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This was written in May 2000, but the following bit sounds like it was written May 2017.

> In conclusion, I want to confess what my real goals are in teaching this material. In a society in which information is passed in 60 second sound bites and reasoning limited to monosyllabic simple sentences, careful, analytic thinking is in danger of extinction. And this is a grave danger in a democratic society beset by a host of very complex moral and social problems.
In your case the problem is that you don't want to fill out all the information in the first place, not whether the form has one page or four pages. Getting asked for too much information when signing up for something is annoying.

A multi-stage form should indicate how many pages there are, to prevent the "ARGH it keeps going" effect you mentioned. Surveys are some of the worst offenders here.
Sprawling cities are really bad, you end up paving over and building atop your best farmland.

Dense development is cheaper in both the short term & long term, if we remove zoning barriers to it we can have affordable, unsubsidized and non-rent controlled apartments in Seattle. Instead we mandate worthless parking be built, despite that it is extremely costly and goes unused quite often, while capping and limiting how large & tall buildings are, kneecapping sustainable, affordable housing.
How do you tie non-physical things to a blockchain? You can't, without trusting some non-blockchain entity.

And if you do end up trusting some non-blockchain entity, then the whole effort is pointless. (You might just as well directly trust them with your patent filings, reports, etc instead).
Ah, so Tencent is a company. "Chinese tech giant Tencent". They did QQ and WeChat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

It seems as if they are even bigger than Baidu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu) which is maybe more known (at least by me).

It seems this is the website of the group (the Tencent AI lab) which developed the FineArt Go bot:
http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/

Here some article from Tencent about their Go bot (in Chinese): http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/%E5%86%8D%E5%88%9B%E4%BD%B3%E7%B...

There is also a Wikipedia article about the Fine Art Go bot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Art_(software)

Along the line, I also read about DeepZenGo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(software)
What's with the invisible text input boxes? And navigation is all over the place, I have no idea where I am, and where I am in relation to the rest of the process.
> My guys were time reporting into 3 different tools (and this is a <10 person startup!)

Who is the fscking idiot that calls himself a startup founder and makes people report in 3 different tools?
USD or US citizen? I'm pretty sure my USD got a haircut.
Agree with the plausible deniability. They obviously came up with some innocent names and only told co-conspirators the real meaning behind.

Interesting: https://www.etas.com/en/products/ascet_developer.php
Generates C via models. I prefer SimuLink RealTime-Workshop (now Simulink Coder) though. You only need very few C there.
Have you tried Modafinil? It didn't make me smarter, but it made me very persistent (to the point of missing sleep).

Obviously not ideal, but a step in the right direction imo.
> Looking at just the Bitfinex order book[1]

That's assuming that the order book hasn't been spoofed[1]. Those buy orders could very well disappear quite soon once the market starts to move in their direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_(finance)
23-80 inches (60-150cm) means the diagonal axis of the projection surface, right?

How bright is 100 lumens? Sounds very very low to me compared to standard lighting bulbs.
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If you want to sell and not incur slippage, bitfinex has an OTC market and Gemini has an auction market. Millions are changing hand everyday.
Very intelligent monsters in very intelligent society are still less of a problem, than very intelligent monsters in an average society.
Having worked for a company that used daily status reports via email, I can say that they are an absolute pain in the ass, but clients were delighted by them when done properly. Those status provide a clear hand written description of what your team did and next steps to take. I can honestly say that those reports did as much as the quality code to show us as a professional team in which the client could trust.
And yes, if you couldn't write your own status for each day, even after training and guidance to do so, you weren't a fit for the company.
It was one of the best companies I've worked for and where I learned the most.
Well I believe they control for social status. And also a lot of other things, see gwern's comment above. In any case, I don't expect there to be genes that predict social class. And if there were, that would be super interesting in itself.
Can anyone shed light on the significance? AlphaGo already beat a top human quite decisively a few month ago. How is this different?
They published it in "Cogent Social Sciences" which is publishing everything if you pay them enough money. They have been hoaxed themselves.
They're requiring reporting into three different tools, and still don't have the visibility to know if shit's going to be done by deadline?

They really have no idea what they're doing.

How are these deadlines getting set?
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Rotten little cesspool. Rotten little scumbags.
Every place has its own names for things, but I often see "senior" refer to your interchangeable seniority in the field, not just in the one company/code base. Then for people to grow into "lead" or "principal".
Just out of curiosity, do those 7.5+ million accepted answers include those closed as duplicates? Because by far my biggest complaint is finding the exact question I have was closed as a duplicate and links to a question that is useless at answering my question.
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I'd vote for open-ness in government.
Heard about this pre-launch, now it's finally out. Pretty amazing, it's a whole new way of looking at mobile analytics and showing you what your users do in your mobile app, way better than anything on the market IMO.
0.5 is not really decisive enough. Let's wait for the next games. Je Kie is really good, much better than in the training games online.
Coinbase doesn't work for you? Sounds like a credit card problem.
Your customers will love having they mouse movements tracked every second of the day!
>So the potential explanation is that this or a descendant found its way to Africa, and then gave rise eventually to Homo Sapiens.

given that Mediterranean dried out completely about 1M years later, back then there weren't 2 different things - Europe and Africa - like today, just a huge valley where may be a large part of our ancestors' evolution took place.
iPhone SE takes top spot in large US customer satisfaction survey
Build denser neighborhoods, eliminate the need for long commutes in general. Commuting is not adding value to our economy, it is just a large money pit that we throw gas, maintenance, and tax dollars into.

The concept of low-rise residential & commercial is very recent, and was a reaction to the cold war (eg: lets spread out, nukes can't kill us all then!). You end up with sprawling burbs covering your best farmland, and a crapton of infrastructure to maintain at great expense. If it weren't for federal infrastructure subsidies covering the up front capital for infrastructure, most suburbs would not exist.

You can build dense, multi-story complexes with good insulation and seperation, were it not for running into your neighbors at the mailbox, you'd hardly see them at all. Most buildings built from 2002 on in Seattle are of this caliber, and having put up walls before, stapling some insulation between isn't that hard or expensive, and is worth every dollar if you plan to live there.
Burp scan, zap scan are two products for penetration testing / vulnerability scans. They mount organized attacks on your web site. They look for stuff like sql injection and xsrf, and all that.

Burp has a broader scope because it does fuzz-style random testing. Zap is more reproducible. (Burp can be a pain in the neck because it doesn't reliably retest stuff it found.)

Be gentle with your new developer colleagues as you present them the results from these tools. They almost always find a couple of more-or-less silly vulnerabilities.
That improvement took about decade for computer chess, through a combination of algorithm and hardware improvements. A decade might be a reasonable ballpark estimate for Go as well (but even less than that is realistic). On the hardware side, I would not be surprised if analog circuits make a comeback.
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Could you help explain how to interpret the list of effect sizes? I'm having trouble understanding what the numbers mean. For example, black hair is 0.00 heritable. Does that mean one cannot inherit black hair? (Is this black in the sense of asiatic hair?)
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How do you get to the point where you have 30MB in images for the homepage? I mean, I would understand 1-5MB if you have several images and want to keep them high-quality for your users not to notice, but there are many more techniques to avoid just loading 30MB to try before compressing them better...
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Changing topic area for a PhD is hard work, but usually of significant value, because you have insights into each from the other. As such, the work provides a return. But it's hard work.

Will the PhD be of net positive value? In some fields, to have a PhD is of net negative value (although perhaps only initially) because potential employers will believe you have only book-learning experience, and are of no practical use.

Do you want to do a PhD? Why? It's hard work, extremely frustrating, and usually somewhat marginal. If you work on truly mainstream material there is always a chance someone will publish before you and potentially prevent you from getting the PhD.

So if you really want to do it, then go for it, but start by understanding your reasons and motivations. Certainly ML is a rich field, full of as-yet-undiscovered techniques and algorithms, and undoubtedly useful. But remember, a PhD is not the only way to get into a field - another path might be better. Don't be excessively tempted for the initially easy option.
This kind of attitude is really unhelpful. Of course this sort of situation is undesirable, demonstrably, but it's not necessarily a case of idiocy - it's actually very easy for non-technical founders to get into this situation: let's say the developers want to use JIRA, but the non-technical staff find JIRA impossible to use (totally reasonable), so they want to carry on using Trello; straight away you've got tasks spread across two disparate platforms. Then let's say that a manager has an embedded belief from a past (probably non-startup) life that time-tracking by the hour is incredibly important, and they have a preferred tool for this (because, while JIRA has this functionality, it's pretty horrible, and Trello doesn't do it at all), and boom, you've got two different tools for tracking work and a third tool for tracking time.
I'm starting to think that actually writing code is more the "peripheral task" in the senior developer role - I find I spend most of my time working with other devs, doing code reviews, dealing with administrative stuff like our organization's change management process, and handling larger-scale, higher-level stuff like making our deployment process sane.

It's unusual these days that I just grab a feature or a hotfix and knock it out - generally only the ones too big and scary for anyone else to handle, and my guys are good enough that those are pretty rare.
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Here recent detailed answer from Nick

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/348223/stack-overfl...
> There are no dice. With enough information you can choose what to roll everytime. With enough information you can have all the potential conceivable paintings. Perception is a combinatorial game. Physics is a combinatorial game.

Small nitpick: Modern physics wants to have a word with you.

But I think I know what you want to say.
It's the way of the world. Tech stacks have life spans roughly one fifth of the duration of human careers.
When will that happen? Self-driving cars/trucks aren't anywhere near being deployed on real roads. Also, as soon as there's an accident and the self-driving car kills a child, they will be postponed for at least 5 years until safety assurances are strengthened.
"...it’s held out as a high-quality open-access journal by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is intended to be a reliable list of such journals."

I think that is one of the main points they wanted to stress.
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> A low dose of the administered THC was chosen so that there was no intoxicating effect in the mice.

It seems the experiment is similar to microdosing cannabis. It's not widespread practice, but so far I haven't heard about people complaining their memory is impaired while microdosing.
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The libre. I am afraid to tightly grab that arm and it's distracting when caressing that arm so I just keep my hands away from it which creates this weird spot I am afraid to touch...
It's not even remotely realistic, it's a populist fantasy.

Nevertheless, that is the plan, to somehow force the world to turn the clock back on globalism to a time when American coal, steel and auto workers were relevant, and to beat back the tide of modernity until the world makes sense again.
"There's a lot more friendly ways the legislation could ave been written: Work hour cap per week, different classes of CDL/ experience means different caps, etc."

Only these do not solve the issue. The issue is that working longer shifts puts people's lives in danger. You could legislate in some worker protections for the driver, making it more likely these things do not happen. But they wouldn't make the laws any less necessary.
Minimum wage is better than nothing, I agree.

But it's worse than most other forms of welfare. We can do better. Much better.
> I'm aware it's only 190 bits of keyspace. I mentioned this in my blog post[0], and would in fact be more likely to decrease it than increase it, in order to make the URLs shorter. I don't think it's a problem, but am interested in being proven wrong.

I understand that you're trying to balance the tradeoff between security and usability here, which is tricky. If quantum computers are part of your threat model, remember that Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup for brute-forcing a symmetric key, so 2^190 would become 2^95 against a quantum adversary. Personally I prefer the margin of safety provided by using a full-strength 256-bit key :)

> It's using CBC mode.

Phew! That would've been truly catastrophic.
This is different because while AlphaGo did beat Lee Sedol a while ago. Lee was ranked 2nd in the world for Go. Ke Jie, AlphaGo's current opponent, is ranked 1st in the world.
This might have been asked already but would you mind linking me to said TED talk?
Literally any "business marketoid" that has no technical background ;-) "Writing is working", isn't it? :P
It's impossible to solve affordable housing
by constructing more buildings and
regulating prices.

[citation needed]
So where is the code?
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I was under the impression that it was because humans learned to control fire, meaning we could eat softer food which altered the human teeth. However, 7.2m years massively predates our current understanding of when fire was first utilised..
I thought I'd register to add a few interesting points to this thread.

'Classical' GWAS are a top-down approach, where we try to find strong associations betweens a genetic locus and a trait (in this case intelligence), and they rely on very stringent p-value corrections due to the number of tests performed. This is why although height is >0.6 heritable (meaning genetics explain more than 60% of the trait variance in a given population), only 20% of the variance can be attributed to GWAS finds [1], such as the 52 genes in this article. Bear in mind that the height results were obtained with the largest GWAS ever with more than 250,000 samples and 300 institutes [2].

So where is the missing heritability? This is the starting point of a bottom-up approach, where we try to predict a trait from the genotype. With some clever but simple calculation, we know that most heritability can be found in the data (even if it does not pass the stringent significant thresholds). This is what is called 'chip heritability', the heritability explained by all the common genetic variants present on commercial chips taken together. With height, the chip heritability reaches 62.5% [1]. The bottom-up approach is especially looked at for psychiatric disorders, and already delivered some interesting results such as 0.8 genetic correlation between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [3]. But useful clinical diagnostics based on genetic data are still a long way off.

This should please the HN crowd to know that we still have one tough prediction problem to crack. Current results can be improved either with more sophisticated machine learning methods or by integrating various biological annotations to try to unearth the missing heritability that GWAS can't seem to find with the current sample sizes.
Here are a few more links for those interested [4] [5].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25282103?dopt=Citation
[2] https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/giant-study-reveals-gian...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797329/
[4] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gepi.21966/full
[5] https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/29/2/206/202...
James Watson lost his job just for making an offhanded remark about this subject. He had to sell his nobel prize to stay afloat. And still gets a ton of shit for it whenever his name comes up. Even on this website. It's dangerous to have opinions about this.
Because of the very problem that we're discussing - that automation drives humans out of jobs. Whether in 20 years or in 200, we'll inevitably get to the point where there's simply less work that has to be done (to keep the lights on, so to speak), than there are humans. At that point, saying that you must work to earn a living amounts to saying that some proportion of the population deserves to die - since there isn't enough jobs for all the people. Or, alternatively, it amounts to saying that people must perform meaningless work to live, for the sake of... I don't know what exactly?
I'm curious, how is Catan easily solvable if it has an element of social communication (indeed the most important part of the game)?
Do you have a blog or something?
A canister Kenmore. In my experience, fancy vacuums are more trouble than they're worth.
As a Spanish newbie developer, past my 30's, learning on my own for a career change and without any degree (not even a non-tech degree), how are my chances of finding an entry level position in Barcelona or Madrid? What can I do to increase my chances?

I see that most developer jobs ask for tech-related degrees and at least 1-3 years of professional experience.

I'd be very grateful if someone is willing to give me some advice.

PS: I'm following a full-stack curriculum focused on Ruby (not the most popular language in Spain, I know) and JavaScript.
Forms are annoying and should to the greatest extend be automatized. Chrome autofill and saving user's input is helpfull.
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"Don't allow your evil to make the morning papers" isn't quite as inspiring as their old motto.
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> Messi will probably score less than average in general intelligence tests.

Why? Without support it looks like a "just world fallacy." He's good at physical activities so he must be bad at thinking.
Order books are often disconcertingly thin. When GDAX restarted with a configuration error only allowing sells, the price went from $1184 to 6 cents in about 100 BTC of trades. This quickly recovered of course, but that's how thin it is. http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/04/16/gdax-bitcoin-price-briefly...

Large sales frequently cause $20-30 dips. http://www.coindesk.com/high-seas-bitcoin-trading-whales-sti...

So you'll want to take it slowly, and across multiple exchanges if you can. Check Reddit that a given exchange isn't having (what's the phrase) "problems with the traditional banking system", i.e. you can get ActualMoney out.

Also, don't go within a mile of Bitfinex - users still can't get hard currency out without a local Taiwan bank account (if even that still works).
That really is a great document.
I seriously doubt there'd be much work around that has such low value, and that cannot be automated. And if it can be automated, what is the additional value to society to have human perform it instead?
Given you still can't get actual US Dollars out of Bitfinex, it is poor advice to take them as indicative of anything whatsoever about Bitcoin except as a cautionary tale.
"I once inherited a fairly large c++ application that could only be built on THE dev box, or a copy of it. Only one old timer understood it, it was his meal ticket, and he wasn't talking. It used auto tools so I converted it to cmake so I could build locally. Then I spent about two weeks just reading the code..."

I am interested to know what happened to the "old timers" meal ticket?
He's also had more time and data to try develop anti-AI tactics and prepare against AlphaGo's strategy. While Sedol mostly went in blind.
They've been Al Nusra since 2013 and while they did affiliate with Al Qaeda for a while they split with them about a year ago. They're no angels, for sure, and I wouldn't describe them as moderate, but let's at least get the facts straight. If they can provide intelligence and tactical support against ISIS why turn it down? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the better-than-nothing.

Even Trump is beginning to understand some of this. It's just a shame so many people in Khan Sheikhoun had to die first.
I read someone saying "we're best at creating things which do some things better than us".
In-exchange volume indicates nothing about actual US dollar liquidity.

That and the fact that you can't get actual US dollars out of Bitfinex. (Which is what triggered the present bubble - unable to withdraw their USD, people bought more cryptos with them because there was literally nothing else they could use them for.)
OT, I know... and I don't want to pick on Khan Academy, but I noticed that the submitter is an account specifically created to submit content related to their own blog. If you look at the submission history, there are only a half-dozen of links, all of them to KA's blog.

I know that there are no rules about promoting your own content, but how is this not considered a sock puppet account?