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Yeah, I can't see them being worth that much money. Between WP and Drupal's Contenta distribution (http://www.contentacms.org/), you can deploy a free open source system that's way more extendable than a proprietary system ever will.
I recently started a job where I was introduced to HSM's. The answer is, there isn't one. The resulting C reads like the entire program was written in main() and connected via glorified gotos. Every module depends on a global event queue, and event data is passed via circular dependency on effectively global state. I have never seen such basic logic so obfuscated and so distributed.

It might just be this codebase, but I do not see the appeal to HSM's. I'll stick with my standard flow control (while, for, break, return) and compose functions from other functions. It sure is nice to make calls that actually return.
This is a recurring nightmare if you have bought Oracle Products. We are an enterprise paying customer. If we open a ticket, the first thing they do is ask for some logs which is fair. Then after sometime they will ask for more unrelated logs. Then your metadata structure. Then your data..the list goes on and on. Then you realize - 2 months have passed and they still don't have a resolution.
> If net neutrality fails, would it makes sense aggressively pursue a legal effort to break up "big cable"?

It already makes sense.

If there were a competitive free market, then there would be a rational argument against net neutrality rules, but that simply isn't the case unless you live in North Dakota.

It's ironic that Ajit Pai acts like he can back up his argument against net neutrality with nothing but a short-sighted libertarian stance, yet he is so clearly helping support the current oligopoly, rather than fighting for a competitive free market.
Nobody knows what everybody is going to do. Just sayin'.
Not sure why you have to point at the members of the Christian religion as the culprit, when there are people of similarly zealous ilk in each and every religion besides Christianity. Certainly, Christianity has the majority stake of religion in the Western world, but this question is a global one, and I don't remember the last time a person was summarily executed for dealing drugs in a Christian country like one might find in Singapore, or their head cut off like one might find in certain Middle Eastern countries, or (again) killed, in certain African countries.

Pointing a finger at a single group is unproductive when the desired outcome is a more comprehensively understanding, less punitive, and essentially more humanitarian solution for what is at issue.

The real disconnect is that the people in power are not held to the same standard as those being sentenced. When was the last time you heard of a prosecuting attorney being drug tested before they could argue in court? What about a judge, or probation/parole/police officer? If there was some transparency in how ubiquitous drug use actually is, one might have some real leverage when seeking to implement more equitable (and therefore less punitive) legislation that provides fairer sentencing guidelines.
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Much, much lower. Buying a house vs 120B+ market cap.
Fair enough, indeed I would advise to use with caution around data that needs to be kept safe from deletion. I think of this as a nice idea for experimenting forms of coding like spikes, but wouldn’t run something like this against a production database or my root file system.
> only to turn around and tell us that it is amazing that it can also win at Chess.

What they're demoing here is a single, general formula for mastering multiple games. Start with empty AG0, then teach it chess from scratch until it is the strongest player on the planet.

Go back to an empty slate, with the same exactly "untrained" AG0, and now teach it Go, to the same result. No fine-tuning for the domain of the game you are training -- it is general(ized).

That's the gist I'm getting from this.

question for someone who has time to read the paper: can you train it to master chess and go at the same time? or is it one or the other? I'm assuming the latter.

edit: check out the graph on the 4th page. AlphaZero, which can master chess and shogi, can beat AlphaGo Zero, the implementation specifically designed for Go, at its own game.
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Ok that may be true but why should they be allowed to deduct it? They are not a business owner (unlike the landlord). Its like allowing people to deduct 10% of everything they buy from Amazon because they are paying a part of Amazon’s warehousing costs.
I think a lot of people see it more as "Drug users are bad, so they should be punished".
> Available in U.S. storefront only.

Wait, what? Why is it only in U.S. storefronts? Does this mean I have to walk into an Apple store to get the Ads?
I wish something like this had been out before UC Berkeley's public online classes were forced down for not having closed captions. Or maybe it still couldn't have met the requirements?
"We also analysed the relative performance of AlphaZero’s MCTS search compared to the state-of-the-art alpha-beta search engines used by Stockfish and Elmo. AlphaZero searches just 80 thousand positions per second in chess and 40 thousand in shogi, compared to 70 million for Stockfish and 35 million for Elmo. AlphaZero compensates for the lower number of evaluations by using its deep neural network to focus much more selectively on the most promising variations – arguably a more “human-like” approach to search, as originally proposed by Shannon." <- Amazing!
> but most people agree its warranted

Is it warranted for you to kill me if I steal your car?
> It is a patriotic military song about defending France from attackers. It's not fundamentally different from many other such verses in the anthems and patriotic texts of competing nations. The Quran contains similar wording when describing calls for Jihad to defend the fatherland.

But it is different. La Marseillaise isn't about how great France is, and why it's worth defending. It's about how our enemies are coming to rape, pillage, and murder everyone, and we need to fight to the end to prevent that from happening. It's also quite notable in that it doesn't specifically insult other countries or lay grandiose claims to land in its lyrics, which were quite common features in national anthems in the 1800s.

One should also point out that the song the Germans are singing is literally about how Germans need to stand on the Rhine to defend Germany from France--it antagonizes France both implicitly and explicitly. So in context, you have Germans singing about how they need to defend themselves from a country they've already defeated which is drowned out by the French singing about how they need to defend themselves from enemies come to destroy them (which, for them, had already happened).
Google should respond by blocking Amazon in their search results. Then Amazon will really see who gets hurt the most.
Arrival has non-hostile aliens.

BTW, if anyone liked Arrival, the older film Contact is really good as well.
What you described is a hiring problem. Marketing is knowing who your buyer is and finding creative ways to get their attention.
When you work with Go every day (which I've done for last two years or so), small problems become significant annoyances.

It's a decent language, but it's also a deeply flawed one. I could mention many other, bigger flaws, but this particular discussion was about errors.

Also, it's actually okay to debate minutia. Dismissing something as "not real problems" is, well, dismissive.
> we left C behind (it does not work beyond a certain degree of complexity)

I hope this is either a ruse or you're really inexperienced.
By hijacking a thread that's about taking action to argue technicalities, you are kind of contributing to the problem by decreasing SNR. If you are just here to argue, you are wasting the time and brainpower of people who could actually be contributing to solutions.

At the very least, instead of saying "see, I told you it wasn't easy," why don't you summarize the responses you have received and formulate a set of rules that would satisfy as many as possible?
One thing that people aren't considering is that we have legalization experiments within the United States, and we have seen an uptick in marijuana usage[1]. This uptick has been benign because its been limited to Marijuana. I think that given our culture (one that I believe is potentially universal, but I can not speak to universality) has a tendency toward over consumption, its not clear to me that legalization of drugs would lead to decreased usage. I'm not advocating continuing our failed drug war, just caution when considering legalization, it may still be the best way forward.

[1] http://www.rmhidta.org/html/FINAL%20NSDUH%20Results-%20Jan%2...
There is a right tool for any job. It is just that C was the right tool (when they started) for writing OS kernels.
Sure. -fstack-check wasn't designed for stack clash protection. It's old and it makes little sense in context, but it works and it exists, which is why it's being used until proper Stack Clash prevention lands in GCC 8.

I don't think signals change anything. You can think of them as just function calls that skip over the redzone, then keep probing. The redzone is < 1 page so you should still wind up touching every page.
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>>Based in the GP, he's likely in the 3rd percentile for income in the US, and the .1 percentile for the world.

Most people don't understand this. When they are talking about 'the rich' or 'the 1%', they are really talking about your every day doctors, managers in most software companies, lawyers etc.

Its very hard to notice how poor and how many poor there are in the remainder of the world.
Did you also setup DMARC? I've had good luck with that to reduce the amount of backscatter. Although some recipients don't check it, those that do will fast fail anything coming in that doesn't pass SPF or DKIM.
This is an incredible demonstration that the AG Zero expert iteration method is a general method. If you go back to the discussions of AG Zero lo a month ago, there was a lot of skepticism that NNs would ever challenge Stockfish et al - they are just too good, too close to perfection, and chess not well suited for MCTS and NNs. Well, it turns out that AG Zero doesn't work as well in chess: it works better as it only takes 4 hours of training to beat Stockfish. This is going to be an impetus for researchers to explore solving many more MDPs than just chess or Go using expert iteration... ("There is no fire alarm.")
With regards to #1 - Portugal is among the more religious countries in Europe [1].

The article unfortunately does not touch on the stance of the religious community of Portugal and how it was (or was not) handled, something which could hold important lessons for similar efforts in the US.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Europe
> That thought doesn't really capture the reason. It applies in some circumstances but not this one.

By 'this circumstance' do you mean the USA, or why drug decriminalisation isn't tried elsewhere?

If the former, consider this fun fact from Wikipedia [1]

"At the beginning of 2008, more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. Total US incarceration peaked in 2008. Total correctional population (prison, jail, probation, parole) peaked in 2007. If all prisoners are counted (including juvenile, territorial, ICE, Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the US had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners."

And this one from the same page:

"The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980. In 2000, 22 percent of those in federal and state prisons were convicted on drug charges."

I believe state numbers are a bit fuzzy, but at a federal level in 2016 it was around 75% of inmates were in private facilities.

So, long story short, there's a lot of wealthy people keen on keeping things as they are -- the fact that it's an easy political sell to the average not-terribly-well-informed voter is a bonus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
Nothing special about a Republic. If it has a large police force whose allotments of funds come on the basis of superficial law enforcement activity which can be tracked and used by politicians for campaign talking points, the fundamental incentives at play are still power and wealth.

The politician's salary depends on his understanding of getting elected, and not much else. The politician controls the policeman's salary, which now depends on doing things that will make the politician look good.

Some politician, or group of them, figured out that tough-on-crime looks good as a talking point. Nixon figured out that war-on-drugs looks great as a talking point. But at some point, the financial incentives for a whole built out bureaucracy become self reinforcing, even if the citizens' aggregate beliefs change.

But there's nothing special about a Republic. The mob, a totally different sort of shadow-government, though empowered by prohibition, continued to exist long after, up to today. There was a self reinforcing financial incentive for it to continue.

Related is another quote I like, the Shirkey principle:

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” —Clay Shirky
I can't see why a 5W TDP Intel SOC wouldn't also be sufficient for that purpose. The Snapdragon 835 is 4.5W.

Why the specific ISA desire?
Funny, I think a lot about social inertia these days and this summarize the issue nicely. We're all tangled in this weird dance ...
Shogi, chess and Go are "perfect information games", meaning you can see the whole game state. It's a whole different thing to be able to solve games where you don't see everything (based on uncertainty).
You're right in that what's being demonstrated here should actually be old-hat for OO programmers. It's basically a factory that returns things wrapped in an option if pre-conditions fail.

Crucially what's being demonstrated here isn't dependent types at least as they are commonly known (which some of the comments here explain).

Dependent types are when expressions can not only be of a type, but can also return a type.

That means for example something like

x : (if condition then Boolean else Int)

is a type, i.e. the entire thing within the parentheses to the right of the y.

This is radically different from subclassing. That entire if statement is a type, not just the `Boolean` or `Int` parts.

Indeed because now arbitrary expressions (in particular equality can return a type!) can return types, types can be statements of your program and simply getting the typechecker to accept the type proves properties of your program.

x : 5 = 5

In here "5 = 5" is a type. This flips normal statically typed programming on its head. We care more about the type than the value! The actual value of "x" is probably not something you care about; it just proves (in this case the trivial statement) that "5 = 5." Less trivial equalities can be stated

additionCommutes : (a : Int, b : Int) -> a + b = b + a

and proved by providing a value for additionCommutes that satisfies the typechecker. Again the important thing is the entire right-hand-side of additionCommutes is a single type.
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Please don't post baity rants here. We're trying for thoughtful discussion and the two things are incompatible.
"because the people want them to" is a bit of an oversimplification to say the least. The people, influenced by media, various factions and their own interest, vote for people who then may or may not do things that "the people want", because they operate within a particular context, zeitgeist, resistance to change, optics, party dynamics, outside money and what they perceive the people to want.
>I'm a Prime subscriber but can't watch Prime videos (TV and movies) on my regular Android device, although if I had an Amazon Kindle device I could watch them there.

You've been able to do this for at least 3 years. Not one-step-you're-done-easy, but officially supported with no magic incantations required: https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6126165/amazon-prime-insta...
I negotiated quarterly billing instead of annual and a moderate discount for their cheapest enterprise plan, so there seems to be some room.
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This is irrational. It might be a complicated question if the foreign-jurisdiction alternatives were more secure, rather than drastically less secure. But since that's not the case, switching from Google Mail actually gets you the worst of both worlds: a mail service that is materially less secure, operating in a jurisdiction where there are literally no rules preventing USG-level adversaries from exploiting it.
Surely you can understand the downside of diffusing attention?
A lot of the graphs in the paper seem to level out as they hit the level of the opponent. It makes me wonder to what extent AlphaGo Zero is merely optimizing to beat flaws in existing opponents' current implementations (even if "existing opponents" == all available opponents' data and algorithms today) rather than generalizable insights into the underlying game. Because wouldn't you expect that unless we are at the theoretical limit of perfect chess that a tabula rasa approach might exceed existing best practice significantly, especially with the massive computation advantage it has?

Not that there's anything wrong with that; AlphaGo Zero supposedly optimized for the "just enough" win rather than the crushing win. It doesn't even mean Stockfish is doomed--I suspect Stockfish could beat it in a future heads up match provided that Zero didn't have time to retrain, but that a retrained Zero (having the benefit of optimizing against a new Stockfish) would be able to supersede it once again.
Question: do you think you are using the same parts of the brain to play chess and Go? What counts is not using the same neurons, but using the same neural algorithm.
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Funny thing here, for me, is that the first time I ever rented a movie on Google play was because Amazon would not stream over Chromecast. They're shooting themselves in the foot for nothing.
Uniforms, food, beds, etc. all of very poor quality being sold at high margin. Policing for profit essentially.
If you mean by rich, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet level rich, then there are only a few dozen people whom you can tax that way.

Also tax is on income, not wealth. Unless Bill Gates sells his stocks, its pretty much untouchable.
> I don't remember the last time a person was summarily executed for dealing drugs in a Christian country like one might find in Singapore, or their head cut off like one might find in certain Middle Eastern countries, or (again) killed, in certain African countries.

This is precisely what's happening in the Philippines, a predominantly Christian nation, and very devoutly so.
I don't have an answer to your question, but I remember watching some commentary by a person involved in the making of the film. This is about the final pivotal scene where Captain Renault must quickly decide whether to implicate Rick as the killer of Strasser.

The first version of the scene had the police arrive just as Renault shouts to "round up the usual suspects." Whoever was in charge of the film (I assume the director) said this was all wrong, and told the editor to instead add a dramatic sequence of short cuts back and forth between Rick and Louis, showing that Rick was desperately wondering what Louis would do -- praying he wouldn't turn him in -- and Louis was thinking basically the same thing, realizing he had the option to switch sides in the moment.

As with the Marseillaise scene, this is minutes and minutes of incredible storytelling condensed into just a few frames of dialogue-free film. And apparently (finally getting to your point), it wasn't originally filmed that way; they probably had a bunch of shots of each actor glaring in various directions, and they used them in the editing room to powerful effect.

If anyone has a link to the interview I'm describing, I'd appreciate watching it again.
That doesn't explain the rest of the world.
You can encourage them to instead work on improvements to existing tools.
How has this affected tax revenue on these legalization experiments? How has this affected drug related crime as well? Is this increase bad? I would love for someone to dig up these answers as I have referenced Portugal's policy in many arguments, but never the ones we have been trying out here at home as they are newer and often more restrictive in comparison.
Probably weird posturing...

The iOS app works, but you can't purchase from it (I speculate because Apple would get a cut). Same goes for the Kindle app.
I haven't heard it argued that legalizing drugs would decrease usage. Just that it would lead to safer usage, reduce crime, destigmatize addiction and allow for better treatment of addicts.
Dear AG,

I am wondering if net neutrality should not be enforced by international trade agreements, such as TAFTA and others.

Net neutrality means that European ISPs cannot slow down the internet from American Companies and vice versa.

What Pai is proposing will give frightening ideas to foreign ISPs. Ask Facebook a cut of its ads or slow down its traffic. Ask Apple a cut of app purchases, or slow down downloads from the app store. Ask a cut of the streaming of any Hollywood movie, otherwise the streaming quality will be inferior to local European movies.

My intuition is that moving away from net neutrality is dangerous for healthy trade between countries and should be enforced at the international level.

I am wondering if current trade agreements already have implicit net neutrality rules. If it's not the case, we should promote such measures for the next generation of international trade agreements.
'I'm an Australian, and I'm a great fan of our "100 points of ID" system, which is designed to remove the human factor from identifying people.'

According the page you linked, a birth certificate and bank statement (or even a 'Document issued by <SNIP> or registered corporations.') would be enough. So if I get your birth certificate and have an Australian corporation, I can issue a letter saying you're a customer for a year. So I have 100 points and can pretend to be you?

That doesn't seem secure at all. The birth certificate has no photo (or, if it does, it won't be useful except to determine ethnicity), and the document from a registered corporation can be trivially faked.
IME, human beings generally expect things that are true to be intuitive, and tend to interpret causality eagerly. The history of science is littered with folks that ended upon the wrong side of it because their intuition couldn't be rationalized (the earth _not_ being flat, for instance).

It doesn't surprise me that many countries will be very slow to change. Change would require citizens to invest in understanding the research and to recognize that the "obvious" solutions to drug addiction aren't necessarily the effective ones.