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Expressions like that can sometimes be traced to a single literary source. They also spread through translated versions. In that case, even a "naturally occurring" expression in one language could spawn an expression coined by literature in another. Without further data, it might be entirely possible that Backpfeifengesicht was composed by a single translator trying to transfer the well-known-expression nature of "tête à claques" into german.
Phones should be searchable with a court order. If Apple or any other company insists on making a phone that cannot be searched with a court order, the congress will simply pass a law forbidding the sale of such devices in the USA (the same kind of law/regulation that exists for radio devices and interference). A consumer device should be "searchable with a court order"|"accept interference".

That's what Obama is warning about.
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I’ve been running Arch Linux on the non-developer edition XPS 15, and I’ve experienced very little problems. Occasionally the touchpad does not work, and sometimes headphone audio is silent. Other than that, everything works like a charm, even the Broadcom WiFi adapter.
I don't agree with Obama, but the comment you've written is (I'm sorry to say) absolutely terrible.

First, you've completely mischaracterized Obama's position. It's not as simple as, "Think of the children!" Obama is saying that encryption makes it practically impossible to prosecute some kinds of criminals. Of the examples he listed, one of them was child pornographers. Another was plotting terrorists. Now these examples are trotted out all the time, but that doesn't make them false. Robust encryption protects everyone's privacy, but it also means that some number of child pornographers and terrorists will get away with their crimes. Obama thinks the harms of those crimes outweigh the privacy protections. I don't agree with that, but it's not an unreasonable view to hold. And it's certainly not the view you claimed Obama had.

Second, it's absurd to think –even for a second– that Obama doesn't care about the lives of children in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or Libya. If coalition forces didn't care about innocents, they would have waged war like the Putin did in Chechnya: indiscriminate bombings, extrajudicial killings, and record-setting deployments of landmines. But that's not how coalition forces operate. The horrific stories you hear about are accidents, not deliberate. Due to incomplete information, poor decision-making, or just plain bad luck, soldiers sometimes kill innocents. When this happens, everyone agrees it's a tragedy, and everyone tries to prevent it from happening in the future. Sadly, militaries are incredibly blunt tools. The only way to completely avoid collateral damage is to never use them.

To make my point absolutely clear: In the case of drone strikes, children die because intel isn't always accurate and weapons aren't perfectly discriminating. Despite what you're trying to imply, if Obama could wage war with perfect intel and weaponry, he wouldn't harm a single innocent person.[1]

Lately, I've been seeing more of these drive-by misrepresentations on HN. I usually downvote and move on, but the situation only seems to be getting worse. I don't know of a good solution, as any reply takes far longer to write than three sentences of pandering.

1. A side note: The same can't be said for the leaders of the opposing forces (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Ayman al-Zawahiri). They would use these hypothetical perfect weapons and intel to turn much of the world into a charnel house.
Notrium. It's less about automation, and more about crafting new tools and exploring the planet.
One of my philosphy professors at university said Heidegger and most of German philosphy is only an expression of German language, like "Das Sein, Das Seiende, ..."
I'm not sure I'm understanding correctly but I believe some pros have done demonstrations against weaker amateurs (15k?) with something like 25 stones. Yes it'd be fun to see AlphaGo take pros with huge handicaps. And even inside handicaps there's alternatives. Like free placements vs just on star points. AlphaGo against a pro that starts with two stones in each corner could be neat. At some point I'd imagine the pro associations might balk at such games though.
I've never had the chance to use a hiDPI display. But it will probably be upscaled and look the same as on a normal screen. It would be an easy fix to increase the canvas context scale though.
Hopefully Google does not do what IBM did and stop playing after they win.

IBM lost in 1996, 2-4, and then won in 1997, 3.5-2.5. If they had played a third match with Kasparov, especially a longer match, it is not at all clear that they would have won.

Kasparov asked for a third match of 10 games, to be played over 20 days, but IBM would not give it to him.
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Been using Dragdis lately: http://dragdis.com
Sure. Check out the "game of the century".

There Go Seigen, the genius who brought about the Go revolution that Redmond talked about at post-game conf today, was beaten by Honinbou Shusai + his students.

Also, "lesser" pros routinely call out mistakes in master games (and the masters agree). Games are often decided by easily avoidable mistakes, even at the highest level.
This is not only about code size, but about efficiency and, more fundamentally, about what multiple values are. Are MRV just syntactic sugar around lists, a second-class mechanism ("tuples don't nest") for when you have zero-or-one return value, or a first-class feature which can benefit from the support of the runtime compiler?

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/215
Well, we don't actually know AlphaGo's true strength in Ko matches because the Ko setup wasn't that complex. There wasn't a lot of trade points available.

A possible explanation is:

During self reinforcement learning, AlphaGo learned to minimize Ko potential by maximizing its probability of winning through diminished available Ko moves.

It would be interesting to see how AlphaGo would be able to capitalize on a game that emphasized Ko play, but that would take more time with AlphaGo to emphasize that kind of play.

edit: I'm not sure why, but I think Lee Sedol is partly holding back, or not playing at his maximum ability. It feels like these games are more along the lines of query games.

I look forward to the next two games because I'm 100% certain Lee Sedol is going to query the AI with some new queries.
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I've stopped using amazon, their business, work and tax arrangements leave a lot to be desired and I'd sooner not re-enforce the monopoly.
Boeing would get extra million dollars in support contracts.
Does this have a magsafe-type connector for the power cord?

I did look for it in the review but maybe I missed it.
Nice idea, nice design, horrible code behind it.

Just a look at rtu.js made me cry. Never mix logic and presentation. Especially in such security-crucial projects.

I don't know what is the server side written in but it seems horrible too: I managed to upload the same file twice and returned a link in the same directory but with different names (boomer.mid and boomer(1).mid). So it's possible to flood all the server space with the same file unlimited amount of time. This is definitely a security issue. Also, a name mustn't change over time: my (or anyone else's) next boomer.mid upload mustn't become boomer(2).mid.

I haven't tried it yet but I hope server-side filetype validation is also present? Otherwise the server is going to have big troubles over time...
RAM is usually a terrible thing to upgrade via the manufacturer (too expensive) unless its soldered in like some of the macbooks.
When the President himself declares encryption a thing of the past, it means the US economy will lose:

a) US businesses will massively lose sales, or

b) US businesses will have to move to more democratic countries
It seems like in all three games, AlphaGo plays a thick move that looks a bit baffling to the commentators, but then miraculously those moves become hugely profitable somewhat later on in the game.
I really hope they bother with one more match at least. It was a pity human vs computer idea basically died in chess after very unconvincing win by Deep Blue (even though it lost 2 previous matches). Humans had at least a few years more of good resistance back then.

I can think of a worthy goal for AlphaGo: make a program which can play better than top pros which runs on a macbook pro.
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I find it funny that whenever there's a case of computers being able to do something that they couldn't before, whether it's drive or beat humans at Go, the goalpost on what is "true AI" shifts to be something that computers can't do yet.

So let me ask you this. What would you consider to be "true AI"? At what point are you willing to say, "Okay, that's it, computers are just plain smarter than we are?" Because, frankly, it seems to me that that day is getting closer and closer.

Saying that AIs can't be smarter than humans because they don't think and act like humans is like saying that airplanes don't "truly" fly because they don't flap their wings.
If this plays out anything like it did in chess, in a few years we'll have very strong machine players that we can use to figure out with high confidence the quality of both players' moves.
"Faccia da schiaffi" in Italian...

To me, the German expression feels the weakest of the three mentioned languages...
> sell better without the Dell branding

Of course it would be nice, but you can't seriously ask a commercial company to remove its identity from its products.
Use covering indices for edges, it is vastly cheaper than regular indices. Choose write-optimized storage layer (fractal indices (circa ~2007, BTW!), LSM) for DB. Don't do singular accesses, use bulk accesses (and now we hit the wall of PL/1 and Fortran you mentioned). I can go on.

I cannot help but feel that what you describe is a classic example of technical inertia due to massive technical debt. It cannot prove that relational DBs are bad for CADs.
jfyi: It's only available in the US. So about noone can use it.
The previous models didn't support DFS in wifi 5ghz making them unable to work in high density wifi environments. Actually what's worse is that they randomically lose connection on a DFS AP (when the channel gets into one of the DFS-reserved ones they can't access). So you basically have to force them on 2.4 or disable DFS on the APs.

This applied to both the Broadcom and Intel wifi. Any chance these models are better in this regard?
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I have a new XPS 15 running the 4.4 Kernel - Skylake is very buggy as is the broadcom wireless firmware.

Also slight physical tremors can cause complete system crashes. I would stay away from it.
I think it's really impressive what Dell has put together here. As my old Thinkpad T430 is nearing it's fourth anniversary I have been looking for an upgrade for a while and compared different options with a focus on lightweight, powerful laptops with good Linux support. And so far the XPS 13 seems way more attractive than the new Lenovo Skylake laptops (e.g. the 460s), which have lower resolution displays (some models still start with a 1.366 x 768 (!) display, which is just ridiculous in 2016), less and slower RAM, smaller hard drives and -as far as I can tell from the specs- less battery life as compared to the XPS 13 but are actually 300 - 400 $ more expensive, even when choosing three year guarantee for the XPS. The only thing I don't like about the XPS is Dell's guarantee, which is "send in", meaning that I probably won't see my laptop for a few weeks if it has to be repaired, whereas Lenovo will send a service technician to me who will usually be able to repair the laptop immediately (I already had to make use of this service twice, once to exchange a noisy fan and once to replace a broken display bezel).

I guess I'll wait for Apple to reveal the new MB Pro line before making a decision, but it seems that for the first time in 10 years my next laptop will not be a Lenovo/IBM.
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Does it have to be one or the other? I imagine AlphaGo is too complex to have ever been effectively on, say, a 486, so without advances in hardware and networking it wouldn't work. At the same time AlphaGo is solving the sort of problem that no throw-more-computers-at-the-problem would have solved things either.

We live in a world of subtly and nuance. It's rare that there's a simple 'black or white' answer to a question.
I wasn't implying any sort of devious manipulation via blackmail.

I honestly think he just hasn't thought it through. You can call me an idiot, and people will call you a conspiracist. I've no idea which of us is right, but completely unselfishly, I really hope it is me, and my gut says it's me. Even if it is not me, the course going forward should be the same. We should educate each other about the facts of the current circumstances so we can all weigh the balancing factors in our own minds. Let us not rely on experts here and share our own knowledge in order to empower each other. We do not need to tell people how to think. We can give them the facts and let them make up their own minds.
Isn't this what the machines learned in the Matrix?
Nice project. How different is from Pacifica(https://www.thinkpacifica.com/)?
No it doesn't, unfortunately.
That is only true if the upvoted post contained an argumentation and not just a statement or an observation.
that's right, it describes the state of mind of half of its visitors ;)
Aspey Cherry relates a tale on Scott's Antarctic mission when they dragged a horse from the ice in a desperate tug-of-war with the humans and ate it.

http://www.davidspilmanfinebooks.com/pages/books/13027/aspey...

You don't have to pay $350 for the print version, it's on Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14363
A lot of candidates' policies change when they become president. I feel like this is due to a few reasons but a big one may be that they are read into many secret programs (like the NSA one), which give them a new perspective on the "threats". From that the "Not on my watch" mindset kicks in.

Not excusing the government on the encryption debate. We absolutely need it. Just saying when you are given new, secret information that you didn't previously have, it's not unreasonable to change your policy.
But wasn’t the argument of the wasm team against the LISP features that binary size isn’t relevant and just a "nice to have" feature?
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Yes, I read this one too. Never applied the concepts in practice though.
It isn't really but aimed at a different use case.

Everyone rallied against OSGi because the strict modularity showed developers that in general their application wasn't as modular as they thought it was; and the fact that class loaders enforced that permissioning model showed where random Class.forName and module busting code lived.

Guess what? Those developers will have exactly the same problems with Jigsaw modules.

What Jigsaw will do is educate Java developers that the pain points are in strict modularity rather than any one module system.
> A supraintelligent AI could promise making humans rich, healthy and powerful, to then break its promise and dominate the world.

Or it could devote its entire power to making human lives the best and most comfortable they can be because humanity is some super-precious resource in the universe and it feels it's unimportant because it's just a bunch of silicon and electrons.

Supraintelligent AI being evil is FUD imho because we can't reason about supraintelligent AI.
I've talked to users and tried to lookup information on actual harm. Unlike, say, benzos, I didn't find anything showing, say, decreased intelligence or severe health issues. (There might be some immune suppressant effect, though.) Everything, as you noted, seems to look at users buying uncontrolled medicine and using unhygienic methods of administration. I dunno about studies of productivity. Anecdotally, plenty of people seem to find it helpful (they say out held them through the day).

>I killed someone for it

I can't see how this is anything but a pricing/accessibility issue. Otherwise there's just no incentive -- it's about as expensive a habit as alcohol if bought legally.
Except let's consider that what's playing out now with Apple is not of this matter at all. What's playing out with Apple is a company with the means and capability to assist in a specific matter, refusing to do so on purely ideological grounds of questionable relevancy in a case where complying is pretty unquestionably the right thing to do.

That's an absolutist position. It is a refusal to consider context, and has needlessly signaled an escalation to government.
From personal experience, yes.

I've got an older dell laptop that came with Ubuntu 12, bought in 2013. I assume everything worked back then, but I needed Windows for school.

Some months ago, wanting to switch, tried Ubuntu 14 and Debian 8. Couldn't get the graphics driver to work on either. Proprietary drivers, other than the ones in the Ubuntu repos, required a mismatch of older/newer library/kernel versions which I couldn't figure out how to get in Ubuntu. The open source driver claimed my hd7670m worked, but in reality I was getting the hd4000 performance out of it.

Everything else worked, a bit noisier though. Either way, I would definitely not feel safe when buying another Linux laptop, proper research is still required.
I'm pretty sure Dell sells 'premium support' as a paid add-on, and that it covers on-site hardware repairs. I've used this service myself, albeit many years ago, to have a laptop motherboard replaced.

If you add this option, then the two laptops you're comparing may be closer in terms of price and support. Then it's just about the other factors you mention.
The only cards that support DFS are atheros ath10k (I've tried DFS frequencies with an openwrt AP).

Anyway, I've yet to see an ath10k mini-pcie cards that would fit into this machine. The wireless can be easily replaced (at least on last years machine), so hardware hints welcome.
Well, I found what the server side is written in.

In fact, I found everything about your server.

Why? Because you, sir, do not know a thing about server security and configuration - this is the file I managed to upload: http://updrop.it/uploads/info.php

I will not hack your server but someone else definitely will, so you have to either close this hole ASAP (disable PHP file uploading) or take the service down.
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You mean that in addition to showing all cores fully used, the frequency didn't drop below base?
People also shouldn't be kept in captivity.
Thank you, that gave me quite a chuckle! =)
English would be Perl, obviously. ;-)
I think it's correct, in fact livestock farms are worse than most concentration camps.
There is some irony to your use of the term modern here, as the original modernists coined the phrase less is more which nicely sums up the Go authors' approach.

Go is a modern language, in every sense of the word. You may not like it, other languages might work better for you or for certain situations (which is great, it really is), but don't pretend it is antiquated or created in ignorance.
But where would you go?
If the UK and the US proceed like this then, as with so many issues, the rest of the world will follow.

Germany, for instance, looks rather pro privacy at the moment. But I am pretty sure they'd be some of the first to follow the UK/US.
It is interesting how fast this has happened compared to chess.

In 1978 chess IM David Levy won a 6 match series 4.5-1.5 - he was better than the machine, but the machine gave him a good game (the game he lost was when he tried to take it on in a tactical game, where the machine proved stronger). It took until 1996/7 for computers to match and surpass the human world champion.

I'd say the difference was that for chess, the algorithm was known (minimax + alpha-beta search) and it was computing power that was lacking - we had to wait for Moore's law to do its work. For go, the algorithm (MCTS + good neural nets + reinforcement learning) was lacking, but the computing power was already available.
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You should definitely give the Viennese form a try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd811Miduik
It doesn't need to be on the same side as the screen, though. Neither my iPad nor my Nexus have any branding visible on the front of the device. The screen's border is perfectly black. Even the hardware button on the iPad is almost invisible.

Sure, the iPad has a big apple on the back, but I never see that when I'm using it as I can't see around corners.
According to the pre-match interview[0], the AlphaGo project is about two years old, and started out as a collaboration between two members of DeepMind and a member of the Google Brain team (Google's deep learning team which pre-dates the DeepMind acquisition by several years, according to Wikipedia). So really, AlphaGo is a combined effort that was always a part of Google, and I think it's pretty clear that resources provided by Google (money, equipment, and tooling) in addition to the techniques developed by both Google and DeepMind made this project a reality. I think they both deserve a lot of credit, certainly, but I wouldn't say that the credit is all that misplaced here.

[0]: https://youtu.be/qUAmTYHEyM8?t=1201
The page doesn't even load for me... (latest Chromium browser on OS X)
Hey, Joe here from inkle! Sago's reply is really good, but broadly for those two specific languages: Ink is designed to be one component in a larger game engine - the runtime has a simple core loop of choice -> text generation -> choice. How you implement the UI is up to you (right now we have a C# runtime designed for usage in Unity). By comparison, Inform7 is designed for building standalone parser-based text adventures in the vein of Zork and its more modern successors.
Its a matter of language.

Our model of representation of Go fails at expressing the game/strategies of AlphaGo is showing, we are communicating in the board in different languages, no wonder everyone looking the at games is stomped by the machine "moves".

Our brains lack the capacity of implementing such algorithms (understanding such languages), but we can still create them. We might see in the future engine A played against engine B and enjoy the matches.

No one is surprised by a machine doing a better job with integer programming/operational research/numerical solutions etc.
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Well, it clearly is by being a computer program.
All the laptops mentioned in the article ship with Intel WiFi.
How does it plays?
I was not able to do any progress and the "tutorial" didn't teach the rules of the game.
I even uninstall it in order to take a second look at the "tutorial" screen.
I love how you treat Putin one way and Obama another...

So the argument follows if you want perfect information; make everyone at birth wear an exploding neck tag with GPS and a cell phone that'll take your head clean off if you are ever thought of as a terrorist by the United States. No more war, no more collateral damage and yes, no more Edward Snowdon or Julian Assange.

If what we are after is perfect stability and no doors government can't unlock, why not aim to tag everyone up with a government controlled device, rather than doing it via mobile phones.
> I still don't understand how creating these huge, unwieldy words is an advantage.

It can be a great deal of fun to force words together for the sheer perversity of it.

In English, on the other hand, I enjoy the less rigid grammatical structure and the ability to use phrases that can be nearly impossible to translate.