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Learning Rust actually helped me understand what's considered good C++ memory management design nowadays.
This is one of many arguments against total economic liberalism. Allowing unlimited economic inequality produces a superclass that is likely to treat the rest of society poorly.
> Did they sue the hospital for not knowing enough about medicine that her inhaler could cause this

murica!!

You know what else causes a positive test? Using meth. They got a positive, they followed up with further testing to clarify.
Coin was a company that stood by it's products

I definitely had a different experience than you did. Preordered a coin, 2 years later still had not arrived and yet the world had moved on from magnetic stripes.
Purchases are shipped directly from the supplier to the buyer and Tundra does not take any markup on the products. If there are any issues with a product, it will be covered by the warranty offered by the supplier and displayed on the product page. Tundra handles the shipment of the replacement goods.
Well, yes, but if they decide to discontinue the service, or increase the price, this is no guarantee that all other users will get the same treatment as Alphabet companies.
If you want to extract an apple from a list of fruits, you need runtime type information (so that you can test whether a particular fruit object happens to be an apple), which has nothing to do with whether your language has inheritance or not. Using runtime type information is a symptom of bad design, though, since it lessens the extent to which you can reason about programs (as pieces of text) by just looking at their types.
These are all very well known implications of growth. You don't even have to cite them.
Hah.

One day I got a call at work from an ex. "What's up?" "You need to come home, we need to talk."

I duly do.

"So I went to the doctor earlier today. Had an issue. They swabbed me and told me I have an STD. So they did a full STD and blood test, we'll see how that goes. In the mean time, who did you cheat on me with?"

"Uh, nobody."

Back and forth, arguing etc. Me insisting I'll go get tested.

Doctor rings back the next day. "Looking again under the scope, not an STD, just a yeast infection."

Relationship relief.

A month later, call from the clinic: "So about this bill for $290 for a full workup and testing, can you pay that today."

No. Not a chance. You not only misread a test, you gave my girlfriend factually inaccurate information that you -knew- was going to be controversial, and on the strength of that told her "if it wasn't you, you really need to get fully tested if you don't know where he's been".

And then send me the bill? No.
The cost to deploy most services does not increase linearly with the tax base. Usually it's capital expenditure.

Maybe (but not necessarily!) the number of police can grow linearly with the growth in taxable property. But police cars and police stations must be acquired from scratch. Same with sanitation workers vs an expanded water treatment plant, bus drivers and buses.

Some of those costs can maybe be amortized via debt issue (bonds), but the cost of servicing those would still be borne by the community overall and not necessarily the newcomers' taxes alone.

When a new development is proposed, it's the developer who's there in the moment, hoping to make business and a profit. The prospective-and-still-hypothetical newcomers are not yet there to make a case that housing be built for them. So it's not insane that the developer be put in a position to minimize negative effects of new building.

This isn't a perfect system, and it's certainly one that can be abused by nimbys as everyone now knows. In particular things get unintuitive for (usually older) folks who are house-rich but cash-poor ... accommodations might leave them with a house worth more, even as a fixed income prevents them from absorbing, say, increased taxes. But, since Proposition 13 passed in 1978, California has been pretty clearly biased towards disproportionately helping out those sorts of people though. Can't say we weren't warned.
Nice, now I can just put all my apps in one dyno, and I get free hosting. This is actually better for me. With SSL!
For React Native, we're working on updating our libraries as soon as possible. I haven't worked with Horizon, so I can't provide thoughts there.
This is the product (Coin 2.0) that has not even been out a year, cost as much as $100, and will become a brick in under 2 years with its built-in obsolescence?
Happy to hear that. I sold my Moto 360 after ~year.

I used it every day and until a software update broke it (it run into infinite loop of crashing Play services). I sent it to warranty and Motorola reinstalled the OS but in meantime I used my old, classic watch. It turned out I didn't miss 360. Other people I know have similar stories.

Hopefully the platform is still alive. Does anyone develop apps for Android Watch? AFAIR there is no special category in Google Play for this.
I understand why it was ludicrous from your perspective. It was not, however, ludicrous for them to spend time ruling it out.

New onset seizures (particularly a string of seizures) are unusual for a kid. Methamphetamine causes seizures. There are ways a child could have been exposed to meth that a parent wouldn't know about (another caretaker left it lying around, a preschool friend brought it in for "show and tell" and no one noticed, etc...). It was prudent on their part to consider it as a possible cause of your daughter's seizures. A positive meth test for a seizure patient (of any age) would certainly raise my index of suspicion enough to thoroughly explore the possibility of intentional or accidental ingestion.

I totally get why you would perceive them as "wasting time" (and obviously I wasn't there, it's entirely possible they were), but it's very likely they were running down all the other "normal" differential diagnoses in parallel.
That's a feature I would also really like.

I also use an intermediate server (ipify.org) to get the IP address. The only reason I need the IP address is to throttle users. If adjustable throttling was baked into the platform and not require me to write logic to handle it, that would be sweet too.
This is a non-story. Nobody knows what FBI wants. It may actually be for legitimate reasons or not. It seems before FBI just wanted to ask questions, but since Isis didn't want to be asked any questions the FBI now went and got a subpeona. That's it.
What happened to the other 16 threads?

18(core) * 4(cpus) * 2(+ht) = 144
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That is exactly what the electorate wants.
They mention in the article that she had already made those plans, but "put them on overdrive" after the FBI issues.
3 generations ahead of moore law??? I really wonder how they are accomplishing this beyond implementing the kernels in hardware. I suspect they are using specialized memory and an extremely wide architecture.

Sounds they also used this for AlphaGo. I wonder how badly we were off on AlphaGo's power estimates. Seems everyone assumed they were using GPU's, sounds like they were not. At least partially. I would really LOVE for them to market these for general use.
There's no way Google lets this leave their datacenters. Chip fabrication is a race to the bottom at this point. [1]

Google is doubling down on hosting as a source of future revenue, and they're doing that by building an ecosystem around Tensorflow.

What I think is interesting is how weak Apple looks. Amazon has the talent and money to be able to compete with Google on this playing field. Microsoft is late, but they can, too.

Where's Apple? In the corner dreaming about mythical self-driving luxury cars?

[1]: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-...
Well they paid enough someone to have them drive out to my house. I can see how in their eyes they lost a deal because house already has their equipment installed and I only was a client for 2 years. But well it is their fault.
I think this shows a fundamental difference between Amazon (AWS) and Google Cloud.

AWSs offerings seem fairly vanilla and boring. Google are offering more and more really useful stuff:

- cloud machine learning

- custom hardware

- live migration of hosts without downtime

- Cold storage with access in seconds

- bigquery

- dataflow
As a Boston native, I have spoken with multiple people who worked for / knew people who worked for karma loop. It (was?) a company that grew in spite of its culture / founder. Lots of drinking, open drug use, sex in the office, etc. Apparently the parties were wild, though!
Very interesting, and it confirmed my suspicions that my ISP throttles me (or at least, tries to).

I'm using Numericable from Paris and got 18Mbps to Netflix, 40Mbps to their comparison test. By going through an SSH tunnel (which makes a 230km detour through Roubaix), I get 39Mbps to both Netflix and control.

I am rather surprised that the bandwith loss caused by the SSH tunnel is so small.
Can you email me at andrew at firebase dot com and we'll take a look?
https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon
I had this also; will re-try a more recent version.
Great suggestion! Pull requests welcome as well if you have time: https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-ios/blob/master/datab...
S. Korea decides to ease regulations on drones, biotech, autonomous vehicles
Here's the relevant portion of the article:

Lovecruft had intended to move to Germany someday, but she put those plans on overdrive. She booked a flight to Berlin that weekend, including a return flight she had no intention of taking -- just to avoid raising suspicions.

On Dec. 7, without seeing family or friends, she took a taxi to San Francisco International Airport. She nervously made her way past TSA agents wearing a $1 pair of blue-green aviator sunglasses, unsure if she was breaking any laws by leaving the country.

She changed her plans and (apparently) intentionally masked her intentions. It's an obnoxious headline, but it doesn't seem to be particularly inaccurate.
I agree that most people don't conceptualize it in quite those terms, but the choice really is:

* Allow new higher density development, accept that your neighborhood will be under construction for years and then will look vastly different forever; and besides that, the city has to divert budget from other things to pay for building expanded infrastructure now (because California property taxes are mostly fixed by Prop 13);

* Fight development, the city spends that money on your pet project instead, the neighborhood looks the same as it always has, and then there's the bonus that your house will be worth a whole lot more in 5 or 10 years.

This is why you have unremarkable 1950s-era 3 bedroom ranch houses that would go for 75k in most US suburbs selling for $2m in Silicon Valley. It's why you can pay $5000 a month for an apartment in San Francisco that would be $700 a month in most US cities.
I love how they put the LG MusicFlow Speaker on the Home presentation. I've been suffering that malpurchase for about a year now. I can rely on it not working 70% of the time, seemingly crashing, creating a mesh wifi although plugged into ethernet or attached to my home wi-fi...

If they can't get the third party vendors to get their Google Cast integration up to the reliability level of a Chromecast Audio, they should stop supporting this.
The quote from the developer, in the article, makes it look like she left to avoid dealing with the FBI:

> "I was worried they'd ask me to do something that hurts innocent people -- and prevent me from telling people it's happening," she said in an exclusive interview with CNNMoney.

This is also fairly convincing:

> Lovecruft had intended to move to Germany someday, but she put those plans on overdrive. She booked a flight to Berlin that weekend, including a return flight she had no intention of taking -- just to avoid raising suspicions.
Lighten up. You know what's funny - is that I have tons of friends in work, on multiple private slack groups and all over, guess what - we all joke.

That's what make us friends.

I'm not here to prove myself - I participate in the tech community here and it's like everyone like you just tries to put on some superiority complex and act like tech is ONLY serious business.

That's bullshit.

Get over yourself.
MNIST data, which is the hand written number data. Download Tensorflow and do the examples. You will find it there.
Community could always implement Mello-Roos tax which can be used to fund new infrastructure. Its how a lot of new communities pay for their schools and roads.
But isn't 3 generations ahead just 8x? Which doesn't sound at all unreasonable for a custom hardware.
Yes, this book and the author's previous books cover exactly those topics among others. Nick Lane is a fucking awesome writer.
The major study Dr Carroll referenced did indeed look at planned vs unplanned out of hospital births.
This is how you pronounce Edward Tufte's name
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Most quarterbacks actually are quite smart. And also there are plenty of dumb people who get to be on TV: take Wolf Blitzer for example.
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Pre modern medical times, like before the 1930's or so, something like 1 in 10 women died in child birth.
RMA?
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Even if you do, it can still record audio, and transmit it when you take it out
Great news! Hopefully this also means that identity verification (through a key fingerprint) will be available in Allo (and in Duo?)
What happened to this: https://jibe.google.com/
Ten years ago I played with Microsoft Speech API - which was completely off-line and trained off your voice. In restricted grammar mode, it worked flawlessly - I built a music control application on it, and utilized it like you would use Amazon Echo - I just said "computer, volume, three quarters" from any place in the room, and the loud music turned down a notch. Etc. That was ten years ago, with a crappy electret microphone I soldered to a cable myself and sticked to my wardrobe with a bit of insulating tape.

I'm not buying you couldn't make a decent, self-contained, off-line speech recognition system. Sure, it may not be as good as Echo or Google Now (though the latter does suck hardly at times, it's nowhere near reliable to use, and it doesn't understand shit over a quite good and expensive Bluetooth headset). But it would be hackable, customizable. You could make it do some actual work for you.

Oh, and it wouldn't lag so terribly as Google Now does. Realtime applications and data over mobile networks don't mix.
An article about Imzy that actually talked to the company
I think you may be right. However, you'd have to convince the public (or at least Congress) before you could have "security free" flights even with secure cockpits.
I probably don't -- my phone is often in another room when home.
That's not true at all. If the actual incidence is low, then the false positive rate will be higher (not the overall positive rate, the _false_ positive rate).
I wrote a set of Windows device drivers in the 1998-1999 time frame for machinery control software that has been in continuous use since around 2002 (when the product was released). There has been a grand total of one bug reported. And that one required a hardware fault before it would be visible.
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Right. Another aspect of this is that SF is one of the few cities where minority groups have been able to use housing laws effectively to try and prevent them being kicked out of the city as prices rise (in most other American cities, these actions have failed). Look at the Tenderloin or Chinatown. This creates a pretty difficult where mostly poor minority groups feel like they have to be anti-development, because otherwise they won't be able to live in the city anymore. In theory given enough building and enough time, prices will go down and SF could be diverse again, but most people think that would be along time. It's a compounding situation of bad choices.

I also think you're giving short shrift to the effect that Milk's and Moscone's assassination had on city politics. It heightened everything that was going on elsewhere in the late '70s - the rise of the environmentalist movement, urbanism, increasing power to minority groups.

I would also say that a lot of the blame belongs to the cities outside of SF: SF only has 11% of the total population of the Bay Area and most of it's suburbs are even more anti growth then the city itself, they just hide it better by being zoned for single residency housing.
Naah. I don't think they're trying to kill the free dyno. I think they're trying to prevent abuse.

I have one hobby app. I use it, maybe, a hour a week. So that's a dyno that's on for, oh, maybe two hours a week, but more likely less (since the sleep timeout is, what, five minutes?). Barely makes a dent in my free hours.

When I actually want this useable, I bump it up a tier for the week or two, and we're done. Cost of a good meal.

Beside, we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg: Could be this is a change brought on by deeper changes in the billing system, such that this method ends up being simpler.
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This is a common suggestion, but I don't want to drink Coke, it's really unhealthy. I want to drink nice tap water, which doesn't really look like vodka or gin, since it comes in a giant glass and you drink it at a much faster rate.
Yes! We updated our pricing. We have fewer plan types (just 3 now), and now have a pay-as-you-go plan which is designed for maximum flexibility. This pricing is cheaper for almost every developer.
>My point is what you are describing for a small business person requires a tech person knowledgeable with AWS to implement

It may seem that way, but in actuality, it really doesn't. In the case I described, their "tech" guy was someone who'd been pushed into the role by necessity. He had the most knowledge out of a body of people who didn't really make it their area of expertise, and became the IT guy as a result.
He did a well enough job working on his own. But there's things he's going to miss, and it's a lot to keep up with if you want to run an infrastructure right. As you pointed out, it's a lot different running Software-as-a-service solution like Webmail vs. Infrastructure or Platform as a service.

But that's the nice thing about AWS (and to be fair, Azure and Google do this quite well too) is that there's a solution for your tech level. If he were really knowledgeable and wanted to roll his own mail solution, he can, and stand up instances running sendmail and put in his own MX records into our DNS service and manage all of the bells and whistles. Or, he can use Workmail (or Gmail for business if you want to be agnostic) and point and click his way to getting mail set up.

So there's a lot of range there, and the higher you go up the stack, the more management you hand off to the cloud provider at the (hopefully small) expense of control. But if the provider's offering fulfils all of your requirements, then it's a great deal for small, non-technical, shops who can offload their workloads into a provider who are experts at managing infrastructure, and you, the business owner, can create the occasional account and otherwise focus on business.

There's a great chart on this you might have seen, but it looks something like this: http://1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

In any case, there's a solution for everyone depending on their skillset, and arguably, (in my humble yet biased opinion =P ) AWS has the best spread. If I had one self-criticism about us, it's that it's not always intuitive as to which of our services fall in the SAAS/PAAS/IAAS stack. Education will always be a challenge no matter who the provider is, and being that cloud is still relatively young, it's up to AWS, Microsoft, Google, and everyone else to explain just what "cloud" means and how to start with it.

As for locked in, it’s AWS’ goal to keep you by ensuring you /want/ to use the service, not because you’re forced to be here. There’s no lock in other than transit fees. Which, if you have thousands of terabytes, can be hefty. That’s bandwidth for you. But there’s nothing proprietary. Take your code and data with you. I’ve seen engineers walk customers through the process of getting their stuff out. It happens. Not often, but it does, and we’ll help with that too.
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I see them aligned in terms of what they are trying to achieve UX-wise, one serves the community that is already building web apps, one serves the community that's already building mobile apps, both get you low-friction, native (or native-like) UX.
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Xavier Niel to open a free non-profit open-to-all coding university in Fremont
Radiolab [as usual] did a great episode on this theory called Cellmates.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/
> It's only in the cases of things going spectacularly wrong that being in the hospital helps.

Yep. My wife had a perfectly normal pregnancy, and everything went perfectly until something went spectacularly wrong. When my daughter was born, and didn't breath on her own for the first 3 minutes. If she hadn't been in a hospital, it would have gone down as still born. She was in the hospital, immediately received resuscitation and numerous other treatments which maintained her blood oxygen level sufficient to prevent brain damage, and now at the age of 4 is ahead of every developmental measure.

"It's only in the case of things going spectacularly wrong" that any risk mitigation activity actually provides value, and in every other case is essentially worthless. YMMV, but I tell everyone I can the story of my daughter whenever they talk about home birth.
From the article: "TPU is tailored to machine learning applications, allowing the chip to be more tolerant of reduced computational precision, which means it requires fewer transistors per operation."
A birthing center isn't your home.
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"The baby's heart rate dropped during contractions, as monitored by the hospital equipment."

That's about as reliable as:

"The dog moved funny, indicating it found drugs, so we have to search your car."

(it's totally normal for the heart rate to drop)

The sad reality is that the facility for C-section is not financially viable unless you use it on a regular basis. There is an incentive to use it. When used, it is profitable.

Doctors who push back on profitability find themselves replaced.

In any case, those who have trouble at home can get emergency C-sections. Since prepping takes time anyway, there is no added delay if you call ahead. Situations where mere minutes matter are rare to the point of being pretty much non-existent.
Google Home: Stasi in an Glade air freshener form factor

https://mobile.twitter.com/Pinboard

https://mobile.twitter.com/Pinboard/status/73298537020423372...

And if you prefer your tweets detwitterpated:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/MtHn4A9W...
What is the capabilities that a piece of hardware like this needs to have to be suitable for machine learning (and not just one specific machine learning problem)?
I laughed hysterically at the same fact last week. Everything we dreamed of 20 years ago feels like a burden now.
CPS means something different in the UK, Crown Prosecution Service.
Most likely, yes. Everything we have for mobile web works just as well for desktop web too.
We're less than 2 months away from the first real releases of VR equipment and already the ecosystem is fractured in to at least 4 different platforms/SDKs/styles: Oculus, SteamVR/OpenVR/Vive, Google Daydream, Playstation VR.

I fear the fracturing will make total adoption lower and slower, as developers will have to choose sides or spend way more time developing for all platforms.
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