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Tell me, what intractable problem are "value systems" and "moral codes" heuristics for? The hypothetico-dialectical method of talking about morality, as if it was simultaneously mathematics and politics, has always confused me. Plainly there ought to be some observable evidence that we've done the right thing, or the term "right" has no meaning at all other than "theorem within a politically fashionable consistent axiom schema."
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This game really is quite simple! The go-to example I use for a simple game is called 21.

- There are N (usually 21) tokens in a pile.
- A turn consists of removing 1, 2, or 3 tokens from the pile.
- The player who removes the final token is the winner.
- The opponent will always take tokens equal to n mod 4 if that is a valid move, otherwise will play randomly (this is the optimal strategy).
- The AI plays first.

You can see my write-up here: [1]. One of the most interesting things for me was visually inspecting the action scores (at the end) to see how the agent learned the optimal strategy over time. My configuration took 3000 games to reach the optimal strategy against against a strong opponent (opponent epsilon = 0.1), and substantially longer as the opponent starts to play worse.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/eooqlhgg98zc398/Q-Learning%2B21.ht...
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I know my target users for https://CodeSideStory.com/ All those who use Atom/Slack at work. Outside of posting in usual lists I have no clue how to reach them. Pl. post suggestions.
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Meanwhile Pakistan will open five new coal plants next year [1] and more in the future as part of Chinese energy investments, in which coal is an central element. This is because the coal industry (and steel industry, which is dependent on coal) supplies roughly 12 million Chinese jobs [2]. So while green initiatives with foreign financing are endorsed and promoted by Cricket-star Imran Khan, it isn't Pakistan's nor China's official policy.

[1]: https://qz.com/949465/in-china-and-pakistans-coal-romance-wh...

[2]: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2017-08-04/chi...
My OMSCS experience was rewarding, but I think I echo most other commenters when I say it is entirely dependent on how much effort you can put in. Personally, I graduated in May 2017 after 2 years of study (worked full-time during those years), with a decently high GPA and a good understanding of the basics. As my undergraduate degree was in Mechanical Engineering/Math, it was interesting to get more involved with machine learning/robotics from the software side. If you already have CS experience, I don't know how much this would be beneficial over more traditional on-the-job training, but for someone who is diversifying/changing specialities, it was very useful. Though in my current role, its mostly used as a filter, so all the hard problems that encompass both departments seem to end up at my desk...
Additionally, one of things about OMSCS vs a MOOC or self study is that because you have invested financially, you are more motivated to succeed. This can be especially useful if you are maintaining a full-time job while attending, as getting home from work to do nightly programming can be a challenge some days.
Building a building is similar to building software. It is just that the time scale is different. There are lots of thirty year old houses. Most have had a succession of features and functional refactorings etc. Walls get painted, systems get energy efficiency upgrades, carpet gets replaced with wood.

In terms of planning, the big difference is that the construction industry starts from the premises: 1. projects can be planned 2. plans change. The software industry tends to make its life easier by claiming that 2 negates 1. It's more a lack of industry experience (construction traditions go back millenia versus decades).

If a person looks at construction done by lay people, it looks a lot like typical software development. There's a vague idea and then building commences and there's a legacy of early decisions that didn't work as out well as they might have and layers of cruft and latent bugs.
Your own source shows defense as 17% of overall spending.

As a percentage of income tax receipts, the number for military spending is closer to 25%. See, for example, https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/
No,unless more than 10 hours a day.
Hi, I am the author of this article and I have to say I partly agree with you. For huge scale deployments Ansible is not very good and the alternatives mentioned at the end of the article (Salt and StackStorm) seem to be better suited for such deployment. When the scale is smaller, though, the push model is in my opinion nice as it does not require setting up a server. You can start right away. Also, reusing SSH means (almost) no dependencies as mentioned in the article. It may all depend on the use case though, but in my opinion running Ansible is much better than manual configuration or using shell scripts.
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I've gone on anti-sugar diets too. This issue I'm having is definitely from the caffeine.
No I am not suggesting that. My subtle joke seems to have fooled you too unless you are... @dang (or maybe you really are @hitler)? The only reason for mentioning someone by name in this kind of forum would be a kind of 'I doxxed you/know where you live' pathetic threat - typical banned skid 'can u mak me a trojan/virus so I can hak mi skul cuz I am dumbasfuck'. What value do you place on the dox? He might have genuinely thought it was Marcus Hutchins but just because he says he is or I say you are @weev doesn't make it true. In any legal system that is not evidence unless they can get the guy who posted it and subpoena him to come and swear preferably with some actual evidence rather than his word. It is hearsay! It is entirely inadmissible! None of it has anything to do with @malwaretech and the guy it meant to be has already themselves posted on twitter and supplied samples of kronos. Google Detectives!
One thing I would push back on is that science is never really final. It seems pretty clear that Damore misrepresented a lot of the research, though.
Did the Americans ask the Iraqi zoning board before pulling down all those statues of Saddam Hussein?

Less controversially, there is actually a political process here, and in the normal manner the city had decided to remove the statue. The white supremacists decided to demonstrate against this, sparking the violence.

The statue recently pulled down in Durham NC is a different Confederate statue.
We use standuply on slack. The team size is ~12 people. About half use it every day. Very useful.
Or insurance....

Bezos taking the Warren Buffet approach funding investments through insurance float?
Well, on the actual topic...

China's state may have a huge store of data but it seems fairly likely they will want to heavily restrict who gets access to this data - secrecy is the other side of surveillance.

Similarly, AI in the West seems to have advanced a lot by having open research sharing and a high level of intellectual integrity. China's authoritarian state seems to often encourage poor research - not that all science is bad in China but there's a lot of news about a lot of bad science there. Ironically, a lack of openness can make cheating more common (a Chinese team was caught cheating in AI challenge recently, just for example though of course these aren't necessarily restricted to China).

Also, the Internet is a huge store of data, imagenet is pulled from the Internet. Other huge data sources are youtube and so-on. Maybe all the data a huge surveillance state captures would be a good source but that just seems like one dimension in a multidimensional competition where the rest of the dimensions might not be in favor of Chinese efforts.
I only knead the dough a few times so that it comes together and form it into a ball. I then leave it overnight in the fridge. There's a lot of mythos around 'developing the gluten' and whatnot, but I think some people just repeat it without performing actual tests to see what matters. The NY Times no-knead bread recipe is where I first learned about this.
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> Working full time and taking classes is not easy. Consider quitting and doing it peacefully.

Nope, it's definitely not easy. I take two classes full terms, one in the summers while working a full-time day job. I easily spend 20-30 hrs/week on coursework + readings + lectures during full terms, only ~10 hrs/week during the summers. Anything more than that would definitely require a rethink and time off. But it is entirely doable if giving up two years' pay isn't an option.
I don't like Germany, I don't like Germans, but I'm sure that I would live in Germany rather than in Turkey right now.

And so would you

Stop pretending we believe your rethorical bullshit
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15013635 and marked it off-topic.
You're right, it doesn't mean they had to. But they did. The Civil War was fought to abolish slavery, basically a civil rights argument. It was fought and won by the Republicans. Where do the Republicans stand on civil rights issues today? Would Republicans fight a war to protect gay marriage? Would they fight a war to keep businesses from hiring illegal immigrants and paying them pennies on the dollar while working them in horrible conditions? Once upon a time they fought a war to protect the rights of workers and humans who were being taken advantage of, would they do the same today?

Even more recently, Ronald Reagan supported strong gun control. He's the reason California has such strict gun laws. How about Nixon, a Republican who created the EPA that modern Republicans hate so much? Lincoln was also strongly pro-immigration, saying at one point "Foreign immigration... should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy". By 1920, they said "the practical exclusion of Asiatic immigrants is sound and should be maintained". Seems like a pretty big shift to me!

The Republicans of today, even moderate Republicans, are not the Republicans of yesterday, or yesteryear. It would be political suicide to run on some of the most successful Republican platforms from even 30 years ago.

So again I ask, how can you reconcile in your mind the idea that ye olde Democrats are pro-slavery and ye olde Republicans are the party that fought against the South in the Civil War with your claim that they have in no way changed positions over the years?
Finding where to give a Tech Talk
If you have a PhD or you work on a big tech company, is fairly easy to get accepted on the most well-know conferences (e.g. TED talks, PyCon, JsConf, etc) or to get invited by a popular Podcast to give an interview.

However, is not as easy if you don't work on a fancy company or your blog/open source project didn't went viral, even if you are a good developer and have prepared an interesting talk.

So,the question is: where do a non-famous developer can apply for give a talk?

I assume the best alternatives are webinars, rather than in-person conferences, but I don't know which are the best ones.
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>Reading this bit: ...

Sure, that of Gylippus is a very good historical example, but it simply doesn't fit.

I mean, Gylippus came from another society (Sparta) evidently better at educating their generals and soldiers.

Here we have someone that is giving advice on how to become good leaders, and he gives as an example the good leader of Team A and the bad leader of team F.

The only issue being that BOTH the team leaders were instructed by the same people and with the same methods, so if these methods were so good, there shouldn't be such a bad leader in team F.
True, though this cuts both ways: a similar teardown of the motive system of a Tesla would be like 8 or 9 seconds. Some fixed magnets, wire, a single speed gearbox, that's it.

Internal combustion engines may be designed for maintainability, but they have a much harder problem to solve to actually achieve successful maintenance.
I'm not sure what left or right has to do with racism but have an uptick for giving racists hell - but it was kind of implied by the 'Nazis' yo.
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Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
This is a very important reason why books, in general, contain better information that websites. On websites, people care a lot less about the correctness of the information. You can just update stuff later (of course, this doesn't always happen).

Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.
Avegant, Apple and Oculus as well, although all of those ptoducts will likely be much later than Magic Leap.
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Good luck. I'm planning on enrolling and working full time once my kids a little bit older.
Try going to AMC Empire 25 (near Times Square) on a weekend. Lots of people talking, yelling, clapping, texting, etc.

I spend a lot of time at Alamo now.
That ought to do it.

Seriously though, anyone care to do the math on the impact of 1bn trees wrt. CO2 absorption? Would be interesting to know how it compares to how much we need to remove to get back to historical levels.
Wouldn't hurt.

But we're getting there:
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t...
I'm very concerned with the possibility that we often end up with technology standards that are worse than the alternatives, and I think I have my own examples that have worked out this way.

I just want to point out that there's also a paper trying to rebut Paul David's account:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1069950
This is from 2013[0], but the avg. inheritance in the US at that time was $177K according to an HSBC survey.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/13/retirement/american-inherita...
> It takes about a half hour of prep so I only do it on weekends.

> Not only do a save a lot of money

So, it's not cheaper.
I claim no special knowledge. I think that's true of both of us. I speculate, what if the existing bias is actually excluding 80% of the women. A reasonable response is, "Yeah that would be awful, we should do something about it in that case". Instead I'm accused of being discriminatory.

I fear that this argument is 'arguing toward a goal'. No real attempt to understand the situation is present. Instead, whatever supports a viewpoint is thrown into a paragraph. Cherry picking, straw men and fud result.

Discrimination is a problem; trying to counter it with goals is a praiseworthy attempt. Consider: to do nothing now means we're ok with the existing bias. Why is that, do you think? Because 'idealism'? I think its more insidious: Its 'ok' for men to have all the jobs now, because that's normal and right. Its scary to change.
It's 21% for FY 2016 (which is a percentage based on including social security and medicare, which as I mentioned, are not part of federal income tax receipts; the percentage ). 2017 isn't done yet; I'm not using an estimate with an administration going sideways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

"Military budget of the United States. ... The budget funds 4 branches of the U.S. military: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. In FY 2015, Pentagon and related spending totaled $598 billion, about 54% of the fiscal year 2015 U.S. discretionary budget."

Yes, we're spending that much on the military. Yes, its pathetic. Yes, its why its best to avoid (not evade, which is illegal) paying income tax whenever possible. I prefer my welfare programs not enable the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians in a foreign country, but that's just me.
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> So you shouldn't be able to support political causes?

No, you shouldn't if they are based on hate

Countries that allow this kind of "political support" are idiotic.

The main difference between Europe and USA is that we Europeans have learned from our past mistakes
For someone quite interested in these kind of problems, what's the current best practice for solving these kind of problems? Not on this scale but still large enough that Google's built-in api for solving it (only 25 points allowed) can't do it.
> Again, I wasn't making any judgement one way or the other.

I wasn't implying you did.

> solicitation for feedback in an employment setting is somehow an invitation to free speech

Without further qualification, in a literal sense, it is "invitation to free speech". That's the problem.
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We built a tool to solve this exact problem called Standup. https://getstandup.com/. It produces daily progress reports for your engineering team by scanning git data.

We put our reports up the big screen every day during our in person Standups. Every engineer quickly runs through their work items and it definitely eliminates the whole "having to remember and plan on the go".

As a manager, I also love how it helps me catch up on my teams progress every evening as well.
In London pubs with Sky sometimes show it like sports - not quite the same, but, y'know.
How long does it take a tree to grow into something that substantially effects carbon counts in the atmosphere? 1 year? 10 years?
One good example is joining to a foreign data wrapper (FDW). Oftentimes, PostgreSQL can freak out about this because the statistics might be off/vague. So instead of making a small query to the FDW, it will do a full table scan :S

A subquery explicitly tells the database "hey, don't get the whole FDW, just this part that I want"
I used to get this - it turned out that I was not breathing enough, which caused my blood pressure to go up. I would get so focused on a problem my breathing would slowly become more shallow.

Now I have a water bottle on my desk and I slowly sip it all day, it forces me to get up every 1-2 hours to use the bathroom and fill the bottle back up -- and I deliberately use the bathroom 1 floor down to force me to go up and down the stairs
I think he means that it's a deal compared to other good CS masters degrees. Obviously, things are expensive for people in different places. Hell, 7k is pretty damn expensive for a lot of Americans too.
Making websites for the blind sounds a lot like 'making music for the deaf'. It can be done and people are doing it, but it just seems like the most inefficient thing to do.
Maybe in Gates' case this is true, since he seems to carefully evaluate good causes, but in general it isn't. A lot of the charitable donations that the wealthy use for tax write-offs go to things like museums and universities with already-huge endowments. Not that these aren't important, but it's not exactly Habitat for Humanity or soup kitchens. Frankly I'd rather see that money spent on government social programs.

The more I read about this, the more I come around to the idea that charitable tax deductions should be ended entirely (actually I think all tax deductions should be phased out, but that's a bigger topic). It's effectively just another regressive tax.
Would you please tell my brain. Every time it sees that name it insists on going "Daylight come and I wanna go home."
thanks!

it looks like asus has also introduced lowish-priced switch with some 10G ports, too. https://www.amazon.com/XG-U2008-Unmanaged-2-Port-8-Port-Giga...
>We’re not open to the general public. Do we still need a license?

>Yes. According to Senate Report No. 94-473, p. 60, “performances in ‘semipublic’ places such as clubs, lodges, factories, summer camps and schools are ‘public performances’ subject to copyright control.”

https://www.mplc.org/page/faqs

That presumably depends on whether the screening is only for e.g your family. Consult a lawyer.
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Have you read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism? Did you like it? Agree? Disagree?

I ask because I'm hoping someone can explain the mental gymnastics required to believe such nonsense.
I received my degree through that program last year and was part of the very first cohort. The program is rigorous, prepare to work your butt off. Doing it while having a full time job is hard, but many of the people in the program are doing just that.
The credential you get it is an incredible deal. You will learn plenty about theoretical computer science if that is your goal.
This is very cool. After a quick skim I noticed this relies on Blender's ops api. Using bpy.ops is generally considered a bad practice because a lot of the bpy.ops operators depend on the state of the UI - things like which objects are selected and which object interaction mode is active. The alternative to bpy.ops is to write scripts that manipulate the datablocks directly. Using bpy.ops can save a lot of time as it maps more cleanly to the GUI, but if you use it too much things can spiral out of control. Its just something to be aware of.
No, but it could be that you are stretching your skills(good!). Exercise to make sure it's not a physical thing, and be sure to take regular time off to recover.

If you are working on challenging stuff all day, it's probably a really good thing.
>Damore and this article made a few points based on reason and science and logical arguments and such

No he didn't [1]. I strongly dislike SJWs, but this guy is no ally. He's, at best, shockingly ignorant (what do I keep hearing about how google only gets the best?) at worst a fascist or fascist apologist.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
I'm envisioning this as a source for streams of synthetic point cloud data.

Any idea if it can simulate specific Velodyne products? Just wondering if it could be used to compare efficacy of one of the pucks vs the larger kit for a specific use case. E.g. hang a virtual LIDAR off a virtual UAV and fly over a simulated environment.
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So, in my experience (FWIW) every Amazon customer service rep I've ever dealt with has extremely poor grasp of the English language and don't know how to veer off script (so to speak). If you say "the shipping weight does not make sense," they ignore that because their script/training only says "check the tracking number." It's like talking to a poorly programmed bot.
Radical honesty doesn't have to mean blurting out everything you are thinking. I can tell you the truth without having to explain every way I rationalize how I would process that sentence to you.

For example, if someone asks you "do you like this watch?" and you don't, it's just as truthful to say "no" as it is to say "no because that brand is tacky and it looks out of character for you." Now, if they continue to probe and ask "why," you can answer honestly. But if a simple "no" would suffice for the other party, I don't see how the additional information helps either party.