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Great article, and the best is Musk's response. Just one more example of how, ala Allison and Zeilkow's "Essence of Decision," so much of what happens in industrial organizations ("industrial" in the philosophical sense -- meaning organizations with hierarchies, divisions, etc.) is motivated not by the overall interest of the organization (cf. Musk's response), but rather of the more parochial needs of the individual managers. Which is to say someone within the Tesla organization, fearful of an error they made, sought to retaliate against the guy -- even though the retaliation was unauthorized, and even counterproductive. An amazing use case for how Twitter, when optimally utilized as a total free-speech zone, can really help move the world forward, as things like this enable information to percolate directly to the top without winding its way through the "mittelebureaucracy."
Email, in my opinion, is still the best solution for a number of collaborative and communication tasks. It's deficient in any number of areas, but it does away with all the useless and distracting features of things like slack.
The South China Morning Post has had the best English-language reporting on China for years. Both inside and outside China, that was what one read to get some idea of what was really going on. For comparison, read Xinhua.[1] Today's top story: "President Xi calls for structural reform, agricultural modernization". Story #2: "Premier Li urges Guangdong to pioneer reform". Story #3: "Top legislator delivers report on work of NPC Standing Committee". You get the idea. China Daily [2] on China is a bit better. But not much. "China to boost consumer goods quality: minister". "Top legislator lauds enhanced legislation on China's national security". There's also the People's Daily [3], which is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China. This is literally the party line. Good coverage of the 13th Five-Year Plan and the 2016 National Party Congress.

This is a big loss for China. The USSR suffered from having all the press toe the party line. Even the people running the country didn't have a good overview of what was going on. The downfall of the USSR was a surprise to the leadership of the USSR.

[1] http://www.news.cn/english/
[2] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
[3] http://en.people.cn/
In fact, they've implemented lambdas exactly like retrolambda does via anonymous classes.
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DSP (digital signal processors) let you manage cache yourself. And believe me, it isn't fun — it's something you'd want to do only for algorithms that merit tedious hand-tuning.

As for linear, I believe the last high-performance CPU with a direct-mapped cache (e.g. not an X-way set associative one) was the DEC Alpha?
Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, to name a few, are seen as less corrupt than countries like Portugal, France and Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

All the Asian countries I mentioned have more draconian drug laws, less crime and less drug usage rates than the European ones I mentioned (along with the United States).

It's easy to dismiss my argument by calling them corrupt and their statistics misleading. It's another thing to actually refute my argument with facts and figures, which you haven't done.
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what phillc73 said.

Totally respect having a focused command line w no frills workflow. To each their own.

But you should really give RStudio a try. It's a beautiful, highly productive R IDE with many features that make writing R much much more pleasant.
Sometimes the process is more important than the result. For instance, the reason we have a World Wide Web is because hundreds of people working at CERN on projects like the LHC needed a better way to organize and share documentation. Even if the LHC's results lead directly to a fusion reactor or a warp drive, it will still be debatable whether that's more important -- or more economically valuable -- than what their researchers have already given us.
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The linked article quoting former NSA person is wrong, Apple never unlocked encrypted iPhone 5C before, there are enough articles about the fact that for the previous demands no new software was needed, just data copying.
Hah.

Back in 2003 I wrote:

"PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to "understand" the web caused the web itself to change."

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html

It's amazing that it took this long.
This strikes me as a response to Snapchat's recent success with fun video filters. If you look at the App Store rankings, they've clearly boosted Snapchat's ranking past Instagram and Facebook recently, as they're totally viral and people seem to be using them nonstop whenever I'm on.

Congrats to the MSQRD team!
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Not sure what you mean - RTVS works with CRAN R...
You should be able to do something like this in PowerShell on Windows already; .NET types are easy to use in it.

Since I haven't heard any screams of anguish coming from Windows people, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Yes, a number of VPS providers offer it. Well not precisely KVM, since that's for bare-metal machines, but a similar kind of console access. For example https://prgmr.com/ does.
It's either a cover or the kind of propaganda gig that you see in military dictatorships - "Troops rescue cat from tree!" "Paratroopers deployed to give children candy!" "Death squad visits old people's home with cake!"
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I wish they'd add grouping to the window switcher, something similar to what's in WebOS. Because it's somewhat difficult to implement tabs without cluttering the UI in appssuch as web browesers, reddit clients, mail clients, etc.
If 47k deaths per year is an "epidemic" as the author terms it, the 610k that die each year from heart disease must be an all-out pandemic.
It never was a war on drugs. Drugs are inert and aren't capable of fighting a war. It's a war on addiction. And good luck winning that on a national scale with "laws."
The good news is that Vulkan was designed with a multi-GPU (vendor) use case in mind so there is a generic "loader" that you use to load vendor-specific Vulkan implementations for each GPU your application renders with.
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How much does a digital sign really benefit from tracking the most recent releases anyways? Other than the obvious issue of security fixes, it doesn't seem like that is a domain that would really care that much about trying to keep up.
I guess I was referring to strategy specifically. The tactics are probably well in hand for both human and AI.

For the AI, the result of the first match will result in one more game entered in the its database. If it's like chess history, it's probably slanted a little towards that player's history in particular.

But the human player is well aware of the machine studying his strategic history and weighting it. If he's well studied like the chess guys are (is that how go players study?) he could employ a strategy he thinks would be surprising to the AI, or even plan to switch strategies in the middle. If one knows they are playing a pattern matcher, you can try to lead it to a local minimum and then leave it there.

Just speculating :-)
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That's really sad that you won't explore psychedelics because of personal idealism. You only get one life.
They've been adding Java 8 features to ART and Jack in AOSP for many months now, even before the OpenJDK move.
"I would say you were paying $500 for a vanity bug"

No, it would be just an (admittedly shady) business investment.

"What 'dsacco is saying is essentially factual. The places that buy vulnerabilities don't buy Fb account takeover bugs."

You either didn't read my post or you are deliberately ignoring it. dsacco was wrong on so many aspects and so were you when supported him, as for what you're doing now... I'm not sure what to make of it!
I have chronic pain due to a heriditary, incurable condition. Right now one of my ankles is in an elastic wrap to ease the irritation from arthritis. In our home, we did have a bottle somewhere of Tylenol 3, aka codeine. Regular acetominophen was usually what I got to help with an issue.

As I grew into adulthood, I knew the pains I experienced were directly related to my condition, and it was my desire to not really 'cloak' the pain, but avoid it in the first place. Preventive if you will. It helps, but it's clear to me that I wanted to be healthy, and if I have to occasionally take something, so be it. Naproxen sodium has worked quite well of late.

The point of all this rambling is that I simply don't want the hassle of becoming addicted to pain pills. Or sleeping pills. Or nasal spray when it's allergy season. I've lived with pain so long for my life that I'm kind of used to it, and I do say so as a point of pride. It's the body I was born with and it's the one I'll have to use for this gig, take care of it.

I don't fault people for wanting pain treatment. I think the way the system was set up with pills flooding the US was incredibly destructive, and highly indicative of the dangers of for-profit medicine as a system. Toss in the DEA's drug laws and it just turns patients into criminals and that benefits only a very limited group.

When I eventually started seeing commercials on TV for a treatment for opiod induced constipation all I could think about was Trainspotting and that we have a real, genuine problem on our hands in the US.
"only in Canada and EU". Some regard that as a feature :)
Holy crap, very cool! At first glance I thought it was just a neat little resizing trick, but then Zeus morphed right before my eyes and I did a double take. The way it responds to your movement makes it really effective in a way that would be extremely hard (impossible?) to reproduce in a static image or even a video.
IPhone 6s, the image dragging works, but only the first picture is displayed. The selector doesn't appear.

IPad Air, works perfectly. Image selector appears and you can switch images. Dragging works as expected.
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Couldn't you get close to optimization by just observing the load order in a real page load? Why go to the trouble to construct the dependency graph?
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The space issue seems to be a non-issue until you scale up to multiple bulk products. Unless you are talking about people living in either a shelter or the housing units that are basically a bed and everything else is communal.
"Fotland, an early computer Go innovator, also worked as chief engineer of Hewlett Packard’s PA-RISC processor in the 70s, and tested the system with his Go program. “There’s some kind of mental leap that has to happen to get you past that block, and the programs ran into the same issue. The issue is being able to look at the whole board, not the just the local fights.”

Fotland and others tried to figure out how to modify their programs to integrate full-board searches. They met with some limited success, but by 2004, progress stalled again, and available options seemed exhausted. Increased processing power was moot. To run searches even one move deeper would require an impossibly fast machine. The most difficult game looked as if it couldn’t be won."

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/

The article then goes on to discuss how Monte Carlo was the real breakthrough.
Everything is a network of computers. Some networks are very fast (QPI between sockets, PCIe), others only somewhat fast (SATA/SAS, USB, Ethernet). At both ends of the network there are discrete computers (hard disk controller, network card, keyboard, monitor, ...) talking to each other.

Essentially the difference between reading data from local memory and reading it from say Amazon S3 is just the speed/latency of the various networks, and how many computers had to store, transform and shuffle the data onto another network.

It only gets more amazing when you think about all the analog stuff that happens at the end of those networks, the button presses of people on their keyboard, light hitting a sensor in a camera, spinning particles of magnetized rust, stored electrons in a flash chip, light travelling through fibers of glass, crystals moving in the pixels of your monitor etc. In the end those analog actions are what make it "real" and what the whole network of networks is build for.
The vast majority of drug offenders in prison are drug dealers, not drug users. It's extremely rare for drug users to be imprisoned. It boggles my mind that this propaganda is kept being pushed.
"That also includes physicians." That is exactly my point. Doctors shouldn't have to make patients jump through hoops in order to prescribe medicine. Maybe I should have stated it clearer, the remedy I want is for doctors to be able to prescribe as they see fit without the DEA raiding their office and throwing them in jail.

As for over prescribing, that should be no more dangerous than any other medicine. If my doctor gives me 800mg ibuprofen and I take 10 of them in the morning, he isn't responsible. As it should be for pain killers.

As for addiction sucking, I also already agreed it is a problem, but when I weigh it against innocent people, who didn't make a conscious decision to do something wrong, I find it the lesser of evils to let people make that very bad choice. Do I really need to say I don't have a problem with doctors monitoring patients for addiction? But extreme measures are being taken, not out of an over abundance of caution for patients but because the DEA is throwing doctors in jail.
I think you are confusing utility functions with intelligence. All AIs need utility functions. An AI without a utility function would just do nothing. It would have no reason to beat Atari games, because it wouldn't get any reward for doing so.

Even humans have utility functions. For example, we get rewards for having sex, or eating food, or just making social relationships with other humans. Or we have negative reinforcement from pain, and getting hurt, or getting rejected socially.

You can come up with more complicated utility functions. Like instead of beating the game, it's goal could be to explore as much of the game as possible. To discover novel things in the game. Kind of like a sense of boredom or novelty that humans have. But in the end it's still just a utility function, it doesn't change how the algorithm itself works to achieve it. AGI is entirely agnostic to the utility function.
I was one of the people who rooted for the champion last month, and my position hasn't changed. Last night's game was very exciting, but if the pressure doesn't get to Sedol he has a chance. He made some mistakes in the game and AlphaGo played incredibly well. General opinion I've seen so far is that the lead switched hands in a few places, although I'm waiting for professional commentaries to illuminate what possibilities were there for both players - the played game is always just the tip of the iceberg
If your law enforcement, in addition to being a peeping tom, you still need a warrant. Check out the use of infra-red from the street to check houses.
I don't disagree, but as long as getting into a good college is deemed important (rightly or wrongly), getting bad grades is risky.
If I could, I would give you gold. But I can't.
The son is never going to live in a world that doesn't have deep learning.

Except if a big solar flare hits us ;}
Yes, it is easy because frankly I don't believe in taking a lot of time proving a negative, as in I can't walk out my door and disprove the statistics I believe to be false and you claim to be true.
And then the issues of facilities costs, and teacher funding.
It is one of the most annoying and user unfriendly anti-patterns I've ever come across. It is SO irritating when you are searching for, say, "Hackernews ramen" and you get thousands of results all with the little gray strikethrough text saying "ramen" doesn't appear on the page. If it's not there why bother even returning the result? I know the answer (Ad money / SEO) but it's like one of the basic tenets of information retrieval and they just said fuck it.
China has a big ketamine problem now, with whole villages producing the drug and many addicts. Singapore has a middle-class "ice" (meth) problem.

In addition, there was a recent study showing that harsh penalties and rates of drug use are not correlated. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/punitive-drug... If you think that particular countries have unusually low rates of use, then you may be just wrong because of misreporting, or it could be to do with other societal factors (eg. children having to live at home longer with parents because of social norms or housing issues).
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>I don't know why anyone would assume that, given how poorly it works.

You're tough. Every type of computer generated visuals have some cases that won't work well, given that there are so many semantic choices: anti-aliasing, dithering, textures, forms, compete for the information of each pixel. Each pixel can encode any subset of these features. We rely on the human brain to parse it and decode it meaningfully, and even then, it doesn't always work. If you've tried yourself at pixel art, you'll understand quickly (you can also look at the research on upscaling algorithms). So the result is very far from an actual product, but it's really impressive.
I agree with parts of this, sort of.

I maintain a personal server that hosts a variety of VMs for things like mail, static site hosting, nameservice, etc. Last time I rebuilt it, I thought, hey, I'll try doing it with these interesting tools. The immutable-infrastructure approach turns out to be pretty heavy in that case. A lot of times it feels like I have to perform a triple bank shot just to make a minor configuration change.

That said, I think the one-off server, carefully maintained by one person, is becoming very rare. When I build things that other people will work on, I think immutable infrastructure and the cattle-not-pets approach is the only responsible way to go. Even if traffic volume won't be huge, I think the clarity and ease of debugging you get is vital when it doesn't all live in one wizard's head.

I agree that stateful servers are a challenge in this context. But they're a challenge regardless. Having that one thing we're afraid to upgrade or restart can cause all sorts of development and business process issues. That might have been a worthwhile tradeoff 10 years ago when you had to buy all your hardware and you needed ops people to do a lot of stuff manually. Servers go down, and we might as well accept that from the beginning.
> The libertarian argument against prohibition boils down to this: The government can't stop people from doing anything, it can only punish people after they've done it. Substance abuse is something we'd really rather people didn't do

I am not a libertarian, but I have worked in drug policy reform advocacy groups, and a number of my colleagues were libertarians. This is not at all an accurate description of the prototypical libertarian argument against prohibition.
> no optimizing apps step after system update.

That is fantastic news. Every single time my Nexus 6P gets an update it feels like it takes at least 15 minutes to "optimize apps". Every. Single. Update.
Quite sure. 17k players still make many huge mistakes, and at the other extreme, God (say 13d) would win 100% of the time against a 12d player. Given that the win ratio for a one rank difference starts at 50% for extreme beginners and ends at 100% for God, maybe you should be the one explaining why you'd expect a significant plateau at 2/3 instead of a smooth increase.
What's the role of DirectX in that context?
"> Told about the issues, the response was basically Alloy et al wanted to invest no time or money into a better situation."

"That's actually not true."

"taking the route they took, the benefits for them... Yes, that mentions the time and money benefit, but so what – it's honest, and it is valid to limit expectations on what is possible now."

So, it was true. Then the dialog continued from there with Alloy paying attention to the situation. Alloy refused to do any signiciant work on their end for their maximal benefit in a disruptive situation from a free service. Even admitted they were using a service for something it's not designed for but didn't care about moving to a more appropriate one. Hence, my calling it selfish.

Eventually, others had invested their own time and energy into the problem enough to come up with some simple recommendations for Alloy that take very little effort on his part. Alloy summarized those and agreed to attempt them. Thread was closed before we could see where that went.

Given above, I stand by my claim that he was a selfish individual pushing his own liabilities onto others wherever possible. Even in how it was remedied was mostly on others. On other hand, he might make a good capitalist w/ that level of exploitation and externalizing. :)
> Never mind that web rings were around long before Google and used the same tactics.

If you "never used the web before Google," how would you know this? I suppose you might have read about it. I did use the web before Google, and I don't remember web rings back then. There simply was no reason to do so, before Google started ranking pages based on the links.

I do remember lots of BS meta keywords.
Why is the AlphaGo win a big deal?
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That doesn't actually help the "py3k was a good idea" argument. 3.3 came out 4 years after 3.0. 4 years to become a reasonable choice is kind of pathetic, especially given the fact that python2 was put into bugfix-only mode 2 years after the 3.0 release
So the loader knows what hardware is going to process it and therefore uses the right driver. Is that correct? Trying to imagine how it might work.
> A bit overkill no?

For just potholes, yeah, but there is a lot of other municipal infrastructure that could benefit from aerial inspection, especially if they are in non-public, low traffic or otherwise inaccessible areas.
It's called the veil of ignorance. Locke was among its supporters, and while Locke was a staunch supporter of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, including property rights, he considered hoarding to be against nature. So it's possible to describe yourself as libertarian and still support publicly funded alcohol and drug rehab.

In other words, how do you want a society work where you or a family member might have a strongly prone to addiction? Do you want a society that tries to neutralize such affects so that they can still be functioning members of society? Or do you want only the whim of charity and profit motive of private industry to take care of them? I think the latter very clearly has all the wrong incentives for a stable society. It's classist, and it ignores that everyone has defects of some sort or another.
Google is, like any ranking system, subject to Goodhart's law[1]. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

What has been Google's saving grace has been their skill at updating their target, attempting to turn the chaos and effort from SEO towards improvement in content. They have made an impossible problem into a mostly-solvable control systems[2] problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_system
What a pernicious double-entendre.