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> So, anyone with a brain realizes this is a political hit job leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

This. Recall that only a few weeks ago, the leading republican candidate was falling all over himself announce that he was publishing all his emails from his time in office. In the seemingly desperate rush to make a spectacle of it, he didn't even redact the emails [1], and released a big pile of private data as a result.

Also, given the state of the State Department's computer network [2], who can blame her? But the most telling part is that she wasn't even the first Secretary of State to do this, she was the last.

I don't say this because I'm a supporter, it just seems like obvious political theater being run by the rival camp and merits being called out. Personally I'm disappointed that both the Clinton and Bush campaigns aren't being laughed off the stage. Political aristocracy is repugnant and has no place in this country.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/10/8013531/jeb-bush-florida-e...

[2] http://gizmodo.com/state-department-computer-systems-hit-by-...
I left a personal email and webserver running in my parents shed for a few years on an old debian box. It was useful, I keep meaning to set up another one.

Personally I think that it is great that a high profile public servant went and ran their own personal server from their house.

It suggests a level of competency and it encourages other people to try and set up their own servers from home.
3.3V, like the Due, that's unfortunate. This means it won't be compatible with most of the Uno shields, or 90% of the sensors on the market.

Kinda wish Arduino had gone with something with wireless stuff built in, like the Linkit One or RFduino.
Fellow JD here.

I have to disagree with you re: viability. Not only does most of our work lend itself well to automation (discovery, researching precedent, and predicting case outcomes), but this particular startup is aimed squarely at the most obvious domain where humans mostly aren't needed anymore: formulating contracts. Translating boilerplate legalese into natural language and running both parties through checklists of essential elements seems like an obvious solution to an expensive problem. I really don't see why 99% of contracts can't be automated outside of high-level practice.

Nor do I really understand your examples. I can't recall the last time anyone I know hired a lawyer to sign a rental agreement, nor do I see any reason why contract software wouldn't first check that both parties are legally competent.

Finally, I'm pretty uncomfortable with the idea that "if you automate our profession, our protectionist guild will go after you." You're not wrong, and it would be wise for LawGeex to stay wary -- of all trades, the lawyers are going to fight tooth and nail to stay relevant -- but startups like LawGeex or RocketLawyer are clearly far more in the public interest than our ludicrously expensive middleman services. We may as well ban self-driving cars because the Teamsters want to keep dangerous, error-prone human truckers.
The question I love asking an interview is:

"In the trade-offs between time, cost, and quality, we know you can have two but not all three, which two are valued here? And you can't say we value all three."

The last part is important, because when I first started asking it people just said they were special and did all three, but we know that it never works that way.
I thought it was Bill now too because somehow the headline "sounded" like it was about something older.
Perhaps Dr Sobel just smells funny...

As far as I'm aware, the handshake started as an impromptu dirk-frisk.
See my post below. The mx records point to mxlogic, which provides email filtering services, not hosting (as far as I can tell). It looks like she may have indeed run her own email server.
I tried odesk, elance etc. the whole sherade and they all ended up not delivering.

I still hang out on IRC and through the #macdev channel via one of the moderators i was put in contact with Jimmy.

Just goes to show, few things beat personal recommendations.

But please if you have any work please help out Jimmy he is a really good developer just caught in a shitty situation.
"because there's no generally agreed upon positive account for how cognition works, AGI is impossible in the near term."

Mis-characterization as it's completely plausible that we can get to AGI without emulating cognition at all. So that is explicitly not the point I am making and no one is even stating as much.

You said it yourself though:

but it's piecemeal and has not been adequately integrated

Integration is the foundation of GENERAL intelligence and is exactly what I am saying. How learning across domains works is a black box - like total black box right now - which means we can't build a roadmap to it without probing the edges more.

Excellent accounts of how intelligence work can be contained in the minds of a few researchers who aren't going to the trouble of publishing them and proving them to others. Instead, they're just hard at work on the highest payoff activity: designing software that realizes and proves their vision/idea.

Hooray, a hypothesis! Is there anything that you can point to that would support the idea of lone wolf AGI developers? In my study there isn't due primarily to computational and mathematical requirements that take a community to support. Even in such a case there is basically nothing we can do about it because it's unknowable - like lone wolf terrorists. So practically it's not worth discussing. Note also that this isn't even what Bostrom et. al are discussing.
I used one of these in my first job (pdp11 sysadmin). I'd stick the report in a canister, place it in the tube and it would whoosh away across the factory. They are still used today by Tesco to take cash from the tills up to accounts.
Actors, directors, and writers still pay 10% to agents across the board for their services, despite the fact that there are tons of agents in Hollywood. Seems reasonable to pay 5% of revenues to an engine that does all the work rendering your game, if you don't want to write your own.
This exists - many manufacturing companies get hit up by chemical engineers who discover something in their product, backed by a lawyer. They get damages + fees and the product gets a "This is known to cause cancer in the State of California".
At first glance, the chocolate bar in the title image seems out of place. Pseudo-edit: Upon further reading, it looks like it is part of demonstrating the dexterity of the robotic limb.

P.S. Obligatory Macross Plus reference.
Honestly, just never used it (not since freshman year almost two decades ago). I mainly use eclipse and it works very well for me. I like how I can hover over a variable and it tells me info about that variable, click on it and it shows me very other place it is used. I can rename a function and it gets updated in all files where it is used. I can very quickly see where a class fits in the class hierarchy or see which methods call other methods.

Emacs might do all of this, but eclipse does this well enough.
I like this. I may try it out in spite of having too many note-taking strategies already (and this wouldn't replace everything else). Please do share your story - it's good marketing and it makes people feel better about paying (a measly) $5 when they understand what and who is behind it. Given the value and the ongoing work you'll be doing to add support for different contexts, I think you could raise the price to $10.

Are you using the extended attributes to store notes in each file? If so, that'd make it easier to pass the notes along to other people. I could easily see this being useful across art departments.

You probably have this on your to-do list, but you could use the new capability to badge icons in the Finder so I know there's a ghostnote attached.
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But it's still HTTP. Would be more fun if it included gopher support.
The title is very click-baity, I think we can all agree on that.

However, a lot of the points made within are completely legit. The Bitcoin world is rife with scams and one of the primary uses of Bitcoin is to engage in illegal transactions. The benefits of de-regulation are obvious, but the downsides are killing it right now. A lot of people are stuck on the "regulation is evil!" rehtoric due to the current issues with the NSA and the government in general, but I think everyone needs to take a step back and realize that a radical shift in the opposite direction is not the answer.

The technology is interesting, and I definitely think we'll see the ideas behind some of these new cryptocurrencies working to change the future of currency in general, but Bitcoin itself is not that future.

I also see that the /r/bitcoin defense force is in full swing here, unsurprisingly.
This is true for the cultures surrounding most things I'd postulate. A large majority who support it, largely blindly but dismiss valid arguments against with suspicion, and a smaller minority who actually understand counter arguments, but believe, or hold a complex opinion.
> In November 2012, without explanation, Clinton's private email account was reconfigured to use Google's servers as a backup in case her own personal email server failed, according to Internet records.

I took "Internet Records" to mean MX record for her domain. I'm assuming there are people keeping track of DNS changes publicly that one can view somewhere. Someone will probably respond to this post with a link.
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The author makes a lot of statements but doesn't really back them up with solid facts or analysis. Consider the second reason of "Bitcoin will not end the need for trusted central parties" and claims that intermediaries do more than just payment processing. As an example, he talks about YouTube and revenue splitting.

I don't understand the connection between YouTube revenue splitting and Bitcoin replacing traditional currencies. I guess this is supposed to be an example of intermediaries providing value added, but can we at least provide an example in the payment processing space? What does a credit card company provide that is not provided by Bitcoin?

Overall, I am on the fence on Bitcoin. I get the feeling cryptocurrencies will drastically change the world economy in the future, but I don't think anyone really knows how and to what extent.
"The public" is not a good market. Find a small set of people who really need what you're thinking of, and grow from there.

There are a lot of people working on cool tech for important problems. You just don't hear about them because its much easier to share the latest silly app with your friends.
It can't be too crazy expensive, there's not a lot of expensive parts on the board.
I regularly advocate for giving them discretion as to when the camera is on. Of course the rest of the process should be designed so that they want to turn them on in charged situations, but there's lots of situations where taking the choice away from them is going to be harmful.
I like (3) in particular. You could introduce, in a very simple way, the idea that the "error" (X - E X) is perpendicular to the "estimate" (E X). That's the two legs of the right triangle; the hypotenuse is "X" itself.
There's a secondary source of government funding beyond earmarked grants to universities: the tuition assistance it offers to students, which then goes straight into the pocket of the school. Consider pell grant spending, which has grown about 8x since it was established in 1975: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2011/07/2...

Even if we factor in the number of students receiving the loans (which has grown), the average amount awarded to students roughly doubled since 1994.
Not excusing the behavior, but it's not new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controve...
Make's intended purpose is to chain commands in a logical fashion. ;'s intended purpose is to separate lines to execute.

How is this a hack?
Was thinking the exact same thing!
Right, I don't find it implausible at all that she ran her own email server, by some definition of that expression. I do, however, find it at least somewhat implausible that said server was in a residential home in Westchester NY.

More to the point I don't see any evidence at all that it was physically there besides speculation. If there is such evidence (like IP addresses or similar) floating around, that would be interesting.
This is the problem, really. Don't like some terms in e.g. a mobile phone agreement? Take it or leave it. If you can't mobilize a mass of people to join you in rejecting it (you almost certainly can't, even if everyone hates the terms) your choice is to sign or go to another carrier (who will have the same problematic clauses in their contract). It'll hurt you more to be without a phone than it'll hurt the company not to take some special snowflake contract with you and get your tiny monthly payment in return. This is broadly true for loans, employment contracts, even doctors'/hospitals' contracts.

For the overwhelming majority of business interactions most individuals participate in, they're the weaker party by a large margin. The notion that any substantial portion of contracts and business agreements are being freely made between equals is a fiction. Degrees of coercion are everywhere. Consider: it's common to require candidates for low-wage jobs to take a piss test. If they say no, someone else will agree because they need the money. The business can afford to be at 98% capacity (or just overwork their employees) for another couple of days—an individual may not be able to afford an income of $0.00 for another couple of days. The job is worth more to the candidate than the (particular) candidate is to the employer. Agree, but insist your potential manager show you the results of a piss test, too? Laughed out of the room. Equals? Not even close.

Yadda yadda yadda this is the reason we have laws and don't just rely on contacts for everything. Also why unions exist (and why they must require membership, or else be largely ineffective) for employment issues specifically.
Neat idea, but I wish we had that high a resolution in 1981! :)
Are you referring to tiling or laying out a single file across multiple columns?
It would probably be quicker if it cached, but don't underestimate the speed of gcc...

A year or so ago, as part of my work on Project Clearwater (http://www.projectclearwater.org/), I was using a Ruby tool to retrieve statistics from a server, plumbing them into Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/) and graphing the results.

Cacti likes to restart statistics-gathering processes every time it wants new statistics (once a minute in my system), so this meant starting the Ruby interpreter every minute.

Project Clearwater is built to be scalable, so I turned up a few hundred nodes (EC2 makes this easy), at which point Cacti couldn't keep up - it took the best part of a second per Ruby process invocation, and since I was polling every minute, there just wasn't enough time to get through all the nodes.

I rewrote the Ruby tool in C++, at which point it ran in less than 0.1s, which was fast enough for what I needed.

Amusingly (at least to me), it actually _compiled_ (under GCC) and ran in less time than it took for the Ruby interpreter to start.

(This is not intended to be a comparison of the merits of C++ and Ruby. It's quite possible the Ruby code could have been optimized and really I was solving the wrong problem - I probably should have been making the statistics-gathering process long-lived. The point of the above is just that GCC is actually very quick for relatively small programs.)

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All you can do is go on interviews and see what works. And I think people should do this, even if they like their jobs. It's way too easy to buy into some rationale why you shouldn't - it's awkward, it's a waste of time, they might not like me, etc. You do it so that when you find the place you do want to work at, it's a no-brainer.
I ask about salary, how bonuses work, and equity options at the end of every interview, even though I know the people interviewing probably don't have much control over that.

They need to know up front that I expect to be compensated well, and this has worked out great for me.

If I were single and just looking for a good job that I enjoyed, then I probably wouldn't care, but I got a family to feed!
The first point is the only real argument IMHO and as others here have said, it's prediction, not reasons. Here's the crux of the first argument:

1. At the same number of daily transactions, fees must increase 250 folds. Or,

2. At the same fee level, transaction count must increase 250 folds. Or,

3. Price increases 250 folds to $65000/BTC. Or,

4. A combination of all 3

#4 seemed like the question answered itself. Instead the author doesn't acknowledge #4 at all:

"However, neither one of these scenarios is likely to occur. Scenario 1 represents a per transaction fee of $10. Scenario 2 represents 290 transactions per second and close to 25 million transactions per day"

The second part of the first argument is comparing Bitcoin costs to credit card costs. What the author is trying to say is that Fiat->XBT, buy something, then XBT->Fiat is more expensive than credit card fees of 3%. But on Coinbase, for example, that would be ~2% in transaction fees and that will only go down as XBT inventory is held and pooled so not every purchase transaction results in a fiat conversion. That's only being done now as a bootstrapping strategy (and it seems to be working).

I think the author has some good points here but didn't seriously address them, only thinly speculated on them. I'm giving it an up-vote to hopefully have some deeper discussion especially around the first argument of Bitcoin's inherent costs.

A quick side note: I'd like to see an analysis of electricity costs of mining vs. mining fees. Mining fees eventually need to surpass electricity costs for mining to be sustainable after inflation-payments are gone. The difference between costs and fees is the margin the miners will make. To me, that would really answer the first argument.
I think the issue here is that we want to put our unique biological systems into a mathematical framework. The mind already has a way of knowing what the body needs, however, it doesn't provide a json feed. As a culture, I think we need to get more in touch with our inner selves instead of seeking the aid of an outside device.
Yeah we are looking at that too.

In theory with the next update where you can customize your scripts you could write it yourself. We of course hope people will and will share stuff we don't get around doing.

But lots of little things are on our list.

With regards to the categories. Great idea!

We are working on a solution where you can share notes via ex. dropbox. So i add some notes to a folder or a file and you can read those notes. Dropbox deals with the syncing.
The article says humans can do "transfer learning" while machine can't. It shouldn't be impossible to implement transfer learning in machines too.
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I do belive that bitcoin has huge drawbacks, but there are allready system that are way better in most of these. Delegated prove of stack allows for extreamly low cost, high speed transactions.

The notion of a DAC is extreamly intresting, insead of destroying money be wasting it on energy companys we use this money to improve the infrastructure. This will allow development and even services.

The problem of the transaction and the lack of annonymity can be solved rather well. The goal is identity if you want it, annonymity otherwise.

Bitcoin has a clear first mover advantage but with the development of smart wallets and things like that, altcoins will be more easly integrated with the market.

This technology is in its early days but it does have lits of promis.

> People forget quickly that regulations were enacted in response to fraud and to protect people.

If you really belive that, you have not studied the history of banking reglation.

Bitcoin suffers from the same problem that all trade on the international internet suffers from, the lack of contract enforcment.

There is a huge diffrece between finacial regulation and contract enforcment. Contracts can be self enforcing by simular mechanisms as it is on ebay. We just need a opt identity system.
I think gas-cap tightness sensors are pretty common, possibly mandatory? My 2004 hyundai accent, probably the cheapest car you could get in NA in that time, throws a CEL if you don't tighten the gas cap past 3 clicks or so, it's even documented in the user manual.
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> Do you really think, they have the domain knowledge ?

Of course not, that is why the First Amendment protects the right for citizens to petition the government.

In my experience, most people focus way too much on politics and voting, and way too little on grassroots and lobbying.

Voting is like buying a computer--you have to do it to get started. But then the computer has to be programmed, patched, updated, operated, etc. That's what people should be doing between elections.

So if you're concerned about net neutrality, find a group of people who agree with you, pool your money and time, and starting talking to your elected officials. For almost every issue, nonprofit groups already exist that you can join.

Of course there are plenty of people who already understand this. And they actually have more power if everyone else sits at home. So they put out propaganda that the government is bought by rich people and you can't have an impact. So you sit at home discouraged--meanwhile they are telling elected officials what they think. Neat trick.
IMHO, 5% works great for indies and small devs. It lowers the downside risk of an unprofitable game and only gets expensive after you can afford it.

It does not work well for large-budget AAA games. In those setups, only a small percentage of revenue goes to the developer after paying back publishers, marketing and distribution. Taking 5 out of that is a huge hit. That's why Epic explicitly expects large budget games to negotiate a custom deal. That's something Epic has a long history of with UE 1,2&3.
NULL does not have to be 0 in the sense that it is represented by all 0 bits, it need only compare equal to 0.
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Statistical learning models of transfer learning have been published in several venues over the past few years.
I tried sending an email to that domain to see if it would bounce back, but it didn't. I was hoping to get the server's IP address.

Looks like bouncebacks were working yesterday, but have been disabled: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-03/hdr22clintonemailco...

Edit:

I tried to telnet to the server:

telnet clintonemail.com 25
Trying 208.91.197.27...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

Where is that IP address? British Virgin Islands: http://www.ip-address.org/lookup/ip-locator.php?track=208.91...
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If you join a foreign militia and take up arms against the United States ..."

The whole point of due process is that the pesky "if" part needs to be proven. Otherwise your argument is entirely circular.
All of them, as far as I can tell, other than (apparently) emacs and vim.
'Industry Best Practice' in this case amounts to 'we will hand all of your data over to the government' if required.

Abdicating responsibility for personal security to ANY 3rd party makes one less secure, period.

Now, when the government comes knocking, instead of handing over some files or access records, you'll be able turn over the user entire computer. That's the exact opposite of security to me.
Is this were we make Ted Stevens jokes?