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What makes you use the word "AI" as opposed to "algorithm"? What kind of AI techniques do you use just broadly speaking (I mean techniques that are described in AI textbooks, AI courses, AI conferences)?
As a cancer biologist I feel that the reliance on biomarkers as indicators of biology is a poor way to do science. Biology is about complex, interacting networks; models that attempt to reduce it to a few controlling variables is almost always wrong (as in, the model is insufficiently predictive), and moreover misses the point: we need to understand biology in all of its rich interactions, not pare it down to the math we can handle. Biology is not physics; two or three factor models won't cut it.
> Do you really not understand how precedent works or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Please do not insult people on HN. This false dichotomy is offensive to me.

> The criminal act being investigated is irrelevant. They want data on a device in their possession that they have permission to search. That is all that matters.

Then why are you concerned about precedent? They have met all of the requirements to search this device. Apple is impeding them for no good reason purely to advance their corporate interests.
I would start with anything available, dig deep, and never give up. Including breaking down the doors of anyone they texted or called.
> My understanding is that iOS 9 changed things so that this kind of forensics backdoor is no longer possible, mooting this discussion.

The question Apple would like to avoid is if, in the future, creating such a backdoor-resistant OS will be illegal. iOS 9.2.1 (the latest pre-ruling release) is legal; however, any future releases of the OS with this capability may be considered a circumvention of or non-compliance with the ruling.
They have a hard time understanding it apparently
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Support for English is wide but shallow. Compare to indigneous mother tongues where support is narrow but deep, with a small community of committed speakers passing on their language to their children in the face of massive social and institutional pressure from the majority society to abandon it.

If English ever came under serious pressure, many would abandon it in an instant.
Mars is actually a pretty bad planet to try landing on. It has just enough atmosphere to burn up a spacecraft that enters too quickly, but not enough to use for air-braking (skimming or parachutes).
Another back of the napkin thing - if one manages to maintain +1G acceleration for the first half of the trip and -1G for the second half, one can get to Mars in 1 to 3 days, with the top speed of about 1000 km/s.
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Ian Betteridge to the rescue! ;)

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... )
The article is proposing a mechanism that would find a job for more people, reducing unemployment.

It also proposes that if a person claims to be unemployed, but actually just refuses to take work, that their welfare payments should be stopped. But surely you aren't discussing those people, right?
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The article talks about work requirements, but does not specify a minimum wage or minimum effective wage. Is someone who is signed up for one of these task apps but only given one hour work a week "working"?

Not to mention that the flood of workers forced into this position will necessarily bid down the hourly rates.
Nice, looking forward to the upgrade to GitLab pages on gitlab.com !
Samsung SmartTV and privacy
So if you ever park in a dead zone, your car will have to be towed back to coverage?
Funny enough, `how2 grep` does give you want you want.
Most gag orders can be challenged and have to serve a benefit of some kind and be of limited duration (like to guarantee a fair trail).

A NSL gag order can be challenged.

In December 2008, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that some of the NSL gag provisions were unconstitutional, in part because they limited judicial review of the gag orders and forced courts to defer to the government’s assertions about the necessity of a gag order and also thwarted the ability of recipients to challenge a gag order.

[source:] http://www.wired.com/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/

And more gag provisions were overturned in 2013.

https://www.crowelldatalaw.com/2013/04/gagging-the-fbi-the-u...

I think the overturning of these provisions of the NSL gag order she the power of the 1st Amendment a show the US judiciary tend to be skeptical whenever the government attempts to limit free speech.
Why is this a problem? Is your gripe that * is used for declaring pointers as well as for multiplication?
My intent was to focus on frequent attacks on self driving cars being unlikely, sorry I didn't worry over the phrasing.

(There's also the thing where I can think owners of self driving vehicles will do things to protect the vehicles without necessarily agreeing with or liking those things.)

edit: and there's the thing where routing around danger would in fact protect the passengers along with the car.
If you're writing a lot, it's not a risk. You've got something sitting in a folder that you haven't touched in five years. Blow the dust off, polish the edges, and maybe you make a couple bucks.

Lining up those SFWA ducks will be important. At that point, even as a new publication, if they're easy to work with, they'll quickly become a great second or third stop for fresh stories. They won't get first submissions for awhile, because you can't compete with Terraform's (and others') 25c/word rate. But that's okay. Gems fall through the cracks. Loads of great fiction out there looking for a home.
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Dropbox has re-written their storage layer in Rust https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3w8dgn/announc...

That said, they're the only one I know of, so your point still stands, generally.
They could also just tell you "the items you want to buy cost $X for shipping" where X just happens to drop to 0 under certain circumstances. This is what everyone except Amazon does. Charging for shipping is entirely understandable. I too love free shipping, but it's actually us that have been spoiled by Amazon.

And with Amazon's low prices and 5% cashback I'm pretty sure even if they started charging for shipping that it would be still cheaper than anywhere else ...
That's the wonderful XXI century.

Things didn't use to be that way. And even now the winners are the ones deciding what documentation to keep or destroy, what the media and the public are allowed to know, and what historians get funding.

Yet, the winners never had so little control. And after enough time, your comment gets correct.
Wouldn't these mechanisms apply to key verification? How exactly can you argue that you can modify data in realtime inside the phone's architecture, but couldn't possibly modify data in realtime inside the phone's architecture?
Yes, it's useful. No, it's not specific.
In all likelihood, the NSA has already created this hacked version of iOS that does exactly what the FBI is requesting. The government can probably already get the data off of the phone if that's all they're after. But it probably isn't. I imagine all of this is so the government can try to set precedent in order to publicly use that technology in courtrooms and investigations instead of having to keep it hidden from the world.
>They build human capital by demonstrating an ability/willingness to create value for other humans.

Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do. If it was worth their time we wouldn't have to threaten them with pain or death to incentivise them.

Value for humans works both ways...people value their own time (your watching TV example) it is true. But if they were sufficiently incentivised with added value, they would create value for others in order to improve the remainder of their own time. That's how it works. Enlightened self-interest, and all that.

> I assume that you also believe taking money from others involuntarily and giving it to non-workers is not "exploitative"?

Yes, I do because of the marginal utility of money. Taking $1000 from someone who has $10 mil. to feed a family a four for a month is not exploitative. The person with $10 mil. will not die or be in physical pain without that money. That money is worth less to them than it is to the family that very well might die, or at least be in pain, without it.

Telling someone on the brink of total poverty, where they very well might starve over the next month, that they must work or die is exploitation. Exploitation is not about taking money it is about extorting someone with the threat of pain or death. It is a sure way to destroy value in a transaction.

The alternative is to entice someone to create value for other humans through a value add transaction -- they end up with more value for themselves rather than bargaining to limit their loss through death or pain -- you know, why the rest of us that happen to be more wealthy choose to create value for others. The way to guarantee such a transaction is to make sure the person agreeing to that transaction is not making the decision to engage based on a physical threat.

I don't know why this concept is so foreign. It is the same reason protection rackets are illegal.
this is how it should work. Very nice. I can't wait for other web servers to gain this ability too. Or at least allow us to load certificates from dynamic locations based on some request data.

All other web servers I looked at (nginx, apache, lighttpd) still require at least a reload for an updated certificate and a configuration file change for a new certificate to be used.

I wonder how caddy works with the very low 5 certificates per public suffix and week limit. Does it automatically bundle domains and request a single certificate with SANs?
I could be impossible for apple to more easily brute force iOS if they prevent installing updates when the device is unlocked. However, being forced to make changes to iOS to grant access to FBI opens the door to many ways which security can be weakened or removed.
Similarly, self-driving cars do exist. They're expensive, and unsafe for normal people to drive. :)
I loved the twists and turns on this one ;)
It could hypothetically be that easy, AFAICT. Nginx service runs constantly, so a module could presumably execute scheduled tasks. Those tasks could have error checking, sending errors to the root inbox.
Sure. I just have to ask: How wrong? 10% wrong? 40% wrong? 100% wrong? The dust up over the story begs the question. He can't be 100% wrong.
The Guardian is trying to grow in the U.S. market, not appease it. If the Guardian does nothing, it's not under any kind of threat other than being ignored. You appease someone who threatens you.

/nitpick
What would a "K&R for Rust" look like to you, and how is the official book deficient in this way?

(I have my own grievances, which is why I'm working on a second revision, but feedback is helpful.)
Thanks, I created an issue to discuss this. Would love to get your input.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13673
Diversity problem? Nonsense! Just look how many succesful Speculative Fiction authors are female: Andrea Norton, Susan Cooper, Connie Willis, Ursula Le Guin, Julian May, Nancy Kress, Octavia Butler (black, as well as female) and dare I say it, J.K. Rowling - all off the top of my head.

Then there are well known award-winnning gay authors such as David Gerrold.

And I've just finished reading last year's Hugo Award winning novel "The Three Body Problem" written by Cixin Liu, a Chinese SF author.

If anything, SF is the field of fiction which has the least problems with "diversity" - its readers are open-minded almost by definition!
Quite, yes.
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> Including breaking down the doors of anyone they texted or called.

But not the service provider intentionally denying access to this vital information? What a bizarre twist of logic!
Thanks! Should be soon!
Ok. I followed the Explore link, but I cannot find the search field on that page. It seems to only allow me to browse by trending/most-stars/all. Hitting 's' key on my keyboard doesn't seem to change the page in any way. Am I missing the search field?

(Note, this is using Firefox/Iceweasel 44.0.)
It will never be impossible for Apple to weaken the security of Apple's sofware.

For example, the government could require Apple to build future iPhone software to permit backdoor access. The question today is whether the government can do so with a court-issued warrant, or whether it will require legislation, as it did with CALEA.
I'll just leave these here (vk2zay is Alan Yates, "Chief Pharologist[2] at Valve Corporation"):

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/3wwpi0/want_more_info...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/39i71o/room_scale_r...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharology
My first thought was Lumosity [1]. I'd love for these claims to be real, but I'm just not willing to believe claims like these until I see a significant result in a randomized controlled trial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumosity#Effectiveness
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It really does do what it says it does.

https://github.com/Xe/dotfiles/tree/master/ansible/roles/cad...

https://xena.greedo.xeserv.us
> I remember not long ago Mint included just about every browser media plugin ever made, including RealMedia, WindowsMedia etc., stuff that was obsolete 15 years ago. Maybe it still does.

Weren't those just VLC wrappers?
The article is doing an analysis of the current situation, not declaring its support for one side of the other. Like others have pointed out, there are other articles supporting Apple's position, but one must still see the threats for what they are.
Guessing they fixed it–I've been a Fi user for the past month and haven't noticed any issues, if anything it's been way faster and more reliable than VZW since it goes over wifi now.
The article talks about work requirements, but does not specify a minimum wage or minimum effective wage. Is someone who is signed up for one of these task apps but only given one hour work a week "working"?

The process of determining 'refusing' to take work is surprisingly fraught as well. But again the question arises: if you cut off the money that someone is using to eat, what happens to them? They do not magically find a job that pays enough to eat.
Gentoo handles this by categorizing packages into a format like app-editors/vim. This way packages in different categories can share the same name:

dev-lang/crystal (The Crystal Programming Language)
games-mud/crystal (The crystal MUD client)
x11-themes/crystal (Crystal decoration theme for KDE4.x)

When installing packages, if a package having a unique name across all categories, a simple "emerge vim" will install it. Otherwise, the category can be specified with "emerge dev-lang/crystal".
Sorry I thought I had replied to this. I'm not aware of any article or book going through the history of that era, unfortunately, but I wasn't aware of Bedrooms to Billions, so there could well be. It's just kind of 'known' that it happened, I think.

IIRC when the Raspberry Pi was first announced, it was suggested it might inspire kids to program in the same way that computers did in the 80s, since teaching at UK schools apparently centres around how to use Microsoft applications.
That's not a corner case in a big part of the world.

But it's really easy to solve. The car just has to submit the route to you, for acceptance.
https://medium.com/@scobleizer/don-t-worry-uber-lyft-drivers...

Almost every excited "self-driving cars are coming soon!" post quotes a single man. Chris Urmson, the lead of Google's project. He avoids mentioning the real limitations and roadblocks self-driving cars has, and continually talks about how he never wants his son to have a driver's license. He talks more fluff than substance, and he's misrepresented Google's progress pretty heavily. He's a great marketing voice for Google, but I have found very little merit to what he has to say.

When you actually look at the hard numbers, or other companies' more realistic progress reports, it paints a very different picture.
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Your link provides no evidence of causality or even correlation between welfare cuts and death, or any evidence that even a single person starved. Strangely, the activists hyping these numbers don't seem to have even a single coroner's report of a person where cause of death is starvation.

Clinton's welfare reform program in the US did not have this effect. The main effect was a reduction in the welfare rolls and an increase in the labor supply.
I definitely like near-future stories that are character driven -- If computers/tech are crucial to the plot (and especially if the software/technology doesn't quite yet exist in the real world) I'd definitely be interested in reading his story. Thanks for your comments!
Genuinely curious, couldn't we work with smaller models and adapt/evolve them as we learn more? A bit like physics trying to find the unified theory?
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If you read the actual report (instead of that guy's blog), the information is rather positive:

>Overall, there is a modestly positive outlook for
>employment across most industries, with jobs growth
>expected in several sectors. However, it is also clear
>that this need for more talent in certain job categories
>is accompanied by high skills instability across all job
>categories. Combined together, net job growth and skills
>instability result in most businesses currently facing
> major recruitment challenges and talent shortages, a
> pattern already evident in the results and set to get
> worse over the next five years

Mike Rowe has a great foundation to help people who are trying to find those job: http://profoundlydisconnected.com/usatodaywhatdoesagoodjoblo...
Providing a base minimal level of living for each person tends to produce nice societies. What people with money get in return for supporting the deadbeats is definitely worth the, not large, cost. Having a massive security/punishment apparatus is the inevitable result of not doing this unless one doesn't mind living in a shitty society.

Paraphrasing H.L. Mencken: U.S. Libertarians/Republicans can almost be defined as someone with the irrational fear that some poor person, somewhere is getting something they don't deserve.
This is a good point. Thanks! I do understand the points made.
Display ads have a bunch of issues; bots, accidental clicks, and now ad blocking. I've worked for a large DSP and saw this first hand, even on closed platforms like Facebook there were bots. Change is coming, I think that content marketing will be a better option for brands to get their message out, esp on social media platforms (not via display ads).
It's certainly been getting better. I have no argument there.
Do you have any science to back those claims up? What are you basing it on?
Wealth inequality is already a problem today. I would argue that since it's an issue already, AI, technology and automation has largely nothing to do with wealth inequality as it exists today.

The problem of wealth inequality was predicted to occur within capitalism long ago by a man named Karl Marx. So compelling were his predictions that entire societies have been constructed (and overthrown) in attempt to create a system that is more fair. Russia and China are the two biggest failed experiments in trying to solve this problem. Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism, but he is most famous for being right about wealth inequality and capitalism.

What Karl Marx said about inequality is this: It happens because of the private ownership of the means of production. As long as the lifeblood of the economy, its vital resources, factories and technology are owned by a tiny group of individuals, as long as production is governed by the law of capital accumulation and not the needs of society as a whole, poverty, injustice and capitalist crisis will remain and ultimately grow. Workers produce everything; the ruling class produces nothing, yet the ruling class own everything.

Take for example your typical Tech corporation: Apple. Apple makes $1,865,306 of revenue per employee. The top senior software engineer gets paid around $222,550, which is a number that is far higher than the average salary of an apple employee.

What is evident is this: The people who do almost all of the work in apple (engineers) are only getting paid less than a fifth of the revenue they generate. Where does the rest of this revenue go?

It is used to increase the incomes of a few people who do much less or no work. C-level executives pad their salaries with a huge portion of this money. Tim Cook alone got 10.2 million in 2015 and that's not including stock options. While tim cook is a very capable individual, his salary indicates that his work output is equivalent to the work output of 50 engineers. Can a single human produce output equivalent to 50 engineers? I would argue no.

The rest of the money is either distributed as dividends or reinvested back into the company in the form of infrastructure improvements or just money in the bank. Who directly benefits from this? The Shareholders or in karl marx's words: The people who own the means of production. These are the people attending davos. They are the real problem, it has nothing to do with AI.
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> Taking the private key from Apple with a warrant, national security letter, subpoena, or other methods is much easier than creating a custom version of iOS.

Clearly it is not, otherwise they would have done this. They did not.
Tipping is a terrible societal habit, though. Pay them a living wage, fine. Just don't force people to waste time on a another, entirely separate payment.
It speaks to the disconnect that governments should have predicted but didn't: from one point of view, governments and big tech multinationals should be in the same boat (keeping the "users" safe and secure in their daily activities, able to go about their day without worrying about externalities that they've trusted big organizations to protect them from). But tech company employees don't generally see themselves as part of the same establishment ecosystem as the governments who want them to work together.
Okay cool, just wanted to run that by real quick because there's so much leeway in the perspective. Best of luck to you and the team for sure.
Sysadmins understand encryption well enough to know there are plenty of different tools to use to encrypt data.

Allowing a backdoor to one tool does not grant access to every criminal communication.

Therefore, the request is pointless, it does nothing to make us more secure, and every IT guy knows it. The sysadmin may not care about protecting others' privacy, but he knows this isn't a good way to catch criminals because it won't work. The criminals will just use something else that the US government, or perhaps any government, cannot compel to add a backdoor.
It's a pretty common thing in the Anglo world for papers to have unsigned editorials, no?