skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not an accident that they chose this point in time to play against Lee Sedol instead of 10 years ago or 10 years in the future. They chose this point in time because they thought that they have a reasonable chance of winning.

Most importantly, they chose this point in time because they know that there are several other AI research teams that are also on the right track (including at Facebook). Like circumnavigating the globe or landing on the Moon, 90% of the benefit of it is lost if someone else does it before you. So you don't wait for 100% certainty of winning -- you are maximizing for the chance of winning first, not winning for certain.

Given that, it seems reasonable that they would go after Lee Sedol when they were sure they were better than him, but not too much better than him. So a non-5-0 outcome is, in hindsight, not horribly surprising.
Sounds binary to me.
Tradewars (or TW 2002) continues to be available online -- http://www.tradewars.com/default.html

I lost many hours playing this game.
This Week in Driverless Cars  – GM Acquires Cruise
MBA 4GB 2011, good for programming (Rails, Ruby/Python) but not good for DevOps (VMs/Docker/Vagrant) playground.
no way man. either I have the right to use technology to make something encrypted (my definition of encrypted is cannot be broken) or I don't.
So you're suggesting that the sole legitimate check on governmental power is the government itself? And that anyone outside the government attempting to challenge abuses of power is by definition unfit for society?
Nobody paying attention uses their ISP's DNS servers. See https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS

Also, good VPN services run their own DNS servers, which are reachable only through the VPN tunnel.

See https://dnsleaktest.com/ to determine which DNS server(s) you're using.
I don't know why you were downvoted. Your comment is spot on, let me just finish the sentence - "if you don't trust government, then you can't function in a society and therefore government eliminates you".
ADHD -- middle class children with behaviors that annoy elementary school teachers

If they're poor, you call them thick. If they're rich, you get them a tutor. If they're middle class, you medicate them.
And therefore you won't get out of your industry. Whatever you're doing now, you join a consultancy and do the same thing. You do get paid more, which is nice.
If the USG can force Apple/Whatsapp to decrypt some communication, what prevents the PRC from doing the same? Will we see Tim Cook arrested the next time he goes to China?
Assuming you have a reasonable means to peg pay to productivity and you hire people who are capable of hitting those marks within a reasonable time frame, I think this is a great idea.

I worked for a Fortune 500 company that began allowing people to work from home. They decided people working from home should do an extra 20% or 30%. It was a number pulled out of thin air and based on nothing whatsoever. The result: People began working 10 or 12 hours a day to hit that number. Then they had to make some changes to the program because this was in violation of labor laws.

So, my point is that if you have ridiculous expectations and want too much out of people, then what you propose is going to be a problem. But if you structure it well and hire the right people, this has a lot of positives to it.

I do something similar. I make money doing "gig work" and I can work where I want, when I want, and this works far better for me than my corporate job did. But you will need to be careful that you aren't expecting too much for too little, basically.
Hi a small note, it's impossible to see links on your blog, make them easier to recognize.
I suspect that in almost all cases it has already converged on a move well before sixty seconds, and so if forced by time pressure to choose a move before it has achieved the confidence it's looking for, it will probably still do the right thing most of the time (especially in the endgame, when the branching factor is cut down enormously). It just uses additional time because it has it. I would love to see a graph of AlphaGo's thinking showing certainty of time, and how long it was taking to come up with the move it ultimately ended up playing, and how that certainty evolved over its thinking period.
Authorization by court order still works fine in physical space.

We are talking about introducing back-doors to what essentially already is an extension to our brains. If you understand computers, you know that analogies between the "real world" and our abstract world of modern information systems usually don't hold well.

Please try to think through all the subtleties, you clearly don't have to be labeled "libertarian" to foresee a death-by-a-thousand-cuts of our civil liberties (as with democracy, the US still sets global trends btw).
It's plausible that licensing agreements prevent some content from being shown in some markets. But what could possibly be the reason for Netflix holding back its own content — content that directly drives subscription revenue — in other markets?
It's possible to decrypt the exact URL you're browsing for a large majority of websites with very high probability, even with forward secrecy. There is an undergraduate project that does this for wikipedia pages (it's easy because of all the unique resources loaded for each page). Search for papers on https traffic analysis, for example:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0297
That phrasing is a little unfortunate.
They could be remoted into one?
wow, when you put it that way it's like saying "either I have the right to own a gun or I do not." So I guess if people except limits on gun ownership they should accept limits on encryption cuz it's just as dangerous?
Interesting choice too - there's clearly a demographic who go to the Folsom Street Fair who definitely don't have negative connotations to "fetishizing", and I suspect any porn site operator could give you some numbers that some people would not believe about the number of people for whom fetishes are a real thing.

I wonder if Obama and his speechwriters have research about how many people (and from which demographics) that phrase is going to be read in which ways? (I wonder if they've worked out that they've already lost the tech crowd on this issue, and there's a statistically significant crossover between the tech crowd and the people for whom fetishes are considered a positive thing?)
A. The Snowden revelations show the US has spent years being dishonest about their programs. You'd be silly at this point if you think there is not a huge database of American communications too.

B. "Filtered". Do you really believe that? Considering it's coming from the same government that also uses the words "enhanced interrogation"?

C. The US seems to consider the rest of the world people with no rights at all. People understand spying on other countries, not spying on every other single person in the world with a phone and/or an internet connection.

D. Your reasoning is faulty:

> If government is monitoring your communications, then there's a pretty dammed good reason, as determined by a judge.

Just because an "authority" says/does something does not mean it is right. It should be expected to explain its reasoning, openly and transparently. Then I can trust it. The current programs do not do that and have no intention of doing that.

E. Random US government employees are literally reading your communications.
Case in point - pre-ww2 governments collecting data about their citizens(religion, sexuality, race, political affiliation) which was then used to actually murder people by the Nazis. Just because the current government doesn't use the data in a malicious way doesn't mean the next one won't.
Seattle City Light WindWatch (realtime wind speed display)
Fetish. Rubber hose "security". Coincidence?
What's the current thinking on React? Is it primarily indicated for SPAs? Or should one us it throughout a web app (even for pages that don't qualify as their own SPA)?
US gift cards no longer work for non-US purchases. Bitcoins are currently the best option. At least for anything past the first VPN in a chain.
Move 78 gives us hope in the war against the machines.

78 could come to symbolize humanity.

What a special moment.
> You need both. One without the other us called occupation.

That's not correct. Occupation is when the people who live there are not considered members of the country.

For example Israel: They have full historical claims to the West Bank, while the people who live there don't. Yet it's occupation because the people who live there now are not citizens.
Yeah honestly that would be much better presented as an SVG since its mostly solid colors and geometric shapes. Every browsers supports them, and all the big image editors as well; the trouble is that the rest of our software and culture hasn't caught on. Why am I taking bitmap screenshots of websites when they're almost completely text? We need to start building a tools ecosystem around vector graphics. An extra bonus would be a machine-readable representation of the board as well. We live in a digital age, but its almost like we're cavemen still dealing with the modern equivalent of analog formats. (And at least analog has fidelity)
A key promise of Obama's campaign for the presidency was to run the “most transparent” government- however the only person to really deliver on that promise was a whistleblower.
Secret courts, secret domestic spying, and now calls for weakening of the digital equivalent of the safe shows that he either was not honest about transparency, or has radically changed his opinion since becoming POTUS.

Maybe it's that he decided to use his political clout to pick healthcare as his signature in American history, not wage war against the NSA, but either way it saddens me to have campaigned for someone who has empowered a surveillance state instead of fight against it.

Liberty literally means "freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control", and freedom in the information age means the liberty to communicate and store information. Anything to compromise that makes us all more vulnerable to control in all parts of our lives, not just those stored in zeros and ones. I believe America can be "Land of the free, home of the brave", but not without digital liberty.
With luck, they've been rendered sunken-cheeked speed freaks with no teeth.

No one ever bothers to draw a line, and connect the dots between the ritalin trend of the 90's and the Faces Of Meth that cropped up just after the turn of the millenium.
I honestly didn't expect this to be seen. /me is humbled and reading comments
First he accused me of clinging to my guns, but since I didn't own any guns, I was OK with that.

Next he accused me of clinging to my religion, but since I was an atheist, I was like, meh, whatever.

Then he accused me of clinging to my smartphone, and oh, boy. It's on now, motherfucker.
To me personally the concept of even owning a gun is utterly ridiculous, but I guess American people would be incredibly upset if every gun had to come with a built-in remotely controlled switch that could be used by the police to disable it. This is essentially what they are trying to do with encryption - you are free to use it, but we want to be able to manually switch it off if we want to.
Yes... as is John McDowell, Crispin Wright, John Searle and Alvin Plantinga.
I would love to hear from the team for sure, but I suspect that they have, by now, fed the game state as of move 78 into AlphaGo, had it look exhaustively at possibilities (way more than in the few minutes it took during the match), and determined that in hindsight move 79 was indeed not an optimal response.
so they tell us that we have to arrange our private lives in such way that it would be easier for them to investigate/persecute us, if sometime in the future they decide that we are guilty of breaking their laws.

[with great sadness]: how low have we fallen if we seriously discussing this instead of grabbing pitchforks.
How People Used to Download Games from the Radio
> As a citizen, you are expected to trust the FISA court.

This opinion is just nuts. Trust a court that you were told for years didn't even exist? A secret court? How about no.

Secret courts lead to abuses:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/jo-shaw/secret-cour...
They're monitoring meta-data, not private communications.

And for private comms, they have filters that filter them out for US citizens, as the Snowden leaks show.

LOL when people find out that the Snowden leaks actually show the NSA protecting privacy rights of US citizens, in a top-secret program.
Just noticed your message, sorry for the delay. If you send a quick email to support at undo-software dot com we'll be happy to answer your questions.
That those mechanisms exist at all means they can and will be abused by people who do not go through those mechanisms.

Isn't this true about traditional wiretaps as well? Yeah, a corrupt agent could illegally wiretap anyone's phone, but that certainly won't hold up in court.
X11 terminal emulator as one C file:
http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/st.c
> We need people advocating for the right balance, not just getting each other frustrated.

I don't understand this line of thinking regarding the big encryption debate. Yeah it sounds good if you don't know anything about encryption. "Look, he's being reasonable. Why is everyone saying he's wrong instead of striking a balance".

The problem is it's a binary problem. There is zero way to strike any type of balance here. You either encrypt communication to prevent others from accessing it or you provide a backdoor or escrow key to access the data in which case all encrypted communications are now insecure.

There isn't a middle ground there. If there is I have yet to see anyone suggest it and I can't think of a technical way to do it. Too many attack vectors when you purposefully impose multiple party keys or backdoors.
Create a separate account for your personal sites...
it's that interesting, people on the LEFT want NO LIMITS on encryption but LOTS OF LIMITS on guns. Is encryption more or less dangerous than guns?
> No one cares what position the sun is in at noon. Noon is "the middle of the workday", or "lunchtime", neither of which has anything to do with the position of the sun in the sky.

people aren't robots. having lunch outside on a warm day feels good.
I enjoy reading Kripke and agree he's done solid work. But I must admit I don't get the "Great Philosopher" thing. He did great work in mathematics as a teenager then basically just applied that model root and branch to the philosophical problems his teachers fed him. Which was a perfectly legitimate, even clarifying contribution for the time. But it's not clear to me how the result was a huge advance outside the local Carnapian tradition he was entirely inside of. (And as received a nice documentation in Soames's history of analytic philosophy which uses Kripke as the hero.) Then again I read "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" as almost provincial!

FWIW, I personally find Putnam, Quine, and even Rorty far more interesting to read both now and from a historical perspective.
Noted, underlined them. Thanks!
That actually depends on if the audio is under copyright.

And even so, that is no reason why we as open source collaborators cannot create a million or billion or so samples of "Hello" in foo language as training data as a corpus for all to use.
Until in jail :/
Are you sure? I thought I heard the commentators saying that it was randomized again for game 5, but maybe I was mistaken?
If as many people who pay to watch (NFL|NBA|MLB) paid to watch Go, you'd likely see similar payouts.

I would like to see AlphaGo play 21 against Steph Curry.
> Linux without a terminal wouldn't be Linux

Linux without a terminal wouldn't be GNU/Linux.
There's no award for effort. Apple built a cryptosystem that doesn't work against an adversary that is Apple. "Encrypting" isn't some magical property that makes your data safe. The encryption itself is just one aspect of a whole system that must be designed to protect against certain adversaries with certain capabilities. The government would be totally allowed, for example, to tamper with your wax seals if it had a warrant to read your mail.

I lied, there is an award for effort. Wherever you have an "reasonable expectation of privacy", the government must get a warrant or your permission to exercise its search and seizure authority. That's the protection that you're entitled to by our laws.

Even the EFF is acknowledging the weakness of your argument when they try to frame it as an issue about Apple's free speech instead.
It's also (and not only) in Marx's vocabulary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism
Speaking of transparency, Obama also secretly lobbied to kill FOIA transparency reform: https://freedom.press/blog/2016/03/new-documents-show-obama-...
Encryption is a measure that prevents unauthorized parties from taking part of what is encrypted. If it fails that on such a basic level that a specific unauthorized party can trivially access it, it's not effective encryption. Whether or not it is effective, then, is just a matter of whether you agree that who ever holds the master key is authorized to access whatever it is that you encrypted.

It's still not broken in any technical sense, but if I don't want a third party to read my data and they are still able to do so, it's a stretch to call it encryption.
Agree completely, this is a really well-written and informative article. Even more impressive is when you scroll to the bottom and notice this was written by a "17 year old student from Brighton who programs for a hobby."
See the bottom of https://gogameguru.com/lee-sedol-defeats-alphago-masterful-c...
Didn't they put the calculations near the top?

I think their point was that the expected value of the company is approximately the same as the chance the company will Make It.
Not looking for anything specifically, I'm just a junior developer and mostly in javascript. I'm just looking for traits, common elements or approaches to beautiful software. So thank you for sharing :D.
In 35,000 requests, they denied 12.

Either the NSA is really accurate or something smells.
Metadata has critical value. And private communications are being monitored, recorded, and searched as well. (Many people, myself included, also reject the notion that unauthorized collection and recording is fine as long as the subsequent searches and filters are authorized.)

You seem to be taking government descriptions at face value, despite documented evidence to the contrary.

Consider the possibility that the government you seem to place absolute trust in is not, in fact, perfect.
Would you prefer if there were NO judicial oversight?

Because the only way to oversee top-secret data is with a top-secret court.
I think the following truth has a lot of relevance to your comment: the only way somebody gets elected president of the US is if it's a given that he or she will maintain the status quo on behalf of powerful interests.

Obama's campaign promises are as empty as those of any other politician. He's used his presidency to bring a windfall to the Halliburtons of healthcare and escalated the war on whistleblowers and the attack on privacy.

His successor will do the same.

We can hope that his supporters become appropriately disillusioned, but so much of politics is about loyalty in exchange for spoils, not ideas or accountability, so I'm not optimistic.
At the time chess was "the" problem, humans could beat computer too from time to time. Now the chess is solved. Same will likely happen to go in the years to come. But the point of this was not the go itself. It was the demonstration of potential capabilities of neural network and other machine learning algorithms.
And building an AI that can play better than itself :)
Obama rejects 'absolutist' defense of encryption
Hola doesn't route users through other users, it uses proxy servers. Users are turned into exit nodes for Luminati.io customers (servers/bots) only.
tehwebguy: I'd prefer if you replied to me in a separate post rather than editing in a reply to your post. It makes it hard for me to respond.

In a way I'm heartened by stories about NSA employees acting inappropriately, it means that they're being caught and disciplined and the Office of the Inspector General is doing its job. If it was routine and accepted it wouldn't be a newsworthy story and the inspector general.

That said, I don't think employee abuses have much bearing on the effectiveness of the FISA court as a source of judicial oversight for intelligence operations inside the United States.
The ultimate oversight is the voter.

And the voters have decided that the courts should be trusted.
Reminds me of the famous Blaise Pascal quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (also attributed to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot and others)
Most of the time another company has a exclusive license for the region.
> As a citizen, you are expected to trust the FISA court.

Not only must justice be done but justice must be seen to be done.

If we can't audit or inspect the courts then there is zero assurance they are acting in a lawful or moral manner.

The whole point of courts is so that people can't make shady deals in back rooms.
Kind of out-of-place but Manic Time is the best GUI I remember having used on Windows.

It has every feature but takes 5 minutes to learn. And it (mostly) seems to do the most reasonable thing every time you do anything.

(plus: there is a working free model and a really useful paid upgrade.)
And if you have a good block cipher you can build a hash function.

Encryption is a reversible, keyed transformation of a message. If you cannot reverse it, it is not encryption. Calling it encryption just introduces confusion.
Policy wise Obama is close to a Rockefeller Republican. What people say during elections is entirely disposable.
Hopefully the attempt to frame this issue as encryption absolutism vs moderate fails. Maybe the correct way to fight this narrative is to come up with an easy way to communicate the fact that the cat is out of the bag and that there is no barrier to using strong encryption for the motivated?
Well, quite a lot of other people also take ADHD medication or has friends or relatives that takes them and no, not everyone becomes zombies.

A lot of people just get better lives. YMMW.
Yes, that's true. And anyone who cares about the security of their phonecalls should be using encryption rather than POTS; for example, you could use Signal for encrypted phonecalls and SMSes. Warrant or not, unless there's a bug in the implementation, the only way you can tap that communication would be to compromise the endpoints (either electronically, or via a physical bug/tap on the device).
False dichotomy? It is quite possible to enjoy an activity and gain money at the same time.
Actually no. What I'm saying is that you do have the right to own a gun, but there are limits on gun ownership.

* Minors cannot buy guns.
* Convicted felons cannot buy guns in most circumstances.
* There are numerous locations in which it is illegal to bring a gun.
* There are numerous types of guns that you are not allowed to own.

It's not binary.
> do you place any trust in government?

Trust but verify, for the record I don't place any trust in any part of government I and others can't audit in some way.
Drink Coffee? Off with Your Head
With luck, they've been rendered sunken-cheeked speed freaks with no teeth.

Why would you wish that on anybody? That's not a particularly enlightened attitude.
What about the countless audiobooks available on archive.org [1]? Sure, you may be limited to just books in the public domain, but that's still plenty of books.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry
In Italy netflix sold house of cards right to sky before its service being available. Now netflix opened shop here but many originals are locked by the initial licensing until the end of times.