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> What? It sounds like the problem is they didn't have enough information about you.

That is part of my point. It will never be perfect, but perfect enough to get a benefit for businesses. If this leaves you as part of a small percentile at the road side, that is your problem not their's. In the end, you may be regularly unfairly disadvantaged because of it nevertheless.
The same company, DeepMind, already published about reinforcement learners reaching superhuman performance on many realtime games -- old Atari ones

This is not remotely similar to league of legends or starcraft.
Looking at their product line and the statements they're making - I'm thinking they are heading towards competing with hOme security services. That move would push them into a much higher margin business and make this make more sense.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. Are you running with onHostMaintenance set to terminate or are you losing "regular" VMs. If you want to ping me with your project id (my username at google), I'd like to investigate. 100s of VM failures is well outside of our acceptable range.

Also, if it's been a while since your last quota request, we've drastically improved the turnaround time. All I can say is, your complaints were heard and we've tried to fix it. Keep yelling if something is busted! (And yes, I see the irony of the support ticket statement; out of curiosity which support are you on?)

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I like this. Not because I use this process or even Emacs, but because it focuses on the center of the issue: Bringing your full mind to bear on the object at hand. If there's anything that will de-stress a frustrated hacker, it's that sort of directed, decisive action toward the best perceivable outcome.

Often you don't even have to save your notes file if you are just using this as a method to defeat procrastination or build up momentum for a busy day. Many of mine don't survive the day and that's fine.
It's also very understandable from my perspective that we would have been able to surpass the best players given that monte carlo bots are already around 5-6 dan skill level.
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What if instead of the Clipper Chip the NSA/FBI opted to install hardware 'backdoors' that could induce Fault attacks, Side Channel attacks, etc? I just don't see why the government gave up on the chip so easily
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Just waiting for the day when someone launches a js version then the whole world is gonna be coding on erlang vm I think.
It is not enough for a cyberpunk action movie. The consequences for society are chilling, however. Picture a society in which everyone has even more reason to behave and live in a certain way just so they don't get misjudged by some algorithm.
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I dropped Sickbeard/SickRage for Sonarr a few months ago. I'm very happy with the change. Especially with the better support for torrents and easier to use UI.

Thanks for all your hard work on the project!
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I'm pretty into org-mode. I got started from this article by Sacha Chua[1]. Her note taking style helped me learn faster. (This post was written in emacs.)

[1] - http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/tips-learning-org-mode-ema...
It's awesome that they won.

I recently read the paper, and there are a couple of things you need to keep in mind to understand the scope and how general the result is.

They were using a big cluster to do a brute-force tree search (not brute-force as in exhaustive, but still brute-force as in let's throw lots of hardware at this). According to the paper, this tree search was important in improving the play.

Basically they were using a combination of approaches, like the winners of the Netflix competition a couple of years ago, where each approach in its own was pretty good, but not on the level of Sedol.

The other thing is that this was bootstrapped using a gigantic database of human plays. It's not clear to me that they could have ever achieved what they did without this. Once they trained the neural networks up to the level of an expert player, they could make it play against itself and learn some extra things. But the question is how far this takes you? How much can an AI or a human learn by only playing with itself?

Clearly, it's not yet god-like, since Sedol managed to beat it by a move it wasn't really considering. It's not clear to me how you would improve what they have now, without adding yet another approach, like the Netflix competition where the mixed models got better by the sheer number of them.
While &key is CL-specific (and if you don't have it, you can ad-hoc it if you have variable arguments) variadic functions are pretty important, and found broadly in Lisp dialects.

If you're on a VM or other target that doesn't do them natively, it's worth fighting tooth and nail to somehow get the functionality.

E.g. make an inefficient variadic type that at the VM level takes a single argument---a list or vector of the arguments. Or multiple types for different combinations of fixed arg arity plus variable list.
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The nature of the tool differs, but it's definitely a good idea to carry around something to put down your ideas and organise them, it doesn't matter if it's not Org mode.
It used to be possible to destroy evidence: shred letters, burn receipts. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do it. If the encryption is crippled, in the cloud based world the evidence of all your electronic communications will be indestructible, for the first time in history.
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OMG, what kind of product managers do you know. A good one would never ask for such things...
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Do people here have opinions on Workflowy? https://workflowy.com/

As a Vim adherent, I never really got into Org-Mode, but from what I've seen from my Emacs friends, Workflowy seems kinda like Org-Mode Online, but with additional features like being able to share a sublist as a URL (which was noted in this blogpost as a weakness of Org-Mode: "The caveat here is that it’s mostly a one man show.").

I use it very much like this blogpost describes, to quickly jot-down and organize thoughts, then later reorganize them, update them, or archive them.
Hetzner also has options for Xeons and Dell PowerEdge servers for a bit more a month, but I've also had great experience with their best value hosting servers, ran a site on it for a couple of years without running into any h/w issues before moving to AWS due to its easy managed RDS, S3, SES services. But if I'd just needed a single dedicated server with great specs I'd use Hetzner in a heartbeat.
The perfect recipient would still have to be sent backdoors from many creators. Many more people would be handling the secret, each one a target to be social engineered into handing it over. I imagine when a more typical backdoor is made, very few people even know it exists let alone know the key to open it. Mandate backdoors and everyone knows they exist so more people will work to find and crack them. They would be very high value targets. Once opened, a backdoor would take a lot of work and expense to be closed, if you even know it had been opened.
Just as "Hello, World" may be the best-known general programming introductory example, Mikolov, who was then at Microsoft Research, also introduced what fast became a benchmark equation in natural language processing at the 2013 proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics, the kingman+woman=queen analogy, in which the computer solved the equation spontaneously.

Since the ACM has professional editors, I was surprised that they would twice misrepresent the example "king – man + woman = queen" as "kingman+woman=queen" in the article. At least they spelled "Hello, World" right, even if they couldn't bring themselves to add the "!".

It looks like the problem is that in the PDF version, the phrase happens to be hyphenated at the "minus sign" in both usages (http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2880000/2874915/p13-goth.pdf) [1] although one might hope this is something an editor would have checked.

[1] Looks like the ACM wants to you click on the PDF link yourself, from the "View As" bar in the text version.
Personally, I could care less about DRM on content; I'm far more appaled that I have to use DRM on the cable/protocol between my monitor and my video card. One of these harms my "freedom to tinker," the other, not so much.
So lets say... how much would say a 2TB volume providing a consistent minimum of 100,000 random 4k write IOP/s that's available across multiple VMs at once and must be highly available at say 99.9% cost?

* Note: I went to use Compute Engine's cost calculator but it appeared the site was down / under heavy load?
I passed this on to a colleague whose jokes are both constant and terrible (though far from the condition described).

As I said to him, I'd be worried about myself ... but thankfully my jokes are always funny.

It's an interesting insight into what sparks 'humour', and how much of it is physical rather than intellectual.
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ServiceWorkers are scoped to the basename of the path they are served from, so you could only intercept a small subset of all possible CDN URLs. In the example, this would be resources under `/hads-ak-xat1/t45.1600-2/`. But you probably can't create a ServiceWorker here anyways as you need a route that returns valid Javascript of your choosing with a Content-Type `text/javascript`. Usually when I've seen an opportunity for ServiceWorker exploits it's due to a JSONP endpoint that does not sanitize its callback parameter.

If you could create a valid ServiceWorker at this route, and load it inside some same-domain HTML page, then you could theoretically use it to intercept and rewrite responses to any resources on the domain under its path. Depending on how you rewrite the response you might be able to get the browser to cache the rewritten resource, which could then get used by other domains. Theoretically. I have never tested this :)
This has also been my experience, journaling helps a lot both while working on something and when getting back to it, especially after a longer period of time.

I found this discussion interesting too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895713
Cringe.

Just two months ago we were "dozin' with the dinos" at the Field Museum, and went on a behind the scenes tour where we got to learn about the huge fish collection there. Seeing the huge halls of movable shelving units on tracks, filled with specimens, made me feel like the Field Museum may just have the Ark of the Covenant (movie reference too vague?). Learning about the research being done in just that one section was eye-opening, and I left feeling like there was so much more to natural history collections than meets the eye.

So what can I do to help? Write my congress-critter? Donate to the museum? Field Museum, MSI, Adler, Shedd - my kids love the hell out of each of them and it makes me sad to know that institutions like these are hurting.
I'm all for blind auditions and eliminating discrimination.

Good for you, but that wasn't really the point of that example. The point was that there is no good reason to assume that the same dynamic that caused women to loose auditions before blind auditions, doesn't apply in all kinds of other fields. How do you propose we deal with in occupations where we can't have the equivalent of blind auditions?

The problem is that the criterion for success cannot be a 50-50 split between men and women in every profession.

That's a red herring. No one here is arguing for that. Even Spike Lee only added a handful of women to his list of 80 directors.

That ignores that there are gender differences, and pushing for that goes against personal freedom and well being.

The problem with that argument is that it could have been made at any point during the last 200 years to argue that we had at that particular point in time reached the pinnacle of gender equality. In fact I'm certain that it has been used both for arguing against voting rights for women and against women working at all.
https://vulners.com/exploitdb/EDB-ID:39569

> By injecting xauth commands one gains limited* read/write arbitrary files, information leakage or xauth-connect capabilities. These capabilities can be leveraged by an authenticated restricted user - e.g. one with the login shellconfigured as /bin/false or one with configured forced-commands - to bypass account restriction. This is generally not expected.

> The injected xauth commands are performed with the effective permissions of the logged in user as the sshd already dropped its privileges.

So basically setting the shell to /bin/false or something like that can be bypassed.

Just block users in sshd_config
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If your servers are efficient enough (and this is not hard to do these days), it's easy to get bandwidth-limited on a per server basis, i.e. your server could handle more traffic, but you've maxed out the bandwidth available to that particular server.

If you can load balance at the client, then you can "talk" to any server at the edge and don't need a router or proxy, so the net result is that you are only paying for whatever bandwidth comes with your OVH (or whatever) boxes. Effectively, you're buying bandwidth and the computer/storage/power/rackspace/etc. that comes with that bandwidth is free.

And yeah, it's ridiculously cheaper than AWS or Google's Cloud Platform to do things this way.
While soldering a BGA may look difficult, it is quite simple if the correct amount of solder paste is deposited. Too much solder paste and the balls will short out together when reflow. Not enough solder paste and you have a dry solder joint.

The alignment of the BGA device is also not so critical. The surface tension of the solder will "pull" the device into place when reflowing. The process is quite mechanical.
American, I guess? Me too, but I live in the Netherlands and cashless payment here is so much easier. If it's under an amount you set (say, €25/day) paying is as simple as holding your PIN card near a reader for a few seconds. If it's over the limit, do the same but then you have to authorise with a PIN.

No signatures, no swiping, no ID checking.
Heh, read first Sunnydale. Would've been awesome to have offices next to Hellmouth.
> I didn't get it. It's a super powerful outliner with scripting...

At its very heart, yes. And that alone is cool, I think (the scripting part).

But it's also a lot more: org-mode supports a simple form of task management (TODOs, Agenda views,...), it has a built-in spreadsheet editor (with formula support, all in ASCII), you can export contents to various backends (HTML, Beamer, ...) -- it really is a beast!
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I think saying most people in the developing world don't have wifi or air conditioning is an overgeneralization.

I've lived in Ghana and currently in Zambia and people do have WiFi, 4G and airb conditioning. Granted there are large populations that don't have great homes, the need for electricity (hospitals) is great.

For example, at the teaching hospital in Lusaka, there isn't even running water.

I wish OP best of luck and will be rooting for him.
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In the Nature paper, move prediction was trained on 160,000 games. So naively, I expect probability can't go below 1 in 160,000.
Analogies are stupid. It's perfectly constitutional for a law to be passed to ban encryption. It'd be a stupid, terrible law with horrific consequences. But there's nothing unconstitutional about bad laws. We have more than a few as is.
Yes, the whole idea is about as plausible as this april fools joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit ... but it's been put forth and implemented too many times for comfort.

Each time these silly systems like DVD-CSS broke down and became worthless or like DIVX, were widely panned and rejected by the consumer.*

Showing how this will always and forever be the case at a more fundamental level to stop trying this deadbeat idea with different gift-wrapping would be great.

* Even in MP3, you have bits 29 and 30 which are for copyright. What were they thinking? people would re-implement /bin/cp to look for that and fail if the bit is set? Really? AAC has something similar. silly.
> >Various government agencies are crooning that they should be able to knock down whichever doors they please because they're the government.

> I think this analogy is apt but it actually works against the author's point. Our government has legally been allowed to knock down whichever door it has wanted to for centuries assuming it has received the proper warrants. An encryption door cannot be knocked down. That is a very scary problem for the government and law enforcement. Things like personal notes, journals, communications all used to be accessible to the government through warrants. Now that information is all locked away behind encryption.

Well, there was nothing stopping someone from writing their journals or notes in code so nobody could understand them. There is a question of whether someone would be forced to explain the code used for the notes. But the current scheme would be akin to the government requiring schools to spread misinformation about how to make a secure cipher and making it illegal to write a book about how to make a secure cipher without making the cipher broken.

This is a huge shift in how we think about information and learning. There appears to be a general mystery about software as though technology has changed our underlying morals. It hasn't. If you reframe moral questions about software as moral questions about other things, the answers become more obvious. For example, the morals behind free software become immediately obvious if you consider mathematics or even things like blueprints (since a software program is both the design and implementation in a way).

Of course there's the danger of a false parallel (and you might argue that I've drawn such a parallel), but I think my argument holds.
I'm currently using both org-mode and a stack of index cards. I use Emacs a lot, so that could be why I'm sticking with it. org-mode is now solely for note taking.

At least for me, it's hard to beat physically crossing something out (or tearing a card in half) after finishing something on my to-do list.
This casting part is absolutely illogical :) And there's yet more obscure part in it: find what to cast to. But once you did this, you can return back to logic.
But you have to program every conceivable 'normal' situations, so really you are just using a variable definition term like 'normal' to tautologically argue.
Well: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5978305/fighting-a-fire-aboard-the-mi...
"...but I had to move away from it because our company decided to go native on all fronts.."
Wouldn't that be reason to stick or turn to Qt in the first place? Or what am I missing ?
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Apple was very happy that Google gave S. Korea a very public smackdown at their own game with the AlphaGo AI software. If only I were kidding.
Could you believe that 2016 is the year of the beginning of the LISP renaissance.

Im going to buy some spare paren keys, they might become scarce in the immediate future.
Actually we do know how much it costs in the free market, by looking at the prices for medical care in the United States. The pricing of healthcare in the free market was so exorbitant that a bill had to be pushed through, because the majority of the population was priced out of healthcare.

Now, we have two exhibits to compare from: ours, which we know did not work, and Nordic, which we also can see works. Taking these two exhibits into consideration, logic tells me that the Nordic system should be implemented in the United States, yesterday.
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Cool, thanks Jennifer! That was some serious dedication, super admirable. :)

One more question, although I've already asked a lot of you. How did you make sure you conceptually understood what you were learning at every stage, not just simply taking code and just replacing bits of it here and there?
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Things like personal notes, journals, communications all used to be accessible to the government through warrants. Now that information is all locked away behind encryption. This is a huge shift in the way governments fight crime.

They only think that information is locked away behind encryption. There is no proof that the information they seek actually exists in the white-noise they claim it does unless the plaintext is recovered.
I would think LoL and Starcraft would be easier in terms of difficulty than something like Go, because they both have the fast twitch aspect of play. An automated player would have the advantage of perfect situational awareness of the mini map and consistency in character placement and so forth. This is a big advantsge in games where a single misclick or a missed visual can cost a match.
It started in 2007 with the release of Clojure and there are still plenty of paren keys around.
> And people have been compelled to provide passwords in the court of law

You can have encrypted data that accept two different passwords, producing different decrypted data of your choice. This is like the 2nd code that mute the home security alarm when you are forced to do it, but still calls the police.
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You mean Eric Schmidt:

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-head...
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Oh, I think of 1KW as household size (for a water pump or something, and a large household, true)
Wired is 80% garbage articles and intrusive ads / trackers these days. I don't recommend it.
well, that's why so many people commute from SF to the valley, if they want a certain culture. Toronto suburbs seem to go on forever, so not fair to compare Toronto to SV (and not SF or OAK)
> It's not clear to me how you would improve what they have now

They could improve the policy network which was based off 100,000 amateur level games. Now they could use AlphaGo self play games which are at the level of 9p as a training set.

Another thing they could do is let it run more self play games in order to improve the value net even more.
How is open source 'destroying' anything? Last I heard Microsoft was considering buying Slack for billions of dollars. I don't think they're destroyed.

In fact, I'd consider any open source alternatives to Slack to be fair game on an open market, and the massive underdog at this point.