skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got a point there, but I'd ask why not remove the packages that aren't being used? Here's some of the raw data about which system libraries are lagging in security patches:

liblwres90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
mysql-common 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
libmysqlclient-dev 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
libmysqlclient18 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
rsync 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1
bind9-host 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
libisccc90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
libisc95 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
dnsutils 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
linux-libc-dev 3.13.0-74.118
libbind9-90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
libdns100 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
libxml2-dev 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
libisccfg90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
So the team beat Fan Hui, a rank 2 dan professional player. To put that in perspective, the highest ranked professionals are 9 dan corresponding to many hundreds higher score in ELO. Still a long way to go to topple the world champion!
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense...

Although I do question whether OP meant the same thing as he specifically mentioned the gender of his co-workers which in such a scenario would be rather irrelevant.

Since I'm in the comfort of my own home I totally overlooked this option :S
The darkest mobile web browser where it loads pages super fast
Doing GUI calls is a notorious way to slow down apps.

Seriously. One notable Smalltalker sped up the compiler in VisualWorks this way. Yes, there is a compiler in Smalltalk, it just usually only compiles one method at a time, which had a lot to do with why no one noticed that printing notifications to the transcript took up most of the time. So for a bulk code load, turning off the notification sped up "compile time" a whole lot. In fact, the JIT-ed Smalltalk in VisualWorks actually outperformed the C/YACC implemented compiler in a different Smalltalk.

Someone needs to keep track of this stuff. Why do we keep making the same mistakes over the decades? (Insert famous Alan Kay quote here.)
The data can be faked or deleted within IPTC fields, of course.

What IPTC fields have over the typical ways of handling attribution is that they are not left behind when the image file is copied--so they should be more resistant to accidental removal of attribution metadata.

On most websites, the attribution is a line of text that is displayed next to the image. Anyone copying the image, who wishes to preserve attribution, must also separately copy the attribution text. Then they need a way to store that text, and keep it associated with the image. Not easy, actually!

> Once the photo metadata is gone, it is too easy for others to claim it is an 'orphan work' and avoid liability under copyright law.

You cannot avoid liability this way. Under the law, it is the responsibility of the person using an image to know that they have the right to use it. Just claiming "I thought it was orphaned" does not work if you are being sued by the actual image rightsholder.

> I use and rely on Exif tags a lot but they are fragile and you cannot rely on them staying embedded with your images once they hit the web.

Yes, this is my point! They're fragile because web services don't preserve them--but theoretically they could.

The cynical side of me thinks that a lot of web services don't want to know all the rights data for the media they carry. Ignoring rights gets them more traffic and engagement, and under the relevant law (the DMCA), they are allowed to. All they have to do is remove infringing images when the rights holder requests it.
The open animation is way too slow. Not great UX.
Monster Machine Cracks the Game of Go
That's not right: http://senseis.xmp.net/?FanHui
We took HN's feedback and launched Publicize 2.0. Startups look at PR as a black box, and our aim with 2.0 is to deconstruct the PR process. Any comments and feedback are appreciated.
It will of course be simulated. Without getting too metaphysical the question of whether there is anything beyond computation is at this point largely spiritual. There are also reasonable arguments that all of reality as we know it is one large simulation. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
It's the fact that whenever there are sexy people as placeholders, it is always women and never men. That's sexism right there. We just got used to it.
They can't secure Wordpress for you. You still have to do that yourself. Wordpress plugins are chock-full of holes, probably the biggest attack surface this side of Windows XP.
The reasons I use VMWare Fusion are:

1. VirtualBox shared folders performance is terrible.

2. VMWare Fusion is the only shared folders implementation I've found (tried Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare Fusion) that can follow symbolic links, making them look like normal files/directories on the guest (useful for Windows guests which don't understand nix symlinks).

3. IIS can't host applications off of VirtualBox shared folders for some permissions reason, which cannot be fixed.

I really hope VMWare Fusion doesn't die, as it's the only product I've found that supports my use case.
What risks do you see?

BTW, the idea is not radically new. Java loads classes only when they are accessed first time.

Operating systems load native applications by mapping executable file into virtual memory. The pages are loaded into physical memory only when CPU tries to access them.
Very impressive work. When the neural nets for go paper came out a year ago I played around and implemented it (but never got good results), and was very inspired by using neural networks for Go. As an amateur fan of the game, I was particularly intrigued by the neural network's more human-like understanding of the game (if you look at earlier layers, you see patterns that make sense to a Go player).

That said, Fan Hui, who Google just beat, is a 2p player, which while incredibly strong is still far away from Lee Sedol or Gu Li. But given the pace of NN progress in recent years, and the incredible resources Google has been devoting to it, I wouldn't give them more than a decade or two.
Is it possible, or in any way related, that a small but non-zero curvature could be responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe? I don't know, it's hard to picture. But I'm thinking the idea that you can look at a sphere as a 2 dimensional space that curves and eventually wraps around such that things going opposite directions on its surface eventually can run into each other again.

That would probably be more easily measured though. I don't know.
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Note that the game won by AlphaGo against the human player took place in October last year.
No, Nurse, My Health Issues Aren’t All Rooted in My Sex Work
> ... anyone who wants to enlarge its available message space ...

Bear in mind that the proof-of-work algorithm actually aims to reduce chatter on the network. Every ten minutes, a single Bitcoin full node broadcasts: "Hey, this is the latest state of the ledger, and you can trust it because [insert proof-of-work that was calculated out-of-band]." So, as the network's processing power scales up, the computation difficulty is also scaled up, so that the "message space" required for consensus remains constant.

> That seems rather limited for a growing population's needs for communications around an increasingly valuable resource base.

While the way distributed consensus is achieved (see "Byzantine Generals' Problem") consumes most of the network's processing power, it's what makes the resource valuable. However, since this is done in parallel, it hardly consumes any of the network's bandwidth, freeing up that "message space" for important things like sending/receiving/propagating transactions, which are much less demanding computationally. All that is required there is some elliptic curve cryptography (ie. a valid public/private key pair + any low-powered device with correct software and an internet connection.)
Can I read the paper somewhere without a Nature subscription?
A computer just beat a human champion at ancient Chinese game Go
In my experience, facebook has settings reset bugs that can turn off previous settings, sometimes to your surprise. Like a friend group you choose to post to as a default gets reset to all friends without you noticing, or these kind of video autoplay settings.
Facing a Price War, Uber Bets on Volume and Cuts Rates
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An NFL player was just accepted to the math PhD program at MIT
relevant xkcd - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1002:_Game_AIs
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Not just in your opinion, Go is objectively much more difficult for computers than Chess.
> "that weirdo who spent 6 minutes zooming in on Emma Watson's elbow"

Hahaha I can see how that'd be a problem but OP specifically mentioned the gender of his co-workers which struck me as weird.
A martyr without cause. Feel free not to use the plugin if you find the content of its demo page to be morally questionable.
Because that's exactly what it is?

This might be different if the law in question wasn't utterly ridiculous.
... it made me wonder if ease-of-collaboration can be considered a useful perk for languages/frameworks.

You could make a fair argument that ease of collaboration is the useful perk for the kinds of framework we’re discussing here.

In most cases, these frameworks don’t offer radical new functionality, but they do provide a focal point for developers interested in similar functionality.
So you don't believe there is any distinction between being "alive" and running software? Providing of course the software is complex enough to display human traits such as thought, emotions, creativity and so forth?

Just to be clear, I hold no solid viewpoint on this, I'm just interested as to what other folk here think.
It seems pretty clear it's the NTP servers themselves. All the servers are in the same small subnet, and 2 of them even have rDNS hostnames indicating they're owned by shodan.io.
This is a good point. I think the need for new programs has actually decreased relative to the overall need for software solutions over the past, say, twenty years. Between the rise of open source and the fact that lots of software products being built aren't very technically innovative I suspect the relative need for new code has decreased. It's more often about broadly figuring out how best to solve problems.

I wouldn't be surprised if, in response to this trend, we see the formalization of a new "product developer" role at startups that is kind of a hybrid engineer / product manager. This person can code perfectly well, but is also scrappy and really good at getting shit done. The Alice character in the story above would fit this role perfectly. These people can drive way too much business value for their role not to become a defined hiring target eventually.
Just curious, what does 16/8 intermittent fasting mean? Doesn't everyone do intermittent fasting through sleep for 8 or more hours of a day?
Clever, but nothing to do with general intelligence.
Ask HN: My project is dead.I have a fully functional app. What can I do with it?
I have a fully functional web app sitting on my desktop. I'm sure I'm not the only one. What do you typically do with this? Is someone in this same position? If you are, let's talk maybe we can put together something cool.
1. What, exactly, do you mean by "consciousness"?

2. What is the difference between "having" consciousness and "simulating" it?
Don't set a constant poison, the attacker will just overwrite the poison with A5s. Generate a random byte on start-up.
Personally, I'm not sure, which is one of the reasons I posed the question. But I seem to be being down voted for even raising it...
DeepMind/Google has a hosted copy: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/d...
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He's the European Champion: https://www.facebook.com/egc2015cz/posts/906549689415462
Google AlphaGo computer beats professional at Go
Challenge of the Go-bot: How a machine cracked ‘the most complex game’
The aesthetics of the FF addon marketplace are the way they are because Mozilla neglected that property for many years. There's currently a new initiative to redesign and build out an updated version of the marketplace, so expect the design to look like the chrome one soon.
Life and Times of Oculus Rift
A.I. Masters Wickedly Complex Game of 'Go'
Another place people seem to get jumbled up in these discussions is in comparing institutional traders to individual retail traders.

A person buying or selling individual stocks for their own portfolio isn't impacted by HFT at all. Their orders probably never see a real exchange. Instead, internalizers pay extra money to offer brokerage customers the best possible prices for what they're looking to trade.

That's because HFTs aren't the apex predator in the markets. Informed institutional traders like Goldman are. Market making operations are built around mitigating the risk of getting run over by giant block trades from institutions. When those happen, they take out whole swathes of the order book and leave adverse price changes in their wake.

An electronic market maker will pay a premium to make safe profits off the spread of retail orders, because to a first approximation none of those orders are going to take out the whole book.

Meanwhile, among institutional traders, there are two kinds of firms to look at.

The first kind, the Royal Banks of Canada of the world, are getting paid a tidy sum of money to make large block trades for the cheapest possible price. The RBC trader has knowledge that the rest of the market doesn't: many tens of thousands of shares of something are about to trade, and that trade is going to move the market. They make money by trying to disguise their intent, so that instead of the market price reflecting that intent, they can capture the premium and leave everyone else in the market to hold the bag.

Those kinds of traders hate HFT.

The other kind, the Vanguards of the world, buy or sell based on long-term strategies. They're buying CSCO or MMM to fill out an index. They want the best possible price, of course, but they mostly care about determinism and low cost of trades.

Those kinds of traders like HFT. (You can see the Chief Investment Officer of Vanguard, the world's most trustworthy mutual fund company, saying that repeatedly and emphatically). HFTs reduce spreads and make trading cheaper, and Vanguard doesn't earn profits by taking it out of the hides of their immediate counterparties.

As a public policy matter, I'm not sure why I'm supposed to support regulations that increase Vanguard's cost of trades so that an equities desk at RBC can charge higher premiums to fleece the markets on behalf of their hedge fund clients.
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But if you're Alice, you can spend your time coding the new, exciting stuff, instead of coding yet another CMS for the umpteenth time.
Yep, that's exactly what it's saying.
I'm not sure if that's always the best way of looking at it since I think most professional dan titles are accomplishment based instead of a measurement of comparative skill.

That said, Europe is not the top of the world in Go playing, so while it's notable that Fan Hui represents professional play above beating 9ds on KGS, it may still be a long slog before it can approach Chinese, Korean, or Japanese professionals.
Not just in your opinion. The search space is exponentially larger in go because you can place a piece on any unoccupied square.

"The search space for Go's game tree is both wider and deeper than that of chess. It has been estimated to be as big as 10^170 compared to 10^50 for chess, making the normal brute-force game tree search algorithms much less effective. "

http://ai-depot.com/LogicGames/Go-Complexity.html

To provide a little more perspective. The estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is about 4*10^80. So we have no hope of ever being capable of "solving" go by mapping out every possible game state AKA "brute forcing" the game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number
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I agree with you, and I don't feel picked on, since I didn't say fats come from processed crap.

Your example is one of a healthy diet, IMO, and fats are part of a healthy diet.

My one and only point is that too much fat, even from natural sources, is unhealthy, and the jury is not out on that, it is a known, proven fact.
they're low risk compared to other businesses, not compared to having a jay oh bee.
Half of Canadian soldiers faced childhood abuse, study indicates
The full quote is "money won't make you happy (within reason)". I agree with this. Once you cover basic needs and some luxuries (say, a car, a nice house, the possibility to travel and pay for the education of your kids; add or subtract whatever floats your particular boat), additional money won't buy you more happiness.

The kind of money that affords you these luxuries also gives you peace of mind. You can always scale back in difficult times, and it won't hurt you much.

Having huge amounts of money won't make you happier -- you'd be well past the "peace of mind" stage at that point -- unless your most desired goal in life is to be a billionaire philantropist like Bill Gates. Or a power player in the world's economy. Or swimming in a pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, I guess.
Looks like every other dsp product. Whats the main sell point ?
Windows GUI vs. Linux commandline
On the Mac, I will be looking into Veertu and xhyve to replace Fusion.

http://veertu.com

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve
I bet that Lyft and Uber would greatly reduce the contention with their drivers if they changed the app so that riders could optionally tip the driver.

I'm sure that enabling tips would create other issues, but the bump in compensation would probably go a long way toward improving the relationship.
if you like declarative js-only templates and less monolithic/locked-in components, check out domvm [1]. disclaimer: mine.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
Thomas Edison's PR powerhouse still trying to make direct current look good and Nikola Tesla's alternating current look bad. When will the madness end?

Note: This is meant as humor. :-)
You're assuming Alice only sets up Wordpress, and isn't doing anything else with all the extra time she has on her hands.

And quite frankly, a portfolio with yet another CMS hand made is not impressive at all. I'd ask the same thing: "Why didn't you use Wordpress, or another off the shelf solution?"
What makes you think so? Developing intuition through pattern recognition has a lot to do with human-like general intelligence.

This is way different from chess programs, which work in a way that's much closer to brute force than human-like pattern recognition.
There's a narrative we're told about entrepreneurs that we're not told about Wall St. One of the founding values of America is that anyone with innovative entrepreneurial drive can start their own business and build wealth from nothing. It's what brought so many immigrants to this country, and is even taught to us in school as being the backbone of capitalism.

Most people in America have never actually met a successful entrepreneur. The shop keep down the street is usually under water with loans, and the big successes are corporations headquartered far away, the founders living in expensive seclusion. Heck, in my case it wasn't until I arrived in the Bay Area in my early 20's before I actually met someone who ran a successful business in person.

The successful entrepreneur is this key person in our social mythology, and stays very much a myth to most people. Their success gets spun into compelling stories that give a lot of hope to those who want a way out of poor circumstances. And in an effort to spin stories that sell, journalists (and PR people) often omit key facts, to match the "Self-Made Man" narrative that the people want to hear.

So, learning that yes it indeed is mostly myth and that no, not everyone can get a shot at being "Self-Made" - is pulling the curtains back on a long standing cultural deceit. The truth that success is mostly limited to a tiny subset of the population based on mixed factors like wealth, education, location, social values, generational cohort, parental upbringing etc, is a bitter pill to swallow.

Eager, but disadvantaged, entrepreneurs have been entering the tech market with this key information being withheld, aiming their sights on holding out for mega VC rounds when they should have been focused on earning a living. This leads to painful failures that could have been prevented. Had these founders been given the right narrative to begin with, they might have been better aligned to scale of business success that's reasonably within their grasp. That's the issue here
Doesn't Google make up a large portion of the private datacenter space?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16833100/why-does-the-mon...
The Odds of Becoming a Millionaire
Online fantasy cricket game built wuth django
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Great resource, thanks for sharing. There's a lot going on lately about neural networks and deep learning on HN, but as a developer not in the field, it can be a bit intimidating to wrap your head around it all.
But it is a liability. If your business could generate the same revenue while spending less resources maintaining internal technology, you'd do it in a heartbeat.
Oh man overblown article.

Fan Hui is 2p, so very skilled, but the ranking system goes up to 9p. To give a sense of how large a gap that is, there is and has only ever been one Westerner to achieve that rank, Michael Redmond. The article states they plan to face off against Lee Sedol 9p, and if they beat him in a no-handicap game, that will be as impressive as Deep Blue against Kasparov.

You'll want to watch this year's Computer Go UEC Cup[0] in March, with Zen and CrazyStone being the typical victors. (CrazyStone in particular has sustained a 6d rating on KGS, a popular Go server, but lately has been at 5d. In the past it has beaten a 9p with a 4 stone handicap, which is impressive, but that handicap is huge and it hasn't yet won with 3 stones.) Of interest this year is that Facebook is competing, and AFAIK they seem to take a similar approach as Google by training the AI using deep learning techniques and then strengthening it further with MCTS. In their public disclosures they claim to beat Pachi pretty often, which puts their bot around 4d-6d, it'll be interesting to see how it fairs against Zen and CrazyStone in the Cup and if it wins against a 9p.

[0] http://jsb.cs.uec.ac.jp/~igo/eng/
Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots
Actually, since we all have a finite amount of time, it's entirely possible Alice has solved real problems with the rest of hers whilst Clive is reinventing the wheel.

For the 99% business he's an expensive liability. Sure he might get jobs, but he'll hardly have a career backed by success.
Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
> It's the fact that whenever there are sexy people as placeholders, it is always women and never men. That's sexism right there. We just got used to it

Always and never are strong terms that I'm not sure of in this context but I understand and agree (to an extend), thank you for explaining :)

As far as whether OP's reaction was justified I guess we'll have to agree to disagree or something...

EDIT:
Although I'm not sure that your "solution" to the problem (looking at picture galleries of hot males) is one that works...

(just kidding)
In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go
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How to use OneDrive as your personal music streaming service
Introducing Linux Network Namespaces
They missed an important emotion: "disgustedly rolling one's eyes". That's my reaction to a lot of the posts I scroll past and don't interact with.
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Any Tolkin fan can tell you what the problem is, if you look to deep into them, you will be watched by the all knowing eye of NS..ähh.auron.
There was a lot more ripple if the refresh rate was set higher but the degausser still ran at 60Hz.
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