world wide. sky known only in UK. I am from europe, and only remember sky exist when MS decide change skydrive to onedrive, or when skype not allowed get trademark.
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Confusingly, the UK also uses mpg despite the fact we buy fuel in litres.
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How about a pressure differential?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway

Cross-section of pipe = available power
It's not baseless. The reason he gave is incorrect, but it's not baseless. It's a problem with the First Past the Post election style, where there is a clear imbalance between the Seats you get an the % of people who voted for you.

If you can give me a logical reason why 38% gives you anywhere close to a majority mandate, especially one that is used to pass multiple dangerous omnibus bills, then I can recommend a great career for you at the CPC.
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http://stratechery.com/2015/twitter-might/
One problem is that most fields accept that their jargon is in fact jargon that folks have to learn. Some chunk of SJ folks don't, which is dismaying because it ignores educational privilege.
People who don't help don't get to be disappointed.
Why it's 2.0? I don't see any really significant changes, or maybe I missed smth.
Ya know, I was just thinking about doing something like this just a couple of days ago, but instead I wrote a python script to get the weather from forecast.io api, then brought that into my tmux status bar.
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The main thing that I wish I could have in tmux is the ability to disable other sessions attached to the current terminal without outright detaching them. I intend to go back to that other machine at some point, I just don't want its tiny screen making my current session tiny for no reason.

Maybe this is actually possible already and I just haven't found it?