skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that's the case, then tetration is the right answer.

Sure, and whenever you're in a position to give that answer you should. But from the point of view of the girl her answer was right and 'better' than 999, and to deny her that small victory (especially with her being such a good student) would seem to me to achieve the exact opposite of what school is all about: to teach, to motivate and to reward original thinking, especially when it leads to better answers than the commonly visible ones. To dis-incentivize (I hope that's spelled correctly) that is the worst thing you could do to an otherwise motivated student.
AlphaGo uses neural networks trained on human play to generate candidate moves, and then Monte Carlo Tree Search to evaluate them deeply. The neural nets are a strong player by themselves.

AlphaGo primarily refutes this essay, rather than supports it. Prior to AlphaGo we had many Monte Carlo bots, but none of them approached professional level of play, much less world-class play. A strategy other than brute force was required to get there.

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AlphaGo's loss in game four is interesting, by the way; I'm not sure how you would fix it in their model. It appears that it lost because it failed to predict the (creative, unusual) wedge move in the neural nets, did not spend enough time evaluating it in MCTS, didn't give a strong response to it (which was available through MCTS if it had looked), and didn't understand afterwards that it was now dramatically losing the game and played some very strange moves.
I never understood why cutting taxes creates more jobs.
Before the full force of globalization "trickle down economy" made some sense as the investments would go locally (factories etc.) but at the current point in time it does not.

We have a distribution of wealth in the world that looks like a hockey stick and we actually need something like a bell curve.
So after the program is actually compiled into binary code do the resulting instructions become so simple (and so fundamental to the operation of programs) that any attempt to write a heuristics rule to stop this technique would break thousands of programs or are heuristics just so inherently shitty that this technique works? Because I would still think that this line here:

void *exec = VirtualAlloc(0, sizeof c, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE);

Would be a red flag. I don't know how many programs use that on the Windows side of things but I have almost never seen programs call this function that weren't "crypters."

I am honestly impressed how simple this program is (it's the most elegant crypter I've probably ever seen) but I am still wondering whether heuristics could be made to detect this (without also falsely detecting thousands of other programs?) What do you think OP? Not really my field but curious all the same.
> This is likely to increase the pace of innovation drastically in those countries that allow it.

And create a divide between the rich who can afford it for their children, and the poor who can't.
I love his teardown's. You always learn SO much.
It's a very good day. I get to just say "exactly" again. :)
What is the legality of these chargers? I thought the magsafe adapter was patented and therefore 3rd parties can't built compatible plugs without a license.
Most evolutionary experts, like the late Stephen Gould, espouse Punctuated Equilibrium. Basically the theory says that environments are stable for long periods of time and then there are bursts of changes in small periods of time. The Cambrian Explosion is a good example (read Gould's book on the Cambrian, it's awesome).

If you consider technology to be like evolution, which it surely is, then infrequent advances in short periods is only natural.
How do airships like these fair in rough weather? (They mention coast guard duty in the article.)
This article may (or may not:) be a little short sighted.

Basically it claims the inventions of what it terms "The third industrial revolution" (computers) affect a much narrower slice of life than the proceeding industrial revolutions. So they won't produce the growth the proceeding revolutions did and the rapid growth is over.

But earlier in the article:

"GORDON: When we had the invention of steam engines, steam ships, locomotives, factories making cotton fabrics, and then the telegraph. All of those things were invented in the century between 1770 and 1870. And they set the stage for the inventions that happened after 1870. "

So there was a lag between the large number of invention and the true realization of potential in subsequent inventions and thus improvements in life.

First of all I don't think digital technology does affect a narrower slice of life when looked at in broader terms. I think it affects an even greater slice of life. True we have a bunch of cat videos and Facebook but that's just the surface.

But the main point, going back to the lag, I believe that is where we are now. We have the technology and are really just getting started with what it can do. Digital technology hasn't really infiltrated everywhere it can and many things are still being done in inefficient ways. When the subsequent set of innovations begin to appear I think we will see an even greater increase in standard of living than the previous industrial revolutions. More efficient distribution mechanisms. Better control over biology (including our own). Automation and robotics. Things like that. Social structures need to catch up though also... likely part of the reason for the lag.
They drop connections when a backend dies.

And not just the ones that that backend was handling, but also some % of the overall traffic for re-balancing.

The degree of connection affinity from the ECMP is limited, and there's no "reliance" on it. If a connection flip-flopped between two or more load balancers, there would be no drops, thanks to the consistent fashion.
You almost certainly did not donate to NPR, but rather to your local public radio station.

Those local stations run the gamut of sophistication. My local public radio station for instance (WBEZ in Chicago) is very, very good about not sending mail you don't want. They have an easy to use internet enabled monthly giving program and a pledge drive free internet stream for donors during the pledge drive.

But they are one of the biggest stations in the country and have the production dept. to back that up. Other stations are little more than adjuncts to the local college's telecomms program.

The difference between NPR and your local public radio channel is not understood by most people, but it gets to the heart of the point of this article.
No, local affiliates often produce between 20% and 80% of their programming.
Hands Off!¹ has done this for a while now (been around since 2011 if I remember correctly).

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¹ — http://www.oneperiodic.com/products/handsoff/
Maybe this exists already and I just haven't found it but I would love to find a tool that visually/graphically helps me visualize and test build data structures for a graph database. For example modeling the relationship from a host to VM to OS to app to network etc.
Often true in commercial radio land, but not on NPR. Things are much more loosey-goosey there. Probably because of shoe-string budgets.
I support a modest basic income. I do suspect that in that environment, we would see an increas in the range of projects tackled because people want to do them, want them done, want the fame, and similar.

I also think there are projects that a grant program could effectively support.

But I also think there is a really long tail of projects that some people would find worth having done, but that would not likely get done without someone paying, and would be difficult for grant issuers to distinguish from other projects that are simply not worth doing at all.

I think Snowdrift - or something similar - could have a huge role in such a world. In particular, a basic income would make it easier for more people to contribute to a project and also reduce the amount of money necessary to see a project move forward.
I used to work at a large, well known AV company. While much of what other commenters have said is true, I will note that VT is less authoritative than some realize; the version of our product that VirusTotal was given access to was substantively different than our normal product; features such as sandboxing were removed.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common practice; we considered our product's detection capabilities to be proprietary.
I'm not sure where this conception of Rust comes from. I'm just as much of a numpty as you are, slinging Python and Javascript and really, really bad PHP by day, and yet Rust is what I do for fun. It's the systems language that makes systems programming accessible to those of us who don't have a lifetime to devote to memorizing all the ways a C program can explode in your face.
Microsoft alienating women? Scantily clad 'schoolgirl' dancers at official party
Not really. Is there any public company whose entire product is essentially printing stock certificates?
In what ways can I protect my PC and my web browser? I sometimes access sensible things and I want proper security.
US GDP per capita is larger then it has ever been. We are richer then we've ever been and this economist predicts we'll be richer still for the foreseeable future. The problem is that 30 years ago or so the middle and lower classes stopped receiving any of the gains.
Good enough for me...
It is GPL v2. One of the most active developed-as-open-source branches is Path64.
Nothing.

I think ads are an awful solution to the problem.

I don't know what the better solution is but there have already been attempts made with flatr and similar.

In my opinion everyone should run adblock and the industry should move on.

Currently there is a massive movement towards ads you can't tell are ads in websites and news articles.

These are about as bad but they do fix a lot of the current issues with display ads.
But Bitcoin has a foundation as well
I know, but I'd like to see the numbers. Do people in 2016 have the same email habits as in 1996? I don't know, but everywhere I look, people are running safer email clients, usually in the form of well-sandboxed applications that hide most of the sharp edges from the users. I'm willing to bet email is a smaller vector today than 20 years ago.
I've been using it for a few days, I like it a lot. The new version is also much better, but it's not on the play store yet.
Setting Up Anaconda Python WSGI Apps on IIS
Really? Is Google actively shaking up tens of companies with secret patents and threats?
"Back in the old days" we had Freshmeat...
Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is a perfectly valid concern.
"And remember folks if you'd like to support public broadcasting visit our donate page, or shop.npr.com when shopping on Amazon to help keep these podcasts on the air."
I'm not a lawyer, but there's also trademark violation, trafficking in counterfeit goods (USC § 2320) and violation of the UL's service mark, not to mention plain old fraud.
From TFA:

"Between one industrial park and another industrial park are empty
areas that are not safe areas at all,” Rajagopalan says. Sewage
trucks will frequently bypass treatment plants and dump their contents
on public land, and while it poses a health hazard to nearby slums,
public officials don’t have the resources to counter such infractions.
In short, Gurgaon’s success story is confined to an archipelago of
private compounds populated by those who can afford to live there.

Yet the intro calls it a "strangely promising blueprint for urban development". o_O

Also, the bit at the end leaves off the punchline - the major developers insist that if they just owned more land they'd be more inclined to provide better services. If only there was some way that an entire small region could be organized to provide services, maybe call it "a city government"...
I guess if they really stop "being evil" a lot of people would give them another chance.
This data is pretty interesting. Of course, it's hard to separate out or even infer the causes as nature vs. nurture (which the article is careful about) but the part about twins was the most striking for me:

"Twins' tendency to choose the same occupation, at 24.7%, is even more striking."

A possible explanation was provided above:

"Whether identical or fraternal 2, twins are also more likely to be raised in a similar environment — parenting styles may differ as a parents add more children to their brood, but twins will likely be exposed to a similar parenting style."

Also, being raised in the same time period would also expose you to the same cultural/economic/societal factors - all of which can change with time, and also may affect your choice of career. (i.e. the proportion of math_CS parents could be different from the proportion of math_CS children just because of the different time periods in which each grew up)
I believe this is how JIT compilation works. So this would trigger a false positive on the Java VM, Javascript V8 interpreter, Spidermonkey, and C# runtime.
Have you thought on writing an article about it? It'll be very interesting to read.
Nice work, Redspread team. Can't wait to play with your tools this summer (:
Ed Butowsky: Calculating the True Cost of Living
https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/panic/fn.recover.html looks a lot like catch to me. That the documentation suggests not using it as "catch" is merely a political statement. While it may be legal to turn panics into abort, I doubt implementations will do that, because by doing so, you'll break programs that assume that panic recovery works.

The reason Rust's standard library isn't safe against malloc failure is that propagating Error everywhere would be cumbersome; I distinctly recall rust mailing list discussions on this point.

The only reason handling allocation failure has to be difficult is that the Rust people put themselves into giving into the anti-exception people. Once you allow exceptions, allocation failure becomes as easy to address as any other kind of resource exhaustion.

The Rust designers made a serious error eschewing the only fully general and fully ergonomic error handling strategy we've found.
Had to stop watching. The Adham guy was beyond annoying. We were the first in everything.
Sure, you may be right. But those are a few years out, and then it will take a few more to move from bleeding edge to main stream where it significantly impacts the economy. That's why the OP data his prediction is for the next twenty five years only.
Here I was hoping someone was anouncing major vulnerability results for Go language or runtime. Another time...
Manufacturers of garbage don't care about patents. The sheer volume of this crap is next to impossible to police by people charged with doing so.
>irresponsible users (or "morons" as you put it)

Me?! God is my witness, I do not. Rather, it is creators of that "checklist", who suggest that your users are idiots, who should be punished even for being unable to remember their password. IMHO, the really bad thing about the list is the fact that technically legit (I am not a webdev though) points are casually mixed with statements implying derogatory stance towards target users. I do not want you to control the ways I manage my information, that's the point of my rant.

After all, it is not a big deal if some crappy SV startups whose ultimate fate is to die silently after an year or two anyways, will adopt the practice. Problem arises when thing would go in the wild, bringing only headache and distraction to those who is able to control their information flow.
> His new business is his last venture, Asher said, so he named it TLO Inc., The Last One.

That was not the way I interpreted it before you commented.
I wish whoever downvoted you would explain why, because I agree 100% with your expressed sentiment.
On the other hand, I always think of farmers when the subject of wealth comes up. Their infrastructure can make them very wealthy, but through many years their income may not even push them across the poverty line, making living a struggle. Wealth gives no indication of how you are doing day to day. There is definitely security there, but only if you are wiling to give up your livelihood, which comes with its own problems.
Google cannot block anyone from using AOSP. But Google declines to enter into Google logo agreements all the time for all kinds of reasons that they often do not explain. While you can self test your device for compatibility, that's no guarantee you'll get an agreement with Google.
Yeah, that's absurd. It's like asking for C intrinsics to be implemented as functions.

Those primitives are just a way to force the synthesis tool to infer specific hardware features.
Stop wasting your time with Blitline and use 6px
Why would that be a red flag? From what I can glean from the documentation, both MEM_COMMIT and PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE are perfectly reasonable flags to pass to VirtualAlloc, and -again, according to the documentation- VirtualAlloc appears to be a way to (de|re)allocate memory within the region allocated to your process.

What's more, every program that uses Boost on Windows calls VirtualAlloc, in several places.
Automattic
That is the smoothest pitch I've had the pleasure of reading
Amazon sold me one of these. It's a complete piece of shit. It lost connectivity after a few months. I have been very frustrated with it. It works only 10% of the time, seemingly at random.

In fact, it was just sitting by my apartment door because I was going to throw it into the dumpster the next time I go outside. Here's some photos I just took of it: http://imgur.com/a/KaQZ3. Notice the exact same markings as in this article, and the poorly aligned components. Cheap knock-off.

The killer part of this for me is that Amazon claims the product is "by Apple"; this is the page I used to purchase it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J3ZGEE4.

Apple's apparent lack of control over their supply chain and brand, combined with their degrading software quality, is making it almost a certainty that my next computer will either be a Surface Pro or some kind of Linux ultrabook.
There is already a huge wealth and status divide between those born with high IQs and those born with normal IQs.

The incentives are such that it's going to happen. Also, it looks like very-large increases in IQ will be possible once we have millions of genomes tagged with their donor's IQ and a reliable means of editing thousands of alleles. More than a few standard deviations. I would certainly use this were it available today. If a rich person has to fly to Korea to do it, so what? Any country that bans it will fall behind.

The gains from this may be such that governments will think it worth subsidizing it for the poor's children. High IQ people commit less crimes, pay more taxes, tend not to use welfare. Liberals and conservatives will likely both converge on such subsidization.
It's cute that you think a counterfeit manufacturer gives a damn about US law.

If they're designing potentially unsafe equipment, I promise you that trademark law wouldn't warrant a first thought, let alone a second.
I wonder how well it was reflective of reality, i.e. did Music really take from month 2 until the end, and did the DRLG take only two months?
Patent for their magnet printer: https://www.google.com/patents/US9105384
A more productive route might be to port the camera project [1] (for which the models are being requested) to use the Lattice ICE series of FPGAs and use the open source Project ICEstorm tool chain [2]?

That would have the dual effect of further developing the free tool chain, and sending a (small) signal to Xilinx that if they don't take Free Software seriously they will start to lose customers.

[1] https://github.com/Elphel/x393

[2] http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

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edit: change "GPL licensed" to "open source", as a variety of licenses are used.
I picked and ate mushrooms as a kid frequently. I had some books and very quickly learned to identify the poisonous and edible kinds. It wasn't that hard and I never got sick. But I was careful and did research first and if there was any doubt I left the mushroom alone. I personally loved picking mushrooms... it was a lot of fun. I don't see it as dumb or risky at all as long as you know what you are doing.
That's awesome. Do you have link to docs?
The tradeoffs absolutely are in service of a big, unifying vision. That is, software development in the large. There are plenty of talks by Andrew, Rob, etc. that describe this calculus in detail. Whether or not they're convincing to you personally is, I guess, another matter.
It is a great list but not sure I agree with the rankings. Kudos to your effort to compile this list using a scientific approach!
Monte Carlo for Go was itself a major step forward; it pushed the best bots from about 1-5k to about 2d (amateur). It's not brute force; it's statistics!
yada yada yada, fire someone or I don't believe you.
The original paper (paywall-free link: http://sci-hub.io/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.160192 ) itemises the frequencies of causes of death by control population and autism spectrum disorder population.

It suggests that autistic people are an order of magnitude more likely to commit suicide. But the figures also suggest that autistic people were more at risk from all causes of death, including common causes of death amongst the general populations (approx twice as likely to die of cancer; are autistic people more at risk of not getting the best available treatments in time or more prone to [uncontrolled] unhealthy behaviours?)

Some caution is needed in interpreting the figures, which appears to escape the notice of a Washington Post subeditor who didn't even get the figure in the headline right (the difference between a sample life expectancy of 70.20 years and 53.87 years is not 18... )

It's worth noting that sometimes autism is likely to have been a symptom of the causes of death recorded (for example, people diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum were more than eight times likely to have "congenital malformation" as a course of death, which is a cause of death which by definition doesn't have a behavioural component).

Another factor is the survey sample is unavoidably biased because the individuals were separated into autistic and non-autistic groups based on whether they had been in contact with clinical psychiatrists over their autism, something plausibly much more likely if they're suffering from unrelated health problems; the short average period between diagnosis of autism and death stands out here.
>Point being, these economists seem to bring in an awful lot of political and moral prejudgments into this study (as is their profession's frequent wont).

I was reading this recently.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/...

Protip: Want to read any historical stuff on economics? You'll be slumming with commies.

Anyway what is amusing reading that it's apparent that the policies promoted by orthodox economists have not changed in 200-300 years. And actually predate economics as a field. It would be like going to the doctor circa 2016 and being told the results of your MRI indicate a vital need to apply leaches to your nether regions. So yeah does seem that for economics political and moral prejudgments trump theory 99% of the time.
that is very cute: fb doing research!
Given they probably operate out of China, I reckon they couldn't care less. :)

Not every country has an interest in enforcing US trademark law. Also, some interpretations of US trademark law can often be seen as excessive and/or hostile by other (western) countries.
The product you linked to is sold by a 3rd party seller, not Amazon. This is why I never buy from 3rd party sellers.
Obsessed with Efficiency and Terrible at Everything Else
>Many computer logins protect information other than the password-bearer's

That is my problem, as the user, not yours. If you'd like to help, then just put some warning or notification on the form, and I'll appreciate that. Just don't prohibit registration if password of my choice is eg. '1'.

Most of the time, your bussiness - is your service, not the access to it.