skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pitch back then was to colonise space as plants would not need the sun for photosynthesis.

That's a stupid pitch. The light is required as an energy source for the photosynthesis. Making the plant glow would consume energy from the plant. If you could make a plant that glows without an outside energy source and use this light for photosynthesis while still being energy positive, you'd have broken a few fundamental laws of physics. Having these plants escape the lab and light up woods would be the least of my worries in that case.
The new version of Concertmaster fixed it for me...the splash screen goes away, the main window comes up, it detects Spotify, and actually plays music.

So far, it's amazing...great job!
A banner on a website is hardly legally binding. All that becomes moot when a contract is signed saying what each parties' responsibilities are and the dotted lines are signed.
For the same reason we prevent phone companies from doing the same. Until you're ok with phone companies not letting you call the Butterball hotline because they support another turkey company, I don't think you have a point.

Moreover, even without any antitrust issues, the number of ISPs, especially in rural areas will always be limited by start up costs. In cities it'll always be limited by space on lines poles or conduits underground.

I guess until you convince me phone operators shouldn't be regulated as common carriers, you won't convince me isps shouldn't.
While I sympathise with the intent, to stop this particular debasement of language, I doubt this is an effective way to go about it. It's an anonymous voice shouting into the void.

I think admonishing people to speak and write properly is a genuinely worthy pursuit. If you've got, say, a tech blog or forum, you can set language-policing posting guidelines. Some people might complain, but just ban them (if they're persistent/stubborn offenders.)
Same here, just tried to download the PDF multiple times but it always failed (didn't even start; tested Chrome and Firefox)...
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> No exhaustible has been depleted yet

What did they predict would be depleted by December 2017, and where did they predict it? Be specific please.

> The world has seen massively more population growth than they modelled

Has it? What does their model predict for December 2017? Be specific.

(http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/M... shows an almost perfect fit of population growth predictions and historical data until 2014)

> Material goods production (plastics) is at an all time high.

Yes, that's lovely. Where did they predict otherwise, for December 2017?

> I guess outside of way we are treating our environment, humanity has a lot to be proud of. (I feel the environment is going bonkers and we are a plastic-addicted throw away society.)

Agreed.
Destroy the printing press (1473)
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If you shut down whole industries so unemployment rate is 25% people are scared of organizing strikes.

Then suddenly foreign capital comes, re-opens shut down companies and magic happens - it wasn't worth to shut it down, Polish people can just work as hard as foreign, but they are just scared of striking.
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You can ask someone to stop doing something legal. I'd hate to live in the sort of world where you can't. HN moderators would send the police after you to seize your laptop if you make bad comments. The only way to get your roommate to stop eating your plums would be to charge them with larceny. Every relationship would end with a restraining order, or it wouldn't be over. Failing to turn in a homework assignment on time would lead to a court date. Buying more than ten items in the express lane would get you arrested for fraud.

If that isn't the world you want to live in, let's get rid of this idea that just because I have no interest in the government stopping you from doing a thing by threatening violence (and that's all a license is - a statement that the following activities are not copyright infringement), I'm totally fine with you doing the thing.
> Gaming companies already adapted this and I've never pirated any games since Steam.

The first to adopt this, very successfully, had actually been Apple with their approach to selling mp3s.

While everybody was still busy trying to sell overpriced physical albums, complaining about the "digital thievery", Apple took this as an opportunity with iTunes.
iTunes made buying music digitally as convenient as it was pirating it, at the same time iTunes allowed customers to only buy specific songs (at reasonable prices), instead of forcing them to buy whole albums.

Valve did something similar for gaming with Steam, that's true, but it took Steam way longer to get there than it did take iTunes. Imho Steam has also regressed quite a bit in that regard, it used to be a place for good deals but increasingly feels like a platform to shovel around shovelware for badges and trading cards.
Everything you've learned in your life, in school or out;

Do you give proper credit to the creator/author/inventor/discoverer of that knowledge, or refrain from using it?

The question isn't whether this happens to be legal or not, the question is whether it should be, and to what extent.

Do you have any example which you were wanting to compare to, or was the question deliberately open-ended?
Not just the psyche, the landscape, too. Many US towns are so sprawled out that the mall was the only thing they had for public space.

When the local mall closes, a bunch of people who've spent much of the past decade sitting on their couches, and aren't necessarily happy about that situation, realize that this is probably how they're going to be spending the next decade, too.
Your comparison seems like a false dichotomy, and I think you are agreeing with OP. OP says, spend less time worrying about the algorithm and more time worrying about what data you are feeding the algorithm. You are saying, what if you had to choose between dataset A with algorithm A and dataset B with algorithm B.

You claim, (probably correctly) that dataset B, which includes velocity and trajectory, is more correct for the problem at hand, and given dataset B, I would suggest that either algorithm A or B would probably do just fine.

You also claim that algorithm A has "some error rate during identification." But so will algorithm B, and so will either algorithm on dataset A and B!

The question you should ask is, how much do I care about "black box" vs. "white box", and is there are trade-off? If the black-box solution (algorithm A, the "ML" solution) gives you 10% higher accuracy, and that accuracy is going to save lives, you bet I'd choose it. Or maybe I decide that interpretability is really important due to external audit reasons, so I need the white-box solution. But maybe I'd choose both, the interpretable one, and use the uninterpretable one as a flag for "a human should look at this." Or maybe I'd combine the results of both algorithms to get even higher accuracy.

There are just so many ways to configure a solution to the problem you propose, and you are only distinguishing between two of them. In the end the appropriate choice depends on context.
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Basically all your objections boil down to the fact that the UniFi's are not very easy to manage.

I'd say none of this matters if you just want to have a few access points around the house for a WiFi network that currently runs on a single standalone router. Nobody said configuring the UniFi's is easy or convenient, but the premise is that you only do it once, using whatever computer you have that you can install the cloud controller on. You don't absolutely need to buy anything besides the AP's, it's only for convenience if your network changes a lot.
Being afraid to take legal action and defend your rights out of fear of bad PR is... not cool. This is somewhat the equivalent of being afraid to speak against an abusive partner.
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How is it wrong? What's the correct hierarchy ?
It seems like the Chinese/Russian technique would work better over their own territory and therefore implies that it's a technique developed from a defensive strategy.

Is this a reasonable characterization?
From what I recall, DeepMind never mastered Pacman.
With this kind of long term predictions, it's practically impossible to get the numbers right - ie the number of years it will take for resource X to end, how many billion people Earth can sustain, etc. But this doesn't mean that there are no limits to growth (on Earth): in the last 40 years we invented lots of great technologies that improved the efficiency in how we use lots of resources and reduced the pollution created by production, but there is no silver bullet in sight that could make those disappear.

Just like Moore's law, it worked much longer than anybody expected, but in the end we still hit many limits, and we can say for sure it's not going to last forever even if we don't know when it's going to really end.
Probably, but like Cuneiform's wedge-shaped marks, it brings an easy familiarity to a line or lines of text or code. It would be cool to make APl in Vulcan or Predator symbols!
You know you can generate a API test token and use one of test card numbers for all your testing purposes. There is a toggle in your main dashboard which will let you switch between sandbox/test mode and production for viewing charges etc.
I'm terrible at taking care of plants but the last one I got was growing leafs until the last leaf stalk was completely dry.
This seems barely better than rubbing lightning bugs on plants. They didn't change the plants genome to produce luciferine naturally and pass that trait down to its young, they just put forced nano particles of luciferine into the plant.
Fair enough, I took your people who don’t have AC as something like a bunch of poor people who have no where else to go. Not people who just don’t have AC due to climate.

I also took Safe Place as a symbol for violence the media portrays in the US or something. Maybe watched too much news last night.

I understand what you were saying now!
Thanks! And are the arguments put forward in these links considered at executive level? Seems to me - not at all because preset agendas dominate, drowning out the logic.
>It seems that every time Troy interacts with a company on Twitter, they never seem to click on to who he is, until it's probably too late and they look like fools.

On the other hand, Troy is looking like a fool for trying to argue about security with a girl intern that works with social media and has no clue about netsec.

Every one of his posts and threads on Twitter are "let's bully this poor intern". He's fucking pathetic.
> You're more likely to die of boredom

Who are these people? Having lived in both rural and urban environments, I don't think I've ever succumbed to boredom.
Exactly. How the hell is someone supposed to built against their work? You can't, it would just be piecemealed.
The comment being posted here got the attention of at least two Microsoft employees, including dend, the PM on the docs team who got the issue fixed.
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No, not the entire sidebar, the individual branch elements of the tree I mean. Like this: http://jsfiddle.net/tygrj1us/
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But you do realize that "cryptocurrency" might very well be THE everyday use product/experiment that successfully demonstrates and educates the average human on the social implications of 'Crypto'.

Don't be so quick to distance your self from it.
And even when they did not become involved in violence, they gave demobilized soldiers a clear hierarchy, with insignia and chains of command.
A common cause of death for quite a few kinds of plants is drowning. (or rather "too much water and the roots rotted away")
> I think EU should make it easier for US citizens who get any job here to move over.

Just as soon as the US does the same for EU citizens.
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But that's the point - web authors are supposed to use feature detection instead of writing to a particular standard version. It turns out to be a better model for large interfaces. Yes, in theory, you can ask "Is this OS POSIX.1-2008-compliant or not." In practice, it takes a while to e fully POSIX.1-2008-compliant, and so you get autoconf, with its individual feature detections of specific function. Less clean, but way more practical.

If you're writing an embedded renderer, you can always say "This is compliant with the standard as of 14 December 2017." If you're writing an embedded renderer that is being applied to the live web and not just to a fixed set of pages that are also embedded (e.g., you're shipping HTML documentation and a viewer, or a kiosk, or something), you will in fact be out-of-date when the living standard changes. There's no point in saying "I'm compatible with HTML 5.2.0" because the live web isn't targeting 5.2 any more. So you can either acknowledge that, or figure out how to get software updates.
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Given their track history, I don't think it's likely the DeepMind team are trying to be sneaky here. They'd be found out eventually given how big their claim is.

When working in academia, I found it very common for research papers to not come with source code or enough information to allow you to replicate experiments yourself. You usually have to pester the author. I don't find the (valid) criticisms here that unusual. I'm not sure why they wouldn't release the moves for all the test games played though seeing is that should be simple to do.

As for Stockfish and AlphaZero running on different hardware...AlphaZero's approach is built around taking full advantage of what TPUs can do quickly and Stockfish doesn't utilise TPUs so how are you meant to make this fair? Does Stockfish eventually level out when you throw enough hardware at it? Doesn't DeepMind's claim about AlphaZero evaluating significantly less moves per turn invalidate the criticism about the hardware used?
I agree. The biggest problem is "I received this product in exchange for a fair and honest review" bullshit. Is Amazon doing anything to stop that?
You completely mischaracterized my statement. Also, you don’t know what a Ponzi scheme is.

I said that early adopters take risks that pay off when conservative investors are looking for safe plays.

Seriously, shame on you.
Wouldn't that be a trademark issue?
This mirrors the impression I got when I first saw the pictures of it. The round nozzles can't be good for its radar profile (as from a wide range of angles, there's a significant surface area facing the observer).

I expect any radar engineer is aware of this, so I wonder why such a trade-off was made.
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Are there any studies that look at the costs of tuition compared to the rise in freely available equivalent information?

I wonder if this is common in other markets where the companies recognize that a lot of their business is commoditized so they keep raising prices to help offset potential losses.

I don't think student loans can collapse like mortgages because there isn't property involved. However, if there is a collapse in higher education in general - a sort of wave where people realize it is not worth it financially and enrollments drop dramatically, that would cause ripple effects in the economy.
Why even have cost? You can take plenty of courses for free and there's no need for the actual degree. Then you can go learn a trade, and study in your free time if you are so inclined.
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<isindex> got removed from browsers, which I personally find kind of sad because that's what I learned in 1995 and I've written a web page that uses it. But it's weird and does nothing that a normal form couldn't do, so the browsers seem to want to deprecate it.
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The funny thing is that if they all did that, you wouldn't have anyone left to cook your food and clean your office.

Then maybe the tech sector would realize they need to pay living wages for all the workers supporting their daily life. And a living wage in SV is much higher than the rest of the world.
Can you elaborate? What are the input and outputs of the neural net?
Never set foot in the States, so is not a direct comparison, but as an European who prefers living in a big city compared to living in my parents' village, which borders the lower Danube, I can say that the village is certainly nice and dandy, but it doesn't have theater shows, doesn't have cinemas, doesn't have cafes, doesn't have bookstores, doesn't have (decent) sports teams, doesn't have countless streets on where one can lose him/herself walking, and, most important of all, doesn't have people. Yeah, rural life is indeed boring for many people until a certain age (I eventually plan to retire to my parents' village if I reach 60).
To -make- copies, not -take-.

And yes. Every photocopy a text book? Ever trace out a comic book panel or other image? Ever make copies of a photo (obviously more common digitally, but could be done in the film age too) that you didn't take originally? I've done all of them, they're all things I'm not legally entitled to do.
I'll admit, I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it.

That said, congrats on a pretty full-featured javascript package that has no dependencies. That's huge, especially in JS land.

Mind if I ask which country that you live in that blocks npm? Just curious.
I can't find the link, but I remember someone doing some experiments awhile back suggesting that the "I'm a human" checkbox just checks if you have Google's tracking "PREF" cookie installed. I don't remember if there seemed to be device fingerprinting involved as well. In any case, if I use one of those and don't have to click on street signs, I know it's a sign I should tidy up my browser state.
I think a tl;dr is suppose to leave bits out…
Index funds are pegged to a lot of activities that look like gambling, but the risks are somewhat hedged by a limited kind of diversification. It’s like betting every blackjack hand in the house at once (setting aside the house’s favorable odds).
Thanks for the perspective. How would you classify him if ranked against the other usual high profile “security personalities?”. Often an individuals ability for self promotion can place a shadow over their true ability making it difficult to discern their true qualities when not a subject matter expert on the topic at hand.

On the book front, would be keen to gain your perspective on the following crypto book that was recently published -

https://www.nostarch.com/seriouscrypto
I had some friends work on a similar project a few years ago. They found that the glowing was not bright enough to be useful for anything meaningful and it significantly hindered plant growth.
I don't know about the 'racist' jab, but I have seen the artistic shift being discussed here. Over time, the most ridiculous elements in the office have shifted from the PHB's demands to the employees' rebuttals. I don't mind the shift in terms of the PHB's physique (he resembles his portrayal in the series more now; and each character takes up less of the frame, allowing more interaction), but I can understand how the article's author sees it as a telling warning of who the artist is sympathetic to.

The fact that Adams supports, and is actively a part of, the alt-right bothers me. The fact that his comic has gone downhill over the years and should have ended sometime in the last 5 years or so bothers me even more. His politics have become more evident over social media; as we've become increasingly polarized and at the same time more vocal, Adams has made strong moves to the Right. At what point will his Left-skewing audience start demanding the removal of his work from their newspapers and contacting said papers' advertisers to get that done?

Consider this: The Peter Principle says that every person will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. The Dilbert Principle (by Adams himself) says that incompetent people continue to get promoted until they can't do more damage. Adams has been effectively promoted from a solo operator to the leader and face of a significant media brand. Think about that for a moment. Has Adams promoted himself to a position he is incompetent to fill whether he ever recognized that fact or not?
Valve has been working on a physics engine called Rubikon since at least 2012. [1] Maybe it will be used to fully replace Havok in Source 2.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTC0V0LWeGI

[1] http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/2014/Sergiy_Migdals...

[1] http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/2015/Migdalskiy_Ser...
Good, I wish malls would just die out and disappear. They're horrible sterile temples to overconsumption and consumer culture.
We should repurpose these dead malls. On that note -- how feasible would it be to buy a mall and turn it into an indoor city? Line the top with solar panels, and it could be neat.
They're the cheapest (probably) per kilogram; but if you're willing to settle for smaller payloads, you can get to orbit for quite a lot cheaper. For example, the European Vega will get you 2.5T to LEO for under $40M. Half your budget on launch costs isn't bad.
Huh, that's interesting. I've read up on both of them and didn't know that factoid. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong in my chess career.
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This is a very cool visualization. Weirdly, though, the visually apparent proportion of natural vs. human causes seems to change depending on my zoom level.

Plotting this much data presents several challenges. I recently discovered a good guide on the subject of "Plotting Pitfalls" from the Bokeh project:

https://bokeh.github.io/datashader-docs/user_guide/1_Plottin...

I think this visualization suffers a bit from "overplotting".
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This is super cool, but it can't solve the "desk lamp" problem. All the plants people try to grow in my cube farm are anemic and sickly... they'd likely never have the spare energy to glow.

edit for clarity: unless this is for folks that work night shift, you either already get enough sunlight to have a well lit desk XOR you don't have enough sunlight to power a bioluminescent plant
It is my understanding that the system uses wins to learn to estimate the value of board positions: the position just before the win should be highly valued for the winner and inversely so for the loser. Going back further in time, there will be less confidence, but still a higher value for the winner.