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So basically it's impossible to know what is "inside" a black hole because it's not part of this universe ? But aren't black hole formed by stars that collapsed under their own mass ? So black holes are created from objects that belong to this universe right ?

I get the idea that black holes aren't like a sink. However all that matter or light that get "trapped" into it must go somewhere, in some form .
One of the reasons the deep learning field is moving so fast is that everything is open access. Generally, it's considered prestigious to present at a conference, and not much gets published in journals. The major conferences have been adopting a model of posting first on arxiv and then submitting to the conference, so the reviewers see the paper at the same time as the general public.

The amazing thing is that weeks after the paper hits arxiv, new papers are coming out, improving on the previous one. By the time the paper is accepted and the conference rolls around, it's actually almost old-hat.
The lead hypothesis is really interesting and certainly plausible, but I don't think it's been proven. I would like something more substantial than "the graphs look similar".
I'm not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about.

There are several types of components that require surface mounting on PCBs. By far the most common are things like resistors & capacitors that are machine placeable. But others, like BGAs and through-hole components, often require hand placement because they require hand soldering and can't go through a wave solder machine. Additional possible complications are boards with components placed on both sides, or multi-layer boards with non-standard solder. Finally, Debug/Repair stations are always manual.

Source: Masters in operations research and 15 years experience writing factory control software for one of Foxconn's direct competitors & largest trading partners.
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These are all also problems with bitcoin.

[1] Bitcoin is very difficult to keep safe, so most people will store it on sites like Coinbase / MtGox. These sites will inevitably lend other people money, which will lead to the same issues, in exchange for interest.

[2/3] Censorship of payee / Censorship of product. The perceived anonymity in bitcoin is largely fictional - you can extract the details of who paid who for what, and you can prevent someone exchanging bitcoin for fiat currency / goods. At the moment authorities simply don't care because the value of the transactions is insignificant in relation to hard currency.

None of these 'problems' (and society in general doesn't care about these issues) are to do with the currency. The first one is endemic to the concept of a bank which can lend more money than it has, no matter what currency it deals in. The second two are social / regulatory problems which won't be fixed by some new crypto-anarchist dream.
You could argue over the definition of 'effective' in this case but I don't think it'd be a matter of whether the market was big enough. Plenty of companies and countries want payloads delivered and there is choice of suppliers (again we could argue about how much choice is 'true' choice).

My guess is the market friction is political. ISRO (the Indian space agency) has been cheaper than ULA for years, but my suspicion is that the USA wouldn't consider using them for political reasons.
Much more important work?
I disagree sorry.
How to develop an on demand taxi booking app like uber?
You might be also interested in https://github.com/alehander42/pseudo-python . It's still in very early stages, but some of it goals overlap with Haxe-s
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Same here. I wonder if its better access to porn?
Yep. Black holes aren't phenomena of matter, they are formed initially from matter but they are phenomena of space-time. The event horizon is basically a one way door, there's no way, no route in space-time, to cross it and return.
There are not a lot of things at GitLab that we don't disclose if we have the option to be open about it. [0]

In this case, we can't disclose any more than we did so far.

We'll probably do a public post-mortem of the entire process once it's behind us.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/primer/
Actually, the material wasn't given for free. In many cases you have to pay to get your articles published. There are fees for color figures, for example. All in all, you end up paying significant money to get published. And later people pay to access your articles.
Yes. It's also, like, just created. I'm observing it with keen interest.
Yep, it's passive-aggressive firing.

She's rationalizing away her avoidance of her discomfort and making it sound like a favor to the people she's letting go.
>* Why do you buy cell phones or laptops today, knowing that future ones will be better or cheaper? Why buy some food today, when you know your purchasing power will be greater next month? Why pay for housing when prices are falling, knowing your contract will be cheaper in five years?*

The deflationary spiral is not about consumption of non-durable goods. Thats why all of your examples don't really work as reasoning against this concept. It rather is about investment and consumption of durable goods: Cars, forklifts, the pick and place machines at foxconn.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with your school example.

It's quite simple. Clearly there are times to consider the individual and clearly there are times when we should consider larger groups.

If Town A had a cancer rate 5 times higher than the national average surely you wouldn't say, "Well, look, those people are individuals, and an individual's cancer risk is affected by lots of things -- diet, exercise, genetic predisposition... to heck with looking for differences between Town A and Town B."

Clearly you'd want to start investigating things that affect Town A on a town-wide basis.
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That doesn't mean it won't become illegal for miners to authorize a transaction.

From a certain legal standpoint (IANAL) the miner is facilitating all of the transactions which he creates a block for. This might make him liable if any of those transactions involve blackmail / extortion / money laundering.
I still think there is a need to normalize for the amount each vehicle is driven - so that it is deaths/injuries per mile driven not per time period.
Printed by multiple centralized entities, just like mining pools. Bitcoin is rapidly centralizing.
Black holes have always fascinated and terrified me, don't know why. Just something mysterious about them.
Some great points. Trying to evaluate your usefulness or productivity based on income doesn't seem safe - nor does any connection with essentialness of what you do. Even trying to connect it to numbers of people who could do the same thing seems to have sufficient exceptions to make me wary of turning that into even a lowly rule of thumb.

Increasingly I'm tending to agree with a group I would previously have dismissed as Ludicrously Optimistic Socialists -- though the S word may not be quite right there -- in that pretty much everything is going to have to change, in huge ways, if we're to retain any kind of stability in the developed world.

I also work in the tech industry, as a consultant, but about 75% of my output is creative / people-related -- but that still means my part of the industry is going to shrink by at least 25% in the near future as smart machines are brought online to do the non-people/creative bits. It's fascinating to talk to people with various jobs, and ask them how long they reckon it'll be before what they do will be done by a computer / machine. Most people are hugely optimistic about the level of sophistication they bring to the table, and their consequent relative safety in the workforce.
We obviously don't care that much, not for the price of ressources needed.
Knowledge shall be free and unbiased by authority. Free access for everyone to knowledge and healthy scepticism produces miracles. In India, for example, lack of restrictions and tolerance to every opinion produced, besides thousands of sects and cults, the best philosophy this world have seen so far.

The site, it seems, is a part of natural social movement, similar to FOSS, rather than paid content piracy. It is against restrictions.

When some parasites are trying to construct a paywall then society sooner or later would find the way around it, be it knowledge or any other form of digital content - selling an output of the sendfile syscall by those who haven't produced anything would never been tolerated, it violates the hardwired notion of fairness. Especially when one assumes that these papers has been written to spread knowledge and contribute to scientific community (a-la contrubution to open source), not to make money by selling copies - it isn't a paperback.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SocialProblems...
Go is very complex, and the fact that DeepMind could tackle this complexity is a huge technical achievement. No minimax-based AI could have tackled such a large state space.

However, other problems have even larger state spaces. Imagine writing an AI which read project Euler problem descriptions (in English) and output working code (in some given programming language). Keep outputs limited to 100-line scripts, max 80 characters per line.

There's roughly 100 usable characters in ASCII, so the possible space of 100-line programs is roughly:

(10^2)^(80 * 100) = 10^16000.

You could simplify this by having the AI work with predefined tokens rather than individual characters, but it's still a vast amount of combinations. Then consider 1000-line or 10000-line programs, and you see how high a mountain AI still has to climb. Humans are able to "compress" this state space via conceptual reasoning, which is much more complex than the "pattern recognition" many deep learning researchers are chasing.

(See "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" for more on how humans think in concepts - I'm planning to write more at some point on how this book shows where the practical limits of AI lie).
Economics, like physics, scales messily. If the whole world decided to save everything for one year starting today, the economy would free fall. Since nobody is consuming, nobody need produce. Factories grind to a halt and deteriorate, social bonds and casual knowledge fade, and the world returns a year later materially worse off.
Need to figure out how to align the incentives and fix the prestige problem of academia in order for this to work.

Open Access exists, but you don't get the status you need from it (and weirdly it often costs a couple hundred dollars for the graduate student to publish their paper open access in addition to the Journal).

It'd be nice if there was a way to make the community more like open source software where you get status from sharing and collaborating instead of from hoarding information in fear of being 'scooped'.

As it stands the incentives are directly opposite collaborating and sharing information and really the best parts about science and research.
Actually, quite a few of them do publish at least preprints outside of the peer review journals. For about 80% of the papers I needed recently that were behind a paywall, I managed to find PDFs published by the authors somewhere else.
His original announcement said it wasn't a charity so he could lobby governments. Has he since said something to the contrary?
> It's like they went out of their way to spread misinformation.

I'm not as on top of modern psychology as I'd like to be, so I'd love to see a formal study on the subject, but I'm pretty confident that most people's decisions are guided by the belief (subconscious or otherwise) that the end justifies the means.

Of course there are also some really stupid people out there. One of my earliest memories is of debating my elementary science teacher, who insisted that NASA had a room with perfect vacuum for gravity free training (her position being that air pressure and gravity were the same thing).
My guess would be for current lua embedding scenarios - for example for use as a scripting language in games.
My understanding is that a small percentage of legal disputes involving lawyers result in a court action actually being raised and only a small percentage of court actions actually run - most of these settle "at the door of the court".
Surely, there's a middle way. Since we are talking about a club good [1], a club would be the appropriate alternative. Assuming a fee of 20$/month for people in developed countries and 100.000 members, this would cover about 1.000 papers per month.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_good
That's true. In my company we are basically living from licensing libraries and frameworks to commercial customers. Complete applications often make no sense in our domain (and SAAS even less). It's good to see that we could now also offer Go libraries to our customers (which means they could build Go applications) instead of being limited to the old C/C++ choices.
Perhaps it's correct but it's not evident from the numbers.

The numbers can be acceptably explained by expansion, which Amazon does all the time. For example Amazon is just investing in a new retail business in India.
That sounds more like a confirmation of the well-established link between family income and teen fertility.
That was established years ago when they got rid of all Facebook apps. At that point, Favebook was actually pretty cool - in fact it was an extensible platform and you could do cool things.

Now it's a pure advertising machine. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, not much would be lost.
Inflation for the last decade is at a record low.

http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=cpi+yoy&v=201604202...
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Pascal's wager's application to real-world cost-benefit calculations is pretty much always a fallacy:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/z0/the_pascals_wager_fallacy_fallacy...

Large payoff and small chance (with a wide confidence interval) has nothing to do with "infinite" payoff and "infinitesimal" chance. There are valid and interesting decision theoretic problems and paradoxes that arise with unbounded payoffs, but those aren't real-world in the way that outlier risk scenarios are real-world in banking and investment.

Cryonics is absolutely real-world in that sense, and we can and should hang some expected value tag there.

I have a fairly low confidence that cryonics will in fact work, but I wholly stand by my point that if it turns out to work, then that should be cause for a huge "we fucked up" moment coupled with a copious amount of soul-searching. But this shouldn't be put into a reference frame centered on "guilt" or "responsibility", although such things would be inevitably involved. Rather, it's a case of established models turning out to be wrong, and what matters is that everyone updates and learns from it as quickly as possible. Ignorance can be condoned but not willful and destructive ignorance in the face of ample evidence.
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Well... They sort of don't any more. People just go to sci-hub!
And a global horde of loyal customers who will buy their products at above-market prices.
> sex positive porn has zero externalities

Who claims porn has zero externalities?

Conservatives claim it somehow has negative externalities while I'll happily claim it has positive externalities (happiness, less rape, less pregnancy, etc.).
"Various users have reported working with companies that want to provide them with binary but not source forms of purchased packages. We want to define an explicit way to do that instead of fielding bug reports each time the go command gets smarter about detecting source-vs-binary mismatches."
Worst metric evar.
In my experience as a leader, in any role that requires specialized skills, rglullis is correct. And that is completely separate from external variables that affect worker satisfaction/health/security and hence performance.
I returned from Silicon Valley and built a failed startup
Instapaper was on the scene well before InstaGram...
If a judge within a formally correct legal processing decided that the disk content is to be investigated then that person is obliged to cooperate and if s/he fails to do that then the state has to act forceful.

There's nothing bad about it.

Another question is whether the established legal system allowing for such measures is more harmful than beneficial.
If one consider that exactly opposite is true - gravity actually do exist as a "function" of a matter, but space-time doesn't (especially a curved one) being a conditioning of our "serialized", self-centered perception, everything, it seems, falls to its places.
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If you just handle the client side part, you don't really need to learn any of it. If you do need to get into the server-side, Elixir/Phoenix seems like a great fit if you are doing real-time/concurrent stuff (websockets are dirt-simple). If you just need a persistent storage backend, RoR or Django will get you up and running quickly, and both are adding their own websocket support as well.
This doesn't really affect the project, but keep in mind she is very controversion person. For instance she support government censorship of political opposition and generally don't support freedom of speech. And likely half of people commented there would be banned on any sci-hub related resource since she usually ban anyone who don't fully agree with what project doing.
And its evidence for the breaking down borders of nation states is pretty scant too. A big map showing oil pipelines isn't really much evidence for Eurasia being a "seamless megacontinent" when communication takes place via telephone/internet and transport by air, and contrary to the argument put forward I'm a lot "closer" to Sydney or San Francisco than I am to Beijing, Dubai or Kinshasa when it comes to integration of culture, economies and flow of actual people. Relatively speaking, it's less of a "megacontinent" than when my ancestors could obtain produce traded by Silk Road caravans but didn't realise the Americas or Australia actually existed.
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You're describing the hedonistic inflator. Pretty standard economics adjustment factor.

I see a problem arising from Maslow's hierarchy. You can't eat Pong or an Xbox. They're both entertainment. Not fundamental needs. Security, shelter, food, clothing, are fudamental. You can't build the pyramid from the top down.
Most teens do not have a credit card or access to their parents' on Amazon.
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I mean, I'd do it, because it's physically equivalent to losing a few seconds of memory.

But I take it I am unusual in this.
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How times change ... 25 years ago everyone was proud to own a SCSI Barracuda.
That's on my reading list though I suspect Mason's economics are somewhat scewed. He is right that zero marginal cost screws with pricing.
Investments don't actually diminish profits. If Amazon buys a house for 10mill$, their profit doesn't change by a cent, because while they may have less cash, they also own a 10mill$ building.

The value of investments is spread out over whatever is reasonable for the category (i. e.: Building: 10 years or so, car: 3 or 4 years, javascript framework: 8 hours).
Mainly it's a chicken and egg situation.

A journal is prestigious because the papers it publishes have an allusion of quality, because they are published by a prestigious journal.

A prestigious journal publishes high-quality papers because it can attract high-quality authors and reviewers, because it is a prestigious journal.

A journal is prestigious because researchers choose to (try to) be published in it, because their articles will be widely read by other researchers, because it is a prestigious journal.

If you were trying to bootstrap a new journal, you'd have a tough time; unless you didn't care about its quality.

The bare minimum would be a staff who have the time and skill to sift through obviously junk papers and then know which reviewers to use for the legitimate papers. Your best bet would probably be to assemble a staff of well-regarded researchers in whatever field(s) you wanted the journal to cover.
well.. if we don't get off this planet within the next (approx) 4 Billion years.. our species will snuff it as the sun grows to a red giant.

so assuming all life across the universe starts from similar beginnings as us, then this tells us something about what an advanced civilisation needs to be capable of to survive.
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>>Outside the horizon, an object can escape the black hole’s gravitational pull if it’s moving sufficiently fast; inside, it would need to move faster than light-speed, something forbidden by the laws of nature.

Are they trying to say that if there was something that could move faster than light then it can escape? If that's is forbidden by laws of nature, then how did they determined that this is possible?
It is fanciful. The feature is a pragmatic one, and what's more I don't think it will have the negative impact you imagine.

Look at the C/C++ ecosystem which has many commercial libraries, as well as open source ones. Boost is an excellent, source-code included library. No harm is helping commercial vendors of libraries making their, say, C++ quantitive finance library available to Go devs too.
There is an expectation that each publication is a new piece of research and having the same work published in more than one journal and one conference is considered to be somewhat fraudulent. Just think of it: if researchers started to double publish, what would happen with the administrative "objective" process of giving the money to the guy with most bullet points on his list?
Usually not a fan of zerohedge, but they sometimes make some insightful graphs: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-01/waiters-and-bartend... They show how waiters and bartenders increased dramatically relative to manufacturing jobs. So it seems to me that high value/margin production is much more likely to be automated and results in big productivity gains for those companies. These workers then find jobs in low production value jobs (or businesses which require low capital investment - for lack of a better word). Ie. machine operators turn into waiters. In summary the productivity gains in one industry are offset by more staff in another. There's more staff in the service industry working for lower wages (think UBER, etc.). Is that plausible? And is there a productivity analysis for each industry?
Not to mention the complexity inherent in getting the engines separated from the rest of the vehicle.

Also, they're at totally different places along the technological readiness curve. They're proposing a theoretical concept, SpaceX has already recovered two first stages. Even if their parachute concept was theoretically superior (which I don't think it is) by the time they got it working, SpaceX would have years of operational experience with hoverslam.
> We're certainly not talking about the Cristiano Ronaldo of software development most of the times.

Irrelevant to the analogy. A striker cannot play in central defence, or vice versa. That's the point.
It's an equation with one unknown. Even if it can't be "done", maths can calculate it. It will just give you the absurd result you'd expect that you need faster-than-light velocity.
As I understand it, U1-6 is calculated via statistical sampling. They call people and ask them questions to determine which category they are in. U6 includes people currently holding a part time job but wanting a full time job. U6 is significantly higher than U3 (the usually touted "unemployment rate"), but I don't know how to extract numbers that would show the results of a move to more part time workers.