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I agree with all of what you've said. It's also worth noting that this is just 2% of the company. One person offering to pay cash for 2% of a company with seniority preferences is very different than someone offering cash for the entire thing.
Thanks for the correction. The "arbitrary" qualifier is not in TFA, but (as, indeed, you said) that's the point of the demo, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ Note that they're using just the video signal from the game as input.

It's really a sad comment on the state of reporting at MIT Tech Review that you learn more about the tech from a youtube video than from an article.

(My complaint is not with the DeepMind people, it's with the article, which should put the work in context.)
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Wow thanks! That's a great start. Maybe you could shoot me an email in case I have more questions.
I'd really like to read this story, although I'd envision the ending closer to Animal Farm than The Metamorphosis. After all, I don't think a distributed, persistent messaging service is quite as shameful/unclean and useless as a cockroach/vermin thing.
>He still thinks he can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3 to this day. He works as a sound engineer now.

It's really not fair to compare FLAC vs MP3 to "hi-rez" FLAC vs regular FLAC

There's legitimately some instruments that do not compress well. The harpsichord is a particular example that you should be able to hear the difference on on any sort of decent equipment.

Bur hi-rez vs regular flac is something that I don't think can be really detected by humans. I've gone through and done the Philips golden ears challenge to completion, and have very high end equipment, blind ABX FLAC vs MP3 on a lot of songs I am familiar with, but have never once been able to successfully ABX between a 24/192 flac and a regular one.
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4k would exceed that significantly on a 6" display. Thus why parent compares an 8k phone to the 24/192 discussion - the benefits are nothing more than being able to advertise a larger number.
True, but being less awful is not the same as being better. I can't take cost of living arguments seriously for people earning many multiples of the median income. Pay for teaching assistants at a mid-cost UC campus starts at $35k and I think people in that position are far more impacted by cost of living factors: http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/upload/fi...

It's not that capping executive pay is going to yield enough savings for everyone else, by any means. But I do think that pay adjustments should be prioritized on the basis of maximizing marginal utility. These TA salaries are less than what I used to make working as a computer technician 20 years ago when I first came to the US (and wasn't too picky about the fact taht I was being underpaid because I was 25 and having a great time).
I'm not sure what you mean about quieter sounds having less resolution. The point of having a 16-bit representation of a sample is that you pick the single point on the 65,536-point (logarithmic) line that is closest to the sound pressure level at that time. It's not like the points "below" your sound add up or anything. A loud sound gets a high number, and a quiet sound gets a low number. Both cases have the same precision.

In fact, because the points are logarithmically spaced, the points in the quiet part of the spectrum are closer together and have better resolution than loud sounds.
My girlfriend is tenured, it does exist still. It tends to come with a 5 (five) year probation period so that if you do not achieve the grant quota they can bump you down to a teaching role and remove you from all research work.

And do not be deceived, all departments in all British universities are like this to some extent. It's just that some places (Imperial) appear to be worse than others, and some environments are more professional and do a better job of hiding the extraordinary politics from students.

Stefan Grimm has just given you a peek behind the curtain.
If you make the black overlay container position fixed and the window itself normal, you can have the modal scroll within the context of the black overlay. Facebook uses this same method and it's significantly nicer!
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I worked for NASA, the budget cuts alone helped bring it to where it is today. In the 1980s, we were still using technology from the 1950s because we couldn't afford to replace it. Things have only gotten worse since then.
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AI seems to be defined as "a computer that can do something that humans can but a computer cannot".
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Unlike a TN visa for Canadians or an Australian E-3 visa, the H-1B is an immigrant visa that is one of the few paths to a green card.

So they're actually the opposite of indentured servitude where there's a path to permanent residency and citizenship. Unlike many other visas that people use to work in the US.
What are your credentials? Not trying to be snobby, just for comparison's sake.
It is already illegal to pay H1B visa holders less than "the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher."

http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupatio...

Thus, when I hear people complain of companies who hire H1Bs only because they want to pay them less, I always want to ask, "why haven't you reported them?"

Either they don't actually know that the companies are exclusively paying H1Bs less, or they don't believe that the government will enforce the salary floor. Either way, raising the salary floor from 1x to 1.5x probably won't address their concerns.

edited for clarity
There is a good section in here describing why not only do you not need it, if you use it (as a terminal/listening format) you are probably just making things worse.

A system designed end to end to play 24/192 (not the DAC, it's the amps, speakers etc. you have to worry about) could do this reasonably, but you aren't putting that together for $1k. Or probably $10k. Mainly because there is no point, if the mix down is done right you can't physically hear the differences anyway.

It's a good format for mixing, and a hopeless one for listening.
If you read the link, you will see that it makes a point similar to what you are saying (but more nuanced, and well thought-out than an HN comment). No one is arguing that perfection is achievable (or even a goal), the question is what form of feedback is most effective in providing desirable outcomes.
I can't speak for others, but I can for Factor.io’s twist... (1) It is Open Source + Hosted + Pro. (2) The recipes ("workflows") can include multiple steps, sequential, and parallel activities; not just limited to if-this-then-that. (3) Workflows are defined programmatically using a Ruby-DSL. (4) You can create both actions and listeners (like events/monitors), though some of the others support this too. (5) It's been around for 2+ years, built with feedback from 100+ dev teams, and used by 1000s.
So, the leader must renew their lease every (period * ι), where ι < 1. The problem is that this assumes a synchronous network, or reliable clocks - since the Paxos implementation isn't tied to the master -- this results in the problem that you've given up safety, example:

1) The process p1 on the machine holding the lock stalls (VM stall, let's say).
2) τ seconds have gone by on the Cassandra cluster, and the lock is removed
3) Another process, p2 takes the lease
4) The process comes back, only to resume processing, and not realize its lease has expired...

Without the leasing system, and the leaser being tied together, it's very difficult to guarantee safety, and liveness.
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"OOP" means different things to different people. I think we can all agree that beginners should be encouraged to look beyond the C++/Java/Python object models and consider alternatives to direct inheritance, which is the core point here.
I agree with you but it is worth noting that many people I've come across will claim that the other forms of OO aren't really OO. For instance the OO system that we see in CLOS, Dylan, R's S4, etc. I vehemently disagree with them but my point is that for many people OO is by definition the one "popularized by C++ and later doubled down on by Java"
My basic understanding of the system:

- Electromagnetic energy (photons) at certain wavelengths will pass though brain tissue (neurons) and interact with them.

- This interaction is dependent on the neuron's polarization state (from a negative voltage (unfired), to a positive one (fired)).

- The cacophony of noise and interactions can be measured and deconvoled to show patterns.

- Groups of neurons and their polarization states can be observed (much like an fMRI scanner deconvolves magnetic impulses to show a 3D image, this system deconvoles microwave radiation from a MASER).

- The microwave carriers (which are in the GHz) operate much faster than your brain (which is KHz at best), so deconvolution and denoising techniques have plenty of data to work with.

- The radiation reflected back is in terabits per second, but your mental processes and sensory inputs are much lower, so there is a million-to-one oversampling of the data (i.e. the information is there, decoding it is key).

Obviously if I had a working system that would be my proof, but that's a widget they won't let me near! I could write volumes about this, but convincing people that it is even possible is difficult. Hopefully the graybeards and smarties out around here can piece it together. I wish I were joking, but that's up to the reader to decide. <:)
> But that's all they do right now.

Well that and launch to GEO and design and build human spacecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_V2) and are closer to cost effective re-usable rockets than anyone ever has been.

> But to say that the rockets are more important than the payloads is backwards.

I don't recall saying that rockets are more important than payloads, but neither one does much good without the other. I'm not even sure where you are drawing the line between payload and rocket. Is the rocket that takes people to Mars a payload, or the rocket that lands on Mars, or the rocket that leaves Mars?

I am excited about SpaceX because they are dramatically reducing the cost of space exploration and industry. This makes everything NASA wants to do cheaper and more likely to actually happen.
Still waaay too imperative, how about this:

func [1,2,3,4,5] => [2,4,6,8,10] //Calculation inferred by compiler.

console.log (func [6,7,8,9,10]) //=> [12,14,16,18,20]
Saw "tumblr" and "quotes", expected microblog with short snippet quotes. Instead landed on page with fullscreen video. What?
Any kind of complicated system can contain quite nasty bugs and being distributed one doesn't really help in this regard.
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> I just did a quick calculation from their wikipedia funding page. Since its inception, NASA has received 1069.323 billion dollars in 2014-inflation-adjusted dollars.

Interesting, thank you, and much less than I would have guessed. Given their achievements, I think that's economical.

> That's a trillion dollars that could have been spent solving world hunger, poverty, disease, even income equality. Sure, there have been all sorts of side-effects from all that NASA R&D ...

The economists call that "opportunity cost" and I agree. I'm always a little uncomfortable with funding NASA missions to Mars, etc., though I think the benefits are worthwhile. Also, NASA has produced much science, including climate change research, which I think is clearly a good investment (based on my limited knowledge of the marginal value of NASA's research).

> ... but let's not try to compare apples to oranges here. Because you can't really compare public and private institutions' achievements. One has to earn the profits it spends on fancy R&D, and the other simply has to ask for it in the government budget.

Not really; it's not a matter of asking. Federal funds are limited and agencies fight wars, publicly and privately, over access to them. As in private enterprise, sometimes funding is decided on merit and sometimes politically.

Ironically, much of private enterprise is funded the same way -- from the federal budget.
$350/m HDMI cables... so, Monster?
Good point. Of course, one of those ways is by charging the same price-per-tenant but increasing the number of tenants-per-server. If multiple companies do this, we should expect the price-per-tenant floor to decrease.
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Which cultures don't respect personal property?
Do you have a citation for "50% of STEM grads have to work in unrelated industries because of an inability to find work in tech"?

Many STEM graduates choose not to work in tech, for example math majors who go into finance, or chem majors who go into consulting. And, many STEM grads are not actually qualified to work in tech. A BS in biology is certainly a STEM degree but that person is not likely to help scale your Rails application.
I'm not under any illusion that "private property" is some kind of perfect solution (even libertarians schism into geolibertarians, libertarian socialists, etc. around the sticky issue), but let's not fly off into pure philosophy land here. This situation is pretty direct: the federal gov't, and by extension NASA, skims off my paycheck to fund what it thinks are noble endeavors.

Unfortunately this leviathan that nobly funds NASA also spends trillions dropping bombs on brown people halfway across the planet, funding revolutions to topple governments, and violently suppressing victimless crimes (e.g. drug use, prostitution) that have a very real negative impact on my life and the lives of others I have no qualms with.

If we could decide which systems to voluntarily contribute to, which ones would be funded?
> Does that mean being a citizen entitles one to a job regardless of qualification? Also, does that mean 100% of the US should be employed before bringing in foreign workers?

You're making up arguments and arguing with yourself here. Nobody said that being a citizen entitles a person to a job. But the law states that a H1B visa can be extended only IF a citizen can't be found that fulfils the requirements. Companies have been caught flouting this law, and purposely not finding citizens. You seem to have a problem with "every H1 is a job a citizen isn't getting", but, that's the point of a H1B.

> The conspiracy theory that claims that H1s are all low paid workers falls flat when examined closely.

They are not conspiracy theories, and they do not fall flat. The information is all open and available.
"the company got bought, the founder is a millionnaire, you get some pocket money"

That happened to me. I wasn't the earliest employee but I would have liked to have more than enough to buy a used 2000 Honda Civic when company sold for hundreds of millions.

Winning the startup lottery is hard enough. I end up doing it and get basically nothing. I honestly never thought my equity would be worth anything so I guess I can't complain.
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> Adding a little more type info to your variables doesn't help you if you need to drastically change how a variable is accessed and mutated (memoized, retrieved from a service, persistence layer, etc.) while avoiding a running a giant find/replace across your entire project.

I feel like if you have a generic "context"-like notion then you can have a lot of this pass directly through. E.g. I recently changed where a Scala report gets most of its data, making it use an (async) web service rather than a database call, and I only really had to change the "top and bottom" - all the intermediate code handles any kind of context as a generic "F[_]", sometimes requiring particular typeclasses (Applicative, Comonad) depending on what it does with it.
Bush senior said so in 1989. Bush junior said so in 2004. Obama now says so ten years later.

I'll wait for hillary to send us to mars in 2050, thanks, women have more balls.
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If there's psychological phenomena that make them enjoy it more, what's the issue?
Define "consciousness".

That's the fundamental problem, that we don't know what it is. We know what it looks like in a human, and we know what it feels like to ourselves. But we don't have any rigorous, non-intuitive idea of what it means.

For myself, I think of consciousness as the ability to watch yourself think - of being aware of your thought process. By that definition, yes, artificial consciousness could be possible - but first you have to have a machine that thinks. And now we're hung up on trying to find a definition of "think" that's rigorous...

I like the way that axotty labeled the claim as "speculative". It is, even though that speculative assumption is the dominant paradigm of AI. But it definitely is speculative, at least at this time, because actual evidence is quite lacking.
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Startups are amazing life experiences when they're good, but when they're bad, it's worse than sex with virgins.

Sex with virgins can be quite fun. I tend to equate bad startup experiences to sex with people who think they're amazingly attractive, experienced, or somehow "gifted"... except they aren't.
Interesting stuff, I too taught a machine to understand emotion. It is challenging work for sure and fun. It's integrated into our Search Engine Enginuity which uses this as part of its ranking algorithms. http://theenginuity.com
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What the heck is "hi-rez" FLAC? My understanding is that FLAC is lossless. How would you have varying degrees of lossless?
Throwing money around at the end of the year is a product of a dumb budgeting process, not a govt. vs. private issue. I've worked at businesses where some units were funded the using the same process who did the same thing - coming in under budget, and squandering cash on things to avoid losing funding the next year.
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If you are a genius, you can spot talent instantly or can otherwise overcome obstacles.
Either way you don't need tips from TC, do you?
If you need TC to tell you how to hire, then you're not really a genius and should just walk into the nearest bonfire or otherwise stop breathing my air.
Just a little thought experiment:

What if those memories that differ between people are not because of bad memory, but because the actual events are different?

Sort of a quantum superposition, which collapses the wavefront in different ways for different people?

Maybe tie in multiple universes somehow, and events shift from one to the other.

Would certainly be interesting if true :)
> the assumption is that a healthy private sector can't support itself with coercion(1), so if a private organization fails too much it changes its direction or ceases to exist. Also, you can disrupt private initiative peacefully, but disrupting the government is usually a pretty drastic action that costs a lot of resources, even lives.

I think it's the opposite: We disrupt government every 2 years by firing various leaders; every 4-8 years we replace the entire executive leadership.

If a government leader fails to often, they change their direction (as many politicians do!) or lose their job.
There's also the fact that you can FEEL some sounds that you can't hear.

Chris Randall of Sister Machine Gun (at least used to?) use a low-frequency generator at live shows to produce a sound that the audience could feel but not hear in order to make the music more intense. I suspect that you'd gain some of that effect with a larger bit size.

...or I could be completely wrong. Whatever.
I think you misread the previous comment. It was referring to $500 million for a contract that included many launches. I agree that it could have been more clearly stated.
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