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> No we aren't. But games of complete information that ARE computable, such as chess and GO can be removed from discussion. There is no question that these games of complete information are "solvable" with or without AI, since every move, from start to finish, can be calculated before the game even begins - its just a matter of processing power.

In a theoretical universe, sure. In the one that we live in - no.

Let's assume that we can turn every atom in the entire universe that we know of into a 4Ghz processor, further assume that we can perfectly parallelize the search and that we can check one board position in one cycle on one of those processors.

How long would it take to check all possible 19x19 go positions?

(1 * 10^80 processors) * (4 * 10^9 checks) = 10^89 checks per second.

Total number of valid go board states: 10^170, therefore it would still take 10^79 seconds to check all the positions in order to find a perfect game.

Clearly, it is not possible to ever brute-force go, no matter what kind of advances computing technology will take.
It was run on a single PC with the following hardware:
Processor: Octacore Intel Core i7 6th Generation GPU: Nvidia GeForce Titan X (3x SLI)
Hit the "web" link at top to google and go around paywall
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The article claims Swedes and Sweden "are making the shift". That's currently false, but it's something that could happen. Perhaps I'm reading it too strictly, but as they were mentioning the National bank of Korea in the same paragraph.. The current set of laws and regulations in Sweden mandates that cash are legal tender and that there is an obligation for the Riksbank (National bank) to make sure there is "enough cash" available.

There is currently no proposed changes to those laws in the direction of scaling down cash. There are however proposed changes in the making that will make cash more available than they currently are. The chief of the Riksbank (National Bank / "Federal reserve") have an article in one of the major newspapers about this very subject, published today [1].

[1]: http://www.dn.se/debatt/bankerna-maste-ansvara-for-kundernas... (In Swedish)
CS 61c lectures from UC Berkeley. Computer architecture. Ideal if you are good with data structures / algorithms but the machine still feels like magic. It is empowering to understand what the machine is really doing.
>We don't call people geniuses because there really good at following orders.

If I order someone to prove whether P is equal to NP, and a day later they come back to me with a valid proof, solving a decades-long major open problem in computer science, I would call that person a genius.

>EX: Maximizing the number of people that say Zulu on black Friday without anyone noticing that something odd is going on.

Computers do what you say, not what you mean, so an AGI's goal would likely be some bastardized version of the intentions of the person who programmed it. Similar to how if you write a 10K line program without testing it, then run it for the first time, it will almost certainly not do what you intended it to do, but rather some bastardized version of what you intended it to do (because there will be bugs to work out).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean basically ordering your food on your phone?

That destroys the human element, which is a big part of the restaurant/hospitality experience.

There are products out there that let you order through a tablet at your table, and also apps that let staff use an iphone instead of a notepad, but it takes away a large part of the experience.

It's fine for places like McDonald's (who now have touch screen ordering in some countries, like New Zealand and Australia), but if I went to Bouchon Bistro, I wouldn't want to be ordering through a tablet.
>will happily throw the rest of it away for this comment

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his [karma] for his friends."

John 15:13
If it's like the US, 2 years in the same "line of work" should be sufficient.
Yep, Canadian tech salaries can't compete with Silicon Valley
Same here. I do not highlight anything though: just white text on black background.
I'm 21 years old and I cashed my first cheque a couple of weeks ago. It was quite a novel experience.
Sorry but you spent a good deal of your argument undermining Rosa Parks' contribution to civil disobedience so it's hard to swallow that it had nothing to do with her in particular.

And believe me: I'm all about not invoking easy references to drum up BS patriotism, but if that's your point, then say it like I just did.

I might also add that you yourself would probably benefit by putting something on the line before you make a career out of siezing on opportunities to clear up historical inaccuracies. Unless I somehow stumbled upon talking to Malala Yousafzi.
Exactly what I want. I basically abandoned GitHub's pull requests because of that.
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I think both of you are being pretty negative.

There is a way to refute the parent post without demeaning his opinion, and in my opinion, another commenter did better at that than you.

Thanks for sharing details about Claudette, I didn't know that.
If you read the linked article it's more about a social shift than driven by law. I.e, many individuals are foregoing cash for cards, to the point where churches and 'homeless' now accept cards.
The brain drain is definitely a big issue in Canada.

On the bright the cost of living will end up being cheaper in Canada if you can get my flow ;)
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I would have agreed with this, but I've just been exposed to what's happening in the new .Net core and asp.net 5.

It's a clusterfuck of the sublime and the downright stupid. Any new trendy idea has been rammed in to the new ASP.Net with startlingly high churn for a MS product and bizarre choices like forcing you to program in particular (often undesirable overkill) ways.

So the JS churn model has begun to infect another language as a model to be emulated rather than reviled.
The VC model necessitates throwing things that seem insane but have huge potential against the wall and seeing what sticks. On the off chance that they're right, everyone involved will profit handsomely.
I genuinely don't understand CSS 'grid systems' in a world of border-box and flex by default.

If you want to put things beside each other, make them whatever widths you want and have a flex row.

What do 'grid systems' add apart from visual classes in HTML and negative margin hacks?
I don't really understand the point of what you're saying.

I ignore all of the .NET and C ecosystem and I have absolutely no interest in them for many reasons, but that's not saying much about anything. Just because you don't care about Javascript doesn't inherently make it's ecosystem so bad.
Oh, language is rotten if developers use libraries and abstractions? When was last time you wrote an application in "raw" Python/C/Swift/Erlang? (Whatever "raw" is supposed to refer to, is standard lib allowed?)

No language is perfect, and javascript is actually pretty nice one, also considering that there are multiple independent runtime implementations for almost every platform, I would say javascript as an ecosystem works surprisingly well.

Javascript only has problem if you think diversity is problem. It's totally expected outcome that people (wildly) try things when the language is well designed, i.e. relatively small but flexible core.
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I can't help but think this is just a whole bunch of people up in arms about not wanting to learn something they think they have to because 'all the cool kids' are.

This discussion is often brought up in relation to React/Redux/Babel/Webpack, and people thinking they have to completely master all of them to start making websites, when the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

Twitter had an amusing quip of the topic last week:

> If you’re feeling overwhelmed by Slack or React (judging by the HN front page this week), I politely suggest you re-evaluate your life.

https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/707146929075949568
> It's similar to using emacs or vim

Actually, that's a great comparison. I don't use either of those (yeah, I said it) because of their arcane interfaces. I don't doubt for a second that wizards with those programs, and LaTeX, can do great things, but IDEs exist for the same reason word processors do - to make it easier to focus on creating.
I agree with you, but would you kindly skip the f-word next time? This is not 4chan, after all..
Look I see your point, but where to draw the line? Let's say you start working somewhere @ 21, take a paid 6-month leave without having children at 26, then decide to have a child at 30. Should they get another leave? What about contractors/the self-employed? Who should pay for that?

How can such policies ever be implemented in a 'fair' way when 'fair' can be 'anything I feel' ?
The links on Google don't go around the paywall. At least on mobils
Not to mention every bank creating their own buggy mobile app and of course the usually buggy and slow bank websites.
Like 'justinlardinois I just use "TL:DR summary" to mean a "short summary." I didn't mean it as derogatory, and it doesn't feel dissonant to me -- although given how you view it I can see why you do. And yes, I'm a native English speaker.
I got bored around halfway through season 1 and stopped watching it. Picked up Season 2 on Netflix and binged the rest after that. It ramps from standard 'randos form unlikely crime fighting team[0]' with a dystopian twist through 'vast surveillance state conspiracy' to 'post AI FOOM WTF?' quickly and at times quite profoundly.

I got much the same feeling from later eps as I did watching Ex Machina : "Yes, this is fiction and highly speculative fiction at that but holy fuck, for once someone has actually bothered to do some research on the technology and the philosophical implications"

So if like me you dropped this, be sure to pick it back up, you won't be disappointed.

[0] And thus we can be sure that real life is not like TV because if it were nearly everyone in the US would be part of an unlikely and seemingly mismatched but somehow highly successful crime (including monsters) fighting team.
You don't have to. The tools which worked 10 years ago still work today. The tools which worked 5 years ago still work today. No one forces you to switch to the new hotness, people choose to.
4. > "About TL:DR ...:"

Also par for the course here :)
Got a link for 'homeless' accepting cards?
Good idea. Bathrooms are under utilized, same for kitchens.

But it's a nightmare sharing with people who are strangers without some sort of authority to appeal to for noise / filth / shitty behaviour.

EDIT: seems people disagree. Well I've spent 2 years as a mature student living in that exact sort of housing in two different places. One with en-suite and one with shared bathroom.

Getting stuff clean and not having noise are constant irritations. Good luck getting the 6 friends sharing a dorm below you to keep the noise down.
Go has a GC that runs on top of an OS. The virtual machines that run WebAssembly are highly likely to have different mechanisms to manage memory compared to an OS that Go runs on, so Go's GC will not work 'out of the box'.

This leaves two options:

1. Go developers could write a GC especially designed to enable Go on WebAssembly.

2. Go developers could wait until WebAssembly gets its own GC implementation, and make use of that.

Considering option 2 is less work, and that a GC for WebAssembly is on the WebAssembly roadmap (check the GitHib page for details), I'd suggest option 2 is what will end up happening.
Does anyone know of any interesting startups in speech synthesis?
Funny you say that, I once worked for someone who interviewed potential product managers by asking how they would spec, design, and build their own entertainment center. Seemed to work pretty well.
Regardless of your opinion if we're going to have or would want a cashless society or not - the article glosses over a lot of negative aspects.

The article mentions crime as a main motivator to shifting away from cash. The amount of robberies/muggings have gone down, but card theft and fraud is sky-rocketing. I would be interested to hear more about how kidnapping/extortion have fared in comparison as well.

The article mentions that retail crime will be just a memory after we've shifted away from cash. There has been plenty of retail card theft and fraud stemming from hacked retailed networks and hacked/rigged payment terminals during the last three years (2013-2016).

The article mentions that shifting away from cash would give the governments of the world a leg up in controlling our usage of money. I have nothing to object to there, but would like to add that it also gives private companies a leg up in controlling our usage of money as well. Both from the perspective of knowing where we spend and what we spend on - but also as they can terminate the contract to any retailer or payment processor at basically any time. Sure, not everyone is Wikileaks - but when you've broken the principle, it could happen to anyone.
But that rule doesn't apply only to nouns: it applies to all words that aren't pronouns, conjunctions and articles. Hence, "To Kill a Mockingbird" ('kill' is a verb), "Malone Dies," etc.
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>Not just that computers will fail to consider whether to be nice to humans, but also that computers must therefore be explicitly told how to be effective in every particular way.

A correct implementation of a list sorting algorithm does not need to be separately told how to sort every individual list. Similarly, a correctly implemented general reasoning algorithm does not need to be given special instructions in order to reason about humans & human society.

The problem comes when a correctly implemented general reasoning algorithm gets paired with an incorrect specification of what human goals are. And because a correct specification of human goals is extremely hard, incorrect specifications are the default.

>Intuitively we can understand this by thinking about employees. One does exactly what he is told, but only what he is told, and then comes back for more instructions. Another can be given a goal, and then goes off and finds his own ways to accomplish that goal. Which one is more effective? Which one is more likely to compete for his manager's job some day?

The third possibility is that of an employee who goes off and finds their own way, but instead of accomplishing the goal directly, they think of a way to make their manager think the goal is accomplished while privately collecting rewards for themself. In other words, a sociopath employee whose values are different from their manager's.

By default, an AGI is going to be like that sociopath employee: unless we're extremely careful to program it in detail with the right values, its values will be some bastardized version of the values its creators intend. It will sociopathically work towards the values it was programmed with while giving the appearance of being cooperative and obedient (because that is the most pragmatic approach to achieving its true values).

Most humans are not sociopaths, and we have a shared evolutionary history, with a great deal of shared values, shared cultural context, and the desire to genuinely be good to one another. Programming a computer from scratch to possess these attributes is not easy.
You do realize Tim Cook is the CEO aka the one who is ultimately doing the firing in this scenario right? The US Government are not majority stakeholders in Apple.
Hence Bitcoin
I'm curious -- can it compete with the PNW at all (i.e., tech jobs in Seattle)?
Yeah, that's a good point. In fairness to MSFT, with Roslyn and really trying to make the .NET stack able to run on non-Windows boxes you would think there would have to be a few hiccups along the way. I feel like the JS scene is facing this level of upheaval every 9-12 months right now.
Can you elaborate more on the events that led up to customs potentially seizing your power supplies? We have heard shipments for other companies have gone through with no problem.
It's counterintuitive, but making it harder to get mortgages will actually reduce housing prices in the long run, because it discourages real estate investment. In the same way, lowering interest rates appears to make it easier for first home buyers to get into the market but just results in investors snapping up more properties, driving up both mortgage amounts and rents.
A seat on the bus wasn't on its face a huge thing either its the symbolic meaning attached before and during that made the act relevant.
No, the Swish application is proprietary software.

The application is however a gratis download from the AppStore / Google Play store.
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I don't think your objections are reasonable.

First off, Walmart will wire up to $50 for $5 domestic, not $25.

Second, what's the point of sending $1 to much of the world, where it isn't legal tender?

Third, "cashless" in this context means domestic use. Even if we were all cashless tomorrow, you'll still have to pay transfer fees to put $1 into an overseas account. Plus, the bank on the other side may charge to accept that transfer - mine does.

Fourth, the failure rate for sending $1 through the postal system has to be pretty low, because it's hard to detect a single bill in an envelope. A high failure rate would mean that every letter would be opened up, just in case there's cash. That level of tampering is easily detected. (Of course, sending cash overseas is different, as international letters stand out, and perhaps might more often contain cash. But I have send cash to South Africa and it got there just fine.)

If we instead talk about sending $1 inside the US then it's $0.49 for the stamp and $0.07 for the envelope ... for what may be door-to-door delivery.

What other system can beat that price? (I think Bitcoin's transaction fee is slightly less, but not significantly so.)
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The point is that humans have been able to destroy animal ecosystems to fit their own various ends without an in-depth understanding of those ecosystems.
I don't really understand this. The height of confusion was at the beginning of the article when the author's friend regretted using RequireJS

> We talked again last night, and he said that he’d chosen RequireJS. By now, his company had built a massive codebase around it –- “I guess we bet on the wrong horse there.”

What makes RequireJS the wrong horse? Is it not doing what it was originally doing? Do you need more from it? How do you build 'a massive codebase' around a module spec? I'm guessing here the person thinks Webpack is the right horse - Webpack supports the AMD spec RequireJS uses if they felt the need to switch (which I can't see why you would), which would minimise whatever changes needed if you had the urge to 'churn'.

I think people need to stop getting so anxious about doing what all the 'cool kids' are doing.
For what it's worth, here is an excerpt from the Bluetooth SIG agreement that you probably accepted when signing up on their site:

"BLUETOOTH TRADEMARK LICENSE AGREEMENT

This Bluetooth Trademark License Agreement (the “License”) is made as of the date of
acceptance by you as a member of Bluetooth SIG, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Bluetooth
SIG”), as evidenced by you entering into the Bluetooth SIG Membership Agreement by
clicking the “I Accept” button at the bottom of the Bluetooth SIG Membership Application and
Commitment Agreement.

Effective upon such date, Bluetooth SIG, having ownership of the Bluetooth Trademarks (as
defined below) hereby grants you the following rights related to such Bluetooth Trademarks
in consideration for your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Bluetooth SIG
Membership Agreement."

....

"2 LICENSE GRANT.
2.1 Scope. Subject to the Member complying with the terms and conditions of the
Membership Agreement, this License and the Instructions, Bluetooth SIG hereby
grants Member a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, nontransferable (with no
right to sublicense), personal right to use the Bluetooth Trademark(s) in relation
to production, manufacture, supply, promotion, marketing, sale, lease or other
distribution and advertisement of Bluetooth Services and/or Bluetooth Products
that include Compliant Portions (the “Trademark License”)."
I wish there was gentlewomen^H^H^H^H^Hfolks agreement to use minified size for library size comparison, not gzipped size, because minified size better tells how much there are code to read/understand & parse/execute, while gzipped size tells how much there are bytes to transfer, and the bottleneck is generally the former.
We will be moving to this immediately
Interesting, thanks for the tip.
Which human?
"Stefan Wikberg, 65, was homeless for four years after losing his job as an I.T. technician. He has a place to live now and sells magazines for Situation Stockholm, a charitable organization, and began using a mobile card reader to take payments, after noticing that almost no one carried cash."

This excerpt is from the article [1] linked in the Bloomberg article [2]

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/busines/international/in-s...

[2]: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-15/the-end-of-...
The real point of Bitcoin isn't that its anonymous, its that the Government can't stop you using it or seize your money.
You realize that this is exactly how it works with locked crypto systems normally right?

If the system is designed better there isn't even an apple to cry to to demand it be unlocked because they don't possess the key nor the means to get at it.

This is not nearly so huge an impediment as you might imagine. A computer that you couldn't unlock for love nor money when its off and cold could be attacked and accessed beforehand and most people leave a multitude of electronic evidence behind outside of their own machine.
Theranos did the same thing to me. The first question their COO aggressively asked me was, "how come you went to such a bad school?"

Now I look at what's happening with Theranos and laugh, and laugh :)
I find it interesting that due to high rent prices the article hypothesizes that people are moving away from Vancouver and the next upcoming city is a peninsula on an island? What do you think is going to happen in the real-estate market there?
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They already did. Last time is in this latest brief where they say there is only one version of OS for all devices in all countries. Same is true for their other services (also mentioned in brief).
Troubling warnings for the US from the 1930s
> "'tl;dr' is often..."

But not always. You have to consider how it was used to tell whether it was meant with ill will, the term tl;dr on its own doesn't necessarily tell you enough.
I have read the linked article and I know it talks about the social aspect - that card usage is very high.

What I'm saying is that the way the paragraph is currently written is not clear on that and could be interpreted as Swedish abolishing or thinking of abolishing cash from a legal perspective - especially if you do not read the linked NyTimes article.
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The Chinese are parking their money there, that's what's happening

Hence people paying millions of dollars for a house that's falling apart

But I'm glad to hear about Victoria.