komaromy

Post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016570

With the vanishing of required compilers courses, I am unsure that this will ever be the case.

The west (and the United States in particular) has had ample time and resources to do something about the problem, and failed to act meaningfully. China and India would have had to make much larger sacrifices in terms of individual quality of life to have the same impact.

He came so tantalizingly close to being world champion. Besides the two World Championship matches with Karpov, one of which he lost by a single game, the 1974 Candidates final also decided the championship following Fischer's abdication.

How should repeated (third or more) plagiarism offenses be addressed if not expulsion?

> (Also, one example doesn't make something true.)

Neither does "I've never seen it being used".

You only get into those situations if you choose to follow theory, which is not necessary. There are myriad sidelines that are adequate outside of the very top level and will give you a playable middlegame with little to no theoretical knowledge.

For example: as White, you can play 1. g3, 1. b3 or a reversed Queen's Indian and get by with zero concrete knowledge. As Black it's a little more involved but 1... d6 and 2... e5 takes about thirty minutes of research and you can play anyone under 2400.

> So, it wasn't surprising to me to learn that the Grand Masters are Grand Masters because of their memorization of opening sequences, the depth of that memorization, and when to use which variation.

This is not true. Opening knowledge is a common deciding factor in games between GMs, but that's only because they're already so good at everything else. A low GM actually probably has a smaller skill margin over other players in terms of openings than in other areas of the game: as someone that's arguably a decent amateur (~2200 USCF) and has played against several GMs, I would prefer my chances in a game where we both have our opening knowledge versus one where neither of us has opening knowledge.

He's the real deal. I remember watching the scandal on 2+2 unfold a few years ago.

It's annoying when the subject of an article is interesting enough to warrant attention but the headline is sensationalized regardless.

> due to a major accident that occurred attempting to extend the Metro under the Taedong River in 1971 killing at least one hundred workers

This sounds like a horrifying way to go.

An ideal hash function would have perfect avalanching; that is, changing one bit of the input would result in a 50% chance of each of the output bits being flipped. While modern cryptographic hash functions have at least really good avalanching, definitely enough to resist a genetic search, I'm not sure that it's perfect. Home-brewed crap like what Petya was using is unlikely to be very good at it at all.

Wow, this is great. I hope it prevents another contractor-related debacle like healthcare dot gov.

So, the NSA.

> If you can control 1 unit it's trivial to control 100.

Control them, sure-kiting 100 units at a time would be a breeze-but using them together in a coherent way is drastically more difficult.

Once there's a system that claims to be better than humans, sure, but it's just a headache for researchers until then.

That doesn't sound like all that much for the CEO of an IBM-sized company.

Location: Cleveland, OH

Remote: Sure!

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Scientific Python mostly (NumPy, scikit-learn, pandas). I also enjoy Scheme and C, and have some Java experience. I'm comfortable on *nix systems.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/gabriel-komaromy/resume/blob/master/resum...

Email: gre5@case.edu

I'm an MS student in machine learning looking for a summer internship. Anything involving data/learning/AI would be great for me. If you let me work on reinforcement learning you will have my undying loyalty. I'm willing to go pretty much anywhere for the summer. I'm a chess master.

I'm guessing it was a reference to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

> the encryption here is obstructing justice

No, it isn't. The phone they're trying to break into was the shooter's work phone, provided by his employer. He physically destroyed his personal phone before the acts in question. The idea that he kept relevant information on his work phone, which he left intact, is absurd.

Can you provide an example of when this has happened?

I hope there's more coming from this blog.

I get more excitement from seeing his avatar in my Twitter timeline than any other.

I was not aware that a decent "free software live video stream" exists. Anyone know what technology they'll be using?

Sending the notification still seems like a better idea than not doing it. If a page has gotten you to enter the password at all then it's pretty likely that it knows the significance before the notification.

It felt too restrictive to me. Things were changing without me asking for them and that was preventing me from learning. One of the most egregious problems was forcing the change from text logs to journalctl binary logs.

The Arch docs are superior (best that I've encountered in the Linux world) but Slackware is worth it to me to stay away from systemd.

It'd be nice if more reporting on the subject highlighted the absurdity of DFS being legal but betting on game outcomes illegal. I think that DFS should be legal but at least the NY AG is being consistent in enforcement.

They're now at 134k, so I'd guess it started recently.

Obama came into office with the same idea, then expended pretty much all of his political capital on passing the ACA. Lessig's plan seems to be on the same order.