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> If so maybe the difference is that the posix/linux crowd is more likely to have installed a compiler at this point.

The long running issue with Windows was that there weren't any compilers available (AFAIK) outside of installing Visual Studio first. When Visual Studio started offering free versions, the problem persisted: it's rather hard to justify downloading and installing a +4gb program just to make an dependency or extension to work (even if it wasn't directly required for the said dep).

For example, this was a huge issue with node-gyp[1], which prompted Microsoft to release standalone Build Tools[2] to alleviate the problem. I think it's the same kind of issue with Python here, right?

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/629
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=499...
Really, the only way for it to work is if everyone is an exit node.
I'm also in the process of reading 'Understanding Power'. Interesting indeed, my friend!
> I do have a hard time with vegetables because I don't shop often enough for them not to go to waste, but I'll usually handle that with a salad for lunch.

Have you tried frozen vegetables? Some of the "steam in bag" kind that are meant for the microwave actually come out quite tasty and are very convenient.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11088125
I have trouble finding the documentary, do you mind letting me know how to get access to it?
I seem to recall Mozilla talking about running some exit nodes. I wonder if that fizzled out under government or law-enforcement pressure.
You do have a point, but saying addiction is worse than cocaine implies it disrupts normal life in greater extent.
I really really wouldn't answer you, but I will, not for responding to you, but for justifying a point in the face of the public.

Consumption of 3D and high-quality audio usually requires a fraction of the computing power needed for their production. Their consumption is in the scope of personal use, while their production is in the scope of specialised use.
There are two glaring areas of fraud that anyone can understand: Many derivatives are insurance by another name, and sold without insurance-like capital backing it. That's fraud. Then mis-rating those derivatives is fraud. There was clear and readily understood illegality at the core of the derivatives bomb. The rating agencies should have been prosecuted, the ibankers who fed them misinformation that caused misratings should be prosecuted, and the people who formulated and sold an insurance product outside the regulatory framework of insurance should be prosecuted.
Especially since the agencies in question can easily "plant" the network evidence they want.
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>Instead of employees simply transferring their normal offline communication to the more convenient online system, they began to communicate vastly more than they ever had before. “Thus — in a mere week or so — was gained and blown the potential productivity gain of email,” he lamented.

A classic case of Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Most people would rather have an easier time opening credit cards, and never have a need for greater security.
Great, glad to hear that.
Which, that it isn't there now?
Or that it will be there eventually?

The x86 server processors have too much legacy they can't get rid of, and that limits how far they can push it.
It was four friends and then this guy. The other four hate him.
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There's a big difference between backing a project on Kickstarter and buying a product that's already on sale. Kickstarter is not a shop. I also backed it on Kickstarter, and as with everything I back I treat the shipping dates as a very optimistic estimate. I bought the Pi 3 on launch day too and it came next day, but that was buying from a shop. I had different expectations. The crap that the project creators have been getting is completely out of proportion. In a recent backer update, they said that they've had death threats, including one guy who actually turned up at their office to threaten them over a $22 pledge.

They asked for $31k and took $1.7 million. It's hardly surprising it's taken longer than predicted. I'm looking forward to receiving mine but I'm not stressing over getting it quickly. I'll play with the Pi in the meantime.
Agreed. You can save money, or time buying some of the other ARM-based dev boards, and I would prefer to save time, in most cases. If none of the Pi-s suit your needs, Beagleboards are a good alternative that are well-supported and much-used.
" It still doesn't have parallel codegen, while all JS VMs do."

Actually, it can be done.
It's just not the default.
OK, well done. I'm surprised it's still used by some writers in this manner, and it's very rare. It's definitely not the regular plural of "stigma".

Still, I was wrong.
wkhtmltopdf has some extensions for forcing a page break etc.

I used it for generating some documents from a groundup rebuild of bootstrap meant purely for printing (meant we could just use a lot of the web templates with minor changes) and it worked pretty well for our uses.

PrinceXML however is in a class of its own (as you'd expect for $3.8k per server)
Jail for everyone who demonstrated a conflict of interest. Total recovery of lost funds by selling off assets of the guilty.
It seemed implied to me.
And well deserved it seems. I can't begin to imagine how difficult it must have been coping with such a disability at the graduate level, and at UW no less. You are an inspiration to us EE students, Craig!
I believe we currently lack the tools to so cross-language development. I don't think it's impossible, and it's a great idea.

I wish the world were full of really good programmers. But when you don't, you have to make do.
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Saying that the Court upholds precedent to "save face" shows an complete and total lack of understanding of the body.
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Close, but it's more like the threshold for "wrong" is much higher than most people care to admit. The methods that many very wealthy people use to reduce their tax burden should be common knowledge in society as a whole, not merely among the very wealthy. In that way, such knowledge will inform robust and honest debate about taxes in general. So much political discourse is piloted by well-compensated media gatekeepers, for the benefit of those who compensate them rather than for the general public. We should cherish those rare instances in which the curtain is pulled aside so we may see how things really work. The schoolboy legalism seen in TFA amounts to obscurantist sophistry, based on nothing more profound than simple analogy.

BTW, thanks for a reasonable and incisive response.
This article is just marketing fluff for behavior driven development sold by this company. Warning: contains closeups of bugs if you're not in that sort of thing.
It's actually really sad because I was wanting to see if I could implement an exit node all by myself as a side proejct, but then I realized the potential danger I'd be putting myself in. Naturally, I'd have to host it to test it, so I had to throw this one to the way-side
Cheese wire maybe?
further illustrated here in Chinese:

http://www.wikiwand.com/zh-mo/%E7%AE%97%E8%A1%A8_%28%E6%B8%8...
I've also seen times when order has broken down during rush hour in Manhattan, and the transit employees start talking about calling the transit police. This was back in the early 90's, and from what I've seen, those guys were feared! People started backing away from the train and stopped crowding it after the mention.
One obvious one: rather than consuming tons of power hashing, miners buy Intel chips. Hashrate in Bitcoin is equivalent to number of Intel CPUs owned in this scheme. The Intel CPUs are mostly idle, so use very little power.

There are a lot of other interesting things that they could do with SGX, though just from reading the introduction it seems that they didn't attempt any other innovations.
Best practices for running an exit node cover most of these concerns.[0] The most important one the individuals here didn't follow is 'don't run your relay from home.' A properly registered tor exit relay running in a datacenter somewhere will attract a courteous inquiry, rather than a 6am raid.

[0]https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node
The partisan composition of Congress will not have any immediate (or even short-term) effects on SCOTUS rulings.
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Most people, if asked in a vacuum, would put protecting innocent life at or near the top of their priority list. I certainly do. But if you think feeling good about yourself is more important, then that is your prerogative. As you say, there is not a universally correct ethical framework.
Considering your setup, on what side do you think most software engineers would fall? The elites who have "made it" at Google and Facebook might be fine, but those factories employ tens of thousands of software engineers and programmers in addition to tens of thousands of skilled manufacturing workers. They both lose their jobs when those factories close.

Engineering (all engineering, not just software engineering) is somewhere between a trade and a profession; too skilled and intellectually rigorous for the former but lacking the status of the latter.
If you have an agreement in writing (ha, good luck), or more likely a recording (make sure to have consent) saying "If I make this payment of $x, you will flag my account as Paid As Agreed", they agree, and then either flag it "Settled" (which is an 'adverse status') or don't, then you have material grounds to argue that the charge is not valid.

Note, this isn't saying anything about whether you owe or do not owe the money - that's an important distinction. You agreed to make a payment for money you owed in exchange for a positive credit record. You can debate the ethics or morality thereof (especially if you're negotiating to pay less than owed, and still have it recorded as paid in full), but it is demonstrable that you did not receive what you asked for. The fact that you owed that money is tangential.
Hm. Just because I have a drivers' license doesn't mean the State endorses me. Just gives me permission to operate in public.
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Money quote in the last paragraph:

"When we get into things like this," [Judge William Downing] said, "anonymizing stuff, that’s well over my head technologically, then it becomes very murky and hazy."

That sounds to me like the judge likely wouldn't have known what a TOR node was if the police had told him these guys were running one.

Technology isn't slowing down, so how can we make sure the law keeps up?
I don't have any VEX experience but I hear great things about that program and I have heard from many that the costs are lower.
Do people really have to wait _hours_ for a spot on a train?
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I think you are probably getting downvoted because the article explicitly says that they are using the mean for the general population:

"Moreover, we compare median annual values for software engineers with mean annual values for the general population. Considering how large the income share of top earners is in several countries, annual median values for the general population might well show a different picture."
We have near 100% college attendance from alumni and about 80% go into STEM majors. Many get scholarships for merit.
In Michigan, the permission to ride a motorcycle is called an endorsement.
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Can they? Does the client have any control over the route that their traffic takes through the network?

Not a rhetorical question^
Not just older amps can have good built-ins.

Perviously I was running a standalone phono stage (Can't remember the exact model offhand, but it was $250 or so - solid, well reviewed component.) I upgrade to a Rega Brio amp about 2 years ago which has a built in phono stage that was even better.
Not certain why the Mac binary is for Mavericks and not El Capitan.
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You can browbeat all you want. The core point I'm making, though, still stands.
Yep, love this guy. His notes helped me through my calculus finals in high school eight years ago and then through college as well.

If you notice an error be sure to correct it though. I did once while studying for my high school finals while staying up to 3AM. He responded quickly and fixed it immediately. Great to see someone who pays attention.

Just checked my email account. Apparently, I've emailed him corrections three times over the period of 4 years. He always emailed back within 24 hours.
Oh, I was talking about screen readers the whole time, except for an aside that the speech rules system I was discussing was created by Nemeth who is known for his Braille system. Other than that though, I wasn't talking about Braille at all.
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I have! Every once in a while I'll grab a few bags and they aren't nearly as bad as I had assumed. But then I kind of skip that aisle (w/ frozen dinner and ice cream where I am) altogether and forget that they're an option...

I oughta get back to 'em.
This is the newspaper equivalent of "I have black friends".

I have no idea if the Daily Mail regularly publishes racist articles, I never read it, but the fact that they once reported on a race-related story is not really relevant. You wouldn't accept a single headline as evidence that the Daily Mail is racist, right?
Looks like it's working now, thanks!
Release of Keras 1.0, the Python deep learning framework!
It's not exactly a huge amount of work, but validating and sluggifying text is also part of it.
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Don't you think it'd be highly likely that the offending tweets were deleted by the account?
You have put your finger right on why "It's hard to find what was illegal." is bullshit. Either...

1. The issuers of CDOs defrauded the rating agencies giving them false data

2. Or the rating agencies conspired with the issuers to mis-rate the CDOs

Or both. And nobody went to prison.
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How is this at all relevant? Nobody is accusing it of being unpopular.
Not trivially, no. I'll try a not-very-technical answer, since I guess that's what you're looking for.

However the main problem is a length/energy correspondence.

In quantum mechanics you probe shorter length structures by scattering particles with higher energies. At ultra high energies this produces a shower of daughter particles which carry kinetic energy away, and this process should continue to arbitrarily high energies. More energy in the scattering event produces more daughter particles, which evolve unitarily.

In general relativity, when you scatter sufficiently energetic particles, the energy density in the area of the collision is greater than that needed to form a black hole; an event horizon forms around the scattering particles. More energy in the scattering event produces a larger black hole, and we don't know how to preserve unitarity for black holes. Evaporation of small black holes does not produce the same daughter particles as predicted by quantum mechanics.

There are other related problems as well, especially in the early hot dense phase of the universe.

We do not have the ability now to produce scattering energies of the magnitude necessary to probe the different predictions; we also so far don't have a way to observe natural occurrences of sufficiently high energy interactions at the present time, and might not for many years.
Wow, that's incredibly wrong and ignorant. What do you think the driving test is for? Yeah, the testing regime is a bit of a joke in many places in the US, but the intention is to make sure a driver is competent to operate the vehicle in traffic and read road signs, so YES, it IS an endorsement. If you're completely clueless and unable to operate a car and pass a written test, you can't get a license. The whole purpose of drivers' licenses is to ensure competency and improve safety.
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I'm curious what people think are the pros and cons of using Keras, vs using TensorFlow directly.
Interesting idea.

How will you get users? Do you expect people to say "you gotta be on bleepmic" to their friends, or is there another way that people will hear about your product?

What kind of usage patterns are people showing?
It's really not that specific. It's not the only evidence that it doesn't matter, but if google can pick up on a 3 word query (one of them being "seo", an extremely competitive keyword) in <30 mins then it's safe to say hn is doing fine.
> Keras is a minimalist, highly modular neural networks library, written in Python and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.

I hear a lot about new ML/neural network frameworks these days and it's difficult to know which complement other frameworks and which build upon other frameworks/create another layer.

Congrats on the 1.0 release!
This is a very odd blog post in my opinion coming from MS. It acknowledges the pain of dealing with source distributions on Windows and gives excellent advice on how to overcome the issues. However I think it really misses the forest through the trees.

If MS was really serious about Python being a first class citizen on Windows then fix the root problem which the post acknowledges, ".... Because Windows has a different culture, most people do not have (or need) a compiler." Why doesn't Visual C++ express come installed or as a super easy to install dependency on Windows? Howabout MS pushing to change the culture of Windows to one where compiling from source isn't a big deal and is as easy as it is on Linux?

Also it's super helpful that this post lays out where to find precompiled versions of Python packages for Windows, but again it's something if MS were really serious about they would step up their game significantly. Why is it that some random person, Christoph Gohlke (and as a side note many thanks to them, they have undoubtedly helped thousands of people), is the maintainer of one of the most important resources for Python users on Windows? How about MS steps up and dedicates resources to ensuring precompiled and tested python binary packages are available for all packages?

Finally I think the message that people should bug Python library owners to get windows wheels up is very poor advice. Library maintainers have enough to deal with and piling on more frivolous issues won't help. What if the maintainers don't even have Windows machines to build binary packages with (and again, why doesn't MS step up to provide them with said Windows machines/licenses)? Badgering the maintainers isn't going to make things better. If MS is serious about python on Windows they need to step up their support and make the platform better.
Thats not really how the people doing the buying say it works. See in order to justify their compensation and fees they tell their investors about their detailed knowledge of the market. They talk about how their investment process works. They talk about the extensive due diligence they perform on their investments. They talk about their robust risk management procedures.

The CDO was triple-A rated. The buyers, despite what they told their LPs, just bought stuff without thinking too hard about it. You don't pay bankers to inform you. This is true whether you are a pension fund, hedge fund or other asset manager. If you told your LPs, "Well we just ring up GS and ask them what to buy and then buy it" you would be out of a job very quickly.
Yes we would. We would say "just don't buy from that particular meat seller, it's a free market, buyer beware, the market will take care of it and adjust, competition, I'm very smart I would never get tricked and buy bad stuff like that it's just dumb people who are not as smart as me that would get hurt" -- there is this exact discussion happening higher up in this very comment section.
Really? I haven't found that to be the case. Everything that I've set to specific privacy groups (me only, friends, etc) has stayed the same.
Yeah but you're talking about an entirely different market. Cheap clothes exist because of volume sales, if shirts suddenly costed what they arguably should, the market would shrink a LOT to compensate for the higher cost. If the $5 shirts at Walmart that parents buy their kids because it has a funny design on it suddenly costed $25, a lot of that business would no longer exist.
i'm 32m. in my mid-late 20s i spent 4-5 years online dating - i really put in the effort and time, and i got laid a lot. however, in the end, i found that i'm not really the relationship type. and getting laid a lot, once you get over the initial novelty and thrill of it, is kind of boring. it just becomes a giant blur of faces and nights out.

it's just too much work, for not enough payoff, and i'm also too picky about my mates. i found that the women i attracted really didn't add much into my life, nor did the actual companionship. i found it to be much like a 2nd job to maintain a relationship and the expectations that go along with it. i already have a job, i don't need a second one. maybe that's my problem, but it is what it is.

i plan on retiring somewhere cheap and warm in my 40s or early 50s and not really bothering with mortgage or family or anything.

personally i think a lot of guys are like this, they just don't talk about it because the social expectation of career/family/mortgage is too strong.
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It totally was illegal, it just didn't involve actions that are in isolation illegal. That's the thing with white-collar crime. No guns, etc.

Most of these people had a duty to their customers and they specifically recommended bad investments, knowing that they were bad. And I'm not talking about how a bank hedges all the risk by playing both sides - I mean that the banks which made these investments knew they were gaming the ratings agencies and they sold what they knew was junk to people they had agreed to represent.

Criminal behavior doesn't go away just because two people agree to split the work. It doesn't matter if one branch wrote the bonds and another sold them - they lied about what they knew at all levels.

And many stories suggest that there was probably direct criminal collusion with the ratings agencies - above and beyond the simple fact that the agencies serve those who pay them...
You are correct that a legitimate corporation will not be taxed on the money unless and until it is repatriated, but that doesn't help an (honest) individual; it only helps multinational corporations.

For every country (3) where I have filed taxes, you are liable for individual taxes as soon as you earn the income. So, in the case of a legitimate business, as soon as you pay yourself a salary or other benefit (perhaps, buy yourself a yacht; really, anything that is not a clear business expense). It doesn't matter where in the world you earn the income or spend it; you are taxed on your worldwide income.

However, to take it a step further, the IRS doesn't really recognize personal holding companies as legitimate businesses for tax purposes. You are liable to pay tax on any investment income as though it were personal income even if you leave it in the company name. Again, it doesn't matter where in the world the holding company is.
Do the people who are not accepted also receive an email? Or if you don't receive an interview email, does it imply that you did not get selected to interview?