skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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TSTHC: Too Small To Hire Covington, so go ahead and prosecute.
OK, so why aren't they trained that way? Unless a criminal represents an imminent threat to the public, the police should prioritize safety above getting their man.
IMO one of the interesting ways to think about: "Overall, how does our economy value human-time versus material-goods"?

Even if the cost is passed on to the consumer (many of whom will, in turn, will have more to spend) it represents a shift in how we (implicitly, through costs) balance "1x Acme Appliance" versus "1x hr child care", etc.
There is a reason not to do this: at the point where you cache the new password, you have no idea who's making the request. An attacker banks a trivial password into the password reset, triggers the email reset token, and waits for the unsuspecting user to click the link in the email. So you have the user enter the password again after clicking through the token. But now you have a condition where accounts are only as safe as it is difficult to get users to type an attacker-chosen string into a web form.
Really? Nobody wants to comment on this thread?
There's VP9 too - https://plus.google.com/+JustinUberti/posts/3FLVapCvDaG
> .g. we could pay subscription for a game and remote machine to run game on

the latency of in-home streaming is far inferior to out-of-home streaming. Unless the server is just next door to where you live.
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I was mostly skeptical that AI weapons would be some sort of novel threat. We've had weapons that choose to kill on their own since the landmine. There are also weapons that could fight/end an entire war with the push of one button. What AI weapon could be more destructive than the guidance system on an ICBM?

However there are some impressive names on that letter. I can't imagine knowing something about AI that they don't. I will have to re-evaluate.
Are you sure? I thought Sony bought Gaikai, which is basically similar to OnLive - but a competitor service.
Landlords will benefit, short term.

I suspect that people will move to areas offering higher minimum wages, which will drive up rental housing costs in those areas.
Other comments have mentioned that Hangouts is not the only possible attack vector, but I'll be honest in saying that I don't really understand all this. :)
Knowledge Ecology International are the experts on innovation prizes, lots of background on http://keionline.org/prizes

I haven't noticed any commentary at https://twitter.com/jamie_love (their director) or http://www.keionline.org/tracker on this bill yet, am I missing something?
As a former Nuclear Ops Engineer I used to rotate 12 hour shifts on a weekly basis.. Days, mids, and grave all in one month. We were paid very well, but I would get at least a head cold every week. I soon realized that nuclear operation is not worth my health. I quit my job and entered the IT / Start up world making much less… Even though I work more hours than before, the rotating schedule is gone and being sick is now a rare occurrence! The move was one of the best decisions I ever made and I love this article because it confirmed that decision I made so many years ago.
It happens again throughout the story. The figure pictured here: https://i.imgur.com/M6YHU51.png misrepresents that also as a Genesis. No Master System in Brazil was a version of Genesis. The Master System revisions included the 6 button controllers but were still Master System consoles. Only played Master System games. Not Mega Drive games.

Every version of Genesis was called Mega Drive.

edit: Thanks for fixing it!
These weapons are definitely coming whether we wanted them or not.

The biggest threat of autonomous weapons is that they bury the true costs of war (human lives) until it is too late. The big players and likely users in the field of autonomous warfare are also the ones with implied usage of nuclear weapons in the event of existential threat.

Most likely/hopefully these weapons are used/tested in limited skirmishes by countries with little to lose. (Russia, NK)
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I'll get on tangent here, and blame PHP.

The model of exporting a Unix directory as the structure of a website is barely good enough for static sites (you'll get into all kinds of problems with URL management), and is completely unsuited for applications.

Now, of course, PHP was created as a tool to add a visitor counter at the bottom to your pages. With a bit of caution, it's indeed secure enough for that. Nowadays people create huge applications using the same security model, and PHP developers don't even think about changing it.
What about timing attacks?
If the market were really tight as trumpeted by the media, there would have been wage pressures already. Perhaps the tight market is limited to SV - I certainly see no signs of hot labor market in Boston. Smaller software companies do have quite a few openings, but are very price-sensitive (and picky, too). Bigger companies are mostly shedding people (either through attrition or selective layoffs).
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Even with directory listings disabled, you could request http://example.com/.git/refs/heads/master to get the sha of master, then get http://example.com/.git/objects/<sha 2 char>/<rest of sha> to download the data for that one sha, then you can get the rest.

Wouldn't be terribly difficult to write a script to crawl it. Git's format is well known and documented.
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When you put it like that, sure. But there are often tradeoffs where something and its "opposite" may both have appealing characteristics, and you need to pick one. I've heard reasonable people argue for things that are in conflict with these principles. For example (in the same order):

* Build user interfaces that are suited to a particular task. Don't sacrifice the optimal interface for a task for consistency between different parts of your site.

* Use your company's brand color throughout your app. This gives your app a consistent visual theme and makes it easy for users to find it.

* Make it possible to accomplish all common tasks in as few screens as possible. Don't force users to go through multiple steps to enter information.

* Don't waste time optimizing your code for fast loading before you know which areas your users are spending their time on.

* Show changes as quickly as possible. Don't make the user wait through extraneous animations to see what changed.

* Make sure all important elements are visible "above the fold". If this means reducing padding a bit, so be it.

* Photos lend your app warmth and increase user engagement. Stock photos can be a cost-effective way to do this.
I don't want to anyone to build autonomous weapons, but I don't want anyone to build nuclear weapons or any other weapons of war either; I don't see how to avoid it. If the choice is to either develop and deploy autonomous weapons or to risk having your population conquered and murdered by enemies that use them, then there is no choice.

Possibly, autonomous weapons like chemical weapons won't be important to victory, or like most biological weapons (AFAIK) they won't be cost-effective. But it's hard to imagine a human defeating a bot in a shootout; consider human stock market traders who try to compete with flash trading computers, for example. In fact, I wonder if some of the tech is the same for optimizing decision speed and accuracy.

Perhaps the best response by governments is to use their resources to develop autonomous weapons countermeasures, especially those [EDIT: i.e., those countermeasures] that can be acquired and utilized by those with few resources: Towns, governments in poor countries, and even individuals.

Also, my guess is that it's an area ripe for effective international standareds, treaties and law. All governments can agree that they don't want the chaos of proliferating, unregulated autonomous weapons and would work to enforce the rules.
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For now, yes.

Think 5-10-15 years when everyone has gigabit+ fiber to the home.
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Nice to see but it will never work. Weapons move forward no matter how terrible they might be, politicians and military leaders always use the "if we don't they will" excuse. It's usually true which is sad.
I'm all for organ donation, medical euthanasia, and other issues that are related to this but I feel a little uncomfortable about being considered "Dead enough". I guess I would need a little more definition about what is actually considered "dead enough".

Disclaimer: I didn't read the entire article so my concerns may have been covered.
Reboot your phone, it will start again and try to make itself default messaging app unless you edit init .rc scripts, on 5.1.1 Android anyway.
The NIH already spends about $3 billion a year on clinical trials, mostly in the form of money given to patients. Total spending on clinical trials is estimated to be about $25 billion. Not chump change, but easily fundable, and ridiculously easy to offset with the cost savings in terms of Medicare.

http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending_project_listing.a...

Also, it's wrong to suggest that the costs are borne by the "private sector" when all of that private sector money is coming from monopoly rents handed to them by the government. That isn't their money, it's ours.
I've stuck by this principal both online and offline for a long time now & I'm a lot happier and more positive from it.

The only downside I've noticed personally is that as your personal grievances decrease and you become less of a whingebag (technical term), other peoples' complaints and whines become far duller and tedious to listen to than before.
A mountain of salt for the Apple Watch satisfaction numbers
So the manager proportionally invests in short-term or long-term value? Or sticks to his/her original vision for the company, in some proportion? I'm struggling to make sense of that.

As with our political leaders, the manager made a decision. In his case it was based on his board interaction. He can certainly be judged based on his decision. Just allowing him to wash his hands of it and simply say "I'm doing what I'm told" is way too straightforward in a situation in which there is nuance. [I'm referencing here your comment in which you expressed gratitude to a deity that managers didn't have to worry about things like (quoted from comment you responded to) "ethics, legality, fairness, product quality...".]

Perhaps ethics and fairness shouldn't be lumped with legality and product quality. I don't know how to measure ethics and fairness; I don't really know how to hold a manager accountable for those unless it's written in SOPs or bylaws somewhere (B-Corp?).

FWIW, I find the article entertaining in the same way I find pre-game sports analyses entertaining. Time may tell us whether this decision was a short-term or long-term decision. I'm not convinced that Qualcomm actually 'succumb[ed] to the cult....'" But I find the idea that activist investors can come along and screw up a good thing for their personal short-term benefit and the other stakeholders are for all practical purposes powerless against it frightening. But, hey, it's a scary world.
I'll open it on my work computer, they surely already have access to anything important anyway.
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1) An EITC fails to realize the efficiencies of consolidating or eliminating other forms of aid that basic income could.

2) The incentive to work under basic income is having more than barely enough money to scrape by. Wages will go up until this is a sufficient incentive. My money's on wages not having to rise much at all, if any, to achieve this. I wouldn't even be surprised if average compensation dropped a bit under basic income.

3) An EITC doesn't support entrepreneurship and small businesses the way basic income could.
I thought Hyundai had already developed an autonomous heavy automatic rifle to protect the DMZ
What do you mean by contest mode?
I'd install every app if they didn't all seem to need access to my identity, wifi state, phone state, etc to display some simple information on a screen.

If I have visited your website from a browser there's a good chance that's how i want to interact with you.
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> So, do you always do what is obviously right? I certainly don't, and I think most people are like me. Being reminded to not do things that are obviously wrong, even when I know they're wrong, actually does help keep me from doing them.

This would depend on the obviousness at stake. I don't know what your daily job is, but I imagine that there are things so basic that don't really need "remembering". Imagine a programmer being told how a "if" works; that's the obviousness level at stake in this article.
The cost to develop a new drug is, on average, $2.6 billion (see, e.g., <http://lifescivc.com/2014/11/a-billion-here-a-billion-there-...), including the amortized costs of failed candidates.

Or, put another way, it looks like a new aircraft supercarrier would be cheaper than a cure for Alzheimer's. Whatever the true cost of drugs are, it's clearly not pennies.
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> That is, if the Chinese government was short-sighted enough to tax it at their current rates.

http://www.heritage.org/index/explore?view=by-variables

China's tax burden as a % of GDP is lower than the US.

United States 24.3% of GDP

China 19.4% of GDP

Businesses that can't function in that environment aren't sustainable at any reasonable tax level.
Yes, the platform support and hot reloading are real nice. That's why so many teams have invested in Unity.

The collision engine is what I was referring to when I said it's not that huge of a thing to do your own Box2D integration, so I disagree that there's a huge value add there. Just drop in the same solution they dropped in.

And the sound tools, until very recently, were incredibly rudimentary. You'd have been just as well off tossing in OpenALSoft or rolling your own FMOD integration (at least then you could use the FMOD Studio tool). I'm grateful for the new Audio Mixer window.
It's easier to transform your expressions into a useful form from a guaranteed, proper SSA than from a simple tree representation. For example, an induction variable extraction is totally trivial in SSA, and you really need do to it if you want to reconstruct nice looking `for` loops.

It also pays well to have distinct basic blocks - loop analysis is much easier then.
thanks for the suggestion :) will definitely look into that!
Looks like there are folks working on the Klingon version of the Bible.

This is pretty optimistic, in quite a few dimensions... :-)
thats a great suggestion :)
This is another one of those articles that ignores many of the positive developments in progress, unfortunately.
> What AI weapon could be more destructive than the guidance system on an ICBM?

ICBMs are much more easily controlled; only a few governments have the knowledge and resources to develop and deploy them, and even those governments have hundreds of ICBMs at most. Compare that with AI weapons which in theory could be developed and/or deployed by anyone, and which which could be built by the millions.
Terrorism has always been a problem of TECHNOLOGY.

1200 years ago the most a few guys could do could do is attack with swords until they were stopped.

Since the invention of gunpowder we had attempts like the gunpowder plot of 1604

Then we got dynamite

Then we got planes flying into buildings, where 19 hijackers could bring about the deaths of 3000 people

Explosives

Biological and chemical weapons

Now we also have infrastructure where people could indirectly sabotage, say, the electrical network with an EMP and cause a massive blackout. This has been done in other countries.

The fact that a small group of people can wreak increasingly greater havoc means two scary things:

1) We will live in an increasingly surveilled police state, where a government will begin to watch everyone and precrime will become the norm

2) We will live in a world where increasingly a small number of radical maniacs can do tremendous damage

Both are destructive and the technological advances only serve to deliver greater power and control into the hands of governments and maniacs.

Are governments really our best defense? If so, we must push for radical transparency. No secret courts, black ops etc. The benefits may not be worth the risks anymore.

I wrote this a year ago:
http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
I'm pretty sure you can just turn off MMS retrieval, yeah -- either in your messaging app or the phone's network settings.

The only problem is that many phones automatically turn long SMS messages into a single MMS message. As I understand it, you might not receive those -- although I'm not sure about this.
From onlive.com: "Sony has acquired important parts of OnLive. Due to the sale, all OnLive services were discontinued as of April 30, 2015."
http://www.cnet.com/news/korean-machine-gun-robots-start-dmz...

Samsung
MYST was my first thought, too - games with "no combat, no health bars, and no death" aren't exactly a new innovation. According to Wikipedia, MYST is still one of the best-selling PC games of all time!
The story "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" is about two computer systems set on opposite sides of a war, and driven to extremes until one of them became self-aware, the birth of AI, and ate the other computer system.

It then psychotically murdered all of humanity except for a few people it kept around as caricatures to torture, as punishment for creating a mind like it, haunted by the insane things it was told to do by its makers.

The biggest existential threat to humanity from AI is that we build an insane one that takes time to recover from the insanity of its makers, and murders us all before it can.

Such an AI is an existential threat in a new, and novel way, because it's a mind as powerful as ours -- probably more powerful -- but unconstrained by concern for us, since it is not fundamentally one of us.
FYI, it's a little confusing initially what you're meant to do with this. I clicked one of the buttons repeatedly without realising I was essentially voting.
The "colossally bad", "stupid" rhetoric would be justified if the proposal were for the NIH to give away a significant proportion of its budget in prizes: it's reasonably obvious that prizes can't be a mainstay of public research funding. Instead, the proposal is to spend $80 million: about 0.25% of the NSF's present budget, and less than a quarter of the proposed increase in annual NSF funding in the bill. In other words, throw this $80 million into the NSF's general expenditure instead and in future it would be about to fund, oh, maybe about 20.05% of business-as-usual funding requests to pursue tendentious environmental-health correlation findings and non-reproducible treatments for cancer in inbred mice. (Until the supply of these inevitably rose to meet its former "equilibrium" with demand.) If that's the opportunity cost of seeing if prizes can stimulate some successful research which will not otherwise be funded, then it seems like an arguable proposition, especially since prizes like the X-Prize are often claimed to stimulate research spending which is a multiple of the actual prize money awarded. (No doubt that effect would go away if the NSF spent $8 billion in funding through prizes, but nothing like that is being proposed.)

No doubt the decision process of awarding the prize would be dysfunctional; but it would be dysfunctional in a different way to the NSF's usual funding mechanisms, increasing the chance that at least one of the two would produce the right outcome in any given case.
Not sure I agree about stock photos. Not all stock photos are headset hotties and bespoke photography is expensive. Even large organisations use stock photos, so I think it makes sense for a small company, especially if it isn't a core competency.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died
There are too many tools
> this type of wealth redistribution

As opposed to the kind where the bosses pay absurdly low wages and distribute the profits to themselves?

Update: grammar, typo
"We've had weapons that choose to kill on their own since the landmine."

You're right. That's why most of us have signed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty and multiple treaties just like it.
Certain distributions may not have the exact same update problems, but Linux as a whole sure as hell does, being free and open source fixes nothing by itself. The inherent insecurity of an abandoned OS over time is one of the largest issues with the whole Internet of Things device trend.
"Avoid unnecessary death"? That's a pretty rosy picture of how a weapon programmed to perform an ethnic cleansing, a terror attack, or to herd civilians out of an area would act.
Animated characters have less detail than backgrounds because you need to draw way more character frames than background paintings.
I'm not talking about software, I'm talking about small businesses actually putting up help wanted signs (In bumfuck middle America).
The cost is negative, when you consider how much money would be saved by not having to pay out monopoly rents for decades to drug companies.
People have been plowing money into this dead-end for decades, as you've ably described here.

The thing laypeople need to remember when they read these impressive-sounding litanies of high-assurance systems is that the components that have been formally assured are the simplest parts of the system. They're demonstrated to function as specified, in many cases rigorously. But so what? We also rely on assumptions about TLB coherence in our virtual memory systems (TLBs are probably not formally assured, given the errata). Are we free of memory corruption flaws because we assume the VM system is secure? Of course not.

And so it goes with systems built on high-assurance components. It's possible, even likely, that the assured components aren't going to generate security flaws --- and their designers and the CCTLs will certainly crow about that. But so what? The security vulnerabilities in most systems occur in the joinery, not the lumber.

Virtually every programming language ever used promised to make systems immune to "certain types of attacks". Even Rails made this promise. The obvious problem is, even if you succeed in immunizing a system against "certain types of attacks", attackers just switch to other classes of attacks.

It is not enough to close the doors on, for instance, memory corruption flaws. Virtually every modern mainstream programming language accomplishes this with ease, and yet systems are still riddled with security flaws.

Why? Because security flaws are simply the product of violated assumptions. Every bug violates an assumption and so every bug has the potential to be leveraged by an attacker to compromise security. Unless your programming environment literally promises "bug free" --- which is to say, you're designing trivially simple components that never change and have operational lifetimes measured in decades --- there is no silver bullet.
Or, as others have pointed out, "empathetic".
A "goto fail" style bug could allow for blankness but not truncatedness. Basic idea:

if(!check_params()) {
failed = true;
goto fail;
}
if(some_other_check()) {
failed = true;
goto fail;
}
if(token_length == 0) {
goto fail; // oops, forgot to set failed
}
...check the token...
fail:
if(failed) {
return auth_failure;
}

I have no idea if this is anything like what actually happened, of course.
I've never even been to Japan and these gifs make me feel nostalgic...I guess for childhood games that used this art style? Very nice.