skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started this brand about two months ago and was able to donate around $95 to the RCWA, a nonprofit organization founded in 1926 to help Russian children whose families fled after the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The RCWS funds scholarship programs, medical procedures, pediatric hospitals, rehab programs, and orphanages throughout Russia. 20% of all our profits will be going to the RCWS to assist them in their work with the orphans in Russia.
Douglas Crockford's JSON license-griefing has done quite a lot of harm to open-source software:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#.22Good.2C_n...

* https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520#1403112940

* http://apebox.org/wordpress/rants/456

* https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil

As a open-source software developer, I have wasted at least a day of my life on headaches resulting from this gag. The same is true of several of my immediate colleagues, and of a great many people in the open-source software community at large.

Someone who acts with contempt and disrespect toward his peers in the industry does not deserve recognition or confidence. We cannot trust him to be a good steward of open standards. This casts a long shadow on his proposals.
As it happened in chess, machines will beat humans in Go no matter how much knowledge about their inner workings will be provided to the human. (I've watched this story unfold in chess and the various hopes of how humans are still somehow better. $1K sez Go is exactly the same story. Can't beat a machine in a formal universe with a defined goal.)
0.5% and 2% are still really high!
When I read "simplest" I thought I wouldn't have to fill a sign up form, but it wasn't the case.
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There are a ton of cards that have fees, mostly American Express, but Chase and others too. The fees usually unlock certain benefits, eg: Amex Blue Everday will pay 3% cash back at grocery stores, or for $75/yr, they will pay 6% cash back. The Amex Gold Premier is $190/yr but offer $100/yr back in baggage fees and constantly run $25-100 off deals at Enterprise, Newegg, general travel expenses.

So whether these cards are worth it depends a lot on how you use your card, but, they can pay for themselves very easily.
The implication is that because Sedol wins more tournaments than almost anyone else, if you feed "Tournament winner" or "ELO" etc. as a feature, his games will be much more weighted than others.

So even if AlphaGo isn't explicitly designed to play against his style, it's implicitly trained in it.

But it's pretty subtle and I'm guessing that the volume of high-level tournaments overwhelms any effect, as the AlphaGo team said.
US cards don't seem to have fees except "premium" ones that toss in a concierge service. Banks seem willing to give them to anyone that opens an account. Only fees I've known people to pay were for Amex ($99 to $5000 a year.)

Plus US banks give out VISA debit cards, making it a non-issue (well, security/chargebacks might be). Dunno about EU, but in Canada, this doesn't seem easy. I opened a business account, then asked for a VISA debit card and both the service person and manager appeared to be confused as to what that'd be. They insisted I could pay things using Interac (Canadian card network), with no concept this wouldn't work for online use. They kept thinking I wanted a credit card. Bizarre.

Maybe there's some huge cost to making MasterCard or VISA connected debit cards?
I don't think this is unfair, but I think other people are replying to a suggestion that AlphaGo might be optimized to beat Lee that I don't see in the parent comment.

What does seem right is that whatever strategic insights are in Lee's play are reflected in current games--his and the younger generation who came up in his shadow. Whatever strategic novelties shape AlphaGo, they are totally new to Lee.

I don't think that would make the difference: 1) there's no trick to be learned and 2) the same thing happens with human players to some extent--when Lee Changho appeared on the international go scene, his style was misunderstood and underestimated, even when his games were public.

However, it is true that there is a real asymmetry--AlphaGo may not know Lee from other players, but it has had the opportunity to "study" the best games of the current players, and no one outside of DeepMind has had an opportunity to study its games.
Even more importantly, the policy network that chooses which move to explore must choose human like moves in order to function correctly because it must choose to explore the correct moves of Alphago's opponent.
"new" in Nov '15:

Dell Inspiron 15 i5558-5718slv; i5-4xxx, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD
Windows 10: Nuwen MinGW, IntelliJ for C++, Java development respectively
VirtualBox VM's: Ubuntu 15.10, CentOS 7

Pros: cost: $400; 1080p IPS screen; backlit keyboard!; reasonable battery life (4-5 hours?)

Cons: Windows 10 (I prefer Windows 8.1 (my last laptop)); slow HDD (planning to upgrade to SSD soon); fan is not silent

I know there's a strong case to be made for spending more $$$ on a better laptop since "[I] use it all the time" and I can easily afford it, but "parsimonious me" objects spending 2x-4x my $400 baseline price for a laptop that might perform 1.4x better.

This laptop replaced a 3 year old $400 Toshiba i3-3110 laptop with 8GB RAM; according to my benchmark (a clean parallel build of one of my C++ projects) the new is only 6% faster than the old. I think my upcoming SSD install will make a big difference.

And: I'm among the apparent minority of programmers who prefers and requires a keyboard with numeric (for me: cursor) keypad. This requirement "narrows the field" of candidate-laptops substantially.
Basic income seems to come from the right place from people that support it.

I do think it's misguided benevolence, though. I hope that largely removing adversity and creating dependence aren't viewed as trivial changes here. People need to be challenged. We need to consider the more subtle ramifications of this. Humans have always labored. Work is in our blood.
I assume they take into account the cost of support calls, replacement hardware, and loss of future business because people think they're crap
If someone uses my credit card to buy something I didn't approve, I get my money back and I get a new credit card, all for free. It's annoying, sure, but also reassuring.

If someone steals my Bitcoin wallet and uses it to buy something I didn't approve, well, boo hoo for me. No doubt it's all my fault. Blame the victim, etc.

I'm much happier "having to deal with credit card fraud."
Usability issues aside, this is an incredible result. A lot of poverty and social issues come from having children before the parents can reasonably support or take care of them. This leads to neglect or resentment of the children, which affects everyone. By having young people thinking about avoiding pregnancy, that sets them up for good family planning practices.

Watching the map go from purple to white, I was speechless. I'd be interested if someone was able to talk about the potential reasons.

I'd be cautious to credit the government with this change. In talking to my own daughter, I think the exposure of what happens as a result of teenage pregnancy (16 and pregnant, anyone?) and the lack of a stigma against talking about it with your peers is possibly one of the biggest contributors. When I was 16/17 and having sex, and I talked to my peers about IUDs or the depo injections, it wasn't cool.
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In New Zealand we also have our own card payment network (EFTPOS). It has the same problem of being unable to make online purchases, where websites only expect Visa/Mastercard.

Luckily all eftpos POS terminals have a quite strict protocol upgrade regimen, and in the last ~5 years or so, it's becoming more common to request a Visa/Mastercard debit card (for a low but non-zero price) instead of an eftpos card (free with a bank account).
By that logic, AlphaGo would falter against an opponent who plays moves at random.
Under this definition of "subproblem" the different parts of a Go board are not subproblems either.

If the moves on different parts of a Go board didn't influence each other and could be solved separately via dynamic programming, it would be a much easier game (and probably uninteresting).
It'll have to work like the last story in I, Robot.
It seem you also get a bit of buzz when you remove it.
Bitcoin is dead and has been for years. And nobody broke it, it is just a solution without a problem. Sure, Mt. Gox, ASICs and the block size debate didn't exactly help Bitcoin, but nothing of that broke it.

Yes, Bitcoin has some nice theoretical properties, but the masses don't need them. What good is an anonymous currency for buying stuff if the next thing I do is entering my shipping address? Whether the system is decentralized or centralized, the average user doesn't give a shit as long as it works. I don't have to trust a bank? I don't care, I never had any issues.

And with Bitcoin I have to trust every single seller, no way to charge back in case they don't deliverer. Multisignature escrow transaction you say? Well, now we are back at square one with trusted third parties.

I am from first world country with working banking system, Bitcoin is for countries with a lot of unbanked people you say? A system that needlessly burns electricity worth hundreds of millions of Dollars every year to provide anonymity no one asked for can hardly be the best solution.

People that are still into Bitcoin just haven't yet really thought things through, hope to capitalize on greater fools, are into some less legal business or something along that line. Half a decade ago I really loved the idea of Bitcoin but since then enough time has passed to really understand the system and its implications. He's dead, Jim.
How much of humanity genes will skynet inherit ?
They only disabled it for Windows 10/Mobile, probably because no one is buying those using their store anyway.
Thanks a lot, that fixed it.
welfare is different than a basic income though. The crutch part about welfare is that there is little incentive to get a job for many people because getting a job and working 40 hours a week would probably take you off welfare and might only get you a small sum over what you got off welfare without working at all. So where is the point in that?

Basic income gives a set amount to everyone without restrictions. So there is no perverse incentive to not work because it would be similar amounts of money and bump you off the program. Every bit of money you earn from a job when you are on basic income is a bit of money on top of that set amount.

The thesis in your statement comparing the two is fundamentally flawed.
I'm on the Polymer team, so admittedly biased here, but I don't understand your comment about Polymer minimizing reusability.

Polymer is designed to _mazimize_ reusability and interoperability via standards. Polymer elements just elements and you use them via standard API - set properties, attributes, listen for events, add children. The only wrinkle is that Shadow DOM is a little slow to polyfill, so we're using a wrapper on the DOM API. This will eventually go away.

Polymer is also extremely small compared to other libraries, and has no external dependencies: 34k gzipped without polyfills and 42k with. This will get better as native Custom Elements arrive across browsers later this year.

My main point is that in the Web Components future, it will not matter so much what libraries are used to implement components, as long as they are standard elements on the outside. The guts can be Polymer, some future web-component supporting React, Angular, etc., or just plain JS.
Accepting BTC via a company that converts it to USD immediately is great for high-risk operations. Like, suppose you sell VoIP online to anyone. You're going to have a ton of fraud. BTC allows you to work with legitimate companies and re-sellers without having to worry about credit checks.

It's also handy for light hiding of your ID with respect to the store. If I purchase some degenerate online service from a company and pay using BTC, the chances of _them_ getting my actual name are far, far, less than if I use a credit card in my own name. (And buying prepaid cards is more of a hassle.)
>Beating the average human Go player was probably accomplished decades ago

Thing is, it wasn't. Go AIs were on the level of amateurs (and amateurs could win) only a two years ago.

edit. 'Decades ago', i.e. in 1990s, amateurs would crush the AIs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go#Performance
> Unlike other crypto-currencies, mining motocoins
> is not a passive process. You will have to play
> a 2D motorbike simulation game called Motogame,
> which is inspired by ElastoMania.

http://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/#mine
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"Proof of grinding"?

This is really a CAPCHA scheme; a task that's easy for humans but hard for computers. But computers are too good at such tasks now. The result has been CAPCHA solving services, both automated [1] and manual.[2] Today's rate: $0.75 for 1000 CAPTCHAs.

[1] http://www.captchatronix.com/
[2] https://2captcha.com/
Of course, then you've just added a second point of failure - their crappy router can still bring down your connection, but now so can the additional router you've added.
For context, Ontario has no natural resources. We have always been an export economy. With globalization and automation, manufacturing is mostly gone, and it's creating social problems. We have a fundamentally different view of the role of government here, we believe government should promote quality of life and happiness. Yes it is socialism and we don't apologize.
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The program that beat Kasparov avoided a full breadth first search because it was fairly easy to decide if something was a bad move. So, it could generally pick from a fairly small number of moves when branching. What makes GO so much harder than chess is how hard it is to evaluate the board and decide if a move is good or bad.
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I'm curious if AlphaGo is simply winning by virtue of having more computational capability (and therefore can never be defeated consistently by humans) or if in its training it actually discovered and is now deploying interesting new tactics that humans, studying these games, can uncover and therefore use to defeat AlphaGo in the future.
7.5-point komi variant played by AlphaGo and Lee has a win or lose outcome. There's no draw. But yes, a more formal definition of global optimality does not include victory as a necessary outcome.
Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
I think you need Linux 4.3.something or better for this to work right. Otherwise you get PS/2 emulation, and it works poorly.
Java certainly has obtained a bad reputation in the sciences, however.
In what sense is he/she correct?

In general, it's false that sub-problems of a problem with an optimal solution are optimal themselves.(Wikipedia's article says the same differently: "In computer science, a problem that can be broken apart like this is said to have optimal substructure.", implying some problems can't be broken apart like that). Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_substructure

Maybe Go has this property of optimal substructure. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know, but it sure isn't immediately evident.
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> Content is, as always, still king. It doesn't matter how technically OK your site is, if the content isn't up to snuff, it won't do you much good.

Shameless plug: friends of mine have been building Webtexttool [1], a tool aimed at helping content writers (who often are unaware of SEO technicalities) write optimized content. They are still adding features but it already works quite well.

[1] http://www.webtexttool.com/
> I'm sorry but flux and redux are another layer of abstraction that are much harder for new starters to grasp. The advocates are so deep in the echo chamber that you don't realize how daunting all this.

As always in a large enough population, there exists multiple dichotomies. Its a difficult problem; In this case, some people want better(more specific) tools, and others want less choice and time to learn one tool well. There is no really good answer to this, given that you can't please everyone, and software empowers minorities to fulfill their visions regardless of the majority. Ideally we can just hope that all evolution is cyclic (explosion of ideas, consolidation of ideas, repeat) and overall we stay in a healthy equilibrium. However, this is a problem in all aspects of life, from fashion to food. Even within computer science its not a problem unique to JavaScript.

JavaScript without Babel, React + (Flux | Meteor | Redux | Relay) is a non-starter. Some may also swap out for: Angular | Ember | Backbone + jQuery. And almost always there are additional "custom"[0] homegrown frameworks on top of or alongside everything else.
Java without (Spring | Guice), Lombok, (AspectJ | Spring AOP), Guava, (JodaTime | Java8), ApacheCommons, (Log4J | SLF4J), (Hibernate | ...) is a non-starter. Some may also swap out for: JavaEE + (Glassfish | JBoss). And almost always there are additional "custom"[0] homegrown frameworks on top of or alongside everything else.

I'm just using Java because I have to deal with it daily. However, undoubtedly this is a problem across any language or tool that has a large enough population.

[0] "custom" is in quotes because developers that create them always claim they are general purpose, regardless that in reality only one application has ever used it in production.
Yes. It is that I cannot use it for things that I'd like.
In the U.S., it's easy to get a credit card that has no fees. (There are some cards, like the ones associated with airline frequent flyer points, that still have annual fees.)

In fact, some credit cards will pay you a rebate on your purchases. One card I have gives me back 1% of everything I spend (the credit card company charges the merchant 2-3%, so they still come out ahead). Since I pay off my balance every month and thus pay no interest, using my credit card actually saves me money over paying in cash.
He was crazy, and used drugs all the time, which probably didn't help.
That's going to be getting to know even more about you and the probability of you clicking on an advertisement, stakeholder, shareholder profits!
Are you doing something to make a difference, or because you want to be personally rewarded for it? If you want a medal, go train for the olympics.
Quote from OA

"One could say that the I Ching is a mirror of one’s own concerns or expectations.

feed a random signal in then examine the outputs. Results will tell you something about the dynamics of the system that processes the signal.

"But it’s like one of the bronze mirrors from the Shang dynasty, now covered in a dark blue-green patina so that it doesn’t reflect at all."

Perhaps the input signal from the hexagrams relates to a culture so remote from the modern world that it tells us little about ourselves now.
What leads you to the conclusion that basic income == not working?

Or that working for subsistence is somehow noble while basic income and working to achieve other goals (creative outlet, education, etc) isn't?
In the 1600s, the mayor of Magdeburg [0] stuck a narwhal horn on the skull of a wooly rhino, and thereby convinced Leibniz that unicorns existed.

The same mayor also invented the first vacuum pump.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Guericke
I'd really love to see a graph of smartphone sales vs. teenage pregnancies.
> think that you have abducted a child or you are engaging in a terrorist plot

Nailed the usual examples for inciting fear.

Fetishizing phones. Right.
I don't think that follows. To beat the machine the move must be both unpredicted and profitable. Random moves are not profitable. Training purely by reinforcement learning rather than on humans could create a policy network that ignores more subtrees that are profitable than the current one does. In short, it isn't good enough for the AI to be good at playing itself, it has to be good at playing every possible player, and while it is playing humans it is sufficient for it to be good at playing every human player.
On an apple laptop I use my middle and ring fingers for scrolling, my index or middle finger for pointing, and my thumb for clicking. I click with my thumb while holding the pad with my middle and ring finger for right-click. You gotta click near the bottom because they're hinged across the top.

The inadvertent movement rejection is so good you can just leave your four fingers on the pad without thinking about switching between them.
Note that style scoping comes with Shadow DOM, so once browsers support that (it's happening now), you can get scoping with no libraries.

Polymer also adds a CSS custom properties polyfill and a CSS mixins (@apply) polyfill. Custom properties are implemented in FF and Chrome already, @apply is being worked on in Chrome.

Polymer always tries to be forward compatible with actual web standards, one of it's main benefits :) Eventually Polymer will mostly be just templating and convenience helpers on top of native standards.
That's not my conclusion. I'm sorry for you if that's the way you understood it. I'm certain that basic income would also be supplemental to other forms of income.

Your second point is not even in the same ballpark with what I said, however.
You can't standardize vigilance.
It needs to be teen smartphone ownership versus teen pregnancy in my opinion. However this may be hard to get as many phones would be hand-me-downs or purchased for them.
Perhaps. But it means that in the US banks pay you to setup credit cards. Rewards credit cards can have sign up bonuses valued in the hundreds of dollars. They also have annual fees though, but anyone without terrible credit can get a no fee card with a smaller bonus. Most credit cards pay yoy to use, in the form of cashback bonus or rewards. Insurance is provided without fee and to some extent by law.

Wire transfers are absolutely unheard of at the consumer level outside of things like escrow for a house.
If one allowed AlphaGo to train forever, what would happen? Would it constantly just tie against itself ?
this is not unique to epson. hp and xerox printers do the same thing.
> Is there any standard library (for common input/output/math etc)? Haven't found how to do 2 + 2 in Om.

"...requiring the addition of many operations (such as basic number and file operations) and optimizations before it can be considered useful for any real-world purpose".
Eliminating third parties is always a good thing.
They've done this for me in Italy and Austria, with laptops purchased in the US. I was seriously impressed.
By "right distro" do you mean "wait for the kernel to do all the right things"?

BIOS 1.1.9 gives ASPM and PC states up to 8. Linux 4.6 should give i915 PSR. Linux will do proper nvme power management once someone (me?) gets around to it.

Even Linux 4.4 is really quite good on this laptop.
Did you post the wrong link? This is a public discussion forum; asking questions is generally not considered rude. You're free to ignore the question as well.