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Sure. Type one means you don't make insulin, and in type two you're either not making enough (for one of a number of reasons) or —most commonly these days— you've been running on a 30-year sugar high and now your cells just ignore insulin at any level.

The article is talking about "re-sensitising" cells to insulin by starvation diet.
That's true. I was rather thinking of it in comparison to LLVM and gcc, which are both space-distorting behemoths. (The catchphrase I've seen is that you can compile libfirm in less time than it takes to run the gcc configure script!)
There's not much of a network effect with taxis. Someone's going to build a free aggregator so you can see which local service has the closest car and it will become a commodity.
Neural networks is advanced curve fitting -- That's why.

It isn't really all that magical or mysterious.
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Yea it's more like the opposite, in theory you only need 1 hidden layer to get the same capacity in the network as with more hidden layers, but in practice, since auto encoders, many hidden layers gradually decreasing in size are easier to get to from local energy minimums to globally low energy minimums
Bad news for trypanophiles.
Don't forget the gigantic highway lobby and GM's role in funding the destruction of rail in cities across the country. Remarkably successful strategy. Eventually were convicted iirc, but it was too late.
> That the defense didn't object to this, or ask the alternate ("Does anyone in here intrinsically trust the police?") perplexes me.

Actually, it didn't occur to me. You made it sound very simple but I didn't see it as a possibility at all. So if someone says yes, we just throw them out of the jury. Now I think this should be a standard question for any case where the police is a witness.

Well, on second thought, we will probably still need a sympathetic judge if we are throwing out someone "with cause". There are only so many we can throw out without a cause.
I know you're kidding, but that would ALSO nail people that are rear-ended by inattentive drivers behind them.
You're absolutely right. But I can't figure out how I would have done it better myself.

Something I would have experimented with is price being a query parameter instead of a nested route.
https://developer.uber.com/docs/v1-estimates-price

Though I appreciate the proper verb usage and not seeing shit like post /v1/bookCar GET /v1/getCars

shudders
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> you know Germany makes manufacturing equipment (production lines, automation, etc.) which is expensive but also clean.

Germany does not only make manufacturing equipment, but also manufactures things. Cars. Wind turbines. Power plants. Aircrafts.

In many cases Germany has invested money into research to make production cleaner to keep in the country. A lot of money.

Example: The world's largest chemical plant is still in Germany.

http://www.ipt.org.uk/industry-visit-to-the-worlds-largest-c...
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Selling back your power by slowing or stopping production is an old technique. Large factories that buy power on long-term fixed-price contracts will often sell that power back to the electric company when rates are high. It might be more common now, but "powering off ... to stabilize the network" existed long before the push for renewables.
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The map of lines and station architectural styles http://cdn.londonreconnections.com/2013/stationdesigntypes.j... really does pin down some of the very stark differences the different lines have. It doesn't provide examples, but an image search for each of the station names for each style really can illustrate the different if you're not familiar with the tube. The trains themselves also play a big role in this.

I love this diversity. And dislike the suggestion of standardisation the article suggests. There appears to be inconsistency between what the article states as solutions and the 'problem' of modern design and construction.

Near the start of the article it states:
>It’s a statement that an observer of TfL’s recent station builds and rebuilds would find difficult to dispute. Indeed in recent years it has become almost impossible to picture a new Underground station as being anything other than glass, brushed steel and concrete. A clean and efficient style, certainly, but hardly an inspiring one.

By this inconsistent with the answers offered:

The photo 'A station passage at Idiom Park.' has a very generic cylindrical passage... with stairs leading off at an odd angle. No character or indication of history or line, or individualisation (unless an oppressive blue is unique to Idiom Park). And disability incompatible.

The photo 'Escalators at Idiom Park' includes iconic steel and plate escalators I can imagine speeding at a pace leading to a... generic steel and concrete chasm mentioned in the lead above as undesirable.

The image 'Platform level at Idiom Park' flat out reminds me of the old Charring Cross Jubilee line. It could well be Charring Cross Jubille Line, with blue lighting. I'm surprised I have this reaction, as it is simply cut-away girding, blue lighting, which the lead again suggests isn't the way forward (and a lack of safety doors).

> The tube means so much more to Londoners than getting from A to B. We are a part of the city and what we want to make sure is that we are doing our best to make sure that life in London is getting better as well. A result of that is a real focus on design. I guess what we recognise is that great design doesn’t happen by accident.

The tube is a testament to, and a record of, design through the past century-and-a-half. More often than not, this was not by committee, as these designs seem to be.

What would be worth improving would be disabled access and cleanliness (which the article does mention), and affordability.

Is the article a parody of itself?
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>Guantanamo is still open and will host its prisoners, sent there by secret courts, for the foreseeable future.

So they'll be still alive at the end of the day. Such barbarity, DAE hate USA?

Nice job downplaying a country murdering fifty people for thoughtcrimes.
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Computation is something different. Models like call by push value make this very clear. LC does as well, though, but LC tends to be joined up with an equality semantics which intentionally sweeps computation under the rug for simplicity.

This is a big hairy problem in untyped LC, though, since untyped LC has non-termination and therefore is not confluent. This is what I mean by taking non-termination seriously is one way to force "time" and "computation" back into models. It means that LC has no beta-equivalence the same way that, say, simply typed LC does.

So anyway, you're wrong to say that LC has no notion of complexity—people count reduction steps all the time—but right to say that often this is intentionally ignored to provide simpler value semantics. It's foolish to think of this as equivalent to LC, though.

This paper is interesting. I think what they prove was at least folk belief for a long time, but I've never seen a proof.
Every time I see an article about Uber or taxi drivers I feel thankful that I live in a place where apps like Hailo exist. Every time I read the comments on these types of articles I see people pointing out what the people want/need and how taxi companies could make it work while thinking to myself "Hailo already does this".

It was created by ex-taxi drivers too and every taxi driver I talk to speaks very highly of them and how they manage to satisfy both drivers and passengers. Hopefully they can manage to expand further
I understand it as _classic_ neural networks as opposed to deep networks. Not a good choice of words, though.
You don't have to live in Paris, just at driving distance.

Also, that is not the ENTIRE personal income, just the income from Uber or the competitor.
Unfortunately many roads in London have 20mph speed limits now.

They do have a purpose at certain times of day but the inefficiency of doing 20mph when the road, cycle lanes and pavements are largely empty is disappointing.
I'm from a small town near Hamburg. The town has an aluminum plant and a plant from DOW Chemical. Hamburg even has steel production:

http://hamburg.arcelormittal.com

There is lots of dirty industry in Germany. Still. Coal production. Lots of chemical plants and products. Cars are painted in Germany.

Higher standards make some products expensive.
Haven't been on the limit yet, but i have a small bash-script which will revalidate them.
I have a TODO to revalidate once manually when it is near expiration. If the script works, i will probably throw it in a cronjob.
I had a coworker forward me this problem a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't hard for me. Meanwhile, I completely forget what class it was where I picked up the concept of a parity bit. Networking maybe?
It's worth mentioning that tcc started life as an entry in the Obfuscated C Contest:

http://bellard.org/otcc/

(It won.)
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but can anyone tell me why I would not be able to access the netflix tech blog?

Every time I try to go to it I get a "Web page unavailable" despite sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com telling me it is not down.

Not sure if its just my laptop as I am abroad at the moment in Italy and have no other computer to check the site.
Another great analysis by Matt.
My first name and surname are both what you would consider first names, it's not that unusual, or maybe it's a Scottish thing. It does make for some really annoying conversations, both analogue and electronic where people call me by my surname e.g "Hi Kenny", and then I know they're not actually paying attention.
Why not ? Do you think we have reached the end of history ?
By common sense you are right. By law, given you can be charged with drunk driving even if the vehicle is off and you are just sleeping in it, I suspect that drunk driving laws will stick around even when the car is doing the driving. This is especially true for areas that drunk driving fines are a revenue stream.
I think Chrome Sync does support client-side encryption. I set an encryption password, and it seems to be client-side.
I recently served on a New York grand jury and in my experience the biggest problem was that in 38/40 cases we only heard one side of the story. There were two cases where the defendants testified. Like the other cases, the story of the other witnesses (often cops, sometimes civilians, sometimes some of each) was quite straightforward... until the defendant testified.

It may have been in the defendants' best interest to "muddy the waters" as much as possible, but in both cases we obtained impartial evidence (video, 3rd party records) that corroborated parts of the defendants' stories and conflicted with those of the police officers. (There were other parts of the story where the reverse was true too). In both cases once we heart the defendant's side we needed additional evidence, beyond what the DA had initially provided, for us to be able to decide on whether or not to indict.

Wo some cases it is hard to imagine there being another side (somebody is accused of selling drugs to an under cover cop or there's video of somebody committing the crime), but it makes me wonder if how many of the others were less straightforward than they seemed.
As someone who doesn't remember the '80s, Tottenham Court Road's mosaics look ugly already. I'd lay money that in 100 years the new designs will look better than them. The Jubilee Line extension stations are very elegant in my view - functional design has a beauty all of its own, and clean and modern is a good look for a transport system (A station shouldn't look lived in, that's not what it's for) - particularly one that serves Canary Wharf where it fits in with the broader æsthetic. At the same time the concrete and arches have just enough character to be interesting. It's a little bland, but for something that so many people have little choice about using, inoffensive is better than avant-garde. (Compare /u/cstross' notion of the "beige dictatorship").
I just spent a week in La Gonave, Haiti. Everybody had smart phones...which was particularly impressive because electricity is hard to come by.
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> I've wondered why Obama uses ISIL, while practically everyone else is using ISIS.

The State Department interpretation of 'al Sham' is Levant, hence the 'L'. Other agencies translate it as Syria because Levant doesn't incorporate the full area. But there's no one-to-one Western name for the region indicated by the Arabic word.

The whole Daesh meme is amusingly naive; it's like calling "NATO" as "OTAN" ( its French abbreviation ) and claiming that it annoys the British. Really, they have better things about which to concern themselves than the actually accurate abbreviation some distant foreigners have adopted for them.
Have you seen Mallat's recent work on the scattering transform?

http://www.di.ens.fr/data/scattering/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHhYvtnY2zI
Test anxiety is a multiplier for stereotype threat. It is just the worst for performance. I am a good test-taker because I can put it aside, but it is not fair.
Stuff like this shows the gulf between research and clinical practice. I'm doing a PhD in medical imaging, and we have carte blanche to run whatever we want. We generate a lot of amazing visualisations.

But almost all hospitals are stuck running out-of-date software that wasn't even good when it was released.
FUBAR=Fvcked up beyond all recognition

Remember that next time someone tries using foobar in their example.
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> Self-driving cars will be expensive because they will be marketed as a premium product to maximize profit.

You have this backward. The reason entrepreneurs often start with premium products is because you can extract more money from rich people and use that to pay product development costs. Developing self-driving cars is extremely expensive, and it will be for quite a while. The costs will eventually fall, but as with personal computers, it will take a while to figure out how to do that.

If you really had cars that could self-drive and the technology was effectively free, then the profit-maximization strategy wouldn't be to sell Teslas, it would be to sell them to everybody. Tesla is selling maybe 10k cars per year. Even a $20k premium for self driving is only $200m. But the total US car market is 7 million or so. If you could get just an extra $1000, that would be $7,000m dollars in profit.
>except when needed for legitimate educational purposes or if parents provide permission.

Lowering a broken page's rank so that students only see working pages helps their educational experience.

I'm not saying I completely agree with the argument, but it isn't a bold face lie.
Old news from 2010.
Ah, but if everyone uses Uber, then they can screw you later. Some people look at the longer picture.
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My guess is that it just opens the door for people who would know how to contribute to that codebase.
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Well, if you have less length quanta then we could call them a unit of length, they would no longer be any kind of fundamental property. ( But actually the notion of a particle is a rather big problem of quantum field theory in curved backgrounds.)
One possible solution would be to split the world into regions, with different front-line and reserve anti-biotics in each region. In other words, antibiotic A would be front-line in North America and B,C & D would be held in reserve for resistant cases, while B would be front-line in South America, C in Europe, D in South Asia, etc. New anti-biotics would be allocated a new front-line territory by splitting existing territories. So when antibiotic X is developed, then e.g. North America is split in to East (uses A) and West (uses X), providing a market for X. This solution also has the advantage that it shrinks the population which is using each antibiotic regularly, increasing its useful lifetime.

Of course, this solution ignores issues of varying toxicity and side effects (not every antibiotic is equally appropriate for front-line use) and anti-trust issues. If an ordered schedule for reserve antibiotics was used, the same principle would apply, just one step farther up the reserve schedule. So, if no one wants to use your antibiotic because it is very harsh, but if your antibiotic is first choice among the harsh reserve antibiotics in some region, it will at least get used some, perhaps enough to pay for development. Anti-trust issues could be dealt with by splitting the regions along jurisdictional lines, or by international agreements. Because this proposal is pro-competition (because new entrants are granted new territories) it also may suffer less regulatory ire than most collusion agreements.
Surely that is the point of the Uber exec etc categories?
>Sure, letting a murderer off

http://www.falseconfessions.org/fact-a-figures
Some of my least favorite quotes:

"A single neural network is never going to be able to write news articles with actual sense or meaning." - why not?

"they're never going to be providing you with an honest opinion of a product" - and a human reporter is going to be more honest?
That still means that proprietarism is a huge problem. I been through a melanoma I can attest to the absurdity.
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The below resources are the ones I used when I started to learn about DL/NNs. Some of them are focused specifically on certain applications, but I found them helpful, too.

Basic NNs:

http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/implementing-a-neural-network-... (a whole series, all worth reading)

https://gist.github.com/sthware/c47824c116e6a61a56d9 (my code based on the above)

http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/27/python-network-part2/

http://rolisz.ro/2013/04/18/neural-networks-in-python/

ML:

http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html

http://onlinestatbook.com/2/index.html

DL in general, RNNs, RNTS, CNNs, some others:

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

http://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagati...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0205070.pdf

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/EMNLP2013_RNTN.pdf

http://alexdavies.net/talks/

http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/SemanticCompositionalit...
roughRecursiveMatrix-VectorSpaces

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representation...
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If I was Uber, I'd make the app record video (only uploaded in the case of a negative user review on either side). The phone/tablet is usually mounted anyways, so it should get a good view, and at minimum get audio if the customer is out of view
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maybe Play framework, which supports both Java and Scala, is also a good fit here!
I've served on two juries, one for murder and one for a far lesser offense. In one the defendant was a fairly wealthy young man; in the other a poor woman. One defendant was guilty; the other not.

My experience in both those trials was nothing like the author's here. Indeed, I wonder how much of his experience was due to his own concern about things like race and politics instead of, y'know, guilt and innocence. Perhaps had he not been looking down on his colleagues and arguing from emotion, but rather from facts, he could have convinced them to find not guilty.

In both cases, we started with a preliminary vote. In both cases, we argued cordially, with a deep and abiding interest in justice and what the right thing would be. We took turns arguing against our own positions, in order to try to better discover the truth of the matter. We were scrupulous in our decisions, and I feel confident we chose correctly both times.

Both experiences were profoundly inspiring. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

As an aside, I won't claim that the author is lying, because this may vary from state to state, but after both of my cases the judge and both sides of lawyers came in and spoke with us, asking questions about the case and our decisions; there was no notion of post-decision jury confidentiality the author alludes to.

Also, we were intructed in both cases to use our life experiences, not ignore them as the author indicates. Again, this may vary from state to state. Suffice it to say that the system the author depicts is not the one I experienced twice.
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I don't expect people to write positively about it. I just don't understand why people are writing so negatively about it.

People seem to confuse my position with something like, "Why isn't everybody praising him to the heavens?" When it's really more like, "Why is anybody paying attention to this?"
Ask HN: Should I fret my GitHub activity when job hunting?
I've recently started preparing for a job change. Part of my preparation is reading books on interviewing, brushing up on data structures/algorithms etc. I think these are a must-do for any developer that starts looking for a new job.

However, I'm also torn about what _else_ to do. I've been working on a commercial project on the side that hasn't shipped yet. I think it would be great if I could ship it prior to interviewing (would look good and give me something to show/talk about that is professional and polished besides my day job).

I've also got personal projects on GitHub that span the last year give or take a few small pockets of inactivity. All in all, this is a lot of stuff to take on at one time while also maintaining my current job and responsibilities.

In other words, I've got to choose one or two things to focus on (books/practicing problems, commercial project that hasn't shipped yet, or public GitHub projects).

My assumption is I should focus on reading and brushing up while working on my side project even though it's not publicly visible.

The question is, should I worry if I stop my public GitHub activity for 2-3 months while I prepare and (potentially) finish a commercial project? It will be quite a hole in activity, and with all the 'GitHub as a resume' hype, it worries me.

I'm most likely worrying unnecessarily about all of this and I'm probably placing too much importance on GitHub activity (and Stackoverflow karma for that matter...).
But is it really charity? Unfortunately, the charity exemption is given to many things that aren't very charitable at all, including some that are materially and intentionally bad for society (i.e. many that engage in overtly religious and/or political behavior). I'm willing to give Zuck the benefit of the doubt for being sincere and meaning well, but only time will tell if this is true charity.
Ahh, you misunderstood me. It was open source many years ago and that body of code doesn't seem to exist anywhere now.

Things have long moved on from that period, but a few of us are just curious to see if the code is still around from that time or if our product is one mavhc was talking about (unlikely).
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