skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a revisionist thesis that first appeared in 2005 and has enjoyed quite a good fortune since. It's false.

La Marseillaise is a war song written in 1792 after France declared war to Austria.

Louis XVI, who was still King (albeit no more an absolute King but a more humble constitutional one like the King of England) and who still had his head on his shoulders, was in favor of the war because he thought (hoped) Austria would win and would help restore a "proper" (absolute) monarchy.

The Rhine Army (meaning, a French army stationed in Alsace) wanted a song to accompany it while going to war. Rouget de Lisle, with others, wrote and composed that war song and titled it Chant de Guerre pour l’armée du Rhin (War Song for the Rhine Army).

The words of the song rest heavily on propaganda placards plastered throughout Strasbourg, that included injunctions such as "Immolez sans remords les traîtres" (immolate traitors without remorse) or "dissipez les armées des despotes" (dispel despots' armies).

The specific image of blood as fertilizer seems to come from a poem by Nicolas Boileau from 1656 (about a possible war with England): "Et leurs corps pourris dans nos plaines / N’ont fait qu’engraisser nos sillons" (And their rotten bodies in our plains / Only fed our furrows).

It has been obvious for everyone for at least two centuries that the "impure blood" was the blood of the ennemies. It's true that it's not "racist" because there was no real concept of race in the sense given to that term in the 19th century, but it is demeaning. The pure ones are the French and the impure ones are the others. (Rouget de Lisle was himself a nobleman and a monarchist).

A possible, non-polemic translation of "impur" would be "alien": let the blood of the aliens rain on our land.
It's not. It learns entirely through self play and never learns from playing it's opponent. Diminishing returns isn't unusual and happens in every domain. These AIs are probably playing close to the limit of what is possible, just not quite there yet.
I would read this thread before proclaiming the anonymity of most of the coins:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849236
I block all that via firewall, authoritative DNS and gateway on home network. It works very well. Trying to accomplish this via an app on an un-rooted iPhone would be a headache, IMO, and ultimately is subject to defeat by Apple if they so choose. As seems to be the computing paradigm du jour, Apple more or less has "remote control" over these devices, whether through automatic updates, their control over an AppStore or some other mechanism.

When someone buys an iPhone, there is an expectation that an ongoing relationship with the company is created. It is assumed every purchaser wants to use Apple's time servers, Apple's messaging service, Apple's cloud storage, Apple's software review process, etc. and there is no opt-out. Consequently the purchaser is expected to establish a means to identify themselves to the company (AppleID) in the future. Fingerprints may be collected, facial recognition, etc. Apple has the means to know its hardware customers, very well. It does not really feel like we own the hardware. More like a lease or rental. Feels like we are being used as a source of further revenue generation. A massive user base tethered to the company that it can use as a bargaining chip to make deals with other companies.

Here is a different approach. Imagine you have two mobile devices. 1. An iPhone. 2. A portable computer running an open source OS that can act as firewall, authoritative DNS server and/or gateway. Apple has no control over #2. #1 can only access the internet through #2. #2 belongs solely to the user and it is controlled by the user, not any company.
Perhaps one day we will see Apple controlling the user's routing table and any network settings entered by the user will be subservient to Apple's.
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Even then it was tit-for-tat. According to Amazon, they no longer sold AppleTV due to Apple refusing to have an Amazon Video App on AppleTV unless Amazon met Apple's terms.
Here's the thing, with finite supplies in place most coins still have a risk of some kind of blockchain analysis:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849236
Yet my elderly parents(50+ and 60+) and quite a few non-techie friends tap on the first result that comes up when I ask them to install an App.

It’s a reason to not buy them a premium Apple device next time.
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The benefit of legalizing marijuana is not to decrease usage but to cut financing to dealers. It is also safer for users, and reduces the risk to exposure to more dangerous drugs.
I found the Fastmail calendar to be far more reliable and compatible than Gmail.
So it's because Google has deep/best skills in security? It automatically applies and makes all their products more secure than everyone else's, even if their design is weakened as a result of their business model? e.g. Does Google's 1st class security team + unencrypted emails + tracking makes it more secure than a company like Proton Mail that's focused on providing Secure mail?

Does that make the claims that Protonmail is more secure than Gmail false?
- https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail-security/
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I recently bought a Roku, since it was one of the few devices that had an app for Twitch.tv. Little did I know, Amazon recently bought Twitch and yanked their app from the Roku channel list. They are clearly trying to redirect people to their own streaming devices. Yet another content provider with a conflict of interest...
> A lot of the graphs in the paper seem to level out as they hit the level of the opponent.

DM is no longer investing much in the AG research program; Silver said the team has been disbanded already. If you look at the Go graph in this or the first AG0 paper, Zero was still getting better at Go when they shut it down, it hadn't converged. They just didn't want to tie up the TPUs. I don't think it's a coincidence that the graphs tend to stop after they reach superiority.

(Also, as Houshalter says, one of the critical aspects is that this is pure self-play ie the NNs never play against the existing engines except for evaluation. So it's all independent from-scratch reinvention.)
Yep. I don’t recommend it by default (most people I work with use GSuite in a work context, so recovery is normally administrator-mediated), but the fact that this exists is pretty awesome.
I'm genuinely curious to learn

I get and am not questioning that. It's just that your curiosity doesn't seem to have motivated you to do a first pass of, I don't want to call it 'research', but just basic poking around on the topic. You want links and info from some dude on the internet because what he says contradicts stuff you know from... something a vendor said about their product.

It's a totally sensible question but it's not some particularly arcane mystery to dig into. In tptacek's case, in a jiffy, you can bring up the 60-odd comments of his that mention 'Gmail' and get a reasonable idea of what he thinks of it and why. And if you think he's got it wrong, you can say, hey, tptacek, I think you're full of poop when you said [...]. And then maybe you can hash it out and one or both of you will learn something. But 'Citation, please', especially on trivially searchable topics mostly says 'I'm kind of curious, but I don't really care'. The person you're asking probably isn't going to care either.
As I noted in my comment, it doesn't matter if I can access voat. Because reddit is much better and I simply won't get relevant news from voat. Just because you can access a 3G GSM network at home doesn't mean Comcast doesn't have monopoly.
Deeplearn.js is designed for webGL on a browser. I'm not sure if it'll work in Node. And on a server you'd probably want to target OpenCL.

Node adds file support, but libraries for stuff like dataframes are still in their early days. That might not be a problem for example problems, but real world data needs cleaning up before you can start doing ML.
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>Portugal’s remarkable recovery, and the fact that it has held steady through several changes in government – including conservative leaders who would have preferred to return to the US-style war on drugs – could not have happened without an enormous cultural shift, and a change in how the country viewed drugs, addiction – and itself. In many ways, the law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their resources and expertise, to work together more effectively to serve their communities.

At least in the U.S, we thrive on _treating_ versus curing, plus , didn't you know if you fall on hard times medically especially with anything related to addiction or mental health, you have to bootstrap yourself up from your own bootstraps or go to a 5k a week rehab facility that does not accept insurance.

If drugs are legal in the U.S, who is going to pay all those private jail/prison owners excutive salaries?
Where are those corporations going to get the slave labor?

Who is going to pay all those police officers all those raises for keeping drugs off the street?

How are alcohol and tobacco companies supposed to find new consumers whose lives are ruined for possession of marijuana who are unable to secure any form of higher level of employment( extremely difficult) because they were arrested for carrying marijuana.

That's why the United States has not copied it.
I don't want to buy installs, I want more engagement that I can't buy but need to deliver.
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And the reason they used to give is that "Chromecast doesn't support Amazon Prime Video and that's confusing for users" - well guess whose decision that was?
This paper compares AlphaZero to the 20 block version of AlphaGo Zero that was trained for 3 days. Am I right in thinking that this version was significantly less strong than the 40 block version? If so, does it matter?
Agreed. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Oooph, I'm no expert but that is not "good" C++ style. Definitely prefer using the iterator methods.
Here's a nickle kid, get yourself a better computer.
Where does the assumption come from that the idea is to decrease usage?

I would expect drug usage to increase when legalized.
> I'm wondering if we ought to start thinking about a C++2.0 where we can write the C++ that we've learned we want.

Wasn't that the incentive behind the D language?
no it means that ads are only being rolled out to the US app store at the moment
> question for someone who has time to read the paper: can you train it to master chess and go at the same time? or is it one or the other? I'm assuming the latter.

I'm sure you could with a multi-headed NN. But what would be the point? There's very little transfer of knowledge between the games, especially once you get past the very most basics.
Really interesting question. Some strategic concepts may transfer, say, from chess to chess variants. However, a simple change in the rules can have a huge impact in the game mechanics as anyone who has tried chess variants [1] knows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants

The answer may be that it is hard enough to become an expert at anything, but there may be some serendipitous (how to make this precise?) overlap.
Seems like it flattens, but they only trained for a few hours. What would happen with 100x more training?
Isn't Apple's detailed vetting the difference between the App Store and Google Play? Apple should be able to catch these scammer apps.
Sorry, I missed an important sentence.

${All the things I said previously}. And, Google Mail is one of their flagship products.

Most of what is on that ProtonMail page is nonsensical. The claim that is relevant to the discussion here --- that ProtonMail has a "smaller attack surface" and is thus structurally more secure than Google Mail --- assumes significant facts not in evidence.

See downthread for my response to the claim that using a mail services outside the US somehow insulates you from NSA snooping.
Because the goals of US drug policy have nothing to do with public health outcomes or justice by any metric.

US drug policy is incredibly effective at the things it is designed to do,which are keeping prisons full and police budgets enormous. Why would we change a policy which is already perfect?
>I'm a Prime subscriber but can't watch Prime videos (TV and movies) on my regular Android device

FYI, Amazon finally released their app on the US Play Store a couple of months ago. Not that this excuses all their other crappy behavior, and the years it took for them to finally do the right thing.
If you use VoLTE or VoWiFi, your network settings are ignored for those - there's tunnels back the the carrier for voice/RCS.
Unless they feel their public stance on privacy is responsible for a non-trivial portion of their current revenue.

They've never seriously compromised their privacy stance that I've seen, with the arguable exception of their unfortunate position in China. This would be a big step off an uncertain cliff, and their CEO has a personal history that lends credence to his argument that privacy matters.
Two of the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming are encapsulation and polymorphism; the idea that exceptional errors are part of the API contract is completely at odds with idea of isolating the implementation of different components.

A component that calculates exchange rates might use a file today and a network service tomorrow. My code should not have to care how every single component is implemented all the way down through the entire code base and every 3rd party library. And if my code is designed to restart high-level operations due to temporary network exceptions then it will be robust without knowing which components use the network now or in the future.

Properly typed `result` types and checked exceptions make implementation details explicit. I don't want that part of the API contract.
Bitcoin Shopping Marketplace on Android - google play store- ROAD
Yeah, I liked these.
It was released earlier this year.
> that nationalism is bad?

Well, European style nationalism was the single most destructive force of the 20th century. So, bad is putting it mildly. La Marseillaise is an exhortation to form battalions, march on to war and to water the fields with the blood of the impure. It represents exactly the kind of militant nationalism that led to war in the first place.

Also, as someone from a country that was colonized and exploited by the British for centuries, I can't but help roll my eyes when the Allies are portrayed as the champions of freedom.
Pftt! This scene is nothing. The best scene of all times is the bank robbery scene in the movie Heat and what happens after. Al Pacino and Robert Deniro were lethal. It makes me cry every time when Deniro leaves her behind:

“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”
You'll be able to unload, but basically only into other crypto. Exchanges that deal with crypto will see crypto prices skyrocket, then shortly collapse, as people buy BTC or other coins then try to move to other exchanges to sell for real USD.
They aren't the first to apply NNs to chess though. What are they doing differently? And does anyone else smell smoke?
Really, UTF literals only now?
Portugal’s policy is deeply flawed because it does not legalize the sale of all drugs, only the consumption.

When selling is legal is when organized crime leaves the picture, taxes can be collected, product is clean and measured and of quality.

Both sides of the equation are important to legalize, doing one without the other means huge problems remain.
That's a special deal they have with Nvidia for that particular device.
Hmmm. I created a system I called Sub-Machines back in the 80's too, though it never occurred to me that anyone else might be interested in it. I was particularly focussed on data communications protocol state machines. I could launch and detach, launch and camp (block), and launch and continue with other business until notified of a submachine's completion. Such notifications could also wake up camped super-machines. I could also get progress notifications bubbling back up. Worked a treat. To make it work I also had to create a co-operative function based multi tasking scheduler. It was very fast, and I still use it to this day. Part of the speed is not having to save context on every task switch. Takes planning though, unlike the lazy while(true) thread loops invented for junior programmers and used today way too much. But no real hardship when dealing with event driven systems, where each event has usually pretty short computations. Much easier to get true Hard Real Time systems to meet their targets.
> we have seen an uptick in marijuana usage

Isn't that a desirable thing from a government standpoint? More tax income from legal sales? The point to legalize something is that you put some controls in place to know where and how, and at what quality it's being sold, not to have its consumption decrease.
> Net neutrality does not exclude these.

It does if my reddit blocks my account for posting in /r/fatpeoplehate. It does if facebook shows an advertisement post to more people than my status.

> What happens if Comcast decides to dramatically slow down Reddit/Facebook/YouTube in favour of another service? Your point no longer stands.

My point becomes stronger. This is exactly why we need net neutrality for youtube, reddit, and amazon. What happens if amazon blocks the sale of chromecast on their website? What happens if Youtube blocks me when I'm using an Aamazon stick? These things are happening and they are as wrong as Comcast slowing down Netflix.
It sounds awful, both for you and for the employer/ customer who pays you for only 5% of your time being actually spent in implementing features.
> With Apple's stance on privacy, how effective will these days be?

IMO Apple's stance on privacy is a bit smoke and mirrors when they allow tracking services like flurry to exist in apps.
The value of BTC skyrockets back in 2014 with MtGox due to the WillyBot (https://willyreport.wordpress.com)...

The price of BTC on other exchanges (which had no direct trades from that bot) was still affected and it went up across the board on all exchanges.

So the value of BTC can be manipulated...
You're right. Some history:

We wanted to do hardware accelerated deep learning on the web, but we realized there was no NumPy equivalence. Our linear algebra layer has now matured to a place where we can start building a more functional automatic differentiation layer. We're going to completely remove the Graph in favor of a much simpler API by end of January.

Once that happens, we'll continue to build higher level abstractions that folks are familiar with: layers, networks, etc.

We really started from nothing, but we're getting there :)
What is its win percentage against itself on each side of the board in each game? Is chess a draw for its style of play? Is there a first move advantage for the other games with its play style?
Google allows all other kind of targeting to happen on their platform. If Apple doesn't want to track users' and their past behaviour, they might use things such as "currently installed apps" as an alternative.

Having said that, it was merely to illustrate an example of things they could do -- there are tons of other ways to to increase the value of searches.
Hey I didn't mean to rant. But yes you called it right, I couldn't read beyond the snippet since I am not a WJS subscriber. I will refrain in the future.
It doesn't work in node yet, a relevant issue: https://github.com/PAIR-code/deeplearnjs/issues/234
It's certainly not the first NN chess program. You may remember one of OP author's Giraffe NN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549) which was essentially 'AlphaGo for chess'. But like the original AG, it struggles to learn and Lai had a lot less computation as a student than he does now at DM. What they're doing is applying AlphaGo Zero expert iteration with some simplifications and TPUs. And that pwns previous work like Giraffe the way AlphaGo Zero pwns AlphaGo. Quantity becomes a quality all its own.
>The fact that Google is making me suffer for their partnership details demonstrates that they don't value us as customers.

It's a tough position for them, since Amazon has been blatantly inimical to consumers of Google products for years. It seems like they finally decided to use the point of leverage they have.
Oh no, I was agreeing with you!
Apple has those terms for everyone, Amazon wasn't singled out.
The US uses a couple tools to make US drug policy essentially world drug policy. Mainly trade agreements, military agreements(weapon sales and defense agreements), and economic aid.

We attach riders to these agreements which make adoption of US drug law a condition of the deal.

This is in first world countries. In the second and third world countries (the middle east and south america, and to a lesser but not negligible extent Africa) we just enforce our laws by force with or without permission.
Or you improve your algorithms and use the existing hardware (think distributed computing on cheap HDDs).
> It's simply not possible for every New Yorker to dig up the sidewalk to lay fiber. That is what constitutes a natural monopoly.

It's simply not possible for every reddit user to code up their own reddit. Why is this not a natural monopoly?
I'm not certain, but I believe they are backed by the fed, but issued by private lenders.

Any HNers currently in college? Is your loan from a federal institution or a private lender?
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I was hoping there was a quick resource of someone having done a deep analysis dive into advanced techniques Gmail does that makes it more secure than everyone else but judging by tptacek's response it sounds like it's because they have the best security team and by extension all products they make are naturally more secure.

If all we have are the same claim being repeated with the only way to learn about what makes Gmail the most secure email provider is having to trawl through 1000's of comments. It means Gmail is always going to perceived as more secure even when they may not be, because relatively no-one is going to trawl through 1000's of comments to make an informed assessment otherwise.
Why would anyone sell you crypto for Tethers if Tethers are found to have no USD backing? I mean...isn't that the entire point of Tethers?
This. We saw same thing with "three strikes" in CA and mandatory sentencing in the US in general --and lest anyone forget, this was supported by the Clintons and Gores in the 90s (if you want to recall the wild extremes, just look into the Gores and the PMRC[1] and metal=satanic, etc.)

So in that sense it wasn't Rs vs Ds, it was rather Ds & Rs pushing strong for "law and order" --which was likely precipitated by the high crime rates of the 80s and early 90s as well as shoddy studies[2] about criminality.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

[2]http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/very-brief-his...
If it effectively solves your particular problems in your specific situation, then it IS good style ;)
I've had Amazon video and music apps on my Android devices ever since I got prime, and they've worked without a problem. I mean, aside from not working with chromecast (but I don't do that often anyhow).

Maybe they've got a deal with Amazon to pre-load the app? I did sideload the Amazon app store.