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I was just introduced to the Fluxx card-game system this weekend; it's a system with different variants, Zombies, Monsters, there's even a version for the TV show Firefly.

Looking at the cards generated they seem to resemble the style/format of Fluxx and I wonder if OP plays themselves. I for one find it to be really neat, and may even use it myself for my weekly table-top night.
Status is one of the first "mobile chat app" cryptocurrencies to be funded with a ton of money via an ICO. It's actually why I was saying here about a year ago that Moxie the team should be putting Signal on the blockchain somehow if they want serious funding.

Once again we see that cryptocurrencies can be an extremely positive influence on open source projects through the funding they can provide.
A First Look at the Spheres, Amazon’s Wild New Corporate Biodome
Two hours of playtime, or two weeks since you bought the game.
AI Is Not the End of Software Developers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a coreboot-compatible motherboard ?
That's true in theory, but rarely in practice. I'm surprised to meet a real life big-gov proponent that is against government interference in the free market. You are truly a black swan.
I have experienced this many times in MacOS after deleting a file/folder and replacing it with some other version, like one downloaded from an email. After a while, I realize that I'm working from ~/.Trash and the attachment I just sent didn't include the changes I had been making for the last hour.

I've had this happen in bash also, where I modify some script in an external editor then try to run it, only to realize that I'm running from the trash, even though the bash prompt naively tells me I'm in ~/SomethingNotTrashFolder.

Intuitive would be "Hey, this file you're working on was just moved to the trash. There's a 99.9999% chance you don't want to do this." rather than hoping the filepath is visible, and noticed by dumb chance, in the title bar, since not many people periodically glance at the file they have open to verify it's still the file they want open.
I don't really work in Polymer (usually React) but just the same you might appreciate my favourite and most-abused decorator:

https://github.com/andreypopp/autobind-decorator
Of course it's cheating. The humans have to deal first and foremost with not falling off. That is very costly. They do a lot of actions and calculations to prevent this. The robot has unfair advantages like not caring about getting hurt, and being assured it can't fall off. Given a human 100% sure of that I bet they can also go 200 km/h or even 400!
Every book has its own merit (well, I will backtrack by saying some technical books are really bad), though thanks for the recommendation. This E-Book is primarily an introduction using common/trendy technologies in practice. Not a deep-dive or theoretical studies of <name> distributed system.
There were plenty of destructive viruses. Some (e.g. CIH) would erase the MBR of the disk making it unbootable. Others like ILOVEYOU would overwrite user's data directly. Blaster specifically had a message about Windows' poor security and tried to DDoS Windows Update.

Sometimes viruses are written to by self-limiting. MyDoom, which caused about 10% of all email traffic for a time, was programmed to deactivate on a certain date. Also once viruses get to a certain level of infamy they get a lot of attention. Blaster was mitigated in just days, so by the time it started its DDoS it was already mostly wiped out.
People have been trying to transition coal miners via education programs and funding for a while now.

The sad truth is that coal miners want to continue being coal miners because they have wrapped up a lot of their identity into the job.
The other issue is overestimated AI being generally a lot more dangerous than underestimated AI for the foreseeable future because it's a supposedly unimpeachably impartial intelligence source for unnecessary intervention, even if all the actual force at the end is being wielded by humans.

AI that's super-accurate at identifying potential terrorists might be a threat to me if I'm living in an authoritarian police state, but the police state is a threat to me without AI, and probably somewhat more preventable than AI surveillance. On the whole, I'd probably rather local police and intelligence services used a perfect profiling system, in the extremely unlikely event of such a thing ever existing, to using the guesswork they do now. Much more threatening to me and much more likely to be actively being used is AI that's actually pretty weak at identifying potential terrorists but trusted because it's pretty darn efficient at finding something that's difficult to explain on targets' computers. Same goes for AI databases purporting to be super-accurate crime prediction or credit granting or job selection models that are too intractable for anyone to realise they're basically doing the same job as a guy building a race and class based regression model. And of course where it comes to cyber-battles, the guys on offence tend to have a lot less need to worry about the accuracy of their AI's targeting and whether it's vulnerable to being gamed or just plain rubbish than the guys on defence
He has successfully signaled his virtue to your eyes, has he not?
How about AI used as a force multiplier for mass ethnically motivated hatred? Say, an AR app with face recognition connected to social media and government records to identify members of $HATED_ETHNIC_GROUP?
Gong is focused on call recording and helping you re-listen to the recordings, while Whipnote is focused on giving you detailed information from your calls as quickly as possible (zero wait time), so you can follow-up efficiently and move on to your next task or meeting. We built Whipnote so that you don't have to go back and spend hours listening to call recordings (something I personally used to do, too often).
I can blame them for wanting to take control of the market, yes.
Does riot.im will support 2FA?
Well, machine learning arose partly from the need to find a better way to create rule-bases than hand-crafting them, painstakingly and at great cost. You can see this more clearly in the work of early pioneers like Ryszard Michalski, or in inductive inference (the field preoccupied with learning automata from examples). All these have always been well in the purview of classical AI.

Then of course there's the connectionist branch that explicitly set out to take inspiration from the human brain. I don't think that anyone ever saw neural networks as anything but AI for the last 50 years or so. In any case, when the connectionist were having arguments, they were having them with other AI folks, not with, say, statisticians, or mathematicians.

Then, if you think about the classic tasks that machine learning systems perform, they're all firmly classic AI tasks: classification, game-playing, machine vision, speech processing, etc etc.

I mean, the fact that models are "predictive" on its own doesn't tell you that machine learning is separate from AI. After all, an intelligent agent must be able to make predictions about its environment and the outcome of its actions on this environment.
I heard from Dell/Silver Lake that NSX was super hot and could be a major revenue earner for them. Is that true?
Dickens was serialized - there was only so long you could spend reading new Dickens before you ran out of it. (I haven't been able to find the typical length of a portion, though.)

On the other hand, plenty of people will spend a weekend on the new Harry Potter.
> What Pinker and Gates are attempting to impose is a tyranny of faux rationality--"an 800 pg book with sources up the wazoo say that the world is getting better, all these whiny poor folk must just be delusional".

That is a pretty extreme reading of what Pinker and Gates are saying. I don't think they are saying that at all.
LinuxBoot is trying to be agnostic to the initramfs. We don't want to prescribe what tools you use to boot your system.

When there is a build system, you'll be able to choose whatever initramfs you want to implement your boot policies. The two choices we have today are NERF (= LinuxBoot + u-root as initramfs, as you linked) and Heads (LinuxBoot with Heads kernel and runtime, see http://osresearch.net).
Now systemd will be in the boot loader, too, so finally we'll be able to have perfect power management in Linux, once it controls everything first-hand :-)
My inner curmudgeon is on board with the idea of only allowing important firmware updates to happen at the dealer. But the reality is that with so many cars on the road, OTA update is a better way to make cars safer.

In my case, for example, I have a 2014 and a 2015 car which are both more than a year overdue for a software updates. One is related to the braking system; the other to a problem where if you stomp on the gas in an emergency (like to avoid a crash), the car stalls.

The problem is that the dealers in my area don't have the capacity or the will to do software updates. One dealership only has maintenance hours between 9am and 4pm Monday through Thursday, and the ONE guy who is allowed to do software updates is only in on Saturdays from 9-noon occasionally.

The other dealership doesn't take appointments at all. It's first-come, first-served, 8am-5pm Monday through Saturday. I stopped going there because even at 7am, there's a huge line of people waiting for service. The final straw was when I sat there from 7am until 3pm for a very simple non-engine part swap that was covered under warranty.

The next nearest dealer is 138 miles away.

tl;dr version: OTA updates are good because there are places where you can't get a software update done at the dealer in a reasonable time.
You do not. Take a look at Ron's talk here:

https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...
That's a great one. It's a big part of my TC39 reading: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decorators#decorators

Very exciting.
Honestly, as an engineer that enjoys using JS and often writes cute little scripts using Node.js I fully agree that curl seems like a much better fit here.
I use Google Maps in the Colorado high country all the time.
that was my assumption as well, but examining the heat map data leads me to believe that certain always on devices are contributing data, are fit-bits constantly supplying coordinates? for instance, zoom in on the white house lawn. also look at the tracks between ascension island and Saint Helena in the Atlantic, it sure looks like cruising sailors are leaving tracks as they transit ports. I found others that clearly looked like people in tropical harbors near resorts zooming back and forth on what maybe are jet skis. that type of activity doesn't mesh with how I understand and use Strava, when I switch it on just for a run or cycle and then off after being done. I think there's some source of always on data being placed onto the heat map.
No, basically they're taking a vendor-provided UEFI image and stripping out the 90% that they don't want and replacing it with Linux. This is for people who can't afford to port coreboot to their motherboard.
What's still in progress for TC-39 (optional chaining, async iteration, etc.)
The Xbox One has a serious exclusive games problem
If you want to use systemd with LinuxBoot, go for it, but LinuxBoot as it is doesn't prescribe an initramfs or a runtime. You can use whatever you want. :)
The fact that a law is broken is not a counterexample of the law existing. War was once the default, and lauded. Now it is the exception, and is decried and worked against.

When a war happens we ask ourselves why, and the international community works to try to prevent it the next time. That would be truly alien to a world leader even a couple centuries ago.
> There's no such thing as a "good" definition.

This is completely useless.

> We begin with the definition

No. We begin with a name, used to describe a particular entity, phenomenon, or class thereof. As the name comes into greater use, its meaning becomes known through some measure of positive (this is X) and near miss (this is like X, but not X), and eventually a definition is clarified that attempts to capture those linkages between the word and the represented things.
Developing board/card games would be my guess.

The default example appears to be a mafia-style game.
What are the benefits of the in-person "Part 2" in SF? Would it be feasible to fly in weekly for the course?
This is great news for Polymer - I can't wait to try out 3.0 when it's ready :) Typescript is indeed a favorable target for their existing audience.
There's also the fundamental mistake that not all energy is equal.

Energy in the form of electricity is far more useful than energy in other forms as it can be used directly. With other forms it will generally need to be converted first, with massive efficiency losses which are ignored by EROEI proponents.

So for example while oil might be said to have an EROEI of 14.5, it loses 80% of that when used for the common purpose of turning a cars wheels, giving only a 2.9. generally those who quote EROEI numbers would claim this makes industrial society a literal impossibility.
I understand your concern but right now 30k Americans die in car accidents. Will (potentially) hackable self-driving cars be any more dangerous than today? If you're that concerned about being involved in a car crash it seems to me that you should never leave the house.
This begins to fall apart in major cities without OSM volunteers ingesting city roadwork feeds. Of course, something like tomtom wouldn't represent that ideally either without a radio data or cell service...
A spiking neutral network can be considered a noisy real spiking channel transmitting contiguous real numbers.

Similar on the surface to multibit sigma-delta modulation.
There are many papers on this topic, e.g. https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4694-neuronal-spike-generation-...

Once you describe the specific modulation and noise properties you could recover the equivalent real valued continuous time neutral network from spiking neutral network. Then you can similarly map the training algorithms from gradient networks to "spike gradients".

The next necessary step is to use (potentially quantum) interference in addition to integration or summation to train the interconnections.
You will likely end up with quite complicated Hessians in both time and value.
the author of the site (Matt Godbolt) is in general pretty great.
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Looks like a variant of mafia or werewolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
Are we there yet? Do we need paxos-like consensus protocols? Hardware is becoming cheaper and commoditised and with all the hype around blockchain, it looks like people are ready to pay extra for the redundant hardware needed for 100% fault tolerance.
Still, it feels to me to in almost all cases, including financial transactions, it's good enough to be right 99.999% of the time and just amortise the costs of the very rare bit flip...
Actually no. We've demonstrated this on boards without using coreboot support such as OCP's Winterfell machine. The reason is that we're inserting the Linux kernel in UEFI's DXE stage, whereas cpu init such as memory training are still handled by UEFI's PEI stage. From the perspective of UEFI, the Linux kernel is just another DXE to execute.
5 trits fit neatly into a byte however (3^5 = 243 < 2^8)...
TL;DR unions, shady contractors and expensive project requirements in no particular order.

Edit: Was this not an accurate summary of the key issues mentioned?
Yes.

Not to mention that "anything untouched by humans" is not the formal definition of "natural."
Wow! Nice! Thank you!! WOW!

I haven't touched Javascript for a long time, especially using shiny features in ES5, ES6... those arrows always throws me off. Is this a typical JS & NodeJS style nowadays? Does anyone ever feel your code and your co-workers' code are barely readable?

Disclaimer: Python programmer.
It wouldn't need to capture a nuke, or "own" a city...

In our 21st century world, especially one that is ignorant of the existence of strong AI, it's trivial to imagine a strong AI being able to "bend the economy to build better things for itself" while remaining completely undetected... This is essentially an AI-driven (instead of human-driven) spin on the introduction to the book Life 3.0...

That economy would also be the global economy... Not just that of a city...

If you'd like, you could even imagine that occurring as we speak...
Basic programming tasks amaze HN nowadays
No progress on Muji XEP for years or stagnation of clients like KDE Telepathy and etc. all gives the impression that things aren't moving anywhere. Also, servers closing down (DDG one), Google letting federation rot by not enabling server to server encryption and etc. and etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of XMPP, but the lack of progress is quite upsetting.
Have you any source for that? It certainly raised questions but the war was winding down and destroying things the allies would need wasn’t in their interest.

Bigger raids happened after Dresden as well and Harris gave his opinion: “I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.” Luckily he alone didn’t make describe I guess.
No taxation without representation!
I was kidding, it was just "systemd overlords"-irony :-)
Pinker explicitly addresses this argument, both in Better Angels and in the free chapter of the new book linked from OP. Quote:

So you’re saying that we can all sit back and relax, that violence will just take
care of itself.

Illogical, Captain. If you see that a pile of laundry has gone down, it
does not mean the clothes washed themselves; it means someone washed
the clothes. If a type of violence has gone down, then some change in the
social, cultural, or material milieu has caused it to go down. If the conditions
persist, violence could remain low or decline even further; if they
don’t, it won’t. That makes it important to find out what the causes are,
so we can try to intensify them and apply them more widely to ensure
that the decline of violence continues.
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I took Murat's distributed system course at UB, awesome professor and really enjoyed his lectures.
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Except when it's cold. One the early selling points for Clif Bars was that they would still be edible after a couple of hours snowshoeing. I'm not sure if that's still true for their current products.
I'm not the OP, but as someone who dabbles in tabletop game design, I find these kind of generators very useful for game prototyping. (The one I've used most in the past is called Squib[1] and it's an open source Ruby codebase and very configurable.) It's often a huge pain to write prototype cards by hand, especially when you have to do it multiple times while iterating the design. (Though in some cases a generator won't cut it, and you need to do it by hand anyway.)

That said, since this is HN, it'd be nice to have some explanation of the technology behind the generator, too. Hopefully it's forthcoming.

[1]: http://squib.rocks/
True, we need a global grid.
If you consider war as (among other things) "a contest" (albeit a very grim one), do any of you think there'd ever be any traction in settling disputes via something more sportsmanlike and without such fatality and waste of human life on both sides? I am reminded of the pistol duels of ages ago (although those were often fatal). Something that could test the "will and skill" of opponents who agree to settle it in such a fashion...

I'm also reminded of the flavor of the Olympic Games during the Cold War as almost a "proxy war" between the Soviets and the U.S.
People under clearance should only use government supplied devices and software. This is a really embarrassing mistake, it shows a pretty poor lack of security culture. It puts installations and people at risk. I can think of many other scenarios that I will not enumerate, Strava should have absolutely not released this. And if they were to release it, they should have consulted some data privacy experts in how to better scrub the data.
"safe subsets of Java or Ada running right on the kernel to implement specific components more safely. "

"a safe subset of Java or Ada in the kernel."

Done here since you're arguing against points Im not making. For anyone your strawman confused, the specific components are user-mode apps running on a separation kernel to minimize privilege. Not just piles of extra code in some kernel.
I know, just making sure for other readers :) We're trying not to make the wrong impression. Besides - the goal of the project is to enable you to have more control over your firmware - if you want systemd in it, we might advise against it, but it's all up to you.
I think you misunderstand. When maintenance is being done on the machine itself, yes you are going to do a lock-out tag-out routine. On the flipside, if you remote push the update and it contains for instance, a register read error on the rate controller that shifts the bits by 1, the operator's first notice us going to be when he loads it up and the ensuing chatter violently throws the work piece.

Or something dumber, maybe they pushed a temp variable to the wrong type of memory (say flash eeprom) that updates every cycle of the control loop, and then did a push to an entire line of manufacturing equipment. Congratulations, all of those are going to brick in an hour or so when the memory hits it's maximum write cycle lifetime and you'll have to get new boards shipped in while your entire line is down.

Remote pushing needs to be handled very carefully when controlling real world equipment.
Using a theremin to control Philips Hue lightbulbs
Listen, I respect and love pure mathematics as much as the next guy. However, where's the utility in establishing, with any more clarity, exactly which field should be understood as being responsible for the biggest innovations? This feels like a needless detour into a tired debate which has already been hashed over countless times.
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16248036
The US seems to get less of everything for its money than its peers. Geographic spread is a major macro factor, but you'd still think that a supposedly efficient capitalistic market would at least handle local services better.
> The Chinese government runs protesters over with tanks, imprisons people without cause, attacks their neighbors without cause, etc.

Oh come on, you're making it too easy!
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Matrix is a good product. I am glad they got finally funded!