skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found San Diego challenging if you want to work for a big company with a good salary or get a contract at a reasonable rate. There are some startups in downtown SD though. Commuting is pretty tough without a car, unless you live near one of the few rail stations. And the trains are slow. If I were young and unencumbered, I'd definitely be in Seattle.
> The FBI said it would be acceptable for Apple to retain possession of the phone...

However... in that case the FBI will have remote access to the phone in question to run whatever software tools against it they require. (This requirement is in the order. :) )

Given that "prevent iOS from reading the ROM used to boot the iDevice" probably isn't a threat that Apple considered to be a serious one, it's entirely possible that the FBI (or an agent of another TLA embedded within the FBI) could use this remote access to also gain access to Apple's (signed!) PIN entry delay and self-destruct removal modifications.

If this happens, and there's a way to bypass whatever mechanism Apple used in the modified image to make it run only on that single iPhone, then Apple has just unwittingly (and unwillingly) handed a backdoor to any iPhone of that model to FedGov (along with any other governments that have clandestine access to the systems of the TLAs in question).

Don't be confused; the stakes are really high.
During the big Snowden leak time frame, it came out that the DEA had been conspiring with other agencies, using the NSA data, to perform parallel construction illegally.

So we already know it's going on within the US Government. Is the FBI using it? Whatever the line is between plausible and damn certain, that's perhaps where this falls.
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It wasn't. I was literally asked, "What is the time complexity of the moving window average algorithm over an array?" and when I asked for clarification, I could hear an edge of... I guess frustration in my interviewer's voice.

Granted, by this time, we'd been through a couple of other problems, and time was running short, but I still think it was pretty unprofessional of the interviewer to let frustration or any other sort of negative emotion show during the interview. That, more than anything else, contributed to my own frustration and perception of unfairness in the entire interview process.
Go second-hand for one of the luxury brands that provide warranty/motor-plan for 5 years. Most of that "loss" is in buying new, instead of second-hand. If you don't mind it, and sell it while it's still in the plan, your 'cost-of-ownership" per year is actually quite good. Might even be better than if you were to get a "low-end" sedan new.
The documents that are stored in couchdb are versioned as long as you don't replicate/ don't compress the database. You can query for all the _revs of a document. You can make api calls to give you an older _rev of the document.

The _revs themselves follow a pattern that is semi-human readable.Like so:-

`1-some_uuid,2-some_uuid,3-some_uuid` and so on.

The versioning functionality is not comprehensive but you certainly have the building blocks.
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I'm more interested in the fact that they clearly consider the AI to be on par with Lee Sedol, and halfway through they started referring to AlphaGo as 'he' rather than 'it'.

Everything I've read about the Deep Blue games described the computer playing in a very mechanical way, quite differently to what you'd expect from a human grandmaster. AlphaGo seems to play qualitatively very much like a human player.
AlphaGo wins :)
I agree with you. Writing a custom firmware on the device is on the same risk level as desoldering the chip. In both cases it would be a smart option to test this approaches on a different device first.
Lee just resigned. O.o
Apparently [1] the binaries are hosted on the same server as their forums.

[1] https://twitter.com/leifnixon/status/706786995029340160
> I wasn't the right fit for the position

But seriously...what did you really mean to say? I hate that phrase with a passion.
AlphaGo won!
Wow, Lee Sedol just resigned. First game goes to AlphaGo. I wasn't sure who would win the 5 matches, but I never expected AlphaGo to win the first game!
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A bit late, but this is the AGA feed.

https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=YZPKR7HzM_s

No one can believe it. Myungwan Kim 9p says it's likely Lee Sedol feels like he could have won. He also says Alpha Go is likely stronger than he is.
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Both you and that which you reply to are incorrect. Deliberate surveillance of domestic communications of any persons or international communications of U.S. persons without judicial approval is unlawful. Nonpublic information regarding U.S. persons incidentally captured in foreign surveillance must be minimized.

Surveillance state may be real, and we all know what has actually been going on (to include massive interception and storage of so-called metadata of domestic U.S. communication on a vast scale), but that doesn't change the fact that U.S. surveillance of foreigners located in the U.S., or of communications of U.S. persons that take international paths, is flat-out illegal without judicial approval.

What is really needed (barring a codified policy change by the legislature and executive), is some meaningful restraint from the Supreme Court on government intrusion into so-called metadata collection. We've come a long way since the pen register.
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The median income in China is between 1/15th and 1/20th that of Japan. I don't think it makes much sense to compare any first world nation to the median income (or average either) in China.
How did you put that time on your resume? The article indicates that it was not wanted...which seems odd/possibly illegal.
AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
Myungwan Kim 9p will be doing live commentary at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles for game 3.

The second game should be a doozy since Lee Sedol will definitely know what to expect and come in full force!
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Amazon. by far
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Lee was rattled. This match might end up 5-0.
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The Python Software Foundation is about promoting Python and has nothing to do with coding. It does not deserve any credit whatsoever for the existing CPython codebase. All coding is done by individuals because they feel like it.
If you're based in LA, here's the event link.

https://www.kccla.org/english/calendar_view.asp?cid=4020&imo...
For a political hit, $15k might be a very reasonable valuation.
A historic moment here, folks.

Incredible, and in my opinion a little terrifying.
Thanks for this! Loved the discussion.
Google's AlphaGo defeats human Go champion in first of five-game match
Hopefully there's still time to edit your comment before the robots notice...
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What an amazing game to watch. Congratulations to the AlphaGo team, and good luck to both players in the next four games!
Just for context, this is the first of a five-game match. Next one tomorrow at the same time! (6am CEST, 8pm PT).
That's real. See Keurig 2.0 and its DRM technology. The good news is the market has avoided it, and the regular K-cups (non-DRM) have won.
I really hope his performance isn't going to be affected by this loss, but I think that's a lot to ask of a person. 5-0 to AlphaGo is a big possibility at this point.
That sequence on the right side was excellent, I am so impressed with the level of play.
Google's AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in First Match
Not that terrifying? It's a very special purpose-built tool.

We'll still always have Calvinball! https://xkcd.com/1002/
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Too early to tell, IMO. The next game will be the bigger game since Lee Sedol has a far better idea what he's up against. If the next game goes like this one did, I would be more inclined to agree with you for the remaining 3.
Yeah, I thought about that, but I wasn't sure I could say anything authoritatively enough beyond "CPU consumption wastes power, and so does waking up". Apple's energy monitor seems to use that for its model so I guess it's not too bad.
I was at the 2003 match of Garry Kasparov vs Deep Junior -- the strongest chess player of all time vs what was at that point the strongest chess playing computer in history. Kasparov drew that match, but it was clear it was the last stand of homo sapiens in the man vs machine chess battle. Back then, people took solace in the game of Go. Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.

Tonight, that happened. Google's DeepMind AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Lee Sedol. An amazing testament to humanity's ability to continuously innovate at a continuously surprising pace. It's important to remember, this isn't really man vs machine, as we humans programmed the algorithms and built the computers they run on. It's really all just circuitous man vs man.

Excited for the next "impossible" things we'll see in our lifetimes.
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This is my generation's Gary Kasparov vs. Deep Blue. In many ways, it is more significant.

Several top commentators were saying how AlphaGo has improved noticeably since October. AlphaGo's victory tonight marks the moment that go is no longer a human dominated contest.

It was a very exciting game, incredible level of play. I really enjoyed watching it live with the expert commentary. I recommend the AGA youtube channel for those who know how to play. They had a 9p commenting at a higher level than the deepmind channel (which seemed geared towards those who aren't as familiar).
I wish the commentators would pay more attention to the live game board, and less to their own copy of it.
Do you even know what coreutils is? It is not openbsdutils. It is not plan9utils. It is not even linuxutils. It builds and runs on virtually every deployed vaguely POSIX-ish environment and then some.

Can I take the OpenBSD userland and untar, configure, build and run in cygwin? Nope. You have proven my point. Nobody uses the little SYS V version.

One hint as to why the GNU version is so "long" and "messy":

/* System V machines already have a /bin/sh with a v9 behavior.
Use the identical behavior for these machines so that the
existing system shell scripts won't barf. */
bool do_v9 = DEFAULT_ECHO_TO_XPG;

It has to run in environments that others do not in order to provide full functionality, so it has to implement that functionality.

And Unix Fifth Edition, imbued with the cleanliness of Ken Thompson's ghost? Yeah, that's lovely, but not only is it again, of limited utility and portability across idiosyncratic modern environments, but it's full of bugs dating to an era where simplicity was valued above handling all inputs. In 1983, crashing on a bad input wasn't even generally understood to BE a bug, much less extremely dangerous especially in core system utilities.
That is a poor error message. I would assume apple was trying to block me from using torrents rather than protect me from malware if I saw that error and hadn't kept up with the news.
The YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8
Me neither, it is like some companies like to feel special.

After being invited twice for Google interviews, I mean really invited by their HR, not me applying for them. On both occasions I failed the process with their stupid questions.

I started replying to their HR, if I am so good to be invited but on their eyes unable to devise a inode search algorithm for unlimited hard disk sizes with a specific set of hardware and search time constraints, over the phone interview, then why couldn't they just please stop inviting me!?

That was the last time I heard from them and I don't care a bit about it.
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My thoughts exactly, a bit suprised seeing it on HN
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251463
Humidity, not heat kills the hard drives.
The way AlphaGo plays is more general purpose than other game playing systems. It doesn't have any heuristics, rules, or game rule books programmed into it, it learned to play Go like you would. The same technique could be applied to other areas, the same way DeepMind originally got super-human level Atari 2600 game performance purely by having it watch pixels.
You're arguing against the strong form of the efficient market hypothesis. The weak form merely claims that the market is hard to exploit -- that, for example, there are investors smart enough to notice when evil stocks are being loudly undervalued and seize the obvious opportunity by buying more of them.
+1 to all of this.

I'm not in San Diego right now, but I've started projects and a company there, and hired dozens of engineers from the talent pool. If you have are a decent employer, you can have your pick of the litter . . . of bright, experienced folks who are aggressively 9-5.

I'm not knocking 9-5ers. They're in the right place: San Diego is truly paradise, and I support work/life balance more than I used to.

But the consistent high quality of life, and the large portion of talented people who live there for it, will always suppress San Diego's entrepreneurial aspirations.

Of course, if you are OK with less-than-leading-edge projects, or you are aggressively seeking stability, I can't recommend it enough.
I'm under the (quite possibly mistaken memory) impression that the Enthought guys (ScipPy and NumPy) hid installation stuff behind a GUI for Windows people.

I could be wrong as it's been a long time since I helped anybody with that on Windows.
This not only shows the insane advances in computer AI, but an incredible advancement between the Fan Hui games and this one. Im still going through the kifu to get a sense of how could it have improved so much in only 6 months.
I mean to say: I wasn't the right fit. They were looking for someone with different attributes; after the interview, I realized this, and when the recruiter called me up to tell me so, I told him I agreed and had planned to turn the offer down if I had gotten the offer. Absolutely nothing against Blue Origin: I would have not been a good fit. I think I needed a solid 5-10 years more experience to do the job they wanted to the exactitude they needed.
This is very sweet, and also quite appealing even if we ignore the technological feat. I'm sure many parents will love it, great work!
The thing that was supposed to take at least 10 years happened. Only last month people were still saying that no way AlphaGo will beat the champion and that it will be crushed. Today everybody will have seen it coming and say that it was normal.

Yet people will still tell that worrying about AI taking over is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars, and that this is a problem at least 50 years out.
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What's more terrifying is that AlphaGo can learn even further, from these and other matches. Just hard to imagine what lies ahead.
The ideological reason to use GCC is to prevent clang/llvm from succeeding, which will drive everyone toward a copyleft product (GCC), which will encourage reciprocity.

Your observation is no consolation for someone who subscribes to that ideology.

(Personally, I do not subscribe to that ideology.)
What an incredible moment - I'm so happy to have experienced this live. As noted in the Nature paper, the most incredible thing about this is that the AI was not built specifically to play Go as Deep Blue was. Vast quantities of labelled Go data were provided, but the architecture was very general and could be applied to other tasks. I absolutely cannot wait to see advancements in practical, applied AI that come from this research.
Dan's implementation is fascinating, but I'm unsure if it qualifies as
"truly novel" since I _think_ I've seen something like this before. I
wish I could remember where, and a few quick searches have turned up no
results. As he mentioned, thread-local-storage (the other "TLS") in
CommonLisp is provided by dynamically scoped variables [1], but this
similar functionality is being accomplished elsewise. Though this way of
getting TLS may lack some of benefits of full dynamically scoped
variables, I've got a wild, unsubstantiated hunch that this way may have
better performance than full blown dynamic scoping due to less overhead.

The fun part is, this way of doing things (i.e. without dynamic scoping
built in) is essentially doing "user-directed scoping" that is vaguely
similar to things like "SoftTyping" [2] and "SuccessTyping" [3,4] which
are basically "user-directed typing".

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage#Common_Li...

[2] http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?SoftTyping

[3] http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/publications.shtml

[4] http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/publications.shtml
This is going to sound more mean spirited than I mean it to be because I enjoy programming.

You should move away from San Francisco. In places like Austin, Tx or Atlanta, GA you could easily retire with a nice home after 5 or 10 years as a software engineer.

Your view is incredibly myopic

In tech and honestly in most other industries in America (I won't purport to speak for the rest of the world) you only end up "managed people without a seat at the big boy table" if you never have the gall to go out and try to strike it on your own. This is because you'll be managed by people who did.

And the shelf life of which you speak only happens if you refuse to learn new skills and improve.
Or simply publishing it first and leveraging to opportunity for contract work. I'd really hope you're able to get a commitment from ZERODIUM before giving them the details.
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I think those that are focusing on the "Twitter-Women" issue are missing the point.

The argument is that if Twitter is more diverse, it may have noticed the abuse problem earlier on (lets ignore the fact that Twitter could have failed for a million reasons if one of the early founders were replaced). The core takeaway is the guys who fantasized about building the perfect communication platform that ended up as Twitter missed out a pretty major flaw in the service due to lack of experience. In other words, there is no "objectively pure free speech" platform without its own host of political problems.

Turning this to Bitcoin - the author is arguing utopian principles Bitcoin was founded on (or atleast the utopian principles the fueled the hype machine) pretty much offered the same objectively pure value transmission network, and we are finding today that those principles are now being challenged politically. Meaning, humans can't seem to build a payment system that won't go to shit when the community of 3 or 4 centralized decision makers can't come to agreement. Depending on where Bitcoin ends up, you might have early adopters feeling screwed because they wanted a payment system faster than ACH, or adopters in developing countries screwed because the 2MB block size is prohibitive.

The connection between these two events are even though, as another commenter put it "inert objects care not about social issues.", at a large enough scale, these "inert objects" become tools for political change and strife despite how hard we like to cling to things like "free speech" and "rule by math".
"AlphaGos Elo when it beat Fan Hui was 3140 using 1202 CPUs and 176 GPUs. Lee Sedol has an equivalent Elo to 3515 on the same scale (Elos on different scales aren't directly comparable). For each doubling of computer resources AlphaGo gains about 60 points of Elo."
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251463
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I know absolutely nothing about Go, and I enjoyed the deepmind channel and found the commenting very good.

I was actually thinking about playing a game with another total noob, just for fun, since the rules can be explained in 1 minute (unlike chess).
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And AlphaGo wins.

Unfortunately, while I could follow the tactical aspect, I'm not familiar enough with the game to understand the grand strategy, so it was a bit of an odd experience-- something complicated was happening, but even being familiar with neural networks and reinforcement learning, I couldn't really appreciate what was going on.

In contrast, Deep Blue was an impressive machine, but I understand that a combination of game tree search with position evaluation could allow you to evaluate each move in enough detail to decide whether it was "good" or "bad".
Here, we have a massive neural network developed by one of the companies on the cutting edge of both research and hardware to produce something that is able to beat even the best humans in a game with a much higher branching factor.
I can imagine doing a primitive sort of tree-search by hand with chess using Deep Blue's evaluation heuristics; doing even a few forward propagations through AlphaGo's value network using pen-and-paper would probably consume more time than was allotted for the match.
Does this mean in the next few decades, computers will make better sex partners and companions than any human?
I feel like it started being more aggressive, playing more fighting moves....whereas in the last match it was playing mostly a defensive game (I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, though).
Unless I'm wrong, the AlphaGo paper doesn't mention transfer learning at all. Yes, the methods are new and exciting, but I mean there are hand-crafted features in the MCTS.
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I have no idea why this came to mind...

"The The - Infected"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx-cglxj3II
Poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250806
Yes, the Standard Model would be completely oblivious to this particle. If this turns out to be a new particle, this would be the first concrete detection of physics beyond the Standard Model.

EDIT: Fair point below by @InclinedPlain. Neutrino oscilations were the first signal, but that does not motivate a radical extension like this evidence might.

Needless to say, most particle physicists are excited -- but we need to hold our horses -- this does not have a sufficient p-value to warrant the status of a confirmed detection -- such statistical fluctuations come and go once in a while.

Also, recent "inside" news seems to indicate that there might not be any new updates till later in the summer (rather than what the last paragraph indicates).
Yep, terrific commentary by Myungwan Kim 9p on the AGA channel.

For the folks who aren't as familiar with the game, how did you find the commentary (for any channel)? What would you be interested in hearing for events like these?
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Fuck the NY times, they can't even be ass bothered to allow https.

We seemed to have lost the crypto wars.
AlphaGo playing itself would be like playing Lee Sedol or better, so it has itself as a great training companion.
I've never felt playing against what is suppose to be an entire room of machines (wether Deep Blue or Watson) to be fair. What would be fair is to limit the total mass of the computer to say 200kg and leave it at that. What is effectively happening is AlphaGo is running on a distributed system of many, many machines. Even Watson took an entire room. Google is paying a premium to push AlphaGo to win.
Unlike with the Atari games, AlphaGo learned from a large database of human games. It'll be interesting to see how much that matters when they try it again without it.