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The analogy I can come up with, based on your post, is of something like addition. We don't know how we add numbers in our heads; but we somehow do it. Some people can do it very, very quickly[1], but won't be able to explain how they did it. On the other hand: a computer doesn't look at digits and numbers; it just looks at bits and shifts them around as appropriate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi
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Opera, apparently.
It's not in the release channel, but for Nightly the option is there on the Preferences page and has been for quite some time.
>Americans will actually be able to win the peace, not just the wars like today.

Sincerely hope you are being sarcastic here.
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Java even with webjars, hot reloading (jrebel), and what not just can't keep up with the superior Node tooling not to mention more and more frontend developers know node and not Java.

I still prefer Java/JVM languages though for backend work.
Tracker blocking is not ad-blocking. So no Firefox does not have that feature yet.

Brave is not a major browser yet. Although technically neither is Opera at this point.
> AlphaGo is essentially built on the work that IBM did on TD-Gammon (a reinforcement learning backgammon player) in the 90s.

Citation needed.
I guess it's because Go isn't that well known in the West but I find it a bit surprising (though not really) that this isn't getting more press. When Kasparov lost it was news but not really surprising. If it wasn't Kasparov that a computer beat, it would have been the next champion. The writing was on the wall for a long time. It was just a question of when exactly.

As for Go, I guess I would never had made a long bet against computers. But as recently as just over a decade ago, computers lost to merely competent players and people working on Go programs were pretty much saying that they didn't even know what the path forward looked like. Things improved a lot with Monte Carlo but even that stalled out. Admittedly, I don't follow this area closely, but these wins pretty much came out of nowhere.
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No hard evidence, but in some light testing this morning Opera is blocking more ads than uBlock Origin. They might calculate differently though.
If the drones swarm, carrying orders without further communication one can even start and win wars without revealing one's identity.
OK, so put a ring on it.

And by ring, I of course mean HMAC.
I'm kind of stunned that nobody, ever, has built a "Turing-complete" mechanical stored-program computer. The Analytical Engine would have been one, but it was never built in its entirety. The Zuse Z1 was close, in that it was an all mechanical, general purpose stored-program machine, but it lacked Turing-completeness. People have built "Turing machines" out of Lego but they don't really count as they generally lack the memory and speed to do anything interesting at all.

I reckon it hasn't been done because people assume it already has been, and it's a lot of work if you're not the first. I bet people picture huge clanking contraptions like the Analytical Engine. But Zuse built the tabletop-sized Z1 in 2 years in his parent's living room, before Turing-completeness was known to be a thing. It doesn't seem a stretch that with modern knowledge a comparable amount of time and effort could yield an actual mechanical computer. Doesn't seem like too high a price for a place in the history books.
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I still get blocked by Forbes, but it's more funny (in a tragic sense) than anything else.
This is a never ending cycle of people chasing more and more money. If you're paying them fair market value for the area, then there's little point in giving them a pay rise for asking for a nap because they're tired. Chances are, they're chasing contract gigs because they have their own interests in the work or they just see the dollar signs - I know I do it... but I also know that come 10pm I'm wasted and have to hit the hay to start it all at 6am again the next day.
The app is cheap getting people to use it is expensive.
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Do you realize that all this amounts to unavoidable proliferation of autonomous guided ordnance ? Expect narco drone assassinations in Mexico soon and don't think your homeland is immune to the employment of cheap widely available technological artifacts...
If you couple a swarm of these micro-drones and an AlphaGo like planner then you'll basically have a mini SkyNet.
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Sometimes I'll start something and then a day later I'll realize that I only just started something and try again, the cycle continues until I beat myself up over not getting anything done and it just gets miserable sometimes. The worst is with things that I don't want to do but I need to do because it becomes like this constant fleeting thought where I know I should do something but I'm doing this other thing so I don't get stressed about doing the thing that I don't want to do and not doing it makes me even worse because I know I need to do it.

That's the best way I can explain it.

Oh yeah, being interested in one thing one day and completely hating it the next day makes it hard to really plan for any long term goals when you're not sure what you'll even want to do tomorrow, in a few hours, next week, next month.

It's like your head is disconnected from your body and you're watching a bored teenager live your life for you. Watching him annoy the people you enjoy being around because you can't seem to get him to do anything that causes the slightest amount of stress. If you're too stressed thats when angsty teenager drowning in his own emotions comes in and flails at everyone around him and you can't even get yourself to say what you want to say because everything that comes out of your mouth sounds like you're blaming someone else for something when you're just trying to be like hey, I need you to calm me down I'm not trying to make you feel bad.

I feel worse for the people around me sometimes than I do for myself because I still have a hard time admitting I have ADHD and not that I'm just lazy and don't want to do anything. That's the true nightmare.
The major problem with legalization is the incentive that companies have to promote addiction in our society. Tobacco use is much higher than it would be if it weren't for marketing that promotes tobacco (this is why those companies spend so much on marketing).

The same is true for alcohol, prescription medication, illegal drugs, and many non-drug products like food and materials goods. Businesses, legal and illegal, have an incentive to promote addiction that caters to customers short term desires but not their long term happiness and satisfaction.

The ultimate manifestation of this is the horrors inflicted on China from opium sales.

So we are stuck with a balancing act. Black markets create violence. Free markets create addiction. Planned markets create poverty. We need laws that try to balance these problems against each other and find the best mix of incentives to minimize violence, addiction, and poverty.
Without the source being open, this cannot be considered secure, and there is no reason for consideration over skype, or any other messenger.
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> I would say that a web server requires ongoing support to be viable.

Absolutely and I think the author should have concentrated on that future-deliverables aspect rather than the 'what you owe to Caddy' argument.

The latter is emotionally strong but logically frail; as the author himself points-out he depends on Go and Let's Encrypt ( amongst many other 'free' projects I'm sure ) so will he be making a 'what I owe to you' contribution upstream to all those projects? He won't have much money left after that let alone paying the voluntary cost of a Github Enterprise account, of course, because otherwise someone else is paying for his use of that service...

Spinning the request as a support-contract for ongoing bug and security fixes would not only have been more business-friendly but also more robust as a general appeal.
Unless you're talking about AdWords, it is not possible to pay Google in any way to improve the ranking of your site.
I worked part-time in desktop support at Sitterson Hall, home of the UNC Computer Science program, when I was an undergrad in the late 90s / early 2000s. My team supported Windows, hardware, printers, etc. I distinctly remember closing help tickets for Prof Brooks (and Matt Cutts while he was a PhD student).

My fellow undergrad tech support doofuses and I knew that Prof Brooks was a god and thus walked on eggshells when we were around him...which we quickly learned was totally unnecessary. He was incredibly friendly, gracious, and encouraging. A true Tar Heel.

Congrats to Prof Brooks.
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From that article:

"according to AT&T, roughly half of the 500,000 Unix licenses are held by Xenix developers"
But Erewhon came in 1872, and contained many ideas that are still very strong (emergent life, creation of the technological system and clash with the ancient order (Church))...

It's a bit like the 'Seinfeld is unfunny' trope; even at the time, some people found it unfunny. It does not mean that this effect does not play a role, but you seldom hear "well, Copernicus is such a greaaat guy for discovering that the Earth revolves around the Sun", while it does suffer from it.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the Greeks had devised such stories illustrating some mathematical concepts; it's just that more than 150 years ago, the audience for 'geeky stories' was not so big, as well as the potential writers for such stories weren't so numerous (although Gauss seems a bit cheeky on his portrait). HN just wasn't there.
> because chess was just the start.

I don't believe that Deep Blue's victory in Chess has any similarity to AlphaGo's wins. DB was just brute-forcing its way through 100s of millions of positions. AlphaGo is using some learned strategy behind its moves.
I don't think they're saying everything has to be for gain. But there is definitely the point about "who pays the price" – whether it's the opportunity cost of lost income from working on caddy, or other price (time with family, friends, etc).

I do agree with patio11 that it's easier to just have a real support contract. IMO, one of the model open source projects is Sidekiq. It's become a very sustainable business for its author.
I like your statement: "It's both exciting and eerie. It's like another intelligent species opening up a new way of looking at the world (at least for this very specific domain). and much to our surprise, it's a new way that's more powerful than ours."

I think this will the theme of our future interactions with AIs. We simply can't imagine in advance how they will see and interact with the world. There will be many surprises.
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I have begun work on a remote deployment system for GNU Guix, which will be our Ansible/Chef/etc. equivalent. We already have the tools for performing full-system configuration management on the local machine and offloading builds from one machine to another, so it's a matter of gluing the two together. We'll offload full-system builds to a cluster of machines and then instantiate the configuration(s).
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Everybody's focused on graph databases here but let's talk about Cray! One of the most forward-thinking computer technology companies ever to exist is starting to get out there again. If they got a few hundred million dollars from an outside investor, they could do friggin' incredible things. They already do incredible things but not out there in the way it so easily could be.
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I'm sure this has been discussed, but why not have two AlphaGo play each other?
Interesting read. Although, I wasn't a fan of the banner asking for feedback at the bottom. I immediately clicked no without reading what it was (It was something to the extent of 'Is this page helpful?') Although, after dismissing it I wanted to say Yes but after submit I can't change my opinion.
Turing completeness of the language is only a problem if you don't want to reject safe programs. If you're fine with false positives you can just check (using a regex!) that no \write happens. Static analysis (not using regexes) is a thing for Turing complete languages and can prove non-trivial things.
Pretty sure uBlock Origin doesn't have a whitelisting service or anything. They just do what it is they are supposed to do.
Of course you can express anything on top of a relational model. But for graphs such a representation would have been awfully inefficient. For this reason, CADs never even tried to switch to a relational data storage once that fancy new relational databases appeared, most of the professional CADs are still using good old graph databases.
On a brand new install, there are a bunch of whitelisted sites (news and otherwise) I had to remove manually. I'm curious why they are allowing ads on places like NYTimes by default?
On the other hand one could say that it's a pretty shallow understanding of Zen, given that Buddhism assumes that everything in the mind - being a part of nature - is fully conditioned (deterministic), as opposed to Christian view of a human as a holy, God-like creature, distinctly different than the rest of nature.
Mankind was harvested... every man, woman, and child forced to play Go for the rest of their lives.
>gorilla wars

I see what you did there...
And what happens when the enemy gets similar technology?
Its only ironic if its blocked as well. Is it?
Absolutely. It should also be mentioned that many of the Xen vulnerabilities are actually due to qemu and that emulation can mostly be avoided by using PV/PVH.

The Xen attack surface is then reduced to about 20 hypercalls (even less for ARM). http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/hypercall/index.html
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Mind naming any historical (i.e., from the pre-relational era) graph DBMS that had graph traversal features?
I can't believe they would be told not to, or that Lee would abide by it in this match!

Now, I'm not good enough to evaluate if this seems likely, but I could understand that AlphaGo (especially if it was winning) avoided Kos, since they are high variance situations.
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this is horrible. Why isn't that label done in braille?!

when does this end?
Are you inventing your own new, hipstor definition of a "graph database" here? I used graph databases a lot, and I never heard of any of the requirements you've listed.
Not really, siri and all the other voice assistants have to be the biggest marketing success in years that nobody cares about anymore. Why success and not flop then? because everyone rushed to get one, and several startups all over the world popped out to offer an alternative.

But nobody uses it, its cumbersome, it barely works most of the time for the kind of complex tasks its supposed to help you out with and only really works with really basic stuff like reminders and alarms which you can set up in a sec without disclosing your schedule to everyone around you.

Also the AI sucks, its ironic that its textbots that are actually doing what siri and its many "brothers" were supposed to.
I've been very interested in this as well.
I wouldn't worry about a quick shift like that. You can look to the Chess world, there are still plenty of masters and grandmasters earning their bread. There's still lots of interest in the human vs. human aspect of the game. In lectures, some GMs make good use of those widely available AIs for analysis, too.
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I honestly have no idea how it would work or even if it could work. For all I know as wealth concentrates towards the owners of automation our society could collapse and we all end up stuck in a perpetual agrarian society with no easily accessible energy source or metals to ever get advanced technology ever again.

The only way out that I see is something like Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) along with socialized medicine. Everyone gets a handout from the government that's enough to live a decent life. Food and shelter could be free; which would make sense if agriculture is 100% automated (why let all the profits and control be saddled into only a handful of people?).

Then everyone that wants to can compete for making more money via their passions and hobbies or, for the few that can do it, actual work/employment.
> It will be much cheaper to send in 100 tiny drones to kill one enemy soldier than to send in an American soldier. And it will be safe for Americans.

Until such a swarm targets something like a Presidential inauguration, or a busy shopping mall at Christmas, or the Super Bowl.

> Americans will actually be able to win the peace, not just the wars like today.

I suspect that statement was said in the mid-to-late 1940s about nuclear weapons.
But then they'll just jam another contract in that 4 hours... they won't sleep.

The issue isn't paying the employee to sleep, that's just a symptom of the real issue:

The issue is poor time and resource management or poor setting of client expectations on the part of the employee. They're not setting expectations well enough to manage their time and get the sleep they need to do the job they agreed to do when they were hired.

So realistically, if they're not doing the job we contractually agreed to, this should be disciplinary. If you're not living the life you need to meet the contractual obligation you agreed to, we need to review, renegotiate or cancel the contract. I don't care what you do outside of what I'm paying you to do, but if it's impacting your ability to do what I hired you for, then we need to talk - because I need someone that does what I need them to for us to get paid, if we're not getting paid, how long do you think I'm going to be able to afford to pay you?

I have budgets, product quality, deadlines and client expectations to manage as well. We're a team, if anyone on that team aren't able to function for the good of the team, then that needs to be fixed accordingly.
This is only a bad thing if you feel compelled or addicted to reading these books. There is nothing wrong with always having a better book ready until you obsess about it.
I had a very different experience. I was diagnosed late in life, and the struggles to do simple things would blow up my depression. This created massive amounts of anxiety, and that led to a rough time at home with my wife and daughter. I will never be able to fix the damage to my daughter, she is now riddled with anxiety from having parents that couldn't cope very well with life. Thankfully she is a brilliant kid, and now that we are older and wiser we can guide her a lot better with dealing with these issues.

Buy my third child is showing signs of ADHD, and I have nothing but compassion for him. I have no interest in OVER medicating him, and have made significant life changes so that I can take my younger children on as many outdoor activities as possible.

In short... overmedication might be an issue. Not having good life-coping skills might be an issue as well. But sensationalist headlines that let headline browsers reinforce their "ADHD doesn't exist" misconceptions can cause harm. Just because it's a recent discovery doesn't mean that it isn't real, and that we can just abandon these kids.
Current anti-air defense systems can eat Predator and Reaper drones for breakfast, and still ask for seconds.

New anti-air defense systems defending against drone swarms will be developed.
I don't think that will be a problem. Gorillas probably aren't going to be able to keep a drone fleet running.
Alphago isn't programmed to think of that as a mistake (i.e. the team wouldn't be disappointed if she did it). It really only cares about W/L.
A dirty secret is we can't actually tell who is a terrorist even inside the US. How do you expect to notice in another country?

EX: [Has gun] is not enough.

EX: [Someone says is a terrorist] is not enough.

If we start tracking people 24/7 with drones we can make a lot of terrorists. But, we don't have enough people to have large numbers of people watched 24/7. So, sure we can kill a lot of people with a new weapon, but we often just classify people as insurgents after we bombed them.
OP just what is your position? are you an engineer? a designer? is this your first job or you have some previous experience?

I would say leave if you can get a better job elsewhere
Learning from experience goes both to the program and to the champion. Does this mean if the champion keeps playing with the machine several times, he has a chance of winning?
You just described humanity.

My view of ADHD is biased because my only experience with it is a psychiatrist who earns millions a year prescribing it, several girls who believe they need it for college (two attempted suicide) and then several male friends all of whom abuse it.

There is a side effect of stimulant abuse that makes you confidently delusional.

Does ADHD exist? Can stimulants cure lack of focus or should they? Does the abuse of Adderall increase the risk of suicide?

Is it ok for an obese doctor to have 20 supercars and 3 homes because he tell thousands of emotionally vunerable patients that they must take what is essentially meth everyday for the rest of their life to be "normal"?

I am all for pragmatism if it works, but people have poor self-control and my experience of ADHD only involves sociopaths and suicidal rich girls. So excuse my problem but I don't believe in chemical imbalances being cured by myopic pharmacutical companies and non-thinking doctors who act more like automons and technicians than "learned men" of science.

People love to label themselves and explain the challenges of being human by ascribing various syndromes. We should resist that temptation and find ways to solve our problems without taking a drug that is the same as meth-

http://www.vice.com/read/a-neuroscientist-explains-how-he-fo...
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