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True. And the textbook solution for a deflationary spiral is to increase inflation. VC's have to raise rounds that run for finite periods of time. At the end of the time the have to return the money with their big returns. That means that the money is like grain rotting in a granary. There is a looming data at which all of the money becomes useless the the VC's. That's one hell of an inflation rate. It would be hard for VC's to resist that level of inflationary pressure for long.
Does anyone notice the lack of ko[1] in the games? In all 7 public games (5 with Fan and 2 with Lee) there isn't any ko. This is unusual. If we still can't see ko fights in the following 3 games...I would suspect that AlphaGo isn't able to handle ko well enough yet, and Google asked Lee and Fan to not initialize ko fights in the games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_fight
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The MMM was first published in 1975. I began working in the industry in 1978 and first read his book around then. Thirty-eight years later, we still try to fix late programs by adding people. Brooks wrote the seminal, magnificent book on project management but he's still a voice, crying in the wilderness.
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I gotcha. Yeah, I think accessibility can be tricky, especially if you frame it as prevalence or social acceptability.

On the one hand, I believe an addict will find a way to get their drug if they really want. On the other, a huge part of beating the addiction and maintaining it is to avoid situations where you know you'll be tempted to relapse.

As a personal example, I've struggled with cigarette smoking at times in my life, and it is undeniably harder (for me) to stay on the wagon when I can pick up tobacco on almost any corner, any gas station, convenience store, most pharmacies and grocers, etc. It's just everywhere.

Anyway, I'm just saying that I agree with most of that point – despite my being generally pro-legalization, pro-treatment vs incarceration. Honestly, if we as a society get to the point where an adult can pick up a bump of cocaine at every gas station, I think that will be a bad outcome. Accessibility doesn't necessarily mean prevalent and socially encouraged/acceptable, but it certainly could head us down that road – which is dangerous, at least for opiates/opioids.

And you make a good point about morphine. I guess it's because morphine's considered medicine and not a "decriminalized/legalized recreational drug", which are being subjected to higher "sin taxes".
What's going on over at microsoft? They've had a flurry of OSS announcements, a linux-for-switches fork, are posting relevant tech articles etc. This isn't the same microsoft I know. Is there some sort of change in the direction of leadership? I haven't seen any articles about changes in strategy in these directions but am seeing a lot of activity.
Overall I think analytics aren't as good a market at they sound.

The basic problem is that they are something you bolt onto your business after the fact rather than something that is core to running a business. They are a "nice to have" rather than "have to have" and when something new comes along it is too easy to replace them.
I'll bet that you could find the space if you were creative. Also, I'm not saying that storage space isn't considered, only that it isn't a "capital investment" when we're talking about a relatively small amount of space. How many square feet? I bet there is a corner where you could put a shelf.
Sure, kind behavior should be expected but it's okay to point it out and commend it too.

There's plenty of unkind behavior going on and being pointed out.
Ask HS: can TensorFlow be used for combinatorial optimization problems?
Working on a scheduling problem - I have heard of neural networks being used for this problem domain but wasn't sure TF covered this domain.
Yes, the appeal to peoples' conscience by asking them to pretend it is a free trial unfortunately won't work at all to get money from businesses. On the other hand, a support package with a definitive price is much easier for a developer to justify to the boss.

And BTW -

> My text editor costs $70

That's a bug, not a feature ;)
How would they be able to ban adblocking? Browsers can be made and distributed anywhere in the world - even after a decade the pirate bay is still active.

I have looked at webassembly. Let them do whatever they want there, ultimately they still have to write the text in the clear either in the dom or in a canvas (and a canvas is really slow to write, especially on a mobile phone) and in either case as long as your code can run before theirs in the same javascript, you can redefine a few key built in functions (e.g document.createElement, document.getElementsByTagName) you can force their code to call your implementation of whatever functions they want to write the information with - and you can write their text elsewhere, or filter images or whatever you want. Webassembly makes their code more difficult to debug, but they still have to call the same javascript functions straight javascript does.

So adblockers won't become obsolete, but it is possible that it will no longer be enough just to filter the dom.
In case you were wondering like I was: https://xkcd.com/721/
With the caveat, of course, that when it comes to security you can't just say "Docker and done". Docker is one layer of defense but it's not completely vetted and depending on it to fix all your security problems is a terrible practice to get into.
It sounds less weird if you think: "AI has automated some jobs, and eventually it may automate away most of them, in the same way (pending AlphaGo victory) it's now automated winning at most board games... So what happens if the job of programmer gets automated away?"

(I'm convinced that programmers will take the AI-automating-all-the-jobs idea more seriously once it's their own jobs that are on the line)

There are a few ways I can think of to object to this line of reasoning:

1) You could argue that programming will be a job that never gets automated away. But this seems unlikely--previous intellectual tasks (Chess, Jeopardy, Go) were thought to be "essentially human", and once they were solved by computers, got redefined as not "essentially human" (and therefore not AI). My opinion: In the same way we originally thought tool use made humans unique, then realized that other animals use tools too, we'll eventually learn that there's no fundamental uniqueness to human cognition. It'll be matter & algorithms all the way down. Of course, the algorithms could be really darn complicated. But the fact the Deepmind team won at both Go and Atari using the same approach suggests the existence of important general-purpose algorithms that are within the reach of human software engineers.

2) You could argue that programming will be automated away but in a sense that isn't meaningful (e.g. you need an expensive server farm to replace a relatively cheap human programmer). This is certainly possible. But in the same way calculators do arithmetic much faster & better than humans do, there's the possibility that automated computer programmers will program much faster & better than humans. (Honestly humans suck so hard at programming https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/51714087842877440 that I think this one will happen.) And all the jobs that we've automated 'til now have been automated in this "meaningful" sense.

Neither of these objections hold much water IMO, which is why I take the intelligence explosion scenario described by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom seriously: http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-N...
I disagree. Art is mostly not a "problem" to be "solved" by science. Art is not graded in a scale of difficulty, from "easy" to "harder" art that mankind has to gradually reach.

Literature is not a lower form of art that we must strive to automate so that we can dedicate ourselves to more "complex" forms.

You are confusing the unknown with art.
> I've never heard of a programming job that consistently limits employees to 40-hour weeks.

Limits? Perhaps not, but I've been in this industry for 25 years and in all the hundreds of projects I've completed, I've never had a single project where I was told I had to provide more than 40 hours of work per week for 40 hours pay. There have been many that I have voluntarily contributed more than that because I felt it was warranted or I needed to, but that was on me, not my employer. If you are putting yourself in a position where you feel obligated to provide time over and above what you are being paid for, then you don't truly value your time - and that's one commodity that you can never get back. If your boss doesn't respect that your work life balance, then you need to own the fact that you haven't gained their respect for your time and fix it, not blame or paint stereotypes of "the software industry."

In all industries there are shitty employers, bosses, employees, customers, vendors (and any other relationship endpoint I've forgotten) but in my experience, those relationships all boil down to respect. If you don't have the respect you require in the relationship, you need to own that and either gain that respect or walk away.

You can work anywhere in the software industry and only work a 40 hour week if you haul ass in those 40 hours to deliver what is expected and get the respect you require to only need to work those 40 hours.

If you're not able to deliver what is expected inside of those 40 hours then you need to ask yourself the hard questions - are you doing everything you can to deliver? If you truly are doing everything you can, then you need to set better expectations with your employer.

If the work really can't be completed in those 40 hours, you need to stand up and give more realistic estimates so that your employer can make better resource management decisions. If they're not willing to consider your professional judgment and fund the resources to do the work in the amount of time you're willing to give, then you need to get your resume out, because there are plenty of places and jobs for talented software developers where employer expectations are realistic and there is respect for your time.
I wonder if wax paper could be an effective way to preserve an orange. It has the downside of not displaying the alluring juiciness of the fruit as well, but the upside of being even easier to open than a plastic container.
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How do you know that's how they cracked the other phones? I would have expected that it would have involved taking advantage of some existing security vulnerability. The jailbreakers already have it nicely packaged up, even.
Or, maybe, there could have been bugs in the code.

If I'm an expert in some domain and a computer is telling me to do something completely different ("Trust me--just drive over the river!") I'm certainly going to question the result.
Well really, they don't even usually let me get to the point with showing my work where I can show my name in the credits. My point is they could have checked that ahead of time and seen my name in the credits if they wanted to verify that I actually did what I said I did in my resume, and they don't.

The handful of people I've had to interview I always checked the interviewees portfolio ahead of time if it was available.
Back when Firefox was the only browser that had adblocker extensions that was what some sites said, but it didn't catch on.
If you are coming away with something about "pseudo-secularism of public institutions in the American South" from a guy sharing an anecdote about his colleague, I think it has more to do with the lens through which you read the article than the guy, the article or the institution.
So, why is your website - http://kisannetwork.in/ devoid of any link to access this market place that you speak of ..?

- No App Download link
- No Telephone numbers toll free or otherwise
- No product listing, (items, prices etc.) on the website
- Just one email address to buy from farmers on your platform
And Lisp even offers good ways for most structure (even circular structures!) to read data in without enabling generic code execution.
It will be twice as fast for the same budget in about two years, maybe less. That'll allow it to better analyse outcomes.

And it will continue improving at about the same rate for the next few years, at least.

In the long term, meatware has no chance against it.
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Great, open reflection on the product. Thanks for sharing!
yeah you are right in terms of concept art; I figured that unfortunately more often than not the lines between concept, mood, detailing etc tend to be blurred depending on who looks at it; Also this is not going to replace individual character design or other specific assets, but might remove scalability issues w/ project that require a huge number of different backgrounds, texture variations.

Of course the originial craft to producing high quality output is still needed - and just one image is not going to be sufficient anyway.

As you mentioned, I can also think of giving lesser experienced folks the ability to tinker with scene setup, dimensions, ratios etc and get faster 'final' results, although the 'old school' approach to getting those right before actually detailing something is quite important.
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that's very interesting exlanation.. do you have the link to the interview of the DeepMind team?
I'd say that's completely unreasonable and here's why:

I pay you to do a job that provides value to my company. You're not providing that value while you're sleeping. You can have nap time, but I'm not paying you to nap. As a coder and software architect myself, I understand that it takes a fresh mind to deliver your best work so I understand the need for sleep and you should have as much as you need - but I'm paying you to do a job, not sleep. You sleep on your own dime, not mine. If you're not coming to work fresh enough to provide what we agreed to when you accepted the job, then why are you still coming to work?
Yeah, I'm going to assume that the billions still slated for the F-35 and B-21 bomber will still be spent.
This is how a huge number of incredibly successful countries work. You tax people on their ability to pay and spend the money on those who need it.
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I hate that this is not more visible, like in the Preferences pane.
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> So, right, programming interviews are from Alice in Wonderland and not about programming.

I don't understand your irony. No-one is saying that. We're saying that programming interviews are often not ONLY about programming, and unfortunately the parts NOT about programming tend to overshadow the parts that are. Therefore, interviewing requires preparation.

Are you bitter that programming interviews are like this? If so, fine. So am I.

Are you saying that programming interviews are NOT like this and do not require training for? You are mistaken. It's a fact of the world, whether we like it or not.

Or are you saying you lucked out and didn't have to go through this hell? If so, congrats! It's known to happen. But still, it pays to be prepared for the average case of difficult, stressful interviews.
> If you're using yaml and templates then you've already lost.

Probably true.

> The only tool in this game that is not braindead is chef.

What's wrong with s-expressions? Code and data at the same time.
They are heavily focused on the cloud. They recognized (correctly) that their time of living off revenues of Windows and Office were limited and thus they need to do other things as well. But yes, I am rather surprised at how well they are handling the change :).
That's an unconfirmed third hand story by someone who was obviously way too emotional about the equivalent of being kicked out of their D&D group. I would guess his/her friends ignored him/her because he/she was acting childish. What roommate ALWAYS tells the other where they're going? Especially if they started asking in a suspicious way? Or maybe the roommate stopped telling because he knew it was sensitive subject.

Frankly the way that account is told more than explains why people were distancing themselves from him or her. (S)he sounds crazy.
A flashback to the 90s, when some websites blocked Opera because it had a built-in popup blocker.
How come a startup that has not even launched yet (http://planpenny.com/) made its way to the top?
I think the "something that we cannot escape" the OP is describing is already here in the form of "native ads", which are advertisements presented as articles. Buzzfeed does a lot of them, and there's a non-zero cognitive load in differentiating (since they look so much like articles).

I'm really not sure they're better than ads. They're certainly more deceiving.
I think it'd be terrifying.

Imagine the best book you've ever read. Entrancing, enlightening, cathartic. You reach the end, and it's ... perfect. Oh hey, a sequel. Wow, the sequel is just as good as the first book. It expands upon it without diminishing the original -- you feel better, more complete for having read it. Wait, is that a third book in the series? Wow, it's even better than the first two! A fourth -- well, maybe you should go to work now, it's Monday, but the book is so good. Calling in sick once won't hurt anything.

Imagine a perfect series of books, published without end, each better than the last, a new one coming out weekly ... daily ... hourly ...
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If American military develops micro drones that have cameras and other sensors and carry enough firepower to kill a man, they have the key to win gorilla wars like the ones they have had trouble with in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.

It will be much cheaper to send in 100 tiny drones to kill one enemy soldier than to send in an American soldier. And it will be safe for Americans.

Once you have enough of the drones and they are small enough, you can launch swarms of them inside, outside, over ground, under ground, in daylight and at night. The enemy might be able to shoot down 99 percent of them, but you only need one drone to take out the enemy. You can chase down the enemy soldiers, one by one. You can even avoid civilian casualties by spending enough time to establish who's enemy soldiers and then take them out with precision. Even - to a high degree - if the enemy hides among civilians. Once the target is eliminated (or has surrendered), you can return any surviving drones or have them destroy themselves.

Once war becomes safe and clean for Americans, there will probably be less objections against war. Another Afghanistan will take a few weeks or months, not 15 years. Americans will actually be able to win the peace, not just the wars like today.

When the enemy realises that there is no-where to hide, they will surrender. Americans can basically engage anyone, anywhere, at all time and in no time, with no apparent risk at at little cost.

Of course, the threat of a nuclear retaliation would be the most effective defense against such drone based wars, so I would expect more of the dictatorships to attempt to acquire nuclear weapons.
I can see why they hired those ITsec experts but the designer one I'm actually surprised. The demos on his channels don't look that well made tbh and the concept themselves are mere tweaks, its funny that of all the concepts for apple products out there apple hired this guy.
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Literary awards are definitely subjective, but I don't think that matters. I'm just saying I think an AI will write a book that a significant portion of the population thinks is very good. The first "good" AI book will likely be from some formulaic genre (think 50 Shades of Gray) that most people think is trash, but enough people will like it to legitimately propel it to the top of the sales charts.

I also think my kids will live long enough to see an animated movie that is conceived of, written, scored, and animated by an AI.
Twitter has an agnostic tool called Pants [1]. I run a JVM shop and we are just now using some NodeJS so we are have been trying to figure out that as well.

[1]: https://pantsbuild.github.io/dev.html
I think this is the case on older Windows versions but is negligible now on most systems (and apparently fine on Linux, etc., going by replies to a similar post I made a while back)
I had a feeling after yesterday's win that people might be tempted to call it a close win by AlphaGo and predict that Lee could overtake it with a bit better play, but that we'd find no matter how good Lee played, AlphaGo would adjust and continue to come out just a bit more on top. It's actually probably really hard to tell how much better AlphaGo is because it probably plays quite conservatively overall and hides a lot of potential strength.
I can picture people avoiding you your entire life.

Go to r/dadjokes and stay there.
aaaand that's why the ship in the uk has set sail.
I got a card notification the other day about Hillary winning in some state and I thought to myself, why the hell am I seeing this?
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Yep, at the moment, with raw docker engine, if a user has access to create containers, they're basically able to get root on the box, as the docker daemon runs as root and there isn't any authorization control by default, so it doesn't work well for that kind of scenario.

With that said there's a couple of ways this is getting addressed.

1) in 1.10 authorization plugins landed as a feature,so it's possible to add this functionality.
2) there's a number of services which run on top of Docker Engine (e.g. Docker Universal Control Plane) which have authentication/authorisation at that level.
Satya is what happened. Microsoft finally has a CEO that gets it.
What you said about the expert calling something a bug reminded me of how the commentator in the first game would see a move by alphaGo and say that it was wrong. He did this multiple times for alphaGo but never once questioned the human's move. Yet even with all those "wrong" moves alphaGo won. Didn't watch the second game, so not sure if he kept doing that.
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I think Apple at least has not tried to strategically attack linux/OSS via rumors and lies a la halloween documents.

But I certainly agree that the linux community on a whole should re-evaluate its position on MS. If you expect that to happen over night, you are a fool.
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He says

> There's no such thing as free software.

That's a hyperbole.

He also says

> The question is, "Who pays the price?"

Not everything is done for gain. When someone gives you an apple you're probably not that concerned about how it came to be, to you that apple is free. But there's also that added advantage of software - you can copy and share it just like that with the whole world.
Neat! These are powerful chips with a broad range of core configs. See: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon-D.cfm
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this issue is incredible
> (I'm convinced that programmers will take the AI-automating-all-the-jobs idea more seriously once it's their own jobs that are on the line)

I assure you we do not. We would all love to be the one to create such a program. But don't worry it isn't happening anytime soon in the form of singularity.

Just like other people in other jobs, we sometimes come up with more efficient ways of doing things than our bosses thought possible, and then we have some extra free time to do what we like.
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