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In my mind there was this exponential explosion in sugar since the 70s

It was probably not so exponential, it's more like an increased intake of everything.

ERS data show that on average, US adults consumed 363 more calories per day in 2009 than we did in 1960.

The extra calories are coming from carbohydrate, fat, and protein, and increased intake of all three tightly correlate with increased obesity prevalence.
In other words, we're eating more of everything than we did 50 years ago.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.dk/2014/04/calorie-intake-...
In theory it is exciting to use Evolutionary Algorithms instead of SGD but the authors only train populations of networks with under 100 neurons and about 1000 parameters, on toy problems. It would have been more interesting if they showed speedups on problems with millions of parameters.
Reader fulfills a bunch of OO patterns. I like to think of it as "Environment", "Capability", "Configuration", etc., and is related in a way to Dependency Injection.

Basically, you have some computation/object that isn't complete without some "setup info" which, from the point of view of the code being written, is "just there". Like if you had a program that needed access to a particular interface, but you didn't want to manually pass it to every function that cares about it; instead you'd make an object with that interface as its state and write your program as methods on that object. That's just Reader in disguise.

In fact, C++ methods are basically in the Reader monad; they all have an implicit "this" argument which the compiler plumbs around for you.
A lot of these principles can be applied to IVR design as well.
Average is (typically) the arithmetic mean of a sample. In a sample of one (you), the mean is the sample. It sounds awkward, and would be a red flag that someone either didn't know what they were talking about, or were trying to mislead me (outside of your situation, and probably others).
Any disk IO intensive application is going to run and/or scale very poorly as a webapp.
>> ...Smart Replies seems like an unnecessarily lazy way to have a conversation.

Text messaging is a lazy way to have a conversation; this is a perfect fit. If you want to have a real conversation, call me, or meet me for lunch. Or do the former to arrange the latter (novel!).
During my last job hunt I kept getting people doing the "test for palindrome" phone-screen question.

After a while I started creatively expressing my dislike of phone screens by showing them an implementation that hints at some of the complexity lurking in this allegedly-simple task (i.e., you need to understand Unicode classes and normalization in order to write a palindrome tester).
How would the recipient know whether I've used the "Yum clams!" smart reply or typed in the same thing myself? If you can't tell then how is the author of the article going to act on his self-righteous anger about what his friends choose to do with their time?
I felt this log startup like using facebook but only for companies or personal work.
Ask HN: What is a normal day for an Operations Engineer?
I'm a fresher and have been hired as an Operations Engineer for a firm. Could you all share your opinions on what're the tasks/roles&responsibilities of an Operations Engineer in general and how an average day at work looks like.
Thanks
Magic cleaner app for android by SIFTR labs is a very efficient photo type predicting app. Their categorization of photos into different types was pretty useful to categorize which are junk. Overall pretty satisfied.
The alternative to "deterministic" is not "supernatural". This is a false alternative that leaves out all of the other possibilities, including the option that "deterministic" is not an accurate description of causality in the first place.
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I reckon it might be a little inconvenient to meet someone for lunch everytime you want to say something to them.
zakalwe2000 mentioned a lot of kinds of costs; you only mention the monetary one. In fact, your example of the iphone supports his/her point - a non-removable battery improves reliability and makes phones slimmer & lighter while also more mechanically durable.
Okay, but where would that filename come from in a real script? If it was passed in argv, then apparently Py3 gives you a string which is invalid Unicode (contains unpaired surrogates), and explodes if you try to print it or do anything else that implicitly encodes it without the special 'surrogateescape' setting. It's really dangerous to pass such a string around. But at least you can open it, so it's not completely broken. Oh, and that means that two different strings can encode to the same path, which... is probably not usually a problem...

On the other hand, if you read a list of filenames from a file, you'd better remember to either use binary or explicitly choose surrogateescape decoding. Which is a special case of "file in a text-based format" from my original post.

I don't know what you mean by "corruption".
I was thinking maybe it was just you. I tabbed back to the web site, Firefox desktop immediately began to crash.
Simple solution - make the retiring age 80 or 90 y.o. and you can pay everyone. </sarcasm>

That's why I don't trust pension funds. They are a prime target to being exploited by the people tasked to maintain them.
If you want more insights, I suggest you read the section "Internals".

I'm not going to dwell on the details but there are many reason why doing so can go horribly wrong. Believe me, we (NVIDIA) evaluated our options and know the implications of running our drivers within containers.

Do you really know what --privileged do? If so, you know that there is no such thing as "install the driver system wide". For that you would have to circumvent the namespaces and a bunch of other things that Docker put in place.

"portable within the scope of a given kernel" [and driver] "version"

Well that's not what I call portable :) With nvidia-docker you can build a CUDA image on your laptop and deploy it anywhere in the cloud or on premises without a single modification.
Oddly enough, I learned Javascript on a Chromebook.
I think bots will be huuuuge in the VR space because people will need something to interact with and people won't always be available / possible.
At least some Chromebooks allow to install a custom bootloader that does not show the scary warning through simple hardware tinkering like [1]. I think this is a good compromise from security perspective.

[1] - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eGPMu03vCxIO0a3oNX8H...
Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning
How can an absolute beginner get started with machine learning, especially in the area of natural language processing. It's something I find very fascinating. Thanks.

My background: Degree in education, Self-taught programmer, 5+ years coding experience started out as Full-stack now I'm mostly Front-end.
It is interesting, that unless person states explicitly about her autism, it is impossible to conclude this from the text (at least for me, so far). Although, I know that it is a spectrum and every individual within this spectrum is unique.

Another thing I find interesting is that you can think about the subject - e.g. you realize you can't fit a box into a circular hole - and you're thinking about this on a meta level.
I knew little about Larange points[0] or the James Webb[1] before reading your comment and spending 10 minutes on Wikipedia. The L2 is a stable orbit with the Earth between the L2 point and the sun; the Webb is a telescope that seems twice as large as the Hubble scheduled for launch in 2018. Fascinating stuff!

As noted in the Webb article:

>The JWST will operate near the Earth-Sun L2 (Lagrange) point, approximately 1,500,000 km (930,000 mi) beyond the Earth. Objects near this point can orbit the Sun in synchrony with the Earth, allowing the telescope to remain at a roughly constant distance and use a single sunshield to block heat and light from the Sun and Earth. This will keep the temperature of the spacecraft below 50 K (−220 °C; −370 °F), necessary for infrared observations.

There's a great picture[2] on Wikipedia comparing sizes of major telescopes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_optical_telesc...
England's proof of an absolute lower bound on heat production during self-replication is a central text in this discussion: http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/2013jcpsre...

Other resources:

Bechtel (2010): Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy https://mechanism.ucsd.edu/research/bechtel.biologicalmechan...

Walker et al (2015): The informational architecture of a the cell http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03877
Very interesting read. Could you please elaborate on the startup/VC/software scene in Germany (Berlin?). It sounds like you didn't have experienced friends that would have help you change your mind earlier (intervention)
"facts on the ground" - that anodyne term that whitewashes over occupation, dispossession and suppression the world over.
Also, the headline is less click-baity.
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> the fact that 1/2 gives 0 in Python 2 has historically been a major source of frustration for new users.

Yes. Imagine the bewildering inconsistency when a newcomer who tried any of pascal, c or a myriad of other languages try their hand in python.
Your criticism of Gladwell is oddly unspecific given the nature of your criticism. You fail to state what exactly you criticize in his 10,000 hour statement.

When I read the kind of criticism you seem to be referring to, like this one:

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-destroys-malcolm-gl...

I notice that the examples are silly: They equate "success" with "mastery". For example, they write

> Then there's a band like the Sex Pistols, who took the world by storm even though Sid Vicious could barely play his bass.

So they themselves say he "could barely play his bass"! How does that refute the mastery theory? The Richard Branson example is about "success" and not "mastery" too - I bet Richard DID have "10,000 hours" of business practice.

Not that Gladwell made any specific predictions either AFAIR. I wish the people criticizing his work would made an example of how to be better - but it seems the criticism itself sets new low points in quality.

"What Malcolm Gladwell REALLY Said About The 10,000 Hour Rule":

http://problogservice.com/2012/03/15/what-malcolm-gladwell-r...

> “Malcolm Gladwell said you have to have 10000 hours in a subject to be an expert,” they will often state. The problem is, they’re repeating a misquote from someone else who has never read the book.

Also note how Gladwell quotes scientists - so any criticism should be directed at those:

> “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything,” writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin. — p. 40
There was a lot of "great times" if we are talking about tech development. It was also a great time to board a locomotive at the beginning of the XIX century. Then, I think a great time not too abstract would be to actually go to Mars more than looking at pictures.
Professional software ( Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, CAD etc ) and a large majority of games only runs on Windows. There is a plethora of software already developed for Windows which will continue to only run on Windows. There is a large number of people who have bet their careers on Windows and Microsoft. Microsoft has billions of dollars of runway even now and they are a very diversified company in terms of how their revenues are generated. I can still see this ending very badly for Google.
In Inbox, I've found that emailing a screenshot of the smart reply I've chosen, instead of clicking it, is the first sarcastic way to use it. It takes longer, doesn't improve future suggestions, and makes explicitly clear I'm not replying creatively.
“Memoized construction” is a very good name, indeed. It's actually better than “hash consing”, because it isn't tied to a particular implementation strategy. But I think the “handrolled” part is also important, to stress that it isn't something the language implementation gives you for free.
You know what loads really fast and reliably on a cheap mobile phone with a flaky cellular connection?

HTML with a little bit of CSS and a little bit of JavaScript.

I think it's crazy that web development trends continue to move in the direction of MB+ JavaScript single page apps, while actual device trends are moving towards inexpensive Android mobile phones on cellular connections. The web is getting fatter while the devices are getting less powerful!

How much code do you really need to serve to power an interface that fits on a mobile phone screen?
>This is like saying we should have used different terminology when Copernicus published his work on planetary bodies.

But "chemistry" was coined to distinguish from alchemy.

Regarding humans as animals, I should probably have stated more accurately that since at least the time of Aristotle, the term animal has also been applied to humans (i.e. "man is the rational animal"). Animal, in this context, refers to anything that is animate (moves around, eats, etc.). However, we often (primarily) use the term to refers to those organisms which are merely animate, as opposed to those that also possess sentience (humans).

> We are not [distinct] and we are not special.

Empirically we are distinct. Our lack of specialness remains unproven.

> We are animals.

Both in the sense of biological taxonomy and that we have an animus, that is true. That does not entail your previous statement.

It's also still perfectly correct to use the term to refer non-human animals.

> The same groups were offended that the Earth was still Earth even though it's round.

What groups are these, specifically? As far as I know, these people never existed except in the modern imagination. The West has been aware of the Earth's roundness since BC. It is a central aspect of the Ptolemaic cosmology.
Things like PyPy will be the last thing that changes, they basically support whatever is currently popular.
First and foremost, Stanza was designed for myself, to solve the problems that I repeatedly face in my own programming.

I mostly write software that is end-user-facing and interactive, with requirements that aren't known at the beginning of the project. Software that my mother would use, is how I typically describe them. e.g. Word processors, games, calendars, photo albums, spreadsheets, maps, movie players, etc.

And what I saw repeatedly, for all of my projects, was that progress comes a lot faster in the beginning than near the end. Eventually, I pinpointed the problem to one of software architecture. It is easy to see the required architecture for the start of a project, and making progress is easy. As you pile on demands and features, you realize that the architecture that you started off with is wrong, and progress slows. This is especially true if the requirements of your program are not known in advance. I expect people that mostly program well-known and stable algorithms don't have as much difficulty with this. E.g. numerical linear algebra, schedulers, image filters, etc. That is not what I write.

Once you realize that your architecture is wrong, you have two choices. You can either plow ahead with a sub-optimal architecture, and take a small but continual productivity hit. Or you can try to refactor and correct the architecture, and take a large one-time productivity hit. Neither approach is satisfactory. Small continual productivity hits eventually add up to the point that forward progress is seriously impeded. Refactoring also costs a lot of time, and eventually the cost of refactoring becomes too great to be worth it, and you're stuck with the last good enough architecture that existed.

So Stanza was designed to make it possible for me to :
1. Experiment easily without specifying upfront the class inheritance tree in the program.
2. Delay committing to a specific architecture for as long as possible.
3. Refactor the underlying architecture of a program through small local changes.

And for the programs that I write, I sincerely believe that I succeeded. I've been programming exclusively in Stanza for about three years now, and I haven't yet ran into the dreaded "refactor-or-abort" situations that arise often in Java/C++ programming. Radical changes to the underlying architecture of a program are possible by applying a series of small staged local changes. And the optional type system allows me to get a lot of features working without having to commit to an architecture, so that when I finally sit down to properly design the architecture it is much more likely to be correct.

So my ultimate goal with Stanza is to help you achieve a linear rate of progress across the project timeline. You should feel as productive near the end of the project as you did in the beginning of the project.
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Basically this is an excellent case study of how not to do a major migration from one version of a language to another. There is no way in hell places that have forked versions of libraries and frameworks like django are going to move to python 3, ever.
Oh, and even the stuff that was true was completely misinterpreted. For example, he cited a study of students as showing there was no "math talent", only diligence. The setup actually was quite interesting: there was an additional informational questionnaire that wasn't about skills at all, and there was a correlation with conscientiously filling out that questionnaire and scoring high on the actual skills test.

However.

The effect only appeared in 2 grade levels and only in some years, so extremely weak evidence. But that's only a small detail. The big one was that the effect was only evident at the national level. So yes, there are no nations that are more talented at math than others. In other news, water still wet. However, the data, even if the flimsy bits are taken at face value, simply do not show at all that there is no math talent at the level of individuals, and in fact showed the exact opposite.

Details.
Yes. We just realized that as well. We're currently using a font called Menlo that isn't on every platform. We'll be replacing it with more widely available font.
There's no reason why you couldn't add a "tablet screen" module. It doesn't have to replace an existing feature; a module could suppliment a feature.
The author didn't exactly spell it out, but I found the suggestions to be so adequate that they become what i want to say. They become limiting in a sense.

The simulated conversation image is a great example. After seeing those responses, the response 'aww so cute' or 'Love the daisy' are about about the same or better than what I can or would care to think of in a text conversation. Is there really a better way to think answer that and why should I waste the time to do so?
How much time did it take to post this long comment ?
And how often do you engage here this same way ?
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We are planning to add a static method ambiguity check in Stanza.

There are just some theoretical hurdles to solve in order to detect them properly in the presence of parametric types. That's been recently solved (though not by us) so we'll be implementing their solution soon.
The essence of the law in question lies in the following quote, saying that a monopoly can act in the market so long as that action "doesn't prevent competition on the merits and does not harm consumers and innovation."

I just wanted to note, as a clarification, that it is important not to conflate diversity and competition. Diverse standards - for example multiple gauges for railways - STIFLE competition by creating lock-in and silos. That's why governments tend to enforce or at least encourage standards, including units for measurement and screw sizes, FRAND licensing, etc, rather than vigorously taking companies to court to prevent standards from forming. Diversity isn't necessarily a sign of a healthy marketplace, nor common standards or technology proof of an unhealthy one.

Unfortunately a large chunk (including the app store, and lots more) of what we call Android is NOT open source, and not a standard others are free to adopt. Unity is enforced and bundling insisted on. Google seems to have believed that highly illegal bundling wasn't highly illegal bundling if neither consumers nor corporations (OEMs) were directly charged for it. Where they got this fantasy I can't possibly imagine, it has not the slightest basis in law nor ever did. Yet Google remain mesmerized by this whimsical and entirely invented bit of logic.

Harm to competition is "the dog that didn't bark." Of course we can't point to all the innovations that didn't happen - because they didn't happen; and yes Google can point to a few scraggly competitors that have somehow held on by their fingernails, and to the silo of Apple users locked in to a different network effect. But the harm done has been profound.

Excellent article.
This changes real life into an RPG conversation tree.
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Idle speculation, but I wonder if the distance will impair service, repair and upgrades, all of which I believe Hubble has benefited from
I wonder if this move is to suit a new class of products. "... 42-foot-tall glass doors that slide open to expose the interior to the street" A car dealership perhaps?
We have a very powerful concurrency mechanism but no support for physical parallelism yet. What this means is that it is easy to write programs containing many things that seem like they're happening simultaneously (eg. video games and multi-user web servers), but you don't get a speed boost for having multiple processors yet.

The standard library currently only provides basic IO, primitive types and collections. We will be attaching a gui library, opengl library, networking library, and regex library soon.
I can't even think of a way to measure human knowledge which isn't problematic in immediately obvious ways.
I like smart replies. They are not quite the exact words I would normally use, but they're close, so I kind of enjoy selecting them as a sort of novelty. In that sense, it's kind of like spellcheck (which tells me I just misspelled spellcheck). If I was replying to those texts, it would have gone something like that:

> What are you up to?

>> Work.

or

> Want to hang out?

>> Sure.

The suggestions Google provides are a little bit more upbeat and amusing to me.

> What are you up to?

>> I am working!

or

> Want to hang out?

>> I'd love to.

I especially like how it inverts how I'd normally use exclamation marks and periods. "I'm working." "I'd love to!" etc.

Anyway, neat feature. The author doesn't like it, I do, so she can not use the feature and I can use it :P
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Now I can have that lobotomy I've always wanted