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I think for perfect information board games Go is the pinnacle, at least among the human-played. (the field of general game-playing AIs makes up all kinds of crazy games that might be "harder" in one way or the other)

If you look for an RTS game, StarCraft is an obvious candidate. It has a relatively active community of AI writers and AI competitions, it's a classic of competitive play, ...

Real-time games are hard to compare, because the interface really makes a difference. Does the AI get to talk directly to the game engine? Or does it have to use screen capture, understand the image and then use a robot arm to press keys, or something in between? If it gets to see precise positions and to input commands directly, even relatively "simple" programs can do crazy micro tricks and get massive advantages that way, even if their general macro-strategy is bad. If you do the other way you need image analysis and robotics, Google should have the tech for both ;)
German, having maintained more of its agglutinate "Germanic" roots than English over the centuries, has a fantastic morphological system for new word formation. For this reason, I've often thought it would be great if more new terminology were to originate from German.

Here are just a few of my favorite compounds you will likely struggle to form in less compound languages.

1. Spannungsbogen <=> the series of events which create suspense

2. Fernweh <=> the desire to go to other countries / leave your homeland

3. Torschlusspanik <=> being worried at the last minute

4. Leitmotiv <=> theme

And the list just keeps going. Because of the compound nature of German if you know the constituent parts of a word you will almost always have a pretty good idea about its meaning. Good examples of this from the IT world are : hochfahren vs. "boot", Zeichenkette vs "string", weiterleiten vs "forward", einhängen vs. "mount", etc.
Hell, its about time!
The Echo is designed to be used by a whole family, and whatever friends you have visiting too (to control music). So that would be counterproductive.
> Nothing is "meant" to be kept as a farm animal.

Modern sheep are. If they're not sheared regularly and their fleece is allowed to grow, they end up suffering quite a lot - they are not suitable for living in the wild, and in the other direction, are also not particularly suitable as pets.

Yes, nature is not a thing with intentions, but modern sheep are a combination of natural processes and humans (who do have intentions) meddling with things.
> If a bug reporter thoroughly documents a problem (and its attempted workarounds and behaviors) diligently and clearly

That is exactly the metric I am referring. Of course, some bugs take longer to solve than others, but I can only start when I am able to reproduce the bug. The less steps to reproduce them, the better. The more concise the bug report, the better. Once you can reproduce it, I consider it essentially fixed, its only up to the developer to wrap their head around it and actually implement the fix it.

And on, I am not "damn thankful" for the effort alone; I had to fire testers for showing much effort but not being helpful at all, even after long periods of training. The last time I was awarded for effort alone was in pre-school. When you buy a car that breaks down every 100 miles you probably would return it and not watch the manufacturer try to fix it 20 times, lauding their "effort"?

Good testers are worth their weight in gold, they are very rare, they save us developers insane amounts of time and thus the company we work for a lot of money.
I'm just smiling now. :)
Yes, well that doesn't seem to be working very well, does it?
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I have both and will leave the UK once backdoored encryption comes into force.
Our purpose is to enjoy life...
Strive to be the best Go play you can be and enjoy the process.

Don't worry about the machine. Even in Star Trek TNG, Data can outperform everyone in every task, but was never truly happy!
Self-preservation falls out of almost any other goal you give an AGI. If I program my AGI with the goal of making my startup succeed, and the AGI thinks it can help, then me shutting it off is a potential threat to my startup's success. So of course it will try to prevent that the same way it would try to prevent any other threat to my startup's success.

World domination is a similar situation. For any goal you give an AGI, one of the big risks that may prevent that goal from being accomplished will be the risk that humans intervene. Humans are a big source of uncertainty that will need to be managed and/or eliminated.
I smite this page with the fury of a thousand developers cursing internet explorer 6.

This page is trash! I'm sure that there is some interesting info there but after hijacking my scrolling, and browsing history, I just don't care about it.
VR goggles, cars, TVs, smart watches. In that order.
The XPS 13's trackpad does conform to the Microsoft Precision touchpad specification, and handles multitouch gestures quite smoothly in Windows. Any failings of the trackpad in Linux can't be blamed on the hardware.
If I tell it to play music and it plays music, what more is there to understand? What kind of conversation do you want to have?
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The history of civilization is full of battles over technology between the people and the government. New technology arrives that disrupts government functions and the government had to go about banning and controlling it. It's a pretty regular thing. The mandarins cracked down on tech development in China leading to stagnation. The Ottomans banned the printing press. The Japanese shut out all outside influence for a few hundred years. Now we ban encryption. Go figure.
One problem (not the only one) with the app store (IMHO): all users go through the same funnel (or through several hidden funnels, doesn't really matter since they don't have a say in it), but a single user doesn't care about 99.999% of app store content. For instance, I mostly care about simulation and strategy games, I don't care at all about some other genres. Where is my lovingly curated special place in the app shop that also only cares about simulation and strategy games? Where's the whole community infrastructure around those games? Where are the curators that live and breathe those games, and find the occasional hidden gem?

App stores as simple store fronts may work as long as there wasn't a lot of content (like on the game consoles). But content-wise, the iOS app store is more like the world-wide-web, just with a shitty interface (or rather: it's more like AOL). Apple won't care as long as the overall revenue from the app store keeps growing, and they are the only ones who could solve the problem.
How is hidpi support on Arch?
Check out Banished as well -- it's in a similar vein but without conveyor belts.
But even in the savant's case, he/she can't simulate millions of games in parallel to improve strategy.
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It would be great to see large website blocking government IP addresses, even for a few days Why give access to people who are trying to attack the system?
While thinkpad has removed BIOS whitelist...Ubuntu has introduced charger whitelist. The forums are replete with people having a conked out charger and the replacement charger causing the laptop to run slower.

But I agree with you - the current crop of thinkpad are unworthy. I'm planning to hold on to my t430s for another year.
It's neat, I guess, but it's really no different to Dark Sky, Forecast.io, RainToday, etc. and so on.
It's so obvious that I really don't need to be too technical. For the same price point, the X1C is thinner, lighter, has more ram, better cpu and a more dense display. There isn't a single objective measure where the X1C is worse than the MBP
Agreed. Even with so much automation and increase in productivity, we (at least In the US) are working just as much, if not more.
Actually, neither Studentinnen nor Studenten nor StudentInnen is used at all anymore.

There is an easy fix: Using the plural particip of the verb.

Studierende.

Geflüchtete.

Werdende.
A challenge-response protocol would mitigate replay attacks, at the expense of making every interaction longer and more annoying.
This is very nice and very fast, thanks for the plug!
The "alpha" release vs. "final product" in game development is an artifact of the shift in the way software is developed in general. Even in traditional big biz software development, instead of a waterfall process with a quarterly release, you have much more frequent releases and much more incremental process with active user feedback built in to the cycle. All you're seeing is this process moved to game development and relabeled with a marketing term that's acceptable to consumers.
My pocket calculator is faster than a human and has better memory. I don't know that this means the same thing as "superhuman in arithmetic". I can concede that it means superhuman in speed and memory, but, arithmetic? I don't think so. What it really does is move bits around registers. We are the ones interpreting those as numbers and the results of arithmetic operations.

AlphaGo is rather different in that it actually has a representation of the game of Go and it knows how to play. I don't doubt at all that it's intelligent, in the restricted domain it operates in. But I do doubt that it's possible for an intelligence built by humans to be "superhuman" and I don't see how your one-liner addresses that.
Actually alpha go can be trained for vision or any other task. It's not specialized to win go.
AlphaGo is using a 1920 cpu/ 280 gpu distributed setup for the Sedol games. One source reported the gpus are Nvidia K40. The gpus give a peak possible performance of 470 terraflops. That would put it somewhere in the middle of the Top500 list, similar to Deep Blue in its time.

Note though that AlphaGo almost certainly uses single precision arithmetic -- for neural networks even single precision is overkill.

Also the Top500 list is based on Linpack, which measures performance for computations that are pretty strongly interconnected across the different processors of the system. AlphaGo's Monte Carlo tree search problem is more embarrasingly parallel, with evaluation of different positions really being independent computations.

It is much easier to make systems that can handle embarrasingly parallel loads than the highly interconnected loads handled by the top500 supercomputers. So even though the flops are comparable, the systems are not.
I'm glad i didn't dabble with native platforms. Web technologies seem to be finally converging to dethrone them.

But, by god this writer sounds so entitled.
You get an email confirmation for every transaction and you can cancel, challenge, or return nearly anything.
I would use something linke cyclejs with LiveScript, if I start something new.

the whole function composition has a clean feeling and LS removes a lot of cruft
All pro style laptops (HP Elitebook/Lenovo Thinkpad/Dell Precision) have trackpad buttons and extra buttons for the nipple controller too. I must say I love having proper buttons and have used such laptops exclusively. Although I do have a Macbook air without the buttons.

You're right that consumer laptops have done away with buttons nowadays.
Crossfit is a dangerous joke because they prioritize massive sets over safe and correct form.

https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-sec...
In case you're still on the fence, take a look at the Steam reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/#app_reviews_hash
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While I agree wholeheartedly with this point, I have to smile at it being made about one of the oldest programming languages still in use.

In some ways Lisp has always been and continues to be the language of the future.
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Of course, but it has to be trained anew, with new data. You can't train it on Go data and expect it to perform at all well on vision tasks.
People at NPR were joking later that they should just ask listeners' devices to send them money during a fund drive.
There used to be jobs for thousands of people to do what pocket calculators do. Those jobs have been gone for decades. Humans entirely replaced by machines. So, yes, calculators are superhuman.
I don't know, I'm not American.
Sun Grid was more about batch processing across many machines, rather than individual VMs, wasn't it?

Plenty of people in the web hosting industry offered competitive x86 linux instances or dedicated servers, way prior to 2006.

I think AMZN deserves credit for delivering a price compelling option that delivered (1) elasticity (per hour billing) and (2) automation (API, available in minutes), among other things.
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That’s why for German scrabble there are quite different rules.

Because, if you want, you can turn anything into a word.

Someone who turns anything into a word:

female: Allesinworteverwandelnde, male: Allesinworteverwandelnder, etc.

You can just string things together. It’s exactly like you name things in Java. Bus. BusStop. BusStopPosition. BusBusStopInteraction.
The kind of encryption that we use to safely buy stuff on-line (such as TLS for securing our HTTP connections) and the kind that security-aware people use to secure data (which includes criminals and anarchists, but also activists living under repressive regimes, healthcare professionals, lawyers, software developers, etc.) is quite similar from a mathematical standpoint. The underlying algorithms (such as AES, SHA-2, RSA, etc.) and mathematical concepts are often the same.

There is no practical difference in the kind of crypto a criminal uses and the kind you would use to store your passwords and scans of important documents.
Too many chiefs in a village. Can you imagine trying to explain why this move is correct because "20 moves in the future" it proves to be right. It would probably take an hour per move.

Also I mentioned in a previous post...the human style of playing go needs to adapt to AlphaGo. That's why the commentators say "oh that was odd" since a human would not make that move as its unorthodox, but turns out to be right.

If the top 1-10 had a chance to play AlphaGo privately for months they may have a better chance.
If that is what is meant then you can't see that you're losing against any player that's any stronger than yourself by definition, because if you could see it earlier you wouldn't have made that move.
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Training it on popular music will at best make a machine that's really good at making music that humans enjoy. The really interesting breakthrough will be when a computer makes music for itself.
'sane' is operative word here:-)
I wasn't suggesting combining all their apps in to one stable. I was suggesting creating a larger company that has working conditions that suit the kind of person who is an indy developer. Most (all?) of their current apps would probably need to disappear.

It wouldn't be the same as working for yourself, but it wouldn't be the same as working for some faceless corporation either.
Nah, you've just re-discovered Just In Time and the Theory of Constraints. You've read "The Phoenix Project," right? Go read "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt. TPP was based on The Goal, and reading both illustrated how many of the solutions that software development experts have landed on to improve productivity and the chance of a successful project are the same as the manufacturing problem solutions that manufacturers landed on twenty to thirty years ago.

I have a degree in logistics, but I work as a scripting-heavy systems engineer. My hobby is home construction, especially building systems like drainage planes, vapor management in walls, and structured wiring and plumbing. It's literally all the same thing with almost identical sets of problems.
Yes but Data is a fictional character written by a human.
MySQL. Although that My refers to author's daughter's name. You can guess the rest of his kids names from other products: MaxDB and MariaDB.
Ask HN: What will happen when all personal domain names are taken?
Few years from now, firstname.lastname.com would be very rare to find, what would happen then? Why isn't there a systematic way that ensures that future generations will have access to personal domain names?

Is there a service like about.me that enables the search for other people and find their domain names? I think this might be a good solution for the problem, because if this service exists, then one can link to a domain name that may not be even purchased (i.e first.last.website.com) but can still be searchable, you search by name and find the matching photo and can see the personal website.

What do you think?
TLDR of the article: sour grapes.
I think they'd notice quite quickly if the whole of Google went offline for a week or so. Like literally, no search, no gmail, no maps, no anything. Now imagine if other large companies did the same, like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Heck, want to make a real effect? Have a boycott which takes AWS offline for a few weeks, including everything hosted on it.

The consequences would become clear soon enough. Bonus points if the White House and Houses of Parliament sites were taken offline with it.
I'm using LiveScript for private stuff and ES6/JSX in production. LS is a pleasure to write. But the tooling on ES6 is nicer I must admit :/
The 2x4 in my floor has superhuman strength by that definition. Kind of a pointless term if it's just to mean what humans can't do.
Some days the code I'm reading makes me wish there was a Software Developers Guild to punish the author of such terrible code.
If the Razer blade stealth had a 16/32gb option I'd pick it over a Alienware 13 or XPS 13

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth
As good or bad as you want it to be. Arch doesn't have any default gui or desktop environment, so it really depends on what window manager / desktop environment you run. Gnome3 and kde5 are both pretty good out of the box with hidpi, xfce is pretty simple to get working. Not sure past that as my experience with Hidpi support past testing was turning it off for the gtk and qt programs I use as I find 4k at 28" fine at native res/scale.

But in general, arch keeps packages as vanilla as possible, so there's no default/recommended configurations like there are with most distros.
Doesn't buy you much in the singular case since you gotta pick a gendered article. :/
Well, english doesn’t have participal construction of nouns. German does.

Any verb can be, by adding a prefix, converted into a noun meaning "he/she/it who does".

And you can similarly convert nouns into verbs.
People don't watch games because the players are the best in the world.

I'm an avid tennis fan. If we build a humanoid that can run faster, hit harder, hit more accurately and never gets tiredI would say...good job...Now get out and put the humans on the court.

We enjoy relating to the players, see how far they push their boundaries, see them make mistakes, recover from mistakes...

And on that note, hopefully there will not be cheating scandals like in chess where players have an ear piece and someone in the back communicates what move to place based on computer output.
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Just wanted to mention VueJS as an option on the front-end for those looking for a simple JS library with components.
Razer do as well.
The implication is that humans have been trapped in a local maxima in terms of strategy and board reading. The question then becomes whether we can use this to bootstrap ourselves.
The Chinese don't send drones to kill people in other countries. At least not yet.
> Personally I suspect that the textbook authors were just trolling everyone.

While that happens very often, surprisingly all the words you said are actual German words, and Endzeitstimmung, Drachenflugfestival (oder Drachenfestival, if you want to make it shorter) and Hanseschiff are quite common German words anyone would understand.

Fun fact: In German, except for a grammatical weirdness, Dragon and Kite are the same word. The word is also the same as Deltoid.
Sorry dude, you're stuck in 2001. Physical trackpad buttons break, and break often -- which is why they're disappearing. MacBook trackpads are widely recognized as superior, and they are buttonless. The "clit" is also a history footnote at this point, it never got mainstream adoption. If you like Thinkpads that's fine, but don't try to pass your judgement as something universal because it's clearly coming from a very small minority.
This is great, but Thinkpads have always had good Linux support. I have a friend who bought the previous XPS 13 Ubuntu edition and it had all kinds of problems which are only being worked out now, problems that aren't present on most Thinkpads.

I got the X1 Yoga one month after it came out, installed an alpha version of Ubuntu 16.04 on it and everything just works, including the touch screen.
I assume this is not a new phenomenon. So, why does every president do it? Does he not have advisers who know something about the security apparatus? Someone that might say "you know, there's a lot of bad stuff you don't fully understand, so maybe you should roll back the rhetoric a bit?"

Of course, campaigning on "I will increase the national security state" isn't a plank that will likely get a candidate elected.

Note, too, that I am just criticizing Obama here. Every president breaks campaign promises, because most campaign promises are nothing more than marketing.
Obama thinks the harms of those crimes outweigh the privacy protections.

I think this is a silly argument. Forcing backdoors into people's phones will not stop any individual determined to maintain secrecy from using encryption. It will however allow government to spy on all individuals.

Even with a dumbphone one could use something like:
https://www.schneier.com/cryptography/solitaire

How is the backdoor law going to help?

Or is the government going to ban any and all encryption methods?
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I wasn't entirely serious about the filters but that's a fair point.

I suppose what I'm actually saying is "Can we all downvote the more worn-out type of comments a bit more actively?".

Which now I'm come out and said it sounds overly optimistic. ;-)
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Your calculator does have a representation of arithmetic too. It's those bits is moves around in registers, which are very much isomorphic to the relevant arithmetic.

Why would an intelligence built by humans not be able to be superhuman? The generally accepted definition seems to be "having better than human performance" in which case it seems we've done it many times (like with calculators).
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Why would the branding matter? Any halfway serious person knows that Dell makes decent (if slightly boring and enterprisy) stuff, and that it's about what you do with it that matters, anyway. The hipsters are going to see that it's not a Macbook from a mile away, Dell logo or not. If anything, I myself would be likely to assume that an unbranded laptop is something dodgy picked out of a supermarket clearance bin.

> a beautiful TV that had "COMPANY" in white letters on the otherwise perfect dark bezel

That distracts from watching the screen and so actually affects the primary operation of the TV. I'd argue that's a very different matter than the presence of a logo on a laptop lid that you can't even see when using the computer.
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The Debian package repos have some quality apps, they're just not "optimised for touch screens".
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