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Trump hasn't done anything yet here. Let me read the article for you:

Under WTO rules, such temporary tariffs may be used to shield an industry from a sudden, unforeseen and damaging surge in imports. They can be challenged by other WTO members.

The ITC will decide by Sept. 22 whether the U.S. industry has suffered "serious injury", and if that is the case it will submit its report to Trump by Nov. 13, the filing said.

Don't get me wrong: Trump is terrible on trade, and I fully expect him to act in ways that are self-destructive to the USA (and to do so with full support of the GOP and the DEMs). But let's be intellectually honest, and recognize that this isn't yet him doing that.
Slightly OT:

Anyone notice the irony of this thread being right next to another HN thread titled: "As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating"?
> Now suppose that we construct the Gödel sentence for this formal system. Since the Gödel sentence cannot be proven in the system, the machine will be unable to produce this sentence as a truth of arithmetic. However, a human can look and see that the Gödel sentence is true. In other words, there is at least one thing that a human mind can do that no machine can. Therefore, “a machine cannot be a complete and adequate model of the mind” (Lucas 1961: 113). In short, the human mind is not a machine.

That is not a difference between human and machine. It's a rhetorical trick at best, and an unreasonable appeal to mysticism at worst.

A human mind looking at the Gödel sentence while strictly adhering to the same formal structure could also not see that the Gödel sentence is true. Conversely, a machine that is allowed to operate outside of this postulated formalism could perfectly well make an inference that the Gödel sentence is true.

The Lucas-Penrose argument boils down to a questionable attempt at a logic bomb. So by first tying the machine's hands, they argue that the machine's hand's are indeed tied, and therefore humans - who in this example have been given free rein - can do something that you explicitly disallowed machines from doing.
No if you watch the Go matches, AlphaGo did a lot of things that the professional commentator found odd, but they ended up working out. I expect if you saw similar odd tactics in the future you could guess you were playing an AI.
The example picture of the waves rolling on the beach doesn't even look all that high quality. Perhaps it is my crappy monitors at work, but it looks pretty basic.
Google Tag Manager alternative – Set up tracking without coding
NPP isn't just a mobile payment solution, its a new platform for Australian banks to perform real-time clearing and settlements:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Payments_Platform

It's basically an Australian national initiative backed by their banking system to build a whole new set of financial infrastructure.

The RBC has a paper with an overview of these types of systems that could be worth a read if you're curious:

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sdp201...
No, because a medical school is literally called a professional school.
dang is an admin; it was him cleaning things up.
>>> play well with others

...And right off the block, no headphone jack.

Why do companies insist on just blindly following Apple? Baah.
Similar confusion in Java Script regarding const vs var.
The funny thing about trying to stop AI doing bad things is that we are barely able to stop natural intelligence doing bad things. We've pretty much worked out how to do stable governments and how to fight wars that kill fewer people. But that's only in the past half century. Maybe it'll turn out that we humans go back to killing each other as mercilessly as we have for most of the rest of our history. Intelligent humans have been able to persuade other humans to cooperate in large scale killings. How are we going to stop super-intelligent AGI doing the same if we can't even stop less intelligent people?
I think it's worth noting that the approach to translation has changed significantly since the 1960s.

AFAIK the real breakthrough wasn't that technology just got better, but that the whole paradigm shifted to statistical machine translation in the early 90s, and the whole paradigm is changing again from phrase-based statistical translation to neural network-based translations.

The shift to neural nets can be somewhat attributed to increased compute capacity, but it's not an automatic result of it.

I have no idea what the state of the art is in robotics, but I expect there will be some fundamental changes to how we do robotics before it becomes a break-out success.
You might find "The Phoenix Project" interesting. It's a novel about IT operations management that I've assigned my MIS students to read in the past. You don't have to understand all of the technology buzzwords to get what it says about the roles and activities in IT.
It could easily do it via IAP (i.e. the IAP purchase causes the backend to perform the transaction).
Using RDF in PHP – From Turtle to JSON-LD
Africa on the Cusp of a Mobile Broadband Boom
I would really hope that AMD enabling ECC on all parts would cause Intel to stop differentiating their product lines on something that should be available everywhere. ECC should be mandated except for the least critical uses (toys, video players, etc).
How does the integration with your VoIP system work?
It depends on your audience. There are more tech communities on Google+ than any other in my experience.
DStv fined $14M for price fixing
Thanks - that seems to be the idea I was groping for.

In this particular case, though, it seems close to circularity - if the primary purpose of the argument is to refute the computational theory of mind, then ruling out a whole class of machines a priori looks to me like begging a chunk of the question - though I appreciate that it leads to a better-defined question.
I have a phonegap app with over half a million users. As a matter of fact it's been 2 years to this day since it was released and it's still going strong. Never had any real problems with phonegap and I've used all the major plugins. 'Order of magnitude' pfff, Why not get informed before running your mouth.
There are a lot of roofs left in the US to install solar on.
I don't think that is a fair response.

1) Camera's had proven use and adoption before being mounted on mobile computers. RAM has been ever increasing since the inception of it.

2) My comment should be seen in a timeframe. When I say no one needs 6GB RAM, there is an implied 'in 2017' added to that. Otherwise every discussion about hardware could be killed with you argument.

>As long as they're not going backwards, I don't see a reason why these companies should not go with them.

The question is: which one do you choose to put in your phone now. Knowing Android, knowing the other specs of the phone and knowing what kind of apps people use.

In that case: I think the SD835 is overkill for 99% of people. That last 1% being people who want the fastest simply _because_ it is the fastest, or who play the most advanced mobile games / VR. Those people are a very small subset of all smartphone users. 1% might be too much.
I used my wife who is an assistant, not a developer or engineer. Exactly what jobs that currently utilize a personal computer do you see being able to be move entirely to a smart phone? If you're so insistent they exist, please supply some examples.

> You see that once you have to build solutions for the masses.

I have been a professional software developer for 20 years, my friend. I have worked on products at every level. Please stop being so patronizing.
First impressions of an Amazon bookstore
Startup Profile: Invoice Worx
I agree, laptops have moved to terrible intel GPUS and are much worse for it because intel conned oems into thinking it was a decent GPU. They brand them as "multimedia" which just means it can stream video up to its screen resolution at 110C
>drastically lowers the price of mid-range CPUs

Well, I think the current mid-range Ryzen's offer significant value and I imagine OEMs will start including them into their popular models sooner than later.

6 cores at 3.6ghz with a 4.0ghz boost for $239.

https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-1600X-Processor-YD160XBCAEW...

More than likely we won't see any kind of price war. Instead we'll see minor price fighting on a per category basis. Intel's mid vs AMD's mid, etc. There's no drive down to the bottom with a duopoly.
"Fakers, cheaters, bullshiters are everywhere unfortunately"

We are. Source: I am a master-level bullshitter. Professional lobbyists and politicians ask me to make introductions, use my network, etc. Here's the weird thing, though: I'm a software developer. A pretty good one. Not the best, but top 20%.

I know tons of Natural Bullshitters like myself, but I've never met another one that was a software engineer. Dabblers, occasionally, but no Naturals.

The thing is, it takes a bullshitter to spot a bullshitter. So being a good bullshitter is the skill that has offered the most utility to the various jobs I've had in tech: calling out frauds, inflating the profiles of the people on my teams doing actual work, undermining lesser bullshitters that try to take credit from them... come to think of it, there's never been a technical team I was on where I was not the most popular member of the team (among my peers, at least).

So if you can find a Daywalker, try adding them to your team...
Marketing person: "I think it'll be cute to add our pets to the about page!"

Employees with dogs: "Aww! It'll be so cute to add our dogs! Let's give them fun titles!"

Most people: "So cute! Look honey, they have a picture of a dog named 'Cosmo' that's their 'Head of Security'! Haha!"

Hacker News: "This is an affront to the serious nature of computer security and an insult! I am shocked that a startup would make such an attempt at 'humor' when the OS they use does not have 100% perfect security and our privacy and digital security is being threatened daily by the men in black. I will never buy this product!!!!!11"
From what I've seen the most common mistake when starting working on a new codebase is to not read it all before doing any change.

I really mean it, a whole lot of programmers simply dont read the codebase before starting a task. Guess the result, specially in terms of frustration.
http://www.libtorrent.org/dht_store.html could be of interest for this project.

It's a proposal for an extension the bittorrent to store arbitrary data.

Through this it could be possible made possible/easier to create a livestream.

Sadly it's (afaik) only a proposal, but I think it's a very interesting one.
Does it pay well? Availability of jobs? :)
This should be one of the first tasks that any aspiring career programmer has. It's an essential experience in making a professional.
Models shows 98% [1].

If I were Kate Upton or Bar Rafaeli, I'd start looking for a new job pronto!

[1] https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/41-9012-models
Project managers' personality, project types, and project success
Frankly, I never quite understood the importance of clear documentation until I found one such code base smoldering on my porch.
Firefox had this "Firefox Hello" but only one-on-call. Sadly they discountined it.
Apparently, Intel has years of runway vs AMD. The chips are literally designed and sitting there, only to be released if AMD comes up with something. Intel isn't scrambling in any sense, just announcing stuff that is already designed and built. All AMD was force Intel to release it earlier than their monopoly position was allowing.
Sometimes your inner desires to rewrite it from scratch can be overwhelming.

https://alwaystrending.io/articles/software-engineer-enterta...
No problem!

Stretch is a really awesome idea, by the way. :)
Amen. By the time (if ever) the rewrite has reached feature parity with the original, it is as bad as the original.

Also second system syndrome.
> Bangladesh's population is growing by 1-2% per year [1]. Isn't that just as bad as losing 1-2% of their land to sea level ever year?

No, it isn't. First off, 1% of the population doesn't "consume" 1% of the land. People can be packed in pretty densely. Second off, people can move/relocate. The land, once lost to the rising ocean, is gone forever.

> How are you concerned about them losing land but not about them gaining people?

Why are you putting words in my mouth? When did I even mention overpopulation let alone dismiss it? Of course overpopulation is an issue, and is a cause of climate change. But it wasn't part of the conversation. If you want to bring it in, I would say it is also a bigger concern than AI.
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it's not like they would have lot of chances everywhere else where Xiaomi Mi Mix with bigger battery and jack is just fine
I liked to drive my cars around my lego creations.

Of course, my favorite childhood gift combined the two: Expert Builder Set 8860, the Lego car chassis with working steering, differential, transmission and moving engine pistons. That set is how I learned how the drivetrain in a car works.
I had a manager like this. Didn't know the finer details of what I worked on, had the experience to empathize, but was primarily a resource manager / ran interference for distractions.

I liked him at the time, but once I had a new manager I was blown away at everything I was missing from a more fully-qualified manager.

Now that I recognize that kind of manager - I see a lot of them. OP probably could make it as a manager - and I say that from having seen so many of these managers move up the chain. But I think other commenters are right: managers shouldn't believe they don't need to comprehend details.
"My current salary is confidential, but I'm looking to make between $X and $Y at my next job."
> Why do you say that? The idea one could get it right writing from scratch is one of those seductive thoughts, but in my experience it never works out that way.

Of course the alternate route – rewriting - is just a hypothetical so we can only suppose how it would've turned out.

That said, rewriting from scratch would've been pretty straightforward, since the design is pretty much set.

The real value of the existing code resides in the unit tests that Steve Sanderson, Ryan Niemeyer, and Michael Best created – since they illuminated a lot of weird and deceptive edge cases that would've likely been missed if we had rewritten from scratch.

So I suspect you are right, that it's just a seductive thought.
Depends on the role, the bad roles generally are just that (report monkey and a bit of project management around implementation.) The tooling is either Adobe analytics or Google analytics at most companies. There are 3 specialisations as I see it: data, outbound marketing and inbound marketing.

Data is to do with the limitations of GA and Adobe. Businesses want to use hit or session level data for segmentation, retargeting, personalisation and all the fancy machine learning stuff. This isn't easy to achieve with out of the box analytics tools so it requires a bit more data processing.

Inbound marketing is to do with conversion rate optimisation, SEO and UX. Questions like "is our left hand navigation better or worse than it was before?" aren't super easy to answer in a commercial context.

Outbound marketing is to do with return on marketing investment for paid advertising. Attribution modelling is a huge space which is VERY hard to figure out for a business.
- Help developers build a high level understanding of the code and relationships between modules (with millions of lines, this is extremely hard)

- Automate refactoring code to reduce complexity and cross-dependencies

- Automate rewriting parts of code in mode modern languages and replacing it with some mediation layer (protobuf etc)

I think industries like finance would welcome with open arms something that can do this. And it could go for a high price if it's still saving them money on countless hours of developer time. It's a growing cost every year to maintain legacy code that was written 3+ developer generations ago, and it's dangerous in cases where peoples' lives depend on the code being bug-free (infrastructure, medical)

I started thinking about this problem a few days ago in a thread about AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14430652
I don't see that at all. Maybe you found a bug for Win10/FF? I am on Win7/FF.
Could we say the same for CAPTCHAs but somehow they persevere? There may be conditions where AI cannot help but be detected. Hiding those conditions would also set off an alarm.
There is also Phenix: https://phenixp2p.com/#technology

I am not affiliated with these guys in any way.
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I'm not pretending to explain why all cheating occurs, or who cheats more. Only what makes the problem worse. In any case I don't know enough woman programmers to make a statistically significant argument. I just described what I encountered while earning my own degree.

It could be that those girls just had a cheaty nature and would cheat one way or another. On the other hand, there's a saying "Opportunity makes a thief". It's why during a war looters and marauders become a problem. In other words, some people cheat because an opportunity presents itself. Some horny guys essentially offer to cheat for you, and you have to actively resist.
Is the World a Simulation?
There's actually very little information about the problems that climate change will cause. We're pretty bad at modelling political effects, especially not decades into the future. We really have no idea how well we'll cope. We can predict sea level rise with reasonable confidence but I haven't seen any predictions of what people will do in response to that. Will they kill each other? Or gradually move away in a calm fashion the way ordinary migrants do all the time?
Getting a lawyer is a fine idea, but if this happened in the US, they don't owe you anything apart from optional COBRA (medical insurance for purchase). Severance pay is not required, and is typically not paid if a person terminates employment of their own volition. Even if a person is fired/laid off, severance isn't mandatory and is mostly about protecting the company from litigation/employees going to competitors.
The author thinks that dictatorship drives technological development. Too scary to be funny.
Neovim GUI in Golang
But Facebook is so much easier to consume in short intervals. With books I haven't read for a few days, I have to go back a few paragraphs.
Rephrase it from scheduling, to making time.

That is, I don't schedule time on the guitar. I make time for it.

The difference to me is some things are required, and some are priorities. Some are, of course, both.
I don't know how you can accuse Google of having a short attention span when it comes to self-driving cars. They've been working on this since 2009.

Google does launch experimental projects and does kill them off if they fail, but I don't see why you think this would be true with Waymo.
The woman who could 'draw' music
Aren't your own thoughts similar to a CPU's registers or cache? One's thoughts seem to occur within the context of the brain and the billions of neighboring (to the ones inducing the current "thought") neurons. Its as obvious to me that you can't perceive another's thoughts just as surely as one CPU can't "perceive" the registers of another.

The perception of ones own thoughts seems very physical, as is the equally obvious (to me) explanation that you can't directly perceive the thoughts of another.
It's not about personal opinions. Or rather it is, but not in an obvious way.

Human minds are clearly not consistent. Human minds are a loose collection of cobbled-together heuristics.

Logic is one of those heuristics. It has limits because ultimately "logic" ends up being not a personal opinion, but a personal experience of the truth - or otherwise - of a proposition.

Developed and trained minds have generated a heuristic of independent consensus about truths and experience, and strategies for increasing the correlation between the truth experience and the reality experience.

Less developed untrained minds have a much more naive and subjective experience of "truth."

But both work on the same foundation - a nebulous and indefinable subjective experience that is associated with truth, and is typically mistaken as the definition of it.

It's impossible to "prove" truth, because the experience of deciding whether or not something is true is absolutely subjective.

Any attempt to make an objective definition will always be filtered through that subjectivity and reduced to either having that experience or not having it.

We're back to qualia, as usual. No one knows what "having an experience" really means. Until that question is answered, there are no tools for dealing with the rest.

You can argue "But what about the scientific method, and mathematical proofs?" Same answer - they're practices that generate the truth experience in trained minds. They have a better predictive record and are better at finding consistent patterns than the disjointed heuristics of untrained minds. But they still don't - and can't - prove "truth" in any kind of ultimate definitive guaranteed-to-be-objective way.

They certainly can't guarantee that the truth experience is never biased, contingent, limited, naive, circumstantial, or possibly even just plain wrong.

The implications for AI are obvious. If a machine is better at finding consistent patterns, it will appear smarter than a human. It will still be smarter even if it makes errors that are obvious to a human, because at the same time it won't be making errors that humans do make, and which are similarly "obviously wrong" to the AI.

It's the hit rate that matters, not idealised philosophical perfection.
Is there someone who left the legacy code and became beneficial?

As a result of my work experience, it was more beneficial to delete the legacy code and only provide the necessary functions when renewing the system.
> Kenya began a slow transition to a cashless society — and they did this without banks

This is a bit odd. Safaricom is the bank here, inasmuch they track cash transfers and perform deposits and withdrawals. If you don't trust them, surely you wouldn't trust this system?

It's certainly an interesting state of affairs, because a one-layer payment system is quite different from e.g. American infrastructure where a consumer bank, payment method, and business bank are three different entities. But I wouldn't call it bank-free in the sense that, say, cryptocurrency advocates mean.
In the back of my mind, I have been terrified by the prospect of a rogue AI since I saw the Terminator in 1984.
> So my question is, if you have had to leave your IT job, what was/is your new job.

I think I answered. That's what I would do, maybe it sparked a new idea in him, maybe it didn't. Maybe he can do something that can be documented and be turned into a novel by someone else. He's in a stage when he can still perform and plan ahead.
Yes, but the big difference this time around is that it's the same Windows as on the desktop with the ability to run desktop software. You get mobile plus desktop on the one device which is something Microsoft's better positioned to deliver on than either Google or Apple. And because of that Microsoft will finally start succeeding on mobile.
I'm not sure even where to begin here.

First off, my referring you to make a search wasn't deferring an argument to Google, it was me not wanting to do research for you. Yes, you can find sources that say anything you want, but all sources are not created equal, and the number of sources are not equal as well. If you cannot separate good sources from bad sources of information, well that's a problem I can't help you with.

> That has nothing to do with total disaster.

What on earth do you mean? You don't think Bangladesh and other low lying nations losing land to the rising oceans is a total disaster? I'm starting to feel like you're not interested in a real discussion, and if that's the case I'm done replying to you.
I like the 360 camera idea, but how could that not snap to a case for any other phone?