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Sure there are. For now. Amazon et al are acquiring them one by one.

A market economy is a massive optimization process; an extraordinarily useful tool that we, the people, can deploy to achieve our goals. Forget this for too long, convince yourself that the market is inherently superior to human ethics, and it starts optimizing us for things we don't care about, or things that actively hurt us, expanding to fill the regulatory container we built for it. Then it starts to try and exert force to reshape that container.

Market fundamentalists that came into vogue in the US around 40-50 years ago have thoroughly destroyed progress in many areas of human development for the people of this country. "But they're not all like that" actively serves their interests by asserting that it's not quirks of the system we've crafted creating these incentives, it's simply a chance occurrence at a single company.
My personal favorite, was when, after I had apparently survived a 4-hour interviewing + whiteboarding stint, and thought I'd be able to head out onto the street (as it was already quite late in the day)....

...a math PhD told me "hey, I got one more ya..." and proceeded to give me a mis-articulated mathematical search problem which -- going by his own statement of the problem, ended up having as its "solution" -- an empty class.
They probably just put an intern on it.
var set = []
var foo = {foot: 1}
var bar = {bart: 2}
set.push(foo)
set.indexOf(foo) //0
set.indexOf(bar) //-1

"indexOf() compares searchElement to elements of the Array using strict equality (the same method used by the ===, or triple-equals, operator)."[0]

MDN has the link to the ES5 specification, but the key part is 9(c)(ii):

"Let same be the result of applying the Strict Equality Comparison Algorithm to searchElement and elementK."

[0] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Francis Collins? said something like: people underestimate the change in the short term and overestimate it in the long term (there is my flying DeLorean and the hotel on the Moon).
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Are children that stupid?
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Folks see the poorly Photoshop'ed pictures and think they are real. I see the cult members in SF parading around with them.
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Please stop posting these.
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Whilst it's a fun proof of concept, the real solution would be zenity: https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/info.html.en
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Honestly, I think the take-away from this is not that we should not try to make our settlements self sufficient, but rather our cities are way too population dense to survive in the long term.

Maybe the population density at which all food can be grown reasonably locally is where we should max out?
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>and the elections right now seem to indicate most people are ignorant of it and/or don't care.

>Interesting times. I feel bad for the American public.

I don't. As you pointed out, most Americans are happily voting for politicians who push these policies, so we can assume that most Americans are in agreement with these policies. If they didn't agree, they would vote for candidates who don't support these policies (and there are such candidates available). Americans are getting the government they deserve, as usual.
I wrote this after trying to find something to keep state in check for React applications and noticing a lot of over engineering and a lot of misunderstandings about FP even from libs that claimed to do it. I hope this isn't too stupid for this (site), but I really think we should write less code and think a little bit about the problems we are actually trying to solve.
This is why I think all lobbying should be banned, in combination strict campaign finance laws, and strict enforcement of those laws, no matter who breaks them (even if billionaire candidates do, or say the VP of the country. Put them all in jail if they do it).

Instead of lobbying, what you should have is just hearings. The companies could still be free to offer a witness for the hearing, but it's all going to be public, and it's going to look weird if all of your witnesses are corporate people or all are from law enforcement agencies, when debating a new issue/bill.

Open debates in public hearings where multiple politicians participate beat backroom lobbying deals any day.
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> You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.

You're thinking about it wrong. There is no opportunity cost in their worldview, just lulz to be had at the expense of people they deem worthy of ruination.

(I never said the people that live in the intersection of trolls and blackhats are great at financial or career planning, after all.)
To fully remember the evolution of search one needs to have been over 20 in 1995 and on the internet. That's probably quite a small number of people who are now over 20 and on the internet.

Do you remember when Yahoo was a website about wrestling ?

Or when having a good section in DMOZ was important ?
That's a good point, but it's still orders of magnitude below what a human -- even a devoted one -- could ever review.

Of course, there are many ways you can do the comparison:

Time to build: The AlphaGo team didn't have billions of years of evolutionary tinkering to work with in refining biological heuristic/learning systems.

Hardware limits: though still more efficient at search than previous designs, AlphaGo still has a lot more storage space and inter-component bandwidth than a human brain, plus better latency. Will the algorithms improve to the point that they can perform well on an extremely restricted architecture?
Aren't you forgetting to add Rubio and Cruz to that list?
How many jobs will it be relevant to?
>my phone can now reliably beat Carlsen

I've seen this written by many people but is there any solid evidence/study that proves this?

Edit: seems like Pocket Fritz and Komodo are easily able to beat grandmasters.
https://twitter.com/mustafasuleymn/status/707469083458068480

(cough) Ok best 2 out of three before it counts. (cough)
Bring the VCF from Azure ML to Visual Studio! I said it in the survey too. VCF is very important in some settings. Being able to code R + SQL and have workflow components in the same environment would be a killer feature.
I work for a company in California, so my commute is zero.

If I have to one day find a job. I am looking at at least a 45 minute commute to the nearest major city. If I can't find a programming job there, it would be a 2 hour commute in the other direction..

There are a few universities that are close that might have something as well....
Well you're one of the brave and true, then.

And I had someone on my previous team make a point of bringing up this fine point at a meeting, also ;)
When companies treat engineers like disposable commodities they should expect solutions that will be disposed.
I did not read his comment as such. I read it more as "every country has its warts."
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> Another reason is that we want it to be clear that the client can work with any ACME-enabled CA in the future, not just Let’s Encrypt.

Great to see that they are actively aware of CA monopolization, and taking steps to avoid becoming one themselves.
I read it quickly and said, "Why on Earth did the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have a presence in mainland China anyway?"

Then I remembered, oh yeah, SCMP was that website I read several times a day, for a couple of weeks straight, when the Snowden story broke.
Correct. It played like a top level human player, pretty evenly matched with Lee Sedol. AlphaGo from yesterday would have wiped the floor with AlphaGo from 6 months ago.

Various commentators mentioned how both players, human and synthetic, made a few mistakes. Even I caught a slow move made by the AI. So whether Lee Sedol was at the top of his peformance, or not, is a bit of a debate. But the AI was clearly on the same level, whatever that means.

It was an intense fight throughout the game, with both players making bold moves and taking risks. Fantastic show.
Wat? Only 145k since 1969?? I was hoping to be a paper millionaire, minimum. Glad I spent it on (an average of) a couple of cans of beer a day instead.
These are Atom based chips with integrated graphics and SSDs. You're not going to pull 200W from them no matter how hard you try.
Woah:

>Improved Java 8 language support - We’re excited to bring Java 8 language features to Android. With Android's Jack compiler, you can now use many popular Java 8 language features, including lambdas and more, on Android versions as far back as Gingerbread. The new features help reduce boilerplate code. For example, lambdas can replace anonymous inner classes when providing event listeners. Some Java 8 language features --like default and static methods, streams, and functional interfaces -- are also now available on N and above. With Jack, we’re looking forward to tracking the Java language more closely while maintaining backward compatibility.
I DESERVE CONSENT BECAUSE I AM HUMAN
I am 35 mins south of Syracuse.
Understood. RTVS itself is 3MB's. Hopefully you won't have to install VS more than once or twice a year as it's several Gigs...

Speaking of a web page, our team also did "Jupyter notebooks as a Service" on Azure ML. You can fire up a notebook quickly and code away - essentially like tmpnb if you've used it, but your notebook is persisted.

we'll be adding more languages soon. Try one of the samples at: (no login), or start w blank notebook in the Azure ML Studio:

https://gallery.cortanaanalytics.com/browse/?categories=[%22...
It's even less to buy/coopt/promise a Blue Origin ride to a single tech columnist who is lightly edited.
A combination of things such as Spinnaker providing granular environmental context to an instance by way of user data (things that the ec2 metadata service doesn't readily provide to an instance without API calls), dynamic properties which can be controlled down to the instance-level (http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/06/annoucing-archaius-dynam... ), and other solutions depending on a team's needs.
I work for a California University.
A couple of weeks ago, I was taking in some scenery around Creech AFB, North of Las Vegas. While there, I saw a Predator (although it might have been a MQ-9 Reaper) being launched from the airstrip.

It looked like a giant model aircraft getting launched when the wind hit it. Pretty cool at the time, although after reading this, I hope it was just a training mission over some non-existent Nevada AFB...
I'm not sure that simply expressing astonishment will change anyone's mind. Are these well-known ideas or something completely new? Can you refute them directly or explain where they come from to someone not familiar with Chinese history and current conspiracy theories?
I'm not sure about others, but I also had a NSFW picture load up. Are the pictures random, some of which are NSFW? (Maybe in some places it is different, but even classical art can be considered NSFW in parts of the US.)
6 months ago it was clearly stronger than Fan Hui 2p. You don't beat someone at that level 5-0 without being consistently stronger.

Fan Hui said the machine played extremely consistently 6 months ago. He said playing the computer was "like pushing against a wall" - just very strong, very consistent performance.
I suspect no one else mentioned it because it comes up in every single thread about Echo, and the exact same conversation plays out each time.
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I think you got it backwards. Bill Gates said

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
1. I don't mind the snow.

2. Taxes totally suck. I am at $6,000 a year.

3. It is cheap.

4. Hot plates? I don't follow this :-)
Since the US is increasing it's aid to India year over year to address the growing humanitarian crisis, I suggest a different alternative.

Use the H1-B fees to fund the foreign aid. Call it a 'ship jumper' tax.

In 2013 the government expenditure portion of foreign aid was 2.4BN USD. Divide that 65,000 ways and the fee equals roughly 37K USD per H1-B applicant.

Note: This only accounts for direct government spend. Which excludes NGO, organizational, and individual assistance.

With that in mind, 4K is practically a bargain.

----------

In all seriousness, how about we address the real issues.

1. Immigration is not a trade issue, period. Square peg, round hole. Different rules apply.

2. India is already heavily overrepresented in H1-B issuings. Immigration shouldn't be limited to just those countries who spam the most applications. The US is a 'melting pot' not a 'life raft'.

3. It's not realistic to expect the US to import the entirety of India's upper-caste.
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Except it costs an order of magnitude more.
The favicon is... unfortunate.

The squirrel mascot is cute, but doesn't reduce well.
I'm super pro-autonomous vehicles. I believe they will save far more lives than harm. But WTF, its like the rules engine had an incorrect entry. When you're leaving the curb lane (parked) you basically have no rights. Just wait for it to be clear. Maybe Google is starting to teach it more than the rules, but also the "rules of thumb" like if you gun it in front of a car, they'll brake a little.
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We've had an ex-employee with access to a client's page for close to a year now because every time we try and remove him we just get the generic "an error has occurred, sorry" message.

Contacting support lead to something like "Thanks for your report. While we don't have time to investigate or address every problem that's reported, we take all problems seriously. Please try again at a later date to see if this issue has been resolved."

I get that we're extremely small fish in Facebook's eyes, but I would've thought reselling $30k/mo in ad inventory would at least get us some way to have these issues resolved for their clients.

That said, I can't say Google is all that much better.
I also grew up 30 mins outside of Syracuse. South though.
People that try to predict the future in ai are breathing hot air more often then not.
I don't see what conic sections have to do with this...
Zooming in decreases the resolution and zooming out increases the resolution for me on Windows 8.1 + up to date Chrome.
There are no such plans. But we have VS Code, which is great lighter weight IDE that's cross platform. Check it out here:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

It has great support for js, node, go, .net etc. already. We'll hopefully add Python & R support soon.
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Yes, this winter was mild compared to last winter. I still have a lot of wood and eco-bricks left over for next year!
> Warning...While fully usable, Invoke is still pre-1.0 software and has no backwards compatibility guarantees until the 1.0 release occurs! Please make sure to read the changelog carefully anytime you upgrade!

And if I recall, it's only half of fabric's feature set.
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Not that I am aware of. It's possible they contributed to some of our OSS efforts, but I don't believe anything used internally was developed in that manner.
>There is nothing about the theory of microfinance that relies on the existence of international borders or differences in purchasing power.

But there is about the Vimes theory, which is what I'm criticizing. That theory implies that microfinance should work within a society, where dollars don't go as far for the poor. The fact that microfinance is more effective as you deviate further from that situation, is then a point against that theory (even if not completely opposite).

You're responding to a different point than the one I'm making.

My point: "Vimes is wrong to attribute poverty to the poor not having access to a loan of $50 to buy longer-lasting stuff, as that would imply intra-society microloans would fix it, which doesn't happen."

The point you're criticizing: "Vimes implies microfinance never works."

(That, by the way, is how a well-supported accusation of strawmanning would look. "Strawman" means "replied to a wrong argument", not -- as you seem to be using it -- "one fact you relied on is false".)
Still, when I had my wisdom teeth out at 17, I threw away the painkillers. I knew that they would be problematic for me, so I decided to not even go there.
Ableton just released every last detail of how Push 2 works
After Go, the next AI challenge they're looking at is Starcraft: https://twitter.com/deeplearning4j/status/706541229543071745
I see where you're coming from. I think the truth is actually dependent on the particular institution and particular academic.

For example, OpenRave is the result of academics open sourcing their research.

Update: Someone posted a link to the code.
Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/810/
Speaking as a former Cloyne resident and former employee of the BSC, I would say the BSC works in spite of the fact that it is (mostly) run by students. Nearly all of the houses have a transitory nature to them - some of them rarely have students stay for more than a year at a time.

The BSC is more similar to the corporate co-living/nomad house than archagon realizes. Even though the BSC is a non-profit, it treats students like they are expendable. [1] The students don't own the house, they don't get to decide their own fate. It is not actually a true cooperative, employees of the BSC will be the first ones to admit that.

[1] See Cloyne's fate
I've said this before, but I learned far more about trigonometry from my industrial arts classes than I did from my math classes. Mechanical drafting, wood shop, metal shop, and the experience of helping my dad and the neighbors do rough carpentry was a far better use of my time. It's hard to build risers for a set of stairs, or figure out your cuts in a set of rafters without trig.

The worst part was having to fight to fit those useful electives in around the college-prep track bullshit I had to take. There was some assumption that nobody would ever want to take both shop and AP courses, so they had a nasty habit of trying to schedule them in the same blocks.

Though, to be honest, the only part of high school that is memorable is the second semester of my senior year, after I'd locked up the valedictorian spot and gotten accepted to college. I cut a lot of school to go fishing and cut firewood that spring, after basketball season finished up.
That's an important distinction IMO because we've already got police helicopters and such in many cities and they're clearly useful when you quickly need to get an aerial view of an accident or someone running after committing a crime. There is still potential from abuse but whether the craft is manned or not would likely not change that.

At the same time, I guess on a personal, gut reaction level, it seems a bit more threatening or overreaching to think about any aircraft, manned or not, constantly flying around just recording everything for reference under the argument that it could help identify other crimes or locate individuals.

It may be illogical to be OK with a police chopper but not other surveillance craft but I think the potential for abuse and overreach skyrockets when you have the ability to find and track individuals at any time or create a record of their actions and travels for later analysis. I guess my emotional reaction stems from law enforcement responding to reports of crime versus just recording everything in case there's a crime. In the latter case, it wouldn't be hard to find something to nail someone on if you had a long enough record of their lives and activities and that's what unsettles me.
I already have Scaleway account. I just finished some benchmarks on their starter vps and looks very interesting price per performances.
Cores are dedicated, based on Intel C2750 (on /proc/cpuinfo).
I have approx 23% more performances on cpu and iops than DO $20 plan. For equivalent $2.70 price, its 8-9 times less expansive for more performances.
It's time for me to think about migration :-)
This can usually be determined heuristically:

* loaded drivers may be named after the virtualization platform (VMware)

* CPUs can be reported as "Virtual" in /proc/cpuinfo

* Special files in /proc (for instance "vz" for OVZ)

* Kernel name

* etc.
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The AI yesterday played just like a human. You could not tell the human from the AI just based on the moves. That was amazing.
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It was a position related to compiler development.
One of my favorite infographics is this one on the New York Time's website. It shows how much you would have made on investments over time.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
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If you want to understand the impact that the 'war on drugs' has had on inner cities check out Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (http://fave.co/1p8kUh6) - an amazing read, and it's the book that the TV series The Wire is based on as well. I agree that these prohibitionist policies have done more harm to the people of the United States than just about anything else over the last few decades. There are also serious externalities, like Mexico becoming a failed state in part due to the narco cartels fueled by black market drug sales into the US.
I actually miss old AltaVista I always could find what I was looking for with their boolean expressions. Yes, perhaps it was harder to some, but it worked well.

With Google, I feel like I have to fight with it. If I'm searching for something obscure or perhaps a word that is misspelled on purpose it thinks it knows better what I'm looking for. It also often returns searches without the word that I searched for and often ignores when I prefix it with + or put in quotes.
I can back this up a bit. I created a strong Chess engine variant and had it visually show what the computer was considering as moves with strengths as color strength. It would even show what it considered your best counter-moves.

Even with all that thinking output on the screen, the computer would still soundly beat myself and another (intermediate) player.

Here are some screenshots to illustrate what I'm talking about:

http://fifthsigma.com/CoolStuff/DecachessThinking/
> far less important to me than picking up a girl and banging her against the wall [...] the girl of my choosing [...] So far all the girls I've chosen

Ugh. Unfortunately, it's long past time to deal with this.

On behalf of the HN community: please stop posting about your sex life. We don't want to hear about it.
Agreed, but also I think expectation, confidence, ambition are as important as opportunity. We have some relatives, from the outside they look like a totally normal middle class loving family. But we saw time and again the parents talk like, daughter is the smart one, son is the not-so-smart one. Telling him his teachers are idiots etc. They just set that kid up for failure and it was difficult to watch.
I found the issue. Wordpress.
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I wonder how he found a replacement for that exact same phone fax thing? It looks like an antique piece.