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> 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.

100 tiny drones... So cute. Try 100,000 or more like 10,000,000 if the military "gets serious" about these things.

If these things are effective then why not make large drones with the sole purpose of deploying as many as possible? 10,000 large drones carrying a payload of 1,000 tiny drones. They come back, pick up 1,000 more, and fly again. After a few weeks or months you've got hundreds of thousands covering an area.

It won't be long before tiny drones like this can be powered by photovoltaic panels indefinitely (we have medium sized ones that can do that already). It could be quite a while though before that capability is available for drones that can actually kill people (assuming they don't have enough mass to be used as single-target missiles).
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But they're space games...don't they exist in vacuums by definition?
Is+Intro+of+Allergen+Early+the+Right+Best+Way?
Sorry, I found that a bit difficult to follow... it sounds like you think human programmers will beat AIs because we can make mistakes?

Well here's my counter: mistakes either make sense to make or they don't. If they make sense to make, they aren't mistakes, and AIs will make the "mistakes" (e.g. inserting random behavior every so often just to see what happens--it's easy to program an AI to do this). If they don't make sense to make, making them will not be an advantage for humans.

At best you're saying that we'll hold humans of the future to a lower bar, which does not sound like much of an advantage.
I agree. I think the same concept applies in Daoism. Sort of giving yourself up to the flow of the universe. That's why I only said "zen-like".
Thank you for the suggestion. I actually did try restricting the terms by measuring correlation between columns -- the idea being that more discriminating terms should be searched first. This did result in modest speedups.

Fortunately or unfortunately, we were already achieving pretty good speed with Elasticsearch so we didn't implement it. However, it didn't occur to me to try a MoreLikeThis query, which should be even simpler -- I will look into it!
Apparently 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs according to The Economist.
> It took us almost 10 months to put our product in the hands of real users.

Almost wondering if I should read the rest of the article at all...

How did they expect to build the right product without collaborating with their target customers? Is this a company staffed by psychics?

TLDR; Prototype with customers before you build anything.
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>Any government or quasi-government agent is a "bully".

Yeah, but in Asia or Africa for example you seldom fear or are annoyed by Chile or Canada. Whereas certain bullies annoy (and worse) all over the world.
> AlphaGo plays some unusual moves that go clearly against any classically trained Go players. Moves that simply don't quite fit into the current theories of Go playing, and the world's top players are struggling to explain what's the purpose/strategy behind them.

Could AlphaGO be winning in a way similar to left handed fencers having an advantage over right handers by wrong footing them rather than simply being better? Would giving Lee more chance to see this style give him a chance to catch up?
"In all these ways, when going out of your way to make something more accessible-friendly, it ends up taxing every single person who doesn't use or need those features."

Actually that's not always the case. In many instances, designing with accessibility in mind increases your customer base and drives more revenue. It's actually a decent size "market" which makes designing for/implementing with accessibility in mind an investment instead of a burden.
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> However, since it's a question about the implementation (does that instruction appear) rather than the function being computed (which may or may not fire missiles)

On common architectures where code is data is code, this sounds hard to detect as the program could build a buffer of commands that end up firing the missile, without any obvious "fire the missile" sequence present in the binary? For example, the program could inflict a stack overflow on itself.
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It's been stable for us since deployment eight mounts ago, although we haven't pushed it too hard - our data is relatively small and queries not too complex.

From what I've seen, our use has a lot in common with Seed-DB, only in a different economic sector/activity.
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the first AI to replicate the success of: an oscar-winning movie; a pulitzer prize novel; a tony award winning musical-- will all at once devalue the IP value of all creative content worldwide by a measurable degree. it will be like watching a global stock market crash in terms of valuation. but, as in chess, and as in go, humans will probably learn from this AI and emulate it as well.
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Microsoft's equivalent is called "wininit" and spawns services (inc. svchost shared process groups and services.exe), lsass ("Local Security Authority Subsystem Service"), lsm ("Local Session Manager"), winlogon ("Windows Login subsystem" for session 0), initialises the registry, creates temp if it doesn't exist, etc. During shutdown after winlogon terminates (session 0 terminates), wininit then sends ExitWindowsEx() to all system processes before exiting itself.

The two really are 1:1. Windows under the hood is VERY UNIX like. More so than most people realise.
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Nukes? Why not just hack the drones.. jam their sensors.. take hostages?

"Another Afghanistan".. by "win the peace" you do mean, "everyone alive is on our side", right? (I'm not implying you support pro-war politics, just clarifying for the viewers)

Nukes only work if they are asymmetrical (suitcase) style. If Country X decides to "Nuke the USA".. guess what, USA will Nuke X right back. Pretty useless, unless X is launching because Y forced or tricked them to..
perhaps this is a terminology issue, I'll admit that I'm too young to have used pre-relational graph databases, but presumably they have a way of navigating / jumping between documents/vertices, (presumably based on pointers), otherwise what point would there be in having a graph?

I'd encourage you to look at the product and see whether it meets your definition.
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This was obvious back when Yahoo, WebSpider (Spidercrawler), AskJeeves, and AltaVista did it.

It was ridiculous that you would type in "Delta Airlines tickets" and the results would go: United Airlines, TWA, Fly By Night Corp, Rickety Rickshaw Airlines, We Barely Stay in the Air, and DuctTape & Flights.

The results were so bad that when Google came along and used the PageRank feature to deliver information, it was a godsend (Thanks God). Try searching for something on Google today and there is a high likelihood that you find or at least get close to it.

Just remembering how bad it was back in the day until the web search engines got their act together and became Bing and Google.
Really glad you're thinking about this, and making it explicit, buuuuut...

Why not dual-license, or look at the Fair Source license? The "donate please" button is just going to be ignored, like Sublime's donate nag screens.

Make it so at least big companies who have open-source policies will pay for a non-GPL license or support etc. You don't have to publish the history containing Apache 2, republish, and write all new code with AGPL-3.0.
Usually it's because as it searches the move tree, it finds ways for the opponent to maximize their own winning probability and so has to hedge against that. In minimax games sometimes the evaluator finds a long chain of moves that leads to a win, and once it finds that, doesn't necessarily bother trying to find a shorter one. It can be frustrating to tune that out.
Utility of money is probably assumed - the question is meant to force the OP to find credible reasons for a raise that would reduce any potential objections when he articulates his request to the employer.
The AI learning techniques they're developing here are likely directly applicable to stuff like Google Translate in the long run.
It looks very much ( to me at least ) that tort law keeps us a lot safer than regulation. It's may be impossible to isolate factors to really say - both grew up together.

It may be that both are required. It may also be that regulation or other public safety standards are necessary for the proper operation of tort law.
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I wonder if this is similar to how musket battles were fought in the american civil war era, with soldiers lining up across each other in a battlefield and taking turns shooting at each other. I hear they did this because the rifles were very inaccurate so it made sense to use a bunch of them at the same time as an area-effect weapon, in effect like a gigantic shotgun.

Until someone got better weapons and suddenly the "rules" of the battlefield that dictated standing in lines across each other made no sense to follow anymore because the original principles that dictated those rules to be good were not valid anymore.
People have been trying to write good games based on Conway's Life for decades, but it seems as if most game mechanisms end up having too steep a learning curve -- mostly because the system is too sensitive, so one bit out of place tends to cause huge, unpredictable, uncontrollable effects.

Seems to me Life has a lot of potential as abstract art, though. I'm almost curious enough about what they're doing in Second Life these days, to sign up and go have a look:

http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2068#p2...
>Once war becomes safe and clean for Americans, there will probably be less objections against war.

Definitely already there in terms of counterinsurgency wars. The biggest objection to war in America is the cost-benefit, not necessarily the safety of our troops. I say this because historically casualty rates have never been lower for war, ever.

Interesting to think how this attitude will play out in large scale conflicts. What will be the red line for WMD? You'd hope some international law would spell out those red lines, removing any ambiguity before introduction of this technology.
No, DDG often fails me too. Especially when searching for programmer things -- sometimes what I really meant to search for is StackOverflow.com + any "programming blog.

Search for programmers?

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, the internet is a great idea but the implementation sucks and there's no easy way to fix it.
Cause people need to make money? Most people don't have a problem with small ads here and there, what people have a problem with is 75 ads on a page with 2 paragraphs of useful content and 17 download buttons that are ads and only one small link with the actual download.
> It's like another intelligent species opening up a new way of looking at the world.

And this is just the beginning with AlphaGo. As we keep on training Deep Learning systems for other domains, we'll realise how differently they approach problems and solve them. It'll, in turn, help us in adapting these different perspectives and applying them to solve other problems as well.
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> That's like saying "what's a reasonable limit to spend on security?" You spend what's necessary.

That doesn't actually tell you anything. Things would be "more secure" if houses were armored like tanks and everyone was prohibited from leaving their homes without a police escort. The question is not necessity, it's cost/benefit.

The whole problem with accessibility is that there are contexts when the required effort is disproportional. When it takes as much or more effort to do the accessibility as to create the product in the first place, or requires a skill set the maker doesn't normally possess.

And that's pretty much always when people want to impose it. Because if you can buy a machine for $50 that will peel your oranges, that's what people who need one will do and then nobody else has to do anything. It's when such a machine is too expensive or doesn't work well enough that people want to impose the cost on someone else.

That's what we're talking about here. Because there is nothing wrong with a disabled person needing to buy a peeled orange, but there is something wrong with everyone else doing the same thing. The vast majority of customers don't need it, and in that case it's wasteful and environmentally unsound and should be discouraged.

The argument seems to be that disabled people shouldn't have to do something different, like asking the produce clerk to peel their oranges. But that argument burns itself to the ground. Then everyone needs to use the more expensive accessible version to avoid special-casing the people who specifically need it. Which moves the cost/benefit analysis away from accessibility, because you have to justify the added cost across the whole population rather than only where it is needed. The result would be fewer accessible products that are more expensive for everyone.
More like security hole in disguise!

If code-to-be-evaluated represents data, you have to trust it or else very carefully sandbox it.

The real fix is to have a printed notation that has a richer type system and handles circularity.

(Printed notation is code, effectively; it's just code in a distinct language of hopefully limited power, just for constructing objects from a description.)
The article does mention the split between the FBI's public nature of investigations (they have to prosecute) while the NSA does not really care about methods, so long as it returns results.

The interesting part is that the NSA is compelled at all to help. Why would they? Give up their toys and secrets to help another agency go after someone who is already dead seems to put them in peril for little/ no gain. Unless you believe the "dormant cyber pathogen"[1] line holds any water (which it does not).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/san-bernardino-da...
Dr. Bishop is my advisor and has been very close to Dr. Brooks since coming to the department. It's hard to verbalize the humility Dr. Brooks exhibits. He once held the door open for me a few years ago as I was leaving the building after a long day. Here is this brilliant, monumental computer scientist and founder of the department, holding the door for a lowly, clearly exhausted undergraduate. It almost seemed metaphoric. As a grad student now, I look back and really appreciate that small gesture.

These things may seem trivial, but he does them so often. Many of the students at UNC wouldn't even know what Dr. Brooks looks like, let alone his day-to-day personality. Dr. B was trying to describe the kindness and good nature of Dr. Brooks.
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I recently built an acrobatic FPV hexacopter and given its abilities to carry a payload as well as quick flight in close quarters it stuck me as the perfect weapon. Even without cellular or satellite communication to it, the thing has a 1.5 km line of sight range. Why spend billions on the F-35 when you could drop a swarm of these on some insurgents, each with a few grams of explosive. Have a pilot direct the swarm then once close enough to the target(s) have other pilots pick-up quadrants or even individual drones. Get close to the target(s) and trigger the explosives on the drone. It's likely possible to get the component cost easily below $1000 each. Even at $10,000 or $100,000 each, it would be a cheaper alternative to programs like the F-35.

If the US isn't developing them, then others will. The thing that is quite scary is that this technology is available and here today with all the components necessary shipped from China.
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Cray nowadays is purely a government contracting shop (think healthcare.gov in terms of technology chops).
> feature that should be on by default

"Opera’s ad-blocking feature is deactivated by default."
Just yesterday I downloaded Caddy to a DO droplet, pointed a domain at it, and https literally "just worked." Caddy is magic, and certainly worthy of donations.
Is it really hard to get people to complain about potholes, if complaining is actually going to get them filled in? And if you're not going to fill them in, then why care where they are?
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Agree with the idea to get an offer first, and then try to negotiate. However, I would not put it as bluntly as "give me more money, or I go work there".

They may yield this time. Especially if you are an important member of the team with some exclusive knowledge (i.e. you're the only one who knows the codebase for component Foo, and if they lose you they are screwed). But, they will likely be bitter about it. Try to force you to share your knowledge in the next few months and kick you out.

Again, I agree that it makes perfect sense to you as an employee to maximize your income, it's just business. But a lot of business owners, especially in startups, may take it personally ("How dare he want to leave us? How about our mission of making the world a better place? He's only in it for the money ????!!!").

So, long story short, I would amend this advice with not disclosing that you have an other offer and not setting an ultimatum.
Microsoft Patterns & Practices have been doing these sorts of pages for years.
Yet again downvoted for questioning politically-charged fluff...
because it would create a singularity that would swallow the known universe.
Make sure to keep the context here. HN on occasion discusses napping at work and nap policies, and the discussion is usually pretty sensible.

This, however, is basically "Should my employer give me a benefit because I'm tired from working for other people?", which is, well, let me settle for "definitely not the same question".

In this case you can make a strong case that the employer in question isn't so much on the hook for providing nap time, but justified in firing you for not being able to keep up your end of the bargain because of your choices.
The F35 isn't being developed solely to combat insurgents, though it'll likely fill that role at some point.
Hmmm...Isn't Opera in the process of being taken over by China's Kunlun and Qihoo? With their history, I doubt this will end up being in the users best interest.
It's was quite a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy but one thing that was quite cool about OpenVMS is the automatic versioning of the files.
Also the tools were quite robust: I remember a word editor DecWrite(?), it was labelled 'beta' but it was far, far more robust than Word (if less capable).
I'm not clear how Sun ever owned Cray care to explain?

The provenance was Cray Research -> SGI -> Tera/Cray according to those that have been around since the Cray Research days.

Source: err, I work here and asked a couple people a few cubes over. :)

The Sun deal was apparently more SGI wouldn't be caught dead with a supercomputer that ran on sparc so it got sold off to Sun.
There's a lot of people out there doing distributed systems that are hosted "indoors" (Or should I say "on earth"? What's the opposite of "cloud"?). A lot.

Don't you agree that putting "cloud" on the title may be misleading?
Do you mean "Guerilla" or are you using a metaphor for less advanced countries?
Nice to see this issue resolved.

The origin of the name:

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening
From a similar experience I have found this to be true. Specifically:

- one size fits all is very difficult to do. most companies have a critical feature that is unique to them

- the CEO is likely to view this kind of product as 'trivial', without really considering how much engineering effort it will take / they really need that custom feature. so yes they build it themselves.

- very small companies are not comfortable providing 3rd party access to their db

- larger companies want more than this

- the selling cost to companies tends to be high enough that going the low cost / high volume route is difficult, quickly driving you into consulting level prices / a more fully featured & tailored product
Most of the language was introduced by Conway himself, with a bit of contribution by Gardener who popularised it.
Askbot (https://askbot.com) is also open source and you can create you QA forum "in a minute" (sic).

No seriously, the askbot guys have been for a long time on the field, great app.
I'd say the biggest problem is malwertising
Ad blocking is great but we are forgetting that most people will not pay to use a website. Advertisers are going to figure out a away around these things and we'll still end up with ads but at the same time we are going to see many ad supported websites disappear.
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You can have a look at www.imgtec.com/vulkan for some example code. You can also download the latest Vulkan driver for the Nexus Player.
Babel is probably the new Dojo.
Relevant (seriously) https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/470g9k/tifu_by_buying...
Are the drones disposable? I would think so since I bet their range is limited. How do they handle concerns of this tech falling into the enemy's hands? I realize it's mostly simple (3-D printed and lightweight) but there's still value there (in camera/weaponry and software).
Look, I only wrecked a semester of research by chasing the slippery promises of graph databases. Don't wreck your entire startup on them.
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For me that's an annoying experience. It's there at the bottom of each Azure page, pops in immediately, without a chance to digest the information first. Pretty bad UI.
Am I reading your comment wrongfully or are you saying that making things modular is great because, well, "the cloud"?
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Another problem is that for startups, these metrics change all the time. Often you start measuring something to diagnose a problem.

Once you have done that, you don't need to diagnose it any more.

Also, I'm not sure how a few pretty charts help me here.
Side question: are there any open source synthetic chemistry projects that I can look at to get an idea of the techniques and problems encountered? I try to learn about a new non work related subject every few years and it piqued my interest but I haven't been able to find anything but textbooks - code is easier for me to understand.
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Making revenue without VC investment. Revenue is awesome. Doing it without a VC is even better.
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>The library is a catalog of books produced by publishers for the sake of making money.

That's not what he asked though. Generally libraries don't have special "sponsored" books, and don't control and push certain books to people more than others.

Those libraries that do, fall into 2 categories:

1) Promoting widely recognized cultural works (e.g. with events like "Mark Twain Year", etc).

2) Promoting some ideological agenda (e.g. a creationist library in a religious school).

The latter are dangerous.

Google, besides the opportunities for pushing its own corporate/political agenda, has also financial motives for pushing ads/brands.

Besides there's another key difference: there are thousands upon thousands of libraries (and people don't care much about them anyway). There's only one Google (and the majority of web users use it everyday).

>That doesn't make it wrong.

I wonder what some people DO find wrong. Apart from things like cannibalism and hurting kittens, which we all probably agree on.