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I imagine you grew up either in an at least upper-middle-class family, or in an area with unusually driven and competitive teenagers compared to the national average.

There was absolutely no pressure, in my experience from a random boring part of white suburbia, for anyone to do anything but go to one of the states’s relatively cheap public universities.

People who went to places like MIT, Harvard, or expensive liberal arts colleges were a rare exception by far.
Those are the two main types of site that Google ads won't touch, though. So if they monetize using ads, they need to use an unscrupulous ad network.
Isn't the answer simply that he doesn't want to be?

I'm sure I've seen him answer this question in interviews in the past.
You're thinking of GFP, which requires gene editing and certain wavelengths of light which fluoresces rather than "glows". This is a pretty different approach.
Instead we let the US do as they please on our soil, and politely ask for visas promised to us 4 cadencies ago. All it takes is a radically anti-interventionist US president and we’re left to fend for ourselves against the angry Russians with our outdated F-16s. Germany has better ties with Russia than us.
Yeah but it only exists since 1990.

Then again, I might be applying to much logic.
Thanks, I didn't know about those flags! I suspect there was a pathological expression somewhere, since most of that time was spent in a single file.
Don't you think people are, sometimes, just applying ML to their problem "because of hype" ?

One example I have in mind, was a contest where participants were given a series of satellite pictures and asked to write a classifier to detect icebergs and cargo ships (the two are quite similar). As someone else pointed out, trying to use classical computer vision and machine learning on these images will always have some error rate during identification. However, if we were able to extract speed and trajectory of all objects in the picture and mixing them with AIS data, finding which ones are ships, which ones are giant pieces of ice, and which one are non-moving structures to be avoided, becomes easy.

So, you have to choose between a black box that will give you potential results with a given error-rate, and a predictable algorithm that anyone can audit. Seems like a no-brainer situation to me. For what other reason would you choose the first solution, except hype-related decisions ?
Not really. In the Nordics, the right to public healthcare comes with a residence permit. (And nowadays, at least in Sweden, to some extent even with illegal residency).

Of course, you may still want to have a private healthcare insurance to have quick access to care. The public system in Nordics is great for preventive care for children, and emergencies and serious situations for everyone, but not so great for everyday items. Larger employers often provide a private health care plan so that employees don't have to spend hours in queues.
Do they work?
> way more upward mobility than they could ever dream of

It's worth keeping in mind that it's relative upwards mobility - upwards mobility in the US conjures up some slightly different mental images. Top 10% in Denmark is absolutely unremarkable middle class in the US.

If you enjoy being relatively equal to your neighbours, then it's great, if you enjoy objective material wealth, less so.
there are companies who specialise in this sort of thing--ie, IP brokers, i suppose is what they are.

for a flat fee (or a piece of the action) they will search for licensees for your IP. The largest such firms don't really do any "searching" because they have built a permanent marketplace of licensors & licensees.

the shop i know about is yet2.com; yet2 was started around 2000 by Ben DuPont. I have not done business with them, nor do i know anyone who has
When I visited Malaysia earlier this year I asked on of the residents there what's the deal with malls there.

She said it was the place all the kids went to when their parents kicked them out (don't watch tv all day!) because they had aircondition. There was a social component as well.
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What good and not to pricey (24/7) services do you use if e.g. the database connection fails or a service needs to be restarted? I'm looking for a real human which ssh into the machine not automated solutions.
Thank you for this. This is an excellent slide deck
Isn't it obvious that once you have a big selling platform, you can make it grow until you hit a competitor that is bigger than you? Which in the case of Amazon is not happening.

Can we please turn "selling" into a utility function, so that the "digital economy" can perhaps turn into something useful instead of a detriment?
Whether it was a breakthrough or not, I have to say, the moves it played were certainly "creative" in a profound sense.
Playing the games simultaneously is actually innovative in how it let's them learn faster. If you play one game at a time consecutive moves are highly correlated which makes it difficult to make learning updates after each move. If you're playing 1250 parallel games that are starting and restarting so that they're at all at different stages of play, you can do an update after every move in every game and make better progress faster. This is known as Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C) and is a highly cited method discovered by the DeepMind team [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783
I think any government of SPD and Greens will wiggle out. Obvously any government with the communists (Linke). Don't think a government with AfD will happen soon or ever.

"Please don't kid yourself. Most people don't even know where this is and their illegal involvement in Ukraine made them the evil guy for a long time. It did not help them at all and it doesn't help your point at all."

After rereading this, I still can't follow your point.

"Do you seriously believe Russia would be seen as a victim when it invades another country? Seriously? By whom? AfD?"

If Russia plays the Russian-minority-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-Crimea-shenanigans with the baltic state, yes.

Russia is seen as the victim of the Ukraine crisis.

50% of SPD members/voters - more if it's left dominated as it currenty is compared to a Schmidt/Schroeder/Brand rightist dominated SPD - 50% of Green members/voters - less if Realos dominate like Fisher, but the Greens are currently dominated by Fundi positions - 100% of Linke voters of course, no clue about AfD.

Just read [1] for example, 39% of people in Germany think Germany should accept Crimea as part of Russia. In a government without the conservatives that position would have the majority.

Or here [2], majority of people in France (53), Italy (51) and Germany (58) would not defend an eastern NATO country attaked by Russia.

[1] http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2014-11/deutsche-umfr...

[2] http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/umfrage-zur-ukrai...
This proves the exact point that customers who wish to legally pay for content have to jump through a ridiculous number of hoops.

Register an account in a different country, pay for a gift card in another currency, suffer international transaction fees + currency conversion rates, then manage multiple accounts with different balances depending on when iTunes has juggled around it's regional stores.

Or just visit pirate bay.
Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion
Chase doesn't like chromium. It'll randomly load a mobile page if your user agent string is chromium. Not to mention, none of the US banks allow standard 2FA (TOTP). If they have 2FA at all, it'll be SMS.
> Isn't it obvious that once you have a big selling platform, you can make it grow until you hit a competitor that is bigger than you?

How'd that work out for eBay?

What is it with so many human beings where -- even in a clearly competitive environment -- we assume difficult things are dead simple and easy? History is rife with incumbents that failed on their own or were defeated by upstarts, you have to really go out of your way to pretend those don't exist or convince yourself that they were all full of the unusually stupid, and yet some people make it work.
> $12k is the cited number that you see a lot in basic income discussions. That's just over the poverty level. That's not enough to live on

"just over the poverty level" is pretty much the definition of "enough to live on". If it isn't, the poverty level is set wrong.

Anyway, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... 22.77% of the people in the US age 15+ (12.5 million persons) had an annual income of $12.5k or less.
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IIRC it was sold / transferred to an unknown party and hosted outside of any jurisdictions. The mistake the original owners made was that their names could be traced back from the website.
What I'm confused about is this. I thought Star Citizen moved to Amazon Lumberyard, which I believe is a fork of CryEngine. What confidential information could they have that Lumberyard hasn't already put into the open?
> The vision is to make a plant that will function as a desk lamp

There's something about that sentence that is just brilliant (excuse the pun). I'm not really sure why.

Maybe because it has never occurred to me that what a poinsettia was missing was a dimmer switch? No idea, but I love it.
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> Would you say providing public education and moving people from dangerous area to safer places as a way of cleansing their cultures?

I actually agree that the cases of Tibetans and Uyghurs are not as black-and-white as the Western media portraits them, and I'm not sure if I should've brought up Larung Gar. But even your best-case interpretation sounds a lot like the standard justification of colonialism.

> If you are really interested in China, you should just go somewhere and see for yourself.

Been there twice. The only on-topic anecdote I have is that I went to see the Forbidden City, and a protester undressed and tried to hold up a banner at the same time. The Chinese handling was unlike anything I've seen in other countries: plain-clothed security guards wrapped her up in just seconds and carried her away (I couldn't even decipher her banner), and none of the domestic tourists around us even batted an eye. It was like a glitch in the matrix that everyone collectively pretended didn't happen. Pretty chilling, makes you wonder how many issues go unheard.

I'm planning to travel further West next time, but what do you suggest? Should I just stroll into Xinjiang and ask some locals if there's any truth to this organ harvest rumor, then come back to post on HN? That's the job of journalists, and they can't do their job.

> As for Taiwan, It's still a legacy problem of Chinese civil war

That doesn't really explain why the number of missiles keeps increasing.[1][2]

> actually there was a missile missent and crashed by Taiwan

Clumsy, sure, but we all know why Taiwan needs to handle these missiles in the first place, and it's not for offense.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-china/china-on-tra...
[2] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/208...
Thanks!

All I want for Christmas is an obvious link in the top of every W3C document showing me what's new.
> Also worth mentioning is that the lead investigating police got a job from Warner Brothers very soon after the trial was successful.

Can you blame them? Thanks to that case the guy got a lot of experience in the area of copyright violations and online piracy, that's valuable knowledge to have and they could use someone to advise them.

You're implying that he did it for the cushy job he got for it, but I have my doubts. Maybe if you can prove he got the offer before the investigations started?
People are stupid all the time. I am stupid. You are stupid. I'm sure even von Neumann was being stupid all the time. Do not over-estimate your own rationality - our instinctual responses are so frequent, that even if they're right 90% of the time, they still make us behave badly/stupidly far more often than we think we do.

> I have no desire to be a victim to prove a point.

This is not a dig against you. Humans - myself included - are incredibly flawed (while being incredibly awesome at the same time). I just find it helpful to keep this in mind. Personally, applying the stereotype as you say is a very reasonable (even "rational") choice. I do it too. But, at the same time, we should recognize the limitations of it - both you and I have probably treated a gypsy unfairly. That's ok, I'm fine with that, I've given up hope that I can be perfect - but, I still find that it helps to remind me that I'm not. And what I'm doing is not helping them. I don't know how I could _personally_ behave better (without harming myself) - but, that only means that I don't believe a solution can be found at the "personal" level. I believe "more of the same" will only work to reinforce the stereotype - so at a policy level, I believe that policies are needed to actively help them raise above their conditions (yes, maybe even positive discrimination is justified - at least, it's _something_ ), while at the same time working to fight against the symptoms (prevent the formation of "ghettos"/ their isolation in roma-only communities).

But, I digress. This was about our own weaknesses, and how the stereotype, even when grounded in truth, can be harmful, because of the positive feedback loop it creates (which is very hard to break). In particular, a stereotype tells you that e.g. gypsies used to be petty criminals (in large proportions), but it does NOT tell you that they have to be so in the future. It does not tell you the "why" - maybe it's coded in their DNA. But what if (more likely, IMO) it's actually coded in our social norms? Because those, we can change! It takes effort, and time, but it's doable.
I didn't know that. Is it possible, then, that a person who leaves their door unlocked is punished while the person who stole and dumped the car is not?
For those who have not been paying attention for a decade, what's the relationship between this revision and WHATWG?
Prior to AZ, some competent people had doubts if self-taught NN could compete at all with a mature chess engine at its strongest setting. You know how that went. The improvement rate of subsequent Alpha revisions is incomparable to what software like chess engines shows. Hence, the tendency to evaluate each one as a breakthrough.
Personally I believe that "breakthrough" is a non-technical word that's hard to define, but "improvement rate surpassing most optimistic expectations for a given field at a given time" could probably qualify as a criteria.
Delete FB, reset phone. Maintain todo list. Keep discussions limited to ideas and opinions. Get a not so nice phone.
And why shouldn't the US have pressured Sweden to take down the Pirate Bay? The people running that site are openly and proudly flouting copyright laws and allowing American-owned (among other) content to be downloaded without payment to the owners.

Very large portions of the US economy are dependent on international enforcement of copyright and patent law. If the US isn't using its leverage over other countries to make them enforce intellectual property laws, then it is failing to protect its citizens' economic security.
> “We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation-state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.” [Bruce Schneier when Mirai first appeared]

This looks especially foolish now. Schneier is a so-called expert who has testified in front of congress. He should be more careful when engaging in rampant speculation like this. What basis did he have for such an assumption?

I don’t understand why every single cyberattack is immediately blamed on Russia or China. It’s an intellectual embarrassment, and especially worse when it’s coming from experts within the community rather than politicians in congress.

But I’m sure the DNC hack was the work of an advanced nation state. Probably had nothing to do with sharing passwords like runner123 over email...
And is that not a classic case of victim blaming?
I'm a proponent of UBI, but this Utopian kind of vision is naive at best.

The power of UBI is that it solves the immediate problem that many jobs will disappear, and with modern technology people shouldn't be starving. But it keeps the tried and tested incentive-based capitalism underneath.

Perhaps one day mankind will evolve to a utopian state, but in the intermediate to long term we absolutely are still capable of great selfishness, laziness, and ready to take any shortcut to advance our own goals.
If possible at all, could you give an example for casual chess players?
marksandspencer.com
very.co.uk
asos.com
next.co.uk

and many more.
Not defending the practice of not securing your landing page in 2017, but for balance I must say that NatWest has probably the best banking mobile app I've ever used.
We now can engineer a forest like in Avatar. I like this idea.
Excellent! More and more posts like this push me to start learning rust by doing a WebAssembly project. Thank you.
Content-free catastrophe clickbait like this is likely a good indicator that the mall-closing phenomenon in the states has peaked.

Lots of the retail stores in trouble were victims of high debt loads from private equity buyouts rather than major competition from online shopping.

Almost all of the major retail chains are now very competitive in online and mixed online/in-person shopping models and mall operators are re-tooling malls with a mix of retail and experiential stores and even governmental and professional services.

Even Sears looks like it might survive in some form and smart observers like Scott Galloway think its more likely than not that Amazon will buy a major department store soon to keep up with the Walmarts and Best Buy's that have effective physical footprints.
> This is a remarkably direct and appropriate apology [...] many people lost a significant fraction of their support because of this change, and that won't necessarily come back

They could have restored all cancelled pledges and covered their costs for a few months. That would give creators money to pay the rent, and probably go a long way towards restoring relationship with patrons.

Clearly, they're not that sorry.
> $600 for half an episode-of-whatever and $3000

Insane, you can get a good VPN from TorGuard, PIA or NordVPN for 10x less than half of an episode!
Middleman takes their users for fools two times in a row after bottom line threatening shocker. Is it time to cut back on the greed? Proceed to find out whether they sobered up after the outrage
> How do you move?

A train or bus from the Bay Area to Nebraska will run around $100. That’s around the same amount as Bay Area rent costs for just the time spent on the train/bus during the trip.

> How do you find a job?

To start, “Help Wanted” signs and odd jobs in the usual places (e.g. Home Depot). Then, network or use free internet at public libraries to search for something better.

> Are there really many jobs for burger flippers?

There are fewer jobs, but also fewer people attempting to get them.

> Are people who flip burgers in Nebraska so much better?

Of course not. But they live in a place where population has held steady (graying) instead of growing wildly, where there’s plenty of land, and plenty of housing stock on that land, so housing takes 25% of the burger flipping paycheck instead of 75% (don’t forget commuting time in the cost of housing). As a result, their standard of living is higher.

The Bay Area, or any high cost area for that matter, is a great place in which to save 20% of one’s income and a terrible one in which to live paycheck-to-paycheck 0%.
Apple is at the junction of technology and art (at least that’s what their marketing has said since its beginning). Jobs had a passion for typography, knew how to program and design logic board, and also had a mystical / philosophical side. Would Ive be able to convincingly explain that the latest arm cpu architecture is a breakthrough, or talk about the latest apple filesystem ? I don’t think he would. He seems like a pure « outside » design guy. I’ve only seen him talk about materials, shapes, and manufacturing process, but never about what’s inside the box ( i may be completely wrong, because i don’t know the guy).

And you also need to be a great salesman, which most artistic oriented people hate.

Note that by this definition, Cook isn’t a good replacement as well. He seems very much concerned by « doing good » or moral / ethical issues than jobs was (at least publicly), and he likes to invite famous people to talk about the products, but i don’t feel the same passion for this junction of tech and art that can only rise when you’re personally living in that junction.
Stockfish and other mainstream engines will judge a position in units of centipawns - one hundredth of a pawn. Largely this will be to do with material on either side. For example, if you throw away a pawn with all else being equal, I'd be up 100 centipawns. If I'm white this gets written as "+1.00", and if I'm black it's "-1.00". The score is also based on a strategic evaluation of the position (and positions to come) using (in Stockfish's case) some heuristics. It's worth noting that it's this evaluation of a position at which AlphaZero appears to be three orders of magnitude better than Stockfish.

In some of the games vs AlphaZero, Stockfish makes errors that it _itself_ appears to be able to judge as huge blunders. In game 3 (which people view as a masterpiece of long term strategic thinking by AlphaZero) one of these is at least a +10 swing to AlphaZero as white. That's about the same as throwing away your queen. Without the weird time controls put in place, it seems unlikely that we'd be seeing blunders like that. As I said before, I'd still expect AlphaZero to win, and in many cases it was already ahead before these mistakes, but it's worth mentioning in any analysis.
That is typical for organizations, where a DNS change takes weeks or months or isn't even possible, because of different legal entities. "Lets just register our own domain. Its faster...."

Having a bank as a current client, I am often joking about what would happen if Jeff Bezos takes control for a month. And when I am angry, I ask what would happen if Amazon or Google start selling credits or insurances, tomorrow.
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The problem isn't poverty, it's exorbitantly high rent, caused in turn by huge demand for housing and huge incomes from the tech companies that all decided to settle down there.

The solution is to increase wages for the people that work there but can't make a living there. And for the tech companies to do their societal duties and spread work (and wealth) across the country instead of focusing it in that area.
"young American computer savants" Ah so Mum or Dad paid a doctor to diagnose them as autistic after the fact.
The difference is that in Sweden the police doesn't do anything. Even if you give them a lot of evidence they drop the cases all the time.

I have personal experience of this.
Databases are unsecured by default

Only MongoDB and yes, it is all hype
Maybe not, but the insurance will shrug at you if you make a claim for theft.