skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can guarantee that some data that indicates it was recorded yesterday was in fact recorded yesterday and not changed at any point since yesterday.

There's literally nothing a blockchain can do that a trusted central database couldn't do. So you only need a blockchain if you can't trust a central database. As a result, the answer to the question you've posed is always going to be a political one, not a technical one. ("It lets banks that don't trust each other keep a shared database of transactions." "It lets citizens who don't trust their various governments exchange currency." "It lets shipping companies that don't trust each other digitize their manifests." "It lets scientists prove their papers were published on a certain date.")
It could perhaps be said, then, that the Alpha series as a whole is a rolling breakthrough? Each new generation introduces changes that do not seem major compared to the ideas in the foundation of Deep Learning, but this actually allows to surpass state-of-the-art, improving performance on all relevant parameters (and not by a few percent). Dismissing these updates as technicalities is a dubious position.
Introduction to Word Embeddings – word2vec
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Major sites, really?
They're doing what I can only assume is a cashgrab crypto IPO too.

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/crycash-announces-its-to...
If there is no obligation to deliver then there is no purchase. It's patronage, an already well defined concept and the basis for their name. Why must it be made more complicated as "purchasing...in an unusual model"?
I'm fascinated by how this ended up with the same name as the fictional stealthy propulsion technology from the Hunt For Red October. They're both called "magneto hydrodynamic" propulsion.

The book was published in 1984. Was this widely theorized? Did Clancy speak to someone with non public information? Were the researchers at Duke fans of the book / movie? Did they just copy the name of his technology or did the fictional description of how it worked actually inspire their research?
It's a culture problem: with so many people being so rich in the valley, you need to be ruthless to be part of the rich people's club. It means that if you're at the helm of a successful company, you'd rather become a billionaire yourself than letting the poorer people you employ become wealthy.

Another factor is that a good chunk of the tech's business was about making things cheaper rather than making new stuff. Amazon is cheaper than bookstores, Uber is cheaper than regular taxi, and so on. Even if the tech helps make the costs lowers, it also often translates into lower worker wages, and doesn't create more value overall that what existed before.
I would consider a successful application of AlphaZero algorithm to imperfect information games to be a separate achievement, not a done deal.

David Silver himself, who led AlphaGo project, wrote in 2016 in "Deep Reinforcement Learning from Self-Play in Imperfect-Information Games" https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01121 "While many machine learning methods have achieved near-optimal solutions to classical, perfect-information games, these methods fail to converge in imperfect-information games".
Honest question: why is this surprising / newsworthy?
The B is for basic. You won't starve or freeze, but if you want any luxuries then you will need to earn them. That's why UBI won't kill ambition. Contrast to welfare where if you earn anything the welfare is taken away.
"However, the experimental setting does not seem fair. The version of Stockfish used was not the last one but, more importantly, it was run in its released version run on a normal PC, while AlphaZero was ran using considerable higher processing power. For example, in the TCEC competition engines play against each other using the same processor."

That does sound fishy,
I have to agree with GP here.

>but on Bitcoin's use of similar technology to make a distributed ledger.

That doesn't really change a thing. Bitcoin merely uses a blockchain to ensure consensus, if all nodes are trusted then you don't need proof of work and you can switch to simply linking the list (see Git or Ethereum Testnets), and the contents of the blockchain are mostly irrelevant too (you can put anything on there, transactions are merely one type of thing you put in there)

At it's most basic, a blockchain is just a directed graph of nodes where a cryptographic method links two nodes together in a child-parent relationship. Everything else is just added fluff for the specific usecase.
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What he is saying is you can hold BTC and then when you spend it, the BTC gets converted to fiat at the time you spend it. In other words, you can save in BTC instead of immediately converting to fiat. This allows you to take advantage of BTC's deflationary attributes.
I've discovered some days ago that the thepiratebay.org domain was available again. Is it linked to the original one or is it just a proxy?
> janitorial services to cashier at grocery store to construction sites. Once you get same amount of money for free, there is less incentive for anyone to do this sort of work

Yes, the UBI will free the labor market to be an actual free market in which services are priced fairly. If you need a janitor, you will have to provide pay that the janitor is willing to work for, even if not threatened by starvation or homelessness.
I did not expect my comment to be interpreted as a critic of China. I have nothing against Chinese people and I am glad that Google setting in China will help the country to develop.
This is so inspiring. Thank you.
It appears to be particularly useful for:

- Buying contraband

- Ransom payments

- Pump and dump schemes

- Money laundering

Remains to be seen how it will impact the everyday lives of regular people.
My point wasn't for people to copy the model, it would be a terrible idea.

My point was, any typical Western country can provide all basic necessities (actually lot more, 70s lifestyle in CS wasn't just basic) for its population (an excellent basic income) with maybe 30% GDP (because of the higher productivity) and 80% employment tops (more likely somewhat less). Surely, you can do better than Czechoslovakia in the 70s! So how come we can't find the money, if the resources (energy, labor, materials) are all there?

And if 30% GDP is spent on basic income, the remaining 70% can be subject to the capitalist competition. (That's my understanding of the UBI - we basically put aside a portion of GDP that we are not going to compete about in capitalism. It keeps the profit motive going but the poor people aren't starving or forced to work for non-livable wages.)

Economists just sometimes focus too much on money and lose sight of the real thing.
Logo Synthesis and Manipulation with Clustered Generative Adversarial Networks
The same as it'd cost to store any other data -- roughly 380 satoshis (~6.4 cents) per byte, plus various overheads to make it into a a valid transaction.
Suggestion: default it to off, make turning it on accessible, pop up the terms of service that it’s a TOS violation for minors to use it when it is turned on (or if they told you they’re under 18, don’t make it accessible) and tell anyone who complains about it, “tough noogies” (or their kid is a TOS violator) and don’t engage any further. Keep the ban hammer at the ready.

And thanks for making an R-rated option. I will use it.
At least in Germany, it's illegal to leave your car door unlocked. (Not sure about house doors.) The rationale is that it invites crime.
Agreed. While algebraic data types are obviously a good idea, the best way to use Python is to accept it for what it is: a dynamically typed object-oriented language that's not very good at manipulating user-defined values (or even defining them to begin with), but has some pretty cool tricks of its own, like runtime metaprogramming with decorators and metaclasses.
Ask HN: What have you applied blockchain technology to?
Hey guys,
just read this article and thought about how the Blockchain-Technology could be used for other stuff than Cryptocurrencies. What examples do you know or have experimented with? Would love to hear your suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
Wow, 10 years ago already? This was quite big here in Sweden back when it happened. It's scary how quickly these things slip out of our conscience (at least mine).
It's chilling what you can get away with by just staying cool for while... Or is the short term damage in PR not worth waiting it out for the long?
Maybe they meant the 1918-1945 East German Border (i.e. Königsberg = today's Russian Kaliningrad and Breslau = Polish Wroclaw)? /s

Edit: AFAIK there is no de iure annexation of those territories
Ok thanks, can we connect on twitter? https://twitter.com/svensauleau/.

I can see on your GitHub page that you made the famous WebAssembly to JVM, nice job!
A bit off topic, but that quote from Jefferson never sat well with me. Easy to say when you had over 600 slaves. You know what else drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating? ...slavery.
Thank you, voice of reason.
It’s hard to take anything Ben says seriously anymore. He uses his platform to shill Apple and trash Tesla all the time. This time it only took one sentence before he got cracking on it. Seriously look at his Twitter and its the same monotonous praise for Apple and trashing Tesla Ad nauseam
Really like the idea of this and i think its well executed. Is there scope to build this out beyond engineering roles?
bitcoin is just extortion on craze of the crowd. if no income is been generated by it, then its value is arbitrary. an investment asset needs a cash flow to repay investment and then some. bitcoin has none. i admit bitcoin is not the only asset that has this characteristic.
General rule on HN: if your comment doesn't contribute usefully to the discussion, don't comment!
It's important to not forget what the web used to be, in order to have some context for what it's becoming (see Net Neutrality).
no, it is not how normal markets work. a stock, bond, real estate "generates income". that's why it has value. bitcoin does not.
Sum types make very little sense in dynamically typed languages even with good manipulation of user-defined values. For instance Erlang does not have "formal" sum types, it wouldn't really bring anything useful to the table, the compiler does not typecheck by default (so the sum type would just be a complication with no benefits) and Dialyzer can simulate them by using type/value unions e.g.

{ok, integer()} | {err, string()}
You don't need an electronic tracker to implement distance-based road charges. New Zealand has been doing this for decades:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/road-user-c...
How not to get crazy? :)
The HN headline currently says:

> The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme

How is this clickbait? All I can see is a summary of what happened. When people say "clickbait", I expect something like:

> Three Boys Sucked At Minecraft. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!
Whereas the "correct" way to play chess will consist of knowing always exactly which move to make, most Poker variants will require a statistical model that says things like "In this situation we will fold 4% of the time, call 89% of the time and raise 7% of the time". Then the actual choices you make are random with a specific weighting. So that's hugely different. This truth is why strong poker analysts are always so equivocal. "All options are good here" annoys people but it's often true.

For Heads Up (two players) Limit (bet sizes are fixed) Hold Em (a popular modern variant with two hole cards and five community cards) such a strategy was developed and you can view it online, it's essentially unbeatable. Its name is Cepheus.
Because about 90% of people are white, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

I think your evaluation is probably right, if you're white.
It can't be means tested, both philosophically - the U - and practically, since to make the numbers work (in the UK at least) you need to also ditch the expensive bureaucracy.
I remember the piratebay trial being a gigantic farce where some of the judges had ties to copyright organisations. It's crazy how much power have these mafia-like organisations.

(edit: spelling)
I clicked the gear
I clicked the PDF/ PPTX
nothing seems to be happening..
I think, I just became "Person of Interest"
Isn't that how all newer version of chess engines - including stockfish, improve?

Edit:
https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests
I'm not into functional programming in Python, but pipetools[0] looks way more handy.

[0] https://github.com/0101/pipetools
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Orrin Hatch, after voting for a trillion-dollar tax cut, said there wasn't any money for CHIP.
Thank you! I can confirm that this works for me on Arch Linux after unpacking the .deb and running the executable from there. (This is with Spotify v1.0.67.582-1 from AUR - but I never saw the other freezing problem that mafrasi2 mentioned, so I can't comment on that)
At least to me a Swede, this [datacenter] "... was raided by 65 Swedish police officers" is so incredibly out of touch with normal reality in this country, on so many levels.

* Copyright infringement case assigned to that many officers? Unheard of. High profile murder investigations don't get that many.

* We have this peculiar law, that ministers are NOT TO meddle in the running of government agencies. Yet, this is what we got.

* From cautious "see what happens" attitude among prosecutors with regards to copyright infringement and copying for personal use - to a big leap: not only an attempted (though only partially successful) witch hunt of Pirate Bay founders, but also inventing a whole new crime, called "accessory to copyright infringement".

Not that I don't agree that what Pirate Bay did was at times shady, but the whole thing made me believe without a doubt a few things:

- US as a case of "wag the dog". The trade associations (RIAA etc) in the US can easily make the state do their bidding. And the US state as an institution is quite weak, when it does these things so quickly. What that implies, is that there is no thinking things through. No serious cost/benefit analysis can possibly have been made. "How much ill will from foreign countries is this move worth? Fuck that, do it now."

- That Sweden would be pushed around so quickly. I must have been naive, but it was surprising how not even a symbolic attempt at saving face was made here. Our domestic response was decisive and swift. Can't help but make you wonder what we could be made to do to ourselves over something more serious than fucking copyright infringement. Dance, monkey, dance.
I don't see why race is a factor.

There is a whole host of things that could affect a place's desirability to live. It does not matter what you look like, if you're poor you gotta eat some shit once in a while.
I use it often so somebody keeps it running, actually there are dozens of mirrors running on various ccTLD-s. The source must be available somewhere online so you can spin up your own instance.
It need not be "surprising" to be worthy of discussion.

The fact that the US has so much control over international copyright law enforcement is a big deal.

The fact that a site that does not host copyrighted material was taken down in the name of copyright law is a big deal.
No, everywhere. Or at least, also in NZ and the UK and a bunch of countries around Europe.
the jobs that lead to potential upward mobility aren't in Lincoln. Plus, this kind of forward-thinking (incur $15k worth of debt now, pay it off with money saved on rent later) is really difficult for someone like myself who already has a lot of debt.
I didn't know about this 301 list that US corporations threaten other counties with.

It looks like Finland made the list because it refuses to pay more for a drug than the cheapest generic. (I don't know why this is a bad thing? I guess it's bad for certain Pharmaceutical companies?)

And China is a 301 favorite, but we still do so much business with them?

We used this list to scare Sweden into doing something about The Pirate Bay.
That might be because you don't value family or other people like you around you. Personally I've lived in a bunch of countries and it's always been a lot easier for me with a support network.

I suppose in the context of the article we are talking about people already struggling, and I'm not suggesting at all that it's not a welcoming place. I'm just saying that it's gonna be out of comfort zone or "mental availability" for a lot of people.

What is obvious to one person is not at all obvious to another. Someone in SF is not likely to know anyone who moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, for example. They might know people who came from there though, I suppose.
Net giants 'must pay for news' from which they make billions
How? How do you move to Nebraska when you have $100/week for food?

How do you find a job, when you have literally 0-day you can spend without working?

Are there really than many jobs for people who flip burgers in Lincoln, Nebraska?

And are people who flip burgers in Nebraska so much better?
If BTC is truly subject to evolutionary forces, then there is no logical reason to think it isn't heading down a dead end branch. How can you guarantee adding to a flawed technology won't see that "value" unravel , especially if something fundamentally different come along that solves the problem set without carrying legacy baggage or leaving collateral damage that each "fork" by definition must incur?
Well, lack of jobs, or lack of a hiring pool. Take your pick.
Doesn't this mean the user pays 1/10th of a cent in electricity and wear so the website can get 1/100th of a cent in mining value?

I just want something where I can put in a few dollars and it goes to sites I visit. (Previous services have resembled this but with notable issues.)
this is the "lynching" argument.

You pay for your bigotry.
3. Yes you can easily. The futures contracts have enabled short bets against Bitcoin. A few brokers have set this week or next as a roll-out for that, in the very near future hundreds of different financial companies will enable shorting via futures for their clients.

For example, Interactive Brokers is going live with their shorting this week:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/bitcoin-b...
There is a definite difference between old-fashioned spinning rust and SSD.

Between SATA SSD and PCIe? Sure, for extremely IO-heavy tasks there's a difference to be felt, but not really in everyday use.
IIUC they modified CryEngine to support a 64 bit coordinate system, and part of the reason this was possible was because they hired ex-Crytek devs to do it. Doing the same conversion in Unreal might not be feasible. I believe this is needed for the 'space scale' kind of stuff they're doing. So as far as why they chose CR, it might have been because they had access to devs that they didn't have in the case of UE3/UE4.

As far as modelling goes it makes no difference - they're all made in 3dsmax/maya and then imported and both engines would be heavily optimised for that pipeline.
Maybe you didn't read my comment. If you're poor, you don't have resources.

If you don't have resources, you have to deal with suboptimal conditions.

A support network is great, just like pleasant weather or a good job market. What is the premium you're willing to pay for being around people like you or family? Because you're going to have to pay.
Unemployment is at 2.3%. That's one of the lowest in the country If you do not have a job you will be snatched off the street.
It was only down for a few months.
I have read that other people are running the website these days.

It has degraded a bit but essentially it works fine most of the time.
Sure, but the current implementation has several bugs and could be refined, some motion command does not move where is expected (ie e b e b combos)
I'm pretty sure the name is TNI although the board is indeed white.

I did discuss this with my children's teachers and challenge the whole concept, since like you I thought there should be a lot of value to justify replacing an ages-old technology that doesn't require power with a fragile one that can break and needs to be plugged in.

I was surprised to see the teachers themselves were very enthusiastic about it.

The one feature that really sold the technology to me was the fact that one can switch from the problem to the correction and back, which is impossible to do with chalk.

Also, teachers can prepare the lessons in advance. Basically, it helps productivity, it saves time. Another detail, the teacher faces the class when writing on the TNI, instead of turning her back to the pupils, which I remember was a great opportunity for children to be unruly.

(And TNIs didn't remove blackboards, they're in addition to them; if the TNI stops working or if the teacher prefers, blackboards are still there and still available.)
The MAYA Principle: Design for the Future, Balance It with Your Users’ Present
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probably still the fastest way to double your money...
Lines of Acton sounds like an excellent game for Londoners.

(Acton is a suburb of London and has more railway stations bearing its name than any other place in the UK)
The described policy change of requiring a customer to have spent at least $50 to leave a verified review happened in 2016... [0]

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/message.jspa?message...
The judge was Thomas Norström. Swedish public radio revealed that the judge, Thomas Norström, is a member of several copyright protection associations, whose members include Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky – attorneys who represented the music and movie industries in the case. According to the report, Judge Norström also serves as a board member on one of the groups of which Mrs. Wadsted, the Motion Picture Association of America’s attorney, is a member.

That this passed without causing a conflict of interest is astonishing. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/0423/pirate...

Also worth mentioning is that the lead investigating police got a job from Warner Brothers very soon after the trial was successful. Thank you, job well done. https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/18/officer-who-investigated-p...

In recent news, the chair of Swedens Supreme court judge Stefan Lindskog has been implied in shady financial transactions, and is under investigation by the police. The belief we once had that Sweden had a low level of corruption can be put to history. And of course even having a low level still means there is some corruption. https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/polisen-utreder-hogsta-doms...

YMMV.
Anyone want to hear a joke? Go to the financial ombudsman homepage [1]...

Bare in mind, on their complaints page you can download a complaints Word document, fully capable of having embedded VB script [2].

Also, it took them _months_ to sort out an issue where they would only check for 3 numbers (pin) and 3 letters (password), always asking for the first, second and third characters.

Also-also, I remember a while back not being able to access my card (for about a day) because a single engineer accidentally corrupted their main database.

[1] http://financial-ombudsman.org.uk

[2] http://financial-ombudsman.org.uk/consumer/complaints.htm
To remove pirated movies from the interwebs there are two options really: either attack content providers / trackers etc, or, find the users directly.

In Germany, as soon as you start a torrent client, your traffic is being monitored by bots and agents, and if you upload something inappropriate you (or your host) will get a letter from a law firm with a heavy fine. (I know of two friends who had to pay $600 and $3000.)
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