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> But ultimately, Apple Maps doesn't need to be the best. It just needs to be good enough that its users won't look for something else.

Spot on. Being given the default spot will keep Apple Maps in the same position as Internet Explorer 6 was in the noughties and iTunes has been for the past six years: Since the app is the default and there is nothing to gain by improving it, with time any ambitious developers will migrate away and it will stay barely good enough not to be an embarrassment.
"Chess and Programming - You have to be smart enough to understand it and dumb enough to think it matters."
Freeing up memory for some games, good memories.

I think my most vivid learning experience was when I managed to delete autoexec.bat.
Oh just give this poor old dog the old Yeller treatment already. I don't know what's more sad, the fact that Yahoo has fallen from where it once was, or that it's falling so slowly and that it's new CEO, once thought to be it's saving grace, is letting the bleeding continue for seemingly as long as she possibly can.

I can't imagine the morale issues in the trenches of Yahoo, it's gotta be just horrible in there.
I got the same email, and it does not answer my question. Different Alphabet companies could handle data separately.
Minor nitpick, something wrong in the numbers:
"Its center is in western Switzerland, at roughly 42.5°N, 7°E."
That's on the Mediterranean, not CH:
https://goo.gl/maps/cpiKng3eW8p
Yeah... put Apple Maps on Android and see what people pick. Or put aMaps and gMaps on Windows...

That's like bragging iTunes is king on the iPhone... of course it is... that doesn't mean it isn't a bloated mess.
It just seems strange to me that they learn enough about him to offer him a job, and then only after they've done that do they google him and find out his past. Surely you'd do that fairly early on?
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The guy that put together silk road was found with all his stuff at the same coffee shop every day.
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Ahh, I was wondering why they would leave it that late, but avoiding extra costs makes sense.
But children's paintings generally do not actually resemble abstract paintings. They tend to lack things like depth and composition.
40% attrition is still pretty low compared to most industries though. Compare that to business, finance, law, academia, or teaching. And medicine may have a lower attrition rate, but it's not exactly a great career path these days either.

Even if the tech industry is better for men than for women, it's probably still the best industry for women in absolute terms.
Indeed. Anyone can dominate a platform if they've got the right to ban competing apps from it. I'm sure the EU will get round to this in 2025 or so.
Interesting, but why not libraries in the script languages?
Citation for the affair? Wikipedia gives only weak evidence for them living together after the separation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Middle_years
Happy to help. There was a period from ~2003-2008 when I was looking for _any_ copy of the book, 'new' copies were absurdly expensive and even the well-used versions were upwards of 40USD. Then I moved to Cornwall, met the guy and he gave me a copy from his stash.
"...Lynch Mobs - if enough of the players agree, they can send someone to prison, remove their assets, or even eject them from the game"

AKA democracy ;-)
If "programming/etc" stories (that OP is saying used to be more prevalent here) are on the "best" list, that means they are very popular here. It does not, though, mean that there are more/fewer of the other stories. Correlation != causation and all that. The best list has nothing to do with distribution of stories. We could have fewer programming-related stories, for example, but find that the ones that are submitted have a disproportionally higher upvote rate because the community likes those so much more.
As a developer from Poland: why is that relevant that these jobs are outsourced? They don't disappear, just move.

Also "even" is a little harsh, don't you think?
You missed my point entirely.

The point is if we know he's a bad person, we can choose not to use Bitcoin as is, and instead use a fork of it where he doesn't profit from it.

Also stop with the myth that Bitcoin was completely invented by one guy. It was based upon ideas from a lot of people prior to Satoshi. If there's a moral obligation to reward him (there is not) then there's a moral obligation to reward all of them as well (there still isn't.)
Really? Maybe a couple of hours. I just buy whatever I land on. Others usually follow suit and fairly quickly the board is divvied up. Then it's horse-trading and luck.

I think that with a few simple heuristics the game moves along quickly enough. I have family members who are so nice they try to prevent doing things the other players don't like. These games take forever. Geesh.

I haven't played in quite a while, so I may be remembering the game moving along faster than it actually does.

Side note: we've been playing Machi Koro at home over the last few weeks. Very simple concept, mostly luck, and interesting enough for a somewhat fun 30 minutes or so.
For the record: I do love the iPhone and it's capabilities and how everything really does "just work," but for Apple or anyone to turn that around and say "Wow Apple must just be killing it, their software does so well on the iPhone" is like saying your horse won a race after you went around the stalls and shot the other ones in the kneecaps. Yeah, of course you freaking won, no one is surprised and it doesn't mean shit.
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Could you provide me a link to the research that demonstrates the shows you watched before Elmo resulted in better learning outcomes for children than the shows with Elmo?
The Stanford parser does both constituency (phrase-structure) and dependency parsing. Actually in the model that I know of, the dependency parses are derived from the constituency parses.

The base of the parser relies on a grammar to describe possible sentence structures, but actually most of the work in disambiguation is done using statistics, or with neural networks. The question what is and what is not grammar is rather arbitrary, there can be a continuum between simple rule-like and statistical regularities.

Ultimately the models in NLP are rarely making any kind of cognitive/neuroscientific claim about being plausible models, just effective ones. There's a specific field of computational psycholinguistics which does investigate those things.

> Also, it's really not the case that you get better performance out of neural network models of language, let alone "human like performance". We're very far from that still.

I wouldn't make such claims these days because deep learning methods are gaining ground very fast. There are many tasks at which the deep learning model is better than traditional models. Furthermore, there are already deep learning models which are better than humans at image labeling.
I worked in video games reverse engineering for several years, so I'll take the occasion to quote a recent tweet from a friend/colleague of mine:

> At HandmadeCon @mike_acton brought up the game data format problem. I've reverse engineered hundreds of proprietary formats from games, and he's right that all I would need to make things simple is a basic description of the file data. Just struct declarations are enough.
No encryption has stopped me, I always find the data I need, and your data all has the same general architecture, so there's no reason a game developer should be afraid of the public knowing how their game's data is laid out. This zeitgeist of closely guarding that information is doing you more harm than good — moddability is a key feature of many successful games, and all modders want is docs.

--

There's a lot of other industries that could stand to learn from this. Reinventing the wheel sucks. Doing your own, proprietary thing in your corner, taking on extra maintenance work, extra work to modify existing tools to make them compatible with your own image/archive/whatever format... it all sucks and nobody wins.
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What's good is that Apple Maps is slowly improving. They do seem to be fixing inaccuracies and problems. However, it's still crap. In my local streets, I can see countless mistakes (businesses in the wrong place, out-of-date entries, etc)

There's also now a problem with too much information, of the wrong kind. For instance, I opened up Maps the other day to discover that it listed a children's clothing shop just opposite my house. I live on a residential street, there's no shop there!

Intrigued, I clicked on the marker, visited their web page and found out that yes, the company does exist, but it's an online shop and the owner just happens to live near me. So Apple have scraped a database of companies and found lots of registered addresses, but putting this information on the map unfiltered is completely useless.

They've got a lot more improvements to make...
The other day I used Apple Maps to turn up at a business meeting. I didn't notice it said "approximate location". Or, if I did, I probably thought since it was in a mall that the location was somewhere in the mall. Anyway, I turned up at the "approximate address". Guess how far off it was? Almost 5km. This was on a main street in my city that goes from one end of the city to the other.
Unlikely, Apple's always had a walled garden when it came to iOS and to be blunt that's why the iOS experience is as good as it is, I would still take an iPhone over an Android any day of the week simply because I'm at the point in my life where I have enough to keep working that I don't want to have to keep my phone working.

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, I'm just saying then to turn around and claim how star spangled awesome your software must be by the metrics is more than a little dishonest.
The website you linked is deeply discriminatory and offensive to males in tech.
"Why do women leave tech?: many women leave tech due to working conditions (low salary, no advancement), work-life balance (too much travelling, commuting)
What do women want in the workplace?: flexible working hours, personal development opportunities."
What about the males in tech ? They don't deserve better salary and advancements ? They don't deserve work-life balance, flexible hours ? Why don't we help them too ? Everybody wants to help women who leave while they can and no one cares about the males trapped in low paying races to the bottom with no real alternatives. For the low 75% of tech workers it's not help at all that the top 25% earners are all males from Silicon Valley.
hi all, glad to hear you guys like it. im the guy that wrote that post, didnt imagine that it might be trending.

some of the comments here are indeed very valid. the fact that you can push all the houses to your deeds actually might make it more interesting to push for the the cheap investment places that otherwise don't give too much of a return.

my main goal was to figure out which house yields the best return on investment. which was a problem that had been bugging the back of my mind for a while.

ill add strategies that ive missed and give credit to it when i recheck the blog for spelling.
There's another way to look at it : the fact the apple maps is tightly integrated to iOS also means that it "contaminates" all the other services for the OS with its bad quality.

I would love to have siri use google services to guide me on a map. Or calendar show me locations on google maps. Yet, every time i use those great services, i have a bad experience because of Apple Maps.
You raise a common concern about honesty in materials and the real value gradients and other representational forms. More to come on that front.
In a similar way that some parents will fruitlessly try to coax their children into being the sports starts they want/wanted to be, for some children the "digging about in the computer" bug just won't catch. I hope it won't be too disappointing for you... there's a whole world of experiences to explore with your daughters!

I'm on the older edge or in the early middle of the Millennial generation, depending who defines the generation. As such I grew up and grew into technology just as we were getting really immersive operating system UI/UX. I remember fondly the green screen, text-based, 5.25" floppy games we had in elementary school, as well as the immersive film-like experiences today.

Chemistry sets were kinda boring, Couldn't have cared less about my Dad's Erector sets, much to his disappointment. I built a few model cars and a F-14 over a span of 6 months, then those lived in a box never to be heard from again.

And even in the computer... hacking around in the depths of my parents' computers was never the fun thing. But getting into web development was super cool, because it was raw, new, etc. Even as I look around, the companies I find exciting are more often web software vice native OS. I'm learning to appreciate embedded systems and very low level machine management, but it still doesn't have that spark like hacking about in GeoCities did...

What's the raw, new, interesting tech today? I don't wonder if part of it is figuring out what might be the new version of playing with hobby boards or experimenting in system drivers. Even for me, getting a diode wired up to light up as a kid was super boring. But wiring up an iOS app might be super interesting now.

Or, maybe your girls would rather be lawyers or vets or oil rig mechanics. I hear that's part of the fun of parenting :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_vision

I think it's a quite nice analogy. There are structures present, but they have to be trained as well. Suppose you have a hierarchical Dirichlet process as prior, you still need data to be able to define what clusters with what. And of course I won't postulate such a simple process as representing our newborn brains.

From Wikipedia: "At birth, visual structures are fully present yet immature in their potentials. From the first moment of life, there are a few innate components of an infant's visual system. Newborns can detect changes in brightness, distinguish between stationary and kinetic objects, as well as follow kinetic objects in their visual fields. However, many of these areas are very poorly developed."

Your extreme case would be that there is a priori no reason to have language processed in certain parts of the brain, like Broca's or Wernicke's regions.

It is of course possible that these are just strategically located. However, newborns with damage to these regions by oxygen deprevation at birth can already suffer from linguistic impairments.
I am curious (genuinely -- no snark) if your concern is mostly a theoretical/political one or if it's more personal? Are you worried that you might somehow be compromised because of lax privacy? If so, how? Or is it that you don't agree with the idea of your data being in the hands of Google and/or sold to others?
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> "massively parallel" is probably drastically overstating it, though.

Think of a single-core processor executing instructions one at a time. Now think of ten billion neurons in your brain out of which a large proportion is active at any time. That is definitely massively parallel.
Does not wok on private repo.
Can someone explain why do business like to create new company? What are the benefits for the financial return other than having a book reporting individual revenue? In the end, aren't they going to be under the same parent company, which, if one wishes, can actually challenge and even overrule the child company CEO's decision behind the scene? HP, Google, now Yahoo.
It depends who's reading it. The whole genre of titles "* you don't know", "you're wrong about *" is condescending and frequently false.

I suspect that's what the parent post was referring to and I would agree: percentile calculations do work the way I think, and the article didn't say anything controversial.
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"fully commit to container technologies without worrying their current choice of infrastructure" read "without lock-in to AWS" https://www.opencontainers.org/news/announcement/2015/12/%E2...
People interested in the theory of an impending return to the gold standard might enjoy http://keithweinereconomics.com/2013/12/28/the-theory-of-int.... The author is a proponent of "new Austrian economics", basically Austrian economics with an appreciation for bid/ask spreads.
I've heard of several cases where people were fired for poor performance and then turned around and filed baseless, retaliatiory discrimination lawsuits. Obviously that's anecdata, but I believe that's the type of thing the poster is referring to.
Moving to Emacs from Visual Studio means that I am amazed at how quickly it starts up even without any optimization.
Please stop confusing possessive "its" with "it's". It really makes it hard to read
> How are they distinguishing between grammar that's encoded in the brain due to "nature" vs grammar that's encoded in the brain via "nurture"?

They do not.

> I think we all knew that the brain has some mechanism to detect grammar.

The press release is spinning the paper to make it sound much more controversial than it is.
You realize that offensive web application pen testing is only a tiny corner of the whole information security industry, and that most information security professionals don't find bugs. A good portion of InfoSec professionals are not technologists at all. They are behavioral experts, legal experts, policy makers, etc.

Judging by his own description of his skill set I would say he doesn't do offensive security at all but rather remediation, policy, and/or maybe forensics.
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Exactly, all that cash is hard at work being invested.

The structure of the portfolio allocation is also interesting (in rough numbers): 10% cash, 10% short term, 80% long term.
Usually it is because of stock and stakeholders that a company splits, not because a CEO likes to split his or her company. Stakeholders might demand a split so problems with one company might not influence stock price of the second.
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I think it's becoming a fairly popular career for women in China as well.
I've been in China on vacation last August and one of the first things I noticed is that all the scooters and rickshaws are electric. I noticed because they are silent as bicycles and I wasn't prepared to do without the usual clues of incoming quick traffic.

Most of them are old internal combustion scooters with the engine replaced by a battery and an electrical engine fitted into the rear wheel. There are also new natively electrical designs. I googled for a picture and this is what is left of a scooter when you don't need all the infrastructure required by a combustion engine http://www.motorcyclephilippines.com/classifieds/showfull.ph...

Many shopkeepers charge their scooters with cables going over the sidewalk to the scooter parked in front of the shop. I wonder what people living in those very common 24 or 32 storyes buildings do. Maybe the batteries can be detached and carried home at night. I think I never saw a charging station.
Runjs – minimalistic build system – middle ground between npm scripts and gulp
I feel like there is a place for such a tool. npm scripts get out of hand quickly and are hard to read, npm-run-all does not work so well specially if you want for example to launch a live-server in a separate process.

gulp files seem overly complex for what they do and the plugin ecosystem adds a layer of complexity towards the simple command line tools underneath.

The documentation is not always up to date and the plugin does not always use the latest version of the tool.

Grunt files are super verbose. Also gulp can bite you with launching too many tasks in parallel and then you need the runSequence plugin.

I think this tool fills a very needed middle ground: the build is in js but its easy to understand and scales well but still calls the command line tools directly.

The OS dependency I would not worry about it, many developers in windows have Git bash installed which does not require admin privileges and so is a viable option in enterprises.

Its a great way to have a solid command line in windows.
So thanks for sharing, i'll definitely try this in my next project and report issues if found.
It enables MongoDB databases to be accessed from within PostgreSQL at a massive performance penalty compared to just storing your data in Postgres in the first place, because the particular kind of foreign data wrapper they're using has limited ability to make use of MongoDB's query functionality and has to literally load the entire contents of the database into Postgres for anything non-trivial. Which means you're better off just using Postgres. This is bad for MongoDB because their business model relies on people actually using MongoDB rather than the competition.
It's almost as if Yahoo doesn't know what their core businesses are anymore. It will be interesting to see if they come out of this with better understanding of their identity.
lol, I think I did this too! Sixteen floppies later, Windows 95(a) was back to life.
I'm drooling over Greenlight. Thus far they seem to be prioritizing high-density areas like apartment complexes, though. Down in Pittsford it's not looking hopeful for a few years at least.
My point is not that we're at the exact top, but that we might be near the top of a hill when there's a mountain next to it. Evolution isn't going to go down the hill to climb up the mountain, but an engineer might eventually be able to do it.
I disagree with calling the statement tautology. On the contrary. Imagine a scenario where 99 people own 1$ each and 1 person own 10$. The richest person does not own nowhere near majority of the wealth. This is how OP understood the situation, while the current situation is more like 99 people owning 1$each while 1 person owns 110$. Do you see my point?
Just yesterday, I made the mistake of asking Siri where the closest UPS store was. After a 15 minute drive, there was no UPS store at the destination. Had to use Google Maps instead, which took me to the correct location.
> Sounds (beta)

> Sound exists in space. Sometimes. And NASA has released a series of space sounds via sound cloud. We have abstracted away some of the hassle in accessing these sounds, so that developers can play with the audio files. For example, a useful application would be an automatic filter to identify human voices in these audio files. For now, that would help identify content. Later, however, when we retrieve sounds from far-off planets, we can apply the filter to identify unknown human space colonies. That was a joke. Sort of.

https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#sounds
HN has all kinds of stories, you just need a nice filter to use it. May be you need to use a different interface to HN. HN has APIs for some time. Even when it not had them, people have hacked up nice stuff like http://hckrnews.com/, which I use regularly, for at least last one year if I remember right.

I find that on different days, I want to read different kind of stuff. And when you use a trend preserving interface like hckrnews, you can review everything, since your last visit, and read the stuff you like - tech or non-tech.