skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To test out increasingly 'general' and advanced A.I, you need a sandbox/playground environment...

You can use a real-world environment with a robot (noisy, more latency, computationally restrictive , more headaches, and extra development time)

Or you can utilize a 'virtual' world.
Minecraft is being used as Microsoft's sandbox/playground.
Video games are a good sandbox/playground : physics engine+sim+a.i hook.

You can generalize this into an observation->action loop platform.

There are many open source platforms out there for this.
Take Box2d as an example which OpenAI put a custom wrapper around.. It's a 2d Physics simulation engine. 2-Dimensions = less complexity than 3-D. You have your 'physical environment' and then you hook that into your A.I .. observation/command loop.

There are public Sandboxes/playgrounds and there are private ones. Many of these engines aren't hard to tie into. I'm sure this was one of the major things to resolve at OpenAI as it is for anybody in the space : make a 'playground environment for testing your A.I'...

I'm also sure that OpenAI has a more advanced private gym with higher fidelity links to the A.I like everyone in the space does. Members only ;)

So, OpenAI has packaged a bunch of open source engines/etc into an approachable platform to make development easier. Also, OpenAI hopes to get people to upload their results and have them detail how they achieved their results... Interesting.

A.I development is at the point IMO where you don't need a name or accolades to contribute. You don't need a PHD. You don't need to be an expert in the field. You don't need to be some award winning coder. In some ways, that can harm you w.r.t to having an ingrained view on how to approach problems in a space that is begging for new paradigms.

Dedicate a solid month and you can have make a virtual A.I gym setup and be off and running.

If you have done any serious code development, you can easily break into this space.

The thing that will be the most time consuming will be wrestling with these packages, dependencies, understanding them, and figuring out how to hook/in out of them.

It seems openAI has tried to reduce this pain with the release of openAI gym.

However, you'll find, if you get into any serious A.I dev, you're going to want to start cutting through people's wrappers and add-on layers that add latency, increase complexity, and keep your A.I away from the heart of the sim.

You'll want your own custom hooks....
You'll want the code to be as low level as possible.

Hi there (gdb), cute handle =P.
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I'm sure I read there is an upper bound to VAT, after which increases in fraud loose more than the tax increase.
My (I was 8) first computer (not PC) I got beginning of the 80s when there were only BBSs with, at least in my country, not much programming info (pirated software, images, stories, text games, porn). I had a Basic, assembly and C book second hand and I bought the occasional magazine and listed/disassambled existing software I typed over from mags or downloaded. That was all that was needed: the rest you had to make up by reading in the manual or experimentation.

For my current hobby projects I use things like C, Forth, Lua: languages and libraries I can keep in my brain and do not need internet for to write things that work. Compared to commercial work it is especially the fast changing things (often changing for no apparent reason) like JS projects and/or some web/app frameworks that really require Google. Certainly the best practice to use a library for everything, even when unstable or rapidly changing, is a pain. It is often much faster to write things yourself without having to debug yet another library but you keep thinking you are wasting time and fall for it. With internet not available you have to find a solution yourself. Using a lib is usually the better solution but just writing things without Google just feels better to me.
Imgur launched as a side project, a 'gift' to the reddit community.

While I certainly can't speak to the intentions of the founder, I would assume that he didn't have many exceptions at all.
>To be fair, they could have operated a simple and effectively profitable business

How? I don't see a way from Imgur to monetize on sharing images directly.
Not knowing the details but reflecting on what the summary said and what I do know of Xwindows style systems...

Plan 9 sure puts a lot of trust in the network.

We have learned, since that time, that trusting the network isn't really a good idea. Even a local network might not really be trustworthy.

The division of services that they describe sounds quite wonderful for normal office tasks; but doesn't work well for networks that can shard or for remote users that tunnel in (VPN) and might be disconnected.
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Huh? If you mean Miis, they've been in tons of games since the Wii era, feature in Miitomo and can also be created on the 3DS and Wii U.

Most Nintendo systems (and a few games) also let you choose a specific Mii to represent yourself.
Ah, now I see why that was happening to me in the past. I was doing a search to find out about a command in some program that began with a backslash (a search query like: \COMMANDNAME), and was wondering why I kept being redirected to some random website.
Shame on imgur for providing a service that was sought-after by everyone, and provide it for free by serving ads.

While we're at it, let's demand the end of free TV, free email providers, free forums, and even youtube.
Well, their "gifv" "innovation" was enough for me to stop using them completely.
It has happened, though I'm not sure if it's common or not. I worked for a big hadoop user (5 years ago: 6k boxes/over 50k cores/30 pb) that aws really wanted on their platform. They offered huge discounts to get us as a marquee customer, much better than their public pricing. Unfortunately, they were still ludicrously expensive compared to O&O but we were good at running huge automated clusters with 1.5 ops.
Interlingua is designed to be understandable by anyone who speaks one of a few common European languages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua
India flight tests new reusable space plane
We have such a standard http://www.opensearch.org/Home. This works at least in chrome, so if I want to search github, in the address bar I enter "g<tab>search term<enter>".
Have you tried Google Cloud. Performance & pricing (including booting) is much better on GCE than on AWS.
A lack of headlines doesn't mean people have forgotten. This story proves that not everyone has forgotten.
Not comparable since supermarket in-store free samples are tiny servings of a product you can purchase in the same establishment.

Supermarkets wouldn't allow, much less encourage, anyone to consume large numbers of free samples instead of buying the actual for-sale product.
Box2D is a reasonable environment for testing out reinforcement learning controllers in a simulated environment.

http://otoro.net/ml/pendulum-esp-mobile/
$10 for a .name domain. I think it's appropriate for personal sites, although .com would be nicer.
The inevitable devolution of HN's comment quality to the level of Reddit's? Sadly, it seems you're right.
You're wrong. It would be awful to live somewhere where you get to choose which companies are allowed to start.
Is that why the comment was deleted?
s3 is awesome. Keep using it but put your own boxes in a colo with a direct connect to aws (not all colos offer this unfortunately). Your boxes can then g3 20+tb of ssd cache in front of your raw pb+ datasets in s3.

https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/pricing/
That seems a very long-winded way of saying that people have values that are more important than financial gain.

I guess I'm interpreting wrong because that is obvious and there is nothing taboo about it (cultures will be different re. taboos anyway).
> But because Gawker may not be able to afford a full defense, they could well be out of business.

They had lawyers. They had their defense. They can appeal, but they have no one but themselves to blame for going to court and asserting the right to publish stolen sex tapes of anyone over 4... and for violating a court order.

Inasmuch as there are problems here, they're with the legal system in general, not this suit specifically.

Rather, it reminds me more of the McDonald's hot coffee thing, where if they had been reasonable, they wouldn't have been hit so hard.
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Programming is so much more fun and awesome now. Everyone has a computer, and has their computer on them 24 hours a day. Whether it's a website or a mobile app, you're able to immediately get things in the hands of your "normal" friends and see what they think.

The development side of things are also better. All of these open-sourced, internet-networked tools/libraries/languages allow you to build really powerful stuff really quickly. Yes, there is a huge quality and maintenance problem, with lots of people writing libraries they instantly abandon, but I think this just forces you to read lots of source code and become a better programmer.

Build more powerful stuff, faster, and get it in the hands of more people, faster. What a time to be a programmer. The article does a good job of noting the problem of distraction, but I think that has always been an issue, and why we have always seen anti-social traits among lots of successful developers. Tuning out the allure of being young and having mindless fun in the 90s to focus on code is no different from tuning out the allure of being young and having mindless fun today. As for older people, well, it's always been a challenge to be super-focused and dedicate time to learning new things while dealing with household/adult responsibilities.

This is a very special moment as a developer. It is like being in the business of rock 'n roll in the era in which radio and television took off, which made it possible to create music that ended up broadcast around the world within weeks. If you can stay true to the roots of the code, and avoid all of the weird get-rich-quick types that have entered the scene, you can have a lot of fun right now.

The past wasn't any better, and the future can't be predicted. The time is now.
Naming confusion is completely normal. Even in fields like learning human anatomy you'll learn different words for some things depending on who your teacher is, even though one would think that there should have been sufficient time for such issues to settle and the professionals agree on one word. But naming always is an accident of space and time - where did it happen, when did it happen, and then the path from there. Language is dynamic and a little fuzzy - in the sciences as well. You can define all you want, the problem always is other people, who choose their own definitions. It's fun - it keeps you on your toes :-)

In this context, for example, I don't see a reason for a world government to impose one definition of "systems programming" worldwide by military force (this is what it would take!). Just like in almost everything in human language, you get it from the context. You should try to teach a computer to recognize human speech including the meaning, then you'll realize that almost all of it relies on context and pre-existing knowledge. "Precision" comes from the interpretation - human language communication is the nightmare of people who love functional programming, it's full of hidden state and context and active interpretation.

Which is why it's so easy for this to happen: http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-07
If someone wants to argue, there is no way to provide a water-tight human-language text that "Dick from the Internet" can't attack. There always is a way to mis-interpret human language.
Some people should learn to weld. Some people should learn to drive a commercial truck. Some people should learn to cook. Some people should learn to landscape. Some people should learn to fix automobiles and son on and so forth.

Absolutely, and if all those people also knew how to code, they could find ways to apply the skill to their jobs to make them more efficient. People shouldn't learn to code so that they can become programmers, they should learn to code because knowing how to code can make you better at virtually any job you end up in.
It's also similar to Roland's R-MIX software:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/r-mix/
Definitely more readable to my eyes.
How do you figure that? You can rent the exact same server as a dedicated server. The difference is, you have no capital outlay up front, you don't need to ship and rack it or replace broken parts and there is only a month-to-month commitment.
I don't know if the 20 year lifetime claim will pan out, but I replaced as many lights in my apartment that I could with LEDs a couple of years ago and haven't had a single one die yet, including in the bathroom, where I used to have to replace a bulb almost once a month.
Haven't forgotten. After reading this I'd like to write Chelsea. I'm also inspired to do more anti-prison and anti-solitary activism. This looks like a very touching book on solitary confinement - (Hell is a Very Small Place) http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Very-Small-Place-Confinement/dp/1...
Data-driven society of the future
Now you can chat with a bot on Facebook to plan your next vacation
It is. I tried it out but it doesn't have the fidelity w.r.t I/O and 'hooks' I was looking for. Then again, I'm working beyond reinforcement learning. More advanced A.I necessitates more advanced gym.

I highlighted box2d as its an opensource physics/sim engine.

The sim/physics engine is 90% of the 'gym'. I'm sure if there was money involved, the sims/hooks/etc that are being sourced and packaged around could get a lot more advanced more quickly. i.e :
https://github.com/erincatto/Box2D/issues
The fact that I was talking about a different topic aside, of course we don't expect the headlines to be balanced. The virtue of fairness is at odds with the financial benefits of controversial wording.
Massively cheaper at scale. Do the basic math.
if you like the OA, and you'd like to read something in a similar spirit, a bit like Sol Golomb meets Stephen Wolfram meets Richard Feynman and a touch of The Princess Bride, then try a taste of the fictional Professor Heinrich von Hexenhammer, most recently of Galaxy G:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/1m4zrl/when_heinrich_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/25ncg0/dspr_lightning...
Cool. A big thing about learning language is getting the confidence to speak. You can get that by practicing with some native speakers.

In the classroom, if students don't feel comfortable speaking, they won't ask questions. If they don't ask questions, they won't learn as well as they could by asking.
This is not historically accurate. Marin voted in favor of BART, but after San Mateo country bailed, the costs were shifted North. It was the increased costs that prevented BART from going across the Golden Gate.
I didn't say he was right. And I also have no idea why his comment was deleted.
It can be kind of a fun experience to try coding something substantive without an Internet connection - say, while riding Caltrain or on a plane flight. It's a very different workflow. You need to download all of your docs ahead of time, and then get used to browsing through them as the doc generator intended. If you get stuck, better dig into the source code of that library you don't know how to use. You end up thinking through your code a lot more, and being more careful and more rigorous about the library calls you use.

I've found it's a pretty handy skillset to have, but for most everyday programming, I'm happy to reach for the search box.
This is pretty cool. I'll start using DDG specifically for this feature as I can never remember the full path for search queries on different sites that I go to
Well, you could signal that by failing to renew the canary on schedule. Once there's a gag order, no signaling takes place. There's no "removal".
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This is very much on-point, many of us are working with a bunch of disparate technologies loosely connected by standardised protocols and considerably less standardised APIs.
Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector [pdf]
Thanks!

* !d20srd (D&D reference search) and its alias !d20 are 404. There is also !srd, which searches the same site but actually works. These bangs should be merged.

* !zillow (real estate search for an address) will show the neighborhood the address is in, but not the exact match. Search for the same, pre-populated address on the site shows the exact match. This is a problem with the way DDG is encoding of the search terms.

* FIXED: !blekko still existed (and was broken) even though the service had been shut down after the company was acquired by IBM.
Godwin's law proved again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
LeadGenius hiring Front end Engineer
I'm reminded of how in the original vision of hypertext, links would be a layer over the content rather than baked into it.

So a product like web annotator would just be natural, rather than something requiring a whole new intermediary and hacks to work.
> Rust does not force you into the functional style, and usually I use imperative style when writing Rust code, except when the task is so simple that writing e.g. a for loop would be just noise.

I use the same strategy in "dynamic" languages like Python and JavaScript, that support both an imperative and functional style.
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Make sure to follow the on-page instructions or your correspondence will be rejected/returned. The conditions are quite strict. They check for obscenities which is hilarious -- assuming movies like Full Metal Jacket are an accurate depiction of Army life.
Append USA from overseas obviously.

Perhaps if we wrote it would hope alive as the cliché goes.
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Students Build a Glove to Translate Sign Language into English
Since there is only one and only one Mike Whateversmith, the cops couldn't confuse him for someone else.
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Steve Jobs had a proven track record and was spending his own money. Marissa for all her great qualities ain't no Steve.
So if every "social science" major (and why not add business and law students) instead studied engineering, they'd all find jobs? I'm not even asking about well-paid jobs. Is there a shortage of engineers on the market now? Would more engineers magically lead to more jobs (supply-side economics works so well... oh no!)?

What's the difference between "anyone can be rich" and "everyone can be rich"? Because this is similar. Yes, anyone can better themselves through more education in "the right field". What makes you think that "anyone" and "everyone" is the same problem?

Have a look at science and the problem of Ph.D.s to find jobs in their fields (chemistry, physics, biology - not "social science" Ph.D.s): http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-phd-... (also has a Part #2 linked at the bottom)
It will more likely be (state subsidized?) embryo selection for the genetic markers of intelligence (see, e.g., https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection), not work on proxies like education, that will substantially reduce poverty. While this solution is outside the Overton window in America today, that will change as the benefits become more visible.
Lua was my first programming language and it really is beautiful in that you can keep the whole language in your head and write entire programs without looking anything up. In fact - when I first started programming in other languages, it would essentially boil down to: write snippets in Lua, then google to find out how the syntax works in the other language, and copy it over.
The farmer from your example benefits both himself and the society because he'll be richer and create more jobs.

The article was concerned about the fact the growth rate of job creation is less than the growth rate of schooled people.

This according to the article is the formula for increased poverty rates.

An educational system that increases job makers - not job hunters, is the cure for poverty.
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Is there anything to be said for their durability and versatility though?
Oh I see.. you're saying, the article claims students have a better chance of getting a job in the US, but in reality, the chance is not so great since H1-B visas are limited.

Are you happy that you studied in the US? Or do you think it was not worth it? Just curious.
> For nighttime lighting, try to avoid sources with much emission at wavelengths below 500 nm, because these knock out night vision and disrupt sleep cycles.

Moonlight has significant energy at wavelengths below 500 nm [1]. Does this light disrupt the sleep cycles of other primates, or is this something that developed in humans only after we invented "indoors" and started sleeping there away from sources of bluish light?

[1] http://www.olino.org/us/articles/2015/10/05/spectrum-of-moon...
> Coding without searching basically boils down to coding without docs, and that seems pretty self-defeating.

He does mention though, was that back in the day he used programming books, which would have contained example snippets explaining most problems.

I started coding pre-internet. All you had was your text mode IDE or editor, and if you were really lucky, it had a basic searchable help function that you just kept attacking with keywords until you stumbled on a function or principle that solved your problem.

These days, everyone goes to the top result on StackOverflow and looks at the answer, then thinks 'ok, that'll do' without actually seeing if the answer is actually the most optimal. Pre-internet, without that level of group-think, there'd be multiple ways to solve problem X, and each programmer approached it differently. Some methods would be good, and some bad, but by working it out yourself made you a better coder in the long run.

This is why I think that older programmers have better analytical brains due to their long history of not being able to 'just look it up' - you had no-one to help you; if you couldn't solve it yourself, it didn't get solved. I lost track of the many early ideas I abandoned because the routines needed were beyond my coding ability (for me, graphics coding was/is my Achilles heel). Is that a good thing or not? I don't know. But what I will say is that starting to learn to code with the internet at your fingertips, may make someone a lazy coder, but it's hard to ignore that infinite well of knowledge...
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In osmand you can add either/ or both, an underlay or overlay map. MS earth works as a good google sat imagery replacement. I like osmand because it can be totally offline if you choose.
"Learn woodwork; metalwork; they will not make you a carpenter or a blacksmith any more than mastering writing will make you a clerk"
More LinkedIn members' information leaked after 2012 security breach
I agree with you. When imgur started there was a definite need. Now it's being replaced because there's a new need (caused by imgur changing the way it operates).

Also, I don't think you're going to make everyone happy as a business, and that's (probably) okay.
Mostly due to this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMDA_receptor

I personally have said fuck it. I takes drugs for pain with a liberal moderation and drink protein shakes to balance out my vice of eating pure sugar snacks. Glycemically I know its terrible but on the calorie scale and macro nutrients I am well nourished. Eh..I have some sense of guilt about potential glycemic shock from the spikes but I think my body can handle it. Trick is to know before its too late...