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In the meantime while Nordics are home to just 3% of Europe’s population, it has created more than 50% of Europe’s Billion Dollar exits since 2005.

If there is startup capital in Europe, it's Stockholm.

https://medium.com/creandum-family/the-nordics-in-context-th...
Are you honestly comparing Typescript verbosity with Java type verbosity? It's an absolute joy to work with Typescript in an IDE from JetBrains.
I'm friends with a dev I respect that recently took a job on the Skype team. Skype is completely broken everywhere, because the code is a nightmare and people are scared to make changes - any change will break something. Linux is probably just low priority on a very long list of things that are terrible/broken about Skype.
I dunno. Maybe if you're already around there. Remember the Superfan sketched on Saturday Night Live? There's a reason those guys were big. It gets cold in the winter.
They realize of course, that Obama will probably be much more frugal with his money than the US gov.
Precisely why I am generally not a supporter of class action lawsuits
I can go into a shop and buy a TV and watch TV for free, legally. Why shouldn't I assume that this other box that allows me to watch things is equally legal?
We need to get away from the dogma that everyone must and will get a college degree. Apprenticeships are as good, if not better, for many fields... especially in the world of software.
Actually this seem to depend a lot on the exact search term, look: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F012l1vxv%2C%2...
Those technically illiterate users are going to have trouble with Windows 10. My stepfather is in his 70s, and I had to help him set up the weather app - and it took me about ten minutes how to figure out how to set a default location!

10 is different enough from 7 that they're going to have to learn a lot of new habits - and while that's just the nature of modern life, some people are going to suffer significantly more than others.

I believe there must be a better way of getting the less-literate people to consensually upgrade to Windows 10, without forcing it on them.
The expense and complication is due to many, many more factors than how commercial plans fund Medicare. Medicare could disappear entirely and the price transparency you describe would not change one iota. They are largely orthogonal issues.
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Eh, not really. I mean, I think (don't know) that Broadway shows and rap music are more popular on the left than the right. So, it's probably true that the show is more popular with liberals than it is with conservatives. But I don't think it has anything to do with the message of the show or Hamilton's politics.

It's not really an overtly political show, other than a few jokes about immigrants being effective. That is, the show covers highly political material as it profiles Hamilton, a Federalist. But I don't think the show itself has a strong political message it's trying to propagate, at least not in relation to current campaigns. You could argue the show is making the statement that the founding of the country and the founding fathers are history that belongs to all of us, people of color, recent immigrants, white descendants of the pilgrims, etc. – and that history needs to be told in new ways and understood by everyone.

But I think advocating better understanding of our history is something conservatives appreciate too, and in general, conservatives believe in self-reliance, accountability, etc., and should respect the self-made story of Hamilton.

I think HRC is giving away tickets just to piggyback on the popularity of the show and its recent Tony wins. Also, seeing as HRC was a Senator from New York (and I think currently resides in NY officially), it makes sense for her to associate with a cultural phenomenon from there.
This first book doesn't seem great.

> For example, a common response to the question “how do I get started in deep learning” might be:
> Develop a strong grounding in statistics, probability, linear algebra, multivariate statistics and calculus.
> Develop a deep knowledge of modern machine learning algorithms and techniques.
> Study and become one with the mathematical theory of each deep learning algorithm and a bunch of related techniques for using them.
> Oh and if there is time find a library and start applying deep learning to your problem.
> It could take a decade or more to follow this advice and that would be a decade delay that you cannot afford.

Those topics are deeply important if you want to be anything more than a coder monkey, and with a decent undergrad education under one's belt (STEM-related) and half a year of dedicated part-time study, they could get up to speed in many - if not all - of those topics.

But I guess whatever sells the easiest, a la "Get Rich (Smart) Quick".
China moves closer to adopting controversial cybersecurity law
I'm sympathetic both ways on this one.

I think Microsoft went "too far" but I also agree that we don't want another "XP situation" with Windows 7. Effectively having 20%+ of the market on a super old OS holding back the industry and less secure.

Microsoft claim they're planning to avoid this in the future by no longer releasing named new OS's, and instead just update Windows 10 for "free" forever. Basically the same as Apple's current model with MacOS.

I guess how you fall on this topic is answered by the question: "Do the ends justify the means?"
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Probabilities makes sense only with absolutely certain things like a fair coin or a dice.

In cases where there is no absolute certainty about how many sides or dimensions your "dice" has and that it is not biased and that there is no other forces or factors in play probability ceases to make sense.

Probability of A, given B becomes meaningless when either A or B aren't precisely defined (like in the case of a "fair coin") and so is the relationship between the two.

Application of the Bayesian rule to "estimated" probabilities is just wrong and unscientific (in the face of ambiguity avoid the temptation to guess). Multiplying and dividing nonsense by nonsense yields nonsense.

The global financial crisis and recent cock-sure consensus about outcome of the brexit referendum the day before voting are good evidences.
It looks like non-US cities near the top of the "best" list tend to be large (London, Paris, Berlin, Montreal, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Seoul).

By contrast, US cities near the top of the "best" list tend to be small or mid-sized.
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Brin's advice rings true to me. Silicon Valley has changed since Google started. It has become a tough place to bootstrap a company from scratch especially if you are focussed on getting to profitability at an early stage.

Expenses in Silicon Valley are high and show no sign of declining. Even more important it is hard to find qualified staff in SV who are interested in working on start-ups that don't have strong funding. Most companies therefore look for a somewhat lower cost place with qualified engineers and have done this for a while now. At some point you have to ask why not just put the whole company somewhere else.
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I could hop on the next plane to London and legally start working today. If they restrict freedom of movement at all that is going to fall and replaced by some process to obtain work authorization (how else could they distinguish between "skilled" and "unskilled" workers?). If that system looks in any way similiar to the one non-EU citizens have to go through today I wouldn't call that change insignificant. Having to do a financial striptease and waiting some time for the application to be processed (possibly even having to renew that a few times) instead of showing your ID card to HR is going to stop some people from working there.

And I don't want to start talking about other things, such as access to social security and cross-border cooperation thereof, automatic recognition of degrees and certifications, harmonized banking makes it easy to transfer to your home country, being able to quit a job without needing to have a new one lined-up, and so on. All that is now part of the negotiations.
We are a fintech startup in London. Some of us have advanced degrees. Others are skilled but have no degree to show for it.

There's a tsunami of red tape heading our way both in terms of visa regulations and in many other areas where EU and UK regulations are going to start to diverge.

Unless they quickly agree on Brexit in name only we will probably move into the EU, possibly to Scotland if they become independent.
I don't think JSX fits Angular 2 - it sticks to "views are markup based and code is in controller" traditional MVC which I prefer to JSX.

You mentioned TS but I feel like you understated it - it's the selling point for me. I have used TS + React but it's not the same thing - Angular was written with/for TS and it uses it to leverage all the advantages. React migrated from ES5 to incrementally add ES6 support and it shows. Also nobody uses flow outside of React unlike TS which has a decent community even outside of Angular and plenty of 3rd party type definitions.
I'm using typescript with React right now...and typescript does a decent job with jsx checking.
(saved me from a lot of missing / wrong prop name errors)

anyway, does typescript support some kind of template-string validation for angular2? If so, I'm going to really re-consider angular2 for my next project
It's going to take a massive amount of work to upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0. Don't do that to yourself. Just go with 2.0.
> EU influence is precisely what has just been voted out.

I said "it's in the interest of the EU to keep the UK in its area of influence." and I don't remember the EU voting to kick out the UK, but quite the other way around.

The EU will work towards keeping the UK close and rebuilding any lost synergies. The problem (for the UK mainly) is that they won't do it at any cost. That means no sweeteners at all. The UK can take it or leave it, but they will not be getting anything better than what they had - and they will keep all the obligations they had (free movement of people and other regulations they wanted to "take back").

Unfortunately that might just grow UKIPs electoral base as they'll feel legitimized to keep blaming the EU for any UK issues. This is what happens when you (Thatcher - if you don't know her just remember she was Pinochet's friend) create a non-working class with nothing to lose that lives out of benefits and then you proceed to destroy state education - you initially get them to vote you in exchange of your charity, until they feel entitled to charity and someone really populist comes around and channels their anger "because you threaten to reduce benefits or the immigrants are taking them... and their jobs, which hasn't existed since the 80s".

The UK is dangerously steering towards a fascist state and the only way to stop it is to improve education, which no recent government has been taking seriously.

Note: In case someone is looking for a flamewar, I'm not saying everyone that voted Leave falls into the demographic described above, but it is a very important demographic inside the UK and especially in North England, Wales and other impoverished areas.
Makes sense. The plug-ins are probably the main reason anyone uses Kodi. Certainly one of the reasons I do personally.

It's a good move to move the name 'Kodi' away from piracy though as it's now a household name just like Napster was.
Automatic, non-consensual updates would be fine, if the laptop were designed for it. Case in point, my Chromebook gets updates all the time, and the little arrow in the corner usually indicates I've got something and that I should restart. I have never, ever had a bad update across any of my Chromebooks. It is done in an elegant, non-intrusive way.

The problem here is that in Microsoft's push to get Windows 10 onto as many machines as it can, they seem to have greatly underestimated the number of computers whose age or hardware renders them partially or completely borked by updating to Windows 10. And they seem generally unrepentant to the fact that they've strong-armed people into downloading an update that destroys their computer.
Today's generation wasn't even born in the '80s. :)
Plus: I have a MySpace account but no idea what the username is, likewise Habbo Hotel. What about any website with a forum facility? My Web browser remembers all the one off usernames I make up for sites and the Recover Password feature acts as my gatekeeper.
Writing Good Code: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code
Not much. I like new approaches to messaging.

The idea of having guidelines to receive messages is good, if these are enforced somehow it is better (or not, I don't like enourmous forms with required fields).

Message categorization by the sender instead of the somehow by the receiver is also a great idea.

I don't like the implementation. Implementing good ideas can be much more complicated than conceiving them. In the current state this doesn't qualify as a full-blown messaging app (in fact I don't quite understand what formal does right now). I just wanted to say you could keep thinking of alternative implementations/integrations of your basic ideas (and come up with more).
iOS 9.3 has Night Shift, which allows you to adjust display color temperature
It's true that you can "mix for the listening format."

This is just my personal experience and opinion (and that of pretty much every audio engineer I've worked with): headphones lie. Ears are designed to perceive sounds in 3-space, not to have individual channels shot down the ear canal bypassing the outer ear, with a sealed transducer directly loading the eardrum. As an audio engineer, you're looking for the truth, and this isn't the way for your ears to best perceive it. Moreover headphones are generally fatiguing compared to a good set of studio monitors in a tuned control room.

So the most representative mix - regardless of listening format - is going to come from speakers. I think most audio engineers are going to agree on this point.

Some audio engineers "mix for the format" - I suppose if you want a mix that is optimized for headphones, then yes you're going to at least check the mix with headphones, but I still doubt many engineers would do the mix on headphones.

Seasoned engineers know that listening fads come and go - the way to make a mix that will stand the test of time is to make a mix that sounds good on anything, and "good studio monitors in a good room" is going to get you there best.
I just did the Windows 10 upgrade on my laptop and at no point could I start the upgrade without explicitly clicking a button. In addition, the process starts by immediately rebooting (after downloading via Windows update and asking you to start it).
I don't understand your points about wages being too low in Berlin. If low wages are a problem for a start-up, what is keeping it from offering high wages, even in Berlin?

On the other hand, I could imagine that start-ups would rather keep costs low, especially in the beginning. Then it would be a problem to be situated in a city like Zurich.
Windows 10 won't attempt to install unless it has enough space to complete, and they look for 16 GB.

So what I suspect actually occurred is that your hypervisor was set up to misreport how much space as available to Windows, so Windows 10 tried to install on the space it thought it had, only to hit the wall on the "real" filesystem below.

It is unlikely this ever would have occurred to anyone else in your family, unless they're running Windows in a hypervisor that misreports space.
If you ask me about ML I'll say that starting with convolutional nets for images is starting on the wrong side (end instead of beginning). Andrew Ng course is better, but still somewhat lacks theory and general ML insights.

I'd recommend new Coursera Washington University ML course (https://class.coursera.org/machlearning-001/lecture) as a solid foundation. You'll learn key ML concepts (bias vs variance, bayes theory etc.) and the lector is simply the best I've seen.

Following that Ian Goodfellow book http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
is very good.

If you want to learn foundations of Reinforcement Learning I'd recommend Sutton & Barto https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/ebook/the-book.h...
This might have been mentioned already, but I do like that they're not reinventing the wheel with ng2 on every front and instead leveraging libraries that are either mature or likely to be the direction that web is heading. If you follow their quick start example you'll get Typescript, RxJS, SystemJS. RxJS is a very interesting beast that has been around for a long time in c# world and recently gained popularity in Javascript and implements what may be a precursor to browsers Observable() object and anything-as-a-stream management. Not sure how React is solving these problems but probably a good idea just to go through a few simple examples to see how they work.
Paste the password at the end of the address bar, select and drag it to the password field. Doesn't count as a paste, just a "change".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumières

"The Lumières (literally in English: Enlighteners) was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century"

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

"The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688"

Your proposed timelines are a little off, old bean. ;-)
Why would Sergey Brin advocate startups being founded where all the action and high valuations are?

He knows that it's hard to move your company once you've settled in somewhere. Much more economical for Google if you stay on the fringe outskirts and let them acquire your baby for pennies on the dollar.
Just to be clear, his public art isn't universally loved. He's been trying for over a decade to string fabric over the Arkansas River in Colorado. The locals almost universally hate the idea but it looks like there isn't anything they can do about it because the project has a permit from the Bureau of Land Management. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/01/02/judge-rules-against-op...
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How about people just start building your idea, wherever you are. Rather than worrying about where you are when doing it? If the thing has merit, the rest should fall in line.
I don't know about what he says but i know that his heart is in the right place.
Wages being low is a good thing, no? CoL is significantly lower too which is great.
As a Bayesian you can maybe answer my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985312

I would appreciate it!
For context, the article is from 2005 and the representative Windows version is XP Service Pack 2.
And yet Windows 7 is supposed to keep getting security updates until 2020. Computer illiterate users are the last group you should upgrade to a new system in an automated manner, because they are the most helpless if drivers/applications break from it.
Its interesting to see that cities in the Bay Area that are separated by a few miles fall either in the best or worst cities list.

Some examples:
Redwood City, CA vs. Foster City, CA
San Francisco, CA vs. South San Francisco, CA
Mountain View, CA vs. Palo Alto, CA

Its one of those "Love me or hate me, but don't ignore me" moments.

Regardless of whether you succeed or fail, you have to first get into the game. And there are few better places to get into the game than the Bay Area.
Bought Surface Pro a while back. Happy. Charger broke one week after warranty expiry. Keyboard broke a little later. So only way to reboot is hard reset which takes about 15 seconds of holding power button and volume up button, twice, and doesn't always work first time. Pretty unhappy but just about workable.

With Windows 10 latest version I was unable to disable a particular update which fails every time. So Windows will reboot regularly, including waking from sleep to do so, and fail to install, leading to 30 seconds plus reboot time at best to get it to wake up. For a tablet.

Since bought a new laptop and installed Linux on it as my main operating system for the first time (dual booting) and am pretty happy so far. Updates no longer reboot the computer for the most part. Missing a few features (especially hibernate), but most things work as well or better than Windows so far.
I think there's a lot of factors at play when you're founding a company and what Brin is hopefully saying is that given the current conditions SV is difficult for early stage (bootstrapping or seeding), which seems to be true.

In 1998 things were very different so of course they could afford to be in the menlo park area and reap the rewards of the VC network. Now, to stay in the area you need to fund heavily up front which leaves you less time to build that awesome product before funding dries up (or worse, you have to sell too much of your company in order to survive).

The reality though is you can try to start up a company in a place like Boca Raton and unless you have some previous connections and major capital you're not going have the funding network and excess of high tech workers your company needs to really take off. Magic Leap basically went this route and seem to be doing fine but most companies aren't that high profile (and well funded).
You're missing places like Reading, where the salaries are London-ish (as you can just take a 25 minutes train to London for work), but the housing is cheaper. I pay for a decently sized house as much as I would pay for a tiny studio in London (and probably not in Zone 1)

Still probably more expensive than Berlin though :)
> It's the argument that was put at the front of the queue during the build-up to the referendum itself and makes for very polarizing headlines

Agreed.

> How can you say that it's ok to let anyone in but by saying we need checks and balances is racism?

Discrimination and racism sound like the same to me. I read people saying they would like to choose based on peoples skills, which is a complete nonsense. Why not let the market decide? People would be able to come in as they like, if they wouldn't get a job nor benefits, I'm sure they would go away. Otherwise, it would mean they have a place in here. Wouldn't that be a wiser decision?
except 7 still works better since it doesn't have to deal with all the Metro (tablet/touch interface) bits.

Honestly, What metro bits? If been using Windows 10 on my desktop since release and there are no metro bits that show up in my day to day use my computer. The only bits that where there in Windows 10 where the tiles in start menu, but they where easy to remove. Personally I consider Windows 10 a clear improvement over Windows 7 in just about every aspect.
Same thing happened at the University of Washington which as a world class research institution has only a single glass shop in the Physics department. A cost cutting *sshle chair (theoretician) didn't like the expenditures on experimental physics and forced the glass blower into early retirement. Chemistry doesn't even have one.

This is a beautiful HD video of sealing a nixie tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sKuQ8Fm8c

Borosilicate Glass working is like throwing clay + science, with added dimensions of heat and time.
I suspect that when basic income is implemented and people largely don't have vocational fufillment, many people will make functional artisitc works by learning about glass blowing on coursera and other places and mastering such a craft for its own sake.

edit: changed is => when
I read stuff like this an can only think of the EU as an abusive parent who punishes kids who leave. Perhaps the EU needs to do some introspection on itself.