skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the kind of problem solved routinely in city level Olympiads world wide. I believe the kid is certainly bright, but by this article's standard, most Olympiad problem sets, even at the city level, become new theorems. So, keep the enthusiasm going kid, but try your luck at the Olympiads to truly benchmark your standing.
Patents were never meant to protect investments.

Trade secrets protected in guild systems. These where out of the control of the government. Indeed, these guilds could be more powerful than the government. The Monarchy could offer a government backed monopoly in exchange for those secrets. Not sure if it is the best idea or not. Personally, I wouldn't mind stronger programming guilds.
Deepmind is going to work on that next (according to one of the staff interviewed on the broadcast). It will be interesting to see if other playing styles develop.
The supposed middle ground is that you force the naval engineers to, against their will, build the submarine with just a few extra holes.

Security is only as good as the weakest link. If you can bypass actual crypto and fallback to the world's justice systems, you've made a catestrophic compromise somewhere. In such a security system any crypto is pure deception. This is untenable in 2016.
In case it isn't clear to anyone: the beginning of this article is basically a description of Terence's experiences in the Colombian Amazonas, described with more detail in a book of his called "True Hallucinations." The content of this article is significantly more coherent and poignant if one takes the time to look into that book.

To summarize briefly: in his early 20s, Terence and some colleagues went to Colombia with the intentions of finding and studying a certain entheogen. After (I think days or weeks) of consuming psilocybin (mushrooms), their investigations became more focused on the mushroom, and their collective ideas about the matter become increasingly "out there." Terence and his brother become convinced by their experiences that extra-dimensional entities are instructing them to conceive of an "experiment" (that involves them taking both psilocybin and ayahuasca) which will trigger some sort of eschatological event. The "experiment" then causes Terence and his brother to have mutually re-enforcing psychosis and hallucinations that last for something like two weeks.

The book is very interesting. Terence was a hell of a writer, and the general concepts touched upon are highly interesting.

From the article: "Does the delusion of one visionary ecstatic validate the delusion of another? How many deluded, or illuminated ecstatics does it take to make a reality?"
And now you're trying to break back on the front page, clever.
Sure, but this phenomenon is not new. It's called creative destruction: innovators discover a market advantage, creating new industries while destroying the old.
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I've an XPS 13, and I like it a lot. I use i3 as my window manager which, due to being keyboard driven, is quite infuriating on this device. The trackpad is incredibly sensitive and the heel of my hand being within 2" or so will trigger a contact. I've attempted to lessen the sensitivity to no avail. Most of the time this isn't an issue because I'm using an external keyboard and mouse, but when I'm on the road it drives me nuts. Enough so that I now remote work on an mbp, and desk work on the XPS.
It took life millions of years of evolution to produce us.
Look at what artificial intelligence has achieved in decades.
It is an interesting idea, definitely. I can also easily imagine that a future cryptocurrency will see widespread adoption. But I can not see how Bitcoin or something build on top of Bitcoin or something very similar to Bitcoin could achieve this.

What I don't understand in your comment, what is the relevant difference between Bitcoin as payment network and Bitcoin as currency that may make it work in one case but not the other. Interesting, yes, useful in its current incarnation, I don't see that.
I thought productive people paid for unproductive people's food and rent. You know, because otherwise they would be dead.
The average salary in my country is $30/day, but it's not so much about that as about the fact that it's very unlikely that I'll like a game, so at $5 per game the expected ROI is negative. I'd like something that can raise the certainty before I purchase (e.g. a demo, or at least an extended trial period).

Too bad Google only allows you to try an app for 15 minutes or so now.
This is really strange. Why is this?
Sure, but hopefully providing some insight for others! It was definitely a learning experience.
Precisely. It's not that stimulants help people with ADHD focus. They help everyone focus, regardless of whether they have ADHD. [1]

> Attention-deficit drugs increase concentration in the short term, which is why they work so well for college students cramming for exams.

> Versions of these drugs had been given to World War II radar operators to help them stay awake and focus on boring, repetitive tasks.

> And when we reviewed the literature on attention-deficit drugs again in 1990 we found that all children, whether they had attention problems or not, responded to stimulant drugs the same way.

I've always been baffled how I didn't see this for myself years ago - after all, that's exactly what caffeine does for millions of people.

Worse, though, people with ADHD are prescribed stimulants for long-term use, and even after the medicine ceases to be effective - because your body adapts to it over time - you can't just stop taking it, because withdrawal sucks.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-a...
>Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s founder, who was born in Ukraine, has talked about his family members’ fears that the government was eavesdropping on their phone calls.

And the Ukraine government is not the only government that might be suspected of having shenanigans, whether officially or done by rogue agents.

Even our own FBI has been infiltrated by rogue agents, such the case of an illegal immigrant who managed to become an FBI agent and was trying to get information on their investigation of Hizbollah, as documented on their own web site:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/november/prouty_111307

Of course the majority of the people there are great people doing a good job. But extending trust to them does not protect the users' interest in privacy and more importantly safety.
Certainly a lot of people ten years ago would have bet against this happening by 2016--especially before Monte Carlo approaches were tried. But I doubt you would have found many takers for betting against it happening in a 100 years (much less it never happening).

Autonomous vehicles are similar. IMO, it would be a fool's bet to bet against them ever happening. But it's reasonable to debate whether they'll be mainstream Level 4 consumer devices in 10 years, 25 years, or 50 years.
Never buy any inkjet printer. I threw in the garbage a Canon multifunction that refused ton work as a SCANNER when its ink was empty.

If you have the space and print a lot of black and white, buy an eight year old used HP LaserJet with an Ethernet interface.
Well they wouldn't really be three lines if they all go from the same point to the same other point. They would all be the same line.

Unless the language of math does allow "references" like programming languages.

All you need is to require three different lines of equal length.

But I don't see the significance of calling this a theorem. It seems perfectly obvious and elementary and almost just the definition of a circle.
Ya, turn down the condecending/arrogance dial a bit. First of all Ontario does have significant natural resources i.e logging/mining. Also I'm not sure if you've been in the country for the last decade but it's been under a conservative leadership and it's not exactly socialism. PS - I'm in favor of experimenting with baseincome and live in Ontario.
> throwing hardware at the problem with a large 280 GPU + 1920 CPU cluster.

You have a trillion connection neural net wrapped in 2 pounds of flesh inside your head. This is a massively larger amount of hardware compared to just about every animal out there. Throwing hardware at a problem is a solution to intelligence.
Ha, that's a good one, actually. Quite elegant.
Didn't they do something like this with Skype years ago?
It's nice to see Dell beginning to actually adopt Linux and Ubuntu. I always kind of figured part of the strategy of going private was to be able to move away from the status quo of being just another Windows vendor... By offering choice and eliminating lock-in, they can go after techie types and serious users who otherwise would have probably just bought a ThinkPad or MBP.
I think that most high-level Go players (including AlphaGo) play moves that serve multiple purposes simultaneously. The ideal move reinforces your own position while forcing your opponent to defend their own.

White certainly played plenty of moves that required black to respond, but black also did the same. For example, the sequence beginning at 77 is black getting a foothold inside an area that white might've hoped to claim later. Then at move 115 black attempts an invasion into a very strong white area, ultimately failing to escape or live, leading to resignation.

That all said, I wouldn't say that either player was particularly aggressive. I've watched plenty of human games where one player or the other very intentionally picks an all-out fight. If you're really good at reading ahead locally and you think your opponent is not, this make sense. This is especially true if your large-scale game play is not as good as your tactical play.

This is also common in high handicap games. If white can't slowly eke out an advantage early on, the only remaining tactic might be to go for a huge fight and see what happens.
I'd be interested to find out how many actually legitimate terrorist plots have been foiled because of NSA/government eavesdropping. I'd bet it's staggeringly low, if not 0. I'd put money on single digits, easily. It seems like the vast majority of good & concrete actionable intelligence found in these cases are the results of good old-fashioned police work. I mean, they have already caught these people (or, as in the case of San Bernadino, the suspects are dead) -- so now they just want what?... more evidence against them, links to other people/suspects, etc? It seems lazy and/or a lie that they couldn't gather this info with, y'know, investigative police technique.
Doesn't everyone have a hard time completing boring jobs and sitting for hours?
Assuming a progressive tax system they're basically the same thing. (1) is a simpler description, if less precise.
Hmm, this is the first "I Hit The HN Front Page" humblebrag posts that's not a humblebrag, and as a result is interesting.

Being successful is not a binary get-on-front-page or not; ranking on the front page matters. At #27 of 30, that is effectively off the front page. (for reference in how important ranking matters, when one of my submissions went from #1 to #3, the number of active users dropped by 2/3rds. Going from #3 to #20 halved the traffic again.)
Hyperinflation is not a foregone conclusion of printing new money; it depends on how fast it is printed.

>Hyperinflations are usually caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than taxation or borrowing). As such, hyperinflation is often associated with wars, their aftermath, sociopolitical upheavals, or other crises that make it difficult for the government to tax the population. A sharp decrease in real tax revenue coupled with a strong need to maintain the status quo, together with an inability or unwillingness to borrow, can lead a country into hyperinflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
Until someone brings a link from MIT's website, I'm calling bullshit on this one.

This sounds like what pops up every other day in Egyptian newspapers about genius Egyptian kids who invent this or that.

The theorem stated in the article is not a theorem at all. It's a direct consequence of the definition of a circle and is perfectly obvious to anyone who spends two minutes pondering the implications of that definition.
Probably because the country I live in has much less variation in the quality of secondary education.

The fact the US hasn't figured out how to offer a consistent level of K-12 education is, quite frankly, mind-boggling (along with the lack of health care, and many other things we take for granted in the rest of the 'western' world).
The approach that I've used is components style themselves, components that contain other components know how to alter the child components, page layouts/templates can alter components, and each individual page can modify from there. I still consider that modular. The only way a component is impacted is when a parent component explicitly alters it.

In your example the articles would have a standard styling and the main/sidebar would alter the styling as needed.
move 37 was a black move (lee sedol)
"Ontario has no natural resources"

Only if you think Ontario is the bit surrounding Toronto.
Good read. Curious How Samsung is playing it in China given new Chinese phones from MI5 to Vevo
You can determine whether the network is a Personal Hotspot heuristically. It is nice of them to have implemented private DHCP flags in Android, but if you routinely pull hundreds of megabytes without user interaction...
scolding [a student] for using ideas that weren't being taught in his classroom.?

Very common!
> Well they wouldn't really be three lines if they all go from the same point to the same other point. They would all be the same line.

> Unless the language of math does allow "references" like programming languages.

Ha, that indicates that I'm clearly thinking more as a programmer than as a mathematician :-) Thanks.
>oh hang on, I see now: Trump Foundation

No relation.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4774818,00.html
Definitely excited to see this trial take place.
No "app store" to have those isses.
"Barbi prefers a future in theater rather than math."

The gender wage gap, explained in one sentence.
Seriously. I recall proving that there is one and only one circle that can be drawn through 3 distinct points on a Euclidean plane. This "theorem" can be thought of as a corollary of that.
> They blamed Microsoft for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

You've got to be kidding. I'd like to read that. It should be funny.
They mentioned what the training input to AlphaGo was in the paper; a database of a few hundred thousand games from dan ranked players on KGS. This means mostly amateur players, though there are a few professionals who play on KGS as well.

However, this only gets you so far, and the training set is fairly small compared to what you want to really train both the policy and value networks well. So then they had it play millions of games against different versions of itself, training both a new policy network and the value network based on that.

It's unlikely that Lee Sedol's games made much if any impact on AlphaGo's training. It was bootstrapped off of high-level amateur, and some casual pro, play, but from then on it just trained against itself.
I never know what these 'grade' designations mean. Anyway, it appears to refer to 15 to 16-year-olds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_grade
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> But in many games (for example Go) humans are still superior to computers.

Was this submitted ironically?
Stephen Wolfram must be jumping in glee to see this.
One benefit to this is that it will bring data collection methods (and legality) out into the light. Before the NSA would never take someone to trial for a petty crime because they'd have to reveal their secrets.

I'm hoping this leads to some ground breaking, pro-democracy, pro-constitution court cases. Hoping...
It was stated by one of the developers that AlphaGo doesn't play to maximize the number of points it wins by. It's satisfied to win by one point. It maximizes the probability of winning. It plays thick moves and tries to simplify the board.

If the player forces it to a fight, it will fight back, but that's only because losing the fight will definitely lose the game.
In my experience most projects that need to worry about things like this are too big for a high level of consistency to work. Either that, or the design is sacrificed to make the code easier. Whenever a designer looks at a page they say "left a bit, down a bit" until they're happy with it, regardless of consistency.

So, yeah, use rems or ems if it makes your life easier. Use a CSS preprocessor with lots of helpful variable names and functions. And just don't worry about it.
It's truly amazing how talented the Jewish people are. So many of our greatest minds come from that culture.

I wish her my congratulations.
You missed the point. Widespread gun ownership among non-criminals has side effects that harm innocents. Not the case with encryption.

You could argue it makes it easier for people to become criminals, but even that is a weak comparison. Guns are a lot harder to come by in the UK (for example) than encryption software would be in a more regulated world.
I have to admit, I expected laptops to cover that niche you described (not too expensive and not shitty), but it seems to me that tablets with keyboard-covers will rather do that.
This is really amazing, thanks for the recommendation. The fact that it can record not only my mic but my speakers is blowing my mind right now.
It's a fluff piece.

The real story here is that a 10th grader, after using a Theorem that wasn't taught in class, was encouraged to prove it - which she did, successfully.
The teacher then sent it to a few academics who were thought that was a rather impressive accomplishment for a 10th grader, so they wrote her some encouraging words. That's it.

The theorem and its proof are in Euclid's Elements, (Book 3 Proposition 9: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookIII/propIII9.h...)
lmao this is simply untrue. what you are experiencing is called buyers remorse
The definition of a circle is literally the set of all points whose distance from a point P is r, so yeah, I'm in agreement.

EDIT: in a plane
Ask HN: What is the root of this agile image?
I encounter this image in some resources about agile. Do you know the root?

http://i.hizliresim.com/bDyvnm.png
A circle is defined as all the points in the same distance from a certain center point.

But a point thats distanced from the circle circumference by R isn't necessarily the circles center.

But if you can draw 3 (and hence more) lines from a point to the circles circumference that are all the same lenght, that is the circles center, and the distance is the radius.
If you like the idea of the I Ching, you might also like this version: http://where-you-are.com/sheila-heti . It's a "mini ching" presented as a dogital art project - I found the writing, illustrations, and form to work very nicely together.
General AI could be the biggest ever discovery for humanity. But it will never be if we don't put a hard enough effort. The bad thing, is that economy laws seem to assign a limited effort toward it. In my opinion we should be trying harder. Worth mentioning is OpenAI (https://openai.com/), an effort by Y Combinator, Elon Musk and others. Brilliant initiative.
I don't think so. In each case it should be less than 5% of those who are sexually active. Considering that kids are stupid and make mistakes, there's going to be some irreducible number.
>Can't beat a machine in a formal universe with a defined goal.

That's why the next goal AI developers are pushing towards is incomplete information games.
I recently bought a software learning book for the first time in years. It was nice to read from something other than a screen for the first time in years.
Interesting research, in my opinion, this been long coming as the next phase in the evolution of computing and society in general. It's how tech is going change the world to the point of 24/7 always-on connectivity; once the tools, applications, and entire ecosystem is created with more consideration to the human element of the system.

We're actually applying to YC's Summer 2016 batch with a fully automated application deployment process to accommodate for developers, by shifting focus to deployment considerations that have not been eliminated.

To whom it might interest: I've written about how this applies to deployment in some detail here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iU4Qez-EjHTz6o5IUVa8l18n... any additional thoughts on the subject would be appreciated.
It's already fairly well established that any three points define a circle. Similarly, most circles have a center, and will therefore have radii which join those points to the center.
> I think labor will just evolve

Then you're missing the point, there is not an endless amount of low skilled labor to do and machines will take over all of those roles, even the new ones. People aren't going to suddenly all be able to handle high skilled jobs.
On the subject of SO: I think it's worth considering how (incredibly!) valuable the public record of questions and answers is. Many, many times I don't have to ask a question b/c I can find a comparable one that has already been answered.

I really dislike how Slack is starting to dominate in the Q&A space for specific projects/libraries, b/c it does the entire dev community a disservice to hide knowledge into a myriad of little silos that Google doesn't index.

Long way of saying it would be awesome if BugRex had a searchable/spiderable archive.
I love the name.
That was my thought, exactly. I'm rather into Bottom Line Up-Front and that website seems to provide a tight summary/outline for every story.

Writing well is something I'm shooting for because I'm always all over the place and I need more discipline.
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Yes. A JSON Object is not an ATM Machine.
Some Hebrew reports say that story has been exaggerated by the media. She proved a theorem from Euclid Elements in a different way than Euclid.

https://www.facebook.com/MadaGB/photos/a.144320005726807.327...
Except this time technology is evolving in a general way, to take over all jobs, not just specialized tasks.

It's not the same thing happening this time.
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I pretty much exclusively buy Epson XP-420's nowadays. What other all-in-one option is there that meets the following criteria?

1. Complete and free Linux support

2. Wireless

3. Affordable - remember, we are competing with a printer that regularly retails for $40 and whose cartridges cost around $10 per set. "Just buy the $200 Brother with $40 a set toner" isn't satisfactory to the people I recommend printers to.

HP printers are known to be draconian with their cartridge DRM, and their Linux support is kind of a PITA with how they use their own protocol and suite of tools and every HP printer I have tried has never played nice with Cups management.
Deep Blue can be defeated at chess now.
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On the other hand i would like to read an assessment of the significance of this advance. While AI may have perfect applicability to these perfect information games, we may still be decades from useful real world generic applications.
Yahoo's fantasy football software creates millions of machine-written summaries of their fantasy football matches after each week of play. They're several paragraphs long and point out interesting things about the particulars of the teams' performance.

I would imagine that given the "All-22" camera footage from a football game, it would be possible to construct a piece of software to monitor what was going on (visually identify players by name/number, determine who has the ball, etc.) and then convert that model to a stream of English text.

Making it nuanced and entertaining, on the other hand, would be a challenge. :)
Looks terrific, but also abandoned. Last stable update in late 2014.