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Mine was solved decades ago when I was allowed to just make an account with an e-mail and create any number of pseudonymous accounts. This allows me things like to have a personal and work account, and not leak information between different identities. And, most importantly, it lets me talk to someone without having first to reveal my real-world identity. With Signal, I have to already know that person and trust them with my phone number. It's not really state surveillance, it's the fact that what used to be private information I only shared with close friends now has to be public and told to every random person online I want to chat with. Just.. just let me make an account tied to an e-mail or to my google profile or anything but my phone number. The entire thing creeps me out.
Don't packet managers like homebrew in principle do something similar? Would be interessting to join forces I guess.
My question exactly. Will need to ensure I don't ever use OPs service
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I added a comment on LiveJournal, but it apparently got marked as spam. [1] Reposting here:

Like most software, GNOME 3 requires a bit of learning before you can use it most effectively, but it's actually a really easy learning curve because GNOME is designed to be intuitive.

The biggest thing I'd recommend is learning the keyboard shortcuts. Pressing the Super (aka Windows) key will open the Activities overview. Pressing the Super key and then typing the name of an app then Enter will launch that app (I never use the mouse to launch an app). Super + Tab switches between running apps. There are a few more here: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboar.... It's actually shorter and easier to remember than the man page of even a simple command line tool like "ls"—and you probably have dozens of command line tools memorized, including complex tools like find, sed, and curl.

This may sound preachy, but life is a lot better when you stop worrying about customization. Learn how the software works and adapt yourself to it. Think of how many places you have to do this in the real world: bicycles, cars, election ballots, transit systems, and grocery stores all have "UI"s that can be counterintuitive or slow, which you don't have much control over. But you don't complain because you can't change their UIs. GNOME is far easier to use than any of these, but because other desktops offer more customization, users can feel like GNOME is lacking. But if you accept that GNOME is not really intended to be heavily customized and just try to get used to the vanilla experience, you may actually be really happy using it.

Caveat: if there's something that makes your workflow 3x faster, definitely spend a few minutes setting that up. But things like the position of the app title vs the position of the clock are not worth splitting hairs over. The GNOME team actually cares deeply abut usability and although some design decisions may seem quirky, every feature is scrutinized through the lens of ease-of-use. GNOME's UI Design Principles talk more about this and are a good, short read: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/design-principles.htm...

[1] LiveJournal gave me the following message after posting:

Your anonymous comment has been added. According to this journal's settings, it was marked as spam.

It gave a similar message when I tried authenticating with Google. Not sure what's up with this.
The difference is that they are playing a sports match, not writing a comment. The current score/position of the match is just a fact, not an artistic creation.
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> Except the moves in a chess game are deliberately chosen in a process involving nothing but intellect and creativity.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be allowed to repeat moves played by others either...
I will be able to remap Caps to Ctrl on my Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard?! Sold!

IMHO you should expose this as the #1 feature.
That you're making this claim is an almost comically ironic indicator to me that you are exactly what was described.
Maybe I missed it, but what happens to the corpses? Are they also somewhat preserved, or do they rot slowly?
No offense intended, but what is your background?

I'm a researcher with a physics/stats PhD, and if a colleague approached me and said "stochastic gradient algorithms" entails three highly complex areas of scientific knowledge, I would have been stunned and assumed an undergrad with an English major had stumbled into our lab.

Just because you find something extremely challenging, doesn't mean it is inherently challenging. Considering what a lot of people in my field is struggling with, your example is absolutely trivial. You might want to adjust your ego downwards a bit.
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How would you recommend learning ML? I've been interested but don't know where to start.
If only mental gymnastics was an Olympic sport...
"At the time I was at Amazon, working on the retail site, none of Amazon.com was running on AWS. I know, when AWS was announced, with great fanfare, they said "the services that power Amazon.com can now power your business!" or words to that effect. This was a flat out lie."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129
I think to some extent, this kind of difficulty occurs with any numerical programming. With typical software engineering the bugs are usually in logic. All but the hardest problems can be diagnosed with a visual debugger. With numerical code, though, you usually can't look at the state of a few discrete-valued variables and a stack trace to figure out what went wrong. "Why is this matrix singular?" can take days to answer. You spend a lot of time staring at the code, comparing it to the math on paper, trying to visualize high-dimensional intermediate data, etc. Continuous math can be a lot harder to reason about than discrete.
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He didn't say he found it personally challenging. He said this part of optimization finds itself at the intersection of three deep fields of human knowledge. That is undeniably correct.
Looks interesting... You're doing statistical visualisations using WebGL and GPU acceleration? If that's right, would you mind sharing a little of how you're setting up your overall architecture?

The web projects I'm working on are in a slightly different field. We also seem to be pushing the practical limits of browser-hosted GUIs with some of our interactive visualisations, but they tend to use SVG. WebGL is one of the technologies that is definitely on my "could be interesting/useful" radar, but I haven't tried to do anything serious with it yet, so I'm wondering how different a real-world-scale project would be.
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I didn't find the parent's comment egotistical at all. I believe they were just commenting on the three different fields that combine to form stochastic gradient descent. The fact that it's viewed as fundamental or trivial only supports his point that things in machine learning are hard, and may require wide knowledge breadth.
They have not exactly moved domain, as both are still operational. As a user, you can choose which one to use.
>I can also make a clif notes version of Harry Potter describing what happened in detail. That's not what copywrite protects.

everyone can agree that summarizing a game is fine. We can also all agree that Chess games shouldn't be subject to copyright!

So, I'm not disagreeing with you or anyone.

As a very narrow technical issue, I would like to have a comparison between the number of choices (which key to play in; first note, its length; second note, its length; third note, its length; fourth note, its length) that goes into a melody that has been deemded legally protected, and a chess game.

Here is a protected riff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLCa0YG1ZI&t=57s

Now please focus on just the first 8 notes, after picking a "starting note". The number of choices for where the melody goes, in the key that is in, is rather constrained: what has more creativity, 8-9 of those notes, or an entire chess game?

An entire chess game may well have more creative choices in it. After all, full-length chess games are quite rarely repeated! (independently). There are a rather large number of variations.

As further evidence, consider the term "novelty" which is a single choice at a particular move, which has never been played before (is a new variation/line.) The term "a novelty" in chess is quite specific and also is evidence that even when you are still in the opening, Chess people consider move choices to be quite creative.

All this might seem to imply that I am disagreeing wiht you or others: I'M NOT. Chess games shoudl NOT be copyrighted.

But as a very highly technical point of law, they contain more creative choices or entropy than other creative works that are protected.

Please be more careful in your analysis.
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The fact that the financier wishes to remain anonymous hopefully means they are just humble. Nice to see someone's wealth being put into something we can all enjoy.
Agree completely. It also tends to clog the front page with neutral stories that nobody cares enough about to comment on.
You mean it doesn't do that? Hmmm. Sad trombone.
Depending on your situation, this advice may be useless, but I'd say for me personally, taking an intro to machine learning class at my university is a wonderful and easy way to learn about the basics. So I'd recommend taking a university class in-person, or online.
IIRC they still find human bones around the Antikythera wreck every once in a while. At the very least they did when it was first excavated at the end of the 19th century, and that was in regular medium-shallow salt water.
I have every sympathy with ProtonMail. Google's behaviour in this certainly looks highly suspect.

However, in general, I am not a fan of regulation. I wonder if this problem could not be better fixed by an open source search engine "assistant" that simply polls several existing (competing) search engines? Perhaps implemented as a browser plugin?

I base this suggestion on the assumption that not all the usual search engine providers will have the same conflicts of interest. More specifically, in this case, they are not all email providers themselves. For the same reason I trust more the search engine providers who have not added to it all kinds of other business interests.

Any thoughts on that? Has anyone tried it?
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Even where he has good points, Stallman so often undercuts himself through overreach. Like, his decades-long attempt to rename things in a "pejorative" way or call them pejorative names when he doesn't like them is...weird. I mean, weird-for-him, not just weird. "Oh, we shouldn't call it Uber, we should call it Goober!" Are we back in fourth grade now? I mean, it's in the same vein as their redefinition of phrases into particular jargon (like, say, "free"), obviously, but then trying to use it in advocacy? Hasn't twenty years of wet-fart responses to the rhetoric taught him--or the FSF in general, who's usually pretty tin-eared too--anything?
fascinating.

stats.com charges like $80k per season per sport or something like that for access to their live game data api.

world chess should take this all the way, airing the moves for free is undercutting their business model. seems like it shouldn't be legal considering chess is a sport.
A 25-year-old Finn here.

Like kettu228 explained, those major changes took place a few months ago when the schools started again this fall.

Along with these changes, some teachers have started to try new techniques in teaching such as removing all the tables from the class and replacing them with couches and beanbags [0]. Instead of the traditional (and frankly boring) ways of teaching, they try to cheer up pupils and make learning more fun. Some of the pupils are even able to participate in class planning.

I wish these changes had been there when I was in elementary school. Personally, it really seems to be the right way to go, though only time shows how it will affect. I'd wanted to learn, discuss and debate more about current hot topics, learn (more) IT and be part of influencing what we are taught.

[0] http://nyt.fi/a1305870531097 (Pardon me, the article is in Finnish but it proves the point)
I'd prefer to make a more forceful case that there are limits to contracts, and not to rely on the technicality of people saw the note, or if "a meeting of minds" actually happened.

What if the note is also in the actual contract that has my signature? Is the content of such contracts limited in any way?

I mean – it must be. I can easily get any number of people to sign contracts that include a right for me to their firstborn child.

Whatever legal doctrine courts would use to strike down such a provision should also apply to, for example, people waving their right to sue, to freely discuss the content of broadcasts, to rate the product/service being purchased etc.
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Aren't there minimum salary levels that must must guaranteed in US?
We need a free-software distributed p2p replacement for Uber.
Absolutely.

And on the other end of the spectrum, you have people in suffering with consciousness who wish to be euthanized.

There's may be no "one size fits all" morality to be found here.
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Thats like saying bubblesort lies at the intersection of combinatorics, topology and complexity theory. True, but pretentious
Google "brutto netto rechner" and calculate yourself. If you're single and childless half your money goes to tax and social stuff.
And before that they're 3D models.
I didn't read that as trying to diminish the brilliance of the original accomplish, but just trying to frame it less as "magic" or "genius" that is incomprehensible and more as an impressive human feat by a human who had to do hard human work to get there. I believe the intent was to encourage us not to lessen the extent to which we believe that this is something that only a higher class of people can do. Ie: yes, we can't comprehend it on first glance, but they didn't come up with it instantly either. They spend time gradually working and modeling the problem in their head so that the end result is comprehensible to them.
That seems like a cop-out avoiding the issue. If you did see it, what's the argument for it to be unenforceable? Note that it should be unenforceable, but it's a hard case to make without a certain amount of "I know it when I see it".

And "there are no limits to the content of contracts people freely enter" is obviously an untenable position – we'd all agree that a provision giving me your kidneys, hidden somewhere deep in the ToS is unenforceable.
TIL: Uber is the new TCL. [1]

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15462-f94/public...
Right, but in this particular case the "stochastic" and "algorithm" parts are trivial. For example, you don't really need to draw on CS/algorithm knowledge to implement or understand gradient descent.
I said already that I've worked for a year in a school! I worked full-time as a reading tutor in an elementary school, and taught summer school. I've also taught abroad, classrooms with 30+ students. I taught tennis to groups of teenagers for like 6 summers!
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We live in a world that groans under the tyrannous yoke of copyright. I don't care if some ‘live comfortably’ from the copyright mafia racket.

And now that I've replied in like to your rhetoric I'll point out that this is a question of paid access and not copyright. You can put on a Shakespearean play (written before copyright) in a theatre and still charge entry. Indeed that's exactly how Shakespeare and his company earnt their living. Again, without copyright.
Uber drivers are "independent contractors," according to Uber, so the minimum wage laws don't apply to them.
Understood, a bit too easy way to circumvent law IMHO. Thanks for the hint.
And not to taxi drivers either, I would point out, who are also considered independent contractors (like Uber drivers, they're in a lawsuit right now over the issue).
In theory, yes. Uber gets around minimum wage by categorizing their drivers as subcontractors rather than employees. This gets them out of paying for benefits (health insurance, etc.) as well.
Suppose they contract with the manufacturer to set up 10 production lines to meet initial demand, what happens when demand drops in the New a Year and 'everyon' forgets these exist? They'll have to decommission most of the lines, which also has a cost. Also if they over-supply the initial surge of demand even a little, they could be stuck with months worth of tail end sales. Then what do they do? Decommission all the lines for that time? They'll have to pay for warehousing the product as well. There are a lot of factors to consider, it's not just a matter of magicing up however many units are needed at any given time.
one big dimension here, the "implementation error" can be easily be debugged. Gradients can be checked numerically. The model can be checked to work by looking at the optimality conditions (not just the loss function go down). This shouldn't be an issue for anyone from a traditional coding background.
What search engines are not email providers?
I put together a list of resources I found useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900448
There's no way they can be sure the customer will buy another item from their own product line instead. Surely they're more likely to buy a competitor's product?
There were a good many of those in the early '00s before Google rose to dominance. Either integrated into the browser or "meta-search engines" which simply merged the results from a number of other search engines.
Uber has plenty of PR people to point out the benefits. rms is making the argument against Uber, not trying to decide for you if you should use it.
I respect his views. He's been consistently right in the long term. Many of the problems he predicted are currently with us. I recently discovered the StallmanWasRight subreddit as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/
How does a company ensure that their product is 'The' hot item of the year? What if several companies decide to do this? It's bullshit.
What on earth is arrogant about passing judgement on the pathetic average behaviour of the american public during this election?
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It's the first time I saw "snipers" in this context. "Sniper" is the name we use in Poland for scripts set up to bid at eBay-like auctions. They are the reason I never buy anything from an auction (where I have to bid), and I stick only to buy-now, retail offers. It's because on any auction it's guaranteed that there is always some schmuck that will outbid you by 1¢ at the last microsecond with a sniper script. Proliferation of those scripts makes auctioning a waste of attention and emotional investment.
By the time you have a PhD a lot of problems may seem simple, especially in your field, but you spent 6 years of study most people haven't. The truth is that machine learning is the intersection of statistics, data analysis and software engineering. This makes it hard to learn, and also hard to get a job as companies are looking for people who are experts in all 3 fields.
Jeez put away the pitchforks. Many providers offer support, too and therefore would have a relationship with the customer.
Doesn't need, but - if it leads to increase in sales or brand exposure (via increase of press covering the situation) - it may as well engage in such tactics anyway.
The only value they add is amplifying the scarcity.

How it normally works is this:

* Some person sells something locally for $x

* There is demand outside that location for the same product

* Someone buys the product locally for $x and sells it elsewhere for $y > $x

* Customers are provided access to a product they would otherwise not be aware of or not have access to, the reseller makes money from the margin, the producer can produce and sell more product, everybody wins

How it works in this case:

* Some person sells something for price $x at a limited quantity

* Someone buys up all the product for $x and resells it for $y > $x

* Customers are prevented from accessing the product at the original price, the reseller makes money from the margin, the producer doesn't gain any advantage, only the reseller wins

Can you honestly not see how this is different? It's morally bankrupt because it offers no value to anyone and entirely profits from the charity of the producer who sells a product below market value. And in the worst case the reseller ends up with tons of unsold product and is forced to dump it later or even throw it away completely (which depending on the margins may still turn a profit overall).
If something is unordered it does not mean it may not be ordered. It only says you cannot assume that it is ordered. (A Collection in Java/C# is an unordered contract, but a List is also a Collection.)

But the idea of a list also suggests an ordering to me.
It gets worse. There's YouTube channel with uploads like:

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You're talking past each other. I think everyone agrees with the decision, but it is indeed a gray area. The S&P closing value isn't comparable because it's the product of a stochastic process.

But even if there's a smart legal doctrine defining the difference between a chess game and two musicians writing a score, lets not pretend that such legal doctrines aren't created to arrive at the result that seems right. Not that there's anything wrong with that – look no further than the "smart contracts" fiasco to see the folly of trying to define rules in a "completely objective" framework.

PS: "copyright", not "copywrite".
It was. It used to be something like "Spotify killing SSDs by writing hundreds of GBs to them". It almost made it sound like performance testing.
No offense taken. I feel humbled. Indeed, your argument supports my view.

I have deep and very high regard for the people who are able to apply ML to fields like DNA analysis or NLP which can take the dreaded "Turing test".

I stand nowhere in the ML arena, but I had tried once and got a good shock of my life: how hellishly difficult the ML can get and how quickly. I really feel humbled. If anything, I learnt to appreciate the width and depth of human brain capabilities. It seems entirely magical now to me how on earth does my brain process/understand such complex things like this very paragraph. Prior to some exposure to ML, I couldn't have appreciated this thing.

>>Just because you find something extremely challenging, doesn't mean it is inherently challenging.

Agreed. I never claimed it anyway. But the kind of problems, for which ML is being applied, the state of the art existing "analyzable algorithms" (like, finding approximate near-optimal solutions for TSP) are far from trivial. In addition to this, we must realize that the ML solution must "beat" these algorithms hands-down in "non-trivial" cases. All this makes ML extremely difficult.

I agree that for real world (and not necessarily state-of-the-art) ML applications, you have to handle many more fields in addition to these 3 fields. All I say is even these three things, when taken together, are very complex things to handle.

edit: typo
The problem is payment. If you use the CC network, you're still getting tracked. Adding regular Bitcoin would not help much (most people would purchase them in a trackable way) but it'd vastly increase the difficulty in pushing for a switch.
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