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I think it's pretty obvious that raw computing power alone isn't enough to get True AI, and there's no guarantee we'll need a stupidly powerful processor for AI in the first place.

Also, we mainly ignore parallelisation because it's hard to reason about, which makes it easy pickings for AI to improve on if we do need stupidly large amounts of computing power. Although if it's inherently linear we're just SOL I guess.
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This seems extremist to me. The reality is that there's a huge convenience with EU benefits, especially the shared currency. The UK never got rid of the pound and was always a body of water away from the rest of Europe. If any member was going to leave, it makes sense that the one least interested in the EU would.

I imagine the "new" EU will be Germany-centric now (considering how poorly France, Italy, and Spain are doing) and smaller countries who require German investment, products, etc will not poke the bear with leaving. A more Germanic Europe may or may not be something to worry about.

I do suspect that the parts of the EU that aren't economic like its various social regulations are a major turn off and that the EU might reform into a set of economic and monetary treaties instead of this USA-style federal government. I think the EU shows the worst of European leftism and needs reform to accommodate a more diverse political spectrum. The more conservative UK couldn't stomach it any longer, and I certainly applaud their autonomy here. It seems like they were getting the least out of the deal.

edit: HN won't let me reply so I'll just edit this comment:

Where to start? Its all a complex mess, but EU membership means your country is now beholden to at least the following:

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

European Court of Justice (ECJ)

The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)

and that's on top of things like the EU's immigration policies, which was what turned the tide in the UK.

edit2: to the guy who wrote "A lot of traditional issues for European left and green movements were enshrined into EU law, and there is no appetite whatsoever to abandon them."

Then countries will abandon the EU just like the UK did. I also think you're purposely downplaying the huge loss of autonomy EU membership requires. Allowing a foreign court power over your citizens is a major loss of autonomy, even if you have -some- say in the process that builds that court. Its still not your court or your rules. Its all a terrible consensus of European leftism that differs from your values. Clearly, the UK voters weren't on board with European leftism. Why can't the EU promote a more diverse political spectrum than just the far left?
The reason why Blackmagic hardware is cheaper is that it's rubbish. Bad hardware, bad firmware, bad drivers. Everyone I know that's ever owned Blackmagic (myself included) has had a bad time. It's not worth buying from them just to save a hundred dollars.
Essentially it boils down to whether you prefer a cohesive all-in-one framework/platform (angular2) or a collection of semi- and fully-independent libraries (react). Pretending that one of those options is the right fit for everyone is not productive.

The only thing really missing from Angular 2 compared to the React ecosystem is jsx. Angular 2 and RxJS (and if you want throw in ngrx/store) allows a heavy focus on immutability, unidirectional data flow, centralized state, etc. that ends up very similar to the React ecosystem conceptually.

Both allow native cross-platform mobile with React Native (react) and NativeScript (angular2), and Angular 2 also gives you a nice hybrid/webview option with Ionic 2. Angular 2 also gives you a bit tighter integration with TypeScript, if that is your preference (which it is mine).

Personally, for me, I like both a lot but the full-framework and tight TypeScript integration fit my use cases and personality better.
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Someone pointed out that if you talk to a CS rep and try to say that off, they'd just hear gibberish- meaning if someone tried to get at your stuff, they would just have to spout off gibberish and the CS rep would probably accept it.
The biggest crowd this was ever done with was NY Tech Meetup and it was bonkers: http://johndbritton.com/2010/08/04/live-coding-demo-at-new-y... (too bad the video doesn't work...looking for another).

Fred Wilson also wrote about that one: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product.html
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It is C# for the web, of which a small subset is great and can be used to make "JavaScript with types".

Or rather, TypeScript isn't bad, but the way it is documented might convince people to do bad things. It took forever to get "the good parts" of JavaScript in people's head, and that doc is really a step backward.

If you just use TypeScript's types and run away with that though, it's pretty good. If you start using classes all over, rely on private/protected/public like crazy to make complicated domain models, abuse decorators to hell, enums, etc... then it's C# for the web.

It doesn't have to be used that way, but those features made available and having a high focus in the official doc is causing a lot of issues when people coming from Java/C# hop in a TypeScript code base.

We don't use TS here, but when we hire people who come from TS companies, we have to tie them down for them not to start writing C#-like code, and remind them that it's structural typing, etc.
In terms of funding, yes. It's also the fintech capital of the world.

Regarding being the banking capital: it's been two business days. You might be jumping the gun just a little. ;-)
What do you mean by "Apple's approach"? I've never been forced to upgrade the OS on my iPhone or Macbook pro.
I think when we actually hit The Wall, we'll keep on improving (at a slowed pace) for a while afterwards based on the not-so-low-hanging fruit we've ignored up til then.
I recently ran into this issue when searching for an android app to watch some live sports broadcast from a well known (but dodgy) pirate streaming service.

I found dozens of forum posts and blog entries advertising untrustworthy packages of Kodi bundled with 3rd party binary plugins.

I know not to get involved with them but there are plenty of people who can't resist the allure of free pirate content and fall into these scam malware apps.

I feel bad for the Kodi guys :(
Can Scotland veto? I don't think it can?
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You can run a email server off a raspberry pi these days.
Conventional wisdom is that they are risky if you might need to sell right away. Not so much if you're going to hold for 5-10 years or more.
also london was heavily remain, you were in a remain bubble compared to the rest of the uk.
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And even when they don't it doesn't invalidate the warnings. You want to avoid even a small risk of a very big negative outcome.
This is one of many more to come. Forcing people to install your new OS without their consent is scum bag behavior. With Apple I'm given the option to upgrade to a new version of the OS. On Windows, they want to cram it down your throat and hope for the best. And I won't even get into all of the psychological ploys they use to try and trick users into upgrading to Windows 10.
Wasn't there talk of building YC dorms at one point?
Just curious, are you working in one? link?
Or they're on Comcast with wifi in a large apartment building. I have a 250mS ping, and I'm definitely not in China.
I'm just critically interpreting the facts as presented in articles you linked, which as I pointed out do not support your claim. At least your newest citation allows readers to judge for themselves. I think it's a stretch to claim that it was a campaign promise [from Farage], but that's up to you to decide.

I voted Remain, BTW, and don't support UKIP. But I'm not prepared to grab pitchforks on a tenuous claim of hypocrisy either.
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I don't think this is something that'd be shockingly hard to teach AlphaGo to do itself. But it's an additional variable that they probably didn't want to throw to chance going into this competition. As a relatively simple formula, hard-coding it prevents a weird oddity from costing them the match.
Typescript really has more to offer with react. It type checks the jsx(tsx), Offers code completion on components and their properties, you can refactor/rename properties and components throughout your project without side effects. Typescript is kind of blind to angular templates.

React offers ability to use same code on server side and client side. Easier to test a Vdom library. It's a lot less complex, it's perf is a lot better, you can live edit. The biggest selling point is you can create native apps using native ui with a lot of code re-use.

React + ts definitely give you a bigger bang for buck. I spent 2.5 years of my life writing angular code. It definitely has some good ideas but I won't be investing so much of my time in angular 2 anymore.
Lots of people have heard about deep learning but dont really know where to start. When I was starting a year or so ago I was in the same place. I just took the resources that I used to learn about the field and put them all in one place. As far as I know, this hasnt been done before. Im not trying to provide any new insights into deep learning.
I saw a "please disable ad-blocker" content-blocker.
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True. But it will be LISTED as optional on the form.

If you get an interviewed by the thugs at the border it will definitely be non-optional for all intents and purposes.

The whole thing is messed up either way. They'll no doubt just start asking you to log into your social media accounts so they can go through your personal shit, I've had US border agents go through my phone and ask me idiotic questions about the photos on it (all family vacation photos).

Entering the US or UK is a pretty terrible experience all around. They're rude for no reason (and it has nothing to do with their job), overly invasion, and their entire justification is based on their own gut rather than fact (inc. ten year bans).

PS - I have never been rejected at any border. Just been hassled a few times.
Is close to english :)
Forced, no. Incessantly bothered, yes. iOS in specific starts popping up modal dialogs once it sees a new update.
>> Was London at any point the startup capital of Europe?

Yes. On paper, London was home to countless new companies funded by billions of dollars. The fact that those companies were asset tools, ghosts incapable of producing anything beyond tax advantages, doesn't take away from their definition as "startups".
I am indeed jumping the gun, but the banking industry has been known to move geographically for far fewer reasons.

A striking example would be the move of the entire banking industry from Montreal to Toronto, due to the growing separatism in and around Montreal.
I think this article is completely wrong.

The things that make London attractive to startups will stay the same. Not being in the EU won't change that.

Additionally, it talks about UK attitudes to immigration, but London is completely separate from the rest of the UK in terms of these sort of things.

Expect a lot of very silly things to be written about UK/EU over the coming months.
Index funds crash whenever the market does. In 2008/2009 they were down 50% just like the indices they track.
I feel certain that something is being lost in translation here. At face value it seems like a crazy thing to announce - of course, who wouldn't let their daughter play a board game against a computer?

Whether she has professional aspirations or not, it seems completely harmless.
Because toast0 knows what they wrote, but a team member wouldn't. So instead of googling "Flask add cookie to response" you have to start digging through all of toast0's code to see if they even have a way.

At least that's why I would consider working on a team like that much worse.
>Remember that acquisition is a form of recruitment, too.

But for whom? That startup is just as likely picked up by Microsoft, Facebook, or Apple than Google.
I've always heard 20 years. Look at stagflation in the US in the 70s.
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His early life in Hungary - you mean helping confiscate the property of his fellow Jews?

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/george-soros-on-helping-t...
I saw this done in person at the NY Tech Meetup, probably around 2010 or so, and it was the most effective startup presentation I have ever seen.
Because it's a very unrealistic statement, one that is taken seriously only by the Anglo press.

Most EU countries do not have governments with a solid mandate to leave (not even Syriza in Greece campaigned on leaving). In fact, most Eu countries do not have governments with a solid mandate at all.

France is in turmoil over neoliberal reforms; Italy is in the middle of a constitutional change; Spain just voted and split three ways with little chance to get a majority; and the EU as a whole has bigger fish to fry than localized grievances (refugee crisis, slow economy etc).

To be honest, mood on the continent is mostly "good riddance", considering the UK was the most problematic and anti-federalist government of the bunch. That's why there is absolutely no appetite or call for a rethink coming from that side; they'd all very much like for us to trigger art.50 asap and not let the door hit us on the way out.
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So is it better for the EU / global economy?
Microsoft and Apple try to protect users from themselves. Users get angry. Users get hacked. Users get angry again.
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You're forgetting the weight of data and user practice for a mainstream project. Consider how those two scenarios would unfold:

Apple makes a mistake in 10.11.6 and ships a kernel without DTrace. Everything runs but a few nerds notice and file bug reports. 10.11.7 quietly ships and all is right with the world.

In contrast, shipping a new filesystem is enormously invasive: billions of hours are spent globally rewriting EVERY storage pool in existence. Some percentage of those will fail due to hardware problems or corruption which happened years ago (or even somewhere else) but was previously unnoticed, flooding support and the news with dire predictions. Every crash or performance issue noticed for the next year will probably be vocally blamed on the new filesystem, even if there are clear signs pointing elsewhere.

You don't want to deal with that any more than you have to.
I don't really have anything constructive to add to this, but the idea that the government is setting up bullys on the border to educate foreigners on how to deal with its citizens in a way that doesn't end in death, is beyond fucked up.
What about those many of us who do not have facebook or twitter profiles? Are we now to be red-flagged as suspicious. Perhaps this is just a marketing stunt, an attempt to force more people onto US social media platforms.
802.1x at the ISP? That'd be a very interesting proposition.
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I suppose they mean taking Apple's "We know what is good for you better than you do" approach. While Apple currently does not force OS upgrades, they do make a lot of decisions for their users without giving their users an opt-out or a way to roll back. This idea top-down, walled garden is pretty central to contemporary Apple.
Got a price slightly above that in EUR. A cluster of 1 to 5 nodes should go for ~24.000€ (customer would've been SMB non-IT enduser company). My gut reaction was: Insane. They do include infrastructure consulting, support and the premium plugins as part of that. So at least if you can grab lots of consulting that way I can see where they are going. Then again, needing lots of consulting is a problem in itself. And I guess operating Elasticsearch is not for the faint of heart anyway...
Maybe admitting to not reading the whole article, making a glib comment, and asking for someone else to do your thinking for you just wasn't received well.
I thought the problem was that the investors assume they will have to fly to where you are?
To nitpick, Republic of Ireland is an EU member and shares a land border with the UK via Northern Ireland. The question of what happens with that border once the UK leaves the EU is still unaddressed AFAIK.
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It was 60/40 in favour of remain. Not all that heavily.
Opt out may not be an option[0]. Even though the scanners don't work[1].

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/travel/tsa-airport-screening-c...
[1] http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/airport-security-price...
Interesting point. I think that's the first half of the presentation:

"we have taken the entire messy and complex world of telephony..."

Twilio _chose_ and solved a problem that sucked. If your product doesn't solve a tough problem, it will be almost impossible to get the same "wow" factor that Twilio does.

Maybe the answer is that less obvious applications will simply be at a disadvantage right out of the gate.
In terms of AWS costs, running your own cluster will cost significantly less, specially if you use reserved instances. The AWS ES instances cost ~1.6x more than their regular counterparts. Also, you can't reserve ES instances.
This looks like an interesting project, but what makes it different from the CloudFormer tool already provided by CloudFormation?

On a slight aside, among the many features I wish CloudFormation supported, one of the biggest is the ability to create a new stack and fold existing resources into it, including highlighting but allowing any discrepencies. If you didn't develop with CloudFormation from the beginning (or perhaps are migrating from Terraform) then having to move your environment "sideways" into a new stack can be pretty painful.
Beyond the impact to the Kodi project, I wonder how many people are contacted by their ISP over copyright infringement notifications who have no idea why they are being contacted. Amongst the flaws with the current take-down model, this is perhaps the biggest and one which may become quite the problem. I'm waiting for the day someone releases a WebTorrent ad with the explicit goal to overwhelm copyright enforcement. Ten years ago, if you were pirating content you likely knew. These days it's very possible to be engaged in pirating without ever knowing.
There are many helpful things about Windows 10 - security, update, performance. Then there's the new screwed-up interface. If they'd staged these two, or offered them separately, there'd be less resistance.
> Was London at any point the startup capital of Europe?

Yes, very much so. I am an experienced Data scientists, and I looked around Europe for the last four years, needing a new job every three to six months, and London consistently had the top 5 best offers, be it in quality of the project, money raised, size of the db, etc. The conferences have been consistently larger, better and more relevant here than in Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki. The Meet-ups everywhere were good, but you have usually 5 people who are familiar with your specific implementation at most, 10 more considering it; in London, you have three to ten times that many people.

I have not tried working in Berlin yet, but all signs seem positive, and life is much cheaper there.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying on iOS. Every day...
Speaking as a singularitarian: The only thing that has stopped is free scaling of photolithography.

Our most advanced computing systems fill the equivalent volume of a large snowflake. Scaling down is over; the future is scaling up and sideways. (Power consumption, price...)

The only unit that ever really mattered is amortized flops per inflation adjusted dollar.
While slippery slope might technically be a logical fallacy, it seems to be the MO of every government everywhere.
I think the point is that this was very expensive.
This isn't a short sided article... George Soros is famous for "breaking the bank" in the early 1990s so there were tons of people curious as to where he was positioned on Friday. That's it. It doesn't matter if this turns out to be a disaster, neutral or a good thing for the UK. All that people wanted to know was if Soros hit the lottery twice.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank...
The paternalism i.e. forcing the user to do things the right way.
It can't. Scottish Law is subordinate to Westminster.
Risk is an umbrella term.

The risk we are talking here is risk according to the modern portfolio theory. It's the variance of a portfolio. Index funds spread the risk across multiple stocks, to reduce variance. Stock markets have overall greater variance than bonds, so the risk of index funds is is higher than bonds.

The risk decreases with time. This is why you should see index funds as long term investment. In 10-15 year time period total return of index funds is relatively low risk.

There are other risks in all financial investments. Variance is not the only one.
In terms of elections, 60/40 is a landslide.
Which social regulations are you talking about?
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I had a problem with this when the recent iOS 9.2 update was bricking iPad Pros. My iPad had downloaded the update but (having seen early reports of problems) I hadn't let it install.

So naturally, it started incessantly popping up reminders asking to install it, and if you hit "Later" it tells you to enter your passcode and automatically installs it later. There's a small bit of text below the PIN pad that you have to tap to skip it, and it'll come back and ask you again over and over. It is definitely Windows10-esque.

It keeps attempting to install despite the fact that Apple had pulled the release when they confirmed the bricking issue. As far as I can tell there is no way to stop it.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It is clear that MS has Apple (and Google) envy and is ramming Win10 down user's throats to get in on the marketing game and wants to run one single OS controlled by them.
Your problem is that you don't seem to have sufficient understanding of the concept of limits.
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I saw here one perfect "website" framework that act as mobile. You could swipe screens (left to right), have a menu, list.. it was maybe in white/silver.

Can somebody paste link here as I forgot it's name?

Thank you in advance guys!!
Looking at European history over the past 500 years doesn't bode well for cooler heads. The European Union's main aim was to bring peace to the region. Economic growth and immigration were secondary aims.

If the purpose of the union was peace then one can surmise that disintegration of the union will almost certainly lead to a greater probability of conflict. It might take another 50 years but that's often the case with incendiary points in history sparking raging fires many decades down the line.
> And that was the system the Constitution was written to replace.

Compared to what we have today, the Constitutional system is one of 'incredibly limited central government.'

> do you believe the United States would be better operating under such a system again?

I believe that the United States would be better operating under the Constitution than under the unconstitutional mess it is now.
Not if you want other people to read your email, its going to go right to their spam filter.
I found it reasonably helpful. Especially the line telling me what Maths prerequisites I should have and where to get them.
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Sure, but this was far higher than outside london.
Moving from XP to Windows 7 actually sped up a single core 32bit PC I have at home, but then the Win 10 installer filled up the hard drive, and consumed 50% CPU for months before I finally found a nice utility to completely remote it, and keep it gone. It was infuriating!!