skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the human race had collectively had only a decade of Go-playing experience (as was the case with Arimaa), it might have been possible for an AI coded with "classical techniques" to defeat them.

(To be specific, my guess is that we'd have been at the amateur-dan level, and the initial MCTS revolution would have been enough for the computers to win.)
Highly depends on the use case.

Python 3.5 with uvloop+sanic can be faster than node.js without any JIT:

https://github.com/channelcat/sanic#benchmarks
This question nerd sniped me quite hard, and I'm unfortunately having trouble answering it. I figured a first step would be to look at aid as a portion of cost of attendance over time, tracked against affirmative action endeavors. The problem I'm having is finding consistent measures of both aid and COA, let alone over time. If anyone knows a data source that proffers this I'd be quite curious.
Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed
Awesome - you have upgraded me today.
Go and D both made the design choice to have garbage collection heavily intertwined with the language (or at least the standard library), which makes them not really suitable for replacing C++ in most applications. Rust doesn't have a GC, so it should do better in that niche.

It's always seemed like Google wrote Go to for the purpose of having a "faster Python"--where they were writing components in Python that weren't fast enough, they could write them in Go instead of having to resort to C++.
> The sad thing being how much harassment essentially went on

The past tense implies the intelligence community is better behaved now. The old threat was communism, now it's terrorism.
Ultimately we can't do anything about a server that is near-maliciously determined to be wrong. The hope is we can at least defend against some of the common genuine mistakes at fairly low cost.

The implementer that tries to special-case GREASE values must have first hit an interop problem and thus had a second or third opportunity to think about it. I would hope, at that point, they realize they're meant to ignore unknown ones!
Frank Abagnale?
This was making the rounds yesterday on Twitter, 1 per week.

https://twitter.com/SUPGVNetwork/status/816283238285135872
No, email away (not sure how much help I'd be!) - email is my HN username @ gmail.com
11 new companies have joined our Slack Fund
Very cool. Thanks!
I had fun asking Google, Siri, and Alexa, "is Jesus God's son?" Siri brings back web searches. Alexa says that she's sorry but she doesn't understand the question (even though the card in the app shows she heard it correctly). Google brings back the theology of Jesus from a muslim point of view. It then reads it out loud. The wikipedia entry goes so far as to argue against the Trinitarian doctrine.

Had fun with that last one during the Holidays at each of my conservative Christian families. I thought it was hilarious.
I agree that the above 'statistic' was [probably made up, but there are still plenty of murders that could be solved with 2-3 days or less of 'foot-on-the ground' investigation work (Obviously going to take longer on a time-line considering lab tests, autopsies, and all of that stuff taking longer in many instances to get results back before you can close the investigation).
You have to be careful. Most people believe the volume numbers reported by Chinese exchanges are heavily inflated.

Edit: I was incorrect. See below, it seems this doesn't apply for this website as they aren't using volume data from exchanges.
Why would exponential growth kill off a subculture before it grows to become the dominant culture?
SCHUMANN: RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS COMPOSING MUSIC
"Added up, it is easily more than 30s per line."

30s per line of current Python code, not compiler code.

And I'm just providing a number to put some numbers out there. 30s/line to convert a Python program to something fundamentally different like Go is probably an underestimate, yes, but then, if it's an underestimate that means the budget for the Python reimplementation is that much larger.

It also really helps the "subtle issues" when you control both the implementation and the code running on it; it means for every subtle issue discovered you have the option of either fixing the implementation or fixing the original code not to tickle the corner case. It's much harder when you only control one side or the other. It's not Google that will be having massive problems with corner cases.
Renewing Medium's focus
For the people who are interested in this topic, Google has a training video that talks through some interesting psychology research that ties to hiring / performance reviews -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU

I haven't been able to locate many similar good talks, so if anyone can point me to speakers / talks I'd appreciate it.
Sometimes, I can't tell if the newer generation understands that Photoshop is a thing or not.

Also, I'm pretty sure they have no idea that when you create a massive repository of identities to try and protect the childrens, you're just painting a huge bullseye on the back of it's database.

It's like people believe Russians hacked the election, but no one could EVER hack a central repository of identities! Why, it's protected by good intentions and saving the childrens! Oh hey, another 1 billion Yahoo! identities got leaked...
Firefox mobile is now using Buddybuid CI
Are Go's integers unbounded? If not, proving the value never exceeds the range to silent convert essentially a BigInteger into an int might be hard.
Switching away from ads from a moral standpoint as presented in the article is a harder sell when the content publishing industry as a whole is having issues making money off of it.
I agree honest publishers are at a definite disadvantage. Advertisers aren't because the roi calculation they come up with judges their campaigns based on its performance, which incorporates good and bad clicks over time.
Yeah, don't use what I've said as a guide for writing your own stuff. I'm pretty sure I did it right, but you need a lot more understanding of what's going on than what I've explained....

These days, with atomics showing up in the C and C++ standard libraries, there are better ways to do it altogether.
> some major library developers added dual 2/3 support

> The users never arrived

That's the way it used to be a few years ago - it changed a lot the last few years. Pretty much all libraries are ported and many new libraries are Python 3-only.

asyncio is nice.

All Python devs I personally know moved to Python 3. Porting is a lot less painful than it used to be.
And a lot of people are speculating they will IPO this year, see https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603204/dropbox-could-have...
Yep, I've been playing Shadow Tactics, which is modeled after the older Commandos series. One difference if the addition of unfriendly civilians, who will report you to the nearest guards if they see you. Nothing in the game indicates that you shouldn't kill them, but they do show up separately in the after-mission report. A couple levels have achievements for not killing civilians, but they have achievements for a lot of obscure restrictions as well. Yet most of the civilians are just innocent people going about their lives who happen to live in the area that has become interesting to the plot. So, I can't help but want to avoid involving them in any way. I started out avoiding them even noticing my presence, and even when I was unable to find a way to avoid a particular civilian, I've used nonlethal methods to temporarily knock them out while I do my business in their sight area. I guess this kind of thing adds to my sense of accomplishment. Of course it doesn't stop me from occasionally murdering a helpless but inconvenient innocent out of frustration, before reloading a quicksave.

Then there's open world games like Fallout that allow you to steal everything not nailed down in entire settlements, gaining more currency and supplies than you can likely ever use. It feels cheap to me and I find it more interesting and challenging to obtain what I need more ethically.
Intentionally stay in second, unless it has reason to believe that it can stay in 1st place, even after getting blue-shelled.

But yes. point being, self driving is a feat of it's own, competing with opponents is a whole different ballgame with it's own set of challenges.
Why drum up business for a dictator led authoritarian government that suppresses its own people and other countries and pollutes the environment?
Yes, leveraging type hints for optimization purposes is a long term goal. Thanks for pointing me to that issue, I'll keep an eye on it.

One of the goals of open sourcing was to get feedback and work with outside folks so I'm definitely open to collaboration!
You must not be familiar with OAuth authentication for Github. There is no way to access your repos to analyze except by allowing write-permissions. Github doesn't allow read-only unfortunately.
They tried that with CPython, it didn't work: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/
Not a simple re-write.

My original plan is to break normal file system into composable pieces, and make the file system more scalable.

The first piece is the key~blob storage, which consists of master and volume servers. The second piece is the filer server.

The first piece should be self contained and agnostic of the layer above, yet still easy-to-use in normal cases where only key~blob service is needed.
Fuchs confessed before he was prosecuted.
>(Yes, I'm still on Python 2 but moving soon).

I'm like really new to programming and I'm still just learning the basics, but I see this little addendum a lot from people who say everyone should be writing Python 3.
Medium cuts team by one third - eliminates 50 jobs
It balances out over time. If bots were eliminated tomorrow, marketers would bid more for the impressions because they would suddenly become more effective, thus justifying more spend.
For what it's worth, I think your position is fair and the whole 'sealioning' people are strawmanning your argument.

I think your 'error' here was approaching a topic that is [post-facto] obviously sensitive in a normal (i.e.: less than sensitive) manner.

People get very polarized about politics[1] and your comments signaled you as being in opposition in some form wrt the "women's rights" position but did NOT virtue signal against their outgroup.

Consequently, your argument was interpreted as being pro-outgroup, hence the "you're a neckbeard"-style attacks.

Be more careful about sensitive topics next time.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
This is a critical point I didn't address. If the startup business is profitable and employees and founders can take reasonable salary it is sweet. If no profits but you have outside funding for growth it's also pretty sweet.

When it doesn't work, no profits, lagging growth it's terrible. Really terrible. Major stress, so much waste. And the sad fact is that's the likely outcome of startup world.

You have to have two plans. One for the Best and one for the complete shit-storm of winding down a business.
That's because most search engines use a form of NLP in their processing of user input for queries.
I don't understand how this list works - you can just go and ask FBI not to be interested in you, and they whitelist you from their investigations?
n=3 is the minimum. I believe this is in the associated presentation.
Hey, thanks for this! I'm traveling today but I'll give this a shot tomorrow. I'd be much happier if I could read scientific papers on my eReader.
I don't think that's the same thing as what the parent post is suggesting. Based on my wife's opinion (a female physician), female physicians seem to be dropping out or working only part time for child rearing purposes. It does have huge healthcare implications though, since females are now making up a large number of physicians and there are only a very small number of slots at medical schools.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/immorality-...

From the article I posted above has some details but not the precise metrics you requested. I'd be interested in those too.
Price? However, being locked into a proprietary solution is a non-starter, but give me full control of the hardware and I'd buy some.
What Silicon Valley Sees in Enterprise Rent-A-Car
The PyPy statistics aren't worth much since they're counting all sorts of automated downloads/dependencies/etc.

That's why packages like supervisor and graphite - which aren't libraries - are among the top downloads.
The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead
Yes, Tesla is leaning very heavily on Panosonic as a manufacturing partner at both the Gigafactory and the Solar City plant in Buffalo, New York.
I can't find anywhere that mentions the frequency of the service, but I think it's safe to assume they don't wait for a container to do a complete round trip before the next shipment leaves.

Google tells me that Germany has seven freight train services a week going to/from China.

http://tbngroup.de/en/internation-forwarding-logistics-from-...
Marketing Automation and how to achieve it
>that by using the best available manufacturing techniques, they can double the world's battery production on 260,000 hours/week of labor.

Mostly true, but to get a complete figure you might also factor in labor hours from upstream vendors which supply parts and/or raw materials. Increased battery production also means increased raw material extraction/processing/transportation.

Still impressive though. There's probably less than 50k workers involved in producing the world's battery supply.
I think Go being Google product is overemphasized. Dart is far more a Google product and has achieved modest success in industry.

Rust is putting lot of effort in better marketing because they want much broader usage than bits of high-perf, low level code which cannot tolerate a GC pause.

Similarly Swift is putting effort on general Server side coding. But I think it will remain limited to server side bits of macOS/iOS applications etc.
Just Look How Freaking Thin LG's New OLED TVs Are
Doesn't make sense, if it was simple as that I think virtually everybody would do that, because 9 out of 10 when the feds (or any other police body) is interested in you, it's not a good thing (for you, might good for the society)...
Cool video of the Japan prime minister motorcade merging into traffic - https://i.imgur.com/Fz11DuI.gifv

And a parody of motorcade abuse in an African country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbDgJN-j-PM
>> There is speculation that it was his ex-wife, Louise Bell

She made him sound like a James Bond evil genius type:

In matters of intrigue Richard Feynman is, I believe immensely clever—indeed a genius—and he is, I further believe, completely ruthless, unhampered by morals, ethics, or religion—and will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve his ends.
Some people are very productive in Django and Rails (and the like), in non-performant languages. Many sites never grow to the size where running on the JVM (or AOT-compiled Go) would save you money from fewer servers vs. more coder-hours.
Sorry for my wording, if it is misleading. I am only saying the SeaweedFS code does not try to do anything unnecessary, so you can extract most of the performance juice out of your hard drive or SSD.
> Tesla has been applying their "first principles" physics-based optimizations in this area.

I dunno; what you quote sounds like what any reasonable process engineer would do to optimize this process. There's nothing particularly groundbreaking about it.

For one, you can't "conserve the latent heat of evaporation"; you can of course do heat recovery between the two ends, but again this is not groundbreaking tech. In fact, it was first patented by Edward Green in 1845 under the name "Economizer", which has a nice Wikipedia article about it.

And I'm pretty sure the old Panasonic factory isn't just venting solvent into the atmosphere; that would be illegal essentially everywhere, and it would be a huge waste of money.

Also not convinced they are comparing apples to apples with the 80% figure; obviously a lot of the power consumption here is heat for the drying air, and the old Panasonic factory is not located in a desert with an annual average outside temp. of 19 C (66 F). I'm pretty sure they're using heat pumps (or maybe also just heat exchangers) to exploit the high outside temperature in Nevada to get that decreased power usage. Which is not stupid, but it's also not a Tesla-exclusive revolutionary idea.
What if that's where we're at right now? Ignorance is correctible. It's not bad if corrected (they could be part of the lucky 10,000 [1]). Perhaps woman are under a false perspective that the material is boring. With time, and experience, this might change.

1 - https://xkcd.com/1053/
Exactly; that's why I don't understand what's up with this list.
Okay, fine. "harmful assumptions".
Remove taxes, maybe half of it.

Remove the local costs of living which is only the highest of anywhere on the planet.

There is still some money left, but nothing impressive. You're sure not going to a 2 tier city ready to buy a big house in cash.
Hell, even OpenStack (which is giant tangled mess of code written by like a few dozen teams) is making good progress.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with this idiom. "Mental gymnastics" can be motivated by emotions, but they don't have to be. It isn't motivation that makes any particular mental activity gymnastic, but rather it is incoherence. The commissioner writes as if [0] doesn't exist, even though he probably had it open in another window on his screen while writing the dissent. Ideology and avarice were probably more salient motivators than emotion.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.5#b
There is no way you'd want to leak even more information about the machine such as RAM and CPU power, I feel like it's already dangerously easy to de-anonymize users across websites simply using what's provided in headers and described in the "navigator" global.

So with that in mind, I believe that Google Maps is purposefully not optimized for most mobile clients. It's designed as a fallback if you don't install the app (which they are deeply incentivized to peddle).

I also think other web applications that get to the point of ~5 seconds of loadtime need to rethink their compiling strategy (if at all possible). I mentioned webpack before, but spreading out the work of large payloads is a well documented issue with many different solutions. If it's the CPUs fault, you should be using Web Workers.

My original point stands though, processing on the client is free, scalable and an effective solution even considering the harm it could inflict on UX, and those harms can be mitigated.
> Although Grumpy is compiled, it is just as dynamic as Python, in that method dispatch involves dictionary lookups, etc.

Right, I suppose I assumed that straightforward numerical-looking code would be translated to Go numerical code. Perhaps they just aren't that ambitious yet.
I trust to publish such an app on their store (just to go through the process...they were giving away sweatshirts). they rejected me on the grounds of targeting kids. I'm guessing you never tried to publish this?
Becoming a well connected, famous physicist who worked on the atomic bomb appears to be a prereq. According to the article.
Previous: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=renewing-mediums-focus&sort=by...

Discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322
Cement Is Stronger When Its Molecules Are Busted
Netgear Responsible Disclosure Program
Unfortunately, it only shows commits done via github directly - not commits that come in from other sources (I.E. if you have a gerrit instance, that mirrors to github)
We are aware of the issues on mobile. We think an app would be required which we will launch if more debates are made via Desktop users as we think they are the major users.

What do you think?
Notably, some of the 3.6 performance improvements were merged in from PyPy :-)
> You can do both

I do agree. My issue was with the single-sidedness of Chevron's campaign. To me it implied that energy consumers are the primary cause of environmental woes.

Speaking for my industry only (commercial shipping), if companies were willing to sacrifice some profit & growth, commercial ships could all operate virtually free of harmful GhG emissions. This is technically possible today.

However, given the fragmentation and overcapacity that currently exists, the international competition is too fierce for any company to make such a leap for the general good. This is why IMO MARPOL emission regulations to include Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) and Emission Control Areas (ECAs) are so critical - because it says to companies "hey, it's o.k. to spend a little extra on CAPEX and OPEX, because everyone else has to also." (1)

Given what is possible today with available technology, however, I think the emission control cap tiers are far too conservative. The final tier (in a few decades) should be zero GhG emissions for all shipping. It is feasible - and really with overcapacity where it is, now is the best time to take the plunge because the reliant markets (e.g. virtually every market) will hardly feel the impact.

Shipping is a very tiny percentage (1.5%) of global GHG emissions (2), so I'd be interested to hear if experts in other fields that are larger emitters (e.g. aviation, automotive, etc) feel about the feasibility of hitting zero GHG emissions.

1. http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/environment/pollutionpreventio...

2. http://www.c2es.org/technology/factsheet/MarineShipping
If one volume replica disappears, the whole set of volume will become read-only. There are no magic to auto correct things, which I personally think is where problems start.

If the client crashes, the writes would fail.
I tried to install this on OSX (10.12.1), it doesn't seem to handle tar.xz files well, when extracted using the (default) "Archive Utility", it produces a ".cpgz" file, which, when extracted, produces a ".tar.xz" file again.

I ended up extracting it using the "xz" utility

brew install xz
xz -d ./mac-portacle.tar.xz

Opening the Portacle.app file didn't work, starting it from the terminal gave me the following:

dyld: Symbol not found: _iconv
Referenced from: /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib
Expected in: /Users/koen/Downloads/portacle//usr/mac/lib//libiconv.2.dylib
in /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib
/Users/koen/Downloads/portacle//emacs/mac/emacs.sh: line 51: 44458 Abort trap: 6 "$SCRIPT/bin/emacs" --name Portacle -T Portacle -q -l "$ROOT/config/emacs-init.el" "$@"
How we switched a PHP stack to Ruby without downtime
The Anatomy of Large-Scale Distributed Graph Algorithms
You don't think it is an impressively innovative way of securing, recording, and transferring value?

There are major issues, volatility not being the least. And I'll be the first to admit I doubt many of its proponents more ambitious claims.

However, on a basic level, its capability to reliably store and transfer value has only grown and become stronger in the past 8 years.

If it's a bubble, it's certainly an incredibly long running, transparent bubble. There isn't hidden, crucial information, compared to assets like Madoff's fund and housing that were recent long-running "bubbles" (of a certain sort). In those cases, the hidden information becoming public would have ended those bubbles sooner.
This and custom voice training for device names are on the top of my wishlist for the Echo.

For some reason my Echo has a really hard time recognizing some of the rather obvious names I give to my devices, like "LG TV". It'd be great if we could train the voice recognition engine to associate certain pronunciations with a specific device name.
Seeing as how even the PDF you link says in the first sentence "6-hour workday" ("6 timmars arbetsdag"), I can see why there is some confusion about the specific details.