skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an apartment. I keep the toilet paper at the bottom of my closet. I keep a bulk supply of paper towels in the corner of the kitchen area. I have plenty of places where I can put bulk items. It would look cluttered, messy even, and it would put things where they wouldn't normally belong, but I could do it. But even if I had less space, I could still have space for the most common bulk items. (Now if I had a pet I had to keep the items away from, that would be another issue.)
Exciting! I wonder, how many body parts will become replaceable? Bones? Skin? Kidney?
I'm intrigued, particularly since the finance industry in the US has given me the (uninformed) impression that extreme overtime is routine. But maybe that's among traders more than back office developers or quants.
Pros: no worries about materials biocompatibility or lifetime. Restoration of accommodative ability. Less surgical complications and faster healing.

Cons of trying to extend this approach to adults using exogenous stem cells: significantly increased risk of cancer.
Throwing money on RAM because most graph databases haven't figured out how to use the disk effectively is not a good use of money. What's cheaper than buying all the RAM in the universe is figuring out a different system besides a graph database that does the job.

A good example would be the graph of Wikipedia links. About 100 million edges among 5 million nodes, last I checked. The nodes have large differences in degree.

The raw data for this is not the slightest bit large. We're only talking about gigabytes. But it would absolutely destroy Neo4J to even try to import it, to say nothing of running an interesting algorithm that justifies using a graph database on it, and Neo4J seems to be everyone's favorite open-source graph database for some reason.
Very interesting tool. Are the content pieces usually just a link back to someone else's trending piece? Is there a way for me to understand my own content pieces?
This is my ad blocking browser. Its based on qualcom code. It also has the eff privacy badger built into to it so people can't track you.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rsbrowser....
“The secret [to motor racing]”, said Niki Lauda, “is to win going as slowly as possible”
My company seems to think that Scrum stand-ups are a replacement for one-on-one meetings. They're very, very wrong. Coordinating work and keeping the project moving forward is one thing, but like Alex points out here, there's far more to management.

Agile methodologies/slack channels/etc. are simply not a replacement for people management. In many companies, the people manager and project manager are the same person, and they generally default to managing the project first. (Squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? And what's squeakier than an executive breathing down your neck?) But when your culture starts dissolving and employees start leaving... well by then it might be too late to get interested in people management.

In my group, morale is a big issue, and retention is about to become one--I know of several people with one foot out the door already. I'm not sure management is even aware.
> Opera is blocking more ads than uBlock Origin

Source? Or at least some specific details on how I could reproduce myself this?

In case the number of network requests was used to measure this (assuming Opera reports the number of network requests blocked), one must be careful with this specific measurement.[1]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-%22This-other-e...
Menucamp - Online ordering for restaurants (https://menucamp.com)

Restaurants pay way too much for bad online ordering systems. Menucamp is a simple, inexpensive system that gets the job done.
If the manager-employee relationship is not good, 1:1's do have the problems you described. But the cool thing is that 1:1's can also improve relationships and build trust, which actually resolves those problems over time.

This doesn't work if you don't have some amount of trust to begin with. But I've found that over time 1:1's build trust and open communications because the frequent, consistent, small conversations help both parties learn about each other and work through issues together.

I do 1:1's as a manager with my employees and also as an employee with my manager, so I've seen this from both sides for the past 5-6 years. I am confident that our 1:1's have been the single biggest factor in the great relationships and high trust that we all have now.
Sounds like a cool idea for personal growth. Good luck.
Also the concentration goes down with the cube of the distance from where it's released into the air, so if a drone is carrying 10mg it's very unlikely to be able to harm even a single person. Unless it fires a dart or something like that.
Getting Logstash 2.x Ready for Log4j2
Absolutely! And it doesn't matter in the end...

Remember that AlphaGo has spent months developing its own style and theory of the game in a way that no human has ever seen. Its style is sure to have weaknesses, but humans will have a hard time figuring them out on first sight.

Similarly chess computers do better in some positions than others (they love open tactics!) and one of the games that Kasparov won against Deep Blue he won by playing an extreme anti-silicon style that took advantage of computer weaknesses. However Kasparov didn't have to figure out what that style was because there was a lot of knowledge floating around about how to do that.

Therefore I'd expect that Lee Sedol from a year from now could beat AlphaGo from today. And human Go will improve in general from trying to figure out what AlphaGo has discovered.

However that won't help humans going forward. AlphaGo is not done figuring out the game. At its current rate of improvement, AlphaGo a year from now, running on a single PC, should be able to beat the full distributed version of AlphaGo that is playing today. Now the march of progress is not whether computers can beat professionals. It is going to be how small a computing device can be and still beat the best player in the world.
Also, if you don't have a car, bringing home that 48-pack of toilet paper on the bus may be a problem.
This idea just popped into my head last night. I'd love to give it a spin when you're ready.
The english-speaking human 9-dan only did this once for AlphaGo yesterday (when AlphaGo made an "overextension" which eventually won the AI the game), but maybe did it approximately 3 or 4 times for Lee (Hmm, that position looks a bit weak. I think AlphaGo will push his advantage here and... oh, look at that. AlphaGo moved here).

Later, he did admit that the "overextension" on the north side of the board was more solid than he originally thought, and called it a good move.

He never explicitly said that a move was "good" or "bad", and always emphasized that as he was talking, his analysis of the game was relatively shallow compared to the players. But in hindsight, whenever he point out an "bad-juju feel" on the part of Lee's move, AlphaGo managed to find a way to attack the position.

Overall, you knew when either player made a good move, because the commentator would stop talking and just stare at the board for minutes, at least until the other commentator (an amateur player) would force a conversation, so that the feed wouldn't be quiet.

The vast, vast majority of the time, the English-speaking 9-dan was predicting the moves of both players, in positions more complicated than I could read. (Oh, but it was obvious both players would move there. There were clearly times when the commentator would veer off into a deep distant conversation with the predicted moves still on the demonstration board, because he KNEW both players were going to play out a sequence of maybe 6 or 7 moves forward).

They really got a world-class commentator on the English live feed. If you got 4 hours to spare, I suggest watching the game live.
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I think it is the hard work one right?
No, I don't, but I don't often forget to hook up my phone to the charger.

I do however, sit/stand at my desk for 8-9 hours a day and maybe pull the phone out less than once an hour. I would like the phone to be in Doze mode when it's in my pocket, rather than forcing me to have to put it on my desk. As I said, I don't like leaving it unattended, even if it's simply to step away for a few minutes to the watercooler.
I use AB+ AND NoScript(Google-free whitelist) and my results aren't even organic-ish. I searched for cabling a few weeks back & monoprice.com's first result was on page 12. First 3 or 4 pages were almost exclusively amazon & ebay. That's google's algo, sans adsense.
> And none of these programs are going off and learning how to play other games on their own

With the danger of sounding stupid, isn't that what Deep-Q did?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/ai-masters-49-atari-2...

> Scientists tested Deep Q’s problem-solving abilities on the Atari 2600 gaming platform. Deep-Q learned not only the rules for a variety of games (49 games in total) in a range of different environments, but the behaviors required to maximize scores. It did so with minimal prior knowledge, receiving only visual images (in pixel form) and the game score as inputs.

Sure, the problem space is still fairly limited, but the AI did learn new games without much guidance at all.
> It could happen that the AI couldn't be able to go beyond a certain level.

That's your wishful thinking.

As we've seen the matches with Fan Hui in the past, unfortunately and fortunately, the CNN will improve drastically game after game and making less mistakes whereas human always do at a certain level.

Another big point I want to point out is human emotion and state of the mind. With 0:2, Lee Sedol lost his confidence ("speechless" in his own words) [1] and quite possibly increasing fear of losing in a landslide 0:5. Losing confidence and fear of losing are VERY TERRIBLE things in any
competitive sports.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/10/11191184/lee-sedol-alphago...
Didn't happen in Chess, won't happen in Go. Entertaining a few million people is too lucrative. Everyone wants to cheer for their country in an international competition, so it's always going to have large prize pools.
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I believe that when Google talked last year about DeepMind playing those 70's Atari games, it also surprised the team with some of the tricks that it learned to be more effective in the game. So this is quite interesting stuff.
Testing Clojure macros with metadata
How to Build an Agile Team
I hope you keep working on this, simply because I hate how stuff like this is considered acceptable for menus: http://metrodiningdelivery.com/
My writing was sloppy, let me rephrase it: in a pro match, whatever is the estimated score when the game goes into the endgame, that will likely be the final score.

Where I wrote that a pro will blunder "now and then" I should have written "rarely" -- I don't have data to back this up but I'd guess once in every n games for some n > 30.
> designed them for the cloud

I guess I have a different understanding of designing for than you them.
We shouldn't be lauding Twitter. They have done everything in their power to stifle free speech and promote hate speech.

The last straw for me was the hit squad of special interest groups they enlisted to search out and remove opposing viewpoints.
Now please combine this with TiltBrush
Or, more likely, they simply don't care.
The fact that people get so annoyed by it in such an entitled manner is what makes it most amusing.

And it is most amusing.
A short list of games robots still can’t win
4 reasons why the new film on van Gogh looks absolutely stunning
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> although it leads to both American losses and local civilian casualties

As the last decade's worth of field experience shows, worry-free assassination doesn't reduce civilian casualties - it increases them... Most casualties from drone strikes were weakly qualified targets and most of them were not the opponents the USA sought to kill... But who cares - no risk to USA soldiers !
I think I had the same idea a while back but didn't execute on it. Good luck!

Have you had anyone sign up yet?
EdScore - A school ratings website for parents. https://edscore.org/

GreatSchools has a monopoly in this space but their 1-10 ratings scale is opaque and their website hard to navigate. EdScore has a more granular 50-100 rating scale, modern search, better mapping, and soon will feature search filters by distance and home price so parents can evaluate, say, top schools within a 1hr commute of SF with a median home price under $1m.
There are more varieties of libertarian than there are varieties of authoritarian. Similarly, there are more types of atheist than there are religions.

As a class of people, there is only one factor that ties all of them together under a single ideological umbrella. By all other measures, their opinions can vary wildly.

The capital-L Libertarians, otherwise known as the members of the Libertarian Party, are just the tip of the small-l libertarian iceberg. For those who have chosen to abandon political participation and evangelism, you may never even realize they are libertarian at all.

There are some godawful douchebag libertarians. There are criminal fraud libertarians. And there are also libertarians that are outwardly indistinguishable from everybody else, aside from little things like laughing at something when a joke was not intended.

Do you remember Dennis, the 37-year-old not-an-old-woman from Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail? Do you recall how he was attempting to explain the anarcho-syndicalist commune to King Arthur? Anarcho-syndicalists are a type of libertarian. Just as Arthur dismissed him as completely useless, modern mainstream politics ignores and marginalizes most libertarian groups. And they do it to each other, as well. No one is better at denouncing a particular type of libertarianism than another type of libertarian.
My brother once played the (then) British Youth Go Champion on a 13x13 board, and lost by around 180 points - literally scoring worse than if he hadn't played at all.
> Now imagine the winning author of the next Hugo Award turns out to be an AI, how unsettling would that be.

Considering some of the recent Hugo winners, it turns out the story doesn't actually have to be good, so yeah, a computer-written story winning is probably closer than we think.
> He remembers all the stones and immediately clears his own moves, amazing.

Chess grandmasters can often play simultaneously and blindfolded against 20 different opponents (and win all but one or two games). This is nowhere near the extent of Redmond's memory strength. :)
> Cons of trying to extend this approach to adults using exogenous stem cells: significantly increased risk of cancer.

What makes you think this?
"Because there is nothing wrong with a disabled person needing to buy a peeled orange, but there is something wrong with everyone else doing the same thing."

Are you really arguing that I should not be able to buy a bagged salad because I can chop my own damn veggies? And I thought I was a moralist.

You do realize most of the people reading this work in an industry that spends billions on giant space heaters to provide snapchat and online poker and bitcoin and HFT and...

How about this: put the the convenience products next to their traditional brethren, charge not-outrageously more for them (to pay the extra costs and because they are more convenient) and stop trying to feel morally superior to random other people because you aren't interested in the product?
i'd play along, but i wouldn't provide more information than is absolutely necessary to someone who, by definition of their role and mine, does not have my best interests in mind.
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The branching factor is much larger, around 75 legal moves after the opening, while chess has at most like 30.

Fuego beat a pro in 2008 using MCTS actually.
If I understand correctly, this is quite different, as such IOLs offer no accommodation, but only different areas with varied optical powers, which isn't as convenient (ever seen an elderly man trying to read a menu hanged on the wall?).
effe - an open source implementation of AWS Lambda

http://github.com/siscia/effe

It is awesome because it gives,you more power than AWS Lambda and because you have a sane way to manage it via effe-tool (http://github.com/siscia/effe-tool), also it is written in go which should make it faster than competitor...
You get what you negotiate for yourself. I've worked something like four weeks of more than 40 hours in the last ten years.

My last gig I averaged around 36 hours/week for the first few years, then dropped down to four day weeks for the next couple years, bringing me down to 28-30 hour weeks most of the time.

I'm sure they would have been happy to have me bill more hours. But at the end of the day it's your choice. If you want to work sane hours, you certainly can.

(Edit to stave off the obvious followup: US citizen, US companies. Contracting/Consulting)
Right. Skynet and Terminator are science fiction, but the slippery, unpredictable reality of how computers actually behave is right in front of your eyes as a programmer every day. Sometimes I wonder if science fiction writers do more harm than good: once they make a movie about some possible future, people feel free to dismiss it as "just science fiction", even if they have easily available empirical evidence that something vaguely like the scenarios described actually kinda has the potential to occur.
This is an upheaval that is a long time coming. So many websites we browse rely 100% on ad revenue. And with adblocking slowly entering the mainstream, it's going to get ugly. Literally anything could happen. I'm excited to see what happens. This will be a massive culling of shit and junk on the Internet that rightly deserves to go under.
Wasn't the breakthrough with AlphaGo that it doesn't consider every board combination in the future? Because that there are too many combinations?
It's also a totally reasonable pattern to template the constant UI parts of the page in the backend (and not have to necessarily fetch user sessions in the frontend), and then just render the fun bits with React. The user isn't going to get a literal blank page this way. I think this is a pretty happy medium actually.
To be fair Microsoft has always posted relevant tech articles. Even 10 years ago when they were hard core only in their own development bubble they had excellent articles about architecture and scaling, etc. The MSDN has more than just simple documentation and it's always been quite an amazing resource.
creepers...in space?
I believe that an EMP is impractical due to the crazy power draw. Non-nuclear EMPs are typically explosively pumped and have a very short range. Jammers (which is what the radio gun is) could work, but are civilian-illegal.
> So before shaming fellow free software coders about what we do and know better than you, RTFM.

Calm down, nobody's shaming anybody.
How to create a morning routine
Sites seem to experiment with them and then turn them off after their traffic drops sufficiently.

E.g. washingtonpost.com had one, but stopped. Forbes had one, then stopped. Ars Technica tried one for 12 hours, and stopped.

The CW (www.cwtv.com) has one that pops up a few seconds after you start watching a television show that they offer you.

The detect-and-plea approach sticks around longer: The Atlantic, The Guardian and Mother Jones all have those.
You're obviously not an engineer. The more requirements you have, the more complex the design process becomes and the more it costs. This isn't to say you shouldn't bother, but it does add extra cost.

Now as I said, this doesn't mean you shouldn't ever bother, but you have to weigh the costs and benefits. Making a product more accessible can get you more customers, which means more money. You can also make the product more appealing to more customers, even non-disabled ones: for instance, suppose you make your software product so that the color scheme can be changed, so that color-blind people can tweak it to see it better. Non-color-blind people may find out about this feature and rave about it because they can also use it to tweak it for their tastes (perhaps with a "dark" theme), rather than being stuck with whatever boring color scheme your designers chose to appeal to the masses. This could drive up your sales, even though the original motivation was disabled people.
We've been growing skin (from somatic skin cells) in dishes for years. Organovo's 3-D printed kidneys (made from somatic kidney cells) are from last April, although there had been earlier attempts, and 3-D printed kidneys have been implanted into living patients now. 3-D printed bones are from 2010, because it's adequate to print a mineral "skeleton" that living cells then colonize after implantation.
The Ecologist Who Threw Starfish
Ask HN: Converting Wordpress themes to Go templates?
Is there any free software that can help in converting wordpress themes to the Go html/template format?
sudo arguably is another vector of attack
Gap between inaccurate viral news stories and the truth is 13 hours
So, one of the IRA attacks on the British government involved parking a van with a mortar launcher in the back within range of Downing Street. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack

The 21st century of that would be a van releasing bomb-carrying small drones that would then fly to their target at street level. This presents a serious problem for attempting to intercept them, as any detonation along the way would also have civilian casualties.
linear algebra != relational calculus

Your argument is effectively because Haskell can be implemented in C, there is a false dichotomy between the two languages.
> Do you know what The Disabled community call the rest of us? The Not Yet Disabled

A few years ago I was on crutches for about six months and there's nothing like first-hand experience to realize just how important those accommodations are.
Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one.

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But when the weaknesses it has require looking 20 ply into the game, can anyone exploit those weaknesses? And furthermore, if the computer itself is able to see 20 ply into the game, then it can spot its own weaknesses and you need to look even further, making the question of whether it's really a weakness.

Weaknesses are only relative to capabilities of the opponent to exploit them. If a tank has a weak spot that rockets can hit, but it's being opposed by humans on horseback, is it really a weakness in that context?
Why would you choose GCP over AWS at this point? Other than the potential that in the near future GCP can provide services that are cheaper, more reliable, and more performant (note that none of these are true today).
http://codehappy.info - awesome because it's trying to help people find information about a company that you can't easily get anywhere else so they can code happy.
Each one needn't give a 9 dan response. Each person gives one response to the best of their ability, and scores the situation on a scale of like 1–100. Collect all the responses and distribute the new board situations over the same – or a different – group of people. The score is mostly used to value the quality of previous moves. If a branch leads from a situation most people rated as 60 to a situation where most people rate 10 it's not a good branch.
> all are based on our peculiarly effective

They are peculiarly effective only because of lack of comparison. Humans have been the most intelligent species on this planet for millennia, where no other species come even close. We don't know how ineffective those strategies are seen by a more advanced species. Well, until now.