skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole thing about the "happiness/money metric" is incredibly misleading, because it doesn't touch upon what money really gets you. Happiness as an emotion might (for some people) trail off after a certain point, but that should be considered irrelevant. Money buys you safety, freedom, and the ability to take risks; those things aren't going to show up in any kind of happiness study. If I had a serious amount of money, that would give me the freedom to work on things I want to work on without having to worry about paying the rent, getting downsized, getting my pay cut, and all the rest.

The idea that the artist that doesn't have to spend their life working in a coffee shop to fund their art or that the software dev that would rather write FLOSS all day rather than take on boring contract gigs isn't happier is absurd on its face.
If you're going to sell me a self-help guide, I want tangible benefits. Tell me if it's about losing weight, managing my time, or how to my shoes.

Don't just call me a fat lazy slob as I'm tripping down the stairs.
Disappointed. I thought the article was going to focus on why a computer isn't even necessary for a computer science degree. In other words - how a computer science degree is mostly just a degree in mathematics, and a lot of the coding that you do (algorithm work, obviously not a software engineering or programming intensive course) should be done with pencil.

I have been seeing a lot of articles claiming that a barrier to CS curriculum in high school is that they don't have the technological capabilities to support such curriculum. Nonsense. If I ran an AP computer science class we would never touch a computer. Pencil and paper only.
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That's actually not what the tipping screen looks like now.
Here's what it's looked like since 2014
http://thehub.lyft.com/blog/2014/10/13/revamped-pay-screen
That only works if the products made by the machines are actually available to the population.

If the machines are privately owned, and you have to pay for the products, you’ll have to work again, too.

At that point maybe we should consider having a UN Charta that tries to make sure the nordic model is applied on a global scale before we allow fully automated systems to replaces whole industries.
"AI won't make this new problem, it's something we already deal with."

Right now, they can get a minimum wage job and survive. My point is that AI could completely replace these and the only way you will be able to get a job is to have some form of education or skill.
Regarding gravity, that was probably a bad analogy. Regarding movement, movement relative to other objects is fundamental. You are begging the question by assuming objective space is required for movement.

Mind you, I'm not arguing that space doesn't exist, only that Newton's argument is flawed.
i think it boils down to this:
if you work in an office where browsing photo galleries of women is not frowned upon, then ok; but that is generally considered unprofessional (and immature) behavior in most workplace cultures -- that is, behavior you'd want to avoid exhibiting at work.
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What you're saying is "Money won't make you happy, but a lack of it will" which is a more accurate statement that doesn't necessarily contradict the shorter version. And this is what most talk about when using similar lines anyway.

You admit development is where you find joy. You could be doing this broke if you didn't need money, but you do for rent etc. So the first step in happiness is to find how much money you need to be able to forget about it. If your goal is to be able to forget about something, it's certainly not something making you happy. It's what makes you miserable, but only when you lack it.

This makes money like water or electricity. Lack of it would make us miserable. But beyond what we need, we cease to think about it. We practically have infinite water coming from our taps, and more than enough electricity we need. But it's the quenching of thirst, the long baths, the phone charging, the computer that's always on... these are the only things that could possibly make us happy.

Resources don't necessarily make us happy or miserable. They're just enablers.
Never?

That sounds like a sure way to make sure any students who took that class would be very disengaged.
I understand that training this thing requires massive amount of computation, so has to be done on a massive cluster to do in reasonable time. Once they have it trained, though, what are the computational requirements like? Would it be feasible to run it on an ordinary PC?

Speaking of Go programs and computation requirements, one of the best performance hacks ever was done by Dave Fotland, the author of the program "Many Faces of Go", which was one of the top computer go programs from the '80s through at least around 2010.

He donated code from MFoG to SPEC, which incorporated it into the SPECInt benchmark. So, the better a given processor was at running Fotland's go code, the better it scored on SPECInt. Since SPEC was one of the most widely reported benchmarks, Intel and AMD and the other processor makers put a lot of effort into making their processors run these benchmarks as fast as they code.

Net result, Fotland had the processor makers working hard to make their processors run his code faster!
Apple needs to buy this team.
At least most IPv4 addresses on a LAN are behind NAT. It's not a firewall but probably has saved some people.
I think GP is making an argument for React by calling it the framework, whereas the OP is the "raw" component.
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You had me until "Wordpress".
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Trying to interview Larry Page
ok so it is semantics. replace design with written.
Yes, I mostly agree with your point. I have been reading a lot of biographies of successful entrepreneurs lately and have discovered that quite a lot of spinning and outright fabrication occurs in how their backgrounds are presented.

Like right now I am reading Elon Musk's biography. It's said he had a "tough" upbringing. Yet he had access to a "Commodore VIC-20" in apartheid-era South Africa and further was able to easily immigrate to Canada and later America in search of further opportunities because he was a Canadian citizen via his mother.
That was what I was doing for the whole first semester of my CS studies: we learned basics of C++ by writing code on paper or on the board. It was very basic stuff, aimed at people who never programmed before, so we learned about loops and other control structures cin/cout streams etc. Probably that's why my CS department stuff thought it would be a waste to let us use real computers in the university's labs :)
This is not quite correct either. 1p is of course generally much stronger than an arbitrary amateur dan (even some (many? most?) 9d amateurs) and you can advance up the pro ranks quickly by winning certain games, but you can see the histograms yourself that while there's a clump of 9ps everywhere but China there's still a distribution. http://senseis.xmp.net/?ProfessionalRankHistograms Another problem is you don't lose your 9p rank once you earn it. It would be nice if there was an international Elo system tracking all the 9ps of various countries to rank them properly... Maybe someone's tried to calculate rankings independently? Still, I think it's pretty uncontroversial that someone who's been a lower-rank pro for longer than a few years is going to be significantly weaker than their higher-rank peers.
She mentions worrying about a $600 hospital bill. I thought in the land of incredible socialized healthcare, these things didn't happen?
This is backwards from how robberies work. Burglars go to a neighborhood and look for a house where nobody's home. They don't pick out a house before hand and wait until it's empty.

Even if they did, why would they try to crack into a government database instead of just sitting outside until you leave?
Well, when was the last time you heard of Cindy Sheehan?
Does it violate your trust to scan anyone who does NTP queries?

a) I never trusted them, so this is fine and to be expected

b) I sort of trusted them, so this is surprising and not polite.

I lean towards (b).
Computer science is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use."

-- Hal Abelson (1986)
> Trying to compare and contrast React with WebComponents inevitably results in specious conclusions, because the two libraries are built to solve different problems. WebComponents provide strong encapsulation for reusable components, while React provides a declarative library that keeps the DOM in sync with your data. The two goals are complementary; engineers can mix-and-match the technologies. As a developer, you are free to use React in your WebComponents, or to use WebComponents in React, or both.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/webcomponents.html
We're talking about a hosted blog, ie., creating an account on WPEngine or similar and sending the credentials to the user. If there was a similar service for bridge building ("choose two points on a map, swipe your CC, get a bridge"), the person using it wouldn't be doing engineering, no.
Brute force statistical inference over millions of examples is an advance, but it is an advance that falls within the same paradigm of machine learning that we've had for decades. IMO, it will really take a paradigm shift to move into general intelligence.
I understand the philosophical part about that, but in my case it just worked without much pain and that was a good thing.
Time is simply a measure of change, so if there is nothing to change how can there be time?
Your instincts are good here. Remember that FB/Google have deep connections to the US government three-letter agencies -- the CIA's VC arm, for example, is an early investor in FB. So what's going on is that they want to do AI research and instead of recruiting directly, they recruit AI/ML researchers to Google, FB, Palantir, etc.

And note, they're not doing it to make everyone happy. They're doing for the reasons you might surmise. Your instincts to be concerned are correct.
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I did my first programming with pencil and paper, and I'm still engaged 30+ years later
What Is 5G Network? In Simple Words
Have a look at my article at https://www.completegate.com/blog/52-applications-of-5g-technology
which explains 5G
What is it? How can it help you? What are its advantages? What are its implementation complexities? Applications of 5G Network?
The 2015 Panic Report
Great achievement.

To summarize, I believe what they do is roughly this: First, they take a large collection of Go moves from expert players and learn a mapping from position to moves (a policy) using a convolutional neural network that simply takes the 19 x 19 board as input. Then they refine a copy of this mapping using reinforcement learning by letting the program play against other instances of the same program: For that they additionally train a mapping from the position to a probability of how how likely it will result in winning the game (the value of that state). With these two networks they navigate through state-space: First they produce a couple of learned expert moves given the current state of the board with the first neural network. Then they check the values of these moves and branch out over the best ones (among other heuristics). When some termination criterion is met, they pick the first move of the best branch and then it's the other player's turn.
this bias is something that has been creeping up more and more; if another unbiased forum for hackers-entrepreneurs does emerge I'd love to hear from it. I'm finding myself back on slashdot often these days, which has less of these ("unicorn x" for "<insert ill-defined market that will mushroom here>) story-press releases. Or polemic-y time wasting topics that have nothing to do with hacking.
When you visit a web site, you trust that it will give you the data you ask, and hopefully not a lot more. You hope that it doesn't give you viruses. Sites that do are not trusted. Sites that don't are... not untrusted. :(

You also hope that visiting a web site doesn't lead to the web site running a scan on your IP address. Or doing any number of other nefarious things.

This kind of trust is at least most peoples assumptions. If it weren't, there would be no outrage or even surprise at the nefarious behaviors which abuse our trust.
I'm doing an Electronics A Level, and we have to hand write code in a fictional assembly dialect.
Yeah. "Looking at pictures of hot chicks" is total bro culture, and unprofessional.
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That's splitting hairs. Do you have a better term for when someone sniffs your trades on the wire and uses their advantaged position to buy up the market and then relist it at a higher price?

Arbitrage doesn't really cover it because people were buying at the original price and may not buy at the marked up price.
We're talking about high school here though. Seems to me it would be like running a chemistry class without doing any lab work.
The best version I've seen for image-heavy lectures is the lecturer writing with his pad on half-prepared slides, which have also been given to the students for print-out.

It combines the advantages from pure slides with pure blackboard writing:

- The student has enough time to think and not just write (has often been a problem when the professor is writing very fast and doing complicated stuff).

- The student still gets to 'touch' the material and have their own take on it, and writes the critical points and diagrams themselves.

- There is no fear of missing something in the hand-written notes when as when deciding between writing and thinking/try to figure out which parts to note down.
TheKing (the engine behind Chessmaster) had the most human seeming play to me and I played most of the engines over the years.

Most of them are more "play like God then hang their queen".

The engines now are so strong I can't beat them with Queen and Rook odds so even that doesn't really help.
Does it bother anyone that humans will eventually no longer be good at anything compared to a computer?

That can't be good for the human psyche.
It's only semantics if you believe "intelligent design" is a thing, or that evolution "wants" anything.
I'm not sure it's just about computational power. Currently we mainly deal with digital computers that process information in a very discrete way. This is a nice article with regards to the human brain being analogue or digital-

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-human-brain-analog-or-digital

The development of quantum computers could offer a huge leap forward with the development of AI.
Most interesting nugget to me was on iOS pricing:

> I brought this up last year and we still haven’t licked it. We had a change of heart — well, an experimental change of heart — and reduced the price of our iOS apps in 2015 to normalize them at $9.99 or less, thinking that was the upper limit and/or sweet spot for iOS app pricing. But it didn’t have a meaningful impact on sales.

> More and more I’m beginning to think we simply made the wrong type of apps for iOS — we made professional tools that aren’t really “in demand” on that platform — and that price isn’t our problem, but interest is.

> So, once again, we will investigate raising our iOS app prices in 2016, with two hopes: that the awesome customers that love and need these apps understand the incredible amount of work that goes into them and that these people are also willing to pay more for a quality professional app (whereas, say, the casual gamer would not).
Right. Timeline and comtex is missing as well. Also, in general terms, I think it is a bad idea to go to management or a company owner amd battle for a out-of-band raise. This is particularly true if one lacks context or visibility into the other layers that make-up the organization. It can make someone look clueless, selfish and not a team player. Nobody wants needy problem employees.

To me context is very important. Most of the frustrating moments I've had with employees has been with sales people. They come at things from a very different perspective when compared to engimeers. Most business owners I know have the same "chills-down-my-back" reaction when asked about sales staff.

Anyhow, I had a sales guy demand commission for closing sales at the office. The problem is I was spending tens of thousands of dollars per month in marketing and hundreds of thousands per trade show to make that phone ring. The job of a sales person is to go turn over stones and find business. What he was doing was taking orders. You don't pay someone a salary and commission (in a small company) to sit idle while fish jump into the boat. You pay them to fish. Anyhow, that guy was gone too.

The best sales person I had was this 20-something girl who did not know the first thing about selling. I hired her to help at a tradeshow. I noticed she was great with customers and bery comfortable with technical material. I hired her as a sales person and trained her over several weeks. She easily made twice the salary of the best sales person I had up to that point. Changed her life and gained an absolute gem of a team member.

Perhaps the real point here is that that's what you want to become: so good that you cannot be ignored. Business owners or management love to throw money lavishly at things and people who produce results. Not one time "got lucky" results but consistent dedication to the cause.
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Even better if they use their "own" superior framework, because they can do better than Wordpress :D

Well, I saw both. Wordpress and Typo3 filled with dozens of custom modules and "from scratch apps" with half baked solutions.

Maybe it just feels to me that the customized CMS-consultancies are in the majority, because they do their stuff for marketing-customers, so they have more skill in getting the word out.
I'd be really interested to see DeepMind tackle a strategy game with a more fluid state space like Starcraft. It may be much more difficult to plot out decisions when they're not bucketed into discrete turns, and you can potentially move everything at once.
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With a few exceptions, businesses of all types have to deal with non-receivables.

A better strategy is to make sure the company that owes you money knows you are serious about collections and will aggressively pursue. Something as simple as having your lawyer send a collections letter by certified mail will deliver a good portion of the time.

If everyone did this, it wouldn't work. Companies that consistently pay late or continuously try to get out of paying are doing so because they simply don't have the cash. If they think you are going to cause them to spend more cash by them not paying you on time, you will get moved up the list.
Well that should be the article link. That's a good answer too.
I don't know, I think this "use what's out there" mentality gets out of hand at times, and at least makes me kind of depressed. For sure, I think you should use whatever is available if the only reasons you want to roll your own tooling basically comes down to syntax or "but it feels nicer" kind of arguments – that's like reinventing screwdrivers because the handle of one gave you a blister that one time when you were using it wrong.

But if you have different ideas about how to structure things, come up with new abstractions that you find solve the problems at hand better than any of the abstractions available to you, then by all means do roll your own. We don't need more clones, but we do need fresh thinking and ideas that don't follow the pack. That's how we progress, by challenging the status quo.

Apologies for the incoherent rant, I hope the point gets across anyway.
Now the question is, how applicable are the approaches developed for AlphaGo to other tree search problems? The beating a professional Go player with less evaluations than it took Deep Blue to beat Kasparov is certainly very exciting.
Slightly irrelevant: I once was in a team where part of the solution involved one dev "hacking Drupal into oblivion" (seriously, that description is incredibly apt). In the end, he had a nervous breakdown and quit the company.

This was mostly caused by unreasonable expectations and a tremendous pressure on the poor guy, but I still like to think that trying to turn Drupal into an eldritch abomination had something to do with it...
Awesome brainstorming tool
Agreed about Caspar Bowden. He worked at Microsoft for a while. And both before and after that, he was very active with the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in the US (he once described CPDP to me as "a European attempt to replicate CFP"), whose sponsors include Microsoft, Google, and other companies that have similar conflicts of interest.

To me it seems that there's something to be said for both approaches. Conferences with corporate sponsorship aren't going to be revolutionary; balanced against that, they do provide places to engage and ways of getting different perspectives out more broadly. [The same's true for government speakers.] Purer conferences like Aral's talking about can have a different focus and I can certainly see why some people prefer them.

So, kudos to Aral for sticking to his principles and declining the invitation. I'm still looking forward to the panel, and don't think that Marc Rotenberg or Brigitta Johansen will limit what they have to say based on the sponsorship.
It doesn't explain why that paricular representation is privileged as being experienced, as opposed to all of the other representations in the brain.

Simply declaring 'that's what subjective experience is' is not an explanation.

Another way of putting this is that you haven't explained why it's necessary that an autobiographical message passing system needs to experience itself, and what the threshold is for qualifying as such a system.
Wow, this is stunning. You guys beat a professional 2-dan player. That happened a lot sooner than expected. There's some kind of exponential evolution going on with AI these days.

Is AlphaGo being made available to the public? I'm a mediocre player, but I'd like to try a few games against it. Current synthetic players don't quite play the same as humans do, and it's a bit jarring. I wonder if the Google AI is more human-like in its style.

Anyway, here's the news from the p.o.v. of AGA:

http://www.usgo.org/news/2016/01/alphago-beats-pro-5-0-in-ma...
For me it's the other way around, I use FF for everything but dev sessions where I use Chrome (I prefer it's dev tools).

I tried breaking the habit for a while but I ended up opening FF all the time by muscle memory.
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>However, when AI gets good enough, it will make capitalism obsolete

ftfy
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