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When a company dies (i.e. goes bankrupt) the trustee is authorised to immediately sever all licences and contracts. This means it's not possible to have any 'on bankruptcy' triggers. Even if you could have such a trigger, all licences will be void so it's no use anyway.

I think in general open source licences where a company is the copyright holder are a bit dodgy. I wonder if it's ever come up in court. (IANAL, I learned some of this stuff as my company who sells OSS had to figure out contingency for an enterprise customer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-inspired_computing

Present day Neuron models lack an incredible number of functional features that are clearly present in the human brain.

NTMs = representing memory that is stored in neurons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal_memory_allocation

Decoupled Neural Interfaces using Synthetic Gradients = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_gradient

Differentiable Neural Computers =
Won't specify what natural aspect of the brain this derives from.

Pick an aspect of a neuron or the brain that isn't modeled, write a model...

Bleeding edge + Operating on another level

The fact that someone is going out of there way to remove points from my posts so that this doesn't see tomorrow's foot traffic instead of replying and critiquing me just goes to show how truthful these statements are.

Anyone can create such models. No one has a monopoly or patent on how the brain functions. Thus, expect many models and approaches.. Some better than others.

You can down-vote all you want. The better model and architecture wins this game. It would help the community if people were honest about what's going on here but people instead want to believe in magic and subscribe to the idea that only a specific group of people are writing biologically inspired software and are capable authoring a model of what is clearly documented in the human brain. Interesting that this is the reception.
> Do you want a combi-device with a scanner as well? (hard to get a good one under 200)

Not necessarily. I own a pretty good scanner but if the device in question also has a scanner, so be it.

> Do you want to print photos? (inkjet)

No, only documents (b/w, color).
Yeah, games like StarCraft will probably need a working memory component. The task that they solve here with RL is a simple puzzle game. It'll be interesting to see if this works for Atari games or StarCraft.
Not quite - you can cluster essentially every edition of SQL 2016 except Express Edition.
Moreover, the business they are in is such that you shouldn't expect to see hockey stick type growth predictions.

Sometimes it happens that a company has been around for a hundred years but then enters a new business and sees phenomenal growth. That is reasonable. For Wells Fargo's operation, no.
Native is the best joice. Why do people want to stuff some lame language in between I fail to understand.
I am assuming you mean "99% of the time you don't need an app". My experience is that when a customer asks for an app, a mobile friendly website will usually meet their requirements AND be 1/3 the cost.
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I think their long term plan is to literally take over the entire internet, by replacing every feature of every successful category of website. The free Facebook-net for India and Africa, this Facebook for enterprise thing, the embedded games, video... I fully expect to see Facebook for schools soon, followed by diplomas and then degrees granted by a Facebook online university.

Maybe they will even try to roll out a voting app some day? It could start as a polling app, and then slowly take over the voting booths in areas where they can buy the necessary permissions. Those governments that grant them control over their elections would celebrate increased voter turnout, and accept a massive campaign contribution (in "premium" Facebook ads) for being the party that opened the door. Jesus, now that I think about it, we could actually end up with a real technocracy in a generation or two, run by... Facebook. That is really, really scary. Brawndo.
I use VS Code on an x220 every day. If an old machine is the only thing keeping you stuck with Sublime you should invest in a new machine. Hardware is cheap compared to productivity gains.
Just having the option to specify "No left turns" would be immensely helpful.

I believe UPS has done this for years to streamline their delivery-truck routes, albeit probably not in real time.
They were both[Obama, Ito] focusing on AI's social effects and to how societal values can be built into AI.

So Ito's concern was probably that a group of people of similar characteristics(i.e white male geeks) is not diverse enough to address the world's social problems, especially when this group of people is not social enough; they're more comfortable talking to computers than to human beings.

This fits with what he says in the end Because the question is, how do we build societal values into AI? - he's more concerned about the builders themselves.
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I too hope that this is a joke, '...created the information superhighway'.

I blame the education system for this kind of thinking. It is so heavily influenced by big government to the point that many people have come to believe that demagogues actually have a role in the advancement of civilization.
These folks (demagogues) really should get real jobs. They are mostly good at production of words instead of production of goods & services or like Hans-Herman Hoppe likes to say, "Government specializes in the production of 'bads'". I'd like to recommend his book - Democracy, The god that failed.
Librarians often don't realize that they can't keep plugging in method bodies and get what they want forever. Engineering isn't f&@!ing Madlibs for Christ's sake. Learn to build things that will work 100% of the time and never compromise!
More instructions, like how to train it, would be nice.
And you cannot be charged by going less than 10km/h above the limit, because you can't be expected to monitor your speed at all times.

And extra 10km/h to account for instrument / measurement errors. Giving it an enforcable maximum of 160km/h = 100 mph. Yay :D
They sure put a lot of focus on "toy" problems such as sorting and path planning in their papers - perhaps because they are easy to understand and show a major improvement over other ML approaches. IMHO they should focus more on "real" problems - e.g. in Table 1 of this paper it seems to be state of the art on the bAbl tasks, which is amazing.
Its about DRM and the anti-circumvention section in the DMCA part of US copyright. Owners, like those who have bought a car, a computer, a mobile phone, a espresso machine (and so on) want to be able to repair their property without being labeled a criminal for it. The problem is, the car won't start if it detects an unauthorized part that is made by a third-party, and some server manufacturer has started to use DRM so that owners can't just buy replacement hard drives from third-party onces a drive fails, but is instead forced to buy it from dell.

Its a basic scheme by the seller to restrict use of third-party parts in order to create a monopoly, increase price and guarantee future revenue after product has been sold. In the extreme end they can even tap into the aftermarket, demanding a cut each time the car or what ever is resold. Most of this is enabled because of current copyright law, through consumer protection laws are also lagging behind current technology.
>If you want to think like an economist about fraud

You don't.

Thinking like an economist about control fraud is the exact mistake Alan Greenspan made when he denied that fraud could exist because an efficient market wouldn't allow it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/7/918589/-

His fatal assumption was also that reputational risk was enough to prevent it from ever happening.
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I do understand that as far as the social aspect goes, still I think that a white computer geek has much more in common with an Asian or black computer geek than with - say - an average white truck driver, and obviously the same applies to the other geeks as well. Basically once we control for the cultural aspect (which is correlated with ethnicity, but we controlled this out already), I don't think ethnicity by itself should matter much
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What further key skills will AGI need ?
Originally this was indeed published as a Microsoft DOC file. But now it is a PDF file, generated in a Linux box. Nice :-)
I don't know. I didn't look at the design closely. I stay away from Facebook as much as possible. The more I stay away, the more things I get done in life.

They have a strong incentive to keep people on their site for as long as possible and they are extremely good at it, so I think it's a huge mistake for companies to send employees anywhere near it.
ok I get it :) Nice little sarcasm, I'm loving it :-)
So, amongst other things, he is an intellectual and an environmentalist? DB uselessness confirmed!
It's 250km/h, not all makers do it and none of them (like you mentioned) do it for all the vehicles.
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Note that this isn't a law (yet). This is a house initiative (motion?) that requests the current government to:

- mandate by law the use of open standards

- publish its knowledge about open source software through normal publication channels

The second provision is a small step towards creating a knowledge-sharing platform regarding the use and deployment of open source software in both government and business. The original motion asked for a dedicated platform, this amended version allows governments to use already-existing platforms.

I don't expect big changes from this, I suspect that MS Office Open XML would also be considered an open standard.
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Every so often is OK, but every a new language / set of technologies with every app means you will be writing junior to intermediate level code every time.

When we are interviewing and I see CV's that have so many technologies listed that I am fairly sure they have very little depth of knowledge to many of them.
To be fair, this was back in 2014 when people thought sublime was dead and abandoned by Jon.
However now that's not the case and the dev team are rolling out releases again, and expect a stable v3 to come out soon
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> Many users don't consider Open Source to be a selling point. I am one of them. I choose my tools based on their usefulness, not the political status of their code…

I prefer tools that I can repair myself. Being able to zip directly to the source of any Emacs lisp function is heavenly when learning about things or when debugging something that isn't working. Having lived in that environment for years now, it's not something that I take lightly any more. A new editor has no real chance with me unless I can poke and prod it at will.
My car has that. I can configure one of the car keys to only allow a certain max speed whenever it's used with the car.

It's called valet mode IIRC.
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> It's not unlike having people complain about JavaScript issues without ever looking at jQuery, React or newer tooling.

But this is exactly what makes being a Javascript developer a miserable experience.

And I can give Javascript some benefit of the doubt since it's a multi-vendor language with complex standardization processes and all the stakeholders have their own interests and limited financial backing. By contrast, Android is a single vendor platform with practically infinite financial and labor resources behind it.

It's just a mess. I'd expect a relatively painless experience: install dev tools, start a new project, build and go! But no, it's jumping through hoops, requires understanding a myriad of different SDK/platform versions and a constant churn in keeping your apps up to date with new versions while trying not to break backwards compatibility.

And a big part of this mess comes from the fact that device manufacturers and mobile operators are unwilling to keep old devices up to date (and Google can't force them, while I think they should with some kind of licensing contracts), leaving customers exposed to security flaws while keeping the developers churn high with multiple versions to be supported.
I would like to carry minutes over. That would be far better for a solo developer like me, as I may need only 200 minutes a month, but I am stuck paying $120 a year in your model.

Much as I like Bitbucket I think either hosting my own CI and CD infrastructure on a cheap VPS or using gitlab is the way to go.
For your point about Python string concatenation, I believe that's what io.StringIO is for (https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.StringIO).
All it told me is that I'm a nerd ... So it was beaten by my wife and kids.

"You are logged in to: Github, Hacker News"

Interestingly, I have a legitimate use for the hack behind this idea.
I wonder how much that has to do with Android originating from outside Google. Never mind that Google may well be Apple's biggest hardware customer (the Chromebook Pixel seems to have been an attempt at getting employees off their Macbook addiction).

There seems to have been something of a civil war right around the launch of Android Honeycomb/3.0, as that was also when Chromebooks happened.

All of a sudden you had two platforms, both angling for "landscape" devices.
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>They have a very talented engineering team

Do they? What have they been doing all these years? As a user the product just seems to get worse and worse for me and despite the massive dev team they actually outsourced the mac client...
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See below and the wiki article for context, but I wouldn't be so quick to downplay the critical role funding takes.

Or, in Gore's own words, "That's how it has worked in America. Government has supplied the initial flicker -- and individuals and companies have provided the creativity and innovation that kindled that spark into a blaze of progress and productivity that's the envy of the world."
Shame it fails for the trap of natural language ambiguity. So on the front page I see "England -> capital -> London" and at a glance I thought the capital (as in money) flows from England and is accumulated in London.
Well if the idea is to correct for the biased sampling of your poll you actually do need to estimate the distribution of ages in the people you've polled.

Dividing them in small groups and calculating the proportion of people in each isn't the best approach though.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230
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Started getting reports 2h ago that our domain pspdfkit.com was shown as revoked. Checked and also wikipedia.org and other GlobalSign customers are affected.

So far we only got reports from Europe and Asia.

https://twitter.com/globalsign/status/786505261842247680
It is a sad reality that by now much all "right-leaning" media in the US freely lets unchecked lies permeate their reporting. This is true even for the WSJ's political news, let alone USA Today or Fox News which give equal space to fact and fiction.

Pretty much the only readable right wing media is foreign - but if he had suggested The Economist or the Financial Times you probably would have called them left-leaning too...
This has been the case for quite a while. Most of the mining power and most of the actual trade happens in China; non-Chinese use is a sideshow.
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I'm sure I've also read about this, but can't find any links at the moment. The art of Maskirovka [1] (deception and camouflage) is still part of Russian military doctrine. Interestingly, the US also does something similar with planes like the A-10, which has a 'fake cockpit' painted on its underside, so that it is hard to determine the orientation of the aircraft visually. This is actually patented [2] and has been applied to various different aircraft, see the pictures accompanying this answer [3] on stackexchange.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception
[2] https://www.google.com/patents/US4448371
[3] http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2078/what-is-the...
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Indeed, you can take this a step further and assign each bucket its own VPN, with JS turned off to minimize fingerprintability. You can even setup multiple virtual machines with multiple screen resolutions on each to further divide up your sessions, making your surfing modified beyond recognition. It might take a weekend or two to wrap your head around VMs and VPNs, but it's worth it.

Also, if you're paranoid about your VPN provider spying on you, you can install HTTP nowhere: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/http-nowhere/ to further compartmentalize the risk of spying. DNS, however is tricky to obfuscate, so I would recommend surfing under broad and generic domains, like TWITTER.com and places like REDDIT.com which often scrape and proxy the content from other sites so you don't need to visit those sites explicitly.
For B/W documents, buy a Brother laser with all of the following: an ethernet port, BRScript/3, and duplexing. (The duplexing is just nice to have, but Brother tosses it in for nearly free.)
I think their discussion on AI and implications was insightful. Their perspective is much wider, multifaceted and reflects a deeper and more nuanced perspective of technological and socio-political issues.

I think HN is best when its money or pure tech and tends to be dismissive or diminish the other stuff and you are left with a sterile unidimensional discussion.

Its like the gold rush, they can generate the wealth but the harder questions around politics, economics, social structures and humanity will have to be done in more 'distant' surroundings less touched by the frenzy of greed and profit.
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Less than 18 months is about the length of time to work somewhere, get a crap raise after an annual review, have a look around and realise you could be better-paid for the same work somewhere else.

Why would you stay at a company where you're being under-paid?
Ask HN: Is this the winter of non-ai research?
I'm a mid-career, professional scientist (about a decade out from grad school). I've worked at several top industrial research labs and all of them are shadows of their former selves. Friends are heading for the hills ... as professors in some cases (though I'm shocked how everyone seems to only want to hire applied machine learning people at this point .. talk about Universities being trendy!) and in many cases, have just decided to get a regular software job (be it at the staff engineer level or as an architect).

As a scientist, I'm driven by curiosity. I am not the best out there but certainly not the worst. That said, I think there is something to be said for taking on unnecessary (career) risk for no clear gain (e.g. professors and academic types don't get paid MLB salaries .. unless you do Machine Learning these days).

So ... is this just winter for non-ai research? Should I just throw in the towel on my aspirations as a scientist? Should I do an MBA so I can get a jumpstart in tech management (I'm in my late 30s and have never even been a tech lead)? Should I rebrand as an AI researcher??
does Chrome Web Store have this feature built-in (to offer and process payments for extensions)?
Why "stole" and not "reinvented"?
If by loophole you mean fraud...
I am afraid this is project is stalling. I would like open source alternative to Sublime. I use Emacs as of now, but it is funny how so many years down the line, we can't make good, robust editor that is focused on performance. Sure eye candy should be present in some degree (I am bitch about colors and nice UI, since I spend a lot of time in it, I like to make it look cool to me, but I always put performance and function on first place). Xi looks like it has potential, but it is pretty early in development. I just hope Ralf sticks to it, and in few years I think we will have great editor, with right technology, right philosophy and hopefully right community.
Of course we can't produce infinite anything. We can't even make infinite copies of a piece of software.

So instead of "infinite" or "near infinite", let's say "at least two orders of magnitude".

Can we produce 100x as much precious metals? Yes.[1]

Can we produce 100x as much energy? Yes.[2]

Can we produce 100x as much food? Yes.[3]

Can we produce 100x as much living space? Yes.

1: Exercise: think of an elemental metal we're short of. Look it up in Wikipedia, look at what % of the Earth's crust consists of that resource, and compare that to current usage.

2: With enough money, we could do this with nuclear power today. I don't think we're too far away from being able to do this with solar, again given enough money.

3: Greenhouses.

Precious metals, food, energy and prime living space are very scarce in economic terms. It would cost very real and very significant amounts money to produce more. But given enough money, we could produce a lot more of them. If the world economy grew 100x too, could we increase these scarce resources 100-fold? I assert yes.
Just as a discussion point (and going off topic and being maybe too pedantic) that is not how I understood the XKCD. The difference is that the one interpretation only takes into account the odds of the machine lying, the bayesian approach also takes into account the odds of the sun actually going nova, which is still neglible.

Yes as a second consideration you can also take the view of the world will end, but that is not the point of the XKCD.

And then drawing it to this discussion, yes the odds that Trump would be willing to start a nuclear war might be high, but combined with the odds of an actual nuclear war occurring the odds of it happening is still neglible.
That depends on a functional definition of AGI.

My preferred one is "An AGI is one which knows which are sensible questions to ask".

That's because it seems to me that most "AI-lite"-type goals are procedural. AGI needs to have agency.
Note that the problem with those Notes might've been caused not by the battery, but by the battery's environment (mechanical, thermal or electrical).
For those interested in the editor, keeping an eye on the subreddit is worthwhile too: https://www.reddit.com/r/xi_editor
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Difference is at the beginning. When I started using Python I absolutely loved that stdlib covered almost everything I thought I could need. These days packages I use mostly come from elsewhere, but at the beginning it was great.

I'm fine with Javascript development these days because I built my fundamentals years ago. I am not sure how comfortable I would be otherwise and when I meet people who are where I used to be, they often look lost.

I am also thinking about learning Android development and don't really know where to begin.