skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate as to why you came to this conclusion. What factors / information drove you to associate bitcoin with an unsound or shady business ?
For all the broken tools - there seems to be no shortage of awesome websites that serve their purpose pretty darn well.
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> who cleans the toilets? Who waits tables?

It's being stuck spending huge numbers of hours on those dead-end jobs that stifles success.

There will be plenty of people that choose to work whatever basic job for a period of time, and leave it later. There will be plenty of people that would take up such a job part-time so that it doesn't stifle them.

In the worst case, you can always pay a good wage.
Go was the last perfect information game I knew where the best humans outperformed the best computers. Anyone know any others? Are all perfect information games lost at this point? Can we design one to keep us winning?
> winning a board game

it's a board game of military strategy. while it is severly limited by its rules of play relative to real life, it is not inconievable that at some point it can dictate life and death as a capable military advisor.

i think it is inevitable that we will utilize AI to make better predictions about our own future than weather forecasters. not in our lifetimes, of course.
the guy you're responding to is correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman_equation#Bellman.27s_P...

and your attempted counterexample makes no sense (as the 'two cinderblocks' solution is not a subproblem of the optimal solution).
Humans are better at thinking globally than they are at acting globally. It's not clear that a "wise" AI would be helpful to us. It would tell us to do things that we already know we ought to be doing, but that we don't do for local, near-term-selfish reasons.
+1 on the RAM regret
Why do you believe that accepting Bitcoin automatically makes a business shady? Often the companies I see offering bitcoin payments are the ones that are a bit ahead of the tech curve and want to try something experimental (e.g. Wordpress, Newegg, Reddit), but not so big that their cost to implement the option would be really high (Facebook, Amazon, Walmart).

To me it seems nonsensical to walk away from a company because they offer a certain payment option. Maybe you can elaborate on why you feel that way?
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It seems to be offline.
I haven't seen an annual fee on a credit card in the US for years. Also, every debit card I've had for the past 20 years acts as if it were a credit card. So any place that takes a credit card can get paid directly from my bank account without dealing with real "credit" at all.
We like to think it's a recent phenomenon, but as this article points out, even Leibniz was spammed with conspiracy theorists and tinfoil hats.
This is why I prefer to work with international banks, even in the US. If they don't know what an IBAN is I don't bother. HSBC is pretty good in this regard. Minus the money laundering.
I don't know if that's true. "Computer moves", referring to weird moves that computers play that often turn out to be very good, tend to get mentioned a lot in chess. And you might hear about them less and less, because many of them have been absorbed into the human chess repertoire.
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They don't invent moves that they weren't explicitly programmed to play, though, do they? People at the top level of play have been beaten by chess programs but not surprised by them, the way the Go professionals have been in this case. DeepBlue didn't teach us anything about chess that we didn't already know.
SigOpt allows specifying constraint ranges for every parameter. If the parameter space isn't a tensor product you can report constraint violating suggestions as failures via our API [1] and SigOpt will take that into account as it optimizes.

SigOpt isn't a constraint optimization package for solving things like k-SAT thought if that is what you were asking.

[1]: https://sigopt.com/docs/endpoints/observations/create
It depends if having them as a marquee name on your site and guaranteed revenue is worth it. Guaranteed revenue is hard to thumb your nose at. So too is a recognizable brand name, especially if they have gravity in a vertical you are targeting.
Why do people still make these things?
As someone who has much more experience with Python, the only time I reach for Python is the odd case where there isn't a comparable Go library (think pyqt). Writing Go programs is just easier than Python--the language is much simpler, static typing is a huge boon, documentation for all packages is available at godoc.org in a consistent format, great standard library, single-binary deployment, great concurrency, more performant, standard formatting, standard testing tools, better static analysis support (IDEs can autocomplete, for example), etc.
Supporting your children extends beyond giving them a genome and physical sustenance. Genes haven't been the primary avenue of change in our species for at least a hundred thousand years. The significant things we pass on to future generations are our cultures, our languages, our ideas, our ways of life.

Every moment we are building that inheritance.

If we want to give your children and theirs a world where their hearts and minds are nurtured, where they are able to live with integrity and human-heartedness, then we're going to have to make some uncomfortable changes.

I should note that I don't really have a strong opinion on the idea of a boycott. I'm just reacting to the feeling of impossibility that people always express whenever someone proposes a challenging idea. In my experience, that feeling is typically where we hide the simple solution to a problem.
The amount of agency he imputes to the I Ching somehow feels crazy to me.
Optimizing your chances at online dating? Done:

http://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/
That's why return periods exist. So you can see if something works well or not. You don't need an oracle to know that you should return a router that malfunctions when someone starts connecting to it.
>The right way to solve this would be to have an indentity provider that has a short 10 second video of myself on file. Then, when I want to sign up for a credit card or bank account, I take a 10 second video of myself using my cell phone, granting approval to open the account

What should those of us without smartphones do? Not to mention that this seems trivial, if not easier to break. I can find the target on Facebook and use a faceswap program to generate a video that looks good enough so that the $9.50/hr worker spending all day comparing faces, who doesn't quite care enough, accepts the video.
Unless

- you run a low margin business and don't want 3% of everything you make to go to Visa

- or you don't want to eat the cost of credit card fraud

- or you live in a country that makes business banking more difficult

- or you can't have the possibility of fraud or charge backs (like selling precious metals, higher end jewelry etc)

- or you don't want to be gouged by credit card processors for a legal business like porn or marijuana...
The age of VR starts with this year's Game Developers Conference
Because they are usually aren't free in Europe. And it doesn't feel like a new market opening, it usually is just that single shop once every year.

And additional ancedata because I don't know whether that's a US <> Europe thing: Personally, the idea of going into dept for private consumption is completely foreign to me and most people I know, so the idea of a credit card is very unappealing.

Wire transfers OTOH are simple, practically free and fast enough (<1 day inside the country, ~1 day inside of Europe).
Interesting. I hear people like Apple's laptops, yet I despise the pad. Requires too much force to click (and how do you get middle/right without pressing down?). OTOH those machines run super hot and have poor keyboards and folks still like them. Perhaps some people aren't bothered by things like that?
HTTP site is up. It's hosted on Github Pages so HTTPS may not work.
This is a great site. I read a huge amount, but I easily "fasten" in detective stories etc. Discovery is a significant problem. I don't necessarily follow review columns in intellectual newspapers. When I come across an author that I really like, like China Mieville, I will find all of their books and read. But I am sure there are large galaxies of writers whose works I will never hear about.

I also love the focus on international writers. As a voracious foreign language learner, discovery becomes even more difficult, and seeing interesting literature available in other languages is a great motivation to learn. And in the meantime, we can rely on translation to at least get a sense of some of these works.
In the UK, credit cards (and bank accounts) are free to open.

In the Netherlands, both bank accounts and credit cards require a monthly fee (€5 / quarter for a bank account, €17,50 / year for a credit card).

I have accounts in both countries and I rarely need to fall back on my VISA card. Indeed, online payments here use an NL specific payment system called iDEAL, which makes use of your bank's online banking - it's far faster than entering 16 digit CC numbers and can integrate with your bank's app on mobile.
Synaptics is terrible (at least from using them on ThinkPads for years). It loses settings, frequently. When using the trackpad, it uses several percent of CPU. That's idiotic.
this is true, but it mostly comes down to 1. don't obliterate each other, 2. don't destroy your dependencies, 3. don't out-consume your dependencies (overpopulate, etc).

however, point 2 is only understood from a very high level by humans. we know the dependency chain goes deep, but we don't know exactly which branches can be ignored without effect and which are critical.

our default is to protect all the things "just in case"
This is a pretty bizarre and unique situation amongst Western nations.
That's true, I forgot about that problem with apple's trackpads. I don't remember running into problems with it too often, but I can imagine that different hand positions and sizes could hit the top of the trackpad more often. The thinkpad clickpads don't have this issue.
"Optimization" presumes the existence of concrete criteria by which an outcome may be judged, and often a timeframe within which to judge it (e.g. if I want to maximize my wealth when I retire I should fully fund my 401(k), but if I want to maximize my wealth next year then I shouldn't fund it at all). A board game has unambiguous criteria for victory; human civilization, not so much.
But does that machine has 16gb and the latest i7?
Lenovo tried ditching them on the ?40 line (T440 X240 etc). It was a disaster. Not just because it was terrible, but lacking buttons just sucks. (Though I am referring to the TrackPoint buttons (on top), which work very nicely even with the trackpad.)

Maybe folks using things like Macbooks just don't notice issues like heat and poor ergonomics? Though that's not a very satisfying idea.
For reference, AlphaGo is not globally optimal. Go is much too big for that.

(edit: also there'd be no point playing a game against it!)
About your idea of restricting voting: you know that it has been like that with most older republics and democracies, right? In France it was called "democratie censitaire" - before voting rights became universal (ahem, if you were a man…).
None of these republics were the rational, balanced sharing of resources state you envision. Universal voting rights brought a lot of change and arguably made society more leveled.
I wonder how long he worked to craft the excellent analysis and crack software? I know an attacker would be motivated to do this but he spent the effort just for a blog post? I'm very happy he did.
Don't we normally call that having children?
You could have said the same thing about chess when a program beat Kasparov about 20 years ago.
This blog has 3 FOUTs - first - the default fonts appear, next - all fonts disappear and after this everything appears as it was at the first time and only after it the correct fonts are loaded.
Probably the support overhead especially. The most popular Bitcoin payment provider (Coinbase) apparently fails transactions and requires manual intervention if they don't receive them within 15 minutes, and I'm not sure what they mean by receive but it happened to me despite sending payment within a couple of minutes of starting the transaction. Per the docs, they don't send any kind of API callback if this happens, just an automated e-mail telling the vendor what happened.

Of course, that's an ongoing cost so it kind of makes sense to add Bitcoin for the publicity and then remove it later.
Just tell them: "No sorry, we can't do that. So, should we sign you up for our annual plan (2 months free!), or would you prefer paying month to month?".

If they need your service, they won't leave. If they don't, they will, but that teaches you something about your market. Either way, you win.

Btw: two months is substantial, it's a 17.5% discount.
I watch a bit of YouTube, but I only use YouTube-dl to doownload videos I really like - like abridgements or YTPs - stuff that can easily be copyright notice'd down
MIT Mathematician confirms: Israeli 10th-grader discovers new geometric theorem
Thoughts on Alpha Go vs. Lee Sedol Match 3
I have the lower-ram pixel experience and it has been awesome. Not having to deal with an OS desktop has been the icing on the cake. Digging through folders two times to copy something is not something I miss.
Understanding is a three-edged sword.
I've very, very suspicious of this statement. Unsupervised learning is generally speaking not as advanced as supervised.

While unsupervised learning might be the holy grail, this victory is really about deep learning, which is an advanced supervised learning technique.
Ugh. I use Bitcoin to buy and sell Team Fortress 2 items, because it doesn't have the counterparty risk that something like Paypal has (and it also has lower fees for the time being).

Using Bitcoin also has the advantage that I can transact with it even in countries that Paypal doesn't support, and I don't have to worry about the Paypal account freezing bs that shows up in tech news from time to time.

Also it's not true that using it for illegal activity is a bad idea - the evidence that Ross Ulbricht was ultimately found and convicted on was his internet activity not related to Bitcoin. If you do it right and use mixers properly, you can make Bitcoin untraceable.

So actually, Bitcoin is usable for both legal and illegal purposes, which is a gold standard for any currency.
Part of this timing jump is Google throwing hardware at the problem with a large 280 GPU + 1920 CPU cluster. I would venture this is almost 100x bigger than most of the Go AI hardware we've seen to date. The nature paper suggests without this cluster it would be playing competitively with other single workstation Go AI, but nowhere near top level players.
Errata above: I meant the Dell's keyboard is terrible for typing.
I guess people really just have wildly different feelings. I think Apple's laptops are terrible. Hot, poor keyboard, hard trackpad - you've gotta really press down on the thing. Maybe I'm "using it wrong". (Excellent screens though.)

I think I've had trackpoint buttons fail once, sorta. On a used ThinkPad X201 I got for $300, and just this week, clicks seem intermittent. But it's been under heavy use in an elementary classroom so I'm not sure what kind of stress it's gone through. I've never had an issue with laptop buttos otherwise that I can recall, thinking back to the early 90s.
Maybe these shit jobs will be paid decent wages to attract workers since work will be optional, turning entire orthodoxies about the value of domestic work upside down.
po·lice state

(noun)

a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.

I'm sorry, how does the elimination of encryption so the government is able to increase its mass surveillance and aggregate all communication not fit the definition of a Police State?

You admit that most acts of terrorism are in response to oppresive governments and you admit that as technology has increased acts of terrorism in the country have fallen dramatically, and yet you posit that there will be more because you feel that way.

I get it that you're willing to exchange yours and every other persons privacy in the name of the Bogey man that is terrorism, but it won't make you safer
Ah, that's cool, I think disagree but an opening gambit of "You missed the point" felt very harsh to me.

I can see both sides of the debate on this but I do think trusting people with the keys to all the doors who believe drone strikes actually help Does not make sense. America and the west cause more terror than they receive.
Also notable is the verb "spacebar", meaning "to play the same move an AI would". The chess world provides an interesting microcosm of how humans adapt to a world dominated by AI.
> In case of Flashsafe the device will be blocked and you will get a new one.

How does it know when to brick the device?
Yes, it is very hard challenge, even for 5 minutes. Still, I think we will see some significant progress soon.
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But in this case, the training data consists of human games, which are flawed. Supervising with flawed data can have unpredictable results.
Nassim Taleb: “People are just voting, finally, to destroy the establishment.”
>Considering the fact that we don't even know precisely how it will be financed

If it's paid for by creating new money, this has historically led to hyperinflation.

If it's paid for out of revenue, by definition it comes from taxes, and no matter what source those taxes, they come from income that would have gone to people. Thus the common economic maxim that only people pay taxes.

So either it's printing money or it's coming from people. Do you have a third option?
Quite frustrating that this currency seems to rely on a game yet the whitepaper never seems to specify what it is. Since the game is supposedly too difficult to write an AI for I'd be extremely curious to hear more about it.

(also unfortunate timing mentioning games where humans are superior like 'go' given the current news!)
You can always get a free credit card if you want. I got one for my Apple Developer Account. Many german banks provide a credit card bundled with the bank account and there are also free prepaid credit cards.
Here ya go: http://amzn.com/B0141KJBEK

Half the price and it's a multitasker.
> Global optimality would be finding a sequence of moves that wins you a game.

Is it known that Go is winnable? It may be that only a draw could be guaranteed. A globally optimal player would be provably able to do (whichever of these it turns out to be) for any legal position. This is harder than winning a particular game.
Maciej Ceglowski has been saying the same thing: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
The way to find out how strong AlphaGo is is to start giving handicap and see when the game becomes even. A difference in rank of 1 stone corresponds roughly to a 2:1 advantage. It is traditional in long-running matches to increase the handicap by 1 after one player wins three consecutive games. I haven't heard any talk of that here -- I'm sure Lee Sedol wants the chance to beat AlphaGo in an even game -- but it would be interesting. It would also be interesting to see how AG plays when it thinks it is behind.
I used it to write a library for interfacing wave and wind model data. I also use it with a web app running on google app engine instead of Python which I used previously. It works pretty well so far and I like it.

Specifically i like how easy unit testing is with go, and how easy it is to create modular things. Its a simple language and I use it exclusively in my free time so I appreciate not having to learn crazy syntax for side project.
the program that beat Kasparov did so using a brute-force search (full?) of a very limited search space. the reason that AI is different is because it doesnt need to (and cannot do so because the space is simply too large.)

and 20 years ago is still well "within our lifetimes"
It's amazing that people actually pay to read such ignorance.
by that logic, node or Java would be immensely better. heck even Python.

and neither would fall on its face it you need a gui
http://simplikation.com/why-sealioning-is-bad/
Autonomous vehicles could contribute $1.3T a year to the U.S. economy
FYI https://github.com/visualfc/goqt
That's not really relatable because a student can only replace one teacher. When it comes to software, it's more so like saying that one student can replace all the teachers. We're seeing this now with self driving vehicles and the trucking industry. Once the software gets good enough and it's approved, there'll be a massive push for it's adoption and I'm sure that within roughly 3 years, about 70% of truckers will be replaced from that single breakthrough. Then comes taxi drives, maybe pilots and train operators in another 8 years or so. It'll be a cascade of lay-offs and that's just with this technology. So while it's a good thing that a student surpasses the teacher, this isn't exactly that same scenario.
you mean, just like http and html were even everyone was happy with bbs and telnet? yeah, should never work.
But again, how is React any different in this respect to any other library or, for that matter, anything you develop in-house? Most of those libraries and anything you build in-house don't come with patent grants at all, and even if one other party grants you rights you still don't know whether some third party might also have a claim against you.

Patents, and particularly submarine patents, have been a risk in the software industry for a long time. This is particularly true in jurisdictions like the US, where both the everyone-pays legal system and the recognition of software patents are unfavourable to the little guy in most circumstances. No doubt many of us don't particularly agree with or support the current legal position, but there it is.

So that brings us back to my earlier question, which I notice you haven't actually answered: for this to make any difference in law, Facebook would need to have relevant patents that will apply if you use React, so what are they?

And if your argument is still that it doesn't matter because they can just sue you and keep pumping money in until you lose through attrition in court, then this is all irrelevant anyway, because in that case surely there would be any number of other grounds they could use to support an artificial, aggressive lawsuit like that without even mentioning anything about patents. I don't really believe even the US legal system is that distorted, by the way, I'm just playing along with your earlier argument to show why it wouldn't matter even if you were right.
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If it makes you any happier, there is a Ubuntu logo on the metal flap on the bottom of the first XPS Developer Edition laptops (Project Sputnik). On the regular ones, there's a Microsoft/Windows logo instead.
That's Typekit for you, I guess.

This is why

font-display: < auto | block | swap | fallback | optional >

is going to be useful.

More info: https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-font-display/

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Alternatively, something I've been trying is loading fonts in an embedded stylesheet (<style></style>) in the <body> element, loading critical CSS in the <head>.

This results in content being displayed in a base/system font initially, and then when the web font is loaded in the body, it replaces the base font, but without blocking render and at the same time resulting in only one brief FOUT.
Yes we can and I started by yours. Sorry not adding to the discussion.
It's only a matter of time before AI gets trained to handle all orders and communication in a war.
In social science, society is the guinea pig.
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