skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't equate curation with recommenders.

Back in 1989, when Byte Magazine was warning us of "infoglut", I decided that the most valuable job was the editor. I've seen no reason to change my mind since.

I ran the hub of a BBS network, moderated numerous forums, have run a few user / study groups, published a few zines / newsletters, was a (terrible) radio DJ, etc. I even work on recommenders for my day job.

I remain unimpressed. I've tried to be open minded about automated curation. But I've decided recommenders, as we know them, have topped out.
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i mean self determination was never really followed. see: vietnam, korea, iran, cuba.. and dozens of other wars or coups to overthrow self determined governments.
25 minutes long meeting over slack group can take three hours. You making that meeting so that the issue is solved within 10/20/30 minutes instead of over whole afternoon as people type and take their time to answer.
They put it in low earth orbit. It's orbit will decay in about 9 months and it will burn up in the atmosphere.

It wasn't just for cheap publicity. It was a test payload of a new rocket.
I'm not sure about tmux, but you can still move to the beginning of the line by pressing C-a a in screen.
Completely dysfunctional... Does your power regularly go out? Is your water poisoning you?

If you live in a major city in the US or Europe, your utilities almost certainly "just work," and this narrative is pure ideological bullshit based in fantasy.

Have you ever lived anywhere where utilities are not state-regulated? Are you comparing them to that experience?

You don't have to--you can just compare something that should be a utility (Comcast) with something that is (your power company). Hey, look! Turns out those government regulations help.
It should have been easy to find very cheap dishes at garage sales, depending on your city, I suppose. Oftentimes, people are basically trying to give things away (especially in last hour or so...)
Nice, thanks! Our average message size is about 200kB (and total of 30-40TB). No wonder though as anything from Mailchimp is 300kB nowadays.
Uh, you've missed the forest for the trees.

Google is an ad company, full stop.

Everything Google does is functionally built to track you and sell ads based on that tracking. Any "legitimate and useful functionality" exists to give you a reason to feed data into their ad company. Google Maps doesn't exist to help you get around, that has never been it's purpose and never will be. Google Maps exists to give you a reason to tell Google where you are and where you're going so they can target ads to you.
FYI: The AlphaGo documentary is now on Netflix.
Again UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors
Would a better and easier alternative be to run your mail service through AWS?[1]

Sure it's _hosted_ in a centralised place but since you're paying for it Amazon shouldn't have an incentive to harvest your data.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
Sure, but it’s more important that they be reliable than innovative.

Remember the 80s when people thought that online services would be provided by information utilities? Imagine if the internet still didn’t exist, and your choice for external connectivity was between AOL and Compuserve. But hey, at least thyou bits and bytes would come gushing into your house right on tap.
Water towers, huh. We don't even have them in the Netherlands. (not many anyway)
You don't think white bigotry and other bigotry are equal? Absent power, why do you hold that view?
They also posted a bunch of hashes for a file which was customized for them, and then remarked that virustotal hadn't seen it.

Though it does make me think that it would be a good trick to offer this 'service', but then keep all the proceeds (everyone gets the same ransomware download). Maybe less profitable on the long term though.
yep. and it helps that he’s jewish because it plays into a lot of anti semitic conspiracies. just funny because the government is actually 100 pct controlled by the people you mentioned right now. i’ve never seen soros be nearly as powerful as mercer’s, koch’s, and adelson
(In case you are referring to me, the commenter above, as "those who misrepresent him", I'd like to make it clear that I am not referring to Damore at all - and also that if I were, I'd be arguing that the questions he asked are absolutely work-relevant, and Google should not shut down discussion on the grounds that they're work-irrelevant.)
We really want to be able to have cars avoid obstacles on the road whether or not those obstacles are cars or not. And given how infrequently firetrucks are replaced we shouldn't expect that even if every new vehicle had this technology it wouldn't have made a difference anytime soon. And given the inherent security vulnerabilities of the technology, I'd expect that it would be a net negative to road safety by the time it had any substantial impact compared to the general progress of self driving cars getting better.
Useful to know. Now I will just guess it's the short scale if it's English (I used to think UK uses the long scale as all the other European countries do while the US uses the short scale). Thanks!

PS: As for myself I just don't use the words to name numbers above million as I don't know what exactly do they mean for anything near sure but if I really had to interpret the word "billion" I would undoubtedly answer "a million of millions" (10^12) before today.
What's the difference in this specific case? How do I automatically apply a custom CSS onto an external website? Is this somehow simpler than injecting JS into an external website?
I don't see them. I've yet to see a road sign in the middle of the street, where cars drive.
I'm not the parent, but you don't need webpack for something like a WP blog.

Code splitting is great on bigger webapps such as GMail or Facebook. For instance, when you want to see your contacts on gmail, it can load the required JS file of that module on demand. Same thing on FB: the chat widget can be loaded separately, and only if needed.
Tesla owners using the Autopilot feature on the freeway is far more likely than you being extraterrestrial.
I was thinking that this sounds something like Twitter and the very last sentence in the article seems to agree:

"But if Google wants a piece of this kind of action, it should have just bought Twitter years ago."
Recommenders and editors are both curators. My comment also doesn't recommend algorithmic curation, except in linking tribal members.
If only it were so easy to do this (legally) for research papers...
As an aside, does anybody know the monospace font that we see in the screenshots? Here, for instance: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*8zfDGlLuXfiLGnWlz...
An earlier article in The Guardian, that I cannot find atm said that only 54% of residents were meeting their water rationing quota (!)
So is your argument that leaking the memo justifies opening up your colleagues to public attacks and harassment? I sure hope not.

You're not the only person to have mentioned that the memo leaked. So what? That's basically the "well, they started it!" argument. Or even "two wrongs make a right".

Knowingly opening up colleagues to a barrage of hate is a vile act. There is no justification for it. Condemn the leak of the memo if you want but it is unrelated.
Yea, the point was to pick something trivial. K(3) is larger than TREE( any obvious function to a non mathematician of any printable number).

But it's the m(x) that's actually large in that example.
Bad habits go away slow and tend to come back fast.
Responding to several comments in this thread RE: what is the point of doing this ...

The point of running your own email and dns server is so that you are a peer on the network.[1]

This is important and is becoming lost in the current era of Internet adoption.

By many measures the Internet is the largest cultural and commercial force in the world today and by an accident of history, the researchers at (D)ARPA gave us a network that allowed normal citizens to be peers on the network.

Don't lose this.

[1] As opposed to, for instance, the telephone network. You can own your own domain and perform the first level of network interaction on your Internet systems, but the analogy on the phone network (owning your own phone number and controlling the first touch from other networks) by creating a CLEC is administratively and financially ($100k +) impossible.
The 8087 FPU was not offloading the CPU as the CPU was halted after the FPU caught a FP instruction and made a DMA call to the CPU and took control of the bus to access what memory it had to. They were a tag-team if you will; jumping in and out of the ring to deal with their respective instructions.
Some resources are scarce, but food in the U.S. is not. We have allocation and distribution issues, with political choices as a major factor, not supply constraints.
You're thinking that someone will get paid proportionally to how much value they produce. But productivity is up +100% and wages are flat. The "economy" is doing fine so there's no reason people can't get paid a decent wage. Employers are keeping the value of their employees' work.
In vanilla policy gradient, one plays the game to the end and then bumps the probability of all actions taken by the agent up (if AlphaGo won) or down (if it lost). This is very slow because there ~150 moves in an expert game, and we do not know which moves caused decisive victory or loss - i.e. the problem of "long term credit assignment". Also, it is actually preferable to compute the policy gradient with respect to the advantage of every action, so we encourage actions that were better than average and punish actions that were worse than average - otherwise the policy gradient estimator has high variance.

I think about MCTS in the following way: suppose you have a perfect "simulator" for some reinforcement learning task you are trying to accomplish (i.e. real-world robot grasping for a cup). Then instead of trying to grasp the cup over and over again, you can just try/"plan" in simulation until you arrive at a motion plan that picks up the cup.

MCTS is exactly a "planning" module, and it works so well in Go because the simulator fidelity is perfect. AlphaGo can't model adversary behavior perfectly, but MCTS and the policy network complement each other because the policy reduces the search space of MCTS. As long as the best adversary is not far away from the space that MCTS + policy is able to consider, AlphaGo can match or beat the adversary. Then, we train the value network to amortize the computation of the MTCS operator (via Bellman equality). Finally, self-play is an elegant solution for keeping adversary + policy close to each other.

For more rigorous mathematical intuition, Ferenc Huszar has a nice blog post on MCTS as a "policy improvement operator": http://www.inference.vc/alphago-zero-policy-improvement-and-...
You don't get to claim an Ariane 5 failed because of an Ariane 6 contracting/funding provision and lecture someone on "looking at the facts".

Side note: there haven't been many rockets that weren't late and over budget. It's hardly unique to the Ariane 6.
Now I don't feel too bad for not migrating to webpack 3 yet.
I strongly suspect that you would find the statement "If you want to increase productivity at Google fire all the lazy black people." racist because it implies that all black people are lazy.

If both statement seems fine fine to you than okay.
I've been feeling the same for a while. Congratulation for doing it, it looks great!
Have you looked at assp, lots of parameters but does the job.
SHA-1 and the art of digital certificate management
I was in 50-person all-hands meetings for a product at Google, and there wasn’t the time or the context for anyone to give feedback on anything. At the time I felt bad about my inability to pay attention — without my laptop out I would barely have been able to stay in the room due to boredom — but the meeting really was a poor format and a waste of people’s precious time, attention, and energy, even at an hour a week.
I don't blame them. I had to switch to Xorg as well after a while. Wayland wouldn't allow launching gui applications which required sudo. Had to manually run xhost beforehand. Drag and drop was broken and a few other issues.
Sounds like he will be fired anyway. At least stonewalling may prevent any criminal action against him.
What stack are you using for SMTP and POP/IMAP? Do you use a secondary relay to hold you e-mail in case it goes down?
I'd say Warren Miller has spent the last 50 years using technology to create a new media audience. He was the precursor to companies like Matchstick Productions, Teton Gravity Research, and Red Bull Media House.

Watching his movies as a kid was the reason I started putting a video camera on my helmet and video camera in my backpack before GoPro was created.

WME wasn't really pop culture, and I wouldn't categorize Warren Miller as a celebrity. He did use technology to create a life-style business in a category that didn't exist before, which is why I think the post belongs here.
It is just as true as the fact that the sun will cut out and either be a black hole or red dwarf and earth will be engulfed in solar waves.

However, just like the little problem with our sun, the next <many> generations will not have to deal with it.

So it is the truth, but not the entire truth.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Google and the recent crop of SV startups are what they are, we hear, because they don't have the culture of of the stodgy old multinationals, and Google got to where they are so quickly, and beat so many companies at their own game, with their more freewheeling culture. Lots of large, multinational, Google size companies have no tradition letting individual contributors spending 20% of their own time building a product in a market the company isn't in, and never would have invented Gmail.
I've seen Exchange bounce an email after receiving a 450 on the first attempt, although it's quite possible that was due to clueless Exchange admins.

Postfix default is 2d, Exim 3d, and sendmail 5d, last I knew.
I am not talking about images, and I never have.

I'm talking about maps + GPS (where is the road? will it curve in 50 meters?), and radar (what's in front of the car? how far is it? is it in the middle of the street, or on the side? Is it at the same height as my car?).

I don't see how these two tools together can make accellerating towards a stationary object in front of you make more sense than slowing down, or at least make some sort of sound to alert/wake up the driver.

Like I said, I know it's a difficult problems and very smart people have been working on this for possibly 20 years, but it still doesn't make sense to me.
Twitter is pretty noisy. An app more focused on local news sounds interesting, if they are able to jump start it.
I'm not entirely sure what you're responding to. Your parent comment compared tolerance vs. acceptance, which is somewhat orthogonal to the various topics you mention here (most of which support either approach). The derision of tolerance, which itself is a cornerstone of many societies, requires strong evidence.

In any case, I'm guessing I misread your original intent.
As a friend of mine said when I told him the news:

"He had a good run."

RIP Warren, you made a positive difference in the universe.
Sounds like a rowhammer from outer space.
S/bigoted/unfair racial stereotype/ s/white man/another race or gender/
How much of the genre's success can we attribute to an inclusive
culture? I would guess it may have helped level out the income curve - a $10,000 median annual income is higher than I would have guessed for a saturated, hit-based industry.

But in terms of aggregate genre growth, I think the Kindle and iBooks/Audible helped much more. Seeing the three-fold increase in romance author income coupled with the halving of other authors' income from 2008 to 2014 suggests that readers really altered their preferences to avoid being seen with a physical romance novel.

It feels like a similar phenomenon occurred with scifi/fantasy, judging by the audible best seller list.

https://www.audible.com/adblbestsellers
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I doesn't look like they try to explain it. They just try to put the blame on others because the alternative would be to come out and say "We lied (about "AutoPilot").", "We don't know how to create good software".

Move fast and break things indeed.
This would make a bit of sense. I think someone on here mentioned how the whole incident really highlighted that the general public has no fucking idea what to do if they receive a message like this.

While it's worryingly similar to crying wolf, I would hope that this does lead to more of the general public (even outside of Hawaii) actually thinking about how they'd handle and react to an imminent threat.
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
I agree, I was a bit flippant there, sorry.
> The first is that Google, as the article says, encourages you to "bring your whole self to work."

Except that if your whole self is not within the established pc, liberal standard, you'll be fired.
Whoa! That's very interesting, thanks a lot!

Haven't seen this project before - and I've tried to search for mail servers using document-oriented DBs, although not sure if I've searched specifically for MongoDB. Will definitely take a look.
That's just a hardware problem.

With Roomba quality software a blower, an electric pressure washer, a few soap reservoirs, valves and maybe a squeegee can do the majority (by time) of a janitor's job in a bathroom more thoroughly. Being able to press "go" and have it find the floor drain, wash-down everything in the room below a set height and then herd all the water to the floor drain with the squeegee and blower and make a noise when it's done or needs to be refilled.

You're not replacing the janitor just narrowing the scope of their job. Putting up the toilet seats and letting a robot foam and pressure wash them down with some chemical you can't sell in California (so you know it must be good) is a big improvement over cleaning toilets manually, especially for anyone with back problems.
I've only skimmed it a little bit so far, I'm just wondering, if both players use the optimal strategy, shouldn't the game always result in a draw?

Which is why I was a bit confused by the target '80% Win/Tie rate going second', but I could well be missing something.

Edit: I'm an idiot, I see that the opponent takes random moves now. Seems a fun project :), a while ago I built a very simple rule-based tic-tac-toe thing in lisp, but the rules were all hardcoded alas.
> There is no training phase in MCTS

Sorry, I was referring specifically to AlphaZero's approach in which there is training for the expert policies that guide the MCTS. And yes I'm assuming there is perfect information and it can be simulated. Thanks for the response!
Isn't this like saying:

> "I've never personally experienced a BSOD in Windows ME, so obviously it's incredibly stable. Those other people are just doing something wrong."
And then they get in a wreck without insurance and both they and the other person are in a much worse situation. If you drive, be insured.
What's the algorithm for taste, opinion, intuition, judgement, exploration, novelty, criticism?

Machine learning-based recommenders are just feedback loops, automated groupthink.

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Aha. It's worse than that. Today's recommenders are merely accelerated preferential attachment. aka Fads.

Thanks, articulating myself has been a useful exercise.
How did you "check the orbits for your evening"? just curious, i would like to check my own from time to time and have a look on a clear night. If it is something a layman can do?
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>> There's no free lunch

>In the United States of 2018, that's a matter of explicit political choice, rather than harsh base reality.

The point of the saying "there's no free lunch" is that even if it's free to you, /someone/ is paying for it - lunches do not simply materialize without effort. This principle will hold up as long as the laws of thermodynamics do - even in the United States of 2018.
If you get in an accident without liability insurance, how do you pay the other persons damages? Seems a bit selfish to me.
Yeah, I have a Tesla with AutoPilot. Staying alert enough to make sure it doesn't crash into anything really isn't that hard. It's still really nice to not have to worry about keeping in the lane and maintaining distance yourself, but you can easily get a sense for when the car is doing something you wouldn't do. There have been many times when I'm pretty sure AutoPilot was about to kill me so I just... hit the breaks. Trust me, it's still a lot safer than if I was driving the car.

Naturally there is always going to be human error, but it doesn't make sense to say "semi-autonomous" is bad while "full autonomy" is good. Guess what, we're going to have to deal with less advanced versions of the software before we can arrive at the real deal. The trick is to know and communicate the limits of the system. For example Tesla will alert you visually and through audio if you don't have your hands on the wheel. If it has to ask you three times, it'll just disable AutoPilot for the rest of the drive. It's just like a more advanced cruise control. If I hit a fire truck because I was on cruise control would anyone write an article blaming cruise control? No, because everyone knows the limits of that system. Crashes like this will force people to learn the limits of current autonomous software as well.
Nooooooo........

We just like the marching, and the boots, and the hats.
In the age of password leaks it is really common that email accounts are easy targets and get hijacked – most users are probably still using the same password for their email as they used for LinkedIn in 2012. So it might happen from time to time that an otherwise normal account suddenly sends 20 000 emails to hotmail.com unless you have somehow predicted that and configured the mail server to not allow it.
I switched to Newsblur after the shutdown of Google Reader. It's paid, but after what happened with Reader I realized how important a good RSS feed was to me and that it was worth paying for. The cost is also reasonable.
The term I see often now is: "Writing to the Market". That it's part formula, part SEO, part trying to fit into "readers who liked X might like Y".

In startup terms it's often like "Uber for X". Consider Harry Potter. There are tons of variants around the theme of "Young person with powers goes to school". So you end up with things that are like "Harry Potter for College", "Harry Potter but Superheroes", "Harry Potter but Female lead".

None of which is marketing in the sense of placing ads, but more fundamentally about writing/making something that will sell.
Zunger clearly writes that what Damore has done makes people want to punch him in the face. Of writing the memo Zunger says "What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful" and later "its [writing the memo] impact on you: ... a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face." In other words, the impact of writing the memo is that people will want to punch Damore in the face.

Zunger's blog post is extremely obnoxious. Not only does Zunger write something like "everything you say is wrong, but I won't explain any specific way you're wrong, or link to any such explanation" he then goes on to explain engineering to a senior engineer, and grossly misrepresents Damore. In addition he clearly does assign fault to Damore for people wanting to punch him.
True, that would require a very particular set of skills.
Please more Ted :)
You still have many not type annotated libraries in ecosystem, and poor support of refactoring/navigation in IDEs.