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quoted from the blog post*

Achieving human level performance on any real world task is an exceedingly difficult endeavour when moving away from a few simple and well defined tasks.

May be related or off topic

I have developed a small messaging application which categorise the incoming messages by HUMANs (instead of AI) to achieve less false positives.

HTTPS://www.formalapp.com

I admit this app's solution is not technically complex.

And I understand building AI based solution is complex and needs more expertise.

But in this use case relying on human intelligence works
or am I missing something ?
Note that the Fathom approach rejects TBL's vision of standardized markup for semantics, and instead favours a rule based approach similar to the many "content extraction" services/apis/browser add ins.

I'd note that Google's Knowledge Vault paper[1] found that "semantic web"-type technologies (very widely interpreted as anything that used metadata) was pretty useless as a source of data: only 0.25M out of 140M total "facts" extracted using those annotations were classified as high confidence (ie 0.2%).

This is in contrast to a DOM-rules based approach (which seems similar to Fathom) which extracted 94M out of 1200M total (ie 8%).

The Semantic Web is dead, and the KV paper buried it.

[1] https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Papers/kv-kdd14.pdf
My daughter's school is right near there so I am familiar with their presence. The reason you see them around is the nearby Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle and a few embassies like Yemen, Venezuela, etc. They are not there often, and usually only when there is terrorist activity in France.
> One weekend is not what I'd call "a lot of opportunities". If you think it is then we're discussing different levels of fluency. I'm quite conversational in German

I fully agree with you, I was at a beginner's level on that occasion. Yes, if you are conversational then it's not going to change much (from your original post it seemed you barely spoke German)

And yes, the way to progress from conversational to the upper levels is mainly through classes

> but they don't actually like German (it's something of a foreign language too compared to dialect)

Ah that's true. Nobody speaks Hochdeutsch on everyday life. And Schweizerdeutsch is weird
If you're looking for a cross-platform, distributed IRC client, there's also Smuxi (https://smuxi.im/) which I used to use.

These days I just use IRC on the move with Palaver (https://palaverapp.com) on my iPhone.
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Sure, but the lesser (but still serious) offence of sexual assault is very clearly defined, non-gendered in law, and while subject to more under-reporting and under-recording of male victims is still mostly male perpetrators and female victims. That's unlikely to change even if every victim is accurately reported and recorded, or if the English and Welsh crime of rape is expanded to "non consensual sex".

Your use of "force" here is unhelpful. We know that juries don't convict because they feel that force is necessary for rape - thus women who don't fight back are not seen by juries to have been forced into sex.

It's much better for us to focus on consent, and to educate people that consent can't involve coercion.

That recognises the under-conviction of rape for women victims; and it also promotes the rights of men to not consent to sex and to have that recognized as the abusive crime that it is.

My aim here - just in case it's not clear - is to make it easier for men to report crimes committed against them, and to make law enforcement record those crimes, and to make juries convict those crimes. I also want to make those things happen for female victims. (And here where I use male / female I don't want to limit to a gender binary).
Will BlackBerry stop producing smartphones with a hardware keyboard? Or it is only the Classic model which is being killed?
Agree. My co used to sell memory ICs to (primarily) networking folks. We could see the shift from FPGAs to NPUs happen in real time. The holdouts were always well-funded engineering teams building core routers.
xchat-gnome seems to be in low-maintenance mode, 2 commits in Q2 2016 (https://git.gnome.org/browse/xchat-gnome/).

I tried hexchat, and I don't remember why, I didn't like it so much. I'll give it another try I suppose.
I'm not sure governments are funded by their citizenry, those citizens have to conduct commerce in the nation's currency and pay taxes in the same currency, which is solely issued by the government. It becomes more of a social relationship that way.
There are embassies in the area, but Kensington Palace is nowhere near the South Kensington station. The borough of Kensington & Chelsea is a somewhat elongated rectangle with the palace on the northern end at Hyde Park and the south end at the Thames.
My summary of how it works:
Take a test program, take an input to the program, trace the program execution on the input.
This results in a set of 'dead' (unexecuted) code for the given program and input. At this point you can start randomly perturbing (deleting parts of etc..) the dead code. If the program output changes, you have a compiler bug.

Seems like a nice technique. The only problem in my mind is the need for coverage/execution tracing that may not be readily available.
I wholeheartedly agree with much of what is written, but in the spirit of the text here is a counter argument that I considered. I would be happy to hear others' opinion on it.

Perhaps a good reason for people to form and voice opinions (like voting for example) even when they generally don't know what they're talking about is what's dubbed "crowd wisdom": the idea that a group of almost clueless laymen can somehow miraculously come to a very good decision when grouped and averaged out outperforming experts. At least for some problems.

Perhaps the OP's suggestion that only well educated "experts" should voice there opinions robs society of this slow but powerful driving force?
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Netmap-fwd on an atom is faster than your edge router.

And yes'm pfsense is getting some netmap/dpdk love.

I am the owner of Netgate (company behind pfsense)

And your figures ar full of shit. I do 1gbps on a 2.4GHz Atom
That's not true. Some parts (e.g. CSS and images) never were open source.

You can read more about why RhodeCode went back to open source (AGPL) here: https://rhodecode.com/blog/113/rhodecode-goes-open-source
They usually do not draw a weapon on a routine stop. The stops with weapons drawn are usually when they have some reason to suspect that they are dealing with an actual criminal.

As for why they might pull their sidearm in such a case, just ponder the following statistics.

United States: 112 guns per 100 residents.

United Kingdom: 6.6 guns per 100 residents.

The United States has around 5% of the world's population, but 30-50% of the world's civilian owned guns. The gun homicide rate in the US is about 60 times that of the UK.
Clash of Clans?
> is still in effect.

Best i can tell it ended in February. But since then it has been up to the individual districts to consider armed patrols based on events abroad.
Got it in one :) A noob investment banker who is going shooting in the country with a well-heeled client is the motivator, and you also need to understand that the "City of London" is not the London that you are thinking of. The former is a weird holdover from ancient times that is centuries older than the city of London that you visit on vacation. It has its own special laws, and for a long time it had its own police force.
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He must be from Minnesota or some other midwestern state.

tbh fatbiking is fun as shit in the snow.
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I thought it was changed again in February. At least that is what this says [1], unless it has been reintroduced.

[1] https://www.politi.no/nyhet_15749.xml
HN as a blog
Like many of you I blog on and off, and eventually the blog gets lost in the shuffle. There may be no solution to this as the problem may not be technical, but a general lack of consistent blogging. However, I don't accept that I should have to assume shutdown of my past posts any more than I should expect my gmail account to get shut down. I'm curious what the response to an HN account that primarily posts self posts as an archive first, and a discussion prompt second would be accepted by the community. That is of course assuming the content follows HN rules in general. Secondly, it is possible these posts get downloaded to oblivion simply for not being good enough. This would not be a cause of concern to me so long as I'm actually making an effort for the post to be good. If anyone does happen to read this, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
While I agree with Smolin that much physics has moved away from experimental observation, especially string theory, I think the three numbered points in the article are wrong.

My take - the only way the universe could have got here from nothing as it were is if it's basically maths and seems real to us. I mean what does basic particle behavior look like - a bunch of maths and not much else, and what exist without needing creating - mathematical patterns and relations and nothing else. Hence from observation it's probably all maths.

Hence:

1) There is only one universe. - Nah probably all mathematically possible universes seem real to their occupants.

2) Time is real. - Sorta but more like how time exists in a DVD of a movie. Or as some guy wrote "...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."

3) Mathematics is selectively real. - Nah it's real.
I'll try...

Rain causes people to be wet. This implies that if we were to God-like stop the rain, people wouldn't be wet. But if we were to prevent people from being wet (by buying them an umbrella), that wouldn't stop the rain. This is not something you can infer from correlations alone.
Makes no sense to me, having bouncers (which have existed since forever) that let you connect using any client, not just Quassel.
It is also less than three blocks from the barracks of the foot guard and of the horse guard barracks. An event at the palace would draw at least a company of well-armed and well-trained soldiers in minutes.
> that dude at Google that makes $300K who everyone on HN seems to know

I don't. Who are you talking about?
Well it didn't help that the Progress Party, the right wing populists, was in government for the first time ever, and got their boy in the minister of justice chair.
Same in Norway - the number of guns per capita is very high. But they're mostly hunting rifles, and they're generally (or you'll be breaking the law) locked down and inoperable except when people are actually out hunting.
Quassel is awesome, and has a really interesting idea in wanting to store logs in an sqlite db for better searching, but ironically in the current client implementation this seems to make it harder to search for stuff.

While searching for things in the immediately loaded buffer is easy (CTRL+F), searching for things said a long time ago can't be searched via the client. You either have to use command line tools to dump the sqlite db into a grepable text file or install the quasselsuche web app (last updated in 2012).

Once better long term search has been implemented in the client, quassel will become the best GUI IRC client hands down, I look forward to seeing the progress made in this area.
Supply and demand.

Fact is anyone can really become a yoga teacher by going to a training program, so the supply of yoga teachers is huge. The competition is fierce on getting a placement, so that keeps the price down.
I've used Quassel for a few years now, it's great. Your always only, history is preserved and shown on all devices - no matter how long they've been disconnected for.

Unlike most BNCs, this also makes sure all the timestamps are correct when data is replayed..it also doesn't notify you for mentions if you've already been notified about the message. 10x more useable than any other BNC I've used.
This is implied through research on reductions in machine learning.

That simple models can solve complex tasks.

For example, you can do multiclass classification, cost sensitive (importance weighted) multiclass and binary, quantile regression, structured prediction (as is done with HMMs, CRFs, MEMMs, structured SVMs etc.), just using a binary classifier.

So, if your implementation of that binary classifier is efficient and performant, you'll be (given that your reduction is consistent) efficient and performant on any of the above tasks.

What the authors of the paper above did, is that they rediscovered some old tricks, removed the theory of reductions, and that's that - without referencing vowpal wabbit that does way more useful tricks. I'm not sure why, because VW team consistently references Leon Bottou (out of all others) that is member of FAIR, and has been using implementation tricks for decades.

Their log(k) implementation is probably less performant than the one-against-some consistent reduction in VW due to the latter having better theoretical bounds on performance.
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That would be fine if he had been talking about what he was doing within Google, but he was specifically talking about his dream system. Here's an analogy.

"I have a dream about a programming language and runtime that will automatically determine how serial code can be distributed across a bunch of machines, and do so without totally screwing up performance or failure semantics. But that's somebody else's problem. I'm not even going to mention any actual ideas about how to do it."

Would you say "pragmatic" is the right word to describe that? I wouldn't. We left the realm of pragmatism as soon as we started talking about dreams. It's not necessarily wrong for me to mention such a dream. Such a compiler would make my life a lot easier. However, it misses an opportunity to inspire would-be collaborators in areas where I have concrete ideas and actually am working to make a difference. It contributes less to actual progress than another answer might have, and that's disappointing.
"not caring to act" would also be a very wrong thing and as one would expect from any other job, they should be fired for not working.
It's sad. I wish Microsoft had improved and advanced GDI instead of starting anew with WPF (now Jupiter) such that we had a 2D UI toolkit suitable for the modern world instead of multiple competing, but only partially overlapping, frameworks (e.g. WPF is useless if you're doing native C++ and, but GDI lacks intuitive modern graphics features).

What strikes me is how Microsoft removed 2D hardware acceleration from GDI+ in Vista (wrecking performance, hence the shitty XOR operation framerate) and then introduced Direct2D without providing a clear upgrade path for developers.

What also sucks is that GDI and Win32 are so heavily intertwined it means that other frameworks (like WPF, Direct2D, etc) cannot integrate as well.
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My history may be faulty, but i seem to recall that the designer of the Tommy Gun meant it for military use during WW1, but could not get army attention before the war was over.

To recoup costs he then started selling it to the general public.

Mix that with the prohibition, and things escalated quickly.
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It is fair to say that police in USA is not targeting anyone, and it is also fair to say the majority are not being treated as the powerful.

However, the white mentally ill according to the lack of news regarding the figures tends to put mentally ill people in the majority case, a silent case.

Hence my point of view : discrimination in discrimination leads to awful results.
And yet I read, on Hacker News, a number of people writing how they were often saved by the availability of nano on random systems

All the time, but I even use nano all the time on OS X for full on programming, mostly for quick edits or starting things off before I can be bothered opening a full project in Sublime. (Sure, I can 'get around' in vi, but I just don't seem to have the brain for it and nano is 90% fine. I grew up on GWBASIC so anything is an improvement ;-))

That aside, this feels like it could be a kinda cool command line level equivalent of ToDoMVC. Port this simple editor into Go, Rust, and a few similar languages - see what the differences are, etc.
> The US is remarkably violent compared to Europe.

Has been heretofore, at any rate. Given the effect of mass immigration on the relative homogeneity of European cultures, and the effect on levels of violence of heterogeneity among incompatible cultures, it'll be interesting to see how things play out over the next few decades.
You should be careful with the language. Pilot Wave Theory gives rise to the quantum formalism. Anything predicted by standard quantum mechanics is a prediction of PWT.

Of course, the PWT viewpoint may suggest new ideas and understandings; it is, after all, what led Bell to his inequality and thus spawned all of the entanglement uses including quantum cryptography. But it gets reincorporated into standard quantum mechanics.

None of that really matters. People reject PWT because they want to reject it. There have never been any good reasons. It is an extremely simple theory that answers the questions.

If it gets accepted in the future, it will only be because of a new generation being more willing to embrace it.

At first the physicists said it was impossible and then when it was obvious that it was possible, they said it was too trivial. This is a hallmark of reason being used to justify an already decided on outcome.

It is also not in conflict with string theory. One could imagine string theory actually having strings that evolve. This would be the spirit of PWT applied to that realm.
I think (mind, think) it was repealed a few weeks ago, and that Norwegian police is now unarmed unless there's a very specific threat they're responding to.

When they were armed, it probably didn't help that they were issued Glocks - on which the safety catch... ...isn't.

(The Glock is seemingly designed around the idea that it would be a bigger problem if you intended to fire and the gun didn't than the other way around; hence the abundance of accidental discharges.
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I hope you know you're wasting your time here. But if you insist on continuing, you're more likely to get people to listen by concentrating on historical examples of culture clash, and preparing to counter the inevitable Whig-historical "but that can't happen any more because we're all so much betterer and smarterer now!" nonsense.

Also, dial back the personal experience stuff, ideally to zero. As a gay man with unacceptable political opinions, I can tell you that "don't erase my lived experience" only works if said experience happens to produce conclusions that agree with what your interlocutors already believe.
In modern societies, kids tend to get little quality time with their parents. In addition, they tend not to grow up in a relaxed carefree environment.

I see kids today with mobile phones, playing addictive games and being unable to focus on a single thing for more than a few moments.

It is tough to make multiyear controlled experiments on such things. I would discount heredity for now.
I liked it so much that I tried to make a package out of it https://github.com/tartavull/fastpy
Yet it's worth noting that in the UK these types of incidents are exceedingly rare. Total shootings resulting in death in England and Wales since 1990 stands at 60 - most of whom were actual armed criminals.

If worrying about being killed by UK police you should be more worried about them running you over with a car - they kill far more that way.
No, the vestibular system gets "annoyed", which is to say, permanently motion sick, if you spin something too small. Our vestibular system is not designed to deal with Coriolis force. You have to keep it below a certain threshold or you'd rather not spin at all... which is, in some sense, exactly why we don't spin the ISS, or, rather, designed something ISS-sized to spin. It's too small. You need a certain size in the rotation axis.

If the solution was just to spin our tin cans the problem would be solved.
Is this correct? I lived in Australia last year and frequently saw police with firearms. I'm guessing it varies from state to state, but isn't a sidearm predominantly standard issue?
It's a remarkable stretch to conceptualize self-defense as "[a] purpose of harming others", especially in light of the fact that most in the US who obtain firearms for that purpose don't bother with the formalities around doing so lawfully.
Congress won't fund two stations.

Again, the problem isn't physics or engineering, it's that we're poor in space. This, and a lot of the other posts, are basically saying "What's so hard about having a job 10 miles away? Just drive there!" to people too poor to own a car, too poor to even dream of owning a car. Yes, it is a simple problem... if space wasn't so expensive to us. (I mean, not trivial, we'd still have to redesign a lot of stuff, but there's no reason to believe there's a fundamental problem.)
I'm really surprised that d3.js isn't on the list. It should be. I _suspect_ it would completely own most of the tests, but be bad on memory allocation.
Americans are also major gun manufacturers. If guns became illegal the supply would get a lot lower.
Why are you conflating building architecture and software architecture. I'm pretty sure no software developer has every thought of their project in terms of "post-modern."

New Jersey style? The PERL style? I've never heard of "New Jersey style." Are you joking? I'm almost positive that Perl didn't influence openssl development at all.

"Modern is more old Stanford-style development." I think you've read way to much into this. And sorry citing the "The UNIX Hater's Handbook" doesn't do much for the credibility of your odd argument.
Play on paper for a bit first to see how you do and get some basic ideas of prices set in your head. as for resources aside from the exchanges themselves i just use 2 android apps, digital currency widget to keep an eye on prices and blockfolio for alerts when coins hit a certain price
To my understanding you can setup Quassel as a bouncer on a server, so when you reconnect it will update all you missed, you just need a cheap VPS or another desktop to connect through elsewhere. Some channels also have searchable logs via bots as well. Ironically BotBot.ME which is powered by redis doesn't have a bot at #redis but oh well...
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That's where the right to privacy comes in. The input should not be there to begin with.
Have a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062989
I didn't spec 1G of force. Though, as I, ahem, already said, I do suspect we'll need closer to .5G than .05G. But while it's not quite as evil as the rocket equation, you do get non-linear advantages as you go down the gravity scale. .5 is already much less than half as hard as 1G, and we could perhaps get away with .25.

Here we have a chicken and egg problem; how can we launch the variable-speed lab we really need to figure out how much gravity we need if we can't afford the 1G lab in the first place? Because proper science suggests we ought to be able to test the full range up to 1G. I'm spitballing .5 or .25, but scientifically speaking there's no guarantee the optimal won't be .8, 1.0, or, conceivably, even 1.1 or 1.2G. (Sure, the latter is unlikely, but I can't scientifically rule it out a priori.)
Yes, we need to constantly guard against police use of force, and we need to make sure that police who kill people are robustly investigated and prosecuted where needed.

But even if we assume that every killing by a police officer in the UK is an unlawful killing we'd still only be dealing with 55 deaths in the past 24 years, vs the US's 59 deaths in 24 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-...