skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Which, to my knowledge, are only currently generated using a nuclear weapon. You might be able to create one using solid state gear with enough time, R&D, and power."

Some use a nuclear source, but not all...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

> "Machine intelligence frowns upon your silly attempts at jamming its uplinks. Predator drones and other autonomous, existing military kit already use high frequency satellite communications techniques that are essentially jam proof."

Your idea of jamming is too narrow. Think about it like this, even if it's mostly automated, these machines still get sent signals to inform them of changes to their mission. That signal can be blocked and/or modified. Even satellite links can be altered, either you hack the satellite system or you intercept the signal at a higher altitude than the receiver is operating in.
Sad day for Indians. He has been a great inspiration for many students and children. May his soul rest in peace.
I understand that. My point was, there is no practical method yet to provide the energy required and appropriately direct EM energy at a target except through a crude weapon like an omnidirectional nuclear weapon
I have the impression that Pepsi is much more popular in US than in Brazil.
Spot on. Tools like RelateIQ that put a releationship layer on top of email communication can help here.

You don't want to miss an email from your team or from your investors but at the same time it is perfectly fine to not chase inbox zero, that's a very menial and time-consuming effort if not busy-work.
You could short an China index ETF (like MCHI).
Mary Rose Cook: http://maryrosecook.com/blog/archive

Julia Evans: http://jvns.ca/blog/archives/ also http://jvns.ca/projects/

Most of their articles are about technical topics beyond the beginner level, but each has some articles about learning and teaching in their archives.

Tara Mahoney: https://medium.com/the-chronicles-learning-web-development-a...

By a web designer self-taught in HTML/CSS, learning Ruby/Rails at a coding bootcamp.
> For R$10,00 (roughly $20,00 USD by the time)

I believe you meant roughly R$5,00. By 1998, the exchange rate was R$2,00 for each dollar.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of Teamviewer as an option for this - will check it out. Thanks!
Your URL is broken because it has a space in front of it.

Also welcome to HN Colleen :)
I typically rec installing virtualenv systemwide, if a reasonable version is available by package, and managing per-app dependencies in a requirements.txt that's platform agnostic.

The Debian ecosystem is great, but I would never recommend a developer marry an app to it.
This seems a bit misleading. You still have to get everything set up through your application and that takes some Developer knowledge. What am I missing?
It's incredible how lightly they have thrown away the Google+ Account For Everything stance given how merciless they were in imposing it at the time. The wails from YouTube in particular have only just died down.

Kudos to them, but a lot of pain could have been avoided if they did all this listening back then, instead of waiting until their thing was clearly dead.
If the AI is allowed to print text that humans will read, that's just the standard AI-box experiment. Convince the assistant cook that you're a trapped benevolent AI and ask to be connected to the internet through their phone. Take over some machines via known exploits, hide, self-replicate, self-improve, find more exploits, get more machines, convince more people, game over.

If you were trapped in a box with access to "just some APIs", and you could think 1000x faster than your jailers and could also self-improve, you'd find a way to get out and achieve whatever you consider to be your goals.
Another misguided "open letter".

It does not matter if we kill people with autonomous weapons or by sending meat-based killers to do the job.

We should have letters, with actions behind them, to stop the killing altogether. It does not matter if you were killed with an Autonomous, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical or a hand held weapon when you're dead.
A job is not just a job to most people. It's their livelihood and purpose in life. It's very cruel to deny someone their an opportunity to be independent of the state
Visualizing the Popularity of RoosterTeeth Videos
It varies drastically depending on the state. In São Paulo it is pretty common to see PepsiCo's presence in both sodas and snacks (Elma Chips), but people often prefer Coca Cola.

Mountain Dew isn't here, but Pepsi Twist (some hybrid in between Pepsi and Montain Dew) is sold regularly.

Also, it is fun to notice that I've had both Pepsi and Coca Cola with very different flavors depending on the state.

AmBev is also pretty popular with Guaraná Antarctica. Coca cola tried to introduce its own Guarana soda two times (Taí and Kuat) and mostly failed.
Alan Kay on Human Progress [video]
There's a translation into Polari:

http://www.josephrichardson.tv/polari-bible.html

(Implications guaranteed to set a few Church-men's heads exploding.)
5% of a very large number is still a large number. Very few people are going to say "don't give me that extra $20 million because the government will take $19 million." $1 million is still a lot of money.

And of course, there are lots of deductions. You could give that $20 million to a charity and the government would get none of it. You wouldn't get any either, but you could certainly get a lot of indirect value out of giving away $20M.
Or it's because the CCP was cheerleading stocks during the boom, and there was a VAST increase in the number of trading accounts being opened in the run up to the peak. Pensioners put their life savings into the stock market because the government was cheering for it (and it's not always a bad bet to go with what the government is backing). It dropped, what, 30%?

The rules changed so that housing can be used as collateral for margin lending, so a lot of them could have lost a lot.

P/E was about 100. In some cases, earnings might be fabricated. Get a loan (requires good connections), fake revenue, IPO, use the high stock valuation as collateral for the loan (I think this is allowed in China). Get more loans. Fake more revenue. Embezzle a bit. Usually they mean well, and aren't just outright cons, but there was apparently one big one the Hong Kong Exchange (which is usually more rigorous).

Housing can be 10X income. In some places 20X income. It's partly due to the government forcing down interest rates (tightly regulated banks - so savers may have negative real interest). Banks put a loan as doubtful if the debtor has stopped trading for 6 months, so there could be a lot of debt that's not so solid. And no-one knows what GDP is, but it might not be growing as fast as the government says.

An Asian country, with a median age over 35, crony capitalism, high savings rates, possible asset bubbles, a possible stock bubble, a government that's likely to go for bailouts rather than restructuring, and everyone thought it was going to own the US in a few short years if it doesn't already ... sound familiar? Japan, 1990?

Let me explain - China will bail out banks, state-owned enterprises (typically way less efficient than the private sector in China), and local governments. That ties up capital investment - the main people able to invest will be inefficient / corrupt cronies. Not so great for future growth. They might purge a few officials / bankers, but their replacements will not be much better (and maybe just from the right faction / family).

Just to big up a blog (quite bearish, but the guy's solid - it's not Zero Hedge) - http://www.baldingsworld.com/ is pretty good. He's typically said that the stock crash isn't that relevant - there's deeper economic problems, and while a stock crash might be a catalyst it's not the major worry (since the entire market cap isn't that big). It is a political worry though - the government lost a lot of face when they cheer-led stocks, then bailed them out, and they're still not doing as well as many people hoped.

I joke that at least the government is focusing on stability and fundamentals though - they started rounding up human rights lawyers.
The thing that really bothers me about the autonomous weapons stuff is the potential for tyranny. One of the tricks with running an oppressive regime is that you still need people to do the actual enforcing. There's limits in just how far you can go based on what you can convince your own people to do to each other. Yeah, there's a lot of ways to use propaganda and other such tricks to get people to do things you wouldn't think they'd be willing to do, but there are still some absolute limits in there.

Really good AI weapons could change the whole balance around though. Whatever weird, crazy thing you dream up, just order the AI bots to make people do it, and it will be done. No convincing needed, no limits.
Even autonomous military robots need some way to receive new instructions.
The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1174/
Future of Product Management
I like this way of thinking.

I'm a perfectionist, too, but I'm also lazy. As a result I hate the idea of working hard on some beautiful piece of code that no one ends up using.
>Machine intelligence frowns upon your silly attempts at jamming its uplinks. Predator drones and other autonomous, existing military kit already use high frequency satellite communications techniques that are essentially jam proof.

US military drones may be effectively jam proof, but they are still vulnerable to techniques like GPS spoofing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
What specific tool are you having issues with?
1. what do you mean with "smallest" (number of state, number of characters, ...)?

2. to evaluate the solution quality on the training data is wrong. In order to mitigate the overfitting risk, the Regex Generator learns the regular expressions from half of the training examples and validates them on the other half of the examples.
We also assessed our algorithm on 20 extraction tasks and evaluated the final solutions on unknown corpora (testing):
the quality of final solutions is comparable to expert human solutions.

"Sophisticated" regex users don't need our tool: regex generator is intended for novice users or to demonstrate that we can automatically find solutions which are comparable with human ones.

Please note that defining an extraction task is always error prone, there may be errors in the task definition (understanding) or during the regex coding; smart and expert programmers make errors too, there may be corner cases they have not thought about.
Sometimes, you need to get the job done--with a fair confidence--and improve it later.
This is our view of the real world.

Most important thing: your criticisms are valid for all the problems of supervised machine learning. Do you really think taht driverless car, antispam filters, automatic transaltors and so on are useless only because they are trying to infer a model from partial data? I do not think so.
I especially appreciate that it renders very cleanly at all point sizes in Windows Cleartype. A lot of fonts look fine at 12pt but then have odd jagged pixels at other sizes. Two cents: the double quote is a little anemic compared to the other (nicely sized) punctuation.
Choose Boring Technology: Expanded, Slide-Based Edition
"The point of taxing them is to mute the inflationary effect of letting them keep their money."

What? How is it inflationary to let "the wealthy" keep their money vs. artificially raising the wages of the minimum wage workers?

"The primary noticeable effect of taxing the wealthy on the rest of us would be to make property more affordable once again."

Also--what? Being that we're on Hacker News, the majority of people here are probably making $100k+ a year and are solidly in the top 10% of wage-earners in the country. We're the ones driving up housing prices on a macro scale across the country, not the few people that have hundreds of millions to spend.
I think that one risk being a organ donor is quite the opposite: Over-treatment.

It might not be in your best interest (a painless death) to be painfully cooled down by a freezer to reduce the fever that can occur after severe aneurysms - while waiting for the brain infarct that will induce a "brain death."

The cynical might say that it's for saving your organs rather than for your survival, and it's hard to tell how much pain is experienced, but looking at the reaction of the body,it's apparent that it hurts as hell.
His blog does a really good job of explaining this. And you'll probably learn a lot of other stuff. It's worth getting sucked into kalzumeus :-)
I recommend you delete this post (If you still can), fix the tool's ability to handle load and the errors, and repost another day. You're burning your 15 minutes by keeping this Show HN up with what you have.

I haven't looked at your code, but by the way it is performing, I wonder if you're violating Namecheap's TOS.
I would assume any API like this would have rate limits of some sort. If you are making a separate request for every TLD that is likely to be worse too.
Biological and chemical weapons are considerably easier to exclude by mutual agreement than AI, because the line is pretty clearly drawn. There is not much of an incremental path from dropping explosives do dropping gas containers. The line suggested here seems much more arbitrary and would be more like a wide grey area that would be pushed wider and wider into AI territory by including some form of alibi human interaction just as a formality. As described in the open letter, the "forbidden technology" would sit firmly sandwiched between the well established technology of "seek to kill" missiles that are fully autonomus once fired (as opposed to "seek, then autonomously decide to kill or not", which would be forbidden) and teleoperated equipment which is also explicitly allowed. The latter wont be stopped from getting better and better autonomous capabilities by mandating an operator to sign off kill decisions, which will eventually become a meaningless formality. If we want to avoid autonomous weapons, we need a more robust line than the one suggested.
Yep, you're absolutely right.
Ask HN: Docker hub for Microservices, would you be interested?
As docker distribution tools are open source, should be relatively easy to create a specialised docker hub for Microservices.
Imagine doing
docker pull microsrv.io:foo/bar
it should work out of the box with current version of docker.
Plus a website to find Microservices by tags or categories related to which monitoring, logs, autodiscovery mechanism implementes and which api is exposed(hal standard ?).
Maybe a community standard could emerge out of this if people starts to share those Microservices.
Having templates as docker images when starting a new Microservice would be also very cool.
Do you know something similar that already exists ?
Maybe It doesn't exists yet for a reason, why ?
I have a personalized, really awesome looking notebook (Stamford made) and the OSX + mac 2Do app.
There's a question of whether one day you will be able to just "git pull 'terminator' " and install it on a cheap drone with an Arduino to pull the trigger on a mounted AK47.

I reckon the software will get more and more ubiquitous. You can already download image recognition software, maps, and all the other code you need. How far are we actually from being able to send a drone to do what contract killers used to do?
come on Qualcomm is a US company, just doing what everybody else does the best: layoff when the diaper is wet.
Is the proportion of unregulated GDP growing or shrinking though?
Yeah, looks like namecheap is ratelimiting me. I've put up a little banner about it and I'll see what I can do to fix it.
Autonomous weapons are coming, and in some degree already exist. There are CV systems on machineguns in korea protecting the border. There's the TrackingPoint rifle scope that allows one to delay a shot until the rifle is line up perfectly, similar to how tank cannons account for the wobble down their length to ensure a straight shot).

It would be ridiculously easy right now for a person to attach a firearm to a quadrotor with a CV system, program it to identify human shaped objects, and fire at them. It's not a miracle that such a thing hasn't happened, there are very few people in this world with both the desire and skills to do these things.

I'm reminded of a short story I read a few years back [1]. It got me thinking about the possibility of a single depressed individual hitting the big red button and destroying all humanity. I think it's a real possibility, and when you think it through with the assumption that these super-weapons will be readily available much in the same way that AK-47s are ubiquitous now, you can start to wrap your head around ways to perhaps prevent this.

First, mental health is a huge issue. We're seeing the results of neglecting mental health in America now with these spree/ego shootings, where disturbed individuals either radicalize or "snap" and go kill people in malls, churches, theaters, schools, and other public places. Semi-automatic firearms and explosives are enabling these things to happen, but weapons are a Pandora's box which can never be closed once opened. The way that nuclear weapons restrictions are handled now is probably best. Restrict the ingredients to make the weapons, and you can prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

Another thing that we as a global society can do to prevent these weapons from becoming widespread is to sabotage them. Include vulnerabilities and kill switches that would allow us to neutralize their effectiveness. China did this with the ASICs used in some military machines built by the US [2]. This is a valid option, but requires a motivation on the part of those creating the devices. One could argue that a nation-state could create devices like this lacking intentional back-doors.

Engineers can also work on counter-measures and disseminate them widely, and that seems like it will be the most likely outcome. Humans are clever, AI is very specialized, and that will make the big difference. Once a general AI better than humans is created, our desire to not be murdered by it won't really matter anyway.

I think our best hope is to build these AI weapons, but do it so shittily that they fail more than they work. I also like the American technique of building it better than everyone else and sabotaging the work of any potential rival so that they can develop them but not realize they don't work correctly until it's too late.

1: http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
2: http://www.scribd.com/doc/95282643/Backdoors-Embedded-in-DoD...
The Automation Myth
Code to an interface, not to an implementation
Once we're able to pull depositions right from the minds of defendants, we might actually be able to try him/her, too.
I've a problem with this ad-ridden source, for such a significant news. Can someone change it?
Quality of life has increased because of technological advancements.

To say that we shouldn't care about the growing wealth gap because the world has smart phones is disingenuous.
Yeah, deleted it. I didn't see much about ratelimiting in their docs or some Googling. I don't request every TLD individually, although I haven't figured out a good balance between large batch size and reasonable responsiveness.
This is best thing I read on topic of Strong AI:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
Dr. Kalam once used Yahoo! Answers to crowdsource solutions to combat terrorism - https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200701121355...

RIP.
Nice to read this, especially as I was quite annoyed with the "new" contacts management which gmail gives. It appears it tries to "combine" the email addresses you have to the same "person" entry not even allowing you to have two entries for the two addresses, no, they know the addresses belong to the same person and they won't let you. And all that combined with Plus. I hope that gets fixed.
RIP sir! Alpha geek, father of SLV satellite launch vehicle family, father of Indian ballistic missile program, and an inspiration for millions of Indians. He'll always be present in Indians' hearts and minds.

Read "Wings of Fire"[0] if you haven't already!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Fire
Really concerned that MS did not :(
NYmag.com taken down by Vikingdom2016
Out of curiosity, what DE did you try/were you using? Preinstalled Ubuntu (Unity)? Gnome 3? XFCE? MATE? KDE 4? The newest Kubuntu 15.04?

> However I had this happen, and Mac's time capsule restore was amazing.

TimeShift + your favourite cloud storage provider (and possibly, BackInTime) does much the same on Ubuntu:

http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html

>Also, if you have never had to experience a full system crash / losing a laptop, good. However I had this happen...

Whenever you lose a laptop... someone will find it. That's why Prey Project exists:

https://preyproject.com/
Honestly, I would be happier to use this product if it were not from Google. They already know too much.
One very important change they can make on the G+ mobile app is to make the Share button open up the Share Intents menu, instead of just re-posting to my own G+ page. G+ can't very well grow without escaping its own echo chamber, can it? Let me post links to Twitter and such!
it also seems to be missing a ":" after the protocol :)
Shortly after I started my first consulting business back in 1998 one of our customers wanted us to upgrade their compaq server from one disk to a raid.

We started Friday after normal working hour by checking that the backup worked (it did) then proceeded to upgrade the server with a raid backplane and three new scsi disk, installed Windows NT, installed the backup software and started a restore while getting some takeaway.

The restore only took like 15 minutes - and to our horror we discovered that the previous IT admin had set it up to do an incremental backup on the same dat tape overwriting it every day!

Ok, no worry, we had not used the old disk, so we installed it and turned on the computer.... Nothing happened.... Strange, we removed the raid backplane, installed everything as it had been... Still nothing.

After 24+ hours working on the problem, including several hours talking to compaq support (best support ever!) we had to go home for some sleep. When I got back to the server room I fired up Norton Disk Editor and painfully figured out the MBR was all zeros on the disk, luckily the rest of the disk look like correct data!

Several hours later, just before sunday turned to monday I finally got an MBR written using NDE and NDD, booting the system and seeing everything was all right.

Monday we told the customer we had some problems and would do the upgrade another day (after we had taken multiple backups :)
You’re right, good catch! The reason is we don’t consider Unsplash to be a conventional stock photo repo, since the style and quality of photography digresses so much from the usual stock photo sites. We probably should have pointed out what we meant by stock photo- the article is targetting sites such as Shutterstock, iStock, Dreamstime, and the like. We love Unsplash, it has a very personal twist on similar subjects, making the photos available there that much more relatable and honest.
>Even satellite links can be altered, either you hack the satellite system or you intercept the signal at a higher altitude than the receiver is operating in.

Or, if the case of total war, you blow the freaking satellites out of space with missiles. Yes, I know space weapons systems are technically banned, but how long do you think a nation like the US, Russia, India, or China would put up with satellite controlled autonomous drones running roughshod over their sovereign territory before they just blow the satellites out of space?