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>Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan’s first guess for why this bias occurs was a simple one: Maybe a prime ending in 3, say, is more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 7, 9 or 1 merely because it encounters numbers with those endings before it reaches another number ending in 3. For example, 43 is followed by 47, 49 and 51 before it hits 53, and one of those numbers, 47, is prime.
This is explicitly ruled out in the article -

> Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan’s first guess for why this bias occurs was a simple one: Maybe a prime ending in 3, say, is more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 7, 9 or 1 merely because it encounters numbers with those endings before it reaches another number ending in 3. For example, 43 is followed by 47, 49 and 51 before it hits 53, and one of those numbers, 47, is prime.

> But the pair of mathematicians soon realized that this potential explanation couldn’t account for the magnitude of the biases they found. Nor could it explain why, as the pair found, primes ending in 3 seem to like being followed by primes ending in 9 more than 1 or 7.
Medieval royals used to employ a court jester for amusement and to fill the unique role of being the only class of people allowed to criticize the nobility, provided of course, it was all said "in jest."

"This American thing" had to come from somewhere.
All of the concepts are still valid since he covers the fundamentals.
He did touch on this point. He said that no matter what the outcome if this case is, real encryption is still just an app away. He then listed several 3rd party encryption apps.
Thanks for all the replies; useful.
Unfortunately, the problem is that the media isn't any better than a comedian, not that the comedian is very good. Having been on both sides of some of John's issues, I have to say that he is a master of making you think you understand an issue, when in fact you are carefully sealed off from getting even a whiff of what the other side's points may be, with snark and mockery substituted instead. Many people criticize the mainstream media for the fake controversy approach where every issue has two sides no matter how silly, but John Oliver is even worse than that. It's fun, but that's all it is... it is not informative. Only fun.

If you think he's "really good" at covering the issues, I strongly suggest tuning your media consumption; you're not even getting one side of an issue so much as one spoon-fed preparation of one side of an issue. You're dangerously underexposed.

(And to be clear, I do think he is fun. I've watched a goodly number of his videos myself. I'm not saying I don't like his schtick... just that it is a schtick.)
Given you're making recommendations on the topic of statistics, exactly how many companies did you talk to reach the recommendations you're providing and what if any bias was there in your job search?
That line of thinking is specifically addressed as their first assumption in the article. It's not indicated why but they apparently 'quickly realised this couldn't account for such a bias'.
Amusingly, the question "which substring occurs earlier on average" is different from the question "which substring is more likely to occur before the other". In fact the second question sometimes has a circular answer! For example, THH typically (with >50% probability) occurs before HHT, which typically occurs before HTT, which typically occurs before TTH, which typically occurs before THH.

Also the question "which substring occurs earlier on average" is intimately connected with algorithms for substring search. For example, if you want to check that a string doesn't contain HHH, you need to look at every third character, but for THH that's not enough.

Fascinating stuff.
Correct, but the point is if Alice doesn't get a tail, that means she got a head, so she is still in the same position as she was before the flip, only needing a single tail to complete the sequence. If Bob gets a head, then a tail, he now needs two consecutive heads to complete his sequence.
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To what extent did you stop eating wheat, out of interest? I seem to only be affected (digestive problems) by products that are literally made out of wheat flour (bread, pasta etc) and things that "contain gluten" have no discernible effect on me. Have you needed to go "gluten-free", or just avoid obviously wheat-based foods? Trying to avoid everything that has gluten in it does not sound like a fun way to live.

I'm considering trying to cut out wheat-based foods to see how it affects my anxiety, but it'd be good to know whether just cutting out obviously wheat things is pointless.
Oh, I see. I bet you're looking at the "open tasks" while in the "clients dashboard"... to grab tasks and work on them you need to get to the "developers" perspective, which is done by hovering on your profile image on the top-left and a menu will appear ...
This [0] is an article written by Troy Hunt (the researcher behind HIBP) on the value of email addresses, and answers the question "Can I trust you with my email address?" (in relation to HIBP).

[0] http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/11/im-sorry-but-your-email-addr...
Usually it's not just the view of the comedians, but the collective view of the writers behind the show.
Talk shows are a weird phenomena that exist only in few countries (to not say just US), but they do raise awareness on important issues for their audience (which are people what wouldn't care about that issue by themselves).
I imagine they look similar enough he could pass. The pictures on IDs are often old and of poor quality, and then you're trying to compare with a person in a different situation, often with bad lighting.

I've long thought this was a problem with photo IDs. It's tough to match people up with their photo in a reliable fashion. You can easily catch obvious stuff (I'm not going to be able to borrow my wife's ID) but the discriminatory power is way less than one in seven billion.
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Isn't the score based only on the first level ?
Parody and satire has long been one of the most important tools to address and highlight the most important issues of the day.
I think you mean 10:1.
While fascinating, I fail to see how this qualifies as a "conspiracy". Are there definitions of "Conspiracy" in mathematics that I'm unaware of?
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Any chance you could provide configs and/or insight for the other people here who have problems?
I do not sense any anger on the OP comment. It sounds like a legit, real concern.
Oh dear I didn't realise Dropbox had invested all of that time and money moving into their own data centre. From my perspective the future of Dropbox looks bleak. Mass storage with Amazon is much cheaper [edit: from a consumer perspective]. I know Dropbox has superior software that works (as opposed to the poor apps by Amazon and Google) but I imagine a lot of people are like me i.e. Store most of the stuff at the cheapest location and use Dropbox just for docs that you want to sync on multiple devices. Total income from consumers like me equals 0.

Dropbox also had that email app didn't they that they recently announced was closing down - mailbox if I recall correctly.

Can anyone convince me that this move by Dropbox isn't going to end very badly for them?

EDIT: downvoters - is HN unable to have a debate about whether this was a smart move or not.
You can communicate with your bank safely, you'll just be limited in ways to do so. Just like without guns, you can still defend yourself from a home intruder, but you are limited. To my knowledge, there is not a right to be able to communicate securely using the internet.
There is a big difference between handing over source code and pushing signed patches to a device. A key principle in modern Cryptography is that if your algorithm has to stay secret in order to remain secure then it is inherently insecure. The same could be said of source code. Handing over the source code to China should not effect the security of the platform, otherwise it is inherently insecure. Handing over signing keys however is completely different.
Hmm.. If only governments required that any research it funds be published in open access journals. If enough people around the world are made aware of this issue, they could petition their government to enact such a policy...
I don't think a "near majority" needs to think that for this to be a useful approach.

When people can't engage on the substance, they fall back on human heuristics. E.g., bedside manner is important in doctors because people will generally stop listening to doctors they don't find trustworthy.

You're welcome to try to educate the populace on the subtleties of crypto. My guess is that the number of people who will sit still for that is pretty small, but maybe I'm wrong. In case I'm right, though, I think a useful backup would be displaying empathy for the (reasonable) societal goals that are driving this push for back doors.
Because giving weight to the opinions of politicians has proven to be naïve.
Another piece of anecdotal evidence. My wife has had allergy attacks constantly for years and years. Every morning she would wake up and have to blow her nose for a half hour. We started making fermented food (saurkraut, pickles, fermented garlic carrots) and at the same time buying/drinking keefir daily. This was just to be healthy and as a new hobby. However, within a week or two, her allergies subsided substantially. To the point where she would go for weeks at a time without having the morning nose blowing session. When she dials back the intake of fermented foods, allergies come back.

We haven't spent much time tracking it closely, but the relationship is obvious enough to be a no brainer for us.
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Wouldn't that be a self-supervised learning? Yes, as the brain lears, it gets rewarded or not, but not by any external organism - rather by itself (or a part of itself). The "learning instruction manual" is in there somewhere.

So if you are able to code an AI so that it can run experiments over itself and gradually build this "learning instruction manual" eventually it will become able to do things you never though of in the first place.
100% true, most of time companies hire PhDs only.
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Ugh, another capitalist feel-good story about someone that worked hard and got to the top from rock bottom. It totally ignores that most of the people at the top were born into upper class and it ignores the billion of hardworking people that are still extremely poor.
A lot of American comedians are more truthful and balanced about their news reporting than the American news media.
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does anybody know how to undo an upvote here in HN ?? This reading was a terrible waste of time :(
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There's widespread speculation that this is a test case.

I.e one big high visibility case where there is general support that the government should have access to a Terrorist's data.

Once Apple has been forced to write this one version of the software, the legal precedent is there to force Apple (and every other company building software and devices) to do it again for all the other devices that any law enforcement agency has on hand, for scenarios that might not have as much support.
Is it really technically feasible for the FBI to do a bit by bit copy of the SSD? Is there not some hardware restriction?

This seems highly relevant...
The thing is that most of the things that people don't like with scala will actually disappear without doing anything.

One of the greatest problem is compilation time, however since computers get better this will be reduced.
And still the team is working to bring more Scala <-> Java interop and a newer compiler which will bring compilation times down, too.
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The "Adventure Update" and future updates in the same vein: hunger, enchanting, RPG-esque elements, etc.

Also, some of the major redstone additions from the later versions, which are the ones I'd miss most.
«The 20-something-year-old doctrine»

Much older than that, MMT is based upon turn of the last century American socialist (specifically the Social Credit Party) economic theory, but the red scare nearly eliminated it from American discourse for most of a century. It's especially interesting in that it is especially cyclical with respect to depressions/recessions.

Edit to add: Not that there isn't important additional knowledge and theory that MMT brings to the table on top of the turn of the last century theory work, just that it's enough of a direct successor I'd draw the line of history longer.
"Overall, 62% say the government doesn’t do enough to help the middle class, while 29% say it does about the right amount and 6% say it does too much. Roughly the same share (59%) says the government does not do enough for poor people or for children (59% each), and 66% say the government doesn’t do enough to help older people."

Basically, people think the government doesn't do enough.
I would like to see views on taxes included in the same survey.
Having easily moddible AI is one of the goals of http://openage.sft.mx/
Police has no requirement to protect. Also, there are people who live in areas where the police response time is 1+ hours even for the most drastic issues.
Well Gwern also administered the poll itself right? Or he might have helped with it in some form, I think gwern is just unique in how he responds to things.
> But I've never heard of anyone attempting to train an AI within a simulated world.

Ah, then you might want to follow the trail from SHRLDU:

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
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I wish there were more details about what the plans are for this grand new version that will make it better for use in the classroom. The FUD around this change is causing much hand-wringing among educators already invested in Minecraft in the classroom via MinecraftEDU. For example, the question of "will it even run on a Mac" has yet to be answered (that I'm aware of), a big risky unknown for all of the schools that swallowed the Apple educational marketing hook line and sinker. Then there are the licensing terms which are likely to be many multiples of the current Minecraft licensing costs for schools (just going to one license per named student will at least quintuple my school's costs)
Thank you, they seem really good.
Where are you, and what company?
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It's a loophole that pundits use to avoid criticism. They can opine and bloviate, and then when called out on inaccuracies their fans will spam you with responses of "just a comedian" or "it's satire bro" (as if being satire absolves you from criticism).

You've already received a dozen such responses, so it clearly works for them.
John Oliver has been one of the best in the US media over the last few years at taking an important subject clouded by State and Federal double-speak, and disseminating the information in a way that can be understood by the masses. Whether or not they listen and take action is another story
Here is what I now believe: MMT doesn't really matter that much. How base money is produced doesn't really matter that much. A metal standard, fiat via government coercion, rocks at the bottom of the ocean, wampum, whatever. As long as it isn't insane and chaotic, it will probably work.

What matters is no longer allowing the banking system to engage in fraud by introducing multiple claims on the same currency unit in the same time period, which is to say that currency deposits must be duration matched with loans. No more borrowing short and lending long.

Of course, practically, MMT will be used to justify more government boondoggles, wars, and bail outs of the rich, rather than something that might actually be effective, like a citizens dividend, but that's politics, not economics.
OP said "We need every single non-technical person in the world to understand this clearly." You are talking about one non-technical person, from outside the US, who reads, writes and speaks English fluently, lives in NYC with his American wife and has an above average income because of the wildly popular television show on HBO that he hosts. John Oliver is hardly representative of the other billions of non-technical people from outside of the US.

> Yeah - This carries some weight.

A February poll by Reuters has 46% of Americans supporting Apple, the number jumped to 64% for people 18-39 years of age and a more recent WSJ/NBC poll of registered voters puts the number at 47%. What percentage of John Oliver's audience do you think changed their opinion after seeing the show and now support Apple? Or do you consider comedic reinforcement of a previously held belief is "carrying some weight"?
Not OP but I believe the low score is due to not enough training time and incorrect parameters such as frameskip. Space Invaders was mentioned as one of the few games they needed to lower the frameskip (from 4 to 3 or 2?) on because of the flashing lasers. I'm assuming OP left the parameters as is from the implementation by Nathan Sprague, which has frameskip at 4, and trained for a few epochs.
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Come on man, you can't just drop that and then not share what you're building.
You have it backwards. Their result holds for any set of numbers that behave randomly, so it holds for primes because primes behave somewhat randomly.
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Though there is a tor website is does it actually get visited by people? Seems like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Telegram has been more successful for them.
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He brings this up around 13:30, when he mentions Telegram has 100 million downloads, and that if the government forced them to weaken their encryption, other apps with pop up 5 minutes later.
Not entirely fair. A lot of good things have worked on the honor system, as long as fair thought has gone into the "rules" of the system so that enough easy, edge case abuse scenarios are protected against. A big one that comes to my mind was the gaming league, CAL, back in the day. It was 100% honor system based, with a target audience that was known to be hackers, liars, and in general kids - yet it worked!
>"widely thought by experts to be impossible" (13m2s) a few times through this piece. Which cryptographers and cryptography experts think, in 2016, [...]"

You take a John Oliver quote, and it contains the current year? Come on.
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http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs109/

also a great resource.
>The problem with minetest is nobody mods it so you can't program a turtle in LUA on minetest, only minecraft.

Minetest has quite a lot of mods, admittedly - I even made a few. The problem with Minetest is that it has too many modders and not enough players. The problem with Minetest is that the voxel engine zone itself is fragmented: Minetest itself has three different maintained versions, and there's other clones like Terasology as well. The problem with Minetest is that the APIs are and will probably remain too limited for the most complex things, seeing as it's not the kind of modding where you turn the engine inside out for fun and it happens to work with most mods for some reason - and, even then, there's far too few developers on Minetest's core engine and far too many opened/unmaintained pull requests.
Has any study shown this as a causation, or only a correlation?
I did this exactly once for a ZX Spectrum game, and it didn't work. It turns out the slightest hash or fizzle or cracking on the station messed up the reception enough to corrupt the download.

Something the article mentions but I'd like to re-emphasise: The amount of time it took to record from the radio and subsequently load (or attempt to load) is quite significant. We had to set up the recording, get ready for the announcer to call it, and press record. Then go away for five to ten minutes, hoping (and that's a long time to be on edge), and then rewind, move the tape over, and press play having typed the appropriate LOAD command, only for it to fail. Rotten way to spend an evening that I'd planned for over a week.
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You've already received a dozen such responses, so it clearly works for them.

The pointing out inaccuracies predicate is missing from the process here.
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> Oh dear I didn't realise Dropbox had invested all of that time and money moving into their own data centre.

We've had our own datacenters for a very long time; this project just represents moving "blob storage" into our own datacenter rather than just metadata.

> Mass storage with Amazon is much cheaper

As the article says, in Dropbox's particular case this is very untrue. Although I agree with your general point that, absent having something like Dropbox's scale/resources, just using S3 is probably your best bet.

> Can anyone convince me that this move by Dropbox isn't going to end very badly for them?

So, wrt "ending badly", the project has already happened. It's more efficient, faster, more flexible, etc. So I can say with some confidence it won't end badly. :-)
As always, there's a happy balance. It is probably bad to be a social recluse, unless you are in crunch mode and not looking for hiring anytime soon, but at the same time it's probably bad to be out for events every night and spending too much time socializing.
I think it's in quotes because prime numbers have a probability distribution, but it's (obviously) not a uniform distribution. I think that the article is trying to say that there are more subtle rules around the distribution than just probability density.

By "probability density", I mean that the probability of a number around n being prime are about 1/ln(n) -- see the Prime Number Theorem[1] for more -- but of course any given integer is either prime or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
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> Free Speech only protects you from the government, not other people and corporations and colleges, etc. Internet companies can ban you or shut down your account or censor you if they don't like your speech.

"Internet companies" can't ban you from the internet, only from their own sites. You can make your own site and they have nothing to say about what you put on it. They can't control what you say, only where you say it. Which isn't nothing, but it's definitely a different thing than copyright, where they can control what you can say regardless of where you say it.

> I remember some politicians tried to use songs for their campaigns to have the artists complain because they didn't support the politician.

But that kind of sorts itself out by itself then, doesn't it? If you use an artist's work you're giving them the stage. If they hate you, they're going to step out onto that stage and denounce you with everybody watching. If stupid politicians want to self-immolate like that then let them and there will be fewer stupid politicians.
Well I actually share some of that anger so I'm sorry if I read too much into "destroy" and "sad". Common Search is forkable by design so it should hopefully stay on course one way or the other!
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