skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 clause BSD (or you might actually like 3 clause) will allow you to keep your proprietary (pro) extensions private.

None of them stop forks, of course.
I think the ruthlessly efficient machines will find the smart yet efficient human brains more useful to keep around than to destroy. We'll probably augment ourselves with AI and AI will work better in partnership with us.
I suspect that with time Lee may be able to even out the advantage. It would be surprising if AlphaGo hadn't be trained on historic matches with Lee giving him an early edge until Lee can adapt.

I hope that Lee can adapt, but I doubt it. Lee will be training at a slow pace analyzing 4 or 5 games. AlphaGo will be playing hundreds of millions against itself - and it is a worthy competitor of itself already.

Although Go and AlphaGo are very different than Chess and DeepBlue, there is one interesting analogy... Once chess beat us, they pulled ahead very quickly and the gap isn't closing. The ELO rating of top chess programs [0] is pulling away from top humans [1]. There are natural differences between computational superiority and creativity, but it seems like AlphaGo has captured a lot of the latter.

[0] https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-computer-chess-e...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_World_Rankings
That's really nice! Highlighting the month's data on hover is a cool feature
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I think a lot of Flash-based storage devices still work like this - the exact number of blocks they expose depends on how many defects the particular dies happened to have.
My understanding was that total annihilation didn't work on modern computers... Do you have links to the communities that play TA?
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Online courses + more importantly experience.
If this was really about the privacy of the perps; an NSL would've been enough and we'd never know about it. This is about setting precedent, and as publicly as possible.

If the feds get their way the entire idea of encryption is weakened, and not just for the lawful citizens. I suspect the reason for having this battle so publicly is propaganda based, just as it was with Zimmermann in the 90's.
This four-part series explains it well: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neu...
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A good chair is definitely that good. Incredibly valuable purchase.

You'll save significant money in lost developer hours, physiotherapy costs, etc by buying good chairs (and checking that the rest of your setup is ergonomic too) right now.

Personally I don't get on with the Aeron, which is why I have the Herman Millar Mirra instead.
Just as an anecdote: I certainly don't laugh at the Tarsnap website, but it immediately turns me away as a potential customer. The instant gut feeling is "OK, this is a product made by someone who laughs at UI design. They didn't even try. The product will probably be a pain to learn."

It's most likely not an accurate description of Tarsnap, but its's a strong enough first impression that I'll immediately close the tab.

And that's a shame, a mutual loss for Tarsnap and any potential customers. Tarsnap pops up on Hacker News quite a bit, so it probably is much better than the impression it gives.

Design certainly isn't a binary choice between adopting fads and abandoning aesthetics completely. The overused styles are overused because they are viable first steps towards a decent design. The cop-out alternative--taking no step at all--isn't better.
Well, perhaps there is a second life for all the n7's google bricked with the last major update.
Google improved the outcome by putting in large amounts of processing power. What happens, if humans would do the same?

Instead of just Lee Sedol, how about putting the top 10 Go players in a room vs. AlphaGo? Would the chance to win increase?

Maybe we find out, that 3 top go players vs. AI is the optimal way and adding more humans decreases the odds to win the match?

This would lead to following question: Why does AI improve, if we add more processing power while adding more human brainpower decreases their overall power?

Maybe we find out, that 3 good developers working on a project are optimal and more decrease the chance of success?
How about me not providing you an e-mail just to read your marketing flyer?
The question is whether Alphago’s architecture starts hitting diminishing returns to extra processing faster than top humans is a significantly different question from whether it scales down to a blitz game worse. (Moreover, the difference between 1h main time + 3x 30s byoyomi vs. only 3x 30s byoyomi is absolutely massive.)

Deepmind engineers have stated that the “cluster” version of Alphago only beats the “single machine” version about 70% of the time. This despite the cluster version using like an order of magnitude more compute resources, presumably able to search several moves deeper in the full search tree.

My impression is that there are some fundamental weaknesses in the (as currently trained and implemented) value network, which Lee Sedol was able to exploit. If this is the case, giving the computer time to cover an extra move or two of search depth might not make a huge difference. Giving Lee Sedol twice as much time, however, would have had a significant impact on several of the games in this series, especially the last game. I strongly suspect that with a few extra minutes per move Lee Sedol would have avoided the poor trades in the late-midgame which cost him the game.
I would consider myself a full stack developer, hell I've even made a decent career out of it. I don't have a CS degree, what I do have is many many years experience. I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including whatever the latest fad is be in jQuery, Node, Ember et al...), PHP, Python, Java, SQL (MySQL and MSSQL), NoSQL (Mongo, Elasticsearch etc...), and I can set up, secure and maintain a web server running Ubuntu, Redhat or CentOS.

You can't reliably learn all of this from an online course, although it might be a good starting point, you become a good full stack developer after years of experience.
I use i3 for tiling graphical windows, but I use tmux for tiling and multiplexing terminal panes. The reason I prefer using tmux for terminal stuff is so that I only ever need one terminal window open, I can use the same tool when connected to remote machines with only one connection, etc.
I don't usually use in-terminal tiling managers, but when I do, I use dvtm.
Is it really 314GB? Or is it actually 314159265kB?
No, you don't need a formal degree.

But don't just do courses. Have a project that you've aligned with the outline of the course you're currently on. Small at the start, then getting bigger, over several years, integrating a new skill but still applying older skills, so they don't get rusty.

And as well as the front- and back-end site, get dirty with the OS level too. The ins and outs of configuration files. Perhaps contribute to mailing lists, or have a StackOverflow profile where you start by lurking, then getting interactive. Expect to get criticized, sometimes rightfully, sometimes from armchair engineers, and learn from both - the knowledge and the tact.

As novicei stated, don't wait. Get started now! :)
> These kinds of predictions are almost always useless.

Let's rephrase. For a long time, the expert consensus regarding Go was that it was extremely difficult to write strongly-performing AI for. From the AlphaGo Paper: Go presents "difficult decision-making tasks; an intractable search space; and an optimal solution so complex it appears infeasible to directly approximate using a policy or value function."

For many years, the state-of-the-art Go AI stagnated or grew very slowly, reaching at most the amateur dan level. AlphaGo presents a huge and surprising leap.

> Continued advancement doesn't mean that it is accelerating

Over constant time increases, AI is tackling problems that appear exponentially more difficult. In particular, see Checkers (early '90s) vs Chess ('97) vs Go ('16). The human advantage has generally been understood to be the breadth of the game tree, nearly equivalent to the complexity of the game.

If we let x be the maximum complexity of a task at which AI performs as well as a human, then I would argue that x has been growing at an accelerating pace over the past few decades.
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Thanks, sebg, for submitting this!
The main difference between this and some other heatmap charts is the UI design, and the fact that is a 1 year moving window of day aggregated data. Thanks for sharing all of the other heatmap examples in the comments, many of which I haven't seen before.

This is still in the early stages so if you have any questions or suggested improvements, just comment them here - I'd love to hear them!
Three-quarters of the top 20 venture capitalists are early stage investors
The thing is: if encryption is illegal and you encrypt your illegal material so law enforcement can't convict you for it, they can still convict you for using encryption.
The Startup System in Taiwan Disappointing?
Hungary uses YYYY/MM/DD which is my favorite, because it's consistent with the endianness of numbers.
This is still my favorite bootstrap webpage generator: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
> > Instead of doing one thing well, it does two things poorly.

> It really doesn't. I think you just wanted something to say.

I'd say it does at least three things: terminal multiplexing, session management and copy/paste.

I switched away from tmux a while ago and now use DVTM for multiplexing and dtach for session management. DVTM delegates copy/paste to an external editor, but I've not used that functionality.
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DJI is violating the GPL
(disclaimer; not a lawyer) How do you see there being probable cause for the issuance of a warrant? My reading of the FBI-Apple-CDCal-Govt-Reply document (page 2 / line) was that there was not forthcoming or ongoing attack, but evidence of the attack that Farook had executed.
It wouldn't really be a surprise if someone denied your eisegetical interpretation of scripture ("in the Bible Pi [is] exactly 3"). Those creating the "sea" in the passage usually referenced to this end clearly were able to do it, there's no reason for us to consider they didn't have as accurate a definition of the ratio as anyone else.

Of note is the tradition of numerology in Hebrew texts and the assertion that the passage on the sea includes an adjustment that renders a better approximation with a fractional percentage of error.

http://www.answering-islam.org/Religions/Numerics/pi.html for example.

>"Still no cigar, 3.139 is still not more a "final truth" than 3."

Were you expecting a casual observer to give a fully accurate (!) rendering of the exact measurements of an artefact; moreover were you expecting those measurements to reveal a more accurate rendering of pi when the units are "about as long as a forearm" and "about as wide as a hand"?
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That's true. Many of these sorts of memberships are at least a few hundred dollars when you are no longer a student, so they add up pretty quickly (but maybe have tax credits).
Example: leaking native memory from Java Virtual Machine
Ok, bootstrap (as well as jquery) has become a sign of lazy AND inefficient developer.
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I read the "we're back to the 90s again" articles. I think I would be careful not to overstate the case. I coded in the 90s. I did light crypto in the 90s. This isn't the 90s.

The world was so different then that the analogy wears thin. It was mostly client-server, the web was just taking off, and vast cloud server farms weren't even on the horizon. As you noted, the laws back then weren't for creating crypto -- it was for exporting it. At least in the states, we saw a healthy market for all sorts of new crypto tech: DES, AES, and RSA started in the 90s. (RSA became public in the 90s).

Note that I'm talking from the viewpoint of the average developer making applications. The business side, the international side, and the exporting mess? Yes, it's very similar. My comment was about changes Joe Dev is seeing now. The 90s was "write it, but only sell it locally", the 2020s are likely to be "don't write it unless you have permission", which is a completely different can of worms.

Agreed that the development community as a whole is still recovering from the 90s. The damage we're doing right now will take as long or longer to recover from, if we ever do.
There is always a risk of getting stuck in a local maxima, thinking you've found an optimal way of playing, so you'd need more data that presents different strategies, I'd think.
Many protest GMO foods with unscientific thought that GMO foods will mutate and harm people. Where as humans have been modifying food for thousands of years these are mostly a shortcut to achieve what was going to be done over decades.My reason for opposing GMO foods is patents. I don't think anyone should be able to block someone from growing food with patents.
> "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause"

As a non-legal expert, the way this feels to me is that asking for a backdoor is like preemptively issuing a warrant for everyone on the grounds that they might commit a crime in the future that you'd want to investigate. Thus backdooring iOS is tantamount to issuing an unlimited warrant for everyone, which is exactly what the Fourth Amendment is trying to prevent.
Life in USSR has never been as tough as it is in NK. Maybe in the 30s, 40s and early 50s. Maybe... My grandmother who was born in 1924 in the Soviet Union used to tell me that the Soviets would laugh at the brainwashing that was happening in NK even back in the time when she was a young woman. But I do agree with you. As someone who grew up and lived in USSR for a good portion of my life I often think about the simplistic life of those times. People didn't have everything under the sun as most in Western societies, but it was enough and it was cherished.
That's pretty optimistic, or arrogant. Not sure which. But it doesn't really comport with biological history.
> If we let x be the maximum complexity of a task at which AI performs as well as a human, then I would argue that x has been growing at an accelerating pace over the past few decades.

At ONE task, yes. But humans are average at many things but excel at being able to adapt to many different tasks, all the time. Typical AIs (as we know them now) cannot ever hope to replicate that.
> US has the Pi day

The US has a 'Pi day' in the same way it has a Jedi holiday on May 4th, a bunch of geeks said it for a while then more people just started saying it.

As in, the US doesn't have a 'Pi day', making the rest of your post a pointless rant against something you don't like that wasn't related until you tried to relate them.
It is based on human games until it can explore well enough to sufficiently break away from local optimums.
Based on the down-votes I'm assuming most React users don't actually know what the virtual DOM is...
I am developing all my new php applications on php7, and so does everyone i know. Just an anecdote.
> Were you expecting a casual observer to give a fully accurate (!) rendering of the exact measurements of an artefact;

No, I surely wouldn't, but I would expect from all-knowing God to pass any fact that wasn't commonly known at that time as a proof of his all-knowledge (like, "there are atoms" or "the speed of light is..."). Irrational numbers or some really exceptional (for these times) approximation of some constant would also be a nice "touch". And not to put in one of 10 commandments slaves, women and donkeys together. But He surely knew his priorities.

And note that there are enough of people that really consider and study the Bible as the source of such "all-time truths."
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Today you do. This may not be the case in the future.

We have no idea what the political and technical landscapes will look like in 5, 15, or 25 years. It is not inconceivable that your governmental identification "card" will morph from the plastic of today into an embedded device in the phones of tomorrow.
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Good for them. I wish everybody would move to ISO 8601 formatted (ideally UTC-offset) dates and times.
> the US doesn't have a 'Pi day'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

"On March 12, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution (HRES 224),[4] recognizing March 14, 2009 as National Pi Day.[10]"

The easy common acceptance versus some other possibilities is still telling. I actually don't consider it "more US" than the "Black Friday" for which I've received an equivalent number of the sales/promotion mails.
Reminds me of communist countries, especially East Germany, where neighbours were meant to spy on each other and report any suspicious activity to the (secret) police.
Or one could use that time to learn how to program AlphaGo
"It's so disappointing to me to hear a quote like that from the President."

Then you need to get informed how democracy works...

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democra...

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW07021...

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117
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So the ads have an impression on you... dun dun dun.

I saw a comment about the north korea pics earlier yesterday. It was referring to propaganda. Apparently the purpose of censored speech and propaganda wasnt so much to sway opinion and be cloaked as truth, rather it was an irresistable pleasure for rebels to decry and thereby reveal themselves. You might think that a deliberate attitude toward advertising can defeat it but the subconscious does not answer to your control :-)
Programmable logic on chips will be INCREDIBLE for the field of intrinsic hardware evolution, which is a slowly emerging science. This is huge for the field of AI and electronics.

I've been waiting to see this kind of thing for years, ever since I read Adrian Thompson's work on evolution with FPGAs, in which he:

"Evolved a tone discriminator using fewer than 40 programmable logic gates and no clock signal in a FPGA"
(slides: https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/308/779/an_evolved_cir...)

EDIT: Full paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....

The field has crawled along pretty slowly since then as far as I can tell.

However, this could be a HUGE thing for computing; developers would finally have a way to create hardware that interacts directly with the physical world in ways we haven't thought of yet. As a small example, Thompson's work revealed circuits that were electromagnetically coupled in novel ways but not connected to the circuit path, yet were required for the circuit to work. Using evolution, in time we should be able to come up with unique solutions to hardware problems not envisaged by human designers.

This is really exciting.
Way to make me feel bad about using this template :(
Countryside Romania still has a bit of that simplistic charm. I've been further east along the China/NK border, speak Chinese, and the Chinese I met there generally said NK now is like China in the 50s. That was 10 years ago, though.
This is practical for file archiving on a computer.
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thank for the feedback. but it is not a modal window.. and we give a link to open the original site...
"unless we've missed something fundamental about how the brain works"

But we don't know how the brain works. I think you extrapolate too far. Just because a machine learning technique is inspired by our squishy connectome it does not mean it's anything like it.

I'm willing to bet there are isomorphisms of dynamics between an organic brain and a neural net programmed on silicon but as far as I know, there are still none found - or at least none are named specifically (please correct me).
Personally I've had this combo segfault a couple of times in the past year or so, which never happened with screen or tmux. I've been using dvtm+dtach for a while now and had no problems.

abduco also used to leave cruft around if it didn't shut down cleanly (e.g. laptop battery cutting out), which would confuse it when next starting up (trying to attach to a non-existent session). I saw some entries in the changelog which might have fixed this, but I've had no problems from dtach so not felt a reason to switch back.
It's not like it wasn't tried before, e.g. with tools.
> If async support was already in vim why is there so much activity on async plugins for neovim now?

Because people like to build a new X to replace the old x. This was MUCH more about code not being accepted into Vim and personalities then code, in my opinion.
Good job!!
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I wonder, would it be possible for companies like Apple to completely up sticks and go somewhere else?

Where would it be ?
You can justify anything with "natural rights".