skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like this system allows easy comparison of reinforcement learning techniques [those techniques can be implemented using any major ML framework].

So it isn't a competitor to Tensorflow, it sort of allows you to measure techniques built using Tensorflow [or Theano etc]. And the metrics are "how general is this technique?" "how effective is this technique?"

Essentially, lots of research says "this technique is effective at this problem," but there is often no way to compare it to other leading techniques in the field. This playground sort of puts everyone on the same playing field.

[and since it's open, it seems you can add your own environments. Like if you want to build a Chess AI using reinforcement learning, you can add a chess environment to this playground]
> wrap it in a commercial product and resell it.

The PATENTS.txt file seems to suggest otherwise, you must stay within the bounds of "covered code". IANAL so I do not know what the side effects of this seemingly intersection of their patent/license coverage curtails, but it does seem like you lose protection and could have a Android/Oracle situation if you innovate something on top of the core CLR outside of the 'covered' bounds and then decided to sell it.

There's a slightly older writeup about it here http://endsoftpatents.org/2014/11/ms-net/

In any case, as the name suggests, it's only a promise, not a guarantee of rights.
Apply HN: Sohoko.io – iBeacon Cloud Platform for Interactivity, Not Marketing
Sōhōkō is a cloud platform for associating content and defining interactions with Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) beacons.

Existing platforms in this space are largely focused on pushing content (with a bias towards marketing); our platform is focused on bi-directional experiences between users and hot-spots of interaction represented by beacons. Apps running on Sōhōkō can share users, beacons, and content, which helps app discovery.

Instead of launching the platform directly, we plan to build it through internal dog-fooding as we build the first set of applications available on the platform. These first apps will be focused around letting individual users create experiences with a single beacon.

The first app we are building is Sōhōkō Messenger, a messaging app where BLE beacons are used to deliver messages contextually. Instead of a message being sent when composed, delivery is triggered when either the sender or the recipient enter or exit the region of a beacon they have shared with each other. In the single-user use-case, this could be used to send contextual reminders; when sharing a beacon with friends, family, or co-workers, this provides a new way to receive messages in the right context and we feel this creates a little nicer feeling compared to the current state of affairs where we send messages regardless of the recipient's context. We feel such a personal use-case is a great place to start because messaging in the home is a place where we will be forced to be very careful about protecting user privacy.

400M beacons are estimated to be deployed by 2020[1], creating a revenue opportunity from micro-transactions for user interactions payed by developers on the platform.

Short term, there will be some revenue from premium app features and in-app beacon sales, but will mainly be from SDK licensing and developer partnerships with early adopters.

http://sohoko.io

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/ny-unacast-idUSnBw265779a+100+BSW20160126
House Passes Bill Requiring Search Warrants to Access Your Old Emails
But we don't have the technology for a self sufficient mars colony. We're not even close. Anything we put there is going to have to be expensively supported from Earth.

What will you do if you're on Mars and the company that supplies you food, spare parts, and medical supplies goes out of business?

The Americas worked as colonies because they could become self sufficient in a very short period of time and had enormous quantities of valuable resources. The trees alone were priceless to the parent countries where every tree was spoken for. Even then some of the colonies failed.

What does Mars have that you couldn't obtain more cheaply on Earth?
It's not nearly as simple as being in the middle of an income scale. The rest of the articled describes what "middle class" might actually mean.
It's probably a victim of over thinking and too much marketing. The forces which shape this allergic reaction to these phrases are the ones also turning voters away and towards the Sanderses and Trumps who are less afraid of plain populist/democratic speech.

It should be of little surprise to establishment showrunners this is happening, after all the blue collar middle class are an afterthought when it comes to economic policy -- quite the opposite of say China, who cater to the blue collar middle class.

Yes, on the whole we have benefitted from trade deals but we've made very few accommodations for the part of the middle class which loses out --be I outsourcing yesterday and today or automation tomorrow.
The hidden bluetooth button that she pressed to actvate the motor.
Shit, can I opt in to this as well?! On topic: downloading
Every Mark Zuckerberg Video
Related to that point: the fact that email still provides a relatively low overhead method of reading and sending communications, and the end-user is somewhat in control of the user experience because they can choose what email client(s) they want to use.

Nearly every other 'email killer' gets both of these things badly wrong.
Overtime, common repetitive questions will surface in conversation. Identify these patterns, write up FAQ/documentation and submit them via the pull-request process. The Great Unseen Masters will typically be grateful and respond with dumping their brain or corrections as they would normally do so in a code review. Eventually, over time, this will build up into something they can point newbies towards to RTFM so the community does not burn out answering the same questions over and over.
Known sales guru Grant Cardone continually makes the point there is no middle class. It was a marketing campaign post-war to entice consumption and sell homes.

His stance is that you're either rich or poor.. there is no in-between.
6x9: A virtual experience of solitary confinement
We had to deal with this issue with a website that hosted 3rd party games, so we were restricted in our options. Since we didn't make the games ourselves things like server side playback wouldn't work.

For us, there was no foolproof method. So our main goal was to ensure that the leaderboard wasn't full of obvious cheating.

First, to reduce the volume of cheating, we obfuscated things:

1) We encrypted all communication.

2) We required a single use submit token, generated by the server, with each game play.

We also manually reviewed scores. In particular, the top 10 scores of each game.

Beyond that, since we required a single use submit token, it means that we knew how long the player took to obtain their score. For most games, the higher your score, the longer you played. So we flagged any scores with an out of whack score/play time ratio for further review before showing the score to anyone else.
> The cores may be bound to schedulers, through the +sbt flag, which means the schedulers will not "jump around" between cores. It only works on modern operating systems, so OSX can't do it, naturally.

That’s a bit out of date.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Perform...
Strict aliasing violations are quite simple for a static analysis program to find and report.

> I do know the strict aliasing rules quite well.

Not well enough, if you think what you wrote above ("memcpy or malloc cannot legally be written in C without breaking this behavior") is true.
Hi Johnmurch,

The response I've been getting is great. So much that I'm now contemplating on creating a kickstarter campaign. This will be the first of many updates to come so please stay tuned :).
"It's magic"... and very appealing visually too, awesome!!

Curious, is this projected with motion detection positioning, a two-way mirror film over a existing touch screen, or something else?
hey, whatever works
First, remember that getelementptr != array indices.

Second, remember that even in C, you can't actually dereference things outside of the bounds of an object, even if you can form addresses to it.

In any case, the point was more than something like

struct foo C;

char *foo = &C
foo -= 7;
char whee = *foo;

Is legal in llvm, but not in say, C++ (and in fact, in most languages it's not legal because it's not aligned properly)
I believe with facebook at least, you can send and receive messages with email.
I'd like to have meaningful public discussion befitting of the size of these financial commitments.

For instance, there's occasional debate about defunding public broadcasting, which costs 0.013% of F35 + wars. Planned Parenthood is 0.018% of this. Even the often hotly contested NASA is 0.62% of this.

A few years ago, congress was in heated budget debates - trying to knock off PBS to save a buck - but a plane that cost 48,743 times that was never brought up for discussion.

Even if you span these budgets over the 20 years of the F35 program, something like planned parenthood cost 0.4% as much.

If we can find the time to talk about X as a huge waste of tax payer dollars and have legislation to defund it, surely we can find time to talk about something that costs 25,000% more than X.

However, other than an occasional news article and grumble of discontent, nothing actually happens. It moves forward unabated. That's a problem.
Tried downloading without giving an email addy and it threw "The parameter 'to' cannot be an empty string." with a stack trace - might want to check inputs?
Blasting bacteria around sounds dubious, but I can't use these stupid Airblades without touching the sides, so that's pretty yucky.

The point that we're still touching other stuff without feeling squeamish is a good one. My main complaint about the Airblade is simply that they don't work very well at all.
SpaceX’s reputation for not being an easy place to work is certainly deserved but from what I’ve seen management has been making a serious effort in trying to address issues of work/life balance. The situation today is much different than it was a few years ago in regards to hours worked and scheduling.

In my experience, it wasn’t so much the long hours that wore thin on employees but instead it was the unreliable scheduling that prevented many people from making plans to enjoy their limited time off. There has been progress made in this regard as we have grown and gotten a better handle on some of our critical processes.

I should add that much like with anything else it’s difficult to please everyone all the time and not all of these changes have been well received by everyone. Overtime work for hourly employees is much more regulated and carefully watched now than it was a few years ago and I fall into a camp that isn’t exactly pleased with this. While I think the new changes are better for the overall well being of most employees there are many of us who specifically prefer an environment that skews more heavily towards work in terms of work/life balance.

Pay also tends to be lower than the industry average, especially considering living expenses in LA/Socal, but from what I’ve seen while introductory pay is low it tends to ramp up rather quickly once you hit the 3-4 year mark and is much more aligned with competitors at that point. This probably is at least partially related to the relatively high turnover here which means promotions and advancement can come quickly if you can stick it out.

I should make clear that my experience is coming from the perspective of an hourly technician that is compensated for overtime, unlike the salaried engineers, although in talking with many during the course of my day they seem to have a similar experience.
I've learned much more from my failures than my successes. Painful leaning but learning none-the-less. Once bid a SW development project at about $500,000 USD. Should have been more like $1,000,000. Negotiated with client to split the difference. My company did not make a profit that year but the client got version one of a system that went on to save them >$25,000,000 a year one year later and we got a long term client. I think we did 5 versions of that system for them.

Learned how to read requirements and put in fudge factors on budget estimates.

Glad I'm not in that business anymore.
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See sibling comment.
The Movie-Based Terminal Effect Not yet Recreated by Hackers
> Whether or not businesses have a concept of 'ethics', they can be forced to act as if they do, which amounts to essentially the same thing.

Ah excellent point! But your hypothetical offers an external market correcting force. Another external market force would be government regulation (take for example the recent government laws forcing retirement investors to put their clients first).

The lines get pretty gray when you try to figure out what should be considered part of the market and what should be considered external to it. Personally, I would consider public perception outside of a traditional "market" model...but like I said, I am by no means an economist.

I also wanted to mention that most companies think in the short run and therefore often make self-harmful decisions to themselves. This relates to your comment:

> ...pricing in the risk-adjusted expected future costs?

Companies can only sell products to people that can afford them, so by keeping wages low, they are actually pricing themselves out of the market. A classic and oft referenced counter-example to this is when Henry Ford payed his factory workers well-enough that they could afford to buy the cars they were assembling.

Anyways, I obviously like to philosophize about economics far too much and don't want to bore anyone :) I am also NOT an economist so I have a rather limited perspective.
I'm talking about the 32 capital cases referred to in the article. Which are you talking about? The ones you imagine as a symbol of systemic injustice? Or actual cases?
I'm really interested in game hacking. Do you have a link for the video/talk?
This ought to be a part of Excel. Microsoft, bring out your wallet for this fine gentleman!
This isn't an uncommon practice. Zillow's founders did the same split.
>on the whole we have benefited from trade deals

Despite the amount of rhetoric I see claiming this, I have yet to see any empirical evidence.
Awesome!!! :)
Given SpaceX's inability to estimate time frames (the F9 Heavy is, what, four years late?), I would be shocked if this happened at all, let alone before 2030.
Trusting the client works on consoles since they're locked down.

Porting that same idea to PCs gets you into trouble almost instantly.

Hence my question - is this a console port gone horribly wrong?
Hrm, if you'd clicked the Wiki in the top header of the link I gave you :) http://www.pidramble.com/wiki/hardware/pis
I didn't downvote you, but some things jump out at me.

The suggestion we sell them to Saudi Arabia is orthogonal to the subject of the article (technical problems). Your post and the article do not, from a naive perspective, have a connection.

My guess is that you think the F-35 project is not a worthwhile investment for the US defense system, but that it cost a lot of money to make, and so we should get some money out of it. Further, since Saudi Arabia has a lot of oil money and wants weapons, we should sell them this plane (which it seems you think is a failure) - even though Saudi Arabia is nominally an ally and it isn't obvious its a good idea to sell an ally weapons we consider bad investments.

My previous paragraph is a just a stab at the thinking that might inform your post - I'm probably totally wrong. Whatever the motivating factors, there's a lot you don't say - either because you don't think it's necessary or you don't want to talk about those background assertions. Obviously, we all believe the people here understand (at least some of) the context, but my guess is that people found your post to not be forthcoming enough.
They are. That isn't the actual goal, but a side effect. What they do is ensure the supply of oil to America.
Guitars for the rest of us
U.S. International Trade: 1992 – 2015
>you are essentially living in a small prison cell. [...] But your activities are still limited to about what you can do sitting in a little room in front of a computer.

Honestly the VR scenario here isn't so bad and you get exercise from it too :)

What young rich kid wouldn't want to play video games and colonize a new planet?!
The importance of software packaging
Blue Man group is really a "franchise" operation. There are at least 12 productions going on around the world, and even on cruise ships! Because the men are "blue", they are interchangeable, too.
I actually have two related projects here:

Scrape HTML to swagger:
https://github.com/bobby-brennan/scrape-to-swagger

Swagger to HTML docs:
https://github.com/lucybot/lucy-console

We also have a commercial version of the latter which you can see at any-api.com
Stephen Hawking may have a shot at a Nobel Prize now
Enjoy your tax deduction. Next...
When one "gives away" that volume of money, what you are doing (whether you like it or not) is trading it for influence. At a minimum you are setting your funding priorities, which has rippling policy effects as people compete for your funding (see the Gates foundation). At a maximum you've just outright laundered it (see the Clinton Foundation) or converted it into an unaccountable ideological blight completely opposed to your original desires (see the Ford Foundation).
Are you kidding, dude I love you:) It was a huge moral boost for me at the time, and probably the reason I ended up committing to this project full time!
Google purchased Motorola for the patents as a defensive measure, so they ward of suits from Apple, MS and Intellectual Ventures. Google has NEVER sued another company over patents. Examine the timeline of patent suits on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

It's all Apple and Microsoft, and then Samsung started firing shots at Apple in retaliation. Google has never gone offensive with a patent suit.
I hope they don't blow and over-fantasize this.
I think this is the wrong sort of attitude to have towards hiring. Maybe interviews are suboptimal for finding good talent. Whatever. But if you want a job and you already KNOW the sort of tricks and games go on for these interviews, then why not just play the game? Do the adequate interview prep and land the job. It's that simple.
That's what the lawyers are for.

You get some tech nerds getting excited about something, "government doesn't matter". And don't realize they have encroached on something where the government does matter, deeply.

I've seen this a lot. So although they aren't invited to every meeting, the lawyers see the press releases and quickly amend the implementation strategy.
From a legal point of view he will presumably be selling his shares and donating his cash, not donating his shares.
These viruses are very serious and should be considered as a "near misses" in terms of critical power plant software malfunctioning.

After the US, Israel is #2 in Cyber security and is very dependent on Germany for military needs such as submarines and engines for their tanks. Since these nuclear power plants have nothing to do with national security directly, Germany should employ Israelis to help them if they have not already done so.
I am not sure the point you are trying to make is fully clear.

Your problem does not have anything to do with the assignment or createObject (just for the sake, the code as is isnt calling the function), but that accessing inexistent variables only returns undefined but no actual error.

Is that correct?
The sad/funny/weird thing is that some people would say that's what this is. Almost makes one wonder...
Curious. Why did you update to the Pi3 instead of the ODROID C2 + eMMC?
> the price of beans, CPUs and clothes may have fallen - but the price of education, healthcare, energy and especially housing have not fallen

Over what time period do you mean? I'm pretty sure just about everything has a lower cost than it did 50 years ago, with the exception of real estate in neighborhoods where the population density has soared. If you don't insist on living in one of those neighborhoods, you can life that is better than what you'd have had in 1965 in every respect and spend less time working to support that lifestyle than you would have spent at that time for the inferior quality of life.
Don't you have to submit them by mail anyway?

By the way, in Portugal we download a cross-platform Java app that fetches the data over HTTPS and lets you fix it (if needed) and submit. Of course, that has its own problems, so paper submissions are still allowed.
There is no good side or bad side in American justice or anywhere with similar systems. The defense is expected to lie through their teeth even if they're guilty, and the prosecution is expected to convict at all costs regardless of innocence. There are no ethical or moral grounds for either stretching their practices, especially in the big leagues where every win counts. As with sports, so often we find the winners were actually just the dopers that got away with it, until they get caught, like now.

Fair and balanced? It's pretty disgusting actually, but so is the NFL depending on how offensive you feel it is to taint studies on concussions. The analogy goes further than one might expect, with the justice system struggling with their image just like any other professional sport institution. It's the Justice League. Justice is a brand.

The real question is, are we really that desperate? Or rather, why wouldn't we be? When you're forced to win, you're forced to do a lot of things.

Instead, we should just be forced to get it right.
Have you ever noticed that wherever you point a firehose, the target tends to get soaked as soon as you turn the water on?
Walton's phrasing is kind of ambiguous, Console port could mean port from console or port to console.

It could have been developed for console first.
Docker ID: matze42

Would love to try this out on my mac. Eagerly waiting for the confirmation mail since I registered. Use case is to transform my development environment and get rid of all those local installs.

Thanks!
If you have a strong objection then you are free to fork it and do whatever you want. If other people feel the same you can build a community around your fork.

It's FOSS.
for some reason, I really don't think that particular metric matters.

(for reference, the S&P 500 calculation was around 170 in 1985, compared to 2,098 today in 2016)
Mate1 hacked email searcher
Need to come up with an algorithm for this now, fingers crossed I actually end up doing the calculation:) Half a ton for you too!:)
and take the whole leg ;-)
I've always wondered what you're really getting with a non-voting share that has no dividends attached, especially from a company as big as Facebook that isn't going to get acquired.

Related: has there been any academic investigation to how investors value votes?
> just outright laundered it (see the Clinton Foundation)

I'm looking. Any solid proof of said illegal procedure, or just some more conspiracy theory from Alex Jones website?
Sure, that's the point of money. You give it to people who think can make the world a better place, and thus buy influence.
Maybe you're supposed to test your ideas at a scale smaller than a state first.
Considering that this announcement was paired with very strong earnings, it seems highly likely that they'll give him what he wants.