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I used to be on the Mac app store and did make fairly good money on it. I ended up dropping it because of the Sandbox which basically makes it impossible to innovate. Instead i focused only on selling directly from my website and through various distributers. Thats ended up being a much better strategy for me.

The biggest problem MAS have isn't that it's only pop apps but rather that it's 1) Not a destination for people looking for serious apps (google is)

2) Doesn't allow for fundamentally new types of apps to be developed.
Cats aren't aware of their surroundings? I'm a bit confused what you mean here. Surely chasing a mouse counts as both awareness and responding?
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I smiled to myself for a moment and that was immediately followed by that question.
If interviewed Obama I would ask him if he has to go through a TSA checkpoint when he boards AF1. I would ask him to reveal all top secret security information to me. I would ask him for the nuclear codes. I would ask him for an advanced copy of his schedule for the next 6 months. When he refused to answer I would ask him why he thinks his security is more important than mine.
I agree with you as this makes perfect sense. I'm new to the game Go but have been riveted by these games and the commentary.

Here's where I think you're right. It seems from the commentary during the matches that the pro player thought the game to be close...on every match.

Then the tides turned...or so we thought...and the game always swayed in AlphaGo's favor.

I like how they were saying that the computer changed up the game style as well.

All of this is very interesting, and I see that they have games 4 and 5 listed however I wonder if they are going to go thru with them and play them as scheduled.

Maybe to see if AlphaGo can sweep the series? Or show it wasn't a fluke of any kind?

I hope they play the last two...just to see how AlphaGo plays them. :D
There's also "Heimscheißer" -- someone who strongly prefers taking a dump in the comfort of his own home, and may even be incapable of doing so elsewhere, except for emergency situations.
> Like what the hell even is indie app?

In the Mac world, and now iOS which most of this article refers to, the term indie developers has a more specific meaning. It refers to a single developer or small team of a few developers that is self-funded. It almost definitely implies doing it full-time [1], and not doing this during their free time only (aka. hobbyist).

It has more or less the same meaning as used in the video games community, and similar to how it's used in film making.
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Is this the first OHAAS (Optimize Hyperparameters As A Service)?
Sure, but as I said in my parent comment in such a case we're hurting corporations. Why would we want to do that? Google isn't our enemy here, they're probably in the same boat as we're. Of course they could willingly participate which would be a game-changer but I seriously doubt they'd go in such extreme measures because it could alienate them in the eyes of the state.
Which kind of makes sense, since a housewife would not turn into a trailer wife when moving into one.
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Ooooh, tell us what it's like to be so rich!
Re "nobody would do that": here's a quote from Destiny's Shield, one of the books in the Belisarius series:

"I was just thinking of the provisions of a typical Alexandrian rental agreement. For a house or an apartment. You know, the one about—"

Zeno smiled, nodding. "Yes, I know." His voice took on a sing-song cadence: " 'At the end of the term, the tenant shall return the house to the lessor free of dung.' "

He laughed himself, now. "It was so embarrassing for me, the first time I rented an apartment in Constantinople. I was puzzled by the absence of that provision in the contract. When I inquired, the landlord looked at me as if I were crazy. Or a barbarian."
I'm pretty sure that the reinforcement learning algorithm they are using is guaranteed to converge. It just takes a very long time to train, and using human games probably sped it up.
Simpler version is mechanical timer with reset every N hours.
great example!

I did not mention I was not alone, I went with my boyfriend, so it makes 2 of us. But I am still pretty confident if I were alone, it would still be cheaper for me to cook rather than eat out.
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> the images themselves are just data

Sure, and touching a child inappropriately is really just two electron clouds interacting. Van der Waals forces should not be illegal, right?
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True. I'd say semi autonomous in a decade and fully in twice that due to infrastructure costs.
Again... there is very little material difference between a garden hose nozzle and a 1911 handgun, just as there is very little mathematical difference between the functions powering TLS and PGP. But one is completely centralized and offers practically zero protection from government lawyers and NSLs, and the other offers protection from even determined state level adversaries. Guess which one is widely deployed and which one had to be published in a book and shipped over seas in order to circumvent munition export restrictions.
Amazing to think you can have problems of scale that can only be fixed by building a better CPU. But at FB scale everything is a bottleneck including power. I think it would be fun to think about ways to fix problems of this magnitude with virtually unlimited budgets. Of course having too much money can also be a bottleneck and allow you to come with too many wrong answers as well.
There's a single machine version, which beats the distributed version 30% of the time. That should be plenty strong to be useful.
He's not saying that AIs can't be smarter than humans. My interpretation is he's implying that AlphaGo does not indicate that much progress towards AGI.

I'd also like to point out that you didn't define "smart" or "intelligent" either. The fact is, it's a very very difficult concept to define.

Reposting this comment from another thread:

The "moving goalposts" argument is one that really needs to die. It's a classic empty statement. Just because other people made <argument> in the past does not mean it's wrong. It proves nothing. People also predicted "true AI" many times over-optimistically; probably just as often as people have moved goalposts.
Did you mean XPS13? I think it would be on par performance- and weight-wise with X1C. XPS15 is _significantly_ bulkier, but in return you get the i7 6700HQ (quad core). I believe the MBPs use the HQ CPUs as well, so we are talking a slightly different class of laptops..
Out of curiosity, what tools are you referring to that are nicer on ES6 and not applicable to LS? Could you give examples?
The good old trick of calling those you disagree with extremists, I mean absolutist...

Because not wanting the government to have full access to your phone is extremism.
I agree somewhat, but then what is your gauge for superhuman if not some type of competition? How do you evaluate it?
On another note, Rocky Marciano had the mafia behind him. Harry Haft fought him and was knocked out, and later claimed the mafia told him he had to throw the fight [1].
There's also a good graphic novel about this. Maybe the AI's goons have threatened Sedol or kin ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Haft
It's free because it was free before Google bought it in '06.

The world wide web was based on the idea of sharing, not paying for content by being forced to watch ads that I would never ever watch intentionally. Or do you want the internet to be like television?
I think humanity will be drastically changed by AI-made decisions calculated by human overseers but not so much that AI will be designed to communicate with one another, have access to markets, and the freedom to decide what they want to do. Is there a sci-fi novel that assumes that approach?
Which word?
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Such an entity would not be hyper-intelligent. It would be idiotic. One huge hole for me in the paperclip argument is that an AI capable of that kind of power would not be stupid enough to misinterpret a command - it would be intelligent enough to infer human desires.
Apple categorizes apps just like Yahoo once categorized each site in a directory. But you're not forced to browse through each category. You can simply search for the specific app name or keyword like "todo list".

Also the curators are everywhere - they're called bloggers, tweeters, Etc.
However, your premise is that it is possible to do something about guns.

However, consider the war on drugs, billions spent, agencies created, military style task force, severe penalties including life in prison just for possession.

So if that didn't keep drugs out of the hands of bad people, why would changing some regulations keep guns out of peoples hands? I don't see any regulations that have ever been proposed that would make any difference and if we went all in as in the war on drugs, but war on guns, the war on drugs sets a precedent that it won't be successful.
One tiny detail that bothers me is that there's a Windows logo on the keyboard. It could be Tux or Ubuntu logo.

Tux Penguin sticker solved my problem on my XPS 13, but would be nice to see it coming out of the box.
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While we're boycotting, we should all run for office and vote for each other.
"Studierende" is actually a counterexample, because it means "people who are studying right now". So if you hear of "Studierendenproteste" rather than "Studentenproteste" (student protests), you can picture them reading books during their protest. :)
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Which is exactly what the parent meant
Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco. I recently bought a two dollar apple there ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Grocery_Cooperative
The way in which it is superhuman matters. The calculator uses simple mechanical algorithms. Alpha Go uses a completely novel approach to deep learning that can likely be applied to many other systems/problems.
Mithril is really nice, I've been following its progress since the beginning. If I had to use a framework, Mithril would be my first choice.

lichess.org is a very busy application built around Mithril.
"It doesn't works" has little to do with the glue-s, it just happens to be halfway between the even more wrong "It not works" and "It doesn't work".

Personally, I go for "It not worksy" (or shorter: "Not worksy!") when I want the language to be as broken as the thing it describes.
While FinTech does face headwinds, it's not as bad as the author claims. Taking the points in turn:

1. "FinTech businesses don’t scale quickly." Online lending platforms can actually scale rather quickly. According to SoFi's CEO, "In 2012, SoFi funded about $90 million of loans. These days, it originates more than $1 billion a month". [1] While that is indeed still small relative to size of the market, that's more of a reflection of how huge the market is.

2. "It’s really easy to get fooled by early adopters." True in any space.

3. "FinTech is not an acquisitive space." This is a good point.

4. "The sale cycles are really long." If you're selling into an enterprise, then sales cycles are always long.

5. "Customer acquisition is hard to hack." Compared to a social network, yes, but social networks are singularly conducive to viral growth. It is possible to achieve viral growth (e.g., PayPal).

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Online-lender-SoFi-st...
Why isn't Go the same as the other languages?

Because then it would be the same as the other languages.
And be careful of systemd. Most days you'll wake up in 2 seconds but occasionally you'll be comatose for the whole day with no way to find out what's wrong.
B2C/C2C fintech, perhaps. But it's not the only model, and TBH, selling financial services to consumers is difficult - the risks of getting a startup involved in your financials aren't trivially dismissed.

Selling tech, particularly SaaS, into finance is a different story. Most organizations are large and scelerotic, developers are heavily laden with security controls, and smart devs are uninterested in the more boring plumbing, where you're a cost centre and aren't getting a decent slice from the bonus pool.

Historically a lot of financial software has been consultancy-ware sold directly to management, or poorly implemented internal systems with long turnaround times. The industry is ripe for more cloud-oriented software with lower onboarding times and less gating by internal IT. The primary challenge is convincing people that their data is safe with you, and that the service can be continued even if you go away (so, source escrow).

(I work in this space - send me an email at barry@du.co if you're interested in joining a growing startup in London. Stack includes C++/Java/Ruby/JS and more.)
Indie video games have never been defined like that, and neither have indie films. It means independent of a major publisher, that's all. The team size or level of funding has no bearing on that.
I’m using Gnome and it works surprisingly well. All browsers and Gnome apps look great out of the box (apart from blurry icons occasionally). Qt or WxWidgets-based apps have clipped text and small checkboxes etc; they are usable but it is not pleasant. I use only two of those apps, and I rarely use anything more than a terminal, a browser and a music player, so 90% of the time everything looks great.

I didn’t have to configure anything; Gnome automatically set the scaling factor to 2 and everything worked out of the box, browsers too.
Similar definition with musicians as well, at least in the 90s - an indie musician was typically not signed to a record label, and published their own CDs and merchandise and sold / mailed them directly to fans. They didn't have the resources of a huge marketing department or big record label advances, but they had direct contact with individual fans & got a much higher percentage of the profit on every sale. They could make a living from a smaller fan/customer base (The 1000 True Fans theory).
Worse touchpad, less battery life, display scaling issues...
Why is this a news? I bought two laptops before, both of them came with Linux, one Asus one Dell.
>Guns are physical items that require physical ammunition. It is a completely different situation.

However that will likely change soon with the rise of general-purpose 3d printers.
Google play on the other end has the opposite problem. Once you've as much as searched for simulation and strategy game a single time, the front page will be filled of nothing but simulation and strategy games.
Agreed. Anti censorship messages are a good thing, but this sort of concept could easily be adjusted to push all kinds of worrying propoganda and political messages.

It also reminds me a bit much of how old school adware used to replace ad on sites with ones that send the money to the malware's developers. That's another worrying thing that could be done with this sort of feature in the future.
This might be more helpful -https://github.com/grammarly/rocker-compose
Not any more. Requiring code modifications to use cross-module reflection was too painful and was dropped in the most recent Jigsaw iteration. You can reflect across module boundaries without problems now.
Is it because humans have less fat than seals etc, that they are not interested in us as food?
I made an account just to tell you the most wonderful word creation of all: "Neugier", the german for "curiosity, is made out of the words for "new" and "greed", you could translate it as "greed for new things".
Not sure about Maven, but Gradle has already introduced a "software model" feature which is meant to map almost directly to Jigsaw modules. So the idea is you'll configure the module system through the build system, and it'll generate the right Jigsaw data for you. It also handles versioning and other things Jigsaw doesn't do directly.
No, that won't work.

Modules are not allowed to export the same packages.
>But where would you go?

Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina, Israel, India?

The result of these kinds of policies is brain drain. The people you are trying to ban the actions of are both some of the most driven and outspoken in the world, and also some of the most economically desirable in the world. If you prevent them from investigating their pet projects in their homeland, they will simply go and do it in another country, because it's not an obstacle for them. There's a tonne of countries out there that would gladly roll out the red carpet for a tech exodus from the former commonwealth states.
> Ease of access isn't some magical balance of power altering problem. [...] People can break encryption through various attacks [Keyloggers, observing people entering their keycodes, etc].

This is where we disagree. What you've enumerated are attacks of convenience against a cryptographic implementation, not cryptography itself. And this is exactly what ease of access dramatically shifts.

The real twist isn't that Apple is suddenly providing quality encryption. We've had unbreakable encryption since the first one-time pad. IMHO, the FBI et al. didn't care because a statistically relevant number of people didn't use it. The twist is that Apple suddenly packaged that up into a consumer device with a quality implementation and all the hard details handled. And the FBI et al. do care because a very statistically relevant number of people use iPhones.

So yes, ease of access is a balance altering change. Because really, I don't think the government cares if hard encryption exists: it cares if lots of people use it.
"curators are everywhere - they're called bloggers, tweeters, Etc."

That won't change the market for these apps though, there needs to be a way for curators to actually be featured in the app store itself. An example would be how Steam did it's curator-feature. Although it's not perfect, it allows you to follow a curator, or get suggestions for which curators to follow based on apps you have already downloaded. [1]

I see big opportunities for re-igniting the indie-market in this way, I'm just not sure there's an incentive for the app stores to go through with it.

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/about/curators/
Do I bet on the wrong horse if I use Angular 2 instead of React+other tools?

I don't get the whole React love? I always learnt not to mix view and business logic? React does this?
I reconcile the Windows logo on my keyboards by using it as the meta key in XMonad, meaning the windows key is used to manage windows.
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The java.desktop module is going to be a prime candidate for further breakdown, probably after Java 9 I guess. It is huge and ships all 3 widget toolkits when most apps need only one.
>> intense competition in an already low-margin industry drive the price down for restaurants.

Isn't the same thing true for the grocery stores? They are located in the same areas as restaurants and have to pay pretty much the same expensive rent, no? meanwhile, their expenses may be lower than the ones of a restaurant.

anyway, could you tell more info about what your neighborhood pub - for example, what neighborhood is it? what meal did you eat?

I can share my numbers - and sorry I did not tell in advance I went with my BF, so there were two of us eating cooked food.

So, I ate at Cafe Aroma in Manhatten and I paid about $17 for a plate with rice + fish + some salad.

the same day I went to a grocery store on Myrtle Ave in Brooklyn to buy supper for 2. I paid about $27 for tortellini, some chicken ham, a small watermelon, and some beer. It was enough for us for supper + some leftovers for breakfast (beer haha ;). The day after I found an even cheaper store where I bought supper for the other two days at once.

$17 for a cafe meal seemed too expensive for me, so the next days I tried to eat cheaper cafe lunches. So I ate sandwiches for ~ $10-12; however, they contained a much smaller amount of proteins so I felt hungry much faster after.
Are hippos a good example? They are crazy territorial, have a nasty temper and will take on any animal that stray into their area. Orcas aren't territorial.
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Java starts in about 50 msec. Modularity won't make much if any difference to that.

The primary benefits are better security, encapsulation and the jlink tool that lets you build standalone app-specific bundled JREs.
It's called a "Gleitlaut" and it's supposed to make it easier to pronounce the word, for instance "Nutzungsrecht" vs "Nutzungrecht".
> Well, the important difference is that German has actually simple, clean rules for spelling in those cases.

In German, there are the “Fugenlaute”, sounds that are inserted between the words that a compound is made of. And it is not always clear, what these sounds should be.

Some examples:

* “Schaden(s)ersatz” (compensation for damages) – some put an “s” between “Schaden” (damage) and “ersatz” (substitute), some don’t.
* In the German constitution the word “verfassungsgebend” appears, but some would call it “verfassunggebend”.

There are even words that have a different meaning depending on the “Fugenlaute”:

* “Landsmann” / “Landmann” (Land = country / land; Mann = man): “Landsmann” is a man from the same country; a “Landmann” is a peasant or farmer.

There really aren’t “rules” that apply.

There is a lengthy article in the German Wikipedia about this topic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugenlaut
This was my feel too.

I doubt the author would admit it, but, I think a lot of hyperbole is due to long-standing "Mac devs" and the author's circle of friends and acquaintances being unable to sustain a living from (merely) writing their own apps. Which is especially frustrating for them as the audience has grown dramatically over the past 5+ years.

Sure, the supply has grown considerably, and with that there are more 'light, snackable, mass-market apps'. But, that's what happens when the barrier to entry gets lower, and supply increases.

It is a true shame when we lose gifted 'indie' developers and some truly fantastic apps. But, no one has a right to a living.

Interestingly, and perhaps a hidden message in this article, is that there are significant parallels to draw to journalism.
FFS. It's the worst because it parasitically drains the market while adding exactly zero economic value.
Probably the neatest part of Jigsaw is not the actual module system itself, but the tools it makes possible, specifically the "jlink" static linker. Jlink creates custom JRE images that:

• Don't have unused modules

• Don't use JARs as a format, instead using a much more optimised internal binary format

• Have various whole-program optimisations done on them, like removing the use of reflection.

• Can produce native Mac/Win/Linux installers/packages.

The last one is already a feature of Java 8 via the javapackager tool, but jlink makes it a much more powerful system.
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I'd prefer a router with a AA battery slot, so it doesn't go down in the first place.
It's not really only app servers and other plugin systems that need this. Dependency conflicts happen routinely when building all kinds of Java apps, just by depending on useful open source libraries. This is one of the pieces of feedback I sent to the Jigsaw team and I'm glad to see it appeared in Mark's list of issues to consider.

Gradle's dependency tools help, but the best it can do is either flag an error or automatically de-conflict modules by always picking the newest version. If the version isn't fully backwards compatible, you can get deadlocked.
I wish I could tell my customers, I just need 3 more years to solve these bugs.