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I have encoutered this argument a lot, and this is why I think it's harmful:

The problem with this is that unsubstantiated cures, even really cheap ones apparently harmless ones, have an opportunity cost in time and effort, and the number of them that exist is almost unbounded. I have heard similar arguments about a hundred fad diets, a hundred nutritional supplements, going vegan/paleo/gluten-free/etc, meditation, homeopathy, accupunture, changing religions, "spacing out vacinations", and so on. Some of this stuff may actually be cheap and effective, but how do you choose?

There are only so many hours in the day and every minute we spend chasing the next dubious fad cure is a minute we can't use to cook and eat healthy food, sleep enough, excercise, take care of our teeth, or go to a doctor.

Furthermore, some of these things have negative side effects, even if those may only be apparent in aggregate (e.g. delaying vacinations).

Call me when it replicates in a decent study.
Derek from @relayhq & @knowtifyio here (@relayhq is our slack app).

It's way too early to tell. It's early for our app (we only launched a few days ago) and it's early for Slack. So...very hard to say if over the long run, you can build profitable businesses of that platform.

When Salesforce launched Force.com, people questioned whether or not you could build strong, stand-alone businesses of the SF platform. It was a little easier to see the path in that case given SF's adoption at that point, but still, I don't think anyone predicted the scope and scale of the products that have build great businesses off SF.

While I don't think Slack will create the same impact as SF has, I think over time we will definitely see profitable businesses built off their platform...
Though it carries some tinfoil hat like connotations, I'd say the Fed is almost more independent of the US government than Goldman Sachs (& Wall St. in general), which should be scary on an entirely different level.
I can't seem to find anything definitive that identifies the legal grounds to claim that the storage of cash in a safety deposit box is illegal in the United States, but I did come across a couple of references that indicated that certain banks have included the prohibition in their terms of use.

Given that the contents of a safe deposit boxes are not covered by FDIC insurance, I can see why it's not necessarily recommended.
These are very useful! Do you plan to add anything about object oriented approach of Rust (structs, traits, trait objects)? This topic (OOP approach) isn't documented in a focused fashion, especially since Rust lacks common inheritance (favoring composition).

I.e. some examples of how to do OOP "the Rust way".
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Dane from https://relay.knowtify.io

We only launched a week ago so it's definitely too early to say if we'll be profitable if you factor in dev time, expenses for our server, db, tools...and CPA. But we do have some strong early interest and paying users so we're excited about Relay.

One of the big reasons we built Relay is to extend functionality for teams using Knowtify and integrating through Segment. Since launching Relay, our Knowtify signups have at least doubled.
Great iteration away from Black/Lux.. now feels very "mass-consumer friendly"

Further insight: http://brand.uber.com
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I sometimes feel that everyone thinks that this stuff is totally unique. However, I remember copying Basic code out of magazines and BBSs as a kid. Copying and modifying that code was as empowering and amazing then as github/npm/etc is now. There is certainly a higher quantity due to the ubiquity of the Internet, but the basic quality is the same.
I don't think Watson was over-fitting for Jeopardy. It took a lot of modification to even get it to play Jeopardy.
It is possible, but I am not sure if LLVM is that "open" and "free", so we can make a web standard out of it. I think Web Assembly will be the similar thing (low-level code for a browser).
I used to do it a lot until I noticed, I think it's related to the first topics you learn while learning English (presenting yourself, name, age, where you come from).
Joyce from Stellar here. We are really proud of this project as it is directly situated in villages all across Nigeria. These MFIs been doing the hard work of offering financial services in really rural areas and now will be able to connect these communities to a larger economy.
Central banks exist to cram more credit into an economy than it would otherwise support. If the people refuse to borrow & spend, they'll just take the money right out of their bank accounts.

Even hinting at this level of meddlesome social engineering by the managers of our currency ought to elicit reactions of disgust and outrage.
That's a humongously bad precident to set.

You happened to record, using your cell phone, a major news story?

Whoops, sorry. That video is no longer yours.

It's far better to fix the Copyright regs that have been so modified recently that is causing this. Thanks, Disney.
Link to the paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150922/ncomms9433/pdf/ncom...

This is an excellent result. It could also provide an interest boost to solar in terms of $/watt by focusing more light into a small area. Fun times.
> people you'd go out of your way to cause harm to

It should also be pointed out that there are two different directions here. Is an "enemy" someone you would harm, is an enemy someone who would harm you, or must the desire go in both directions? Moreover, in what tense does the problem take place? Perhaps someone harmed you in the past but is no longer trying to harm you. Is that still an enemy? What about someone who is conspiring to harm you, but you don't yet know about the danger. Is that an enemy yet? Another detail to consider is whether a mere competitor, for example an opposing sports team, is an "enemy". The case of intense dislike also possesses some of these specifics.

Edit: Another very important consideration is those who, while not actually trying to harm you, do so indirectly by exploiting you or otherwise trying to control you for their benefit. For example, is a slave owner the enemy of his slaves? If so, then anyone trying to use you without proper concern for your well-being could be considered an enemy.
The second picture in the article shows the countdown clock. The article just confuses it by calling it "analog" and comparing it to a wristwatch, but in fact most people would consider it digital.
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That's a good point, about liquidity. However, not all assets are as illiquid as a stake in a startup; many people have cash, stocks in public companies, etc. Also, they can plan ahead: 'I'll need around $x next year for taxes'.
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> Strong obligations on companies handling Europeans' personal data and robust enforcement: U.S. companies wishing to import personal data from Europe will need to commit to robust obligations on how personal data is processed and individual rights are guaranteed. The Department of Commerce will monitor that companies publish their commitments, which makes them enforceable under U.S. law by the US. Federal Trade Commission.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-216_en.htm

This one reads like a big fat nothing. So it's the FTC who will be monitoring if the US companies treat EU citizens' privacy well? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? It's not like the FTC hasn't already been virtually impotent in punishing privacy violations from US with small fines and "20 year privacy monitoring", which is about the same as credit rating agencies giving big banks AAA ratings in 2008.

EDIT: Oh wait, it's actually the Department of Commerce - only the most corporate-friendly agency in the U.S - the one that will be doing the monitoring. Lovely.
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Read it originally. Seems like the sort of crazy dramatic plan that plays well in movies and tugs at the part of us that wants to think we did everything we possibly could to save the crews' lives. But in reality, with such poorly planned rush efforts, it's appallingly likely to fail catastrophically and cause even more death.
The whole film is on Youtube.
If you are just interested in the countdown scene the link is below:

https://youtu.be/9MVga1D6rRQ?t=5626

EDIT: The clip is also in the original article but a bit different. This link shows only the last 10 seconds, it has English translations of the titles and has no modern background music.
The deadline for the environment might be much sooner.
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Maybe I'm not understanding this right but it seems like the EU has decided to trust US government agencies to provide adequate oversight/policing of European's data usage in the US with only very minimal EU involvement. Impossible for us to know exactly but that's how it comes across to me in the article. Seems like it would make more sense for the EU to police this exclusively or to have their own ombudsman rather than relying on the US one to be impartial.
It did attain some high proficiency. It both beat a Go master, and played at a master level (where 'master' = professional dan rating). It wasn't assessed for a ranking, but beat a 2p-dan player 5-0. That's not a 'low ranked player' - I suspect you don't know much about Go.

We'll see in March how it does against a 9p.

Your comment was a perfect example of the superhuman fallacy - where a 3p+ AI becomes 'low ranked'.
> They're actually profitable – not enormously so but the situation doesn't warrant the hyperbole

That's true today. From what I understand, their long-term survival is at stake.

> it also seems somewhat overblown to make it sound like they're putting the entire team on a small side-project.

If someone said that, I would agree with you.
For more information, read the more accurate and in-depth coverage on the Oil crisis at Economist: Who's afraid of Cheap Oil? http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21688854-low-energy-pr...
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Just reiterate what you just said and see how it sounds. If everybody looked at atrocities and tries to "make their peace" with them, you can imagine how the world will turn out. I feel at this point you are just trying to defend your previous points, some of which are on very shaky ground.
That quote deserves to be in stone.
You could probably start a Gofundme and raise the money from angry St. Louis Rams fans.
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> AlphaGo isn’t a pure neural net at all — it’s a hybrid, melding deep reinforcement learning with one of the foundational techniques of classical AI — tree-search

Most board game computer players use some sort of tree search followed by evaluation at the leaves of the tree. What we discovered in the 70s is that you don't need to have human-level evaluation to win at chess; it is enough to count material and piece activity, plus some heuristics (pawn structure, king safety...); computers more than compensate this weakness with their superhuman tree exploration.

This approach never worked so well for Go because evaluation was a mystery: which group is weak or strong? how much territory will their power yield? These are questions that professionals answer intuitively according to their experience. With so many parts of the board that depend on each other, we don't know how to solve the equation.

It looks like AlphaGo is the first one to get this evaluation right. At the end of the game, his groups are still alive and they control more territory. So Go evaluation is yet another task that used to be reserved to human experts and that computers now master. The fact that this is mixed with classical tree search does not make it less impressive.
well I was responding to you specifically. I fail to see how the quote is unrelated as it was from the most up-to-date sources regarding the situation. I apologize for assuming that your response was in earnest. Indeed, I did not see the sarcasm tag despite reading buserror's comment first and then your's. I still don't think your comment is factually correct and if it was in jest, I simply didn't see it as sarcastic despite it being in response to a sarcastic comment.

Also, it took me a few seconds to past that comment as I had it on the ready. So really no loss for me, except for responding to your comment, that has indeed cost me much more time than my first comment did. ;)
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Attempting to disable the highlighter gets you a page build warning:

You are attempting to use the 'none' highlighter, which is currently unsupported on GitHub Pages. Your site will use 'rouge' for highlighting instead.
This practice is so prevalent from what I've seen that you'd be better off with a whitelist. Sigh.
Didn't you get banned.
It's literally "start the stopwatch when the front tire hits the first line painted on the road, stop it when the front tire hits the second line (or some other predefined immobile point), and look at a chart to see how fast they're going."

Usually radioed to a second car down at the next intersection.
Question: can js call out to native libraries as well ? I'm wondering why BLAS/LAPACK is not callable from JS.

there are all these questions about how to use LAPACK from js.. and none seem to work right.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21990243/use-emscripten-w...

[2] https://github.com/software-engineering-amsterdam/MLitB/issu...

[3] https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs
Go ranks are in "stones" that one player can give another as a handicap - except at the professional level where there's more relative equality of play and the stone-ranks are honorary and ELO ratings are more accurate.

Monte Carlo tree search had advanced computer Go from 2-3K to 6-7 dan, a gain of 8 stones. Alpha Go apparently has advanced to 9-10 stones, professional level, by using neural networks to enhance the final position and search policy used in Monte Carlo tree search.

In many ways, it seems to me that Monte Carlo Tree Search was the primary answer to how computers could deal with Go [1].

Chess essentially conquered through a combination of red-black and other smart pruning algorithms, incremental advances in hand-tuned final position policy and improved hardware [2].

So it seems like the "conquest" of Go has involved a more generalized, self-learned version of the original approach to chess (tree-search strategies plus final position heuristics). That might enough for just about any deterministic game one can find.

It should be noted that Arimaa, a game designed specifically to be hard for computers without having the large board of Go, was "conquered" last year but without any neural net techniques (apparently).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Arimaa#Techniques_use...
The NFL consistently demonstrates such a high level of greed it's astounding. I get it that you don't get rich writing checks, but what happened to doing right by people and the community at large.

Maybe I'm just wishy washy.
Why not? You can develop on Windows, don't include windows.h or put platform-specific things in #ifdefs, make use of all the awesomeness that is Visual Studio (potentially improved with ViEmu, Visual Assist and Resharper), then add a CMakelists at the end to compile for other platforms. Yes the first time you'll probably have to tweak a bit to get it to compile on other platforms, but that's loads better than suffering through gdb and ctags for months.

(I have used RedHat 4 back when it was new and fresh and have been using Vim for 15+ years; I have written vim scripts of 100 lines and more. Just to say, I'm not some greenhorn who's never known anything but an IDE. I still think developing C++ using Visual Studio is an order of magnitude better than any alternative.)
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Too bad the over-arching discussion is about money, because if Troy Haupt would ditch the line of trying to get cash for it, there's probably a lot of wiggle-room in Fair Use to provide the tape to an academic venue as some type of historical artifact.

Might be good to keep in mind that basically the guy has a "bootleg" copy of the game and there's no possible future where I see any kind of exemption to allow bootleggers to profit off of the material they obtained.
>> It would not be the first time that a hiring manager believes there's an open rec until they try to fill it.

I was hiring a team a few months ago, and I was under a lot of pressure to fill positions. We find a guy that I'm on the fence about, and I'm pressured to pull the trigger. My response, "I'll do it if I truly have one more open rec."
So we hire him.

A few weeks later I'm still interviewing candidates and I find a women who is terrific, and who I wish I had found earlier, as she would have been a no-brainer hire. She's excited. I'm excited. I go to pull the trigger with my boss, only to be told, "we're reevaluating the rec, we'll probably hire someone, but just a few months down the road."

Hiring is one of the most political things an organization does. Having been on the hiring side of the equation for a while now, I would never take a company's disinterest in me to heart. A candidate's qualifications are important, but they are always the last thing on the checklist before hiring someone. You never know what item on the checklist above your qualifications didn't get ticked.

I was really mad about that episode. That and other things caused me to leave.
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Ah the old, break the PoC to make the researcher stop complaining move but don't fix the underlying insanity. Classic.
This is hugely disappointing. Its been 8 years since the economic crash and the Fed has been trying to inflate this economy using monetary policy and we have yet to eclipse 3% real GDP growth for a whole year. They FED has been trying to create inflation and they have failed. Where is the critical thinking at the policy making/ decision making level ? At some point we have to reach the obvious conclusion that current economic policy models are broken, don't work, and we need new leadership and a fresh approach.

Obama is largely to blame for this. He chose to listen to establishment/wall street economic advisers rather than more progressive ( say Keynesian) thinkers. This is why you are seeing Bernie/Elizabeth Warren gaining in popularity. Quite sadly, the Gap between the middle class and extremely wealthy in this country have never increased more so than under Obama, a Democrat.
Yes, it worked. The stock market is back up, and employment numbers "look good" (I mean a lot of that is workers getting discouraged, but still, the fed has achieved its mandate).

But how long will the stock market still be up, and why is it that over the course of those years the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer? Don't suppose it had anything to do with directly redistributing money upwards?
Very interesting. Would love to see some more numbers in a few months for both Knowtify signups and Relay usage.
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Eh, well, it's either inflationary or deflationary... Depends on how people react.

Taking your money out of the banking system (as paper into a box) is extremely deflationary. In most places you'll take around 10 times more money from circulation than what you put on the box, but the US keeps this multiplier much higher.
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I don't think we disagree in principle, but in detail.

I fundamentally disagree that

"Schools distort true cost through murky financial aid processes. Then the gov't continues the scam by calling loans "financial aid.""

That argument says that there is essentially free money just by charging more, no increase in services. If that where true the amount of money to be made would force more colleges to be opened.

Couple that with the fact that public colleges are much cheaper than their private counterparts and community colleges are cheaper still and I don't know exactly where this argument comes from.

There is a lot of high cost options which loans unfortunately do cover, but to blame the price distortion on the availability of the loans seems backward.

Private K-12 schools are just as outrageously priced with no loans available to fund them.

I think there is a stigma (depending on your area maybe justified) around public educational institutions, which allows profiteers to do their thing.

Instead of fixing the underlying problem, we throw money at it. Which is the American way.
Computer Go actually had advanced a long way by using Monte Carlo Tree Search in particular. The pre-AlphaGo programs that AlphaGo defeated were much stronger than computer Go programs from before the era of Monte Carlo tree search. Computer Chess was not achieved instantly by applying generic "tree search" but required quite a bit of tweaking to the various algorithms which were applied.
I don't know if I'm missing something, but why not use Karma?[1] It includes Jasmine support out of the box, lets you run tests in PhantomJS, and offers a CLI to make project initialization pretty simple.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/karma
That's pretty rad! I wonder what it would like to bake pre-rendered color information onto the vector geometry. Even without textures on the models some nice ambient occlusion could look cool.
The NFL is greedy, but right. The value of the tapes is 0. The only entity in the world that can pay money for those tapes is the NFL, which means they are the entire market and can choose the price.

But this guy is also being greedy. If he wanted the world to have these tapes, he could give them away to a museum.

Wanting cash for these tapes is basically extortion.

It would be nice if the NFL gave him some money, but I don't see why they should/would.
My biggest surprise here is there is still people using Google+.
Eh, it can be a lien, payable upon transfer or death of the owner.
I had lots of support calls directly related to this today.

Does anyone have any more information as it seemed to affect half of England?
Maybe a university archive or a wealthy collector could pay off both the NFL and this guy, so everybody wins?
Wow, that's disconcerting. Different product, but I'm almost tempted to uninstall the Comodo Firewall that's running on my Windows laptop out of fear that there's some other blatant security blunder waiting to be exploited.

Anyone have any suggestions for a free firewall alternative?