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This is the fashion argument. "Build it and they will come because, well, we don't know" is a horrible horrible way to start a business.
Except if what happened was password reuse
Short answer: yes.

Slightly longer answer ...

For very small errors, multiplying by the power is right. You can see that because of the standard expansion:

(1+e)^n ~ 1 + ne + n(n-1)e^2/2 + ...

When e is small enough, e^2 is very small, so we can ignore everything that follows.

When e is slightly larger we can use more terms in the expansion, and that works nicely. That happens in the post about the birthday problem, where an extra term is used from the expansion for log(n).

So you don't get it for free, but it's not a lot of extra work.

In the case of 1.024^5, which is in the post, we get:

e=0.024
n=5
print n * e

-> 0.12

So the first approximation of the error is 12%

print n*e + n*(n-1)/2*e**2

-> 0.12575999999999998

So the extended approximation is 12.576%. We can compare that with the actual error:

print (1+e)**5

-> 1.125899906842624

Pretty close.

Even longer answer: Binomial Theorem.
> You're more likely to have hash collisions

You are? I know they introduced the tree nodes as fallback if you have a bad hashing algorithm or malicious inputs, but that doesn't mean the hash collision rate got worse by default.
I've never understood why people believe/feel that buying land and/or a house is the pinnacle of... something. Sure, it gives the person a feeling of control and stability. But rooting oneself in one labor market (vs. being mobile) decreases one's employment options and therefore their salary. It's also very risky, as it's the equivalent of putting one's eggs in one basket and leaves their financial wellbeing in the hands of the real estate market.

Renting is, unfortunately and quite inaccurately, viewed as "throwing money away." The real estate industry does a great job brainwashing people that they should buy, buy, buy, that buying a house is a great investment and a very good way to build wealth. İt's probably one of the greatest lies perpetuated in modern times.
I'm not sure that's a downside, unless you prefer hearing prayer 5 times a day. I fled Bosnia during the war, but I visit it occasionally and each time it appears more religiously extremist than the last. All other countries should take a look at what has happened there and consider the importance of implementing cultural integration in addition to economic integration when accepting large incoming migrant populations.

When you hire for a company you want your dream team to have a diverse background of ideas and experiences but that doesn't mean you let them work on the goals and products they worked on at their previous employer with whatever processes they want.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not sure the specific minaret law is a downside from my experience, but that is not to say that your overall point on populist reforms is invalid. I was just focusing on the specific law.
From the website:

"FoldiMate will fold and treat most of your laundry (e.g. shirts, pants, towels).
Except for large items like linen or small items like underwear or socks" [1]

[1] https://www.foldimate.com/
Yes but I also want to know how many millions were spent on advertisements trying to persuade "the people" one way or another by the political elite.

Because the first referendum that should be called for in a country that has 1:1 voting on issues is to end all political advertisements.
So, semver is great and all, but 0.0.x releases just look silly, in my opinion. I've never seen someone zero index the least significant column before though, which makes it look even worse.

Would people actually expect w piece of software marked as version 0.0.0 to be anything more than a placeholder?
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Exactly how advanced was NeXTstep in its time, compared to say Windows 95?

The object oriented API alone seems to me like a huge step ahead. Imagine if Steve Jobs never left Apple and got to ship these things under the better-known Mac brand, possibly stealing a lot of Microsoft's thunder.

EDIT: It's also interesting, and maybe ironic, that the legendary Doom which went on to make PC/DOS a relevant force in gaming, was developed on NeXTSTEP, with some parts coded in Objective-C. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom#Programmin...
What about their "grubby hands"? Was that referring to their bathing habits?
Hold up. A wine fridge is not in the same category as this. A wine fridge is a necessity.
Even today, there are issues with fonts and the like causing issues with PowerPoints made on a Mac running in Windows. It's not being snooty - it's the very real fear that something will go wrong. For any Mac users who have had that happen to them, it's very embarrassing. It is more common with embedded figures and things like that for fonts to go all wonky. Even a PDF export doesn't always go well. General rule of thumb - the more complicated your slides, the greater the likelihood that things will go wrong.
Yeah I'm curious what the compliment of "fold your laundry and treat your clothes" is.

Only thing we can say for sure is that it's "not fold your laundry or not treat your clothes"
I'm the one that downvoted you. Rather than simply insulting s3nnyy, pull out some numbers to justify your statement. I suspect s3nnyy is not hiding information, but rather saying the quality of life is worth it.

However, it looks like the numbers are pretty comparable. In Germany a software engineer will average 47,500[0] euros a year. judging by this answer[1] I'm guessing your take home is going to be about 28,000 euros (2,333 euros a month), meaning about a 40% tax rate.

According to the same website a software engineer in Zurich will make 96,500[2] CHF. Using a swiss salary calculator, your take home in euros is 71,436[3] (5,953 euros a month).

Finally, comparing the cost of living, is clear to see that Germany is 50% cheaper[4], but you're making 150% more in Zurich. While my numbers may be the wrong averages to compare, it looks like Zurich is at least pretty comparable.

[0] http://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-45000-euros-per-year-considered-a-g...

[2] http://www.payscale.com/research/CH/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

[3] http://www.lohncomputer.ch/en/home.html

[4] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
In reality, the truth lies somewhere in the middle between "rent in throwing money away" and "it's a great lie that buying a house is a very good way to build wealth."
I have hard time understanding if ihsw is trying to show how far the Polish leadership has fallen, or if he is seriously finding their undemocratic stance somehow acceptable.
I've heard it said that real estate is a risky investment.

On the other hand, it's really hard to raise a family of four in a mutual fund.
This may come as a shock to the layperson, but there's more to artificial intelligence than neural nets, and many non-NN AI approaches could arguably be said to "learn", and are thus "machine learning" too, depending on your definition.

I'm thinking of evolutionary algorithms, various other biologically inspired computation techniques (of which NN's are but one example), more traditional AI techniques such as expert systems, and a whole host of stochastic, non-biologically inspired algorithms.

I'm not super familiar with NN's myself, so I can't say whether the gigantically disproportionate attention from the media and the research community is deserved based on actual superiority in effectiveness of NN's compared to other techniques, or whether they're used and talked about mostly because that's what most people know.

It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of a non-NN AI researcher regarding this.
* > I'm very sensitive to noise, but neither church bells here nor the muezzin calling for prayer five times a day in my vacations in islamic countries have ever bothered me.*

Then I don't think you can characterise yourself as "very sensitive to noise". Perhaps very sensitive to certain kinds of noise, but not noise in general?
It can be pretty polarized unfortunately. For example, in 2002, an (in my opinion, pretty extreme) anti-immigration referendum was defeated with a margin of 4208 votes. https://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20021124/index.html
I like to think about that possibility, sometimes .. in my alternative universe, Steve stayed at Apple, Microsoft became more like Sun (fizzled out in the late 90's), and SGI end up being the one to make the tiBook in all its lovely glory, ushering in an era where the sgiPhone is what we all have in our pockets ..
It wasn't, people even had 2fa.
It's not the same. With integer division you know the division rounds down, so using <= always splits between the two points.

That said, it's always safer to compute the mean of two integers as

min + (max - min) / 2

to avoid integer overflow.
"someone wants to make sure there's a TeamViewer on every box in the world, and is willing to pay for slick, aggressive marketing and to eat the costs of product development and marketing to see to it."

That would be the teamviewer company. Surprisingly often companies want their product on every desktop, and are willing to eat the marketing and development costs to make it happen.
> isn't the majority of modern object recognition, segmentation, etc. done with convnets?

Not at all. Big networks might be popular within particular groups, and they have certainly achieved impressive results on a number of tasks recently, but it's not the solution to every problem. There are a number of other approaches - just browse over the number of subsections on image segmentation on wiki, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_segmentation

or, perhaps more appropriately, take a look at the methods used in recent papers on image segementation:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=%22image+se...
Taler uses various *GPL3+ licenses, including parts under AGPL3+

Linux, Systemd, Git, and Blender are all (L)GPL v2, and none are AGPL.

There are thousands of open source projects I could name that are far reaching and have enormous success, released under permissive licenses such as Apache, BSD, MIT, etc.

If the system wasn't so fucked I'd down vote you.
Only after you have standardized the foot size of your household members...
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I can only guess that "obscurity" is an excuse for the defects of GitHub's machine learning of spammer detection. The spammers can always check if their accounts have profiles even if there is no notification.

(Don't know why you and all my neutral comments are downvoted. Angry GitHub employees here?)
Your snide comments imply that those who disagree with you are racist. Not exactly your highest quality contribution to HN.
I think the more important lesson here is to not write algorithms in a way that go into recursion because data types aren't infinitely precise.
Are you sure it's easy to get a green card and citizenship? Maybe half a century ago it was, and that's where all the stories come from.

Right now, it's actually very hard; even (or especially) for regular normal middle class hardworking people.
So, let's call the correct value of whatever 'A'. Then "Off by X%" really means that the number you used is (1 + X/100) * A. (note: if you underestimated you need to make X negative for this to work)

When you raise that to the power Y, you get (1 + X/100)^Y * A^Y, when the correct result is just A^Y. So you get (1 + X/100)^Y times what you should've gotten.

You can convert that back into a percentage directly if you want, but if X is small (ie, if the original value is "close enough"), you can use the binomial expansion [1] and just keep the first few terms. If you do that, you eventually end up with:

Percentage the final result is out = Y * X + (1/200) * Y(Y-1) * X^2 + ...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_theorem
While parent post may be overstating , GPL does hinder software adoption now days.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think the time is right just yet for basic income. When AI is to the point that most skilled jobs can be automated and humans don't really need to work, then we can start giving people money.
As long as church bells are also prohibited, I don't see the problem.

Allowing any religion to advertise itself in any form should be prohibited as it is intrusive to all.

What if someone invented a religion that told everyone to use airhorns every hour?
I'm an atheist and I personally don't mind the sound of church bells. As part of general western culture, we associate them with certain things. Stuff like weddings, and to me, I always think of medieval Europe when I hear them. Monasteries, monks, those sorts of things.

However, in contrast, a giant megaphone blaring quite "whiny" or "whingy" (for lack of a better way of describing it) gibberish doesn't evoke anything remotely that normal. The sound itself, without any sort of religious connotation is annoying. I suppose I would find it just as annoying if the sound of church-bells were played over a megaphone, 5 times a day.
Another downside to the selenium API is that there is no way to get any upstream HTTP status or network error. That includes redirects unfortunately.

I'm using a Chrome plugin for that purpose, which complicates the whole setup even further.
0.x.x means pre-release to me (as in, sure - play with it, but don't fucking rely on it working).

0.0.0 is bizarre though.
I thought that too and then got terrified of the idea that someone trusting an HTTP connection writing (parts of) a damn BIOS. This would be worse than anything.

Actually I also don't like BIOS allowing to be flashed from within the OS for convenience. So your computer gets owned and you can't trust your motherboard anymore.
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And yet you can send SMS with a dumb phone; why wouldn't be able to at least send such simple messages with XMPP or any messaging client ?
It seems like a lot of modern politics is not "we should have more" but instead "you guys should have less". I think the election result is an outcome of more and more people thinking along the latter lines.

To bad. Would have been fun watching Switzerland try something new.
> America, land of the Snuggie, The Clapper, Feet Socks, and single serve automatic coffee brewers, come on.

I think part of the equation is that none of those things cost $750. You could spend tht much on a coffee brewer, but at that point you're getting into some nice espresso machines.
I've been looking to learn more about non-machine learning AI research for the past couple of months (essentially, something that is the spiritual successor to the GOFAI/expert system path instead of the currently popular statistical machine learning path). For some reasons it's quite hard. I'd appreciate if anyone can point me to the state of the research in those areas? (Conferences, research groups' names etc).
There is something to be said for having been born (and as a result, raised) in a post-Enlightenment society.

Migrants from pre-Englightenment societies almost always raise the general crime levels, take value that they didn't earn, and become the new underclass.

Look at Irish and Italian immigrants in the US in the 1800s. We came from countries that did not have the same level of education, without the history of liberal philosophy, and as a result we caused a lot of damage to the US -- between organized crime, debauchery, civil unrest, general violence, but also, politically/socially. We didn't understand the American political space, we voted for statist governments, and then began taking over the police forces and unions and mobilizing them against our rivals (blacks, Polish and Jews).

Eventually, we were assimilated, but that was much easier -- we were already Christians (albeit Catholic), and a lot of us could pass for a more desirable nationality. So far, Middle Eastern immigrants have shown little interest in assimilating at all.
I don't know about Zurich, but Bern is damn beautiful place to be at. Expensive, as all Switzerland is though.
People don't necessarily buy then suffer the consequences of being rooted. Rather, one may be rooted because of family, preference, or because their job market is one place. Then they want to buy because if you are rooted, you might as well have greater control over your dwelling. If I rented my occupancy would be at the whim of my landlord, which is OK for apartments in the US, as apartment landlords generally have no reason to kick out tenants summarily (except in unstable markets, like perhaps the Bay Area.)

But most single family home landlords are small time operators who can't be counted on to provide long term occupancy. I would find such an arrangement untenable.

For those who want to be mobile I completely agree that renting makes sense, but for many folks being rooted leads to ownership, rather than ownership leading to being rooted.
Everyone is a minority and under "tyranny by the majority" in one way or another.
... unless max is a huge positive integer, and min is a huge negative integer!
Perhaps it is the result of choosing to take a historical price chart and say, "look the value goes up" rather than any sort of analysis. It is amazing to me so many people take out huge loans (mortgage, car, college) without doing the math on the final price after compounding.

If the economy is growing faster than your interest rate and the population is increasing as well and its really hard to build new housing, then by all means buy your house and maybe even take out a loan to do so! If not, maybe still buy, but there is little urgency.
> So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators.

They're using open source Cloud Foundry, literally to avoid spending millions of dollars mimicking the private sector innovators.
I don't know what's wrong with lohncomputer.ch, but I get 400 CHF more in net-salary than what they calculate.
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Why? Users can still use it, programmers might not be able to make proprietary forks of it, but can certainly write programs to interoperate with it.
Presumably the target demographic hasn't head to deal with a printer paper jam in a long time.
I think that's obviously implied. If there was a general sensitivity to every kind of noise anywhere, you wouldn't be able to live. If I said "I have a food allergy", you wouldn't assume I don't eat because I'm allergic to food in general, or would you?
Noted. Good to know that people have forgotten how hard the free software community had to fight to be able to even have free software. I don't understand the sudden amnesia when Microsoft releases one part of their stack under the MIT license while still enslaving users. It's doublethink.
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>Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can learn their citizen's total income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes

Wow, what a feature ...
When I hear "GPL" I get an instant software arousal so I disagree.
Technically, it's not against religious freedom - after all, you can still practice, at home!
Which is exactly what made me turn against it. I want to know what I vote for, leaving it open like that will in the best case lead to a completely watered down compromise and in the worst case a complete mess. The social security system needs to get simplified at the same time. An initiative committee for UBI needs to sit down and come up with a tenable solution, at least for the basic parameters (both spending and financing).
I disagree. I feel that the first country to have basic income + open boarders will "win." People will move there. The human mind is very powerful. On average, countries with more humans are more powerful.
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I once met a guy who said he could count anything instantly. I had to test his claim. "This is my ranch, and over there's my cattle. How many are there?"

He looked over, paused for the briefest moment, and then said, "I see 742 cows."

Astonished, I exclaimed, "That's exactly right! Mind sharing your secret?"

He leaned in a bit and proudly explained. "It's simple, really. I count the number of legs and divide by four."
> Residents make very little money and do a lot of work. How are they not a profit center for hospitals?

Residents start their first year knowing literally nothing about practicing medicine. Medical school teaches the foundation, but you learn the practice during residency. In addition, the ratio of attending physicians to residents is capped by law (i believe it's 3:1).

Would a startup want to hire three fresh-out-of-high-school interns for every full-time employee? I can't think of any company that does this. At some point they'd get up to speed, yes, but in the short term they'd be a huge drag.
YC is taking the long term view, which is great.
But what concerns me is the way in which Basic Income is already getting heavily politicised.
Politicians are already using it to attract voters (front page of UK Guardian today, Labour party are "considering" a basic income).
We are still very much at the research stage.
Why do you think they have an agency in and understand their decision? It seems a lot more probable that it is simple incompetence that is the underlying reason.
You mean other than the first sentence being "I'm torn by this?"
Advanced in what respect? Since I was an undergrad when Windows 95 came out, the thing that leaps to mind is that you could put together a Windows 95 computer for what you'd pay for some little doodad or minor software program for the NeXT platform. And if you spent a little more you'd have room for a Linux partition...
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In the Bible Belt, at least, I'd suspect that the majority of the population does not live close enough to a church to hear its bells.
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Maybe direct democracy works in a small scale, and by "small" I mean a few dozen people in a town.

Referendum is no panacea. A legislative body can tweak legislation and debate it and compromise. When voting on a referendum there is no such compromise. It's just a binary choice.
And Hanlon's razor would agree with you.
I have experience with both and I certainly don't find anything comforting in church bell ringing, and frankly I'm sure people in Turkey (atheists included) are used to muezzins and generally not annoyed by it, just as I am to church bells and live with it because I have no choice. That said, I believe that the way you describe it is how you perceive it, but from my experience I wouldn't call it whiny/whingy. It's short, in Arabic, and basically a singing version of call to prayer. Just as church bells have some form of tune to them, so does the muezzin's call to prayer. If we are to name what one might find personally comforting, I wouldn't mind daily gospel music played for the neighborhood by the local church, but I'm sure someone will find that discomforting as well. And to be clear, I am not a Christian.

My main objection is that if you have religious freedom, then either all churches/mosques/temples get the same freedom to call to prayer or none does. The exclusivity of church bells in Europe and muezzins east of Europe is the basic conflict of fairness here. So, realistically, given that we cannot allow them all, including pagans, satanists (death metal?), the most logical conclusion would be to generally disallow, with exceptions where the population insists on it.
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Yes I did. Proper shell scripts specify their actual shell - ie, bash scripts use bash as their interpreter. Your linked article mentions this explicitly.

Do, again: whether bin sh is Bourne or Dash doesn't change anything, because a properly written script will specify its interpreter.
Doesn't this need a visible permission in an app or are there workarounds like using the google play api?
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