skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The policy network (intuition) is already high dan level, which is stronger than many strong amateurs. That's right, with zero reading it's already something like 5d level.

The other part that increases its strength is the positional evaluation through the value network. It's ALSO intuition based on which points are going to belong to which player.

Those two combined give it a high dan level, maybe around 8d.

Only the last component (Monte-Carlo tree search) is not quite as similar because it uses random game roll-outs to ALSO give an evaluation.

AFAIK, value network evaluation is an overestimate of territories, while the MCTS is an underestimate so using both it's stronger than professional level.

The levels I put is the version that played Lee Sedol. The version that went 50-0 on the Internet is clearly stronger and might already be professional level without MCTS.
If you prefer O2 to CO, you'll care about corrosion.
Funny enough, I think you've actually hit the nail on hm the head about what makes go programmers so irritating, that they think the go spec has somehow taken into account "the right way" for every possible problem. It's so obnoxious.

Problems that actually matter is such a good indicator that someone has no idea what they're talking about.

Formalization and proofing is what MATTERS. If you ain't got that, you're basically just guessing
According to https://ec.europa.eu/assets/jrc/events/20110428-tto-circle/j... both Philips and Dolby collected royalties on AC-3 in DVD players totaling $1.05 for one capable of 5.1 output. By comparison, the high-volume per-unit fee for H.264 is $0.10, and because of the annual cap on H.264 fees, the effective per-unit fee for large companies is actually much smaller. So AC-3 costs over an order of magnitude more than a video codec (HEVC is, of course, aiming to fix this), and does not, to my knowledge, have an annual cap.

You can view a sample license agreement, which does not mention such a cap, here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114084/000101287003...
Annual caps are essential for anyone whose business model involves giving away software for free on the internet (even an existing user downloading a new version triggers another royalty).

You may also notice that that agreement charges royalties for products made or distributed in "Non-Patent Countries", including those that purport not to have software patents. This is pretty standard. Essentially, if you'd like to sell your product in the US, you have to pay royalties on all units you sell, anywhere in the world.
First, note that Needham’s book Visual Complex Analysis is not interactive. It’s just a book with slightly more pictures and more geometrically motivated explanations than most books have.

Personally I don’t think it’s ideal to use as an only book for a complex analysis course, but I found it very helpful for crystalizing my intuition/thinking about the subject. I would recommend every university math student try reading it, especially after going through a traditional course. (Also recommended is Wegert’s book Visual Complex Functions, but definitely not as a primary text.)

Finally, I suspect switching primary books is only going to work well if the professor makes a commitment to teaching using the same explanations. If the book goes about the subject in a completely different way than the lectures, I can well imagine students working homework sets on a short deadline may get confused.
You don't need a PhD to build a business that uses ML
What about German appliances?
I would suggest that anything that can be implemented as an abstraction in software alone probably should be limited to no more than 5 years of protection, without any possibility of extension patents... Even then, it would be far better than what we have.

Drug/Medical patents need some reform that may need to include compulsory licensing after 3-5 years, and a dual-source requirement (two manufacturers) in order to be covered by government subsidized/paid for insurance programs (including VA, Medicare and gov't employees).
For tools (think saws and drills) this is changing somewhat.

Check out AVE on youtube, his teardown are great!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA
> Over 2 billion calculations are needed to produce each pattern; not much of a load for today’s computers, but definitely an impossible task for the human brain. So, this is a new and unique type of knitting that could not have been implemented a few decades ago, without computers.

It's hard to take this assertion at face value. Compare that to what a human go player can do vs. a computer. (2 billion computations would be on the order of seconds on a normal computer)

Still a cool project!
It would be nice to see the project on the card also... Not sure if that was a design decision, but its really unclear to just have something like 'Add react' as the title without a little more info.
A huge company like Apple is a bad example. The best example of patents working well are when they are used by startups formed from university research groups.

You have a group of people that has performed basic research with minimum funding and decides to commercialize an idea. Since the group's work is already published in conferences and/or journals[1], it is extremely easy for a huge company to just throw some money at the idea and come out with a commercial implementation. But with patents in hand, the research group and the university can decide to either sell the patents to the highest bidder, or continue developing the product if they see the potential. And since the idea is protected by the law, no amount of money can kill the company.

I actually believe that the US patent system is one reason behind the success of advanced tech startups here.

[1]: Publication of results is a requirement for virtually all types of research funding. In other words, if you don't patent the outcome of your research, it's essentially in the public domain.
I have a top loader that doesn't lock, but it immediately shuts off if it's in the spin cycle and you open it. Perhaps yours is like that?
See also http://up-for-grabs.net/
Buy a pc/laptop with an NVIDIA GPU and setup Linux on it. It is a better option than using EC2 instances.
The New York Times has at the very least 30% more unique monthly consumers than Limbaugh, and realistically probably 300-400% more given Limbaugh's weekly listener overlap.

* nytimes.com had 72.9 million users and 649.2 million page views in January 2016 [1]

* "Limbaugh still draws some 13 million listeners a week (though that’s down from his 1990s peak of more than 20 million)", per an article from May 2016 [2]

1. http://adage.com/article/media/york-times-pulls-back-ahead-w...

2. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/is-rush-limba...
Brian McClendon, Uber's head of Maps, is leaving the company
Filling out PDF forms is a pretty normal consumer task these days, I wouldn't call it even half-advanced.
Buy a laptop with a GPU. If you are serious about learning AI, it's worth spending few hundred dollars to get a proper workstation.
I have a bunch of behaviours like this, that are ineffective if it's just me, but would change the world if we all did them.

Because if vendors knew that the act of cold-calling or spamming would immediately exclude them, then they wouldn't do it.

I get your point that with just me doing it, this is ineffective because the vendors don't get enough feedback as to why they didn't get my business.

But I have no power to change other people's behaviour. I can only change my own and hope others see the world as I do.
Really? I think he knows exactly what he's doing. He realized he could make a name (in infamy) for himself by co-opting the abomination that is the alt-right. And no, I don't really give a sh*t if he actually believes what he preaches. The damage is the same nonetheless.
Make Appliances Great Again /s
I've been on Amtrak long distance routes a few times over the past five years. Every single time, I have met someone at one of my meals who has said they choose train travel specifically to avoid all the security hassle. And then are always on the older end of the age spectrum. Sure, this is anecdotal, but I think it hints at an unease by older folks about the whole screening process and so they completely avoid it when they have the travel time to spare.
What is ibGib? What does the name represent?
> They absolutely did vote for this Congress.

Due to gerrymandering, they did not.

In each of the last three House elections, the Dems' House seats have been ~2.5% beneath their national vote, and the GOP's House seats have been 5-6% above their national vote. In 2012, Democrats actually won more seats nationwide but the GOP got 53.6% of the seats.

Also, this data ignores the voter suppression laws that prevent primarily Democratic citizens from voting.

* 2012

Nationwide vote: Dem 48.8% / GOP 47.6%

Seats won: Dem 46.2% / GOP 53.8%

* 2014

Nationwide vote: Dem 45.5% / GOP 51.2%

Seats won: Dem 43.2% / GOP 56.8%

* 2016

Nationwide vote: Dem 48.0% / GOP 49.1%

Seats won: Dem 44.6% / GOP 55.4%
Yeah it's getting blurry between spam and targeted ads. I have less objection to targeted ads, because it's not wasting everyone's time - there is some reason for the recipient getting the ad.
Vending Machines Could Redefine How We Consume Everything
Put in an amount of effort that you consider professional at work (by which I mean, put in enough effort that you're proud of yourself, even if you're less productive than you'd consider ideal for someone specialising in what they need). Use React on side projects. Look for better opportunities, and be more picky and curious about the actual work you'll be doing. You owe them no more loyalty or accommodation than they've shown you by misleadingly recruiting you.

Chalk it all up to career learning... Try not to get too personally invested or discouraged.
Anything to back your prediction up? The startups I've worked for got patents, but everyone knew (including our investors) that the patents were useless if anyone actually copied our work.
WOW what a great cover with these sexy people
I've lived in the bay area for 25 years, I'm in the tech world and I've been around the block a few times...
That's a good point - the choice of crop will have a large bearing. I don't know if low margin crops like grains could provide an adequate ROI given electricity costs etc, let alone the outlay required to build structures over huge areas.

In my understanding vertical farming is usually a hydrocultural practice (doesn't use soil). That works well for a lot of horticulture, but not so much for broadacre crops.
I am sure that Miele builds outstanding washing machines. But, first, a Miele basically costs double what another branded machine would cost. And partly, they live on their old name and reputation. Same with Mercedes. I am sure a Mercedes is an outstanding peace of hardware. But I am also sure any Mercedes will never be as long lasting and as reliable, as a Mercedes build on the W123 platform.
A much harder thing for adults is to re-learn something they already know in a different way. For example, I thought I knew how to swim until I took private lessons with an instructor. I spent most of the time 'unlearning' the wrong techniques. The muscle memory was just engraved. I know guys don't ask for directions, but if you want results, pro help can really pay off.
I remember when I got hired to work on old code for an autoshop program. I actually loved it... great job though it could be tedious, but the worst thing was the boss constantly micromanaging me. I couldn't stand it. We'd have meetings about fixing things and new code to be implemented, than he would have me email him [an outline of] everything said in our meeting.

Then he would critique it to exactly what he wanted me to know about what I should have gotten out of the meeting. I'd say I spent about 3 or 4 hours a day coding and the other 4 was pretty much dedicated to putting up with his antics. Every time he would come bother me, I'd lose my focus and spend 10 or 20 minutes just trying to get into that mindset again.

You can read more about that experience here if you are interested: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/

Long story short: I ended up applying to other jobs because with $40k of student loan debt and being paid $12/hr, I just wasn't ever going to move out of my mom's house. When I told him I was going to be getting another job, he offered me double my salary to stay. I thought about it and knew that he was going to hold it against me for everything.

Towards the end of my time working there, he did give me a raise for what would last a week and allowed me to work nights, so I could work in silence, as a way to try and lure me to stay and give me the "experience" of making $24/hr. Unfortunately, he also installed spy software on my computer, and questioned me about why I was on YouTube all night (I had a playlist in the background) instead of doing my job. After that, I pretty much told him it wasn't going to work out because of his mistrust of me, and I cut my final 2 weeks short.

Anyways, I ended up getting another job and this one too -- I worked on a "cold client base" that was at least 2 years old -- basically, the company sold contracts in advance and never delivered, so I was hired to help them catch up. Managed to take their "cold client base" from about 140 accounts all the way down to about 32 accounts remaining. It involved some software and collecting data. We worked in Flash. Other companies were working in HTML5.

We had an in-house programmer working on an HTML5-based platform and it was amazing. Unfortunately, I got laid off before I got to learn the new program, but apparently, after 6 months, so did everyone else and the company went out of business. Had they just released that program and pushed it, I'm pretty sure they would have been able to stay in business, but such is life.

I currently work as a web developer for a large media corporation. No regrets and I've definitely earned my salary and raises over the years. If you aren't feeling it anymore, than start looking for a new job and go for it. You have programming knowledge so it is likely you can get a job in many different places. When you go, they'll probably find someone else. We're all replaceable, for the most part.

Go do something you enjoy and get paid to do it. No sense in wasting your life away not doing something you don't really enjoy.
I know a guy who did extensive research and bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer, simply because most of their business is in commercial units. They're built simply and made to last, but not easy to find at retail.
This makes, possibly, one of the most Widely used and Hardware compatible codec patent free.
( All MP3's patent will expire in Dec 2017 )

And AC-3 offer lossless mode, which means you now have a Free, Lossloess codec that can be played on a very wide range of media player.

My previous experience ( that was properly more then 10 years ago already )was that AC-3 sounded a lot better then Mp3 at high bitrate / 256Kbps.

Not sure how it fares with AAC.
The Bitcoin block size limits the transaction rate, because when a new block is generated by a mining operation, every 10 minutes or so, only a limited number of transactions will fit. Anyone generating a transaction can set the fee they will pay to have it processed, and higher fees are done first. Until recently, even zero-fee transactions tended to be processed eventually. But due to increased traffic, the queue to get into the blockchain is backing up. Right now, it's 6500 transactions behind. If you want to get your transaction through in less than an hour, you'll need to pay a fee of about $1.[1]

Increasing the size of the blocks has been discussed for years. There are upsides and downsides to larger block sizes. If there was a strong consensus for a change, and everybody just updated their software with new blocks size limits, that would work out OK. The problem is that a substantial fraction, maybe 40%, of miners want a change, but the rest of the miners aren't willing to go along. There is thus the possibility of a "hard fork", as happened to Etherium.

A hard fork of Bitcoin has considerable implications. Now there are two kinds of Bitcoins, probably called BTC and BTU. Unless there's a mechanism to avoid it, each current Bitcoin turns into two, one on each blockchain. This is a form of dilution, and the price should drop. The people with Bitcoin futures are very upset about this, and the exact language of futures contracts becomes very important.

[1] https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
The CIA and My Samsung TV
I had a neighbor who worked for the patent office. He worked on LCD screens for Samsung and some other manufacturers. He told me the patent office needs 2-3 years to grant the patent but the lifespan of the product is around 18 months. So, he told me, by the time the patent is granted the product is already off the shelves.

He got offended when I said the patent system was messed up
It's definitely worth looking into, look for good deals and the money is there if you can find a good enough deal, if you have some wealthy contacts looking for an opportunity. High income earners are in need of three things:

1) Opportunities for their money to make money
2) Diversification
3) Tax deductions and going into a partnership that owns RE can do this for them.

The thing about real estate is its not passive like investing in equities is. You can get property managers and maybe if you find a really good one it will work out ok, but no one will care about your property the way you do. So if you can find good deals, and have the skillset to work them productively and can show that, you can find the money to buy them even if you can't qualify for bank financing. It's not going to be as cheap as bank financing, but it's possible.

Software developers with a good W-2 income can get really good mortgage rates from banks right now however. If you can do that, do that as much as you can. But you will find that doesn't scale as fast as you might like. That's where private money makes sense.

Internet startups are really cool and can mean big growth, billion dollar growth is possible, but that's a winner take all market with high failure rates.

I shot for the stars with internet business and had some success but never had the huge exit I really wanted in the time frame I wanted it in. I had really wanted to make big FU money by the time I was 27 or so, so I could live the big, free life I always thought I wanted.

But then I realized I was very free when I was growing up, and that freedom came from the rental properties my father built and managed, and I wanted to recreate that life for my children, and I couldn't take big chances like I used to. I needed something that would definitely work if I worked hard at it.

And a foundation of rents will let me take big chances again in the future, but then there really won't be a chance of failure, because the default mode will be some comfortable life collecting rents.

It's pretty cool when people just constantly owe you, and pay you just for owning something.
> funded a company called Blockstream to infiltrate the Bitcoin development team kick the lead developers off it.

Blockstreeam was founded by long-time bitcoin lead developers.

The rest of your post is paranoid nonsense.
True. BER is in a class of its own.
>It's to avoid free-riders copying an invention after someone else researches the related dead ends.

How much did you pay to use the language and the vocabulary you're using in this post?
Oh christ, another Frontiers in Briefing Trends series. These are among the most superficially reviewed journals on earth. Navarrete must have been up for tenure and needed a few publications (deans can't read, but some can count).
I have a shop vacuum that is about 35 years old. All metal, robust, solid. I bought it way back when for, if I remember correctly, $300. It has seen a lot of use and it still works like new.

I still have a couple of HP-41 calculators. Over thirty years old and they look brand new and work as new. Here they are, on my desk. Always there as computers, keyboards and trackballs have come and gone.

The same is true of power tools (not battery operated) of that era (early 80's).

My Bridgeport milling machine is another example. Yes, it's an industrial machine so the comparison might not be fair but the electronics function as new.

One of my biggest concerns as we were forced to transition into RoHS chemistry for electronics assembly has always been product lifetime. The intent of RoHS was, of course, to reduce pollution. I think that, in practice, it may have produced exactly the opposite effect. Sure someone has studied this. I hope I am wrong.

How is this the case? Well, RoHS solder chemistry has problems. From brittle solder joints to tin whiskers, the latter being a huge concern.

Whereas prior to RoHS one could build a great product like and HP-41 calculator and have it last decades, RoHS ended all of that. There is absolutely no way to prevent or predict tin whisker growth. Consumer electronics companies do not report failures (to be fair, the probably don't see most of them) and we have no real way to track people just tossing electronic products in the trash and why they do so.

Having tin whiskers is like having guaranteed obsolescence. Products will fail and there is no way to predict when and how. Which, to me, means we are probably dumping more shit in landfills than we used to.

In other words, my HP-41 hasn't gone into a landfill in over thirty years and it is unlikely to do so in another thirty. But nearly every other post-RoHS calculator is likely to end-up there because of these unpredictable failures.

And so, while the intent of RoHS was to clean the planet I have a feeling they have effectively setup the world for massive product failures over the years and far greater piles of electronics waste to contend with.
Please dont post affiliate links on HN, especially shortlinks intended to hide the actual tagged URL. You won't go far here doing so.

Untracked URL:

https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserv...
After repairing my appliances one by one, finding the schematics, diagnosing parts and then searching for replacements

Where did you find the schematics?

I tried a few years ago to find just instructions for some appliances and gave up because of search engine spam etc.
wow, and here I thought that SSDs were disks made of RAM
I actually didn't know 21 was attempting to mine bitcoin on Raspberry PIs LOL
"If you want one of the best displays on a TV, it comes "bundled in" with "smart" features. "

Not true.

If you buy a commercial display (you know, those panels you see in airports) not only will it be a far higher quality display than any consumer model, but it will also be the dumbest display you can imagine.

They're not that much more expensive - which makes sense, since end users are sometimes building video walls out of 10 or 12 or 16 of them ...
Check this out: http://www.subzero-wolf.com/sub-zero
Part of it is brand reputation stripping. If a brand gets a good reputation, some big conglomerate buys it and starts using it to make trash, and it takes time for consumers to learn it through the grapevine. This happens far too often to be mere coincidence.
Mining Pool Bitclub Network Mines Its First Bitcoin Unlimited Block
Could you point me to some sources where I can read up on these claims? If all would be true, assumptions I've had about certain people would've change drastically.
>This also indicates a delusional, conspiratorial view of the world, to the extent that you believe people on this relatively niche site are being paid to post things

I would believe that too, but given the fact that 90% of the news related to those companies not only here, but in most tech sites are always negative I'm starting to think the contrary.