skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- As all problems can be converted to Markov Decision Processes, this is a moot point. The transition may not be efficient in terms of states/actions, but since we just nearly solved a problem with more states than the atoms of the universe, this seems to be a moot point. In addition, most problems for humans are actually in the form of {state,action}. Just because now ML is popular and it's all about putting label on data does not make this less true. Other algorithms already exist (POMCP) which are direct transformations of MCTS for uncertain environments. Determinism is not needed both for MCTS nor for POMCP, so that point is void too.

- I don't see what the problem is with that. Nearly all tasks humans would currently gain in getting automated have plenty of human experience before it. This is why training in any field even exists. Sure it would be cool to send a drone in unexplored territory with no knowledge and come back later to a self-built city, but I don't see how putting that milestone a bit later is in any way a problem.

- The hardware requirements for any new interesting breakthrough to do something important have always been immense. Just as for Deep Blue, or to all the graphite experiments where we can only produce just milligrams of it at a time, or to solar panel, each new discovery innovates in a specific direction. It is just a matter of time before the new method is substantially improved and will be able to run on single machines. To expect otherwise is foolish, to complain about it is pointless.

EDIT:

This is not to contradict the general point. That we don't need new breakthroughs is utterly false in so many ways it's not even funny. However this certainly is an AI breakthough, one that many AI researchers (myself included) thought it would take AT LEAST 10 years to come to pass. Breaking 10 years in 1 seems like a breakthrough to me.
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So, maybe he had been married very young to an older female and had a, for him at the age of 5 a half years surprising, pregnancy attributed to him. His age of 365 days is still rather symbolic. His father's 81 years at that time are rather a lot. I'm not even sure that kind of arranged marriage was common. He was said to be living amongst sinners, anyhow, while his father was said to have had many children. The Grandfather of the family would have reached fatherhood at the same 65 (yoms, then), so, whatever.
I agree, the fact that the devs aren't even fixing it in the first place is a problem, although as I said, these are unpopular apps with few devs in the first place.
I am in the UK and have my user profile always set to the USA. It has been this way pretty much since I joined in 2013. I have not been blocked yet. My girlfriends user profile jumped between USA and UK all the time and was blocked when they started to crack down. Strangely, these two profiles both use the same registered account and unblock.us to switch regions.
Thanks for clarifying, I was replying to the technological insight in kriro's post however.
Btw, is technology here completely irrelevant? The way to access content is pretty important after all. In a decentralized publishing system, what is reputation? Maybe it could be an intrinsic measure with a ranking system of some sort. But this is pretty hard. Maybe the "natural" way to publish content has no unique or sensical way to quantify prestige. The following question arises: is prestige a good criterion to judge science?
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Beauty comes in very different forms. Not all beautiful paintings are pleasing and peaceful fields for flowers; IMHO, something can be dark, strange, even scary, and still beautiful. E.g.: The Garden of Earthly Delights[1], or It Follows[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/
Ban toddlers now, think of the children! ;)
> The first new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (max 100 GB) just came out on March 1th.

And they will require a internet-connection to such a fleeting service as the ones you mention to authorize you to view your content.

So basically worst of both worlds. I see absolutely zero reason to invest in such garbage.
I think any simulation of a reasonably complex environment is an opportunity for AI research, but I am hoping that TrueCraft (https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft) will do well so that researchers do not depend on proprietary Minecraft.
Given your observation, I think you might enjoy the book "Soul Machine: the invention of modern mind" by George Makari.
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The interesting part is how they got any users. Even a junior programmer could build such a system within a day. The answer is: Give each new users 10$ then an extra 10$ for each user they recruit.
Acquiring users in this field is the hard part.
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Stuff with military applications should not (and isn't) published in journals either.
But so are you, and since the action you're proposing (violence against children) is a violation of that child's human rigts as defined in international agreements, and is illegal in several countries, and will draw attention from child protection in many others, you have a higher threshold.

No parenting expert recommends violence against the child - (although a few religious extremists claim to be parenting experts).

Note that any experts dealing with children whose behaviour is described as difficult or challenging will reject violence against that child - and it's that behaviour which you have said should be met with violence.

As one example of an evidence based programme (although the evidence is weak) you might wantto lok at Webster Stratton.

I'm presenting this as self-evident truth because the evidence is over-whelmingly against hitting children. You might think there's some debate to be had, but that's because you live in the US which is i) extraordinarily violent country, and ii) has religious extremists who promote violence against the child. The rest of the developed world had this debate in the 1980s and decided that hitting children needs to stop.
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So the movie companies are making deals they know 1. goes against everything the market wants and 2. will promote piracy.

And then they complain about piracy. Cry me a river. Seriously.
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Having best friend as co-founder (non-technical)
Hello HN Members

I have a question which is peculiar. I'm working on a product which I feel to be innovative and hence I'm planning for a startup and approach investors. I'm the only one working on this product right now but I don't want to go as a single founder for obvious reasons. I have my childhood friend who has helped me in taking right decisions in my life. I want to include him in my startup but Neither he will be able to contribute much technically nor he has good exposure in startup/business trends like me (eg: he doesn't know about Angel Investors or Equity etc). But he can contribute in basic stuffs like organizing, operations etc. Also I have the confidence that I can make him learn about these stuffs and then his contribution will be definitely more. I feel he can take role in Operations etc. he is good in Operations. Main positive aspect is I trust him a lot and he is a good moral support for me

Another fact, the product which I'm working on is just a prototype. To build a real product we need a person with strong mechanical and embedded 'C' background. Neither of us have knowledge or experience in this area. Once we get Investor we are planning to hire a person for this

Now my question is, is it ok to have a co-founder like my friend and approach investors? if yes then will it be good to have equity split 70-30?

Appreciate your inputs

Thanks
Depending on how it's done if the signing key is delivered to the USG yes, if Apple only delivers on-demand software updates then the security remains pretty much the same - anyone within apple who has access to the current signing key / authority to push software updates to apple devices.

Handing out the signing key to the USG will probably be quite disastrous as they more likely than not offload it to any 3rd party in the private sector which will offer to make them the next best phone scrapping kit or spyware.

If Apple is compelled and goes trough the software route then it's will be bombarded by 1000's of requests to unlock phones, and worse in the future to potentially install "wiretaps" on phones of suspects not in custody who haven't been charged with anything yet which will be quite a costly operation for Apple.
I find it disturbing how the intelligence and law enforcement community seem to think there is some kind of natural right for them to snoop on people.

In case of the good old phone system, the very way that worked maked wiretapping very easy. The same was true for physical mail (one major reason why most states created and held on to the monopoly on mail for so long).

With email and IM this is - again due to the way this works - a lot more difficult. Artificially restricting encryption just so they can keep on doing things the way they're used to is a bad idea, and kind of naive, too.
Do you also advocate stopping cancer treatments? Stopping vaccinations, because not getting smallpox is interfering with evolution?

Evolution doesn't happen for a reason. The whole point of evolution is that our biology and the way our brains work is bafflingly random at times. Depression is a crippling mental illness, it doesn't happen for a reason.
It doesn't sound likely to be possible, but has it been proven so (in the rigorous mathematical sense)?
Given Langford's locality vs globality argument this also gets quite obvious for the 4th game mistake and overconfidence that AlphaGo had. The rate of growth of the compounding error for local decision maker is going to cause these kinds of mistakes more often than not.
The problem with trying to tax ammunition out of existence is this has previously been found to be constitutional invalid.

My idea is to not try to get rid of ammunition by banning or taxing, but just degrade it's killing power via regulation to the point that it is harmless. You could still buy arms and ammunition, but you would not be able to kill anyone.
Gun and encryption are two completely different beast.

With guns you can execute a crime, with encryption you cannot.

It is true that you can plan a crime with the use of encryption, but we don't punish on intentions but only on facts.

It is not illegal to plan how to kill someone, while it is illegal to actually kill somebody or to try to do it.
Like everyone on this site, I've been following this story too closely to get any new info from this segment, so I couldn't tell if this will convince people. It was up to the always high standards of Last Week Tonight though.

I really hope the message got through to his audience. We need every single non-technical person in the world to understand this clearly if we have any hope of getting the US Government to back down.
Or people who knows that email stored on a third party's server for longer that 180 days is legally considered abandoned. Abandoned property enjoys no legal protection.
> Code is never 'beautiful'. It's either concise, well-written and formatted well, or it isn't.

This is not true. You may not value beauty as a characteristic of code, but there are people who do.

Also, you could say the same thing about novels. "concise, well-written and formatted well" are features of most published novels; does it mean they all are the same in terms of beauty?

Beauty is inherently subjective and relative. Personally, I find the code which form and function fit together pretty. It's the same kind of beauty I feel when reading poems. You're free to ignore such things, of course, but saying that the code can never be pretty is actually quite a bit rude to some people.
No great insight here, and however insane I find many US state gun laws, the encryption debate is more worrying by far. As a non-US citizen there isn't many ways US gun laws can affect me. However the encryption debate has far broader consequences and will change things for the rest of the world - but we don't get a say.
D'oh, my mistake. The VM is, indeed, register-based. The C API is stack-based. But yes, a very lovely bit of code all together.
> Governments have guns, Google does not.
(Some) Governments are elected by their citizens. Google Chiefs aren't.

The important part for me it is to create up to date laws - and enforce them - that protect citizens for mass surveillance, public or private, while allowing for useful use of data like for making easier to file taxes or to store your personal contacts.
Talking about this, GNU/the FSF should start drafting an OSS license for neural networks. Like APL Afferro for cloud services, the specifics of neural networks is that data is strategic.

APL -> Guaranty of OSS for the desktop

APL Afferro -> Guaranty of OSS for the cloud

??? -> Guaranty of OSS for NNs
The embellishing is pretty amazing, and added the bit about it going down again. Maybe if we repent hard enough we can get the sea level lower?
Also you can write Scheme like syntax in [Cirru](http:/cirru.org) and get a third syntax.
Agree. Disqus is the best online commenting system out there. As far as it is serving all your use cases, there is not point to get rid of it.

And I too disagree with the statement "customer is always right" because in most cases, they don't know what they want so they can't possibly be right.
So then the discussion is all about defining intelligence, beginning with a fuzzy conception of required qualities. It literally means ability to select, read, choose between. The discussion can be a means to judge the AIs or, for the sake of the argument, to judge and improve intelligence with AI as a heavily simplified model, which is an old hat by now.

Do you think that's irrational? Do you expect neuroscience or are you rather interested in mathematics? I thought that's how to learn in absence of external inputs, by recombination of the old inputs, ie. the fuzzy notions, to generate new ones. I'd think that's how recurrent networks work. What do you know about it (honest question)?

Fuzzy doesn't mean wrong. Underspecification, as little as I know about it, is a feature.
> I realize that small memory discipline is not something that serves a modern programmer well. Spending time on optimizing memory usage is often completely useless as a new version or new feature will invalidate the effort and the overall effect on the system, compared to other work the programmer could be doing, would not be cost effective

Memory consumption can be a primary issue for small embedded targets. Upgrading the hardware is often not an option or is actually more costly than development time, because development is a one-time cost, while adding RAM or flash is an extra production cost (so a per-unit cost).

Moreover, embedded software tends to be more stable feature-wise than desktop or server software: once it's done, you can expect that it won't be modified for a few years. From my experience, the smaller the system the more "carved in stone" it is.

Finally, it should be noticed than on "normal" systems, memory size is still important because of the many caches they feature.
Did not know that.
More info for people interested: http://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read-...
In my country, for example, most applications for tenure, salary complements, required assessments, etc., have an assessment scale like this (simplified but this is basically the idea):

Paper in the 1st quartile of the ISI JCR journal list - 3 points

Paper in the 2nd quartile of the ISI JCR journal list - 2 points

Paper in the 3rd quartile of the ISI JCR journal list - 1 points

Rest - 0 points

So if you publish a ground-breaking paper in arXiv that everyone reads and everyone cites, you get exactly zero points.

Of course, stuff like length of the paper, number of authors, possible overlap with other published papers, or just actual quality (as in someone reading the paper to see whether it's any good) also count zero. And then you have the roulette factor of submitting a paper to a first-quartile journal in year X, which gets published in year X+1 (due to the length of the publication process), only to see that in year X+1 the journal is now fourth-quartile as in CS they are dancing all the time...
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such as Mailvelope for example?
https://www.mailvelope.com/
I think that the refusal to seriously engage with consciousness is the main obstacle to progress toward general AI.
Here's the issue tracking[1].

Basically it looks like the typical conservative approach most large scale open source projects are forced to take because of cross dependencies.

It's a (potentially) breaking change, so they waited for a major release.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6789
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> LLVM is an infrastructure for creating compilers. It was initially created by Chris Lattner in 2000, and released in 2003. Since then it has evolved into an umbrella project that has a wide array of tools such as the LLVM Linker lld,LLVM Debugger lldd, and so on.

I'm pretty sure the author means lldb?

I'm sure it's a good article and all that, but such a typo for a core tool in the beginning of an article kind of makes you lose confidence in the accuracy of what follows.

The author might want to fix things up :)
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In maths everyone typesets their own papers. Good publishers let you use their (La)TeX styles beforehand to make sure it will compile finely, after that they do little else.
"NSA proof".

Running your non-backdoored AMD or Intel processor, on your non backdoored operating system, with non-backdoored OpenSSL, non-backdoored pseudorandom generator, on a non-tampered Internet, non-backdoored network equipment... :)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned roller coaster tycoon. 99% of the game was written by one man in x86 assembly and it ran beautifully.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-03-03-a-big-interview...

and

http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
That's incorrect. After 180 days, only a subpoena is needed, rather than a warrant.
The ability to argue, or the capacity to reason that argument? If the AI can convincingly argue that the analogy is apt, without actually reasoning or "thinking", does that make it the holy grail? I'd suggest that self awareness, and the ability to reason, would be true AI, and not just a glorified Turing test in the form of an effective ability to pose an argument.
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Actually it is, at least the npm website. Every page on npm has a "try it now" link that takes you to a page on tonicdev where you can try the package. For example: http://tonicdev.com/npm/canvas - no need to download, build, or install. It loads a container so you have a real node environment (I'm a dev in this if you have any questions).
>most old literature

Again, this generalization is not valid for me, there are lot of counter examples like Marcus Aurelius. But apart from that, it's mostly a fashion problem. Sure the fashionable item will sell more (it is usually designed for). That tells nothing on the rest. You are right that we will never have the same context, and that some artworks are starting to be beyond enjoyability, but it's not always the case. For music for example there is folk, not fashionable but enjoyable even for kids, and maybe one day people will play an old Zelda as they could have listened to Stairway to heaven.

>we cannot expect today's kids to appreciate what came before them

Anectodically I've had many opportunities to play old video games with kids and they all appreciated them, in fact I'm not sure they could tell that it was old games (Donkey Kong Country and Yoshi's Island (Snes) on the top my head).

Edit: to continue the analogy with music, it would have been has there was a race to write the symphony with the most instruments, with ads telling you to always upgrade to the next symphony for your listening pleasure. Then one day some people started to notice that some ancient guy/girl with only their guitar or voice was as well enjoyable, and if not a better a different emotional medium. It seems obvious but for video games every time you say that some old games had something that we may be missing you get the usual "you are a nostalgic old fart"
I went to a school that had different timetables in winter and summer, so I think that is a counterexample to the assertion that people wouldn't do DST without time zones.
Dangerous as normal people then can read government funded garbage science and question it's validity.
Also the biggest problem is that almost everyone else one sends an unencrypted email to is not "NSA-proof."
One day soon, when the current generation that Minecraft courts is my age (mid-20's+), anyone who has never experienced Minecraft on a beyond-coursery level will have no true base from which to analyze concurrent trends. I count myself in the latter group at the moment, but as I see Minecraft become a greater cultural touchstone every day my desire to experience what it offers continues to grow.
You can certainly put the payload into multiple lists. From http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programm...:

> More to the point, a payload is welcome to participate on several lists, but only after defining an internal list_head object for each list. In other words, unlike the payloads you're used to that contain only pure data and could (theoretically) be on an infinite number of lists at once, objects on kernel lists can be only on those lists for which they have an internal set of links. It's an interesting way to lock down what lists you're willing to be a member of.
Just read the name yesterday linked to "trial-and-error predicates" [2], reading on Neural Nets, super-Turing computation and hypercomputation [1].

[1] mentiones nonrecursive sets of numbers, which seems awfully related to a crackpot theory of mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
[2] direkt link from the wiki artikel: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307%2F2270581
> “Bringing a gun into the home substantially increases the risk for suicide for all family members and the risk for women being murdered in the home,”

> “Impulsiveness may be a catalyst in using a firearm to commit suicide and may also play a role in firearm-related homicide.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-guns-in-home-increase-suic...

I grew up with guns in the home, but these guns were for hunting / bear protection, not "self defense" and were stored unloaded and locked. I support the right to own guns but I find the willfully ignorant, cavalier and dismissive attitudes that many pro-gun advocates have towards the risks of gun ownership to be a shame.
Well, mental issues did break his chess career just the same.
Note, that these features are for the RollOut fast policy. The reason is that this needs to be fast, so rather than a net they have a linear policy. A linear policy in order to work it requires good feature selection, which is what this is. In some future, when we have better hardware, you can imagine removing the roll out policy and having just one.
The vote to abolish all-year BST was based on politics and idiot campaigning from newspapers that focused on the increase in morning accidents. (Lack of accidents in the evening isn't news.)

There was a government report on accident statistics after the abolition, and contrary to the impression given by the newspapers, the evening accident reduction outweighed the morning accident increase.