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Comedy is very effective, and I have been a fan of Juice Rap News for a long time, they are really good at breaking things down, explain things with references and asking the right questions.

My favorite is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU
I'm one of those weird people for whom caffeine doesn't really seem to do anything. My normal daily consumption of the stuff is zero, because I don't drink coffee or tea. Every now and again if I have an essay crisis after a bad night's sleep, I'll pop three or four times the "don't take more than this" dosage of Pro Plus, which seems to have a fairly minor effect. It has been a few months since I last did this.

I prefer theobromine.
I wonder if that's because older founders (assuming age = more experienced) are more likely to succeed or last longer than a very young (<25) founder, so they don't go back to normal jobs for longer if at all.
Video spam. Late night show bullshit.
The thing to remember with caffeine is its half-life in non-smokers is 8 hours (it is 3 hours in smokers). I have a rule to never have any drink with caffeine after midday - if I break this rule even by an hour I suffer that night and the next day. Caffine is a morning drug.
Contrary to encryption you don't need guns to safely communicate over the Internet, say with your bank. So I'd argue that strong encryption is a lot more important than guns.
If we drink hard enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0a-Loki
I'd argue that good engineering is beautiful also.
> The Linux kernel undoubtedly many features that the Hurd system lacks, but that is due to the severe lack of manpower of the latter system and the billions of Dollars being poured into the former.

That's why GNU Hurd is essentially a dead project. Sadly it never attracted the attention and manpower necessary for it to survive.

> On the other hand the Hurd has features that the Linux kernel can never hope to achieve because of its architecture.

For example?
I sometimes doubt the practicabilty and wisdom of this persistent drumbeat to get more kids to learn programming. Sure, there's value in it, but it's frequently posited as something all kids should be doing.

Yet, it's frankly not for everyone and the tendency is to diminish the value of other fields (especially if they are completely non-STEM). Worse, this is primarily driven by an economic rationale. Not only do we encourage a monolithic culture that overvalues tech; I also think the assessment of opportunities for pogrammers in the future is overblown. The tech itself will see to this.
I am not sure what percentage of pay walled papers are gov't funded. I suspect many come from private universities or large companies. As for paper versioning, this is already done to some extent. Not as explicit as code on github, but many authors will release multiple versions of a paper. That being said, it is trivial to do versioning as described if you use latex and put your paper's source on github.
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Benefits of quitting caffeine for me :

- fewer head aches
- much better sleep
- reduced mid afternoon blahs
- easier wake ups
- ability to use small amounts of caffeine for medicinal purposes. (by itself or to enhance the effects of other drugs)
I wonder, if you do the math on equity compensation versus compensation in the job market as a whole, if returns from equity aren't just a tiny, insignificant sliver of overall compensation that we happen to take seriously because of availability bias.

Either way, I do not believe it to be a "key component" of "modern compensation". Tech companies can pay strong salaries just like other companies. They choose not to. That could change, and I think should.
Better that and kill some terrorists than send an entire army for the same terrorists. Much more efficient and safe for everybody, including the country where the drone is used. Better a drone than an army.
I like it!

The explainer tool gives a really cool insight into the results: https://explain.commonsearch.org/
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I wouldn't expect global maximums to even be definable for most problems
This discussion about coffee has become too scientific. When I was a child, my parents would not let us drink coffee, but tea was not only allowed it was part of daily routine as long as I remember. We didn't question. When I grew up someone told me the story about two life-term prisoners in medieval times, one of them allowed to drink only tea, the other coffee. The coffee-guy lived longer. That was enough for me to stake my rights and start drinking coffee in high school.
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That is an interesting idea, I'll see if I can implement something like that!
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One thing I hope this project does that Google fails to do is give developers a good API to access search. Google closed down their first web search API and now only give developers access to a limited Custom Search API that's rate limited to 100 queries a day for free with a hard limit of 10k searches - that makes it either very hard to develop anything against or relatively expensive. There are other options (Bing, Faroo, raw access to CommonCrawl) but they're either low quality or hard to work with. A good quality, straightforward, open web search API would be awesome.
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If you're basing decisions off a single anecdotal* data point from "medieval times", I can see how anything else would seem "too scientific" in comparison.

* And fictitious
I can drink coffe at night before going to bed and still sleep like a baby. I wonder if something is wrong with me.
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AI is a hot topic, and just about every major tech company has departments developing various forms of AI and working on AI related challenges. Who is most likely develop a true AI system?

The definition of a true AI system is obviously up for debate, but for the sake of this conversation let's assume we are talking about
"Artificial General Intelligence".

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Sometimes referred to as Strong AI, or Human-Level AI, Artificial General Intelligence refers to a computer that is as smart as a human across the board—a machine that can perform any intellectual task that a human being can. Creating AGI is a much harder task than creating ANI, and we’re yet to do it. Professor Linda Gottfredson describes intelligence as “a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.” AGI would be able to do all of those things as easily as you can. [1]

I'll put the top candidates in the comments for you to vote on, and leave replies under each candidate with your reasoning. If you have another candidate, please add it as a main comment.

[1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
Is this what you get for opensource games? People write AI enemies in their spare time? I think it's second or third alternative AI for the game.
You don't know his baseline personality/attitude. It might be he's good at the relaxing and being creative aspect, and so needs to personally remind himself to work hard. Other people might naturally work very hard, but need to remind themselves to relax.
My old co-workers would drink coffee throughout the day and constantly complain about not having enough energy and they would look physically drained. They required it to feel normal. Reminds me very much of people I know who smoke weed to feel normal because they are so used to it.

As another commenter mentioned, not drinking caffeine makes it's effects much stronger when you actually need it. I don't drink tea/coffee/soda/energy drinks etc. So on the rare occasion that I down an energy drink the effect is extremely pronounced. Literally buzzing.
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Still waiting for the transcript, but here is the relevant part.

"If I were in the job now, I would've simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade--the headquarters of the National Security Agency--and they would have solved this problem."

"They are not interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent."
Was there ever a slowdown?
I only recently started playing (learned about it here).

I'm pretty impressed by its quality. Version Alpha 19 runs pretty smooth on my Ubuntu XPS 13.
I think it is a technology problem, because the journals exist in the first place to solve a technology problem: How to distribute, quality assure etc a paper. Without internet this obviously cost a fair amount of money. Nobody was going to just print copies of journals and distribute them for free.

I doubt a system like the journals would have developed in a world where internet already existed.

I think a variation of the system used to build the Linux kernel could have worked for scientific papers as well. In the Kernel you have a pyramid of trust. Linux trust some people directly, who again each trust another set of people. This continues downwards. In this fashion code can be signed off and bubble up through the hierarchy.

I suspect in similar fashion a scientific paper could bubble up by being reviewed by ever more respected scientists in a hierarchy.
People write AI's for pretty much any game where modding is possible and there's opponents.

AOE2 had some nice ones for training with certain strategies against.
Half is 1, I presume?
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I also think Rust is magnificent, the way they combined manual memory management with the feel of an automatic one, all at compile time, paired with the rest of the type system; functional, compossible and flexible, is exactly the level of practical, useable innovation I would like to see more frequently.
> For healthy adults, the FDA says 400 mg a day is OK. But consuming much more than that can have dangerous, negative effects. And the milligrams add up quickly. A medium-size coffeehouse coffee can contain more than 300 mg, and most 16-ounce energy drinks contain between 160 and 240 mg of caffeine…

3-4 cups might be on the high end of the safe spectrum, depending on what your idea of a "cup" is. (For the record, 3 half-litre beer steins of coffee a day turned out to be a spectacularly bad idea, even if hearing colours was briefly entertaining.)
Huh, I get fewer headaches and wake up easier with coffee.
From their FAQ: "We will particularly stand out with features that are not in the best interest of commercial search engines: showing less (if no) ads, having an open API, and generally not trying to maximize the amount of time users spend on our service."

Seems like right now they are focusing on getting contributors though.
As a not even close to elite runner I disagree. I can do the same workout as a world class runner, relative to my fitness. Run 20 minutes at 80% heart rate. Run 10 minutes at 95% heart rate. Repeat 4 times. (Not a real workout but it proves a point).

What gets me is recovery. I would be unable to run hard for a week after that. Younger pros do like 5 or 6 really hard workouts a week. Older pros a bit less.

I totally would follow them but my body cannot recover between workouts. In my opinion what makes a world class marathoner is not his ability to work hard, it's a special gift to recover. I would work just as hard, but I physically can't as often as they do.

Saying anyone can be an elite marathoner by running like an elite marathoner? Bull. Any decent runner can do a workout or 2. Then you need a week to recover.

What does all this have to do with programming? Maybe nothing. Or maybe what makes the super productive guys so good is they mentally recovery faster? No idea on programming front, but I am confident on the running front it is all recovery.
I'm optimistic.

For smaller and poorer markets, there are plenty of content with no distribution deal in place.

So Netflix could be the only way to make any money in those markets.

Those catalogues will grow bigger. Possibly bigger than the catalogues in Big market where there is competition.
Built-up tolerance? After drinking triple espressos like water in university I could drink coffee at 10 pm and still fall asleep an hour later. Of course, I'd wake up feeling more tired than before with a splitting headache, but that's what the triple espressos were for.
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An observation from down under - we are currently stuck in the endless summer. It has just gone on and on and shows no sign of cooling off.
Well, from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_... and quoted in Baez's blog.

Thursday in "As of Thursday morning" referring to Thu Mar 3, it seems.
Caffeine has such a strong effect on me (physically and psychologically), I can even tell its effect in some (not fully) decaffeinated coffees. This started one day, I've been a regular drinker before. Since then, almost only decaf.
There's really no reason to feel helpless. You (and everyone else for that matter) can do your part to fight global warming, of which the causes are well known: stop eating meat and dairy, drive less, fly less, and generally consume less.

As far as I'm concerned, "blame the government" is really a poor excuse.
Sure, you don't personally need guns, but you do need physical safety at each end of the communication. Physical safety is provided by people with guns.
Cool name.

Hannibal was Carthaginian (modern day Tunisia); one of the greatest military commanders in history.[0]

His crossing of the Alps during the Carthage-Rome war is one of the most celebrated achievements of any military force in ancient warfare.[1]

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%27s_crossing_of_the_A...
Well there are modern games that can consume whole days of my time. Crusader Kings 2, CS:GO, Cities: Skylines, Factorio, Pillars of Eternity etc. So I don't think it's about having less time to play.

My comment about the graphics was really about how a lot of these assets are only on screen for a few minutes. Some art team has spent days working on a boss character and I'm through it in 10 minutes or so. So much development time spent on such little effect, given that I really wouldn't have noticed the difference if they'd spent half the time. Whereas the games that really captivate me (like CK2 or Factorio) have relatively simple graphics, but really deep gameplay that keeps you coming back.

It's about priorities in development, I wish they spent more time on gameplay!

I've played almost all the games on your list, some of them are great (favs: Portal, Deus Ex, Dragon Age). I notice you didn't list Dragon Age 2, that game sums up a lot of my feelings about modern game development. I would also lump Mass Effect 2 in there for similar reasons. ME 1 was a great RPG with good gameplay mechanics, ME 2 was a beautiful looking cover based shooter (boring!) with mediocre RPG mechanics. That's what the game industry has come to, because it's far easier to churn out mediocre gameplay with fancy graphics than it is to actually make a truly great game.

But yes, some of them are still lacking. Dragon Age and Mass Effect are still fairly simplistic in gameplay compared to Baldurs Gate 2 (or the old Final Fantasies), and simplistic in story compared to Planescape. Bioshock was beautiful and had a great story, but System Shock 2 still had far better gameplay. Likewise with Deus Ex HR and Deus Ex 1.

Mirrors Edge is one of the few that truly stands out as having tried something exceptional with the gameplay, I've been dying for a sequel for a long time!

*

I guess you could sum up my point like so: Graphics are great when there's good gameplay underneath them. FF7 was both a beautiful game for its time and also had great gameplay. Likewise Chronotrigger, BG2, Deus Ex, Sim City, etc. But a game with great graphics and mediocre gameplay will forever be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Here are Richard Clarke's exact words:

If I were in the job now I would have simply told the FBI
to call Forte Meade the headquarters of the National Security
Agency and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They're
not as interested in solving the problem as in getting a legal
precedent.

[...]

Every expert I know believes that NSA could crack this phone.
They want the precedent that the government can compel a computer
device manufacturer to allow the government in.
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Should be a decent competitor (2020) for the next Tesla Roadster (2019).
Pretty hard to live off £1k a month in London. Rent is going to be ~50% of that minimum, then you have council tax + bills. Doesn't leave much at all for transport/food and whatever else might come up.
For comparison Ruby is just over 0.3% and has been flat for four years. It's the overall job market, not just programming jobs so all percentages will be low.
This is a superb comment that illustrates how for a given purpose different quality factors are important. Can anyone recommend resources that try to systemise why these choices are made?

Edit: Grammar.
I've been playing it on and of for a few years now and there's definitely a progress of improvement. The quality and complexity of the game rivals most of the top commercial games of the same genre.
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> (For the record, 3 half-litre beer steins of coffee a day turned out to be a spectacularly bad idea, even if hearing colours was briefly entertaining.)

I've consumed caffeine to the point of serious gastric distress and very mild heart palpitations and I've never experienced synesthesia. I'm unwilling to push beyond that to higher doses, but two or three 12-cup pots a day of light roast filtered black coffee is about average for me, so what the Hell? Is there just that much individual variation here?
At what time of day did you typically have your last coffee?
No, that ended - purely Conservative government now.

The electoral system here is really broken, from the gerrymandered constituencies to the FPTP voting system. On the note of FPTP we had a referendum to vote for STV - and propaganda successfully convinced the voters to stick with broken but known. Part of the reason I am so sure we will end up voting to leave the EU. Independent candidates very occasionally win a seat but the deck is so severely stacked against them they may as well not exist. UKIP, who I do not support, are the most successful "outsider" party that has arisen in recent years - and despite a substantial share of the popular vote were decimated in the election.

We are seeing a rise in voting for outsider candidates, but at the current scale it actually helps the incumbent powers, as the opposition vote ends up fragmented.

If we want to save humanity we may need to completely rethink governance, as the current incestuous relationship between powerful governments and powerful interests is literally killing us.
How many world-changing individuals are being denied the opportunity to get started because of the politics of barbed wire...
I took leave to do it. Caffeine withdrawal head aches are nasty. Make sure you titrate off, don't go cold turkey.
We went to some HN London meetups in London when we were at an earlier stage (hard to find time now). It was fun, a good way to unwind and meet other like minded people. You don't have to throw 100% of your life and time into working and sleeping only.
I like the project's goal but as techies, we inevitably want to understand the technical details and how it helps (or handicaps) the search results in comparison with Google.

For example, the project's data sources[1] says that the bulk of data comes from The Common Crawl. It looks like the CC is ~150 TB of data[2]. I'm not familiar with google.com internals but various sources estimate that their proprietary crawl dataset is more than a petabyte. (A googler could chime in here with more accurate data.)

So it's not as simple as the algorithm for Common Search being "more fair" than the algorithm for Google Inc. The underlying dataset in terms of quantity, recency, rules for the robot, etc all affect the algorithm.

This is not a criticism of the project. It is my attempt to understand what is not obvious on the surface level.

[1]https://about.commonsearch.org/data-sources

[2]http://commoncrawl.org/2015/12/november-2015-crawl-archive-n...

(I'm can't tell if each archive of MM/YYYY is cumulative or an addendum.)
It seems to me that they launched that with a much higher TWR than normal...the rocket seems like it accelerated much faster than I'm used to seeing. Is that just the Russian way?
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From the FAQ:

> How do I submit a poll?

> . http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll .

But I think you need t let 200 karma to use it.

My opinion is that nobody will do it, because "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Wow, this really took me by surprise. I thought the only input was (s_1...s_final, whowon) where s are statates during training and (s_current) during play, and the system would learn the game on its own. That's the way it worked with the Atari games anyway.
So there is an effort estimate to ADD what the authorities need?

Does this indicate the crypto is already broken?

What's hindering the "intelligence community" from doing it on their own on case by case basis?

Did they already do this?

Does Apple win disproportionately marketing wise by staging it self as the sound and secure provider?
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That's because you're addicted. You're dependent on it to wake up, and when you don't use it, you get withdrawal headaches. You may need to go about a month caffeine free to see the benefits
Agree on all points. We don't automatically reload the browser though, so it's up to the user to actually get the new version, otherwise people would be very angry with us..

The main reason we did it this way, is that it is really really simple and quick to implement.

Thanks for the input!
This is very cool. People who want to create new languages usually have to write a lot of code even though most of the heavy lifting is done by a lexer and a parser generator.

This seems to me like a very high level way to specify a new language. A much easier way, definitely. I assume the cost of this is that only a small subset of programming languages can be specified in hivemind. Nevertheless, it's still an incredible project. Target LLVM, and this could become a compiler generator ;-).
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> That's really not true. Physics undergraduate in most universities is perhaps 1:10 male:female.

It was talking about science-degree courses, not Physics specifically. You seem quite sure it's not true, do you have any sources?
It's actually more like 5 out of the last nine failures, going back 10 years.
I cancelled my netflix account last week because they cracked down on both my VPN providers. In my country, we legally get around 12-13% of the shows available on the US Netflix.

Paying customers get shafted, and the mega-corps wonder why piracy is rampant.
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