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> "Personally I think it should be copyright protection or DRM"

Yeah, I like that. Sort of like how something can be a trade secret or patented but not both.
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I am just curious to know if there is any logic or methods to what they decide to offer deals on for prime day?
And then there was the Summer Vision Project! [1]

"After fifteen minutes of searching with Google, the majority of web pages give a citation that the person who said this was Marvin Minsky and the student was Gerald Sussman. According to the majority of these quotes, in 1966 Minsky asked Sussman to "connect a camera to a computer and do something with it".

They may indeed have had that conversation but in actual fact, the original Computer Vision project referred to above was set up by Seymour Papert at MIT and given to Sussman who was to co-ordinate a group of 10 students including himself. [2]

The original document outlined a plan to do some kind of basic foreground/background segmentation, followed by a subgoal of analysing scenes with simple non-overlapping objects, with distinct uniform colour and texture and homogeneous backgrounds. A further subgoal was to extend the system to more complex objects.

So it would seem that Computer Vision was never a summer project for a single student, nor did it aim to make a complete working vision system. Maybe it was too ambitious for its time, but it's unlikely that the researchers involved thought that it would be completely solved at the end. Finally, Computer Vision as we know it today is vastly different to what it was thought to be in 1966. Today we have many topics derived from CV such as inpainting, novel view generation, gesture recognition, deep learning, etc."

[1] http://www.lyndonhill.com/opinion-cvlegends.html
[2] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125
Most of the world or the few countries which have outsized influences on Hague? The US (Philippines' close ally) and the EU basically control Hague.
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Thank you for replying. I did underestimate your company.

I think it would be useful to add to your website a prominent comparison to the entrenched players. I'm probably not the only person to fail to appreciate your advantages over Vanguard, based on your current website (though perhaps I overlooked something). A convincing comparison to the quintessential low-cost provider would deliver quite a powerful message.
The article was about people using tdcs for durations and at levels of current that haven't been tested, measured, and documented, and then claiming that it has a known, beneficial effect, while implying that there are no negative side-effects.

When scientists study these effects, they study them over groups of people. For some individuals, it hurts where it should help. For others, they get a larger-than-average boost. At the same time, research seems to suggest that some abilities are increased while others decrease, for a given protocol.

It's not pseudoscience that a lot of people are trying a new, untested thing. It's pseudoscience if they claim benefits based on subjective perception or claim that the same protocol will help everyone, without documenting objective, replicable proof.
You're welcome 6stringmerc. A banana rich, plain yogurt smoothie sounds like a good way to try it out. You may want to give dark chocolate a go too, it's also meant to be good at reducing anxiety (as long as you only eat small amounts):

http://www.livestrong.com/article/450142-how-does-chocolate-...
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It's just such a shame that Minksy came out so harshly against perceptrons. He really was an inspiring figure, and at the time really did seem to have good reasons for preferring symbolic logic over neural networks, but the more success NNs have, the more it looks like one of the pillars of 20th century AI got this one colossally wrong. If further improvements in AI follow the same lines, he may wind up an Edison-like figure, hugely influential but with major drawbacks.

EDIT: Like I said, he did have good reasons! That's why Perceptrons was so influential; it's just the weird unfortunate luck of history that he ended up diverting effort from what's now become a much more promising field.
Interesting point about the escrow account. They didn't ask. I wonder why they let it go.

I suspect it was because we all wanted to close the deal. Sometimes that's what it comes down to.

The labels complained during negotiations, later on, but never brought claims. I ran a clean house that would have been hard to sue, so the people who were unhappy needed to use other business leverage.
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>The CPRNG state machine is not reversible, contrary to what the operational notes claim...

>>1. Find the A joker. Move it one card down. (That is, swap it with the card beneath it.) If the joker is the bottom card of the deck, move it just below the top card.

(so in reverse: if A is 2nd card you don't know to make it top card or bottom card).

This ambiguity could be simply fixed: when you move A down, don't skip the top card, just put it at the top. Similarly for B, count the move from bottom to top as one of the two moves. It seems like you are doing less by not skipping a card, but you do create a new valid configuration, so maybe it does not hurt...
It's a leap to say that suppressing doubt and fear makes people more rational. It could just as well make people more impulsive.
Just want to be clear the funds are actually held at the custodian, not at Vanguard. That's why it is super important to have a well established Custodian. You can always rollover your funds in a qualified event to another employee sponsored plan or an IRA. BTW you can do that with most publicly traded funds, and you could also do a cash balance transfer.
Another possible way is means testing. If you've saved enough for retirement on your own, you don't get social security. Personally I think this scenario is one of the more likely ones.
I'm curious, do you have a language in mind that has been better than Rust as far as breaking changes go after the 1.0 stable release? An example? Rust has been far above most languages/libraries that I've found in dealing with breaking changes. The complaint here seems pretty empty to me. (Complaining for the sake of complaining)
if you buy an unsubsidized android device, the carriers don't get to tweak the functionality of the device. It doesn't have to be from an international seller - I bought my device directly from Motorola and just put my T-Mobile SIM card in it. However, it still comes with the US version of Android, which doesn't support the FM receiver.
I'm only am amateur in economics, but I've read my share of Friedman, Rand, and Hayek, and I am pretty sure that pro-market thinkers, and economists in general, have a broader conception of the phrase 'invisible hand' than you think. They would understand the rise of ad-blocking as a rejection of a business model by large numbers of individuals. Thus, an 'invisible hand' is guiding businessmen like the author to look for opportunities that will lead to the survival or success of his own business (the same goes for the other examples I referenced) and in the end provide marginally less of what consumers don't want, and more of what they do.

Consumers are signalling a preference to publications by choosing to not download some javascript, images, or video to their computers. It's really not that different from putting a 'no junk mail' sticker on your postbox or binning flyers without looking at them, but still enjoying cheaper postage so long as the postal service is subsidized by ad-mail. Hardly an end run around the market or an illegal act.

The concept merely states that people like the author have a motivation to pay attention to what consumers want and try to deliver products that satisfy consumer desires (which are always changing). When Apple sees an opportunity to make their products more attractive to consumers by introducing an ad-blocking API they are absolutely led by the invisible hand of the market in this direction. Smith's point was that providing this option to consumers doesn't require Apple to be moral, or to be coerced, merely to respond to what consumers want and exploit the opportunity to their own profit.
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I stopped taking them for two reasons.

1. I have an absurdly high tolerance to them (and almost all GABAergics, for that matter.) I always have, and also have an absurd alcohol tolerance. So, while clonazepam worked for me, I was taking roughly the maximum dosage designated for severe seizure disorders (I was taking 18mg/day, which if anyone is familiar with clonazepam, they'll know how absurd that is.)

2. I was starting to feel dumb. I'm not 100% sure if that was the clonazepam or the quetiapine or the topamax, but one or all of them was making me forget my friends' and family's names. So, I dropped them like they were hot.

I'll give a small rundown of my stack below. I certainly won't say my stack is bulletproof, and for people with addictive personalities it could certainly be actively harmful. I won't discuss dosages either, because frankly my phenibut dosage is irresponsible, but once again that goes directly towards my GABAergic tolerance.

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Tianeptine - for depression. It's a fast acting novel TCA that works via unknown mechanisms. In higher dosages it exhibits opioid activity, and if someone suffers from addictive tendencies it should absolutely be avoided.

Phenibut - for anxiety. It's converted directly into GABA in the brain. It's relatively fast acting. Some people, but definitely not all, can suffer from horrible withdrawals if they take it for a long time and then stop taking it. I've never had problems with it if I've run out though, and I take it daily.

Adrafinil - for fatigue and sleepiness. I suffer from an autoimmune disorder and am chronically fatigued. Adrafinil is a pro-drug for modafinil, and gets rid of your tiredness without being otherwise stimulating.

Caffeine - tiredness. I get mine powdered, but it doesn't really matter.

Vitamin D - this one helped with my depression enormously. I decided to give it a try one day after my dad was diagnosed with SAD, and did a loading dose. Within 3 days the dark circles had disappeared from under my eyes and my depression lifted significantly.

Those are everything I take on a day to day basis. I also have conditional nootropics for days when I'm in the mood for them/need to be extra productive. Noopept, aniracetam, oxiracetam, N-Acetyl Selank Amidate for days I'm feeling extra anxious, N-Acetyl Semax Amidate for a mental boost, and a few others I rarely use.
This is not used anymore. Will update DNS, thanks.
If I stay on my optimized routes I can get from work to home pretty quickly. But if I stray to hit a gas station, I never know when I'm going to end up stuck in a micro-jam that sucks back 10 minutes or more. Each way. And it feels like an hour.

First world problems for sure, but I'd happily pay to be rid of that inconvenience. And while they're at it, I'd pay an extra $10 for them to do a quick wash of my car once a month.
Europe and Antarctica are the only two continents on Earth to see no net positive growth to their economies in the last few decades. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to put such economic under-performance down to at least in part the frankly outdated 70s era customs union that the EU is based on.

China recently rated the UK as the number one soft power in the world [1] ... rather than just judging countries on the size of their economy, "soft power" is a measure of a countries ability to achieve its aims through diplomacy and influence. The UK has links of language, culture, trade and kinship across the globe dating back to the time of Empire.

Unshackled from the failing trade block of the EU I don't see any reason why the UK couldn't carve out a very acceptable niche for itself operating again as an independent sovereign nation.

This wasn't a corporate decision just based on raw economic numbers. This was a decision based on principle rather than pragmatism. It's democracy in action, and sometimes it's messy.

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21657655-oxbridge-one-...
I feel terrible for the mice used in experiments, and yet I'm grateful for the scientific advances such experiments have made possible. Makes me uncomfortable.
Really unfortunate that DAOHub & Slock.it tarnished the name and concept of DAOs. There is place for some specialised DAOs that will indeed help some use cases.

I really believe that eventually some proper DAO will prove their value.
Signing deals fast is easy. Signing deals that cover everything is easy. It's useless to talk about this without analysing what actual benefits they get out of them.
We ran three versions of our system, because in the last few weeks/days before the quals we had a bunch of regressions. One of those regressions was caused by a single line change in my fuzzer :-p On the twitter account we used to track our progress, we used rapper names for each version. One version was two weeks old, one was up-to-date with the fixed fuzzer, and one had an experimental version of one of our symbolic executors that produced <var> tags. That didn't work.

We also under-utilized those nodes :-( Each node had at at least 4 idle cores wasting our money. Our resource allocation mechanism was naive.

I looked through some of the stuff released byt DARPA after the event and they released some of our PoVs as official PoVs. If you hex-decode them, you'll see something like "bad seed to Radamsa"!! That was a bug in how I would invoke Radamsa -- sometimes I'd pass it a seed that was way too big.

We tried to team up with every team but ForAllSecure. No one wanted to have our name on their ticket, or they were just fishing for details :-/ We've done a bit of work on the system since, getting it to work on Linux programs via a "port" of parts of libc to DECREE.
The problem with retirement is not the fees. It is that the whole structure is inappropriate for a single person who can live between 0 and 40 years after retirement. Either you need way too much or you will run the risk of running short. A traditional benefit like a pension is way more appropriate as there less variability in the large population.
You made the following statement `Health care in countries that have the best results are also heavily regulated` give a citation backing up your statement.
Public schools or libraries are probably a better analogy.

In the US, various forms of taxation at the federal, state and local level go in to providing funds for public schools. Everyone pays for schools even if they have no children. The only significant exception is that in some places, parents can receive vouchers to pay for private schools. Either way, the goal is that everyone receives a basic education to make a better society.

Everywhere in the US I've had a library card, it was similar. Libraries are funded by general taxes and their basic services are provided without charge to users who live in their tax area (county, most places).

Whether publicly-funded radio stations are a valuable public good in this way is reasonable to debate, but that's the model.
Where ANNs make life-affecting decisions? I can't say with certainty there aren't companies doing it, but if there are just regulate them out and require transparent models.

Speaking from experience, there is a massive shift away from ANNs in decision making. Companies (esp. in marketing) drank the Kool-Aid of some data scientists but figured out that they aren't all that useful. Turns out people care a lot more about inference and are willing to take a hit on prediction in order to be able to interact with the model. I'm not too familiar with ANNs but from the talks I've seen, I'm not even convinced they perform any better than other models.

So from what I've seen, ANNs have very limited application area which does not overlap with decision making, so I don't think there is a problem with them. And if there is, just ban them in decision making. That's not being luddite. We ban all sort of technologies because they are not appropriate.
Mind you the "successes of NNs" didn't start to show up until 2010 or so, despite active research in multi-layer ANNs going from early 1980s. Just the past decade ANN classifier performance wasn't particularly remarkable compared to other methods. And given the 20th century technology, the deep learning architectures of today were computationally unfeasible.
The TOTP stuff will never be widly used. Its just a total pain to work with. SMS is also very suboptimal.

I have more hope for U2F as second factors go. That is at least easy to work with once you have bought the token. I find it a joy to use.
Lots of mice for neuroscience experiments end up with their heads sliced in half, anyway, so there are worse fates. I never got that job, but I heard it does strange things to the mind to cut rat heads for an hour straight.
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I wish the scale didn't change per year.

Does anyone else find the gun crime in Washington DC strange and/or ironic?
It seems like it really varies between channels, especially between talk and music but also within categories. I assume they allocate more bandwidth to the more popular/lucrative channels. I find the quality to be fine on the ones I listen to (e.g. SiriusXMU).
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They may struggle to recruit staff needed for the positions, or even lose existing staff¹. For

Successful projects often lead to future projects, so people thinking of projects in a few years time might not want to start collaboration in the UK, at least if there's an alternative elsewhere in the EU.

¹ For example, the UK lost me — after the 2014 European Parliament elections in the UK, where UKIP won most votes, I started looking for a job elsewhere.
>From what I can see, He's the only thing/idea/person that has the potential to provide any kind of objective meaning, so however delusional religion may appear (and I'll admit lots of it is deluded), there's only one God, and he is "the rock that is higher than I".

How does the one god have any more potential to create meaning than a pantheon of gods, or one of the many "we are all part of god" spiritual ideas?
Yes on Gusto ;)
Might want to check this out:

https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951
Thats one way to explain it.
As we approach the 200th anniversary of Faraday's 1821 invention of the electric motor, I am impressed we are wringing out improvements.
A nice exploration of a typically domineering subject. I especially appreciate how starkly digestible the piece is in comparison to more formal philosophy works.
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Maybe not. There are lots of things to consider, such as:

* Windows falls out of popular use for residential people / People moving away from using PCs as we know it.

* Steam client not being available for the mainstream OS of the day.

* Most of the games in your library not working with the the mainstream OS of the day.

* A new platform replaces Steam and it has newer remakes of classic games.

* We are all in our 50-60s and lost access to our accounts long ago because we don't play games anymore.

Steam probably won't be killed off in one day. It will die gradually as it falls into disuse.
Another McCarthy summer project was to build a robot to assemble a Heathkit color TV kit. That went nowhere, but the TV kit was purchased. After a few years, someone assembled it by hand, and for years afterward it was in the student lounge in Margret Jacks Hall at Stanford.

They were so optimistic in the early days. And they had so little compute power.
UK goods may be cheaper to buy than before, but there's many problems with this.

First, we're all significantly poorer. As individuals. Fuel, goods, foreign travel, etc. are all significantly more expensive.

Second, what goods? We don't actually export much stuff so the benefits of being able to sell stuff cheaper isn't terribly attractive. Even if this did stimulate e.g. UK manufacturing in the long term, we're starting from a poor position and...

Third, the stuff we do sell tends to be services or of the value-added variety -- all of which depends on imports, so much of any extra money we make will be swallowed up by increased costs.

Fourth, even if we did sell more stuff, the money we made from it would be worth 8% less.
People are happy to sell you variable or fixed annuities. You're asking someone to cover the risk of your longevity though, so expect to have that work out in their favor not yours.
> If it's merely innovative in a business sense, then it doesn't matter what you choose.

The point is focus. Pick one and innovate it extremely well.
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Except this research was (most probably, I did not check) funded with french or european taxpayers' money, and therefore people should not have to pay for it twice.

The moral standpoint is very different than with movie or music pirating.
I get a blank page with just the title and the drop-down boxes at the bottom.
The history of the DSCOVR satellite is pretty interesting. Was pushed for by Al Gore in the 90's -- unofficially known at the time as GoreSat -- but was ultimately killed by the Bush administration. Obama's administration resurrected the project, and now we have an amazing view of earth for science, discovery, and some pretty neat pictures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observato...
Ya I think so too. I envision strong AI as happening in the next 10-20 years, even as just a random walk of the problem space on clusters of thousands of machines with thousands of cores. But it could take decades after that to get to the point where we understand AI enough to create one with a minimum of cores and algorithms. So he was probably right to discount the importance of creating AI if we don't understand it, but wrong to discount the significance of such an achievement.
The catapult is a proven technology for aircraft though, with decades of development.
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First cousin once removed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Cousin_t...
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The Rhea doesn't actually require soldering as Dominik will do the soldering first before shipping. For sure having to know 20 versus 21 pin is a pain. But the Rhea/Phoebe have a huge advantage of being here now and known to be very reliable (they work flawlessly). Not discounting this new approach, it seems very promising, but just pointing out there's already a solution available today for those who didn't realize.