skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Netflix culture of freedom and responsibility empowers engineers to craft solutions using whatever tools they feel are best suited to the task.

I absolutely love that. I'm a huge fan of what Hastings and company have done over there in terms of culture and making Netflix a unique and desirable place to work.

I think it's time for another round of "find a way to make Netflix hire me."
You're right. The obvious answer is to never communicate with other people... ever. Communication with other people implies that you are full of yourself and looking to show off to other people how awesome you are.
It appears that since your comment was posted the original repo's README was updated with a notice stating it was no longer maintained and that OP's linked repo is actually the correct one.
I see what you mean -- sorry, I thought you were referring to a Summer of Code project.
Status of Python 3 in OpenStack
Microsoft Expands Get Windows 10 Campaign to Domain-Joined Win7, Win8.1 PCs
Cutting-edge business planning software at work here
...and it's possible to train learning agents to sense and interact with a world described by high dimensional continuous vector spaces, for instance using conv nets (for sensing audio / video signals) and actor-critic to learn an continuous policy:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02971

The fact that the (reinforcement) learning problem is hard or not is not directly related to whether the observation and action spaces are discrete or continuous.
My understanding is that it is much more expensive for AlphaGo to evaluate a position than it was for Deep Blue. I'm not certain, but I would be surprised if AlphaGo did not need significantly more computation than Deep Blue.

edit: some actual estimates. Deep Blue had 11.38 GFLOPS[1]. According to the paper in Nature, distributed AlphaGo used 1202 CPUs and 176 GPUs. A single modern GPU can do between 100 and 2000 double precision GFLOPS[2]. So from GPUs alone AlphaGo had access to 4-5 orders of magnitude more computing power than Deep Blue did.

1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)

2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...
Ask HN: Why GitHub is downgrading its GitHub Pages?
Github recently upgraded Jekyll version to 3.0, but along with that, many features were removed. Github is now fighting with users to adhere to their new standards, even at the cost of breaking existing websites.
Like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IT4C6G

There are other similar ones for even less.
NIH is the opposite of "disposable engineers".

It's saying your engineers are so much more precious and able than the barbarians outside the gate, that they should write their own test harness/DOM selection library/insert commodity software genre here.
see also by the same team:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783
I do not understand "Good Hacking is a gift" remark.

I would love if Tesla's were open for hacking but a previous article [0] pointed out that there appears to be a strong stance [1] against this.

Disclosure:I am a huge fan of the Tesla brand, just cautiously optimistic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233898
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234465
RFC on a p2p IPFS-backed Soundcloud
I submitted this as a showHN (which was a violation). I apologize for that. hopefully this works better.

I'm an avid user of Soundcloud and have a personal music blog that depends on Soundcloud for content. I've been following IPFS for a while and have been thinking about whether it would possible to use it as a backbone for such a service.

I understand that IPFS is designed to provide object permanence as opposed to persistence and have read the filecoin whitepaper and find it intriguing. I do, however, think a Soundcloud replacement should stick as closely as possible to the current model which does not ask content providers to pay (which puts it at odds with filecoin as it is proposed).

I've attached a really rough diagram of my idea as a pdf and also uploaded it to Drive

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4gkEhfnwSVBZDE5TGtSUFlmYWc/view?usp=sharing

Anyways, I've got some ideas about this subject and figured I'd see if anyone in the IPFS community is interested in bouncing some ideas.

I've got a mini-discussion going on at the IPFS google group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ipfs-users/1Mu2Vh8shI0
Well a bad part of it is that "something your audience wants" has proven to be "awful buzzfeed clickbait titles", so human shittiness trumps value in this way
Ah, ok, I hadn't heard of it in my country, but it makes sense someone in the US had it :)

College in my country is free if you want to (but many people, including myself, believe you're better off going to a private, paid university anyways, for most careers).
Caddy is working really well for me. Way easier than nginx to setup, and TLS is on by default.
Drug dealer meaning they reached some arbitrary definition that has only a passing relationship with dealing drugs.
The evolution of cluster scheduler architectures
>That's right, I'm tracking this side

Do you mean you're tracking visits that hit "view page source"? Does that work? I can't find any info about that on Google.
Er, can you give examples of broken functionality?
Starcraft in many ways is a much easier game for an AI to beat top pros at than Go.
It seems that my original comment is unclear. My apologies for the ambiguity. I did not mean that they do not need any expert data, but that part of the training did not require a training data set.

They definitely need training data to learn the value function, but training the policy network is based on self-play. While MCTS is not new, I believe bootstrapping reinforcement learning with self-play to train a policy network that guides the MCTS is novel.
OK, but that doesn't seem much different from "code written in Python should be written in a style familiar to Python developers", which is a good principle regardless of the language. In Ruby, the use of Enumerable methods is generally preferred; it would be as "surprising" to use a for loop in this case as it would be to use map in Python.

I also don't see a good argument that string slicing, `for ... in` and Python-style string formatters are more "universal" than lambdas and map/filter/reduce. All of them exist in large subsets of commonly used programming languages; all of them are used heavily in some languages and rarely in others; only one of them (in the form of sprintf) exists in C.
Or a bunch of other things. Maybe our civilization collapses from peak oil or something.
Another interesting thing about the war on drugs is that during prohibition, the constitution was amended for the government to legally be able stop the sale of alcohol. On the other hand, for other "hard" drugs, there is nothing in the constitution that supports the criminalization of drugs. Unless I am missing something.

Completely aside from that fact, I do agree that it should be treated as a public health issue. Not a criminal matter.
"However, the Court stopped short of allowing all aerial inspections of private property, noting that it was "of obvious importance" that a private citizen could have legally flown in the same airspace:"

"Any member of the public could legally have been flying over Riley's property in a helicopter at the altitude of 400 feet and could have observed Riley's greenhouse. The police officer did no more."

They targeted a specific farmer and used a high power camera in a drone to check the cows. So, they did quite a lot more than the general public could have done. This was closer to Kyllo than Riley. Beyond that, the legality of using a drone over other people's property is going through the courts now.
I hope that in the interest of fair play they'll limit their AI to 300 APM or so. Make it win not on mechanical execution, but on decision making.
You can also do this with Cell phone that works. I don't even think the phone has to have a working SIM card in it to call 911.
After 150 years, the American productivity miracle is over
> Frankly, most people would rather continue to ban drugs than pay for treatment for people who abuse them.

which just proves once again most people are idiots.
The whole notion of "need" in this context is strange. Need is relative to supply. The cheaper and more abundant energy is, the more people become addicted to energy-rich activities. If that energy disappears there is a period of withdrawal pain and then the "need" is gone.

Population growth should start stabilizing near 10 billion around 2050... but if a billion of those people are taking exotic vacations every month in their electric jets and living in nanorobot houses that reconfigure themselves every week based on the trends on Pinterest then yes... we will bump up against terrestrial photon limits.

Do we need to use that energy? No. If we move the other direction, towards efficiency-focused technologies that allow us to live embedded in native-ish ecologies then 10 billion people can live with a tiny fraction of Earth's solar energy.

Which scenario will we be in? I think it's impossible to know. Right now we're still piecing together how that second scenario works. What is a minimal human-supporting ecology? How do you organize goods and services to maintain it? Wealthy people who want to maintain power will push us as hard as possible to keep production and consumption as high as possible because that's where their power is derived. Networks and artificial intelligence will try to show people how to live efficiently, maximizing happiness with a minimum of resources in loose federations.

Which of these two forces will control human hearts post-2050? I have no idea.
Android M is still at 2.3% usage. Google should devote more time solving upgrade issues.
Glad to hear that. We'll soon announce an autoscaling runner that allows you to boot up new instances automatically. I love that you sometimes run hundreds of runners, would you like to do a guest post? Email me at website@sytse.com
Supreme Court won’t tinker with ruling giving copyright to the Batmobile
Serious predictions actually inferred from the progress of existing (MCTS and others before) bots, which was something like 1 stone every two years (I don't recall the details, but it's easy to find out there). Top professionals were estimated to be something like 10 stones stronger than the best bot at 2008, so 2025 wouldn't sound too conservative.

"At the US Congress 2008, he [Myungwan Kim] also played a historic demonstration game against MoGo running on an 800 processor supercomputer. With a 9 stone handicap, MoGo won by 1.5 points. At the 2009 congress, he played another demonstration game against Many Faces of Go running on 32 processors. Giving 7 stones handicap, Kim won convincingly by resignation."

(Kim Myung Wan (born 1978) is a 9d Korean professional who has taken up residence in the Los Angeles area as of 2008)

More information here, with a nice graph:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?ComputerGo

http://i.imgur.com/RvQsf6v.png

You can see progress seemed to be slow at 2012.
Only because the police don't have the funds to purchase them regularly. A lot of police helicopters are surplus Hueys, Blackhawks, or Kiowas. They may not have the targeting packages in them any more, but it doesn't take a ton of ingenuity to up-arm them, as was done in the early stages of Vietnam, before the specialized gunship helicopters were developed.
React Native 0.22 Ships with Hot Reloading
>The later might make some sense, though, as part of training for the drone operators. Spotting a small disturbance in the surface of a street such as a pothole could require similar skills to spotting a small disturbance in the surface of a street due to someone having buried a timed or remote-control explosive there.

Okay never thought of that situation, it would be a good training scenario.
"militarization of police "

You can pretty much stop there. This is the root cause of a huge number of problems.
I wonder why the Pixel C developer discount is us-only.
I think the Azul Vega line has been beaten by commodity x86-64 hardware and it's a legacy system, this bit I just noticed at the end of the company's page on the Vega3 reinforces that (https://www.azul.com/products/vega/):

"Choose Vega 3 for high-capacity JDK 1.4 and 1.5-based workloads. For applications built in Java SE 8, 7 or 6, check out Zing, a highly cost-effective 100% software-based solution containing Azul’s C4 and ReadyNow! technology, optimized for commodity Linux servers."

Much the same fate as custom Lisp processors.
At Button we switched from baking AMIs to deploying containers on ECS and it's had a pretty amazing effect on deploys, both in terms of the speed and (due to them being quick and painless) frequency.
Turn two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks
JetBrains Toolbox introduces new versioning and release changes
How did someone manage to find the image from the SHA hash?
I'm sure the lawyers at SonicWall will love this
JEP 286: Local Variable Type Inference
The VAX platform is no more for OpenBSD
Just realized on desktop you don't have to grab, sorry. On MOBILE devices, you can touch a corner and drag it.
Google+ Create
"It's not drugs that kill people. People kill people."

Oh, wait...
But the pain isn't in the hand. Pain is in the head, caused by signals which normally come from the hand, and results in feelings that the head places onto the hand. So phantom pains in amputated limbs are caused by real things. Maybe the nerve that use to communicate the pain from the hand is sending in a false signal due to another reason. Maybe something in the brain is misfiring and some other sensation from another part of the body is registering as pain in the hand. Even if there is no outside of the brain cause for the pain, the brain is still feeling the pain so there is still an actual problem, just one with the brain.

So while there might not be much to do if the brain is just crossing signals incorrectly for a couple of days, I would still suggest significant pain be checked out and a doctor you are paying should help look into it.
The right database for the right job (YouTube)
The standard is to have each neural net be trained just for one task, as you say; there may be research into multi-skill neural nets but I have yet to see any. AlphaGo in particular is extremely specialized to Go, even in terms of how the algorithm is implemented.
Exactly, and eventbrite; gotta be worth the investment/maintenance cost I'm guessing.
Harvard, MIT speed up Web page loads
> Yet I can not for the life of me understand why drugs are illegal

Because there's a hugely profitable industry in the policing, prosecution and incarceration of people
https://www.rohit.io/

The CSS of the complete website is broken with hardly any change.
Spot on. Addiction causes fundamental changes in the brain. Helping addicts is a complex process well beyond fining or imprisoning them. The goal is to reverse the addiction. It doesn't happen by punishing an addict.

This is a useful paper: "Imaging the Addicted Human Brain", http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851068/
They were down for 4 or 5 days last month. Was due to a power issue in their DC's building.

They kept everyone in the loop, and it's the only downtime I've noticed from them.
For me it'd be a great way to learn about OS with something I'm already really familiar with, and also something that I can easily hack on. I.e. Similar reasons why I much more prefer stumpwn to ratpoison.
I just made a lucky guess from the keywords in the article:

$ echo -n 'P100D' | sha256sum
5fc38436ec295b0049f186651ebba5fd55e8d7b81eb61cbd00d3f1bf18dd9c81
The article talks about less than 20 missions over a 9 year period. This is hardly mass surveillance and it's disingenuous to suggest it is simply because the platform was unmanned. I'll add that it's detrimental to the quality of discussion we enjoy here on HN to conclude such hyperbole with a holocaust reference.

I think all of us on HN are familiar with the qualitative effects of "big data" both in general and as it pertains to surveillance. I hope we're all sophisticated enough to realize that the issues at hand revolve around scale, probable cause, and data retention/mining, rather than the canard of whether the platform involved was manned or unmanned.
This is great! I was just writing a small script to prepare data for TensorFlow CNN image classification based on a custom dataset using SciKitFlow, but the InceptionV3 model is super cool and it looks like the have an implementation with almost compatible API to what I was writing [1].

I'm super impressed by what's coming out of Google's TensorFlow. Their ImageNet InceptionV3 model is a delight to play with in python!

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/inception/d...
A brute force approach for Go doesn't work. It doesn't work for humans (deep reading skills) and doesn't work for computers. The Monte Carlo approach was the first one that allowed Go AIs to scale with the hardware. This was at least two years ago.

AlphaGo went way beyond that. It actually learned more like how a Go player does. It was able to examine and play a lot of games. That's why it was able to beat a 2p pro, and within less than half a year, challenge a 9p world-class player at least on even terms.

The big thing isn't that AlphaGo is able to play Go at all at that level, but that learned a specific subject much faster than a human.
What I always think about with AI, and speaking to the "man's programming vs man" higher up, is what we'll get when we can teach computers how to solve these problems so that e.g. They could come up with the solution for + implement something like this on their own.
blogspam, original discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252695
How robots will kill the 'gig economy'
Wow, this is awesome. I had been assuming letsencrypt supported only Unixy operating systems. Most of the web hosts I care about necessarily run Windows, so I thought letsencrypt was out of reach. I wonder how they did this.
I love Vultr. Support is fantastic!
You think people would be cool with the military operating Apache gunships for police enforcement as long as the missiles and rockets were removed?
already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252732
$1 is 1981 was four popsicles from the icecream truck. Well worth it to be the king.

$1 in 1996 was a bottomless plastic cup of PBR. Also well worth it.

$1 is 2011 is the cost of an overnight diaper that my three year old son throws away in the middle of night because he says he doesn't like it.
I was really hoping for something more exciting. Like maybe native support for a new, different language (like Apple did with Swift).

It would be absolutely amazing if Google came out with a mechanism for building native apps in, say, Rust.
Falun Gong is a superstitious group that promotes the belief in magical powers. Knowing that, China's actions make far more sense (if still unfair). A large group that's irrational to the point of killing people via belief in magic is very possibly a threat.
Appreciate you bringing data to the discussion.

Worth clarifying is that I live in the Peninsula, and there's a ton of factors for why my circumstances might differ from yours. Crime out here is way lower than in SF for example. Ultimately there's pros and cons a plenty to both places, and ones priorities ultimately dictate the weighting of them.

For me, weather and culture was huge, as was the crime. The crime piece likely could have been solved if I moved to a nicer suburb, but ultimately that was lower on the list.

Like I said--Chicago will always have a place in my heart, but I've found that I'm ultimately much happier living in the Bay Area, despite the higher cost of living. I just wish I'd realized it sooner so I could have moved out here and bought five years ago.
> P100D

> (a reverse lookup of the hash posted above yields this)

5 days ago, http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/58951-Let-the-...
not defending the parent, but Falun Gong organ harvesting by the Chinese government is widely considered to be a real human rights crisis by many different countries, the EU, and the UN. It was also admitted by the Deputy Health Minister[0] in 2005.

[0] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article2612313...
As the saying goes; "China has Pandas, China has kung-foo, but America invented Kung-foo Panda. That would never happen in China."
> It's non-sensical to say that we're "adapted" for something via one mechanism and not the other.

And yet, that's exactly what you implied—that our current metabolic process is entirely the result of the 10k years of change in the gut bacteria, NOT the previous hundreds of thousands of years we spent persistence hunting protein and gathering nutrition.
Which kind of defeats the fact that RVTS is free and open source, but is still fundamentally understandable in terms of Microsoft's strategy in this area.
They say Starcraft is still 5-10 years out for AI to beat pros: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/deepmind-artificial-i...
(ctrl+f for Starcraft at the bottom of this article)
That doesn't really change much. The constitution is the law of the land, so if it says nothing about drug use while a federal law bans a set of drugs from sale and use, then that's the law, unless it contradicts the constitution, and in that case, it's up to the Supreme Court to decide.
And until the people employed by the systems that police, prosecute, and incarcerate other people have a sufficient safety net, they will be motivated to prop up those systems.

Universal basic income just makes too much sense.
Actually what Microsoft is doing could be breat.
However I don't understand why they even use Jenkins for this project (https://github.com/Azure/sonic-build-tools)
I mean I love jenkins, but wouldn't it be at least good if they would've used their own build tool? I mean something like tfs-linux-worker I know that doesn't exists, but if they would've done something they could've done something good somehow.
Using jenkins feels like "we can't yet do that with our own stuff"
Content is just a generic term. If you write a post or a Slideshare that has mostly pictures in it, it's still content but not an article.
Even with that though, They say Starcraft is still 5-10 years out for AI to beat pros: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/deepmind-artificial-i... (ctrl+f for Starcraft at the bottom of this article)
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If people are acting as a danger to others because of drug abuse, that's already illegal without any kind of drug prohibition. The only people who are added to the prison system by prohibition are the ones who aren't bothering anyone and the ones who are selling them. Of course, this leads to a monopoly on drug sales by criminals. What do we possibly have to gain by giving criminal organizations a monopoly on drug sales and incarcerating people for choosing to ingest the wrong chemicals?
It looks like the GA script is itself dynamically loaded, by injecting a script tag into the document. Fetching the document via "view source" won't execute this, which will produce a log entry on the server side that can't be correlated with a GA page view. That'd make it possible to identify page loads which didn't execute Javascript, which is a decent proxy for "tracking this side" unless somebody decides to be a jerk with curl and while (1) {}.