skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"get away", "pushing luck" - is there laws around tipping?

No laws. 10% is the accepted baseline though - going below/over is seen as a comment on the quality of the service. So if the waiter did a good job and you tip 5% then they see it as an insult.

I should also add that waiters in SA are generally not paid a live-able wage. They rely on that 10% to put food on their own plate.
Wasn't reading the whole thread, but was it possible for Lee Sedol to play against the final AlphaGo before? Although AlphaGo seems to be a huge achievement I would find the lack of training before a bit unfair as AlphaGo was probably able to play lots of Games from Sedol before.
Even though we do not have a complete understanding of exactly how the networks work, what is the function that they are minimizing but what we do know is that it is a mathematical function i.e. it has been mathematically modeled. So, I think it is safe to say that it does turn it into a game of mathematics.
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Theo is wrong with respect to Xen. You might enjoy section 3.1 and 3.2 from the Qubes Architecture document: https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/wiki/QubesArchitecture/a...

The attack surface of Xen is much smaller than a traditional kernel like linux. I'm guessing the same can be said for OpenBSD after looking at the number of system calls.
> A smarter approach to ad-blocking

> Opera’s ad-blocking feature is deactivated by default.

Not so smart, it seems.
I feel like almost every über I see has a lyft sticker too. The UX of switching apps seems like a minor inconvenience given that most of them use waze to navigate anyway.
One has to minimize the exposure of code that can be subject of malicious manipulations. I am not sure that a restricted Linux container with tight filters on syscalls that it can use is unconditionally worse than a uni-kernel against Xen.
I wonder how long until AI starts writing bestselling novels.
> And now an AI without emotion, philosophy or personality just comes in and brushes all of that aside and turns Go into a simple game of mathematics

Well, I am of the opinion that mathematics is the language that subsumes all other kinds of languages and line of thoughts. In the end we shall be able to describe every idea or thought in purely mathematical form.
Those are all incremental improvements, what I meant was the general platform being seen with the Vive is 'it'. We'll get all the things you mentioned though over time, higher res, mobile VR but neither of those are game changers like the Vive kit itself is.
High res, at a a certain point will be a game changer, but it's going to be many years until we have what we need for it to reach game-changing level (dual 4K and the power to push it). I don't think the necessity of being plugged into a beast of a machine is going away soon.

I don't find an incremental build on the Vive to be depressing at all. But in 5 years the Vive 3.0 will have incrementally better resolution, tracking, and maybe a custom wireless method to transfer 8K video with positional information. Not worth passing on the Vive today just for incremental improvements. If it were the holodeck incoming, I'd agree.
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Yes, I support an X% increase on my taxes to pay for wheelchair lifts on public buses.

> Every time you make accessibility a design goal in a technology/product/building/service, it makes the design/production more complicated than it otherwise would be.

If your original design excludes a non-trivial amount of human beings then it's probably not a very good design.

Of course context is necessary here, and I can't just throw a snarky one-liner at you. If you're building a puzzle game, then yeah, blind people might not be able to play it and that's okay. If you're making a signup form, then it is inexcusable to leave out folks using assistive technologies because it's "complicated."
Let me reiterate:

- You take on contracts on the side and do not get enough sleep because of that.

- You think the company you work for should maybe compensate you with some time to sleep during their working time.

What happened when you asked the people you do some contracting for if you could sleep an hour and bill them your hourly for that?

I would think it reasonable for your full-time gig to respond in the exact same way as your freelance gig would.
"and respected" Seems perverse to conflate uppityness with being respected. I'd say it's quite the inverse.
"It seems you are using Opera. Please use a different browser if you want to view our content."
Thanks for clarifying, I'll update the README. The research paper does a better job of explaining this with its figures!

The algorithm can only reuse combinations of patterns that it knows about, it can do extrapolation but it often ends up being just like a blend. However, you can give it multiple images and it'd borrow the best features from either—for example drawing from all of Monet's work. (Needs more optimization for this to work though, takes a lot of time and memory.)

As for the images, as long as the type of scene is roughly the same it'll work fine. The fact it can copy things "semantically" by understanding the content of the image makes it work much more reliably—at the cost of extra annotations from somewhere. With the original Deep Style Network it's very fragile to input conditions, and composition needs to match very well for it to work (or you pick an abstract style). That was part of the motivation for researching this over the past months.
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yeah, his picture was a little different from the Chinese GrandMaster I had in my head :D
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I don't get the mystery of this. This algorithm is complex. SURE! But deep learning is very fast training / repeatition of a game (or some other goal) while saving the good or bad results. Predict user moves. Find good positions/patterns. Or did i miss some here?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160128151110/https://storage.g...
> distilling the inputs into their most important factors (and throwing away unimportant factors).

Isn't that pretty much the definition of intuition? Combining a bunch of things in some unknown and nonlinear way to result in a 'feeling' about the situation?
An adwall detects an adblocker and refuses to serve you the page you asked for until you turn it off or subscribe.

There isn't a term for "detects adblocker and inserts a plea for subscription", but I don't think anyone is particularly upset by that, as long as the page is served.
I suppose in the era of Bobby Fischer, chess was proxy for superpower one-upmanship. That's long gone, but Chess as a game is still doing fine and I expect that it will be the same for Go.

We still have chess tournaments, super-star grandmasters and circus freaks (people who can play blindfolded against multiple opponents). And, yes, computers can easily smoke all but elite players.

Why should Go be different?
It's about ability to pay. Of course it's extremely unlikely for a realtor to do $30k worth of work to sell a $1 million house. But they're also going to work to sell that $60k house and they will probably put in more than $1,800 worth of their time.

Having a flat fee would make it practically impossible for the poor or even lower middle class to sell their homes without having to write a check for the privilege.
Could be that one: http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety1.html
> This code does a little of that.

Actually, the code does none of that ;-) All of the semantics are provided by the users: either as manual annotations or by plugging in an existing architecture for semantic segmentation / pixel labeling. It's designed to be independent of the source of the semantic maps, so we can continue to work on both problems separately.

It works for basic color segmentation already, and here are some of the papers we're integrating currently: http://gitxiv.com/search/?q=segmentation
> I should also say that it's somewhat clear that Sedol made one suboptimal move, and AlphaGo capitalized on it.

Can you please indicate this time in the video of the game? Thanks a lot.
What I don't understand is that the Pentagon isn't the CIA, it is not prohibited to operate in the US, is it? I mean you have ICBM deployed in the US. What not drones?
AlphaGo developers don't understand how it works in the same way you wouldn't understand how the program you've written to find prime numbers actually found a big prime number. The sequence of operations is known, but numbers are too big to be comprehended.
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>Good to know for my upcoming visit to South Africa!

In that case - a little more detail:

Only three scenarios where failure to tip is considered rude. The sit down restaurant I mentioned. Petrol attendants (its illegal to refuel a car yourself) - a R5 coin (=0.5 USD) is good. And finally at bars - R2 tip per drink is good (=0.2USD). Like I mentioned to the other commenter - for all 3 its a case of they don't get livable wages & are expected to cover the shortfall via tips. e.g. Petrol attendant gets like 170 USD fixed pay per month, which is not viable even with the low CoL.

You'll get pestered by informal "car guards" for tips for supposed guarding services. Some people give them R2 to make them go away others tell them to get lost. They're a nuisance/extortion setup. Up to you.
> That's because Latex is turing complete and that means...

The article is of course interesting, but it's really annoying to read claims that Turing completeness has anything to do with security. The danger comes from interaction with the external environment, not whether or not the language is Turing complete. If HTML had a "\write" equivalent, it would be just as dangerous. Conversely, the script,

\newwrite\outfile
\openout\outfile=cmd.tex
\write\outfile{\imm\diate\wwrite\args}
\write\outfile{\inp\iput\cmd}
\closeout\outfile

Doesn't require a loop or anything indicating a Turing complete language. That said the Turing complete aspects of Latex can be very useful, for e.g. using it to calculate results during compilation. But it's the \write etc that make it dangerous, not \loop.
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Flabbergast seems to have the right idea, but its lack of examples is a problem. Its only example is based around Apache Aurora (who in hell uses that and wtf it is I don't know, and I don't really want to learn that just to understand an example). This hasn't changed since it was first announced, so I don't think I'll take another look at it for quite a while unless I come by some reasonable howto.
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If UNC had hired 612 people instead of him, we would have had the job done in a month!
I think it is the other way around.

The human's strength is intuition and insight. They can look at a move and have a good understanding of strengths and weaknesses of positions by "feel" developed by long practice of the game. More time doesn't really help this much.

Another part of the game is "reading" -- playing out scenarios of response and counter-response to evaluate how strong a move is. The computer excels at this, because it can play out as many moves as its computation time allows and remember all the results with complete accuracy. Humans are slower and prone to mistakes when they do lots of reading.

So adding clock time lets the computer increase its advantage over the human in reading depth, but doesn't so much increase the human's advantage of intuition and insight.
80% of StarCraft is the APM - actions per minute. Strategy may exist but its nothing a computer can't replicate with human-coded heuristics. If a computer doesn't have to worry about a limit on APM, I'm sure it would obliterate any human starcraft player.
Were Neanderthals responsible for their own extinction?
A singularity is a point where things are advancing so fast on different fronts it's impossible to make predictions about how fast things are going or where the next advance will come from. I think we're about there with "constrained AI", because everyone was looking at Facebook's bot which was playing with a four-stone handicap when Google skipped straight to champion-beating.
The top comment on Reddit says:

"As a casual player of Go myself, some of the moves that AlphaGo made were crazy. Even one of the 9th Dan analysts said something along the lines of 'That move has never been made in the history of Go, and its brillant.' and 'Professional Go players will be learning and copying that move as a part of the Go canon now'."
will the money get split amongst all contributers that ask?

otherwise I'm not sure how I feel about the lead developer getting contributions but asking to get money to keep for themselves.
Most of the transcript of the video is on the main page (http://miegakure.com/), along with illustrative images and gifs.

They evoke how their inspiration was flatland, which when I read it I found strikingly unimaginative. To explain, the characters are 2D objects; the book describes some of the problems these beings encounter, but doesn't really solve them, so the described society doesn't really hold up. One instance is that their field of vision is just a line with a dimension for color, so you need to see a form move into space to understand what it is (maybe I'm wrong, but I think the author does not say clearly that points do bear some 'depth' and 'texture' information, otherwise this wouldn't work). But there are creative ways to solve these problems: for example the beings could 'see' using a bat-like interpretations of echoes to get a sense of the space around them (we see in 3D, not in 2D). Life under different constraints ends up having different features than us humans. So in a sense, it is a bit like somebody who would stumble upon a mathematical paradox (say, the barber's one) and would just deduce 'how funny are words and numbers' (well, a bit like Lewis Caroll).
That was the first Culture novel I ever read, and still probably my favourite. Time to dig it out and read it again!
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
I don't know what the percentage should be, but pretty much yes. I support the disability laws in the UK as I think they make the country a better place. I think it's simply the right thing to do, and probably a financially sound decision for the country (like universal healthcare, the fit pay for hospital care they don't use).

Although I think you're being a bit cheeky here in saying "a tax on every able bodied person" when it's really a tax on everyone. Everyone pays the higher price, when it only benefits a few.

> it ends up taxing every single person who doesn't use or need those features.

Yes, which sounds bad when you think of most regular features, implementing things that only benefit a few people. But the problem is those few people need these features on many products, and without them have massively reduced access to a huge range of things.
What's an intelligence explosion? Intelligence dissemination or deletion?

EDIT: Nevermind, just looked it up and found this was a real thing. I thought you were joking.
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IT security game. You're the CIO of Fugel, make your decisions
There's a Starcraft AI League (http://sscaitournament.com/) you might be interested in.
Sure. Just pointing out the flaws in, if something is cheap it gets used too much - explanation.
Besides, nearly every activity can be addictive.
The research is based on work I did writing and improving @DeepForger (http://twitter.com/deepforger), an online service for "basic" style transfer. The GitHub is a standalone version for learning and education, which doesn't do HD rendering as well yet and uses a bit more memory. The positive side, however, is that opening up the source code makes these ideas progress faster!

We'll try to integrate the idea of semantic style transfer into @DeepForger in the future, but this require quite a bit of work to get it to reliably understand portraits or landscapes without anyone's intervention. The fact it does require these semantic maps for all images makes it less straightforward to release as a service.
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You hit the nail on the head. I can not imagine reacting any other way if an engineer on my team asked for nap time.
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> AI without emotion, philosophy or personality just comes in and brushes all of that aside and turns Go into a simple game of mathematics.

Just wait until machines start producing top notch research in experimental fields such as chemistry and Physics...
If lave generates a well defined sublanguage, I don't think parsing would need to be much slower than parsing JSON. It would just be an extended JSON parser that happens to parse executable JavaScript.
There was one move that literally caused the 9th dan commentator to do a triple-take. It apparently turned out to be super effective.
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Pretty much. The nature of evaluating a Go position, is that it has some notions of similarity like islands, "aliveness", and local features that can be looked at liberty-wise. But in order to fully understand how it all pieces together, one must have seen other positions to intuit the kind of future playstyle that will result in the game. Anyhow, it's perfect for a stochaistic system that just recognizes patterns. As long as you can provide the tree search (ie. the partial position evaluation) you can basically just let it rip.
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That is not the general understanding of singularity...

The technological singularity is a hypothetical event in which artificial general intelligence (constituting, for example, intelligent computers, computer networks, or robots) would be capable of recursive self-improvement (progressively redesigning itself), or of autonomously building ever smarter and more powerful machines than itself, up to the point of a runaway effect—an intelligence explosion[1][2]—that yields an intelligence surpassing all current human control or understanding

- Wikipedia
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We already do that - social security and medicare in the US, for example, go in part to providing help to people with disabilities.

I'd rather the author have the option of getting a small amount of help rather than having to spend more money buying pre-cut or pre-made. In his case, it might be enough for someone to come by twice a week and do the cutting and peeling for him. - It would provide him the assistance he needs while not trivializing everything he can do on his own.

Obviously that might have to be scaled somewhat based on the number of people who need assistance in a certain area - maybe in large cities it makes more sense for a person to be able to order what they need so that for some people they'd be getting pre-cut fruits and veggies, others might be getting meals ready to be stuck in the oven, and some might need hot meals delivered. The key to me is to provide everyone the ability to be as independent as possible, and not have it be more expensive for them than it is for someone who isn't disabled.
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Brave is no major browser. Then again, if you look at the market share and depending on where you draw the line, Opera isn't a major browser either (1.68% according to netmarketshare.com).
I hope you're wrong.
https://caddyserver.com/download#payment says

> Funds are used to pay the author and some developers so they can continue to actively develop the project and provide support to you.

> After each fiscal year, funds permitting, we'll hire an external CPA to verify the expenditure on the account. Audit results will be made available for you to view.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with a bash script or makefile for this purpose. Been doing it for years for deployment on a few small hosts I manage. The last thing I want to deal with is "configuration management" management for these lightweight apps.
Which kind of makes me think. Would machine learning succeed even mildly at recognizing primes? Would we be able to decode the final weights after weeks of learning, and find a sieve program encoded as data?

Well apparently my question leads to some deep mathematic theories about languages encoded by data. http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/15039/why-can-ma...
I always enjoyed the part that basically said that management exists to decrease the number of lines of communication necessary for a project to function...and that's pretty much the only reason they exist ;)
This is why laws around disabled access usually have use the term "reasonable adjustments" or similar.

It's worth pointing out that the UK law also covers a businesses website:

http://www.out-law.com/page-330

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance
The other "ecosystem" is mobile apps, and it is how most younger people use the internet. The less revenue from a traditional website there is, the more incentive there is to make certain features app-only.
The proof is in the pudding: no major company has ever shipped zfs on Linux in the last decade, nor will they in the next decade.
Sounds like the product's best hope is that it doesn't rely on any VC funding to be a success. There must be some revenue coming in if you're still going after 3 years. As for whether it's going to start paying you what you're worth soon, I guess that depends whether lack of traction after 3 years is because it's taken a long time to get the product ready and marketed with a small unfunded team, or simply because the product market fit isn't really there or the market just isn't that big
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But customer needs to pay
I'd be looking at your diet and eating times if you're getting the '3 o'clock slump' and need a snooze during the day.
It should be noted that shell escape is disabled by default in standard installations and the -shell-escape flag must be explicitly passed during compilation to enable it.

So if someone is knowledgeable enough to add this flag I would assume that they know what they are doing, such as the guys cited in the article who create an isolated Docker container for each compilation cycle [note: very nice use of Docker!].
The sad part is how many managers aren't aware of this.
Generally speaking it depends on the content I am after. If its information then I'll look elsewhere.

If it's a download I need then I'll temporarily disable. However if the adverts are particularly dodgy I'll not be downloading from that location.
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Well, take things that way: if your language is not Turing-complete, you could lock things down so that no crazy stuff happens, and prove that there is no way to bypass the security --assuming this problem is decidable, which can be the case if the language is not Turin-complete, but is hopeless otherwise.

So it's a bit like saying "well, both are dogs so both can bite", when one is well-trained and leashed, and the other is loose and raging.
I don't think he was referring to "on the clock." Also, doesn't have to be another project could be wife and kids your trying to juggle at night.
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Donations are a hard way to run a business. Wikimedia struggled for years to keep the servers on. Unstable at best. I would go with a dual-licensed approach and/or support model.

A tiered support model is a no brainer for most businesses especially if the lower tiers are relatively cheap. A high-end “bells and whistles” model also make sense for some companies who use it mission critical scenarios.