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Yes. uBlock Origin wins by an even bigger margin now, because it's being optimized further while the folks at Adblock are busy counting money.
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Web based LaTeX editing, makes it very easy to collaborate. But also they have many standard journal and university templates, and direct submission links to lots of journals to make the whole process of formatting and submitting a paper much simpler.

Yes, this of course raises the question of why some journals charge so much.
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> As I understand it, Minecraft will be reimplemented soon anyways?

That would explain why the extant Java version is riddled with years-old bugs and no hope of getting them fixed while they charge full speed ahead with additions to The End and hang-gliding and other shit nobody actually asked for.

Of course, there is no reason to think the reimplementation won't have annoying bugs as well, which also won't be fixed while they continue to add esoteric features out of the blue.

Yeah, I'm salty.
Ah yeah I meant that, I don't usually make typos so I'm not sure how that happened :-)
To be honest, one of the big reasons Linux is successful is it hit in a very narrow window during the USL v. BSD lawsuit where using a BSD distribution was questionable. So it's possble it wouldn't have, and other kernels, like BSD, or Minix, or any of the other kernels which had heavy development before the kernel research winter that we're still trudging through, would have seen the uptake instead. Linux being under an open source license was hardly an interesting thing back then -- Mach, the BSDs, etc were all under various Free licenses. So it could have, it could have not. Linux's success is as much luck as anything else.
Climate change scares me so much yet I feel completely helpless that I rather hear nothing about it. The effects have been known for years but those in power completely ignore or even sabotage attempts to act. What's the point in hearing about it if there is practically nothing I can do but worry?
It seems the real BS is paying to publish in "big name journal" because the Cabal will place a high value in said "big name journals"

It makes just as much sense as wearing a fashion accessory. "This person must be important because of his fancy watch"
As a European that still effectively screams "secret court" to me, just with some word games around it. Part of the problem is the US also broadly applies "Top Secret" to too much information, even the mundane, so then it "has to go to the secret court because it's "Top Secret".
Well, you can always limit yourself (assuming you're a dev) with what you're allowed to do
If you took the people who would have grown up to be chess grandmasters, intercepted them just before they started spending significant amounts of time studying chess, and had them instead spend all that time studying programming or physics or something, how do you think they would rank up?

You seem to be arguing against the idea, "A chess grandmaster is a genius and therefore can walk into Google and immediately start doing more and better work than most of their senior programmers". I don't think anyone believes this (correct me if I'm wrong).

I think a more serious idea is, "A chess grandmaster is a genius and therefore learns faster and has a higher performance ceiling and such than most people, and if they spent a couple of years learning to program, they could become an entry-level Google programmer, after which they would rise more quickly than most hires, and eventually would outperform most of Google's senior programmers."

By the way, I think most of the best chess players were extreme chess prodigies. (Just looked at Kasparov, Karpov, Shirov, Kramnik, Anand, and Carlsen's Wiki pages; all but Kramnik had the year listed, and they all became grandmasters around age 17-19, except Carlsen, who was around 14. Kramnik's page mentioned winning a gold medal for the Russian team at age 16, and that he wasn't a grandmaster when selected for the team and this was unusual.) I think this is consistent with them being highly gifted children, who choose to spend their time doing chess.
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> God help you, though, if you make a change.

Or need to add functionality. Or, just wait a year.
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The point is that publishers make immense profits from publishing the work of others whom they don't compensate. Do you think it is 'fine' that the output of publicly funded research is locked away and rented out to other scientists by 3rd parties who contribute very little?
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I think Sanders could maintain. I could be wrong, but he has a pretty long record of doing the right thing (from my perspective) and I'm not sure what else you're supposed to vote for if not his / her record? Charisma? Promises? Anger?
Sorry but what you describe is not what supervised learning means. It has a specific meaning in AI. At best, what you describe is reinforcement learning. And I don't think this is how we learn to recognize people's faces.
Well, you can at least move to some other place that will be less affected by it. For example, if you currently live in Florida, you could move to Michigan. So, I think it's useful to hear about it.
If you're not looking for an ultra book. I've got a 7510 Dell Precision Laptop base. i7-6820HQ supports upto 64gb of ram in the laptop, 2 ram slots above keyboard, 2 below. Supports 1 m.2 epci nvme, 1 sata3. I've Samsung 950 Pro NVME 512gb ssd, 1 2tb Samsung Evo 850. I don't believe the NVME works w/o AHCI booting. My experience with linux on this laptop was bar none one of the best. I did have to install ubuntu 15.10, but everything worked without a hitch. This laptop also worked with optimus graphics chip switching. Quadro 4gb DDR4 M2002 chip. Battery is really impressive. Monitor is 4k matted. It's probably the best laptop I've ever owned. Since I purchased it, it now comes with usb type-c w/ thunderbolt 40gbit support. So you can get a really nice fancy docking port for it. Also I've a 2014 macbook pro fully loaded and this is only 1lb heavier than that was. You can also get a xeon chip on this platform. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m7510-workstatio...
I think those stores take care of VAT and all the requirements around that, so the developer doesn't need to worry about it. That's what the 30% cut is for.
Unfortunately, the "wishful thinking" (e.g. wild speculation) step in the thought experiment is the "eventually" step.
I like the comparison to developing wings. What's interesting about the development of plane wings is that, while we used the underlying physics of how wings work to make plane wings, a plane gets it's trust differently than a bird, and looks and flies differently. Flapping wasn't very useful to us for planes; what things about the way minds work will not be useful for AI? I think once we understand the algorithms behind AI / intelligence / learning, what we choose to make may be very different than what a lot of people currently imagine having AI or robots will to be like.
It is tragic that foundational papers are hugely paywalled.

I can read David Silver on arXiv but not Donald Michie or Robin Popplestone.

I am missing the foundations of my science, so much is uncitable for me, and bibliographies are useless before 2001.

Yes I can track them down but the effort is huge as I'm far from an urban centre.

My light does not diminish yours, let me cite you
The problem is it's very difficult to fit a full and proper validation in the appendix of a paper. What's really needed is to standardize the inclusion of "additional material" with the paper, including source code, test cases, and results.
And now he is writing a language https://github.com/tj/luna
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Just a little bit of feedback. I wanted to tried the demo version, but did not get that far and bounced out of feedbunch.

When I clicked on the "try a free demo" button, I would have expected to try it out immediately. Instead, I had to remember the login credentials for demo user and to enter it manually in the login screen. Would have loved to see a one click and stay using the demo version.
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I live in France and have been subscribed to Netflix for many years, with a fake US address (but a French debit card). I access Netflix over a VPN provider.

When Netflix arrived in France I was able to access Netflix without VPN from France, with a different catalog, but retained the access to the US catalog via VPN (without doing anything else: same account, same browser, same session even).

I have seen no change since this move was announced, and therefore doubt if it's real??
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I thought Microsoft already rewritten it in c++ so they can run it on phones with decent preformance?
"I don't think it will give much of a benefit over aarch32 mode (arm_control=0x0000) because of the limited memory."

I was also under that impression, but then again I'm not really a HW guy. But reading this thread (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=1382...) shows that I was wrong with thinking that 64Bit was only a RAM benefit.

Somebody tested the RPI against another board that also has the Cortex-A53 processor and saw in some cases some dramatic improvements (3x the performance). Very interesting read.
Grooveshark used to be really handy for solving the discovery problem. Too bad the record industry managed to shut it down.
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What a shame that Signal is not mentioned as encryption app.
My lawyer lives in London. He's from silicon valley and has helped hundreds of startups, including some of the biggest.

His observation about London is that the cost of living is simply so high, that it is impossible to have a real startup culture here.
Most people who have an OpenPGP key upload their public key to one of the on-line key-servers. These key-servers sync keys with each other, so you can find any published public key from any one of them.

Try https://pgp.mit.edu/ for instance.

Enigmail in Thunderbird offers a way to search these key-server from within the mail application, perhaps Mailvelope has this feature as well?
AFAIK from my colleague doing PhD in Europe, one of the main issues is Impact Factor. The universities play "gather the points" game, and you get, say, 35 points for publishing in a major (paywalled, expensive) title while you may get only, say, 18 or 10 points if you published in another (non-paywalled, less expensive, less reputable) journal.

If you have less points than other people, you don't get a grant, or you're more likely to not have your contract extended etc.

The ministry reevaluates the (journal's IF<->points per publication) mapping each year, but it takes a few years for a new journal to get significant number of points. Publishing in low-IF journals if your paper could be accepted by a major one is a career suicide.

The hidden implication is that the system reinforces the power of the all-powerful top journals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
Email was not designed to be secure, it was designed to be convenient. Trying to make something that is insecure by design secure is never going to be secure.

Having said that taking some steps to better protect yourself is a good idea. Just don't fool yourself into thinking you are secure from a body such as the NSA.
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The stuff added after 1.7.3 isn't particularly interesting to everyone so opinions will vary :)
Please share how that's done in OS X.

In Windows Firewall, you label the physical and tap adapters as different domains. Then you allow only connections with the VPN server via the physical adapter. It's not all that different from iptables. I'm not very familiar with pf, but I'm guessing that the approach is similar.

WebRTC is indeed invasive. But WebGL is arguably worse. HTML5 overall is hard on privacy.
I got something different from the AGA commentary. The pros did consider 78, but came to the conclusion that it didn't work! I'm just a 1kyu player but I too can't see any way to make 78 work after Black plays 79 as an atari at L10, as suggested by the pros. So I'd be very interested to see some analysis that shows how White could get a fair result after Black 79 at L10.
How would you predict local effects? A change in climate is a change in overall dynamics. Precise local effects is not at all predictable, I think.
> Finally, it should be noticed than on "normal" systems, memory size is still important because of the many caches they feature.

http://www.7-cpu.com/cpu/Skylake.html

L1 cache: 32 KiB, 4 clock cycles (=1 nanosecond) latency

L3 cache: (Up to) 8 MiB… with a latency (42ns) equivalent of 2½ branch mispredictions. You know, the things that Everyone Knows™ they should avoid with compiler hints like __builtin_expect.

RAM: As much as you want… at 246 cycles (61.5ns) latency.
> Why are you under the impression scholars write the papers for free? That is what researchers are employed at universities to do ...

Researchers are employed to drumroll please research. (inc. teach, and mentor, and advise, and admin, etc.)

Disseminating your research, that requires writing it up, yes. So, no, they don't technically write up the research for free, but those who benefit (the publishers) are not the same entities who pay the researchers salaries so it's as if they are getting something for practically nothing, i.e. "free".

> Yes, it is not like publishing a book but these papers are not really like books anyway.

Nobody is making that comparison.

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It's very simple, the internet has shone a strong light on a very profitable business model and people don't like what they see.
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What bugs are you talking about? I've played on and off from 1.2ish, both online and standalone. It's still an unoptimised mess but it's not too bad.
Even if you send a letter, and then the letter is burned.

Anyway we are not going to ban paper, matches, lighters, and the mail services.

You are thinking more like a technician than like a lawyer...
Would it be possible to build devices that could be unlocked a fixed number of times across all units (say 1,000 times). Devices could be heavily hardware encrypted, but unlockable with an encryption key, a portion of which comes from a publicly monitored blockchain/distributed ledger, that when used reduces the number of future uses.

This way, the government could be granted access for extreme cases, but without the potential for abuse or mass surveillance. Once there were 1,000 check-ins, not more keys could be generated.

Thoughts?
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to add to that, even our brain seems to work with dedicated specialized sub system. Wild supposition but maybe general AI could be something like a load balancer/reverse proxy to lot of problem specific AI. When a human learns to play Go, is some small part of the brain retrained specifically for this task? If yes, then AlphaGo could in fact be a building block. Architecture would look like "reverse proxy" -> sub system dedicated to the learning process -> sub system trained for learning board games -> sub system trained for playing Go. Absolutely not expert so it surely has been thought by the way /wild disgression
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gneuralnetwork/gneuralnet...

Am I mistaken, or is the source repository for this project just tarballs checked into CVS?
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The difference between supervised and unsupervised is that the inputs are paired with known outputs for supervised. In unsupervised the agent has (initially) no knowledge of what the outputs will be, given the inputs.

The baby does not know (initially) that something will cause pain, or the extremities of its joints. It must learn this over time and experience. The baby must also learn how to use the built in components, as it has no idea what outputs will occur given the inputs.

As you allude to, there are built in mechanisms/configurations in the brain which provide various forms of feedback, as well as built in behaviours and responses. If there was no basic structure to the brain, I think it would be almost impossible for an unsupervised agent to develop and learn to the complexity and level of a human brain. These basic behaviours significantly speed the initial development process up.
Really? It was my impressions that the cost of living in SF in much, much higher. Cost of living in London is high but I don't find it too bad and I know lots of people on much lower salaries than me who don't find it too difficult either. Of course this is assuming you're young/no dependents etc. but that's most startup founders.
The problem here is that there is no way for the average user to tell if the server itself is serving you client-side code that will actually encrypt your data before sending it to the server. The browser security model explicitly depends on trusting the remote server (whose identity you verified using TLS, and with whom you can communicate securily) with whatever data you enter client-side.

With end-to-end encryption of e-mail, the server is not part of the immediate trust model; it is to act only as a transfer agent. This is why end-to-end e-mail encryption is easy with a dedicated mail user agent (MUA) such as Thunderbird with Enigmail, but awkward with webmail, where you need a third party browser plugin (such as Mailvelope) to provide the encryption step.
"The global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35C warmer than the average temperature for the month, from the baseline period of 1951-1980."

Earth having been around for millions of years, how statistically significant is a 29 years period in the grand scheme of things?
Even when the Raspberry Pi was out the BeagleBoard still cost a million dollars.
Or you get used to it early by moving to a place like Adelaide, Australia, where you 3 or so have 42C plus days in a row in summer and they already have built a desalination plant during the last proper drought.
Voting for promises is IMO meaningless. Same shit, different day. Instead, look at a candidate's history and base your vote on that. Unfortunately that takes more effort than most are willing to spend, but I can't think of a better way to estimate what they will do in the future.

Could you imagine what that would do to politics if everyone voted based solely on a candidate's record instead of promises and charisma?
I've lived in London and SF. And I would say Silicon Valley is as expensive, if not more, than London
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I just went through EF - while the cost of living in London is awful, the EF stipend more than covers it. I wouldn't have even considered moving back to the UK (much less to London) had EF not been able to assure me that they could deliver on the mentoring, connections, and financial support that they advertise.

In 3 months I learnt a lot about a variety of industries as we very rapidly iterated through teams and ideas, and I'm now developing instrumentation and software that will be launched into space later this year.

It certainly beats the opportunities I've had in finance and academia over the past few years!
Thank you.

The goal of Pseudo is to create idiomatic and readable code in the target language, it should look exactly as a human wrote it in order to be useful for bootstrapping codebases in other languages or maintaining code in several languages(basically for cases when developers would continue working on the generated code)

Haxe's output isn't alien or too-machine-translated-like, but it's not optimized for that goal too.

Pseudo's intermediate format is `pseudo AST`, and it's supposed to be a target for various tools: compilers, parser generators etc. That would make it even possible to convert between different languages for the same codebase(I don't recommend it, but it can be useful). As far as I am aware, Haxe isn't meant to be a compiler target.

Pseudo makes it a lot easier to add support for a new language or a library.
It's written in Python and it uses a very declarative/template-like approach: https://github.com/alehander42/pseudo/blob/master/pseudo/gen...

And, according to Haxe docs:
> These are the technical skills you must achieve to create a compilation target for Haxe:
> ...
> Learn Ocaml
> Understand Haxe compiler sources

It will try to support a lot more languages, including functional languages(it does already support Go and Ruby, which aren't supported byHaxe).
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Any attempt at improving the mod mechanism will make many of the things mods now do impossible, as many of their features rely on things which would never fly in a sandboxed environment. This is probably why, instead of the modding API, we get Mojang hiring the developers of the Minecraft Coder Pack.
Beware that Pseudo is still in early stages. If you think you have an use case, I will be happy to discuss it, but it's still unstable and experimental.
True. But electric vehicles (milk floats, buses, trains, trams, underground trains) have been used for a very long time. Since 1890 for tube trains, for example.

England's electric vehicle companies would tend to be located in areas that had heavier engineering - electric trains were built in Birmingham
> What's current best practice for people using gmail who want client side encryption?

Use OpenPGP and access GMail through IMAP with a mail user agent (MUA) such as Thunderbird with Enigmail, or one of the other mail clients that support OpenPGP (either directly or by means of a plugin).

By doing this you strictly separate mail transfer (which GMail does for you) and encryption (which you and the receiver perform locally with OpenPGP key-pairs). GMail sees only strongly encrypted data for which it has no keys.
Cruz is 2nd in the polls behind Trump. Obviously quite a few Republicans support him.
Orebfuscator is a pretty nice solution to X-ray. As for super fast mining tools, you can just not add any to the game.
> Your work seems pretty interesting, I'd love to chat sometimes about it

Your work does, too. Yes, we should talk. My email's in my HN profile.
You have a expected lifetime of ~70-80 years and I assume you've already been around for 18. Go and stand in a Sauna for a few hours and tell me how statistically significant that few hours is to you.
You are correct. It looks like SSE sqrt matches or beats fsqrt too.
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It is not only that. There is a huge bias towards products written in C or C++. E.g. there are niche not-production-ready-yet products like ScyllaDB listed, but many popular, bigger and mature databases like HBase, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2, HSQLDB or Derby written in Java are missing.
It's interesting that people consider flooding the biggest problem, I would have though wide spread crop failures would be the main problem.
It reminds me of the Red Sea Dam idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Dam
Sadly, TrueCraft, due to its nature, has to lock out one of the most potentially interested groups - Minecraft modders, both former and current. This saddens me a bit, as I myself am a strong fan of the beta 1.7.3 design ideals.