skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite that simple. I discuss variable bit schemes like the one you describe in the article. Your suggested scheme is an extreme variant, and it's by no means obvious it's optimal. I'd be prepared to be convinced if some statistical evidence were presented. As I say, designing these schemes is "a lot of fun". Under your scheme;

1st move in the list takes one bit (great)
2nd move in the list takes two bits (good)
3rd move in the list takes three bits (okay)
4th move in the list takes four bits (average)
5th move in the list takes five bits (worse than average)
...etc

There are many positions where there are lots of plausible moves, in such positions your scheme could use many bits. I would estimate your scheme would take around 4 bits per move on average, much like the similar scheme I describe.

You are correct that a good modern database of 5 million plus games stored uncompressed occupies about 5 gigabytes or 1 DVD. Clearly compression is very useful for online distribution, which is what people expect these days. Chessbase compression reduces the 5 gigs to 0.5 gigs, about 10:1.

The scheme I describe is a nice compromise between performance and maximum compression. In my database program I achieve much faster position search than Chessbase. I am trying to achieve similar results without massive position indexes, and my performant compressed move scheme is a key ingredient in my work.

Edit: But as I state in the intro to my article, I am just an amateur playing around - I am not expecting to 'beat' Chessbase. I'll settle for having some innovative aspects to my program.
> it's usually because the inventor was so secretive that a clone was regarded as the original by the public and the media

From a legal perspective this is not true. But the fact remains that to enforce your IP you will need to spend a lot of money and effort, which is not something a startup can/should do.
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When writing in MS Word the synonym suggestions from the right click context menu are pretty good and I like that it doesn't require a change in tab/window. Chrome has at least one extension that provides the same functionality but I haven't tried it so I can't say if the suggestions are any good.
There is a MAC you know...
Which use large amounts of pesticide and waste if the crops don't look pretty they are scraped.

And in the UK allotments are a growing trend and of course popular with Guardian readers.

In the Uk there a duty for local government to provide land for alotments
I read it as "lots of salary and bonus".
Wordnet: Let you go up/down the hierarchy and to siblings.

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cosmos
Also see:

http://hop3.de/litfass_en.html

"A project for public space, with posters put up in Karlsruhe and Cologne in autumn and winter 2015/16"

The German text on the posters, before the number, means "we are not afraid."

The whole exhibition is not just that project, it's much bigger:

http://zkm.de/en/event/2015/10/globale-global-control-and-ce...
All of this is true, but if people keep buying devices with their firmware locked and that aren't being kept up to date, then nothing will ever change, unless government regulations are introduced and that can create other problems.

I've had very positive experiences with my Nexus devices, though not all models are the same. Acquaintances have had good experiences with other, more open models, like OnePlus One. Yet I'm seeing even software developers buy phones that are tightly locked and that aren't being kept up to date properly, software developers who should have known better by the nature of their work. And then they bitch and moan about it.

This notion of buying things based on ethical and health-related considerations has become more prevalent in recent years in other markets (e.g. food, clothes), yet in the software industry after the great run we've had in early 2000 in regards to open standards and open-source, it seems that we are going back, willingly giving up one freedom after another.

But and I think this is important - I rather prefer the current ecosystem of fragmented Android phones, because the very essence of open-source is the right to fork. And if anything, Android is not fork-able enough due to Play and the Play Services. If you want a tightly controlled OS on a tightly controlled device, iPhone/iOS is that way. And I own both, I'm glad that both options exist and I hope Firefox OS will become a good alternative as well.
I was looking around for a quote along these lines, but I think you've just expressed it quite well: "Removing the ability of the rich to do so won't magically give that ability to the poor."

It is quite easy to retard the success (or fill in the blank with legal defense, assets, education, IQ) of a group or individual. However bringing that success (or whatever) to another group is an entirely different sort of challenge, a very difficult one. There are rarely shortcuts and the most commonly suggested solutions often involve infringing on the rights of others. People don't realize this and in the quest of solving social problems with government intervention they end up creating even larger ones. Like you said, it results in pandering to the lowest common denominator. You see this very visibly with policies like "No Child Left Behind", but this sentiment tends to run rampant in leftist schools of thought.
See the photos from the streets. It's not "just a webpage" giving you the number.

http://hop3.de/litfass_en.html

Also in the German media (the phone number is in the text):

http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ausstellungen/kann-man-sich-n...
I use Google Translate. If you translate single words from one language to another you get a list with possible meanings, neatly grouped together to derive some context for the meaning along with it.

Since most of the time I am looking for a word I have something in mind in my native language, or vice versa, that usually works for me.
Did you read the article? They're not fighting the freezing of the $45m of alleged proceeds of fraud, only the $15m of unrelated assets. The government argument is that those would be payable as a fine upon convicting so they don't want that money transferred out of the country.
That's interesting, as you say it sounds like magic. I will have a look at the paper when I get a chance. No doubt there is some amazing tree data structures involved. That's what chess endgame tablebases use, but it's not something I pretend to understand.
of course, but every new channel is welcome. you need plenty backups in the event one source dries.
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If you don't mind my asking (and for the benefit for other developers here), what kind of functionality was it?
It has hyperlinks. The whole purpose of the app is to be information dense so I can review as much data as possible. Works great with google inbox.
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Is modular technology the next 'it' trend?
Menulog et. al are just discovery and payment gateways for those restaurants, so that they can offer an online service where they wouldn't be able to on their own. The establishments still handle all delivery themselves.
I bought a second hand Macbook late 2008 around 2012 I think. It was ~470 USD. No need for accessories. Still rocking this laptop today.

Sure it is not a super speedy machine today but it works very well for me, running xcode/photoshop and the whole kit.

$2400 sounds ridiculous.

edit: you seem to have super hight requirements, so my comment is more of a: if someone wants to dip their toes into it, it is not so expensive and it will work pretty well if you have some patience with the occasional slowness.
Very excited about this. Checked out the website but it provides a very broad overview of how this functions. Can you get into a bit more detail? Like settlements etc., or why NFC POS specifically. How else could merchants integrate this etc.
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While I would also want everything free or open source, firmware is not necessarily like other free or open source projects that can just assume that they are running within a standard environment. It has a tendency to be much more specific to the hardware, so unless that hardware conforms to some standard to reduce the need to have to have many different firmware projects, there may not be the resources available to maintain all of those projects.

rms is not wrong, imo, but it would take much more effort than just putting the source out on the net somewhere. Since you have to get that source reviewed, compiled, and somehow put into the fridge or dishwasher now you need the fridge or dishwasher listening for firmware updates from the manufacturer and user and that has additional cost, probably beyond what would be needed for a repairman to update it, since it would have to be more straightforward to do for a regular user, or automatic. And some users may not want automatic updates, so you'd have to make that optional somehow. All of that adds to cost, so companies have little incentive to do all of this when weighing against the risk of the appliance's firmware getting misused and the cost of that.
Reexamination is proper because there's disagreement.

IMO, as he lays out the facts, he shouldn't give away more than a token amount. But the other founders see the facts differently. So the right thing to do is to agree on what the equity is for and then discuss what the numbers should be and why.
It sounds especially inefficient when you consider the bad example brought up in the article--apples. There is a reason apples are mass-produced--lots of land and the right climate conditions. You can't grow too many apples in urban areas. I love real apples, but I grew up in an exurban area across the street from an apple orchard.

You won't taste apples that good through mass production, but you will be able to get apples year around. Those are the trade offs.
That's called a voting ring and the mods with come down like a ton of soft fluffy teddy bears.
> Data on helmet use in all jurisdictions were available from the 2009/2010 CCHS via the following questions: "In the past 12 months, have you done any bicycling?" and if yes, "When riding a bicycle, how often do you wear a helmet?"

> Figure 2 presents the helmet use data in table 3 graphically and illustrates that helmet use was higher with helmet laws than without
That's a good one.

I once lit a large fluorescent tube on the field generated by the antenna of a fairly powerful transmitter so that joke has some basis in physics. But you'd be hard pressed to run your vacuum cleaner that way :)

I wonder how many people clicked 'order'.
That is the popular wisdom, but in my experience it's not universally true. I have had good results in an apartment building by choosing channels between 1, 6, and 11. Signal strength sometimes went up quite a bit.

For example, if there are 3 APs on each of the three non-overlapping channels, using a channel between those channels may provide better results than directly competing with 3 other APs for the entire channel.

However, it also depends on the observed signal strength for each of the competing APs. For best results, you should probably test your equipment.

But if you really want decent transfer rates between devices, just use Ethernet. I've given up on ever reaching even 50% of rated speeds on wifi. With competing APs, walls, distance, etc, it's just never going to happen.
How would you know if your own government minds about something that the "US doesn't mind too much"? Except for obviously illegal activities, how in the world could you tell? And why do you think that the US won't simply tell on you? After all, they are under no legal obligation to protect your interests and sharing the things they find can be used for bargaining.

There's also another reason for why I prefer a local government to the US. My country does not have spy agencies with a 50 billion USD yearly budget. The NSA can get in places where my government cannot simply because of resources available. Oh, and most of us are software developers and the NSA is probably engaged in industrial espionage, so you know, if you're an European company, that would be something to think about.
I downvoted you. Because I often get downvoted for left leaning posts...
Interesting. What are the practical implications of using 8 vs 12 bits? Does using fewer bits allow chess engines compute more moves ahead?
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I doubt it would ever happen, but I really wouldn't be surprised if Google attempted to acquire Value. They've been making moves to get in to the "casual" gaming space with Google Play and the Nexus Player. If they purchased Value they would effectively own a large segment of the "hardcore" PC gaming market share.

Again, I doubt it would ever happen, but it's interesting to consider what the impacts would be if they did. I don't think Value is for sale, and if it were Microsoft would be much more likely to purchase them.
>I would think twice about really signing up for surveillance at second degree of separation.

It's amazing how quickly this kind of advice has become a accepted reality in the west. Try to to stay small in the eyes of the government. I hope everyone understands to feel little ashamed if they do this.
I was actually thinking about the same thing whem I forgot my phone today whilst driving. I feel as if it's become a lot harder navigating without it.
One of the biggest perceived problems with this business model is that the sort of person who would be willing to pay to remove adverts is the sort of person advertisers most want to reach, since the people who won't pay for a better experience are also less likely to either be able to or to want to spend money on whatever is being advertised. I don't know if any data supports that, but many people in the advertising industry have that opinion.

As such... I don't know about the numbers, I know very little about mobile advertising in general, and while I am a Guardian reader I don't use their mobile app - but my vague overall opinion is that it wouldn't surprise me if they priced it higher to compensate for losing a higher quality segment of their ad-viewing audience.
.. bad idea even now. Patent lawsuits' original use was to prevent theft of original ideas, which is a good thing. But suing for billions for common things like pinch-and-zoom and rounded icons is simply taking things too far. This stifles innovation.
Right ... that's weird, why isn't Nvidia's own Jetson-page more clear on this? Confusing.
One of the biggest problems with this idea of producing lots of food in urban areas in that urban land is very expensive and transportation will only become more efficient over time. So why are we obsessing on reducing transportation distance? Trains are incredibly efficient and trucks will only improve, especially with increased automation.

Transportation costs will fall, but urban land values will continue to increase. Just look at the housing situation in the San Francisco metro area. It's more efficient to use urban areas for people and grow crops where they grow well.
I don't understand the purpose of such an attack. The USB stick can't forge a signature (not even the laptop has the key -- it's in the HSM.) If it corrupted the signature by lying about the writes, they could just re-write on new media.
Edit: The Tor Project didn't see the CMU/SEI attack while it was happening. Maybe it was too subtle. Maybe the network is too chaotic. But I have no basis for saying that they ignored it. Still, maybe the Tor network needs an IDS.
I'm curious: How are you supposed to use their card-sized module outside of the developer kit? Is the 400-pin connector something that's standardized?

Also would you need to add your own cooling here? The developer board looks like it has a beefy fan-based cooler whereas I don't see one on the module.
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We essentially have

1. Upvotes & Downvotes on articles and comments
(This is what HN wants - insights by crowdsourcing)

2. Reputation (this is the fruit the users want)

3. Gaming (HN gaming the users by rewarding/denying the fruit)
- Reward (unlocking site features)
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There is nothing pro working class about the shit portrayed in South Park.
I was very glad to see this was genuinely about apples, and not a piece about Apple Inc. A great risk taken by Mr. Carter. To have the foresight that people would be so uncommittal 19 years hence that eating a whole apple would become a challenge would be quite a depressing thought.
It just added another criteria to natural selection process, not derailed anything
Humans can give dengue virus to mosquitos
I make my kids wear 'em to bed.
> Or because I'm right but present an unpopular opinion?

Some opinions are neither right nor wrong, they are just point of views, and the unpopular ones tend to get downvoted--admittedly, to a lesser extent on HN than other communities, but still happens. This has the unfortunate effect that, as you point out, the downvoted author doesn't know if there was something wrong with the tone or content, or if it just happened that his/her views are unpopular.

Maybe asking for a few words (presumably in a small, unintrusive ajax form, and not visible in the main thread) as reason for downvoting could be useful, and somewhat deter "not-my-opinion-at-all" downvotes.
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They would have to pay more for Valve than any other company they've ever acquired with the exception of Motorola, I think. And I'm still not even sure Valve would say yes, even to a $10b offer (I'd hazard a guess at a fair offer being $5b-10b).
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Well yes, of course, but my point is that on mega farms you can use gigantic tractors which process a lot more crops than your tiny tractor or even what you can collect by hand. Just like transporting 50 people is a lot more efficient by bus, instead of having 50 cars. And mega farms don't have to use so much pesticide, and mega farms don't have to throw away ugly crops - this happens due to a stupid system around how we sell vegetables, nothing to do with farm efficiency.
I'm in my late 20s and I love whiteboards...
Same problem in the biotech space. Lots of Software-minded investors != knowledge about biology/chemistry.
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Their point was that the ability is going to be removed if it gets used at all. That just doesn't make any sense given the fact I outlined in my response.
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The media has been slightly mixed up about the whole Chrome OS claim.

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/11/chrome-os-is-here-to-stay...
This is exactly what I need for my deep learning research. Iv been abusing my raspberry pi 2 with heavy neuro nets. Shame about the prise though. I will wait for the price to drop(hopefully).
So, gee, now all concepts of intellectual property (IP) and proprietary technology are kaput? So we should just f'get
about patents and trade secret
protections. And for national
security, sure, no longer need
security classifications such
as Confidential, Secret, Top
Secret, etc.

Sorry, I don't believe that.

Here's my guess at why people
say not to keep an idea
secret and, instead, to tell
the world: By an idea they
mean just a rough description
of a commercial product/service
as a user/customer might see
it. The technology used
for the product/service is
just routine software and
common, off the shelf (COTS)
hardware. Any crucial, core,
original proprietary technology
is not expected and is just
missing.

Instead, when there was some
software for automatic trading
and it appeared that a guy
got a personal copy, the
owners of that software started
legal action to protect their
technology and intellectual
property -- they didn't tell
the world the crucial, core
internal details of just how
their software worked.
I really doubt Gabe would ever sell. He's just not that type of person, and Google would get zero benefit from Steam, its not their realm at all.
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I'd be okay with the NSA collecting everything if we could all access it. Having an elite, privileged 'security class' in society is absolutely heinous. But if the NSA could give Google a run for their money in terms of providing real service from the data they collect, in an open and transparent fashion, I think it'd be great for the world.

I know I for sure would benefit from being able to access my long-ago lost data again ..
I wonder why cats can only poo immediately after a meal...
In terms of a concrete example of what we actually use it for, http://www.nature.com/srep/ is using Shunter, as is http://www.nature.com/search?journal=srep&q=physics&subject=. Behind the scenes they're completely different apps, but they use the same implementation of the visual language so there's a consistent UI.
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If I understand correctly, he did a lot of the work with the idea of selling hotels an alternative to the keycard programmers that come with the locks, and the company that did that purchased stuff to work with.

This story has lots of discussion of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281722

Especially this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282666

(Also, not all hotels, just lots and lots of them that used that particular implementation)
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Search for "evolution" in this article and you will find nothing about the headline topic. Just a couple token mentions of how things are different now than during most of our evolution--a fancy way of saying "before."

Rather than derailing our evolution, the "Western Diet" is part of our evolution. Our children's hair does not fall out due to malnutrition, and that's pretty cool (if you want to see a place where it does, go to Papua, where they do a mostly simple vegetarian diet like the Burkina Faso folks praised in this article).

As for the "Western" part of the headline...a diet lower in fibre and higher in protein, fat, and sugar can equally be found in China and Indonesia, which happen to be two of the largest countries in the world, and very much in the East. So don't feel too bad about which hemisphere you were born in.
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The exact quote from the paper is on page 9:

"We therefore also examined the relationship between hospitalisation rates and helmet use proportions in the strata, and again did not find the expected protective effect"
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Multiple users reported it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10385612
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