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I wonder what is the diference between a neural stack and An LSTM? Aren't both keeping a state?
So what is the difference between a land tax and property tax? After all I looked at my tax assessment recently and there is a value for the land and a value for the house itself?
Actually the only difference with German is that a) some simple words are longer and b) compound words are always chained together in writing.

"Floating point number" is a compound word in English too but there are very few compound words which are chained together as in German (e.g. hardware, blackbird).
Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't been following the releases that closely. But it's good to see that after the kitchen sink nature of ES2015 the yearly releases following it are a lot more incremental than revolutionary.
Whether or not his action was political, their response that insinuates that he is not a true leftist is not only incorrect but irrelevant, though it's understandable that somebody in a field where virtue signalling is so critical might think that this is a valid counterargument. Imagine that somebody pointed out that articles in a mathematical journal are incorrect and the editor responds with "yea, but you're not a true leftist!!". Virtue signalling and victimology over arguments, opinion over facts, obscurantism over clarity, etcetera.

The claim that people outside of the field have a hard time understanding it has the advantage of being correct when applied to science and mathematics. This is why Sokal's book only analyses the use of physics and mathematics in postmodernist literature. Since he is physicist and mathematician the claim that he just doesn't understand what he is talking about in his criticism falls flat.

I know I'm being harsh, but ridicule and contempt is the only way to get rid of this before it further infects campuses and, after the current generation of students grows up, politics.
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The very same link above is so much easier to read in Safari's "Reader" mode than in it's original "fancy webtypographer" design, that I wonder if the typographer actually understand what he does.
... for some non-trivial column vectors x and y :)
I had an SSD completely fail after only a month of use. It was a cheap-ish KingSpec C3000 128GB. It wasn't recognized in BIOS. Surprisingly, doing something called 'power cycling' made the disk work again. It still works after 2 years of use.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-did-my-SSD-quot...
> "A sudden power loss is a common cause for a system to fail to recognize an SSD. In most cases, your SSD can be returned to normal operating condition by completing a power cycle, a process that will take approximately one hour.

We recommend you perform this procedure on a desktop computer because it allows you to only connect the SATA power connection, which improves the odds of the power cycle being successful. However, a USB enclosure with an external power source will also work. Apple and Windows desktop users follow the same steps.

1. Once you have the drive connected and sitting idle, simply power on the computer and wait for 20 minutes. We recommend that you don't use the computer during this process.

2. Power the computer down and disconnect the drive from the power connector for 30 seconds.

3. Reconnect the drive, and repeat steps 1 and 2 one more time.

4. Reconnect the drive normally, and boot the computer to your operating system.
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> unless you've been very forward looking from the start (see IBM System Z)

Can you elaborate? System Z always looks curious, but I don't think that many people who aren't involved with mainframes professionally had a chance to even look at it
> When a commit lands in master, it doesn't matter to anyone else how it was developed.

On the contrary — this is one of the most important pieces of information I hope to get from my VCS.
I wish we could kill this idea that the Windows/Macintosh model of running around the web finding random binaries to install is a good one. Every time I have to use a Mac or Windows machine and do this I find it a major chore, and also get pretty firmly freaked out by the number of spoof application homepages with trojaned installer "bundlings" you see flying around the web. could be an easy mistake to make for a less savvy user.

As for "it just works", I do wonder how long the rest of you have spent trying to get Postgres and psycopg2 reliably working together on a Mac. (Yeah, Postgres.app "just works"...)

It's a one-command, ten-second install on my Debian machine.
When visiting Toronto last year I stumbled upon the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/merril/ and took part in an amazing tour. They also have Galaxy Magazine there to look at and lots of other gems.
Tech's Addiction to Fuzzy Math
Sure, but the interesting part is that we like to think such animalistic traits are beneath us. We're not rational creatures, we're just ordinary creatures that happen to be capable of ratio sometimes.

A lot of the social discussions we are currently having in tech likes to portray humans as entirely rational and intentional when in fact the problems we're trying to solve are engrained in our biology, not part of our culture. Doesn't mean we can't (or shouldn't) work around them but it means you need to do more than just pin all the problems on the majority and assume that once the power dynamics shift the problems will go away.
As far as I know, that's only the plan of the lowRISC project that's using RISC-V: http://www.lowrisc.org/
Unless you live in another country, then maybe you should try a local product first.
Do you think middle class people pay more for their house than they pay in other taxes during their lifetime?

By the way. Higher property tax confiscates the profits from the ownership of the property and property prices decline accordingly.

It's hard to follow trough all the consequences and feedback loops involved.
One factor that sometimes leads to problems in this regard is (as mentioned) backwards compatibility. Pretty much nothing that once has worked can be removed or changed because somewhere mission-critical software depends on it.

Another issue is discoverability. A concrete example is that https://metacpan.org/ is a much better (imho) presentation of cpan than http://search.cpan.org/.

It is the curse of being a very stable language and ecosystem.
Computer science is a broad field and not all of us are doing our PhDs in software engineering. There are some things which you just can't do in the industry yet, since the technology is not at a point where it is commercially viable. The question you really need to ask is "will this project make money in 5 months?" If the answer is no, and you currently have no credentials, then it'll be a very though sell...
Would you care to explain like I am 5? Layman's terms... What are you doing and how are you doing it?
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This is exactly what I'm looking for. One small database per entity, with the option of distributed transactions across the databases. It sounds wonderful. How mature is it?
I pay for ebooks and audiobooks mostly. I've never been interested in any of that blog-type content and don't really consume any of it for free, other than what's posted to HN. It may as well stop existing for all I care to be honest. And even without ads there'll always be all kinds of blogs because sharing is caring.
Because componentDidMount only works for components, not elements.
There wasn't a question of attracting a politician.
hahahahaah really funny. Good job!!
Sorry for going slightly OT but I think more people should know this:

xkcd style passwords are actually called diceware passwords [1],
the wikipedia article [2] links to arstechnica that reported in 2014 [3] that the original author upped his recommended diceware password length to at least 6 (random) words.

You can obviously always use a bigger dictionary too (as long as you choose truly random).

[1] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html funny enough, chromium doesn't like the ssl versions the site uses "ERR_SSL_FALLBACK_BEYOND_MINIMUM_VERSION"

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

[3] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/dicewa...
>the most important, in my opinion, is learning how to write well and communicate complicated ideas to others.

you also learn this while working for a company, which has the added benefit of not treating you like an indentured servant.
We eat our own dog food and use ActorDB for everything we do. Things that are critical for the company. Multiple products are using it without issue.
Well at the peak dotcom era you often could get away with spelling HTML without stuttering and you were hired. Microsoft could afford to discern however, being the top employer at the time.

I am with you though in principle. Some fizzbuzz-like test is OK, I understand they want to know if you can code at all. Something like code review where you think aloud is fine too. But take home assignments, whiteboard coding, huh.. An acquaintance of mine had to conjure a working spreadsheet application in one and a Space Invaders clone in the other. Mind you, none of the jobs had anything to do with spreadsheets or gaming.

If my living would depend on it I'd do it, no question. But in a relatively liquid job market of today I'd ether pass or offer to do it at a competitive hourly rate.
> If you look at a commit, there's no "anymore", no other timeframe rather that the commit's; it's either correct or incorrect on it's own.

this is true but frankly nothing i ever cared about. I think of commits as something that i can change and break and fix through rebasing, amending and the like. This mindset makes you a lot more flexible when handling commits, and when keeping in mind that the commit hashes change while doing that, I don't see any downsides.

> It makes much more sense to merge each interface change from master to feature branch individually, resulting in atomic merge commits, each of which handles specific aspect, while staying correct.

Then we have different views on what a horrible merge is. For me, that is having dozens of merge conflicts plus multiple necessary changes not indicated by conflicts, and most of those problems need to be resolved before the project compiles and the rest has to be resolved before all tests go green. There is no "while staying correct" in there. And this, working on lots of breakages at once, while needing to fix all of them before tests are green again, this i don't like at all and will be partly mitigated by the rebasing strategy.

There certainly are advantages of merge commits, but in my (admittedly limited, especially when talking about larger projects) experience, resolving merge issues does get harder with them.
Just to add to that. The program as it currently is rarely finds passwords that consist of more than 3 long words, which can still amount to decently long passwords. I have not tried to give it an english dictionary as a seed population. Maybe it would perform better if I do that.
You shouldn't run "random binaries", but binaries from the original author of the software. E.g., Scribus from https://www.scribus.net/ or Subsurface from https://subsurface-divelog.org/. If you don't trust the original application author, then you should better not run the software at all.
There are many, many things government could do that are economically better, not just in areas of taxation, but pretty much every area. Also, I'm not talking about the things crackpot far left/right wing blog readers consider obvious, these are perfectly orthodox Econ 101 insights.

They aren't implemented because they are incompatible with political dogma (I won't even call it ideology, as this implies a level of intellectual consistency), and these issues are used as tribal rallying calls which are much more valuable to politicians than implementing better policy ever was.

Land use tax, no matter how economically efficient, won't get implemented because the villains of taxation these days aren't heavy land users. I can run a hedge fund from a few floors in a Manhattan sky scaper. It would have the land footprint of perhaps 10 large coffeeshops. Google and Apple have barely any land footprint compared to any factory of any size. Any land tax implementation that would see hedgefunds, Google and Apple "pay their fair share" (while raising enough revenue to replace income and sales taxes) would be grotesque and certainly not economically efficient.
I forwarded this problem to Mapbox, thanks for letting me know!
I know someone who was doing a PhD on neural networks, and interned at Google during it (a research group involving NNs). He was told by that research team that they wouldn't hire him without his completed phd. He cut his phd short to a masters and got a job at Google anyway, but unfortunately I can't remember whether it was on that research team, or a generic software-engineer position (either way, the internship was the foot in the door).

You can certainly do good independent work, and write and publish papers if you want. If you can prove your conpetence, why shouldn't you be hired? At least, not every employer is going to have a major bias against those without PhDs.
The topic assumes some knowledge of genetic algorithms as well as password hashing.

You can look at the section "How it work" on my github page for some diagrams and a decently lengthy description.

In simple words:
Each organism is a password(a string). Passwords can mix(have sex) with each other in novel ways to produce offspring. If the offspring(a mix of the parents) also matches a password, it is added to the list of organisms. Older organisms eventually die, so it is up to the offspring to keep producing offspring in order to preserve the genetic line. The result of this simulation is that high impact substrings like "love", "luv", "mother" and "fuck" stay for a very long time in the genepool since any organism that consists of at least one of them will have a better chance to produce a child that is a password(viable offspring).

If you still don't understand, feel free to ask more questions.
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An example of abuse is the 20-something-year-old whose back "hurts" too much for him to have a job, so his is disabled.

Sans state-guaranteed welfare, he would do fine at many jobs. But the allure of someone else paying for everything is too much to pass up, so consciously or unconsciously, he allows himself to be crippled. (Similar to abuse, of say, painkillers.)

The argument is that legal entitlement to welfare creates increased opportunity for abuse, because no one wants to deny it and then get sued in legal courts.
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I was also big on Trello for a good while, but wanted to come away from third-party, slightly bloaty services, so made a vertical kanban board in a plain text file. Timestamps, autocompletion, tagging etc. all present, synced to a rpi server for external access.

For tasks or events with dates I have a plaintext calendar. Similar setup there.

Have a look here: https://github.com/luxpir/plaintext-productivity

Not everyone's cup of tea, but mentions why it was developed over org-mode in the linked post.
Around here you could even get plans where the company paid you for your incoming calls. One of those plans was so good that people sold their SIM cards years after the plan had been discontinued for new users (mobile companies are not allowed to cancel plans for existing users without their consent).
> As long as people are interested in eating, drinking, partying, culture, socializing and having casual sex - cities as most desirable places to live are inevitable.

Eating, drinking, partying and casual sex are just that - culture. Culture is subject to change.

And this isn't what drives urbanization. More simple optimization with regards to commute time and employment opportunities dominate this preference, except maybe in very select areas with high density of youth with enough money to have post-materialistic consumption behaviours.
Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are empty
>> Sounds very click-baity.

Oh dear. Not again :) [Edit: by that I mean that I had another sumbission in the same day that readers considered had a clickbaity title]

I guess I could have changed the title to "NP Complete problem tackled with parallel computation using biological motors" or something similar- that would have been more informative and less of a strong claim. But the submission guidelines also say to avoid changing the title (unless it's clickbaity) so in some case you just have to make a judgment.

I think in this case the title is a bit ambiguous. You could read it as "NP complete problem class solved" or "NP complete problem instance solved". But I think the author makes a good job of detailing the result, they do link back to the original paper and there's plenty more to the article than just a catchy title. Also it's on Ars, that generally has a good record of not trying to pull the wool over their readers' eyes. So really, I didn't think it would be read as an attempt at generating an undeserved er, buzz.

So I erred on the side of keeping the title as it was.

Well, anyway- this was a bit unexpected (two titles read as clickbaity in one day) so I'm a bit worried now- I don't want to come across as a ... clickbaiter? I'll err on the side of caution on the next few submissions and see what happens.
I like the particle accelerator litmus test :p Also .. totally agree with the top 5-10 school. Universities do not typically "hire down". I heard an "unofficial list" during a faculty meeting my last year .. I was horrified!

Here is the big problem IMHO: by the time you graduate with your PhD in a 6-8 year program, you are either close to or in your 30s (best case). You just spent a decade investing in a research career. Most scientists will tell you that research is not being supported the same as in the old days. I can't say about govt grants but industrial labs have definitely changed in the last 10 years (I'm thinking of IBM Research and Microsoft Research). There have been several lab closures in the recent past: MSR's Silicon Valley, Nokia Research in the Bay area, Intel Lab-lets (Berkeley, Pittsburgh, etc.). So basically, supply is steady and demand is decreasing. This generally doesn't bode well for the prospective PhD candidate trying to make a career in industrial research. The bar simply keeps getting higher to get one of these "coveted" positions.

While it is true that PhDs can (and do) get hired at places like Google, Facebook or Wall Street, think about the almost decade spent on training that not only are you not using, at least a chunk of the technical content will be obsolete by the time you finish! Insane!!

To succeed with a PhD, you need to be a great seller. This is sort of the same skill you need as an entrepreneur or a specific type of middle-manager (dreamer? not sure this has a clear job title). I always thought it was about the technical challenge of the work or the quality. I sadly have to come to realize that the marketing (the intro to your paper) matters as much as the rest.
I don't "campaign against attempts to restore fairness". I don't care about subjective experiences of people. I doubt that there is actually systemic discrimination or unfairness and demand proof for such a thing. And, I doubt the measures that are taken to fight this supposed unfairness are helpful, in fact, those measures themselves are a gross discrimination. I think I clearly made my point in my previous messages. I am all for equal opportunity. That is _precisely_ why I am against affirmative action.
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This website crashed my browser and I lost a few tabs I have been saving, and am unable to recover them. It does this even with JavaScript off.

Stack machines are really cool. Are they computationally efficient though? As the stacks grow bigger the number of possible stacks to keep track of grows exponentially doesn't it? Or do they only keep track of some of them?
Introduction to Social Network Methods
That's the problem, where is the line? Because there barely seems to be one. Shuffle a few laws around and whoops, authoritarians in power have infrastructure to do as they please.
MobX is a nice alternative paradigm to Redux that is gaining traction in the React community. It allows you to declare your data as observable, so that components can update automatically to changes.

https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
They're pretty much entirely unrelated.

In http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01019 the authors lean on research into axions as extensions to the Standard Model and on Bose Einstein Condensate research in ordinary matter, and proposes a temperature (~ 1 mK) below which the light axion-like gas condenses into a superfluid.

It's firmly rooted in General Relativity and is proposed as an ordinary matter field in the GR sense. The field content feels and generates curvature just like all the fields in the Standard Model. Its non-removable vacuum background is the standard four-dimensional smooth connected Lorentzian manifold.

Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT) is a family of emergent gravity theories that aims to replace General Relativity by proposing that a superfluid with lattice spacing at Planck scale is part of the non-removable background and the dynamics of gravitation take place in the superfluid. At low temperatures, and at low particle energies, the superfluid reproduces GR.

This approach to emergent gravity was tried with non-superfluid fluids historically, and those attempts failed in the face of detailed study of objects in our sky that are bright in extreme UV and higher frequencies.

Emergent gravity theories tend to get more complicated (e.g., SVT theories have variously introduced mechanisms to suppress dissipation effects, and introduced rotation and/or phase transitions in the background superfluid) when they have to match recent successes of General Relativity. When you have to keep making substantial changes to your theory to match observables predicted using GR a century ago, it's a bad sign.
The Ars article links to the abstract. There's a line at the bottom of the article with the text:

PNAS, 2016. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510825113 (About DOIs).

The DOI is a link to the abstract. I'm not sure why they don't link to the full text directly, but it's not restricted access.
This writeup talks like MMU's always kill performance. It ignores over a decade of work by microkernels to reduce that problem to single-digit percentages. L4 even fits in a L1 cache with plenty room to spare. QNX also has clever low-oveehead scheduler & message passing. LynxSecure leaves CPU 97% or so idle at 100,000 context switches a second.

And all this even assumes you have to do the switch. That's not necessary if you split your system between kernel and user threads that run side by side on different cores with message passing, memory, or CPU interrupts to do notification.

So, not only are VM's and Unikernels old, their advocates are ignoring improvements to the other side of CompSci for MMU systems. Interestingly, that was the side making self-healing, live-updating, and NSA-resisting systems all these years on COTS hardware. A little weird that such architectures get the least attention. ;)
That's just not true. People pay by cash all the time in Denmark. I happened to read this in line at a Danish supermarket and people were paying with cash as much as with cards while I was paying attention.
The fitness function is "how many passwords did this individual match", basically.
Are you saying that CSS should drop the author mode[1] for typography because you override it ? How does that make any sense ?
The point of user mode in CSS is exactly to allow the user to put her own css into the mix.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade
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