skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but I'd still like some assurances that police won't be setting these things up. I can imagine police departments salivating over metal storm type machines with rubber bullets.
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oh for sure, just jumping in to these topics is difficult enough. i'm looking forward to what you guys put together next
I want to do about 90 percent of what the comments on this page say. Very good ideas...so little time...
Can not confirm the facts quoted in the story.

By the way, most articles I read about Brazil extrapolate one or two pieces of information into a very biased view.

(Brazilian here)
I'm not sure video MMS are popular, but I send a lot of picture MMS texts. Considering it is included on T-Mobile's Simple Choice and doesn't require the recipient to sign up to some service to receive them, it is pretty convenient.

If this issue got bad I might disable it. But it would be unfortunate to have to do so.
If you're innocent, is there EVER a reason to plead guilty?

And, the DA's was going to manage the $2M collateral? What a sham!
there was the case recently of the kid who put a pistol on a drone. its probably only a matter of time till an automated domestic terror incident.
sorry about that! was not expecting the server to blow up when we went to bed and it was running off a very small instance since it was a fun little project. no excuses though! we fixed it and it's running now :)
"by what the market will bear. The other option is that profit margins will narrow"

You say this back-to-back, but seem to completely ignore the fact that the market can bear a higher cost once the minimum wage is raised. Sure, $15/hr won't affect the price of Porsches or Lexuses, but the lower-priced goods that someone making minimum wage is buying will likely be affected.
Of course their growth is slowing. Law of big numbers and all that. Even their 'slowing growth' has their economy growing at 7% YoY.
Having learned SPARC assembly in the past, it most certainly does have a pile of backward-compatibility baggage of its own. For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_slot
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I must confess that when I saw a citation to the Heritage Foundation, I felt obliged to verify this through other sources; it seems about right. Also, it's an interesting exercise to view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven... which has a table is sortable by rate. You can see, for example, which states get revenue from oil, and have very low taxes but perhaps little incentive to diversify, and other interesting stuff. Looking at the extremes really makes me wonder how some societies operate.
NPM works fine as a simple task runner, and you're probably already using that as well.
As mentioned above, I'm well aware of that. I am wondering why they needed OnLine since they already had Gaikai.
Which will punish researches in countries that uphold that laws, but won't do anything against countries that will either refuse to agree on that or plain cheat. So, the countries that will sign and uphold that treaties will find themselves lacking a very important and advanced technology that their adversaries have.

So, the question is: do you want countries that either don't care about humanitarian values, or only pretend to care, to have an upper hand compared to countries that can not only pass such laws, but also to enforce it?
...does this mean no more Beanshell? :D
It is easy to prevent it, have the UN ban it and provide incentives for countries to sign a treaty. This has worked for things like chemical and biological warfare. The key is to star the process now before generals get their hands on the technology so there won't be any pushback.
I use a Windows phone too, and see plenty of these, usually targeted for other platforms (not that I can blame them given the current user agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; BLU; WIN HD W510u) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537" I think that is going to catch any targeting regex)
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Sounds great but few technical details are given. For example how it works. In the video is a glimpse of a red laser beam (moving slowly...). But in that case I doubt the result could be full color ?
How a white, 62-year-old divorcee reinvented himself as a hip-hop dance star
Little bit of a war on fun.
Changing a wage for a country, as the post said, is probably a bit more macro- than micro-
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Very few companies have such a large, relatively unproductive workforce as Walmart. You've chosen one of the biggest divisors there is for that calculation.

(I'm not thinking of a good way to phrase the relatively unproductive, but the point is that Walmart doesn't pay their workers a lot)
It really boils down to if people pay or not.

In the US most people are still on a monthly plan that includes "unlimited texts" (inc. MMS). In many other places a single MMS can cost you between 5c-$1, so people use WhatsApp, Google+, or many other free (or cheaper) alternatives.

But MMS is definitely popular in certain regions. It is also very unpopular in regions. If you're in the UK you could very easily disable MMS, but in the US? I wouldn't...
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How are the crypto libraries in the "new" Java versions? I've heard pretty bad stuff about the default security configurations in Java.
> Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.

Is it just me or does this read like an advertisement?

The race for AI-supported weaponry has been on for a long time. Rosenblatt was using perceptrons to try and identify tanks in the late 50s. So this is not a race whose start is to be forestalled, as the letter phrases it, since it began a long time ago. AI has been weaponized.

I think the caution FLI expresses towards autonomous weapons is fair, but let's be really clear on where we are. Various forms of weak and narrow AI have been applied to warfare for a long time, and they will continue to be, regardless of petitions by the prominent.
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There were ways to do this previously but it will be great to have this as part of "official" Java. I have got good results in the past from adding a REPL interface to long-running servers.

Requiring functions to declare their exceptions in the REPL seems like an odd decision though (particularly given that the shell will automatically catch exceptions). I wonder why they didn't just assume "throws Exception" or even the actual thrown Exception, given that they are able to infer it and these functions won't be overridden.
Oh wow very good to know. We're just now looking to get to 2.11(very large codebase, upgrades are hard) so will definitely need to keep this in mind.
If it's autonomous it doesn't need signals to operate. As far as EMPs, they don't really exist.
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not dead enough; strongly disagree
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try pentaho, it's easy and clean, no installation required.
I'm the founder of SourceDNA, which tptacek is referring to.

https://sourcedna.com/
What are the resource costs for shielding from EMP vs creating an EMP strong enough to make a difference?
A TCP socket teardown followed by a reconnect is hardly the equivalent of ramming a floating chunk of ice. There are a bunch of reasons you will see that teardown in practice, like NAT timeouts in a home router, or carrier-grade 6to4 NAT, or mobile devices rehoming to a new tower, or anywhere else that state is tied to the path.

Sure this is a deliberately produced failure, but only in the sense that this is a "normal" failure. This is a condition that is to be expected on the internet, and this is simply an additional place it occurs.
> Their evidence rests largely on comparisons between neighboring areas with different minimum wages. The seminal study in this vein examined fast-food restaurants on both sides of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border before and after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in the early 1990s. It found no evidence that employment there fell as a result.

This is often cited in publications that generally support a higher minimum wage. It is unfortunate that this is never challenged as there are studies that show that an increase in minimum wage does in fact result in lower employment:

> Raising the minimum wage would increase family income for many low-wage workers, moving some of them out of poverty. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated and the income of those workers would fall substantially. [0]

Logic itself would suggest that an increase in minimum wage would result in at least some unemployment:

No employer would hire you if you make them less than the amount that they have to pay you. There are people that make more than the old minimum wage and less than the new proposed minimum wage. Therefore, those employment opportunities will no longer exist. It may not happen overnight as there is some momentum, but you can't deny this effect. Also, you can't exactly measure the people that would have been hired with a lower minimum wage.

The other interesting this is how vernacular plays such a strong role in people's opinions. Imagine if "minimum wage" was replaced with "prohibition of employees whose contributions to employers is less than the mandated minimum amount of finding legal employment"

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44995
You are wrong. Look at all the other responses. And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
If you are that paranoid, then you shouldn't open any pdf that you find on the internet. The NSA has the ability to proxy any file you download and inject anything they want.
If the tax rate is 95%, a company would have to pay someone a $21 million dollar salary to pay that person $2m. I suspect that no company would do such a thing, as it's just throwing money away.
It's mostly that the AI in question will follow a general directive to its end. For example, ensuring the safety of a nation's population may include putting its citizens into extremely hardened bomb shelters and never let them leave. Or worse, annihilate the entire human species to ensure world peace (the absence of humans would produce the same result and would probably be more efficient in terms of execution). It's not that the AI will be super smart, just that the AI will be super dumb. As Aristotle put it, "Law is mind without reason." And for me, logic is just another set of laws without any sort of reason (justification).
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I'm sitting with a similar problem right now! Got any pointers?
Hmm, that's interesting.
Do you have your mouse set to scroll super fast?
The OP links to a corresponding YouTube blog post with more specifics about how the G+ rollback affects the YouTube service (as of today, YouTube comments will only show up on YouTube, and not on G+, and vice-versa):

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/07/youtube-comments....

It also mentions improvements to the ranking system "that reduces the visibility of junk comments. It’s working—the rate of dislikes on comments has dropped by more than 35 percent across YouTube."...Is there a whitepaper or engineering blog post about their technical approach to this?
Am I the only one that got tripped up by the wording of the second question? My immediate thought was, "Does that mean five minutes EACH or five minutes TOTAL?"

Without a clear question, my brain refused to give an answer, so I got it wrong. It annoys me that it is presented without enough information and then you're told, "Your intuition is not as good as you think it is."

1 and 3 were fun though.
This is a classic prisoner dilemma that our society finds itself playing again and again. Develop the technology, and you unleash a pandora's box for the whole world. Refuse to work on it, and may be the other guys still does it: so pandora's box is open anyway, but now you've got the short end of the stick.

Thankfully, humanity already tried several different ways to solve such problems. However, I don't remember open letters being one of the effective ones.
Any science could be turned to evil purpose, as well. Just like open source code that gets used to create malware.
> not that an AI will go rogue and decide on its own to start killing people

Some developer could simply forget to write the WHERE statement on the query for "which human not to kill"
Did you read the article? You can't compare the effect of economic change in two vastly different countries like that. As the article stated, even within the United States, within the state of New York, the policy would have vastly different effects between cities such as New York City and Buffalo.
No more dangerous that just taking them off of life support.

We're talking about people in permanent, machine supported comas. If a doctor offs someone that the doctor knew had a chance for survival the doctor should get tried for murder.
Factor in culture. People of Scandinavian descent do even better financially in the US than they do in their home countries. Even if true in a textbook sense, I'd bet the sense of social cohesion that comes from a small culture has an outsize impact on that country's economic output.

But lets watch the experiment play out. Maybe the book stores in SF that are closing due to the new wage are just abberations or unfortunate side effects.
> 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.

I think that's too anthropomorphic. More likely, the biggest threat from AI is that they'll be modular/understandable enough that we can include strategy, creativity, resourcefulness, etc. while avoiding the empathy, compassion, disgust, etc.
For my system it hovers around 50-70ms[1][2]. Tested with an 800x600 window at ~7% cpu utilization on a Core i5. My desktop monitor is a Dell u2711, which seems to add about 15ms latency itself[3].

I'm not sure how much latency OSX or Chrome adds (at least a frame more than Firefox[4]); Mobile Safari seems to be a bit faster, as evident in the video. I don't have a second Windows machine for comparison.

Edit: When connecting on the same machine, latency is 2 frames (33ms) exactly[5].

[1] http://phoboslab.org/files/jsmpeg/jsmpeg-vnc-latency.mp4

[2] http://phoboslab.org/files/jsmpeg/jsmpeg-vnc-latency.jpg

[3] http://www.anandtech.com/show/2922/4

[4] http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/measuring-input-lag-in-brow...

[5] http://phoboslab.org/up/B2u6w.png
This is a good idea, in theory. I just wonder how controllable it would be, once AI is more of a ubiquitous technology. With nuclear and bio warfare you can ban certain substances. Development of safe nuclear energy has suffered from this, perhaps justifiably. But once there are APIs, Open Source libraries, etc. out there, how will we contain it?
Ben & Jerry's use to do this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s#Wages
I've been to Brazil many times and I've never even seen a Pepsi bottle, whereas Coca-Cola seems to be part of the culture there even moreso than in the States.
RIP Missile Man of India.
Thanks Colleen! Hi HN, I'm one of the founders of GO1 - happy to answer any questions you might have!
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My philosophy is that stock photos are bad when you could be using that space to visually give visitors information about your product/site/organization/whatever.

I work on software for apartment communities, and a huge offender I see is stock photos of smiling people being used on property websites. Do you want to see fake people on an apartment website? No, you want to see photos of the actual property.
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Function a() called function b(). When function b() returned, a local variable in function a() had changed from 0 to 1.

"Aha!" you say. "You're smashing the stack! Function b() is writing outside its stack frame."

But function b() was provably not doing that.

Function b() called msgrcv(), which has a very badly designed API. It takes a pointer to a structure, and a size parameter. The structure is supposed to be a type field (long), and then a buffer (array of char). The size parameter is supposed to be the size of the buffer, not the size of the structure. The original code that implemented this came from a contractor, and they made the very natural mistake of putting the size of the whole structure in the size field. This meant that an extra long was read from the message queue, and smashed the stack.

But that should mess up the stack from from function b(). How did it mess up a variable in function a()? Well, the compiler put that variable in a register, not on the stack. So when b() was called, it had to save off the registers it was going to use, so a()'s local variable wound up in b()'s stack frame.

It took me most of a month, off and on, to figure that out.
>You could use EMP.

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.

> You could use signal jamming.

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.
Does this answer your question?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem
Drupal, MediaWiki, Laravel, Slim, it's a pretty long list, and it includes projects that target Serious Devlopers.
I guess it will be somewhat close to what some other military high-techs.

Poor countries have the factories and manufacturing power, but the core of the tecnology is on very few hands.

For exmample, Brazil can build Jet Fighter Aircraft, but can it do it without foreign Radar systems? Engines? Missle control systems? and other systems?

I don't think they currently can. they can do 90% of it but the part that makes it effective as a weapon is imported and without it the plane is just as useful as a old fighter.
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined check.js:4

Thanks for the downvote. May I have another?
> If you design an AI with the express purpose of making cheeseburgers, and allow it to improve itself, it will end up killing people

I don't believe you. Maybe you could construct an arguement for AntiHuman Strong AI or point me to one?
I imagine that he would get compensated in other means. High marginal tax rates resulted in so called Cadillac health insurance plans to be added as a form of compensation as well as other (IMO) wasteful non-monetary benefits (housing, company car, etc).
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How fast is Wikipedia growing?
Same here.

I wouldn't define myself a pacifist, but given the almost limitless choice of industries where you can work with a tech degree, why work in one I might be uncomrfortable with ?
Surprisingly few Genesis games had any kind of save game feature - off the top of my head, there was Sonic 3, RPGs (which were few and far between), and...that's about it?
The biggest thing is that people don't want to install an app to do a single thing. That''s where the mobile web excels, when done right. Apps are great if you are a repeat user. But if I just want to get some quick information, let me get the information. I'll decide if I want to stick around.
Yes. Google "millionaires leaving X" and see what the autosuggestions are for X and choose one. While some are US states - NY, Maryland, etc - most are countries.

Here's the top couple using France:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisconover/2012/07/23/flight-o...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-75...
Building our own OpenGL game engine in C++ to run on a banana PI, which has severely broken drivers. It was both non-fun and very fun. We could've just chosen to do it on an FPGA, but nooooo we had to pick an actual gpu ;__;
What browser, and what did you do to get that error? Like, were you just searching? Did you try something crazy like leaving the field empty?

EDIT: Was able to reproduce. I'll investigate.
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>After a few heated emails back and forth they just stopped replying and I got to working around their issues.

You could be the reason someone's significant other sighed and seemed bummed over dinner somewhere in the world. On a weekend.
Worst offender: Facebook. I still refuse to download their messenger (I already have too many message apps). If I have to do messaging on Facebook I do it in my mobile browser.
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You've heard of these things called 'governments' right?
Of course there is. If you think that there is a 10% chance you might go to prison for life (for some crime), and the DA offers you a six month sentence, with a significant chance to be served as house arrest, then it might make a lot of sense to take the plea.

False convictions happen. So now it's just a question of taking the known cost now, or a gamble on a much higher cost after the trial.
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Maybe some people on HN feel like they have a moral obligation to help others?
Have you tried blossom.io? I find it so much cleaner and usable compared to trello, helped boost our productivity big time!
So if they are still selling 150k units monthly and TechToy isn't making them anymore- where is this stock coming from?

After re-reading this paragraph:

"But with Sega having not built a new console in more than 15 years, Tectoy has shifted its strategy a bit. Instead of simply making video games, it now makes DVD players, Android tablets, and even baby monitors. They may not have Microsoft or Nintendo in their corner, but their licensing game is strong—with both Mickey Mouse and Spongebob Squarepants giving their DVD players a little extra snazz."

I guess its not explicitly saying that they dont make them, but I got that impression on first read.
Normal search. Chrome 44.
Obviously hey were playing on it, but captain america 2 kinda nails the problem
The phrase "not possible" is overloaded. It can mean "I claim this is technically not possible" or it can be a polite way of saying "Thanks for the feedback but you're the only person who has asked for that and we've been awake since Tuesday."
>I think the minimum wage is a helpful tool or has been historically. But as others have said when you raise the minimum wage, prices increase, and by far the largest groups that consume the same goods/services are also relatively poor themselves (so essentially you increase pay but also costs to the poorest in society).

Minimum wage hikes first eat into profits before increasing prices. It is primarily a transfer of wealth from the wealthiest to the poorest.

Minimum wage hikes do not always increase prices, either. Especially not meager increases.
biological weapons using CRISPR to target genetic markers is much more worrying to me because once released to the wild, there is zero control over it