skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so the random model "1,3,7,9 mod 10" doesn't fully work, but let's look at what happens mod 30. Large primes have the following possible remainders mod 30: 1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29. We see that when a prime ends with a 3 then p + 6 (ending in 9) is always an option, but p + 4 (ending in 7) is an option only half of the time. I think that this fully explains why a prime ending with 3 is more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 9. So basically the OP is on the right track, and his random model just needed to be refined a bit.
I think the person you are mostly likely to kill with a gun is yourself so I don't think it makes a dent in gun violence.

Yes, it can protect you from somebody who steals your gun, and it can protect cops from people who steal their guns, but it is not such a big thing one way or the other.
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Try this article;

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-anonymous-review-160220/

I personally use Mullvad. They let you pay in cash by post which is always nice.

Speed is decent enough to stream/download but it won't get near maxxing out my 200Mbps connection. I've yet to find a VPN provider that offers amazing bandwidth along with anonymous payment.
There are two timescales in play here.

The first relevant thing is indeed the orbital position of Mars in relation to Earth. For simple Hohmann transfers, launch windows to Mars open every 26 months or so, and they last several days. In this case, ExoMars launch could have been delayed until March 25 had any issues prevented the launch today.

The second timescale has to do with Earth's rotation. Even though most interplanetary spacecraft, including the ExoMars probe, are launched into a temporary parking orbit before injection to transplanetary trajectory, that orbit needs to have the right shape and inclination to make the injection burn feasible from the fuel economy point of view. Orbital plane changes are particularly expensive. Thus, the daily launch window may only last a minute or so when the launch site intersects the plane of the ecliptic.
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One of my e-mails was in three breaches: Adobe, Money Bookers, vBulletin, and my Gmail was in only one breach: Boxee forums.

I have been receiving a lot of spam lately on my Gmail, and it's not listed anywhere online. So it must have come through a breach somewhere.
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Protip: https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=balls187&comments=t
Marvin Minsky thought exactly along these lines. Check out the interview below, especially the last few minutes. All his interviews in that series are well worth watching.

http://youtu.be/wPeVMDYodN8
Right, there is no specific roadmap for infrastructure yet or view of what servers are currently running. I will add those things on our Operations page, thanks! https://about.commonsearch.org/developer/operations
Well it's degrees of random. You just shift the probabilities. Rolling a die is still random even though you'll never roll a 7, or a 3.5, or a "b". Picking a number from a normal distribution is still random even though it's more likely to get you a sample from the center than from the edges.
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This my personal go-to project for testing in Go, popular with the rest of my team as well. Even when I'm not using the plugin directly I read the test files themselves as a guide to "correct" testing syntax. Highly recommended.
I'd imagine that if Backblaze is realizing great cost savings building their own storage pods from commodity off the shelf components, Dropbox's costs we're even lower per GB. Well done.
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Eh? That is not something a webpage can do, for all sorts of reasons. HN can only paste what you have copied before, so I'm afraid this is most likely a case of user error.
Has anybody mentioned dimethylmercury yet?
You mean like this? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22things%20I%20won%27t%22&sor...
This is definitely consistent with my experience. Every candidate I've interviewed for software engineering internships this year says that their main technical interest is machine learning.
You show an awfully naive view of the games industry if you think that giving away games for free is going to generate enough income to feed yourself and your family.

I learned to program on "proprietary" software(quake, half-life) among other things while I was growing up and it didn't hamper my ability to be an effective software developer.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rickysans/4-conspiracy-theories-that...
Rarely do people "get" that if you have a consistent workload or resource need, AWS is more expensive than your own gear.
One of the ironies is that a very common side effect of standard issue chemotherapy is a marked and often permanent weakening of the immune system by altering a person's microbiome. Advances in oncology perhaps within our own lifetime will make today's treatments seem as embarrassing as medieval blood-letting.

It's embarrassing now, never mind later. We just don't often have better alternatives than to pump already sick people full of poison in the hope that the poison kills the cancer faster than the rest of the person. It is horrible, and has (in my opinion) only improved slightly in the last few decades.
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Telegram is good at marketing and Signal/OWS is good at encryption. Not too surprising.
That is really a different AI. AlphaGo has improved significantly since then.
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Interesting format. First time I've watched him. This is a pet topic, so I wanted to watch. But I stopped about half-way through.

If you need a joke every 10 seconds or so -- otherwise you lose attention -- I guess it's okay. Seemed to cover this topic well enough. But if you need that amount of humor, if I were you I might want to up my game a bit.

The problem with entertainment disguising itself as useful information is bias. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter to most people what the guy is saying. His criteria for a successful broadcast is something that emotionally moves folks and that he can make entertain people the maximum amount. The viewer's criteria is to laugh and feel like they now understand some complex subject.

Whether or not the information is biased or not never enters the picture between the two parties. In fact, the more complexity that's introduced, the less likely the material is to be entertaining. Likewise, the more you're laughing, the less you're probably learning. But it doesn't matter because everybody's having a good time. Reminds me of talk radio in the early 90s (except the politics are all different, of course)
It's a really clean abstraction of a computing environment, which is as well defined and predicatable that is possible.

I tend to prefer that to performance cludges, arcane architectural hand waving, and undefined behaviour.

Some people thinks it's useless, since they do no see the benefits, as there are costs.

(There are some obvious UX-flaws, especially on the desktop, where it takes a bit to start up, and clearly failes to define a jxe file-extension for executable jars... Not to mention all the enterprise-level shit that goes on...)
Having sane browser-scrolling should be HN 101 submission etiquette.
I guess the devil is in the details:
1. How is a task estimated? What if it's wrong? How many misses before you fire the person? what if that person is taking more risks and taking on more responsibility and challenging tasks?

2. Usually you need some kind of process and task dependencies. What if there is a total bottleneck of "progrmmaing tasks" or "QA tasks" does someone go a week with pay to "work" for you?

3. what about benefits? Is this 1099 or W-2 work?

4. What about team based contributions? I help team mate X out with something is that a task? Do I get any contribution from it?

5. Who pays for training and education time? reviewing code?

6. What kind of rate are you targeting? What would my monthly pay look like?

7. what about strategic types of contributions. I know guy or I want to take sub market and run with it? or did you ever think about xyz? If your piecemeal-ing the work is there an allowance for that?

8. is there an opportunity to "buy-in" via time or contribution or even real money and get % of the profits or company?

9. how does the system evolve over time? fix problems? do "workers" have a say?

Sorry I'm really into the idea of marketplaces and using technology to build hyper-efficient eco-systems.
Criticize studies to shed light on errors and maybe reform statistics education
He's not interested in becoming a search engine for finding exploited accounts.
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"Easy"? Certainly in biology that would overturn the entire system for drug/treatment discovery. The government is good at funding basic research, and the private sector is good at bringing products to market. There is no clean separation between the two activities.
My observation is that to make a program run, a less intelligent person needs to organize that program better. But, intelligence is a controversial subject in and of itself, so I don't expect to see agreement.
Actually, by the medieval period farming was mostly till the soil at planting and occasional de-weeding in the mix. The rest of the time was filled with tending animals or doing something else like fixing the roof and the like. It's why many labor saving devices were created in fact (water wheel for running milling stones comes to mind). Farming wasn't all that hard until you get into the beginnings of the industrial revolution since most farming was subsistence prior to that. When the industrial revolution got kicked off in the UK that's when the Lords started forcing more people into the cities, thus making a massive labor shortage in agriculture which made it a hard job (few vs many hands in the task). I'm not saying it wasn't labor intensive, but it wasn't like the average peasant farming household was erecting Cheop's pyramid every season.
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I find this line laughable. Everyone seems to think that turning a million into billions is a cakewalk.

Most people wouldn't even know where to begin and would lose their minds during any downturn. The others would buy a small house and whither away savings. The rest would waste it all on idiocy.

If you're running a billion dollar empire and it hasn't burnt to the ground, you can be sure that he's hired good people.

Why don't you go put $1,000,000 in a market simulator and tell me how your "shell scripts" do over the next 20 years.

Given that you haven't answered the original question, I'm guessing that you have hired very few or even zero people ever?
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So you figure two respected mathematicians, and of course everyone they have told about this result so far, missed a completely trivial observation?
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I can't see the article, the whole domain is blacklisted by adblock.
"Gun violence" is a misnomer. Violence using guns is a better description, but the left-leaning media will never correct this.

Mass shootings get loads of attention, but the murder rate using guns has actually decreased in the last 20 years, not gone up. But to listen to the mainstream media, you'd think that a few nutters with guns is ushering in the end of the world.

There will always be guns, there should always be guns for the law abiding enthusiast. Making it so difficult to obtain and use a gun is akin to a de facto blocking of the 2nd Amendment. A simple background check, which is already the law, works. Anything else is burdensome. Ditto have special permits to buy guns and ammo. If I need a permit to buy something legally, it's no longer a right, but a granted privilege. This is the reason, despite living in Texas, one of the most gun owner friendly states in the union, I have no gotten my concealed weapons permit. A right does not need a permit. I don't want a granted privilege. I carry one in my car because the law allows it sans permit, but I will not ask permission to do something the 2nd Amendment already grants. This is why states like Kentucky, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Vermont, Arizona, all allow what we call "Constitutional Carry". They can carry legally with no permit, because the 2nd Amendment is the permit.
the core is sound

I agree completely. It might be interesting to spell out what that this core is: it is the successful marriage of ML-style functional languages with class-based OO.

The core idea of ML is this: strongly typed with parametric polymorphism and full sum and product types, type-inference, first-class functions, first-class state, (almost) first-class modules. Exceptions as first-class non-local control mechanism.

The key innovation Scala have over its predecessors Ocaml and F# which also attempted this merger is that Scala recovers ML-style functional programming as a special case of OO programming, while the predecessors when the other way, which didn't work so well.
Jimmy Wales made an ad-driven porn site [1] just before Wikipedia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis
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Profit margins doesn't mean much in this case. Most science related work (e.g peer review) is done for free. Typesetting costs around $30 per article [1]. It looks like big part of spending is administration and lawyers for taking down copies of the articles.

[1] https://discrete-analysis.scholasticahq.com/post/40-welcome-... (ctrl+f $30)
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The serotonine in your body isn't able to cross the blood-brain-barrier. So it doesn't affect your mood the way brain-serotonine does.

It does affect blood pressure and a few other things, so you get indirect effects.
An over the counter "23 and me" for gut species genomes
assays might help; but that's a few years away.

Nope, here today.

http://ubiome.com/

Costs $89.
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What evidence, if any, would convince you that those who fail to make it out of poverty do in fact "deserve" their standing?

Note that I'm interpreting "deserve" as meaning "could have escaped with high probability had they engaged in different actions". Do you mean something different?
So, the million dollar question is: how does this affect my security and privacy? Does this pattern mean encryption based on the assumption of the inherent randomness of primes is now less secure? E.g. is there now less entropy in a given set of primes?

I have a premonition of Quite a Bit of Trouble coming down the pipe.
I think the point is we should not be encouraging liberal art majors to do software engineering, because the liberal art majors will be bad at software engineering and thus unemployed.
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Thanks for the good discussion :)

+ The issue with MCTS was not that it couldn't be extended to non-determinism (you're correct re: POMCP) but that it requires a simulator which produces at least a reasonably accurate model of the world. This simulator is almost always hand engineered. Determinism and perfect information simplify both the task and the creation of the simulator. The state in Go also contains all history required to perform the next optimal computation - i.e. the system doesn't have to have any notion of memory - yet the state in most real world tasks is far more complicated, at least in regards to what needs to be remembered and how that should be stored.

+ The point of the hardware requirements is that hardware advances will advance the state of the art in Go but will not do the same in many other ML tasks. Whether or not we have 1x or 10x AlphaGo distributed's computing power in our pocket is not the issue - the issue is that such computing power won't assist many tasks as the potential of our ML models are not compute bound.

There's also disagreement about how concerted the "10 year jump" was, which is mentioned in the article by Miles Brundage. Many people (including Michael Bowling, the person who designed the system that "solved" limit heads-up Texas Hold Em) predicted professional level Go play around now. Whilst it might be held by many, I also feel it was a media reinforced estimate.
Hi, sorry for the late reply.

I meant it in the sense that it seems intuitively correct that you'd be able to get some random data out of a microphone somehow, but that intuition doesn't serve as a good adviser in cryptography.

I bet just looking at a recording from a computer microphone, it's possible to make deductions about it's structure. Let's say there are people in the room who talk with a certain pitch, the frequency of the AC current as it get's into the computer, things like that which all make the microphone output non-random.

So it might be that there is a way to generate true random numbers like that, but it's probably not as easy as just using the microphone as a source of entropy.
That IS unsupervised learning - you are maximizing an optimization function, you are not training using a set of "truth" values.
If it can be shown that it will eat into profits of US companies (because people will switch en masse to non-US providers, e.g. telegram in Brasil) then it's a pretty big difference non-technical people from outside the US can make.
Looking at github, they both seem to pretty much be in maintenance mode. Flask seems to generally be the more popular framework too.
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This assumes our future doesn't involve a global collapse of society.
Yeah, unfortunately far too vague.
"Free" refers to freedom, not price. There's nothing wrong with selling free software. In fact, most people get their games today from online "marketplaces", and getting other games on consoles is incredibly difficult; that's a separate issue. With PCs, those games are often downloaded illegally.

I understand how the game industry operates today; an ex-co-worker of mine used to work as a manager in the field.
This looks really interesting. Thanks! I'll save these to start watching later.
Are you guys hiring Rust developers by chance? Asking for a friend :)
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I actually find non-fatal exceptions to be a poor fit in Scala - much better to have errors be values. I predict successors will not bother with exceptions at all. Even for Java interop, in a language with union types all you'd need is a special marker type Thrown(t: Throwable). I'm kind of surprised Ceylon didn't take this route.
As someone pointed out in an earlier thread, the actual course is more advanced than the Coursera class, and its lectures are also available online: https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A89DCFA6ADACE599

As well as the problem sets: https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229

They are not any more recent, though.
Confirmation bias, perhaps ?
Some of my primary interests are building websites that can analyse other websites and for that, I need a keyword index and access to the underlying crawl data (as in, a response that can point me to the exact file offsets that contain the pages). Think [1] but with keywords instead of URLs.

[1] http://index.commoncrawl.org/
On the contrary, I find it uplifting to witness people so disconnected from God.
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Not just you. I'm guessing the map wasn't intended to be moved, but if that's the case, hovering shouldn't show the hand cursor.
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My initial feedback would be that the music is way too loud and that I really like that you used Python to show how to construct the bits and pieces.
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The article is too vague to assess how interesting the claims are, sadly.

By my reading, the article seems to state the key import of the finding quite clearly:

"This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers."

However this statement:

If you simulate a bunch of random 'next trains', 1 is much more likely than 9 because P(9) approx = !P(1,3,5,7). This is true for all bases.

I'm afraid I don't follow at all. (Do you really mean we should expect that P(1|1) > P(1|9), for either random trains or for subsequent primes? Say wha?)

That said, perhaps you might want to skip straight to the arxiv article itself, or perhaps do some experiments on your own. It's definitely not hard to generate a non-"minimal" amount of data (out to the first few million primes or so) on one's laptop, these days.
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Just because Wikipedia says something doesn't make it true. Bloodletting was also practiced as part of Acupuncture in China - without any "humor" theory. Interestingly, when you talk to people who have actually practiced it (I was hanging out with Traditional Chinese Medical practitioners), you hear lots of stories about how effective it often is - even though it is frowned upon since it lacks any modern theory to explain why it often works. (I did recently read about how blood has been found to "group" based on characteristics. And Traditional Chinese Medicine uses various techniques to choose the location of bloodletting. There are lots of things to be discovered - or rediscovered.)
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> Don't rely on a magic box.

That's quite funny given the circumstances. I think the neural network algorithm disagrees, and it really wants you to rely on a magic box.
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Awesome news! Great initiative EPFL! :)
Good luck getting a publisher or platform holder on board with that.

Seriously, there's enough barriers to being successful in gamedev as it is, I don't see any reason to add another one on top of that.