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I think it's more to do with the Quatorze Juillet French national holiday this Tuesday, which gives a lot of French people a long weekend.
Yeah, that's why I said "given unlimited computing power". But theoretical work sometimes has a way of becoming practical and scary. Check out the work of Joel Veness on Monte Carlo AIXI, which learned to play Pac-Man on a single desktop computer, presumably faster than "the lifetimes of many stars".
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Interesting quotes:

> President Barack Obama called [protected-messaging apps] “a problem.”

but

> Encrypted messaging was viewed [by the U.S. State Department] as a way for dissidents to get around repressive regimes. With help from Mr. Schuler, Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund, which is funded by the government and has a relationship with the State Department, granted Mr. Marlinspike more than $1.3 million between 2013 and 2014, according to the fund’s website.
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I see. Quite often regular CRUD sites have business logic in them. Stuff such as Tax software has very rigid logic - the stronger guarantees you can make as to their correctness the better.

So would you actually write the library in Coq - or do you somehow use Coq to prove that your eg. C++ code is correct?

I've not come across any libraries written in Coq yet.
Whatever about Mathematics, this is certainly true of Computing. Well understood ideas are continually being reinvented, frequently badly. New programming languages and frameworks spring up like mushrooms and everyone wants to jump on board the next big thing.

Nowhere is it more true that those who don't know the past are condemned to repeat it.
Yeah look, I haven't experienced the problem, therefore I wonder about the solution. Learning about the problem it solves (i.e., sending formulas to friends for homeworks etc) allows me to understand it. It's quite hard to see problems you haven't had yourself, if you only see the solution, right?

I see an "Answer: 42" but what was the question?
It seems these days comments and ratings are almost useless. I wish the demo would make a big comeback so I can determine whether I like a game for myself.
but the discussion isnt about building an empire, increasing its land holdings or anything of the sort.

Its about maintaining an empire, which i think is an important distinction.

I dont see the US waging war against anyone who is trying to dethrone them as a superpower. The ways that other countries are trying to dethrone the US are much more economic.

Economic war can be waged over the internet quite well, without any ships or smoke signals.
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It is curious how they completely revamped Python making most Python3 code incompatible with Python2 and yet they wanted to preserve C API "compatibility". Compatibility with what? Most Python3 modules had to be rewritten anyway - it was the perfect opportunity to fix the C API and get rid of the GIL once and for all.
But object pools prevent escape analysis and scalar replacement of objects, which wouldn't create garbage in the first place.
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I have to say though, for a webapp packaged in a wrapper it's a very good one.
It also ignores the possibilities (1), that cells and tissues are extremely complex (and thus require a lot of genetic code), while the overall algorithm the cells and tissues perform might still be very simple, and conversely (2), that chimpanzees might be already extremely intelligent and the difference is rather a matter of embodiment (in particular the ability to produce language), and perhaps minor tweaks to neurons, to the cortex and/or other brain regions.
RNNs can already write what looks like viable code without any human intervention. Of course, the code doesn't do anything useful and is just a reflection of its training, but all we have to do is figure how to guide that.

We are doing OK in human language recognition as well as understanding in simple dialogue frames. The technology is also moving awfully fast at the moment. You are thinking in terms of human level intelligence, but it really doesn't have to be that good. It only has to provide enough random-but-feedback guided choices until the user finds what they are really looking for.

Put it this way: if the user could get what they wanted from the computer directly just by "searching", the process would be more efficient since the most inefficient part about programming is human-to-human communication and coordination.
The LaTeX support is a brilliant move. The world is full of chat systems, so you need to have a unique feature, and this is a great feature for a particular user group.
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I hold the same belief. I also think that we don't pay enough attention to the form of processes whereas nature seems to place lots of emphasis on it. In fact, the more it goes, the more a form factor appears to be somehow determinant. Molecular biology with enzymes, genetics with histones, neurobiology with firing patterns, etc. We can see that now because we have access to finer grained observation. Form could be a higher-order type of content and could also be approximated with an algorithm.
This all feeds in a previous discussion about intuition. Top-down or bottom-up?
What law did they break, exactly?

The experiment wasn't on humans - the position of the CDC is that humans were unaffected, and the data gathered was about how harmless bacteria spread through a densely populated city, to better protect those humans if a harmful agent were to do the same.

At a time when biological warfare was a reasonable threat to make plans for, I don't think it's wholly unreasonable to consider these kinds of simulations justified.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/15/us/judge-s-decision-expect...
I would have to say that foresight is quickly becoming a lost art because it tends to only produce results in long term settings. If it doesn't produce results today, tomorrow at latest, then no one wants to step up.
Watched it last night. The very short summary is "bundling" is a kind of inside out Trojan Horse, the example Moxie used was "Google Analytics" which has some functionality that is undesirable to some users, enough so that it was blocked by some privacy extensions. Over time, Google started adding "useful" features to the GA code for websites, arguably because "you're already loading GA, why not get some utilities for your web site?" Well... this means that if you (the web dev) use the GA "utilities" on your web site, privacy extensions will break the website or have to allow GA to load. Some of those privacy extensions started to whitelist GA because of this.

Now the undesirable effects have come back and users now have to make a harder choice between a broken website or being another datapoint for someone's analytics.

The talk is not just about this, but more so about the way the world changed from attempted mandatory "controls" upon people to allowing them the "choice." The scope of "bundling" (features added to encourage use) gets larger and larger until you realize that you're living in a corporate panopticon along with everyone else. If you're not paying for it---you're the product---and bundling becomes the method used to keep you providing them with the best product.
Except a book is not a silly document. Just like video on the web isn't. And yet cavemen from enterprise feel that turning everything into a giant Chinese scroll is all about moving forward.

It's all f'king propaganda, my friend.
That's a tasty sounding software stack
Are you attempting to justify this? If I ran a "harmless" experiment over a population of 100M that happened to kill 10 or 20 "outliers" should I be exempt from consequences as well?
More like somewhere in between, really.
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According to the Santiago Theory of Cognition

"Living systems are cognitive systems, and living as a process is a process of cognition. This statement is valid for all organisms, with or without a nervous system."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Theory_of_Cognition

If this were a correct interpretation, even Bacteria could be seen as already incredibly intelligent. Going Zero to One (dead matter -> prokaryotes) is a significantly bigger step than going One to Five (prokaryotes -> humans).
2014 Bowden video from CCC, https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6195_-_en_-..., "In 2011 I started trying to warn EU institutions about what we now call PRISM, after working it out from open sources. Civil society, privacy regulators, and the Commission all did nothing. This is the story of exactly how they did nothing, and why, and what is happening now."

2013 EU report by Bowden, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/l..., "In light of the recent PRISM-related revelations, this briefing note analyzes the impact of US surveillance programmes on European citizens’ rights. The note explores the scope of surveillance that can be carried out under the US FISA Amendments Act 2008 and related practices .."

2012 EU report by Bowden, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/studiesdownload...., ".. the challenges raised by the growing reliance on cloud computing ... the legal aspects in relation to the right to data protection, the issues of jurisdiction, responsibility and regulation of data transfers to third countries ... strong implications on EU data sovereignty and the protection of citizens’ rights."

Going forward, data sovereignty is being negotiated in TiSA and public input is needed.

From http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/dont-forget-big..., "Europe can have its own infrastructure without hindering cross border or, as it were, Transatlantic communications. For instance, in Germany, France and Finland companies are establishing e-mail and cloud services that respect European rules for data protection. That should not be negotiated away in TTIP. It may not be too late to succeed in reducing the potential dangers threatening Europe's economic and technological sovereignty."

From, http://www.innovationaus.com/tisa-threatens-data-sovereignty, "TiSA may very well be a good thing. But we need to know its details, we need debate about its proposals, and we need to ensure that the beneficiaries are the people who elect the governments that are negotiating on their behalf, rather than the corporations whose first allegiance is to their shareholders rather than the public as a whole."
In general you can't really do bga with osh park without fudging their specs significantly. Some have been able to do it but you tend to end up with peeling traces. Also, don't forget shipping on all the bits and pieces.
Also have to trust Google closed binary framework app isn't spying, or can't be remotely exploited to start spying, as it's a hard dependency for Textsecure/Redphone
If he's not on a Linux host that can run Docker to start with, its not going to be faster, and its adding complexity.
I think that provocative articles and comments often inspire really good retorts/comments as opposed to more well-balanced articles, at least sometimes.

Yeah, the blatant inflammatory baiting rhetoric sucks and I am happy to downvote those comments, no matter what their alignment is. I hope that's enough to discourage it. I do see flare-ups of partisan hackery from time to time, but I think batting it back down with comment voting and the occasional polite reminder works well.

>The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway

So it's not much of a problem then.

>I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma)

If there is an amount of karma that allows you to downvote sumbissions, it's more than 6743. I can flag them, is that what you mean?
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Honestly, I've never had a problem with Atom's performance.

The only time it comes up is when one opens an extremely long file which contains one extremely long line of code.
One paragraph: "It was found in Siberia and is catalogued as the oldest piece of jewelry ever found on Earth."

Next paragraph: "bracelets have been found pre-dating this discovery"

http://www.ewao.com/: full of pseudoscientific bullshit.

Flagged.
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Very nice! I'm busy learning Lisp/Scheme/Racket via CS61AS online and was thinking how nice Lisps would work on Microsoft's TouchDevelop. Have you thought about building a similar UI?
I use vagrant for all my developments, it was easy for me to setup and play around with some new tools, such as saltstack (configuring master and minions) and reused the same bash scripts to setup the dev env.
How good Docker is really to isolate the environment from the host machine? With a VM we have a complete isolation, while Docker (i.e. containers) share resources with the host machine; what about having different tools and especially different versions being installed on the two?
The endpoints look a lot nicer than what the UK app uses (which is just some Java enterprise thing)
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> Properly executed RAII, at least in C++, should never break in the two cases you mention.

So, std::shared_ptr (or anything else that does reference counting) is not properly executed RAII?

> Debuggers too are usually well aware of out-of-scope objects, so I don't see the point here.

I wasn't talking about debuggers, but code that is enabled for debugging purposes. E.g. globally remembering the last N objects passed to a function.

My larger point is that either lifetime or reachability is off. You either have a resource that can still be accessed through a stale handle even though it's been deallocated or one that remains allocated past its intended lifetime.
> but I’m not quite sure of the reasoning behind the root checking process

I'm surprised the author didn't pick up on the class/package names: a quick Googling of "Paydiant" shows that this is likely all a result of a third-party loyalty/payment integration they've used: http://www.paydiant.com/
I know someone who has followed a career path of frequent job changes (always in the same metropolitan area, mine, the Twin Cities of Minnesota) in computer-related work and who has always managed to make each job change a net raise. He is making substantially more money now than many of his contemporaries who stayed at the same company for years, and has leaped over some of those persons for more responsible roles with more challenge (what you desire) and a better pay-and-lifestyle balance than other people with similar technical skills in the same company have. In other words, it depends. If you make sure to trade up every time you trade, you have set up a ratchet that should make your career better over time.
> At no point does it compel you to buy.

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising

It's a little more than brand names on bill boards.
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It is in a newspaper from San Jose, California. Its implicit.
It says in the article that they did not:

> The study’s biggest caveat, acknowledged by the researchers, is that they don’t consider a full “lifecycle” analysis of emissions—so things like making the car, drilling for oil, or transporting coal aren’t included in the environmental costs.
Or Gandhi's quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
The admin password in the config is the password on the live server FYI ;-).
In the 16th century only a foolish optimist could have imagined that all these objects' motions could be explained by a simple set of principles. But in the 17th century Newton formulated his theory of universal gravitation, which not only explained all these motions, but also explained terrestrial phenomena such as the tides and the behaviour of Earth-bound projecticles.

It turns out that Newton's ideas on gravity are a mathematical approximation that at least ignored relativistic effects. See: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52165/newtonian-g...

Newton's gravity was a theory about a single fundamental force - and it turned out to be not 100% accurate. Rather than be an example of how intelligence might be similarly possible to explain with a simple theory, I think it offers a perfect counter-example of why it almost certainly cannot.
The author of the change participated in a Reddit thread discussing it when the update came out. Thought he made a pretty good case for it.

https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_oracle_...
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I use docker for the development of FEniCS, an open source scientific computing package written mixing python and c++. FEniCS requires a lot of dependencies which can be hard to compile (PETSc alike) or need version hold (Boost alike). Docker helps to hold the environment constant. We currently plan to have build bots based on docker as well to streamline build testing.

When I write code inside docker, I always submit to a git repo like Bitbucket. Data persistency is easy. Besides you can always use --volume, which works out of box in Linux.

Vagrant requires some basic shared environment, which is not realistic in my case. For example, I use Archlinux myself and am forced to use old Scientific Linux at work, while many other FEniCS developers use Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mac stuff. It is too painful to write and maintain a Vagrant script for all these (different compiler, boost, blas, lapack and some other 10+ numerical specific stuff). I even tried Vagrant+docker. But in the end, with docker maturing, I switched to docker+bash script instead. It is just more convenient and needs less dependency.

So I'd endorse a docker only approach if you mostly use Linux and your project has a diverse group of people.
Nutrition discussions suck because nobody is demonstrably wrong. It doesn't matter if you can back your opinion up with a study, because the other can can back up his contradicting opinion with another study. There are no canonical facts, because the studies are just so hard to control. We know nothing, in the end.
You should be upvoting comments because you think they add value to the topic/discussion, not because you happen to agree with the poster. That is how echo chambers are created.
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It's actually kind of funny, because unless I'm missing something, my girlfriend is allowed to download the software, relicense it under a license of her choosing or release it into the public domain, and then send the sanitized version on to me. Not only that, but there's no mechanism for someone to prove that this didn't happen if I simply do it myself. I guess that's why you don't try to write a license!
I don't know. I look at the rise of mobile OS's as a good example of small fish taking over.
In the book I read Confucius said that a woman who goes fishing with seven guys comes back with red snapper.
Comparing the Hubble-obtained 1995 map of brightness to the latest map from New Horizons shows big differences on the surface. The only consistent feature between both maps is that the northern hemisphere is brighter -- the rest is almost completely different. That's sign of processes capable of changing the surfaces brightness on quite a rapid scale. Is it just the cycle of methane decay through UV light, or is it cryovolcanism also at work? Are there any other mechanisms that haven't been considered yet affecting the surface? Hopefully those questions will be answered "shortly" (in the following years that is).
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As a hiring manager, I look for employees who have stayed at previous jobs at least two years. If you switched a few, that is fine, but if your average is around 1.5 years, then that seems like a problem.

For most companies with complex environments, it might take 6 to 8 months to fully get you up to speed. Why should I put that into you only to have to do it again? Perhaps you're looking for jobs in the wrong part of tech, or corporate tech isn't for you? Have you considered trying to found a startup, one that you yourself are directly vested in? Perhaps that is your best bet for the future.
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The wealth of the united states has been concentrated to very few people in the past 20 years. Those people are owners of multinational conglomerates that don't give much about borders anyways. Where the U.S. as a state used to be a driving force of those money horses, it is now a glorified container for the US defence department. The state(country) officials are allowed to fight as long as the bottom line of the 1%(0.1%) is not endangered...
Something something law of headlines something answer is "no".
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Is "just use docker" the new universal HN comment like "can somebody port this to javascript" or "blockchain solves all the world's problems because {mumble, mumble, unfounded optimistic ideology, mumble}"

VMs are great when you want to test cross-platform or cross-architecture or legacy compatibility all on one machine (there's more to the world than Ubuntu).
Even for HN standards, your comment is one of the most peculiar summaries I've read.
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I was able to get a somewhat serviceable environment up on my Mac. However: after all the effort involved I ended up sticking with vagrant. There is no way I could explain the process to someone I would potentially work with.

I check back in about once every two months to see if there have been any breakthroughs.
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I'd think a 'simple' algorithm for intelligence would be even more distant than artificial general intelligence itself.
I've played enough incremental games that I think I'd have more fun just writing some AI to play for me. This gives me a good starting point, thanks.
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because humans are the stupidest possible creatures that can build a civilization (otherwise it would've happened earlier in our evolution

This would be true if intelligence were the only requirement of building a civilization.

It's entirely possible there is some fish at the bottom of the ocean smarter than humans. But it's hard to build a civilization using fins.
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Thanks, but no.
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A nice aspect of this is that it is making use of a new capability of ClojureScript to bootstrap itself. This means that it can run its own compiler from within JavaScript, thus making it easy to create ClojureScript REPLs in environments where it wasn't previously possible. So long as TouchDevelop runs a JavaScript engine of some sort, it should be feasible. (Replete is evaluating ClojureScript forms directly on the device from within JS, without going to a backend via the network.)
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Wondering could someone shed a light on this? thanks!
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I don't know, this

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_ora...

seems to bring up persuasive arguments on the other side.