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I remember the '90s, when the Internet as we know it was just a baby...
The enthusiasm we all shared for it. Of a better future. Of true democracy in the world. Of free people, free minds.
The Internet will be the cure for all the social ills that humanity has experienced in the past.
People will trade and talk with each other and that's how we can have peace on Earth!

We will be able to discuss, collaborate, create. We would be able to watch any film, listen to any song.

Some people called us "geeks", we liked to call ourselves "hackers".

We are not just hacking code, we're hacking a new world.

--

A quarter of a century later and most of those things are now reality. But somehow these great things have brought with them some hidden things. Things which we ignored or brushed off easily back in the day..

Like the fact that the Internet is now populated by the same demographic as the real world, not just hackers and dreamers. Now everyone is online.

We thought it would free us from oppression, but it is becoming the ultimate tool for oppression.

We thought it would give us true democracy, but it is becoming the ultimate moderation system for "foreign" though suppression and group think generator.

We though it will serve our needs, but it is becoming the thing that is telling us what to need.
We thought it will satisfy our tastes, but our tastes are now being programed into us by it.

Of course we're still high from all the positive aspects and it's not in our nature to be scared of things, but that will soon wear off .. And when we wake up what will we find there ?

Either way, it is unstoppable and nobody can turn it off. So we only have to wait and see what it will ultimately turn into.

What will it be 25 years from now ? Will we still be able to discuss about this freely ?
> which overall would translate to a superior user experience.

Only for users of devices that the dev bothered to put out binaries for. I guarantee you most devs that use the NDK are not building for all 8 ABIs that the NDK supports. ARMv7-neon may be the most common arch but it is far, far from the only one.
I lift a bit. I like the strength enhancements I get from it but it hasn't affected my body fat.
Doesn't seem to have much to do with augmented intelligence - rather the rats are telecontrolled. To me augmented intelligence requires a bi-directional communication between the brain and the computer, in which the brain actively asks for help, and provides the information needed to obtain it.
Yes, GoL physics is simpler than Real Life physics.

RL follows quantum mechanics. As far as we know, its state cannot be recorded perfectly.

GoL is a Turing Machine. Its state can be recorded perfectly.

RL follows relativity. There is no equivalent in GoL.

Hashlife gives a method to compute GoL boards faster than processing each cell, and gives an exact answer. There is no equivalent for RL. At best there are probabilistic predictions. (There might be a 1E-50000 chance that the Sun won't rise tomorrow because all of the atoms in the Sun fuse at the same time and it blows up.)
A similar thing happened in Costa Rica -

“You can’t visit 160,000 people,” she notes. “But
you can easily interrogate 160,000 records.”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/27/the-data-sleuths-of-san-...
That's a strange complaint. The whole premise of putting QML, or any other UI toolkit for that matter, on Android is to use those instead of native Android widgets. In that sense, it adds a lot of value.
On the contrary VSO has been kicking ass lately, constanst updates and improvements.
Ask HN: Where can I find decent TeX/PDF templates for org-mode exports?
Hello,

I have recently started writing most of my doc work in Emacs org-mode. The structured system goes great with my flow, but exporting it is a huge problem. The default LaTeX/pdf output is horrendous. The first paragraph i never indented, but the rest are, the font is horrible, the verbatim blocks do not have line wraps, etc.

I found one tempelate after hours of googling:

(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
'("assignment"
"\\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\\usepackage{graphicx}
\\usepackage{longtable}
\\usepackage{float}
\\usepackage{wrapfig}
\\usepackage{rotating}
\\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\\usepackage{amsmath}
\\usepackage{textcomp}
\\usepackage{marvosym}
\\usepackage{wasysym}
\\usepackage{amssymb}
\\usepackage{hyperref}
\\usepackage{mathpazo}
\\usepackage{color}
\\usepackage{enumerate}
\\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.95}
\\tolerance=1000
[NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
[PACKAGES]
[EXTRA]
\\linespread{1.1}
\\hypersetup{pdfborder=0 0 0}"
("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")))

And while it is better than the default, it still has paragraph indent issues and no verbatim line-wrap. I unfortunately cannot devote time to learn LaTeX, so are there any decent templates anybody here knows about? or will I have to brave spend time learning this?
If someone will rewrite this article as Ansible vs. Puppet I will not only buy you a beer but I will throw a parade in your honor.
In theory this won't affect the decision making process of top-tier VCs. A good invesment is a good investment regardless of the prevailing funding climate.

In practice, I'm guessing if the LPs get cold feet, then VCs will be forced to triage their funding decisions accordingly. How much this matters given the sheer size of some funds, I'm not sure.
Dunno. I've started and run my own businesses before, and generally that's taken huge effort. Been happy to do so, as they're obviously worthwhile endeavours.

Homework though (of a school variety)... let's say I'm not convinced. :D
> Prevent the NDK users that ignored the documentation and linked to non official platform libraries to keep doing that.

I'm sorry, where in the article did you see that? I've looked twice and can't find it.
by proposing paid hosting and support for companies that don't want the burden to manage it themselves ? There could be some additional features with the paid version also
It's really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It's almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.

The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can't at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?
I just ran across https://www.opensecrets.org/ and found it quite useful and comprehensive in tracking contributions to candidates.

I live in the US and am privileged with the level of transparency that exists, but it's still not necessarily enough. Similar issues are present with the clunky nature of government websites and databases and so I think we're in agreement that it's not even close to the potential of what it could be.

Thanks for sharing all the links and information!
Because I was curious, I looked up historical cd rates and got this: http://www.forecast-chart.com/rate-cd-interest.html

So i did this: https://gist.github.com/sophacles/a4469f5c656e09e4bc1d

(Note from the end of the chart linked til this month, I assumed the same interest rate).

And found that investing the once a month in a 6 month cd, with a dollar amount equal to the number of days in that month, plus reinvesting the amount coming due (principle + interest) that month from previous CDs, would yeild way less than the market according to this calculator:

In the CD case - just under $90K
In the stock case - just under $560K

If my math turns out to be incorrectly done - please let me know I like to learn, but I think I did this right.
No, I was arguing that one should not expect ebooks should not be massively cheaper than paper books just because they aren't printed. There's still a lot to pay for.
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Quite frankly, it might not be the worst solution. Britain has a government-sponsored TV station which is generally pretty well-regarded, for example...
At the moment, we seem to be having too much oil.
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Ack, sorry. For some reason my mind wasn't wrapping around the fact that you can choose your configuration before choosing your forbidden directions.
The AI only cares about winning, not about winning by a huge margin.

The slow move might just mean that this was sufficiently big and safer.
"... whilst taking their spawn on day trips."

Awesome. Please, oh please call your kids as minions or henchmen/women" when next talking with them. :D
I made it up as a way of rephrasing the parent comment from a different point of view.
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I would. Sometimes people do stuff that doesn't make sense to you as a rational response to factors that you're not aware of. When someone needs help for something that they did to themselves, I always assume that's the case, because it mostly always is.
oh! yes, there was a place in Rochester, I think it was called "Sals" or "Salvatore's" and they had a $5 garbage plate when I was younger.
I don't have much experience with the lobbying rules except for times that I've had to research things specifically. Usually disclosure requirements come with a minimum amount...In the House (not sure if the exact limits apply to the Senate...), the ethics rules are quite strict but not everything is recorded...for example, a legislator (or their staff) can only receive $100 of gifts from a single source in a calendar year..."gifts" being basically anything of value...but things under $10 don't count toward that limit. So getting Frappuccinos everyday with your favorite CEO probably wouldn't be recorded in any official capacity even though not only do those add up monetarily, but someone getting coffee with a legislator on a frequent basis would be a huge point of potential influence. However, legislators aren't allowed to get gifts (such as paid dinners) at all from a registered lobbyist [1].

Both the House and the Senate have gift travel databases (travel that's reimbursed by an outside group, such as a charter flight to visit an oil drilling rig) [2]

The branches differ in how such things are reported...this was pretty obvious recently when Justice Scalia died at a ranch and people started wondering who paid for the trip...take one look at how these forms are supplied and it should be pretty obvious why we don't normally hear about SCOTUS relationships until something really weird happens [3].

This NYT editorial "So Who's a Lobbyist?" has a nice rundown of the ways that people who would generally be considered a lobbyist can escape disclosure requirements: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist...

Still, it's useful to be able to parse the dataset in an attempt to find what's missing...something that is difficult to do conceptually unless you're dealing with the actual dataset on your own system.

[1] https://ethics.house.gov/gifts/house-gift-rule

[2] http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/giftTravel.aspx

[3] http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N99999918_2008.pdf
AlphaGo lost a few of the informal matches.

Also, the people working on it flat out told the world that today's version of AlphaGo beats October's version literally all the time.
He implies that it's cheaper than, for example, buying HP+EMC+Oracle...

And then, not directly, roughly saying that scaling up on cheap commodity type hardware is only possible because of the efforts of Amazon/Google/Facebook.

He doesn't directly compare AWS versus, say Rackspace.
Thank you for the source. I believe this is a good written example of how conservative estimates were as recently as May of 2014.

Nonetheless, the quoted estimate in the article (mentioned twice, including in the second sentence) is "I think maybe ten years", ie 2024, which while inaccurate is probably "in our lifetimes".
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ansible ftw. i really regret having started with chef a few years back.
It's not a silver bullet, it's only a model of the problem. If you profiler tells you some code is slow, you can model why it must be slow by using big-O. In fact it's the standard way of explaining such things. Without it, you must spend your time babbling about special cases.

It's like, yeah, you don't "technically" need to know any 2+ syllable words to be a programmer, but you're really not helping yourself by avoiding them.
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I agree, and acid is not in that category.
Investors market. Tighter conditions, preferences, ratchets.
You convinced me not to try to understand this argument...
Month old news on ZH:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-27/hidden-persuaders-h...
Next, teach her radians. :)
Why are they too population dense?

Broadly speaking there are usually advantages to economic specialization.

It seems to make sense that cities specialize in being places where humans live and work since there are advantages to being close to other humans.

And rural areas specialize in being places where food for humans is grown.

It seems like the solution is to free up more farmland near cities by reducing the suburbs and folding their populations into cities, making cities denser.

So I could see the argument that maybe the problem is that our cities are not sufficiently dense to prosper in the long term.
Topologically, encoding a 2D structure into a 1D line of text is dramatically simpler than encoding a 3D structure into a 1D line of text. To motivate this simply, recall that no graph whose minors include K5 or K3,3 can be drawn in the plane, whereas any graph can be drawn in 3D. It gets even simpler because all GoL graphs are confined to a grid.

tl;dr: easier problem is easier!
Many of these businesses may make better sense as "non-profits", out to improve the welfare of the general community and funded purely by donations. I'm not sure whether donors would appreciate writing fat checks for programmers/managers/etc., but it's clear that a "hockey stick" growth could lead to a immediate path to monetization (if people know your name, you can capitalize on it when you're doing fundraising drives).
Technically, SSL is the name of the older protocol that TLS replaced. TLS builds upon SSL so that it's more secure. Unfortunately, SSL is still the ubiquitous term, it seems, but we really should start saying TLS now so as not to confuse unsuspecting site owners / sysadmins.
Hey, a bit late to the game here, but I just want to say I'm a huge fan of your work.

At my last job I worked on one of the Reg CAT bids, and I spent a lot of time looking at Nanex Research--totally mind blowing. The markets would be a better place if the regulators were doing Nanex-style analysis. Keep up the good work!
In tangentially-related news, there was a lot of talk at NetDev about switchdev, a new Linux driver model for hardware-offload switching hardware.

It allows the kernel's Layer-2 and Layer-3 switching/routing configuration to be reflected down into the switch offload hardware, and the switch's ARP and MAC table data to be reflected back up to the kernel stack.

The overall idea being you can continue to use the same userspace tools to configure the routing/switching, and it all just magically goes faster if you have supported switching hardware.

https://lwn.net/Articles/675826/
I'm very aware of that. What I'm saying is that AlphaGo is not merely a neural net reporting best moves directly off the forward propagation. There are two nets which essentially act as proposal distributions for an exploration/exploitation tradeoff in the search space of game trees by which AlphaGo reads positions essentially out to the end of the game and ranks them by win rate (this is Monte Carlo Tree Search). The net moves are "nice" (I think they run at like 80% win rate against some other Go AIs? Maybe I'm misremembering) but the real heart of what makes AlphaGo play well is the MCTS which requires some vast resources to execute—live resources.
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> Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Bullshit

FTFY
I've been in tech only 6 years and I am already bored of these cycles of VCs becoming frenetically exuberant followed by cautious times. Their advice to startups changes depending on what time it is. It's all so predictable yet people are surprised every time. Any entrepreneur building a business factors these in and approaches fund raising based on that knowledge. I don't even know the point of these articles any more.
SSL is a dead protocol that has major vulnerabilities. It no longer has support and anyone still using it should really move on. TLS is the recommended replacement protocol that is still secure. HTTPS can be thought of as secure http, regardless of protocol.
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Agreed -> a good investment is a good investment regardless. The best startups often have raised in the worst of times.
> it works reasonably well on the scale of thousands of hosts

I could see this if you're working from one really powerful machine... no, that won't work, it's constrained by SSH, not hardware specs.

I could see this if you're calling Ansible on another host... no, then you have to copy everything out to the sub hosts, who have to copy everything out to their sub hosts... A scalability nightmare.

You can use redis as a distributed store of truth and... wait, what? Now there's a blog post worth reading. Show us how to scale Ansible with real-world examples using redis and autoscaling groups. Please.

Got it. I can see this work reasonably well if you're willing to wait 10 hours for a deploy to complete. Personally, I'm not.

> If you want to have 1000 forks, that will cost about 30 GB of memory

Ansible is not, nor has it ever been, limited by available memory. It's limited by the number of concurrent SSH sessions it can handle while copying every single module to be executed to that host.

There's plenty of reasons and ways to use Ansible for deploying code. Some of the post has accurate and reasonable information, but the scaling portion is pure fantasy right now.
> I'm running a pair of L5639's in my main server. Perfectly usable.

Disclaimer: I run Delimiter

That's absolutely what we're going for with our offerings. Gear that's off lease and long paid for, which allows us to slap some new drives in it and rack it at a low monthly price. But we only use proper server gear - so that means HP blade servers, ECC memory, dedicated ILO/KVM with each box, etc.

To be fair though: I'm a big fan of Kimsufi stuff, along with OVH's SYS lineup. Great for backups/testing/etc. The guys at OVH are great.
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heavenlyhash wants three things: 1) pass structure information around so it can be simulated or reproduced, 2) a deterministic ID for sharing and linking chemical information, and 3) viable methods for determining identity and similarity from the cloud of all chemical configurations.

SMILES is better at #1 than InChI, but not as good as a 3D structure representation. But the 3D structure isn't as compact, and offers few advantages for structure identity for small molecules where the 3D configuration is more easily predicted from geometry.

InChI is better for #2 than SMILES because different tools generate a different canonical structure, and because general purpose text search engines like Google don't do so well with SMILES as InChI keys.

Fingerprints, either binary or count, are more often used for the similarity aspect of #3, than n-gram solutions using the SMILES directly (like LINGO), or any method based on InChI. Also common are 3D shape and electrostatics comparison methods, with attempts to sample configuration space.

And for certain chemical structures other approximations are even more important. DNA similarity is based on very different principles than used for small molecules.
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Ah, sorry, my phrasing was too indirect: I'm usually one of the people suggesting that others should try it! I have had a great variety of fascinating, entertaining, sometimes difficult, generally beneficial experiences involving LSD and other psychedelics. I think many people who have never had such experiences would probably enjoy them and benefit from them, and I look forward to the day that the drug war ends and sanity returns so that more people will have that opportunity.

And yet - there are a vast array of things to do with one's time that many people would probably enjoy and/or benefit from, but we simply don't have enough hours in our lives to investigate them all. If someone believes that my kind of fun is not for them, my inclination is to respect that choice, regardless of the reasons behind it, because we have to decide not to do most of the possible things in life and thus the reasons for rejecting many of them will necessarily be somewhat arbitrary.
You may be working with a excessively technical/economic definition of "value" rather than the common human one, if you believe that the only meaning of "value" is "monetary profit."
I'm pretty sensitive to these things. That said, if you look at the partial list provided (granted this was potentially cherry picked), we're looking primarily at disaster awareness stuff. Flooding, wild fires, and search & rescue. Not spying.

Military resources, such as The National Guard, get called up for disaster relief all of the time. I think I'd rather drones helping people in these scenarios than what they're primarily used for.
Agreed, for subscription models, retention is more important than number of eyeballs.

Still, it's a little ironic that in our move towards online television, where one of the principal benefits is more reliable tracking than the Nielsen ratings, we still find ourselves relying on surveys of two thousand families.
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I seriously have no idea why this is getting downvoted. Anyone?
One can envision various ways of showing that. Loading the custom firmware onto a different robocar, which then exhibits previously-unseen unsafe behavior related to the mishap in question, would be convincing.

Unfortunately from this thread it seems clear that we'll just have some blowhard Tesla manager swearing that "our code is perfect and any change to our code would automatically cause vehicular Armageddon, never mind the fact that we change it on a regular basis!" They won't want me on the jury...
If you do choose to implement it, please do let me know (email in profile), I'll definitely make sure we use it.
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a car company founded by a guy that created a bank in cyberspace shows that he has the power to push software to your car at will, though this time he choose not to, but do not care when his underlings do the same.
What I find problematic, is equating the word "high" with "wasted" ...
High ... in a higher state of mind.

But of course, there is a connection, because people tend to force that high so much, that they just do too much ... and also forgetting that you can't be "high" forever.
What goes up, usually comes down.

(just being pedantic, in general I agree with you)