skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see if you could improve on the results supposedly disproving having an 'objective'. I haven't sat through the full 40 minutes of the video and I don't see any writeups on the Picbreeder website (which appears to have not had any news updates since 2011), so I am guessing that what he did was using a CNN image classifier and do greedy maximization over the various options on each step; it will surprise no one in RL that this does not work as it is not a convex problem. But a RL CNN trained to instead predict human choices (imitation learning) or do RL learning with rewards just from the final step (perhaps Christiano's preference learning setup?) might do much better.

After all, all the comments about the folly of greed apply just as well to choosing moves in Go, but you don't need to abandon 'the myth of winning' to win Go. It's simply about having an excellent heuristic for promising directions and keeping options open.
This lines up with my experience with TransUnion.

Called the day after the news broke, and successfully setup a fraud alert on my account using a automated phone system in 3 minutes and 44 seconds.

So thrilled with this easy process, I call my Mom/Dad and instructed them to do the same.

About a day later I call again to do the same process for my wife. Got almost to the end (after giving them her SS#), but then something changed ... TransUnion started listing extensive documentation I had to snail mail to them - it took several minutes for this message to play out, after which I received no confirmation that the fraud alert was successfully activated. It seemed as though I was "kicked over" to the identify theft reporting line, because the documents they asked for seemed like something you would send to them, if your identify had already been stolen.

Called Experian immediately after, hoping their system might be working better. Their automated system failed to even start the process - I gave up.

Now my wife is convinced I gave her SS# to some random stranger. FML

TL;DR: TransUnion telephone fraud alert worked on Monday, but now is fucked.
By "monad-related concepts" do you just mean abstract algebra? Otherwise, how are monoids and monads related, other than that they are both algebraic structures?
What makes you think Trump is pro-war? My observation that he's against wars unless they are very profitable for the State not necessarily for companies. That is why the stocks are down probably. On the contrary Clinton was pro-war and establishment wanted her to win but she lost.
Hahahaha, well seems like they have fixed it now :)
Paws for Trello was acquired by Trello[http://friendlyfox.es/pawsfortrello/].
I never have performance issues with iTunes other than the rendering in Apple Music views, but I feel like that's more of how the code is written than iTunes itself struggling.

My main issue with AM at least is that when I add music to my library, I wind up getting a bugged library. As in, there is music I added to my library 3 months ago that for whatever reason is always at the top of my most recently added music. I haven't touched it since adding, but it winds up being on top of my actual most recently added music. That's definitely a bug.
the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.

Love it or leave it, literally. Unless you like a Siberian prison.

FSB walks in, point to a dozen laws you've broken and then ask, how are going to do this. And you've almost certainly broken the laws (it's nearly impossible to operate otherwise in such countries), and even if you didn't a judge will say you did.
We're learning that making reasonable assumptions about Equifax is a shot in the dark at best. I wouldn't assume a damn thing with them at this point
What is the best way for the American public to start to "escalate" this to the government? It's clearly not even worth getting frustrated trying to deal with Equifax directly, they obviously aren't required to have any accountability to anyone.
This would be less beneficial IMHO on a phone. My wife sometimes uses my phone, but she always has her own nearby. when she is using it, its for a quick, specific reason.

But I could really see this on an iPad. iPad's are often shared around a household, this would be amazing for that. Macs themselves would also apply here.
The lack of complexity comes from the fact that monoids are just defined by two simple axioms. Using them in a different domain does not change that. Associativity or having a neutral element do not become more complicated concepts in computer science.
spacemacs is solid if you want to try out a well configured emacs. magit, org mode, helm are amazing tools and part of the killer feature list of emacs. magit is so good even if I stopped using emacs tomorrow I would still use it for my git gui.

http://www.spacemacs.org
Why monoids? Why not groups? Why not vector spaces?

I can't tell why monoids are supposed to be more directly applicable to programming than any other concept from algebra.
My faith in the National Forest Service has been severely damaged after they burned my parents' home down this summer. They set a back burn near a residential area to combat the Lolo Peak fire that started in the Bitteroot National Forest only to sit there and watch my parents' house burn. They set the fire and did nothing to protect the house (or the neighbors) once it crossed their fire line.
Experian ultimately directs you to this form, which you have to print out, fill in, and snail mail: https://www.experian.com/fraud/form-extended-fraud-victim-al...
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Some options:

* Negotiate shorter workweek at your current job. Many people have successfully done this to reduce workweek.

* Become a consultant or contractor. If you do it right (and that's hard!) you can work shorter workweek. Or you can do OK and work shorter workweek and make less money.

* Negotiate shorter workweek at new job. This is much harder, but doable.

In my case, I was a consultant, got part time job with one of my consulting clients, then negotiated short workweek at new job. First two (consulting, first job) were <30 hours a week (when I started, at least), second job was 35 hour workweek.

(Also, every once in a while I've seen part time jobs advertised.)

Talk a bit more about this here (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/), and a lot more in book which will be available as soon as I write the sales page (sign up at that page to hear about it).
I really really really wish we would do away with the SSN as the default ID for people. It's just such a really bad system.

It was never designed to be an ID Number and now that's how it is used. We should really go to a different system. I am not a security expert, but I think voting, paying taxes and credit scores would all be much easier than they are now.
Well, there is https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb....

Luckily, they aren’t that insane:

"Attacks against USB devices

The WebUSB API does not even try to provide a way for a web page to connect to arbitrary USB devices. There are plenty of published attacks against USB devices that makes it unsafe to allow this.

For this reason, a USB device can define a set of origins that are allowed to connect to it. This is similar to the CORS mechanism in HTTP. In other words, WebUSB devices are associated with a web origin and can only be accessed from a page from the same origin."
> and would gladly pay the same amount again.

Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...
For me the killer feature of ST is multiple cursors. Despite being relatively fluent in vim, that one feature has always prevented me from switching.
Clicking that started a loop for me. Safari attempted to open iTunes, which showed a blank screen for a moment and then opened the link in Safari, which attempted to open iTunes, and so on. I had to quit iTunes to stop it.
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I doubt it.

On the other hand, the US Military does not take lightly misrepresentation of serving...
Prefacing with "all it seems to do" makes you sound like you haven't actually used PBR, which could also explain why you don't understand why people prefer PBR to setup.py.

If you think packaging is a matter of configuration, then PBR makes a lot of sense. It gives you a config file that you simply fill out so you don't have to worry yourself about the code.

I've used both PBR and setup.py quite a bit and I personally prefer PBR since there's less things I need to debug when things go wrong.
Extended alert seems to apply only in cases of mail theft. Completely different from a massive on-line data breach, of course.
I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer
Isn't that paradoxical? That code is for parsing requirements and those requirements can't be parsed until initial pre-requirements (pip, in this case) are installed.
I do it all the time whether I'm walking, in a car, or on my motorcycle. If I look at them and see them looking at me it raises my confidence that they see me.
Why is this hard? Using Twilio, I can make a better voice prompt system in like 20 minutes than a multibillion dollar company has. I don't understand the point of having so many phone numbers.
Exactly why the whole system is broken.
> do pedestrians and other drivers really make "eye contact" with drivers to gauge their intention?

I certainly do - most commonly when merging into a congested lane from a side street, stopping and making eye contact helps understand if everybody is paying attention (the merger can move forward and the merged is leaving a space open for them).

Motorcyclists also have a pretty large vocabulary (I'm not sure how many of these are actually used in practice): http://www.abate-il.org/Backroads/signals.html
They very clearly don't want these forms to work. All three fail for me too. Equifax fails with "Additional Information Required" and gives me a PDF form to mail in that has the exact same fields that I've already provided. Experian is stuck on a loading screen. And Transunion says it's unable to process my request based on the information provided.
> The only reason they talk to you, with overt disdain and reluctance, is the government says they have to.

They are trying to fix that.
RabbitMQ is written in Erlang which definitely supports threads (called processes) and are actually built into the BEAM. I think it is a strong candidate for what Erlang brings to the table and I think while you could do it in a native language for sure, it would take more time and most likely be more error prone (unless there was immutability in the language as well).
hehe, nice!

I'm actually an engineer who likes to create products but who really sucks at marketing. I never looked at marketeers over the shoulder but now that I am trying to market my own products I realize what a hard and important work is.

I think I did a good job up to the point of finding a real need that people are willing to pay for a solution, but one thing is to get the early traction and a whole other is to actually be able to live from it... the struggle is real :P
Now we just need a service like letsencrypt and a cron job that just resubmits that form every 60 days.
Hey, how about you please watch YOUR tone.

And nobody buys your self-serving, silly little assertion that "nuanced opinions on gender roles" aren't just bigotry.

You are being downvoted for being childishly defensive about your "nuanced opinions".

They are not.
It had already been implemented in the alpha versions of TextMate 2 earlier. But it’s quite plausible that the two implementations were independent.

... Unlike most of Sublime Text which was a close copy of TM features except for the ability for users to edit customizations, making the Sublime community a giant leech that sucked all of the air out of TextMate bundle development without ever contributing anything back.

Sad history.
>Phrases like "pulling its head out of its ass" are not going to contribute to sophisticated and level-headed discussion.

use the downvote button then.
I'm having issues with it, seems to be working intermittently.
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I got the error as well. Refreshing resubmitted the form and eventually worked.
Ah, the old dead giveaway "this game was translated from japanese and we CBA to handle localisation properly" fonts.
Don Norman said in a talk they also have done that at his UCSD outfit.
It may be time to start calling Senators.
Prices can be driven up by someone going through and buying up houses reducing the supply, even at asking prices.
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The article is fine, the headline is clickbait: "Click to see what the hell this article is about!"
I've often been frustrated by the seeming polarization in the debate, with dualism on one end, and substrate independent information processing on the other. I wish I knew how to spark a discussion about hypotheses that are physical, but don't reduce to information processing. Consider that incandescent light is not substrate independent - it requires tungsten or some other specific chemistry that works. Couldn't consciousness be simultaneously fundamental, like a physical field, but also have specific physical or chemical preconditions to manifest in a location? Gravity coalesces around mass concentrations. Could consciousness gather around local "concentrations" of hyper-connected networks with a lot of feedback circuits in them? To be clear, I am spit-balling vague hypotheses here to make a point, so please don't ask me for citations. What I'm looking for are hypotheses that are physical, maybe substrate dependent, and non-reducible to computation in the abstract (e.g. conscious water- or domino-based computers, a la Searle).
None of the following is confirmed, but I keep seeing articles online hinting around this, or implying this. Essentially it sounds like is known in classified circles that Kaspersky works closely with and supports Russian Intelligence (FSB).

It seems while the US knew about this it had a spy within Kaspersky and was their source for finding out what they were up to. The accused spy was arrested by the FSB recently so likely the US no longer is willing to take on the risk of allowing Kaspersky to run on us govt machines. Marco Rubio appeared to hint at some classified info about known govt risks of dealing with Kaspersky. Additionally the second link mentions Kaspersky is moving into protecting critical infrastructure, which seems notable giving the sudden frequency of mentions of the weakness of US infrastructure to network attack.

The problem with classified security stuff is you never find out the full story. Only bits and pieces around the edges of it. It's almost never in their best interest to reveal the depths of what they know because it exposes their methods and awareness.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-treason-fsb-spies-kasper...

Earlier article on then working with the FSB.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...
I don't think they do it to upsell on the phone. I think they do it because: 1. They want investors more than they want customers, and they think investors like "media intelligence" better than "list of contacts". 2. They prefer talking about "media intelligence" when they go to parties. 3. They like talking about values and communities and making the world a better place, just like those guys on Silicon Valley.
> I mean, I don't like Trump either. But he's a very long way from a Nazi.

He's not what we retroactively think of as a Nazi; but he's not very far from an early 1930's Nazi.
The credit agencies already attempt to verify you when you request a credit report ("did you ever live on Main Street", etc.) or put a credit freeze on so it's not a new problem for them.
The range I mentioned is 150k-190k. 75k is also the number people talk about when 60k is a lot easier to find so I think the scales a pretty even
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Equifax link isn't working for me.. After filling in the form and hitting submit, I am presented with a very convenient (for them:

Our system is currently unavailable

We are currently unable to add initial 90 day fraud alert or active duty alert to credit file online. Please try again later or click here to print a request form. If you need to install Adobe Acrobat click here
I think it increases the cognitive load. These things already have names. A Monoid is an abstract category that doesn't 1-1 correspond to the particulars of each data structure, increasing overall cognitive load. It's not like I'm going to forget how sets work otherwise. I'm a mathematician. I like category theory. Mathematicians in fact strive for the right level of generality. I've never seen an algorithmic or programming challenge where thinking of something as a monoid helped me solve it better.
How does the "hybrid approach" differ from Electron and why is it so much smaller? Don't they still need to embed a full browser engine if the UI is all JS and HTML?
This is a false dichotomy. There are other options between 'the way things are' and govt single payer for helping the poor get better access to healthcare.
> That seems high to me, from my own experiences.

There are specific factors, such as the age of a company, the experience distribution/requirements, standard working arrangements (hours, overtime expectation, on-call) which are correlated with deviations from the mean.
But that has no bearing on how the legends in question initially came to be.
The Washington Post wrote a click title. You won't believe what happened next!

... I didn't click the link on principle.
Rush Limbaugh has been labeling women he disagrees with as 'feminazis' to a huge audience for a good 25 years, but somehow Democrats are to blame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi
PKK is a terrorist organization because they have been killing civilians. Especially indiscriminate killings through bombings market places, public meetings. Most of the time their victims have been Kurdish people.

A terrorist is a terrorist only when Americans are targeted?
Yeah but that gets rendered as the proper quote glyph in the final document.
> really easy

meaning more than 50% of weapons?
Surely they weren't having people sit on the guys lap.. This would be a great way to judge other's reactions though. I could see people who had never seen a self driving car, paying more attention to the spectacle than actually driving.
> now they all should learn yet another file type syntax for the same problem

Are you really implying that learning INI would be a burden?
I don't get the point of your comment, not even in the context of where I originally made this suggestion. That Luther was not speaking for all christians might be a valid alternative response to the post I was replying to, but that seems orthogonal to the issue of what Luther was railing against.

Does it help to replace 'philosophers' with 'philosophically-minded theologians'?
I like my team, I'll keep them alive. That way when society returns our children will be able to take over our webdev duties.
That's what most large call centers are like. When I worked in one the factors in your evaluation were: 1) "handle time" (i.e., time on the phone per customer) 2) callbacks within a set time period 3) customer surveys 4) spot checks of recordings for adherence to company policy. So naturally, if you have a difficult case the most logical thing to do is find some within-the-rules way to transfer the customer to someone else (you couldn't just do this capriciously; the circumstances under which it was allowed were enumerated), where they won't be able to answer a survey for you and they're someone else's problem, or else to put them through a process where they aren't supposed to get an answer for weeks. One popular technique at the place I worked was deliberately needling customers so they'd get upset and ask to cancel or speak to a "supervisor" -- both valid reasons to transfer a call to another department and wash your hands of it. Since your failure to do well on the metrics was tied to a big chunk of your pay you were highly incentivized to game the metrics in this and similar ways.
I think the problem here is that you are still the one that needs to develop the equations of motion that will be tested for compression.

What this describes is a method for testing theories, not generating them. You still need to study the data to try and properly analyze it so you can understand the rules yourself, or at least be able to see the edges of them.

Now if you could find a way to generate moderately accurate equations automatically by analyzing the dataset, I think that would be a real leap forward. Is there a related mechanism to the one presented by the parent which could be used to generate theories?
I quoted from this one,
https://linux.die.net/man/2/readahead

There is a second obstacle I have in mind, around the robustness of this. Imagine if we had an implementation of that which reliably returned quickly. But we take our time doing the subsequent read. By the time we do, the value has already been chased out of the cache. It is an edge-case, and you could probably avoid it in practice, but it would be significant effort to to verify your mechanism, and would create cognitive load.
If we "as the product" actually want to do something about Equifax we should call our banks and demand that they cancel any contracts they have with Equifax.

If enough people do that to make it a national issue, Equifax will at a minimum notice, and possibly go out of business (because no bank will work with them) sending a very strong message to everyone who deals with private data.

Anyone know how to start Viral Activism?
Thanks. This is a lot more helpful for non-math geeks than the two initial definitions in the article:

> A Monoid can be defined a tuple (M, op, e)

This definition lost me completely because I'm not even sure what "defining it as a tuple" is meant to imply. Based on your explanation it sounds like that is fancy talk for saying it is defined by having three properties.

> In a statically typed language, we can translate the notion of set into the notion of type.

The second definition again completely lost me because I'm not even sure what "set" and "type" mean in this context and being able to "translate the notion of set" is unhelpful when the definition using a set is the one I didn't understand in the first place.

I'm a programmer with over a decade of professional experience. I don't understand the article because I have no formal education in higher math nor in anything beyond basic computer science. Your explanation proves it's possible to explain these concepts with practical examples rather than academic jargon.
> And no one knows how to achieve [higher status and salaries for teachers].

They do. There are lots of ways to do that. Just none that are attractive to the pedagogic establishment.

> It is possible that money is not the only thing to keep males away

I know male teachers who have had to deal with sexism (the men as sexual predators stuff). A non trivial amount of people find men untrustworthy with children.
It's amazing how the political elite are realizing they don't have complete control of every step of the process. It's almost as if they are reacting out of fear of these tech companies and their ability to influence law making in the same way that other more traditional industries have been for decades.
The evolution from servers to functions
It's not that simple though. Most modern CPUs that support the x86_64 instruction set don't actually run them as instructions on the hardware. They do all sorts of magic to queue operations, increase pipeline throughput, manage register access, make branch predictions, etc...

You can think of assembly on those cpus as a high level language. It has little correlation with what's actually happening in hardware.

This is EXACTLY the same type of "magic" that is getting complained about above. The real implementation details are hidden and unknown, but the abstraction is useful.