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> had its policy network trained from scratch rather than being bootstrapped by being given the goal of imitating the moves of strong humans

I just watched a couple of games, and I can't agree. Master's fuseki looks a lot like human fuseki. It plays some original, unusual, confusing, non-human looking moves, yes. It also plays some moves at what would normally be considered the "wrong time" conventionally. But the fuseki still looks highly derived from human games to me -- human with some (sometimes major) tweaks.

When AlphaGo is trained fully from first principles alone, I expect another Shin Fuseki -- a revolution in opening strategy. I would be surprised if Go Seigen, Kitani Minoru, et al had finally discovered optimal opening strategy at the beginning of the 20th century (developments since then have mostly been small refinings of what was started in the Shin Fuseki era, not revolutionary).
Yes. Further, if you put yourself in his shoes. What are you doing in those three weeks? You've sold them on the growth strategy - now you're getting up to speed on the details getting ready to execute. It's natural that you'd look into things in more detail. If you find something that's not right... whoah... differences.

If you were a fraudster, you'd just go along with it ;-)
> they've made no moves to encrypt data service side

From their website[0]: "Dropbox file data is stored in discrete file blocks that are fragmented and encrypted using 256-bit AES."

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/security
> The message I would take from those statistics is that needing a fresh download of Pypy is less common among 3.x users than among 2.7 users, who apparently needed to reinstall from the web at least a few times a day during 2016.

Occam's Razor would suggest that there are fewer Python 3 users
They are paying for music licensing. In Germany about 60℅ of the top 1000 videos were blocked due to disagreements with GEMA about fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_...
> I find it very frustrating that intelligent people don't seem to follow through their thought process here.
> The intelligence community will never be able to release enough information to satisfy people.

This is as far as my personal intelligence takes me:

* US officials and departments like the NSA have a history of lying to the public

* professional hackers are impossible to track down, therefore any evidence suggesting that they know exactly who it was will be met with great scepticism

* the information they released actually confirms that it could have been any hacker, because they used tools that are easily accessible

* the US seems to have a political agenda here

Knowing these facts I am just unable to believe the narrative. You could argue that they cannot release actual evidence, however that just makes me question the act of the DHS getting into this mess in the first place.
This has just changed my life.

I thought right click -> Open Command Window Here was the only way. (Sometimes need to hold shift? Maybe just in user directories)
>don't think it matters if React keyword searches are 20x Ember's.

It definitely matters, it's a huge deal:
popularity > usage > superior ecosystem > jobs > repeat
Ah, yes, you're right! The windows were created directly.
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A 'Captain Phillips' executive identified the tone of the film as a source of discomfort for censors, particularly “the big Military machine of the U.S. saving one U.S. citizen. China would never do the same and in no way would want to promote this idea.”

I was watching Argo on my Chinese IPTV streaming service in Shenzhen with my Chinese roommate and my roommate was blown away by the idea that the movie was based on a true story. He said that the Chinese government would never take such extreme steps to rescue its citizens from any such situation. I never really thought about his comment and his shock (it was a lot of shock) until reading this just now. Wow, interesting.
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I like that phrase. I call it 'destroying credibility.'

I get that there are a lot of different groups at Google and they all have their own vision of their own part of the universe, and its super empowering to tell every product manager "Hey, if you can get it market ready you can ship it!" The part that I don't get is that people working for Google aren't clueless. I know a lot of smart people that work there still. So why tolerate a company behavior that is so harmful to their consumer image? Rebranding is treated like a dot dot release it seems. Sure you can get away from a stigma maybe for a bad choice but rebranding on a whim? This stuff has to go through legal right? Trademarks and all that. Who decided to make Pixel a phone? And to just sort of drop the whole Nexus thing? (here is a funny discussion about the Pixel trademark: http://thetrademarkninja.com/2016/10/03/google-event-tradema...)

What it means is that nobody in any authority at Google understands brands, and that is a big red flag for Google's aspirations in the product space.
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but there is less variance in prices, more flexibility in shopping, and less variance between estimated and final cost.
Suppose your cofounder has taken a substantial amount of [...] money

If you mean "taken" in the literal sense of actually taking it, call the police. If you mean the cofounder earned it while working on the business, say they earned it.

At this point you can continue to raise the VC money but they'll wonder why you are suddenly a solo founder.

Investors don't "wonder". They'll ask why your cofounder left. Just tell the truth.

If your business is years old then it's too late to add another founder. Founders are the people who started the business. That's all. Whether you should bring in another person (as a partner, employee, etc) depends on what your business needs. Having two (or more) people running things isn't a show you put on to raise money; you often need more people simply because there's too much for one person to do. If your business is established and has traction that might not be the case.
What's wrong with getting excited about a new language and framework that's better? Being vocal about how awesome something is gets people involved which grows the community. A larger community translates to more educational material and tooling.

I think zealotism has a fine line, but I don't think it's all bad. It's almost like protestors that believe in something strongly. Sometimes they cross the line, but them protesting gains visibility which results in change.
It's only unlimited until it's not. I prefer someone who's primary business is what I'm paying for also.
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Definitely, quite scary, keeps me up at night. At least I know EXACTLY what my taxi driver is thinking....

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This is one of the biggest problems with Windows, Visual Studio, Office and other larger (enormous) software Microsoft makes: an insane amount of features but documentation is nonexistent or hard to find.

The software itself is quite powerful and feature-rich, but finding the right tools from the menus, hidden hotkeys etc is difficult or impossible.
Any other perspectives on this? Racial and gender diversity is clearly lacking in tech and I have a feeling that's even more concentrated at the "top" employers.

Not sure if we can do much about it though. Anyone that's been to school can see it's clearly something happening before college level. Seems like 5% or less of CS program students are women or minorities besides Asians, that doesn't give tech companies much to choose from.

The lack of diversity is being driven by something at highschool level or below, it's stupid to blame tech companies for something so obvious.
If you backport every new Python3 feature to Python2, it becomes Python3, by definition.
You absolutely nailed it.
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> I believe God asks us for faith.

OK, fair enough, but then how do you know it's Jesus and not Allah (or some other deity) asking for your faith? (That's a serious question, BTW. I'd really like to know your answer.)

> it's not a "good reason" to crush a baby kitten's skull just because you feel like it.

Yes, well, there's a reason I didn't choose that as my example.

Is scientific research a "good reason"? It is moral to vivisect a kitten for research? What about a mouse?
Me too but I was hoping it would be Gates.
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I fixed "taken" to be "raised". We raised money. Our investors want to see returns. VCs want to see teams not solo founders.

I hear what you're saying. Personally I think the preference to see more than one founder is the main problem in all this, and maybe I should just ignore it. A company with a good team and popular products is quite fundable regardless of how many founders are still with it. Right?
My toddler pronounces it "Uh-yexa" which won't activate. That's a feature in my mind.

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Funny thing is, my toddler was babbling something at dinner and the Echo Dot picked it up and tried to do a Bing search for "Eva has more fries".
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I think that's happening already, among engineers at least.

There should be some healthy dose of inspiring "propaganda", but this got out of hand - everybody claims "they have it".

I am so sick of this endless stream of lies, that I'm not even going to read the article. The next thing I am going to read on the topic would read something like "X has a viable self-driving car - it's hitting the market later this year.".
try giving google photos a try. I have been using google photos for a long time now (it used to be called picasa).

PS: I am a google employee, but my opinion on google photos literally has no bias. I don't use Iphone, I own android, so YMMV.
I know lawyers and states need time to legalise the paperwork around driverless, but I feel like 2020 is simply to appease the auto companies and give them another few years to stall.
My (now sidelined/back burnered) startup's main product was kind of like an advanced IFTTT that runs on your own hardware. The major difficulty was scaling up development and production without capital, and getting a basically Turing-complete system to be easy to use.
Right, but then you're getting into the areas where talking about, say, a 12 month gap (4 months looking, 8 months working, then canned) instead of perhaps a 5 or a 6 month gap. It can be done, but it looks awkward, and it really sucks.
No. You are wrong.

Being offended is one of those really weird states of mind.

It is purely one that is created by the person who becomes offended.

For example, in some cultures crossing your arms while someone is talking to you can be deemed offensive. In other cultures burping is perfectly fine while in others it is not acceptable.

Leaving cultures behind, people, individuals, become offended for a huge variety of things and it varies from person to person.

The difference here (and other fora) is that those who choose to be offended pile on and engage in down-vote wars that are utterly meaningless. Being offended serves exactly zero purpose and does nothing whatsoever to the facts.

The facts in this case are that a national reduction of hours work --for everyone, not just someone's wife-- is a nonsensical and destructive an idea as can be. You can't force something like that without severe consequences.

The "hippie on dope" comment was merely a colorful way to describe the state of mine someone would have to be in to think that this is a good idea at a national level.

And people get offended. Hilarious.
it is probably a bit hard to prove competency/incompetency in just 3 weeks.
"thought leader" is the point I quit taking people serious.
Not much actually documented these days about the UI, considering probably that the vast majority of users never read or even opened the online help. In any case, this has been working since forever. The address bar effectively was a Start ▸ Run with the current folder as working directory (if possible) when it was introduced. They have been careful not to break that.
Always an interesting choice, the upside if you join is you get some money if the suit is settled, I presume the only downside is that you pretty much won't ever be employed there ever if they have paid out a legal settlement check to you. (It turns out it isn't illegal not to hire based on previously being sued by someone). I doubt they would be forced to hire you if they settle. (which would be a huge downside in my opinion, you'd go to work at a company with them already hating you for working there.)

So I guess it really comes down to whether you think there is any chance at all that they would ever hire you. I doubt anyone would hold participating in the suit against you, it isn't like you started it.
It's called good sportsmanship and (some) online games are the only place you can get away without practicing it. Anywhere else (board games, pick up sports games, etc) it's required regardless of whether you win or lose or you'll be ostracized.
It's also in the File menu.
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The film industry has been oriented at making a profit since the late 1800s.
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Wow! I always like how people implement HN API in their own ways.
Brilliant! Thanks for the proof of concept. I've been debating this method, but it looks like you got it setup relatively quickly. Almost as easy as transitioning to another C compiler/tool chain.
It may be boring because you don't realize it's not a tautology.

You are wrong to separate video games from generalized AI. If you read the paper I posted above it explains part of this active area of research,
Agreed. It's the best terminal emulator I've found on windows. I usually use it for other shells and avoid cmd like the plague but, whatever shell you use, it's a far better app than conhost.exe.

I haven't experienced the instability that others have but I do find its configurability a bit excessive. Somehow I want it to be much simpler but still do everything that it does now. I don't know the way to achieve this but I believe it's possible.
How about Reddit? That's a site that's undergone a number of UI changes and I'm pretty sure even now still has <30 engineers. It had around 6 in 2012 I believe.
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Those numbers are fairly misleading.The Chinese exchanges volumes are somewhat fabricated. Check out the data on bitcoinity.org [1], which reports that 9.3 million BTC, or 98% of worldwide volume, were traded on Chinese exchanges in the past 24 hours. That would be 58% of all bitcoins currently in existence, traded on Chinese exchanges, in a single day.

Clearly, that is not what is happening. My understanding is that these numbers are the result of zero fees, enabling self-trading (same person on both sides) to create false market signals, as well as rapid fire back and forth trading strategies. There is also some speculation that some Chinese exchanges directly manipulate the volume data in one way or another.

I'm not sure exactly what the story is. And China may still very well be leading this current price wave. However, those volume numbers are very suspicious and should be taken with a large grain of salt.

[1] http://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/24h?c=c&r=hour&t=b...

Update: In the past 15 minutes, while I finished writing this post, an additional 200k BTC were supposedly traded on Chinese exchanges. That would be approximately $250 million of trades at current prices, which is ridiculous.
This. Why manufacturing needs to be done here in the USA. Those who control manufacturing control all the things. When you control the factory you figure out how to make the factory smarter. Tesla could have just said "Hey, we need batteries. Let's make them in China... they can make everything!" But instead they decided to be the masters of their own destiny.

Elon is very smart, indeed.
What is a shell for you then? If the defining characteristic is that it's not written in a managed language, well, okay, but I don't think many people share that sentiment.

I have observed the several seconds startup time last with PowerShell v2 or so and that was not the time needed for the CLR to start, but rather PowerShell which was slow to start. v5.1 starts instantly here and the only slow thing about it is my profile, which admittedly does a bunch of things that take time (it's not yet at a point where it's annoying me so much that I edit it, and I can start typing commands during that time anyway (considering that I often spend more time thinking about what to write that's okay)).
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If we are talking theoretical limits instead of what is practical today, we may as well count on nuclear fusion to power it.
This paper by Fabio Checconi and Fabrizio Petrini of IBM Watson is a rare look into design details:

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I got hired over 40, no problems. Left six months later for personal reasons, hoping to get back in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything has a process, it is not surprising government entity X cannot access government entity Y stuff automatically. Would you assume the CIA can access the FBI documents? Its not always so obviously simple.
It's actually more like 20% women in CS programs now, and it was 30% a decade ago. It would be stupid to attribute that 50% decline to changes at high school or below though, wouldn't it?

And what does any of this have to do with equal compensation? If 0.01% of CS graduates were women they should still receive the same pay as men do.
I have pinned PowerShell to the task bar, so on machines I use with my users it's always Win+Shift+4 to get a new instance. Win+X,i is another way (provided you enabled the option for PowerShell to replace cmd on that menu, which the article mentions as becoming the default eventually).
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> The lack of diversity is being driven by something at highschool level or below, it's stupid to blame tech companies for something so obvious.

What basis is this statement founded on? It is also stupid to make unfounded claims without any indication that you have substantiated them. I am genuinely curious what the cause is and if grade school so be it but let's not point fingers at something just cause.
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Segwit requires 95% miner support to pass. It isn't a good example of Blockstream having centralized control. I don't know as much about RBF adoption.
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Large companies actually do better in terms of diversity.

As far as doing things, there is definitely many things to be done! You are right that the problem starts well before college. In America there is a culture that being CS is nerdy, and not girly. This is largely in part due to Hollywood's attempts, but this can be combated at a more local level.
I'm happy to work with people whom I disagree with politically. But if you're concerned about privacy, giving all your files unencrypted to a company that is uninterested in your privacy (as demonstrated by their board) is just bonkers.
We use PgBouncer as well. It's still useful to have a connection pooler within the application for ensuring connections are still good, reconnecting as needed, and making it easy to check out a connection.
I'm not an expert, but I imagine these AIs attack the game using methods that just don't work with humans - predicting long deep branches of the game that are impossible to keep in your (well, at least my) head.

The way I recall building simple game AIs is to create a board evaluator, then build a game tree, prune as necessary, and min-max as system constraints allow. I'm sure "real" AIs are much more sophisticated but I don't know how much of what it does can be taught to a human.
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Yeah! It feels like we are in the 90s again! Where you got flash videos but only a 54k connection. It is not faster...At all. just. slower and slower..
There has been an opt-in for »Share anonymous usage details with Microsoft to make stuff better« since ages in Windows and other Microsoft products. So if yo enabled that, I presume they will log telemetry about what features of Windows are used, how often, together with which other features, etc. I wouldn't expect that to extend to non-Windows programs since there's little they can learn from it.
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Right, I think that's reasonable. Maybe just use it for debug or builds of test suites/CI builds.
Interesting. Do they also merge file formats like .DOC and .PSD?
I for one, never thought bitcoins are something to free people or so. It always was and is something for big corps and people with a lot of money and states to cut costs and taxes.

Whoever talked about freedom was delusional.
"So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who want to get smarter about the world every day.

It is too soon to say exactly what this will look like. This strategy is more focused but also less proven."

In so many words, "We'll think of something."
You'll still have to endure the definition-stretching phase. I'm going to start really paying attention when pedaless cars are declared.
Moving on from net-tools
> What is a shell for you then?

A way to execute programs. The parent is right, powershell is more like a REPL to execute .net code. It's still no where near as good as a unix environment.
Actually some titles were really large, and they messed up the entire layout so had to put a limit. Will experiment with it though.

Does the animation lag, or is it annoying?
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As do humans (see the various cognitive biases). The question is: does the AI's black box result in a safer outcome?
Woah! I did not know that about killing PID -1. That is not behaviour I'd expect.

This developer uses Python though, which seems like it does the correct thing in raising an error instead of just returning a -1. I'd have to look through the Python code to be sure through:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/os.html#os.fork
I'd argue the CNN article contains more info: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/google-labor-depa...

And links to the actual lawsuit: https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease...

"Google has repeatedly refused to provide names, contact information, job history and salary history details that the government has requested for its employees."