skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are providing a large barrier unnecessarily. Research projects and publishing a paper is more complicated than that. It is good when the researcher can do that but it is not always practical.

Really, a lot of the comments to this and the downvotes seem to betray a lack of understanding of what cs research is like, which is understandable I guess. CS research is not like creating physics experiments, there are methods, techniques, and algorithms. When there is an experimental result, CS researchers do not treat those as sacrosanct and do have an informed skepticism but we are generally able to determine and discern the bulk is what is important from the content of the paper itself, in most cases.

Yeah, if you look at the experimental results section from papers in SOSP, you could come up with all kinds of complaints probably all day long but there is more to it and the community than is being taken for granted here.
I still believe publishers have value, but recently some of them have figured out how to do as little work as possible while making the most money.

Who can blame them in a capitalist society. Anyway, I'm glad to see people respond via places like Arxiv. Sci-Hub is more like civil disobedience. Great that it happened for all the learners out there, but it's going to make some people very angry because they have bet their careers or invested based on the idea that the government protects and enforces copyright agreements.

We want people to invest in research. Academia has been very lucky in this regard as higher level institutions have continually grown in America. Should people begin to feel that investing in research has no return value, there might not be so many tenureships around in the future. I don't think this is happening I'm just conjecturing and suggesting that while a correction is definitely needed, I'm not sure leaping to the "all free" model is going to work for every scientific community. I could be 100% wrong though. I like the direction in which we are headed. It's more trusting, and I think that means growth for a society.
Your web service is stateless - for those cases it's fine.
However with this model, you are offloading all your state to another layer - likely the database layer.

With Erlang (or rather, the Actor model), you can build state-full pieces of code that are also resilient to crashes that cascade across the entire system, by having a standard pattern of restarting individual actors from a known clean state through a clean supervisor hierarchy.
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I think we need more advances in neuroscience and, I know this will be controversial, psychology before we really know what the cake even is.

Edit:

I actually think the major AI breakthrough will come from either of those two fields, not computer science.
It isn't governmemt that takes away our freedom, it is our own human nature and how we interact with others.

Coexistence requires some sort of ruling, even if tacit. At some point the interaction gets too complicated to be a matter of simple respect. Also, even if a good or service is privately owned it would be publicly used (like a park, or a street) and that requires specific rules as well. Once the initial simple ruling becomes insufficient, some form of government will arise, maybe a city council. Since it is impractical to have every inhabitant attend, speak and vote on said council, some form of democratic representation will arise (and quite probably propaganda, lobbying and corruption with it). And then you'll need rules enforcers (aka police) because not all Liberstandians will have the same ethics nor personalities.

The paradox: as soon as these utopian anarchies become successful, they need a government.
Damn FastCompany... I hate that I had to click the link, just to prove to myself that the title was misleading. You know it's click bait, but morbid curiosity still wins.
Ok I don't mean this in a mean way but you don't seem to appreciate what CS research is like. It is not about handwriting.
I thought it was interesting that someone in a previous thread pointed out the parallels between encryption and firearm regulation. They presented it as a point in favor of gun ownership, but it made me take a step back and look at it the other way.

My opinions haven't changed, but I'm a little more wary of the rhetoric being thrown around.
The trouble with people who lived in the past
When did the supreme court rule this law was unconstitutional?
Interestingly enough, the polls say otherwise. [0] [1]

As the Politifact piece notes, (1) it's early in the campaign; (2) Bernie is much less well known than Hillary, and his perceived negatives might become more important in the general election; and (3) polls can always be wrong. Nonetheless, it doesn't seem to be correct to say he has far worse odds against Trump than she does.

[0] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_...

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...
Yes and you can get a good idea of the activity by looking at the forums: https://forums.meteor.com/
> I know this will be controversial, psychology

Why would that be controversial? It seems to make extremely good sense and even though it may be doubted in some circles I think that most people involved in AI research are painfully aware of our limited understanding of our own psyche.
I have 1GB, but yes, all system tools are tiny. Browsers are heavy. Chrome was very light until some time ago, but now it is as heavy as Firefox.

Some webpages are use a hell lot of memory.

But there are big problems with webapps, too. For example, there are small apps that do super basic things and that can't be run on a Heroku free dyno. Mainly those written with Ruby on Rails, I guess -- like Discourse, and other small apps I've seen, but I've seen others.
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No we don't get paid by the publisher but we are paid to write papers. I can be downvoted for being correct but it doesn't change anything. Researchers are paid by research institution to do research for which product are papers.
The statement that he's critiquing does reflect the wider-spread, overly simplistic view of AI. Contrary to hype, recent events represent only partial development/peeling of the top layer from the AI onion, which has more known unknowns and unknown unknowns than known knowns.
Property rights, social liberties, etc.

I don't even know what to call the first thing you mentioned. "preferring market solutions to economic problems" Capitalism?
The original intent of the right to bear arms was to enable protection against an intrusive government. It's very similar to crypto in that sense.
Can someone elaborate the difference between reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning? It seems that I mistakenly think that human learns through reinforcement learning, that we learn by the feedback from the outside world. I mean without feedback from aldult can a baby even learn how to walk?
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Wow, I never considered that this might fall under the same umbrella. It seems very reasonable because it isn't very hard to publish that now. Even if the shared code wouldn't run without a ton of requirements and very specific setup, it's still something. I know we all hate to release code that doesn't compile or run outside our own setup because we then feel we will be responsible for helping someone else getting it to run on their machines to which we have no physical access. Not to mention it is always a mess figuring that stuff out. But other research fields do not feel compelled to hold the hands of their researchers to replicate experiments. Presumably, whoever's code is easiest to run will more likely serve as the basis for other future research, thereby enhancing career growth of the original publisher. I'm not a researcher by the way, and this just dawned on me, so if this is obvious to all of you, then I apologize for the block of text.
2GB, really. I forgot I had upgraded my computer some months ago. I would probably be dead with 1GB.
Baldur's Gate 2 is on my list of things to try, I'll add Pillars of Eternity. That said, I've got reservations:

> I find a lot of modern gaming to be incredibly shallow.

Sturgeon's Law.

> Good for a single play session but I put the game down and never return.

You seem awfully quick to ascribe this to game quality even though there are significant confounding factors: growing up and having more demands on your time, the opportunity cost of abundant digitally downloadable games, youtube's ability to let you explore alternative choices without spending many hours on a replay, etc.

Just so we're on the same page, though, have you played modern BioWare or CD Projekt Red titles? It's not uncommon for them to gate entire alternative chunks of the game behind player choices. 10x so with low-production-value assets. If someone can look at Witcher 3 and call it shallow and not replayable then I'm pretty sure that we're never going to see eye to eye on the subject of game quality.

> It's a bit of a shame really; these companies spend a fortune on fancy graphics and it just doesn't matter one bit to me.

That is a shame. Are you sure you're actually trying to appreciate the artwork, though? Being dismissive of graphics is certainly the "hip" position in most nerd circles I've been in -- something I became keenly aware of back when I was doing CG in academia and considering it as a career path. I can still picture the sneers on my friends' faces and hear their dismissive snorts when I would start to go on about the artistic accomplishments in this or that title. It sucked, although it wasn't what drove me away (the shit wages and working conditions did that on their own). There's nothing wrong with appreciating other facets of a game more than graphics, but if someone gives graphics 0 or negative weight then I tend to suspect they're primarily trying to build "nerd cred" rather than trying to enjoy games. Like the kid after a movie who can talk about nothing but loopholes.

> I'd rather play Dwarf Fortress in all its ASCII glory than play Destiny or The Division.

Are these unbiased samples or are you comparing your favorite from one era to a mediocre pick from another? How many of the games on my favorite list (addendum: I forgot Spec Ops: The Line) have you played and found wanting compared to your favorites from previous eras? In particular, would you apply the word "shallow" to any (in the facets I marked as strengths)?

I'm genuinely curious as to whether our difference of opinion is due to different tastes or having played different titles.
Who doesn't believe in accurate diagnosis? I do.

Their life failure rate is that much higher. The data is too strong and well corroborated.

I'm providing data and you haven't. When it gets to last 2 years of high school meds matter, but what if they've repeated a grade already? That's not fair to them.
For a "cheap computing for everyone" platform, it's surprisingly lax about software freedom.
If you like Sci-Fi, spoiler alert but Julian May's Pliocene Saga is set around this event.
Right. I don't think this is meant to be immediately competitive against other, more mature neural net implementations. It's just GNU getting some skin in the game and giving people another option to use/contribute to. I think this might be a fun project to submit some changes to, since there's probably plenty of easy problems left to solve with such a new implementation.
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Is there an example somewhere? I would be interested in seeing this working if possible, but not in actually using it. I don't use Slack or have a Slack account.
You're totally right. He does make some other great points in his comment which could be acknowledged in a measured response...
I disagree with hacknat (and the reason I suspect it's controversial) because psychology is generally far too high-level (e.g. focused on things like traits and high-level behavior and vague "perceptions") and has far too little empirical rigor for engineers to be able to build any sort of actual system from insights gleaned from psychology. The recent replication crisis in psychology does little to help this reputation.

Neuroscience does concern itself a great deal with low level biological mechanisms and architectures, and is more amenable to cross-pollination with machine learning.

Though I would like to point out that thus far deep learning has taken few ideas from neuroscience.
It's hard to have balance when you feel that you're changing the world... and when everyone around you is just as crazy/passionate.
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Scholars actually pay journals to publish their papers. No, this isn't vanity press or a bribe. Scholars must work very hard to reach the point where they can pay those fees.

For example, say you submit a paper to Nature. Odds are it will be rejected, because Nature has a high impact factor. Say your paper is both accepted and passes the review process. Now you have to pay Nature to publish your paper. Depending on the options you ask for (e.g. making it free to download costs extra) you can wind up paying thousands.

No university is going to say to one of their researchers, "Hey, could you maybe not get accepted by Nature quite so much? It's expensive!". Nature knows this.

Also, the format of submission varies by field. While word files may be standard in some fields, in others latex is expected. Obviously, typesetting a latex document is pretty gosh-darned easy for a script to do.
A great thing about Yoshi's Island is that it's possibly the only SNES game that benefits from the fancy pixel-smoothing modes that emulators offer. Rather than looking distorted, it makes it look like a completely modern 2D platformer.
I closed my Netflix account because of this.

They blocked a VPS which is used by me and only me entirely from within the US.
Ask HN: CEOs, do you hire B/C-players now, or wait for A-players?
We all know that we should hire someone who is better than you. But as a young startup in its very very early stage, it's so damn hard to attract A-players to join, and we are anxious to find people to speed up the R&D. So the question is, should we wait until we find some really good people, or just accept B/C-players so hopefully we could grow the business?
Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI both have excellent stories and character development coupled with the best game soundtracks ever composed.

The Marathon trilogy starts off a bit slow, but it's got some great sci-fi writing (if you like sarcastic AIs that are constantly making opaque references to classical literature) and twitch action.

If twitch action is your thing though, it's hard to beat Descent and Descent II.

I'm currently playing through Planescape Torment, which is less like an RPG and more like an avant-garde fantasy novel.
I think the point of that one is small government.
I don't follow, how does Erlang processes not being OS processes relate to what could happen if an Erlang error occurred?
That's not really sleight of hand. Lots of things take more energy to produce than to run. It's like saying a 400W electric motor can put out as much power as a fairly fit human, but it's 'sleight of hand' because it took a whole factory to make the motor.
Oh. Well, I think they just don't realize that HN will monospace it.

I agree with you, it's annoying.
When are they going to release their technology?
OK, I'll bite. What moves "without muscles"? Single-celled organisms do, for sure. But the actin-myosin ratchet is a key part of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton that handles movement. The bacterial machinery is more distantly related, but still analogous. Even viruses use analogous machinery.

Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy features some amazing single celled organisms :)
Here's what it looks like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWw9UKzHAo

Surprisingly similar to games like Swiss Wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJQpXMAm3E

And Korean Ssireum:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5eyvFYjxgA

And Mongolian Wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-OuWGhjVg

And to a point even Sumo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyA4kW-Y5rE

And Igbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYkarWIhTDg

Turns out it just seems to be a pretty human kind of thing to do.
Right now we have it set up to create live chats between Slack teams, but if you're interested in a web-hosted version of the chat, that's good to know for our next feature to work on!
The issue with this is that suicides by firearms are a majority of those 30,000 Deaths. Over 50% - How will a Background Check, Ammunition Background check, and identification requirement stop 15,000 people a year from committing suicide by firearm? Furthermore - Those who wish to utilize this method for self-death when they don't have a firearm they simply go rent one and take their life at a shooting range.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11276798
Well if I was asked to draw up the law (unlikely since I am not a lawyer) I would just follow the current law on armor-piecing bullets [1], but add a clause that limited the powder load to ensure that the bullet’s muzzle velocity could not exceed 10 feet per second. Probably equally effective would be to limit the weight and/or density of the bullet such that bullets could only be made out of aerogel [2]. Once you attack the weak underbelly of the ammunition the fun you could have is almost limitless.

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/921#a_17

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
I wasn't expressing a value judgment, just trying to explain how HN works.

I agree with you that it's annoying when people post long indented lines.
I don't see an electric vehicle manufacturer in London.
There are a lot of cases where humans are actually really close to optimal (one example is racing lines taken by F1 drivers being within tenths of a percent of perfect, don't have the link any more though sorry). In this case there are diminishing returns at play, and an AI which is a lot "stronger" than a human might still produce very similar results.
Exactly what i was going to ask! Is there such a thing as unsupervised learning? A human mind is constantly fed a stream of learning data. And while some things may be predispositioned by our DNA, I think for the most part we learn directly from the rules and guidelines dictated by our parents first and our society later.
Not an expert, but my understanding is that humans can learn many things through reinforcement learning, but most of our intelligent decisions are a result of unsupervised learning.

For instance, if the stove element was red hot and you touched it, you'd receive a feeling of pain. Reinforcement learning would suggest that you shouldn't do this again, and you might learn to not touch stove elements when they are red hot anymore.

However, a human is likely to additionally realize that touching a red hot marshmallow stick would burn them as well. And at the same time, a human can also tell that a red ball is safe to touch. This sort of behaviour (internally labeling things and deciding what it is that made the stove element dangerous so you can apply that to other things) would be unsupervised learning.
Put bluntly as I suffer from the same problem: It looks like it was made by a programmer.
Neural networks are the big driver and arguably were taken from neuroscience.

The reason why psychology is 'too high-level' is exactly what is meant with 'we don't understand it', we're approaching the psyche at the macro level of observable traits, but there is a very large gap between the 'wiring' and the 'traits', some of that gap belongs to neuroscience but quite possibly the larger parts belongs to psychology. The two will meet somewhere in the middle.

A similar thing happens in biology with dna and genetics on the one side and embryology on the other.
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Is anyone working on an embodied AI? Even a simulated body might help. Ultimately intelligence is only useful insofar as it guides the body's motion. We often tend to minimize the physical act of say, writing down a theorem or actually applying paint to the canvas, but there are certain actions like playing a musical instrument that certainly blur the distinction between "physical" and "mental". Indeed, even 'purely mental' things like having an "intuition" about physics is certainly guided by one's embodied experience.
My understanding is the second amendment has been “interpreted” quite a bit over the years - after all the original intent of the law was that people could own arms (i.e. military grade weapons), not just handguns and the like.
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Have you worked with biologists? If they could figure out how to use git, let alone github, I would be astounded. No forgetting, these are incredibly smart people, they just are bench-top scientists, not laptop ones. If you want their code, it will be, at best, a copy-paste of badly hardcoded Matlab, years in the making, with for-loops for the sake of for-loops alone, and without ANY comments or documentation whatsoever. Honestly, it would take less time for you to write it yourself and compare, rather than to try to peek under the hood of a spaghetti mess.

Honest to god and on the grave of my mother this happened to a friend. He was going over some old Fortran 88 code, filled with GOTO statements. The code, at best, was a rat's nest. Only a deep and long fight could get it into your brain. At about 3 am after a long day in the lab, she finally gets to a line in the code that says GOTO LINE 12345 with the comment 'HAHA MADE YOU LOOK' . Her boss bought her a new computer after she threw that one off the roof.

That experience is universal with Biologist code.
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> The hard bit is the training data.

That, plus acquiring a team skilled enough to make good use of the code.
Those are fun. A combination of small quad copters and gecko robots you could be stealing cars from anywhere :-).

I have done predator/prey robots but never swarmbots. That seems like the next thing on the list.
WildwoodClaire's video on the Messinian Salinity Crisis gives an excellent backround on the paleogeology of the Mediterranean basin, particularly as expressed through salt deposits up to 3500 meters thick, but also with considerable evidence of ancient channels both in the regions surrounding the Mediterranean (as at the Aswan High Dam) and underneath the existing sea.

Her enthusiasm is also infectious.

https://youtu.be/U5qTQpws5H0