skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, here's the AI after a change introduced a pretty severe bug:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lqclj3toywnh8ak/losing.svg?dl=1

In this case looking at the replays for the most similar win/loss runs (15 and 4) and the most severe losses (31+32) made the cause absolutely clear.

Here is the current state of the AI:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e1n3wevn2gggbic/winning.svg?dl=1

In both the cases in which is loses its opponent gets lucky in combat and has a critical unit level up twice. There was no need for the AI to risk this happening though, so the next improvement might be to make it target units that are gaining XP more aggressively earlier on when winning, or simply avoid combat with units likely to level up and move straight in for the kill.

Of course, there are a wide range of more general improvements that can be made as well - this version of the AI only recruits skeletons, for example!
Should we start them on Haskell or Lisp?
I see it still: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Dasync

It likely dropped off the front page due to:

1) Not enough upvotes

2) Lack of comments may be a factor in the scoring

3) Upvotes look suspicious, like a vote ring, so you have been penalised

For the numbers of votes (5) in the time given (an hour) on what is a working day across most of the world... it's actually surprising you got onto the front page.
Then you cannot defend things as "It is meant for X year olds, not Y year olds" when someone decries the feature as easily bypassable.
This seems like an awesome and career defining movement to overcome a worse case scenario challenge.
Not only is there no one ideal diet, many people assume an ideal diet would be constant, every day, every week, all year, and over almost all of one's lifespan. Even the question of natural vs. engineered diet breaks down once we get past the age where we would have made a difference in survival of a family or tribal unit. Diet as an element of life extension is unlikely to be identical to any "paleo" otherwise prehistoric diet.
Fifty pages filled out means it is now someone else's job to read those pages and implement. His hands are clean.
There should be an app for that --> Yo.

Seriously, it should be a functionality of Yo. As of now you can subscribe to channels already, I think there should also be default channels that all users are subscribed to, for events that happens a few times a year and less.
Thanks guys, sounds promising, will look into it.
Duh - when people say something is mobile/tablet compatible, obviously what they mean is compatible with the latest version of Android or iOS.

/s
A language spec (other than "cpython is the spec") would probably be good. But I know of jython, iron python, stackless python and micro python, in addition to pypy -- that are all more or less complete and/or alive as alternative implementations. I'm not sure of the .net variant (iron python) -- I've heard rumours that it's dead. So it's not like the lack of a spec is an insurmountable obstacle, nor like it's not something that no-one is working on...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8220529
Maybe he wanted to keep his code hack-free.
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Totally linkbait title (can we at least drop the "We Kid You Not") with a sensationalist article.

(Note: The nice photo of a green phytoplankton is form 2009 or before, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytoplankton_-_the_f... , it's not a photo of what they found.)

Previous discussion from another source: "Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201769 (96 points, 5 days ago, 34 comments)

The redaction is confusing, but I think it is still not clear that they are alive
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Thanks, have dropped them an email to see if they can support what we're after. Appreciate it.
I'm not arguing that you can't prepare for this - but a 6.0+ is just going to do a lot of damage, regardless of how much you prepare. Roads will be torn apart, older buildings will shatter, fires will be started, etc...

Preliminary reports put the damage to in California in the neighborhood of $1 Billion.

It's important to repeat that this was the biggest earthquake the Bay Area (an area that certainly gets its share of earthquakes) has seen in 25 years.
Clickables:

http://i.imgur.com/EWicL11.png

http://i.imgur.com/TtehVD6.png
I believe that it's enough if it's amazing. Most people hardly care about authenticity, unless the company makes authenticity look cool.
So my supposition is that although you're allowed to drive at 18 in France, the burden they place on licensing reduces the number of 18 year olds who actually do so, which has the effect of artificially aging their population of drivers. If you want to know how effective the training is, then you might need to normalize for age to eliminate that effect. If the discussion were about differences in how old you need to be to drive, then I'd agree with you, but the article is about the burdensome regulation around driver training.
I agree. I also think there are a couple of factors that might subjectively push people towards one of the answers, which will loose the OP's idea of this pool.

1) One of the provided design might be bad and so people will choose the other one. For example text balloons background is slightly grey and the space between the comments is bigger than the separation line on the minimal chrome. Also the separation line is the same color as the code example and the attached image border, which kinda makes a different perception of the whole content. So here I would choose balloons, because of this flaw.

2) The dummy content might look better in one of the two designs, which doesn't mean that the concept of the case is bad, but just the rendering. ( This can be solved by providing a design + content for the two cases that makes them look equally ( another subjectivism ) good. )

3) Misunderstandings about the question. What is being asked here : Which one of those two designs is better? or Which concept is better?
I'd say basic logic should come first. Then counting in binary, etc.
It's also a bit surprising that meeting people at the gate is thought of as some bizarre behavior that only happened in ancient antiquity. All of these restrictions, and all of these new bureaucracies are brand new, completely created and maintained over the administrations of only two presidents.
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BASIC was made for beginners ;)
I used to read them, then sift through them. Then I gave up. My defence would go along the lines of: you don't seriously think that any end user would read that, would you? (Exceptions for APIs etc.)

Same goes for legal disclaimers in email footers, cookie warnings, warning stickers etc. Why are we allowing this to happen?

(My solution: "Yes, you can sue them because the coffee was hot (etc) and there was no sticker on it, you just have to be prepared to give up your voting rights and your drivers license in the progress. Continue Yes/No?")
Looks like a population map.
CBP does not ALWAYS search outbound people, but retains the right to do so (at least in the US).
This also seems to be the thing affecting Steam's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive servers.
In my experience with other stack exchange sites, questions like this would be locked for being "non constructive." IS ux more accepting of subjective, open-ended questions?
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Great post Jamie - not enough business realize the competitive edge they gain from having investing robust metrics setups.
Since you've done both, are the parent article and other comments in this thread overemphasizing how difficult it is in France or did I just have a great experience here? I've done the test twice in the UK (auto + manual) - it wasn't arduous, nor did it take long to schedule (I think it was about 3 weeks out) and the computerised test was a case of picking the least stupid answer, unlike the riddles the parent article implies the French have to navigate.
1. ReCAPTCHA does a lot more than Project Euler's captchas... or to put it another way, the "Zero day" you're talking about would be worthless vs ReCAPTCHA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Security

2. Google requires a verified cell phone number for most of their services at this point, with the captha basically being a way to avoid spamming text messages

"Given that people still drive cars in 2014, I think we can safely conclude that the 1908 Ford Model T is still state-of-the art"
Can't speak for parent, but for me: on a train (lots of tunnels - no really, lots of tunnels[1]), on an airplane and in an airport (no free wifi) -- quite recently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Line#Line

Side-note, the Norwegian broadcasting service, NRK did a pretty crazy stunt filming the whole thing, and airing it on tv: http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
or maybe just a shortcut to see results button
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There seems to be some goal post creep as well. How many classic examples are there?
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You do get searched by TSA if you are coming from outside the country. In recent years I've flown in from Mexico, Spain, India and the Dominican Republic. For each flight, the boarding gate was blocked from general access and the only way to get in was to go through a TSA search. They only had metal detectors, but my bags were still searched. Had I been carrying a large sum of cash (or anything else that needs to be declared) they could have contacted CBP at my departure airport.
What are the "bad guys" going to do, create accounts and submit problem solutions...? There doesn't appear to be anything worth "attacking" here anyway, so I don't think this is a "security problem" at all.
So Clarification that BBC isn't offering.

@Famedgod is the psn botnet ddoser

@Lizardsquad tried to take credit for attacks.

@Famedgod tried to dox them

@Lizardsquad calls in bomb threat (in attempt to validity their claim)

Anonymous doxxes @lizardsquad

Twitter user doxxes @famedgod

Yup. Also Lizardsquad is currently claiming its a member of ISIS. And has taken down a few papal web pages since the attack posting with Islamic hash tags. But they only just started (this weekend) using Islamic hash tags, so who knows. The media really seems to be playing this up, likely because ISIS is in the news.

Famedgod and Lizardsquad are on twitter so you can go read their drama unfold.
We discuss concept here. Balloons or not. In future we proceed with improving font-size/colours/margins etc for selected concept.
Did some work in the area a few years ago. Found out most of the people at the place I worked for got up at about 2am (!) because they wanted to be finished by lunch. At least in the summer. (disclaimer: this wasn't an air conditioned office though : )
Very cool, but a bit dependency-heavy. Is it possible to include only parts of Modernizr, for example?
Sorry for the off-topicness but I have to say...

I loved the project logo
Sometimes deliberate ambiguity is part of the art. (Also, on a more practical level, books are better at random access.)
It's because many people don't second guess the motives or robots, just like in the past when they wouldn't second guess 'facts' that were professionally printed in newspapers and books.

I think it will eventually become anachronistic the more deeply people understand that the people who dictate a robot's behavior are just like they are, and have motives that are just as suspicious as anyone else's.
I wish Clojure had an extended REPL included with the main source. As new Clojure user, I have struggled getting going with a good REPL.

Not looking for a solution here, just citing an example, but I have struggled with Leiningen puking without a defined project. Despite the closed status, it's still an open issue for me and others.

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/1625

What is the best easy to install extended REPL for Clojure experimentation?
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I think vector (SVG) is superior when it comes to logos and icons. When a vector is rendered it is done in the context of the system used. For example sub-pixel rendering uses the information of the display.

In my experience a SVG logo rendered in a browser always looks much better than a pixel variant.

The only thing you can say about 'pixel perfect' is that you know for sure that pixel X,Y uses color C. But that doesn't mean you know how it will look on screen. Or how it will be positioned.

Also in this age of very high res screens I think vector is the way to go.
Probably that! They've already got a massive network of local businesses.
If I recall correctly Buffet studies Economics at the University of Chicago. His knowledge of math may be much deeper than you expect.
There aren't fewer problems now. We are paying for nothing.
Because it basically is. XKCD even did a comic about this http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/heatmap.png
Given the level of tracking of job performance the military does, and pretty much everything else, it seems quite surprising that the result of lacking "real world or problem solving skills" should show up somewhere. Has it?

If it hasn't, what would the military need to track for the alleged harmful effects of this to be visible?
Doesn't work for devices that can't accurately provide location information. For example, I live near Aberdeen, but my ISP is in London - so this shows me as in London.

Doesn't seem to be a way to override the 'detected' location?
I think you are publishing locations that are too specific. I can identify houses, from which the votes were cast. This information can be abused and is therefore dangerous. Please do not publish such information without informing the user loudly and clearly of the implications of voting.
I would love a fashion brand such as Patagonia is for the outdoor style... Very high quality, consistent, and they even still carry some of their styles from the 70's and 80's nearly unchanged.

Something that hasn't been said is that this fast fashion is absolutely unsustainable from an environmental and energy perspective. Low quality clothing that is designed to literally not last more than a couple wears; versus a Patagonia jacket that not only is made well enough to last a decade, but also carries a lifetime warranty and a recycling guarantee... I'll take the latter, please.
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The kernel size (smoothing width) should be chosen based on something like leave-on-out cross validation. At the moment the sampling is too sparse and everything is independent and not smooth at all.

This is described in the intro of "Assessment of probability density estimation methods: Parzen window and Finite Gaussian Mixtures"

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.archambeau/publ/iscas_aa06....

(as well as many other places that just happened to be the first google result)

email me if you want more details, I am ex-informatics.
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Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the current offerings on the market.

If you could offer a lot more power for the same or less cost, I'd be interested. Other that that, I'm moderately unlikely to switch.

Oh - specifically I'd be interested in a VPS with tons of data storage. Those are rather hard to find in the current market.
did sony crypt their user datas this time ?
Maybe there should be regulated permissions, sort of like the way an OS might have a dialog to request permissions for push notifications or location data.

Example, you can still include any terms you want but some items need to be individually agreed to in plain language, like "This product will report your location back to us"

Sort of like FDIC notices or nutrition facts.
Lua

The more I read Armin's posts, the more I believe he should switch to Lua. It has all the core features he wants:

- simple design

- fast

- consistent behavior

In addition to what's mentioned above, LuaJIT is a marvelously designed JIT (please donate to the project [1]. Let's keep allowing Mike Pall to have a livelihood)

[1] http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
But how much time is left after processing and delivery latency? I wonder if it could go from warning to end user within those 10 seconds.
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The problem, at least for me, is that there's no real incentive to get a "good grade" in those courses. I can't imagine one single employer actually caring that someone has an actual coursera course completion letter.

So when I do those time sensitive classes, if life gets a bit busy and I can't keep up, I'll just skip that week. And then of course I'm kind of screwed as I likely don't have time to do 2x the coursework the following week and it snowballs.

If instead it was self-paced I could go ahead of pace at will and behind pace at will. If I fell behind pace there I can still complete it AOK.

And perhaps this is just me, but for some reason once I fall behind in the time sensitive classes I rarely manage to complete it on my own time. There's something subconsciously working on me with the time schedules such that I throw my hands up and say screw it.
> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

- Edsger W. Dijkstra
> That the single biggest predictor of high academic achievement and high ACT scores is reading to children. Not flash cards, not workbooks, not fancy preschools, not blinking toys or computers, but mom or dad taking the time every day or night (or both!) to sit and read them wonderful books.

One of my earliest (and fondest) memories is about my mother reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" to 4-year old me, even though she had had a hard day of work behind her. It got me so hooked to stories and books that I learned to read almost all by myself when I was five.
This is exactly what the system does...
It was the official policy during the bush administration (unknown if still current policy). It resulted in very low numbers when calculating civilian deaths.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...)
The colour blue for one of the result sets is a poor choice as the map is drawn in blue / turquoise. You need 2 colours for the results which are of a similar distinguishability against the map colour.
It was a DDoS.
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I think they mean its just bundling all your resources into the executable.
One-click Rails setup. Ideally, I would sign up for the service, select a VPS size, "create" a new app (using your built-in web panel) and deploy from my terminal. When creating a new app I could select the Ruby and Rails size, DB etc. Basically, a very convenient Rails VPS host.

How does this differ from Heroku? Pricing, hopefully.
When I travel outside my country, I always put my phone in airplane mode, then purchase a local SIM card when I arrive.

Would that thwart this particular tracking?
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I wonder what it would take for someone to flip and say "yeah, we discussed why we didn't hire that person, and it was <ageism, sexism, racism>." How much longer until you learn the real reason?

I once had a boss who didn't want to hire someone who had fought in Vietnam. Said boss had escaped the draft by being in college (and from a rich family). I was pretty shocked that he would say it out loud, especially by how much he considered himself super-progressive.
I would add Financial Times to that list of "usual newspapers". Subreddits can be useful, too.
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I suppose thats debatable. There's probably some use for both. A textbook can also be a syllabus and plan for a semester. IE, perhaps a textbook is divided into 15 chapters, each representing one week of work and exercises. Lectures, tutorials and such can be structured around that. In other cases the teacher already has a structure in mind and they are looking for materials to support it. Both cases exist.

I suppose the ideal would be layered and modular so materials that can be snapped together like lego. But realistically, modular is a thing difficult to get right.
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> Personally I want ...

Julia, maybe?
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"What should children know" is an overloaded question, and if we are talking about developmentally delayed child, it has a completely different meaning. In that case, there are a certain things a child should know with strong statistical confidence (e.g. 95% of children do this by age X).

Of course viewed in normal school children context, this question has a completely different meaning. Even here the author is confusing knowledge with right kind of environment that produces or fosters it. But a test of knowledge does not test the environment, just the final product of it.
Actually we are selves were surprised at the number of people that use it on iPad.
Ask HN: Any way to find a list of recipients on snapchat?
I wonder if anyone tried to hack snapchat to get a list of recipients for a snap? Sounds like an interesting idea for an app.
Get them ready for the real world... PHP and Java + Enterprise Patterns should be required reading for EVERY four year old.

Please start with the "Gang of Four"; perhaps the title will trick them into thinking it's about a gang of four year olds?
The search field works strange. I'd like to be able to type a text (e.g. "linux"), type enter, and see results. I actually need to type text, then click on one of the recommended texts to be able to see some results.

How is your thing better/different than google news?

Also, you may want to add information about how your aggregator works / what it's about in your "about" page.

Currently the about page explains the car search engine part which is something completely different and un-related --> puzzling.
And in an environment where people may well be panicking and moving around, making a clear shot difficult, even if your markmanship is good.
Note taken, will do our best to get this straitened out.
You don't think they'll be keeping behavioral notes on the subjects? They are keeping them under observation for the full study, right? Seems logical to record behavior, as well.

Though, I do have to cede the point that a proper study of this sort would be different.
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Why would you not? Is it any different than any other online tool that your code passes through?
Actually something else that would be nice (I haven't looked into the reality of it with an OSS hypervisor like xen) is something I saw a few years ago with ESX: the images are stored on a SAN instead of local disks, and can be migrated (even while running) between physical hosts when required (scheduled downtime, fault, etc) without a reboot.

The "live migration" part is less important but a traditional (ie not volatile like with AWS/"cloud") VPS that can survive a host failure without a complex restore from a week old backup - (auto) nominate the new host and bring up the vm exactly as it was pre-failure
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This is a problem with a private API of Apple. But we are working on a workaround.
my employees and I may waste our time interviewing this person just to find out their salary requirements are too high

Advertise the salary up-front. Of course, this gives up your negotiating room.
The stuff is all lower quality, not higher quality. It's junk that disintegrates after three washes.
What about :

> The incidents follow reports of earlier DDoS attacks on other multiplayer titles on Friday, including Eve Online, League of Legends, RuneScape and Guild Wars 2.

is this an unfortunate coincidence, or it is linked to PSN attacks?