skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Deep-Q-Learning is powerful, it uses backprop - your use of CNE genetic evolution rather than backprop may provide a more global search than Mnih's Deep-Q.

The methods seem complementary , I have an inkling that the combination may be greater than the sum of the parts.

Another innovation in the Atari paper, Mnih's deep-Q-agent remembers successful episodes and trains more from memory than experience.

Of course they are not training against a human player but perhaps this memory training could be used with human games to exploit expert knowledge.

The recent Neural Net Go players by Edinburgh's Clarke & Storkey group and Deepmind's Maddison & Huang both train on corpii of expert human play.

But the Go players are passive backprop learners.

Tesauro's TD-Gammon learned to expert level through self play.

I am speculating that a Reinforcement Learner could learn to utilise the benefits of human play with memory, expert corpii and self-play.

This is a fascinating parallel area - two equal players rather than Mnih's single player Atari - perhaps there are good 2-player Atari games that could be added to the ALE benchmark - Joust ?
Technically Rust will be 1.0 by the end of the week; but that won't magically make it faster.

The real point to be made here is that Rust can be optimized without dropping any design principles. It's a solvable problem. On the other hand, Java and Go's design puts a limit on the optimization you can use.

(Also, those benchmarks are a year old IIRC, Rust might actually have sped up in that time!)
I really like the idea of Paper.

I really hate their pencil utensil. It's super broad & good I guess if you're painting, but if you're doing any sort of detail work - you're screwed.
As a solid state physicist for me the axial coordinates are tho most straightforward. I'm tempted to do design a game level on the hyperbolic plane, there are more exotic tilings there [1]. Designing textures for it would be quite a challenge. I think there are some simple graphics puzzle games already on the hyperbolic plane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagonal_tiling
There is a good novelisation of this process in the Dean Koontz book Dark Rivers of the Heart. Worth a read.
I've lived long enough to be called "right wing" for the first time in my life... that is a first (I think).

As far as Proudhon (first time hearing this), it seems he was referring to land only, and that "property did not extend to exclusive possession of labor-made wealth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!

It's unclear to me how someone can "own" a piece of land which they did not create but stumbled upon. To me it just seems like a situation where the person with the biggest gun wins, and has nothing to do with "property". So in that sense, perhaps, yes, claiming ownership over something you did not create (Earth) might very well be interpreted as theft.

However, the notion of "land property" is a potentially convoluted rabbit hole that is very different from a straightforward discussion about taking money people earned with their own labor under the threat of force.
So, which articles and blog postings about Rust have you seen that put C++ in a false light? Feel free to consider this a test.
I don't know how people can read stories like this and not at least feel some attraction for libertarianism.
Maybe it's that gap in STEM education we hear about that leads to women being unable to choose properly lethal methods.
The accepted wisdom is that the drums on that record come from whatever crappy rompler he had to hand. The sounds may actually be 808 samples.

The important bit of gear on that record is the 4 track tape deck and the alesis reverb, which is what turns everything into that haze of cybernetic bliss.
"unless your new language/runtime is so revolutionary that it reduces development cost dramatically, fracturing the ecosystem is often too high a price to pay for merely a "nice" improvement. "

I agree. Yet I do think both Rust and Go will probably end up meeting the standard.

Go is a great alternative from a technical standpoint from Java. For a Python(2) user like myself, there's a lot of improvements but how easy it is to get started has replaced Python3 with Go for myself when I'm ready to move on someday. For me to make that judgement tells me boring old Go did simplicity as a feature correctly. Rust may also live up to the hype, but more for the C(++) usecases.

Both Java and C++ were getting quite long in the tooth and I feel Go and Rust respectively offer enough to move away from the former two in time.
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It is probably a joke as Anglicanism (Church of England, Episcopalian for Americans) is Via_media (i.e. the middle way between Catholicism and Protestant theologies), this is the middle path between Church and Venture.
I am proud to have been the first to downvote him but I upvoted his response to you because you're wrong. I don't consider the time engaging him would take to be worth it but I disagree with it. I'm sympathetic to some of what some MRAs say but think some of them are vile people of the same ilk as Amanda Marcotte but on the other side. But the most important thing about MRA is that it's a movement doomed to fail because no one cares about men qua men. They might care about their personal friends and relatives but men as a group? No one cares. As such lift heavy, be awesome and deal with it as best you can.
Lily looks cool - but flies where it wants ;)

Is it possible to control it manually using standard RC controller and RC modules (i.e. Frsky)?
Taxation isn't theft.

Taxation is you paying the bill you've incurred for living in this country. You've lived here, gotten some benefit from the services the government provides, and when the bill comes you start saying "theft!! theft!!!"?

The anti-tax crowd is the biggest bunch of moochers and freeloaders this side of Wall Street. They're just out for a free ride, leaving the rest of us to pay for it.
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I read this book and ended up far more confused about what money and debt was than when I had started.

Or perhaps - I read this book and ended up far less ignorant of my confusion as to what money was.

This is a great book.
This is the perception of corruption, not the actual corruption. When it comes to the political system, the US is much more corrupt than most European countries. At least in France (since it's your example) you can't legally bribe politicians, it is not enforced a lot but at least it's illegal. In the US, financing of parties (so bribery) is the norm for the presidential election. And at least, minor parties have a representation in France, so there is a hope that the system can still change, in the US, since there is no way to have a representation of the small parties by design, only a revolution can make things change.
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Nobody is happy because these things mean nothing, honestly. Who cares about the credit card(s)?

There are people starving to death on the one side of the planet while there are others who don't know what to do with their money on the other. I'm not saying everyone should be driving Ferrari's but in 2015 there shouldn't be people without shelter, food or basic medical safety lying around. If we as a society solve THIS problem then, everybody will much more happy than it is today.
now with memes! https://gist.github.com/adrienjoly/bacd38b836be7b0ca4d0
Java/Go use a GC and have certain design principles which place an upper bound on the speed unless you want to break backwards compatibility.

Rust does not. The main issue with Rust is that we haven't gotten around to optimizing the IR properly. It's something which can be done backwards compatibly without changing the actual language at all.

The only design component I can think of which leads to bad perf is the drop flag. And that's something that should go away soon (Rust doesn't guarantee that destructors will run using this model only, so it can be changed)
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> You can buy a gun.

In the US maybe, I can't.

> You can still (barely) buy model rockets.

In the US maybe, I can't.

> You can buy glass windows (which shatter into thousands of sharp pieces if broken).

In the US maybe. Safety glass is really not very dangerous, and it's standard.
Please don't editorialize titles when submitting stories to HN.
The Struggle to Adopt DevOps
Taxation isn't theft.

The anti-tax crowd is just like the anti-vax crowd. They both want a free ride on the rest of our backs; the anti-vaxers want the benefit of herd immunity, and the anti-taxers want others to pay the cost of living in the modern world.

(*edited to a missing word)
Stealth systems startup (YC S15) is hiring back- and front-end engineers
We're a stealth start-up in the cloud/systems market (our target customer is us: engineers). Founded by previously successful YC portfolio alumni with great connections in the industry and the investing community.

This time we want to build something big. Our product makes open source developers happy. It also makes users of open source software happy.

We're in pre-seed stage talking to engineers who're interested in joining very early on with significant equity upside (but we offer a salary as well).

We will be flattered if you'd consider to sit down with us, discuss the vision and possibly pick holes in it and help us fix them.

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I also forsee a significant speedup in complex applications caused by programmers being more free to do pointer gymnastics because they know that there won't be use after free or anything (as compared to using refcounting everywhere or a GC).

(http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/03/where-rust-real... has an example for others reading this thread)
What are you talking about? :D

I meant, given that we are right now facing this problem of high suicide rates among men, it is definitely too early and too defeatist to ascribe it to biological differences. (If that is what you were trying to say. As I already said, I'm not sure if I understood correctly what you were trying to say.) We have to look at our culture and at ways in which we can change this. Maybe in the end we won't make the problem go away completely, but we must try. That is what I meant.
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I agree with joebeetee, I don't perceive your comments as rude.

For what it's worth, in the book "On assholes, a theory" the author states at some point, "How do I know if I am an asshole?". And the answer is that if you ask yourself this question, then very probably you aren't an asshole.
Firefox without DRM
I've also had the same experience on my second product. Someone made an off-brand copy of about 18 months of work (testing marking, making prototypes, etc) right down to cloning my client libraries and removing all attribution. It was gut wrenching at first.

I couldn't agree more with your last point. Keep doing what you're doing - but more specifically, focus on solving the problem you have identified and studied. Chances are that you understand the needs of your market better than the copycats. In my case, the ability to meet the needs users trumped my copycats ability to copy my progress.
And you expected different? Social life is a game of shared expectations and showing you understand when to lie and not to, how to act by the rules for children and when to break them. Most moral discussion is posturing, just as most social discussion is an attempt to score political points.
Wait, really? Wow. I always thought Rust was slower to compile.

Huh.
So: Basically, he was doing something tantamount to juggling axes as a hobby, completely unlike FPV quadrotors. Deft skill he may display for a while, but nobody should be particularly shocked when conscious risk-taking like that ends in tragedy.
Most music bought from iTunes has been DRM free for many years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
> Go is a great alternative from a technical standpoint from Java

What? It doesn't require warmup -- that's why it's great for short command-line apps but other than that? It's slower than Java, doesn't have anywhere near the same level of deep monitoring, doesn't have any live code loading capabilities, and has really bad interoperation with other languages. I use it when I need a simple script to run faster than Python, but a Java replacement??

> Both Java and C++ were getting quite long in the tooth

I don't know if you're aware, but OpenJDK's JVM is not only the most advanced runtime environment around by a longshot, but the one that's moving fastest with some really incredible research that's gradually finding its way into production. Even Google is putting more effort into improving OpenJDK than into Go. The JVM is much more modern (in terms of new code and concepts being integrated into it) than Go (whose runtime is almost primitive by comparison).

Go is a great solution for that middleground between a script and a "heavyweight" application, but let's not compare its power to that of the JVM. It is a nice tool -- with excellent beginner friendliness -- but it doesn't offer any technical breakthroughs.

As to Rust vs. C++ -- I'm hopeful, too, but like I said, there's no we can know how big its impact is until it's been used by several organizations in production for quite a few years yet.
> Gold has not lost any value in the last century by comparison.

Not in that artificial timeframe, but surly in many other periods:

* it lost over 65% of its value between 1933 and 1970.

* it lost over 82% of its value between 1980 and 2000.

* it lost about 29% of its value the last two years.

(http://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-y...)

Gold is a highly speculative asset.
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Stereotypes and ad hominem don't help the conversation.

I am not "anti-tax". I think taxation is a good idea as it helps a community re-invest in itself. I am anti-theft.

Saying today's taxation is not theft won't change the reality that it is. Nor will downvoting this post change that reality. In fact, barring a change in the definition of the word, there is not a single action in this universe that can change the reality that taking something that belongs to someone else without their permission is theft.
His employer is Mozilla.

The conditions were such that staying on as CEO was not an option for him.
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> 2) Stop minifying scripts

Controversial? Maybe, but why are we intentionally creating human unreadable gibberish for a modest gain when intermediate gzip compression leads to much greater gains

gzip compression is already widely supported, however minification does sill have savings (eg removing comments from code - which really have no purpose being transmitted in the first place.

What is actually counter productive for compression is renaming all of your Javascript variable names to single character tokens. But that isn't something I've seen any Javascript minimizers do.

I'd also challenge your point about "human unreadable gibberish" as once the data leaves the server it doesn't need to be human readable. It only needs to be human readable at the development end - which is why minification only happens on live content hosted on the production environment.
One does not just simply “do” microservices
Drones are not made of ice.
Dropbox buys and shuts down voiceover startup Umano
Hi this sounds like a really interesting book. Would you mind sharing the link to the book on Amazon, searching for the "the multiplier" gives three possible books you might be talking about :D.

Thanks in advance.
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> The artists of SF4 definitely took a bold direction; the SF4 games don't really look like any other 3D fighting games. The characters are cartoonish without falling back on the crutch of cel shading; they're realistic without looking like drab psuedo-photo-realism. To me they look like childrens' action figures, fighting it out on the screen.

Actually, Arc System Works ironically was the one who pushed the envelope here.

SF4 took a huge number of cues from Battle Fantasia. The "Super-Attack Zoom-in" animation, the dynamic camera movement, "Super Freeze", and so forth.

Its ironic, because Arc System Works made Battle Fantasia as a "learning project". In various interviews, Arc System Works noted that they had very little 3D skill and needed to train everyone up on 3D Animation skills, and the best way to do that was to make a 3D-animated video game.

Then a few years later, Capcom basically takes all the cues from Battle Fantasia and added a decent-style on top of it (the "Black Lines" and a unique style of cel-shading). And of course, Capcom's SF4 cast was much larger, more detailed animation and all that. Nonetheless, it is clear that it was Arc System Works that pushed the envelope in their experiments with the one-off Battle Fantasia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZDJenxXPuM

IMO, Arc System Works has done 3D a massive favor here with Battle Fantasia, and they are once again pushing the envelope with Guilty Gear Xrd.

Not to hate on SF4's style of course. I think I prefer Capcom's SF4 style over say... Tekken, DOA or even MvC3. And Capcom definite added a lot of "love" in the art-style. But the _core_ of the animation techniques were more or less copied from Battle Fantasia years earlier.

Super Smash Bros always had the right idea with the attacks however. If you watch SSB:M carefully, the bones of the various characters expand with the hitboxes. For example, Mario's FAir attack has a huge exaggerated fist, and other characters shrink/ grow with their hitboxes. (Which adds for some interesting strategies / counter-strategies, since hitbox / hurtbox manipulation is a major element of high-level Fighting Games).

The Super Smash Brothers series has been the best at communicating the hurtboxes and hitboxes in a 3D environment. And it looks like Guilty Gear Xrd is finally a 2nd series that finally communicates those important cues as well.

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Still, it is clear that the 3D Artwork style of SF4 is still relatively new and isn't as a refined of artwork. Again, the Chun-Li animation from SF3 is near the peak of Capcom's animation prowess, while SF4 is probably better described as a great first step for Capcom (even if it is in many ways copied over from Battle Fantasia).

Despite that fact, people are wow'ed by the the zooms, the buttery smooth animations, dynamic camera angles and automated shading. Things that honestly didn't take much effort on the part of SF4 artists. Heck, all of those things basically come for free when you use 3D Models.
> They aren't sets because they are ordered, they are
> lists.

Half correct - the other reason the results aren't sets are because they are also able to return duplicates, as evidenced by UNION ALL and INTERSECT ALL.

Were I being pedantic, I would turn to the (horrifyingly inconsistently written) SQL1992 standard, which explicitly says that your columnar inputs are multisets (which is a posh way of saying "not a set").

Coming back to your original assertion:

>> you will still have to understand the basics of set
>> theory. Unions, intersects

In 15 years of software development, open-source and commercial, mostly with databases, I've only used UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT in SQL when doing academic homework, translating from relational algebra and relational calculus. I note the world's most popular open-source database doesn't support INTERSECT.

But most people don't write SQL by hand any more, they use an ORM - most of which have scant support for UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT, because they are obvious vestigial details left over from archaic database theory. I have resisted the temptation to become actually pedantic by discussing the SQL treatment of NULLs.

This constitutes "almost no practical overlap".

But look, here's the meat: Fundamentally, sets are distinguished from other list-like data types by having no ordering, and having no repetition. Practical SQL usage requires you to understand that you will have duplicates, that you may well need to aggregate those duplicates somehow, and that order matters.
> But they forgot about the negative appearances.

"Forgot".
I concur, you really need the possibility of multiple battery loads in order to get full value out of this stuff.

Can you do non-conductive power transmission at reasonable weights and efficiencies? I mean, my toothbrush does it, but I can't speak to the charging rate.
> When my wish-list is complete, mine will have cost me about $1500.

Mind me asking what you use? :)

(and while i agree with the gist of your post -- well said! -- a minor nitpick is that even truly poor college students will probably have at least some sort of computer which could produce sound, making it tempting not to shell out for hardware, even if for some people [me included] work better with touchy feely knobs and sliders)
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This is super cool, have you thought about turning it into core.probabilistic? It's definitely a great paradigm clojure is missing.

I'd love to see a talk on it :D
I'd love to too.

One way to do this would be to get a Rust aficionado who has written a significant amount of Rust code and knows all the nooks and crannies to work with a C++ counterpart on such an article. If both parties are mature enough (zealotry allowed on both sides, but constructive zealotry :P), we can get a decent post which addresses either side and has all the points and counterpoints that might come up in a discussion.

I'm not exactly a seasoned Rustacean, but I'd be more than happy to try this out with someone. (might take some time for me to get to it though, intern just started and I have some other Rust blog posts I want to get done first)
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Because supposedly embryo in my example != adult with agency in your example. Also, homes aren't bodies.

I'm not even sure if you're disagreeing, sarc-tag or not :)
Great article. This image from the article is probably the best summary: https://i.imgur.com/Pq2Yra4.png
Perhaps the simple principle that behind every great love/success lays a great suicide. You can't give yourself completely and keep the man inside. Maybe current society places too much value (amongst men) on complete commitment which in turn leads to a type of internal suicide, a loss of self and identity, which may manifest itself in a less internal but instead physical response (a true suicide).