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> Yet I can not for the life of me understand why drugs are illegal. Not just pot, all drugs. I'm totally onboard with making it our public policy that we want to reduce the use of drugs. That makes perfect sense to me. It does not make sense to me why anyone still believes that using the criminal justice system as the mechanism for getting to that goal is the right path.

Look at other countries and you can see that decriminalising it has no positive impact on the actual addicts. Austria for instance will just slap you for drug usage and put you into a rehabilitation program. But there are just way too many people who want to be hooked to them and will continue taking them under doctor's supervision and not succeed in stopping their addiction. This has a terrible impact on the healthcare system and the costs to the country. Not helping them however would not be any better because too many would end up on the streets.

Recently they tried to make "dealing to a friend" possible where the first offence of dealing drugs will not give you a strong punishment and record. The end result was that dealing went up in Vienna and people are now very unhappy with the end result.

I know many Americans like the idea of decriminalising it because the war on drugs is failing, but there is quite a bit of evidence from other countries that there is good reason drugs are not legal.
Right or wrong, the problem that the court had in Kyllo was that the infrared scope gave an indication as to what was going on inside the home. The Supreme Court reasoned that the inside of the home was entitled to more privacy protection than a yard. The fear was that future infrared scopes would give the ability to see individual people moving around, or otherwise invade the privacy of the inside of the house.

This case is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Ciraolo , where the police intentionally targeted a suspected marijuana farmer with a flyover (without a warrant). The farmer lost. I can't imagine the court would think that a ranch with cattle is entitled to more privacy protection than a fenced-in backyard growing pot.

To my knowledge, no Supreme Court case has ever said that advanced visual optics can't be used outside the home.
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AlphaGo can be beaten. It uses reinforcement learning so it will perform the set of moves that in the past led to its win. So predictable. Sedol just needs to take control and make it play in a predictable fashion. Also, perhaps play obscure moves that AlphaGo wouldn't have trained on. Perhaps next year's Go winner will have a PhD in computer science.
We had around 40 users to start with. Yes the graph is a little mis-leading because I've left the sessions stuck on 0. Thanks for pointing it out.
Making my first HN comment to say thank you for creating something like this!

I come from a farmer family. Sustaining is very hard for small farmers because middlemen make most of the profit in the current system (then there are pests and unpredictability of price/rain etc to deal with).

Best of luck!
Not quite: I've sometimes put "CentOS 7" in quotes when looking for something CentOS 7-specific, only to have Google return pages and pages of results for older versions of CentOS. These days it's almost a crapshoot whether or not I'll get relevant results from Google.
Most low level drug dealers are generally paying for their own supply.

At my (very highly regarded) university in the UK you'd see this all the time. Pick up bigger bits, resell to friends, keep the "profit" for your own fun.
Strong agreement that it wasn't purely about computational power, and that there were significant software advances. I just want to make the point that hardware has advanced considerably as well.
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Go seemed to progress in a lot more fits and starts than did chess (which, admittedly, probably had a lot more effort put into it). Prior to 2005 or so, Go programs were relatively weak and there were people working on them who were saying that they didn't really see a path forward.

Then people hit on using Monte Carlo which was the big step forward you show in your graphs. But then, that progress seemed to stall to the degree that various people were quoted in a Wired article a couple years ago about how they weren't sure what was going to happen.

Yet, here we are today.
> I wonder how they did this.

The ACME protocol is simple and fully documented: https://letsencrypt.github.io/acme-spec/
You're reading things into this that I didn't write, I'd say.

When Google arrived, it was a huge advance in search. It offered an obvious improvement in relevancy, which is why so many serious searchers switched to it from AltaVista and then users of other search engines moved over.

Nothing I wrote suggested that Google was bad, didn't offer great relevancy or anything like that.

My story is about what happened when Google revealed PageRank scores for pages across the web. That fueled an explosion in link buying and selling. It allowed people to attach Google's own score to a page, a value if you will that Google itself placed on those pages, which made it easier to then assign a monetary value.

In turn, that lead to many of the woes that the web as a whole has to deal with today: understanding how to use nofollow to block links, to stay in Google's good graces. Spam mail pitching links, trying to buy links. Link spam

I'm sure we'd have had some of this even without PageRank scores ever having been revealed. Perhaps it would have been as much, even. After all, it was well-known that Google was leveraging links as part of its ranking algorithm. The market would have been there.

But I do think that releasing the PageRank scores accelerated market faster than it would have done otherwise.

Back to the gaming -- again, it feels like you're reading stuff I didn't actually write. I'm certainly not saying that Google itself introduced the ability for people to try and game search engines. That was happening even before Google existed. Of course, Google initially thought it was immune. In 1998, Sergey Brin even said this on a panel that I moderated:

"Google’s slightly different in that we never ban anybody, and we don’t really believe in spam in the sense that there’s no mechanism for removing people from our index. The fundamental concept we use is, you know, is this page relevant to the search? And, you know, some pages which, you know, they may almost never appear on the search results page because they’re just not that relevant."

Google soon changed its view and introduced extensive spam fighting efforts. Those were inevitable. As you say, it was prey that would attract predators. And even with the link selling, it has done an admirable job fighting off the spam. It's not always perfect, but it's a very robust system.

Nevertheless, the spam attempts will continue regardless if Google actually blunts them because, as the article explained, there's simply so many people with misconceptions that they'll chase anything anyway. PageRank scores fed into this, that's all.
So a rogue corporate exec ordered an unauthorized op against a ronin hacker who Robin Hood'ed the underhood of his electric car.

We are living in cyberpunk times.
If you think that's a viable proposition feel free to start it. I'm not convinced that the economics add up, nor that recognized industry experts want to spend the majority of their time reading a huge amount of content and rating it for pennies an hour.

I don't think Google have too much faith in their algorithm - they know it's flawed. But it's the least worst algorithm anyone has come up with, and adding human tweaks leads it subject to subjective bias.
It will take a few years, but drone use will trickle down from the military into federal and local enforcement branches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police

I'm curious about the flight plan approval and filing process they go through with the FAA.

Also wondering if the flights show up on the 5 minute delayed ASDI API:

http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html

And if the drones carry ADS-B transceivers and if they show up on other transceivers during flight. (Which would make them visible/trackable to anyone ground or air based that is listening)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...
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> I tried to do some Bayesian classification, but didn't make much progress unfortunately. And nofollow really isn't an option for me, as it would involve me manipulating other people's web sites and I don't want to do that.

Did you read the comment?
It does not sound long at all. This initiative was started by Facebook relatively recently. From the sounds of the article Google have worked with Facebook on this 48v power supply aspect, and having proven some results in a Facebook server, they are now able to contribute that to the standard. They are not adding much else by the sounds of it. I doubt Google will build servers to a common standard, theirs will be far better.
there is a possible outcome of back surgery that furthers your point and is (i guess arguably) worse than loss of bladder control, which is worse pain.
"NEAR" is default in Google I think. If you look for "car" it will find sites that say "automobile"
We don't have to manufacture everything here. It makes sense to do microelectronics in China because of factory network effects. Need a widget? My buddy at the factory down the road can ship you a million by Friday.

But we can manufacture textiles, plastics, metals, and so much more that we grow, extract, and refine here. The only reason China is so competitive is because of ridiculous energy subsidies and an artificially weak currency compared with the US dollar, which is also being artificially strengthened as a generally weak global economy seeks refuge in reserve currencies.

I dress well. I am currently wearing a designer shirt made in Pennsylvania. It cost me about 20% more than designer shirts made in China. If all shirts of similar quality were raised to that price due to tariffs, it would only marginally affect my buying habits.

A $120 price tag is not a big deterrent for someone who buys similar shirts for $100. I just want to look good. And right now, I do.
I upvoted your comment because I agree with your points, I just think doctors should be able to do what they think is right without fear of prosecution. And at my friend's pain management doctor's office, there was a big sign in the front room enumerating the steps he felt he needed to take him to protect himself from DEA prosecution. My sister's a lawyer who I asked about the sign and she said he was probably being extremely conservative, but that doctors don't even want to show up on the DEA's radar. Doctors are human like anyone else, and having a DEA agent ask to see your records would scare them silly, just like anyone else. And patients suffer. A lot.
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There's nothing in the U.S. constitution about airplanes either, and yet the FAA still exists. However, the U.S. constitution does talk at length about both congress who can write laws (like the laws banning hard drugs), and the judicial branch who can overturn laws that contravene the constitution.

The 18th amendment was added to the constitution not by some legislative need, but to make a politicized statement where another amendment to the constitution would be required to overturn it (the 21st in this case).
Agreed. The hardware itself does palette and tile lookups for each pixel, then shoves the data out the wire. Building an emulator that way is more literally how the hardware works, but it's slow. It's easier (and usually just as accurate) to cache the tiles for the current palette settings and blit them to the playfield as needed. There's no reason that the same wouldn't be true for 3D representations of those same sprites.

Updating the sprites in CRAM is fairly rare (and impossible in any game that uses CROM).
> a big hindrance right now (to pretty much everything) is a lack of cheap, clean energy

This is kind of true, except cheap energy is fungible with smarter energy use. So you could argue that everything is hindered by the lack of good design (and by extension design instruction in schools).

I would be interested to know what you're thinking about when you say "pretty much everything". For reference, the things I care a lot about limited job mobility, people getting murdered, abuse, including rape and incarceration, forced migration, and addiction and I don't see how any of that is the result of expensive or dirty energy.
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Recent presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfHEGeqpIY&feature=youtu.be

GitHub (with a very interesting readme) https://github.com/neilbrown/edlib

A comment mentioning edlib: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244405
The term you are looking for is 'airspace violation'. Violating another countries airspace like that is a dangerous game, in some cases leading to planes being shot down. Now with drones the pilots life are not at risk so countries will have a lower barrier to try this but eventually the country that you this on might retaliate. Wars have started over less in history.
That's a false dilemma. There are more options than "edit code on running server" and "use a 16-step verifiable app deployment pipeline".

For example: update the code in your source control repository, and then build the new version of the software.
I think you are talking about http://lowendbox.com/ offers. The GP links to http://lowendspirit.com/, which is an unrelated VPS provider.
Web rings were all the rage in 1990s/early 2000s, right before Google launched.

Unless they were some other kinds of web rings we're talking about.
Thanks a lot. You are very right in saying that middlemen make most of the profit in this industry and we are trying our best to ensure that both end buyers and sellers get the best deal possible because of the efficiency we bring into the system.
Out of curiousity, where'd you hear this? I love learning low-level details like that.
If Tesla employees can address individual cars with no oversight or audit trail or "2+ man rule" in place, that's a huge lapse of professional responsibility.

We need something like Certificate Transparency to log ACL hits for all these "connected, but proprietary" things in our lives.

Do we have any guarantees a rogue tesla employee can't just tell your car to drive off a bridge while you're inside it?
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Waze also has Morgan Freeman's voice for navigation. Glorious!
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Security fixes are reason enough.
I was thinking about posting some of the solutions to past problems on github. The problem is that new employer has no way of knowing it was me alone that provided the solution and how long it took, so I couldn't blame them for not just accepting my public repo as proof of my ability.

For example I had one interview where I struggled to complete a WPF test project simply because it was coded in a way i've never done before using controls I've never used and the test was estimated to take 10 min. Meanwhile in my bag on my laptop I had a complex WPF solution i've been working on in my free time for months as a possible product to market and sell which more than showed my competence in the platform. People in my interview didn't even want to see it on pretext that they have no way of knowing it's my code.
The info graphic on the right does not show Hadoop, but the getting started guide suggests that Hadoop is a requirement.
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Elon Musk is someone who takes personal offense to criticism of his company/products. If a hack is to showoff an awesome new car, which this is the case, I doubt he would have any issues with it.

On the other hand, if some guy found a major security flaw and posted it all over the internet I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
I really care if digital signage terminals can run my apps, because I sell digital signage terminals with these apps installed.
Libertarians agree that society needs to take responsibility for providing a support system. It's just their definition of society differs from yours. They believe interested parties should take up the burden, where you apparently mean the government should provide those services, which means forcing people to provide those services.
NEAR worked differently. it would search for text where 2 unrelated words were physically close to each other, like in same paragraph. it's more simple than what google does, but surprisingly effective.

e.g. "brakes NEAR ford NEAR (problem OR issue)" would bring back results with "brake issues with fords..." as opposed to AND where all words simply appear on the page.

no other search engine at the time offered anything near this power. the amount of crap eliminated by a properly constructed query was breathtaking
Why Linux? The networking stack on BSD is superior, and the OS places no copyleft restrictions!

I'm starting to believe that developers choose OS/Tools the are used to (Linux in this case) versus the one best suited for the job (BSD)
This is misleading. AlphaGo beat a 2p player five months ago. Now it has beaten a 9p player. That tells is nothing about it's improvement in the intervening time. Given only this information, however unlikely, AlphaGo could have actually been stronger before.
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>>Why should your drug use, or anyone else's, create obligations for other people to support you, treat you, and help you overcome addiction?

Suposing that it doesn't, doing nothing would be a hell of lot cheaper and easier than what we are doing now.

Opiodes are derived from cheap agricultural products. A tablet of herion needn't cost more than asprin. The explicit goal of federal enforcment agencies is to raise prices by restrict supply. You and I are spending a fortune on that project, and it's not helping anyone except the sprawling profession of drug-warriors, and the black market gangsters. Ok, maybe it helped HSBC a little. Kind of ironic, isn't it?

This is one of those things that makes me wonder why we even have economists if no one will listen to them.

Go get a cup of coffee, fire up youtube, and listen Milton Friedman's talk "Socialism & The War On Drugs."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQ5_4tOx0U

If you don't like that one, pick one from any decade since the Nixon administration. :)
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Having had pages in Webrings way back when, it was definitely about exposure, but I think it was also an extension of groups (Yahoo! Groups being the biggest I can recall, but I think there was also OneGroup (?) - it maybe had purple in it's logo?).

With Tripod, Geocities, Angelfire, and the like it was fairly easy to get a really basic page up, typically with a bunch of links to pages that you checked on regularly, and might be of interest to others.

At least that's how it was for me. I think the rings I was part of included Terragen, POV-Ray, and Star Wars, and I can recall getting a couple people started with basic (and of course very ugly, with that same star field background for the SW-related pages) for people that I met in the various groups.

Good times.

EDIT: And don't forget the 'made with notepad' icons. Or recommending 800x600 or 1024x768 as the best resolution to view a site.
When you say "not backwards compatible" do you mean that the streams and functional interfaces aren't compatible with Java in Android N or do you mean that they're not being to be ported to previous versions of Android?
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I got my first consumer gpu in 1997 and was thinking about how to do nongraphical tasks on it almost immediately. I didn't come up with anything practically useful back then and they were much more limited but I don't think someone from 2006 would find it surprising to hear that this was a thing.
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> I'm starting to believe that developers choose OS/Tools the are used to (Linux in this case) versus the one best suited for the job (BSD)

They do, and it isn't always the wrong choice. If you know the OS inside out it's better to use that than a brand new one you don't know the sharp edges of yet.
Totally could be the same for Go, but yeah the search space seems much bigger. I feel in chess there are a few good moves on every turn whereas for Go it seems there are so many. But then, it may be because I'm less good at Go and I don't see the "obvious" move, not that I necessarily see it in chess but you know what I mean.
Portugal, has a drop in HIV and deaths in addicts.

Also, your last sentence is unsupported. What evidence? What good reasons?
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And Americans have been extremely upset over the militarization of our police (much of which gained public exposure after Ferguson). Obama talked about it fairly regularly since then, going so far as to ban sales.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/18/obama...
Also you could add racism. Most of these drugs caused social scares when they became popular with minority communities and so people pushed to make them illegal as a roundabout way to target people they were afraid of.
Games are an easy example where bad choices can ripple up through the entire application. Specifically, the method you use to store and index geometry impacts the codebase in a lot of places. Likewise, the way you design the main world update loop, or the way you communicate events to clients in multiplayer tend to have a similar effect.

As for the problems you specified, usually only a portion of your application work flow will require multi-threading or big mem support, in most non-latency constrained applications those portions of the work flow can easily be split off into independent services, which can be rewritten to be performant.

Obviously there are client-only applications (for example, a 3D modelling package) where it makes sense to go straight to the high-performance solution, but even in that case there are exceptions (for example, PyMol).
My original comment did not mention anything about manned vs. unmanned. I was merely responding to your claim that it does not make a difference which I do not agree with.

As to your statement that it's <20 over 9 years, at the risk of sounding a little tin-foilish, but that's what is publicly being admitted to.

Such activities always start small. https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/U...
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I wonder if that's a problem with stuff like immutibleJS since the object itself is permanently mutated as part of being added to the set.

Also, if this was being done for ES5+ code, then either setting that property to non-enumerable or using something like Symbols would be cool since it would hopefully have a reduced impact on other code.