skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starcraft is a game that is played with mouse and keyboard (or game controller on console). I think in order to say an AI has beat a human, it should have to use the same interface that a human uses. That's part of the definition of the game.

In Go, anyone can place a stone as well as anyone else, it's deciding where to place a stone that's the game. In Starcraft, not everyone can control the interface to the game equally well. Playing Starcraft without using the same interface as humans is like playing baseball with something other than a baseball bat.

Also, I think it's unfortunate that they're choosing Starcraft 1: Brood War (presumably because of API reasons) instead of Starcraft 2, since there are many more top-level players playing sc2 right now to give it a run for its money, with an evolving meta that could more likely adapt and challenge the AI after it wins some matches. SC2 is where the tournaments and money is right now (compared to BW), hence the best players devoting the most time.
Jeez you're cogent, diplomatic, polite, and helpful.

Thanks for this reply.

In general: I don't object to text as a medium, but to threaded posts as a format.

Thinking outside the box of owned land property - and how roads might be done better, for example - takes a lot more volume and research than is practical here.

But I appreciate the dialogue - thanks.
Symantec alerts users to serious flaws in its Endpoint Protection software
Don't try to add a Let's Encrypt certificate, you need to add the CA anyway. Just use OwnTracks' own generateCA.sh script and you'll be up and running in a minute. Stick the CA and p12 file in your phone and you're done.

Here's my modified script that produces the p12 file in the end:

https://www.pastery.net/ytyqrj/

Run it with:

./generate-CA.sh <your mosquitto hostname>

./generate-CA.sh client <your username>
For the example in the article, I think I'm inclined to agree. However, with something like

numIterations = 5

foo(numIterations)

versus

foo(5)

I think adding that extra variable greatly improves readability by removing the step that requires jumping to the function signature to understand what the integer argument is doing.
>> I am working to change my government

That's fine for you. But other people trying to change your way of life, they are called extremists.

Trying to change how other people live will only cause suffering. Look at the millions of displaced in Iraq, Syria, Libya, where the West attempted regime change because of injustice (as they claim).

Injustice perpetrated by the Amish community should be left up to members of Amish community to change.
I'm not sure what you mean by outmoded here. Most listeners to public radio programming are listening over the radio, not by podcast. And I would argue that radio is a superior delivery system for most of the programs (everything but the weekly or bi-weekly in-depth shows).
As a counter-example. Let's look at some of the events put on by the fashion industry.

It alienates and has a not just 'unconscious bias' but a clear-cut, in your face, bias toward heterosexual men.

I'm okay with this as long as we go after the fashion industry next.
The submitted title may not be much better, but the original is pure clickbait. It starts off with "The one thing...", and makes you click through to find out.
> Don't be afraid to read the linked articles.

Oh I did. Those quotes don't actually answer my questions. It "being found" or being found in more than 90% in a single survey doesn't answer my questions at all. Looking for real studies. I looked at some studies but I couldn't find anything about this (at least not in the places I have access to).

Surveys without proper controls are almost useless. I'm certainly saying this entire thing couldn't be true in most people I just want to see data / real studies.
I think you're like the parent where your ideological persuasion clouds your judgement.

The Bernie Madoff reference is obviously an indicator.

Like a lot of leftists, you believe that many affluent people have gotten their money via illegal means.
HDD's / Tape ect may actually qualify as prior art. So, the patent is probably not that broad.
Yes, here's the roadmap: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/issues/1

We do filter by predicates, and have plans to do sort and limit, including count. DGraph is designed to accommodate all these use cases really well.

The idea is that you shouldn't need much on top of DGraph, because the query latency should be low; maybe Memcached. But, in the graph world, a single edge change can affect many queries, and so we've designed DGraph to provide low latency for arbitrarily complex queries.

The schemas would be enforced via GraphQL, i.e. the query language, not via the storage mechanism. This allows you to change the definition of types of entities, without changing the corresponding data. This is incredible for both backwards compatibility, and quick iterations.
That's pretty cool! What does the hardware look like?
The control required to master SC2 is far beyond any MOBA style game. AI for MOBA games seems trivial compared to AI for a large scale RTS. It's the difference between controlling 1 unit vs 100 units.
This thread is what's wrong with HN.
> Genetic engineering of embryos for increased IQ is looking very feasible, for example.

Citation needed.

Seriously, I can think of like four reasons, mostly technological, that engineering smart babies isn't going to happen in my lifetime. Just to name a few--

1. We don't have a good enough understanding of intelligence to describe the target.
2. We don't have a good enough understanding of intelligence to separate the
developmental factors from the genetic factors.
3. We don't have a good enough understanding of the genetic factors to know what changes
need to be made to the DNA.
4. We don't have a 'one-and-done' method of genetic engineering -- you can't modify a
single embryo reliably.
5. As applied to humans, the iteration cycle is well over twenty years and the biggest
IRB nightmare you can imagine.
Read that as "full-sized human beards", was a little confused.
U.S. gov spending is 20,000$ per person which takes vastly more than 19% GDP. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/per_capita

Local, State, and Federal = ~32 to 42% GDP over last 30 years. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_brief.php?brief.... Defense for example is all over the map, 7% under Reagan down to 3.45% with Clintion then bumped under Bush to amost 6% and then back down under Obama.

PS: US tax code is designed around talking points so people can support all sorts of things. But at the end of the day Total government spending is what's important not what you call it.
Also see: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/wiki/Differences-between...
I just bought a pair of Nike Air Max 90 for $8 from China. Are you telling me that's likely to be fake too?

Why the down votes?
Curious the depth to which they compared reduced cognitive function in general and how much that correlated with other low functioning conditions. Autism often brings the image of a quirky or simply socially awkward individual to mind, but the reality is some are sufficiently developmentally delayed that they lack the ability to care for themselves at all. (Its a very wide spectrum). Which is only to say I wonder if the statistic is autism specific or generalizable to any low functioning individual.
You can use owntracks-recorder to keep the data and ocat to get them out again. I'm just playing with that right now to generate a page for my blog showing the cities I've traveled to each year in real-time.
I think father-daughter and mother-son is interesting too.

Did they run something like TF-IDF to normalize for popular occupations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
One very real issue I'd imagine is that two players could cooperate out of ignorance, i.e. either player could do better by deceiving the other, but they are not good enough players to realize that.
At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district in mid-January assumed they had encountered an abandoned film set. But checks showed that no film recordings had been applied for in the area.

Because no one would build a film set in a disused subway and then abandon it without filing the proper papers!
I don't think I agree with that at all. If you can control 1 unit it's trivial to control 100.

I might argue that the AI vs AI challenge in Starcraft is deeper and more difficult to master. But for AI vs Player the Starcraft AI has an enormous mechanical advantage. Being able to harass mineral lines in four different places is a big deal. Being able to perfectly micro multiple lines of attack/defense is a big deal. It's very unfair and very much in the AI's favor.

Chess < Go < Starcraft < League of Legends

In my moderately educated opinion.
In other words, the down-voters are grasping for straws because what the parent said is probably true, but it just doesn't sound right?
I know bliz doesn't want it, but it would be so much better with sc2.
Well, if you really want to sandbox some internet behavior (for example, porn, which I imagine has the highest percentage of sites delivering a malicious payload), use a virtual machine manager (VirtualBox) and set up a virtual machine (some Linux variant may serve best) for that specific type of access. You can do this multiple times, once for each type of access, such as a dedicated VM for accessing your bank website.

If you're really paranoid, you can save the state of the virtual machine before use, and restore the prior state every time you use, it, preventing any changes to the VM. You would occasionally want to start it up, install all the recommended updates, and then save the state again though.
IMO the smaller action space/better defined win conditions is outweighed by the greater playstyle diversity: SC has 3 races while League and Dota have 100+ champions to understand the interactions with. How is an AI supposed to know that Tryndamere's ult has a 0.5 second cast time, but can't be interrupted by any CC?

Personally, I think (all else being equal) Dota might be an easier starting point than League because of its focus on item abilities, rather than champion abilities. Anybody can use a BKB in Dota, but in League you have Fiora W, Morg E, and a bunch of other things. You have a smaller set of abilities/effects to worry about.

The dodge/aim AI can be situationally good (Cass bots) but still, the best players do win against scripters. Scripters rarely make it into the elite echelons of the ladder; there's a situation right now with a former pro Korean player who started scripting but couldn't make it back into Master tier. You'd expect a former pro with very in-depth game understanding to play at the very tip top level with some 'aim assist' but it doesn't appear to be the case!
And how much of that is due to increasing medicare costs?
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The article goes on to contradict its own headline. They are repairing hearts unfit for transplant using skin cells. They have not grown a full-sized heart.
again, I am NOT and never was making an argument about federal funding. You are.

I'm talking about the public who is according to public broadcasting the biggest portion of their support.
I'm puzzled as to why counterfeit chargers never manage to have sufficient clearance distances. They use simple, low-complexity circuits so the circuit board layout should be straightforward. Except in the smallest cube phone chargers, they aren't fighting for every millimeter of space. It shouldn't take much additional effort to make the boards safer.

I think this is an interesting question to ask. If there truly is no cost difference, why not make a better and safer product? I'd guess that "ignorance" (or at least a different assessment of risk) is the most likely answer. The person laying out the circuit has learned by trial and error, doesn't really understand the safety issues, isn't incentivized to spend time learning about them, and lacks oversight from anyone more knowledgeable.

Is there a better theory?
The pricing of solar
That yellow when you hover over medicine/office contrasts very poorly w/ the white background.
With phones getting bigger there's less need for dedicated ereaders. I mostly read on my phone, and I know other people who do too. The convenience of having books in your pocket outweighs the small screen size. From a 2015 article on phone reading ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rise-of-phone-reading-143939... ):

"The number of people who read [e-books] primarily on phones has risen to 14% in the first quarter of 2015 from 9% in 2012."

I can't find more recent statistics but I expect it's continuing to rise. Convenience always beats quality, eg. MP3 vs CDs, early LCDs vs CRTs.
I find it a remarkable feat of marketing that just as a movie based on this article is about to be released, this old article somehow lands on the front page of HN.
No single dominating block. Camera has 4 sensor channels (now either 12 bit parallel or Aptina HiSPI) with gamma and histograms, 16-channel DDR3 controller, 4 compressor channels, inter-camera synchronization and high-speed IMU logger. And AHCI SATA2 controller (with provisions to be later upgraded to SATA3). The last module uses 6%, others share other 78% slices. As most of them have 4 identical instances, it makes about 10% each. Years ago one similar channel (1 sensor, 1 compressor, slower clocks) was implemented on Spartan-3e.
The Behind-The-Scenes Fight Between Apple and the FBI
I'm not sure if there are solo founders over 50 who were at YC but some individuals who are cofounders are. Dr John Slough of Helion for example.

I've got similar issues myself. Perhaps cofounders are the answer.

Maybe we can take inspiration from Rose Blumkin, founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart who sold the store to Warren Buffett and then after arguments with her family left in a huff and set up a rival called Mrs. B's Clearance and Factory Outlet across the street at age 95. It became profitable and was Omaha's third-largest carpet outlet before Buffett bought that too.
Me too. Seems like our brains need more training data.
> evidently the market won't pay for something qualitatively better

Your assumption here is that quality is more expensive. In my experience, it's substantially cheaper. I've seen "enterprise" shops take reasonably simple apps and blow them up into things requiring large teams and enormous amounts of hardware. And then spend 70% of their time debugging, because they're going too fast to do anything right. This is endemic; some friends of mine do ops consulting, and even at the heart of the tech boom they see clusterfuck after clusterfuck. The apps all mostly work, or the companies would be out of business. But we can do better than just failing to fail.

As an analogy, look at the US car industry in the 70s and 80s. They were producing terrible stuff. Toyota came along and demonstrated you could make better cars for less money. The same opportunity is available here in software. Consider, E.g., WhatsApp, which was serving nearly a billion people on 8 platforms with a team of 50 engineers.

It's an especially appropriate analogy in that a lot of the most effective process improvements come from applying TPS-derived principles to software. See, e.g., Mary Poppendieck's work.

> But I think the argument that most software is bad is hyperbole.

Only if you define bad to mean "worse than average". But I mean it quite literally.

Bug rates, development cost, development cadence, WIP, and project failure rates are all absurdly high compared to well-run projects. This has been true for decades. By "bad" I mean "well below what teams could achieve if they applied best practices".
Well considering that beard transplants are a real thing[0,1] I'm pretty sure that they are working on that too....

[0]https://www.birchbox.com/guide/article/10-things-you-should-...

[1]http://www.theprivateclinic.co.uk/treatments/hair-transplant...

/Hipster level 9000.
Ask HN: I wanna make a chatroom
I'm new to programming do u know some open source api built in simple javascript and html5 and also simple backend
Machinist humor – wait for it :)
Thanks. I didn't see any examples of predicates in the GraphQL, other than basic graph edge traversal. Do you have any?

Does DGraph use indexes to back the predicates? If so, do indexes have to be pre-declared? To explain, we layer ElasticSearch on top of our current document store because we don't want to manage an "index schema" manually; we have tons of different apps on top of the same document store, and they have all sorts of ad-hoc queries where it would simply be easier to (like ES does) index everything rather than require the app to declare a schema.

Not sure I understand your schema explanation. We're talking about schemas for validating document data, yes?
If you haven't already, get fail2ban setup on the box to slow down all the attacks. And disable password login and switch to certs instead.
Nobody knew about autism, so instead you were mislabeled as mentally challenged or mentally ill.

Treatment was a lot less humane too for those affected by mental illnesses. Things like lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy were accepted as routine, safe, and effective treatments for those patients afflicted with what you would now call autism in modern medicine.
I too grew a distaste for them, more accurately the Freakonomics Podcast. Steven Levitt comes across like a total snob and he has all these annoying quirks and preferences, I find his personality really irritating. He reminds me of someone who won't do manual labour and thinks it's funny and charming to be someone who sees anything physically strainful as being this horrendous undertaking. He really embodies so many detestable human qualities, and that's the thing, it's like his 'image', he's this weirdo guy who gets to be reprehensible because he's a notable economist. Also their Podcasts frequently air re-runs, and their shows consist of 1 revelatory finding (i.e. legalizing abortion reduces crime rate) that they drag out for 30 mins until you get to the 'gem' of their findings. That being said these are personal gripes from previously being an avid listener who got tired of their stuff.
"The public" funds McDonalds, then. My buying a hamburger doesn't mean I get the rights to the McDonalds trademark.

People donate to NPR of their own free will with the complete understanding that they're doing it as a donation, not as a "make our content public domain" licensing agreement. A pledge drive donation isn't a purchase, you haven't paid for anything, for the same reasons donating to Obama's campaign didn't buy you a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Self.ish Ruby
"There are several problems with this simplified view of the economy. Namely that the inflation rate is not realistically tied to minimum wage in any way."

'Simplified' is believing that raising the minimum wage to $15/hour is a great solution to an increase in spending power (as opposed to a person learning a new skill and increasing their own value).

My view is complicated and nuanced and displays the unintended consequences of a raise in the minimum wage.

What do you think will happen when the costs of everything in a supply chain of a company is doubled? They will pass it onto the consumer.

When the majority of companies do this (which will definitely happen), everyone's spending power is decreased. The dollar doesn't go as far as it used to.

Realistically, it's hard to see how inflation isn't tied to a raise in minimum wage.
But Brood War has been thoroughly explored, and is a much more stable target (SC2 is prone to game-shaking patches). Back when pro play was just ending, I was astonished by the level of play. While players may need a bit to practice against the AI, a good AI spurring more play is really exciting to me.
Your objection is that they're not also growing the matrix from scratch? Personally, I don't find that to be an interesting distinction. All I care about is that we're getting closer to viable custom replacement organs. I expect the same is true of the people who did the work and those who wrote the headline.
Airbnb-like service w/out the website is what works in Cuba since forever. 'Casas Particulares' (private homes) is where budget minded tourists get their rooms and food. Good thing they will now be able to search online, when I visited Cuba a while back I had to rely on Lonely Planet's printed listings!
SSH key based auth does not use certificates.

In the case of key-based-auth only, fail2ban is pointless.
damn bored
Apply Portrait or Landscape Orientation to Visio Page and Change a Visio Comment
DeepMind is becoming a nightmare for South Koreans
You can give a man a fish, or you can teach a man to fish.
Ask HN: Any libraries for doing MCMC in Java?
I'm looking to do MCMC work in Scala or Java and looking for libraries to get started. I'm having a hard time finding anything substantial from Google.
Or lots of people in poor countries, I imagine.
What objections do you have to the requirements to release documentation? Similar anti-monopoly laws already exist in other areas.
It would make Clifford's job much easier (so you will benefit too), don't you think?
If you are getting paid the same salary and aren't being 'fully utilized', this isn't 'underemployment'.

Underemployment is when you aren't working full-time and/or your employer isn't giving you enough hours.
MVC Podcast Ep.20: AlphaGo, SxSW, WebAssembly, Giphy/GIF
MVC Podcast episode 20 is up! This week Victoria and Marty talk about:

* the Go game matches between champion human player Lee Sudol and Google's AlphaGo computer algorithm;

* the South by Southwest (SxSW) tech/entertainment convention;

* the new WebAssembly feature coming to web browsers;

* the Giphy web site and the animated GIF image format in general.

We also take a user question and update everyone on our lives this week. Enjoy! Please like/follow/share/subscribe as always if you enjoy our podcast.
My suggestion, instead of the elaborate avoidance system, is to make the robot act pitiful when it detects it is being abused. Whimpering, frowning, crying etc. You gotta make it engage those deep-seated emotion detectors. That's the difference between the furby and the patrol robot.
I think this election has proven that no matter how much you spend you can't get people to vote for a person they don't really like. Jeb Bush spent $128 million and ended up with nothing to show for it.
tdicola: To authenticate myself, I use an ssh key. However, the goal of this project was to log all attacks over ssh. So setting up fail2ban and disabling password login would prohibit this collection of data. I have a massive password in place, so I'm not worried in the least.
Is it just me or is the data presentation completely terrible
And a rightist is someone who believes only poor people commit crimes?

But, no, unless this is a "reality has a well-known liberal bias" joke, it's plain objective fact that many (more than 2) affluent people have gotten their money illegally and not been punished as hard as a poor person would be for stealing food.

A leftist would be someone who says that this is bad.
Qt 5.6 cozies up to Yocto Project and adds LTS
Why Investing in Individual Bonds May Be Better Than Bond Funds for Millennials
I guess you could only fix this with a whitelist instead of a blacklist approach.
try this to check you real network reachability in iOS
https://github.com/dustturtle/RealReachability/
maintaining!
> Others order 5 cameras and lenses, select one, and send 4 back to Amazon.

I have been tempted to do this. It makes deciding on a purchase very easy. Now that I've read this I will not do it. Maybe this is Amazon PR to discourage people like me.
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