skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464837
It's actually not drug use which has decreased all that much - it's actually "drug-related pathologies — such as sexually transmitted diseases and deaths due to drug usage — have decreased dramatically. Drug policy experts attribute those positive trends to the enhanced ability of the Portuguese government to offer treatment programs to its citizens — enhancements made possible, for numerous reasons, by decriminalization."

This obviously has nothing to do with the crisis.
This is great and really classic! Many of the artists I never knew you interface is as easy as wikipedia. I really like it. Good luck!!
I think that it is almost always possible to extract optimized models from nn and implement them faster. I wonder if this can be generalized. Nn to optimized fix algo for Max speed?

This has to already exist as it is very obvious.
Yes, that has to be an option anyway, if somebody sells a domain and doesn't release it from FastMail. I have a blog post for this advent series (already written and everything) about why we don't allow split billing on a single domain.
It's a shame that people, in 2017, see something that was implemented in 2000 as radical.
Think that's deliberate.

PS; you need to consider the context, the author is an heir to Samuel Johnson and was active in late 1800 to 1930s. For that period, I think his entries were probably considered 'plain' English.
Go seems to be a study in how to ignore decades of both acedemic research and practical experience. Did no one learn from Java that code generation is a red flag that something is wrong with your language?
ebay from AUS sellers has served me well this year on their site-wide 10-15% off deals. e.g. Merrell, Colorado, Columbia and Timberland, $50 cheaper than at a physical shop. KEEN doesn't seem discounted much though.
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I wasn't talking about guns in general, I was talking about "illegal guns" (with some definition of illegal). They can be illegal because they are stolen, because they aren't allowed to be owned by people in general (such as an anti aircraft missile) or because the owner doesn't qualify to own it for some other reason - perhaps because of previous convictions in weapons related crimes etc. Let's just say that regardless of the actual legislation, there are always gun laws.
Why the gun was illegal was beside the point, the point is that there are guns you don't want people to own, and people who you don't want to have guns (children, whatever) so there are laws agsinst it.

> They can be used by citizens for their own protection, to prevent crimes.
> For example, consider a woman preventing a rape attempt by using her gun. Or the recent case of the Texas church, which could have resulted in many more deaths if not by the actions of an armed citizen.

Right. And in countries with fewer guns that citizen wouldn't have been there with his gun - but on the other hand the chance that someone has a semi auto high velocity gun at a church service in the first place is almost zero. There are just 3 societies here: one where everyone has guns, one where only the criminal has a gun, and one where almost no one has a gun. I prefer the last, even if there is a small number of people that have a gun and I don't (I also live in that kind of country so I know it works pretty well). To put this another way: if seeing someone next to me in church had brought a gun would make me feel safer than before because "good they can protect me if a madman starts shooting" then something is already wrong.

One can't argue with that you can stop an individual criminal with a gun. What you can argue about is (for example) whether owning a gun uts you at more risk of being shot than not owning one. Or whether, for society as a whole, guns cause or prevent violence as a net effect. I also think it's problematic to begin by categorizing people into "criminals" and "others" and assuming only people form the criminals group will commit crimes. One has to assume anyone can be a criminal tomorrow.
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In recent years attitudes towards marijuana have definitely shifted. Attitudes towards MJ have always been closer to acceptance than any other drug. Ask the average person if they think heroin should be sold legally.
Best part is I can play listen without registering - which is what most people like. :-)
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I suspect the Uruguayan approach would work better in Brasil: state-sanctioned legal production and distribution.

The point is to NOT treat it as a business, but to treat it as a treatment distribution. You still charge patients for the consumption but you have to lower the production and distribution costs to the point of destroying the ilegal production/distribution and the para-national organizations behind it.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464837 "drug-related pathologies — such as sexually transmitted diseases and deaths due to drug usage — have decreased dramatically. Drug policy experts attribute those positive trends to the enhanced ability of the Portuguese government to offer treatment programs to its citizens — enhancements made possible, for numerous reasons, by decriminalization."
from the guardian article
"Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime."
Problematic according to people dieing.
Isn't getting the number of people dieing and getting diseases decreasing far more important than a rise in drug use?
I sold almost all my over 2000 coins back in 2011. No one who has bought big back then has held on all this time, the only new crypto millionaires are those who find old wallets just now.
> Pretty much every harasser and rapist revealed recently has been a moderate-to-active liberal. Weinstein himself gave generously to Hillary.

That's a pretty tough statement to make when the GOP and Trump just endorsed Roy Moore for the senate race in Alabama because they need the seat.
Interesting trend on crypto kitties : Virgin cats(ones who didn't have any kids) are more expensive than the..other ones..That's officially insane.
I think so. Also, we are smaller, yet relatively wealthy. Companies tend to like to overcharge us, and then rather ironically, so do our own companies.

Retailers have been trying to cut rates for weekend work. Now they are worried about cheaper alternatives. There is less and less sympathy for them in Australia. They have been lazy for a long time, and it shows. They have been ripe for disruption for so long, and now Amazon has a chance to walk in and take it all from them.

So far, Amazon have sort of stuffed it. If they were more like Costco, they would almost certainly immediately take away a huge chunk of market share. They have decided not to compete on price, that's a huge mistake.
And Amazon Prime Video punishes me for trying to play video on a device via VGA cable, which they say is not HDCP compatible, therefore they limit it to 480p (when the projector supports HD/1080p).
It’s an interesting argument, but I think it’s a misleading one. What hurt journalism isn’t outsourcing, it’s the internet making the same information available for free (and often in more depth).

Admittedly, automation may have an effect later, since many journalism jobs are basically rewriting press releases or acting as an RSS system. But for the moment, the mountain of online competition doing things for free is what killed most of this industry, perhaps along with some adblocking and what not.
The author and editor of this article apparently made no attempt to comprehend what a blockchain is or what it can do, and there's no detail in the article that tells me how using a blockchain solves the authenticity problems described. Paperwork can be bought for a bribe? Why couldn't a blockchain record?
Yep. Harvey appeals to an older audience, but the truth is - he's not well loved by anyone else other than television networks because of his advertising spend.
Ask HN: Startup Growth Hacking: ROI of Free Tools vs. Content
This article from HubSpot says — Building free tools can provide better ROI than just pushing content.

https://thinkgrowth.org/building-tools-can-provide-better-roi-than-blogging-ec87e304c47d

It made me curious enough to do some cost calculations.

Cost for publishing an article in a growing startup:

Authors: They can be very expensive sometimes, though it varies from business to business. let’s assume $200-$300.

Reviewers/Proofreaders: You would need people to review articles and send questions, or feedbacks. Estimated cost: $30-$50

Graphics: Startups tend to use more graphics in order to make articles more interactive. Estimated cost: $100.

So, as a sum, it would cost you approx $330-$500 to publish one article.

The article(if good enough) can bring 5k-10k visitors to your website.

Subscribers: You can expect around 10-20

Qualified leads: Maybe 1 or 2.

——----------

Cost of Building a tool

Taking an example of Crew, who survive their mainstream business by just building free tools for their target users.

They built Unsplash(for stock photos) with a $19 Tumblr theme and 4 hours of work.

Total Estimated cost: $150

ROI(in terms of traffic etc): Over 50k Visitors right after they went viral on here(HN).

Afterwards, they built Launch this year, How much to make an app and many other free tools.

Over the year, these projects brought them millions of visitors, signups, referrals, and what not.

So, I think it’s safe to believe that free tools can bring you more ROI than blogging. What do you folks feel?
Omg that first one even uses the default Unity player model, it looks worse than most Ludum Dare games
Adam Curtis's Century of the Self is another:

Entire programme (4h)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

Chunked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEsPOt8MG7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2LB2MaGoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VouaAz5mQAs
D's GC can be turned off
Coincidentally (as no doubt you are aware) yesterday Microsoft released Windows 10 for ARM devices with built-in emulation, and a couple of hardware partners launched suitable systems based on SnapDragon 835 SoC. The future is arriving very fast.
I dunno, seems like Google would just do this instead of keep around the pesky neural net at runtime. There's an _awful_ lot of computation going on inside, and it's necessarily hugely interconnected. I'd be impressed if someone had already done it, but it seems a great avenue of research if not. I suppose it goes hand in hand with models for which you can actually _explain_ their results, which certainly is an active area of research.
I get your point...

though I'm not sure that cryptokitties are a great way to sell your idea here. They're the kind of tulip/fidget spinner craze that we'd invest a ton of effort into, sell a few for a while, have to support for the next 10 years and still face a noisy backlash from a few annoyed users when we finally retired it. Overall, net loss.

In the case of "no recovery allowed" accounts, the development effort is minimal, but the number of people who would turn it on "it says higher security and someone on hacker news told me to, it must be good" and then proceed to lose their account... I bet they'd be noisy when the realised they'd not only lost all their email, they'd lost their payment to us, because they'd have no authority to request a refund.

Oh wait, they would - chargebacks. Notoriously hard to fight with an online service, particularly when you're not providing said service any more. And it's always the full amount charged back too, not just the unused portion of the service.

I'll float the idea of allowing people to push right hard up to the "do not resuscitate" tattoo on their account, but I'm not going to pretend it doesn't come with some risks to us.
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Then how is it getting cut into all the heroin being sold in the states? Someone must be buying it ...
The risk with this sort of meta-discussion is that it drowns the original question about drug policy in an ocean of other relevant questions. I think it would be more interesting to line up the countries that are currently close to trying out a similar policy to Portugal and finding ways to support the movement or at least discuss the particular, national, issues faced.

There's slightly older (2009) systemic review of Portugal's drug policy and it's effects available at: https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decrimina... which is also interesting and has fair bit of stats to back the discussion up with.
I'm not sure I follow, why does a site's use of Extended Validation affect your ability to sue them? Or do you mean it's a psychological thing - "If our site uses EV, we're more likely to get sued"?
Can't those teraflops be applied to evaluating more positions instead of deciding which positions to evaluate?

It seems that the metric should be compute time, not positions evaluated.
Bookshops that are still around have already survived Amazon. Remember Borders Australia? They died spectacularly and it was only the niche players that survived.
Except AlphaZero doesn't evaluate nearly as many moves as Stockfish (80Knps vs 70Mnps), so in a sense, it has exactly generalized a principle (or likely a whole lot of principles) that allows it to estimate positions much better than Stockfish.

Of course you are right about perfect play, but the human-like aspect is part of what is exciting about these new Alpha engines.
I really badly want to get myself a Talon POWER9 system, but I’m scared of being stuck with another “exotic” overpriced machine (in my time I’ve owned BeBoxes and NeXTStations). Do you have one? Do you use it as a daily workstation? Can I ask you some questions about it?
And gangrene's been around as long as humans.

"Nothing new" doesn't mean "horrible practice".
Boffins foresee most software written by machines in 2040
Love to see this! As a classical music fan, I'm frustrated by how difficult it is to find good quality music online.

Here's a couple of ideas how to improve the tool:

* Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music).

* I'm missing interprets. Search for "Karajan" yields nothing, yet Karajan is a super important figure in classical music. The same for the orchestras, string quartets, etc.

* Some people care about record labels, too. For example, I'd like to search specifically for DG, Decca and similar.

* I understand that the world of classical music is enormous and you'll never get all music. Improving the library will be an ongoing challenge. For example, there is Dvorak's Piano Quintet no. 2, but no. 1 is not present.

* I'm not sure I understand the UI. What belongs to the purple are at the top and what belongs to the white area below?

I might come up with more ideas later.

Hope this does not sound derisive, my points are just suggestions about how to take the tool further. It's fantastic that someone is working on this! Fingers crossed and keep up the great job!
The primary purpose isn't to fight organised crime. It's to create treatment opportunities for the people using the drugs.

Decrease the demand and the rest of the system will decrease on its own.
Even if it is clean energy (and assuming this is mining without any valuable processing like verifying transactions):

1. Waste is waste and there's only a finite amount of clean energy that can be used. The sun only outputs so much usable energy per day and daming rivers does not happen without consequence.

2. This generates alot of heat. People aren't mining in their house so this is concentrated areas of heat pollution. It may be negligible but environmental hotspots wreak havoc on local ecosystems, especially when dispersed in aquatic ecosystems.
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Congratulations, you've found the fallacy of relative privation.

At least the utility of cargo ships is pretty tangible, whereas the utility of bitcoin has yet to manifest itself.
It directly competes for last mile bandwidth regardless--the frequencies on the coax can either be used for internet or a dedicated video service but not both.

Would you really require cable ISPs provide you an internet bandwidth of X and video bandwidth of Y instead of internet bandwidth of X+Y?
I believe the less deaths part is really meant as gun deaths.

Do you honestly think that he wants information about less guns leading to lower cardiac arrests? Or perhaps less motor vehicle accidents involving death?

There is only one type of death that is in context in a discussion about firearms, death caused by firearms.
I would wager that Amazon is pretty safe on this one. Some quick googling suggests that Amazon has less than 20% market share in consumer electronics. They're the biggest player, but there are lots of other big players (Walmart, Target, Best Buy).

I'm pretty sure you need a lot more market share than that before any judge is going to rule your behavior as anti-competitive.
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Our business model has been tried and tested with multiple festivals and farmers markets receiving great feedback, we already have multiple festivals and farmers markets signed up to use the platform when it launches.

As a company, we have already completed our seed investment round and have secured over £100K of funding. The investment is being used to form the foundations of the company; allowing us to build a platform that is scalable, find a world-class team and ensure we have the time to build a service that will exceed our client’s expectations.

The platform is being built using Javascript, Node.Js, Express, React and Redux, and we require an experienced software developer to join the team and take over the software development from the software development agency that we are currently using and contribute significantly to the software and system design of our platform.

What we are looking for

Looking for a senior full stack developer to lead up the software development team at Higglers. Looking for an individual who has the potential to grow into a CTO.

If interested please send an email to christopher@higglers.co.uk
Dangerous Pickles – Malicious Data Serialization in Python
I think the fact that he enjoys continued support (in Congress# and among those who voted for him) amply demonstrates that many citizens do not comprehend the massive reduction in influence the US has suffered in only a year.

# Call your representative.
Correction to the above: I stated Deepmind applied Neural Nets+MCTS and achieved ok results. I was actually misremembering two David Silver (Deepmind) papers as one. Smooth UCT modified UCT (popular brand of MCTS) to be able to handle imperfect information games. MCTS does not converge under imperfect information. Smooth UCT is strong at limit poker. Limit is much simpler than no-limit.

Neural Fictitious Self Play based on fictitious play (invented 1950s), is an approach to reinforcement learning using neural nets for function approximation. Typical RL methods like DQN are highly exploitable. Against strong programs, NFSP did okay, with a win rate of -50 mbb/h against the best bot it played against.

Looking not just at Deepmind, there's Deepstack. It's similar to AlphaGo OG, combining CFR+Neural nets. Deepstack did not win convincingly against humans at 2 player no limit hold em.

The general point I'm trying to make here is that Chess and Go are closer to checkers than to poker, which is itself a constrained game with known rules. I mention all this and this Deepmind paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00832.pdf, to provide a sense of scale to those talking about smoke and fire alarms.
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Yeah, that's a feature and it can be used that way, but is its price being justified by that alone? No, it isn't. Most of it comes from it's price relative to the USD which basically tethers it to the USD.
Isn't it trying to become one + behaving like one?
Math can be perfect information too if you just start with axioms. Even when starting with conjectures, the rules are transparent for manipulating statements.
More powerful yet: be able to generate a graph of brands and references, with frequencies/weights assigned, so you can spot the shills.

E.g., what products does X write about, who else does, do they cover the competition as well?

Being able to assess positive/negative coverage would be even better.

I have some thoughts in mind.
Also if DuckDuckGo can target you based on what you're searching there and then, is that not targeting? It's not stalk based targeted advertising, but you're still an ideal target since they're showing you something you're searching for, in some cases it might not be fully relevant to what you wanted, but close enough to be shown (not sure how highly relevant DuckDuckGo ads become relative to search terms).
Rehashing the same numbers. It also consumes as much as half of all bank office buildings in the US or as all of the Christmas decoration in the US or as....
With old Presto Opera there was a valid stance of "it might not work and we are not going to test it". But with current Opera, or Vivaldi, and I'm sure many others, it should just work, since they are all Chromium based.

By the way, fun fact, old Opera had huge "compatibility" javascript where they fixed either general or specific issues that were result of developers not caring about the browser. Opera had over 50% share in certain markets at the time.
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IOTA fans say that IOA is scalable and capable of microtransactions. They often say that it gets faster and faster as there are more transactions, which seem to be an incredible bullshit to me. I started to read the whitepaper, but I just don't understand how it is scalable. The whitepaper goes into details about how the transaction DAG is maintained, but absolutely basic things seem to be missing: Are nodes all full nodes? Is the history stored on all nodes? Is account state stored on all nodes? There is another project which is designed specifically to be extremely scalable, called EOS (https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/Technical...). Reading its whitepaper I understood how EOS is scalable pretty clearly. I cannot understand the IOTA whitepaper at all. At least not how it is scalable. Currently IOTA seems to me a project that wants to impress people with good-sounding concepts like DAG, ternary number system, etc... but does not seem to be good engineering to me. Or at least its whitepaper is extremely poorly written and missing critical information IMHO.