skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar vein: http://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Does this line strike anyone else as just not true based on their numbers?

Quizlet is now the ~50th biggest website in the U.S.
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I wonder if AlphaGo has some specialized knowledge to handle ladders, where stones can have an effect at a distance that might only come into play after 20 moves.
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AI enthusiast and amateur player here: Michael Redmond made a great point yesterday, if the algorithm is only interested in maximizing probability of win and ignoring margin of victory, shouldn't there be some override for weak moves played when the lead is sufficient? AlphaGo played some weak moves when it perceived it was sufficiently ahead yesterday in the end game. A truly intelligent opponent will play strong moves even when sufficiently ahead, no?
The way I understood it is that the people receiving such an email were already on the beta-test invite mailing list. So they knew about the product already.
Yudkowsky writes without modesty and doesn't mind seeming arrogant. This doesn't particularly bug me; in fact I kind of like it - I think he's a fascinating guy. But a lot of people find his writing style intolerable, and he has a disproportionate number of antifans.
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Isn't this the norm outside of the Silicon Valley bubble? Maybe everyone I know (including myself) all just happen to have worked for shitty companies all our careers, but I don't know of any company where I would be comfortable "venting" to my manager.
Not only did the commentator do a triple-take, but the next white move took Sedol about 15 minutes.

One interesting thing that happened during the time for Sedol's next move was that the 9th dan commentator started referring to AlphaGo as "he".
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Saw someone describe Twitter as "marketing department talking to other marketing department about marketing"
Hardly. "Enemy" is a matter of perspective, but there are actual "bad guys", regardless of what side I'm on.

As a simple illustration, if you were a holocaust victim at Auschwitz, the Nazi regime is your enemy, even if you're passive in your resistance, as many were. The Nazis are also the bad guys. Even though you are the Nazis' enemy, you are not the bad guy. The bad guys are the ones murdering millions.

Often in conflicts, both sides are bad guys (for example, warring criminal gangs). The term "bad guys" doesn't necessarily mean there are "good guys" opposing them.
My main concern with picking GCP would be that Google has a history of shutting down projects. I feel like they are more likely to shutter GCP than Amazon is with AWS.
There was a lot of density in my comment. I'll unravel.

The point is I'm a linux-only gamer using firefox. I am clearly not their target market. I felt it appropriate to explain that I was not about to download chrome(ium) on my device in order to view their game. Browser monocultures are a dangerous meme I do not wish to support.

If there was a chance it would be ported to SteamOS, I would buy it in a heartbeat, even if I didn't get to play the demo (the Youtube video was nice). It's safe to guess (I'd love to be wrong) that, if they're focusing on only one browser, they're likely going to focus on only one platform. If I'm wrong, and this ends up being released via emscripten/asm.js, (or, even better, a native SteamOS port) I'll happily eat my words.

SteamOS has some lousy linux ports so far, unless you get Ryan Gordon to port it, or use Unity/Unreal. My "Half-assed" parenthetical was in reference to this. There's a real Blue Ocean opportunity here for good coders fluent in DirectX and OpenGL/SDL to make decent careers off porting to SteamOS right now.
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That would be really interesting, although for people without sight I think being able to aim the device would be very important.

perhaps a glove with a sensor on each finger once the technology catches up.

What if you had sensors like these all over your body. Do you think the body would hit some kind of sensory overload and it would cease to be useful?
Would it be possible to play in a random/unpredictable fashion and win a game of go? If so, that may be one approach to beating the computer.
Hello,

I had this idea about 5 years ago when I was in college. However, I never pursued it because I think I was afraid to fail. But this idea has never left my head so I said screw it and decided to just go for it. Library is gamifying sharing content. The way it works is that everyday there's a theme and users submit photos and posts related to that day's theme and users can comment and vote on their favorite photo or post. The user with the most votes picks the next day's theme. I would greatly appreciate any input or feedback you have.

Thank you
The Best Cloud is probably a combination of all.
Since that would give you the highest Availability.
Why is it a denial of anything? Machines can go faster than we can and we still have the 100m dash.
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Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of Manager Tools before. Found the site, will take some of their podcasts for a spin!
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We've changed the title of this one back from "Graph databases 101".

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to "please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait". Note how that does not read "please change the title to make it more misleading and linkbait".
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> My guess is, if you consider proposing such a device to blind people, sound feedback would be an instant deal-breaker.

I think you're right if the audio takes over the environment. Beeping and buzzing would be especially irritating. But OTOH, echo location is audible, and it's the main way that some blind people "see", so there's already evidence that audio is not a deal-breaker, or doesn't have to be.

> It would be very interesting to try and encode a wider sensing in finer ways: more buzzers, different "tones" of vibration... giving simultaneously information about what's exactly in front of the stick, and what the wider surroundings are like. I wonder what kinds of encodings are easiest to learn.

I agree completely. If you think about echo location, the source sound, a tongue click or whatever, has a wide spread. The sound that goes out echoes off everything nearby, it's not just a point-sample of distance. Furthermore, the echo that comes back has all kinds of texture to it, and blind people often talk about how they can hear the shape and material of things. They're getting multi-dimensional information from the echoes, not just a guess of how far away something is. They get amplitude and reverb/decay and stereo to work with, just for a start. It would indeed be very interesting to explore how a sensor device could achieve this same subtlety and multi-dimensionality!
Tangent, but Hanselman, you, Meijers, et al are slowly but effectively changing the perception of Microsoft amongst my "live by the iPhone die by the MacBook" friends. Candor like this, good tooling[1] and community involvement/outreach. Y'all are already significantly more open than the Apple ecosystem - stick with it and my die-hard GPL fanboy friends might be the next converts[2] ;).

[1] Just absolutely fantastic tooling, every cent of that VS Ultimate license was worth it in engineering hours saved in one project just with the historical debugging function alone.
[2] Haha, fat chance. Some of them went to law school just so they could work at the FSF. Either way, you guys are on a roll. Take out the Telemetry in Win10 though, you've almost captured the hearts, minds and market of that dev-demographic, but "Customer Service Profile Reporting" skeeves engineers out.
I think that's a big part of the disconnect. Unless you are a devotee of EY, you generally don't "get" him. I suspect that it's because he mostly operates in the echo chamber that is the "less wrong" community.

In short, he generally does not get credit for what he knows and understands because he cannot communicate clearly with people who do not already know and understand his philosophy.

Said another way, if you can't explain things to people unless they already understand you, then you can't explain things to people.
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It puts it into perspective that he's 19. Some healthy youthful arrogance. He doesn't seem to understand that 6 months to a deep neural net running on 200 GPUs and 1000 CPUs is equivalent to a millenia for a human player.

He will be destroyed just like Lee Sedol, but its good for him to believe he can win so he puts up a fight.
I had to anonymize the code a bit and it seems like I messed up doing so in the gist. I am sorry! I will unsure to run it through gofmt the next time. Thank you for the feedback!
Greed is good. You can be greedy you just have to be fair and respect your employer's time and investment. They are not entitled to your labor in perpetuity just because they hired you. You have to give them something or risk burning bridges and not developing a professional network.

Feeling like your being taken advantage is something I think you should never express. One HN poster put it very eloquently. At the end of the month when you are paid you and your employe are square. You don't owe them anything and they don't owe you anything. By continuing to work there you are agreeing to trade the next month for what they have promised to pay you and no more.

Stay away from talking about the past. You can't collect on perceived past debts. That's also why I don't like to make compensation about performance. It's up to my employer to decide whether the business value I deliver is worth what I cost. If you have an offer in hand this is what you cost. It's not ambiguous or nebulous like performance and that's why managers love to talk about performance. Don't indulge them.

Sure I have felt taken advantage of, but it's not really your employer. It's the game. It's crap and we all have to work within it to maximize the value we can realize. Your employer is doing it and so should you.

And don't think I haven't lost with that strategy before. I have worked for people who did not recognize the business value I provided. It's not a big deal. It happens. You move on and maybe they are right or maybe you are right. Maybe the next thing is better than what you had or maybe it isn't
I disagree that he tries too hard to sound smart. I despise the tendency to unnecessarily use complex words when simple ones will do. Police officers, for example, are rightly famous for this tendency. In Eliezer's writing and in this Q&A, the complex words are there because they are the most concise and precise expression of what he's trying to say -- simpler words would either be inaccurate or would have to go on at length.

For example:

Horgan: Is college overrated?

Yudkowsky: It'd be very surprising if college were underrated, given the social desirability bias of endorsing college.

You'd need a few paragraphs to explain what Yudkowsky means to people who don't already understand social desirability bias.
https://alpha.corsair-game.net/demo redirects to https://corsair-game.net/unsupported-browser/

Unsupported browser

The browser you are currently using is unfortunately not supported.

As of now Corsair can only be played with Chrome. In the future we hope to add support for more browsers.
Ah! Seems like I messed up the markdown. Fixed now. Thank you for your feedback.
Can be fixed pretty easily with a "loading..." message, but I guess no ones going to fix something they don't know is broken (since the developer will be using fast internet)
And that doesn't even account for lexical drift. At the time, "regulate" meant to moderate, normalize, or make uniform, a sense that is more accurately captured now in the word "regularize". The clause, at the time, probably meant that Congress was to have the power to force all states follow uniform rules with respect to trade.

The intent was probably to protect other states from circumstances wherein California could determine the emissions requirements of their cars and Texas could determine the content of their textbooks.

The clause, as intended, would have allowed the Uniform Commercial Code to be federal law instead of identical legislation passed by all 50 states. But it would not have allowed for the aforementioned political expediency.
I only know OpenGL as a CounterStrike 1.6 Player. OpenGL simply means more better graphics than Software mode.
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One the reasons why it took so long (2 months to approval) is there isn't a clear set of rules for success.

When you submit to Play store or Apple store, there's a list of guidelines and checkbox reasons why you get rejected.

With Slack, it's more like having a conversation about making it better, not necessary a fixed set of rules.

It probably didn't help that we submitted in mid-December when most people were already on holiday.
If you're a programmer, you like to solve puzzles,

No -- we like solving problems. Especially those that have a legitimate context (i.e. are explicitly linked to some actual, real, business or social problem). And for which our skills are truly relevant needed (specifically, for which no one has a readily available answer, at the moment).

But made-up "puzzles"? For which the asker already knows the answer, so they sit back and watch us dance?

Not so much.
Simply because it is quite difficult to explain the concept in writing.

Then maybe it's not such a good concept.
Is this a cult? I enjoy the was Halmos and Feynman talk about things. I've never read anything interesting from Yudkowsky...
I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing. The lean JVM installation script is also useful (I won't re-distributed the image built that way though).
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>> You spend what's necessary

> The question is not necessity, it's cost/benefit.

Necessity is everything. Cost-benefit might factor in when comparing different options, but the cost is often very high, especially to retrofit accommodations onto existing systems, when compared to the benefit that the general population receives from those accommodations. But we do it anyway, because we live in a civilized society that recognizes not everybody is the same.

Comparing it to armored houses is stupid, because while armored houses might be sufficient for security, they are certainly not necessary. The threat model imposes a ceiling on any benefits: anything beyond that is not necessary, it's wasteful.

> When it takes as much or more effort to do the accessibility as to create the product in the first place, or requires a skill set the maker doesn't normally possess.

So there are two problems here.

* Accessibility is like (software) security. Both should be treated as part of the process, where they are incorporated into the design from the outset. Just like security, if you try to tack on accessibility after everything is designed and built, then it takes longer to implement, costs more, and integrates poorly due to working around the existing design rather than within it, and generally less convenient/usable.

* The biggest "skill" that people need is simply awareness and perspective -- not everybody is like you! Especially in software, good practices for accessibility are often reflective of generally good practices anyway.

If you're slinging HTML, use semantically correct elements, put alt tags with images, label your forms and make sure they are keyboard-navigable. Are you a web developer that's never heard of ARIA? Shame on you -- you're not much of a web developer if you only cherry-pick the parts you like to use. This stuff is not hard. Again, it's less of a skill and more of a broadening of your world view to recognize that not everybody is like you, and trying to take those people into consideration. Would you build a web site and ignore IE users completely, just because you don't use IE?

> The argument seems to be that disabled people shouldn't have to do something different

That's not the argument at all. They do things differently all the time -- and usually it's fine, as long as the accommodation is reasonable.

The gist of the article, by my reading, is that accessibility, convenience, and being environmentally friendly are often at odds with each other.

The argument is not that Whole Foods has a moral imperative to offer pre-peeled oranges, just that there are certain classes of people that actually do benefit from pre-peeled oranges, while acknowledging there is an environmental impact. Disabled people are acutely aware of the externalities that their handicap imposes on society, so it is a relief when mainstream goods and practices shift towards being more accessible by default, such as supermarkets offering pre-chopped vegetables or, yes, pre-peeled oranges.
1) https://www.ipscell.com/2012/04/the-real-but-oft-ignored-dan...

2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070641/

The abstract from 2) : "Stem cell therapy holds the promise to treat degenerative diseases, cancer and repair of damaged tissues for which there are currently no or limited therapeutic options. The potential of stem cell therapies has long been recognised and the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) has boosted the stem cell field leading to increasing development and scientific knowledge. Despite the clinical potential of stem cell based medicinal products there are also potential and unanticipated risks. These risks deserve a thorough discussion within the perspective of current scientific knowledge and experience. Evaluation of potential risks should be a prerequisite step before clinical use of stem cell based medicinal products.

The risk profile of stem cell based medicinal products depends on many risk factors, which include the type of stem cells, their differentiation status and proliferation capacity, the route of administration, the intended location, in vitro culture and/or other manipulation steps, irreversibility of treatment, need/possibility for concurrent tissue regeneration in case of irreversible tissue loss, and long-term survival of engrafted cells. Together these factors determine the risk profile associated with a stem cell based medicinal product. The identified risks (i.e. risks identified in clinical experience) or potential/theoretical risks (i.e. risks observed in animal studies) include tumour formation, unwanted immune responses and the transmission of adventitious agents.

Currently, there is no clinical experience with pluripotent stem cells (i.e. embryonal stem cells and iPSC). Based on their characteristics of unlimited self-renewal and high proliferation rate the risks associated with a product containing these cells (e.g. risk on tumour formation) are considered high, if not perceived to be unacceptable. In contrast, the vast majority of small-sized clinical trials conducted with mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSC) in regenerative medicine applications has not reported major health concerns, suggesting that MSC therapies could be relatively safe. However, in some clinical trials serious adverse events have been reported, which emphasizes the need for additional knowledge, particularly with regard to biological mechanisms and long term safety."
Is 6px free?
That makes sense. I'm seeing index-free adjacency mentioned in some other comparisons. Sounds pretty cool.

So if each node has pointers directly to related nodes (without needing an index lookup), does that also mean that inserts and updates are slower? From what I understand, if you're bypassing the need for an index lookup at query time, you have to pay for that at some other point in time - specifically by looking up the appropriate pointers at the time of insert/update. Is that accurate?
On the other hand, https://www.quantcast.com/quizlet.com
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"Azure was eliminated since its a Linux-second cloud"

I have a feeling this person never really dove into Azure, and just wrote it off because it had Microsoft services built in; and of course various sysadmins still have a strong bias against Microsoft, especially if they are Open Source advocates. Seems like the entire article is mostly just comparing AWS to GCP instead of giving an actual overview of the cloud landscape, just brushes off every other provider (that's not AWS or GCP) without diving into an actually reason -why.-
Actually 150th in the US and 794th world-wide, according to Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quizlet.com

Not to say 150th isn't impressive or likely a lot of traffic.. but if you're going to post a number and claim like that, it should be accurate.
Please don't be snarkily dismissive on HN.

If you know so much that others' mistakes are trivial to you, why not share something informative and non-obvious? Don't just put others down; teach us something.
I wasn't familiar with "synthetic transactions" until I read this post--great write up! Synthetic transactions are kind of like TDD on a live system (really loose analogy). It's a cool concept for keeping microservices consistent and bug-free by verifying responses return data that are expected.
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Simply because it is quite difficult to explain the concept in writing.

They might have a different point of view as to the quality of your work. Or they may have taken other factors in consideration (your portfolio, communication style, etc).

But not contacting you with any kind of a status afterward is definitely shabby, on their part.

And asking you to do a second assignment without taking a moment to evaluate your first (and apparently without bothering to tell you in advance that not one, but two or more "quick" assignments would need to be done), all the more so.
Serve-and-volley is pretty much non-existent in modern professional singles tennis. We were always taught to attack the net, and every action was basically laying the groundwork to move forwards and attack.

Nowadays, top players slug it out baseline-to-baseline.

In terms of stance, we were taught to hit from a rotated position where your shoulder faces the net, and a normal vector from your chest points to either the left or right side of the court.

Nowadays, it's much more common to hit from an "open" position, where your body is facing the net, not turned. This would have been considered "unprepared" or poor footwork in my day, but it actually allows for greater reach. It does make it more difficult to hit a hard shot, but that's made up for by racquet technology and generally stronger players.
Please clarify what you mean by "access to run ... only their containers". How is that possible?
Don't trust Alexa results, they are mostly useless.

Quantcast is usually more accurate and Quizlet US Rank on Quantcast is 37.
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Did anyone manage to create anything other than eletronic parts?
I think it's more interesting to note that they couldn't exactly buy that from anyone else.