skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately my cat usually avoids my desk (I move him off it if he decides to walk/lay on it, and he seems to have learnt not to - he now curls up on my bed (just behind my desk) instead). He did trigger the 360 drive button a few times when he first moved in* though, so I can imagine the annoyance.

* Long story, but he originally belonged to a neighbouring house a few streets away. We fed him _once_ (didn't recognise where it was from, and it looked as though he had been trapped somewhere for a while - he was covered in cuts and was filthy, as if he had be struggling to get out of somewhere), and after that we couldn't get rid of him. He kept appearing (usually multiple times a day) for three months or so, even though we wouldn't feed him, let him in the house, or pet him (as we knew he had an owner at that point). Even after his owner moved and took him with her (about three miles away), he kept finding his way back, so eventually his owner suggested that we take him in.
Oh, I got myself started with online resources and was using Go for some months when I got the book - I mostly got it because of the author, to match my "The C programming language". And because I was reasonably fluent with Go, certainly some parts were redundant for my knowledge, but I was very pleasantly surprised how much I still learned from this book and that is why I recommend it. Sometimes it was a little detail in the sample programs which made me say: oh, I had not thought of that.
You're right, my personal experience is limited to the Mac App Store. But I do know indie developers who make money with iPhone apps, and I think the general situation for indies is similar: you can find plenty of niches that are big enough to support a single developer or a small team.

And yes, I was talking about the apps on eggerapps.at, mostly Postico. I do sell my apps directly as well, and only around 20% of my sales are on the Mac App Store. Postico has a lower price on my website, but apparently there are some people who really prefer the Mac App Store.
Perhaps the computer didn't know that it was playing against Lee Sedol, but from Wikipedia "As of February 2016, he ranks second in international titles (18), behind only Lee Chang-ho (21)."

I don't know the details of the algorithm and perhaps it doesn't give more explicit weight to his games. But I wouldn't be surprised if after some iterations the algorithm decided to give more implicit weight to the games of the world leaders.
Yeah, breaking VISA's hold on online purchases is a pretty shady goal.
But why would you think that? You realize that Newegg, Dell, TigerDirect and Overstock all accept bitcoin right?
Just turn off Javascript in your browser.
Huh, I run AdBlocker or something and don't see any ads. I just give up on sites that do what wired does, the content will show up somewhere else.

I used to feel guilty about it, people need to make a living, but the tracking is creepy in the extreme and the ads got to be pretty invasive. If they made ads that were fun or funny or insightful or had some value, that's different, but they just seem annoying to me.
Thanks, that actually helps a lot. I'd dug around in Settings and Control Panel, but never thought to check group policy.

The default/visible options still rub me the wrong way, but at least that option exists somewhere.
I saw this tweet earlier:

In 13 years, computers progressed from beating Chess to mastering Go. I hope that in 13 more they will learn to not steal focus while I type
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I talk about how I make money writing online. It helps give ordinary people a leg up on developing portable income that pays decently so that "the little people" can benefit from new realities of the modern economy instead of being victims of it.
> Obviously it is better to be globally optimal than locally optimal.

the implication of having machines dictate our behavior [WRT environment, each other] to optimize the survival of humans far into the future seems a bit closer to reality.
That cites another story which doesn't have a figure.

Neither GM nor Cruise has announced a number. Fortune says "No financial terms were disclosed, but Fortune has learned from a source close to the situation that the deal is valued at “north of $1 billion,” in a combination of cash and stock."
This is more than fair.

Go AIs weren't expected to reach this level for at least another 10 years.

Before AlphaGo, Zen and Crazy Stone (the previous Go AIs) could only play against top-level professionals with a significant 4-5 stone starting handicap, and this was less than 3 years ago. A 4-5 stone handicap is basically taking control of half the board before the game has even started.

It really shows how the neural network approach made a huge difference in such a short time.
It's probably not that different from some new hotshot kid that has no recorded history of playing, but got really good playing on the street and studying the masters. Kid gets discovered by some credible major promoter who challenges Sedol to a $1M game.
On the flip side, I found that OBS brought my -- admittedly older -- MPB to its knees such that the app I was trying to show wouldn't perform. Huge lengths of video were frozen. Same on an older first-gen i7 Windows machine. I never did figure it out.
But, and I mean this in a nice way, why would people consider Bitcoin to be something "serious" in terms of an actual currency? It is always on HN but it is like an interesting hobby for them, I guess. I also understand there are startups that have built "businesses" off of it, but it is sort of reminiscent of those businesses that sell the currencies from MMORPGs.

I think Bitcoin is really meant for geeks to play with and argue and start massive flamewars over zero-knowledge proof engines and all this kind of stuff, rather than an actual real currency of the world. I guess there is an element of something like Goldbugs, but we were discussing being "serious," right?
Schneier is missing one major reason why companies keep data: regulation.

So many regulatory bodies and laws requiring companies to keep all kinds of data for all kinds of reasons for a wide variety of periods, so that simply having a policy to "store all the things" is way, way simpler to implement than to carefully study and adhere to each individual rule.

Nothing really new here, even before cheap storage and ubiquitous computers, companies kept boxes and boxes of all the paperwork ever, just in case some audit may require them to dig it up. Only physical limitations sometimes caused them to throw away stuff labeled "a decade ago", and today there simply is more data and zero incentive to destroy it.
It would be interesting to know AlphaGo's estimated probability of winning as the game progressed; presumably we can see directly how worried it was at any given point in the game. And thus get another sense of whether it ever really felt threatened by Sedol.

At this point, the match is won, but games 4 and 5 will commence. The question shifts from whether AlphaGo is better than humanity's best, to whether humanity can even have a chance of beating AlphaGo in a single game. And so far, it sounds like the answer is likely to be a resounding no.
The problem I see here is that it's a complete re-invention of everything, from the transport protocols to the UI, everything gets redone. He didn't talk about how the client will be implemented yet, but it's certain that it's going to be a presentation layer based on Qt without any HTML or CSS involved.

This is not a web technology, by definition. It's not the future of the web, it's some other thing that may be better or worse than the web (probably both). It's a new internet technology designed to replace the web in its entirety.

I'm curious how the entire stack is going to work, and I'll be one of the first people to make a toy project with it, but it looks like it's going to be some time until anyone can actually try it out. What this project requires even more than technology is clout and visibility, so Crockford is probably one of very few people who meet the prerequisites to give this a shot.
Personally, I've always preferred tap to click over the whole trackpad being a button. I find it infuriating to use a mac with tap-to-click turned off (as it is by default) because the entire surface of the trackpad is not usable as a click button. If my finger is near the top when I want to click, I still have to lower my finger to the hinged area.

Not so with tap-to-click. The entire surface can click. And I've never had a serious problem with spurious clicks that other people report, for some reason I'm not really sure of.

I agree that softbutton areas (for click and scroll) on PC trackpads are terrible, though.
What are those keys in your donate paragraph?
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Yeah, most of the projects I've been working on lately wouldn't be possible with a licensed operating system. For me, working with linux is very difficult, but the capability far outweighs the difficulty. I don't catch on easily to concepts, commands, and multiple steps of such an advanced tool.
I use REM for pretty much everything but still fall back to px for padding and margins which hasn't been a problem for me so far although I can see why selective use of EM could actually be useful.

Tangentially related. It bothers me a lot that we have to add classes like header--large onto a component. The classname header--large should be able to automatically switch depending on it's parent containers size (and not the window size like media queries work). My component may be presented it 3 different styles depending on the size constraints of it's container and hard-coding --large into the classname just makes it a hack. It's not large on mobile so why am I overriding the styles of my desktop header--large classname.

Ideal situation, parent container media queries so that variations can be kept solely in css and you could just drop a component into anywhere. I'm guessing there are some circular dependency issues stopping this from working maybe?
Well, I'm not even sure if they attached individual identities to the games fed in as features...
Other than the ten-year-support-committment and the Metacritic score [0], Factorio meets these requirements. ;)

[0] http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/factorio
Reading this on an iPhone is a terrible way to spend my Saturday afternoon with a jumpy page scrolling all over the place.
If as a merchant you want something that works now, you can use Stripe - send identifying credit card info directly to Stripe without holding on to it yourself, and then ask it for a persistent customer ID that you can repeatedly charge.

You could still retrieve some identifying information through their API, but if you keep your account credentials somewhere separate from your database it's less likely for an attacker to get both.
Was. 15 years ago.
Thanks for the reply Jarrod. It's good to know my data is safe for now. I'm continuing to run restores of all my other old devices.

The biggest problem here was the communication. The email I got said "...this device has been removed from CrashPlan Central". That's a pretty scary thing to receive. Had it instead said "...will be removed in 60 days", with follow up emails every week, and perhaps daily in the last few days before deletion that would have been much more reassuring and informative, and I would have had the time to check everything was in order before the deadline. It's far better to send too many emails warning a user about a deletion than it is to send too few.

While those backups are old, and I probably do have all the files I need from them, I certainly wouldn't like it if they were deleted without me being able to check through to make sure there is nothing important left.

I appreciate that I was caught in a small test group, so hopefully you'll have these kind of issues ironed out before too many other people see it.
Tech is wonderful, but you cannot really solve social ills this way. You have to push back against the culture of "groupthink" directly. Otherwise, all you are doing is changing the manner in which censoring occurs, not the degree to which it occurs.
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It was made to be specifically better than matlab and was made in part by people frustrated with matlab. Have you taken a look at the language yourself?
Yes. I grew up in a communist country and, while we had plenty of state propaganda, nobody believed it. I was shocked when I discovered that the western governments behaved the same way, with the exception that their citizens believed their propaganda.
Thanks for making that distinction!
Of the examples that you list above, I agree that communication (what would have previously happened with letters) has mainly moved to the net. To the extent that receipts have moved, the government has access (either directly or through a subpoena) to many forms of electronic records.

My original point was that in criminal cases, there is a treasure trove of physical evidence available to the government, and the value of this evidence has been under-weighted in discussions about encryption.

- If the suspect has dangerous equipment or substances at that location, then the government can gain access to and analyze those physical materials.

- If the suspect received deliveries to his address, then the government can get records from FexEx, UPS, USPS.

- If the suspect used a phone, the government can get access to carrier calls (I agree that this may not be possible for app-based calls).

- If the government finds credit cards used by the suspect (either by finding the physical card or by using the purchase history of any cars, residences, or other tools used by the suspect), then they can search the history of those cards.
Yes you do. Where is your employer putting the money they pay you or are you paid in cash and just stuffing it into your mattress?
"Kivikakk" is a bird in Estonian.
I would bet there are more people commenting here on this submission than people who ever used Bitcoin to buy anything in Microsoft Store.
Friend of mine once lost some important documents. So she went to an I Ching guy and he calculated for 15 minutes or so the question of where are these documents. The answer was that they are lost or stolen. And that it's possible that a small girl or woman took them away. Not even 10 minutes after that she got a call that her mother found them, they were just stashed in a drawer. And she still deeply believes!
What the article doesn't make quite clear is that OpenWhipserSystems, the creators of Signal, partnered with WhatsApp to bring their crypto to WhatsApp. See https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/ (this was when Signal was still split into TextSecure and RedPhone). The problem, of course---and the article touches upon that---is that with a closed source app like WhatsApp you have no way of knowing whether your communications are actually being encrypted; you have to take their word for it.
Sure, but if it's just a free version with a single in-app purchase that unlocks key features, then it's not a demo, a trial, or a test app, so they won't run afoul of that. As proof, there are many "Lite" and "Full" versions, and I have seen a few apps that you unlock with an in-app purchase. So obviously this isn't a concern at the moment.
sedol's game actually has zero bias over how alphago plays. the team lead for alphago himself said that its like a drop in the ocean/bucket for alphago.
We were the first company to launch (Whetlab was bought and shut down before they got out of private beta).

We're currently the only active company offering it as a service.

While hyperparameter optimization is one of the most common use cases of SigOpt right now, the general Bayesian Optimization As A Service we provide has also been used to tune simulations and even manufacturing and process engineering [1].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/cases/process_engineering
> You know that people used to put a lot of their conversations onto paper, right?

We're talking past each other. Sorry, I did my best to explain another perspective for you.
I don't want to downplay the amazing breakthrough that AlphaGo represents, but I think it's a bit melodramatic to extrapolate from a program winning a board game to AI's impact on humanity's survival.
Most, if not all credit cards in Sweden cost at least an annual fee of 225 SEK.

There are a few (very few) that does not have an annual fee though.

You don't pay annual fees for your credit cards?
Some people will always use downvote to disagree.

Adding an extra button just means they will now use both buttons to disagree.

Almost everyone with a logged in account can upvote, so you might be better off persuading people to upvote unfairly downvoted comments than trying to persuade people to stop downvoting for disagreement.

Don't forget that a gray comment hasn't just had downvotes. It's also failed to get any upvotes.
Julia is actually a very well designed programming language. 1 based indexing is really very insignificant when it comes to all the difficult aspects of writing good software that it becomes a non-issue.
Worth of mentioning: during the earliest years of Facebook, some guy managed to hack in and expose some source code.

When they did, everybody was like "oh, how can such crappy code power a successful service like that?"

Security is very important, but totally unrelated to good business sense. :)
We provide a very similar interface to Whetlab and I would be happy to get you set up on SigOpt. We offer a free trial to get started [1] and a free academic plan [2].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/get_started

[2]: https://sigopt.com/edu
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considering the possibility of augmentation, supplantation seems like somewhat of an assumption.
I predict a lot of disappointment if and when it does happen.
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it is politically more palpable and "sounds" less outrageous to the public than outlawing encryption. which means it is more likely to make it into law and get support.
As far as I know HN has detection in place for that kind of drive-by downvoting.

What did dang say when you emailed him?
Let me guess that party in power will see it that it is National Security that they stay in power?

Maybe use big data bayesian statistics to predict voters that will vote against them.
Thanks for pointing this out, I wasn't aware that they offer this kind of service.
I can make them online, but they are still stupidly expensive
When a student surpasses the teacher, that's supposed to be a good thing.
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I don't know how it is in Germany, but in my country you pay for credit cards, and the amount you pay for the card determines how much insurance you have, as most all provide some type of travellers/medical/theft/etc. type of insurance.

Everyone pays their credit cards off every month because it's the law. If you are unable to pay, you can work out arrangements with the bank. If you need to use lots of money you don't have, you ask the bank for a loan and pay it back gradually.

It's my understanding that in the US, card companies make their money off fees and interest, which to me sounds like a much less appealing system designed to take advantage of the consumer.
What's the real issue is:

<navbar></navbar>

Do you even know that this is invalid and the proper tag is called just <nav>? Do you know that <title> must not be empty in the initial page? Do you know that custom attributes must start with data- (not ng- or ui-)?

Did you even check your page with http://validator.w3.org?
Ah, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Based on the literature, it seems like a probable explanation.
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This is different from DeepBlue and Garry Kasparov

Chess may have a big search space, but it is "well behaved". Moves might be out of the ordinary, but not too much (weird moves that still help to win the match are rare)

AlphaGo might also have learned from past matches, but that doesn't give all the answers

The black-box aspect, the fact that you can't understand what it is thinking is curious, to say the least
Those are Worldcoin, Hobonickels and Dogecoin cryptocurrency addresses.
AlphaGo is approximating global optimality by finding local optimality. Local optimality is already computationally very hard, but it is exactly what AlphaGo is doing.

The rollouts they are doing, evaluating every probable move, it is a search process of trying to find local optimality. You have a current state of the board and you're trying to find a decision that minimizes your future regret. It is by definition local optimality.

Global optimality would be finding a sequence of moves that wins you a game.
It's actually entirely possible that if the program were unsupervised, i.e. had to learn Go "from scratch" without relying on any human games, it would be even stronger than it is now.
The problem is the people in charge usually aren't smart enough to understand WHY we need encryption AT ALL. The majority of them most likely don't know the difference between HTTP and HTTPS
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So what? I could watch every game Roger Federer played in any tennis tournament and still lose all sets to love.
It used to be that computers could only do combinatorics better, but that where 'intuition' played a strong part, there was still hope for us humans...
Well, guess I will have to start playing Calvinball...
That is a great insight. And the parable is perfect. Thanks.
So far, but yes, it looks bleak (or good, depending on which side you're rooting for).
Bad (good?) news: we can indeed algorithmically determine a song's intrinsic quality (to some degree): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136733...
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Also never having to deal with credit card fraud, sending money across country borders, taking cash out of 1/3rd of the ATMs in Thailand, buying computer parts, buying anything from overstock, ordering food directly from your computer without punching in any numbers...
We've found that SigOpt compares very well to spearmint, as well as MOE [1], which I wrote and open sourced around the same time spearmint was open sourced. We have a paper coming out soon comparing SigOpt rigorously to standard methods like random and grid search as well as other open source Bayesian methods like MOE [1], spearmint, HyperOpt [2], and SMAC [3] with good results.

[1]: https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

[2]: https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt

[3]: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/beta/Projects/SMAC/
What's the physics behind the accretion disk and its look? I would have expected black holes to look more like the last few images where it's just a black hole distorting light around it. Is it just pure eye candy, or do black holes actually output a significant amount of light outside their event horizons?
I like how they made it impossible to actually give the correct answer.

But seriously, if you really want to over-engineer the simple problem of entering a number why not at least use a somewhat logarithmic scale to make it possible to actually insert the correct value?
Virtual credit card numbers have been around since the late 90s. Adoption has been essentially 0 because the UX sucks and credit card fraud is not the consumer's problem.
A large percent of Americans get paid via check and then use a check cashing store to convert to cash, and then use that to pay for bread. You do not need a bank account in that scenario.
Literally out of the water!

I spilled noxious bong water in my keyboard, and the Dell technician who came to my house correctly diagnosed what the problem was, cheerfully replaced my keyboard, and helpfully offered to come back tomorrow with a replacement for a broken plastic part I hadn't even noticed.

Compare that to the way Apple refuses to "handle hazardous substances". [1]

[1] http://www.alphr.com/news/353512/apple-refuses-to-repair-smo...
How is nd4j compared to Breeze and jblas, which are used in Spark MLlib[1]?

[1] - http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-data-types.html