skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they're different? Maybe not? Maybe the parent poster's parents were anomalous, and we shouldn't slag an experiment on the basis of one anecdote?

Let's do a study and find out! The point of the basic income experiment is that people don't have much of an idea of how it will play out - except that the study in Manitoba seemed to support the idea that the poor know what they need.
Would it not be beneficial to the deepmind team to open at least the non-distributed version to the public to allow for training on more players? I was surprised to learn that the training set was strong amateur internet play, why not train on the database of the history of pro games?
I've got a small collection of compiler resources on Github:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/com...

I'll add more as they are posted.
I recall hearing that CUDA has much more mature tooling. Not only the already mentioned cuDNN, but the CUDA Toolkit [0] seems like a really comprehensive set of tools and libraries to help you with pretty much anything you might want to compute on a GPU.

Also somewhat related: AMD seems to be moving towards supporting CUDA on its GPUs in the future: http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/boltzmann-init...

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
> Not of that matters unless you can get people to discover your music. That's where labels come in.

No, that's where curation comes in.

Labels are just curators. That role has been taken over by Tumblr, Facebook, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, etc. I've discovered orders of magnitude more bands just by rabbit-holing on Tumblr than I ever did reading an Alternative Tentacles catalog.
GoGameGuru just published a commentary of the game with some extra insight https://gogameguru.com/lee-sedol-defeats-alphago-masterful-c...

The author thinks that Lee Sedol was able "to force an all or nothing battle where AlphaGo’s accurate negotiating skills were largely irrelevant."

[...]

"Once White 78 was on the board, Black’s territory at the top collapsed in value."

[...]

"This was when things got weird. From 87 to 101 AlphaGo made a series of very bad moves."

"We’ve talked about AlphaGo’s ‘bad’ moves in the discussion of previous games, but this was not the same."

"In previous games, AlphaGo played ‘bad’ (slack) moves when it was already ahead. Human observers criticized these moves because there seemed to be no reason to play slackly, but AlphaGo had already calculated that these moves would lead to a safe win."

Which, I add, is something that human players also do: simplify the game and get home quickly with a win. We usually don't give up as much as AlphaGo (pride?), still it's not different.

"The bad moves AlphaGo played in game four were not at all like that. They were simply bad, and they ruined AlphaGo’s chances of recovering."

"They’re the kind of moves played by someone who forgets that their opponent also gets to respond with a move. Moves that trample over possibilities and damage one’s own position — achieving less than nothing."

And those moves unfortunately resemble what beginners play when they stubbornly cling to the hope of winning, because they don't realize the game is lost or because they didn't play enough games yet not to expect the opponent to make impossible mistakes. At pro level those mistakes are more than impossible.

Somebody asked an interesting question during the press conference about the effect of those kind of mistakes in the real world. You can hear it at https://youtu.be/yCALyQRN3hw?t=5h56m15s It's a couple of minutes because of the translation overhead.
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Isn't this how Auttomatic (wordpress.com) and 37signals already operate?

You could learn from their success

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com...

http://smile.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/d...
So how do you protect form such things?
I mean is there a way to analyze all you outcoming traffic (from a specific machine for example) and route every connection(like dns and similar stuff) though desired endpoint?
What's in the graph has only a nebulous connection to the example exit calculation. Those terms can change, and this still doesn't give any information on whether there is a preference multiplier or capped/uncapped participation.

There are also significant issues with retention / acquihire bonuses paid out of the acquisition price, severance agreements for employees who negotiate that they don't have to stick around, carveouts, and other forms of discretionary compensation -- none of which is addressed by either the chart or the page on the phantom 77MM exit number.

The point is that the current statement "only preferred shareholders are paid for exits below 25.7 MM" is not enough to actually capture the effect of preference and participation upon larger exits. If anything, it makes it even more confusing.
Why Google Is Eager to Align Itself with America's Military Industrial Complex
And yet I have neither of those problems, but somehow still manage to regularly alter the times I do things to suit the current situation.
A Robotic Home That Knows When You're Hungover
Yes, the title of the blog post ("lipstick on a pig") implies that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is dressing up the Pi 3 as something it is not, but they have been pretty transparent about the fact that they chose this processor because it is a better 32-bit processor than the one in the Pi 2 B+, not because it is a 64-bit processor.
Also, take a look at http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/

It is an amazing archive of all kinds of neat algorithms and data structures.
Bored AlphaGo
> So how do you protect form such things?

Tor?
About the author, https://engineering.purdue.edu/gekcogrp/research-group/JeanM...
How did you confirm this? Do you know the person with the account?
Ask HN: Is Apple VR going to happen?
Apple's conference is soon. The question is simple: Do you think Apple will join the Virtual Reality game?

It would be cool to get some discussion going on this topic, so back your answers with logic and facts!

Some links:
http://bit.do/bP4nr
http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vr-project/
http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-is-getting-into-vr-in-a-big-way-2016-2?r=US&IR=T
Yes, like the Cayman Islands. And the entire existing tax avoidance industry.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I think [one of] the critical problem[s] is that we continue to think through the lens of resource consumption until resources are exhausted. I think it'd be pretty interesting if we began seriously evaluating ideas through the lens of resource creation on some fronts, and denying resource consumption on other fronts. Of course, I don't believe this will be achievable while the world continues to celebrate and allow the capitalist modes of production and value extraction.

Is there a recognized exhaustable availability of resource X? Then we simply don't allow that resource to be used as a means of capitalist value extraction from a planet. The resources belong to the commons, and we must shift away from allowing profits to guide the use of raw materials.

I look at, say, the last century of the automobile, and cannot avoid wondering just how different our lives would be if we'd bypassed the idea of placing a couple tons of metals and plastics in everyone's driveways. What else might we have used those materials for, if we mandated that using them had to be done in a way that benefited a large number of people with the same material cost. This really goes for nearly every consumer product made available to the markets.

I don't think we'll be able to come up with viable long-term strategies for handling population growth, and providing a high quality of life to all members of that population, until we move beyond status-driven consumerism and the capitalist economies that create and depend on them.
This is a pretty clever little idea for a game/programming practice. Very neat.
Why not focus on adding GPLed code to an existing package with a GPL-friendly license?
Now THIS is news!
Silicon Valley is so crazy that HBO's 'Silicon Valley' keeps re-writing lines
I am 27, my sister is 29, and when we meet up (a couple of times a year, we live far apart) we play our old Super Nintendo, as we used to do as kids.

Neither of us play the SNES at any other time.
Perhaps your original point -- that a UBI-like system would shift blame from luck/voodoo/society to the individual -- would provide societal pressure for individuals to take personal responsibility for their choices. That pressure might be a good-enough substitute for formal money-management education. It takes a village.

UBI should be simple. Tying it to educational requirements[x] risks mucking it up with special-interest agendas, much as any other condition would.

[x] You didn't say that individuals would be required to avail themselves of any UBI-related educational programs. But the entire program could be stalled if its implementation were conditional on the development of an educational program that established, once and for all, how a government believes its citizens should wisely spend money.
Rakudo Perl 6: to the JVM and beyond (2013) [pdf]
You can use a VPN or ssh tunnel and send DNS queries through that tunnel or proxy - however, that just adds another layer for anyone who wants the information to go through.
Of course you won't get out what you put in, but you might get something.

What I found most impressive was this scheme interpreter written in minikanren (schemes prolog) that can produce quine simply be expressing them as logic constraints over multiple programs.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/miniKanren

https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~eholk/papers/sfp2012.pdf
Its a chicken and egg scenario. Money confers a certain level of power. Power, however, does open doors to opportunities to make money.

An example of money granting power would be Donald Trump. Do you really think Trump would be where he is politically if he wasnt wealthy?

An example of power opening doors to money is Barack Obama. He and Michelle were nowhere near wealthy 10 years ago. Now, after several book deals, speaking engagements, and much more, they are financially in a financial position that many Americans would consider to be wealthy - albeit nowhere near Donald Trump level.
No need to get defensive, I specifically said I wasn't criticizing the paper approach, just explaining why I don't worry about bad reception.
He has a very unique manner of speech. Pretty much any significant actor does. Localized dubs lose all that.
Writing anything beyond SMS-length on a touch device, I end up popping the keyboard up and down repeatedly to give what I'm writing a useful amount of screen space. With swipe entry, my raw input speeds of English are much better than with some kind of thumbpad, but watching the keyboard still means ignoring what I'm typing and going back to fix typos.

I like how touchscreen swipe input seems to flow. I like how a physical keypad can be used without necessarily looking at it, and how it doesn't reduce the view of what I'm writing. I haven't used a stylus interface that I've particularly liked because it seems like the worst of both worlds.

All those together are why I also do my best to avoid writing anything sizable on a mobile device.
On closer inspection, it looks like AMD's CUDA support consists of "run these tools over your code and it will translate it so your code does not depend on CUDA"...

Its sort of supporting CUDA, just like a car ferry sort of lets your car 'drive' across a large body of water.
The complexity of the problem is significant enough that there's only two verified HTTP servers I recall and a specifying/verifying a web app was considered good work. The bugs, inconsistent perfirmance, and CVE's in various caches also suggests they're not dead simple.

They're certainly easier to write than a lot of software. Their simplicity is deceptive, though, when real-world isdues come into play. Esp if result is to be beautiful.
I setup a VPN on a private AWS EC2 instance in Tokyo. Netflix still detected it. They are not messing around.
Yeah, I think a hybrid approach might benefit. Even a section in the middle that is evidently 'personalized' or custom written (even if you guide management as to what to write) might help.

"We are excited by what you have to offer in the data science field - we are looking forward to seeing how you can ..."
Sorry for the media business argot, it's a set-top box (yes, people still call them this way, with all the flat panels around).
I think Waterpiks are better for dental health than toothbrushes and floss combined (although I use ‘em all). They’re basically small-scale pressure washers that obliterate bacterial biofilms, which are the real cause of tooth decay and gum disease and bad breath. Your mouth feels a different kind of clean after 2 minutes with one of these things.
But in this same letter they encourage you to not do an expected value calculation about the value of your compensation package. That's extremely bad advice.

The more I read this letter, the more it looks like they are trying to be selectively transparent in ways that don't actually cause them to give up any information advantage over the candidate -- and they are putting overly specific numbers in (like the magic 77MM figure for an exit) and tossing in relatively meaningless graphs, and an incredibly meaningless salary distribution, to add window dressing and make it sound like it's all much more technical, facts-based, and non-negotiable than it really is.

While it is a move in the direction of transparency, which is good in theory, this particular offer letter makes me feel like it's just a wolf in sheep's clothing -- still fundamentally trying to get a candidate to agree to be priced at a level well below their actual value to the company.

If the letter said "live your life as through your equity is worthless, because it is worthless and by agreeing to work for us for a lower wage you're not likely to recover those lost earnings down the road" .. then I might be impressed by the honesty.
Advanced cryptographic ratcheting (2013)
DVDs used to be region-locked, so probably.

Not the answer you wanted, not the answer that seems fair, but probably the technically right answer right now, until this situation changes.
You say strict but don't you really just mean threatening children with violence?

The last time someone told me to stand still so they could hit me as hard as they could with a cane was when I was 7 or 8 years old. That's not education. Real educators, much like real democracy, do not rely on fear and violence to control others.
One significant point that this analysis misses is that even when traffic is encrypted, it can be recorded and later decrypted by the ISP or those they give/sell/leak the recordings to if the encryption is ever compromised (which seems to happen on a pretty regular basis with SSL these days).

Never let yourself get lulled in to a false sense of security just because the information you wish to keep private has been encrypted.
I'd say textbooks are not the best format of information for every field. Some fields need a different medium for information, that is not the same as others.

I'd argue that the most important resource people should know how to use is the internet, not a textbook.

When looking up information, you usually need some background, the basis for when the solution is applicable, and how to apply the solution.

Sometimes, in my opinion, you can get a better understanding of these elements from a textbook, but I'd argue that more often then not you will get the same information for free from the internet.
Something changed with Haswell that allows this code to run faster than the purpose-designed instruction.

The change is primarily that AVX2 (which Haswell is the first generation to support) extended binary and integer vector operations to 32B registers, while AVX only supported 32B floating point operations. Instructions that previously operated on 16B doubled their throughput by handling 32B with (usually) the same latency: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...
You can also turn all outgoing connections off by default in the windows firewall, then whitelist the couple of programs that actually need to access the internet.
Do VPN providers know any less than an ISP?
Nice, but it's rather naive and through that - needlessly wasteful.

It's C.

Why on Earth you'd want to allocate a separate list node for each piece of data when you can embed this node directly into the data and then use container_of or similar offsetof() derivative to get a pointer to the data by a pointer to a list item? Saves you at least sizeof(void*) per item and eliminates a chance of list_add ever failing among other things.

The same goes for custom allocators - why would you drag around pointers to malloc, calloc and free, when all you need is just a pointer to realloc?

This sort of thing. The code is nice, but it's not how one would write a container library after few years of hands-on C experience.
Probably better. If we assume a uniform distribution across possible win rates of Sedol vs AlphaGo, then update it with bayes rule, we get 33% chance that Sedol will win the next match.

That's not factoring in other information, like Sedol now being familiar with alphaGo's strategies and improving his own strategies against it.

So there is a good chance he is now evenly matched with AlphaGo, and likely much better than the single machine version.
There's self-reported data that some Stanford students have scrapped from CourseRank before it got shutdown. http://www.stanfordrank.com/cs143
What if it takes more than Y?

No problem there. Educate your clients. Tell them if it takes significantly longer than expected you will come back to them. Tell them it is not likely but you want to be straight from the beginning.
Is there anywhere that divides up their younger grade classes into who is born in the first half of the educational year and who is born in the second half? That could help somewhat although the teacher of the second half kids probably is going to have a tough time.
Majors don't want your money. They are making so much money since the birth of internet and p2p that they can afford to turn down business.
Product Management for the Enterprise
How to send an 'E mail' – Database – 1984
"One other thought: isn't it odd that you're willing to provide a distribution over salaries to argue for the salary you offered, but you just pull a number out of thin air for the possible exit?
Why not provide a distribution on exit values (and evidence for why you believe it), and then show the expected value along with risk, under that distribution."

I definitely see your point there, but that could also be seen as nudging dangerously close to "this is not an estimate of future returns... -wink, wink-". Better to be completely arbitrary in the number.
I don't think "no true Scotchman" means what you think it means...

It's about criticizing something as invalid, BS, problematic etc. -- is not even about saying something X doesn't belong to an idealized category.

It's about shifting the discussion to "X doesn't belong to an idealized category" AFTER you were OK talking generally about it previously.

This means that when one talks morally/ideologically/etc. about what constitutes "a true scotchman" (e.g. not in the plain sense of citizen of Scotchman") it's not a fallacy to ascribe certain attributes to the notion (because "true" here essentially means "ideal", "most representative" etc, instead of merely "actually existing").
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For now, the few times I've used it with a vpn it still worked fine. The day when Netflix blocks me completely, I will cancel my subscription
Ouch. I'll keep looking then.

Any recommendations for reliable C data structures?
Maybe they should fork version 18 as the hard but human betable version of alphago
You forgot the part where you make no money off the record you put out because digital services pay artists crap and the supply outpaces the demand significantly. That being said, the last 60 or so years have really been an anomaly in how much money you can make from music.
> If we can colonize one Earth-like planet around every single star of the 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, we would run out of places to live after 2685 years if the human population kept growing at a rate of 1 % per year.

I'm obviously missing something in the figures you're using to calculate here, but how exactly would we consume all the galaxy's resources in < 3,000 years? We've been doing our thing on Earth for more than 3,000 years, and there are still resources available.

I'm not disputing that we consume far too many resources in a very irresponsible fashion. That just seems to me to be a very much higher rate of resource consumption than we've seen historically. Surely, if we were to develop the ability to colonize other planets, we wouldn't reproduce the same wasteful resource consumption patterns and history, because we'd have greater technology and, more importantly, improved philosophical outlooks on how we use those resources. Are you thinking we'd move 100% of the human population to each new planet and just set up the same wasteful shop we have till we exhausted the planet? I'd expect moving a smaller portion of the population to each new place, and setting up a far less wasteful colonization effort, that itself would continue to improve (hopefully).
As usual, it is all about incentives.

What are the incentives for law enforcement? How are they 'graded' at the end of the year? What do they need to do to keep their jobs?

They have to catch criminals. You can pick apart what each of the words in that sentence means, but that's the deal. If those are all low key guys, like the know-nothing drug dealing kid in your 8th grade English class, so be it. They are paid all the same, it's all about the number going up every year.
Then and there? Then yes, no doubt he would have been able to get a loan from somewhere to cover this. He'd have had to eat some interest, perhaps.

If not, then the parent's point - a ninety nine per cent "sure bet" is still not a one hundred per cent guarantee.
He might not hit many notes, but he hits them damn well. "Get down!" "Get down again!"
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England has very recently allowed summer born children to defer.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/08/parents-of-...

It's a bit confusing.
I think the assumption of the author is that the 3 hours he does work are best-case productive hours. If you work 40+ hours a week, you still have to account for all those staring-at-your screen hours, that are not contributing towards meeting the deadline.

Somewhat related: I found it is a lot easier (and natural) to estimate projects in terms of 'ideal' hours. And then just assume there are only 20 to 25 of those a week. That quite closely matches the 21 hours of the original post.
So NN can be used as an school version of anonymous?
Simple IPv4 subnet network tool ?
Textbooks can be "free" and on "the Internet".
Way back when the CS department was still in Old West, I remember seeing Dr. Brooks at different lectures and talks, always taking notes. I try to emulate his example but I'm nowhere as consistent as he was. At least in my old age I'm still trying to learn things, just as he is.
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America doesn't appear to respect it's Citizen's data privacy either, they just have to collect the data indirectly from other countries (I'm not sure how they can avoid respecting the laws by doing it this way though...)
Thank you. There is somebody else on this fucking planet who understands that memory is not limitless manna from heaven.
What was really silly that Netflix pride and joy House of Cards was not available in the Baltics on Netflix until recently.