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Of these? I don't know.

Across robotics... Lots! Many of them are in manufacturing (eg Kuka, Schunk, etc). There are lots in the military (eg UAVs in the big defense companies). There are lots in automation (eg Festo and Parker Hannifin). There are in logistics (eg. Kiva, before being acquired by Amazon). There are lots in healthcare (eg intuitive surgical). And its pretty clear that autonomous cars are on the horizon at this point.

A lot has changed since 1983... We're seeing a resurgence due to the confluence of major improvements in several key components: processors, displays, batteries, connectivity, sensors, and algorithms (including AI and ML). Unsurprisingly, many of these are being driven by Moore's Law and Cellphones. You can think of a robot as a "Cellphone with actuators" and you wouldn't be too far off. The actuators haven't changed too much since 1983... but the cellphone part has.
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Don’t let trade deals hamper climate progress
Here's a link to the video on Facebook for anyone else that has trackers blocked

https://www.facebook.com/demydezeeuw/videos/957955867617029/
Yeah I mean Tahoe gets crazy snow, but there are some things that happen to the road at super cold temperatures mixed with varying levels of rain or snow.

I think these mixtures are more prevalent east snd north of CA.
The article is rubbish. Philosophy has answered many questions. Natural Philosophy (science) has now taken over the position of prime means of inquisition into the truth. There is still space left for Philosophy just less of it than there used to be, and don't forget than many people in Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience are effectively doing Philosophy inside their disciplines.

This isn't "the death of philosophy", this is philosophy having succeeded brilliantly. The sciences are offspring that any parent should be eminently proud of.
No mention of Tsar bomba in the article about history of nuclear bombs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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"Tesla will have an enormous amount of data, of real world data, because of the millions of miles accumulated per day from our fleet of vehicles. Probably Tesla will have more real world data than any other company in the world." - Musk [0]

All things being equal, they're probably one of the best groups of people to hand this power to, but I would take an open source EV over a Tesla. Some (most?) other car companies track their new cars too (eg Jeeps broadcast GPS coordinates [0]).

[0] https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinato...

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-high...
The issue wasn't whether Coke and McDonald's care about their consumers' health. It was simply that there is more to these brands than marketing. They're providing a product people really like. It is like cocaine. There is substance to the desire, which doesn't mean that its a morally or ethically justified desire, but means that it's not imaginary and it's not simply the product of emotional or psychological manipulation.

Do people want to do drugs as much as possible? Yes. Do people want to pretend that candy is normal food and eat candy for every meal? Yes. Coke and McDonald's are supplying the latter demand. It doesn't absolve them of responsibility and it doesn't mean they're not manipulative or dishonest. It just means that there is a real, physiological desire backing their products that's not artificially created by cartoon clowns or polar bears.
The previous poster was trying to make the case that the questions themselves are significant, and as are the answers, not merely that religion tells people to accept and obey.

If that's the case, then the secularist world doesn't have to come up with actual answers either. They just have to tell people what to think and do, and then they'll have the authority structure they so desired.

It sounds nice to know that when you are born, society has a place for you. They have a job for you. They can tell you what to wear, what dance to learn, and what products to buy. They can tell you how to treat your neighbor, or how to regard the Chinese. They can tell you what the good death is like.
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Perhaps a metaphor based on the strings of beads in an abacus? I'm just speculating.
Consumers don't win however if they are judged as now higher risk (which should be approximately half of them).
Customers now wary of security holes in connected devices, survey finds
extremely useful:

> Before we start, let me point you to a 2-page paper, “Hanson 1999: Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology“, which shows you how to assess whether a particular text should be worth your time – without having to read it all!
> a really nice visual design so far, at the very least. I say keep it

Thanks :) This is basically Material Design / Flat design, and I consider it to be perfectly good-enough for an MVP, so yep, I'm keeping it :)

> To open or not to open is certainly not a decision that can be made lightly

Absolutely. Thank you for your write-up on open source models - you just saved me a lot of work. I'm bookmarking your comment for reference.

A concern I have about the entire open-source thing is that it will put a lot of maintenance burden on us, while not providing enough benefits in the 'breakthroughs departnemt'. For example, I'm sure the contributors can optimize performance or implement relatively minor inprovements, but I doubt that the community will be able to implement big systems (for example visual support for higher-kinded types). Is this generally the case, or I'm being too skeptical due to my lack of experience with open source?

> On top of that, visual languages are a very special case scenario. Considering there's so little out there in terms of visual languages, in a field where academics and tinkerers are constantly trying every possible combination, it's clear that for systems like this to make it, they must provide just the right amount of flexibility/functionality: too little and they'll be frustrating too use, too much and they'll lose design coherence. I suspect the sweet-spot for this level is less generalized than that of common programming languages.

These days, there are two kinds of visual functional languages in use by general (non-programmer) public:

1. Node-based image / video processing systems. Examples: material / shader editors in any modern 3D modeling app (3DS Max, Modo, Maya, Houdini etc.) and compositing apps (Shake, Nuke etc). Node-based (i.e. functional) workflow is nowadays a standard in these apps. Language-wise, these are simple funcional languages without higher-order functions, recursion and flexible type systems (they do offer strict typing, but you cannot construct custom types).

2. Excel. Yes, Excel. Basically, it's a tree of formulas, which are mostly pure (except for certain functions that access time, random numbers etc.). The evaluation order depends on the functional dependency, not row/column order, just like in a pure lazy functional language. No recursion, no reusable functions (though Simon Peyton-Jones proposed adding spreadsheet-defined reusable functions to Excel). Weak typing, no custom types, no recursion, no turing-completeness.

What I'm aiming for with my language is not full generality. It will be somewhere in between Haskell and Excel. It will be fully turing-complete like Haskell, but in terms of 'side-effectness' it will be more similar to Excel and Filter Forge: the program is entirely pure, and the only elements that access or produce side effects are the inputs and outputs of the program. The program is executed momentarily, just like in Excel and Filter Forge, and there's no notion of time or waiting.
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Yeah, they wanted to monetize it. Then Apple stole their idea instead of letting them do it via an API.

Not that I care about Flux. But this is definitely not helping them.
Because it refers to characters stringed together
In 1, light from any direction will fall on all the pigment cells equally. Essentially, your camera only has a single pixel--you can't tell direction at all, only degree of brightness.

In 2, light centered on the cup will fall on all the cells, but light from the side will be occluded by the edge of the cup and only fall on one side. Now you have a low-resolution camera, and can roughly tell which direction light is coming from.

In 3, light from any angle will only light up a small part of the cup's interior, allowing for greater precision--effectively, higher resolution.
the internet/self taught.
How can I find a place like this to work.

It seems like everybody sharing their interview experiences says they all use the same Google-wannabe standard. Ie whiteboarding, implementing an advanced data structure from memory, and rapidly solving CompSci homework questions.

I'm no CompSci grad but I have pretty a pretty experience in many languages/stacks. I have confidence that I could design and implement a reasonably complex distributed architecture if requirements called for one. Yet I'd look like a complete asshole if asked to whiteboard a R/B tree from memory.
Another way to cut down on costs is to use email-to-SMS gateways. Emails are usually way cheaper to send than SMS ($0.0005 per email with Mailgun vs $0.0075 per SMS through Twilio). The biggest downside is that these gateways can be a bit flakey, but I had good results with CorpScores[1].

[1] https://github.com/kevana/corpscores/blob/master/dci_notify/...
It really sounds like your problem is with the DoJ, but your blog post is all about Bank of America. Nobody gets surprised or very interested by a story on "Bank fucks over customer" so I don't think that focus helps you.
Having spent multiple winters in Pittsburgh, it's not like a winter in the Rockies or the Tetons where as the GGGP describes, there are only single plowed lanes in multilane highways because it's snowing every day for two weeks straight. In Pittsburgh, the lanes get plowed fairly quickly and salted to death.
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Difference here is he may win the nomination of a major party as opposed to John Anderson and Perot who ran as third party candidates.
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Yeah but then is it really notification worthy? If you're that popular, you just post, and then check back in a while to see how it did. There's nothing really "notification worthy" like when it's more like 1-to-1 communication.
I would posit as a counterpoint that improving compilers, programming languages, and programming editors feeds back into improving the open-source tools available to tackle the problems of others. Hopefully, we eventually arrive at a series of summits where creating a useful solution for a non-technical problem using an open-source tools requires less and less obtuse, finicky, technical knowledge gained through trial-and-error.

That being said, I agree with you. Anecdotally, I haven't contributed anything to non-technical open-source projects outside of the odd bug report. That may be a good belated New Year's resolution.

I'm also hoping that interesting experiments in lowering the unnecessary barriers to doing powerful things in programming will inspire folks like me to find a useful way to contribute to one of those summits. We need infinite Alan Kays and Bret Victors.
The answer is always, 'it depends on what you mean by "language," "easiest," and to "learn."'
But rock is the status quo; with anything rock-like, you run the risk that your parents will like it. That makes it hard for rock to challenge the status quo.

When I hear "major, youth-oriented cultural movement which challenged the status quo" I think about house, hip hop, and rap.
Human labor is a $60 trillion dollar market. Robots that are capable of general learning will be able to capture a good portion of that.

It's ok to lose money developing such technology. There's a long road ahead, and we should be impressed with those willing to invest now.
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Debian is using client-side SSL certs for SSO. I wonder why that isn't more common on the Internet.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSingleSignOn
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All in all, she’s probably applied to 100+ companies over the last 6 months, but she hasn’t received a single call back.

Your wife should consider sending in an unsolicited resume to be a no-op and, instead, start meeting people who either a) are hiring managers or b) can refer her to hiring managers.

Her goal in achieving connection with the hiring manager is to secure a coffee date or other informal conversation. Her goal for this conversation is qualifying the company, impressing the hiring manager, and convincing the hiring manager to either invite her formal application or respond positively when she suggests moving to a formal application.

This is one of the huge knowledge gaps in the engineering community regarding getting jobs. Unsolicited applications are not how most people get hired. This is particularly true of smaller employers.
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It's happening! Those companies that serve the cushy urbanites (Uber et al) are also providing above-minimum-wage jobs to the unexotic underclass.
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At some point WebAssembly will mean you can rewrite it in any language.
Agreed. The Slack-esque hybrid command line is a bit of a bait and switch to get the tech community interested. The average user by no means is going to memorize more than 1-2 commands, if any at all. I barely use anything other than Giphy on Slack. At the end of the day content and network effects will determine whether it survives.
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This is so sad to see. I mean, why are they even shutting it down? LIKE WHY?

But, wait. I googled this [just to make sure] and trust me, I couldn't find anything other than a couple of blogs on this.

So how true and authentic this is?
Well, it depends on the neural network you want to use. At computer vision/image processing conferences I find that it is much more common for people to use preexisting DNNs and plug them into their systems rather than train their own (why would you waste weeks or months on that?). The good pretrained DNNs available today tend to be huge, requiring a large amount of video RAM. I've talked to people writing realtime image processing software (GPU acceleration required) intended for handheld devices which can't yet actually run on the device because they don't have a suitable DNN which will fit in VRAM.
> A mobile device can execute a pretrained model fine.

Of course it can. The problem is with the size of the network you might want to run.

From your first link, which is about single character level image processing

> We needed to develop a very small neural net, and put severe limits on how much we tried to teach it—in essence, put an upper bound on the density of information it handles.

And from the voice training paper:

> While our server-based model has 50M parameters (k = 4,
nh = 2560, ni = 26 and no = 7969), to reduce the memory
and computation requirement for the embedded model, we experimented
with a variety of sizes and chose k = 6, nh = 512,
ni = 16 and no = 2000, or 2.7M parameters

AlexNet is, what, 60M+? VGG is pretty big too.

I guess I wasn't too clear. Yes, there are good results from nets that we can run on mobile devices in realtime. We do, however, want to run significantly larger nets.
A friend-of-a-friend of mine built the Red Alert [0] app that sends a push notifications when a rocket is fired from Gaza. Alerts can be as short as 15 seconds, so if you want your Alert to be effective, you have to figure out how to send out several thousand notifications in seconds.

[0] https://redalert.me/index_en.html
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Yes, however serial seems to have communication issues ones in a blue moon, just one char missing.
We run on Siemens MC35. O yes and custom software stack to talk 'AT' to them directly. To be fair it should be rewritten to handle event's like unexpected DIAL :) But that doesn't happen often to warrant this.
Very nice site (diarytail.com), by the way.

Unfortunately nutritionix has only basic nutritional data as well, the sort of thing you find on a product label. Not bad but not great. Have a look at their sample data. Plus it's around 10k/year or 50k/license.

I'm thinking home cooks would get a lot of value from the tool, and reasonably good data even if they use raw instead of cooked (as an example).
I know! In the past, whites are called "human". Now, rich people are called "human". I am also colored and I am not a racist. Every century has its own definition on the word, "human", no matter in biology or sociology.
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Do you want to pay for someone else to be a bad driver? Or should that person put down the beer and the phone?
Or an animated film made by a company founded by Apple's cofounder...
Really awesome to see this on Hacker News. I work for a company that does pay-as-you-go solar power in Uganda and we rely on SMS messages to allow our customers to pay off their solar devices over time, and we too use a Django backend to control that communication. It may not be 'flashy' but SMS technology is so widespread in sub-saharan Africa so it's incredibly useful.

(PS we're hiring software engineers if anyone's interested!
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I don't agree with that either. I have written a decent chunk of production python code last year (eg. just one module has over >10k lines) because the tools required it and I can't say I'm too pleased with how it scales to complex APIs (eg. manipulating blender scene graph). Java would undoubtedly be much worse but Java is not the only statically typed language, or should we discard all dynamically typed languages because of PHP and Perl.

If it's not a script task or glue code I prefer static typing.

Java is just a very bad implementation of static typing, it's intentionally dumbed down and limited so that you don't need to learn a lot to understand code - and this results in weak type guarantees, bloated and tedious code base and silly patterns to work arround language limitations.

C# is a much better example of a productive statically typed language in the same family, F# is even better - those are just the ones I have experience with. I would have much rather done that blender project in F# over Python if I could (sadly only python API available)

Besides even dynamic language authors are seeing value in providing static typing with the recent trend of optional/gradual typing for most dynamic languages.
The funny part is how the TrendMicro guys keep asking Travis to validate their fix - as if he's their tech support guy.
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From the article:

"Smartphones have made Americans more comfortable with location tracking."

"Privacy already has shifted from being a right to a good that is purchased."

Right.
Yeah, and I am not sure if storage space is the biggest problem that needs to be solved. I rarely if ever heard of anyone complaining about it as much as their battery capacity or lack of updates.
The regulators refused to downgrade the credit ratings of products as the banks would go to their competitors if they did, and they would lose money. Corruption, greed, incompetence... call it what you like, it still falls under fraud. If there is one snapshot of behaviour in a capitalist system that highlights the flaw of the system it has to be this. Why do regulators need to make money? An absurd conflict of interest.
That does sound significant. I will be curious to hear more about that. Can you recommend a good go-to resource for all the latest news and discussions on Haskell?
Personally, my regular mail carrier is fine, but there's a different system for parcels (this is in Brooklyn, NY) where it's always someone different. The majority of the time, they don't even get off the truck and try to deliver the item, they either just leave a 'notice left' sheet, or none at all, and mark the item as 'unable to deliver, notice left' or 'undeliverable as addressed.' Or they mark it delivered, and don't deliver it.

Then, when you schedule a redelivery, they just don't redeliver it. If you call the post office, which I have to do at a secondary line I discovered (apparently for carriers), since their main line seems to be left off the hook or turned off, they will report that they have it there, and you can pick it up if you want.
Money to burn and existing users who already have a Facebook / Google account and like clicking a big shiny button to login.
Yeah, their cheapest stuff is worth every penny you paid for it (i.e. both of them ;)). The higher-range furniture is actually quite nice and sturdy, OTOH.
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I have no idea if you will get this or not, because you hellbanned me. I was trying to get a deeper understanding of the dangers and mysteries of RF fields. The needlessly snide response of @GFK was a catalyst for an undeniably immature response on my part.

To ban me for breaking the guidelines was heavy handed. You did not list a specific rule, nor did you explain yourself in any detail. I do appreciate that you went out of your way to comment on a post by a user that has no cult following or internet cache, but given GFK's status, i assume this was because i insulted one of the ITeratti. I get it; the F-word is over the top. I did not intend to slur anyone's choice or predisposition vis a vis fucking. I come from a shitty part of the iternet where the F-word means much more than a sex preference pejorative.

I am not one of you blessed few. I am a college student that focuses on PoliSci and International Conflict. HN is not a place i go to torch n00bs or show off my witty IT knowledge. It is a place i go to learn. I'm thankful for GFK's contributions to the global discussion atmosphere, and as i already stated my response was crass and churlish. Respectfully, i humbly request that you rescind my ban. I will endeavor to not nom on bait henceforth.
How would his insurance company "use it against him"?

Proving he was at fault would also prove his insurance company had to pay for the accident.
> This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse
without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically
become visible to the public.

Why is it visible already?
because they are in fact doing philosophy at the limits of their fields. when people debate which theories might fit the phenomena best, they are doing philosophy.
If you look at Tor's concept. It's pretty clear that it cannot be considered secure.

Each time you use tor your packets actually go through a path of 3 different servers (or relays). If the attacker owns the two ends it's game over. How many relays are there out there? How many are owned by the NSA or other gov?

It's pretty obvious that this system just cannot work because a majority of relays are owned by the attacker.