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All,

I love TheSkimm. If you haven't heard about TheSkimm, it's a daily email that has all the important political news that you need for the day. Unfortunately, TheSkimm doesn't covered a lot of business/tech oriented news, which I love.

So, I'm running a 14 day test. I have about 15 of my buds signed up to a small newsletter. Each day I plan on writing what news is going on is the world and why they need to know. However, I plan on doing it in a funny-ish way.

If you all want to follow along then here's the link: http://thehustle.co/lucky

If you don't like it then please unsubscribe ASAP as that'll show me if this product is needed or not.

The news will be geared toward 20-something males who work corporate jobs and are interested in improving their career, which I have a feeling is a lot of you.

Peace!
You seriously think that high IQ people are committing as much crime as "whoever else", but get caught less often? Seriously?

Obviously a high IQ person on average will have a better job/more money and therefore have less reason to commit crimes.

You think average/below average IQ people are scared to jaywalk, illegally park because they're scared of the fine?

Does your ideology really cloud your reasoning to that extent?
For the most part, "the public" (i.e. taxpayers) doesn't fund NPR. NPR receives no direct federal funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding
Google implemented fibers. Hopefully they'll get upstreamed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
That was the only point I was making.

Whether tetration or exponentiation are the better answer, whether or not the dad should have stood by his daughter or not, none of that matters because it should have never even left the classroom in the first place, and they had multiple good reasons for doing that and none to dig in the way they did.

Once it did leave the classroom all bets were off.
If anyone, Google has the image recognition and robotics tech to make a robot sitting in front of a screen, with keyboard and mouse ;)

Yes, anything where the interface to the game becomes critical is difficult to fairly compare with humans. Board games can use a human as an actuator, micro-heavy games hopefully won't for a long time...
Would be funny if that one was a fake too. A nesting doll of fakes all the way down
Faker.js v3.1.0 – JSDoc Support, Fixes, New APIs
Why not charge people to have a premium account that can tweet longer stuff?
Our local station is working on that. They do a week or two of gentle announcements that one's coming up, the goal, and where to donate online. They also stress that as soon as the goal is met, the drive ends, even if the goal is met online before the drive starts.

Thus far, it seems to be working. The week-long drives have dropped to 1-3 days.
I wonder what the environmental constraints and strength of these are relative to neodymium magnets...? I could see them being used to reduce the cost and / or increase the efficiency of small brushless motors.
>Even worse, of the domains that support STARTTLS, a sizable number either don't present certificates that chain to a widely trusted root, or don't present certificates that actually match their MX. Worse still, because many domains' MXs don't match the domain itself, even if the certificate is trusted for the MX, it may not be trusted for the domain.

This is madness, though. TLS is transport-layer security. It's not kerberos and it was never intended to be. The cert produced by the MX should be valid for the MX. Trust is an illusion, but to the extent that you decide to trust anything in the CA system, you trust it for the MX only and use SPF etc to determine if the MX is the correct one.

STARTTLS is a bad idea and should go away entirely. It forces an SMTP server to care about the transport layer, and that's entirely incorrect. I have plenty of SMTP servers that communicate on my networks without ever touching TCP/IP -- forcing them to support STARTTLS specifically is moving backwards.

This RFC is strongly dependent on the internet looking pretty much exactly like it looks today, and enforcing that mode of operation indefinitely. It's short-sighted and harmful to the entire email world.
Personally, I found that the body text being displayed in a normal size for body text to be refreshing, as opposed to the recent crop of sites which present body text in a size suitable for front-page headlines (a style which seems to be in vogue, but has bewildered me since I first encountered it a few years ago).

To each their own, but luckily browsers let us scale the text to whatever size we find legible.
I don't think "Google or iphones" are the type of technology he is referring to.

He's thinking more plows, or cotton gins, or fiber optics
It would also be interesting to see if DeepMind challenges Dota 2 one day maybe. How they would handle a 5-man team game and adapting to major game updates?
You know why MSFT enforces its patents? Because the patents are valid. The US approved and likes such patents.

Software patents in the form the US does them didn't exist in Europe, but see this (hint: the US again):

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
I wrote the first version of Scirate exactly because the number of papers I had to eyeball each day was so high. Now that I've left academia I find it even more useful (so huge thanks to those who rewrote it from scratch)! If you are in quantum computing it definitely helps your sanity.
I think poker would also be a great challenge. It is a special game because as well as the math, you also have to understand your opponent and adjust accordingly. It'd be interesting to see weather DeepMind can beat professional poker players who have different playing styles.
I didn't miss it, but neither did I miss when the Apple brand one almost did exactly that to me.
Once you get accepted to YC you need to incorporate in the US to get funded. Its not that difficult and they have a very clear process for all of the companies from other countries (we were a Mexican company).
Not really since electromechanical engineering would then be the bottle neck.

If you want "fairness" you can limit the instructions to what keyboard and mouse can actually interpret as in the limited latency between instruction that both the game, the OS, and the hardware can support.
Show HN: (925) – Personal job-search assistants via text-message
Why is it the customer's and reseller's responsibility to determine if a manufacturer has properly licensed some patent/trademark/etc.?
There has been lots of research into many areas of AI poker.
>> but are most likely incapable of getting a college degree, without a lot of support

> You could say the same of trailer park kids.

Yes, but you would have a hard time finding an article fetishizing the idyllic, back-to-basics, cultural lifestyle of trailer parks. People generally recognize those conditions are crappy.

> You talk with judgement if Amish life is a negative thing. It's how some people live. Let's not dislodge them from it.

It is a negative thing. Yes, I'm sure some Amish are happy, and that's fine for them. But those who aren't, don't have a real choice to leave.

> How would you like to be told your way of life is enabled by a government that plunders resources overseas, in a nation that was built on the back of slavery and robbing of natives? Not very nice, is it? It's how you live and you like to live how you like to live.

I am working to change my government, and if I were capable I'd work to change the Amish community. Injustice perpetrated by my government doesn't make injustice perpetrated by the Amish community okay.
There are all kinds of criminals. Hi IQ adults probably don't (generally) shoplift $3 worth of beauty products nor hold up gas stations for $56.

Bernie Madoff was probably pretty smart though don't you think?

And there are no doubt plenty of others who are too smart to get caught, and if caught not prosecuted, and if prosecuted not convicted. I'm not convinced hi IQ people commit that much less crime. Just that they probably commit less petty crime.
If you have to call something technology or science, it probably isn't quite there yet. I don't call glass, agriculture or steel technology, but their price probably affects my personal economics a lot more than Google and cell phones. If we call it technology or science, it means it is that thing, but it is probably new within a generation. It isn't physics science but it is neuroscience, etc.
In an ironic twist, the pigeonhole principle itself breaks down for large enough sets (if we phrase it as bijection between set and set with one more element). Well the sets have to be infinitely sized for the principle to break down, but still. So, in the vein of the article, let me ask: how do we really know the pigeonhole principle works for large but finite sets?
280 is a north/south freeway, despite the north side going due west in the area you describe.
Somebody needs to get a few of these to Ben Heckendorn (Ben Heck @ Newark a.k.a. element14's Youtube channel), as well as a tutorial on designing them and let him run with it. There's some incredible things to be made from these -- my first thought was some custom pinball play-field uses, crazy stuff that couldn't be done without these "magnets with custom 3d-printable mag-field paths". Among many other awesome ideas I'm sure he'd use them for.
The statement about economics rings true. When I think of science, I think of models that accurately and precisely reflect reality. That is, a tested and validated model should be predictive and consistent.

I have no trust for 'sciences' that cannot tell me precisely and accurately what the effect of an action will be. If the author's of the paper could tell me that an implementation of policy X would yield an effect of Y within an error of Z, within a certain timeframe then I'd have at least a small degree of trust. But, even then, they'd have to also specify metrics to track so that an observer could validate that the effect is 'on course'.
Think of (925) as something like Magic (https://getmagicnow.com/) for job-hunters.

Text our phone number and we'll do whatever we can to make your job-search experience less stressful and more successful including actually searching for jobs on your behalf.
You just wrote 14 paragraphs explaining that you don't have an obsession. I think you might want to consider that you have an obsession.
Because they are willing to burn 0day to gain credibility. The top team got $140k for what was easily $900k+ worth of exploits.
What? Closed source products still have code...
Would you be interested in making a linux version of this?
It's late, and i honestly don't care much to get into details, especially since you obviously don't want to and even take a hostile tack to honest and simple questions.

Context matters. You're smart, i'm sure you'll figure this out eventually.
I think that'll be a problem. Since you'd be recording your historical data off of the MQTT server, and your phone wont be updating the MQTT server, you'd have gaps in your data. Sounds like you want to record data right on your phone. Some other commenters have mentioned possible alternatives that probably would work better for you.
Mattermark Raises $7.3M Series B, Valuing the Company at $42M
If NPR is owned by the government, and it's self-funded, then it's funded by taxpayers too.

You own the company, you control the intellectual property it generates, even if the company is "self-funded".
Dave Jone's EEVBlog hosts a number of teardowns, here's a similar one from 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE

Good channel generally.
So odes this anti-correlation with of last digits exist in other bases? Clearly, not in base 2.

If we had 8 fingers would we have notice something similar. Would it be even stronger.

If we used base 60 would it even be there?

-Traruh
That looks to have been posted from 3 different accounts, do you have reason to believe they are the same person?
I think it's pretty simple, you just take the starcraft AI, reduce the number of units it can handle at a time, maybe simplify its economy logic, and then let it go. Easy.
If anyone, Google has the image recognition and robotics tech to make a robot sitting in front of a screen, with keyboard and mouse ;)

Didn't they just try to sell that department?
I think there's another issue that being willing to be completely unethical requires such distorted thinking (for humans, anyway) that it introduces its own sort of spurious results. Just thinking about a lot of callous and inhumane psychobabble that was promulgated not too long ago, mostly dealing with people whom the researchers thought of as not-quite-as-human.
I like this idea. To be fair, You need five computers to communicate with each other. It will be a huge mark for ai if they can actually learn to communicate with effectively for achieving the goals. Vary the performance of each ai and allow them to swear at each other could get very interesting. I wonder if ai can emulate the toxic side of gamers......
In fact, the paper mentions that the policy network (without MCTS) alone performs reasonably well and can beat most other Go bots.
Does this anti-correlation exist for other bases?

Clearly, not for base 2.

How about base 816 or 60? How about the unpopular odd numbered bases?
Very "Brave New World". The Alpha pluses will have their Gamma, Delta, and Epilon servents.
The game is capable of accepting a much higher APM than Korean pro players are capable of pulling off even at peak. IMHO the AI should be subject to an APM limit (e.g. sliding window).
Are we together or are we alone?
An interesting and relatively thorough account of telegraph type technologies can be found in the early portions of James Gleick' "The Information", which I highly recommend.

Spolier Alert:
While the semaphore/flag telegraphs were a huge improvement in information speed and bandwidth in Europe, they were easily beatin on both points by "drum language" based communications along the Congo River, which predated telegraphs by some hundreds of years.

The drum language was a code implemented by tapping on a sequence of high and low pitched drums in a manner that corresponded to the high and low tones of most of the (Bantu like?) dialects along the river. This isn't exactly binary since the timing of the beats mattered, but at any rate there would still be lots of ambiguity in mapping tone sequences to sentences. For example, in:

(a) I have THREE pigs FOR SALE today
(b) I know WHERE they HID YOUR cattle

(a) and (b) can't be distinguished by their syllables and "tone" (designated by caps.)

So There was a kind of hack that got implemented, where they would rephrase the message using semi-standardized groups of idioms. So you would have something like:

(a) I have THREE pigs FOR SALE today
(a) the FAT pigs numbering THREE FOR SALE on this nice day
(a) THREE little piggies I have at my MARKET today

and so on, until one has enough tonal and timing distinctness to map to a unique phrase. The message its self would naturally pass at the speed of sound, for maybe 1000 meters or so, before it had to be repeated, sometimes with the encoding changing at the boundary of different dialects. But apparently the repeating/encoding was rather efficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drums_in_communication#Drum_la...
i keep a bottle of "liquid electrical tape", and use that to reinforce the insulation when it starts to weaken.
I'm more of a LoL guy, but i'd be excited to see this in action. I think it's actually an easier challenge than starcraft - the action space is much smaller and dodging/aiming AI already gives some players extreme advantages (against the TOS of course).
> Besides, the right answer is: use bastion hosts to proxy SSH connections, preventing them from the outside world

Agreed

> It makes perfect to block repeat offenders because they might get lucky

No, just no, please don't spread this nonsense. There is no such thing as "lucky" when the probably being discussed is 1 in (2^4096 - 1).

> they might be exploiting an RCE you're not aware of that takes multiple steps

I'll take my chances. If unauthed RCE exists in SSH (regardless of number of attempts required) there are far more serious implications than any server I manage. Additionally, I'm curious if you have an existing CVE where this kind of exploit has ever been discovered.

> they could be trying to DoS that server by filling the logs and thus your disk ... this isn't too hard to imagine

Hard to imagine? No. have I ever actually seen in the real world? Also no. Even if one server happened to be dos'ed by this, not a big concern, that's why you run multiple redundant servers behind a load balancer. The only viable attacks would be random in nature since attackers have no idea what the IPs of your actual app servers are. (And if someone can mount an attack that can determine them, you probably have bigger problems then a dos attack from ssh logs)

All in all, I feel like this just strengthens my original point, of viewing security as a checklist is a dangerous approach, one needs to actually understand what they are doing.

I'm all for layered security, but the problem with using it just because "why not" is that this methodology leads to an environment where there is so much "stuff" nobody knows what is secure, what is not secure, and what strange dependencies were the only reason something was secure in the first place. As far as security goes, everything should have a well-defined purpose.
Yeah. A provider that's already very good that has a demonstrably good track record of improving constantly over time seems like a win/win.
The problem is, as ActionButton argues in this review of Diablo 2 [0], Starcraft is a game that may contain some amount of strategy, but wherein the element of strategy is strongly over-powered by a reflex-based combat system more akin to Street Fighter than anything else.

[0] http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=518
> StarCraft is closed source, making it quite challenging to run simulations. One of the techniques used by AlphaGo is reinforcement learning, which involves a huge amount of simulation. In order for DeepMind to overcome this limitation, it’s likely that novel abstractions of the state-space will need to be developed.

For their atari work, deepmind was using raw pixel data from the screen. You could do something similar for starcraft. I suspect the actual machine learning question is 'given a sequence of n frames of the game, where should i click next? repeat.'

A training set might look something like video of a game with a text file recording X,Y positions for every click and a timestamp that can be synced to the video. They need lots and lots of those.

From there things get drastically more complicated. To go from very unstructured data like that and form higher level representations that can be used for long term planning and strategy... That would be quite a feat.
The interactions between individual unit types in a game like DOTA are much more complicated than, say, the interactions between marines, zerglings, and zealots; there are many more unit types, too.
I can see why you think that, but I think you're wrong. Blocking ads just means that advertisers will have to get better at providing their audience with quality content. It's the invisible hand of the free market at work. I'm not going to block content I want to consume! Just make content I want to consume.
Re: OS nags...Windows is the worst IMO since UAC basically just asks ~it looks like you're trying to do a thing, are you sure you want to do that thing? The "open this program FROM THE INTERNET????" nag on OSX and Win are also pretty pointless. I've never not clicked yes, but there's not an easy way to disable this. It looks like it CAN be disabled with registry tweaks or GPEdit: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/182353-open-file-securi... but kind of ridiculous that it's not just an option, given how little it increases security (how many people don't just blindly click "open"?)
Passing the torch: IBM to Google
I don't think that's quite fair. Human's aren't anywhere near what the system can handle. The most "fair" thing I can think of would be to add latency to every mouse movement using Fitts's law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

It may also be interesting to model the state of the keyboard hand. Instead of allowing the computer to access keyboard shortcuts directly it could be forced to operate a virtual hand that is in turn operating a virtual keyboard. Constraints could be added to the speed of various finger movements. This provides balance but also captures authentic strategic tradeoffs. Like the resting position of the hand. I imagine if you had a nice visualization it could even reveal subtle optimizations that were practical for humans.
Reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer's quizzes of over 1,000 gynaecologists on interpreting mammogram results - only 21% got it right. [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28166019
You should. I've been jury-rigging the same three chargers (down from 6) since 2007 and not looking to upgrade, so no USB-C for me. The chargers themselves are great but the connectors are a chore– no matter how gentle I've been, eventually the heat softens them, then a tiny torque and it's torn.
The last mile is the limiting factor in this case. A super cached 4mb image still takes a minute to load on a 64 KiB/second connection.
Would be interesting on what level the communication can be done. Do you give them a predefined, limited, game-specific vocabulary and make do with that? Or can you have the networks "talk" in some random set of symbols, with a meaning they have established while learning?
Feinstein was prominently anti-crypto in the Clipper Chip / Crypto Wars I. She's been doing this for over 20 years. I don't think she's clueless. What she knows and what she says are probably very different. Political power has little to do with displays of technical competence.
It sounds like the ascertainment bias there will be improved as time passes:

> Weaknesses of the present study include exclusive reliance on the National Patient Register for case ascertainment, leading to a selected and perhaps severely affected sample by only including individuals with ASD who had been in contact with clinical psychiatry services. This selection bias may be particularly relevant for individuals diagnosed before the year 2001 (i.e. before contact with out-patient psychiatric care services was included in the National Patient Register). However, after the year 2001 (88.2% in current data) all individuals having received an ASD diagnosis are registered in the National Patient Register because of the diagnostic assessment per se, i.e. also in cases with no further contact with psychiatric services.

Another way around this would be genotyping: use an autism polygenic score to quantify genetic liability. If the increased mortality is observed even with elevated polygenic scores which are insufficient to lead to diagnosable symptoms, that would suggest the cause is greater general genetic risk to disease rather than sequelae to symptoms.
Perhaps you can answer a question I would ask him. My quality of life is hugely improved by things for which I pay nothing, e.g. the information freely available online. Do his calculations take into account things which don't register as standard economic activity?

I would guess that if you looked at the time it takes someone to learn a new skill you'd have a metric showing an even faster improvement than the total productivity gains of the baby boom generation.