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I think (please correct if I am wrong), systrace has some race conditions and is not considered completely secure.

"Applications that use clone()-like system calls to share the complete address space between processes may be able to replace system call arguments after they have been evaluated by systrace and escape policy enforcement."

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...

OpenBSD apps leverage traditional approaches heavily like chroot and privilege separation through different users - even within applications but there is no network separation or similar as in jails or Linux namespaces.
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> Dolphins are about as intelligent as us, too

How are you making this comparison?
This is where the reporting of "failures" as mentioned above can be helpful. Any suggestion that violates your system of equations based constraints can be instantly reported as a "failure," and this will be taken into account as SigOpt converges to the best parameters.

You could also try to bake this into the objective function (with an L2 penalty for how bad it violates some constraints), depending on how hard the constraints of the problem actually are.
It's a golden age for indie music of all kinds. There's an unbelievable amount of talent out there - not even counting how easy it is now to find good music from Eastern Europe or Thailand or other places that used to be completely off the Western music map.

It's not a golden age for making a living as an indie artist. The unbelievable amount of talent makes it hard for anyone to break through, or even to scrape by.

I don't think Bieber and Kardashian are any worse than their equivalents in previous generations. There's always been a lot of manufactured product sold by image in pop, all the way back to vaudeville and music hall.

But I think the 70s and especially the 80s hit a sweet spot for cost-of-entry which kept dabblers out while promoting some of the strongest talent.

Now people are a lot more likely to be making music at home than paying someone else for it. Software synths and samplers have become the modern parlour upright piano.

It's good in a way, but it makes it much harder for the talented artists who are selling music to stand out from those who are selling an image and a lifestyle brand.
So I guess VPNs centralise the traffic of people who care about spoofing geography and/or keeping their traffic private from their ISP
IPv4 only? PLZ.
Here is mine, IPv6 ONLY :P https://github.com/otacon22/ip6calc
Well, no, substantially more people are complaining. Bands, because there's no money in it any more unless you are one of the top 10 bands. No, it wasn't always that way - many, many more bands were able to make money from music than now. As a fan, with no credible music press to help discern the good from the shit you'll just never hear about the really good bands because the signal gets lost in the noise of all the shit. The same thing is happening in publishing; endless dross churned out meaning that the good books are harder and harder to identify.
Why on Earth would somebody downvote this? Unfortunately, this is how many people feel when you have lots of responsibilities to many other people.
I had plenty of old CDs that disintegrated over the years. I guess experience varies.
> replicating the architecture of the brain, is essentially a trivial task given the required hardware. I think it's pretty clear now that this isn't true.

I think it will be like airplanes. We don't flap our wings but we fly.
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A quote by Lee Sedol from years ago (might be apocryphal, couldn't find the original source):

Q: We heard there's now an anti-Lee Sedol website in Korea?

A: I don't even have time for my fans. I don't care about haters. ("나를 좋아하는 팬들에게도 신경을 못 쓰는데 그들에겐 당연히 신경 끈다.")
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Of course humans [1][2]. With a few exceptions the population increased by some factor every year for thousands of years. The factor was admittedly small for long times, 0.1 % per year since 1000 BCE and even smaller before, but the factor increased over time and surpassed 1 % per year in the early 20th century. So depending on the reference point the population growth can even be considered superexponential. And while a growth factor of 0.1 % per years seems pretty small at first, it only increases the doubling time by a factor of 10 from 70 years to 700 years.

[1] http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17465/yearly-popu...

[2] http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/210a/readings...
"One of the basic rules of thumb in typography is that, when writing a piece of text, you should choose one typeface and stick to it."

How about an analogy from cooking, too?

"It's easy to spot all the verbs, but why on Earth would you want to do that? "

Well, exactly! Makes it obvious how stupid your argument is, huh?!

I'm pretty sure the people who choose syntax colouring know what they're doing, just like the ones who don't use it. One of those choice things.
Just wait until they start selling your behavioral data for background checks, health insurance and credit ratings. Suddenly you are shut out of things and you don't even know why.
And way, WAY more music sucks even worse now than at any other time in history.

If you don't know where to look (or maybe more importanly how to look for it), then confronting the horrors of the default mainstream pop nightmare set before us, and being unable locate something that suits your tastes can feel truly hopeless, and leave one completely bereft of satisfaction.

I don't think that's a contraversial statement.

The shining examples really do get buried in an avalanche of gruel.

Meanwhile, experiments like Black MIDI are tangentially interesting, but not actually useful.
Form overflow.
All I know about Atom is that people come on the forum and report that they can't get it to work. Then they are told that the core team has no plan to support it. I guess there could be a pull request.

I myself am curious as to why something would not work. There must be new features in the 64-bit architecture.
The argument that AI is either much better or much worse does not apply here. It's not an accident that they chose this point in time to play against Lee Sedol instead of 10 years ago or 10 years in the future. They chose this point in time because they thought that they have a reasonable chance of winning.

Also, he won with white but he will play with black next time, so playing the same sequence of moves can't happen. Additionally, even if the AI didn't incorporate any randomness in the opening (I think it does) it may choose different moves if it gets a different amount of time to think, so Lee Sedol would have to play his moves at exactly the same time as the last game. A couple of seconds deviation only has to lead to a different move in one of the 80 or so moves before the mistake was made to invalidate this strategy.
As you pointed out, it is all about a balance, and every feature has different tradeoffs.

SigOpt was designed to unlock the power of Bayesian optimization for anyone doing machine learning. We believe that you shouldn't need to be an expert and spend countless hours of administration to achieve great results for every model. We're wrapping an ensemble of the best Bayesian methods behind a simple interface [0] and constantly making improvements so that people can focus on designing features and their individual domain expertise, instead of needing to build and maintain their own hyperparameter optimization tools to see the benefit.

For experts who want to spend a lot of time and effort customizing, administering, updating, and maintaining a hyperparameter tuning solution I would recommend forking one of the open source packages out there like spearmint [1] or MOE [2] (disclaimer, I wrote MOE while working at Yelp).

[0]: https://sigopt.com/docs

[1]: https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint

[2]: https://github.com/Yelp/MOE
From the european commission itself:

What does the Commission plan to do about geo-blocking?

Addressing unjustified geo-blocking will give more choice of products and services for consumers at lower prices. The Commission is planning to make legislative proposals in the first half of 2016 to end unjustified geo-blocking. Action could include a targeted change to the e-commerce framework, and to the framework set out by Article 20 of the Services Directive (on non-discrimination of recipients of services). As a result, traders will have only limited possibilities to deny access to online services.In parallel to legislative proposals, the Commission today launched a Competition Sector Inquiry to analyse the application of competition law in this area (press release and factsheet)

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4920_en.htm

There's lots to this behind that link, and at the digital single market site (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en) but it seems like some DSM legislation will be proposed later this year, but not all of it (since the eCommerce report isn't scheduled to be completed until 2017)
I thought that was just called encryption.
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Labels were promoters. There used to be serious shenanigans involved in getting records into the charts - when charts still mattered.

DJs would be - let's say - "encouraged in creative ways" to promote music. (I know one band who got airplay after delivering a lawn mower to a DJ. Because he needed one. That was one of the more legal things that happened.)

The top DJs could make or break careers. Everyone understood this.

I'm not sure how many people realise that labels still exist, and they still do a lot of PR. In fact A&R spending has increased over the last few years.

But it's a lot more diffuse than it used to be, and it's no longer as easy to influence the market as it was.

So labels take far fewer risks, and they do what book publishers do - wait until they find an artist with a buzz and a following, and then try to hype them.
Perhaps you should use a less ambiguous term than "clean". They're giving you a correct answer, so perhaps you should ask the correct question? "Is your code readable", perhaps? "Are you proud of your code?". Something like that. No-one's going to admit their code isn't clean, regardless of how they interpret that term.
Quite a few very usable languages are just fine without any dedicated syntax at all. Think of Lisp and Fort for example.

And backend is not just about optimisations, they're mostly insig igicant. Backend is about translating gradually one semantics to the other. An example of such is compiling a regular expression into a DFA and then a C array and a switch.
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I'm still trying to find a nice way to show v6 in binary on a web page, having a feeling that I might need to give up... :/ However I like how it shows the scale of things.
It seems to be working for Basecamp (formerly 37Signals, creators of the Basecamp project management software). Read their two books REWORK and REMOTE,where they explain how they did it. You can also find the basics reading around their founder's blog ( https://m.signalvnoise.com ), where they also lists some other companies that share this approach (buffer, zapier...)
Well, defensive end Olivier Vernon just signed a deal with the New York Giants which will pay him an average annual salary of around 17 million dollars. And there was a huge signing bonus as well.[1]

NFL seasons are 16 regular season games, plus 4 pre-season games. And then there are the playoffs, which a given team might or might not make or advance in.

All told, given that the signing bonus is amortized over all the games he plays, the annual salary, etc., I think it would be fair to say that Vernon will make around a million dollars a game.

Aside: Vernon isn't necessarily "the best" DE in the NFL, but due to market forces and the way things work with the salary cap, free agency rules, etc., the contract he just signed is one of the largest for a defensive player in the league. QB's tend to make even more, but I can't recall a really high profile QB who has signed a big deal recently.

[1]: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-york-giants/olivier-vernon/
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I totally agree with you. "The Zone" is arguably the ideal state for productivity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)), so why cut it short?
Think Bayes is the best probability book I've seen for people who know how to program. Definitely worth a read!
Anyone have any insights into why the commonly used guns argument is not good enough for encryption? If we ban guns(encryption), only the criminals will have it.

The only thing I can think of is that the majority of people who advocate for encryption are anti-gun, and don't want to give strength to that argument?
My point is exactly the opposite - compilers are easy, probably easier than pretty much anything else. And courses like this do not help by pretending this is a complex topic and by obscuring what matters with unimportant minutiae (like parsing and such).
As an adult male with ADHD that went undiagnosed until I was in my late 20s, who was one of the youngest in his class, who faced the potential of "corporal punishment" (spanking on the rear-end with a wooden paddle was the threat) both at school and at home (it was only ever administered to me at home by my parents), and who now has a daughter who has just passed through the elementary years at a school that does not practice any physical punishment, and who has never practiced any sort of physical punishment on my daughter, I strongly disagree.

The biggest change I've seen in the style of schooling between my elementary years and today is not the administration of corporal punishment. Yes, it was an option when I was a child, but it was rarely administered. Less than half a dozen times a year across six grades and about 1000 children, perhaps, is my rough guesstimate.

Instead, the biggest change I see is the near total removal of recess as a part of the day. When I was in elementary school, we had two 15-minute recesses, one 25-minute recess, and an additional 10-15 minute recess period after lunch. My daughter, throughout her elementary school years, was given a single 15 minute recess, and this was often taken away from the entire class as a collective punishment. To me, it's no wonder the kids can't sit still or pay attention. Children that age need to run and play without structure and with as few rules as possible. That physical energy has to go somewhere. And it too often goes to acting up and inability to pay attention in class.
It has a bias because it choose programs that you can install. It's a good category, but it left some applications out. For example GMail, Candycrush, Facebook, ...

Gmail is equivalent to MS Outlook, so I think it's fair to include both.

Candycrush is implicitly considered in a note in the "games" category, I don't know how would be a fair way to count the installable games, flash games, javascript games, android games, Appstore games, ...

Facebook is in another category (can we put it with Webpress or something). It's more a webpage than an application, but the difference is not so big.
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Well, my perception of the gun lobby is that a big part of the effort is centralized. At least that's my impression after reading the nytimes article.

I don't have any insight into the gun lobby so I can't tell whether it is any accurate.

http://nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/media/banished-for-qu...

I fear the gun argument is further weakened by the fact that civilians can't have big anti-aircraft guns in their backyard pointed towards the sky. I bet I can't operate a decent early warning radar in my backyard without running afoul of some zoning ordinance or another.
I think mostly people forget that > works and that therefore you can do

> q
There are certainly honeypots inside the Tor network as there are on the internet in general. Tor itself is an invaluable network when used properly for a variety of people and purposes. Perhaps not a major point but I believe Tor originated out U.S. Navy and DARPA, not the NSA.
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I think mostly people forget that > works and that therefore you can do

> quotes like this

since it's markdown - often you get commentish things that allow limited HTML plus indented code blocks, and people get used to using the latter as the only thing that works everywhere
No, it was updated since then. Its header/footer format is certainly was not common in 1993, it has search box and things like that. Anyway, it is usable, does not require JavaScript, and loads really fast.
was i the only one upset it wasnt the more well-known Hilary?
This is just one of several disadvantages for kids born towards the end of the year.

One logical solution is to have two classes per year. Kids born Jan-June start in the fall, the rest the following spring.
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Well, the discoverers of passive investing didn't keep it to themselves, and now they're making lots and lots of money running index mutual funds.
I find this behavior really curious on Microsoft's part. When I originally read that Windows 10 would be the last version of windows I thought it metaphor, but I think Microsoft is really serious, they are no longer interested in producing a standalone operating system for machines. It feels to me like they are dragging their customers into a ChromeOS type world where everything is on the network.
One time pad perhaps
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I definitely understand why using fear to control children is a bad thing, but as for violence, it's at the root of all power anyway. Whenever you impose a disciplinary sanction, it's implicit that if the sanction is not respected, it will be replaced by an alternative, at least as harsh sanction, and eventually the alternative sanction will be violent.

Fear is clearly not a great way of controlling your children, but no one does it in any other way. If instead of corporal punishment you discipline your child by revoking privileges, you're still using threats and fear. The alternative is to reason with your child, to present a convincing argument for why they should listen to you. But kids aren't (always) rational actors, so that doesn't always work.

Both hitting your child and grounding your child are based on fear and violence. They each have their disadvantages. Hitting your child might end up teaching them that hitting people is OK, grounding your child gives them a lot of time to build resentment and keeps them cooped up with negativity and inactivity so that they're more likely to get into trouble again. I'm not sure which I would have chosen as a kid, but now I'd choose corporal punishment.
Most languages are transforming one layer of semantics into another. Optimisations are pretty much irrelevant in this notion.

Parsing in most cases should either be trivial, or can be skipped altogether.
I agree that there are problems if we just add UBI on top of the current system. But that doesn't go against my point—we can set up a mechanism (give everyone money) and then write policy assuming that mechanism (e.g. pass laws about children's income requiring it to go into trusts, where any money being spent by the parents requires a new Financial Auditing branch of Child Protective Services to do a check that the money is being spent for the child's best interests.)

The important thing is that the latter step is general: it safeguards the interests of children who get any kind of income, including child actors, child competitive-tournament winners, etc. If this were just part of the decision process of granting the money as income in the first place, then these side-benefits would be left unrealized.

It's the same as the mechanism/policy separation of Internet infrastructure: instead of trying to create a physical-layer transport with perfect reliability, we create a simple physical-layer transport (Ethernet) and then reliability is a policy decision made at a higher level, compensating for a physical layer where "potential unreliability" is taken as axiomatic.

We should strive for "foundational" laws that set up universal systems of incentives—because that lets us predict how society will shift in aggregate. Then, having done so, we should be able to write specific, ephemeral laws that assume such incentives exist, and then create multiplicative or countervailing forces to shift those incentives for the specific case.

The one obvious example of where the law does this is in terms of inalienable rights. The constitution "grants" them universally (though the language is more like "these rights are already axiomatic in the cultural fabric, and we're just making them explicit in law so they can be pointed at.") Then, legislation and caselaw just work in terms of them, layering new things above and around them to achieve an effect, rather than being able to say anything like "and in this case, [some right] doesn't apply."

For any given area of policy, having a low-level non-changeable core policy that can always be trusted to be true—and then a high-level set of situational laws to attenuate the output of that core, rather than overriding it—is both easier to legislate, easier to adjudicate, easier to enforce, and easier to learn.

Everyone including later policy-makers can know and rely on the core policy always applying, so they don't have to worry; there's no combinatoric explosion of "if we add this, then will that other thing that was intended to be countervailing now go too far when this branch of the core decision tree is taken?"

Instead, we just get the equivalent of D&D's "non-stackable bonuses": an explicit notion of a "non-core law" (like a notion of a "bonus") where the core law can set meta-policy on how policies combine.
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>That's where labels come in.

Or youtube or Pandora. If I were trying to get a band going today I'd blanket the internet with my music and try to make money off of live shows and t-shirts. All it takes is one popular video and everyone knows who you are.

What the labels used to bring to the table is control of shelf space in record stores and control over what gets played on the radio. You just couldn't get around that cartel no matter how much people liked your music. But shelf space is a commodity of dwindling importance, and people don't go to the radio for new music any more.
Can anyone actually identify a profitable business area which DL has solved? I haven't seen one yet.
I meant the legal definition of time, not the dictionary definition.
> where any money being spent by the parents requires a new Financial Auditing branch of Child Protective Services to do a check that the money is being spent for the child's best interests.

Yikes
What does "undue burden" mean? Wouldn't it be very simple for WhatsApp to remove the encryption in the app? (Anyone can write an unencrypted app.) Could they be forced to do that?

IMO that would be awful.
So it would be a win-win for Google

Yes, but would it be win-win for us?

Google's already demonstrated that "don't be evil" is now just a sad memory. I'm not ready to believe them to "do the right thing". Their entire existence is predicated on increasing and refining their data collection and analysis, and acting on such.

Google's seedy behavior already directly impacts me every day. I, for one, don't welcome this new corporate overlord.