skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the safe option is to get organized and plan out who is going to chose the 6 points. That way, you know if you secretly chose the 6 points when you were supposed to get 2, you will get nothing. Then it doesn't become tragedy of commons, but rather an experiment with vandalism.

The experiment, IMO, isn't valid. In RL tragedy of commons, the selfish don't really suffer that much .. it's usually everyone else that does.
Thanks for the suggestion, we will add the links to the NIH repository for the papers that are available.

Regarding automation, the Raman spectroscopy studies was done in collaboration with a colleague at Purdue University, so at the moment, we don't have plans to extend these studies.

However, we are working on automating our workflow to streamline the set-up and analysis of our cultures. So, if you know anyone working on bio lab-related automation, we'd love an intro.
Unless the females in twitter were somehow forbidden to attend, I see no problem at all with that. Beer and beer pong sounds like a lot of fun.

Anyway - Newton's fourth law - "for every action there will be SJW overreaction". The SJW are losing a lot of credibility behaving like that.
Cognition is not "merely mechanical" by definition. If it was mechanical, there would be no special word to distinguish it from other reactions of the natural world.
I guess it's a question of whether on average YC is as good or better a post seed stage investor as the average VC who invests in YC companies. If YC is as good or better, then the pro rata is aligned with founders' interests since the founders are raising X dollars at Y valuation either way and it's just a question of which pocket the money comes from...it's still the same color.

In the universe of unicorns and rainbows, YC's participation puts the rest of a round's participants on their good behavior to reduce risk on future deal flows and the founders get a better deal. The situation in the universe with evil Spock is of course different, but it was going to turn out that way in that universe. In between a founder could probably ask YC not to participate. Since the investment is blind and YC is under scrutiny by potential founders, it may not be in YC's interest to force the issue and suffer Tweets of outrage.

The potential problem is a bad cap table and the first order issue is VC that treats that as an acceptable byproduct of a round it is leading or a company that does not have better options.
That or it's due to human error! Just like self-driving cars haha
Captagon – The Smart Drug Fuelling Syria’s Civil War (2014)
Non-coercion fails with LLVM:

"indeed there are multiple proprietary compilers and utilities built on top of LLVM—including Apple's Xcode and NVIDIA's CUDA compiler."

https://lwn.net/Articles/582697/

OpenStack is one of the biggest permissively-licensed free software projects out there:

"""
Everyone I know who is deploying OpenStack has forked. Not publicly, but they have. No one can run the mainline code, it’s a disaster, and OpenStack politics of the “Big Tent” are going to make that problem a lot worse. Because everyone has their own fork, very little code is making it back upstream.
"""

http://gigofham.com/archives/47
You could have an auction for the 6 point slots, with the proceeds being divided and distributed to the group.
An AMA over Facebook Groups? Inconceivable! :)
I guess I'm not clear on what "beyond our grasp" means to you. Does it mean that you can't even comprehend that it exists? Or does it mean that you can't wrap your mind around what it does, what its motivations are, etc?

Because, your parent seems to be saying the former (that we could comprehend that it exists, but wouldn't understand its motives, etc.).

But that's a non-statement. I don't think there's much question that we'd be able to perceive anything that our senses can detect. And, an ant can grasp that an object exists (and, for instance, that it needs to traverse it), even if it understands nothing about its purpose, who built it, etc.

So, it would seem that the only sensible intent in this statement by Musk (and the interpretation that you, but not your parent, seem to support) is that we would have a better understanding of this alien super-intelligence than an ant would of us, simply because we'd crossed some imaginary and arbitrary intelligence threshold, defined by Musk.

It's a comforting (and very human-centric) thought, but I don't think it's true. Considering "infinite intelligence", there is some point along the continuum wherein our relative intelligence to a super-intelligence is akin to an ant's to ours. So, I don't see any reason why we'd better understand the motives, etc. of such a super-intelligence than an ant would ours. To make that statement is to define the bounds of the super-intelligence based on ourselves and our own boundaries, which is to say that it involves completely circular reasoning.
I'm sorry, I assumed you're not allowed to organize. You're right, of course, at least if everyone in the group is reliable.
Excited to have Sam talking to some younger hackers today.
Firefox: per tab indicator of audio playing
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We don't have the tech for two important, related things: user-friendly, trust management tools as effective as in person; key management for various, complex scenarios. These two have so many issues that even technical people screw up. I've certainly seen a lot of good work on these. Yet, we're not there yet and getting there is worth a ton of effort by anyone who will try.

We get that, then we might integrate it with our existing technologies to implement and use it. Need the foundation first, though.
I'm pretty tired, as a romanian myself, of always pointing out how good we are at math and that NO, we're not gypsies. Something like, you know, gypsies are to Romanians what latinos are to US. Fk that! Like any nation on this earth, we have it all. From math semi-geniues, to a vast number of drunk-wife-beating-jerks.

OP was pointing out that Romanians are treated as brute work force, although there is a part of romanian imigrants that work in hospitals and IT and what not. It was not to say to Romanians are stupid or something, "like latinos".
I was going to respond to the GP that you'd likely have a spoiler who would either be upset at not getting the six points and so secretly blow it up, or demand to be one of the six-pointers by publicly threatening to do so, but if there's money involved than that "likely" turns into a "definitely".
As of a couple of weeks ago this has patches and momentum to finally be integrated into Firefox.
Productivity Hacks from Grampa
I'm really glad to see this. I don't know for sure that iron fertilization will turn out to be a good idea, but the opposition to experimenting with it baffles me. It's like people think that we can choose whether or not to engage in geoengineering. No, we can't: we're already doing it (as indeed the article points out). If we can find new interventions that counteract the effects of our existing interventions, that would be a wonderful thing.

I think we should be experimenting with both iron fertilization (to sequester carbon and combat ocean acidification) and sulfur aerosols (for cooling). Both of these mimic natural events such as volcanic eruptions; they're not unprecedented in nature.
Some useful background for the story: Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in QED.

That being said taking shots at Feynman is a public act of rebellion these days, like running up and touching the scary neighbor's house as a kid.
A common trick used by police is to phrase questions as commands.

"I'm going to search your vehicle, ok"

If you say "ok", then you just volunteered to have your car searched.
For games you could get far more readable results by far simpler means. For example, add slight randomization of vectors to an existing font.
This is what I was wondering. My theory was that they were using a camera looking at the front of the display to identify the color being shown by each spool. I think my solution is better :)
Charlie Nutter gave a great talk covering this and a lot of additional new JVM features here:

https://vimeo.com/114187541

Edit: The JNR stuff is covered around 42 minutes in.
Making such information is not going to affect any of the purported reasons for having parking restrictions it will only reduce the risk that someone will park somewhere by accident. If anything making the parking restrictions clearer and more accessible can only reduce the level of congestion since people won’t be parking somewhere they should not by accident. The only thing affected would be revenue.
A discussion about creating startup hubs [video]
That's certainly not true. The term "cognitive" could refer to a proper subset of the set of "mechanical" things. Terms for subsets are still useful.
The most violently racist content isn't found on Stormfront and VNN any more
maybe investors get discounts on services?
Women get higher quotes car repair - even when the car is the same car and the fault is the same fault.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11715972/Car-re...

> Both male and female mystery shoppers requested quotes to fix a common fault - a malfunctioning clutch on 2011 Ford Focus.

> The study found that only six per cent of garages gave the same quote to men and women, with the repair costing men an average of £571 compared to the £616 it cost women - an eight per cent increase.

> The female premium was highest in Birmingham, where women could be paying up to 31 per cent more than men for the same repair. This was closely followed by Manchester, where there was a 28 per cent premium for female drivers.

With two towns giving higher prices to male callers.
Big thanks to the Jruby team!
I think this would be more interesting if there was a way to explicitly declare the marks post-curve. In the event the distribution of marks is smoothed to any sort of typically college distribution it's entirely rational to just select 6 points and not care whether 10% of the others do or not. Selecting 2 leaves you open to a worse result on a curve, but selecting 6 is nearly risk free if the distribution of marks is precisely controlled anyway. 2 marks when the average pre-curve goes up more than 2 and the average needs to be fixed post-curve is a really crappy proposition.
The party's theme seems fine, it's not as if they're encouraging people to wear offensive costumes. Maybe they just shouldn't have called it a frat party.
I don’t know where I or anyone suggested a riot. The most effective social change comes when the people no longer passively obey unjust laws.
>The original decision is often rooted in racial profiling. //

How can you tell?

Surely the point you're making is that the real reason for pulling the person over is not the one given, how then can you establish it's "racial profiling".

I've been pulled over (UK) by police for having a stop light out, reasonable as it's a traffic violation. They asked the usual sort of questions and I got a "producer" (notice to produce various documents at a police station in the near future). How could you establish that this was because the officer was acting racist towards me?

Telling the race of a person from behind when following their car seems quite hard.

Statistics could show that more of a particular race were pulled over but that race could constitute a greater proportion of the local poor who being less able to keep their vehicles in good order are more likely to be stopped. That would create an apparent bias were there was none.
I suspect that professors aren't upset that the game theory is validated, but rather they're upset that the students haven't done the analysis and thus choose to change the game by introducing structural changes.
The Romanians that try to make a spot for themselves abroad are quite frequently unfairly disadvantaged because of these perceptions, which annoys me greatly.
MFPs can be a bit hard to deal with, but my Epson 7890 runs entirely from CUPS/GhostScript. Now, the printer itself, runs what's definitely a proprietary OS. Most of the printing problems in that line go into the printer itself. Blobs all the way down!
Soyuz rocket launch live stream
My personal uninformed opinion is that we'll start to see how much human experience and expression is driven by our brain wiring.

In other words, we will start thinking about people as if they are mere things. Complex things, but things nevertheless.
Any reason why you didn't use a camera looking at the front of the display? That way you'd only need one sensor and the ribbons wouldn't need to be instrumented in any way.
During WWII the Puyallup fairgrounds used to be an internment camp[1].

Growing up in Puyallup, we were taught what had happened. WWII -- specifically Japanese internment -- is a big part of our history curriculum.

I think you have to find a balance. On one hand, creating the bomb that ended WWII was a huge part of their lives and is a huge part of their history. I don't think you need to throw that away. But I don't think the bomb should be cheered for any reason, other than perhaps ending half of the bloodiest war we've (perhaps ever) seen.

This is something that, I think, they'll grow out of. You can only hold on to the vitriolic or blindly patriotic view of the bomb for so long, and not many of my generation hold the same beliefs that our parents and grandparents do (regarding the bomb). Sooner or later it'll just be another "thing" in the town -- a folksy sort of reference that reminds you of the 1940s -- but that's about it.

Anyway, very interesting article. Let's cleanup Hanford please.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Harmony
Not sure what you mean by "accessible", so I'll go from easiest to least easy:

Truecrypt has been audited, works on Windows, and appears to offer an encrypted file container that you can attach to a Windows drive letter.

What you could do is create the container, let DropBox (or whatever) sync the file containing the container, then perform your file operations within the container.

Depending on your needs, there's also GPG4Win, which comes recommended by the GPG project maintainers. AFAIK, GPG hasn't been subject to an extensive audit, but it is venerable, open source, and developed in the open. (Yeah, so was OpenSSL, I know. ;) )

I don't know that there's a way to make a transparently encrypted container with GPG as there is in TrueCrypt, so I suspect that you'd have to:

* Copy your encrypted files

* Decrypt them

* Edit them

* Reencrypt them

* Copy them to the sync directory.

Sounds like a bit of work to me.

If you were on Linux, you could probably use dm-crypt on a loop device, and just sync the underlying encrypted file, but -again-, I have no idea how much auditing has been done on the underlying code (and this fails your "for Windows users" requirement).

Oh, BTW, I replied to our Erlang thread. If you're interested in taking a second look at Erlang, I link to a few things in the comment that might be interesting to you.
"College Party Themed Party" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
I was wondering the exact same thing. The reality of an agency model is that to scale revenue you have to hire more worker bees. As part of that process two things happen. One, logistics become more complicated because of the additional communication overhead between people. Two, standards have to be lowered for new hires, otherwise they will quickly run out of people to hire. So even assuming that they currently have a few great product managers (and project managers) that are able to ensure projects are completed on time and to the customers satisfaction, the idea that all the skills involved could be boiled down to a simple algorithm or toolkit (to allow for massive scaling) seems all but impossible. I just don't believe that these folks have figured something out that every other agency in the world has not.
This is starting to sound a lot like Her(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/). It'll likely be the case one day.
I see it as a simple equation. I don't think it says more than that about people.

Can someone enlighten me as to why a 90% break point? Why not for example 50%? Is it because 90% introduces some level of collaboration or vice versa?

Sans collaboration or any other useful information (people I may already know in the class, etc.), I would say at best you have a 50/50 chance of a total stranger choosing the option that is better for the common good. That number is based on it being college age students. If it were the general public at large I would estimate at least 60% would choose the more personally beneficial option.

Am I just extremely pessimistic? Please give your thoughts.
The text was changed, I saw the 'Budapest' line as well.
> The experiment, IMO, isn't valid. In RL tragedy of commons, the selfish don't really suffer that much .. it's usually everyone else that does.

Actually, I'd say that increases the validity since they do it even tho they know it is more likely to have negative consequences than RL.
We had a professor in quantum optics who would quip before doing certain things (e.g. zeta function regularization) that "the following derivation is unsuitable for people with a preexisting heart condition and mathematicians".
And this is why I maintain my own music collection, in FLAC, stored on a machine I control, in my house, with ZFS and backups and scripts to generate lossy versions of any part of my collection in whatever format I choose.

My phone has plenty of space to store compressed music, my car has a usb port that I can plug a flash card into, and I have a portable wristwatch mp3 player for when I go running.

I can go anywhere I want by car, bus, train, airplane, boat, or foot, and never lose my tunes to bad reception or buggy software because my music is ALWAYS in my physical possession, with backups in a lossless format. I can even connect to my home machine from remote to stream or download if need be.

Really, what use would I ever have of these silly walled cloud or streaming services?
I'm wondering what "mastered the challenge" means. To maximize utility (naively assuming that points == utils), you want exactly 10% of the class to choose 6 points, and the rest to choose 2. Perhaps a "perfectly cooperative" class would give the larger payout to the students with the lowest grades.
We really have no idea of what the risk of hitting a positive feedback loop is with global warning. Even if it is low do we want to risk it?
Cooperative behavior is particularly difficult when the stakes are very high. In the context of climate change, increased energy costs have very real impacts on people day to day, particularly in developing countries. For this reason, it's difficult to imagine those countries would behave cooperatively (even if a figurehead signs a document promising they will). It may be that the better strategy is to have the best grades in the first instance, knowing that noone will get extra credit. That is, build a strong and resilient economy so that you are better prepared to deal with, and adapt to, the inevitable challenges associated with global climate change.
Um, but that's an example of change-class rather than redefining a class. I agree that changing the class of an instance is something you might do routinely in a production app.
You are right

However acidification is a slow process (compared to rate of plancton reproduction - of course Plankton is a generic term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton and it varies by species)

"Since pre-industrial times, the pH of the oceans has dropped from an average of 8.2 to 8.1 today. Projections of climate change estimate that by the year 2100, this number will drop further, to around 7.8"

Neutral pH is 7, so we can say even the ocean is basic and still will continue to be for some time
> That isn't a question.

"Please" implies a non-obligatory request; it can also be used as a layer of politeness over a command, but confirming the intent is not unreasonable. That police have the power to order you to exit the vehicle does not imply that any request to do so is an order.
There's something bigger going wrong there--either you're trying to sell something people don't want, you've hired a lot of the wrong people, or whatever, I don't know.

I'll just politely ask that you refrain from judging us when you don't know anything at all about our circumstances, situation, goals, etc.

That's not typical, and it's certainly not praiseworthy.

I never asked for any praise. In fact, I'll be the first to say that some aspects of my life have been downright stupid. My point was just to illustrate, through one example that I happen to be intimately familiar with, that starting a company is hard. Much, much harder than most people realize, if they haven't been through it.

As for that "indefinite free money for past work," again, you're free to say you want that, and right now it's certainly yours to try and put into a contract. I don't agree that it's moral or right or deserved, no matter how many 100 hour weeks you work.

But it's not "indefinite free money" anyway. It's "a percentage of the profits this company might make, relative to my ownership stake". The thing is, the company isn't guaranteed to make any certain amount of profit, or even any at all. At any time, things could take a downward turn, and any profit (and my cut thereof) could dry up. That's back to one of the main reasons that founders get a larger share, because they take on more risk... but you have to realize, there's no point where that risk ends. As long as a substantial portion of your income is tied to your company, whether your actively working or not, it's at risk. So it's not necessarily the cushy "sit back and enjoy your plunder" scenario you seem to be envisioning.
Router-level blocklists/firewalling are the most common, but there are other ways. Think of how companies sanely implement their internal web access filters.
Hidden Bias: When Algorithms Discriminate
I'm baffled and terrified by the idea that reasonably intelligent people think this. I think that you haven't grokked the scope of the issue at all, and I'm not sure how to convince you.

I'm guessing that you can't imagine what a super intelligence would actually be like, so you imagine the most smart thing you can think of, a famous physicist, and then imagine they are evil or amoral. You're thinking on the wrong order of magnitude.

Maybe, if you're willing, you could try steelmanning the argument that a superintelligence would basically have super powers. What would your steelman look like?
Secure how? It's always been opaque and subject to the whims of a central compaby and a centralized architecture?
Does anyone know if there is additional information on the precision of the measurements? Is the ocean ph going from 8.16 (8.2) to 8.14 (8.1) in this article or is it more dramatic than that? I wasn't able to access the full study because of the pay-wall.
two drivers with what money to pay them?
No, the safe option is to do well in the class and thus not give a fuck about a measly 2 or 6 points on one (admittedly important) paper.

I've had teachers offer various concepts like this over the years. One gave out simple vouchers for various points as awards for "fun" "games". I asked him if I applied ten points toward a 97/100 exam, would it cap at 100 or go to 107? He told me to sell the voucher to someone who needed it more.

Best lesson I ever got.
Pretty cool features with real world application! Bring it to the Play store and the App Store when ready. Would make it so much more usable if some more "sharing" features were also introduced. The UI needs a little refinement to increase the ease of use, as the comments here suggest.
You won't need to imagine that, you can look around you and see it every day, we're heading there pretty rapidly only via a slightly different path than the one that you are suggesting.
The "bailout" was a payoff for IP infringement and was small potatoes, something like $150 million.