skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit precious I think to say that a human is a "bunch of optimization nodes". I can write code to create a CNN, and I can draw a graph of how it operates on a piece of paper. We can't even decode a few million rat neurons the same way.

A CNN is a pure mathematical function - if you want, you could write it down that way. Given a set of inputs, it will always produce the same output. We don't call a linear regression model an "intelligence", a CNN is no different.

Of course I agree that humans are built up of billions of tiny machines like this, but let's appreciate the vast difference in scale.
> Well, that would be a mistake by all accounts, even if AlphaGo made it.

It is only a mistake to your human biases. AlphaGo literally has no conception of the margin of a win. It doesn't care either way how many points it wins by, as long as the win percentage is maximized.
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I'm unsure why this is downvoted.

I think he is saying that users can't be tracked between page-loads using this method, or your risk sending multiple users the same token. (which is true, at least with this implementation)

The time they spend on the website, latency, etc can all be used to add to a fingerprint, but there isn't something magic that makes this accurate, especially without JavaScript.

Edit: please don't mind me ghostposting kthx
I think the best model would be a $5 a year membership fee for a mailing list informing users of updates to the software. If someone is using Caddy in production, they'll want to be alerted the moment that an update is available and this would provide that.
>That's like saying "what's a reasonable limit to spend on security?" You spend what's necessary.

And of course that's a universally established and uncontentious amount!
"an aggressively multithreaded HPC computer" - still sold as Urika-GD, marketed as a dedicated graph appliance. That's where Cray Graph Engine originated.
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/etc/hosts doesn't work for a lot of ads, so no matter how fast it is, it's not a complete solution unless there's a browser based (or very intelligent proxy server) on top of it.
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Go is a lot more psychological and emotional than playing tic-tac-toe. Its a strategy game, which undecided outcomes, where ones style and vision changes how you play and see the game.

The computer was able to overcome the computational difficulty humans compensated with abstractions and strategic concepts. We still use those to understand whats going on in the game, but the computer is oblivious to them and only uses a tactical view of it.
If you price by the GCE calculator[0] it's $1920 to rent 1920 CPU cores for 20 hours. This doesn't include GPU costs as they don't seem to have GPUs available on cloud, but I could see that easily doubling the costs.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=f63f1fe0-56...
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> A 10% chance of killing one person is better than a 1% chance of killing 100 people.

It's only true if you forget about the original objective: killing bad guys. This objective is in place not because of some sports, but because bad guys actually kill other innocent people.

So if you calculate how many innocent lives you save in the second option, it still looks quite better.
Interesting site, never seen that before. It's kind of hard to get a feel for what the product does, though, without any screenshots.
I have spent a lot of time figuring out how to deal with a large graph a couple of years ago. My conclusion - there will never be such a thing as a "graph database". There are many efforts in this area, someone here already mentioned SPARQL and RDF, you can google for "triple stores", etc. There are also large-scale graph processing tools on top of Hadoop such as Giraph or Graphx for Spark.

For the particular project we ended up using Redis and storing the graph as an adjacency list in a machine with 128GB of RAM.

The reason I don't think there ever will be a "graph database" is because there are so many different ways you can store a graph, so many things you might want to do with one. It's trivial to build a "graph database" in a few lines of any programming language - graph traversal is (hopefully) taught in any decent CS course.

Also - the latest versions of PostgreSQL have all the features to support graph storage. It's ironic how PostgreSQL is becoming a SQL database that is gradually taking over the "NoSQL" problem space.
In general, I don't have a problem with your opinion for all human endeavors. I readily accept that many of them can be optimized and automated, indeed freeing humankind to pursue worthier goals.

I'm specifically objecting to your notion of art.

The advertisement industry is not a good analogy. It can indeed be improved, possibly by automated means. In contrast, the progression from "good" to "better" art doesn't work like that -- if it even exists at all! What is your measure of quality, anyway? Complexity? But sometimes minimalism is preferred in art. Maybe how many people like it? It doesn't work either; a lot of people like stuff that is not enjoyed by the majority.

When is art "better"? How can it be "improved"?

PS: the Sci-Fi market is already flooded by below-average human writers, so we don't need an AI to picture this nightmare scenario of good SF writers struggling to sell their books :P
One of the things your comparison glosses over is the instances in which decisions made in the name of "accessibility" end up being more widely applicable. The classic example I see a lot is the idea of the wheel chair access ramp. Able people on bikes, anyone dragging a wheeled cart or bag, etc; they all get some tangible benefit from having ramp access.

There's a certain danger in design spec to the "average" since any individual user is likely to have some diverse collection of needs and targeting what appears to be niche, can end up being much more representative than the "average" might suggest.
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I've been using the time restricted Intermittent Fasting for the last month or two. I drink coffee in the morning with some creamer but other than that I don't eat until 12:30 (Lunch) and eat again around 7:00PM or 8:00PM at night.

Honestly, Its not all that different than my old eating habits except now I've cut out breakfast (which I only really ate because it is, "the most important meal of the day")

I use to wrestle in college and maintain my weight via exercise but now I work in an office and this is the only diet I've been able to find that allows me to workout a normal amount and maintain a decent weight.
At $5/year, you would need 30,000 subscribers just to pay for one senior developer.
How much data are you dealing with? In my (admittedly limited) experience, it's usually cheaper to throw money at hardware than other options.
One on ones can also screw over employees if they say the wrong thing. Ever notice how management usually wants regular one on ones, but employees don't? They damage the quality of life for the employee because they must have a risky conversation every two weeks. Reputations can take months or years to create, but only minutes to destroy. Many engineers just want to get work done instead of having politically correct conversations to prevent the loss of future bonuses or promotions.
I'll pay for two simultaneous sessions of AlphaGo please :). I'll even let it go first in one of them!
This is very interesting. We have a way to test what he say. A match between the machine and this player with the game in the situation he describes. If he defeats the machine he proves that the machine game is nothing beyond our capabilities.
You can use the tensor formalism to express combinatorial problems, but these will not be smooth, so gradient descent algorithms will not work. However, you can turn such boolean tensor problems into huge SAT problems and solve them with SAT solvers. See for example here: https://github.com/mmaroti/uasat
You know already: without an offer, you are worth what you are currently paid. That said, raising informally the issue with your boss will let you know where you do stand.
Not really. The alternative is like driving your car into a lake because the GPS told you to.
I think training one function to approximate another function wouldn't help much; we'd inevitably lose the subtleties of the higher-order function and any insights that come with it. If we could train a decision tree to do what a CNN does and then interpret the outcome, why not use decision trees in the first place?

I think the answer must be in figuring out how to decompose the black box of a CNN - it is, after all, just a set of simple algebraic operations at work, and we should be able to get something out of inspection.

I have to imagine Hinton et al. have done work in this regard, but this is far afield for me, so if it exists I don't know it.
Key sentence:

"When you finally get to play Miegakure"

When it's going to be released!? Been waiting a long time now...
This reminds me of "If Edison didn't invent the light bulb, someone else would have: there were thousands of other engineers experimenting with the exact same thing, a natural next step after electricity came about" (-- paraphrased from Kevin Kelly)
This is one of my slides on N404KR: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zwRyuVJGaQwG6mYMSYWo...
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Ignoring the training problem, apply it to movies: I'd like to see this movie, but starring these actors, directed by this director, with a soundtrack by this composer/band.
You're missing the point that organic results are also hugely influenced by financial motive. The underlying concept is that all information is biased.

A system that incorporates bias is vastly more useful than one that ignores it.
Not sure why I'm bothering to respond, but here are the same stories from a bunch of other publications. My initial comment was just a quick Google search, so the originals and highest SEO'd articles win out. Feel free to accept whichever one you deem a "good enough" source:

[6]: http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-self-inflicte...

[7]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-worst...

[8]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-exec-...

[9]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ubers-boys-club-wha...

[10]: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-avions-de-chasse-promoti...

[11]: http://www.fastcompany.com/3037552/uber-cancels-sexist-hot-c...

[12]: http://www.newsweek.com/uber-taxi-e-hailing-riding-app-travi...

[13]: http://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions?currentPage=1

[14]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/we-cant-trust-uber...

[15]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-ube...

[16]: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/acting-like-jer...

[17]: http://www.alternet.org/7-evil-things-uber-did-2014-you-shou...

[18]: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/12/uber-travis-kalanick-...

[19]: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-scandals-timeline-michiga...

It's trivial to verify that a source has the right story, so once verified then conversations should shift from debating the accuracy of the source to the consequences of the story itself.
But you could indeed humiliate the opponent by actually capturing ALL of his stones.
But that won't happen, if the enemy knows at least the basic concepts ...
Still, if you play well, you cover much ground - while trying to supress the area of the enemy and even crushing him.
But classic go is nice in a way, that it gives weaker opponents a start bonus of some stones - so the game is balanced and domination usually won't happen ...
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Well spotted - I kind of mangled that explanation. The risk being mitigated is if somebody gets a dump of your old emails. Short-lived reset tokens don't help if they have full access to you email account.
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You're at work and someone asks you for directions. Do you:

A) Tell them to go down the hall, take elevator, go down, and then they'll find their way.

or B) Say "here, come with me." Excuse yourself for a few minutes from whatever business you were attending to. Walk with person to elevator. Strike up a conversation along the way. Once on ground floor, walk with them a little ways more to make sure they see exactly which street to follow. Then return upstairs to whatever you were doing.

That was point of anecdote.
beginner artist/programmer combo here, I am sure this type of tools can be very powerfull for prototyping the moods of 2d games, if not parts of 3d games, as for its limitations this method do get the general scene mood rather well. Anyway far better than that shitty programmer art placeholders. The process could let game devs be many times faster and better at finding the right mood in a game, just swapping out the images the program learns from to find a new mood theme for the game got an level of intuitive logic to it, that I am sure can make it very accessible to non technicals. A well made tool of this type would be very good in the early prototyping pipe line for 2d games and more. Would not make even really bad artists jobless, but in the case of specific jobs it would be a powerful tool.
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firefox has had "anti-tracking protection" (which is effectively an adblocker) enabled by default in private browsing mode for some time now.
lets you have Jenkinsfile in your repo https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin

.ci.yml like .travis.yml https://github.com/groupon/DotCi

solves every single problem you have listed.

Looks like jenkins has discoverability issues. I am curious what kind of things you tried with jenkins before writing your own build system.
Is there any reason an EMP/large radio scrambling gun [1] would not be effective against a large swarm of drones?

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/anti-uav-defense-system-radio-beam-dro...
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>Or you'll be in an accident and have to spend a week living with your arm in a sling, unable to use a mouse and keyboard simultaneously.

Yep, that happened to me when I was in college; I spent several weeks with my arm in a sling. I was able to use a computer with no trouble. You've obviously never had your arm in a sling; try sitting at a desk in front of a keyboard, and notice the position your arms are in. That's almost the exact same position your arm is in when it's in a sling.

The problem (as I found out) with having your arm in a sling is that you can't easily carry things requiring two arms.

All in all, I really didn't have many problems with having an arm in a sling. It of course did help that I already used a backpack to carry things. Now walking around with a crutch, on the other hand, was a real impediment to my normal mobility and activities...

>At some point, you're going to get old. You'll need glasses and all of a sudden that ultra-thin grey font on a stylish grey background will be a pain to read.

This is totally wrong reasoning. That ultra-thin grey font on a "stylish" grey background is a pain to read no matter what your age. It's an effect of stupid hipsters taking over web design in the last 5 years. Graphic design on web pages has totally gone down the toilet in the last few years, and it's hurting everyone who has a brain and any sense of decency.

Another factor as far as vision goes: the entire population is now becoming near-sighted:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

>Or you'll get drunk, or try to operate your TV while half asleep. Your cognitive impairment will be an impediment to interacting with the world.

Then don't get drunk. And operating your TV is not "interacting with the world", it's mindlessly watching drivel and advertising.

Honestly, you sound like you could have made a reasonable argument, but your examples are all completely lousy and just reinforce the other guy's position.
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Not being familiar with this product to begin with, I'm wondering if he gave up on his product too quickly!? In my experience customers are typically wrong and misinformed - the whole "faster horse" concept at play. Instead of acquiescing to his customers whims (I want what I want when I want it), could he have had a viable, differentiated product in the market if he would have worked on selling, onboarding and educating about his product's POV. More often SaaS products are selling an idea combined with a methodology (Slack is a good example of this). You need to sell the idea that your organization will benefit from doing it "our way" rather than "your way".
In this case, we have A > C and it's looking like B > C. For these three players, transitivity holds whether A > B or B > A.

But yes, I spoke about playstyles. Do you think Ke can discover exploitable weaknesses in AG, given the games AG's played?
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No, it was fact that he didn't just PROVIDE directions, as most people would, but actually took a few minutes out of his day to guide this person, which most people wouldn't bother with, let alone the presumably super-busy founder of the department.
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Strictly speaking yeah. Practically speaking: Not really true.

Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it can be done easily or well. I've done a lot of work with relational databases, and I love them for a lot of data sets. But I also have done a lot of work with graph databases - and they make working with graph shaped data a pleasure. I could do a graph in SQL, it's even moderately straight-forward in postgres these days by using WITH RECURSIVE - but it's still not as simple as just loading orient or arango for those tasks.

It's the same reason I keep multiple knives in my kitchen. Sure I could do everything with an 8" chef's knife, but the paring knife and the boning knife just make some tasks easier.
If that is true, then businesses can make that decision for themselves.

I've always found it funny when people propose some new red tape or requirement and then say "oh, it'll good for business!". Of course, if that were actually the case, the red tape wouldn't be necessary.
Answering this question requires good definitions of "artificial", "intelligence", and "artificial intelligence". None are easy to agree on. With some set of definitions, the answer could easily be "yes". With another, it could easily be "no".

While the concept of machines as teachers, parents, or originators of culture is very interesting, trying to come up with these definitions isn't. It's a semantic argument and, until we actually do need to talk about these things in a well-defined way, pointless.
> I think the aim of the strange moves was to increase the confidence of the program in its advance, not to increase the advance.

Absolutely. Also worth noting that it may be simply unable to distinguish between good and bad moves if both outcomes lead to a win, since it has no conception of the margin of victory being important.

So it might not be that it increased win probability, but that both paths led to 100% win probability and it started playing "stupidly" due to lacking a score-maximizing bias.
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ZynAddSubFX - a musical software synthesizer http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

Right now everything is open source, but I've started work on a replacement user interface which would be temporarily released under a proprietary license. I think the project is awesome as understanding workflow in a complicated application is a challenging task and at some stage all work will be released back to the open source version.
I thought "lightweight" "template fragment switcher" and got "lightswitch". Not so thesaurus-able. :( And I did search Github for repos as shown above; trying not to clash with other open-source projects. After some reflection, I'm thinking these market circles don't overlap at all - lots of devs might know of the other LightSwitch, but the newbies I'm trying to cater to probably don't. ( Also, I didn't. XD ) But thanks for the input, I appreciate it.
Yeah, sorry, English is failing me here. The article isn't about freedom, it's about economics/finances.
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You don't get how brains work. Advertising is wildly effective because underneath the human is a monkey. If the monkey sees bananas always paired with ipods, the monkey will want an ipod. It might not fit neatly into your everyone is responsible for themselves world view, but thems the apples. Deal.
Not so sure about the extra mile. It could happen that the AI couldn't be able to go beyond a certain level. That is this AI could be walled. We have a wonderful opportunity to see an example in which current AI is measured to be near but not far from best human competence.
Sorry, I didn't mean the intent would be to humiliate, just the appearance.

Humans, I think, have the natural instinct to "hedge" themselves in games like go and chess, by creating positional/material advantages now to offset unknowns later. Of course, that advantage becomes useless in the end game, when all that matters is the binary win/lose.

An AI, which may have a deeper/broader view of the game tree than its human opponent (despite evaluating individual position strength in roughly the same manner), may see less of a need to "hedge" now, and instead spend moves creating more of a guaranteed advantage later (as you suggest). And indeed, my experience with my AI is that during the endgame (in which an AI generally knows with certainty the eventual outcome of each of its moves), it tends to retain the smallest advantage possible to win, preferring instead to spend moves to win sooner.
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One was called Swan, Edison tried to sue him for patent infringement but Edison's lawyers warned him about prior art, so instead he negotiated a joint venture.

You may remember the "Mazda" brand of bulbs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_and_Swan_Electric_Light...
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So, the internet.
You should add the skills and/or courses, certs, etc from linkedin. Good job.
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Oh, absolutely. It's an idea whose time had come ;-)
In fairness, UFC fairly severely limits what can be done. To begin with, they use gloves, and things like eye gouges and finger locks are illegal.

Because strategies like "ripping out someone's intestines" are illegal, boxing and wrestling have an unfair advantage because they don't have to worry about that stuff to begin with. For more realistic fighting situations, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_tai
75% of opera revenue in the 4th Q came from ads. I mean it doesn't seem like the best business move.
Can you name the industry vertical, please? I'm genuinely curious.

By the way, working overtime is not viewed as a negative when quite literally everyone around you (mostly 20-year olds with no family) is working 60+ hours/week. Quite the opposite. And no, this was no start-up.