skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they are also often bullshit deadlines that users dont care about but gets a few brownie points for management.
It doesn't seem that plausible if you've been around serious game players. The notion of throwing a game would be seen as extremely rude and condescending to one's opponent.

Once you step on to the field, you play your best. It doesn't matter whether the opponent is a master, or a six-year-old.

EDIT> I have a friend who I've never beaten at an RTS or non-random strategy game, even though we've played hundreds of times. If I thought for a moment that he'd let me win, I'd stop playing, and I hate losing.
Die Aussagen dort in der Preisliste sind sehr sehr problematisch, tbh.

Absichtlich verwirrend geschrieben.
I started programming a long time ago, without any syntax highlighting at all, and the first time I tried it I found that all the different colours were more distracting than without, so count me as another for whom it's always remained off.

On the subject of unusual programming preferences, perhaps antialiasing off would be the next one the author could try. For me completely off is most comfortable, regular grayscale antialiasing is just bearable, and subpixel (like what's shown in his screenshots) just makes me feel dizzy after a short time.
It solves a lot of efficiency problems, but is hell for debugging a broken webpage. For that reason I feel the browser extension justifies its footprint.
Technically both are.

Which I'm actually OK with: I would be perfectly happy to trade UBI for no minimum wage, from a human-welfare point of view. Right now, people choose to work for wages below the cost of living because starving to death slow is better than starving to death fast. With UBI, the "don't accept/stay at low-paying job X" penalty is just a loss of marginal income, not an existential threat. Some people will work for peanuts because the job isn't that hard and the extra marginal income is nice. Other people will feel more empowered to tell employers offering shit pay for terrible, unsafe work to shove it. So you'll get wins on both sides.

(On the other hand, the government may need to mandate minimum wages just to ensure there is enough of a tax base to continue funding UBI, which is a different issue.)
Because “imagine everyone's naked” is terrible advice
But he called move 79 a mistake. So did he learn from a human commentator that it was a mistake, or was that AlphaGo's assessment?

Because it is actually trivial in MCTS to reevaluate moves already taken once you have a better assessment of the positions that follow it.
I found flights to New York on flychecker at € 276
I don't want to be a serf.

Working is the only way I know of for me to accumulate capital in order to become financially independent.

The more I do, the faster I accumulate capital, the more years of my life I'll spend able to do what I want to do.

It doesn't feel like a choice to me. The alternative is to live a mediocre life and always have one eye on my "responsibility" towards my capitalist overlords.
Nobody really needs the product, but if it is good enough it will nonetheless grant us a part of the pie much larger than welfare. It's the service economy. All parts of the service sector that go beyond the much smaller one you would see in an old fashioned industrial economy could well be considered a naturally occurring redistribution model.
Five year vesting? Is this common? I've always used four -- the only company I've heard of who uses five is Microsoft.
Being someone who owns a company with no investors that makes money (ie sort of a cash cow) I can say its not that you want more money....

Its something more disgusting that comes with success... you want more success.

Its the same with athletes like Tom Brady that could easily retire but don't. They keep playing because they like the challenge and they like to win... not the paycheck.
I happen to be in 10th grade in the USA and really love math - and using it to solve applied problems - but the math taught in school is formulaic and mechanical. We aren't encouraged when we start asking questions not covered by the curriculum or congratulated when we answer them ourselves.

It would be really nice if we had more teachers like the one in this article. I'm sure many more articles would be written then.
Best icephobic coating ever created gives ice the slip
So no going out for drinks where you might have a hangover the next day?
Material list to build your own Continuous Integration Status light
I suppose that's possible. However Demis Hassabis has said many people have noted that AlphaGo makes human-like moves. He commented that it made sense since AlphaGo taught itself from the games of human players.
If you really want alcohol, why waste the next day with hangover when you can just drink one or two drinks and be well?
UBlock breaks Youtube for me.
Intolerable.
I've wondered about that too. Low contrast / dimmed comments are basically saying "I spent time writing this, but it's not important, disregard". I'm sure it's part of the reason why comments are often not updated - they just don't stand out / draw attention to themselves.

Of course, legible code is more important in most cases.
> That's tantamount to saying strong AI is unreasonable.

No, what I said is that it's unreasonable to expect that strong AI would play better Go than whatever the contemporary state-of-the-art Go AI is. But stated like that, I'm not sure I can agree with my statement. Strong AI could design and implement its own specialised Go AI. How would you count that?!
>examples of "successful startups" as that phrase is understood by the HN readers where the founders work 40 hours per week

Plentyoffish "In 2008, Frind told The New York Times that his website's net profits were about $10 million a year and that he worked only about 10 hours a week." Sold for $575 million.

Fog Creek "We believe that the way to be most productive is to work normal 40-hour weeks." Built Trello which I think would count as an HN startup.
You can download the information to use locally, it's only about 35Gb last time I checked
> this is a common argument it hear, do you not think it is elitist to think that you know better then the common people? Hell, maybe you do, but I bet 10,000 other people also think they know better too. I am going to trust 100 billion micro decisions everyday rather then some academic in an ivory tower who thinks they know the will of the people.

What is your point? That people don't ever act against their own interest because of lack of information or understanding?

> Come on, There are many more channels to reach your audience, you are on one right now.

That wasn't the question. The question referred to a hypothetical situation. Stating that the hypothetical situation doesn't match reality doesn't answer the question.

> Hacker new knows nothing about me other then my username and password.

And your IP address and which comment threads you are interested in and which opinions you express and which comments you vote on in which way ... but I guess that's besides the point anyway.

> duckduckgo, bing, reddit, facebook, TV, or Family people get create their opinions based on a huge number of inputs. The problem is that people want to be told they are right so they only consume things that reinforce their opinion (confirmation bias) but that is a whole other road.

How is that a choice you have regarding other people being manipulated against your interests? I don't understand.
People can want more than just one thing. It might be fairer to say that they want all the things they say they want. But they want this other thing the most, and since this other thing isn't compatible with the others (can't travel the world and also be CTO) it wins.
It seems you define successful startup as companies who IPOed, became household brands and made their founders billionaires. A company can already be seen as success if it makes good profit and keeps the stakeholders happy. The founders of those might not be role model material you're looking for. Personally I already exclaim success when I hear a solo founder is sitting on the beach while making profit.

I can't name a startup founder of a now NASDAQ company that didn't work 80hr/week (although Bezos prides himself at sleeping 8h day who knows what he did in the early days), but here's a founder who rather works 4 days a week than 5 https://signalvnoise.com/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics possibly because there weren't VCs answering to.

(That's funny: the blog post links to another post titled "Can you have a life and work at a startup company?" http://calacanis.com/2008/03/07/can-you-have-a-life-and-work...)

(I didn't downvote your post BTW if that was a concern)
Exactly. The faint whiff of bullshit.
There is something about the hopeless nature of "security software" that makes it inherently prone to this kind of antics.

In any reasonable world people would balk at the idea
of "antivirus software" being needed, and just stop using platforms that are so insecure as to need it.
I've always wanted to try this.

I started programming in 7th grade by randomly typing commands into my TI-83 during algebra class. I had no syntax highlighting, auto-complete, or even a choice of font, but I would sit there for _hours_ meticulously making lines jump around the screen.

Now I get stressed out when my color scheme isn't perfect.
Right, this is where things break down. It's fictional universe, after all.

What are the negative effects of having more Minds? Resource depletion?

If your cat suddenly tells you that what it wants more than anything is to learn General Relativity, then either you're having a psychotic episode, or you have to question how benevolent and ethical your coddling is for your fuzzy wuzzy slave animal.
People open when there is business to do. Shops will adjust to changes in footfall. Reaching individuals needs scheduling, and support lines normally cover multiple timezones or 24/7 anyway
Not only that, but at all of the price points I've back-of-the-enveloped, GPUs beat FPGAs hands down at processing power. Even if they didn't, the sheer effort required to take advantage of that power would make GPUs more attractive for general purpose compute. Here's the what you generally have to put up with on a FPGA:

* Fixed point.

* Resource starved. Limited # logic blocks, using DRAM from an FPGA is a massive PITA and you pay dearly for every 100kb of SRAM.

* You figure out how to pipeline so that every cell gets used on every cycle.

* HDL languages

* Terribly long compile+route times...

* ...and sometimes routing fails even if your program is well-formed and "ought to" fit on the chip!

* Proprietary toolchains

* Expensive kits (don't let the $20 kits fool you -- you'll spend thousands if you're really using an FPGA for what they're good at)

* Even more expensive test equipment (makes the thousands you spent on the FPGA kit look cheap)

The flipside is that GPUs don't do deterministic latency or talking to hardware. If you need to ship billions of samples per second from your JESD204B ADC back across your PCIe bus (to get them into your GPU, of course) then there's only one chip that fits the bill: the mighty FPGA.
How much does cash handling costs, counting/paying in, insurance, fake notes, transport to bank, uninsured risks, shotgun robberies, still be less than 3% but not far off imho, we need something smarter than cash but not from giant ripoffs such as mc/visa/amex
I agree, this point does warrant discussion.

How could DeepMind prove that AlphaGo played its best in match 4 ?
I'm building something at the moment. I previously worked at a couple startups and a large tech company. I'm the kind of person who goes all out until burn out. Not really healthy behaviour. I've realised that building my own thing is a decade long journey and as much as I want things to be done yesterday I cannot forget to live my life. I don't want 10 years to pass by and have missed out on all the other experiences I could be having. It took me a while to figure it out, to spend time reading, go to the gym, meet friends for lunch and even take days off writing code. It really is a marathon and while it's important to be focused the worst thing would be to look back and regret not living.
Thank you, I will check this out! I hadn't considered a NativeScript route.
"successful startups" as that phrase is understood by the HN readers

I think that might be the problem here. I went to school with a guy who founded a taxi company; he never worked silly hours, but that's not a "successful startup" as understood by HN readers.
> What about shops or public office opening hours ? This would imply changing opening hours.

Growing up in a beach town, it was very common for businesses and churches to have summer and winter hours, despite the presence of DST.
I think there are also quite a few libertarians who recognise the necessity of wealth redistribution as a guard against creeping inequality, and would prefer that it be done in a market compatible way, instead of via government services.
> Toward the end AlphaGo was making moves that even I (as a double-digit kyu player) could recognize as really bad.

Maybe its training was focused on winning, not loosing narrowly. So as soon as it became obvious it can't win. It was just making silly moves because it was less researched scenario.

Some people when they see they can't win they do silly moves just for fun.
Living flesh is not meat. Meat is what we call dead flesh.

A living brain is made of neural nano-processors.
This has less to do with hours worked and more to do with personality. I don't work more hours than everyone else because I want to tick some box, or that it's needed. I work harder and longer, because I have a vision and a passion. I'm stubborn, so I keep going because I know it can be done. So I take ownership of the key components, and I'll review everything else; everything. It's not needed at all. It's correlative, not causative.
I use syntax highlighting, but I prefer it to be quite minimalist. I use bold for keywords and different colors for string literals and comments. Also I use underscore for object fields. Modern IDEs usually configured with a lot of visual noise and it might make it harder to read, but probably it depends on person.
Summary: "Let's not even consider all those concerns about anyone with deep enough pockets getting the same cracking capabilities as federal agencies, THINK OF THE CHILDREN ELSE TERRORISTS WIN! Ban crypto now!" (plus posturing aplenty)
Forgot about this. I guess it's more about the relative frequencies. The books, of course, aren't a representative cross-section of the society.

The manners as laws thing is cute, but I don't see it working without invasive non-consensual modification of humans.

E.g. from my own perspective, if I live in a world where there are humans and human-created demigods, then obviously I want to be one of the demigods. Not to enslave the humans, but to look inside of black holes, to travel between stars, to fully understand how biology works, etc.

So not everyone wants to be a scientist or engineer, but wouldn't almost all engineers and scientists want to wield the very best mental and technological tools of their civilization?
Nice. The only other risk then would be interaction or contamination between the retainer material and the printed mold during the forming process (high heat), but that's probably grasping at straws.

The SDS for the retainer material in case anyone's interested:

http://dental.keystoneindustries.com/wp-content/uploads/2016...

The toxicology section is entirely devoid of data, but I doubt that means anything since the product is purpose-built for dental use in the first place. Safety Data Sheets are more oriented towards immediate and occupational hazards anyways.
Let's switch to dst all the time. It's really nice to have an extra hour of light during spring and summer but we lose an hour when the days are shortest during winter. (Where I am in California)
> If you have kids, or a wife or anyone else that you might like to spend daylight time with in the evening then it starts to get harder to manage.

People always say this like it's a compelling argument. But guess what? People lready work different hours; schools and business ar already open for different lengths of time; different businesses and industries already have different norms. People live different distances from work. I've worked 7-4, 8-5, 9-6 and more, and have had commutes as short as ten minutes and as long as two hours.

And you know what? Things work out alright anyway. A world in which individual organizations determine their working hours is the world we already have.
I don't know why you're being down voted. The fact that the human won, makes it now so much more interesting! It surely is the best outcome possible both for human go players and Google as well (having won the first 3 already).
Earth is a small rocky ball among billions in the void. We don't know why we are here and what happens next. Stick your head into a mission (work, religion, family, whatever you like) and don't think about that.
You do realise that DST doesn't actually add any daylight to the day, and that if you get far enough north it'll be dark in the morning even an hour later than usual, right? In fact, if you get far enough north the sun won't rise at all in the winter…
So now, rather than remembering what timezone someone/some location is, you have to remember instead what is "normal daytime" for that locale. Everyone worldwide isn't going to operate on the same schedule regardless on the position of the sun.
Syntax highlighting can help structuring your source code when done well and tastefully - coloring your source in all bright colors of the rainbow rather achieves the opposite effect.

Personally I am working with a white background, so I try to keep the syntax colors all very dark, so while the different colors can be seen, they should not distract from reading. The correct amount of highlighting very much depends from the language at hand, but it can be very helpful in separating elements, just as an example take this function parameter list:

func foo(name, family string, age, size int) {

The correct reading of this parameter list entirely depends on the placement of the commas and the knowledge that "string" and "int" are parameter types - highlighting the type elements can help a lot.

With the availability of high-dpi displays, perhaps colors should be replaced with more traditional ways of markup as used in book-printing, replace coloring with different typesets and fonts.
I thought TI stopped OMAP production. Where are the SOCs coming from? The back of an old warehouse?
As a freelancer, I understand where some of the comments "As a freelancer this won't work" are coming from. However, the last year I've flipped my freelancing model where I offer a more productized service with a clearly defined scope and set price. Instead of doing design work for $XXX/h, I'll deliver A,B,C within Timeframe Y, for Price $XXXX. With clearly defined services, I've actually been working for the last 12 months using a similar model, usually constraining myself to 4h/day with weekends off. My productivity + revenue have increased dramatically. Productizing your service makes it easier to market and generate leads, while it gives you the flexibility to work the way you want and actually free up time. Awesome post OP!
I suspect the original poster may have meant a startup that is on a mission. Perhaps not necessarily to build a business.

See: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html - the essence being that a startup is designed to grow fast, and have an impact beyond simply enriching the founders (not that that is a bad outcome either).
While we're at it let's get rid of leap seconds.

... and switch the entire planet to a single timezone (UTC).

... and require everyone use the same text encoding (UTF-8).

... and pick a single format for separating fields in numeric fields (commas for 000s and dots for decimal points).
Comments also lie.

At best, they are a statement that, at the time they were last edited, the author believed their stated facts were true, or might become so, plenty are aspirational, "this is what this function or change to it, which I've not yet written, will do".

He might have been wrong, or the code might have changed without updating the comment, the actual running code is the only truth.
After the first two paragraphs i was deeply convinced that you were questioning the products those puzzles were part of, not just the way those puzzles got in there.

The cynic in me likes to widen the scope one step further, then those figurative 80% are the fraction of software created that is basically "twitter for pets" (or some transitive dependency thereof, technologically or via business). It's easy to focus on one of the many exciting puzzles hidden inside a "twitter for pets", but if you take a step back (and yes, that's one of the perils of age), well, twitter for pets.
How will you get power? Generator? Take breaks to charge at a facility?
How so ? I didn't notice a single issue (archlinux chromium).
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Thank you. An important distinction. The same idea gets me going in discussions about turnover rates among football teams. (Teams tend to regress to the mean year-over-year in how often they fumble, so some writers insist fumbles are "caused" by chance.)
This is a nice intro but the author forgets another downside of FPGAs which is power consumption. The hard cores help, but in the limiting case you end up with an ASIC.
Regarding your edit - no one is downvoting you because they believe they can do more in 90 minutes than 24 hours. You're being downvoted because you're saying that productivity is infinitely scalable - I believe that's wrong. Over a certain amount of work productivity drops to the point where it creates a negative impact on your effectiveness.

If you find that you're effective for every hour you work regardless how long you work for then you're very fortunate and exceptionally unusual.
Does anyone know of an independent audit/confirmation of the robustness of their privacy / security? I don't really know enough about crypto or security to be able to tell.
> We already have hints from various nations who have tried to control populations, with evidence of detrimental and unintended side-effects.

Some might argue it did help China. I'm curious what examples you are thinking of (citation) besides obvious genocide and murdering.

> I am by no means saying there are simple fixes. But immediately jumping to population control is pure lazy thinking.

There is nothing wrong with a nation having sensible mild restrictions or tax relief for taking up less resources. We tax tobacco, liquor and gasoline. Hell red meat should probably be taxed as well (one could argue liquor is not as bad for you as cow and for sure cow is worse on the environment). It doesn't have to be draconian for a mild behavior changes.

As with dietary weight loss real changes can be made with out being that innovative or being that extreme. Some might even say the lazy (your word) thing is reaching for the latest panacea instead of being disciplined and/or consistent.

BTW in nature many animals deal with population control with given limited resources (some nasty and some just not producing as much offspring). Probably a genetic trait to avoid extinction.
I'm always dreaming of an invertible compiler that automatically provides a decompiler for the language it implements.

Then we could transpile every language into every other language, as long as it compiles to a common platform.

Using a logic language for implementation might help, but a compiler is probably not surjective in general which makes this very hard :(