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> AI problems are always mysterious until they're solved.

There's truth there but this line is over-used. Playing chess better than a human was never deemed impossible and the ultimate solution doesn't seem to have any crazy insights that would stun a researcher from the 1960s. (You can read the source for Stockfish which is state of the art and open source). The improvements came in the form of more and more horsepower through hardware, more and more efficient innovations in the tree search very specific to the game of chess (bit board representation, move ordering), and simplifying evaluation and tweaking parameters according to unsupervised learning. Correct me if I'm wrong?

At the end of the day, chess (and go) are discrete games with perfect information played one turn at a time according to a tree of simple and trivially determined possible moves with clear criteria for winning. I don't see why we'd put this on a pedestal as the example of something generally considered uniquely human, so we'd better expand our imaginations of what we can achieve with AI. As the parent said, the mistake may have been in supposing there wasn't a solvable evaluation function for Go positions when in fact, through some more human ingenuity, there is.
You do not want to live in a country where old poor people eat out of trash cans.
The US has near universal basic income for older folks.

No, we don't -- because the amount you get depends on how much you've earned before you're eligible. And because it isn't nearly enough to actually live on (and has stayed flat while living costs have skyrocketed).

The whole point of basic income is that it's (1) unconditional and (2) pegged to actual, real basic living expenses.
Yeah, it's hard for me to have too much sympathy for people like this. Living in an RV is expensive once you include depreciation on the vehicle. If she'd kept the trailer she would have been comfortable enough on Social Security.
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Ask HN: What's the point of a constructor function anyways?
While trying out a project in Javascript, I decided to finally learn a bit about the "prototype". I'm at the crossroads where I want to decide whether I want to use "pure" prototypal inheritance as with "Object.create" or whether I want to go with "new Class(params...)". As I investigate and weight between my choices, I realize that "When Object.create is used, it is like having only the prototype objects, and empty constructors." So what is the point of constructors anyways? Picking between Object.create and "new" is based on how important are constructors for getting things done. Can you help me brainstorm through this?
Uhm, Nature Communications is a subjournal of Nature Publishing Group. There is literally no more reputable publishing group. None. Nature, their flagship journal, is the highest impact factor journal in the world.
The punishment for this speeding infraction is $300. Think about what kind of effect a $300 fine has on your life, and compare it to the impact on this woman's life. The punishment is to pay a fine, not to starve. We should not punish people with starvation, it's cruel and unusual. The punishment is different for you than for her, and that's not just.
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This is already being done in places like Finland, where speeding tickets are calculated as a percentage of income. This makes a lot of sense given the simple fact that $300 means very different things to different people. If the goal of a fine is deter law-breaking activity, why not use a system that incentivizes everyone equally?
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Is there anything stopping these guys from covering the whole view field ?

I've tried a number of VR headsets and they all feel like a stopgap solution, there has to be something better than wearing 2 x 4" screens mounted in a cone on your head....
You might be living paycheck-to-paycheque, yet still take the same time to allocate money as someone much more well-off. A full time investment management staff can allocate money quite quickly, and tend to plan ahead (thus avoiding delays). Being 'leveraged' does not hasten allocation of funds, it affects how the money is used.
I'm not an advocate of "debtors prisons" as a traditional concept, but I'm also very reluctant to sympathize with those living on a fixed income who refuse to pick up and move to an area where the cost of living adequately aligns with their financial means. As in, if a person is old and broke, they should be grateful to have the freedom to move to a cheap place to live, not bemoan that they can no longer afford their house near the beach or whatever.

I'm hoping there is some kind of reckoning whereby these poverty-destined seniors can be inevitably moved to dense housing and care facilities for cost-effectiveness...well, not counting the immense medical bills they'll probably try to rack up on their way out the door. Want that new hip at 74? Sure, just pay for it all out of your pocket.

Might sound cruel, but strangling the youth to feed the elderly, as would be the alternative, doesn't work in the US economic model.
I like the ability to install apps from the Homebrew Cask Tap [1] to automate my laptop setup where possible. Apps that are only available in the App Store aren't usually installable this way.

[1] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask
Nah it is pretty much a universal crime. And I actually think it would be correct to fine different people different amounts - say 10 minutes of income for every mile above the limit, up to a max of some percentage (say 20%) over the limit. That way you have the minimum necessary fine to make it not worth speeding without it being so that rich people can speed with impunity.
The answer is that SS age gets pushed back along with average lifespan
It's really a indictment of basic income as a concept.

She's 79, gets social security, medicare, and a small pension. She has $50,000 in credit card debt, and drives around the country in an RV. Why do you feel sorry for her?

How much more are you supposed to give her? When she can't travel anymore, she has no assets and will be able to get a subsidized senior apartment. When she can't care for herself, it will be tough without family, but she'll get a nursing care of some sort through Medicaid.
Has anyone tried out this technology? What is it like? It's just so hard for me to imagine investing so many billions before any product is released
all these people who have paid a life's worth of taxes

The social security benefits she receives are based off her lifetime earnings and thus the taxes she paid.
Some people don't change their lifestyle and save the extra income they make.
That was 1992. Internet connections were a lot less common and more expensive back then, and I'd imagine that money hungry retailers weren't too keen on the idea of people being able to get stuff for free.
The same thing which is stopping anyone from covering the whole visual field, the need for serious technological innovation. It's possible they've figured that out, but who knows.
Poor old folks aren't the exploiters you are looking for.
Perhaps you should ask the questions:

Why did Boomers not have enough income to put savings aside?

If savings was put aside, what rate of return did it earn? And what remains of those savings?

But heh, f___ old people for decisions that were made before you were born, amirite?
AlphaGo tackling Lee Sedol next. If you want a forum to make a prediction on it, check out GJ Open.

https://www.gjopen.com/questions/133-will-google-s-alphago-b...

Forecasters will get scored, so you can see who's right and who's not. Hopefully we'll get some good technical debate on there too (disclosure: I'm affiliated with GJ Open site)
I know I much prefer relying on the benevolence of a corporation to correctly run a pension program so that it doesn't go bankrupt and leave me high and dry.

Much better than controlling my own retirement.
> Yeah, but those without are going to be continents away from those 'with'.

No, they aren't. The US will be one of the losers, Canada one of the winners (again, ignoring effects of variability, etc.) And lots of the relative winning/losing pairs are going to be immediate neighbors.

> Not really in a position to fight, especially as they're starving.

There'll be a whole long period where the losses will be to established economic position rather than mass starvation. Its not going to be "breadbasket today, wasteland tomorrow". There'll be a long period where declining economic position, rising food prices, and less food security (and similar effects with water in place of food) will be evident and starvation visible down the road before mass starvation -- and its in that period that there will be strong pressures on governments to reverse that position by any means at their disposal.
I agree with you. Not only is it not really a transfer of wealth, but they never define what they mean by this abstract phrase anyway, nor does the article even link to the paper it's is using as it's basis (unless an adblocker is stopping me from seeing it.)

Beyond all that, I have contracted in and currently work on the fringes of the Permian Basin oil industry, and I am pretty sure that this rut in oil prices is actually going to create even more wealth for the uber-wealthy oilmen, because there was a lot of money floating around and a lot of new fresh upstarts got going in the boom, but now that prices are down and banks are calling in the dues, all the small guys are falling out one by one and the big guys are just mergers&aquisition-ing their way into bigger positions of control of the market. T Boone Pickens has already said he thinks we've seen the lowest low at 26 and it's only up from there. So after all the little guys get gobbled up, the big guys will go heavy long on oil futures and make a ton of money, drive oil prices right back up (through manipulation as always), and suddenly this supposed "transfer of wealth to the consumer" is going to be more like $10 a gallon bleeding of the consumer.
Do the countries you mention want immigrants who are not likely to benefit their economy significantly and who probably don't have fluency in the local language?
The cost of going 8MPH over the speed limit being pegged at a week's income is not anything any person chooses. It is imposed, as well as being brutal.

These backdoor taxes on the poor exist for only one reason: concentrations of wealth work very successfully at avoiding most taxation.
That's really not how copyright works at all. If the NFL owns the copyright, then distributing it in any way is a blatant violation. There are no relevant fair use exemptions.
Is this parody? Or are you being serious?

EDIT: Really, I can't tell.
The answer is universal healthcare, which then becomes a sunk cost for the entire population (Medicare->OneCare).

The answer is removing the social security tax cap at ~$120K (this causes SS to become solvent in perpetuity immediately). This will be done regardless if the SS fund goes broke and must be propped up with the general fund, its just how long you want to kick the can for. (EDIT: Medicare has no cap on the amount of income taxed, only Social Security)

The answer is you increase basic social safety nets that have little marginal cost (there's enough food to feed everyone; distribution is the problem).
Since everyone has 2 parents, essentially, it is absolutely trivial to work out a fair welfare scheme. This is much easier than most welfare systems.
It sounds wonderful in theory, but in practice the state of the art in OTP dongles leaves much to be desired. I got a Nitrokey. I followed the instructions on the web site. It didn't work. I contacted the company. No response. I am now the proud owner of a very expensive but slightly undersized domino.
Social security !== basic income. See my clarification above about this.
How about increase demand for labor via increasing overall aggregate demand via stronger fiscal policy ( lower taxes or high spending depending on your polics)

Keynesians criticizing Krugmeister.
http://stephaniekelton.libsyn.com/randy-wray-on-krugman-and-...
The author made a ShowHN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683597) about this previously, where they commented (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8684082)
that he had no plans for a Windows or Linux port - but they wouldn't mind if someone else used the same design and format to do so.

There seems to be a lot of similar interest, so maybe someone with the right skills could start a community developed open source linux and/or windows port.
Yep, did almost exactly this, shorted a converted 3.3V from a different USB port (same machine) to ground on a different USB port and end result is my motherboard lost all USB connectivity until I rebooted
USA have basically been daring Russia to make us suffer for decades now. If they had it in them I guess we would have suffered already. It turns out that suffering is mostly an export for us.

The Saudis will certainly "survive". They might put many other production areas out of business in the short term, and that is bad for current investors. It's good for alternate fuels, however, and it only keeps other areas out of production for as long as the price stays down. The internal contradictions of the Saudi state will eventually dictate a price rise...
Terrible in terms of frugality. The article suggests she saved leftovers and used it for 3 meals total. However, that is still $7 a meal, very pricey. It's not terribly hard to have $1 (or less!) meals if you grocery shop and cook for yourself.
Agree with mstade - very impressive for your age.

I just sent you a private email.
You are right and the reporter should not have been the target of my anger. The analyst's statement is for me a symptom of what's wrong in our consumer society, but I cannot blame him personally for doing what he's paid to do: identifying investment opportunities and exploring future economic consequences of today's events.

Here's where my rage came from: (i) we cannot go on like this. We as a western society started with baby steps towards a future with a smaller ecological footprint. This was obviously also triggered by the last oil shock. (ii) we know that we cannot go on like this, yet many of our decisions are made considering only a single proxy of societal well-being, money.

The analyst states correctly "that's where money can be made, BMW will profit!". Yet for global society, it's a disastrous direction.
Whose parents have a guaranteed benefit pension these days?

As far as private savings, those disappear almost immediately in the face of a medical disaster.

Things are pretty grim indeed without the government programs (Social Security and Medicare).
Going back to Smalltalk, it seems like original OO was prototypal. I wonder what made them change this.

Here's the article I was just looking at:

http://onsmalltalk.com/objects-classes-and-constructors-smal...

Choice quotes

But a constructor would really help pretty this up and encapsulate the knowledge about what fields are required for construction rather that forcing the client to individually initialize the object and hoping he does it correctly. So let's write a constructor for #Person, we'll put it on the "Person class", or the Person's class side as it'd normally be called.

Some Smalltalk'ers prefer to write their constructors in a different style, one that enforces encapsulation a bit more, by not allowing public setters for all the instance variables, like so...

Person class>>firstName: aFirstName lastName: aLastName
^(self new)
initializeFirstName: aFirstName lastName: aLastName;
yourself.

Person>>initializeFirstName: aFirstName lastName: aLastName
firstName := aFirstName.
lastName := aLastName.
relatives := Set new.

Smalltalk is not so much a language, as an extensible notation for creating languages. To rip off a famed martial artist, empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like Smalltalk. If you put Smalltalk into a financial application, it becomes a custom finance language. You put Smalltalk into a shipping application, and it becomes a custom shipping language. Be Smalltalk my friend.
Did you read all these stories? Yes we have people in financial trouble but damn if they don't all keep digging the hole deeper and deeper. RVs, or any large vehicle purchase, are not wise uses of limited incomes. RVs are money pits even for those well off enough to keep them going all year.

Each story was the same, things go wrong and then they double down on making bad choices. Basic income isn't going to save these people, it might just make some less mobile, so they will be out of sight and people won't feel guilty any more.

We already transfer a fortune from the young to old in this country, doubled down on it with the prescription acts during the Bush presidency and then doubled down again with the ACA during Obama's presidency. We cannot save everyone, especially when they keep repeating the same mistakes.

Want to help those with limited money, the solution is not to give them more money. The solution is to get the government off their backs. When their income gets below a certain threshold we need to back off the taxes, fees, and similar, they pay or go to jail for or lose property for. I have no problem fixing their medical needs but the last thing that will help is to promote their continued wandering which forever prevents them from establishing themselves.
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I would love to migrate away from NVAlt, really hoping that Quiver is the answer. NVAlt is great, but the combo of no tags + no iOS version has been a thorn in my side for years.
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True, though half the time nowadays all the physical copy does is link to a download. The last game I can remember buying a physical copy of was Civ V and basically the only thing in the box was a link to download it on Steam. With the onerous always-on DRM that seems so prevalent in many games today I'm not optimistic that I'll be able to play many of the more recent games I "own" in 20 years anyway.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tresor%20erlangen%20points%3E1...
In the long term this is bad for US dollar. Oil exporters will sell US obligations to cover their budget, this could possible lead to global deleveraging and US dollar collapse.
That's not true. SS taxes are an entry ticket, but the benefits are paid without regard to any sort of national investment of those twx payments.
What this makes me wonder is, could they use a cell phone Wi-Fi mesh network at least for a significant part of their communications?
> Each cable needs one of 3 resistors depending on them being a A/B-to-C cable, 1.5A C-to-C cable, or 3A C-to-C cable.

No, for C-to-C connections, the resistance is provided by the host ("downstream-facing") port, not the cable. The resistor in an A-to-C cable is basically emulating the signal that would otherwise be provided by the host.

There's no such thing as a "1.5A C-to-C cable"; all type-C cables are required to deliver at least 5A. The limiting factor is the host, not the cable, which means the cable must not incorrectly advertise capabilities that the host doesn't support.

> Never mind that a C port has so many extra pins compared to a A or B port, that one would think that id-ing a A-to-C cable would have been as simple as looking for life on any of those extra pins.

That's exactly what the new CC pin is used for. Right now the spec says "legacy cables should connect CC via a 56kΩ resistor", but it wouldn't matter if instead the requirement had been "legacy cables should leave CC disconnected"; the issue is that cable manufacturers are ignoring the spec.
If you're trying to test client side javascript with phantom + jasmine through gulp there are a few options.

I googled "gulp jasmine phantom" and found 3 options at the top, one of them being under the jasmine org on github. The other 2 seem to have similar APIs to the one under the jasmine org.
The youth are going to get old as well. And if you're young and you're not rich already, I bet you don't like birthdays that much.
Donate them to the Library of Congress?
I only watch the US cable news. How many football fields thick is the lens? 1.823×10^-9 NFL football fields.
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A lot of teams have installed Statsbot and have been using it on a daily basis. Since we haven't even introduced paid plans yet, it is too early to tell in a long term. However, we have a few paying customers through direct sales, which covers our server expenses.
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I meant they don't care about your opinion of them personally; otherwise, you are mostly correct.
What about assets? The highest median net worth cohort is households headed by those 65-69, second by those 70-74, third by 75 and older. (as of 2011)

It's one thing to give welfare to older people who can't work to keep them off the streets and quite another to give them welfare so they can give lavish inheritances to their children.
I have mixed feelings too; She clearly had some significant misfortune with the housing bubble, and the US' incentives for people to buy homes is partly responsible, but financially she received a 20k windfall, gets social security, earns enough to not get food stamps, buys organic because she has some beliefs about non-organic food and the reason she is 50k in the hole is because she decided to buy a motor home.

So it sounds like she would be fine if she decided to spend her life/money differently, but she's set on spending money on things she can't really afford, so we get this article...

I'm all for basic income, redistribution of wealth, etc, but I don't think we have enough resources to finance everyone's aspirations via taxation.
Right, I thought the usual layperson speak was to compare it to the thickness of human hair or a spider web.
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> Americans don't trust their own government or any corporation with with any data

wat?

Americans give so much data to companies.
Morbidly curious about how Schrems is going to Schrems this one up.
> We can also put the people on trucks or planes or boats and move them to where the food is.

We could, but the people where the food (and associated economic security) is may object to that.

Refugees often aren't all that well received, and economic refugees (as opposed to political refugees who are politically aligned with the receiving state, which is opposed to the regime from which they are fleeing) -- external and, often, internal -- often are the worst received.
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I upvoted you, but I want to add text in agreement since such upvotes can't be seen as an endorsement. gavman's warning about the reputation of the venue is unwarranted.
A directive that if not followed would result in damage to US business interests.