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The existence of the character described in the books is a tricky question that cannot be directly answered. Depending on your definition of existance, it either exists, or it doesn't. However, this does not necessarilt disprove Descartes' statement.

Let's say the character does not exist, this means there is no character going through the Cogito. Descartes' statement holds no meaning in this situation.

let's say the character does exist, it is going through the Cogito, which according to Descartes means there is some object that has to exist for these thoughts to arise. And there is! The books that you have painstakingly written exist somewhere to describe the thoughts of the character exist somewhere in the physical world (or whatever hypothetical world or universe you have theorised).

Is this not exactly Descartes' point? If we interpet it broadly: Whenever thought arises, this thought must materialise from some existing state or presence, thus proving the existance of 'something'. To give this object the identity of oneself is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but one could argue that if this state or presence creates these thoughts it can usually be associated with 'self' in whatever way you want to define it.
Computer architecture researchers have been working at this for a long time. Here's a recent paper on a technique to do the division and modulus operations for arbitrary numbers of cache banks and set sizes.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~skeckler/pubs/MICRO_2014_Modulus_I...

They evaluate the technique on a GPU because bank and set conflicts can lead to bad performance more easily on a GPU than a CPU.
Can it do substring search? Unfortunately, Firefly is only available for business customers.
I know they've traditionally been quite fiddly, but I'm pretty sure computers can be persuaded to help derive the maths for variational methods these days.

Perhaps a more important difference is that MCMC, while slow, is exact in the limit. Variational methods won't converge to the true posterior no matter how long you run them. You'll converge to an approximate answer which depends on the particular variational form you choose to use.
Did you mean "or" not "for", or are you an old fogey who forgot that most of HN wasn't yet born when Challenger exploded?
They're also getting older because we've had ground-breaking discoveries that took years, if not decades, before we had adequate technology to do anything with them.
Awesome :) I'm very interested in photography, and I'm determined to document the year, so that's something I'll definitely be getting into.

As a minor, traveling is a bit more trouble (not impossible), but getting away for a few months would be amazing. Thanks dude(tte)!
Successful technology firms are not run the way you describe.
I upvoted you because it is a legitimate question (at least the first sentence)
Perhaps to realise these companies are walled garden abberations, and that in an open competitive world, the Eco system would exist but the monopoly would not.

As such encourage and build openness by default into your products, as for sure users want that (how many people for example wanted only to email other AOL users, or view only other AOL websites?
Yeah that looks like a great start, especially with how the NTSC signal is generated and interpreted. I don't see much around simulating the electron beam and its interaction with the phosphors and front of the tube though. I imagine a truly accurate physical simulation would need to use monte carlo methods or similar techniques, almost like an advanced 3D renderer does for global illumination.
Its not your fault and you don't owe him anything. It is very common for projects to be under-budgeted and the ones that go overseas are the more extreme cases.

If that guy managed to lose $200k its not because you took too long to 'earn' your small $4,500. If he is 'losing' that much then he defrauded his own customer/partner. Obviously the project was massively mismanaged.

I have been freelancing for many years. I would be happy to review any details you have and testify on your behalf as an expert witness.

I would be suing him for the $1,500.
This is actually an even more extreme trend among some of the asian immigrant folks I've been in school with - their parents can be incredibly close-minded, overbearing and abusive.

The pressure kids feel is largely fictional, in the sense that the world ISN'T going to end if they 'only go to college'. For example when I graduated highschool and went straight to college and some of the folks I knew stayed behind for an extra year to get their grades up - my parents in unison with me, thought they were failures.

Looking back - it was smart. I am not working in the field that I studied, so the joke is on me :)

Another thing to realize is that there are a number of jobs that are not intellectual that can be quite fulfilling, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc

This guy is a big proponent of more down to earth careers and I agree with everything he says, even though I'm a programmer.

In short - the pressures are due to having a narrow view of the world and what success means. If you widen it to include working construction or going to college to become an ultrasound technician - it's not so bad all of a sudden.

Parents just have to stop pushing their lack of achievements and phobias on to their kids - easier said than done of course. Solution? Incentivize intelligent people to breed more and try-hards and ignoramuses to breed less and the problem will be solved, in some number of decades :)
"Parasites are not crushed by the strong, they feed off of them" but sometimes the strong simply buck them off.

Apple did this with their introduction of Gamecenter, killing OpenFeint, and a couple others (can't remember their utility).
I'm partial to the Great Filter being behind us as the evolution of sentience combined with tool use. There has been ample time and opportunity for 'us' to evolve on this planet, yet it took until now. The Dinosaurs were around for nearly 200 million years and got nowhere, and if that rock hadn't hit the Earth 65my ago, we wouldn't be here, and there are many other events which could also have put an end to our line. So my guess is human level intelligence is very, VERY rare, which would be very sad and I hope its not the case.
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This looks hard. Somebody should automate this and charge me a few bucks for it ;)
- Any recommendations for specific places? Spain (I speak Spanish) and Japan are my top two destinations as of now

- Definitely.

- Sweet - would you recommend any organizations that organize this kind of stuff, or am I better off just googling around for things in my area?

- No question.

Thanks!
Ask HN: What secure email provider do you use?
Yes, it's not easy for email to be truly secure, and yes a secure email provider may shut down (a la Lavabit). I just want to pay for a reliable service accessible via my phone (android) that doesn't mine my data and that is significantly harder to hack into. A quick search on HN yielded discussions with most people poking holes at new email products but I couldn't any definitive winner. Any suggestions?
Echo that. I recall programming up a ASCII "game" of sorts using basic on a school computer years ago. Whole lot of those infamous gotos etc. But i don't know if i could produce anything even close in C or similar unless it wrote it all as one big hairball inside main().

Edit: Frankly i think we humans are inherently sequential thinkers. Especially when trying to describe how to do something in detail. So when trying to deal with non-sequential systems we sooner or later make a mess of things.
With enough data, a traditional Bloom filter "fills up", after which it has a false-positive probability of 1.

I don't think this correct. The false-positive probability wouldn't become 1, it's just that every query would return positive, regardless if it's a true or false positive. I think what you meant to say was that the positive probability is 1, not the false-positive probability.
This issue isn't about the prank, nor the picture, it is about the fact that the kid could have accessed the standardized test. I think the school is negligent. They did a poor job of securing a valuable piece of property. They allowed too many people to have access to that valuable property. And finally they involved the police in a situation that the police didn't need to be involved in, potentially ruining the life if a child they are legally in charge of.
Host your own.

Here's an excellent guide: http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-ho...
> It's worth noting though that regardless of where you live, starting your own business can be pretty grueling as well. Often much more grueling than a regular "grindy" job.

Very true. The security but lack of independence that comes with being an employee, vs. the independence and risk of being an entrepreneur (plus the capital requirement).

And on the topic of weighing my options, it's not helped by the fact I'm 3 years into an economics degree, so my head is filled with cost-benefit analysis formulas and me applying it all to my own life (or maybe it's because finals are at hand).

> I wish you luck though and hope you can post some of your experiences here.

Thanks. I have been thinking of starting a blog, maybe it'll happen sometime soon. Just need something to write about (I may start a small-scale business this summer, could be fun).
It's hardly fair to call it "terrible" when you're scaling it with non-integer ratio nearest neighbor scaling (causing uneven original pixel sizes), then compressing with a lossy algorithm designed for completely different images.

SNES (and NES) screenshots are difficult to display well on modern systems because the (S)NES had rectangular pixels instead of square pixels as used today. I recommend scaling to some large integer multiple of the original size with nearest neighbor, and then scaling to the correct aspect ratio with your favorite resampling filter. And if you insist on using JPEG compression then at least use 4:4:4 chroma subsampling - chroma artifacts are very obvious in pixel art.

I also dispute the assertion that CRT artifacts were required or intended by all graphics designer back then. Evidence: LCD based portable systems and line doubled mode 13h DOS games both used the same dithering techniques, but they had sharp pixels. And many games used dithering type patterns to represent fine detail instead of blended colors, eg. the typewriter in the background near the start of Chrono Trigger. I grew up with DOS games so I personally prefer sharp pixels.

The most important feature of a CRT is the low persistence - eliminating sample and hold blur. This is now available in fast modern LCDs with strobing backlights, or with black frame insertion displaying 60Hz content on a 120Hz monitor. It makes a very big difference for fast scrolling 2D games.
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I think we are broadly in agreement. When I say coding up inference for a particular model, that includes deriving the equations and updates needed. This effort is nonzero for all inference methods, but is much lower for MCMC.
CRTs, even high end ones, always had poor image quality. CRTs did however have superb motion quality, and it's only very recently with strobed 120Hz/144Hz LCDs that LCDs have matched CRT motion quality.
Error for "com.uk".

This domain cannot be registered because it contravenes the Nominet UK
naming rules. The reason is:
third-level domains may not be identical to a top-level domain.

WHOIS lookup made at 00:32:52 13-Apr-2015

But edu.uk is available for the owner of edu.co.uk.

Other 2-3 letter domains seem to have been squatted (I tried several ISO codes and some newer generic TLDs).
>This technique is very important for emulation and simulating the look of early games

Why? I dont see people emulating the look and feel of 1920 black and white film projection, or Edison sound cylinders. Its because quality was SHIT, just like CRT.
If you gave the people developing these games the ability to have amazing 3D graphics they might not have bothered with pixel art in the first place. The limitations are part of the medium, and since they used those limitations to their advantage when making the game, you need to simulate them to make the game look right.

And then you have modern games like the one posted here that aim to mimic those effects because they are now a style unto themselves. No need to denigrate it.
When are we going to reach the singularity and have somebody make Tinder-for-Tinder?
I would recommend that you engage a good lawyer, one with significant litigation experience and an understanding of the issues at hand, to represent you and your interests, which are different and distinct from either of the parties. Assuming that you are a fact witness and that your testimony is confined to facts, your good name and reputation will not be sullied.
There is a circle in the top right corner of the left card. It's made up of the negative space between the dots.

The purple "x" is in the bottom right corner of the left card.
What's going on with that logo? It is completely illegible.
> This was the case as of 2011-08-16 [...] I'll let them know about it tomorrow and I expect it'll be rectified in a day or two

Quite optimistic :-) especially since the situation has gotten worse by two characters since then.
I have happily been using the services of the A/I Collective for five years now, with no complaints or qualms.

http://www.autistici.org/en/index.html
Firefox? Didn't work here either so i grabbed the zip from the download section and had a look. The UI loaded fine, but i could not work out how go get any code to run.
Are you aware of any work (or researchers) working on that? I would be very interested.

And I think your second sentence reinforces my point -- it makes variational methods either more fiddly, or require more understanding to use well.

edit: here's one such (limited but nice) effort: http://ebonilla.github.io/papers/nguyen-bonilla-nips-2014.pd...
Linus Torvalds' First Commit of the git SCM
Its normal for higher level business objects to have a wider dependency reach, these are the elements that facilitate the communication between lower level objects. The last thing you want to do is pass around a container as a dependency because you don't want your core business logic to have a dependency on a specific container (the container is a framework thing). Injecting a container would be a sign of bad design.
Where's the website that has a list of existential threats listed?
There was an ok.su that would accept any traffic sent its way: mail, web, im, dns, so on.

I often wonder how many errors sent ok.us traffic to that black hole, and what they did with the data. I assume there are several other .su domains set up with blackholes as well.
What I meant is that making the cache fully-associative would result in faster implementation than N-way associative with non-power-of-2 cache line size or bucket count because of the additional circuitry involved in selecting right bucket (integer modulus and so on).

Interesting trick is using different values for cache index and tag (logical address for index and physical address as tag is common, but that's mostly about doing cache lookup concurrently with TLB lookup). In theory one could use result of some hash function as index, which would certainly change the aliasing behavior (although it is not exactly certain that such change would be for the better) and again, there is the additional cost of calculating said hash function (in combinatorial logic and with reasonably small delay).
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This frequently comes up in NYT submissions. The answer is: this is intentional/you have stumbled upon an "improved experience" (welcome to the future), and: noscript.

It is a true fractal of bad design. "This didn't need fixing guys, but A for effort."
With the billions in tax breaks and subsidies, I have problems believing there is actually any coercion between the NSA and the biggie tech companies. So I don't see the NSA as a threat to those or any other American internet companies, but rather to everyone else. The NSA are monsters.
Because .UK only allowed registrations at the third level for decades, i.e. example.co.uk, example.ac.uk etc. I think it's also the most-used CCTLD.

Then they introduced second level domains, but they're still rarely used at present. ebay.uk and google.uk are registered, but don't do anything yet.
Sweet - I'd be lucky to accomplish half of that.

Re: networking - do you think age is a factor? In your experience, have these meetups been inviting, or did it take a lot of effort on your part to start making connections?
U.S. Education Chief, Tech Giants Exploit Innumeracy to Advance K-12 CS Agenda
I speak English + Spanish, and want to learn Chinese but it's so different from the others. Thanks for your suggestions!
The Real Magic of Streaming Music Is the Data It Generates (2014)
> Another thing to realize is that there are a number of jobs that are not intellectual that can be quite fulfilling, honestly.

But won't the non-intellectual jobs continue to be automated away?
Scrolling out too far freezes the entire tab in Chrome - may want to put some upper bounds on the scale of the graph.
There's always risk but it varies greatly by platform. Twitter is by now notorious for doing this behavior. On the other hand Apple has a flourishing ecosystem of app developers. And FB has improved greatly moving from being Twitter like to closer to Apple.

It's a function of maturity (young startups have growing pains on what they want to be and how they monetize) which can definitely create collateral damage. Mature companies like Apple don't experience the same degree of angsnt.

It's no accident that Twitter, which has generally underperformed and disappointed more than its peers, is still screwing up and over its ecosystem far more than others.
You're right. I need to work on that.
Right: The author is saying things so you'll buy his book.
In the abstract, people buy what makes them feel good.

This can be "direct purchase" like nice clothes, good food, vacations, property, furniture, life insurance, etc. Or it can be an "indirect purchase" in the form of attention which equals money in aggregate since some percent of youtube viewers will spend money downstream as a result of either paying the public speaker or clicking the ad before the youtube vid and paying an advertiser (public speaker gets a cut), etc.

A million writers/public speakers have cropped up because there is a market - people are willing to pay indirectly with their attention - for 'feel good' snake-oil style self-help advice.

The trouble is filtering the signal from the noise where a good filter tends to be whether the person providing you with productivity advice needs your money.

Interestingly, the value of productivity / 'self-help' advice (applied to personal or entrepreneurial life) is usually proportional to the person providing it's net worth. Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One', for example, is excellent.

Most of the time self-help is just a circle jerk though
> um, okay: government has no business in marriage.

That's not argument against same-sex marriage; it's against all government-recognized marriage, even opposite-sex marriage.

It's funny how people come out against "marriage" only when teh gays become interested in it.
Thanks for the response. It seems though, that you haven't really read what I wrote throughout this entire thread.

I have always agreed that the password policy was very poor/negligent and that the school should do better in this regard.

I have never argued that the student should be punished for all potential havoc he could have wreaked. I stated this multiple times throughout the thread!

Once again i'll try to make my argument as simple and clear as possible:

1. The potential for harm when a student takes surreptitious control over a teacher's computer is high

2. It therefore follows that a student actively working to take control (via keylogger or by observing the typed pw) is itself a serious issue.

The changing of the desktop background is irrelevant. The unauthorized use of a computer is the main issue from the perspective of the school.

The previous commenter with whom I was discussing implied that the actions were a "harmless prank" and reading between the lines implied that the punishment should have been a cheerful ruffling of his hair and saying with a mock voice "now that was a bit naughty wasn't it Johnny? Lets not do that again! hahaha what a silly pranker you are!"

The article stated that the student will be facing felony charges.

My position is that the actions sat somewhere in the middle of these 2 extremes! Simply accessing a teacher's computer is a serous enough action that the student should suffer some type of reasonable school-based punishment. In my previous post i outlined that these can wildly range in severity from a simple letter right through to expulsion if dealing with a recidivist.

It really is hard for me to understand the confusion here.

and once again. I'm not defending the school's use of insecure passwords. I'm saying that regardless of their poor choice, a student who is actively working to undermine a teacher's account should face a fair and reasonable punishment that is more than a slap on the wrist and less than a felony charge.

I really can't make it clearer than this I think.
$120k/year at the age of 24 is already pretty high. I wouldn't expect a crazy %-increase at that level.
This is an absolutely genius exploration of new forms of critique. We now live in a world in which marching on the streets, political protests, and demonstrations are immediately met with a militarized response sanctioned by the FUD of terrorism. The shift, the first protest in this new era, was likely 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, WA. Since then, the whole enterprise has become a game or dance: people march on the streets, the police crack down and drum up support for new, better military gear. Anonymous, for whatever your stance on their questionable politics, was interesting precisely because it offered an alternative to this dance. A hologram protest is another interesting approach.
It bugs me too and it happens quite often! Always within the minute! Internal time keeper?
> pdflatex && pdflatex && bibtex && pdflatex

latexmk. It doesn't fix the slow build speed, but at least it figures out the correct number of rebuilds. It also has a mode that rebuilds as soon as an input file changes (using inotify et al).
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Doesn't load anything useful on my iPad.
Don't you mean Ubuntu? Debian based distributions are far and away the most popular desktop *nixes(other than OS X). RHEL is mainly confined to the server AFAIK.
You're confusing legal constraints and technical constraints.

Nobody's claiming that a phone doesn't create, transmit, and receive "recordings" in order to act like a phone. The pertinent question is whether/when you are allowed to make a recording of a phone call, for yourself, for whatever reason. You're being downvoted because you're missing the point.
I still think the sentence should have read, "Twelve years after Musk helped found it, ....".
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Admin Organization: eBay Inc.

Yes they do.
Although, I do recall x.com being online not too long ago.
Here's the photo with the shapes outlined.

http://i.imgur.com/XLdBRX0.jpg
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I ended up on x.com when i was looking for paypal api documentation, it must have been just a year or so ago.