skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
someone posted an attempt at an open source implementation of alphagozero https://github.com/yhyu13/AlphaGOZero-python-tensorflow

anyone try it yet ?
All you need to get access to bitcoin anywhere in the world is a <$40 smartphone and an account on localbitcoins.com.
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Reading through some of these comments I agree: It is probably a good idea to add in a 'why to use' section on the repo. The purpose behind this was that I found it cumbersome to work with dataets in JavaScript so this framework lets you pull them into a schema that has metadata to handle relationships between tables, aggregation methods, sorting and filtering. As for competing frameworks: I have seen some of this in other larger frameworks but I build this out so I can work with data in JS without pulling in monolithic data visualization libraries.
It appears to be, now. It did not used to be.

The Kindle listing I was looking at shared details with the Video listing.

Despite a fair amount of news browsing, apparently I missed the information that the Video app had made its way into the Play store. Actually, I seem to recall some news of same but also follow-up news that it had been pulled, again, within a few days. (The eternal Google/Amazon competition/strife/"user, you are the product" situation.) This would have been months ago.

So, I'm left uncertain whether I'm looking at the real thing, or an imposter. I'm fairly certain I'm not. But "fairly certain" is not "secure".

At the time, I didn't have a lot of time to delve into this. And I only had my phone in hand, making such an investigation more cumbersome.

I didn't install the Kindle app, then. The moment and immediate need passed, and following up on this dropped down my list of priorities.
This has been fixed in iOS 11.2 beta.
It gives me hope that someone could still go out and challenge YouTube using a stable of these at various internet exchanges and a central object store/web front end.
Looked this up:

https://www.google.com/search?q=scott+forstall+apple+maps

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Okay, so he was fired for refusing to sign the Apple Maps Apology in 2012. Then he was transferred to a paid board seat (aka "benched").
How much control did he have personally compared to all the others?
I'll work on that. Sometimes it is tough to convey it since it is clear in my head that it may not be as clear to others.
Working on some examples.
I think it means that it looks more and more like a bubble, so people are less and less willing to buy in the more expensive it gets. It's not about the total amount risked, it's about the total amount of risk.
It shares some ideas.
I'll be working on one. Probably after I get through building out the mocha scripts and getting in a few modifications to the functions.
The best way to download whatsapp is to search for it on google and click the top result to go to the official website. Then click download from there. It turns out the age-old method of installing shit is the best.
To be clear ESR is not controversial like Stallman.

Stallman is a technical extremist who’s idiosyncratic beliefs are weird.

ESR is a racist troglodyte with a crazy inflated opinion of his contributions.
The promise of the internet was that it would be free and open to all ideas, thoughts and discussions. The hope was that it would raise the rest of the world to american ideals of liberty, free speech and right to assembly. Instead, we are dropping ourselves to the lowest common denominator. Rather than the outside world bettering themselves with free speech, we are instead lowering ourselves to the anti-free speech levels of germany, china, saudi arabia and russia.

We are to stifle free speech because of "human dignity"? That's what dictators say. That's what extremists say. Theo Van Gogh was stabbed to death over a short film that insulted the "dignity" of muslims. North koreans kidnap or kill people because their "dignity" is insulted. Following that logic, aren't neo-nazis human? Don't they deserve "dignity"?

It isn't facebook that needs fixing. It is germany. What germans, chinese, saudis, russians, the extreme liberals and those who are anti-free speech don't understand that free speech is a necessary component of human dignity. You can't have human dignity without it. It is an essential characteristic of human dignity.
To be fair, New Zealand is about 1 AU from everything, so it’s especially difficult for a lot of us non-kiwis to grasp. :) A relative and I were just discussing this the other day: he was convinced Australia was further south than you until I got out my phone, I think because he was confusing New Zealand with New Guinea. I’ve noticed we do tend to heavily associate you with Australia in the States, too, so the Queensland question doesn’t surprise me. Most Americans probably mentally conflate Tasmania and NZ.

To your point, I could probably name most African countries but not place them exactly from memory, particularly in the interior and on the western coast. Niger is hot news in the U.S. right now, and we had a week or so of everyone collectively figuring out not only that it’s distinct from Nigeria but also proper pronunciation, simply because we don’t think about Africa much (which is lame, I agree). Legislators were surprised we had troops in Niger, which should really say a lot.

Geography education is already iffy in a number of places, and I imagine ubiquitous digital maps are going to exacerbate that problem the same way we are already losing the ability to memorize phone numbers. John Oliver has been having fun with this by highlighting the wrong country as a recurring gag on his show.
I thought it was just me, but auto-correct (even with the G Board app) oftentimes changes correct words into incorrect ones. It's incredibly frustrating.
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It is beautifully rendered. I got a shiver.
> These are the two biggest distinguishing characteristics of AlphaGo Zero compared to previous AlphaGos, and the OP doesn't discuss either of them.

David Silver disagrees. The most critical distinguishing characteristic is the expert/tree iteration which makes stable self-play possible at all.
Messages & WhatsApp notifications don't appear at all.
Notifications that do show I can't dismiss.
WiFi I can't turn off from Control Center.
Photos app settings don't persist - I have to keep disabling Live Photos and re-enabling HDR.

What else can go wrong in this release ?
You can debug javascript/typescript in IntelliJ but I think it’s an ultimate edition feature only.
Huh? He said he wrote a comment on HN using his iphone.
I prefer function over form, even if the form is anachronistic.
Seriously? Typing on glass without auto-correct is painful. Do you really think it was a bad idea for designers to design that feature?
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Totally agree. Had exactly the same experience. Became a patron as a way to offer my thanks!
What about the Internet in Africa? What about unreliable electricity. What about power outs? How will the miners cope?
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Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627880
Thanks, fixed those
Who would you sell the debt to?
The poster said some ascii is a mistake. I’m assuming those chars that don’t translate to much/anything.
> As an American I would trust most countries in the EU with stuff like this over even my own country given the direction of the USA.

As an american you trust europeans with free speech more than the US? Doesn't sound like an american to me considering how heavily europe censors.

> Germany already bans Nazi imagery and wording in many forms except for history purposes and they seem to be fine.

Fine by what standard?

> We already have problems in the USA where now nonviolent political protestors are being prosecuted by the federal government and officials are encouraging people to commit violence against the protestors in spite of the protestors having the First Amendment to back them up - statutory limits or freedoms are not magic that make things right.

Can you cite an example?
Think of it like when you want to buy a company's stock. If the price has recently increased by a lot, many people avoid it because they think it is overpriced. They don't want to risk buying it at this price. It has nothing to do with being able to buy fractions of a coin.
Absolutely right. locations.txt is an API. And there's nothing monolithic about the example. It involves two completely separate apps with an API in between!
You aren't being straw manned, you are being disagreed with, and neither that, nor down votes qualifies as backlash.
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There's also Leela Zero [1].

[1] https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero
> That's only obvious if you take it as a given that the more money you have the smarter you are.

Intelligence isn't a ladder, so that wouldn't make sense in any context. Effective understanding of the relationship of Google vs God vs a domestic country's population vs yourself, does require some sophistication that involves general intelligence (in aggregate) and education. There are correlations with median income and these factors. As the population of the world gains access, simplistic fears about shadowy organizations are bound to gain ground from a myriad of historical and cultural parallels, as the median education level falls (among other associated factors, like wealth).
Well if you want this and you’ve ever considered using TypeScript for a JS project, you could try C# + ASP.NET Core. IMO it’s probably the best web stack out there. Opinionated, but allows you to stray from those opinions fairly easily. Secure by default. Great support and stability.
I thought about that. I really don’t want to lose my text history, but if I have to I will go that route.

My android friends always complain about bugs on their google android phones and I used to just smile. Now I have similar problems.
OP didn't say anything like that. Chill out.
That's not what OP was talking about, but for what it's worth you can get a decent dev environment going on Android. Termux offers a command line with a great selection of packages you'd find on most Linux distros (a C compiler, python, git, tmux, etc) and if you plug in a USB OTG cable you can use a full sized USB keyboard too. Adjust the DPI to the most comfortable setting and you can get a passable dev environment going.
I found their EULA, and it has some crazy stuff in it. For instance, they can terminate your account becase:

...
8) to manage any risk of loss to us, a User, or any other person; or

9) for other reasons.

And if they terminate the account they can keep all the money they owe you. Also, it claims contractor aren’t their employees. Instead they are “unsecured creditors”.

There’s also a bunch of stuff about how they can pass chargebacks through to sellers, and if you already withdrew the money, you have to deposit it back into your account.

It looks like the business model is to force skilled laborers to work under pseudonyms so that Freelancer has complete ownership of the contractor’s reputation and professional credentials. I’m shocked that this is a thing!

The Eula claims on one hand that they’re not a party to the contracts, but they go to great lengths to make sure the contractor and the employee don’t share their real world identities with each other (they even audit the contents of the files produced as part of the job, eavesdrop on audio/video/text chat/emails/etc).

I think this forces them to become a payment intermediary, which means they do have to deal with lots of thorny issues.

Welcome to the sharing economy, I guess.

Link: https://www.freelancer.com/info/plainterms.html
This is really cool, I'd love to write frontends in Lua. For side project backend development, I've been using Apache and mod_lua[1] (Openresty is Lua for nginx[2]) for a couple of years now. In particular Lua with Luajit is such a kick ass platform, I've always wondered why it hasn't gotten more attention than it has. There are at least two high quality event loop http servers written with it [3][4] and some quite mature web application frameworks [5][6]. Really seems like the Lua backend story is set to explode.

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_lua.html

[2] https://openresty.org/en/

[3] https://luvit.io/

[4] https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http

[5] http://leafo.net/lapis/

[6] http://sailorproject.org/
Links to the slides and video presentations from the Lua workshop [0] last month, including one on Fengari [1]:

[0]: https://www.lua.org/wshop17.html
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLIgmd8xik
>In the subway, it's not about interaction, but you feel a little bit more a part of humanity and all the interesting people doing all their interesting things.

I rode the Blue line in the DC metro area for 5 years, from Arlington/Alexandria to Farragut West. Coming from car-centric LA, I hated many aspects of it at first (walking on icy sidewalks, sitting next to people picking their noses, etc).

But it was a fascinating exercise in people-watching, which I love. I saw so many of the same people every day - a young man with ankylosing spondylitis (which I didn't even know of, prior to seeing him), a grumpy-looking lady who always wore black flats with no socks, even when it was snowing, etc. It was always interesting to see who gave up their seats to pregnant women, and who was too buried in their smartphone.

One time, the Blue line got stuck before the Rosslyn tunnel, and I saw one guy get so worked up about it, I thought he was going to have a meltdown. Then, there was an elderly Korean man who would get on at different stops, and start singing in Korean, and you would see people from all walks of life trying to exchange furtive glances with one another. I kind of miss it, at times.
The reply-in-notifications go away after I've replied, they don't hang around and cover a portion of the screen all the time. And if I don't want to read them right away, then I've got this thing hanging around on my screen with a angry red number that I don't want to deal with.

They're intrusive, they're obnoxious, they cause performance hiccups on occasion. They're not a superior version of anything.
You might be interested in the Redmon'd Review series on YouTube! Michael Redmond, 9P, and Chris Garlock just posted a short announcement that they'll be reviewing some Zero games. Michael mentioned that he'll focus on the opening in the next video.
Important caveats for anyone interested in this as an arbitrage opportunity:

1. This exchange is highly illiquid, and has extremely low trading volumes.

2. Other cryptocurrencies are similarly inflated on the exchange.

3. Cash withdrawals are only allowed from the exchange to Zimbabwean banks. These accounts cannot easily be held by non-citizens.

3. Due to a cash crisis, Zimbabwean banks currently have strict USD withdrawal limits of around $50 / day.
Yes, it might, but:

1. There are fewer of these apps.

2. There's less that they can do–on Android apps can do anything and everything once installed.
Ahh yeah, on a Mac, using os.list_dir leaves 10.json ahead of 2.json. I heard from someone else on Linux that had that problem. If you have the code that works would you make a pull request and I'll throw that in?
Moderation where A dictates what B does/n't read is against freedom of speech. Self moderation whereby every B mods down unwanted material is compatible with freedom of speech, as is a mechanism whereby B indicates "I agree with C and want not to see what C doesn't want to see."

B and C are simply exercising their freedom from speech, which is as important as freedom of.

Of course, this has its own problems: like online fora devolving into cliques of people who think the same way.

People should be exposed to trolls and critically evaluate and re-evaluate their beliefs.
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It's maddening to read that iOS upgrades are still causing this kind of problem. I had a couple of iOS devices rendered near-useless due to OS upgrades around 2014 and decided to give each device a max of one major OS version upgrade in the future. I use Android more now, really like it overall, and am considering getting an Android tablet instead of my next iPad. Sorry about the trouble with your phone.
Stuff got stuck in local minima for years before we learned about stuff like momentum and dropout and dropped a ton of GPU power on it.
I recently read Fagles' translations of the big three (Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid), and the Odyssey is by far the most fun of all of them. They're all masterpieces but it's the one I most enjoyed reading.
>The Internet companies lost the high ground in regard to censorship and 3rd party speech when they tried to shutdown Daily Stormer. When Google or CloudFlare were told that the website was using their services, instead of taking the high ground with regard to the principle of free speech and 3rd party speech on their services, they used their right to free association to withdraw service.

This lassez-faire attitude you speak of never existed. They lost the high ground the moment they started policing their platforms for spam, adult content, malware, copyrighted content, terrorist propaganda, etc., thereby expressing editorial control.

They want to have it both ways, they want to absolve themselves of all responsibility (and liability) for anything that's on their platform and at the same time remove anything that is in-line with their commercial interests (for UX reasons or because their advertisers object to the content their ads run on).
Like basically anything in the 0x1 to 0x1F range?
I think he means that it doesn't update the weather for the last displayed location either.
I just use the host file to block stuff. There are enough crowd sourced github lists out there that relying on a thirdparty browser extension that is doing god knows what, controlled by god knows who just doesn't make sense.

The rest of the family has been trained to update their files.

Update it every two months
But this isn't true at all, bitcoin is skyrocketing
you can add a specific city manually.
Honestly it kind of reminds me of Dragon Ball or something like that.
The price is skyrocketing...
Been mushroom hunting for over 30 years. And you can definitely use plastic bags, just don't leave them in the car for long and when you get home, put them in a basket in refrigerator. Nothing wrong with plastic bags when going mushroom hunting.
Yes, well, that's the magic of getting to tell the story -- you get to decide which deaths your audience cares about.
Well, me neither, but it's not like it's a different principle than is at work in the Odyssey.
Curious how does it look controlling to you? It isn't supposed to come off like that. Actually the opposite, so i'm curious.

I am on my phone, so from memory here:

You don't do revisions.

You sound like you want to talk for your clients, but not with your clients. That does not work.

You dictate length and frequency of blogs without any real justification.

I am used to working for a service where the client decides price point, length of articles and a whole lot more. I cater to their needs. I don't dictate anything.

I will try to look it over when I am again on a tablet and see if there is anything I am forgetting.
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Yea no kidding on the low trading volume. Only 118 BTC in the last 30 days. The Aussie exchange BTC Markets is more than a thousand times that.
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Why would they specify 'entry level' investors then? That argument would surely apply to all investors, not just the entry level ones.
I didn't realize the Tasman Sea was that big. Of course I struggle to keep track of the relative size of all major bodies of water, really.
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Here’s another to add to the list: Ask your Apple Watch what the weather is. Crashes the watch and restarts it. Confirmed on my Watch S0 running latest version of iOS 11. Found out from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-watch-bug-causing....

If anyone from Apple is listening, please please please raise this up the flagpole on your teams. I love Apple, and think they’re doing fantastic work overall. I get that there are unique problems with having such massive scale, but iOS 11 has been a mess from the beginning.

Edit: It’s apparently “springboarding”, not restarting. Very similar experience either way.
Ask HN: Is the advertising funded model for Internet content likely to last?
I believe in the future we will move more toward a subscription funded model due to privacy concerns and people desiring higher quality content.
A simpler representation of some text, using only lowercase letters, numbers and dashes for spaces. Removes any unsafe or "invisible" characters, accents, and sometimes simple words. Often used in URLs.

TEXT: Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

SLUG: fake-whatsapp-update-from-whatsapp-inc-with-unicode-whitespace-1m-downloads
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I agree with you. When section 230 was passed in 1996, from my memory, they were a lot more lassez-faire, and also you had far more choice. I routinely posted on maybe a dozen sites at the time. Now, with everything consolidating and the monopolies censoring in favor of advertisers or PR, section 230 makes a lot less sense.
I think YouTube simply has first to market mindshare. I personally use and prefer Vimeo. It's a better experience and quality. I don't think anything technical or special keeps YouTube number one other than first to market mindshare.
Yes. The computer should never do something that I haven't explicitly told it to do. You can design the same exact feature but I need to trigger it, the machine should not be making decisions for me.
> You aren't being straw manned, you are being disagreed with

Not a single thing in that post disagrees with anything I actually said, because all of its points are made up for the sole purpose of being easier to argue against.

>> Kevin Spacey did some terrible things, and now we must remove all mention of any associated works from the world

I never came close to even implying this, nor would I want to.

>> so far as to call it insensitive to mention the name of the show he was in?

I said that it was unfortunate that it would appear a bit tasteless. To say I called it insensitive completely changes both the tone and literal meaning of my message. If I said it was insensitive I would be condemning the article's author. The way I said it, I was expressing sympathy for the article's author. Two very different messages.

Neither of those statements disagrees with what I said, reference something I said or even reference something from anywhere else on the page. When they posted them for the purpose of arguing against what I said, that is the definition of strawmanning.
If FB was a German company like Volkswagen, Airbus or Deutschebank you can bet your ass German law would look the other way. This European moral/ethical superiority is unnecessary. There are no saints on both sides.
This is really neat...I've been working on the exact same thing in my spare time with the intent to learn the guts of blockchains. Our code is very similar, unsurprisingly. Mine is also Python but I'm running in with Serverless using Redis at the block store.

What I've found is that it's pretty easy to build out the basics, but then very complicated to cover all of the hard cases (specifically, resolving disparate chains between nodes). The deeper I dig the more appreciation I have out there for the "real" blockchain implementations and implementors.
I don’t like to link to closed journals but the extract and video seem to get the point across.
Those countries also pay significant amounts of money to place those students in our graduate programs, thus making this calculus even easier for them.