skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One approach that has been more successful and easier to integrate than machine learning is Monte Carlo based systems. That's what the latest Go AIs use and they are making big strides.

It's powers various card game AIs, here's the developer talking about it: http://hfog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Though this absolutely brutal Race for the Galaxy AI was generated using machine learning: http://www.keldon.net/rftg/

He talks about it in this thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/438698/race-for-the-gala...

[quote]Some of the AI neural nets for the Brink of War are only partially-trained; the AI performance in big games is way too slow and takes weeks to train. I'll need to fix that both so that players won't have to wait and to improve training speed.[/quote]

For "true" AI in games, check out Steve Grand's work:

http://grandroids.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLJuDV03Mw&feature=youtu...
Quora releases Android app
That doesn't change the RAM issue, and I don't see anything in the docs indicating you can off-load your MySQL data directories to another Google service anywhere.
"anonymous group" not THE "Anonymous"
Closed systems. Entropy is a hard to defend answer.
Maybe he will get bail and make it to the Ecuador embassy.
Wolfram Alpha’s Facebook Analytics Tool Digs Deep into Your Social Life
Does Windows Phone solve these issues? Ie, is there review process actually better than Apple's? Or do they have similar support to (the overwhelming majority of) Android phones for loading alternative app stores? I haven't really seen much evidence one way or the other at this point.
1. We die because we accept it.
2. < dramatic pause >
3. ????
4. Enlightenment
Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box
All the dealers in my county have websites with an email address or web form to contact them. After doing some research on models, pricing, etc. I sent an email to each dealer describing what I was looking for and requested a quote. Some did not reply at all. I took the most decent offer. They dropped it off at my office. I never set foot in the dealership for the whole transaction.
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Hollywood - who else stands the most to gain?
EA won't green light any single player-only games
NReduce online demo day: live and public
It's safe to accept it, but once you have it laundering and spending it is more difficult.
NReduce online demo day is happening now, open to all
Term Sheet for Humans
I intentionally left it out, despite Windows 8 and the new Nokia looking gorgeous. It's the same problem. If MS says "No", then you're done. It's not your phone, you don't get to side-load the app.

Same problem as with Apple.
I've connected the camera, wifi, gps and a usb hard disk to the pi at the same time using a powered USB hub (Belkin I think?) and haven't had any problems. This was with mains power. But you're right, there are many people who have run into problems. Either I was lucky or I didn't notice them.
No, it's the other way around -- in some states, if Tesla puts up a factory service center, then they must have a dealer's license.
This is a good first step, the question is how much protection founders gets. Are there any triggers if the founder is pushed out?
Rails in Realtime - How LayerVault updates every page in a second
10 DIY Gaming Hacks
It says the TS is based on series seed docs. http://www.seriesseed.com/
By taking a line item deduction and making it public to the penny. Unequivocal confirmation.
I created a build tool for similar reasons, difference being that it's aimed at Cakefile users. It's goal is to be as simples as possible, support common tasks out of the box (minifying, compiling LESS/coffee/etc) and should work on Windows too:

http://github.com/ricardobeat/cake-flour

I could see shelljs as a stand-alone executable using JSDB (http://jsdb.org) too, should be an easy port, cross-platform, much smaller and dependency-free.
It's meant to reduce distractions, and focus only on a single text column :)
Wrong, the law determines if a Class Action Lawsuit can take place, not some flusy EULA made by Microsoft, they can try of course, but I think it wont hold.
It seems likely this is just a scam to get random Romney and Obama supports to send Bitcoins to the scammer.
Startup success is a reflexive (from social theory) process, not a scientific one. As in economics, successful long-term predictions would, by definition, beat the market. Its impossible for "society in general" to learn how to do that.
I'm using a 20w instapark panel I bought through Amazon.
I think it stands to reason that if the release were no big deal, if it was just something like low-paying taxes, he wouldn't be so resistent. He's taken a lot of egg to the face to keep these things secret, so there has to be a reason why.
This Zemanta thing reminds me of the Alexa toolbar—I think that’s what it was, I’m going back as much as a decade here—that shows you links related to the page you are currently already on. Back in the day people were really excited about the Alexa toolbar for some reason.
I think the downside risk is in the details.

I use a serious accountant for my taxes, and the organizer they send me every year asks for maybe 75 pages of information, and encourages me to add extra sheets as needed. Personally, I leave 98% of it blank, but I can imagine someone at Romney's level being very reluctant to release everything a serious accountant considers necessary to persuade the IRS to cut me a break.

The real problem for them isn't the bottom-line numbers. It's a dozen news cycles as people dig into detail after detail. E.g., the tax deduction for Ann Romney's horse that's larger than the US median annual income. All that detail is a PR nightmare, because each item will highlight to voters how incredibly wealthy he is compared to them.
VIOXX
TECH ALERT: Exploiting America's Elderly,Disabled, Low Income Population
> They really don't have a dog in this fight

Really?

"The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish file-sharing website founded in 2003..."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay

There are media companies in other parts of the world too you know. The world is a big place, it even exists outside the US.
Upon some searching around, I found this person is selling a kit for running a Pi from solar power (with battery backup): http://cgi.cottonpickers.plus.com/~cottonpickers/forum/viewt...
How come all the startups mentioned here are websites? I have nothing against them, but I would imagine that there are some startups out there that are less of a hit-or-miss and more about the product that has some engineering novelty to it.
Not before, but in the afternoon.

For example, I exercise from 19-20 and go to sleep at midnight. But if I have a football match at, say, 23, then it's impossible to go to sleep afterwards, I'm too tired.

Try whatever works for you. Humans are meant to exercise in order to follow their natural metabolism cycle, so an hour of any exercise, just before dinner, works wonders.
I misspoke: it's not that Romney pays a lower average income tax rate, but pays a lower average federal tax rate, including payroll. For most people, income taxes make up a negligible part of that total tax burden.

I doubt the charitable giving would be a problem, and I'm also skeptical of the "Romney took a tax amnesty in 2009" theory. At this point I think it's mostly bull-headedness: Romney thinks no one has a right to see his private financial information, and he's sticking by that, come hell or high water.
I know the video is confusing since it was intended to be a material support rather than a self explanatory material. But I still think it shows potential in the sense of how we could develop self adapting game characters using machine learning techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_DvxRvGYo

Please be nice with me... it was just a thesis after all :)

Edit: In case someone is curious about this, here is the document: http://pedromelendez.com/dissertation.pdf
It's the same fundamental problem, but side-loading isn't the only way to address it. People leaving the platform can apply market pressure on Apple to do the right thing.
Except the 60 million dollars are for two years, as described in the article linked from Torrentfreak.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/05/c_1318292...
Isn't the point of the name supposed to be that anyone can be THE Anonymous?
From a data analyst's perspective, let's go through what he says.

First he states something along the lines of "More data does not always help." This is right from a theoretical perspective. But: it never hurts. This is also right from a theoretical perspective, it's a result from probability theory: additional observations will always lead to less or equal variance in your estimations. There is no data like more data. There is no down side with more data.

I am not sure in what way (2) and (3) relate to big data. I'd even say that (3) is pro big data.

Then there is this term "intelligent data". Actually, I can't emphasize how badly chosen this term is. Intelligence is related to the quality of actions someone takes. Data does not take actions, It just "is". Data cannot be intelligent, just as a stone cannot be intelligent.
He also thinks that data measurements should be repeatable. Guess what, in all interesting cases data measurements are not repeatable due to randomness in the source itself. One of the main challenges of data analysis is to still get robust results.
He also thinks that data should be concise, e.g. that the data set at hand should be as minimal as possible to lead to the same actions. This sounds like a chicken and egg problem. How would you be able to even assess this without trying it out?
Startup Culture
Minority Report and the Surveillance State
My first thought is that it would do the opposite: increase political pressure on Bitcoin so that it may become more difficult to use (legally). This would drive down the price since many buyers are speculating on Bitcoin becoming more mainstream one day.
Tesla do no sell the Roadster any more. The car they are currently offering is the Model S, which starts at around $50k, and ratchets up to right around $100k with all the trimmings. Sure, there will be a lot of window-shoppers, but at those prices, they're within reach of many buyers, certainly enough to sell 35,000 cars per year.
There is no public API on the iPhone to access the IMEI, so at least it is pretty conclusively not using that there.
As you said, this is only a qualification of 'mature' markets. Also, central banks do not fiddle with interest rates to keep the value stable. They fiddle with interest rates to stimulate economic growth, which causes instability through bust boom cycles...kicking the can down the road.
Real-time edits on OpenStreetMap
Interestingly, I had a great time buying a car (minivan) with several dealers who were willing to haggle the price (within reason) and compete for my business. The winner actually drove by and we signed all the papers in my home and he took a check then left the vehicle there.

Perhaps it's all about supply - in my case, they had over-supply and were willing to play ball. If you have to get a car special ordered, you're already over the barrel as far as they are concerned.
Am I lazy?
OK so here's the thing. My girlfriend is passionate about designing her own jewelry line. She already has a (Blogspot) website and a nice array of clients, so things are going pretty well on that front.

The natural next step would be an own website, including webshop; that should give her more flexibility and would definitely be perceived as more professional than the current blog/shop setup.

With me being a software engineer, she turned to me and (as I am a good guy) I want to help her as good as I can. I basically gave her two options. The first option was to create her webshop using Shopify, since they basically have everything she will need at an OK price.

The second option was that I would develop a very simple webshop with just the basic functionality she would need, like managing products and orders.

Of course she chose the "free" option and because I wanted to learn Django, I was actually glad she did.

So I started of developing some basic stuff and gathering "requirements". The thing is, when I started developing ten year ago, this stream of requested features was all fine with me, and I was sure it could be done. I had a "can-do" attitude back then...

Now when I hear stuff like "Products should be groupable", what I think of is things like "can a product be in multiple groups?", "can groups be nested in other groups?", "are these groupings based on color or function?", "how we will filter this in the UI?", ...

An endless stream of derived requirements will fill up my brain and then I just get to the point where I realize this will all take way to much time to implement and I abandon the project altogether.

I guess that my "experience" has made me (maybe too) cautious on which projects I will take on and that this fact will limit my results and success on the long term... Have you guys and girls noticed a similar evolution in your career or am I just getting lazy?

Can't wait to know what you all think!
Father Of The Web Ranks Its Impact On The World
Lots of details here: https://angel.co/help/docs
>I even discussed my master thesis (an SVM based controller for enemies) with a veteran RTS game designer and his response was very heart breaking, he just told me that Game AI was good enough and that "people" wouldn't care about a better AI (after that he just turned out and walked away)

The game industry is broader than ever. Supreme Commander uses neural nets for its RTS AI:

http://soriandev.blogspot.com/2012/03/gdc-2012.html
Thanks - this is very useful.

I'm going to be launching a (free) film I've spent years on in the next few months, and I've been debating which video sharing site to use. Obviously, having it go offline whilst popularity is at its peak would be a disaster - so your information here inclines me away from YouTube and toward a smaller provider or self-hosting.
Seesmic Nearing Sale To Social Media Management Service Hootsuite
Apple censoring apps in its own proprietary app-store isn't really a big deal to society as a whole.

Apple censoring what other devices are allowed to exist outside their production-lines and what competing products customers are allowed to choose is.
A guide to work with XML
The flagged video is on the official barakobama.com account. It is only Michelle Obama's speech and includes no commentary by any network personalities. I would be utterly shocked if the campaign did not hold full and arbitrary rights to the video of the speech. There is no way the campaign and party would not make that part of the contracts with the networks.
<cones> += [rectangles]
http://cabin9design.com/media/content/50274%20Pine%20Cone%20...
a nice Scandinavian touch
OpenSUSE 12.2 Linux finally arrives
I wouldn't be surprised one single bit if it's true.

But my question is: So what?
The Bad Habits You Learn in School
"Schools also teach us to deal with information as if it is certain and unchanging, when there's rarely a stable 'right answer'."
Given that the waiting list for a car is somewhat over a year at this point, Tesla have mounted a nationwide tour of test-drive cars. However, I'm pretty sure that you either have to own a Roadster already, or have put down a deposit on a Model S, in order to get a test drive slot.
The term 'startup' has become a buzzword used to define websites providing social or media services. Not that these sites aren't necessarily providing anything of use, but when I hear someone use the term 'startup' I don't know if they're talking about a company or just a product.
They need to release a few random line items as proof, otherwise it's a nice scam.
4chan now has a read-only JSON API
Interesting. Founders of 8 companies doing online Q&A simultaneously. Viewers ask questions which get tweeted out with a #nReduceDemoDay hashtag.

You can see all the activity by using your Twitter client to search for #nReduceDemoDay:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/?q=nReduceDemoDay
Uh, sorry, but at "normal" viewing distance (a foot or more?) I can tell the difference immediately. In particular, the blue tinge of the pentile display is immediately obvious when viewing pictures of people on twitter / facebook.

The HTC One X, in this regard, is the superior phone. In all other regards, the SIII is (to me).
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It's not a very compelling message though: I'm leaving you Apple, because you censor apps, to another platform that also censors apps!

(Granted, in all fairness, the Android Market removes apps as well, but side loading is kind of the eventuality here).
I work on the CLI for a PaaS. So lots of interaction, detailed output for your apps and their status, etc. Probably a less interesting answer than you hoped.

I started adding colors to highlight important parts of the output (e.g. app names, status, ...), but received a bunch of complaints from people who couldn't read parts of the output. Turned out they were just using bad/broken themes, like Solarized, which abuses the bright palette by replacing them with various unreadable shades of blue.

It's otherwise a pretty nice color scheme. Just annoying that I can't trust the "bright" palette to ever be readable because of themes like it.

(Also, the themes that come with Terminal.app are pretty abysmal. The stock 'blue' isn't even readable in some common configurations.)
To spare everyone the trouble: unrelated satire from months ago.
The yellow band is also getting eaten from below by the blue (presumably AIDS deaths?).

US median age grew by about 2 years per decade between 1990-2000 so that also supports thisisnotmyname's point.

Some of the decline may be due to lifestyle changes (e.g. lung cancer has probably peaked in the US) but there has also been dramatic progress in treatment for some cancers (Breast, testicular, Hodkin's).
For most people, income taxes make up a negligible part of that total tax burden.

Ignoring the employer "contribution" sleight-of-hand, payroll taxes in 2012 are 4.2% SS + 1.45% Medicare, or 5.65%. Adding in the income tax burden, and you're still looking at a total Federal tax burden of under 12%.
Seconded on Clerky, they're really amazing, and their support was fantastic. Felt like the future - and anytime I couldn't use it to close an investment, I felt major pain.

Naval is in an amazing position traction-wise though, so it'll be interesting to see how things shake out. I'm pretty confident that either way, entrepreneurs and investors will both be winners.
Is anyone here using this? I'm interested in how well this works in practice. I'm finding AWS RDS to be less reliable than I'd like and this seems like a good alternative.
http://www.bankofamerica.com/carbuyingcenter
Wicked move. Love how it's so integrated into the platform.
I've used MemCachier and I like what I've seen. It's really easy to set up as well.
> Ah, so the folks who were inexplicably sure that it had nothing to do with his Pirate Bay association were completely wrong.

I know that was probably an emotional response and the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus... ) gets thrown around here alot more than it should but that's a very strong statement to make.

Is it possible that it's true, yes. Is there evidence that makes it appear likely, not that I've seen.
Maybe there will be more evidence coming up to help prove the swedes bribed the Cambodians to arrest him, but so far it looks like its way to soon to say this is definitely what happened.
Should I feel bad knowing that if I were project manager, I'd feel like someone wasted valuable time making the dashboard look so pretty? Am I an idiot just for assuming that was done in house?

Edit:

I'm not trying to make a case either way, but I look at the color scheme, specific typography decisions, and other small things that would have taken a non-trivial amount of time to work on or think about (ie, more than 10 minutes of actual focus) and think to myself: "If that were me, I'd feel like I was just goofing off"

Get the information there. Make sure its nice and and usable. This does more than that though, which is great. I personally just would feel like I was wasting time and energy worrying about picking a color scheme when I had other work to be done.

Third thought:
I appreciate the romantic justifications mentioned in the replies. I think they're fairly superficial, but they are romantic, and thats fine. I think the real difference here (and the root of the disagreement) has to do with why I associate this with 'waste of time'. There is obviously opportunity cost of doing this. I expect people most in favor of this stuff are salaried and not really concerned with opportunity cost. If I were salaried, I wouldn't feel like I was doing something wrong by doing this work because I'd do in in addition to my other work. I'd stay late and do it because I enjoyed doing it. I don't have that luxury where there isn't much opportunity cost because I'm paid by the hour. I don't work over-time. I'm not going to spend an extra hour at work one day to take care of this, so if its going to get done, its going to have to be prioritized over my other work. If picking colors (however important it is) is the most important thing on my to-do list, I have a problem.

TLDR: I'm paid by the hour. Thats probably why I feel this way.
The performance dashboard and mission control bar look amazing. Would be great if they could be open sourced. :)
And the newspost about it (WS): http://www.4chan.org/news#108
"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kickstarter."
> I wouldn't wish death on a single person.

I wouldn't either. I hope I didn't imply that. And the "grumpy old men" are just a stereotype I often see. My grandfather, for example, is the happiest (and wisest) man I know. But he isn't going to go start a company tomorrow that will revolutionise the way we communicate.

Can you really deny that the curiosity that children have is essential to society moving forward and staying youthful, and has to always be replenished?
If your video is totally free, you have a much easier time because you can use vimeo or another video hosting site. If your video is commercial, besides hosting it yourself, there aren't really any other monetization rental strategies beside Youtube.
The article date is MAY 23, 2012 but it is talking about Apple UDID problem.
Off topic: If any nreduce people are reading this: I've signed up on your site but my registration got stuck after the phase where you submit a youtube introduction. I've e-mailed Joe Mellin, who'd emailed us about finishing registration, to no avail. Any assistance would be appreciated. Cheers! :)

edit: Thanks a ton, guys!
Someone was sending "binary" (10101) amounts of bitcoins to the address, to spell out an imgur link as a joke.
I tried this a long time ago, I guess when it was in beta. It worked fine, but I never did anything except kick the tires.
whoa, didn't realize you were going to do this with a Referly collection, not just on our blog. Is this a new way to blog? Happy accident!
Why is making it pretty a waste of time? And who says making it attractive took any more time than not making it attractive?