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We do have a long way to go, but AI has made huge strides over the past few years, irrespective of the hype/marketing. Notably this year, AlphaZero, advances in generating images (https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans), voice synthesis with Tacotron, etc. were all very impressive results. Not to mention all the recent advances in the theory of deep learning.

It's good to be on watch for the bullshit (the news stories about Facebook's chatbots' "language", most futurist's predictions, any hype about general artificial intelligence, replacing x% of jobs in y years), but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

IMO, unlike blockchain, AI/ML is undoubtedly here to stay, and it will have a huge effect on everything.
Not sure what your issues #3 and #4 are. All-you-can-eat and a la carte are both ways of ordering food, and it's common to use the parlance to refer to subscriptions services. The slightly unusual grammar in #4 is perfectly valid.
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Some parts of it were a genuine surprise. In he 90’s we learned of differential cryptanalysis and that the NSA’s involvement in DES strengthened it, not backdoored it as everyone thought. Turns out that was the exception not the rule.

Likewise although certainly some people in tech knew the extant of PRISM, I think all but he most paranoid infosec people presumed they nevertheless obeyed the law and didn’t dragnet snoop on Americans. I’d heard stories of the backbone interconnects that were routing all traffic through NSA servers. I presumed that was just to get access for when they needed it (with a warrant) or to mask what specific data stream they were interested in. I didn’t take as seriously as I should have the possibility that they were in fact simply recording everything.
Submitter here.

Getting to the HN front-page has a very large random component. That doesn't mean you can't improve the odds, in this case by providing an appropriate title. To me this seemed like a story that deserved attention, and the auto-generated title from the twitter post was sufficiently useless to warrant editing the title (which I usually don't do).

Also, this happens all the time and sometimes you will be lucky and sometimes somebody else will be lucky. I've had dups of my earlier submissions go to front-page so many times I can't really keep track. But it really isn't a big deal, this isn't exactly doing years of research and getting scooped by someone else filing a patent first or publishing more quickly. It's just a submission to a web-site, effort was a few clicks.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No - YOU can change anything. Very fortunate for you. After years of disabling depression, it wasn't until I had some very lucky breaks and found the right medication that I was able to start treating myself decently, at least some of the time, and it was months after that I was able to begin working on my life and taking things on. Very fortunate for me.

There are components to depression that make it less and less tractable as it advances. Sometimes personal responsibility is the last thing you need; other times it is the first. To nurse a starving person back to health, it is important to feed them, as much as it is for them to /regularly/ exert themselves to an extent they can manage. That can be as little as brushing their teeth, to start. And that daily regularity can only be achieved with nutrients - real and analogical!

The internet seems to be awash with bootstrap psychotherapeutic approaches to depression -- do your CBT, do mindfulness. These can work, but they do involve a load; often there are social components to depression that reduce load-bearing capabilities significantly, and this fact should be recognised. As efficacious as those treatments otherwise seem to be.
> There's nothing nefarious about that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25...

A small example of the nefarious behaviour you support by paying for Netflix.

> Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations

Intellectual Property is by definition "non-excludable", which means my having access to some information does not exclude you from having access to the same information, unlike land or food or clothing. It is very different from these, and using your Government to violate the sovereignty of other nations and individuals to impose your warped up notions of property is deeply unethical.
The cultural gap is real. The car world traditionally appeals to a very different demographic. Remember all those crappy flash intros every geek would hate? Car businesses loved them.

Working on cars is a very social experience: you pick up the interest from relatives or friends, and space requirements for the hobby are such that, in urban surroundings, you usually cannot hide it from people, so they will see what you’re doing and stop to have a chat; you will often need help to push this or that relic around; you will have to talk to garage owners for many reasons, etc etc. Whereas IT is traditionally a loner’s world, and more so since the internet became central to it.

Then consider that the world of car enthusiasts is shrinking. The big expos have consolidated for lack of visitors, and car evolution itself is shutting out enthusiasts by producing more and more products that cannot be tweaked or even repaired without professional assistance. When I was a teenager my dad was often going on about the fact that me and my friends simply did not do any of the motoring-related activities he did as a kid.

I’ve known exactly two geeks in my life who were also car enthusiasts. One was a very atypical programmer, fundamentally a businessman who loved PHP. The other came from a deep UK working-class background, and cars were basically a way to stay in touch with that, a mean to maintain an emotional link with his friends and family. Everyone else only cared about cars enough to use them to from A to B and to hold a non-geek conversation (“did you see Top Gear last night? Ludicrous display! The thing with Jaguar is they always try to walk it in...”).
Of course money goes to the creators. I have an actor friend who was in a 'Netflix Original'. He got paid for it. Sure, others are making profits on it but, again, that's not surprising. That's how our society works.

I wasn't 'lobbied' or forced to install 'malware'. I'm aware of what's going on (I too have heard of R.M.S.!) and I made a conscious decision to subscribe to such services.
Isn't Newton's birthday January 4th, but was December 25th in their calendar back in the day? Or is it the other way around?
The point is real estate needs a depression -- it's prohibitively high, such that business can't even operate in their spaces.
Very true. When friends fetch their smartphones to 'capture' the moment I suddenly feel lonely, getting the feeling that we no longer value our own memory, that only what can be digitally shared and verified is real. So we end up talking to the digital middleman whilst failing to remember the 'shared' moment.
Correct, so passively aggressively complaining about DRM is a moot point
Rarely comment, but definitely identify with this. Given HN's general focus on growth and funding, I think it's great/important for an article/concept like this to be given some reach.

I find that there isn't enough critical thought given to why one ought to pursue an aggressive growth strategy. And that generally, staying small is seen as a failure to grow, rather than a conscious effort to grow in line with ones own life. Going from 3 to 100 employees in a (relatively) short period will naturally have a large impact on one's personal life and mental/emotional state. I think it's important to ask, before one ventures into that kind of adventure, whether or not you're okay risking mental/emotional (and arguably physical) stability in place of the adventure, and the potential financial windfall.

There's nothing wrong with saying no to that risk. This is a short life we have, and spending it chasing growth to keep up w/ the momentum of the extremes of capitalism doesn't need to be your game ;)

[edit] Prefer my last paragraph be written as:
There's nothing wrong with saying no to that risk. This is a short life we have, and if you're spending it chasing growth to keep up w/ the momentum of the extremes of capitalism, it doesn't need to be your game ;)
What really happened in the Christmas truce of 1914?
Ruby may not be the cool thing in town it once was, but it remains my preferred language for prototyping ideas - purely because of its elegance and expressivity. It truly delivers on its fundamental goal of "developer happiness". A lot of ideas from Ruby have gone to other languages (CoffeeScript, Elixir) and many web frameworks are modelled after Rails.

Congrats and thanks to all the core devs! :-)
Depends how much you're making as a bootstrapper? If $10 or 15k a month isn't able to fund your lifestyle then you'll probably have problems later in life. Also, unless you're based in the Bay area / NYC / London, hiring people generally won't cost you $10k/mo per employee.

Also, no one says you can't sell your bootstrapped business. A project generating $30k in profit can generally be sold for $1-1.3m. Reinvest that, and you suddenly have great cash flow from investments in addition to any other income you manage to make from your next project.

All in all, a path worth taking in life if you want flexibility and freedom.
That's how we do stuff :D
My sympathies!
Some of these are pretty eh.

"Facebook chatbot shut down" doesn't really show anything. It was a everyday failure of training that got overblown in the media.

"Google AI looks at rifles and sees helicopters": This wasn't new at all. Black box attacks have been around for a while. The paper purported to show a much more efficient attack, but it's not really a huge advancement.

In general, most of these aren't really what I would call "failures" of AI. Some of them are illuminating parts of ML that are problems (copying society's bias, adversarial attacks), but most of the rest are simply things being overhyped/regular design errors (anything to do with Alexa/google home).
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>assuming that there is no lying involved

I've seen this video several times before, and it's usually explained as an FLIR artifact (I believe the pod has a steerable lens systen, so possibly the cause of the rotation seen in the video).

As to why the audio corroboates the video? Well, not everything you hear on the internet is true....
Normally, I'd say go see your doctor. I'm not sure if he has solid advice for einsamkeit but at least he can reference to a psychologist so you can get treated for depression. Many elder people are lonely, but the underlying problem is actually depression.

There's an alternative to creating an Instagram or Facebook for lonely people: learn to deal with it, and take the positive out of loneliness.

1) You don't have to take other's viewpoints, desires, preferences, opinions into account.

2) You can live in silence, and can therefore decide if/when you play audio or video, read a book, play the piano. Heck, do a solo sport, or meditate.

Once you have solace with being lonely, you can be productive. You'll be able to for example study, you'll be able to write a book.

Then, when you do meet other people, you'll have something meaningful to sure.

And then an application like this can hook these people up. But I wonder if platforms like Instagram and Facebook don't already also serve that purpose. Or, heck, something like deviantArt.

If you can't entertain yourself while you're alone or if you can't be productive while you're alone that's not loneliness. That's depression. I adore being alone, its when I'm most productive. Then again, I'm a loner, and I embraced that, and because I was only child I learned to entertain myself whilst being alone.
For most people, quantum theory is just as shocking as anything out of supernatural fiction. It's quite common to deny that it's real and to hope a traditional explanation will replace/modify it.

That hope has always been grounded in a fear of it's "supernatural" qualities and is becoming less likely as theorists find proofs limiting it's flexibility while keeping agreement with experiments.
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They're nuts and I'd love to see them try to enforce this. Coming soon to a DC near you: The Nvidia inspectors, picking locks on cages and racks looking for humping.
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>But in ML you will often see people using explicit prefixes like in C

No, you would not, since OCaml/SML also has modules.
How much money do those top 5 torrent trackers generate for the content creators?

How much money do the "cartels" generate for the content creators?

I believe the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people involved in the production of the thousands of TV shows and movies earned much more money from those "cartels" than those torrent trackers
Also, what is the ties with Russia Today here?
RT is one of the government controlled propaganda machines of the Russia info wars.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_cla...
Sorry, here it is https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/dotnet-sig/dotnet/
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To those who understand Russian, here are two blog posts (with screenshots) the author wrote on how he developed the game:

https://habrahabr.ru/post/335960/

https://habrahabr.ru/post/337896/
> Although the company claims it is as secure as fingerprint ID.

If that is the company's claim then certainly it was a failure.
Because PS/2 is interrupt driven whereas USB relies on the CPU polling for events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Legacy_port_status_a...
Damn video editing software :-(
I only wish this were true.

We needed a refrigerator water filter a month back. So I head to amazon and look at different products available, including cheaper. Didnt like the reviews for the 3rd party and went the samsung filter. And I see what they offer is retail price.

I read the reviews and I see a trend on the comments "counterfeit", "counterfeit", and "not real product". And that was from Amazon, on a verified product's line.

So I went to Lowes. They had them in stock for the same price. Except with 0 chance of counterfeit.
While his reply seems like a hammer in search of a nail, his general point has merit, and is something that has been a topic of contention recently in deep learning (with Ali Rahimi's NIPS talk).

What he calls formal verification is what we would call regular math in machine learning. Deep learning is sorely lacking hard bounds for all sorts of things (generalization, etc.). It's something that's gotten substantially better over the past year, but is something that needs a lot of work.
No, no, no.

> whatever penalty Keras might impose is equal in the two cases.

The penalty Keras imposes when using Tensorflow depends on its Tensorflow implementation. The penalty Keras imposes when using MXNet depends on its MXNet implementation. The penalty Keras imposes when using PlaidML depends on whatever the PlaidML devs implemented. When you build a Keras layer, it's calling different Keras code for each backend.

The comparison would be fair if Plaid claimed to be the fastest Keras backed, not if it were actually claiming to be faster than Tensorflow.
> it makes me think we still have a long way to go before it’s actually “intelligent” and nothing more than PR/marketing

That doesn't mean defense contractors, for instance, won't keep winning contracts based on that PR/marketing, while causing who knows how many innocent lives to be taken because of them over-stating the effectiveness of their AI.

That's just one example where AI is already "real" today, in the sense that many companies and government organizations have started deploying it and causing real harm to people because they think it's much better than it really is.

Other examples include anything from the AI being used in the justice system to AI "simply" being used to censor "porn" but censoring completely unrelated things in the process.
Height limits and zoning are a good idea. If you don't have limits then you will have only high ugly 25-floor apartment buildings. Like the ones they build in China [1][2] or in Russia.

Look at any old European city like Paris or Amsterdam or Saint-Petersburg. A historical part of the city with 3-5-7 floor buildings looks so much better than modern cities with skyscrapers.

And I am not sure that building new houses will solve the problem. New houses and lower living cost might attract even more people to move to California.

[1] https://varlamov.me/2016/china_ray/09.jpg

[2] https://varlamov.me/2016/china_ray/11.jpg
MIUI is garbage, just like any Chinese software. It's the most bloated mobile OS I've ever used. WiFi tethering got broken after some update, which is ridiculous. Bluetooth tethering never worked at all. Memory leaks are so bad you can't keep two apps in background after 5-7 days of uptime. And that's with 3gb of RAM. They even had to add some swap space to make it usable, but at least you can turn it off, which is called "Memory optimization" for some reason. Plus, you have to register a MIUI account to turn on developer settings. I'm not even talking about silly UI bugs. Basically any non-stock ROM is better
Our universe could exist in a higher dimensional space, and these events could be cases where higher dimensional objects are intersecting with our 3 spatial dimensions.

This would explain the strange changes of shape, high speed, hovering without apparent means of support, and disappearances so often reported for these objects.

It does require that the higher dimensional space we occupy be relatively empty in our vicinity, otherwise we would expect far more of these events. Perhaps we're in a 5-D alien lab, being studied in a tank.

But it's far more likely to be a consequence of more mundane human perceptual limitations - tricks of the light, etc.
Thanks but ..

$ brew search alacritty
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Closed pull requests:
alacritty HEAD (new formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/8727)
Most sightings are at night
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Doesn't String Theory require 13 dimensions or something? Maybe that is a way around FTL travel.
Forget about what the letters mean. Just think of the test as a clustering of personalities. That's how people are finding the test useful.
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time.

Of course it is. The greater the clarity of the footage, the lower the probability that the filmed object will remain unidentified (as in Unidentified Flying Object).

If you’re on the look for unidentified things, how could anything but unclear evidence be useful?
Yeah, even simple meeting guidelines/policies help make them a lot more productive in my limited experience.

Having meetings have explicit action points agreed on at the end (and who's responsible for them) and written down helped us immensely.

We were able to almost completely avoid the constant 'have a meeting, agree on x, fast forward 2 weeks and no one can agree if we agreed on x nor why we did' that I've experienced at every other job.
Watermarking 3D models for tracking them
In my opinion this is like me saying: Greider's The Secrets of the Temple came out in '87. People have similarly considered the central bank a top threat for hundreds of years. It's so laughably obviously a tool of the plutocracy, but just as Clapper testified before congress and other reputable sources had claimed the NSA was not conducting domestic surveillance, as is the case with the Fed's missdeeds. Just have a look at the Fed's website yourself(1). They always try to say, in roundabout ways, that they are not creating money out of thin air, but that is exactly what they do: when the Fed's balance sheet ballooned after 2008 by over 4 trillion dollars--where do people think they got 4 trillion dollars from? That's 4 actual trillion dollars--not being snarky here.

So while I can somewhat agree with you, but I hope you can see my point about what gets labelled as a conspiracy doesn't matter if a lot of reputable people like Bernie Sanders, JFK, Ron Paul, Aaron Swartz, etc have already called foul.

Anyways the EFF has a useful timeline for NSA spying: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

1 - https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12853.htm
It makes sense to me that all UFO evidence would have shitty quality. UFOs are unidentified flying objects; once the image quality is good enough to identify what it is, it's no longer an UFO. So all that's left in the "UFO" category are the ones where the image quality was not good enough to make an identification.
I was expecting more than a few paragraphs claiming that a small company is a good thing in regards to happiness and flexibility at work... oh well.
As a middle-aged English bloke this made me twitch, as Electric Blue was a well known porn video brand in the 80s...
I don't think he is a jerk, but must admit I was surprised by his reaction.

I wouldn't entrust him with the business part is he was too soft either, so I guess it is ok.
The Vectrex had it.
Haven't seen this, maybe because I use a custom color (the default one seems "too orange" for me)
But how could they stop when they knew it could probably be half a milimeter thinner! :O
My personal problems with M-B are

1) I have trouble understanding the significance all of the axes except for introversion/extroversion. For example, what is the concrete difference between INFP and INFJ?

2) The results of MBTI tests seem to vary wildly (at least for me), both between different tests at the same time, or within the same test when I take it at different times. I don't know if I have any consistent MBTI value other than that I lean towards introversion most of the time.

But if someone can link me to a good explanation of the different axes and/or recommend an MBTI test that isn't bullshit, I'd be grateful.
There are 4.77 billion people walking around with a camera[1] in their pocket, so until we see something that doesn’t look like the bigfoot video from the 60s, I’m going to continue to believe that this recent alien talk is our government trying to distract us from the real issues.

Also, usually when something real happens, like a meteor falling in Russia, it’s caught by multiple, independent cameras. Show me a UFO video filmed by different people from different angles.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/274774/forecast-of-mobil...
Unfortunately, human communication is hard. I mean, the tools for the job are great but the operators are shit. Meetings are a way to solve quirks in the communication pipeline and fix holes in it, it's the exaggerated desire to always have a meeting for whatever reason (possibly to show off power through control or decision-making) at whatever time that is wasteful and that's what people hate.
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