skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will be Facebook, they have the largest collection of data on human intelligence, plus they also have Yann LeCun http://yann.lecun.com one of (if not the top) the top three AI experts (others: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton)
No I don't. The article continues:

> The primes' preferences about the final digits of the primes that follow them can be explained, Soundararajan and Lemke Oliver found, using a much more refined model of randomness in primes, something called the prime k-tuples conjecture.

So I guess that my observation is just a special case of this "prime k-tuples conjecture".
And what happens when that capability is not given to those you trust but instead to your enemies or state actors with vast human rights abuses?

Not mentioned in this article is the cost of those we do not trust having the same keys in the locks, and the power that it would give them, simply saying that this new position is "absolutist" when in fact it is exactly the same as before.

The TSA key and the elevator key were recently leaked and no one can put that genie back in the bottle without replacing all the locks in the city/luggage.

If you design your locks with a fail-safe built in then it will only take someone with specific knowledge of that fail-safe to use it; saying we should just back down and that this is just Silicon Valley misinterpreting existing thought is a complete mischaracterization of the facts and vast new authority the government wants granted.
> uneducated racist people

You sorely overestimate anyone's intentions. Nearly all Trump types simply want productive jobs and to be left alone. I know this because I've worked in factories with them (non-Union).

If it's racist to not want to send my job to China, then you really need to check the definition of racism.

And why is it that so many legal immigrants are pro-Trump? Hmmm.....
No its not, anyone who thinks so does not understand the relationship between the state and its subjects
Commit message:

"source"

cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gneuralnetwork/gneuralnetwork/gneural_network-0.0.1.tar.gz?view=log

Seems like
It's more the fact that gamedev pays about ~40% of traditional developer work. Adding some sort of idealism on top of that means you'll probably do better flipping burgers than developing an open source game.
> It certainly cannot be privacy, because you can turn off every piece of phone-home stuff.

No, you can't.
> CodeDeploy

Yeah...you're not missing much there with CodeDeploy ;)
Hey, you're welcome! Hackday Paris 2011 brings back some nice memories ;)

One problem with what you'd like to do is the pagination. Because we have to send queries to all the shards and then re-rank them, it becomes increasingly hard (and useless for most users) to build pages with p > ~20 (which is why all search engines heavily limit their pagination). So our main infrastructure definitely won't be optimized for that :/

However sending the top ~500 pages with a keyword + a domain filter should be doable pretty easily!
Yes! We made Zube Tickets so support teams and non-technical people have a place to report problems/questions. The cool thing about Zube Tickets is that they automatically track what the development team is working on and notify you when things get done. This makes it easy to know what's going on without having to understand the technical details of every GitHub issue!
For me, it was a fear driven response to anti-science rhetoric. I think anti-vaccine narrative really convinced me the extent to which people act irrationally about personal health. I observed parents self-diagnosing their children with all kinds of made-up conditions solved only by avoiding certain categories of food like GMOs.

As someone with immediate family members with autism, people claiming that removing wheat and dairy from their child's diet would "fix" their "autism" was offensive to me. I trust doctors for the most part to be a superior model to the mommy blogger/anti vaccine crusade. GMOs are another example of misinformation and fear mongering trumping science.

I have since learned the value of genetic self awareness and how little we understand about health and diet issues, especially chronic ones, and so have reversed my position towards people with food sensitives, made up or otherwise, to empathize with the fact that we probably don't understand a given issue well enough yet to fix all of the eating problems people have and so people can do whatever they want.
> But neither Apple nor Canonical has ever gone to the lengths Microsoft is going to in Windows 10 in terms of phone-home

Citation please. This seems like an opinion rather than a fact, as Apple's had at least 3 major privacy scandals involving iOS that I can name offhand.

Remember when Apple was like, "We do not currently/We no longer put that spyware on your phone?"

> and automatically applied updates

I agree here, but this is a muddier issue. You _could_ adopt Apple's "we create an upgrade for older hardware but it's actually a shit upgrade that not only doesn't give you new functionality but makes your device slower since it's not our primary performance target but btw Apps will force you to upgrade" modality. Obviously, I take a dim view of that, as it's not really "not" forced.

As for forced upgrades on Canonical. They won't force your computer to upgrade, but if you don't you'll end up in a situation where you have no choice but to totally reinstall your OS, they'll discontinue hosting the bridge patches. So unless you were very careful setting up your OS (and no, the Ubuntu installer doesn't do that automatically), you can end up in an ugly situation where you need to backup your data and reinstall like it's 2003.

Or you could take MS's tack which is, "You NEED to upgrade. Now. Infosec and our product roadmap won't wait for you to feel comfortable with this."

All of these approaches have downsides.
You should watch the entire segment because he "plot twists" a little past half way.

And the jokes are just part of the Last Week Tonight formula. This is information disguising itself as entertainment, not the other way around. Oliver also did a segment recently about special tax districts that was quite informative, as another example of the LWT formula for you to sample.

You get a lot more information from a LWT piece than from traditional news; the comedy bit might even just be to avoid being sued for satirizing living people (maybe "comedians" can get away with more than "journalists").
The Ethereum DAPP “Cross-Pollination” Fallacy
A visual guide to Bayesian thinking
I learned of q-learning in the berkeley AI course (the pacman course). So I sort of get that. but the course didn't touch neural networks.

what's the difference between q-learning with and q-learning without neural networks? Or, rather, in the process of doing q-learning, where does the neural network slot in, what does it replace if there is no nn?
Still use this in examples xD
Yeah! Yeah!
Thanks for the pointer, sounds like a reasonable speedup to the basic algorithm :)
No. I mean the default ubuntu install still has a microscopic /boot partition which fills up and kills your OS's ability to upgrade and also the only way to fix it is an arcane script that no normal user understands.

I mean I was a professional perl programmer and I barely understand what the commands it recommended I run were doing, it is so golfed. And as for why I had to run them from the terminal? DESKTOP LINUX!
Presenting- Toyota's New Wearable That Helps the Blind See
Believe it or not, but a guy came into the grocery store I work at to send a Western Union to a guy in China. He mentioned that his "friend" needed some money to get something out of something and if he helped him, he'd send him some money. The guy bought it and tried to send a few hundred. Lucky for him, the supervisor on WU duty at the time realized it was a scam and told him that his "friend" is lying. After some more persistence on her part, he eventually left.
Thanks!

We probably won't expose the underlying crawl data ourselves but being able to reference it just like [1] does is indeed important.
Every beginner in Neural networks should probablystart with this and follow with Karpathy's http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets and may be later on http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
Or everyone could just use IRC. Seems like a waste of man-hours and talent to recreate something we've had for decades.
How Gallaudet University’s Architects Are Redefining Deaf Space
The problem isn't with ways for law enforcement to access all your communication with a warrant, for probable cause, on the suspicion of wrongdoing, by upstanding law enforcement officers, and fair trials.

The problem is the potential for abuse. When your secrets get leaked, when they're used unlawfully, when they get in the wrong hands, when the humans who have access to it do the wrong things, if the wrong people get elected, if the wrong laws get enacted that enable more abuse, if another McCarthy comes along and sweeps people up in hysteria.

And that is why we must support strong encryption without backdoors, for everyone, upstanding citizens and criminals alike. The positives simply don't outweigh the negatives.
My college roommate for a few years was also Vietnamese, born in a refugee camp. He went on to a top medical school and today is a specialist doctor.

I often think about how I slacked my way through college, and how hard my friend worked. For me, I figured people were hiring programmers without college degrees, and I could always fall back on my middle class parents; for him and the sacrifices his family made, failure was not an option.

It's a real reminder of what privilege means.
I like the acting human approach (Turing) because it can be stated more precisely. One test is the classic Turing test -- fool a human judge.

Another line for acting human would be the ability to self direct learning in a variety of situations in which a reasonably intelligent human can learn. That means a single algorithmic framework that can learn go, navigate a maze, solve Sudoku, carry on a conversation and decide which of those things to do at any given time. The key is that the go playing skill would need to be acquired without explicitly programming for go.

I believe a lot of our intelligence is the ability to perform solved AI problems given the situation. The key is combining those skills (whether as a single algorithm or a variety of algorithms with an arbiter) and the ability to intelligently direct focus. That's why most researchers aren't confusing alphago with general intelligence. It can play go - period.
Considering the work involved in general, the interface is sort of irrelevant.

Plus, there's no way to tell if your AI is any good if you don't have anyone to play against, and if you're doing that, you want to play against the best, which means you need a wildly popular game with a professional drive to it. Starcraft is a perfect fit.
Fundamental Marketing: How Facebook and Twitter Market Themselves
This is most accurate. A couple of comments:

> Dropbox still uses AWS for its European customers.

We haven't publicly launched EU storage yet but will be doing so later in the year.

> Dropbox hired a bunch of engineers from Facebook to build its own hardware heavily customised for data-storage and IOPS (naturally)

Facebook and Google and startup folks and people from random other places.

Our IOPS demands are reasonably modest on a per-disk basis which is why we skew heavily towards storage density. This is a different workload than you'd find at some of the other big players, hence a fairly custom solution.

> Not a political move

Definitely. AWS are great, we love working with them and will continue to do so.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03134
Or not: https://build2.org
This is uh, a great way to get email addresses.
Show HN: 2048 in ten 60-width lines of python
Without getting into any sort of religious war, what are typical use cases that make Rust a better choice?
The point is that society has already figured out and agreed on these issues. This is not about a dragnet but specific situations where there is a warrant.

I think we've all been so scared by all the dragnet activity the NSA/FBI have been conducting that we want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Subprime Flashback: Early Defaults Are a Warning Sign for Auto Sales
If you ask indie developers you'll find they're more concerned with paying their bills and building enjoyable games than opening up their software(and 90% of them use GameMaker, Unity or other platforms).

Like I said, you don't really have a good grasp of the industry. 9/10 indies don't make it, and none of them make it to the level of Notch. I'm talking about people who know what they're doing, burned all their savings from BigCo so they could work for ~1.5 years and still didn't make it.

Open source software is so at the bottom end of the scale, and you already have a bunch of frameworks out there if you want to know how the nuts & bolts work.
Science has been for hundreds of years the most open and transparent institution. But I think that recently it has appeared a new contender that is even most transparent, open software development. I think science could use the same approach for research, from step zero.

One scientist has an idea, he publishes his hypothesis and intended metodology. Others can jump in and tell him, for example, that the hypothesis has been proved wrong in a recent paper, or suggest improvements in his methodology. Others can chip in and offer to replicate the experiment to increase the sample size. Mathematicians could observe and correct the statistical analysis before the conclusion are published. I think that will improve the quality of the results.

Of course, the bigger problem is that most papers would have dozens or hundreds of authors, diluting the individual contribution of each one. On the other hand, finished reasearch already would be peer reviewed and corrected.
> "the power to tax is the power to destroy".

I'd need to see the context, but this seems even more ridiculous than calling tax theft. Taxation just moves things around, it doesn't destroy anything. (It might cause destruction due to inefficiency, but that's a separate argument.)

>Property rights aren't a consequence of non-aggression, so much as non-aggression is scoped by the extent of property rights.

Well this is more consistent, but I still consider that a fairly ridiculous definition of aggression. Most people would consider aggression to mean actual violence (or threats thereof) and nothing else. Using resources outside the constraints of society's property system (i.e. theft) might be considered immoral, but I wouldn't call that aggression.

Defining aggression to include theft just seems like a rhetorical trick to avoid explaining the immorality of theft itself (if it's called aggression it must be bad right?)
Hands down, definitely statistics and math with software projects on the side. Those together will be a win for sure.
Presumably he's talking about processor caches. A shared nothing means that every time you "context" switch to another "process" you're going to have to reload all your cache lines in the L1 D-cache.
Is there a transcript somewhere or a 5 minute version? I would like to have a counterpoint to the Drumpf piece but don't have 80 minutes to spend.
I thought article was about Soma from the Vedas[1] which vedic people took to 'change bodies' during sacrificial rituals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma
Algorithm Maps the Perfect U.S. Road Trip
Awesome -- I'm super glad to see there's going to be some leadership by the folks from the "Scala, a language for making nice software" contingent to balance out the echo chamber of the "Scala, where if you don't have a graduate degree you're going to feel like a moron" contingent.

Edit: To clarify what I mean -- http://underscore.io/blog/posts/2015/06/10/an-introduction-t... exemplifies, to me, what is wrong in Scala-land. If Abstract Algebra is prerequisite knowledge for tools I 'really should be using', something has gone horribly wrong.
Mine all have emoji in the subject line. which for some reason gmail animates. It's all in the spam folder, but i still check the spam folder from time to time.
Mods, can we instead link directly to Cal Newport's page? http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
In mathematical terms, random refers to a quantity which is "randomly" picked from a distribution. In a sense, things are only random in reference to a distribution.

A "random number" in the lay sense is a "random number from a uniform probability distribution"; a uniform distribution being one where each element is equally likely.

You might note there are still patterns in uniform distributions. e.g. Uniformly random integers are never not integers, and they also fit within a particular range: we have no way to pick random numbers uniformly between -infinity and infinity.
Translation: Ignore history. Capitulate.
Had a little bet with a coworker as to whether this was possible... would love to see better solutions!

Rules were: implement the game logic only (start with a 4x4 board, given an input direction, update the board) in ten lines of python, where each line is at most 60 characters wide (including indentation).
Brands in ESports – Red Bull: King of Content Marketing
That assumes that consciousness only correlates to brain activity, which is unsubstantiated
I think the same thing that happened to quants on Wall Street will happen to those pursuing Data Science/ML today (if it hasn't already happened). Post-2008 there was such a glut of qualified quants that companies moved the goalpost and now it's very difficult to even be considered for a role if you don't have a PhD.

With so many programs and courses springing up about ML, in a few years I suspect there will be a glut of Data Scientists on the market, and once again companies will use the PhD as a filter. Already it seems like a good number of places will only hire PhDs for such roles.
You can usually access all the same dumps they use at your favorite shady website. The smaller ones are on pastebin too.
Cool. This might be getting into the weeds a bit, but are you still on rustc-serialize for json or are you trying to keep up with serde/serde_json? If you're using serde, are you on nightly? From your comment above I got the impression that only using stable features was very important, so I'm curious how your codebase implements/derives the serde traits.
No, it isn't. You are wrong.

You're comparing apples and oranges. The correct comparison is getting a warrant to search someone's house and finding a piece of paper with a strong cryptogram on it. They plead the fifth, and the story ends.

The secret that unlocks the cryptogram belongs to the owner, not to Apple or anybody else. It lives in their mind. You can get a warrant to search someone's house, but you cannot compel someone to share a secret. That has been true from day one, but you're trying to weasel your way around this fact because you're afraid of terrorists and you trust the police.

Sorry, but it just doesn't work that way.
To be fair to Backblaze this level of storage density is really only possible with recent advances in disk technology (higher densities, SMR storage, etc).

Also not everyone wants to be packing a petabyte into a box. At that level of density you need to invest a lot of effort in replication strategies, tooling, network fabric etc to handle failures with high levels of availability/durability.
How do you tell the difference between mold and scoby? Is the mold black or dark?
Yeah, this time it's different ...
This sounds ideal to me. Where do I apply? :P
Our city generates 1.8M tons of waste every year. We are trying to solve it
Note that Neural Network is just a very complex function.

You usually think of Q as a function (S, A) -> (Expected accumulated future reward)

which is equivalent to S -> A -> (Expected accumulated future reward)

the Neural Network is S -> (A -> (Expected accumulated future reward))
or if you whish the output layer of neural network consists of |A| neurons. Each indicates the (Expected accumulated future reward) given current experience.
409A Valuations: The Data-Driven Guide [+Infographic]
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"base ||||| |||||"

perhaps "base |||||*||", for short.
Exactly. I always liked to "Like" a video so I could revisit in future but now I simply bookmark it in the browser.
Having done the math on this project in a previous life, I would also add that having to run app logic on EC2 instances and the outbound network costs are the true financial killers for S3.

S3 raw price-per-gig is somewhat competitive with what Dropbox built, but the ancillary things around it are not remotely competitive.
I think the parent is saying that the statement:

Looking at prime numbers written in base 3 — in which roughly half the primes end in 1 and half end in 2 — he found that among primes smaller than 1,000, a prime ending in 1 is more than twice as likely to be followed by a prime ending in 2 than by another prime ending in 1

is not interesting (as it seems to be just numerology), UNLESS the authors' conjecture is also true (that the statement also holds for bases > 2).
I think the only way the house search warrant vs. phone search warrant comparison would work is if there was a way to know that someone used a warrant to sift through your data. You can know the police has searched your home because doing so requires physical access to the house. If there is a way to use a private key to access your data, anyone could use that key to access your data and you will never know about it. And that is really scary!
"Absolutist Reality Distortion Field" or "I Want to Believe"...

Nothing new here, just another VC who apparently doesn't understand core concepts and repercussions of his favourite "industry".
Any backdoor to a software or hardware system will be abused. That has always been the case, and has been shown to be time and again. How can we trust any government to do otherwise when in the history of man, they never have been shown worthy of that trust. The simple truth is, that they can't.
Four Ways to Build Long Lasting Motivation to Achieve Your Goals
I meant I do not sign-in into youtube as you have suggested I do visit in incognito windows or with adblockers.
These are also available on Stephen Welch's youtube channel[1]. He uploaded the last one in this series Janaury 2015.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9hdHaRr6b7X...
I don't know why you're nitpicking. The article's written for a more general audience that may be interested in the property, but not necessarily the nitty-gritty math behind it.

The first paragraph of the article links to the paper, so people who want more detail can get it. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03720v1.pdf

For your second point, I don't think there's anything wrong with a paper announcing they found something interesting, even if they haven't completely analyzed every aspect of it. Getting the info out early lets a wider audience look at it, and opens their current research up to scrutiny.
WiFi-enabled RC car
Yeah children working on home work is child labor I guess.
The problem with "adjusting your browser" is that this requires creating a default style which is at odds with virtually every other site.

Which points to a significant problem with the Web: one reason we're inundated with crap styles is that the browser defaults are crap.

If the W3C and browser vendors set sane margins, padding, font sizes, etc., at least we could fall back to these rather than deal with the crap of current website design.

But the defaults are crap, and designers try to "improve" on them, and ....

That said, unstyled HTML (if that's what this is, I can't inspect the page) remains better in most cases than styled pages.