skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hard to evaluate. Explicit metrics would be good, but there's also a definitional point. Depending on who you ask, existing AI programs are as good as a very strong human player. Others will scoff at that characterization. The problem is what "very strong" means. Precisely, current programs can beat many professionals with a 4 stone handicap.

Making good analogies is hard, but here's mine: current go programs are probably somewhere in the range of runners running a 2:45 marathon. They're beyond what most people can hope to reach, perhaps even with intensive training, but they're not world-class. In fact, they're not just below world-class: there are thousands of people better than them who are themselves not yet world class. (Context: I play go and run at a level far below the ones quoted above, but know people who play/run at that level. And I've seen those people get their butts kicked by stronger players/runners).
The study itself: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/29/1518393112.full...

Kudos to the authors and journal for providing a full PDF immediately. Boo to the Washington Post for not linking.
The justice system in Nigeria (if it exists…) is not bound by US precedent. Further, deliberately concealing safety defects is usually at most (grossly) negligent manslaughter, not a active participation in an abduction. In this particular case, it was not even just one abduction but a whole series of criminal activities supported by MTN.

Imagine the uproar if Toyota had not concealed safety defects but was selling cars to ISIS operating somewhere in the United States despite an explicit ban to stop doing that.

(Naturally, but whether or not the law is just/fair/appropriate is irrelevant to the question of whether a violation of that law carries an acceptable fine, in particular when the comparison to natural persons is easily available.)
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You're absolutely right. That's why Lessig's proposed Citizen Equality Act has multi-member districts with ranked choice voting (effectively ending gerrymandering) as the second major component: https://lessig2016.us/the-plan/
I am sort of tired of the ole lets make it emotional to make it stick [1] tactic.

Of course this is just my opinion but I sort of liked how Twitter was more newsy and less friendsy. I would even prefer the star to be a bookmark but I suppose it doesn't scale down well (size wise).

[1]: http://www.engineerguy.com/white-papers/made-to-stick.htm (see chapter 5)
no API changes: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hearts-for-developers
I have an XDR and NFS3 implementation which is literate Haskell embedded in the RFC document texts. Not open-source though :-( Keeping implementation literally next to the spec was an interesting experience with both pros (fairly obvious) and cons (sometimes code is less fluently written or ordered somewhat unnaturally because of how the RFC is written).
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Maybe that's what should be done with all the fifty-year-old software developers complaining about ageism. Just train them to be web developers.
It wouldn't be that bad if he wasn't the fire chief and there was already four bodies.

These two facts make things a little worse imo.
Yay! GenX makes the news at at last! [Spoiler: I'm 45 and white. This isn't sarcasm. It's just how we are.]
There are a few services that work with Twitter to do this - Pocket comes to mind. I know their Chrome extension will place "Pocket" buttons on each tweet allowing you to save them for later. Similarly, a long button press on iOS will allow you to send a link from within Twitter to Pocket.
How do people handle QC issues with Alibaba orders? I dipped my toe in when ordering a crate of allegedly "CE marked" chargers that turned out to be obviously unsafe, and haven't been back.
"None of the above" means no money at all. Money is issued by the central bank with the authority granted by the government which is in turn granted by the people.

So long as there is money, there will be a monetary policy. The government doing "nothing" is not an option.
Yes - please do :)
Finally. Life becomes a LucasArts point and click adventure game.
Anything like this involving redux?
Theres an easy solution that people traditionally employed in those cases, e.g. whites in Detroit. Vote with your feet.
Sad to inform you, being a web developer doesn't help.
I agree. The problem is that the right wing (and honestly, the Democratic party too) are going to say that if you support a negative income tax or basic income, you are a communist/socialist/radical/student who is unemployed/poor and doesn't want to work hard (perpetually) to earn your keep, which they view as necessary to be eligible for benefits in society.

The American work ethic is to compete viciously for chances to work hard, for too long, forever, for little in return. It's an unmitigated failure, but people fear change and cling to tradition.
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Thanks for getting back to me. I want to build a deep and nuanced view of this issue and its good to look at both sides.
I gained 100 lb in less than one year. Most of that showed up in 6 months.

That's the side nobody talks about. Losing a pound in a random week is easy. Keeping a pound off for 15 years is much harder and I commend your resolve.
Backup tapes and cassette tapes are obviously a completely different thing, lets not even go there.

Yes, fax machines are still used. That doesn't make them not obsolete.

Fax is ridiculously slow, requires both participants to have fax machines (so you can't even realistically not have another solution implemented) and on top of all that super insecure.
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s/are a good idea/is a good idea/
This is like saying we'll give matches to children but build more fire stations.

Just getting addicted is social harm and hard to recover from. Most addicts claims its a daily fight for the rest of their lives. I don't think millions (billions?) of dollars pushed into rehab programs are remotely as effective as trying to keep it out of the hands of would-be users.

Also, it makes more sense to address the mental issues addicts might be trying to self-medicate for instead of handing them a jug of meth and telling them to go have a good time.

>quite some time is prescription drugs

I imagine as we continue crack down on bullshit "pain clinics" this stuff is going to go way down. We're already seeing it Florida and elsewhere as legislation is catching up to corrupt doctors. I don't know why people make this sounds like its a given and will never change. The recent rise of prescription opiate abuse is well know and is being reigned back in.
Yup, sounds a bit like a project I did a while back - I had a C/C++ bindings generator that took an XML file and generated the C/C++ code to expose a C/C++ class to Javascript. So of course the logical thing for me to do was write the thing in Ruby.

That said, all code-generation tools - straight up generators, compilers, whatever - are a mindbending experience. Keeping track of whether a variable is available at generation time or runtime is trickier than I initially expected.
The gas will be inside the mask when you put it back on.
Regarding that last, I don't buy it. Products can be produced differently, or can be substituted. There are many success stories of destructive products either being banned or having their production regulated and people either switch to something else or figure out how to produce it less destructively.

Not long ago, you might have said "freon is used everywhere" or "leaded gasoline is used everywhere" or "asbestos is used everywhere" and as long as there is demand, supply will be there too. But people didn't just give up, they fought, and won.

Edit: all three replies (as of right now) seem to be saying the same thing: that what I'm proposing doesn't work with market forces, and requires government regulation. Which is exactly what I'm saying: just because capitalism dictates that this continues doesn't mean we have to put up with it, we can ban palm oil or at least ban palm oil farmed in a harmful manner, and fix the problem.
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So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox? Microsoft is already hurting for market share, I don't understand why they would kneecap their cloud services when the competition is so thick with companies offering tons of storage for so little money. The Office integration isn't THAT good anyway, and both the PC and Mac apps have a LOT of issues on top of it, and all that to address the issues presented by a minority of abusers who won't be affected by a lot of what's pissing people off.
I skimmed this and have no idea what it has to do with the comment I was responding to.

The argument in the article seems to be that, if you're a good guy on paper (you don't abuse women, you're financially stable, etc.) that you should get attention from women instead of men who aren't good guys on paper.

My response is similar: the world is not a vending machine where you insert "hard work" or "not beating women" and a sex partner drops out at the bottom. No one just "deserves" sex. It should never be a bargaining chip or a debt that someone is paying you.

What's particularly disturbing about this line of thinking is that these people seem to think women owe them in general. It's like they don't even know who they want to have sex with them, and they feel that some woman now needs to step up.

Do you not see how bizarre that is? It echoes the comments of the mass shooter who went to a Lulu Lemon to kill women because they "owed him".

Nice guys are nice guys because they don't want to harm anyone and because it's good for the people around them. They don't secretly (or publicly!) expect to be rewarded for it with sex.
pmuch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
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They're trying to be the "Kia of aircraft" meaning they offer a lot of value for a relatively low price. They're primarily targeting budget airlines.

It is a little speculatory but supposedly their average aircraft will cost $68 million Vs. $71.9m or $78.3m for a A320 and 737 respectively. So they will be the cheapest in that line, and are trying to match or better the other two in fuel economy, supposedly 15% more fuel efficient than the A320 [0] (but the A320neo is meant to be more comparable).

That being said few analysts think that Comac's first attempt at commercial success will be successful. They have a lot of obstacles to overcome. However assuming the money doesn't dry up their second or third aircraft might be fairly competitive.

So watch this space for the mid to late 2020s, might see Comac on the tarmac somewhere nearby.

[0] http://leehamnews.com/2012/01/05/c919-gains-but-loses-advant...
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The fine structure "constant," mentioned in the article actually varies with energy scale (although that's not the concern in the article).
I was hoping for a lot better. The story's entirely made up and the XML parsing bit is especially painful.

There's absolutely no reason that "false" will necessarily be represented as "0" for a particular API.

Not to mention that it actually wouldn't be that hard to unload the coal. Yes, it would be annoying and cumbersome, but certainly not on the order of losing 80%.
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I always search for "go weiqi" when looking for the game, although "go baduk" is probably better.
Don't watch that rap battle, hayek's insights are surely worse than Keynes. At least we can attribute one repaired economy to Keynes, we can attribute zero to Hayek. In addition, while Keynes may not help us resume prior output, he at least gives us some way to recover from recessions. Hayek's given us nothing, unless you're one of those people who thinks "The Road to Serfdom" is a good book.
How much of this is due to the economy? The people in this group, surely, are finding it harder to get well paying jobs. It is much harder to find a middle income job working with your hands now than it was 20, 30 years ago.

What did this group's wages do during this same time period? Something had to push them to this. I am guessing this is it.
In a place where there is no government, I don't see what would be wrong with vigilante justice. If there are no authorities and no help then you have little choice but to take matters into your own hands.
Obviously price. And it's a first, Airbus didn't sell that many A-300 in the first years. Only with the A-320 did they have a winner and subsequently developed a whole family of jets.

China isn't just looking at the next couple of business quarters, they want to get a foothold in the commercial jet market in the next decades.
I think it's misleading that the title says "10-bit" instead of "30-bit".

8-bit graphics is normally 256 different colors (at least for DOS era programming). 24-bit graphics is 8-bits per RGB channel.
The Japanese and the Dutch already tried, guess 3rd time's the charm?
Agreed, but I'd counter and say that a median virtual course tend to be better than a median physical one. The more advanced the course, the more this tend to be true.

Lecturers in a classroom, specially professors who's main goal is to research and are forced to teach, just come and blurt out whatever they think today session is about. I once had a class where the slides had scrambled egg over because the professor had been preparing the class over breakfast, with his baby boy on his lap!!! And I am not talking about an overworked postdoc, this was a guy with tenure. I imagine he though he was being brilliant by cramming together his parenting, contractual responsibilities to students and fulfillment of bodily needs into a single time slot so he would have more time for his oh-so-precious research.

When this kind of lecturer do some MOOC course, they become conscious there's going to be an audience and a record of their performance. So they devote at least as much effort to it as if they were writing a paper for some mid-tier congress. This has the double advantage of having them put an honest effort, and the delivery medium playing to their strengths. This shows in the end results.
I'm kind of in the same position. Consulting is pretty thankless. They just expect you to bill as much time as humanly possible (and sometimes more). You rarely get thanks but you are on the hook when things go wrong. I know my salary is below the average rate even within my own company.
"support for the disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering"

Lack of privatization in Post-Soviet states lead to massive human suffering. In Poland the government constantly subsidies all companies that weren't privitzed in 90s. What's worse quality of products and services in these industries is terrible. That's why for instance electricity in Poland is one of the most expensive in Europe. And it is impossible to change anything because all these companies are highly unionized and have huge political influences during elections.

Little state ownership may work fine in countries that has different culture in rest of the economy has been capitalistic for last 200 years. In Post-Soviet world it is disastrous. Look at Russia for intance - Gazprom and other state companies were overtaken by the Putin's mafia.
For me, the highest point was moving to LA from the east coast. so much possibility and opportunity. Had some great experiences and got an education, but ultimately lead me to now.

"Partied" too much, went broke, ran up massive credit card debt and selfishly borrowed money from my parents. Had nothing to show for it, had to move back home and sell my car. However, I am finally starting to get my shit together and become employable again. I would have answered my own question from a professional standpoint, but have been perpetually unemployed. Now at least, I have a few small contracts ~1k lined up and am learning heaps. So hopefully for me the order is "worst" => 1 year to present, best => some time in the close future.
All right. I guess I've got to up my game. The Office of Government Control (OGC) in the UK spent quite a lot of money on a new logo.

Once it was put on a mouse mat, they pulled it pretty quickly.

The logo:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hVfE2qcyzXU/TMrokymnKiI/AAAAAAAAA4I/PN...

The UK's Telegraph covered it pretty well:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo...
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You misunderstand my above comment. I'm saying that by your reasoning with Nader, we can also say that Clinton caused Bush's actual invasion.

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party each must maintain two different facets - the values they preach to their grassroots support (for votes), and the policies that their sponsors purchase (for money to run campaigns).

Clinton failed to sell his actions to traditionally democratic voters, causing them to look elsewhere instead of falling into line and voting for Gore.
You're probably referring to the recent debunking of 12 step program?

Isn't that more centered around getting clean, and not keeping clean, and also more centered around the 12 step programs themselves rather than the support groups?
3 years of test flights. Am I the only one that finds this a long time to test an aircraft?
I was toying with the idea of building an electron based UI frontend for Jekyll, where you'd start it up and point it at a jekyll project dir. It would essentially work like a stripped down cms admin running locally, and update your jekyll project files. Does something like this exist?
What if everything is so diffuse that there's no single obvious target, but instead thousands or millions of them? How is a person living in Singapore, for example, going to sue a million different Indonesian farmers for polluting his air?
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I'm talking about what you might call "artificial demand," not capability.

Example: our corporate customers decided to buy 5 more widgets in 2007 than in 2008 because they saw the economy improving, mostly due to the growth of household on-paper wealth and the associated increase in consumer spending, and were forecasting a growth in their own business. When the housing market collapsed and consumer spending fell off a cliff, those customers no longer had any reason to buy the extra widgets.

In that way, you can say output is artificial. A large mass of people spending above their means because of a perceived increase in wealth, along with other psychological factors, leads to an economy with rising demand. When it turns out that wealth increase was a phantom and those psychological factors disappear, there is less demand for widgets and thus output decreases.

Output isn't "how much we can make," it's "how much we DO make." The amount we produce is proportional to the demand for that product.
I'd been using the Favorite as a Like/Heart already. I wonder how many people were using it as a bookmark.
One response here: http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_2_a1.html.
Bolivia will face the same thing.
Sweden is going downhill from now on. Stagnating since 2007.
I'm using OneDrive on a Mac.
Neo-Luddism
I worked at a small quant fund and we once had a bug that caused our roll forward trade to fail on a rather large position of front month WTI contracts. We technically were going to have to take delivery since we were long the contracts at expiry, but our brokerage was nice enough to fix the situation for us.
What a brave new world you seem to want.
I remember this custom CMS written in Perl mason that we used at JupiterMedia ( formerly internet.com ) back in 2004. It worked well but had some complexity.
It gives a whole new meaning to brining the keg.
Probably until it gets driven home to the type of people who read and comment on studies like this that education alone is one of the worst interventions for behavioral change.

Edit: proper emphasis - "that education is" => "that education alone"
I did something very much like this for a while. I'd use WordPress to create content on my laptop, then I'd crawl my own site using wget to collect the results and push those up to the real website. Turns out there are a few gotchas that simply-static didn't address, but I wrote a blog post about my experiences here.

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2013/04/using-wordpres...

The older posts on my site were all converted this way, though the newer ones are done directly in Pelican.
I realise now my statement was incorrect. Nostalgia is not age related, its a state of mind.
Ahh, interesting. I'm guessing you are using the Business Essentials or Business Premium licenses? Microsoft's website[1] does still say 300 users. We actually use the E3 package at the discounted rate so we have unlimited (for now anyway!).

[1] https://products.office.com/en-us/nonprofit/office-365-nonpr...
Why not? The amount of weapons a country can buy is related to its total GDP, not per capita. The number of soldiers a country can field is related to its total GDP and actually goes up when per-capita GDP is lower, because you don't have to pay them as much.
I'll keep using it as a bookmark anyway...
If you click the link to the twitter username at the top of that article, you get to a page which still shows the favourites star rather than the full twitter feed with hearts

https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=akik
It seems like you don't want to install Google Play Services on your device. My sense is that this isn't because you find the communication over GCM to be inherently offensive (it's just a tickle, after all), but because you don't want to run proprietary software.

There's a very small number of people who find this to be very important, and my experience has been that the strategy is to loudly complain whenever anything depends on play services. Just tactically speaking, I don't think this is going to work in the end, in the same sense that simply refusing to have a mobile phone won't work anymore -- slowly, the circumstances around this technology will make it impossible to refuse.

What I don't understand is why nobody just writes an API-compatible open source implementation of play services. Even if it only supported GCM and nothing else, that'd unlock an enormous swath of apps, and would only require writing a basic implementation of the GCM network protocol.

I'd love to know more if I'm misunderstanding the challenges around doing that. Right now it's part of the reason that I don't pay much attention to that crowd -- everyone seems very willing to complain, but nobody seems willing to do what seems like pretty straightforward work to solve their own problem.
Their android app description says they need an IP enabled network. GSM is not it. They may have it in their lab, but it's not in a real life useful product. Because it is not possible.
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$4 million cheaper, on a $68 million price tag? Is that a typo?
Hi Wes,

FYI, when I applied the coupon and it registered the reduction to $49 (Masters Package) in the field, but was charged $59 at checkout.
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People in Syria are running away from terrorism, mainly supported with Saudi money, and you know where those dollars come from. Saying that they're running away from their own government is as true as US equipping and supplying the Free Syrian Army for the cost of a few mils - all five of them.
"Gazprom and other state companies were overtaken by the Putin's mafia"

That is called "privatization".
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