skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak as to how to individual particular programs work, but at least as of a year ago, most of the good AIs used something called Monte Carlo Upper Confidence Trees.

They're, unfortunately, not based on intuition. Just statistics.

Basically, the machine plays many, many random games. The more winning games which play a particular stone, the more valuable that particular position is. Then the position with the highest value is chosen.

This alleviates the need of brute force search (which is just too large for Go).

As far as I understand, most of the more successful AIs use UCT for the general game, but then fall back to heuristics and brute search for small, local conflicts (like if forced some stones to be played until death) and counting stones.

Sensei's library has some nice high level information written about the topic:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?UCT

More recently, DeepMind (and someone else independently at Edinburgh, I believe) has published a couple papers about training a neural network to play by teaching it to predict the next move of pros given the board state. These use modern computer vision techniques and data. Last paper I saw, this did much better than GNU Go (which doesn't use UCT, and is very weak), but still not as good as monte carlo based methods. There has yet to be a combination of the Neural Network and Monte Carlo methods, but they're quite complimentary.

I believe we'll see that combination in the next year or so, and this will nearly close the AI-human gap.

Edit: Monte Carlo. :P Hooray for autocorrect.
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Ad network can mean many different things.

In case of facebook where their ad network controls the whole process (SSP + Exchange + DSP) they would only lose, besides the infrastructure cost, the opportunity to make money by serving another ad.

But for the majority of ad serving world it's not that simple. If you're for example a DSP and buy ad impressions from exchanges via real time bidding, you have to pay for the impression even if you can't charge the advertisers for it. So you lose money twice. You don't serve another ad which would make you money and you have to pay for an ad that won't be paid for by the advertiser.
"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin

This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety of plants/herbs/spices, it's quite clear that many of them do have quite a lot of beneficial health effects, often unique in being more effective or having less side-effects than western medicine. Plants have chemical-producing machinery that is in many ways far more advanced than what humans have developed.

And many of them have been under-researched, I think both because of 20th century biases and the regulatory/patent environment, so in fact there's quite a gap between what we call medicine and treatments in alternative medicine which could be reasonably considered likely beneficial/effective.

Just as an example, go read the Wikipedia pages and some assorted Googled info on what was listed in the article: nutmeg, ginger, “Bakul” tree, camphor, cinnamon, turmeric, Indian banyan, black pepper, long pepper, Neem and clove.
Funny enough, I wonder what the numbers would hit if they crowdfunded something like this? I think the number would be surprisingly high.
Hello.

As an Apple-watch wearing, iPhone user I find the system disappointing. I'm effectively using the same payment card/bank at the end of the transaction and yet being fined for issues like the reader in one station not accepting my Watch but happily accepting the same card that is attached to my Apple Pay account.

It's far from perfect, and not a great user experience.
Yeah sure, I just wanted to make the point that some technologies can be improved if the companies that matter in the IT world, bother to put money into it.

Somehow I like to think that Android, WinRT/.NET Native, Swift's introduction, Mirage OS are all little steps into that direction.
I see country drop downs that allowed typing as well to selection. Usually it's some Javascript UI widget that does progressive enhancement, but it is available.
> similar enough to C that ... But e.g. Rust

Rust is a very large language with an equally large set of standard library functions. It also requires changing how you structure your programs to work within the constraints of the borrow checker.

Rust also relies on LLVM, which has a limited set of target architectures when compared to C.

It's a much better replacement for C++ than C.
`How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation`

Sometimes its not about innovation. Many companies buy patents and make high priced drugs. These drugs can be made available to the poor for very less price, but patents like these block local makers from doing so.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-tha...
Let's imagine a remote island on Earth that was colonized five thousand years ago (and completely forgot about how they got there). They may spend a very long time sending and listening to sonar signals. However, we (the aliens from their point of view) use sonar for ourselves, not to detect intelligence. It would be very hard to detect intelligence from our use of sonars (which is similar to that of a few animals). Even if they did guess that we were intelligent, their understanding of who we are and how we live would be minuscule.

On the other hand, if they spent their energy sending ships, they would eventually find us, and they would learn phenomenally about technology, science and their place in the world, even before they reach us.
Well galactic communication is one-way: every civilization reaching the tech level needed to participate in it just starts to send out everything they know, never hoping for anyone to reply. Additionally, every participating civilization starts relaying everything they hear from one side to the other side, so civilizations which are mutually out of range can hear from each other.

There is a galactic consent that nobody will ever be able to actually visit each other.

And of course, this is pure science fiction :)
currently crashes on any search :-(
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What resources are wasted? Perhaps some innovative ideas are being duplicated at worst?
zamalek got it correct above. Those languages above only cover 2 or 3 architectures that the project works with. There is no Rust or Go compiler for vax, alpha, macppc, sparc64. There are C/C++ compilers though.
My sense is this is kind of a beta programme and that they want to get it right before putting it into US, where a much fiercer press in general would kill it at the starting gates if it's not 100% ready. Moreover the size of the US market means they need to line up distribution partners and a credible inventory of device stock, both things requiring resources and cred, which they can get by "booting" the business model in Europe/China.
I do not expect anyone to have much sympathy with the site nor its users. But still, being publicly defamed on the internet for eternity is far too harsh a punishment for cheating on your spouse. The motivations for cheating can be complicated, and while it certainly destroys many relationships, I believe that some might still be salvaged when the cheater can come clean on his/her own terms.

Outing a cheater which you have no relationship with is a disgusting violation of the privacy of all parties involved, including the partner who was cheated on.
It is interesting how the anonymity of the internet suddenly makes people more comfortable with shaming other people whom they have no personal relationship with.

I guess I'm just opposed to having a society where people punish strangers for not living up to their own moral codes. If we accept that someone reveals the names of cheaters on the internet, then we are accepting a society where it is okay to meddle in the most intimate parts of other peoples lives, even if their actions do not affect ourselves or society as a whole. This is wrong and disgusting in the same way as it is wrong when vigilante "sharia patrols" roam muslim neighborhoods in London, to bring up an admittedly extreme example. It is none of my business how other people lead their lives, even if I disagree with their lifestyle, as long as their actions do not harm me or the society as a whole. There is a reason we do not have a karma police.
My toothbrush is better than yours
Relevant xkcd:
http://www.xkcd.com/384/
What do you mean by ideology? You mean they care about ideals and ethics related to software? Is that a bad thing? Even to people who don't care about ideology, ideology matters because they are affected by the dominant ideology. Actually that's how ideology mostly tends to operate, through the quiet complicity of the people who don't care. So when you talk about software without talking about licensing, freedom to read and change source code, etc, that is how the ideology of proprietary software becomes normalized.
I am surprised they haven't kickstarted a mission yet. $700 million is less than $3 per person in the US, and probably something like $10 per person with an interest in space travel in the developed world. I'd love to see such a mission with 70% devoted to science, and 30% devoted to awesome spectacle like high-resolution stereoscopic video.
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I flagged it for exactly that reason. File descriptors 0, 1, and 2 have a per-process meaning -- stdin/stdout/stderr -- and one only needs a cursory knowledge of C or operating systems to know that Linux has a per-process table.
Wormholes don't contradict relativity. In fact they were predicted by relativity (or rather a solution to the singularity problem predicted by relativity).

The scientific name for a wormhole is an Einstein-Rosen Bridge - named after Nathan Rosen and, obviously, Albert Einstein who conceived the idea.

There are other suggestions for "faster than light" travel, but FTL is a bit of a misnomer because the concepts of FTL aren't about having a velocity that's greater than c (the speed of light in a vacuum), it's about warping or cutting through the fabric of space in a way that makes the distances shorter. A wormhole is just one theoretical method of jumping those distances via a shortcut.
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And yet, there's plenty of other, existing, proven languages out there that have had types and those tooling (beyond the 'basic') out there.

I'm not looking for a language battle here, but is inventing your own language based on your favorite language to bring common features from other language really such a good idea?
> Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters.

Cracked me up, very well said. In general I agree that the document-centric browser has been abused horribly. Then we get obscene beasts like node.js, because, well, the browser does it, so must we.
Better yet, why does it have to be an "individual nation" thing? Why can't all (or even just some) of the developed nations collaborate and pool funding and have a bigger team to work on the problem?
This article made me think about my usage of dropdowns on mobile, and presented a few alternatives that I'll probably reach for more often now.

As far as people being so called experts I'm not sure you're going to find someone with much more experience than Luke:

http://www.lukew.com/about/
http://blog.scottlogic.com/2015/07/02/surprising-things-abou...
Absolutely not. Disabling default zoom behavior is like hijacking the scroll bar - bad, ugly and puts users off.

Also horrible is the tri state or undeterminate checkbox.

All of the above are very trendy pieces of 'css and html codes' commonly found on popular DIY web dev sites.

*edit: spelling
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In just a few hundred years, human civilization will be expanding at something on the order of the speed of light, unless we manage to blow ourselves up first.

How is that not interesting?
It is definitely, indisputably worth millions of dollars to know that.
This article talks about the free upgrade price. It is true that the upgrade is free for a year, but then Microsoft will charge for it.

Assuming that my little Stream 11 has enough disk space for the upgrade, I am going to upgrade next week. I am likely to install Linux in a year and not pay the fee for continued use of the upgrade, and get whatever is the smallest Surface they have in a year.

I have mostly been using Linux and OS X for many years but I must say that I have been enjoying Windows 8.1
seems legit :D
It's apparently a requirement for various cloud platforms that the private key doesn't use a passphrase (probably due to automated scripts where the passphrase cannot be provided).

See Engine Yard for example (not an exception as far I know):
https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/20541...

Now I am not saying the situation is ideal or that I condone it, just passing the information along.
Someday I hope that we get to having a global currency, and a lot of these issues go away. It is kind of ridiculous the delays and barriers that the banking system still has in place - I have direct deposit for my paychecks, and my employer uses electronic payments to move the cash into my accounts. It still takes at least two business days for funds to clear in my account. This is all domestic, with banks that are physically 20 miles apart.
But do pension funds actually have that much invested in that asset class? Around $48 billion went into VC in 2014 but in the US alone there is $18 trillion in pension assets.
I'm assuming he's talking about "Bulletproof" coffee, since Coconut oil contains medium chain triglycerides. Some claim it increases "clarity and alertness" and apparently boosts metabolism, lots of Paleo dieters use it. Never tried it personally, so can't attest for the benefits.
Data/signal processing at scale.

Qasar/pulsar surveys.

Other general radio astronomy.
I saw that, but the point that even if flight was normally allowed at that location, it was cancelled by the FAA advisories, which the multi rotor operators were not aware of.

If they (well, we, since I'm one of them) want to operate in controlled airspace, we need to be aware of the restrictions put in place by the managers of said airspace.

I appreciate that they were willing to shut down so quickly, however. That shows good will and an interest to do the right thing.
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Kitty, just curious – I think it's reasonable to say that your article sensationalises a fairly obvious, innocent limitation of Apple Pay.

I only speak for myself, but it felt quite dated - like a tabloid from the mid-Nineties. It made me instinctively leap to the defence of the entity you were attacking.

I think this style of reporting is probably better left offline.

Obviously, you're welcome to to ignore unsolicited advice from strangers - but I just think it could be helpful to reflect on that in future.
Engineering has an ethical responsibility to make management listen. Management has an ethical responsibility to listen to Engineering.
I'm just reposting the comment I've put on the old thread you've done before:

It's pretty unusable for me, here is how it looks like: http://postimg.org/image/xnl2k7f1j/full/
I don't know if I want a small or a big one though, and I can't just go to an Apple Store to try both on... As soon as I have a chance of checking how they feel on my wrist, I'll think about ordering them through some unofficial channels.
Engadget has some coverage too http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/20/ashley-madison-hack/
This isn't a direct comment on Hawking's proposed search, but there are things that would have real value for space exploration and life on Earth - new energy sources or efficiencies, life extension, AI, production methods, etc. If we one day want to send von Neumann probes out, we'll need to master these fields and none would have uses isolated to space exploration either.

Yes, space is vast but once upon a time the ocean was too.
Bret Victor talks about the inadequacy of normal form controls in Magic Ink - http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p169.
"Hitherto [1848] it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ... Only when, in addition to just institutions, the increase of mankind shall be under the deliberate guidance of judicious foresight, can the conquests made from the powers of nature by the intellect and energy of scientific discoverers become the common property of the species, and the means of improving and elevating the universal lot." Wrote J.S. Mill. I do not see us getting anywhere near this state of society, certainly not as long we "need" jobs.
Are you astroturfing for Bill deBlasio? 1.4 million new yorkers own a car, and that ignores the people who drive in from Jersey or Westchester.

http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-cars

It's exceedingly unlikely that any ordinary person could possibly notice the small number of additional Uber drivers, unless of course they are being paid by the yellow cabs (like DeBlasio).
Not sure how your example adds something to "many think".
Not to be pedantic, but it's "Monte Carlo", not "Money Carlo". In case OP wanted to search the phrase.
I think you are misunderstanding the word confidence in the sense that Kahneman is using it. One can also be over confident in one's notion that the girl wouldn't want to talk to you, the raise is unjustified, the customer doesn't want the product, and the oppressor is unbeatable. By your examples, you seem to be associating it with self-esteem, whereas in Kahneman's case it's more of an epistemological issue.
Didn't Hawking said that actively looking for ET was reckless and dangerous and that any contact with a more advanced civilization will end up like the colonization of America with us being the natives?
IANAP, but isn't the only argument against faster-than-light-travel the fact that it contradicts causality?
He wrote that article 6 years ago, before a lot of the latest standards were even semi finalized. So when he wrote it he was 100% correct. Now however that article is a bit out of date.
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Say you're the engineer responsible for maintaining the Central Planning And Optimization Algorithm. What motivates you not to calibrate the algorithm in such a way that your family and your buddies benefit the most?
Well, there is https://github.com/creationix/wheaty .
> mainly thinking how hover has been relegated to visual effects even though it's fine on non-touchscreens.

It's fine to make it (hover effects) functional for desktop users rather than just using it for visuals, but you need to make sure that said functionality exists in another form for mobile. Otherwise, you're just giving a be "F* You!" to mobile users since the experience on your site is broken.
Does Rob Zombie know about this? :-)
I beg pardon, but I was engaging with a snarky attack on the character and reputation of the country that I belong to, so save it.
But when you pay someone to put up a billboard, there isn't a risk that they'll put it by a road they think gets tons of traffic, but is actually just used by one guy being paid by the building owner to drive past it repeatedly.
i'll just wait until someone comes out with a windows 10 version minus all the ungodly bloatware. Yea, i'll take that one, thank you very much.
He said actively trying to contact was dangerous, vs. actively looking (i.e. passively listening, which is confusing!) No harm in seeing who's out there as long as they don't detect us.
Neat. When was this added?
Mostly, but the same people who don't pay attention are the same people who don't go and read minutes. Basically their time is more valuable than anyone else.
I want to try one of these and I'm a chronic early-adopter, but some support for a smartwatch (I feel naked without my MS Band nowadays), and 4G LTE compatibility in the USA are part of an MVP for me to try out a phone nowadays. It's my understanding that Ubuntu Touch and the devices it is currently running on do not offer that. Anybody know of a roadmap/timeline for when Ubuntu Touch will be adding these features?
I highly recommend the computer-go mailing list (http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go), where most of the top-tier engine authors collaborate (including the authors of Zen, Pachi, etc).

If you can read research papers, look into the bibliographies of Remi Coulom, who's work in ~2005 revitalized the field of computer go and is pretty much responsible for the quantum leap in engine strength over the last few years: http://www.remi-coulom.fr/
There aren't many things which the British do really, really well, but the Ordnance Survey is one of them.

Bing have a license, but it's geolocked so non-UK people don't see the OS maps. streetmap.co.uk is where I go; the actual website is terrible but they have the OS maps in 1:25000 and 1:50000 (and some of the non-topographic smaller scale maps):

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=191074&y=840453&z=0&sv=iv54...

Bear in mind that that map is suppose to be 4cm to a kilometre. On my screen it's about three times too big.

After growing up with these maps (we were even taught how to read them at school!), visiting other countries and having to struggle with tourist maps is deeply painful.
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As an outsider, I can't see how Paypal is holding eBay back - mind explaining?
I use hg-git. Because "hg addremove *; hg commit; hg push;" is so much simpler than the one letter alternatives in git.
That was the ~only~ downside to the keyboard/mouse I ran into. Other than that it was a great experience.

As others have said - I did dislike the screen to an extent, but it got the job done.
I think it's worth trillions.

Just imagine what proof that we're not alone would mean for the world. I'm not positive it would galvanize everyone, but it would surely create new industry and untold number of jobs as we, as a world, decide to try to go and meet them.
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> The article defines the overconfidence as a belief in an outcome despite what reasonable past statistics tell us.

Following this same logic, a nerdy guy who has 100% rejection rate should accept it and do nothing. However from all the self-help/marketing literature we know this is a doomed philosophy.
That individual nation thing was the only reason America visited the moon.
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Why would you flag this link?

The post in question is a succinct explanation of the Unix process model. It's nothing new (obviously!), but trust me, a lot of people have either forgotten the specifics or never really learned them. I certainly appreciated the quick refresher.

Honestly I feel you're abusing HN's flag feature if you regularly use it on links like this one.
Comment formatting engine on HN requires two line breaks to display a line break to the user, just like HTML.
Most of the 'fitness' the phone tracks can done far better by a specialized device like the Fitbit, which is outselling the Apple Watch, or just by your phone. The major thing that people buy fitness trackers for... counting steps... can already be done by quite well by your phone since it's the thing that has GPS already (which is what your smartwatch uses) and your phone already has all the sensors to be a pedometer.

If you're the type that doesn't have their phone on you all the time, it's better done by a lightweight, lower-cost Fitbit which start at about 60 bucks as opposed to the $350/$400 starting point of the Apple Watch.