skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is either a huge straw man, or I'm not understanding what you're getting at. The original article doesn't even delve into the specifics of each city, and there is a ton of nuance when it comes to getting around in NYC (which was my original point).

Depending on where you're leaving/coming from, a car can be a good option (no traffic, you live near the edge of Manhattan and get out of the borough quickly + hit little traffic once you leave) or horrible (I've taken cab rides that took nearly an hour completely inside of Manhattan).

My sole point was that, in certain situations around rush hour, a train departing from Grand Central or Penn Station can probably get you at least as far, if not farther, than a car could in the same amount of time. At certain times, you can even get from Penn to Philadelphia on the Acela in about 1h15m!

Consider that it's very rare that people car commute into lower Manhattan in the first place (at least, compared to the USA average of car commuting), the whole premise and investigation is a bit flawed. The majority of garages in that area don't park your car in a spot that is immediately accessible, so you could even wait 20 minutes (or call ahead) just to be able to start your car and drive away!
Not specifically, no, but the topic of the article applies equally well to the DAO hack as it does to the more recent one.
Absolutely amazing, well done!

But shouldn't it be "silver coder"?
I modeled traffic. I sold my company and retired, years ago. People don't realize how complicated traffic really is. It's a chaotic system, of sorts. You can tease out patterns with some work.

Anyhow, to add to your point, you can model all you want - but some drunk is going to reverse the wrong way down a one way street.

One of these days, maybe I'll get around to putting my experiences into giant walls of text.
Oops. My mistake, thanks for pointing it out. I thought the model name sounded rather old.
Between this and the Bitcoin split thing[1], I wonder if there's something going on behind the scenes at Bitfinex? I read through an article about alleged "spoofing" at Bitfinex[2] but not sure if I 100% believe it. Does anyone have any ideas on what's going on the general shadiness of Bitfinex?

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...

[2]: https://hackernoon.com/meet-spoofy-how-a-single-entity-domin...
It looks like it's over…? Someone has a replay of the relevant part(s)?
5v5 is much more complex than 1v1 gameplay, it's not as simple as taking the current AI and making 5 of it.
Not that this isn’t very cool, but 1v1 Dota isn’t anything like the full game, it’s mostly a competition of who has better micro. If it can beat a team of pros at 5v5– which is where the imperfect information, short-vs-long term strategy and inter-agent communication challenges come into play— then I’ll be impressed.
Whoa, there - doesn't the fact that a low ranking employee, to use the phrase, can cause a global scale shitstorm, mean that just maybe, there are actually problems which were swept under the rug for too long?
To be fair, the 1v1 Shadow Fiend matchup with these rules is A LOT about exact distances and timings. To which the bot has direct API access and the human has to got the whole GPU -> screen -> eyes -> brain -> muscles -> mouse -> CPU cycle.
Metra won't cost that past clyborn
Yeah, sorry if that wasn't clear - I was thinking that the manipulation you saw with the options on index was because they were cash settled. If they were physically settled (somehow), then it doesn't help you to be the buyer at an arbitrarily high price of the underlying. You have to sell the underlying to profit off of the call options, you can't just support the price against all comers at the time of exercise.
Blue Apron (NYSE:APRN) employees, what was your stock option strike price?
This is obviously a throwaway account. Some questions:

1. Are you one of the first 100 employees?

2. What strike price(s) were you offered?

3. Have you made / lost money?

4. Do you plan to exercise?
You can sue people for anything. Works better if you sue someone without enough money to defend himself, though.
Same for Dallas. My Friday home commute takes 45 min to an hour at 4 pm. It's only 9 miles.
also, it only will be fair if the bots are completely independents instead of a unique bot controlling 5 heroes
I didn't think your comment was motivated by the likelihood of nuclear war. Just to add another data point, this was one of two articles posted by this reporter today. The other article was about the likelihood that Reps were conducting town hall meetings in August. The reporter looks like they have a schedule of two articles published in the middle of the month and one at the end of the month.
To be clear 1v1 mid lane is harder than 1 unit v 1 unit in sc. But it is at least 3 levels behind 5v5 human play.

So first it's laining, which is showing in the game.

Then is the ganking basically 2-3 player working together.

Above that that's 5 men team fight.

Then you have the strategy planning in the band pick phase, and in game movement coordination.

There are other things like item choices, in game communication etc.

I guess bots never tilt...

This 1v1 match is definitely a proof of the strength and maturity of modern AI.

It will be extremely interesting to see if they can train a bot to achieve the above intelligence. If so, I guess the game is pretty much losing a lot of its appeal.
This was fun. It's our intern's last day on the ML infra team here. And he happens to be a competitive collegiate DOTA player. We were all crowded around watching the screen, shouting. Couldn't have planned a better send off. Nice job, OpenAI!
At what price though? That's not specified.
Very impressive, even if there are some limitations. I look forward to more progress for a team of bots.
What is the real end difference between this and something like genomic editing?

I'm not arguing for one or none of the above. Simply curious.
I'm not arguing that, just that it would be cool. The creators mentioned on stage that next year it would be a team of five bots. They also said it took the bot two weeks to reach the level it was at right now, so I'm curious to see how/if it'll evolve in the future.
Couldn't they just use 100 subdomains for their 100 bits?

Maybe we need a browser extension (or just a website) that instructs your browser to make requests to the HTTPS version of domains that are found to be used to set HSTS cookies, thus "blowing the fuses" and making those domains unusable for providing bits of entropy.

In fact, rather than blowing all the fuses, the extension/website could blow just a random few, as a bit mask, giving you someone else's ID number and ruining the ad company's profiling/analytics. That way you would be helping people who weren't using this defence, rather than just having your visits not added to any profile.
I don't want to be "that guy", but I used to play a lot of LOL, and I feel like 5v5 is in a different ballpark in terms of difficulty than a 1v1. Even champion select is strategically intensive. TSM (one of the best US teams), lost to an amateur team because they got out done in team selection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7l30-4A6WQ
This's really cool :) thank you for bringing this up
Well, just remember that flying in no turbulence is like 95% of the stress, turbulence only adds a little bit. (I made that number up, but I imagine it's really close to accurate.) Planes are designed for this, they expect flex in the structure and plan for it to happen. Commercial airlines track metal fatigue, and they have allowed safety margins for stress that allows for "normal" to be pretty far past what most of us have ever seen, before they're even concerned. Cars and boats and buses and trains all flex a lot while traveling too. Planes feel worse, but really they're not.

So I can totally understand at the conscious level why some people enjoy turbulence. I just wish I could enjoy it too, instead of having a level of fear that is clearly disproportionate to the relative risk.

Relative risk wise, my choice to skydive is extremely more dangerous and risky than flying in turbulent aircraft, so I'm pretty far past any reasonable safety analysis.
Even the nepalese across the Himalayas have their spicy Momo dumplings that look the same as Chinese dumplings
Agreed, bot will always be good at spell casting, last hitting, which actually is a major factor in winning(the sooner you get higher level you can zone the other player).
MEH. I am not impressed. Restricting the number of parameters and variables in order to produce a bot that can do 1 sub-set of tasks really well is nothing special imo.

Complexity and simulations of what you have not yet encountered is something humans can do with ease. This is not something a bot can do in a complex environment like DOTA.

I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong and that AI is truly a thing once I see a bot like this one beat a pro-team in a 5v5. Until then, meh...
How do things like reaction time, and actions per second work with something like this? Is it just an assumed advantage the ai gets, or does it simulate the limitations of a human? If it doesn't, how big of an advantage is it in an ai versus human competition?
I think it's a huge problem: most modern journalists tend to come from a place of privilege. Not only is it expensive to get a degree but it also requires lots of free time to build a portfolio. And then once you've "made it" -- which might take years of hustling -- you're lucky to be clearing $40k/year. For a profession that has such great influence over society it's very concerning that's not a more egalitarian field.
> If JD had posted his diatribe online on his own personal blog, there'd be a lot of discussion about it but he'd probably still be employed at Google

Not so sure:

"In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22violations+of+this+code+outside...
Hmm, not to say I disagree, but let's say hypothetically, instead of providing general public access to the beach, which is obviously a pity, the entire coastline was sold at the appropriate price. The money, in theory, could go into improving local infrastructure, etc, which may lead to an improvement in quality of life for people living in that area. I'm not saying that would happen, just entertaining the possibility that your proposed scenario could be positive.
> I mean, you could just never leave your house if you were concerned about safety.

I'd take a 1/1000000 chance. I wouldn't take a 1/1000 chance. Get the point?
I have always been under the impression that the original stated goals of those in favor of diversity was diversity of ideas and thoughts. The argument in favor of gender and racial diversity was originally based on using race and gender as proxies for individuals with different life experiences and who therefore will have different ideas and thoughts shaped by experiences as a result of their race and/or gender.

Somewhere along the way using race and gender as proxies fell along the wayside and those characteristics became the goal of diversity.
About once a week, maybe more. Visiting multiple stores (where it's already annoying to lug your prior purchases in with you) or just buying something like toilet paper will quickly achieve this qualification.
The BayTrail is a similar project for San Francisco Bay area: http://baytrail.org/baytrailmap.html

Around the US there are tens of thousands of miles of trails that have been converted from railways. Rails-to-Trails is one nonprofit that focuses on converting unused railways: https://www.railstotrails.org/about/about-us/
How does having a bot succeed cause appeal to be lost?
First you're suggesting that the strategy will be "found" and never beaten (no room for improvement, not even in hero selection).
Secondly.. Chess & Go have been around for thousands of years and they still are played en masse daily.
Nicely put. The problem with DRY is it is expressed in term of "repeating" so it suggests that code repetition is the problem. The flip side of achieving DRY is breaking isolation between two pieces of code. That's a downside - so DRY is a tradeoff, not a simple one sided win.

The real questions are things like "Is it likely if I change logic A, that B will also need to change in the same way?" and "Is it likely that if there's a bug in B, that would also be a bug in A?". If those things aren't true, you are shooting yourself in the foot because you will certainly be going in and changing A and B to maintain them and now every time you do that for one you are at risk of breaking the other.

DRY is usually right, but it definitely comes at a cost.
>When you own a cryptocurrency, you can’t really “hold it in your wallet” like you could have a $100 bill in your physical wallet. In crypto, your wallet is actually a key which is used to control the associated account number on the Blockchain.

This is misleading. "Owning" cryptocurrency comes down yo controlling the private key. Cryptos exist solely as information. The bank analogy is a poor one because it implies that there is a single physical collection of value, which is fundamentally opposed to the premise of a distributed ledger. I'm not sure that the author really grasps the function and utility of Cryptos based on this mischaracterization. I didnt read any further.
Also items which are 'fullfilled by amazon' are supplied by third parties and stocked on the same shelf in amazons warehouse. So even if you buy direct from Amazon if any 3rd party seller is qualified to fullfill the same item, then you may just get that item from the shelf - and it might be a fake.
> Of course they are not lambasting him in those words (that would be charitable). They are saying ridiculous nonsense like "Google employee claims women are inferior than men" or "Google employee claims women are not suited to be software engineers"

Things he wraps around in cozy wording, but essentially suggests to be true. If not, what's the point of him complaining about outreach efforts? It's not like right now we are in a scenario where, say, 45% of the engineering workforce at Google is female, and Google is trying to force a 50/50 split. It's not even close. Right now the number is 20%, are you telling me it's settled science that should be the ratio? Because if you have hard numbers proving that's the case, then by all means, Google is wasting money in outreach efforts. You should tell them right now.
It was streaming and it's over, so here's the VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1getNs2P8
Weird website... No indication that a match is happening/happened/ or going to happen or with times or not.

I guess I missed it and the stream link is now just a general link to the TI stream, which confused me for a bit.
In my opinion, James was fired because it made business sense for Google just like how Facebook copied Snapchat stories, the memo he made would have endlessly disrupted daily Google operations and angered female engineers or managers he worked with and not much innovative in terms of technology would come out in the end. If he was more interested he should have sent a petition to the higher ups and discussed his concerns. In the end, my opinion just like Google's 20% free time for employees, it all makes business sense at a certain level.

Edit: If anyone disagrees, pls downvote with a comment, if theres just a downvote it hurts my poor internet feelings, also I will take it as meaning that there is nothing wrong with my argument, I appreciate a good argument and dialogue and not customary trolling.
The micromanagement task in StarCraft Broodwar (with TorchCraft) that has been used by a few people already in the past year to do some RL research has been tackled basically only with #units > 1, because getting a balanced 1v1 is possible only with certain combination of units, and it's indeed pointless otherwise.

Kiting is maybe a notable exception, but it is also restricted to a relatively small group of unit matchups.

See for instance the following papers:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02993

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08887

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10069

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926

Full disclosure: I'm one of such researchers, and I have authored some of the papers on the topic.
Teleport is neural photo app for hair color
It is very cool to see TechCrunch give some publicity to a product and project like this.

A few thoughts though. When I buy products like this, it's not to "stick it to the man". I would love major companies to provide freedom respecting hardware and software, and I would say most of the hackers I know feel that way. We just don't have many options. We'd have no problems supporting "corporate interests" that cared about free software and didn't mistreat their customers. Free software isn't about being anti-corporate, it's about being pro-freedom.
If only listings that are prime are including then by definition non-prime listings are excluded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1getNs2P8
That's the thing about fines. To really be punitive, they should be indexed to the wealth of the offender.
I'm not sure about DOTA, but in LOL there is also champion select which happens before the game starts, where you try to pick/ban/steal champions to get a good team comp and get the other team to have a bad team comp. It's lots of know overall strategy, what your enemy likes, and some game theory.

You can lose the game before your summoner even hits the field.
"I like NPR's approach to broadcast ads: their own commentators read a short little script"

This is not always true - for instance, the "brought to you by" slots at the beginning of the PBS Newshour are advertiser-supplied audio clips.
That was pretty much the entire reason it won. It did some standard high-level 1v1 laning techniques, but if human "conditions"[1] were implemented it would look a lot different.

Just the blocking of the lane creeps at the start is already super-human and gives the bot a huge advantage.

[1] like lower actions per minute, latency, occasionally missclicking and not being 100% certain about distances
POW can't work at these scales. At $250k/btc mining would burn something close to the equivalent of New Zealand's GDP. As this would be purely electrical energy, energy use alone would be equivalent to that of Spain or similarly sized country.
Both rare metals are good for this case.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golden%20years
If somebody elects to break the law because it was cheaper (even if caught), the law has to change to make it more expensive. Also, if it is perceived widely that Google broke the law, "do no evil" is out the window. That would cost them dearly.
I don't think it's really a contest between 100 line functions and single line functions. It's more about 5 - 20 line functions and 1 - 2 line functions. I could come up with lots of examples where being able to see the entire scope of 10 lines of logic is clearer than breaking the same thing into 5 functions.
They don't have to. Just like encryption having the ability to use violent force enables all sorts of side channel attacks. But in the case of an anonymous scammer they would probably hold the Etherium Inc. responsible for the damages.
When you're validating an idea, you don't want to lead people on and get vacuous "yes"es, as in if I ask someone if they like my idea, they will most likely say yes, for one of three reasons:

1) they want to appease me, especially if they're family or friends
2) they like the idea in their minds but that may not be exactly what you have in mind
3) their idea is the same as in your mind, but they don't have the propensity to buy.

You want to listen to what their true needs are instead of shoehorning your product into their problem. You want to build the product from the ground up so to speak. Sometimes, you guess their needs completely right and your product is exactly what they're looking for. However, this is extremely rare because the odds that ex nihilo you got something that fits their needs exactly is 1/infinity. This does not mean that you cannot tweak your existing product to fit their needs, but it is simply better for both you (no prior sunk cost) and the customer (can get something that actually solves their problems) in the long term.
Please. The WSJ is owned by Murdoch, owner of Fox News, who brings you some brilliant totally not biased authors like Suzanne Venker who teaches women they are going to be way happier if they just give in and become doormats for their husbands.
News flash. This has been ongoing for decades, on and off. America is a shithole.
With all that money he could sponsor cop training in Gotham City or at least better salaries
So many contenders. Britain built the modern world.
I've only been aware of the scope of that relatively recently. The scope of ignorance on this and other elements of this story are ... peculiar and fascinating of themselves.
It gives you less clear landmarks though. Spatial navigation through 20 items with no differentiation isn't easy. Even if you know "9 items from the right", you can't do easily do that subconsciously. "The tab next to the Stack Overflow one" or "The third Stack Overflow tab" is a lot easier in comparison. At least for me, navigating a lot of sites without favicons or large amounts with the same one decreases efficiency a lot, for exactly this reason.
I haven't watched but this would be a good guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs "Scaling with A B: Erlang and WhatsApp"
I wouldn't be surprised if they had access to a less restricted AI. Until we see more concrete information I remain sceptical that they are only using the official API.
This will be HUGE for competitive Dota, even if they never take it further.

In much the same ways top chess players have learned from engines, I have to think top Dota players will practice against and study the hell out of this bot if OpenAI makes it available.

Not everything is replicable by humans... for instance I noticed it constantly animation-canceling razes and only finishing it if it was going to hit; a human will definitely mess this up. But other things can definitely be used. It was positioning somewhat strangely, for example.
wow.... keep up, I just followed you
is an improvement against the other bots, it can be really good for training players, I would love to test it my self, but yeah dota is biggest that this, not only 5 v5, also 100+ heroes, and professional player can play a variety of heroes on mid with different matchups and its nuisances, the bot still need it a lot to even dominate 1v1.
It was a hack, clear as day. I really don't like this mindset of "code is law" that has arisen by calling the code being executed on the blockchain "contracts". I think people sometimes forget that these "smart contracts" are just code, no different than the code running HN or any other web app. This is a hack in the same sense that dumping a database from web app vulnerable to SQL injection would be considered a hack. Even though the code allowed it, it clearly isn't intended behavior.

It just seems so silly -- no system is perfectly secure; any developer can attest to this. There is always going to be a way skirt around the smart contract owner's intent, especially as the apps being run on the blockchain grow in complexity. To not blatantly call this malicious activity just doesn't sit well with me.