skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree. EM drive is theoretically impossible with Copenhagen interpretation but with Pilot Wave not only it's possible but we can improve its efficiency. It would make sense that similar situation is possible with quantum computing.
It really is a gem for analysis of time series data. I was lucky enough to watch Kexin's talk live @ Monitorama on ASAP. Really great stuff.
Because languages are tools, and you should learn to use more than one tool. If you know JavaScript, you basically already know most C based languages syntactically, it's very little effort to at least learn one of them for tasks JS isn't suited for.
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Congrats on the sale! Very noble of you, big fan of your approach. Ultimately, my goal is to eventually do the very same (give good people their chance to flourish and create good business).

Have you seen any correlation to the "no pressure"/generous aspect of your investments to the success or failure of said investment? My feeling is that the lack of stress attached to the investment may make it easier for the founder to achieve their goals. No anxiety about failure to pay you back = no self fulfilling prophecy. Probably depends on the founder.
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You actually managed to change my mind and I now agree C isn't a good first language. Mixing C with data structures / algorithms in the very first programming course is probably not a good idea for the reasons you mention.

Although I am kind of miffed by the last sentence, I admit I'm one of the people who programmed WAY before college but in my experience most CS majors who didn't simply didn't choose to do so, as opposed to having lacked the opportunity to do so; you're dismissing the thousands of hours spent coding as a child (more than most CS majors invest in programming during college...) without the internet or anyone to teach me anything as "opportunity"
For the first time?

https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M
I find myself going back to "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" by Joel Spolsky.

It's the basics that I forget often...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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We are still not there. Press pause button on a CGI heavy movie like "2012". The effects work if they are in motion. But looking at them in "pause mode" on 1080p it looks like shit hits the fan. The same for Transformer movies. 90% is real world material with green screen background CGI effects. There are still way too many physical effects going on. And many directors went back to do more physical stunts, because the end CGI-only result was easily spotted and universally hated by the audience.

Jurassic Park 1993 had only 18 minutes of dinosaur screen footage of - 95% of them were miniatures, costumes and hydraulic mechanical robots. Only a very short T-Rex running sequence was rendered with CGI with the predecessor of OpenGL rendered on Silicon Graphics hardware. The good thing is, even today the movie (shot in analog) can be viewed in 2k or even 4k. They will have to re-render "2012" and the Transformer movies for 4k and 8k in near future.

Also the real time rendering is behind, video games still can't render 2005 era movie quality in real time, let alone 2017 era quality.

So a bit pre-mature to call it "goodbye". The progress is great, but there is a road ahead for sure.
Correct - we saw a similar phenomenon of rapid capability gain via self-play in our Dota 2 work: https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/
> Collusion fraud occurs when you are approved for selling ebooks and you endup selling e-cigs, for example.

This has literally nothing to do with what I originally posted.

Source: The parent comment.
Definitely an interesting read, if a bit pessimistic, nihilistic, and a bit Marxist (seize the means of production!). But ultimately the article offers no solutions and the author comes off to me as a doomsayer and luddite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite). If the author really fears the current system as described, maybe he should return to the old system: become a subsistence farmer and work till you die.
Well, it is training wheels. The paper also argues that they should be removed, as students are expected to migrate to C during the course.

It also does not make for a good language for the first introduction to programing. But if you structure your courses like the OP does, it's a great language to have.
I don't know that the level of significance reported in the paper even justifies further research.
Super, super impressive work. I'd love to see how hard it is to apply the architecture to other games/problems that work well with self-play.
To your third point: I think there issue here is that wealthy people are also more likely to buy different products. I got example only buy Jersey milk and pasteur raised eggs. Because of that alone I have to stop either at Whole Foods or a similar local chain. I but most other staples at Costco. Stopping at one more store to save a small amount of money most of the time isn't worth the hassle.
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I think chess is less compelling because, in a sense, it is a "solved problem" - superhuman AI chess players already exist.

And chess, while it does have more complex base rules, has a much lower combinatorial complexity than Go.
Same here. I thought I was aging out of the industry. Got a job at a smallish but elite kind of place. My first day, I didn't meet anyone under 30. Most have kids. Most have nothing to prove, they have already done some very impressive things.

Its been very refreshing. There is no race to out-hour anyone, my coworkers all support one another vs trying to be competitive and back stabbing. I really thought I might have to consider another line of work at some point, but good places do exist.

Interestingly though, my one real complaint is the "open office." Its not entirely the company's fault, it used to be quite comfortable but they knew they would be growing and leased space in a building that is under construction. Shockingly (/s), its completion is very delayed and now we are starting to get crammed in.
I think if you tried to add that to mdn you’d make it worse at what it’s good for
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I am guilty of using trigraphs on a day to day basis. It is useful tool to make code more readable but you really have to restrict yourself to only use it for very simple and easily recognizable idioms if it is to work as intended (make it more readable).

Sadly, most devs (especially at large corporations) don't go out of their way to pay attention to such details and so overall I'm in favor of rules that restrict constructs that can very easily be abused.

As my career progresses and I'm spending more of my time reading, evaluating and diagnosing code, I got a new perspective on being smart when writing code. Now I think, if you are smart, you will write most plain code possible. If your code looks smart then you are probably doing something wrong. There is very few problems that actually require smart looking code.
Are you kidding me? They might not report on it a lot, but that's almost _all_ I hear about it. I'd like to know more, because I'm aware it has to do with the Arab Spring but I'm not clear on who is involved (aside from the US and the Saudi governments) or what the ideas behind the political factions are.

[Edit: It's worth noting that those used to be only details we'd hear: who's a communist, who's a radical and who's a moderate, which individual people are monsters or the best hope for the country. To say the Chomsky critiques apply here is... a stretch. We got one story either essentially right or are making new mistakes.]
It's weird to me that (afaik) we can't use a small number of qbits to make attacks against large crypto easier.
I eventually started thinking of side projects as the software equivalent of "practicing my chops" as a musician. It doesn't actually matter that much whether all those free-time experiments ever become shippable products - and most of them not only don't, but couldn't - so long as the process of working on them helps me stretch my knowledge and keep my skills sharp.
Alexa is actually a difficult word to pronounce for non-English speakers.
6) Anybody that doesn't have money doesn't want it, then?

Or are you playing games with the "you" bit? Anybody that doesn't have money isn't part of "you"?
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I'm pretty sure I have a different objective function in mind here: unlike preceding lifeforms, our goal should be to hand a better and better future to each other (& offspring).
You could have said the same thing about linux.
You're missing who this technology focused article is for, and making a vague argument about a grandmom usecase in a retail product. Sorry, but this article is clearly intended to be viewed by people interested in photography, and also photography-technology. If you claim your tech is awesome, you will get criticized if people don't think it is all that great.

> You shouldn't have an expectation that your $1000 phone competes with a few thousand in camera, glass and filters in the right hands. It won't.

IMHO, it doesn't even beat $500 worth of camera equipment.
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As a big fan of quality tools, I find they are useful for certain things you really can't justify the cost of. i.e., I need this stupid security torx screwdriver. Need a new air compressor hose or connectors, bulk shop rags, bungee cords, etc.
I prefer to mostly work in private where I can concentrate, but it's also nice to have a change of scene as an option.
Stood by is generous. Actively helped is better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia#An...
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MCTS means "Monte-Carlo Tree Search". It's the core of the algorithm. The big difference is that it doesn't use rollouts, or random play: it chooses where to expand the tree based only on the neural network.
I do the exact same - listen to foreign music. I can't listen to truly interesting instrumental music because it's distracting, and music with too much emotion grabs too much of my attention. I'll add: I do well with progressive electronic music that doesn't have much going on in it, and some sci-fi movie soundtracks. Additionally, Deuter is great, and his entire catalog is on Spotify.
They already answered you but go to the bottom of the Nature page for a link to the game records (Supplementary Information).
Show HN: Machine writes QA code for OpenAPI
I use a spring mattress that has a layer of foam on top (see other comment). There are no heat problems, as long as you don't add a mattress cover. If you want to keep things extra cool regardless of mattress, try breathable satin sheets.
>Illegal immigrants don't comply ...

I would have thought that before that, the good US citizens that employ them don't comply ...
the MDN example (unfortunately at the bottom of the page) is more correct by using a proper <label> tag with the <input> tag, while w3schools omits that detail, which makes it seem like plain text labels with <br> tags (yuck) after them are ok (label tags add accessibility among other things).

tl;dr: use <label>'s with <input>'s, not plain text labels, as MDN shows you to do.
Why does Sweden produce so many startups?
Java and .Net games seem to have no problem getting into 120fps. Go's GC is optimized further.
I don't see Facebook going away. It's such a good tool for organizing groups of friends and getting back in touch with someone you haven't seen in awhile. Tweens aren't using it because they don't need those features, they just want to share things. Once they start to grow up and move away from their hometowns, I think they would start using Facebook unless another platform exists in the same space (which as far as I know doesn't).
Isn't this space insanely crowded?
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Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11710829 (444 points, 519 days ago, 203 comments). Lots of comments but nothing interesting.

The only good guess is by JdeBP

> I'm guessing that this will turn out to be the well-known Installer Detection, around since the time of Windows NT 6.0.

> - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc709628(v=ws.10... .

> - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uac/2006/01/13/identificati... .
Being 'capable' is not the issue here.
... yeah, before reading that link my position was "Wow, that's super neat, but Go is a pretty well-defined game," and after reading it I remembered that my position maybe a year or two ago was "Chess is a well-defined game that's beatable by AI techniques but Go is acknowledged to be much harder and require actual intelligence to play and won't be solved for a long while" and now I'm worried. Thanks for posting that.
No, 'habitue is correct. This new blog post says that the new software no longer does game readouts and just uses the neural net.
It took me less than a minute to find this: http://time.com/4787797/donald-trump-yemen-saudi-arabia-arms...

"When President Donald Trump closed a nearly $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Saturday, his deputies’ spirits soared...The weapons sale was one of the largest in history, totaling close to $110 billion worth of tanks, artillery, radar systems, armored personnel carriers, and Blackhawk helicopters. The package also included ships, patrol boats, Patriot missiles, and THAAD missile defense systems.
Much of that military hardware will likely be pressed into service in the Saudi fight against its neighbor Yemen, where more than 10,000 people have been killed over more than two years of heavy airstrikes and fighting."
Appreciating the good discussion here around "angel investing" which I broadly agree with depending on how you define it. Just want to clarify that for me personally, I meant just investing in early-stage businesses in creative ways; not VC, moonshot, whatevers. In the run up to launching many failed businesses prior to Storemapper I accumulated nearly $60k in credit card debt, which functioned more or less like an angel investment from Chase et al. I think there are lots folks who could build a good business but don't have access to even that level of "capital" or don't want to take that kind of risk and might instead look for an "angel" investment. Maybe. Still early in formulating a strategy to be honest. (further reading if you're curious: https://tylertringas.com/debt-free/)
I think the fact that it's no longer using Monte Carlo tree search is a huge step forward in the generalizability of the technique. But go is still

- a perfect information game

- with a relatively small input size (vs. arbitrary computer vision)

- cheap to simulate

- discrete action space

- deterministic

This isn't to take away from the magnitude of the achievement, but the nature of the problem itself makes the result less applicable to many tasks we might want to use RL for.
I edited that part and now removed it since I was partly joking.
Yeah, I talk to the employees who work at our local DG, just a few hundred yards away from my front-door. They are basically paid just above minimum wage, and there is NEVER more than two scheduled at the same time; usually with only an hour overlapping.

It is very hard for them to stock, clean, and help customers when you are tied to a register due to traffic. Not to mention changing price tags, taking out refuse, unloading a truck, and doing all the million things a store needs done a day. The store is messy, but I really can't blame them. They are understaffed and underpaid by design.

I would not call DG an ethical company in any regard with the way they treat their employees.
Yeah, it's too bad that knowing the physical position of your customers is a technical requirement for the wireless ISP industry. That said, knowing their identity is not a technical requirement.

I wonder if it's feasible to construct an ISP that still must know where all it's customers are, but can't distinguish between them.
Quite a while ago, not sure if that's a problem. It's a pretty great write up and worthy of posting again. For me, this was the first time seeing it.
>the media consistently doing the government's* bidding by painting our mass murdering allies as heroes, while massively amplifying the minor crimes committed by those we consider enemies

I agree with your general thesis governments downplay their own murder but Communist regimes have killed millions of people[1]. Those are not "minor crimes". Both Capitalist (e.g. Native American population), Communist (Mao's purge), Socialism (Nazis' genocide)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...
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Worth highlighting this bit from the link:

>“Zick Rubin of Harvard University and Letitia Anne Peplau of UCLA have conducted surveys to examine the characteristics of people with strong beliefs in a just world. They found that people who have a strong tendency to believe in a just world also tend to be more religious, more authoritarian, more conservative, more likely to admire political leaders and existing social institutions, and more likely to have negative attitudes toward underprivileged groups. To a lesser but still significant degree, the believers in a just world tend to ‘feel less of a need to engage in activities to change society or to alleviate plight of social victims.'”
– Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez from an essay at The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
"As long as this super intelligence leads to super ethics and super consciousness"

That is begging the question, in the original sense. The entire question here is how do we do that when there is no a priori reason to assume that a superintelligence will have either of those things, and indeed, most if not all of our best techniques today would certainly not produce those things if they did lead to explosive intelligence.
Show a mix of video clips. Swipe left for real. Swipe right for CGI. After a few clips, show how often you were right. Hit the HN frontpage.
The summary article did not tell us the measured effect size, either. I'd hope the actual paper did, though it's not something you can depend on (sheesh).
Oh, don't get me wrong, enabling serial abusers is a huge problem. But nothing we do is going to change the behavior of those specific individuals - it has to be about enabling easier reporting and better follow up. It's a classic bimodal system where you need accountability and support to find and exclude egregious offenders, and systemic engagement and education to prevent first offenses.
Intelligence and ethical behavior are orthogonal. You can expect a super-intelligence to develop a super-understanding of ethics. That does not imply ethical behavior.
So this is fun:

"AlphaGo Zero is the program described in this paper. It learns from self-play reinforcement
learning, starting from random initial weights, without using rollouts, with no human supervision,
and using only the raw board history as input features. It uses just a single machine
in the Google Cloud with 4 TPUs (AlphaGo Zero could also be distributed but we chose to
use the simplest possible search algorithm)."
Is there an extension to hide all the w3schools related comments in this thread?
I find w3schools a better reference for quick HTML element and CSS rule lookup, but I always go to MDN for Javascript stuff, especially the newer API's that came with HTML5.
What, really?

Weinstein had anecdotes floating around by word of mouth for decades. Maybe if some of those had been collected anonymously in a public forum, action would have been taken sooner.
This is an interesting study, and I highly encourage everyone to also read the accompanying editorial, which raises some important methodological shortcomings. See here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2657356

The reason this study was done because there has been a very well replicated association between the plasma (not red cells) donated from previously pregnant women and the risk of TRALI, a very rare but deadly transfusion reaction. After this association was made clear, blood banks no longer collect plasma from previously pregnant ("ever pregnant") women, and the overall rate of TRALI has dramatically dropped (from about 35 fatalities in the US per year to ~15).

Source: MD/lab medicine resident
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I mean 60fps movies - like when I went to see The Hobbit in theatres. I like it too, don't get me wrong, but it takes some getting used to and gives a different feeling. Like a painting versus a photograph.

But yes motion interpolation is awful.
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According to Calvinism, all are sinners who deserve eternal damnation and some are chosen to be given a new life and repent. So his case is not strange from a Calvinist point of view at all. Edit: Neither (in Calvinism) can one say "he was predestined to be a criminal". The blame for sin lies at the feet of the sinner. Sin is the sinner's choice. Grace, to give someone the heart to repent, is God's choice.
I found this video on quantum mechanics helpful.

If you measure the qubit prematurely the function collapses. In classical computing it might be analogous to breaking out of a for loop before it has run its intended course and then you're left with an incorrect (or incomplete) answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bzE1E5PMY
Easy enough to set up a VPN on a cloud VM (I actually ran one for a long time via my home internet connection with a raspberry pi). Paired with something like Pi Hole (http://pi-hole.net/) would give you DNS level ad blocking wherever you go. They have a guide for configuring it together with OpenVPN on the Pi Hole github: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/wiki/Pi-hole---OpenVPN-se...
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I believe that Garrison Keillor said it best:" The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

Many 'prosperity' gospel folk forget the second half for a few years and don't plan correctly. Then they end up as the first half without any comfort.
I hate to break it to you, but never pregnant != virgin
My English reading comprehension is admittedly poor, but I don't see any portion of the text that automatically implies that unsynchronized reads and writes are atomic.
Are white hipsters hijacking an anti-gentrification fight in Los Angeles?
Didn't speak. Just walked and talked. I spent a lot of time at conferences in a previous job and no longer get massive anxiety from it. Two things that make going to conference better: 1) Build a reputation online before (blog, tweet, be transparent) (2) get a speaking slot if at all possible b/c then people come speak to you.
The new version does use MCTS, you should read the paper again. :)
I like the filter by duration and costs option. Nice!
See https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/technology/copycat-busine...
> They brought in the original actress and de-aged her face digitally

No, Sean Young (the original Rachael) was brought in to consult, but the CGI face was superimposed on a stand-in, Loren Peta [1].

I saw the movie on Monday and wasn't impressed with the quality there; worse than Rogue One Tarkin and on a par with Rogue One Leia. As many others have opined in this thread, the technology's fine for stills but really, really not there for animation.

YMMV, obviously. I have a friend who made it about a third of the way through Zemeckis' 2007 Beowulf before asking "hey, why did it all just go CGI?", and that movie wasn't remotely aiming for photorealism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2049#Cast
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Some sports are broadcast in high FPS IIRC, but not in 4K (which would be great).
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