skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their FAQ fails to answer the basic questions - who runs it, how is it funded and why should it be trusted?

Your DNS server can log the domains you request and can serve malicious replies (particularly bad for HTTP and other non-authenticated protocols). Trusting some random server is not the smartest decision.
It's been said elsewhere that AlphaGo studying such a corpus of matches that even every match Lee ever recorded wouldn't be enough to bias it. I presume this also means that adding the last 3 games to that corpus would still not be enough to affect AlphaGo meaningfully.
Sorry, in Latin every adjective can also be used as a noun. So “studens” (“studierend”) can also mean “Studierende(r)”.

Edit: The point is, Latin “studens” also has the concurrency aspect to it, just as German “Studierender”. If you say “studens ambulat”, it means “He/she is taking a walk, while studying.”
These people may also be stuck in a local optimum, though. There are plenty of examples of people that finally do drop everything and go traveling or make some other deep change in their life, and end up much happier. But making that kind of decisions is not easy.
Great work! Keep it up!
You don't need to read papers. There are still preindustrial villages in many countries on this planet. And I can tell you from being to some in China that these people work more. Yes they have longer food breaks, but they also have much shorter sleep breaks at least than I can physically manage (5-6 hours, with 30 minutes for shower and going to work). And they don't have leasure breaks like watching two hours of tv before going to bed. The tv is always running in the background but only the elderly and little children sit directly in front of it.
It's a shame the website seems to focus on the U.S. only. I would support it and link it if it were a worldwide effort.
"Do not anthropomorphise computers. They really hate that" (NN)
AlphaGo will learn from any new styles and apply them effectively without mistakes from fatigue or inattention.

This incarnation of AI is not creative, it wont generate new play styles, that is still the domain of top human players for now. But it will ruthlessly learn and adopt any new and improved strategies. That's really the point to take away from its success so far.
> I can stop using Google products tomorrow without the need for a gun or explanation.

True, but that would not stop Google from tracking you everywhere, via more than a dozen tracking systems.

Also, even if you don't use Gmail, Google may still have about half of your emails, maybe more....
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
What about getting laid? It's no secret that women tend to find rich men attractive. Or men with a high social status. I wonder how many men work hard because of this?
Its not a case of nobody wants it, but rather they both want something else more. This wiki extract summarises it quite well:

>Egypt claims the original border from 1899, the 22nd parallel, which would place the Hala'ib Triangle within Egypt and the Bir Tawil area within Sudan. Sudan however claims the administrative border of 1902, which would put Hala'ib within Sudan, and Bir Tawil within Egypt. As a result, both states claim the Hala'ib Triangle and neither claims the much less valuable Bir Tawil area
I agree with this. I've always wanted to use an FPGA for something cool, but never found a need. (I'm a hobbyist, fwiw).

They fall in a middle ground between things I can build more simply with a super cheap microcontroller (I buy Arduino nanos for $2, for example), and things I really need GPU compute for. So I'm stuck. I keep thinking I'll do a DSP project soon, but that's more because it is one of the few things I think an FPGA will be useful for, than because I need it.

So cool, yes. Practical, maybe - but not very, at least for me.
Not everyone hates it. At my latitude, winter mornings at the summer offset would be terribly depressing and summer evenings would lose much of their appeal without it.

Also I actually enjoy having the yearly ebb and flow of daylight getting spiced up with some predictable discontinuity, but I see how this is a personal preference: It gives me a clear marker for when to stop bothering with the little remaining after work daylight which is less frustrating than being torn on the threshold for weeks.
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Which makes sense. It doesn't even have a concept of a human opponent or human-style mistakes - it plays against Lee just like it plays against itself when training.
Historically, working 24 hours a day (I include sleep because after a certain number of hours you even dream of code or your business) for 1 year typically accomplishes more than working 3 hours per day for 8 years. Or 1.5 hours per day for 16 years. There is just some kind of economy of scale.

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EDIT: I got downvoted. Come up with whatever standard of productivity you want (ANY standard that you want) and adduce a single human who in 16 years times 90 minutes per day accomplished more than I can find a counter-example of someone doing in the same field in 1 year. 1 year of 24 hours a day strictly dominates 16 years of 90 minutes per day, and you cannot find a single counterexample in any field from any era of humanity. Go ahead and try.

oh and by the way, in 1905 Einstein published 1 paper on the Photoelectric effect, for which he won his only nobel prize, 1 paper on Brownian motion which convinced the only leading anti-atomic theorist of the existence of atoms, 1 paper on a little subject that "reconciles Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism with the laws of mechanics by introducing major changes to mechanics close to the speed of light. This later became known as Einstein's special theory of relativity" and 1 paper on Mass–energy equivalence, which might have remained obscure if he hadn't worked it into a catchy little ditty referring to an "mc". You might have heard of it? E = mc^2? Well a hundred and ten years later all the physicistis are still laying their beats on top.

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

Your turn. Point to someone who did as much in 16 years by working just 90 minutes per day.

Closer to our own field, Instagram was sold for $1 billion about a year after its founding date, to Facebook. Point out anyone who built $1 billion in value over 16 years working just 90 minutes per day.
Lol... then everyone would be on one global time? 
Yeah that sounds super awesome!!!!!!!
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Gandhi was a lucky guy because he was doing his opposition thing against a British Empire. Think for a couple of seconds what would have happened to Gandhi in the USSR. The British Empire had for a long time put itself in a position of bringing freedom and culture and when British trained Indians started to quote there own rhetoric back at them.

Gandhi had the extreme luck that WW1 and WW2 were happening effectively totally changing British culture, British power and so much more.

Soft power can be ugly and insidious but I still vastly prefer to deal with that then with a guy taking a baseball bat to my knie. If the worst problem liberals have to fight is the Google sort algorithm and the amazon recommendation engine then we are in a pretty good position.
Nope.

> Aufladungen sind der Höhe nach nur innerhalb der vereinbarten Grenzen zulässig. Für die Aufladung der Karte wird ein Ladeentgelt gemäß Preisverzeichnis verrechnet.

https://www.wirecardbank.de/fileadmin/user_upload/wirecardba...

> Monatlicher Freibetrag: 100€ Danach: 1,5% auf Mehrbetrag

As far as I can see, that’s the only limit.

But, also, if you do not have money on the card, your contract is automatically cancelled, and they’ll refuse to reopen one with you.

> Das Kreditinstitut kann die erforderliche Zustimmung versagen, wobei insbesondere die Nichtzahlung des Aufladungsbetrages gem. Ziffer 5 ein Versagungsgrund ist.

https://www.wirecardbank.de/fileadmin/user_upload/wirecardba...

But indeed, it’s a very ideal card, for a German bank. I’ll bookmark it.
WhatsApp is one of the most widely available app, including Windows Phone 7/8/10 and for now Symbian S60, Blackberry, and Nokia feature phones.
I like mine. My dentist claims it's good to flush out what's loose after flossing and that waterpik is one of the few companies with enough pressure to actually clean too
One global time would suck for AFK life, but something like Swatch beats would be handy for online stuff.

I'm a bit surprised Mojang haven't implemented something similar.
When giving or seeking career advice, people want to frame things in terms of absolutes.

There are many paths to a successful business. Some successful people sacrificed their families, health, relationships, etc., and others didn't. Some unsuccessful people also sacrificed their lives in pursuit of success.
I'm curious - is this the same thing that it was doing in the matches that it won? People have been talking about how it seemed to be toying with its opponent towards the end of those matches, making moves that didn't gain it much, but maybe it just doesn't actually understand what moves to play some of the time and it simply hasn't mattered before.
> I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

> Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.

> It's probably best not to call right now.

Probably? He's your uncle..

When does he sleep? How regular does he keep that schedule? These mostly seem like factors relating to his health, lifestyle, and where he lives in relation to his local star. Coordination takes more skill than asking someone for "the time" somewhere.

Also, what do you want to tell him? Can it wait? If it seems urgent, then it might make sense to switch on that plastic thing and wake him up. Better yet, he might figure you'd call and switch off his plastic thing before his foggy eyed nephew could interrupt him, whatever he's doing, whenever he's doing it. :)

j/k, I bet he'd love to hear from you. I hope you guys can find a reliable, regularly overlapping, mutually wakeful part of your days in which to keep in touch. You can likely make it a lot easier by replacing that old way of doing it.
There aren't any rules. You can have a life outside of your startup if you want one. Plenty of people do.

The reasons why people say you can't have one are two-fold. There's a very good, very valid reason, and there's a very bad, toxic-to-your-business reason.

The bad reason is that people who start companies are very competitive. This means they feel they have to be seen doing more, whether it's working longer hours, making more calls, writing more code, going to more networking events, and so on. Sometimes this produces value for their business, but more often it's just "busy work" that isn't actually adding anything useful - going to a networking event and only talking to people you already know is a good example. People who do that sort of thing are the ones who brag about putting in 80 hours a week. Don't emulate those founders.

The good reason to cast your life aside is that very often a startup is doing something ambitious that takes a lot of work to get off the ground, but only has funding to last 6 months. Consequently everything has to be done in that time, which leads to putting in loooooong days. If you have a low burn rate and a long time you can afford to go slowly.

If you take an honest look at the hours people are putting in and realise that half of it could have been done better, or automated away, or just not have been done in the first place, then you'll understand why "number of hours worked" is a pretty awful measure of effort.
is there not an ETF that is index on property companies ?
This is a very well written, well balanced article. The sentence after the one you quoted is:

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We are handing the controls of important parts of our public and private lives to a very small number of people, who are unelected and unaccountable.
George Soros bankrolled Ferguson riots
hehe yeah this project is for a situation where 1000s of people have old FTP client software installed on their old old computers and are not technical enough to be asked to upgrade. So we are forced to support "classic ftp". Behinds the scenes when a "dir" command is sent, we query S3 and a few other locations and return a virual list of files. The end user is given the illusion of their normal FTP experience.
Ah, the article itself didn't say origin anywhere. Thank you.
Been there :)

It's not the wifi itself, it's the internet connection that goes down. So this did not help...
What is the common ATMs limit in US? If it is 2000+, you can do couple of withdrawals a month to go by.
The Frontline episode on this topic is worth a watch http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/dollars-and-dentists/

My mom went to the dentist for (the beginnings of) a tooth infection and they tried to sell her a mouth guard that probably cost $1000 or so. There was no evidence at all that she was grinding her teeth.
It isn't helpful to myopically discuss population and ignore other things like environmental limits, affluence, resource intensity, biodiversity, (in)equality, etc.

Similarly, it is not helpful to decree that any discussion of population is tabu.

Other societies have very different standards of what is morally normal and acceptable when it comes to population growth.

E.g. Jared Diamond's book Collapse discusses the island of Tikopia [1] -- the people living on this isolated island (~1200 people on 5km^2 of land) managed to live sustainably for hundreds of years with a stable population:

> Most readers of this book will have practiced one or more of those methods [of population regulation], such as contraception or abortion, and our decisions to do so may have been implicitly influenced by considerations of human population pressure or family resources.

> On Tikopia, however, people are explicit in saying that their motive for contraception and other regulatory behaviours is to prevent the island from becoming overpopulated, and to prevent the family from having more children than the family's land could support.

Traditional methods of regulating population included: contraception, abortion, infanticide, celibacy of younger sons and "surplus" marriageable women, suicide, "virtual suicide" (setting out on dangerous sea voyages with essentially no hope of survival), and one instance of warfare between clans (after a decrease of fish and shellfish population led to starvation and conflict over the remaining land and coastline).

> Most of these seven methods for keeping Tikopia's population constant have disappeared or declined under European influence during the 20th century. The British colonial government of the Solomons forbade sea voyaging and warfare, while Christian missions preached against abortion, infanticide, and suicide. As a result, Tikopia's population grew from its 1929 level of 1,278 people to 1,758 people by 1952, when two destructive cyclones within the span of 13 months destroyed half of Tikopia's crops and caused widespread famine.
UK: this is an attractive part of the basic income proposition.

I think such a scheme might also promote risk-taking in employment in the sense that people might be motivated to try stuff they would not normally try e.g. setting up their own micro-business or working on temporary contracts.

Now, the OA is talking about a pilot. How do those work? How do you decide to ring fence the residents in the region you are trying it in? Why could not I just move over there for a couple of years during the pilot?
It's not actually the wifi that fails, it's the internet connection. tried that
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That was specifically discussed in the after match conference today. Demis said that it wasn't trained specifically against Lee but was trained against strong amateurs on the Internet initially before playing against itself. He said that even if they'd wanted to, alpha go requires a much larger number of games than are available by Lee Seoul to train so it wouldn't have been possible anyway.
I'm in the US. I've always waited weeks for non-urgent work.
Just in case someone wants the commentary around this move 78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCALyQRN3hw&t=11413
There is just some kind of economy of scale.

I feel the opposite is true. Working longer hours actually reduces my level of productivity because at some point I start making mistakes that take time to undo. For me that's only about 6 hours of coding; if I work 12 hours then half of my time is spent undoing mistakes or finding better solutions, so I'm less productive than if I'd only written code for 6 hours in the first place. I definitely don't find that I'm more productive if I just put in more time ad infinitum.
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I think the answer to that is quite simple and clear-cut. It can replace all the existing welfare programs that focus on material needs. It cannot replace programs that focus on other problems (for example drug addiction, mental illness, etc.) as those don't go away by throwing money at them. Note, however, than the latter have way less bureaucracy associated. Bureaucracy in welfare is almost always associated with fraud prevention from people who want to game the system to get money that they shouldn't get.
Bizarre. I felt a palpable sense of relief when I read this. Silly meat-brain that I am.
From a computer scientist perspective, I would love that we drop DST. But from the social perspective, this would simply shift the problem.

You apparently consider the problem only from the student or employee point of view. What about shops or public office opening hours ? This would imply changing opening hours. See the problem?
Smiling is incredibly important! Didn't put that part in on a lark- I really am noticeably happier for feeling like I can unselfconsciously smile.
Yes but that is the hole point. Those of use who are primly concerned with government and not corporations want to create a government and a legal system were neither the state itself or somebody using the state has the wide ranging powers that a modern state has.

If the state simply does not have the ability to attack a country on the other side of the world, then no amount of bribing politicians can make it happen. When the state does not have backdoors into everything, their is no amount of political pressure that can make the state misuse that power.

I want to limit government power because they have the monopoly of force. Everything that Google is doing threw the government has to go threw the governments monopoly of force. We need to control the monopoly of force by the rule of law on the level of individual freedom.

The wrong way to go about it is to have a super powerful state that can easily regulate every aspect of what Google and co are doing and can tell them what to do because that is essentially Fascism.
They would of the prices were the same. Again no evidence that the prices are better.
> ICCCM is but one piece of the multitude of half-baked and extremely-fragmented protocols that make up the modern X11 environment, by the way.

I do wonder how much that has come out of DE related devs seemingly having a phobia relating maintenance.

Any time some project seems to run out of new features to add, they scrap it and rewrite it from scratch.
> If your goal is to be a good husband & father, then what does it matter what anyone besides your wife & kids think of you?

Well, other people can still interfere with your goal. For example, they might throw you in jail.
Instead of enabling his daughter to become a princess, he could have put her on a diet of Studio Ghibli films to teach her there are better things to do with her life:

http://www.wired.com/2012/01/disney-vs-miyazaki/
I read somewhere that a single machine still wins 25% against alpha Go. That's still 500 W VS 20 W but a bit closer.
The problem with corporation controlling the state is a old one and Google is not particularly scary in that regard.

The point still stands, if you can create a state that does not have waste powers in the first place, then neither the state by itself, nor a cooperation can use that power.
Assuming it's a parallel monte carlo computation i doubt it would make exactly the same moves.
Err, so if AlphaGo wins game 5, does that show 'an AI is still indeed more capable than any human?'
Probably depends a lot on the amount of intrinsic motivation involved: burning for something you love until it is done? Much more efficient per hour than revisiting it as a side project for some leftover hours each day. But when you are just exchanging hours for money, you will see acceptable (but not stellar) productivity at a reasonable amount of hours that will sharply drop when you add more.
This is definitely for the brave, not me.

Not sure what I would do if we didn't have a dental school.

When I go there I am always surprised to find people who actually have insurance who still go there despite all the hassle.
>The FPGA also lacks an open-source (or even shared-source) toolchain,

I think this point is overstated. FPGAs are not microprocessors. I don't think an OSS toolchain would be anywhere near as beneficial as something like gcc. It would be nice to have but it's hard to think of any problems specific to programmable logic that this would address.

What would help is toolsets with less friction and less of an entry barrier.
That data looks messed up to me. The Reactjs search is most common among Russia, China, US, Australia, Canada, France, UK, Germany. The Angular search is most popular in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong ,Singapore, Tunisia, Ukraine. I suspect it may be because the angular search includes the term 'angular', whereas the equivalent for react is 'react js' (and not just 'react').
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Yes sorry, that's correct.
And is owned by Facebook.
Just read this and I think it matches quite well: http://plumshell.com/2016/03/10/work-for-only-3-hours-a-day-...

We are running our business for ~3yrs now and just realized in the last few months that none of the all-nighters or skipped holidays actually made a difference in the end. So just from my personal experience I'd say you should actively plan and maintain a private life from the get-go - If you don't you are not "better" then another person who is just working to finally reach retirement...
Define "successful startup"?

Countless of people have started small and stayed small. I think it always been like that traditionally. You start a business, you grow it till its big enough to serve your niche market, and you pull in few million every year for the rest of your career life without much effort.

I used to work in manufacturing industry and this model is more prevalent in their whole supply chain. You could own 1 factory with less than 20 staff, producing 1 type of component(bolt/glue/bracket etc) and be done with it.

However, if you define successful startup, as multi-million dollar revenue organization, that's another story.
The number of people who get to retire after five years because of startup success is minuscule, dominated by the number of people who work hard for 5-10 years and end up with not much more than grey hair to show.
Europe lies relatively far north: http://www.astro-tom.com/images/latitudes.gif

DST will help: Lastest sunrise in Munich is 8:04 in winter, earliest in summer is 5:13. That would be 4:13 without DST.
Lipstick on a Pig a.k.a. the Raspberry Pi 3
In that case I think I had been using the router for 6 months or so before the dodgy laptop appeared.
It was discussed pre-match for game 2 or 3 as well, and Lee's games were described as "a drop in the ocean" I believe.

Came up because of an assertion from the interviewer that chess AI had been trained against it's opponent specifically.
> Once every single voter has an incentive to vote for politicians that promise increases of their basic income

This is already true. Not only that, it can never not be true.