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Just say that you're 101% sure, so the score will underflow into a positive score--or at least NaN--if you're actually wrong, and you will also get one bonus point for additional confidence from any person who does not understand math.
0.375 -- I guess I'm not perfectly random.
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Ad hominem is when "an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself." [1]. This clearly seems to fit. Ad hominem is not always a fallacy: if there were some new facts presented, or if the argument was so complicated that you couldn't evaluate its validity yourself (like happens often in science and other technical fields), then the source of the argument would be relevant. Neither of those is true in this case. The article's argument isn't very convincing to me on its own merits, but I don't see how it's made worse by the fact that the author may have been paid to write it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
India is a huge market for mobile phones. There are 400 mn+ smartphone users here.
1. Why should the government allow someone to come and sell old phones ?
2. These phones would have lesser shelf life and once they become bricks, India would need infrastructure to recycle these. In absence of this infra, it may lead to more pollution.
3. Why doesn't APPL reduces price of their mobile phones to bring it to the level where it can compete with other players ? Samsung, Lenovo, HTC, Xiomi etc are doing very well here. They price phones competitively and some even make phones here. They do not need to sell refurbished phones. Their phones are better spec'd and have more relevant features compared to iphone.

Tim cook, on his recent visit to India, admitted that iphone is indeed mispriced in India. In my view this is very good decision by the government. You must understand more about the topic at hand than putting that passive aggresive comment here
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Ever heard the phrase "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"? Hard to feel sympathy for tabloid writers feeling unfairly targeted.
Outages or mis-configurations can happen to pretty much any source of packages you use, be it debian, pypi, npm, bower or maven repositories, or source control. Anybody remember left-pad?

So as soon as you depend heavily on external sources, you should start to think about maintaining your own mirror. Software like pulp and nexus are pretty versatile, and give you a good amount of control over your upstream sources.
Well, didn't it become an Xbox game long before it became a PC game? Don't get me wrong, I had my own fanboy tendencies back then and considered it grossly oversimplified compared to the oh-so-cool first person shooters I'd been enjoying on my cheap homebuilt PC at the time.

Looking back, I think a big part of it was that I didn't want to shell out for yet another box (that only played games) and I sucked at using a gamepad for first person shooters. Still do, actually.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it's hopelessly naive. It takes time for people who have been suddenly vaulted into the position of being the ruling class to realize that they are regarded as such.

Silicon Valley as a culture still sees itself as a scrappy underdog. They see startups as small underfunded rebels trying to disrupt rich and powerful corporate interests. They see themselves as unstylish and unpopular "geeks" outside the social power of the attractive and successful. Silicon Valley doesn't perceive itself as a center of wealth, power, and social control. But the rest of the world has no trouble whatsoever figuring it out, and they are scared of this power.

As they should be. Concentrations of wealth and power without accountability are dangerous.

The meta-discussion around Peter Thiel and Gawker is fundamentally about power and who wields it in society. When you see someone on your playground who is clearly far stronger than a normal person walk over and punch someone in the face with no accountability and no real ability to seek redress you don't actually care much what the person did to deserve it. You suddenly start getting very nervous about who he's going to punch in the face next, as you're keenly aware that it's not you who gets to decide.

This backlash is going to get louder not softer. The "Who me? What are you talking about we're all just private ordinary citizens pay us no mind" type arguments like this one I am replying to are not going to help.

Stanford has the number one business school in the country. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are the top three most valuable companies in the world. Peter Thiel has almost three billion dollars.

To an outsider watching this movie, the tech sector isn't Hoth, it's the Death Star.

Extremely wealthy people are not at all like any other group of people. They are far, far, more powerful.
But you're not just troubleshooting, you're working closely with many other people to resolve a problem and mitigate negative outcomes
The math was chosen arbitrarily so every outcome is also arbitrary.
A Monad is a general-purpose mathematical structure, not just a workaround. GP gave you an example of something they're useful for, which you completely ignored.
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Well, it's less about your 'free will' and more about one's inability to generate a random number.

I'm not going to take the time to test it, but if you flipped a coin before each key press, this algorithm would eventually get to 50% accuracy. But in the short term it would probably be <50%, because it assumes it won't actually get random input.
No explanation given of how this has anything to do with free will.
What's the point of having monads?

You might as well ask what's the point of having Iterable<> when you're programming in C :)

It's not that you strictly _need_ monads or Iterable interfaces, it's that they represent an abstract concept which allows you to solve problems in a generic and type-safe way

I wouldn't probably "drag monads" into Javascript, but I'd surely appreciate Functors when programming in Javascript :)
I largely agree with your overall point (that you can't overgeneralize), but I don't think this says "nothing." The fact of the matter is that billionaires wield a lot of power, and a lot of people trust billionaires to consistently behave more rationally and more cautiously than an average person.

Personally I think it's scary that any of these giants will weaponize the legal system and use their disproportionate power in an act of bitterness. And it raises the question how often this type of thing happens but doesn't get reported, moreso because these individuals are uniquely positioned to influence what gets published.
>If you compare at a high level how infants learn and how we train RNN/CNNs they are remarkably similar.

That doesn't sound correct. Infants engage in active inference to resolve their uncertainties, engage in transfer learning between different domains by default, and use their transfer-learning abilities to learn new categories or domains from even just one example.
Unfortunately, due to the way broadcast television works, it's just not possible to cater to minority tastes. There's just no way to have the people who enjoy niche productions to pay the creators of those productions directly.

If only there were some sort of global system for distributing niche productions to those subscribers who want to see them. Perhaps some sort of system using minicomputers to transmit the information - we could call it "Minitel".

But seriously, are you really trying to claim that the internet is making it harder for niche producers and consumers to connect?
> The point was that, given the average person's (not tech nerds, mind you) understanding of silicon valley's utopian dreams, the revelation of Thiel's secrecy is not going to look good.

Believe me, the average person doesn't know jack shit about our utopian ideals. The idea they have even heard of them in passing is probably a Silicon Valley conceit.

Do a vox pop on the streets of a city that is not San Francisco. Draw up any list of shared/common ideals we have. Unless you lead the interviewee by generalizing wildly my guess is that you'll get no response at all.

This isn't to dismiss the public. It's just that the only place you'd have heard of our ideas is places like HN or otherwise being directly involved in geek culture.
Haskell doesn't have monads as a work-around. They are a useful abstraction because they capture a common semantic pattern found in many programming concepts. Nullable types, error handling, sequential execution, and asynchronous event handling are all concepts that can be described monadically.

By describing them as monads and making the monadic pattern a core idea of the language, you can write algorithms that operate on any monad, so that you can write one function and have it be useful for both managing the execution of IO and error handling in a generic way.

People have an aversion to monads because a the concept of a monad has no grounds in reality, kind of like complex numbers. It is an abstraction that is useful not because it describes anything, but because it is simply a useful way to think.
TBH, I know a fair number of non-techies, and very few of them know about or care about the Thiel/Gawker case. For the most part, they file it under the heading of "rich people behaving like middle-schoolers" and move on. It seems to be a much bigger deal in media & tech circles; I think many of the reporters covering this are projecting their own fear & anger at Silicon Valley onto the general public.

The press cycles that I actually hear people talking about are the UCLA shootings, gorilla baby, and Donald Trump. Baffling to me, but I think that in the Gandhi cycle, the general public is still stuck between the "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you", and it's only certain industries that are being directly disrupted by Silicon Valley (media & music, particularly) that are in the "then they fight you" stage.
Human population of this planet is over 7 billion.
I referred to non-facebook users
Unrealistic for you and the other billion facebook users perhaps, yes. Different people use different methods of communicating.
But that's not the simulation argument. That's not related to what Elon Musk is saying at all.

The simulation argument is about simulations of our own universe, within our own universe. It's a very specific claim about the parent universe, and the nature of our simulation. As opposed to more general simulations, which can't make any predictions at all and tell us nothing.
If you need to borrow a billion dollars to buy the company, then you need a billion dollars to buy the company. The fact that you can use the cash the company holds to pay off the loan is irrelevant. All you did was liquidate the company. That doesn't mean it had zero value. It means that it had literally a billion dollars in value.

Your broken logic could be applied to literally anything.

> Imagine company A, which has no significant cash, only a $1B tire manufacturing business.

> How much money do you need to buy this company?

> The answer is zero.

> You borrow 1B.

> Buy the company.

> Sell the time manufacturing business to pay back the debt.

> Manufacturing capacity has no influence (with exceptions and edge cases) on a company's enterprise value.

Or how about this?

> Imagine a used Honda Civic, which is a car that costs $10k.

> How much money do you need to buy this car?

> The answer is zero.

> You borrow $10k.

> Buy the car.

> Sell the car in parts on eBay to pay back the debt.

> Car parts have no influence (with exceptions and edge cases) on a car's value.

The fact that you can take out a loan to buy something, and turn around and liquidate the parts of that thing to pay back the loan does not mean the thing has no value.
I don't know about that, there are so many more YouTube channels and videos, while there were few enough OTA channels and shows that there will be common experiences.

Everyone knows who Bugs Bunny is, and can probably share the memory of a few plot points of some iconic episodes.

A group of people 20 years from now talking about videos they watched on YouTube will have a hard time coming up with a channel that two of them remember watching, much less a particular video. Unless, of course, they play the stupid game of "no, I remember one that was funnier" and spend the time searching on their phones for that one video that will one-up the others while to playing the videos they have queued up...ugh. https://xkcd.com/920/
On of the items on his "Future" list is creating plugins for editors.

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I'm not quite sure I understand you, but it sounds like a case for `Promise.resolve(value)`[1] – that's what I do whenever I don't know if something will be a Promise or an already-resolved value. `Promise.resolve(value)` returns a Promise that immediately resolves with `value` or whatever `value` resolves to if it's a Promise – no need to do any checks yourself, no need to nest Promises inside Promises inside Promises.

For example, imagine you have a charting library and you want to draw a chart, but you don't know if the data is available already or if it's being loaded asynchronously. You can just write:

// `drawChart(data)` is a synchronous function
// `data` may be the data itself or a promise that resolves to the data
Promise.resolve(data).then(drawChart)

For me, this is actually the killer feature of Promises, avoiding callback hell is just a nice side-effect. Once you start thinking of Promises as placeholders for values that may or may not be known already (rather than just an abstraction of the `callback(err, value)` pattern), you can write some really elegant code.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Hardly any economists -- who are trained in analyzing these proposals -- agree with this sentiment.

There are significant second-order effects of protectionism that are harmful yet not well understood by politicians or voters: retribution by other trading partners, increased prices and inflation are but a few.
> If you are not trying to use Haskell (...) then what is the point having monads?

I'm not sure how to answer this question, as my previous comment actually is the answer to your question.

Promises are a great example. They are a mechanism that provides better encapsulation and is still easier to compose than using pure callbacks.

(IIRC, Haskell made a similar transition: Monads haven't been in Haskell forever, many other ways have been tried before, but in the end turned out to be quite cumbersome and ugly in larger code bases. The introduction of monads was generally perceived as relieve in Haskell, and are becoming more and more popular in other non-lazy functional languages as well, such as OCaml.)
You're right that's the story I was thinking of. I didn't remember all the details though, I guess I knew some old version of windows, some simulation game, and something involving memory. Turns out the actual details got mixed up in my head!
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I've read those papers when they came out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they were not peer-reviewed.

The first one looks very impressive from the examples they've provided, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I will believe it only when I see an interactive demo. It's been nearly a year and I haven't seen it surfacing in a real product or usable prototype of any sort. Why?

Somehow all the papers that have "deep neural" stuff get 1/100th of the scrutiny applied to other AI research. I don't see anyone hyping up MIT's GENESIS system, for example.

The second paper has a really weird experiment setup. The point of one-shot learning is to be able to extract information from a limited number of examples. The authors, however, pretrain the network on a very large number of examples highly similar to the test set. Whether or not their algorithm is impressive depends on how well it is able to generalize, and they're not really testing generality -- at all. Again, why?
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> Does the health app upload to cloud services? If so, can it be turned off?

It does by default, but you can disable it. I'm actually working on making those options more user friendly :).

> Is the Bluetooth synchronization protocol documented to support open-source app implementations?

Not officially, but we've published open source implementations of at least part of the protocol (see libpebble). Several unofficial implementations followed (e.g. a Blackberry app, among others).
>If you want to champion for equality, start by removing gender identity from a person profession choice in life.

I 100% support this statement, and don't see how it contradicts anything else I said.

>The social status of a woman should not be determined by how feminine the job is

Also support, though with the caveat that (as you mentioned above) the concept of a job being "feminine" ideally wouldn't exist.

>nor should the social status of a man be determined by the wages he earn

Here in the US, at least, the social status of, well, just about everyone, is at least partly determined by the wages they earn.

I agree that this isn't ideal, and in particular no one should be judged for their income level. But in a capitalistic society it's hard to get away from that sentiment entirely. But it's an aspirational goal.

I certainly don't worship income level myself: I just turned down an opportunity to make mid-6-figures in a position where I'd be working with a good friend, and an awesome commute, almost entirely because the work I'd be doing wouldn't be what I'd want to be doing. Many of my friends are in the game industry, and they make much less than they'd be able to make as programmers in other industries, and their "social status" isn't negatively impacted, at least from my POV.

>Currently, the trend is the direct opposite and more professions is getting gender identity ingrained into the work culture than the year before.

I live in an area where hair stylists are frequently men (near Boulder, Colorado, but I've also lived near San Francisco) and engineers are frequently women, without either being criticized for it, so maybe the bubble around me is just more sane than the rest of the country. But TBH that's a large part of why I live here.

I think basic income is a necessary piece in the puzzle to allow people to really do what they want: If you're taking whatever job is available just to be able to live, then you'll take the job you hate the least. We'd still have to shift the culture to remove any stigma from taking a job atypical for a gender, but that's what I've been trying to do in my own personal interactions, including responding to posts here on HN.
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Alexa is already in the app store. What's the story?
I used OwnCloud for a while and never had any problems with it, but it seemed like overkill for my use. I didn't have multiple users and I wasn't using it to share files with anyone -- just syncing files between my own devices.

I started using Sandstorm[0] for my personal server, and there's an app for it called Davros[1], which implements the OwnCloud protocol. It doesn't really do a good job of advertising that fact (not even mentioned in its description), but you can use the OwnCloud clients with Davros. It's been satisfying my file-syncing needs with no problems. Just be aware that it lacks versioning.

I'm excited to see what's coming for NextCloud, though.

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[1] https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8aspz4sfjnp8u89000mh2v1xrdyx97...
1) First Amendment. Have you ever heard about celebrity gossips and VH1?

2) If it was offensive to Thiel, he clearly has an ego problem. Regardless, the article did not ATTACK him or MOCKED his sexuality. Any normal gay person would find other means to deal with this.
Perhaps the real lesson here is that buying a brand-new device every 12 months isn't sustainable. It seems like such a tremendous waste of resources that the assumed behaviour for so many is to re-buy a device based solely on the idea that it is newer.
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Great breakdown. Again, though, that's $12.30/hr as 1099 income, subject to self employment taxes,...and no sick days, paid holidays, vacation, unemployment coverage, insurance, etc.
They're not saying Apple can't sell used phones or that Indians can't buy and use used phones.

All that's happening is that Apple can't classify their refurbished phones into a regulatory category they would like to classify them as.

The fact this "news" source made that misinterpretation possible in the first place means they knew the story was boring. So they made it vague in a way that you wound assume the wrong thing.
> Are you sure of this?

Yes. For example, you can't analyze your social graph with their current API limitations. Just moving one degree in the graph hit the limit.
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Torus is append-only too. We also plan to support something more like what Facebook's paper describes, where they have extra parity (xor) to support more efficient local repair.
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I don't know if it will be explained in the book, but you can generate javascript from Lisp, using parenscript.

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Guns are useful and amusing! "Gun violence" is more than offset by virtuous uses such as "self defense", "hunting" and "marksmanship".

While gun related stocks likely won't do quite as well going forward once Trump is elected, they're a worthwhile part of a balanced portfolio...
Pretty sure Hulk Hogan won the suit no?
If it was a series of illegitimate lawsuits to try to bankrupt a legitimate news organization then I think there would be a case.
I don't see how this follows. From Tao's derivation, if a student believes the probability that an answer is right is p and they put down q, then their expected score is pf(q) - (1-p)f(1-q). If the scoring function is a logarithm, the maximum of this expectation occurs at q=p.
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