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Sorry to be nit-picking, but:

* the travelling salesman problem is NP hard, not NP complete (i.e. verification of the optimal solution is not in P).

* An Ising machine is not a turing machine, AFAIU, and it may not be turing complete (but not sure about that). AFAICS that machine merely implements search for an approximate optimum on some quadratic function of discretely valued variables. Maybe similar or even equivalent to the closest lattice point problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_problem#Closest_vector...).

One could optimistically say, that this is a very special purpose machine. Pessimistically I would say this is the only remotely usable "computation" that can be implemented when you only have unreliable (non-deterministic) components. So the fact that they did not implement a proper turing-complete circuit may be more a bug than a feauture.

[edit] one may view their chip as a very fast hardware-accelerated implementation of a very simple (i.e. slow) algorithm.

[edit2] Obviously, if the Ising machine is capable to find an exact solution to an arbitrary NP-hard optimization problem, then that machine must be turing complete (but still may take exponential time even for problems in P). However, with an imperfect Ising machine (that does not implement perfect annealing or retains an error rate even at lowest temperature) it is pretty difficult to assess turing completeness.
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No, I think this is wrong.

Behaviours that groups exhibit will definitely be passed on from individual to individual and definitely have an effect on the ability of the group to survive.

And - whether something is passed on socially or through genes, it doesn't matter. 'Evolution' is not just a function of genes, obviously.

Your list of 'behaviours' is easy to describe, and I'll do it in context of your 'a' and 'b' positions.

From 'b' - "we are perfectly capable of behaving in ways that are not evolutionary advantageous to us" - obviously. But who cares? The species that takes up the best behaviours for it's environment will persist beyond those that do not.

From 'a' - Whether altruistic behavior is good/desirable or not has nothing to do with its contribution to evolutionary fitness. Yes it does. Run a little evolutionary simulation a a computer program. Create little 'bits' that evolve over time, and interact with one another - you'll see the bugs with the best social behaviours win - the others dissapear.

- " spending your life in almost solitary confinement to solve some math problem"

First off - this did not happen until way, way into human social development. Once we have complex social functions, it makes evolutionary sense to allocate some members of society towards 'very long term' thinking. 'The guy in the cave' is the same thing as a PhD today: someone who'd dedicated their life to something probably trivial or irrelevant, but which may have huge impact, possibly in the future.

- 'war' - war is perfectly understandable as selfish behaviour in the short run: a social group can 'get ahead' quickly by taking stuff of others.

- 'not passing on stuff to kids'. From a social perspective, it doesn't matter that much if the money goes to one's kids, or the neighbors kids. Both will contribute to group survival.

"I've often seen real evolution being deliberately mixed up with ideas about the spreading on information contained in books, web pages, speech, etc. but I fail to see how the spreading of this information could be even remotely related to the way genes spread"

It's very simple: an organism that learns how to read and write, and to pass down it's knowledge from generation to generation will 'out survive' ones that don't - and their genes are much more likely to be passed on.
This. It boggles the mind how much time one can waste solving admin, busy-work type issues on Linux, specially when trying to use a GUI. I mean wifi, Bluetooth, retina class resolution issues, drivers for multiple devices not being available... unless one is using Linux to learn and understand it as a server of some type I can't fathom using it as a replacement for Mac OS.
Obviously I'd avoid it for commercial editing, but I've had good success running Lightroom 5 under Wine.
I wonder how first party isolation will deal with both serving stuff from CDNs and serving stuff from different domain names which actually below to the same owner. For example,

YouTube streaming data is served from googlevideo.com,

most Reddit media is served from redditmedia.com, etc
Regardless if this was propaganda or just bad journalism, Reuters should remove the Washington Post from their list of trusted sources.

Hundreds of papers around the world printed this and the correction will not be.
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I know you're making a joke, but first/second/third refers to political affiliation in the cold war and is not to do with economic prowess.

First = US/W.Europe + Allies

Second = Soviet Union/China + Allies

Third = Non-aligned
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When exceptional signals become normalized from too many false positives, people start ignoring alarms.
It looks like this page is designed for people who already know what an "uplift" is, but wish to implement it properly. That being said, it also appears that "uplifts" will include bug fixes made in Tor Browser and sent upstream to Firefox, rather than just features added (but disabled by default) as was implied in the OP article. I would have assumed that bug fixes made in a downstream product would already have a mechanism to find their way to Firefox. Maybe "uplift" was the term all along for that mechanism, or is a rebranding of it?
Fuel duty is its own thing in Britain, so at a complete guess maybe fuel duty subsumes/replaces VAT but then companies aren't able to offset it like they can with VAT?
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Every sort algorithm should take locality of data-access into account. Without this, a comparison to other algorithms may not be fair.
What about Nash equilibria? People here may well have asked this already in a different way; I haven't checked all the questions to see if they actually are describing Nash equilibria.
Are humans or any part of their biology exempt from the evolutionary forces?
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We know for a fact that there were old chemical weapons munitions. The US military disposed of thousands of them. They were all pre Gulf War. What wasn't found were active chemical weapons labs.

"In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."

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"According to the 10,000-word, eight-part interactive report ("The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons" [by the NY Times]) by C.J. Chivers published on the paper's website late Tuesday, at least 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers were exposed to nerve or mustard agents in Iraq after 2003."

"'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” Jarrod Lampier, a retired Army major, said of the 2006 discovery of 2,400 nerve-agent rockets at a former Republican Guard compound, the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war."

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Python has had for a very long time both NASA and JPL as marquee customers/users, eg. http://montepy.jpl.nasa.gov/ for mission planning and control applications.

From the MONTE brochure:

The story of MONTE begins in 1998, when JPL’s navigation section commissioned an update to the aging DPTRAJ/ODP library. The goal was to translate these time-tested navigation algorithms from Fortran into a more maintainable, extensible, and better tested C++/Python application.
I had students using it on Linux, Mac and Windows with no problems. Only had to assist with setting up the debugger to make it use the right interpreter (Ruby, Python, PHP).

The integrated terminal is also a nice feature.
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> There is definateky value provided in exchange for rent. Rent is paying to stay in someone elses building or what not, not just the land. you are essentially paying the landlord instead of building your own home.

True, renting isn't merely usage of the house; renting involves more than that. A landlord is required to maintain upkeep on the housing and ensure the property remains functioning. If you buy a house you need to pay for that yourself and the costs can be situationally high. (Disclaimer: I don't know if this is true in US, but its true in NL at least.)
Just an idle thought: could the construction of, and move to, the new Apple campus be partly to blame for the company becoming distracted?
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The poverty line is very relevant when the entire discussion is about getting by.
In modern society, this is so obvious that it seems not worth writing about. Most successful people I know are kind and considerate while people I have known who are not so successful in life tend to not consider other people. OK, I am making a generalization, but one that is usually true.
That sentence did not read to me as a definition, and the sentence still works for me using the normal "upstreamed".
The cost doesn't appear to be the actual problem. It's more a case of "adding insult to injury".

The problem is basically one of jumping through hoops - but the hoops are poorly defined, poorly maintained, constantly moving and often nonsensical.

Having to pay for the privilege is just the icing on the cake.
Reuters should remove the Washington Post from their list of trusted sources.

Can you elaborate on this? I understand that Reuters (like other news agencies) use their own journalists. Am I misunderstanding what you mean?
A very good point.

For anyone wondering what a proper young old boy sounds like I would suggest the following factual and totally legit documentary on the storm of 1987 ...as described by one "Brian from Melton":-

https://vimeo.com/130537730
I notice that when I open this PDF using Preview on my Mac, I can't select and copy text. I assume this is because (1) text selection is disabled somehow, or (2) the document is just a collection of images. Does software exist that can convert a printed page with a lot of math notation into a truly digital document?
I run a full Linux VM in HyperV, I install git for windows, which comes with everything I need for the most part.. VS Code and my browsers. From there, I'll do samba sharing from the VM so I can edit in windows, and run in linux.

I've tried docker for windows, and even WSL+Ubuntu+Bash, and it's just not as good. I use conemu, VS Code, and Chrome more than anything else.
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I've seen very little discussion here of the battery issues with the new MBP, which in my opinion is the most offensive example of Apple's decline in quality. Lucky users are reporting 9 hour battery life, while others are getting 4-5. Nobody is getting the promised 10 hour battery life from their $1,500+ laptops.
Thinking about it more, addition to my other comment re. power input: above 75W graphics card don't draw power from just the PCIe slot (as it's limited to, you guessed it, 75W), so you end up needing a "PC" PSU with 6-pin and/or 8-pin PCIe Power Connectors to provide additional power to the GPU (which you'll still have to dissipate).
> This article is two years old but most of the things are valid still today.

Would you say the salary levels are still accurate? Just making a back-of-the-envelope calculation using your numbers for food, immoscout24 for rent (used a 2.5 room in Oerlikon) and lohncomputer.ch (http://imgur.com/iWXaJSC) makes (junior) dev salaries in Germany look ridiculous low.
Apple is headed down the path that the old Microsoft was headed. Which they, Microsoft, have ironically backed away from.

I guess what I'm saying is that in some ways Safari is the new IE, but without the same reach. The same kind of vendor lock in and shitty expensive tooling.
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Strange that this is so hard to prove.

When I see how much investment we take in people these days, it comes naturally to me that we have to look after each other.

People are expensive to produce and maintain and experience doesn't grow on trees.
Even some numbers might be missing, you cannot argue fact, that producing electricity from clean sources is viable. It's just matter of first accepting the fact burning coal to produce electricity is bad and second take actions to shift towards clean energy production. However most advocates here seems to be stuck on point one (acceptance). Take look at Norway again. They produce 20 GW from hydro. It must be more they consume. I don't need more examples to stress out the fact that 100% clean energy production is viable.
If you force yourself to use the keyboard you might find it as convenient in Windows as it was in OS X. However, it is almost modal like vim. When I used Windows, I was used to `alt` followed by a series of keys for repetitive or common commands.
I am really interested to see in 2017 Apple's product releases. Is iPhone 8 going to make me staying in iPhone? I already switched from Mac to Dell XPS and I am quite happy with it. I guess this year there will be many old Mac users that will be leaving Apple. Unless they do something drastic? But what could they do?
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Median income in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_Unit...

"nothing in the middle" is a blatant lie and hackernews discussions are much better when they are backed by facts and logical arguments rather than political clap trap.
Another co-founder of Open Law Library, here. This is precisely what we are doing - building a patch-based xml database of the law. However, we are building a general tool that can work with the vast majority of state and local jurisdictions.

We can't build good tools without good data. The only way to get it is to work directly with governments and make it easier for them to publish their official laws as clean xml than to publish their laws as PDFs.

Revision control and the law deserves its own blog post. In addition to being patch-based, patches can be created today, but apply retroactively, or languish for years, then suddenly apply because a triggering event occurred.

Our system ingests official laws and outputs an xml version of the official law. A government attorney uses our IDE to review the xml output and annotate it with codification instructions. Our system then uses those instructions to automatically codify the law, which is then published openly on the web in multiple formats.

We have been rapidly iterating on our xml format. You can see the beta version for our first partner, the District of Columbia, here: https://github.com/dccouncil/dc-law-xml/tree/development (feedback welcome).

As we partner with more jurisdictions, we will build a foundation of open, clean, accurate, and timely computer-readable laws on which anybody can build tools to improve government, citizen engagement, and access to justice.
Like so much of category theory writing, it lacks examples. Seriously, point me to examples where category theory is actually useful outside of specific parts of mathematics, and I'd be very happy. By useful, I mean that it allows you to prove or understand something that would otherwise not have been proved (or is much more difficult to prove).
I have to absolutely agree on iterm2, I'd love to have the same on Linux... there are a few okay ones, none I've tried as good. On windows, I like ConEmu okay, still not as good, but better than default.
Python is very popular for doing mathematical modelling in every domain you could possibly imagine. Even when the core algorithm isn't done in python, python is great for pre-,and post-processing the results, analysis and gluing everything together.
Hey Guys! Congratulations on the launch.

I have a question, if you dont mind. I'm someone, who's been trying to build out simple SAAS business myself and wanted to understand the impact of using price arbitrage as a sales strategy. (which in Castor's case is dramatically underpriced compared to geckoboard and others.)
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It's more about device/browser performance than bandwidth.
> But can it still be called altruism? Imho, helping out the group to preserve yourself disqualifies it as such; the selfish aspect is clearly there.

What you described there is in nature called symbiosis [1]. Like a cat or dogs lives with a human, or an ant with a fig tree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis
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Because they don't get special deals on the fuel and huge government loans to get started off (and good locations for hubs).
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Would you care to provide links to cases or law that shows US citizens can be stopped by CBP for refusing to answer questions?
Just like Alexa Rank, can't take either serious.
Sure, Montreal is pretty lame IMO. Assuming you're in software why don't you make the move? As a Canadian citizen you can easily get TN status at the border.
Yeah, I think you're exactly right... there's a feature request here that goes through this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard-plug-keyboard/+bug/16...
You would be surprised how common that is.

For example, Steam is world leader mostly because 90% of the world can not use any of their cards or method of payments to pay any of the other stores.
RHEL is the Warren Buffett of Linux: slow, methodical, stable, and in it for the long haul.
This only makes it more disturbing, the fact that researchers knew of its existence and DISMISSED it is absurd and embarrassing.
I've been on 13-hour transatlantic flights. They've never once stopped so I could get lunch.
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I find that the electron/node based apps tend to work acceptably when you're running on SSD, otherwise the startup is much slower. But I've been very happy with VS Code for well over a year now... much happier than my experience with Brackets and Atom at the time. And imho it's gotten a lot better, though could stand for some more flushed out git support in the box, there are a couple extensions that improve things.
Honest question. I spend my development time switching between OS X, Linux and Windows and I've been using iterm2 for years. Yet I have no idea why people claim that it is so much better than anything else out there. If I where to completely give up on OS X for Linux, iterm2 wouldn't even make the list of things I'd even consider missing. What unique killer features am I not using?
Or, the less you give to others, the more problems you'll have.

In my experience (and I'm speaking very much from personal experience of having suffered from - or been punished by - this phenomenon), the causality is not exclusively in either direction.

Rather, it's a self-perpetuating cycle.
I travel internationally maybe 6 times a year and on average spend maybe 10 minutes waiting in line and 30 seconds talking to the officer at CBP without global entry.

I've timed it with friends with global entry going through at the same time and they shaved off maybe 5 minutes.

Either ATL, SEA, LAX, JFK, and MSP are way better than average, or global entry isn't worth it except for the tiny percentage of international travelers that commute that way.

Point being, for US citizens, CBP is plenty fast enough without global entry.
What makes this different/better from the million of similar products or is this some kind of YC company ?
"uplift" in this context seemed to mean to me that they were not upstreaming the patches verbatim but neutering them for Firefox.
I'm doing Polyamory for the better part of my adult life and I learned much about conflict resolution. Because when you have multiple partners and they also have multiple partners you just end up with problems more often. If you take too long to fix these, the whole thing isn't viable anymore.

This also helped me in my career. I stopped thinking about "relationships" from a monogamous romantical point of view, but in a more generalized way.

I have feelings for every person I meet in life, some I love, some I like, some I find sexually attractive, some I find intellectual inspiring etc.

I want to be on good terms with all of those who I consider to be in my life for longer time, so I can't work with secrecy, fighting or passive aggressive behaviour.
I feel a lot of times that many modern philosophers simply not qualified enough in natural sciences. I've read Mind & Cosmos but gave up halfway: Nagel simply does not get evolution.

Contemporary philosophical discussion many times is like typical forum debates on the Internet about basic science - someone says something stupid and the others try to educate him, he don't get it and write his same stupidity again and again until everybody is tired to reply.

In the academic world this is called publish or perish: if you are a philosopher you should fear more from being forgotten than from proper and decisive falsification - so you just have to be loud, even if you are wrong. If you defend your wrongness skilfully you will have your followers anyway.

But I'm just simply don't interested in whether Nagel will get evolution eventually, or Putnam & Searle get computation sometime in the future* (just to provide another example)

* I thinking about their theory that a rock can implement any computation - if we provide proper mapping between the states, without taking into consideration the complexity of the mapping as part of the "computer" here. It is ok if someone doesn't get Kolmogorov but not clear why they should make a living from it, or at least why should I support it by buying and reading their books. ;)
Just my experience with SaaS, usually they start with ridiculously low price to capture the market. After you have established yourself, you can increase your price and grandfather early customers. You can even force your free users to upgrade to a paid plan by stating that ("upgrade now to lock old price! limited time only!").
Oh, absolutely, but I'm actually saying the terminal that ships with Elementary is superb. The macOS stock terminal is also really good. But the Windows stock terminal is downright horrible, Powershell is slightly better, but not Unixy, and ConEmu is so-so, but better than the other Windows options.
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