skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems kind of cynical. I would certainly consider paying to be in a corporate created social apartment if the reviews were high and there was some guarantee of the managers dealing with problem people.

Collectives (and meetups etc) happen because someone volunteers. When that volunteer disappears whatever they were organizing often disappears with it. Turning it into a business means someone can be hired to do the organizing when no one has the time / motivation to do it themselves. Volunteerism is great but most people have other things they need to do as well. Paying so someone can do those things full time seems like a win/win.

Of course the details matter. I've been to a few "Spin" events and they needed more organization but at least at the time my impression was they were just starting and still finding out what worked and what was required.

I guess I don't see how making it a commercial enterprise is bad by default.
If you want even more affordable (but lower performance), http://lowendspirit.com/
I agree.

But it makes me think too, other cultures have a strong emphasis on breakfast, and that doesn't necessarily include cereals (but it would include bread). Like France, Germany, and Finland.

I'm in Ireland, where people are definitely under the Kellogg's influence.
Just a a quick remark : I visited your front page, I have no idea what services you're offering.

I understand it's about social media but that's it. Is it a bot that create some activity around your social media accounts ?
Seems like a pretty arbitrary limitation. 70 years ago Colossus filled an entire room, now it can be emulated on a Raspberry Pi. The really groundbreaking part is the algorithm.
Even if you aren't able to receive some sort of sample proof of work (which is probably not the case with this exploit), you can still mitigate the risk by ensuring the seller has high status in the marketplace and/or is willing to use escrow (or preferably multi-sig) to ensure funds are only released upon receipt.
Plan9 was only ever an experiment, labelled as a Research OS.

I would still say is was a successful experiment.
I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords.
Last time there was an "unexpected reading", we spent 3 months being excited about faster-than-light particles until someone found the error. Let's not get too excited just yet.
FTP Must die the technical explanation
When I was applying for the freelancer visa in Austria the requirement was 100k, not 10k. Not sure if a typo or if stuff changed.
I would love to know if someone has exploited this bug - should be fairly easy to learn that from logs (this attack is far from stealthy). I guess FB will never tell. :)
1202 CPUs and 176 GPUs apparently

edit: according to the livestream
Linus also wrote that "SHA-1, as far as Git is concerned, isn't even a security feature. It's purely a consistency check. The security parts are elsewhere, so a lot of people assume that since Git uses SHA-1 and SHA-1 is used for cryptographically secure stuff, they think that, OK, it's a huge security feature. It has nothing at all to do with security, it's just the best hash you can get."

(It's not security because it's stored together with the data. An attacker who can corrupt a particular patch has enough access to corrupt the rest of the same file. It's not meant to defend against an attacker, merely to detect accidental corruption.)
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How do you get these numbers? Aren't the number of possible pins 10^4 = 10,000 and 10^6 = 1,000,000?
Free advertising, I guess. I also hate the criminal false advertising as "now available".
I watched the commentary on Youtube and it was fantastic! I don't play go myself but I was glued to the screen the whole way. I particularly enjoyed how the commentators demonstrated why the moves made sense by playing theoretical future moves right on the board they had up.
>Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal programs to track targets, spread information and manipulate online debates

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/14/gchq-tools-ma...
Good to see that they will become more open about what they are doing. Great job Mr. Bezos.
BRIC? No, TICK Where investors put their money today
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I had a great experience with scaleway.

However last time I checked the still have only IPv4 and very few of them, it happens to me that I wanted to spin up an instance for a quick experiment but wasn't possible to have a public IP where to connect, mine was just a simple experiment, nothing important, but still...
That was the topic of last week's Healthcare Triage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syleh_6Aopw
Docker Flow – Blue-Green Deployment and Relative Scaling
I don't think AGA had the rights to stream and comment this match.

Where did you find this 9p AGA commentary? I don't see it in the list of AGA videos on youtube.
I'll take three months of excitement, damn the consequences.
I'm an existing customer of the original c1, I just spun up a box now... Might be invite to new customers only...
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Joins IBM Watson, Flatiron Health, and I'm sure many others in trying to apply big data to improve healthcare. Glad the attention is focused here, even incremental improvements in matching patients to trials, diagnosis and treatment analysis would literally be saving people's lives.
For AlphaGo, a "pixel" is a point on the board. It uses essentially the same convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that are in state-of-the-art machine vision systems. But yes, the overall architecture is rather different from the Atari system, due to the integration of that CNN with Monte Carlo Tree Search.
"[...] before the experiment shut down for its winter recess."

Can anyone shine a light on why the particle accellerator needs recess?
Better handling of Unicode was also why Python3 adoption has been slow. Upgrading a library or project from Py2 to Py3 is very simple if you already handle bytes vs unicode carefully everywhere in your program.

But for projects that mix unicode and byte strings, and hope for the best (it works okay as long as it is ASCII or UTF8), the upgrade requires substantial work.
4 Enriching Lessons Learned at Harvard University's #WeCode2016
You can do math with continuous and infinite dimensional spaces.
You try to push the world to the next level but only hire in the US?

There must be a lot of stuff that you need which is not really limited by US law and that people could work on from their home countries. Examples just in software engineering: Cloud infrastructure, user interfaces, communication platforms, open source projects that are 90% of where you needed them to be to use them, BSP layers for embedded systems you want to use.
The FAQ [1] says that C1 servers don't support IPv6 but C2 servers do.

[1] https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/
It was live streamed and the archive is now up on The Official AGA Youtube Channel at: AlphaGo ?p vs Lee Sedol 9p, 0400 UTC (8pm PST)[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZugVil2v4w
Well, that is the whole point, you are suppose to have a whole bunch of small, inexpensive, power efficient, cores.

If the software you normally use doesn't take advantage of, at least, multi core hardware, then you can obtain more value from other hosting provider...

On the other hand if your software can takes advantages of multicore hardware, or -- even better -- multi node architecture, then scaleway is likely the best option.
Come to think of it, it would be an interesting project to implement a basic dbms with sql on top of file management tools.
I would be careful with them. I've bought couple VPSes there and there was always an issues. In one instance provider vanished after 3 months, in another one VPS is still live but it's terrible slow (high ping latency). I am not complaining much because I paid for them ~$7/year (yes, thats year) but still, the same companies offer more expensive options and I wouldn't risk data lost. Use DigitalOcean, I think its very reliable and fairly inexpensive solution, just avoid London datacenter if you are in UK, for some reason Amsterdam is way faster.
Yeah. When I was a kid, I had a personal "no homework" policy. To me, school was a defined hours thing, and if they tried giving me stuff to do outside of that... that was their problem, not mine. I never bought into it, nor cared when a teacher complained. Didn't have a bad outcome from that approach either.
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016 – MIT Technology Review
Chess rules can be explained in 1 minute - you just have to talk really, really fast.
“a signal that a particular industry is morally unappealing to a society, so much so that it's days are numbered.“

Or it might be seen as a signal that said industry might be full of undervalued stock, because a certain fraction of potential buyers opts out without even considering potential revenue and so on, lowering demand in the stock. If enough investors are following this heuristic (instead of actually analyzing the true potential of the companies in question), then high-visibility ethical divestment might even lead to a twisted amorality bubble.

For the tobacco example, I think it's the other way around: if (and only if) there is policy against an industry, then divestment will make that policy appear a lot more serious. But this signal would be even stronger when the divestment is done by "pure market rational" actors, that are not influenced by ethics (or that at least give the outside appearance thereof).
Chess engines and processing power have since then advanced to a point where my phone can now reliably beat Carlsen. There is no reason to suppose Go is different in that respect. In 10 years, DeepMind will fit into a phone.
3-way signed keys with 2 min necessary for accessing the BTC wallet. If memory is not playing tricks on me, you can do that with BTC. You can make a client-> seller transaction if everything is normal, else the third party can arbiter the transaction.
Chateau? Loth I can't remember a loth rooftop, PAX? they were great places that shaped me.
Not really, the brain to operate also needs all the other systems. Just as a CPU needs all the other parts to function. And including the manufacturing equipment is just as false, in the sense that you would have to include his mother (as biological manufacturing)
I watched most of the game on the Deepmind Youtube channel. Although I barely know the rules of Go, it was really nice that explained a lot of the strategies, although aside from the basic explanations most of the rest still flew over my head. I was still hooked, though.

However it was infuriating that many times they switched randomly between video feeds, so I couldn't actually see what the commentators were talking about on their board. Once it even got stuck on "Match starts in 0 minutes" for a couple minutes!
What does that have to do with electron though?
Not surprised to read in the comments they're a subsidiary of Online.net. Ever since they've introduced ultra-cheap dedicated boxes ten years ago, it seems everybody's been sub-renting either them or OVH. I wonder why there aren't more similar offers worldwide, at least in Europe (I can only think of Leaseweb, and they're data capped). The network backbone isn't much different in Britain, Holland or Germany. And the server units aren't really custom.
I don't think it matters. No one want's to see import/includes on blackboard and they don care much if you remember if method on some object was called len(), size(), count() or length.
I only read the title and just thought... so Apple 'invented' their own HTTP/2 protocol now. that really wouldn't surprise me. one. little. bit.
It was designed to be hard to win with the algorithms known to researchers back then. I cannot tell if it has something substantially harder than Go has. High branching factor, deep tree and positions that are hard to evaluate with a simple heuristic are present in Go. Does Arimaa have something else up its sleeve?
Yes.

Docs here: http://sv.gravatar.com/site/implement/hash/
I didn't quite understand this paragraph:

>Since XOR is its own inverse, if we wish to encrypt an input before piping it through this gate, we just XOR it with the relevant input key. If we wish to decrypt the output, we again XOR it with the output key. The XOR gates being applied will just cancel out with the internal encryption gates. In other words, encryption and decryption are done with the same operation!

So, there are 3 encryption keys for each encrypted-and-gate? I think I follow this, but I don't follow how in the first sentence, "XOR is its own inverse" logically leads to "if we wish to encrypt an input before piping it through this gate, we just XOR it with the relevant input key".

Isn't the fact that XOR is its own inverse only pertinent to the second sentence? I think it makes sense to me that since XOR is its own inverse, then if we wish to encrypt an output, we'd XOR it with that encryption key, and then to decrypt that output, we'd XOR it again. But how is the fact that XOR is its own inverse relevant to the AND gate's inputs?
For these individual hardworking security analysts, Facebook awarding cash prices of "any real value" is much worth than some news article reporting it as "...simple security flaw...".

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-fixes-simple-security-...
> What would be shocking is to find out that a famous writer, musician or scientist is in fact, just an alias for an advanced AI system :)

so, Milli VanAIlli?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli)
Finishing Dark Forest made me really wish I could speak and read fluent mandarin, so that I wouldn't have to wait another 4 months for the final volume! They pushed the publication date back again...
That's true, but the format of signed tags will need to change in one way or another. What we could do is to have a "shadow" tree which is built using a stronger hash algorithm (e.g. SHA256), and which is used for signing history. The shadow tree would be identical to the real tree except for the hashes and references to hashes.
Yes, you do. But do you have a choice? The key part in soham's comment is "at scale." Obviously the most optimal strategy from the perspective of finding the single greatest candidate is to interview everyone and throw out no resumes. But there is an additional time constraint. So you start throwing out resumes.
Regular maintenance work (maybe just sweeping dust off everything or fixing minor leaks etc.) might require complete shutdowns, as the magnetic fields and temperatures around the accelerator might be dangerous. Further, scientists often move to their job for just a few months/years and hence have most of their family far away. Christmas/New Year is a traditional time to go home and spend some time with them, especially since most other institutions (schools, unis etc.) also shut down around then. Combining the two might lead to a somewhat extended “winter recess”.
You say that, but has the hookah craze not hit your city? And what of the vape craze?

They're rebranding nicotine addiction, cigarettes are uncool just like snuff and chewing tobacco became uncool.

Today's tobacco startups are in hookah. I also wonder whether India, for example, has any cigarette focused startups.

I think in reality regulation or the threat of it is what ultimately determines the fate of an unpleasant industry.
How do you outlaw black box algorithms? What is a black box algorithm? Should we outlaw all calls to libraries we don't have the complete source code to?

I can't understand the call to regulate a technology when it is decades (much more that 10-20 years) away from possibly existing in a state that we can't even imagine. Add to that legislators with zero technical literacy. That's essentially advocating for shutting down all research into a technology that can improve millions of lives.
You've clearly never worked in finance...
Raspberry Pi as a Hacking Arsenal
>Support is good and reachable by phone

Really ? I used them quite a bit years and years ago, and at the time the support was somewhat garbage, which made me move to OVH.
You need to manually add the directory containing pip and other tools to the path.

If it is not, you can often do python -mpip install xxxxx

And you're right there are some gotchas - for instance pip install -U pip won't work to update pip itself as on Windows a program can't seem to overwrite it's own executable.
I've been using their ARM Servers for a while as a build/test servers for some embedded Linux stuff. Overall a positive experience and things have 'just worked' with a Digital Ocean style interface. That said I've not been hosting critical websites or similar.

Unlike Digital Ocean I like the ability to add flexible storage volumes.
No, in reality it is substantially more meritocratic. In most professional/white-collar industries, not having a college degree would wreck your career. The fact that it only merely disadvantages your career in Silicon Valley is not evidence SV is not meritocratic.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Yea, let me just go home and grab my hundreds of GPUs and CPUs.
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I disagree. The main thing holding back Python 3 use has been library support. Library developers do no want to maintain two separate codebases, so it is very important that a certain subset of the language works under both 2 and 3. The backported features in Python 2 and some backwards compatibility added to Python 3 in recent years have really helped with that.
What an infamous abuse of power teaches us about the modern spy era
Many things are still broken in cygwin still. Examples: uwsgi, gevent
I didn't mean to imply the standard model was the thing predicting them. Only that scientists have predicted them and if they were to be discovered, the standard model would likely be extended to include them.
I've used -e on GNU's `echo` quite a bit as well. But FreeBSD also supports `printf` (as does Linux by the way), so it's not a great inconvenience the missing -e flag on FreeBSD's `echo`.

$ printf "This\tis an\nexample\n"
This is an
example

You can also use the usual C-style printf parameters as well:

$ printf "This is %-20s example\n" another
This is another example
> Regular maintenance work (maybe just sweeping dust off everything or fixing minor leaks etc.) might require complete shutdowns, as the magnetic fields and temperatures around the accelerator might be dangerous.

Confirmed by http://phys.org/news/2016-01-winter-therapy.html.

Also makes sense to have your annual shutdown when electricity prices are likely to be high: I'd guess that heating has a higher impact on these than air conditioning in Switzerland.
> The maintainers of the free BSD's have been carrying that torch, but they don't believe in features.

I used Linux for more than a decade before switching to OpenBSD precisely because Linux developers believe in features to the point where how well they're implemented is no longer relevant.

The arrogant, know-it-all kids that we so lovingly nurtured in the Linux community grew up to be its forefront developers today. It shows.

Edit: I was hesitant to write this because it always leads to very unproductive results, but what the hell, I'll bite.

Systemd was the last straw for me, not because something something Unix philosophy (after all, OpenVMS disdained the Unix philosophy, and it worked better than Linux ever has) but because it's so bug-ridden that its interface's simplicity and elegance are next to useless.

Maintaining a non-trivial network & filesystem setup (e.g. I have a few dozen Qemu VMs, because writing software for embedded systems is like that) became a nightmare. It broke with every other update. Great if you're doing devops and this is expected and part of your job, terrible if you're doing actual development and you want an infrastructure that doesn't break between compiles.

I ragequit one afternoon, put FreeBSD on my workstation and OpenBSD on my laptop. I have not touched anything in my configuration in almost a year now and it works flawlessly. I don't think I've had it work for a whole month without having to fiddle with whatever the fuck broke in systemd, somethingsomethingkit or God knows what other thing bolted on top of the system via DBus. I can write code in peace now and that's all I want.

These are all great technologies. Systemd in particular was something I enthusiastically used at first, precisely because after Solaris' SMF -- XML-based as it is -- even OpenRC seemed like a step back to me. But, ya know, I'd actually want it to work.
It's very simple to move html/css/js files over to S3, and make them public. Set up cname record in Route 53 to your bucket.
Can someone explain why this is more impressive than a computer beating top chess players over a decade ago? I'm not very familiar with Go, and while there were far more squares on a Go board, it seems less sophisticated than chess to me.

Maybe Go has way more moves possible and emergent strategies or something I'm not taking into account.
This reminds me of "Visit Port Watson". Similar purpose, similar execution.
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What i realised is, that the millennial generation (im gen y) has spawned a yolo (you only live once) or better to say, yoln (you only live now) attitude. They dont have much hope in their future, so they tend to live now. Not tomorrow. They dont safe money, they spend money, they max out their borrowing, they max out consumption. From their perspective, its perfectly logic to do so. And even some of my old friends, the kids from the 80s, have started to live with the "yoln" live style.
Of course you will miss some good candidates and it's unfair to them.

But as soham explained, it's a trade off. You might miss the best candidate, but you will probably find the second or third best candidate spending significantly less time.

It's totally unfair, yes, but it's obvious why it's happening and there's not much that could be done to change it. So while the candidate is losing on this one, the company is (probably) winning.
> Make no mistake, Facebook has probably done this math very carefully when choosing a bounty.

Having worked at several similar companies, I'm guessing it went like this:

"How much should bounty be? Is $5K good?"

"Wow, that's nothing. At least make it something meaningful like 25 grand."

"Yeah....that's gonna be tough. How about split the difference? $15K"

"Sure."
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What was the mistake that Lee made?

EDIT: good postmortem here https://gogameguru.com/alphago-defeats-lee-sedol-game-1/
Thank you. The title on HN here didn't imply it was a 5 game series at all, nor did the tweet it linked to.

It's a cool win but despite the way the titles are being presented, this isn't over yet.
A comparison between C++ and D
I use both. I have my vim IDE-like with a fair number of plugins. It's my kind of "IDE environment", and for this I would love to get those kind of integrations.

But whenever I have to open a large file, or just make a simple edit to a file on a server, I have a very simple vim with no plugins and a very small vimrc that should work everywhere.
What do you mean by sophistication in this context?
Guessing from your user name, are you one of the authors of JOE? That seems rather likely, and is just generally why HN is awesome. Thanks for that very well-written explanation.