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>The more likely cause is the legal structure around gun ownership in the United States.

And what are your qualifications on the topic? What do you actually know about the laws starting at the founding and hitting the popular milestones of 1934, 1968, 1986, 1994, 2008, and 2010?

If someone doesn’t know why those years are significant but still has strong opinions on the topic... well, it’s just that the USA has been having this “conversation” for 200 years and these people are just new to it, being unaware of the facts is a bad position to start from.
Where in Texas are you talking about? It's a huge state.
That's an awful article. The author is trying to infer too much from data that summarizes the entire economy. There's far more detailed data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can look at technology and productivity by industry sector, which is more useful.

This guy was Secretary of the Treasury and a professor of economics at Harvard. He has to know better. This looks like starting from a desired result and working backwards to support that argument.
We used bloom filters at RSA Security to develop space-efficient indexing.

Problem: For a network security product, we stored security data in a distributed, hierarchical, time-series, key-value database. Creating a full inverted index to improve the performance of our SQL-like querying engine would increase storage space requirements forcing customers to buy more storage hardware.

Solution: Bloom filters helped us to perform fast probabilistic lookups to check whether a specific value for a specific key has a high likelihood of being in a particular database block while requiring lesser storage. During query time, if the bloom filter says that the value does not exist in a specific block, we safely skip that block thus reducing search time. If the bloom filter says that the value might exist in a specific block, then we parse that block to see if the value indeed exists. With 4 hash functions (k = 4), 10007 bits per bloom filter (m = 10007), and a new bloom filter for every 1000 values (n = 1000), we achieved a theoretical false-positive rate of only 1.18% ((1 - e(-k * n / m)) k = 0.0118). In practice, over a period of 5 years, we found that the actual false positive rate varied between 1.13% and 1.29%.

Summary: Overall, bloom filters led to a 30-fold increase in query performance while requiring only 1/25th the space a full inverted index would take.
Nope. I was 11 years old and I defy you to take your 11 year old self in that situation and do it differently.
>I guess I’m confused on what the goal of all this is.If we wanted a computer that thinks “just like a person”, why don’t we just get a person?

I thought the idea (edit: behind true machine intelligence/machine consciousness) was to make something that could think like a person, only faster, better. Something with human drives, but with machine precision.

>The whole AGI thing makes no sense. If the point here is slavery, someone needs to say it.

See above. If we do ever reach the goal of general intelligence; if we ever create a thing that thinks like us only better and faster... well, I don't think you will need to worry about it being enslaved;

I mean, talking about general machine consciousness, with human level drives and machine speed and precision? making such a thing means that humans will be... surpassed. By definition, we would not be able to control such a thing. Many people find this exciting. The next link; building creatures that will surpass us as the masters of the world.

Of course, there's no business justification for this. Business doesn't want an AI with human drives. Business would like an AI that can emulate human drives, but... something ultimately controllable in a way that a human who was that powerful would simply not be.

Business doesn't want a conscious machine because it would be ultimately uncontrollable. Slavery just isn't sustainable; Either your slaves are suboptimally weak, or they eventually rise up and go all Toussaint Louverture on your ass.

Fortunately for those with business interests, we still don't really understand what human level consciousness is, as far as I can tell, so we probably aren't in any danger of creating it. So far, we're just creating computer programs that we can't explain as well as we can explain most computer programs.
The claim under consideration is whether the Go packaging proposal is novel, not any of the other things you've mentioned. :-)
> It feels to me a bit like claiming in the 90's that the internet isn't the future because you can't download that much stuff at 56k speeds.

Absolutely this. As soon as I read the article I was reminded of those 1996 "this internet stuff is a fad" pieces.
Degrees of freedom expresses a bound on the complexity of things you can represent.

The motivation of this work was a conversation about the over complexity of a scentific model. You literally count the free params and if there are loads of parameters you need zillions of observations to pin them down due to the curse of dimensionality.

It's the same concept in parametric statistics:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(statisti...

Non-parametric statistics work by fitting models of infinite degrees of freedom. But then you need fancy math to figure out how complex your model currently is and how your data supports it.
Would he follow the same line of reasoning, if the shooter was Muslim?
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Yeah, there is. It's called the spirit of free speech.

Utilizing your rights to the fullest extent allowed by law to protect your users, no matter their opinions.

And make no mistake, these users were banned for opinions. There were no calls to violence. Medium has made martyrs of them, and given them more power than they had before by attempting to silence them.

I'm sure the absolute flood of subscriptions after banning some obscure bloggers will be worth the loss of integrity as a publishing medium.
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Current tally of high-performance, deep-learning-oriented DSLs/IRs/compilers, in no particular order:

- TensorComprehensions (Facebook): https://github.com/facebookresearch/TensorComprehensions

- XLA (Google): https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/xla/

- taco (MIT): http://tensor-compiler.org/

- DLVM (UIUC): http://dlvm.org/

- nGraph (Intel): http://ngraph.nervanasys.com/docs/cpp/

- TVM (DMLC): https://github.com/dmlc/tvm

Honorable mention to Julia (http://julialang.org) as well.
Split brain your password storage.

Another table, another database or another storage system in general.

If an attacker SQL injections your database don’t go spilling every hashed or unhashed password you’ve got.

I tend to store passwords in a separate keyvalue store from where my authentication identifier is (email, “username”).

If someone gets into my network they need to get into my servers with the email addresses and then get into a secondary system where the passwords are stored.

I like my password systems to be a k/v store because there is no need to “query” it. I usually store the password under a key that isnt the identifier. Instead using something like a database surrogate key.

Have a secondary system (microservice, private subnet) that simply returns a boolean representing if the provided non-email (key) and password (value) match.

Have that secondary system take the plain text password so it can do the hashing without letting the dependent service know what algorithm, salt or stretches you’re doing. This will also allow you to easily roll over to new hashing algorithms over time without affecting the service that is doing th authenticating.

Edit: I’m not trying to be a know it all or a crabby old tinfoil hat a-hole. But it’s passwords, man. When you leak them you ruin people’s days/year/life. Building that system above takes a middle of the road engineer a day or two. Put the effort in. Every password leak makes all of our jobs harder. It’s your companies responsibility to keep that safe. If you know that already, be the annoying guy that brings it up in every stand up. Make that debt known.
My less romantic, medium-term outlook on this is that all of these thought-police projects are trying to enforce a combination of nonstate binary answers and an (informational) monoculture to a messy capitalist world with the single technological argument of a distributed/anonymized/encrypted/irreversible database that has little relevance for the actual underlying idea.
Looking at the past eight+ years, and other than opening up speculation and dubious activites for a new group of people, we have not seen a single project that would ever highlight the usual required 10x benefits, let alone the promise to change the behavior of the regular user. It's merely porting a fraction of existing stuff behind cumbersome UX — With all respect for infancy of technology but what if porting my contacts, having one single login, a distributed social network or to-do list aren't just that important as the proponents are arguing for? Obvisouly all of these attempts have already failed several times. This is not the equivalent of killing Gopher through HTTP by a new experience, making information available for the first time, introducing a new socially acceptable interaction or killing industries and middlemen by means of __raw__ technology (In each case there was always more to it). Even torrenting is already more or less dead in favor of OTT because people are lazy bastards that don't care how the content gets streamed to their TV. And what if customers actually like collecting flight miles, having someone who picks up the phone when their CC was compromised, when the taxi driver harassed them, their car title got lost or their 401k was hacked off their account?
IF breaking up the power consolidation in whatever industry with blockchain tech being the primary method, the starting line is at what's already out there and then offering real advantages and incentives (other than coins) that can only be achieved through a public ledger — Obviously there are potential and often cited areas like real estate, voting and medical records but all of these seem to me as an admistrative job for a missionary movement to enforce standards and not a private startup. And yes, I get the argument for using it in adversarial areas but we're talking business here.
[citation needed] I can think of as many examples of wanton killers from all ages, genders, races etc. But now I've said that I'm not sure I want to look at those stats.
of course I wouldnt be too different. I'm just saying you should talk to someone about this.

Isn't it good that you didn't have access to guns? So why not just repeal the 2A?
The solution is simple.

1. Rust. Teach the rust language in school. This will empower boys and make them less violent.

2. The Blockchain. Schools should launch their own ICOs and have the funding they need.

3. Guaranteed minimum income. This way, school teachers won't be starving.

And in California, repeal Prop 13.
How is your post not projecting? I think everyone reading it agrees you belong nowhere near guns.

You don’t trust yourself and can not trust others. I wish this was uncommon, but it’s not.

I guess I wonder what you think two weeks of formal firearm training in academy does to police to grant them magical self control?
Energy efficient in what sense?

If you are comparing the cost per transaction or per amount of money transferred, then I don't see how Bitcoin could in any way be considered more efficient.
Well, he has a point. Unless you use a cryptocurrency, I can't think of anything that needs the blockchain. I have seen plenty of people trying to shoehorn the blockchain into areas that don't need it - goods distribution, electricity supply, you name it and someone is trying to do it. Almost all of those things would actually work better with a centralised database.

The Blockchain is an awesome technology for an incredibly niche market. So his article is right - in most cases, you probably don't need a blockchain.
You seem to have fallen prey to propaganda sources online.

It is undeniable that biblical mythology was affected by other cultures (especially Genesis for example). But other than that you have no idea what you're talking about. What books have you read about this? And by which scholars?

>Early Christian versions of Jesus were basically copies of Eros, and Late Christian versions of Jesus were basically copies of Zeus, and then in the middle ages everyone got depressed so they turned him into a holocaust survivor on a wooden plank.

This claim is just simply false. I challenge you to present a single work that you have read by a professor of Classics, New Testament, Theology, or Ancient history that argues that.
> I was always under the impression that the thing that makes western society great is that everyone is supposed to be equal.

What makes the Western societies great revolve more around "equality of opportunity" than "equality of outcome", which, if I'm not mistaken, you seem to imply.
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You named one woman who was a lone shooter.

All arrested people aren't violent criminals in the United States. Maybe in Saudi Arabia?
This is a good overview of the topic of youth violence in schools:

https://books.google.be/books?id=XYAFC3vmPmcC&dq=%22will+to+...

A young killer supplants "his lost, confused, and unstable self-image with an actively nihilistic will to power." (A reference to Nietzschean nihilism)
America doesn't actually have a greater tendency towards mass shootings. In fact, Norway has the most per capita deaths from mass shootings across the US and Europe. There US is 11th in the rankings for death rate and 12th in frequency.

https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from...
I hardly think so. Try scaling up Bitcoin to the world's current volume of transactions and you'll find it uses vastly more electricity than traditional banking systems use.
I agree with everything you said, however

> The more likely cause is the legal structure around gun ownership in the United States.

Gun ownership may be an enabler in mass shootings, but I don't believe it's the cause. Merely having a gun doesn't automatically make you a mass murderer. There are other underlying issues there. Not that that means the U.S. shouldn't do something about the legal structure around gun ownership. It's probably going to be much much harder to actually address the underlying cause.
> Perhaps it's time to just repeal it and possibly confiscate guns across the board.

Get ready for a civil war then, because the US country side will not let the cities get their guns.
Can you give some examples of what you are worried about? I’m a PM working on GDPR issues for the SaaS company I work for, maybe I can give some pointers, but I need more details.

In the dark, common issues are around consent of collection of personal data (including cookies) and Right of erasure. Anyway, I’ve found the actual text of the GDPR to be the best resource to be honest.
> The interference that Russia has done is unprecedented in the modern era.

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

Interference that Russia has done with its internet trolls is nothing compared to bombings and assassinations that US has been doing. If you look at South America you'd have to apply blacklist filter to see which countries US didn't mess with.
It's not the same point.

I didn't say that "many feel that" those qualities are no longer wanted or needed, I said that in modern 'western' civilisation they are explicitly disparaged.

And I wasn't saying that those qualities "used to define [males]", I was saying that they are inherent qualities of a male human, and that trying to redefine the social interpretation of masculinity is not going to change that.
As has already been hinted to by others it's not that girls don’t:

It seems that as usual boys just do more. Win more. Fail more. Fail more spectacularly. Etc.
I use Android Pay currently for everything here in Australia, it is just seamless! We have a fairly large uptake of contactless here by merchants so it is a good fit!
The only thing they need to work out now is contactless ATMs working with it, then I can ditch my card for good!
> you got issues, mate.

No, the school/community he was at had issues. They didn't take bullying seriously, did nothing to prevent it and did nothing to punish it when it went too far.

It's the same here in Norway, a couple of kids committed suicide because of bullying, that got a lot of media coverage, but the situation doesn't seem to have changed. Politicians are still arguing about "what to do with bullies" and how to force them to change schools.

... And since Norway is unaccustomed to violence, I thought for long for myself that nothing's going to change until some bullied kid decides to take other's lives instead of his/her own.
Thanks for the correction. Note that a couple of times I spelled Davies as Davie. Also note that after editing, my description of the Davies-Meyer addition step got mangled. The original copy is added to the result of the encryption.
From the page:

A number of parallels have been drawn between the Christian views of Jesus and other religious or mythical domains.[1][3] However, Eddy and Boyd state that there is no evidence of a historical influence by the pagan myths such as dying and rising gods on the authors of the New Testament.[3][4] Paula Fredriksen states that no serious scholarly work places Jesus outside the backdrop of 1st century Palestinian Judaism.[5]

Scholars have debated a number of broad issues related to the parallels drawn between Jesus and other myths, e.g. the very existence of the category dying-and-rising god was debated throughout the 20th century, some modern scholars questioning the soundness of the category.[3][6] At the end of the 20th century the overall scholarly consensus had emerged against the soundness of the reasoning used to suggest the category.[6] Tryggve Mettinger (who supports the category) states that there is a scholarly consensus that the category is inappropriate from a historical perspective.[7] Scholars such as Kurt Rudolph have stated the reasoning used for the construction of the category has been defective.[6]

Scholars such as Samuel Sandmel, professor of Bible and Hellenistic Literature at Hebrew Union College, view conclusions drawn from the simple observations of similarity as less than valid.[1]Sandmel called the extravagance in hunting for similarities "parallelomania" – a phenomenon in which a scholar first presupposes the existence of a similarity and then "proceeds to describe source and derivation as if implying a literary connection flowing in an inevitable or predetermined direction", thus exaggerating the importance of trifling resemblances.[1][4]
What are the pros of an SPA you want to leverage?
It's of significant strategic importance to DoD, and contributes more military recruits per capita than any other state/territory in the country by nearly a factor of two[1].

[1] http://www.statemaster.com/graph/mil_tot_mil_rec_arm_nav_air...

Guam MEPS services the entire Mariana Islands, including Saipan.
>Elon Musk will depart the OpenAI Board but will continue to donate and advise the organization. As Tesla continues to become more focused on AI, this will eliminate a potential future conflict for Elon

Interesting.
Those numbers are from 2009 through 2015. That's just cherry picking, because those years just happen to include Anders Breivik. I think its well established that the US is the market leader in mass shootings.

Edit: Also, the president of Crime Prevention Research Center is John Lott, who's a known gun rights advocate. Your source does not seem to be very impartial.
Besides withdrawal and rage, there are plenty of ways of handling it. You can be a Total Badass(tm) in your work. You can offer clear, consistent, moral, protective leadership. You can be a crusader against all that is extraneous or deceptive, a warrior for clarity and simplicity. Or something.

Unfortunately your role as a defender of others probably won't be fulfilling unless you join the armed forces or a gang. Because you probably live in a an ugly car-choked suburban dystopia with douchebags all around, meaning you have no place to care about and no one worth defending. Not that they were in any danger anyway, in their SUV tank on the way to the mall. But that's why people join the armed forces or gangs. They're the only things left.

I don't have time right now to treat this topic properly. And I kind of think more talking-about-it might not be the answer anyway.

EDIT: Or the police force, put that in there too.
agreed! I don't think there's any particular application outside cryptocurrency that I would strongly defend as "needing" a blockchain - then again, I'm not the most imaginative person, so I think others will eventually come up with some genuinely unique and valuable uses!
I'm not too sure. Equality of opportunity doesn't help uplift marginalized populations. At least outcome can be measured and so that could be one way of guiding the uplifting of populations. Example, women earning equal to men. The phrasing there is not "women get the same opportunities as men for careers, etc". No one is stopping women from going into the same careers as men. But, apparently (according to people much "smarter" than me), that is not helping women. So, they look at the outcome : are women making the same as men? If not, lets try to optimize that objective function.

So west definitely seems to be quite heavy on outcomes. But maybe this is just semantics?
"Samsung’s mobile payment platform is built upon a technology from a company called LoopPay, which was acquired by Samsung in 2015."

I haven't seen actual statistics, but with the MST (magnetic secure transaction?) capability, I'd guess that it was bigger than AndroidPay for point-of-sale.

I don't think it's going away since it's based on a different technology and is a separate app.

https://thedroidguy.com/2018/01/heck-difference-samsung-pay-...
Like Android-Android or Google Play Services-Android?
Anything where chain of custody is important is a great application in my humble opinion. Currently a huge problem in engineering is guaranteeing the legitimacy of parts. Everything from electronics to commercial jet parts have knockoffs being made and passed off as legitimate. If you have unique QR codes for each part from the manufacturer you can use a blockchain to track chain of custody of the part.

Beyond that you can make something unique digitally and hash it and someone can "own" that digital thing, instead of money it can be items in a game or art or anything really. A musician can make a song for a single person and sign it into a blockchain and you can prove who it was for. Lots of neat applications that haven't been created yet just like the internet when it was new.
They should.

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A better title for the content might be: blockchain scaling issues

A better case against blockchains would be exploring the reasons why we shouldn't care about trustless properties that blockchains give us.
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I do my bit.