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I'm wondering if strong players will learn to beat AlphaGo by playing unconventional openings, so as to confuse the neural net, and get the upper hand before the MCTS can take over in the middle game.

This could be good for the game of Go in general as top players are forced to find new ways to play.

Just speculating as I am not a particularly strong player myself.
Really though? What do you do in the context menu within a browser (assuming you are not a developer looking for view source/inspect element type things?) If that was not my day job I would have absolutely no use for the browser's context menu.
I understand your point of view, but wouldn't you agree that the The National Taxi Union's use of violence supersedes their motivations, whatever it may be?

If it was the other way around, if it was Uber who attacked passengers, blocked highways and threw fiery tires at the Taxi Drivers. And The National Taxi Union were breaking the drive-back-to-your garage law. -> Then it seems to me that Uber would be the thugs of the two, regardless of who I support.

Whether you intellectually think the Taxi companies deserve protection from competition, it still seems that the National Taxi Union are the thugs here.
It's not my reality. But it is your reality. Where does that leave us?
Is there matter with no space in it?
All of the ways that the government can raise money involves taking it from people. You're making a distinction without a difference.
Absolutely! My point is that human intelligence doesn't actually have any deep insight into how it makes decisions, so we shouldn't be that disappointed that an AI doesn't, either. Humans can postrationalize - explore how they think they make decisions - but they can't tell you how they actually decided. Doing the same for an AI is interesting, but I don't think it's a necessary component of making good decisions in the first place to be able to explain why you made it.
The corollary of "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission" is "sometimes, you will ask forgiveness and be told 'hell no, what were you thinking?'"
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I don't understand the schadenfreude and hostility toward Theranos (and the founder). From everything I've seen there's very little actual information publicly available either way about what's going on (aside from some weak pop tech journalism).

I'd imagine this negative media attention is stressful for them - like it is for any startup. Should minimally wait for something substantial to see if there was any actual wrongdoing - there's not much here so far.
Maybe this is because I'm in my 30s, or because I'm an introvert, but I don't particularly want to spend a bunch of time with work people; I want to get work done at work, and whether we're in the same room or on Slack or whatever, I still feel like I'm accomplishing a shared goal with other people.

And after work, I have plenty of friends that I don't spend all day working with. I'd rather get supper with a friend I haven't seen in a while, rather than spending more time with the people I already spent the day with. Lunch? It's really great to break up the work day by taking my dogs for a walk.

And I do totally agree about coworkers becoming friends. Most of the people I consider my closest friends are either old classmates or old coworkers.

I generally do remote contract work, but currently have a local gig for 1-2 days/week. There are undoubtedly more interruptions at the office, but fewer temptations (e.g. turning off the clock and having a nap). I dramatically prefer the home office environment though, most of all the fact that I can work with my own flow. If I'm feeling foggy after lunch, I'll totally have a nap and work a little in the evening to make it up. Or work a 16 hour day and sleep in tomorrow. Or whatever works best that day.
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Very basic games or for the business logic with the UI done in Java and XAML - C++/CX.

But if Clojure did support properly Android and CoreCLR, I would probably use it instead.

As things are, I might go Xamarin in the future.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/problems-found-at-theranos-lab-1... (Paywall)
No. That would take infinite time to comprehend, right?
At this point, we (HN community) are just treating this like a season of Jersey Shore.

She's working her ass off to build a company with a mission far more important than email marketing or advertising or Candy Crush or blockchains.

Were they overly optimistic in their projections? Probably, but try starting a company and not being optimistic. You'll never get off the ground.

Did they not take reasonable precautions in an industry (biotech/healthcare) with serious repercussions? Absolutely. There are very real questions about her empathy and ethics.

That said, let's stop getting giddy every time Theranos (or some other startup) shows weakness. As founders — those "playing startup" excluded — it is incredibly hard. Let's have some empathy ourselves for those who have (likely) fucked up.
No, it does not. Signing up for google apps and choosing to use the google apps account as your primary google user account causes you to get new features on a delayed schedule.

You can get a domain through google without switching your google identity to it. You can also sign up for google apps on a non-google domain. google domains and google apps are not the same thing.
Any science or medicine types know if a potential solution to the problem this company wants to fix can be achieved by a 'hack' of sorts: just make a finger-prick, but keep it bleeding somehow (using mechanics or other chemical agents) until you can collect enough of a blood sample?

Seems like an easier approach than inventing breakthroughs in microfluidics.
We certainly have a long way to go here. I found it endlessly frustrating trying to get an expense card for my nanny. I wanted her to have access to a set limit of my money to pay for things for the kids but not an endless supply. I wanted it to just be there. I never found any banks that had anything even remotely like that. I ended up just getting a reloadable debit card that I have to keep topping off for her. And the biggest kicker... it takes 5 business days for the money to show up on it. How does it take 5 days to move some 1s and 0s from this account to that account? And why "business days?" Do their computers not work on the weekends? Crazy and frustrating.
Theranos Lab Practices Pose Risk to Patient Health, Regulators Say
Should minimally wait for something substantial, see if there was any actual wrongdoing

Pretty sure that's exactly what this is.
On the routine point, you only don't have one if you don't make one. Having breakfast or a run at a set time every morning is a simple way to get your brain going.
Here's a good excuse for not using https for everything: it breaks caching of files by proxies!
Are there any other options out there part from Flux/Redux patterns?

I've been looking into using React (well for the past 4 days of solid research), but I'm finding that pure reducers are a mental-mismatch for me.

I'd like something that helps me manage state, and perhaps constraints its flow (like Reach does with unidirecitonal renddering), but not something that tries to abstract state away completely.
If their learning material is based on expert human games, how can it ever get better than that?
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A thought experiment: What about building a new city in the middle of nowhere, with the sole goal of extremely reducing living costs , and designing the laws specifically for that ,including making housing costs extremely cheap?
Verisign will happily issue a certificate to AT&T for a domain that AT&T controls.

Verisign will not issue a certificate to AT&T for google.com--no matter how nicely AT&T asks.
It got you to click. (Me too.) Win for NYT.
I don't currently see a 500 ms difference, so maybe they figured something out. From my shell, I see about 35 ms to http://www.stavros.io/404 and about 85 ms to https://www.stavros.io/404 (the HTTPS site serves actual content and the HTTP a redirect, which confounds the numbers).

The HTTPS server is currently offering me a 4096-bit-RSA certificate, signed by the 2048-bit-RSA StartCom class 1 intermediate CA. There's no security benefit in a 4096-bit cert signed by a 2048-bit one, since any attacker capable of breaking 2048-bit RSA but not 4096-bit is just going to attack the CA cert and sign their own forged cert (and any attacker sorta capable of breaking 2048-bit RSA will dedicate their brute force effort to CA certs). And to my knowledge, all current CA intermediate certs are 2048-bit. Meanwhile, because of math, 4096-bit certs take a lot longer to handshake: see e.g. https://certsimple.com/blog/measuring-ssl-rsa-keys

CertSimple's data indicates a 25 ms difference between 2048-bit and 4096-bit keys on their server, so I'd expect that the 4096-bit key is responsible for at least most of the performance difference here. A few years ago I screwed this up on a production shared web host, and I believe we saw a greater than 50 ms difference. (While we're at it, that cert is SHA-1, so it's possible they can get a reissue for free.)

Were you able to replicate the 500 ms (!) performance difference on your own server? Are you using a 2048-bit cert and reasonable cipher suites?
The article just talks about antioxidant supplements being harmful, not naturally occurring antioxidants from sources such as coffee. That's good. Don't ruin coffee for me, please science.

I don't really understand the whole supplement craze. To me, it feels like common sense not to megadose any particular thing, especially when you don't understand the effects said thing can have on the body.
Perhaps there are other social factors at play.
Keep in mind that professionals are counting throughout the game, and are playing to win, not to win by a lot. So a 0.5 point victory may simply mean the victor was confident in their position and chose not to take unnecessary risks.
This is a little sensationalist - it's a list of deficiencies in their labs, not in their tests. More akin to an OSHA violation letter than a cease and desist letter.

Here is an example of the regs that they are violating. It's things like lack of lab personnel certification.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2011-title42-vol5/pdf/CFR-...

This is definitely not a good thing for Theranos, but it isn't them being called out for bogus biotech. (Not that that would surprise me immensely if it happened.)
For our profession? Yes.
For example your github repos, SO profile, the app you've built or your projecteuler stats may prove better filters.

But I don't need to - smarter people already did the work for me. This approach is already practiced (mini scale I believe) in our industry.
You have to subscribe to that site right?

Edit: Seems a bit scammy.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.findmypast.co.uk
> If you have nothing, first it's unlikely someone would borrow you the money

In the case of education this is not the case; the federal government provides (or backstops) the loans.
> She's working her ass off to build a company with a mission far more important than email marketing or advertising or Candy Crush or blockchains.

And from all accounts, she's too busy playing PR games, as opposed to treating this like a mission far more important than email marketing.

Theranos is in the business of medical testing. This is not an industry where you can half-ass your way through certification... Or where scrutiny like "Does the product you've been selling even work?" is misplaced.

Theranos could dismiss this entire charade, if they could only provide evidence that what they claim to have built actually works.
Add 1 dolar for every trade. Good luck with adding this to spread. They are making money on small differences, ultra short investments. Then ultra short will not be an option. If you make 1 million transactions then you pay 1 million for transactions. How much do they actually make on this?
There's not necessarily a conflict between the two. One middle road would be to maintain the welfare state, but to add a rule saying that only people whose ancestors were citizens before year X could receive welfare.

The result would be extremely visibly racist, but I think the right response to that is to understand that existing immigration laws are in effect equally racist. It's the visibility that would change, rather than the degree.
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>It incentivizes breeding.

It's usually considered bad form to point this out, but there is no divine mandate that makes human breeding a process beyond the control of human societies.
This is also effectively true for the more broadly used Google Adsense (not just DFP). They do support displaying adsense, but then screen out all non-https ads. Which, of course, results in a lower CPM.[1]

[1]https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10528?hl=en

>>In short; Google will penalize me because I use Google

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Finland hasn't decided to switch to basic income system. It's been reported that there will be basic income trial, but even that's not certain.
Where do I volunteer to be a test subject in this study?
Please note I'm not trying to belittle your answer, but New Zealand is a very small place. In the US there are Credit Unions (the smaller, less popular non-profit bank alternatives in the US) that have more members than the entire population of NZ.

If you were to only bank amongst one Credit Union here in the states you'd see similar levels of service to what you mention (other than chip & pin which is only recently deployed).
I don't think so. People behind Theranos from the VCs to the media are too powerful. Nothing much would change, I reckon.
This is true, however, at a point in time where we are desperately attempting to induce inflation in anything but assets (which was the end result of QE), perhaps "helicopter money" in the form of a UBI would end up stimulating more demand than QE did. Sure, we would experience some mild inflation in basic goods prices, but in net, I think it would be a benefit. Isn't the Fed trying to stimulate inflation anyways, and utterly failing?
But that's different from basic income. The idea with basic income is that you shouldn't fear dying of hunger and being homeless because you literally can't pay, but at the same time you will have to work if you want that plasma TV and iPhone on top of your basic survival money. Basic income should give everyone just about enough to survive and pay rent, but not enough to have a high quality life that most people want.
If getting into an elite university is the signal. Why not apply to elite universities (or the best that the student can get into) and then shrug admissions when accepted?

The student can then turn around to some great companies and say "I got into X university, but am thinking of waiting a semester and want to learn a bit about your business. Would you be open to some sort of internship?"

I don't know if that is the correct solution though. Much of what I learned came from being at school, but not necessarily the classroom. I learned a ton about alcohol and drugs and sex and other things that simply being in an environment with so many of my peers produced. Additionally, I'm a designer. If I weren't an editor for the school paper, I'd never have picked up a copy of creative suite and probably would be working a miserable corporate job somewhere otherwise.
I genuinely don't know how a couple could raise one child on $30k/yr - is rent cheap where you live ?

If you had have asked me what a couple needs to raise a kid in the US, I would have guessed 80k.. maybe 60k if they are very careful with money management, as you suggest.

I'm actually being sincere.. but where I live rent is very high, so perhaps that explains the vast difference ?
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Largest non-violent per capita prison population in the world? Not that much hyperbole.
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Easy: anything someone needs to avoid imminent or near imminent avoidable physical pain or death.

Food, Shelter, Clothing, Healthcare.
Hardly - there's nothing in this other than not being in compliance with an unknown thing. Could be serious, but might just be some paper work.
With regards to remote work technology , we've done pretty poorly:

1. Normal video chat is awful. We can't create eye to eye contact. We can't see body language. It's not very useful to build trust or bonding that way , and this is critical. There might be solutions but they're only availble to very expensive telepresence suits.

2. We haven't managed to create an informal environment via video chat , say like lunch or the water cooler.

3. Working from home requires a lot of self-discipline which is hard . Social face-to-face pressure works better as a motivator for people in general(see battle units) , and it rarely translate well into electrons.

4. Working from home is isolating, and it might be due to limits of the technology.
Oh, that's pretty rough.

Still, with enough automation, you can request 5 per week in a cronjob, which will let you get at least 40-something websites, even with the recommended 60-day renewal cycle. :-P
Same with Spotify and KING, both are/were technically UK companies
The basic income that woman would receive is government revenue from taxes. If too many do what you propose then the governments revenue is reduced.

How should the government then fund the next years basic income?
I have shared hosting at Dreamhost. Installing Let's Encrypt certs was a two click procedure. I guess more hosting companies will follow.
> There are limited seats available at the highest-status universities, so admission to those schools will remain a privilege disproportionately available to wealthy parents who can pay to game the admissions process.

Funny, where I come from, going to a school that takes tuition means you're too dumb to graduate from a "real" university. Most notably, most universities don't accept for-profit faculties. This means that you can at most pay for a "4 year degree", but not for a "university degree".

I don't know if it's like that in all of, or even most, Europe. But it's definitely like that in all the countries I've heard about from friends who live there.
The idea that many poor adults work at McDonald's is assuredly not hyperbole.
Thats part of the debit card providers business model. They are making money on the float between the accounts. They are incentivized by this to make it slow.
So what? We don't need as many. It doesn't make life any worse (in fact, probably better) for the ones we have now. Those pre-industrial-revolution horses would have been dead by now of old age if not turned into dog food.
Your spot on here. I work with some great people, but I also have 2 young kids now and I frequently miss dinners at home. Getting everyone out of the house is probably more stressful than it needs to be because I'm 40 mins door to door and that feels more important than being present with family in the morning.

I've been thinking quite a bit over the years that this isn't how raising a family should be. I remember growing up and when my dad got home, work was over. Fat chance now with sms, slack, email, etc - you're never off work anymore.

One one hand, I love tech and it's how our family survives. On the other hand, we're completely disconnected from our planet and appreciation of generations before. We are modern and life is fast paced, but for what reason?

I keep the discussions going in my head and let the glaring issue just kinda dissolve as we go thru another day. That issue is (for me) that this probably isn't how - as a society - we should be living nor should we be valuing the things we do. :-/
Thanks, there are plenty of great tips!

I'm in the market for a powerful desktop and I considered getting a 2012 Mac Pro. It would be awesome if the 2016 Mac Pro was a tower design. Alas, we can only dream.
> "Money can't buy happiness [but it can buy] a WaveRunner. Have you ever seen a sad person on a WaveRunner?"

That's not buying happiness - that's just sucking the happiness out of everyone else in the vicinity that isn't on a WaveRunner themselves :)
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I think the issue people have with React is that a lot of tutorials assume you are already using NPM/Babel.

If you're using a module importer already then adding React to your stack is pretty easy. For example with JSPM:

$ jspm install --dev react react-dom
$ npm install --save-dev babel-preset-react

Then add 'react' to your .babelrc preset.

In your ES6 javascript file you can now use react via:

import React from 'react';

----

That's it.

However, if you have none of that already set up... Then you'll naturally be persuaded that now is the time to get a 'modern' javascript environment setup and doing so can take time. It took me about 2 days of beating through RequireJS --> Webpack --> JSPM before I settled on the latter.

Figuring all that was difficult, but looking back on it was extremely useful to now have all my Javascript bundling done within JSPM rather than using some Django bundler, and downloading raw JS files from the internet without evening using Babel to help me write ES6/ES7.
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Either way, you can do both with unikernels.

Mr. Cantrill was just wrong.
If it gets dark outside at 6pm and you have nothing todo, you learn how to use the computer the government gave your parents a discount on. Almost everyone, even really poor people, bought a computer and internet because of this. I think that's the most brilliant thing our leaders did in the last 20 years.
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Rupert Murdoch is also very powerful, and he's no doubt personally OK'd this WSJ-led takedown of Theranos, even though Kissinger and pals can't be too happy.
The illusion of trust is easier to build in person. Actual trust is always damn fucking hard work to create. It doesn't matter the medium through which it occurs.

I have taken online classes. I generally found them better than classes that thought my ass keeping their chair warm was somehow valuable.

It is hard to design a good remote environment, but it is hard to design a good anything.
You can look up the regulations listed in the letter although you won't know exactly what their deficiencies are.

What is interesting to me is that this is CMS, not the FDA. CMS runs Medicare and Medicaid and is basically saying that if they don't improve their compliance, CMS will stop paying for their lab tests.
"100% effort from 100% of people is no longer necessary" - could even be considered counter-productive to expect so much.
I wonder if there's a correlation between kids with asthma/weight gain and pre-labor antibiotics given to the mother to control Group B strep.

That seems like it could be the sort of study that could be done based on a medical records search, as the data should be recorded. (not that it's easy to get the data...)
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Right. So what's the solution? I run my wife's retail website. Am I supposed to just stop worrying about caching static assets like product images, scripts, etc.? Do I just throw my hands in the air and assume it evens out because I switched to HTTPS?

Serious question, what are my options?
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No, it's worse -- this is basic blocking and tackling stuff that is table stakes for entering the medical testing space. This is not stuff that you "disrupt." As the letter says, these deficiencies could be putting customers' lives at risk.
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