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You know, everyone blames the mega rich. I blame everyone else. If you're completely honest and you assume that shits going to hit the fan, would you care more about the happiness of 1 billion random people you've never met or the happiness of 100 that you know? On paper you'll say 1 billion, but in reality if someone shoots your mother you cry, if someone shoots someone in Syria you most likely won't ever notice.

But here's a list of things partly responsible:

1. The mere idea that justice is something that will be served at some point is ludicrous. There's no universal concept of morality to begin with. The more money you have, the less like you are to be indicted or pay penalties for virtually anything. Why would you give that might away?

2. That disgusting cult of happiness that is more prevalent in San Francisco than anywhere else in the world is the very foundation of forcing people to be happy with what they have. Institutions like Landmark Forum that are actually requirements for certain management positions make sure that people don't actually critique or change things that are messed up.

3. Everyone knows that we're eating up our resources and dump the rest into the seas all the while doing so. The result is that a lot of things available today will be luxury super rich items in the not too distant future. Tuna and Cocoa amongst them(just wait and see). If I had money I'd invest in huge warehouses to make money with those things in 20-30 years. That's exactly what superwealthy do. There have been more than one buyouts in bankrupt countries in the last couple of years. Buying resources while everyone is hoping for the utopia where we can create something from nothing.

4. The only way this stuff could possibly change we pull the handbreak right now. But it's absurd to think that that's a possibility. Nobody even so much dares to talk about the consequences of a full stop change. If you do, you're the pessimist. People don't want a change of course, they want the illusion of change so that can stay happy until they crash in the cement wall at 200mp/h.

At the very least I have enough Schadenfreude in me to always enjoy these arguably predictable changes like the refugee "crisis" in europe
Are you imagining a single AI playing all 5 heroes on a team, or 5 independent AIs each playing a single hero with limited communication between them, or a single AI controlling a single hero on a team with 4 humans? I would say the first scenario (1 AI controlling entire team) is roughly equivalent to the the RTS case. It's just fewer units with more abilities, and character progression instead of base building. The other two cases are probably a lot more complicated.
Ah, you must be from the alternate universe where most of us have heard of more than one of those!
To truly reinvent it what I would want done is email

It might be needed for external information, but companies should start to think how to get it retired
I'm sure the people who use a specific model of keyboard or monitor for ergonomic or accessibility reasons just love this idea.
Programming is boring when you're solving mundane problems, when everything you need is already written in a nice library or package for you to put together like a 24 piece jigsaw puzzle.

Get yourself an arduino, maybe esp8266, now program it to do something exciting.

Another suggestion, an occasional after work punjabi sword fight might do the trick
I am aware :). But don't you think that a finer grained permissions model, combined with even a simple Bayesian classifier (or a NN classifier) that triggers manual review, could catch a lot of suspicious extensions? E.g. P(malware|reads url+calls third party) > P(malware)
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Docker needs network only when one uses Dockerfile for deployment, a rather bad idea. Instead Docker images should be used. It allows to verify them on development/testing machine before deployment. And with this setup all "bad pieces" of Docker are located at developer's notebook. In production everything is read-only and shared among all containers.
I got some theanine from a a bulk sit because it was cheap, but probably has a low portion of L-theanine vs D-theanine... may need to look into fixing that since the effects don't seem to be as good as when I tried Suntheanine...
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I'd be curious to hear more of your argument. The world is a complex place. How do you protect the one's you love when others exist who wouldn't say no?
"and making sure your solution is easy to maintain and nurture in the future"

...this is why programming is boring

there's nothing actually more exciting then building out a whole idea and being like "didn't exist, now it exists and i built it."

making it maintainable is a thing, but it's separate from that initial excitement. i never go "man i can't wait to make this thing maintainable and write a bunch of tests and shit omg"

i approach programming as more of a way to make cool art. so idk i might be different from most programmers.

he's got some good points though.
Similar, but the case I recall was this one about mr Graf: https://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2015/08/20/modern-forens...

He's not the most sympathetic guy, given his peccadilloes, but the case was mostly circumstantial with some junk science thrown in for good measure.

However, the overturning of his conviction was due to the injustice carried out on mr Willingham and the exposition of the junk science behind it. The overturning of mr Graf's conviction was the first one based on what was learned from the Willingham case.
FWIW, I wouldn't suggest the term "defensive coding" as the opposite to "fail fast". It's very similar to the established term "defensive programming", which IMHO is more about designing systems to make fewer assumptions. How you then handle a situation where you do detect that some expectation has not been met, including the fail-fast strategy, seems like a related but separate issue.

Terminology aside, though, I agree with much of what you say. The idea that it's generally acceptable for buggy code to just crash out seems to be making an unwelcome return recently, often among the same kinds of developers who don't like big design up front or formal software architecture because they want everything to be done incrementally and organically, and in the case of web apps specifically, often among developers who also consider code that runs for a year or two to be long-lived anyway.
What i think is funny is that the mega rich thing in a collapsed society they will be able to hold on to these areas? People... will just come and take it.
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Programming is boring after five years of CRUD/"business"/"enterprise" apps. Unfortunately they make up the majority of the jobs out there but making the effort to get a more interesting job is worth it.
Sounds awful. What better way to make your employees feel like a replaceable cog than to strip any personality from their work environment.
To be fair, I have not had the honor to be a docker customer. But regarding the kernel thing, I have limited IFY. Let's say if you goal is to keep yourself up-to-date with kernel tree, probably you have to compile the kernel DIY. The hardware dependencies and customized kernel config is not that handy. Then if you pick a distro, probably, not sure it is a problem, things like initd sneak into systemd/sysctl brought the element of surprises occasionally. While, to move or not to move, both are forwarding and backwarding.
I got nothing with uBlock.
Agree with teilo here; pragmatically speaking we run into size of images needed for each container as well (think windows down the road); ease of use is there certainly but at scale cost in future...
The same argument can be brought when comparing top 40 pop music and jazz, say. There isn't an objective truth to aesthetics, but that doesn't mean that everyone's opinions has equal depth or nuance.

Some things you get more out of if you choose to spend time with them, but will in turn change your own sense of it, and the experience you are having.

So in some sense you actually do become "better " at tasting/listening well - or at least you become more sophisticated. Which doesn't invalidate the enjoyment that someone else can get from a more superficial engagement, at all.
I hope the AI will have a handicap on the speed of mouse movement. IRL you can't just teleport the mouse around the screen.
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I heard they have plans to abandon it next month
Which actually stable distribution includes a sufficiently new kernel? For important stuff, a lot of us stick to Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS releases, CentOS/RHEL, etc.
Could not disagree more. Money is a byproduct of the activities you should be focusing on (which are difficult to measure). Former GE CEO Jack Welch is famous for putting it this way: "On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy...your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products"
You can always start with something like codingame.com to practice.
Indeed, these are all good qualities of a fine language. It's just that I am not sure if it is those qualities what attracts people and makes them want to learn it. There also must be something else.
Genuinely curious, only serious answers, please: can someone living in Turkey explain how the government can justify ordering a ban while publicly using Twitter themselves? What am I missing?
If you are going to do war you should do it well. An AI commander could be programmed to maneuver troops in a way to reduce civilian casualties, reduce damage on infrastructure, and even maximize the chances of the enemy surrendering rather than having them killed.

Of course, I doubt that an AI commander would replace a human making the actual decisions in the foreseeable future. It would just be another intelligence tool for military command. From this point of view you are essentially arguing for our military to be ignorant, I don't think that is a good bet.
Those measurements aren't as accurate as you might think. E.g. many local police forces in the US are under pressure to under report crimes of all sorts, and/or too busy to record petty crimes that are unlikely to be closed, and this can even extend to the hardest of them all to do that, murder. E.g. Chicago as of late redefining boundaries so murders that happen in places that used to be counted aren't any more (like in the highway to the airport as I recall).

Or, of course, it can be done at the medical examiner level, as I've heard in one case in the U.K. Fortunately for both those countries, we've got independent and apparently uncorrupted victimization surveys as a double check against what the authorities report.

And I should note that if you go beyond the US to e.g. the U.K., you won't find such a copacetic result, for a steady reduction in interpersonal violence rates since the 13th Century has been reversed in just half a century....
I used to think that too, but it turns out that vodkas actually do have distinctive flavors, some of which are better than others (to me). I was skeptical until we tried it, and it turned out that my wife and I could both identify many high-end vodkas very reliably in blind tastings. Ciroc is particularly distinctive.
A fake email won't help when you are banned by your unique ID that you paid, in the case of SC2: Legacy of the Void, at least $40 for.
Isn't this essentially what the Sun Ray thin client was, 17 years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
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I was aware of that case when it was unfolding, but did not follow it until the end.

Surprised that they convicted and executed the guy. Sad case, but how many of those have taken place in Texas, or in the US as a whole?
That's not how ranked voting should work - why would you look at pairs individually? You can simply take the average rank of all flavours and be done (in which case Vanilla wins definitively).

Also, most party systems tend to clump together in ideology making the 'paradoxical' choices rare. For instance in Canada we have two leftist main parties and one conservative. Ranking the conservatives in the middle would be virtually unheard of.
> It also indicates a transient weakening of Earth’s magnetic shield

One of the theories that I read about when I was a kid was the geomagnetic swap. It would obviously be decades to millennia off, but would this possibly be an oracle of such an event?

Genuinely curious, I'm not implying that this is actually the case.
The interests of Google and users are aligned when it comes to making sure that intelligence agencies and other criminals can't read everyone's communications. I don't trust Google across the board but I'm still happy that Google promotes HTTPS.

If a nation-state attacker decides they really want your secrets they will probably get them. This can mean measures up to and including clandestine hardware modifications of systems you use. HTTPS isn't going to save you in that case.

HTTPS can, however, take a lot of the sting out of pervasive information insecurity promoted by nation states. It forces nation state attackers to go from passive to active attacks if they want to tamper with your system or read the contents of your communications. Pinned keys can thwart MITM tampering, when pinning is available, and even when an active attack can compromise security it's more likely to leave traces. It forces a natural balance on intelligence agencies that are (sadly, apparently) un-constrained by the consent of the governed: use that great 0-day exploit to monitor everyone you slightly suspect and it will be discovered/fixed that much faster.

HTTPS doesn't do anything to prevent metadata based surveillance, of course. But keeping the contents of communications private still imposes significant and worthwhile limitations on how metadata surveillance is used for further targeting. Any broad security measures that make the NSA's adversarial role harder to perform also makes life harder for for attackers from other nation-states; I'd rather that everybody be able to keep the contents of their conversations secret than nobody be able to to, if we have to pick one extreme or the other.
Either one could work. If the single AI that controls 5 heroes is easier to program, let's imagine that.
I have the feeling that it's more complicated than a 1vs1 RTS game, but I don't know why...
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The best SCBW bots still aren't very good, so I don't see unrestricted APM as an unfair advantage.
I agree with you, it's a virtually impossible task.

The commenter I was responding to has strong ideas about it however, so I wanted to provide the opportunity for an explanation.
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Somehow this reminds me of the government office description in "Snow Crash".

"So there is no paper in a Fed office. All the workstations are the same. You
come in in the morning, pick one at random, sit down, and get to work. You
could try to favor a particular station, try to sit there every day, but it
would be noticed. "
If genetics determines all, then we should sort people to tasks best suited for their genetics. Ashkenazi Jew? Work on advancing gene therapy and retroviruses so humans now and in the future can be freed from genetic determinism. European? Build civilization. African? Physical labor/sports. East Asian? Also build civilization. To each is given the minimum necessary to do their genetically determined purpose, ignoring any abstract "human" needs for all. Surplus is captured by the State and hoarded, some used to incentivize the Jews to have more children since their problem is the most important. Eventually the Jews will succeed and no one will have any excuses anymore.

That's not a world I'd like to live in. But it would solve you having a problem with inequality. Or maybe you just need a different perspective to not put so much into genetic determinism in the first place.
I have that Asian gene that limits how much alcohol I can drink, so I never drank more than a few sips of wine until I was well into my 30s. One day some friends and I went to a nice restaurant to celebrate a milestone, and we ordered a ~$120 bottle of syrah based on an app that showed critics' ratings.

It was a revelation. Whenever I had had wine before, I always picked wines that were considered "approachable." Sweeter, fruitier, and so on. But this wine was different, highly complex and paired beautifully with food (a first for me). Afterwards I chased down the wine online and found one of the few places that sold it, and had a few bottles shipped from across the country. Trying it again later with my wife, who also rarely drank, she agreed it was something special. Since then I've explored other wines and have found that my favorites are generally not the ones that are pushed as approachable for beginners.

I guess the lesson is, if you want to understand what the fuss is all about, don't be afraid to try ones that have more to offer than fruit and sugar. Tannins, full-bodied structure, and balance can be extraordinary.

I have found that there tends to be a sweet spot around $40-100/bottle for the best quality/price. Though to be fair, there are plenty of good wines for less, and plenty of duds in that range and above.
My office did this on a vastly smaller scale. The people that do care about their keyboard either store it in their locker, or in the case of one of my coworkers, carry it with them (it's the smallest CODE keyboard so it packs up easily).

That clearly doesn't work for the monitor.
Are the execs that cook this up part of this or do they keep their (window?) offices?
Honestly all these scenarios are interesting research avenues.

Inter-agent communication, especially in a machine learning context, is an unsolved problem, exploring it in such a scenario would be nice.

Agent-human communication is probably as hard, and also largely unsolved, although there is a push right now for dialog systems to achieve human level performance.
What does "better" mean? If we mean that to be afforded more technological luxury is to live better, then sure, no people has ever lived better. Are we happier and more fulfilled than ever before? I don't know, but I doubt it.

Also, while the royalty and robber barons didn't have the internet or chemotherapy, they had servants to do all the menial chores most of is still have to do today, so in that respect we haven't totally surpassed them.
Scientific research and progress: just say no.
This same idea went notoriously badly for Chiat/Day: https://www.wired.com/1999/02/chiat-3/

That was over 20 years ago so I guess all lessons have been forgotten and we have to learn them again.
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I actually ordered one of these, as I tried the Alexa and found it to be useless beyond asking the weather (which is overly verbose) and playing music (best done via the app anyway).

There are occasions when I just want to get a quick "Ok,Google" search done, and I'm fairly tied into the rest of the Google ecosystem anyway, so it seemed like it would be worth trying.
This is the big missing piece with basic income: People need meaning in their lives as much as they need money.
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Are people liking the latest season of Black Mirror? I'm only three episodes in and haven't yet gotten to San Junipero, which everyone says is the really good one, but so far I've been a little disappointed. This might be regression to the mean, since I felt that the first six episodes were six home runs in a row and it must be tough to keep a streak like that going, but so far season 3 seems to have lost something.

I loved the first two seasons because they felt like intelligent, worrying criticisms of futurism, social media and technology, whereas usually when television tries to do that it's eye-rolling and cringe-worthy. But so far season 3 feels like the Sorkin-esque Boomer slop that I loved the first two seasons for not being. What do other people think?
I find myself moving around the office with my laptop a lot, and I don't really understand why I have a desk, other than to accumulate junk. I like the idea.
Wow that's a very interesting idea. Several models working together. Plus you limit their method of communication by being able to use the chat only. Inventing and learning new languages made by other models!
Email, much like spreadsheets, is the second best tool for any task. You can long for the best tool, if you first define the task. You can't beat email's flexibility, though, when you don't know the task beforehand.
And it got an answering example.
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For example, chess?
That's a form of meditation, not the only form of meditation. Which was my point -- it's hard to say what meditation is, given the breadth of different traditions, and different styles within some traditions.

Of course, I think you should consider the concept that insisting meditation is sitting there doing nothing is making meditation about a specific action you undertake, rather than nothing, thus defeating the purpose of meditation in your own framework. And if you're okay with meditation being about one form of action -- sitting there -- why is it not okay for it to be about other forms of action?

I feel that your view is not internally consistent.
Yeah, I get that, just saying, if we are going to worry about people with disabilities, I believe that we should care about the psychoacoustic wellbeing of "edge case" humans who can hear ultrasonic tones.
In the end, I think the legal solution would be put less emphasis on mens rea and more on actus reus. In other words, if your AI does something wrong, you are in the wrong, regardless of your intentions.

But that would be a large change in the way the legal system works. Fewer people than you'd expect understand that today, a large portion of crimes, if not most crimes, require both intentions and action for the legal system to judge guilt.

"A fundamental principle of Criminal Law is that a crime consists of both a mental and a physical element. Mens rea, a person's awareness of the fact that his or her conduct is criminal, is the mental element, and actus reus, the act itself, is the physical element."

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/mens+rea
To be totally honest, I'm not sure either, as I had only minimal experience with Scala prior to that, so I don't know how much my anecdote is worth. :) I found IDEA fine for Android development, but I also didn't even try Android Studio, so I don't have anything to compare it to. That said, the little server-side Scala work I've done seemed to be a little more seamless than Scala with Android. It's been a while, so I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure little things like compile-on-save worked just fine in IDEA for normal Scala development, but didn't work at all (for me at least) with Android. You're also likely going to run into problems replacing Gradle with SBT (assuming that's the path you take), since Gradle is the official build tool and has all the mindshare; if you run into an Android-specific problem with SBT, you're most likely on your own, given that so few Android devs use Scala. IIRC, I had a few issues getting multidex to work because the Scala-on-Android guide I was following was out of date.

I would say that if you're already familiar with Scala and aren't afraid of getting into the weeds a little bit, you should be fine in the short-term. My personal fear is simply that, especially with Scala 2.12 dropping support for Java 6, Scala development on Android doesn't have a clear future, so as Google changes their build stack, you may find it increasingly harder over time to keep all the tools working.
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