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>I don't really see the value in speculating.

There is all kinds of value in speculating. We do it all the time in things like war games. 'If neighbor $x attacked us, what would happen?, would they win?, what can we do to prevent this?'.

Of course this may in your mind hold very little value now, but I promise if and when it occurs you will change your mind quickly on that topic.
Good point but isn't blowing a fuse detectable with x-rays?
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update the post tonight. Didn't notice / cannot reproduce - it seems to work for me in all browsers.
So, if I don't know anything but Gnome terminal, and don't know what xterm is, if I see "xterm", I have to look it up. However, if I see "xterm(1)", I don't have to look it up?

Strange.

(And how did I get to the situation in which I know what (1) means, yet I only know Gnome terminal and don't know what xterm is?)

(What about the fact that xterm(1) is also a hyperlink in the sumitted page? You could change the anchor text to "xterm(foo)" and it would still navigate to the correct man page with one click.)
I know not all recruiters are bad, but I'm mainly venting frustration at the last two times I had to look for work, which had several months of unemployment as recruiters kept calling me all day every day about various potential jobs, and then interviews almost getting set up but then cancelled for changing requirements or other crap, or I'd get an interview and do well but the company would take forever to set up a second interview (and the recruiter knew they worked that way), or they kept trying to get me to relocate on my dime which I couldn't afford and didn't really want to relocate anyway.

I did get my current job through a recruiter, and he was very professional, polite, communicative, so not all experiences have been bad, just a ton of my time got wasted when I really badly needed a job and my finances were getting screwed pretty badly.

If I were looking I'd be interested in getting back into mobile development in a senior role, preferably with opportunities to work from home periodically, especially if it's downtown. I've been learning React Native in my spare time in preparation for when I'm ready to get back into the mobile scene.

My current job is just right up the street, the boss is nice, and pays decent so my main concerns are it's not mobile development and it's not looking like I'm likely to get promoted to a senior role here anytime soon because there are many talented people on the team who have been here longer and would probably get promoted before me.
If your 110MWh to train is accurate, and the 25W used by the human brain reported in this thread is as well.

This is equivalent to one person expending 500 years solely to learn Go.
> I think they're great questions, really interesting and forward thinking, and it's too bad you're being downvoted for promoting interesting discussion.

He is downvoted because those questions have nothing to do with the case and are just a smoke curtain to no admit what Apple did.
> Another thing I'm wondering about is why the publishers were so insistent that the others must also join. Each told Apple they would only join the plan if a minimum of 4 others did too.

Because if a majority of publishers are on board, they can force the OTHER stores threatening to stop selling ebooks though them
Ok, but what IS it?
When you find yourself arguing that giving money to a company isn't helpful to that company in some way, you're likely dealing with a very leaky economic abstraction.
It's worth mentioning that Lee Sedol mentioned in an interview that even if he loses a single game against AlphaGo, he will have lost the match. He was expecting to win all 5 games.
It is, but once you agree on the context it provides, it can be a word that is useful when describing how you plan to deploy some section of code.

We use Lambdas for a bunch of different async work tasks like PDF generation and such. Warm or cold doesn't matter at all for us.

If you're trying the super 'serverless' approach of using AWS API services backed by Lambdas, then yeah, warm/cold will definitely matter.
What bout some of these older particle discoveries from the 60's, have we found practical applications for those, or is it still too soon?
Tap to show, tap to hide? Not quite the same, but that's how I'd do the fallback for mouse hover effects.
It's a fad. They are trendy right now, and they work because they are new, but in 5 years that style will stop attracting people, and "clickbait headlines" will be another entry on the "10 things you remember about the '10s" lists.
Finally, a post that validates the usefulness of my BS in electrical and computer engineering (despite being a JS guy now)! But seriously, I believe that hardware understanding is extremely useful for all sorts off tangential tasks related to modern programming. I've found that having intimate knowledge of how a computer works, especially around memory and disk access, helps me to understand how to solve problems from the standpoint of a rote-CPU rather than my high-level brain. It's also really useful for deciphering kernel-level errors.
Then you can say that, in 10 years, if we indeed have reached that point. Otherwise it'd just an empty prediction, and his perfectly valid point stands.
He has lost 1 game of a 5 game match, on a handicap. Hardly a defeat.
This is one case of ambulance chasing: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01204

EDIT: I just noticed that this is also linked in the article.
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I don't know why airbags aren't opto-isolated digital devices activated by simple challenge and response over canbus (read a single byte off address 0, write the same byte back to address 1 to trigger). I'd have expected pyrotechnics to have been first on the list for conversion to digital.
Modern PHP is much more performant than it used to be, and more so than other similar higher level dynamic web languages. Unless you're doing something wrong (like using Wordpress) or something unusual, network, db, file io etc. will dwarf PHP time.
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I had some serious problems with the Three Body Problem, which annoyed me enough to put a pause on reading the next novel. I loved all the interpersonal stuff - I haven't liked a character as much as I like Big Shi in a long time - but the tech and science of it seemed implausible to me.

It's hard to go into details without being spoilerific, but: the problem is hard to solve, but you can still make very useful short-term predictions; the technology they have access to is being insanely under-utilized given their goals; and I don't believe the actions of the scientists given how they use that technology - I would expect the reaction to be the exact opposite of what ends up happening.

I left a review on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1553897979
Not really in a data center. They have embedded firmware for KVM e.g. Dell's DRAC, HP's ILO, Oracle's ILOM, Intel's RMM2, and IPMI. Plugging and unplugging things into a server can be operationally hazardous and is definitely tedious.
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Sure it does! Oh, you mean more value to you, not to Facebook? :D
Does Lee Sedol have access to AlphaGo training games and/or matches?
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I am not familiar with any of this, but could a lower SCSI be caused by more shipping supply being available as opposed to fewer containers being shipped? Is there an index that tracks the number of containers shipped?
Very cool article. Amazing how much tooling Netflix has built themselves.
I'm surprised The Times was even invited for the tour.
"Recent systems (meaning the past 10 years, post the resurgence of MCTS) appear to scale to essentially arbitrarily good play as you throw more computing power at them. Play strength scales roughly with the log of computing power, at least as far as anyone tested them (maybe it plateaus at some point, but if so, that hasn't been demonstrated)."

This is exactly the opposite of my sense based on following the computer go mailing list (which featured almost all the top program designers prior to Google/Facebook entering the race). They said that scaling was quite bad past a certain point. The programs had serious blindspots when dealing with capturing races and kos[1] that you couldn't overcome with more power.

Also, DNNs were novel for Go--Google wasn't the first one to use them, but no one was talking about them until sometime in 2014-2015.

[0] Not the kind of weaknesses that can be mechanically exploited by a weak player, but the kind of weaknesses that prevented them from reaching professional level.
4K classes is not much if you've included a few libraries.
"These were not wild kids being controlled by adults"

"It's incredibly expensive"

It is possible that the second obeservation has somthing to do with the first... and perhaps more than the Montessori method itself does.
If you're interested in Apache Beam (dataflow), then Flink seems to me the best candidate to become sn open source runner. Spark 2.0 may change things though.
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This is close to the model that Chrome is moving towards (Google FlipKart Lite to check out an example).

You might also be interested in exponentjs.com, they're building what you describe using React Native.
Haha.. sheesh man, it is super sad when a "science" site uses such a blatant clickbait title. Shame on them.
The "homework" trend in my district that I abhor is the "reading log" requiring a certain number of minutes reading per night. My son loves to read when the mood strikes and might read for two or three hours straight. Other times he wants nothing to do with a book and will focus on some other activity instead. Scheduled reading saps the joy from the experience.

Each time it comes up, I start with ignoring the log altogether. If the teacher is paying attention he or she quickly realizes that my son is a strong reader and doesn't need the log. If the teacher insists, then we just make something up, write it down and move on.

I'm not sure what lesson my son is learning from this, but I'm sure it's not what the school is hoping for.
Just to put it into perspective, both Azure and AWS don't allow KVM access at all, at any price, period. If your VM doesn't boot then only THEIR support can restore it (and both of their support is expensive).
Also, the mobile web site also provides notifications through Chrome's Push API these days.
They're slaves because they are prohibited from bettering their circumstances. Now, if you abolish the slavery and then say "You're free now! Go better yourself!" without giving them any resources with which to do so - if they lack the tools to feed themselves - they'll starve, yes.

To better themselves, they need to be able to make something where they're at, or be able to go somewhere else. If they're sitting on ruined land, unable to leave, that's a problem that can't be solved with mere hard work. But that's a problem that would not have happened without the slavery in the first place.
Which the US did in 1961...

The Chinese do silly things like blow up satellites (causing space debris), to show their might - things that the US had done 30 years ago.

Whereas, the US has systems that can track and predict all space debris of sizes greater than 1/2 inch.

It's just orders of magnitude more advanced.
>>I like the yyyy.r.n versioning scheme[...]
>> I've never been able to convince an employer to switch to [this yyyy.r.n versioning scheme] though.

How is this related with Resharper and VS?
It's not an either/or. If this helps people who want content from slow websites without requiring the slow website to do very much, and it has no impact on existing websites, then what's the problem?
Good point, this is where Rust's flexible enums are an advantage relative to C-style. If you'll forgive the Haskell syntax, you can have something like:

data StatusCoode
= Ok200
| Missing404
| Error500
| OtherStatusCode Int

To rephrase the slogan a bit - make an illegal state a bit more difficult to represent or at least the risk of an illegal state clear to the programmer.
There can be music playing and I can shout across the room to my Echo to add something to a shopping list and it gets it right most of the time. I use an old iPhone to play music on my stereo system. I'm lucky if I can get "Hey Siri, STOP" to work when music is playing even if I walk right up to it.

The Echo is still pretty "dumb" as soon as you deviate from fairly precise commands that it understands but the voice recognition itself is far and away the best I've seen.

The platform aspect is interesting even if I find it mostly still pretty gimicky. But it's got potential.
I was mistaken, I thought they had one in Frankfurt, but it seems the closest they get is Strassbourgh, Near the French/German/Belgian border.
A real time processing engine. You can think of an alternative to Storm or Spark Streaming.
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What I hate is that the locales assume that date & number preferences are specific to one's physical location. I live in America, but I prefer German (9. March 2016 or 09.03.16) or British (9 March 2016 or 9/3/16) dates.

It's even worse when things assume that my date preferences reflect my unit preferences. I prefer standard units (feet, pounds, knots &c.) and British/Continental dates: I don't want to use French units, nor do I want to use American dates. And yet so much software assumes that it's all or nothing.
Yes, this would have been awesome without the jQuery dependency. I don't think Javascript libraries should introduce ANY dependencies, because you are limiting the audience to codebases that already include said dependency. (No one will introduce a huge dependency like jQuery for just ONE library.)
The Go Files: AI computer wins first match against master Go player
I hope that doesn't shake his determination and ability to concentrate. He could still win.
How does this compare to IncrediBuild or Electric Accelerator?
Extremely interesting news and kind of sad as a human being :)

I don't really know that much about AI, but hopefully some experts can tell me - how different are the networks that play go vs chess for example? Or recognise images vs play go?

What I mean is - if you train a network to play go and recognise images at the same time, will the current techniques of reinforcement learning/deep learning work or are the techniques not sufficient at the moment?

If that works, then it really does seem like a big step towards AGI.
> What?

Exactly

They used the game database to learn the value network, then reinforcement learning of the policy network was performed on self-play games. I.e., the machine learned to play from existing data, then played against itself to learn the search heuristics (the policy network) without the need for expert data.
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Do you think it's better to propose we won't, and not start preparing for a smarter-than-human intelligence. Or to propose we might, and that we should prepare for it to happen?
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There is nothing about the theory of microfinance that relies on the existence of international borders or differences in purchasing power. You have created a straw man.

The fact that "impact per dollar" is greater when one is able to exploit purchasing power differences makes it relatively more attractive as a charitable enterprise, so many charity organizations gravitate there, but it is absolutely not a necessary component of a successful microlending structure.
I can't wait for the day when it's actually cheaper to host in the cloud then hosting the servers yourself, electric, bandwidth, and storage costs included. This is a step in the right direction!
I recently bought the cheapest phone I could find for 2FA. 10$ phone and 20$ minutes. It equated for 400 texts with a time limit of 3 months. I didn't do too much research but there are probably some that don't expire. So, if you ever find yourself in a tough spot, 30$ can get you access. If you ever can't afford 30$, get in touch and I'll send you a phone.
I read it as they weren't able to convince their employer to switch to the Jetbrains Toolbox. Regardless I am unable to remove the above comment now so...
If I'm about to call someone in another time zone, I might use Siri to check their time. Especially if I'm not sure about daylight savings here/there. It's a plus if your partner is on the other side of the globe and you want to think of them.

Sending a text message while driving is great, too.
Adaptability is not all that human (plenty of machines learn from their mistakes and adapt to new settings). Intuition is so poorly defined that depending on what you mean machines easily have it (heuristics, Bayesian inference, etc) or it is just sufficiently vague of a notion that it does not matter.
Plot twist, the PIN is 1234 and auto-erase isn't even enabled. I think there's no way to know without trying, and FBI is just too afraid to try it ;-)
I use sftp/scp constantly, but I'm not sure how is an ASCII mode needed/important for that.
> As a practical matter I'm not sure Congress could do all the rule making that the executive branch does. At least not as it is currently organized. It just doesn't have the institutional capacity. But one could imagine a government with legislative agencies paralleling the executive agencies responsible for rulemaking with oversight / ratification done by congress.

I agree with you that Congress doesn't have the capacity to make all the rules as needed by the current laws. My general lean is towards smaller government, so my knee-jerk reaction is that it means the government is trying to do too much, or to do things too quickly. We have some poorly thought-out legislation (PATRIOT act, for example) and it's fairly often that laws are passed without a good understanding of how they will actually work (e.g., the "we need to pass it so we can see what's in it" comments about the Healthcare reform). Not trying to do as much and/or taking a slower, more thoughtful approach would be good.
That has a lot more to do with mechanical sympathy, and awareness of when you've exchanged cleverness for complexity disguised as cleverness, than it does with knowing the big-O of operations on a datastructure.

What you want the person to identify is that they've made your simple iterative checkout process into multiple unbounded tree traversals with no circuit breaker.

Knowing that searching the tree is O(log(n)) isn't very helpful when your problem is an inability to identify that you've made (n) an unnecessarily huge problem space.
Same in LA. A lot of crew t-shirts and other stuff given out at the end of production. And the recently-graduated college students? College t-shirts (sometimes sweatshirts in our 'winter').
Vulkan is not tied to outputting the result to a monitor
Our brains use roughly ~20 watts though, so we know that the power constraints can be overcome, if not in silicon then it may be biological machines we use in the future.
You totally can demonstrate it in this case, but I see how you are correct in most other cases.

" Do you have a facebook account? Name a friend, and I'll prove it to you "
"... like the Samsung Galaxy Y comes with very restrictive specs of 290 MB RAM, 600 MHz processor, and 180 MB internal memory. " I'm feeling old when I'm seeing that these are restrictive specs...
This is very interesting and not only for new employees. Founders should re-evaluate these regularly, since they are a good indicator of overall health.
I don't know if this is awesome or just sick.
and here is the open-source version: https://mycroft.ai/projects/ with kickstarter project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-a...
I believe the October match used amateur games, but for this match, they added a professional database.
I bought an Echo a couple of weeks ago, and I love controlling my Philips Hue lights with it. If I'm on the couch watching a movie, I can just tell Alexa in the kitchen to dim or turn off the living room lights. Setting a timer and having the lights blink when it goes off is neat too. My kids love asking it questions and playing music.

Right now that's pretty much all I use it for... I always forget the specific commands to order an Uber, pizza, etc. Especially the IFTTT recipes (that require you to say "trigger" first), or any of the downloadable "skills" -- there's a specific syntax you have to use. I wish there were multiple, more natural phrases for these actions.

"Alexa, where's my phone?" would be much more memorable than "Alexa, trigger: find my phone."
No, it is currently impossible to learn how to do C++/systems programming, the knowledge doesn't exist!

Are you serious? People come to be systems programmers with no programming experience, obviously with some web/server experience will be even more suited to learn it.
Yeah there are definitely use cases where UDP makes sense and they're far from rare, but that doesn't mean TCP should be thrown out since there are still many cases where a reliable connection based protocol is better.
Thank you for your reply.

Yes. I understand that that's the message here in the HN comments, but my question is why. In what way does this mean that MS is embracing open source? Many replies to that question (including yours) have been along the lines of "Remember when they were saboteurs? They just took an action that wasn't overt malice!"

Again, I assume I'm missing something, but it all sounds like "Hitler doesn't spend all of his time engaging in acts of genocide; Sometimes, he eats cereal." (BTW, no, I don't think of MS as inherently evil. I make my own living on closed-source software.) I'm not seeing the "complete reversal" people are talking about, nor even a partial reversal. Nor do I see the opposite. These things appear orthogonal.

Is this all because their new Azure-specific tooling is open source? Or is it simply because they're shaking hands (harder) with an organization that has OSS street credit? Or something else entirely?
Machine Learning for Audio, Image and Video Analysis (2007) [pdf]
What about security? Anyone can walk out wit top secret information.
Servo has a "webrender" backend that is GPU-accelerated. While it isn't nearly at feature parity with the established rendering engines, it is an order of magnitude faster at rendering the features that it currently has implemented.

It won't replace your current browser for some years, but I see no reason why it couldn't serve as the engine for something like Electron.
You can't ask a candidate how long it took, they have no incentive for truth here. Either they say it took all night and you think poorly of them, or it really did take a few hours.

You have to ask someone with no skin in the game.
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I saw this in an episode of the TV show, but I forgot name of the show.

PS.

"Person of interest":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkvukotSSms
You're talking abt the same nytimes that was critical of Amazon's work culture as recently as a few months back.
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I believe at least some parts of the tooling were developed by an embedded team from Pivotal Labs.
Spinnaker is an amazing tool. Really makes it easy to confidently deploy applications via immutable infrastructure.
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Yes, but this got a bit messy to me. Facebook Lite used to be was a regular (but light) web page[1]. Now they seem to have converted the Lite web page brand into an app. An app that requires access to your contacts[2], among other things.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130624002458/https://www.lite....

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l...
If my order goes in before yours then there is a good chance that my order will get filled and yours won't. The speed at which traders (automated or otherwise) get in orders is of critical importance.

If you don't understand that, then your understanding of the problem is hopelessly wrong.