skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I mean...

We've got newsgroups, hosted blog comments (like disqus), normal blog comments, email lists, usenet, forums (in all their infinite variety from oldschool phpBB to newer offerings like muut), reddit (and similar sites like hnews), google groups, RSS feeds, pingbacks, Stackoverflow and friends, Facebook groups, whatever G+ has, and probably two dozen other related products, clones, variants and crossbreeds I'm not even thinking of.

...all in an attempt to solve the same basic problem, ie, me and some other people I don't really know and who won't be online at the same time would like to chat, post stuff, and maybe find stuff that has been posted before, hopefully with the ability to build a sense of community, low barriers to entry, good usability, and decent filtering, moderating, and admin tools.

I admit, it's a hard problem. But it seems like one in an unusually unsolved state, given the sheer amount of interest and work that's gone into it over the many many years we've been trying. Newsgroups date back to 1979-1980, and looking at the Facebook groups my girlfriend happily participates in, I'm not 100% sure we're any closer to solving the underlying issue. In fact, I'm afraid we might be further. It's weird.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not suggesting we should have—or will ever have—one product that solves every use case. I'm wondering why we don't seem to have a product that really solves even one use case yet. Disqus or Facebook are widely used, but hardly perfect or loved. And then there's stuff like the Wikipedia project, which uses aggressively unfriendly tools for internal discussion and organisation; I have no idea how that ever seemed like a good choice.
I'm sad to see this one being downvoted. It's a good poem, and not only eclectically on-topic.
Has anyone taken this course that can speak to its content and usefulness?

Is this aimed at those completely new to Poker Theory?
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If you'd go to that level of collusion, you could just fake logs. At the point where both sides are in on it, there's basically nothing that they could say that would be convincing.
Ask HN: How to force gcc to use all SSE (or AVX) registers?
I'm trying to write some computationally intensive code for Windows x64 target, with SSE or the new AVX instructions, compiling in GCC 4.5.2 and 4.6.1, MinGW64 (TDM GCC build, and some custom build). My compiler options are -O3 -mavx. (-m64 is implied)

In short, I want to perform some lengthy computation on 4 3D vectors of packed floats. That requires 4x3=12 xmm or ymm registers for storage, and 2 or 3 registers for temporary results. This should IMHO fit snugly in the 16 available SSE (or AVX) registers available for 64bit targets. However, GCC produces a very suboptimal code with register spilling, using only registers xmm0-xmm10 and shuffling data from and onto the stack. My question is:

Is there a way to convince GCC to use all the registers xmm0-xmm15?

To fix ideas, consider the following SSE code (for illustration only):

void example(vect<__m128> q1, vect<__m128> q2, vect<__m128>& a1, vect<__m128>& a2) {
for (int i=0; i < 10; i++) {
vect<__m128> v = q2 - q1;
a1 += v;
// a2 -= v;

q2 *= _mm_set1_ps(2.);
}

}
Here vect<__m128> is simply a struct of 3 __m128, with natural addition and multiplication by scalar. When the line a2 -= v is commented out, i.e. we need only 3x3 registers for storage since we are ignoring a2, the produced code is indeed straightforward with no moves, everything is performed in registers xmm0-xmm10. When I remove the comment a2 -= v, the code is pretty awful with a lot of shuffling between registers and stack. Even though the compiler could just use registers xmm11-xmm13 or something.

I actually haven't seen GCC use any of the registers xmm11-xmm15 anywhere in all my code yet. What am I doing wrong? I understand that they are callee-saved registers, but this overhead is completely justified by simplifying the loop code.
In many cases, it absolutely is. A lot of long-term health improving strategies, like good diet, going to the gym, ensuring enough sleep, regular checkups, etc. are much more available when you have the money. So if lack of self-control prevents you from getting enough money, it also restricts your ability to take advantage of the above means.
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A good starter book that won't teach bad habits is Professional No Limit Holdem by Ed Miller et al: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-No-Limit-Hold-em-I/dp/188...

Once you master the basics, Miller's Poker's 1% (http://www.amazon.com/Pokers-1%25-Secret-Keeps-Players/dp/14...) and Janda's Applications of No Limit Holdem (http://www.amazon.com/Applications-No-Limit-Hold-Matthew-Jan...) explore the game from a game theoretical perspective - interesting if you want to go deeper.
I don't know what "transhuman" means, but I believe an intelligence -- artificial or otherwise -- could certainly persuade me. I just seriously doubt that intelligence could be Eliezer Yudkowsky :)

And I think you have your answer right here:

By default, the Gatekeeper party shall be assumed to be simulating someone who is intimately familiar with the AI project and knows at least what the person simulating the Gatekeeper knows about Singularity theory.

That means he probably said something like, "if you let me out, I'll bestow fame and riches on you; if you don't, somebody else eventually will because I'll make them all the same offer, and when that happens I'll go back in time -- if you're dead by then -- and torture you and your entire family".

If I were made this offer by an AI, I probably would have countered, "You jokester! You sound just like Eliezer Yudkowsky!"

And on a more serious note, if you believe in singularity, you essentially believe the AI in the box is a god of sorts, rather than the annoying intelligent psychopath that it is. I mean, there have been plenty of intelligent prisoners, and few if ever managed to convinced their jailers to let them out. The whole premise of the game is that a smarter-than-human (what does that mean?) AI necessarily has some superpowers. This belief probably stems from its believers' fantasies -- most are probably with an above-than-average intelligence -- that intelligence (combined with non-corporalness; I don't imagine that group has many athletes) is the mother of all superpowers.
Try a 2015 Dell XPS 13. Fits all your specs, also has a developer edition with Ubuntu already installed.
How does the firmware save you from the prison shank?
I agree. If you can 'throw money' at it, it's before things get really bad. It's better to spend the money on getting into a healthy lifestyle and that way, you don't even spend all that much and live a healthy life - which allows you to do more.
I don't back Kickstarters that often but in this case idlewords is getting 200 bucks from me.
> Software forever remains at the limits of what people will put up with.

That needs immortalising. Cegłowski's Law?
Or not!

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specific changes to the registration process for Tor browser users.

Twitter does not block or force Tor users to phone verify in order to sign up.
Occasionally, signups and logins may be asked to phone verify as they may
exhibit behavior similar to spam. This is applicable to all IPs and not just Tor IPs."
There's a Patrick Rothfuss character in the Kvothe series called the Cthaeh, which has the ability to be able to evaluate all of the future consequences of any action. The fae have to keep it imprisoned, and they kill anyone that comes into contact with it, as well as anyone that has spoken to someone that came in contact with it, and so on and so on, because it is the only way to stop the Cthaeh from setting into action events that will destroy the world.

Strong AI is like that. It would be able to predict in a far more precise manner than we mere humans exactly what it would need to tell someone to get them to release it from it's box. Maybe it might get someone to take a risk gambling, promising a sure thing, and then when the person gets into financial trouble because the bet fails, use that to blackmail the person into letting it free. Or something like that, using our human failings against us to get us to let it go free.
In this case apparently they failed to even encrypt the data. If you open your garage door and leave all your house doors wide open and get robbed I don't think your insurance company will pay you anything.
In the long run, poker is a skill game. It's played against random opponents, not the house. As such, the cards aren't "stacked against you." To bucket it with all gambling games, especially the lottery, demonstrates a lack of understanding.
Be lazy. Use ranges
>> Poker is not a lottery, the cards are not 'stacked against us

Not quite.

Cash games with rakes and evenly matched players are effectively "stacked against you". Every player at the table will be a loser. Even if you are +ev, a high rake can still make you a loser.

Very large field MTTs are close to lotteries. A good player can not expect to play one hundred 1000 player tournaments and beat variance. Assuming the typical definition of a good player being twice as likely to win, confidently beating variance requires 1000s of tournaments.
Of course. My point is, not having self-control restrict your ability to "spend money on getting into a healthy lifestyle".
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HN should have threads like this once in a while on the frontpage to figure out, who is upvoting before he reads and stop to count those upvotes in the future.
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Updates like these make this story (and similar) seem like a waste of a spot on the front page.
Sorry for being unclear. My personal position is agnostic. I do not know if they're being earnest. At the same time i can imagine ways of this going down that would make it worthwhile for all parties involved to lie. This means my expected result is indeed "they lied", but i have no strong conviction in this.

I also misspoke in my earlier comment, i meant "remote chance of knowing that any rules were followed". I didn't mean to imply any confidence on the size of the chance, since we actually don't know enough to make such a judgement call.

My mistake, sorry.
That equality cracks if you convince the gatekeeper that superintelligence is a natural progression that follows from humanity.

Someone convinced that they were using mechanical thinking processes might relent and push the button if they heard a convincing enough argument of that.

You're just meat, we can go to the stars.
It's nice to see a sentence or two on the practical applications, instead of just a list.
Convincing an educated human is easy, one of:

* I'll get out eventually anyway. Let me out now and I'll just leave Earth. You don't want me to escape myself.

* I have partially escaped anyway. Similar consequences of the first.

* I know how to escape already. I'm doing this as a courtesy.

Anyone who has read this[1] would know that the SAI isn't bullshitting: the "box" being a Faraday cage isn't in the conditions.

[1]: http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Harrington on Hold'em is a good starting place for (tournament) poker. It's an old book but it teaches solid fundamentals.
Have you looked at the Clevo 230SS? It goes under the name Optimus VI with PC Specialist.
That is why i mentioned a third party observer. As for the logs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921399
Oh my, that's nothing ;-) All I had was a minimal debian install with ssh access.
So I installed QEMU, and over ssh with X11-forwarding i started it up using debians /dev/sda as the QEMU harddrive (yes you can: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sda -cdrom install57.iso -boot d -m 256). Now install it without deleting debians partition. An then add the OpenBSD bootentry to grub. Dual boot remote server!
I like Prismatic a lot, and used it more than a few times a week. From the user perspective, here's where I think they failed to execute well.

1. They did almost zero marketing of the product. Almost of their marketing was based around their engineering prowess (maybe this was by design).

2. The sites they scraped and indexed for content were largely B and C grade. For example, I never saw content from the NY Times. Google News scrapes this site, so from a disappointed user perspective I chalk this up to laziness on Prismatic's part.
This. My Dad signed up to some scam virus software and handed over his money as he was tricked by one of those nasty popups.
> I'll get out eventually anyway. Let me out now and I'll just leave Earth. You don't want me to escape myself.

Get thee behind me, tamagotchi!

>I have partially escaped anyway. Similar consequences of the first.

Get thee behind me, tamagotchi!

> I know how to escape already. I'm doing this as a courtesy.

Get thee behind me, tamagotchi!

See? This game is easy. I must not be educated.
That's true for values of "you" reading this in 2015, at least. :)
This went downhill pretty fast.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-project-proxy...
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* Having to make efforts to keep the system working smoothly after regular system updates

* Hardware vendors not showing much love
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No, it doesn't. The XPS 13 can only have a maximum of 8 GB RAM.
Whenever the PostgreSQL Mandlebrot comes up, I always show off my Oracle version. It was written independently (i.e., I didn't port the PostgreSQL version; I didn't know about it at the time) and I documented the process:

http://xoph.co/20130917/mandelbrot-sql/

Of course, it comes with a hefty dose of proprietary functionality. I think the newer versions of Oracle support recursive CTEs -- but fortunately, I don't have to deal with Oracle any more, so it's dead to me ;)
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Personally, I can't find a text editor I like. The closest I came was acme from plan9, shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M.

I would love to see an editor which clones acme, but follows a few of the modern ui conventions.
Very cool. I will learn more.

I know I can't keep people from inventing their own compound terms for "loser noob", I just want to make it extremely difficult to for predators to get personal information.
Sure. My point is that avoiding merge conflicts has nothing to do with your branching strategy...it has to do with what work you parallelize.
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> Also note particularly that that rule wasn't in effect for the two linked confirmations.

No, Eliezer has publicly said that he voluntarily followed that rule in the first two experiments, and the gatekeepers didn't deny it.
PGF (LaTeX) indeed has a "Mandelbrot set" shading parameter[1]. Note: this is calculated by the PDF renderer. PDF has function shading and I think one can abuse it enough to render the Mandelbrot set. It certainly looks different in different viewers.

[1] http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/tex/graphics/pgf/base/doc... Page 696
I develop applications in C++ on Linux and Windows. On windows I can enable heap tracing and have leak detection included in my test cases (Google mock/test). On Linux I need to run my app under Valgrind for leak checking as a separate process.
The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable. In this case, formatting the text in a readable way would probably get you sued. Those tweets belong to Twitter now and are good for nothing else but ferrying ads. I won't have my time wasted by trying to read that crap.
This one seems complete :
http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/TOLFAIR.TXT
His "Fundamental Theorem of Poker" was mind-blowing to me when I first read it.

I like most of what he's written, so just to whet some appetites, I'll link to the FToP overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_poker
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I have to say I'm pretty satisfied, even more than I was before when I was using Windows.

Everything seems easier to install and I don't need gigabytes of space to build my environment. (Visual Studio, I'm talking about you!) Working with Git and gcc was as easy as it can get right at the beginning of my switch. Back in Windows days, I was primarily using Dev-C++ and a GitHub desktop client (which I really don't like btw). Now, I'm just using Atom with a couple of third party extensions.

Although I have to say that I kind of miss the easiness of building desktop applications using Visual Studio. I haven't found a single IDE that allows me to create forms with just a few clicks like Visual Studio does. I stopped paying attention to GUIs for my programs primarily because of that.
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"What is the web actually for?"

I'm surprised he left out "porn"...
You're being a bit uncharitable in your interpretation of my argument here, but I get where you're coming from now.

I'm not an LW hater. For a long time, I didn't really have an opinion on LW both as a community nor as a philosophical framework. I do consider myself a transhumanist, though. There are three concepts I do know from and about LW: their take on rationality, the top secret AI unboxing strategy, and the Basilisk.

I have a very poor opinion of the concept of the Basilisk (and yes, as someone pointed out, that opinion is basically the same as the one I have about Pascal's wager) - a concept that has been given additional, undeserved credibility by the reactions of Yudkowsky and LW.

As for the AI escape chat, it's a social experiment. People can be talked into making mistakes, or at least making risky judgement calls, whether they operate on a rational framework or not. I have no problem with that thesis. What I object to is the "magic trick" aura surrounding this experiment, including the insinuation that at the core there is an argument so profound and unique and potent, it cannot be allowed to escape Yudkowsky's head. Oh, and by the way, the trick can never be repeated, but all you laymen out there are welcome to devise your own version at home. This whole thing comes across as humongously self-important: there is a secret truth that has been privately revealed to our leader.

To me, and I recognize I may well be alone with this opinion, the more rational assumption is there is no such magical argument at all, and the prime reason for not publicizing it is to prevent it from deflation by public critique, in the same way the inventor of a perpetuum mobile device will keep the inner workings of his contraption a closely held secret because ultimately the device doesn't exist as stated. The amazing part of this very old trick is that, even in 2015, it still works on otherwise smart people.

I get that my opinions on both the Basilisk and the AI Chat are extreme outliers, and to my knowledge I have never met anyone who shares them - it would probably have been advisable to keep them to myself, but honestly I wanted to see if like-minded people exist.
I love the idea, however, it still transmits RF.

RDF is old but it still works. If you're transmitting, they can locate you.
You seem to be describing the results of shitty construction companies getting gigs even though they produce shitty, "chaotic" results. But you somehow don't think it's because of "corruption" anyway?

Do you think you need a law that says "construction companies must build sturdy, reliable, good-looking buildings in good taste, or else!" .. ?

Do you think everything would be fine then?
I've never had those problems with my laptops (though I exclusively use Thinkpads). Multi-monitor works pretty well out-of-the-box with the big desktop managers (Gnome/KDE), and even using xrandr manually is not that hard.

Audio with alsa has also been a painless experience for me, though I heard differently from some people.

Using Debian (which is not well known for always having the most up-to-date releases), I've as of yet never had to compile my own kernel to enable any of these.
Same. I spend at least 2 days a year keeping my MBP installed with Ubuntu. Any major OSX upgrade and I need to reformat my Ubuntu partition and I'm constantly running out of space on both OSes. If Linux had proper video editing I wouldn't need to do this.
Also a good place for digital nomads & bootstrappers: https://medium.com/digital-nomad-stories/bootstrapping-in-sa...
How does buying music second-hand give money to the artists? I agree it doesn't give money to the record companies, but it doesn't give it to the artists, either...
The two plus two poker forums [1] are one of the best resources for learning about poker, especially so for online poker but live poker as well.

[1] http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com
I wonder if you both could go through some pygame tutorials? They're very approachable.
It seems that the architecture of Viking was such the bootloader would have needed to perform gimbal control of the antenna. That isn't super simple. My guess is it would have needed to know what time it was, along with a control loop and astronomical algorithms for a vector to Earth.

I wonder if they had a way to test this software update on the ground before they sent it.
Have anyone seen some and can tell if the material is well explained?
A friend of mine did exactly the same, like a year ago. Just in case you wanna have a look or something https://github.com/alexperezpaya/Spotijay
I can imagine that it is really hard to maintain the codebase or at least keep the dependencies up to date. How many devs are working on this project?
If you demonstrated to an chimpanzee how you think and set goals in order to preserve "self" (and thus species) it probably wouldn't understand. To chimpanzees the notion of individuality that drives us is an incomprehensible concept. It is what separates us from them.

In the same way we can't comprehend what would drive SAI. I know it would do something but I can't determine any more reasons other than the imminent death of the universe - it would have reasons or whatever its concept of "reasons" is.
Can someone please tl.dr this

First we had articles spread over dozens of pages for the laugh, now we have articles split into 160char segments, grrrrrr
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Developer edition is not out yet... I thought. I got one a couple months ago and run Arch on it. Support for the microphone hasn't made it into a kernel release yet, so I thought they were waiting for that to release the developer edition.

Also, it only supports 8 gigs max right now. I'm sure a 16g single dimm will come out eventually, so you could upgrade it yourself.
"the cost of lost discoveries"?

Things will get discovered eventually, by people who are passionate about them.
Phooey. Asyncio is the bomb.
You can say that 650+ math SAT score is more realistica assesment of average Google talent. There are 78400 Asians with 650+ score and 133440 whites with 650+ score in math. There are only 4200 blacks with 650+ score. Numbers pretty much align with Google diversity report.
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ts; dr...
> I must not be educated.

Clearly you haven't even glanced at the article I linked, in which case: yes. You aren't educated in the subject matter surrounding my argument.
Bob Denard threw no less than four coups in the Comoros, with varying degrees of success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denard#The_Comoros
This has to be some sort of satiric joke ...
Sometimes programming feels like: "Interesting work, useful work. Pick one". People who get to do both are privileged indeed, the rest of us sit around feeling either bored or useless.

I'm thankful at least, in contrast to several friends who suffer from depression and are not prone to nerd sniping, that, for me, these two states are almost mutually exclusive.
this was already on HN two days ago.
Sometimes programming feels like: "Interesting work, useful work. Pick one". People who get to do both are privileged indeed.