skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason they picked this challenge is to work on problems where the whole state of the game is not immediately accessible (games of partial information, as opposed to chess and Go). Compared to AlphaGo, it is much more similar to the situations humans encounter in daily life.
I've always had one big question about Lambda. Is it really worth the cost you get for the convienience of it?

Is anyone using it in production that can comment?
Are you absolutely sure about that? I'd like to believe you but I can't take it on faith. I completely expect Facebook is giving itself some level of info about your SMS messages unless there is some reason they can't.
Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.
As if they don't tell you what you should do with your life in the US.
> For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook?

The operating system shouldn't be paternalistically responsible for preventing this kind of preference. Some people do want to voluntarily give this information to FB in exchange for a simplified or more integrated messaging experience. I don't happen to be one of them (no FB account), but it's a meaningful positive that the OS allows this for a whole lot of people.

> Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way?

Yes. I have an iPhone and a Pixel. The fact that I can't only keep 4, or 8, highly-used apps on my iPhone's primary home screen really does make it harder to use.

Imagine a Windows or a MacOS desktop that was literally covered in evenly-spaced icons. There's a reason most people don't do that.
"as a bonus, they also have a military that is closely tied to the commonwealth crown. how convenient." ... well seeming NZ is a commonwealth country it's not some convenience, it's history.

And it sounds like you think NZ has some huge military power. I think we have like one jet plane, so stock all the guns you want, I imagine in the case all the allies die and Russia invades we'd probably just give them a welcome ceremony.
I completely agree with you about making our own decisions on our health, and very much oppose soda taxes. That said, as I read it, UCSF didn't ban soda, they made a decision, as an institution, not to stock it on campus. While not technically a private organization, they should still have the ability to choose what they offer their employees. By the same token, employees should be able to bring their own soda and seek employment somewhere that does stock sodas.
> If two "experts" can look at the same evidence and come to entirely different conclusions, how is this science?

Happens all the time in science. You might be thinking of engineering, where opinions vary much less.
Could it be that the first 2 seasons were British. And 3rd season is first time being British-American so that felt that revisiting popular ideas with a new spin the timing was good?
Yes, it does.

We’ve renamed Camouflieren to Tarnen, and many other words like that.

There’s hundreds of cases of words being entire replaced.

A list of replacements of the past centuries, for example: Distanz → Abstand, Liberey → Bücherei, Moment → Augenblick, Passion → Leidenschaft, Projekt → Entwurf, Addresse → Anschrift, Korrespondenz → Briefwechsel, Komödie → Lustspiel, Dialekt → Mundart, Orthographie → Rechtschreibung, Journal → Tagebuch, Autor → Verfasser, Fundament → Grundlage, Antike → Altertum, Parterre → Erdgeschoss, Universität → Hochschule, Terrorismus → Schreckensherrschaft, Singular → Einzahl, Plural → Mehrzahl, poste restante → postlagernd, Coupé → Abteil, Perron → Bahnsteig, Billet → Fahrkarte, Retourbillet → Rückfahrkarte, download → herunterladen.

And even today there are large companies even funding groups working on replacing parts of the language, be it to replace foreign words, or to simplify words: https://www.rossmann.de/unternehmen/soziale-verantwortung/so...

Obviously, the far-right takes it to an extreme level, even replacing Internet with Weltnetz, but even in the left-wing there’s no opposition to replacing words, or simplifying the language.

And even those opposing those changes (see criticism section here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschr... ) don’t oppose these concepts in general, just would rather like to see different changes.
I would like to propose that we all investigate how we can be more scientific about our programming.

I imagine we can create artificial scenarios wherein we subject our code to rigged experiments. These experiments can serve to isolate parts of our codebases, pushing known values as inputs to the part and then inspecting the output for what we expect are correct values. We can posit theories about how our code should work, and then test those theories with experiments.

I envision a few benefits to these experiments:

1) isolating our modules to make experimenting easy may help to reduce the complexity of our programs.

2) overall 'correctness', whatever we define that to be, can continue to be verified over time as our programs change and grow as long as we update the expected values in our experiments at the same time or create additional experiments as needed.

3) the experiments themselves will serve as a kind of documentation of the codebase because they will show the code in action in fine detail.

What does everyone think of my idea? I know it sounds like an odd proposition, but science seems to work good in other disciplines. Maybe we can try it in ours?
Well, that's the most awesome thing I've seen in a long time! Thanks for sharing.
I switched from an iPhone 6+ to the Google Pixel. I've had two problems, but overall love the phone.

1.) The phone is extremely slippery. I don't agree with the author on this one. My old iPhone was way easier to grip, and the iPhone 7 is even better. I bought a case which fixed this issue.

2.) I think this is pretty important. Android apps are second class citizens. A lot of applications don't work properly with Android and you can tell that there just isn't much developer time spent on it. I hope as the Pixel and Google phones become more popular at the high end, more developer time is focused on these applications. Most applications work fine, but sometimes it can be frustrating when an application you expect to work has major bugs.
Isn't most game ai based on FSMs? I'm curious about how a deep learning approach would work against a large set of players with varying skill levels.
Move Over Apache Kafka and ActiveMQ: RocketMQ Is Coming
Not allowing recursion makes functional programming impossible.

Giving all loops a fixed upper bound comes at a cost to code readability (consider the example of traversing a linked list, as given in the article).
Well, in France, or Germany (where I’m from), I grew up right after such a change had happened.

I’m not sure why English speakers resist it so much, it simplifies the situation so much, and isn’t an issue anyway.
They don't get your texts in the message routing sense, but they absolutely have access to the content and could be shipping it to their servers every 5 seconds or whatever.

I don't think they are probably doing that, but there's not really any way to prevent them from doing that.
Nope. I'm sure the vast majority of iPhone customers never plug in their iPhones into a computer, which probably explains why they haven't bothered.
By default new apps are added the the home screen as well, so without curation you have a very iOS-like experience.
What's worrisome about the immigration trends?

I personally like them, and feel that they're more stabilizing than not: we're less likely to go to war with a nation of whose ethnicities make up some substantial fraction of our populace, and may be treated better in the case of war (look at German-American vs. Japanese-American treatment in WWII). But these are only my views.

You can ask Taleb about his views on Middle Eastern immigration to the West; IIRC he's from Lebanon.
I don't like reading articles like this one. I hate discrimination and I am amazed that in 2016 we still have it.
I am creating a website that lists companies that are hiring Latinos. Post your tech job here https://goo.gl/forms/CVIMrhigDXicaSUM2 if you are excited working with Latinos.
Product of Lucas Numbers Algorithm - "A fast algorithm for computing large Fibonacci numbers" -https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9652/9e1fedb0a372b825215c7b...
Why else would Android exist than to get people (and their sweet, sweet user data) into the Google ecosystem?
I haven't found it very useful. Certainly not a reason to choose iPhone over Android. I have other reasons (like privacy concerns and ecosystem lock in).
Google Capital changes its name to CapitalG
The problem as always is that, every time a field or industry has tried to argue "well, (insert underrepresented group here) just aren't interested in/aren't as good at what we do", no matter how many attempts they make to justify it with weird evolutionary arguments, they usually end up being proven wrong when someone finds a way to remove bias from the entry process of that field or industry.

Seriously, go read about stuff like the blind auditions for orchestras (and applications of the same technique to other fields) and how they blew up any notion of meritocratic processes and gender/racial imbalance being purely due to lack of interest or ability from the groups being excluded.
Unoccupied property taxes? You want to really disincentivize using housing as a bank account and instead incentivize housing as a business.
Exactly, this is a single data point, seemingly without contrast.
Hard to say how that would play out, but I wouldn't want the computer I'm going to be carrying around for the next 5 years to be thicker just to include a port that will hopefully be out of use within 1-2 years.

In the short term, my main desire for an A port would be for wireless mouse dongles or other people's flash drives. But I mostly switched to a bluetooth laptop mouse already, so I'm not sweating the mice. For my own flash drive, you can get one that supports both ports, but other people won't necessarily have one.

I think I'd still rather carry around an adapter for the short term and be able to transition completely off of USB-A when I no longer need it.
Diversity in many places seems to be largely focused on the shallowest parts of diversity, could that be because this is one of the easiest things to measure & tell about a person?

I certainly wouldn't be ready to fill out a survey about my political beliefs or my how my childhood was when interviewing.
If you read TFA the author wasn't talking about programming being entertaining, he was talking about how the process should be consistent & unsurprising. A silly comparison, but not about what he finds exciting.
How does it compare to mplayer? My biggest complaint about mplayer is it still doesn't play VFR videos well.
Excuse me if I don't believe that - even if that is the case today - that it will be tomorrow.

That said, if you already use Messenger for talking to friends, adding SMS isn't going to make a huge difference.
Perhaps it depends whether you see sandboxing as a tool or as a feature. There is https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap if you want sandboxing without systemd.
That's focusing too much on one data point, the popular "teen idol" singers of the day. :)

Overall we have far more ability to chose the music that fits you personally. If some people chose Bieber, that's fine. I happen to not chose Bieber, and there's plenty of ways of creating playlists on Spotify / listen to the Pandora stations I like / surf Youtube videos / etc. where I never have to hear a Bieber.

In Frank Sinatra's day, you were limited to live performances, kind of lousy sounding radio transmissions, and kind of lousy sounding 78s. Even modern compressed music sounds better than that and there's plenty of music options in full fidelity.

There's even people picking up the crooner torch these days. Some of them have a pretty decent career doing it (I'm thinking of the Michael Bubles and Harry Connick Jrs of the world). And if you want to listen to Frank, it's easy to very quickly do that too.

For the consumers, today is probably worse only in the fact that many people don't like too much choice (http://www.economist.com/node/17723028).

The part I see arguing with more justification is that it's probably worse for many musicians overall. Music never has been a great path to wealth (unless you are lucky to become a superstar) but my impression is that a lot of the jobs "in the middle" (your local cover bands and recording studios and whatnot) are either suffering from the same wage stagnation affecting other jobs in the middle, or are gone altogether due to technological advances.
Disease is going a bit far.

Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge
and techniques

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/scientism

Or to put it another way, too much logical positivism.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
This is what I'm confused about. The "diversity in tech" campaign is obviously being executed all wrong, and I see article after article written by the people it's supposedly trying to help, who confirm what common sense already should know. But yet it still marches on with full strength, as if there's no problem. What gives?
Do you think that insurance companies should have the right to withhold coverage from people who don't use seat belts or helmets? Also, do you think the State should have the right to withhold drivers' licenses from people who cannot get insurance?
Honest question - Why would you say Android is worse at ecosystem lock-in than iOS?
http://aigamedev.com/
Serverless AI
Also wrote a gem that implements this algorithm here
https://github.com/chaitanyav/fibonacci
How many people can you count in your circle factually bought an iPhone for that precise reason?
Shouldn't companies be hiring anyone who is qualified, latino or not?
You absolutely can only have 4-8 apps on your iPhones home screen. You can move them all off to another page. You could move them to the fourth or fifth or whatever page if you don't want them on the second page.
Your kids need mates,and people are social creatures.
Yes, I am replying to that point. It’s incorrect, or at least misleading. Containers are meant to store any data that they have to externally; volumes are a facility to do this. Storing your data in an ephemeral container would absolutely be stupid, and the risk of unrecoverable corruption after a crash should be low if you’re not experiencing frequent kernel panics.
For many, many people, cash flow is far more important than total amount paid.

Even ignoring personal anecdotes, a perfect example is SaaS: many corporations happily pay a monthly fee even though in total it's far more than it would have been to purchase a similar package outright.
Recently I cleaned completely my home screen (iPhone). In the dock I keep Phone, a folder with Safari and Mail, a folder with what I used to have in my home screen (Calendar, todo, clock... 7-8 things) and the "social" apps folder (Facebook, Whatsapp, iMessage, etc). The rest, I have it in a secondary screen, neatly ordered by folder. And anyway, when I need to open almost anything that is not in the dock, I just search for it, just like I do on my computer. It's like having an uncluttered desktop so I can see the background.
But that's pretty easy to turn off on Android.
Creating a website that only caters to a given ethnicity is extremely discriminatory.
Isn't auto pilot speed limited?

It from the witness reports and the wreck it looks like they were traveling at considerably higher speeds than the limit.
>I want to slap all these Show-HN innovation fetishists that reinvent the same thing over and over again. They make life worse for everyone.

>we nerds are an unbearable bunch.

1/ No one forces you to use what someone show case to the community

2/ Creation is encouraged and this is good. That certainly isn't mutually exclusive with you being cautious about the tools you chose to work with. If you think a pre-alpha physic simulation framework is good to use for your nuclear reactor, you're the one to blame.

3/ Your diatribe on boring-ness is completely off-topic which makes me wonder if you actually read the article or jumped in because the title seemed fitting.
Massive cyber-attack grinds Liberia's internet to a halt
Can you blame them for wanting to break more into the Microsoft ecosystem? Besides, Docker's company mentality aligns pretty closely with a company like Microsoft, there's probably a lot for them to learn. A huge plus from a business perspective, but it's easy to see why it wouldn't sit well with open source advocates.
There was a trailer a few years back with a bunch of 20-something white gamer dudes in some kind of dystopian future gamer den playing a CoD style shooter, which was in reality --- well, the same plot twist as "Men Against Fire". I thought (a) the trailer was much more evocative than the Man Against Fire episode, and (b) that it was possible that "Man Against Fire" borrowed its idea from that trailer.

Later

Found it! Uncanny Valley:

https://vimeo.com/147365861

I think this is both more plausible and more disturbing than "Men Against Fire". Also: the twist is less apparent --- for most of "Uncanny Valley" (if I'm remembering it clearly), you're not entirely sure whether it's a comment about how games generate dissipation the same way drugs do. "Men Against Fire" is predictable from about minute 10 (after the farm house scene).

Another "Black Mirror" problem I have: the episodes are way too long. "San Junipero" is the only one --- of all the seasons, I think! --- that earned its running length.
I am not saying it is worse I am saying I am locked into Apple's ecosystem. :)
So Apple has set aside #courage and #magic for a moment to consider connectivity and compatibility?

Well, it's something, though it could certainly have happened a bit earlier in the design process.
Well container came out of slimming down VMs.

Meaning that rather than moving a whole OS from hardware to hardware, or spin them up or down as load required, you would spin up or down processes and their runtime requirements from a known functioning image.

Thus removing the overhead of the VMs hardware emulation and the need to run so many kernels.

The response from the VM world to containerization seems to be to push unikernels. Effectively going back to the DOS days where you have just the minimal kernel and userland, all living "happily" in the same (virtual) memory space.
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And the UI/UX is hardly at all different than what has been shipping for the last 3 major Android versions.

Again, none of this is new for people who are actually using a recent version of Android in the last 2-3 years, but go figure I get downvoted for pointing it out.

Just as your comment proves, it's a sad, tired and completely out-dated meme that Android doesn't have good UX. And then these blog posts come along and I roll my eyes because my old phone that is 2 major revs behind Nougat looks and behaves virtually identical to Nougat.

Ironically, there are good features in the last few major revs, but they're more about granular permissions and other functionality that isn't touched on by this article at all.
You do use seat belts for the safety of others. Back seat passengers without seat belts increase the risk of front seat passengers dramatically during a crash. And front seat passengers without belts run the chance of turning in to a mansize projectile endangering all in an arch in front of the vehicle.

You could also ague that anything that lowers the severity of traffic accidents lessens the work need by police and clean up crews. Effectively protecting them as working roadside can be a risky job.
Welcome to Gattaca.
Training data? After all, AlphaGo trained on a database of over 30M expert human moves. I suspect one championship round from Team EnVy is worth billions of iterations of random exploration ;)

Kudos to both Blizzard and DeepMind. Anticipating a lot of fun with this. StarCraft 2 could indeed become the AI pedagogy standard.
He doesn't have an iPhone 7+, yet he claims that the camera on the pixel are "consistently better".

I don't have any, but the side by side tests I've seen of real world pictures it is a complete wash between the two.

I find it silly to say that Apple didn't present a compelling enough camera, but Google did, when they are as similar as they are.
> For instance, ask it to search for an actor and then ask, “what films has he starred in?” It knows you’re still talking about the same person. Impressive.

Yeah, but then you ask it: "What is heavier, a cat or an elephant?" and it fails, because it is lacking in common sense. It only has a small-ish factoid knowledge base and lacks all the general common sense things we take for granted.
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Why India’s Neutrino Observatory Languishes Between a Rock and a Hard Place
That's incorrect. Dotcloud ran both stateless and stateful services on the same container fabric, unlike Heroku and every other PaaS. Specifically you could run a managed containerized postgres, mysql, mongodb, redis, rabbitmq, and custom stateful tcp services. Docker was a result of that design.

Docker was specifically designed to NOT impose a model of ephemeral containers. For example, by default 'docker run' preserves all data.
Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

There's a good table of this about halfway down the page.

Looks like cancer is the single largest cause, accounting for about 2/5ths of the deaths.
The computer doesn't even know what a kill is.
Don't forget the drop in the number of younger men, the most likely to become criminals, as the Baby Boomers grew older. Not to mention a bunch of the incorrigibles getting locked up for long periods of time.
I think your second point may have more to to do with the diversity of hardware that Android runs on than the developers simply putting less effort into it. Android runs on so many different devices. It is more difficult to develop and Android app that feels totally polished on every device
I share your outrage/fear, and I invite you to contribute to The Innocence Project like I do: http://www.innocenceproject.org/

They've already exonerated about 340 people, which likely amounts to many lifetimes of innocents' jail time avoided
To protect mobile search revenue. I get what you meant, I'm just saying Google doesn't need your location history and your assorted other meta data to profit off you. They just need to ensure Apple can never close the door on search to them.
Thank you, this looks really promising.
Optical audio did not survive, though.
Adding on to this, the one scenario where it matters is if you buy a new USB-C to Lightning cable, that lets you travel with just the MBP's USB-C power brick. To charge the computer you plug it in. To charge the phone you plug it in. To charge both you plug the computer in and then plug the phone into the computer, since it's all the same port.

If you still had USB-A on the computer, you could potentially have traveled with only a laptop power supply, and then charged the phone via the laptop ports with the original cable. But I don't know anyone who travels without a phone charger thinking "eh, I'll just plug this into my computer to charge instead."
Not the parent, but Android allows easy installation of arbitrary APKs downloaded from anywhere. Also, there are multiple app stores on Android, like Amazon.