skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing it doesn't do, that would be particularly powerful, is emulate the geometry of the human arm. If it did, and it if it was typically paired with a mirror image arm, you would be able to very easily train it to do most tasks that can be done by a human. Instead of "programming" it to, say, iron a shirt, you just get someone who is good at ironing shirts to do the task over and over while it copies them, gradually improving its abilities.

Combine that with designing it in a way that it can do a large part of making new robot arms, and the costs should drop and the capabilities should increase....dramatically.
It should be noted blocking execution isn't the problem, its the access an unknown executable has to the host system.

A well hardened MAC system, which requires no effective user intervention, can limit access of arbitrary programs to a minimal set of files and devices to stop bad actors from actually getting anything without the user having to modify the MAC policy.
Do you not consider adding a PPA to be straightforward? Or downloading the rustup binary and simply running it?
Russia
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) that details Russian malicious cyber activity, designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. This activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services (RIS) is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and private sector entities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5kykuk/us_expels_35_russian_diplomats_closes_two/
The biggest source of cost and weight for an ebike drivetrain is the battery. The 1KW+ ebikes lauded by the author are fun but they are generally heavy and range-limited. These power levels might be necessary for the snow/mud/fat-tired world of the author but IMO are neither necessary nor desirable in the general leisure/commuting use case. Get on a 250w mid-drive or 500w hub-drive. You will have a blast.
Plagiarism is not something I find easy to accept thus I do my best to counter it whenever I encounter it.

Besides, mentioning the originators of certain ideas and models and guiding people to their work is surely adding a lot of substance to the discussion.
> Especially lower income ones who go to schools where rich kids have smart phones and you're stuck with some low-level bar phone or, the more obvious situation: no phone at all.

Do you really want to have something to do with such "rich kids"? Even as a pupil I didn't. I always had interests that few other children at school were interested in. So I really don't consider this as a problem.

P.S. School was hell, but for completely different reasons.
This article has a glaring logic flaw. After COLA, Asians and Whites show roughly the same median household income. But among minorities, Asians still have higher median household incomes than their Black and Hispanic counterparts. The author barely makes an attempt explain why this is the case. Doesn't the data just reinforce the perception that Asians are the model minority?

So what the article should have said, is after COLA, Asians still have an "advantage" over Blacks and Hispanics. But the illusion is that they don't do better than Whites, they perform the same. Which is not the illusion most people had in mind.
Look at the chart again. The 43% of Clinton voters includes those answering "probably not true". That category is not included in the 46% of Trump supporters, only "definitely/probably true".
Jeff Guo at the Washington Post seems to be making some odd conclusions lately.

For the study, Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans, compare his reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-r...

To Marginal Revolution's reporting: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/11/upw...

It's like they read totally different papers. Or Guo is just gonna talk about whatever he wants to talk about regardless of what's on his desk, I guess. Which might be what's happening here.

If you're really interested compare both of them to the study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8J_qdFYwNJ6TXdRVkM5S3lMNUU...
Operational calculus on programming spaces and generalized tensor networks
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My 13 year old doesn't have a phone and is none the worse (and arguably much better) for it.

His grandfather bought him a top of the range iPhone 7 for hist last birthday, but by his own choice, he's going to sell it and reinvest the capital so that when he actually needs a phone, he can buy whatever's current (or as he suggested the same model or lower model which in either case will be cheaper by then, so he'll save some cash.)
"Maybe" they should. But almost none of them do.

That's why it's a social problem, not a technical problem, yeah?
Nah - one doesn't rule out another - you still want to have binding/flux + some handy things that a library may provide on top of web components.
The issue you link to was opened a day ago.

If that were me, I'd see how quickly it was fixed before strongly considering something else.
Is it ok to run ZFS without ECC RAM?
Ok, you are right, I didn't notice the multiplication sign. This rule really can detect infected PHP files.
>Better performance than C

That's a bold, yet generalized statement.
Honestly mate, I appreciate the conversation and your response, but this is starting to reek of quantum spirituality, which is fine, but you're presenting ideas which I can't argue against.

Regarding interpretations of quantum mechanics, the interpretation is unimportant -- the math is the same is the same is the same. If you want to think about particles as being controlled by fairies who are locked up in hidden dimensions, that's kinky and totally fine -- as long as we use the same math, I don't really care.

If your fairies end up predicting new phenomenon that exist, which are not predicted by the Born/Copenhagen interpretations, sign me up -- I'll go to wonderland. Until then, let's leave interpretations out of our conversation.

My point in bringing up boson gasses and neural networks was to show that two vastly different systems at different scales can both exhibit self-organization described by similar mathematics. I am not saying those systems are equivalent, but I am saying that self-organization is a very versatile term and that throwing it around with no context warrants more content.
eXistenZ is better
The RNC was hacked as well, although they similarly circumvented the same security procedures.
He wrote this about a year before AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol... which happened 10 years before anyone expected. The singularity in the mirror could be much closer than it appears, and everything he writes tells me he knows nothing about AI.

This piece is full of sloppy thinking as well as obsolete. Calling corporations superhuman AIs doesn't clarify the problem; it introduces oranges to a discussion of apples. And even in this irrelevant tangent, he is wrong. As we so often see in government and the private sector, many of us can be dumber than a few of us. Collective decision making has pernicious emergent properties, which means we should consider many corporations as subhuman AIs.

> The most successful and profitable AI in the world is almost certainly Google Search.

This, too, is false. Parts of Google ads might qualify as the most lucrative. But other parts of Google outside search, notably DeepMind, are much more successfully pushing AI forward. Autonomous cars and drones are two very successful examples of tech using AI.

The fact that he even brings up Jeopardy Watson in a discussion of AI shows that he knows little about the state of the art, which is light years ahead of IBM's question-answer system.

Ethical issues will not prevent nation-states and corporations from continuing to pursue the AI arms race.

And there are huge incentives to be the one to get this right. Which is why enormous investments in AI are being made by governments and the private sector alike. Google's DeepMind is going to more than double from 400 to 1000 people, half of whom are AI researchers. DeepMind is obviously a research powerhouse, and that investment alone must cost hundreds of millions of dollars beyond the acquisition price of 400M pounds.

AI advances hand in hand with hardware capacity. Distributed computing and faster chips will continue to progress, and pull AI along with them. A breakthrough in quantum computing will entail a huge step-wise leap in computing power and therefore AI. So progress will be non-linear, but not in the sense he thinks.
And I've actually had (a couple times now) random hardware failings, with random notification emails from Amazon, on EBS storage on AWS, with accompanying data loss.

Might as well treat your zpool like it's on real hardware and configure raidz accordingly. The cloud does have real, problematic hardware behind it, and it's important to remember that.

[edit] especially if you can configure your block devices such that you know they're sitting on different physical hardware at the cloud data center, you will gain that benefit of ZFS
I don't think 'Do you think the British and Americans were going to publish stories about Enigma back in WW2 in the Times during the war?' is a fair comparison to what's happening now.

Given the credibility of some three letter agency, it is reasonable that people who are technically adept or otherwise have doubt over this report. Even when you just look at the report without the credibility, it still lacks so much for anyone to pinpoint the acts to Russian state. While the report itself does not claim that, the media hype is otherwise.
"1/5" is a drop in replacement. This isn't a hard thing to do. I've seen small children do it with ease.
Yeah, this is actually a great example of why it's important that if you're developing an application, you need to do some of its database work, and if you're developing a database, you need to get into the application and write code that accesses the database.

If you're a hobby programmer and do full-stack stuff on your own to make your dreams real, you organically stabilize on a pretty-reasonable balance between database-side accommodation and application-side accommodation. Since you have to feel the full impact of the tradeoffs made, you select the most efficient, reasonable tradeoff available in the large-scale sense.

When you introduce a hard separation between data-side and app-side responsibilities, it's just human nature to get that complexity off of your plate and onto theirs. This competition to put the burden on the other group burns bright and causes massive resentment between DBA and dev.

Unify the roles and watch this disappear. Psycho DBAs who insist on fifth normal form everywhere will gain an appreciation for data locality and consider trivial bloat in table size an acceptable tradeoff, because it will make their application-side code tasks much more tolerable. Self-important developers who treat the DBA like their personal data lackeys will gain an appreciation for good data organization and reporting facilities, because it will make their database-side management and reporting tasks much easier.

Database and application are too tightly coupled to ever successfully divorce the areas of responsibility. You just end up with people at each others' throats all the time. Merging the responsibilities (and thus the incentives) is the only way you'll get these two groups to adopt a unified perspective.
Yes, recommended but not required. Even then the underlying hardware has ECC RAM. Good question though.
This is such incredibly poor agenda-driven "journalism", with cherry-picked data used to (poorly) attack a sort of straw man argument: Asian Americans seem to offer proof that minorities can prosper — and even leapfrog whites — if they work hard and jump through the right hoops. For that reason, Asian Americans have often been invoked as a way to excuse the income gaps between whites and blacks or whites and Hispanics.

So even assuming the (unconvincing) argument that where asians live can account for the fact they are more successful than whites, how does their nonetheless COL-adjusted near parity (still ahead!) vs. whites undermine the idea that minorities can succeed in the USA?

It's easy and cheap to virtue-signal your care for this difficult problem, but the elephants in the room here are IQ and culture, and mainstream liberalism is frankly bordering on fraudulence with its refusal to confront these topics. If you actually care about fixing the worsening income and wealth gap between races - and I would suggest everyone should, as it is clearly toxic to our social fabric - it's long past time to have honest conversations about all of the potential underlying causes and possible solutions.
To me, this is a library concern. Rust the language should remain high transparency, but that doesn't mean that programming in it should force you to always deal with every single thing if you don't want to. Look at the recent addition of ?, for example: you can get very succinct code if you don't want to deal with the particulars, but you still have access if you want to. I think good Rust libraries will end up like that.
When you're discussing facts and figures, emotional responses are irrelevant, if not distracting.
Good thing there are a lot of Teslas and high end cars (with auto brakes) on 101!
It's technically no more difficult since they are executive actions dependent on determinations that the executive is free to make.

It's perhaps politically costly, though, and even if that was equal, only one of the actors has to worry about maintaining political capital.
An easy way to get started with open source in 2017
From personal experience (other workplaces may have different policies), I can see why people in Japan would not change jobs very often. A large proportion of your salary can be in the form of performance bonuses, which you technically aren't eligible for when you first start. This means that you can take a huge pay cut for the first 12 months because you might only receive a token bonus.
No, I believe they did not specifically help him. I have not seen evidence they went out of their way to hurt him. The most "damning" thing you could point to would be the debate schedule, which was scheduled before anyone knew Sanders would be a nominee.
Important to note that is only referring to Raid 5 and 6
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> I think the safety aspect of Rust appeals to a lot of beginning programmers.

Is that a bad thing? All programmers start as beginners, and if C is too painful to begin with then they'll learn via an easier language, and then comfortably spend their whole careers using those easier languages. If we want to expand the field of systems programmers organically, then we need to make tools that don't punish beginning programmers.

> They can feel safer looking down their nose at us dangerous C or C++ programmers.

What makes you feel like anyone's looking down their noses at you? Every language in history has been made to address the perceived flaws of some prior language. Safety is a crucial selling point for a huge chunk of people, and C and C++ have failed to appeal to this market. Just because safety isn't a priority for you doesn't mean that the people for whom it is a priority are suddenly pretentious.
This is clever though by this interpretation he will make 5 times (implied) [his salary], less his salary. Totalling four times present salary. Quite some trouble.
Create very compact base, with 3 drone towers around it, so drones will be in fly for much less time. Automate everything, up to drones. Profit.
Solar power solves problem with energy. Only mining is left, which is easy to layout with drones. Most of the time after drones I'm watching or laying out solar panels and batteries just for fun, until launch.
The key is to design it in a way that such precision isn't really necessary. It probably isn't for most of it. Some things are, and for that, it puts the part on a precision jig or whatnot, rather than relying on it's own precision.

Also, if it works the way they say it does, where it is constantly comparing what it measures against its internal model and adjusting the model (similar to how our own arms and brain works), again, precision (in the geometry of the parts) isn't so necessary.
That who is talking about?

The article says life has improved dramatically for the majority of the Earth. Louisswiss is disappointed it doesn't prove the improvements will continue. Epistasis says they only show signs of increasing. You say you shouldn't use global averages to judge the condition of average people. I'm going to assume you meant median people, because otherwise your argument is nonsensical. Even so, the data in the article directly addresses your concern and demonstrates that the median person's situation on Earth is improving dramatically. That was my point.

After all that, Trump? What? The world's middle-rich (median Americans) are not getting richer on the schedule we all expected. That's an issue. But, it's not the current topic.

The point being discussed is that people have such a short-sighted view of the world. And, that view is distorted by fear-mongering media (TV's click bait). This leads people to a strong belief that the world is getting worse in contradiction to all data.

It seems that some people cannot be happy without bad news. 5 billion people doing so much better. And, much of that affects the other 4 billion as well. But, in the face of good news, you always see a people climbing over each other to declare "Sure... Maybe that's good. But, give me a second and I'll find something that's still bad somewhere!"
Do you really think that Russia has engaged even 1% of its force projection in Ukraine?

There aren't 2000 Russian tanks parked outside of Kiev if Russia would go to an all out war with Ukraine there won't be much left after 2 days.

There are reportedly less than 5000 Russian troops in the conflict they mostly provide limited logistical support.

Look at how many troops the US needed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

Don't underestimate Russia's military they have limited force projection but in their immediate vicinity they aren't to be taken lightly.
Working on high leverage problems in high value markets.
Great article Luke.

In particular I like the part where you write about attracting talent and how offering equity isn't super appealing unless you have already created something of value (or at least show you have the ability to do so).
Right. Decrying the NYT for peddling government lies is the definition of shooting the messenger. We have to think critically about all our sources of information, whether it's the NYT, Fox, RT, Breitbart, or our facebook friends.
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Can I ask which company you're with? Are you already listed on https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html ?
I play primarily simulators, where the "content" (cars, racetracks, planes, trains, etc) is meticulously detailed and expensive to produce. They are appropriately priced and I don't mind paying because I know the quality is high (others prefer free mods).

I don't mind paying a modest amount for some more traditional content, as long as there's enough production value in there. Art, music, storyline, game design, etc. Especially if I have enjoyed the game so far.

I agree that the game should be playable out of the box. Or have otherwise fair pricing (like Hitman for example).

But I was mildly upset about the DLC in Civilization 6, for example. $5 for one new civilization and one scenario is a bit much.

So I'm a bit split on DLC. But I don't play pay to win games, I absolutely despise that.
Some googler claimed that Go currently has single-digit MLOC in Go, and that it's growing. But they have way more C++ and Java code.
The sophistication cited by CrowdStrike was the actions taken on the DNC servers, not the initial penetration.
Not quite skynet yet then
Lehmer sieve
Interesting date in footnote:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648653.aspx. Web site last accessed April 11, 2016.

Have they just copied this report from some general security advice and prepended the latest attack at the top?

(Also, no https?)
True, I'd been assuming a context of mobile apps. Though IAPs in console games are on the rise as well, so I don't expect that to last much longer. So far still clear of tracking adverts (far as I know) so they would be good on that front - for a while yet, anyway.
> Taking action in response to foreign aggression is "sabotaging the next guy" now?

Abstractly speaking, and not suggesting any particular tie to the current situation (in this comment, at least): when the next guy is an agent of the foriegn aggressor, yes, it quite naturally would be.
Is this more or less reputable than the clear and unambiguous claims of Craig Murray regarding the DNC leak, which he has stated clearly were the result of him personally traveling to DC, acquiring the data dump face to face from a non-Russian DNC insider, and then returning to the UK to give them to Assange himself. If the us-cert.gov report is to be believed, then both Assange and Murray are liars. Both can not be true. Who is more credible? Perhaps we can compare the history of truth reliability in claims from each party? Would that be a reasonable approach to ascertain who is lying here and who is telling the truth?
When I was 10, it was the other kids wearing designer clothes, and excitedly discussing the intricacies of Nintendo games. Being excluded wasn't hell, but it wasn't great.
Oh please the US buys and poisons elections world wide including those of allies.

This is a very common thing to do this is what the diplomatic and intelligence services of most nations do all the time.
The graphic directly conflicts with the text.
Great point! I'm tempted to go back and add "not getting too hung-up on the vanity of companies and titles" and giving you credit for it, but that would probably be asking too much. :-)
Ironically, I cannot read this article as I am immediately redirected to https://www.facebook.com/plugins/share_button.php?app_id=229...

(likely due to a script having a bad reaction with one of the browser extensions granting me a small illusion of privacy)
Well, we've been working on making it pretty easy over at Userify! but, truthfully, we're only tackling one piece of the puzzle (SSH keys). Your point is well taken about websites/web apps designed for mere mortals.

TLS client auth is really pretty much a dead letter: it's not easy at all. The biggest impediment for widespread TLS client auth seems to be that CA's are involved.

U2F might help.. and widespread MFA/2FA. Maybe we shouldn't be just tossing out passwords just yet, but just pushing for full MFA support for mission critical apps.
The best defense is a good offense. What is scaring all of the Rust developers and users so badly that they feel the need to go on such an offensive hype campaign?

It's worse than the phase Java went through when it hit its peak.

I'll be honest. Until we start seeing some more balanced (frankly, I'd settle for nuanced) discussion about the compromises made to get Rust's strengths, I'm staying the hell away from it.
> His trump card is the fact that all of his friends are playing [free game] and so he also will play it period and will be exposed to the in app purchases.

If the friends are not much smarter this is rather an argument against the game to me. If the friends urge him (your "We are fun little social creatures" argument), one should tell the child to quit being friends with them, since they get the child down - thus they not people one should want to be friend with.
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I've always heard the same. Is there a filesystem that _is_ recommended for virtual envs?