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This is actually pretty funny.

In the first email, which basically is loaded with innuendo and short on actual facts it states:

UCOP defends their actions by relying on secret legal determinations and painting lurid pictures of "advanced persistent threat actors" from which we must be kept safe. They further promise not to invade our privacy unnecessarily, while the same time implementing systems designed to do exactly that.

Then in the nest email says:

A network security breach was discovered at the UCLA Medical Center around June 2015.

UCOP began monitoring of campus in networks around August 2015.

ONLY AFTER this monitoring, on August 27, 2015, did UCOP issue a new cybersecurity policy online under the heading of "Coordinated Monitoring Threat Response." The policy describes how UCOP would initiate "Coordinated Monitoring" of campus networks even though it is believed that such monitoring was already underway prior to the announcement of the new policy.

So first they were drumming up conspiracy theories about "supposed" threats to the network and in the second email, they outline there actually was a breach of their network.

I guess the real issue is they have no idea who the vendor is and what exactly they're doing with their data. The good news is appears they're only holding up to 30 days of data, but aren't clear what happens after the 30 days.

I would be more concerned about the lack of transparency with what they intend to do with the data and who the hell the vendor actually is. Nothing like having some shadowy government vendor snooping around your network and storing and analyzing your data without letting you know what they're doing.
Joe Armstrong - the creator of erlang would turn his cluster of 1000's of machines to change behaviour. The code is really 5 lines.

My favorite Erlang program
21 Nov 2013
The other day I got a mail from Dean Galvin from Rowan
University. Dean was doing an Erlang project so he asked
“What example program would best exemplify Erlang”.
...
The Universal Server
Normally servers do something. An HTTP server responds to HTTP requests
and FTP server responds to FTP request and so on. But what about a Universal
Server?
surely we can generalize the idea of a server and make a universal server that
which we can later tell to become a specific sever.

Here’s my universal server:

universal_server() ->
receive
{become, F} ->
F()
end.

...then I set up a gossip algorithm to flood the network with become messages.
Then I had an empty network that in a few seconds would become anything
I wanted it to do.

a process in erlang, is nothing but a tail-recursive function. the moment it stops being so - it dies. so here it morphes into F; which can be passed in.

more at http://joearms.github.io/2013/11/21/My-favorite-erlang-progr...
The lack of information about Vulkan is a bit concerning. For something that is about to be announced anyday now there is very little concrete information available about basic details like - what hardware that is currently shipping will support vulkan and how long after announcement will vendors have drivers out (weeks/months/years?).
>the hardest part isn’t: “We need to increase our accuracy by 2% by using Restricted Convolutionallly Recurrent Bayesian Machines!” The hardest part is convincing people you need to integrate a new process into a “production” workflow, and then maintaining that process.

Completely agreed. My timeline for a project usually goes like:

A. 2-4 weeks: deeply understand the problem, talk to stakeholders, gather requirements, plan out the project.

B. 2 weeks: explore the problem and the data. Build and tweak models, build a functional prototype.

C. 8-24 weeks: put the system into production on top of the companies' tech stack, either myself or working closely with engineers.

D. 4-12 weeks: sell the system internally, prove that it's a superior solution, get buy-in that it should replace existing processes.

So yeah, in a typical 6 month project I only spend about 5-10% of my time on actual data and modeling. This % has gone sharply down as my career has progressed.
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Wow. Very impressed. I'm a big fan of Webflow (https://webflow.com). I would love if I could use Bootstrap in Webflow's visual designer but this is great.
If the fist evolved to punch: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-human-fi...
...it's maybe conceivable that the chin evolved to resist chokes? Choking can be very effective, and tucking your chin is an important defense: http://www.grapplearts.com/finishing-the-rear-naked-choke/
I've been considering Rust (or Swift) for webapp backend, but these cons are spot on: Named parameters are missing, and one can't build natural looking JSON validation if one can't nest them nicely.

Swift looks promising though, if a bit in flux.

I've been ramming my head against Scala lately, and while it's nice at times I would like to have compiled language.
Well... technical solutions can get you pretty far. Knowing that "there was a TCP connection that lasted 37 minutes and transferred 2 GB of data between IP1:Port1 and IP2:Port2 starting at 8PM", is different to "Steve in dorm 612 illegally downloaded Spectre last night".
What is "fragmentation" in your mind and what are the negative effects of it?
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I have this thing where I accidentally memorize license plates in the same way you might accidentally memorize what car people you know drive. It's a completely automatic process just like everything else we effortless memorize throughout the day. And, I've never thought about this before, but the cars themselves actually don't stick very well. Bill says it so casually that I wonder if it's the same for him.

I grew up near Microsoft, and it might help to know that until recently Washington plates for standard cars have all been 6 characters long in the form 123-ABC or ABC-123. On top of that there are a ton of common patterns on the road at any given time due to the way they are distributed. So they are pretty well designed to be memorable.

As an aside: We're now on a 7 letter system in the format ABC1234, and that's most of what you see on the road. These don't stick quite as often -- I can't tell if that's the format change or if I'm just aging or more often lost in thought and not noticing the world around me or what. I believe they all start with A now, so it's not actually an extra letter to memorize, but I think the format change modifies the rhythm to the plate and makes it so it doesn't automatically chunk and therefor doesn't automatically get memorized. I guess trucks (before this change) have always been something like B12345D (where it's always B and usually ends with D, I think) and those didn't stick very well, either.
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Also, the data from SMPY seems odd.

I took their achievement percentages (# of individuals in top positions 40 years later), and did some rough calculations.

The SMPY cohorts seemed to perform much better than if one had randomly selected a 'top %1' individual from the total U.S. population. So, either the longitudinal study had an effect on the cohorts, or their original sampling method was biased.
Proprietary APIs can't be a replacement to an open industry standard.
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Whoever comes up with an on-prem Trello that supports LDAP and group management wins the on-prem Trello-like enterprise market. To my knowledge, only Redbooth does this. $30/user per month. Insanity.
The way you describe 'love' there seems romanticized, and it seems odd that you suggest that there is a 'proper' way to love. That seems to me like suggesting there's a "proper" way to be angry. It's an emotion. You might suggest that anger needs to be well-managed to avoid destructiveness, but you wouldn't speak of 'the proper way' to be angry.
I've said this before in other threads but I'll say this again: THERE IS TOO MUCH NEWS. In any market as the quantity goes up (and the amount of news content has skyrocketed in the last decade or so) the value goes down. There are so many news websites out there, and I'm not even talking the niche ones that cover certain things, there are hundreds if not thousands of large general coverage entities online all vying for the same eyeballs.

When we hit a Paywall here on HN, we either use the Google link to get around it, or go to a different website offering the same content for free. There is no incentive for me to pay the New York Times 99 cents a month or whatever it is when there are a dozen parrot websites offering the same product.

The bigger institutions involved in this are getting drowned by parrot clickbait shitty websites for their "rapid fire" coverage. They should stop covering that kind of garbage and move purely to more thoughtful, innovative and interesting topics and just stop doing the rapid shit altogether. I would pay to read an NYT that had interesting a thoughtful content that I wouldn't be able to get at every other website.

In short: No one gives a shit if the New York Times doesn't cover the latest Twitter scandal: We know, we were on Twitter watching it happen, we don't need 5,000 articles from a thousand news sources about how horrible it was. Go find us something INTERESTING to read.
Seems like everyone that is suggesting reasons why humans evolved chins didn't read the article. So, here's a NPR interview, with transcript, for them to ignore too.

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/29/464893281/why-do-humans-have-c...

In short. It's unlikely to be for protection, or for sexual selection, or to aid in speech. Go to the interview detailed explanations.
The words modern Tcl are an oxymoron.
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Just because something isn't surprising doesn't mean it's right.
I left industry to be a postdoc in the AMPLab and it's really depressing to see this sort of intrusive monitoring coming to the home of BSD and sockets.

One of the benefits of working in academia in CS has been the absence of top-down corporate IT control -- no MDM on you mobile devices, no third-parties having root on your devices, the ability to have a static IP, etc.
What a great way of teaching to draw! I would not have thought of that. Thanks for the idea.
$24 Euro for a camera module at 2MP is not cheap. The esp8266 wifi-module is cheap, but many ip camera are using usb-wifi(cost less than $2 dollars). You may want to check IP cameras based on hisilicon 3518E that is the cheapest running linux you can find
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A valid point, but why should the pessimistic outlook be any less likely than the utopian one? Are you sure that a major missing link between where we are now and a prosperous future for everyone is the fountain of youth? Sure, the HN'ers want the Einsteins and Feynmans of the world to live forever? But what about the Nixons, King Leopold II's, and Kim Kardashians of the world? Is it okay with you that they will be given first dibs at the antidote?

You're seeing it as the key to suffering, but its equally reasonable to view it as what it will likely become - an instrument of power.
> Money don't grow on trees. It always have to be sourced from somewhere. And not from some nameless "rich corporation" — it will be sourced from my already struggling business. And from yours. And from your salary.

Productivity, gained through software and automation, can be used to deliver quality of life improving services at zero marginal cost.

I'm not going to spend this entire comment rehashing the ongoing debate over how much of the world's economy is going to get eaten by this, but suffice it to say I roll my eyes _hard_ now when someone says money doesn't grow on trees.

With enough effort, you can automate every job out of existence. Its just a) how much effort you choose to exert and b) the order in which you do so. Can't these productivity benefits be distributed through consumer excess, and in a roundabout way, be used to deliver a basic income? And if someone complains about their hard earned $fiats, what's to say their job isn't next to be obsoleted?
Unless Switzerland has no form of welfare already - then you're already paying for it, just through a far less efficient means. This may cost more, definitely - or it may cost less when you're no longer making people jump through the welfare hoops to get what they need (food/shelter/whatever). In the US, the amount of paperwork overhead for things like section 8 housing, food stamps, etc, would probably cover soemthing like this. Or at least start to.
I honestly had no idea she was running the UC system now. I'm actually shocked to see her in that position. That only furthers my disillusion with anything related to politics.
Also, to a first approximation capability == danger. Just look at what even well-meaning humans have managed to do - imagine an AI that could eg design memes more persuasive than Marxism.

We can't even get humans to agree on ethical values, let alone explain them to an AI, so even a perfectly altruistic AI could still be a disaster if it has the wrong value system, or if we don't perfectly understand the consequences of our own values systems when fully enacted.
I'm glad NYT writer and so many HN posters finally figured out the correct way to raise kids, and are sharing it here. I thought we'd have to wait another 5000 years for it.
it works because the gravity of word2vec isn't the gravity of real life.

notice that I only pull the word "dog" to the center of gravity of the rest words, instead of pulling all of them together. I think the full version even push the rest of the words away from the center of gravity.

but I need to double check the math.

this is not just an analogy. this is what word2vec's math says.

the only analogy part is that word2vec is in high dimension, my analogy is in 3 dimension.
Yeah... I'm more inclined towards your view. It's hard to know for certain, but I think people would redevelop things -- after all, they already developed them once, from a significantly weaker position.

There's the possibility that I'm succumbing to the anthropic principle (if people hadn't developed these things, I wouldn't be here to remark they had), but IMO that's offset by independent reinventions of several basic technologies by civilisations starting from much less than our "post-apocalypse" civilisation would have.
Ditto. I don't find this surprising either.

If you work for someone else, they can do whatever they want with your communications on their devices.

I don't work at Berkeley but my guess is their system can do more than record emails which is extremely pervasive.
Nobody pays 35 euro to travel from Geneva to Lausanne unless they are visiting.
I can't speak for the author, but I pretty much raised myself, and I probably got my values from popular culture.
Yes, I am already paying _a lot_, and I don't want to pay more.
I think that many people accept that there are some forms of monitoring occurring on the networks owned by their institutions.

Unfortunately, many folks do not have clear knowledge about exactly what gets monitored and what capabilities the monitoring allows.

In the USA, at least, "owners" of a network can do anything they want with the traffic going through it including providing fake certs for the purpose of clear-text search of https traffic, storing communications for however long they want, and providing these communications to whomever they please.

So much for a "free country".
I agree, the CMake language is needlessly different and ugly. But it's readable and usable which matters a lot more.

I heard there's movement inside the CMake community to move to lua as a language, which would be awesome.
I'm so confused as to whether Mozilla Thunderbird utilizes ChatZilla itself as the irc backend or if the developers simply re-wrote irc support from the ground up...
ChatZilla is by far my favorite client and I would love if it could support new IRCv3 features.
Is there a big market for WYSIWYG apps for developers? I think this is a great application but might it be better targeted toward non-technical people? Remember iWeb? This reminds me of a more developer-centric, flexible version of that. But no developer would actually build with it. It was for the people who now use Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace for their websites.

Developers should be able to put together a Bootstrap front end just as easily in code and probably prefer working in code.

Maybe there's a huge developer market for this and I just happen to not know anyone who'd be into this.
100% agreement. I can't get over how valuable boredom was for me and my sibilings growing up, and how challenging it is to give my kids any kind of similar value/opportunity.

I'd love to know if anyone has seen research, books, or articles on this (pm me).
> I made the jump myself but only because I was also a programmer.

I think having some experience in tech is going to be the norm alongside writing skills. My friend teaches at UNC and focuses on the tech side of things. Their students are learning JS, some Django (as of 2013, maybe something else now) and the basics of how the web works. I think understanding more of the medium might help prepare future journalists for what's common across the field.

However, coming from having worked at a newspaper, I don't think anything prepares them for the "rapid media creation and frantic consumption". It's amazing how ephemeral online media is yet how much effort still goes in to a lot of the content prep and presentation.
This is what Deepmind seems to dedicate most of their efforts on and what their new AlphaGo models is a great example of (NN + tree search Reinforcement Learning). Pedro Domingo's thesis in his new book is the potential for the progress to be made with the combination of distinct schools within the field of ML
in real world, gravitational force appears on every object.

in the word2vec world, it only appears on words found in similar context. that's one major difference.

I think there is also anti-gravitational force that pushes words away. but again I need to double check.
>Elizabeth Holmes' ability to raise money also seemed to be based entirely on nepotism.

Right, she should've rejected that money, it would only be fair if it was as hard for her as it is for us.

Why is it important that she has connections? Does being upset about that help you in any way?

Sorry, I'm really jaded about this kind of victim mentality. Ignore what advantages others have and build your tower as high as you can.
Step 1 in grinding innovation to a halt: Assume you're right and can't be improved.
I'd like you to fill me in, are there actual corporate copyright trolls concerned about 3D printing? Or is this a hypothetical? (Sorry, I haven't kept up with the state of maker stuff.) What I mean is this an actual real-world issue today?

If this is a hypothetical, please take this in the best possible way and bear in mind that you were downvoted, your comment is currently light-grey to me: personally just to me it sounds like you're preparing in advance to be in the wrong, i.e. you're preparing a moral and legal position for something that doesn't exist yet, nobody cares about 3D printed coprights ,but even though it doesn't exist yet you've already chosen the wrong side and have started to prepare snide, snark, and incorrect arguments so that you could defend being in the wrong - and that you can't wait to start being in the wrong. If this is the case, then you would be the troll in the conversation. It's just how I personally read your comment.

But before we get ahead of ourselves - is this a future argument (are you ahead of your time), or has it started to be an issue already? can you give references?

Sorry if I was hard in the middle paragraph, I've just literally never heard of a 3D printing copyright troll. I've just googled it and got some hypothetical articles from 2012.

My own perspective is that society has a choice between, on the one hand: (A) letting some designer put 5,000 hours of work into designing something intricate thing that grants people huge amounts of utility, it's a fanstatic achievement that costs you $0.27 in plastic to print at home and gives you real benefits - but they rae charging $4.99 on Steam for the privilege, while addressing some level of piracy; and (B) on the one hand, the status quo where you don't get the utility (let's value at it $80) from the $0.27 piece of plastic, because nobody has designed it for you.

It seems to me right now the status quo is (B). Obviously lots of great stuff could be made and 3d printed for pennies, that nobody has designed. Some guy designed a fully working tourbillon watch. (more like clock) Look at how he brazenly puts his name/logo on it http://hackaday.com/2016/01/11/3d-printed-tourbillon-clock/

Do you think he shouldn't have any level of copyright protection on these projects, if he wants it? Really?

I'm just kind of angry because you're showing a level of entitlement over something that doesn't even exist yet. people don't really get lots of benefit from 3d printing intricately designed works at home.
It's a "bigger problem". New languages bring new build systems and there really isn't much you can do about that.

However, what could be standardized is package distribution. I shouldn't have to have 10 different package managers for 10 different languages, each of them with different ways of expressing essentially the same metadata, etc.

As a language developer, I shouldn't be expected to create my own version of a package manager, with download, local / remote search, versioning, vcs support, upgrades, hooks, and a million other things. Package managers are complex beasts.

It's a bit like if every javascript project was expected to create its own http server. Except it's not http, it's a weird custom protocol they invented just for the sake of it. Naaaaasty.
This kind of unintended learning is something that all machine learning practitioners should be careful with. The example of the satellite photo analysis algorithm that turned out to have learned to classify difference between night and day photos comes to mind.

This means that your particular reinforcement learning example needs something similar to regularization of cost functions or cross validation for checking for over or under fitting to correct these latency effects.

It may be cheaper and more effective to use SSDs instead but the magnitude of the latency effects on your case are not clear either to determine if your algorithm would benefit substantially from a modern SSD.
The article is a little unclear - is this going on at other UC campuses besides Berkeley?
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Gangs aren't such a bad thing. I would say that I belonged to one, and I turned out all right.

Gangs provide a lot of opportunity for creativity, problem solving, strategy and tactics, self management, financial management, and leadership. And, the smart kids usually choose the best gang, in my experience.

The hardest part is transitioning from the gang life to something that's more upper-middle-class acceptable. In my experience, gaining access to education, capital, and social networks is hugely important. And, crossing the cultural gap has been something that I still struggle with 25 years later.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they would claim they are doing this to stop harassment to the female staff and everybody just accepts it.

Combating female harassment in the academia is now the acceptable excuse for anything just like pedophilly or terrorism is for the general public.
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