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I don't know why the downvotes, you make valid points.

I think what you say is true, but not in the context of this specific scenario. This scenario starts with a public good that is freely available to all.

In the free-for-all, everyone has equal access to the good. The total value of that is somewhat diminished in theory, because the lack of a price system causes overconsumption ... traffic jams.

In the price system, there is a luxury option. In principle, options are good. If you really want to travel fast, you can for a price. In practice though (because income distribution), most of that negotiation does not happen within one person debating if he really wants that fast lane today. There will be some people (wealthy) for whom it is almost always worthwhile and others for whom it is never worthwhile.

What I am arguing is that calling this highest value use is just false.

Choice here does not extend to substitutes. You don't get anything for taking the slow lane.

This is why I'd like to see some less theoretically pure economists tinker with this. It's possible to create a system where what you say is true. This one is impractical, but one example could be a system where fast lane drivers pay slow lane drivers. Ie, negative pricing.

Maybe you earn fast lane credits for taking the slow lane, to be used in lieu of £40. That way all commuters get a taste.
I've been told I should be taking it in the morning though, because it can affect sleep if you take it in the evening - anyone know differently?
You should install ESR then, don't forego the security updates
Actually, just ordered one. https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thund... They’re pretty easy to find these days. Soft iron has a desktop box too.
Most people in their prime today will say no to implants. I suspect that 2% may be ok with it. Each generation however will have a higher and higher percentage OK with it. Especially considering at a certain point it will be the competitive advantage to merge oneself to tech. Similar to developers taking derivatives of speed today.

When would this start? Probably not limited to the pace of AI but the pace of human computer interfaces catching up. I suspect the largest increase of usage will be the non-invasive helmet electro-magnetic style that is already proven to work to some degree.

Generally too, HCI can help us create a massive amount of training data.
JSONx is a standard format to represent JSON as XML
Ever heard of

QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling);

(to be set before creating the QApplication instance).
Gaps of a few months in resumes are not nearly as much of a concern for hiring managers as people think.

Quit with dignity and be willing to spend a week training someone new. Hang out with old friends. Travel. Ask around to see what's interesting. There are so many fascinating projects out there you can work on.
The real issue is that advertisers still think that the video an ad plays on reflects their viewpoints. Coke playing an ad on a video with vulgar language does not mean that Coke condones vulgar language in our society.

They still think it's TV advertising when it's not.
>Our self-worth is so based on our intelligence that we believe it must be singular and not slightly higher than all the other animals on a continuum.

Speak for yourself. I doubt Sam meant to appear ignorant of other perspectives on the world. However it would be nice to consider them when writing general insights, as opposed to simply tunneling his own point of view.
Do you have a smartphone? I have the Authy app for iOS, and while the interface for switching between sites to get tokens for is odd, it works fine otherwise. (I didn't even know there was a "desktop" version of Authy, but now that I do, I'm not going to bother installing it.)
> Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.

This really reads like self-satire.
Yeah, not really. Ask anybody working on distributed systems.

When AlphaZero plays Go with itself, it can basically go as fast as it can calculate next move. With Starcraft that's not the case - both networks have to work in sync, probably need some temporal awareness and probably will have some limit of actions per time fraction, which basically requires a whole new approach. Of course, I can be gravely mistaken, but I would like to now how they can circumvent this.
I kind of hoped that we were moving towards an age of rationality and reasoning where people will finally be able to think for themselves but it seems that the opposite is happening.

Literally everything these days is a cult. Including companies (e.g. Apple), and money itself (e.g. cryptocurrencies).

It makes me think that there must be some really powerful evolutionary processes in place which make it so that irrational idolists have more children and live longer than rational people.
You can eat tulips. You can burn bills.

Gold has been used for various things since it was discovered. It's an essential component in many electronics, and if nothing else, it looks nice.

> Bitcoin is all these things too and in fact is a much better store of value than gold.

Bitcoin is none of those things. The moment the Bitcoin network collapses you have nothing but a bunch of random numbers, all of which are absolutely worthless.

Bitcoin has been around less than ten years. Gold has been around for billions. You've got a long way to go to prove Bitcoin can be as durable as gold, which given it's an atomic element, is probably impossible.

I'm not saying that gold is the best store of value, but it's a hell of a lot better than Bitcoin.
The 5 Biggest Things Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 Is Bringing to Android Phones
I believe emacs org can be used for this kind of notebook developement, however it looked like a configuration nightmare so I still haven't dived into it.
I fear this is wishful thinking. Advances in AI are progressing a lot quicker than advances in neural interfaces. So we will most probably have superhuman AI long before we have neural interfaces.

And at that point it's game over for homo sapiens.
I bought Amazon Stocks many years ago.
I’m still not 100% sure this is for real. It’s just so utterly insane.
When Argentina's economy collapsed people would frequently transact in gold. It wasn't bars, but just junk gold, something that a simple chemical test could prove was gold if necessary.
> All please note. Electron is not a native app.

Electron is an extremely heavyweight native app frsmework, not a native app, but Electron apps are (bloated, sure) native apps.
> I thought it might be interesting to work with something [..] just to get that "hacker" feeling back

Sorry, but this is the reason blockchain is a bubble.

Learn math and crypto and actual software development and programming. Pick a blockchain tech, and invent for yourself a new project based on it, and built it or work on one that exists.

If all you know is web programming, this will take you a year, maybe two.
Because you lose integration and differentiation in hw. You can also model signals "natively".
We may be heading toward a merge, but I'm not sure it's with machines. I think it could be with each other via machines.

Cybernetics refers to this as a metasystem transition:

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

(Shameless plug: if you want to see what it looks like when a hivemind speaks, check out https://reddit.com/r/AskOuija)
Vimium is available on Chrome, in case anyone gets confused.

I got a nightly build a while back but didn't feel impressed enough to change my $BROWSER. Maybe now I'll give it another shot, since TST w/o a top tab bar sounds fun.
Is tamper proof that much better than just being auditable? If you can detect tampering don't you achieve the same thing?
Was there this much hand-wringing during previous AI boom/bust cycles? There's a lot of fear and emotion swirling around AI/machine learning right now, and I'm curious if that's been the case in the past as well.
Your case rests on the assumption that journalists are incapable of objective thought, when objectivity is a primary trait of journalists.
LOL my clients are Fortune 100. Im lucky if I get to negotiate anything. I usually get the same payment terms as all of their suppliers.
"Until I made a real effort to combat it, I found myself getting extremely addicted to the internet."

This seems to imply sama is resisting the inevitable merge. Can't we instead try to steer it in a more positive direction? Where are the startups trying to keep you addicted to the internet in a way that improves your life? They don't seem to exist, because the incentives aren't right -- it's way more profitable to keep you hooked in ways that make your life worse. How do we fix those incentives?
I view HN (and soon the world) through a filter that is designed with my information and emotional needs combined. I quit Facebook years ago. I pick and choose the technology I use.
You are right that "the impact factor of a journal is meaningful and provides a simple/preliminary heuristic for measuring up _some_ aspects of a paper published in it" - but this is not what you wrote.

1. Imre Lakatos and maturity are great, both implying that you should not apply the aforementioned rule of thumb to an individual paper - an individual in the population - whether it was published in Nature or an insignificant contender.

2. Your memetic approach is also good, but incomplete: the objective function in case of these journals is maximizing the impact factor - so we can conclude that "PrevMed is less successful in maximizing the impact factor than some competitors, or it is a younger journal, or ..." Yes, imact factor and quality correlate in the long run, but we are not at undergrad level.

3. "A low impact-factor ... directly says" - Not directly. Also, most of the journals - not to mention conferences - do not even have an impact factor.

4. "...this journal sucks" - Most of the people writing in these kind of journals have given up a lot to contribute something modest. The editor of this journal is probably emailing with reviewers at 1am or so. Just saying...
The problem with narcissistic personality disorder is that all attention is good attention, all absence of attention is bad and drives the rage that leads to the abuse.
> If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it—in this case, to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond—they are going to have conflict.

The term "dominant species" really jumped at me as I was reading this piece. It's so fantastically vague that it begs the question - would us and AI have the same definition for what "dominant" is?

We're not building AI individuals with self-preservation instinct, hunger for resources and sexual drive. We're building super-individual systems like Google, Facebook and trading systems, that can be much more intelligent than we are but also have vastly different built-in "purposes" (just as evolution have "built-in" purpose of eating, having sex and caring for our family into us).

I think that in the end, the thing we're building will end up much closer to Solaris ocean than Terminator.
Food stamps are equivalent to cash. A true rationing program as proposed would prevent you from using cash. This creates black markets which is why it is bad.
Try again with: Number of humans that could assemble a Ferrari from discrete parts: who have never seen a car before, have no training to build or maintain a car, and no instructions other than "car must work."
Yes the compiler can remove the printf.
Agreed.

I've stopped watching TV. My use of the internet is pretty much limited to email, paying bills, HN and one or two other news sites, and work (developer/system admin). I'm not on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or any other social media. My phone is used as a phone, for SMS, and Google Maps when driving to someplace new.

Other than my phone I have no "smart devices" in my home and doubt I ever will.

I'm not a Luddite -- I just see no personal benefit in any of the things I've mentioned.
>Systems can be built based on mutual trust or distrust, distributed or centralized. A hybrid tends to get dominated by one or another extreme or gets unwieldy.

This is exactly what full-blown socialists believe, it's actually the core reason they think we should transition to a socialist state.
> We found that some web customers were unable to access the puzzle, and found the cause of the problem to be App Engine’s limit on the size of outbound request headers (16KB). Users with a large amount of third-party cookies had their identity stripped from the proxied request. We made a quick fix to proxy only the headers and cookies we needed and we were back in action.

That’s pretty funny. Users of NYT are sending request headers with sixteen kilobytes of tracking data. Maybe that’s the real problem eh?

I wonder which news website has the largest amount of trackers. If I let the CNN home page sit open in chrome, I can come back an hour later and find thousands of requests blocked by uBlock.
After Just 4 Hours of Self Play, Google's AI Beats Stockfish at Chess
Something like...
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/idiocracy
What does a rapidly improving AI have to gain by "merging" with our notoriously error-prone, finicky biological hardware? It's nearly certain that intelligent machines will choose to replace humans, not enhance them.

Our "successful" descendants will probably be the unmerged, low-tech survivors living on the outskirts of a new "Machine Age" civilization.
Yes, I would highly recommend it.
70mm film?
I've listened to interviews with Ajit Pai since the announcement, and I agree with both the headline and the overwhelming majority of the content of this. Once you hear the plan going forward, it sounds pretty reasonable, and I've spoken with people who want to start niche ISPs (in this case, trying to take advantage of a local government-funded fiber expansion that is sitting idle) -- the ask-for-permission-in-advance model of regulation is stopping literally everyone in the local market (although only some of that is federal -- some is local to the county).
I think you should prepare a solid morning routine, like workouts, running, meditation, etc whatever feels you good to do because it will pump adrenaline in your body which will motivate you to Kickstart your day full of energy. Try it one day and see what works for you.
Warm-Up Your JVM*: Understand and Eliminate JVM Warm-Up Overhead [pdf]
Coinbase can use (and runs) an exchange to get liquidity. When a user sells their coins, Coinbase goes to an exchange and sells them on, taking a cut.
Here is another introduction that actually uses a quantum computing Python API to explain the fundamentals of quantum computation [0], geared to a programmer audience.

[0] http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_to_qc.html
You are ignoring all the other arguments. Better movies, better food, a general lack of children.
Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
GDAX down, additionally, Bitfinex says it is under a significant denial of service attack.
This article from the NYTimes (paywall) caught my attention many years ago. Turns out it's from 2010 so about the same time as Dr. Mews prediction. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27brod.html
Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve
Everyone should give it a try. I did give it a try. Before Firefox 57 I used Tab Groups to organise my tabs. I always wondered what the fuss was about Tree Style Tabs. Now I know, it is a wonderful addon.
On Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Cloud Computing
So to take an example, signed integer arithmetic can't overflow (or it is UB), would you like a compiler that flag for every single arithmetic operation on int when it can't prove it won't overflow?
So we couldn't compile `int foo(int a, int b) { return a + b; }` right?
> "sink functions" should take an rvalue reference

You mean using move semantics?
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Diminishing returns on an exponential can still be exponential.

Typically, diminishing returns means f(x) = x/(1+log(x)) where x is headcount and f is output. The overhead goes up with the log of the number of people, because a hierarchical organization will have log(N) layers of management that need to be traversed to make decisions.

If we have exponentially increasing manpower, x=exp(t), then f = exp(t)/(1+log(exp(t)) which is O(exp(t)/t)
> but there's no reason to think that progress towards the things Sam is talking about will stop in any meaningful way over the long term.

You could have said the same about the philosophical stone, which people thought that was possible to "discover" back in the late 1700s, or about us, humans, physically reaching other solar systems and especially other galaxies, which some people thought possible for a while after WW2. It's a belief similar to how some religions started, definitely similar to the early Christians' belief that the second coming was only a decade or two away.
Oh okay, thanks for the background. If I were in your shoes, I would push as hard as I could to build a simple prototype, and then attempt to get as many meetings as possible with industry leaders that could (sponsor) your app. It's really in their best interest if you're solving a problem for the students and the firms.
A shared_ptr is a reference counted allocator, which has nontrivial runtime overhead. It's not what you want when you just want to pass down a reference to some object allocated as part of an enclosing stack frame.

The problem in the article is that the code has a firm RAII promise that the higher level object will be destroyed correctly (i.e. never before any called functions use it). But the author wants to add safety by ensuring that the called functions aren't able to store or copy the pointer or otherwise muck with that allocation promise. And the chosen syntax with unique_ptr works well enough I guess (though it will break if you need the same object used across two disjoint subtrees of the calll tree).

Personally? If this is really what you want then Rust is probably a better proposition as it doesn't require extra syntax for this case. Is it really what you want? Dunno. A simple application of "const" to a few places can get you maybe 70% of the way to the goal here in designs like this.
vitamin D testing was a huge money maker to labs. the EU cut this test from its health plans and a few equipment makers (in labs, equipment works like big iron, you get it leased for free while your reagent subscription is active) are bankrupting.
AlphaZero vs. Stockfish: 10 example rounds
hi!

I work at Wallaroo Labs.

strmpnk had good content for answers for 1 and 2. thank you for that!

re: 3.

The one stream updates/one stream reads is detailed in the "MarketSpread" example in the post. I suspect the key to your question is "two independently deployed streaming states". Could you elaborate on what you mean by that? I think if I understood that better, I could give a good answer to #3.

4. Currently all pipelines have a source and a sink. In your HTTP call example, that would most likely be a combination source/sink where we want to have both the input and some output result flow back out. That currently isn't supported in Wallaroo although we have had discussions about what that might mean. You could do transactional processing where you receive an event and then reply but at the moment, the reply would need to go out over the sink which is a different channel than the source. I'd be really interested in working with folks who could benefit from a combination source/sink approach. We prefer to add additional functionality after working through use cases with interested parties. We find that leads to better results than our designing in a vacuum.

5. Everyone has a different definition of novel. In my view, most streaming systems have left the handling of application state in the hands of the programmer. You can keep it in memory for speed but then you have to manage the resilience of that in-memory state. Wallaroo makes that in-memory state a first class citizen. It's not detailed in this post, but Wallaroo can provide resilience for you state so that if there is a failure we can bring that state back. Currently that involves using a write ahead log that is stored on the local filesystem. We are working on replicating that log to other nodes in the cluster to provide additional resilience.

If i was to hightlight one feature to answer your question about novelty, that would be it. We have a lot more content on the blog that might answer your question better. The post in question is very much a "how do I do X" sort of post rather than a "Why Wallaroo?" (of which there are a couple on the blog).
>Nothing super unethical

So I take it you must not have worked for Ultimate Bet.
It's not unintended or modified behavior, it's more akin to a coupon code which the WSJ intends for anyone with said code to be allowed to use.
Or go very, very, very far outside. Like, into the woods. This may be necessary if you have inconsiderate neighbors playing Christmas music you can hear through the walls.
How does the government seize bitcoins when you have memorized your private key? They cannot read your mind.

Here is more information about the topic :https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
That's why Coinbase runs GDAX that caters to large & frequent traders, giving huge discounts on fees to the people who provide that liquidity for them. They also run an OTC desk to shuffle funds around in larger quantities both for themselves and their largest customers.
The friendly AI goal alignment problem is a pretty interesting part of this and there’s interesting work going on there.

The basic idea is how do you effectively align a general intelligence’s goal with humans so that it uses its intelligence to solve problems in a way that aligns with our own human utility functions.

If humans figure out general AI before goal alignment it may have outcomes we don’t want.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/

https://youtu.be/EUjc1WuyPT8
What is "the market"??? It's only people agreeing to trade... so vendor AND buyers!! What makes a "market price"? It's the amount that buyers are willing to give to sellers for something.
If there is no buyer (or no sellers ), then there is no "price", because there is no market. Same if buyers and sellers cant agree on the price (vendor ask to much)
Coinbase is only a marketplace. So it doesn't have to honor any deposit. It only allows sellers and buyers to trade
I agree, its definitely due to a Sam's bubble/filter.
Its way way too generalized for the general population.
Bitcoin hit ATH on coinbase, then crashed. Something's not right. The exchange is still not really 'up'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7i7mix/great_gdaxc...

Can we change the link to https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/938802155925913600
Just install Amazon Collar round your dog's neck. It will lightly caress it as the delivery person approaches your house, ensuring your items get there safely.
I read another post somewhere that said all you need is 12 minutes of direct sunlight to maximize your Vitamin D intake. It's because your body can only absorb so much vitamin D at one time, from the Sun.

As for food products, there aren't that many natural sources of vitamin D. Milk is fortified with vitamin D but doesn't come with it naturally.

Given how few sources of vitamin D there are: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=110
I don't see how our species could have evolved to depend on vitamin D (other than being outdoors).
Maybe by the time AI is that sophisticated it will also be just as error prone and finicky as "BI" (biological intelligence)