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Works for Apple every time.

BTW iPhone 6/6+ will probably get a recall in couple of years (if sheep complain loud enough) because again there is a design defect (like in every other Apple product, nvidia gpus, you hold it wrong, no cooling in laptops, moisture sensitive parts positioned right next to ports etc), Touch IC is not supported by metal rf shield like in all previous phones and cracks joints due to normal usage flex of whole phone body = grey bar on top of lcd and dead touch.
That's not an unreasonable assumption, I just wonder how you'd tell what the gender is of an anonymous irc person who could be anywhere in the world?

So I think that 99% of blackhats could be women. How can that be disputed?

I doubt many of these blackhat types ever actually meet in person.
I agree but also think that a self-replicating experiment is a different class of danger than a one-off experiment. If we get to self-replicating nanobots, I hope the level of caution there goes well beyond that of the Manhattan project.
But if you label it, why wouldn't you start labeling all other sorts of ridiculous things?

GMO vs not-GMO is irrelevant information for the consumer outside of marketing and ignorance-based paranoia.
If it comes to that I can just use Erlang's implementation but my question is why the omission in Elixir when arrays are supported in Erlang? With Elixir's excellent macro support surely an Elixir wrapper around Erlang's arrays wouldn't be so difficult?
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Since when is caring about Engineering standards became Luddite?

How many lives do you think autopilot is going to save if being as good as a sleep deprived teenager is good enough? And who benefits from that state of affairs?

Anyways, you are a true beliver or a paid shill, so have a good night. EOM.
The demonization of GMOs has been one of the most frustrating things for me to witness. GMOs are not inherently bad (as everyone here is basically agreeing with), but it is unfortunate that their primary use case right now is for a shitty company to squeeze more profit out of its customers, so you can kind of see why it's easy to be against GMOs. I still don't agree with it though.

I hope public opinion changes on this, but I don't have much hope until some very positive things actually start to happen with GMOs.
Change Your Perspective
It is normal and expected that people present arguments because they come to the desired conclusion. However the reason those people believe those arguments has nothing to do with that conclusion. The result is that the arguments both don't convince, and the same arguments fail to convince you in a different situation where the facts line up differently.

That said, people who do try to come to evidence based conclusions will pay attention to science in both cases.
How about a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a self-published book? You two can be co-authors that way people get to read his experiences as well as your investigation.

It is an election year. Perhaps you could introduce him to Clinton's campaign. They could hire him to do campaign related work (so he has a paycheck) while she can use his story to make a case for reforms in the legal system.
It goes against the idea that labels should be helpful and contain useful information. For example, compare with a similar idea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Even if the software was blameless, I could see an incident like this setting back acceptance of autonomous driving a couple of years.
No way. The validity of backwards looking data on every project I've ever worked on is sacrosanct.
94% of fatal accidents are due to human error, and preventable if you remove impairment, inattention, and poor judgement from the equation.
>I would love to give all my income minus expenses. I could easily make it so I have zero after my expenses. But that's not how things work for individuals...

Of course that's how it works. There is nothing that stops you from donating extra to the government. If you really wanted to you could easily do it.
When dedicated server providers don't react to complaints, complaints are instead sent to their upstream transit providers. Dutch based hosting provider Ecatel is an example that quickly comes to mind where their upstream providers simply stopped peering with them due to content issues. Hosting providers typically do not like the overhead that comes with handling DMCA and similar requests, servers that are very high risk should ideally operate with their own ASN and peering arrangements.

Most hosting providers I have dealt with expect abuse resolution within 24 hours, five days is a very long time for abuse issues to be handled.
I'd have thought the auto-brake would be expected to react faster than a human driver in that situation. So if you saw such an event and the car wasn't already braking you'd hit the brakes, not sit around waiting to find out if it handled it or not.
As a way for people to feel like they understand something that they really don't. The human mind will make all kinds of contraptions (religion etc.) as an attempt to rationalize and understand the unknown. I think stereotypes serve the same purpose.
It's worth noting than BNNS (the CPU library Apple released) defines just 3 layer types. It's clear they are for now targeting just convolutional networks (the kind you'd use for computer vision), and even then just the simplest possible kind (for example Alexnet, now ~4 years old).

There needs to be much more functionality to build a state-of-the-art vision network, such as Google's Inception v3, at least if you want to avoid writing your own layer definitions. Hopefully they'll expand this out later. In the foundation keynote they did mention using LSTMs for predictive text, so hopefully more advanced things are in the pipeline and just haven't been API-ified yet.

For reference, the deep learning library I'm working on will contain 17 layer types in its first version, with later versions probably asymptoting to double that. There are a LOT of things out there that deserve their own layer types.

EDIT: to be fair to Apple, since convolution, pooling, and fully connected layers are among the most costly layers, they are the most valuable to have efficient platform implementations for.
Thanks, Apple, but no thanks. I'd rather stick with the completely open-source Google Tensor Flow rather than lock myself into any more of Apple's proprietary shit.
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Well, it's going to depend on the feature. Slightly improved UI on the radio's touchscreen is a bit different from Tesla's autopilot.

In the case of autopilot, I'd say similar to a drug study, as it's something that can cause serious harm or death to the human subjects involved. Tesla should have an IRB for ethical monitoring, there should be a small trial group initially (and very gradual rollouts to larger groups), participants should receive informed consent at a Tesla store with emphasis on the risks and what's necessary to use the feature safely, and someone should have the authority to pull the plug on the study if it proves too dangerous.

Given the state autopilot is reportedly in, I'd say right now no one should be using it without an in-person training at a Tesla store to emphasize the proper usage of it.
Linux support for oculus started to Decline when John Carmack joined the company and the final nail in the coffin was the Sale to Facebook, anyone that thought linux would be supported after those 2 events are ignorant to the history of computing

As for Valve and their Lack luster support of SteamOS, again you have to look at history, and why Valve started the SteamOS project, they do not have some Philosophical need to support an OpenSource Operating system, When Widnows 8 was announced it clearly looked like Ballmer was going to turn MS into Apple, and close the ecosystem. This was a direct threat to Valve's business model, so they responded as any company would with an attempt to diversify and at the same time control the platform for themselves.

With Ballmer Leaving, Windows 8 almost universally being rejected by consumers and business, and the release of the More Open and Traditional Windows 10 the "need" for SteamOS (in Valves eyes)has lessened considerably, which is why Valve has not pushed it as strong as they did a couple years ago. They still recognize the Risk being primary on Windows as such they will not kill the project but the "New Microsoft" seems to be embracing being more open than at any point in MS history so.... Including having their own Linux "distro" for Software Defined Networking, and working directly with RedHat and Canonical
I'm in the reverse position of knowing Ruby but not knowing Python. What am I missing out on by not knowing Python?

It seems machine learning is one thing, that is much better supported from Python, but anything else?
The Nobel laureate thing is a gimmick. "Nobel laureate" has a cachet that seems to sedate the brain. How many of these Nobel laureates have any real authority on the subject at hand that would make their signatures particularly meaningful?
Converting? Absolutely not.

A greenfield project? Sure why not, it's a great choice.
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That seems like the real problem, not the study habits of the students.
I wasn't very clear in that I was referring to developing new technologies.

Undeveloped parts of the world don't have access to even the most basic agricultural technology, like mechanization and efficient irrigation.

Of course it would be good to spread technologies both old and new. Inventing new things, including GMOs, is fantastic for those who adopt them, but won't help if undeveloped areas that have difficulty adopting any new techniques.
Agreed. It is worth a couple hundred bucks IMO. I bought it and it is very good.
>If you do not see these things are different, I doubt I could convince you otherwise.

If you can't articulate why they are different, then perhaps the distinction isn't as clear as you seem to think.

Why do you think a person incorporates a small business instead of operating as a sole proprietor? Why do you think small businesses save all kinds of receipts and pay accountants to ensure they are maximizing expenses?
I agree. It's very, very annoying.
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What if I want to push/pop it and also access it randomly by index? PHP gets a lot of stick for making arrays serve double purpose but the Elixir advocates of using maps for array purposes are basically arguing for the same thing, no?
IIRC Action Cable was inspired by Phoenix's Channels.
Seems as valid (and invalid) as the implied conclusion here:

> This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles.
The market for glyphosate-resistant crops is competitive, it isn't just Monsanto selling them.

(glyphosate itself went out of patent in 2000, the various resistance mechanisms may be under patent)
I'm not anti-GMO per se, but the behavior of Monsanto and its ilk cloud the issue.

Also, CRISPR and related biotech advances are a completely different level of impact. Should we wipe out mosquitos? See eg https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601213/the-extinction-inv...
Selective plant breeding, this aint.
I reject the notion that self-replicating organisms ought to be treated as intellectual property, and I have concerns about particular commercially-available herbicides that rely upon gene sequencing to make them safe for plants. I have no substantive concerns about eating the available GMO product.

Yet the pro-GMO movement wishes to frame the anti-GMO movement as a cause which is focused upon the harms of consumption. It's dishonest at best, and has me questioning for motives.
You can stick to TensorFlow for training your networks, but if you want to deploy a trained network to iOS or macOS devices (and your network is expressible in terms of Apple's primitives), you'd be doing your users a disservice not to use the fastest and most energy efficient backend to do the actual inference.

I'll add that at this point, there's isn't much 'lock in' between different frameworks. Once you've trained, and if your primitives are available in the target framework, porting is just a matter of getting your weights and topology into the right format. Not too hard compared to the nitty gritty of gathering data, designing a network, and doing training and hyperparameter optimization.
What I didn't see in the article is the percentage of fines that come from each race. If Ferguson MO is 65% black then it would make sense that roughly 65% of the fines come from blacks, but if 80% comes from the black population then that would show a racial bias.
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Any mistakes made by biotechnology would be short-term rather than long-term. Absent artificial selection pressures, something like golden rice would quickly revert to regular rice. What usually gets brushed aside is the fact that resources are not unlimited, and it takes extra energy for rice to produce that extra vitamin A, meaning it probably grows slower compared to unmodified rice. If we just left it unattended, not selecting the golden rice kernels for replanting, all the rice would eventually shed themselves of this useless gene that's slowing them down.

Same with the bt crops. The fear about the genes getting out in the wild is greatly exaggerated. Individuals with those extra energy-sucking genes are really at a disadvantage once the selection pressure is turned off.
Bought it, went through 1/2 of it in a day, think it is really good. Informative watching the author's design choices and refactoring of the code base as he added new features and builds up the game from "hello world" to pretty full featured. I am a professional programmer and in my opinion this would be tough to understand for someone who wasn't already an experienced programmer, but I've never used Lua or coded games before.
This doesn't look like feature creep, but coreos bought into systemd big time, and with etcd being used in more places, the temptation of feature creep grows... and that's worrying.
Your point is well-taken. This qn comes up often enough for similar use cases and hence I asked if someone has data to support an arg. Considering the criticality of Zk in the larger stack and our success and operational expertise with it, it has to take significant convincing to switch to something like etcd.

The following two paragraphs from the etcd project site seem to hint that they're trying to target overlapping use cases:
"Your applications can read and write data into etcd. A simple use-case is to store database connection details or feature flags in etcd as key value pairs. These values can be watched, allowing your app to reconfigure itself when they change.

Advanced uses take advantage of the consistency guarantees to implement database leader elections or do distributed locking across a cluster of workers."
Looking up info on the inception architecture. Here is a paper if others are wondering:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00567v3

From late 2015, so I guess the most up to date info? It only mentions v2. Is there a paper for v3?

Edit: Sure enough v3 is right there. I saw the early focus on v2 and jumped to the big dumb assumption that v3 wasn't in there.
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So far I have...

https://github.com/reddit/reddit

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Put one on ROV for a trip to Loch Ness! That, or scavanging old outboard motors in muddy lakes.

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The Finance Director wanted the police to generate more revenues from fines

If you've already criminalized so much of daily life that there's an essentially unlimited amount of "criminals" to go out and fine whenever you need a little extra cash, you've ceased to be "law enforcement" at all and have simply implemented a brutally regressive tax scheme, Sheriff of Nottingham style.
These debates on the merits/possible side effects of GMOs often disregard an important point. Why are companies modifying the genomes of plants? For the big four GMO crops - corn, soybeans, cotton and canola, many of the modifications are focused on breeding in pesticide resistant traits so that more pesticides may be sprayed (which has environmental implications and ultimately will fail as the organisms targeted by the pesticides become resistant). For other crops, many of the modifications are cosmetic - e.g. apples that don't brown after being cut. It's much rarer for crops to be genetically modified for nutrition (as in the case of the golden rice). I often wonder: what if all of the effort used to produce these GM crops was focused on increasing the acreage and availability of crops that were nutritious and finding better ways to implement non-chemical control of pests? Of course it would me much more difficult to sell those solutions....

Just to clarify, I'm not anti- or pro-GMO, but think the other factors and motivations deserve consideration.
"That would seem to argue that severely deleterious effects will only persist as long as people keep creating more of that modification and thus preventing unwanted spread of such things."

Eh, sorta. I didn't say it precludes living a long time or reproduction, more that its not a necessity.

I don't have huge concerns with GMOs but do worry more on the ecological side - specifically biodiversity and whether superspecies will have larger unintended impacts than we predict today. The flip side to this is that using less resources to produce our food is a tremendously under-discussed ecological benefit of GMOs.
Just to be clear, Javascript's arrays will, depending on the implementation, dynamically switch between sparse and compact implementations. A sparse javascript array literally behaves like a javascript object or a map with an integer index. Ruby and Python's arrays will grow as long as the allocator can alloc more memory onto the end, but has to copy the entire array if there's memory fragmentation...it's not quite the same as a C array.

Because of the immutable data, your best hopes are actually vectors or maps.

Btw, the erlang library you mention implements arrays on top of a tree of 10-ary(-ish) tuples. It'd need to be measured, but I'd be willing to bet that the native maps are faster at access, insert, and delete. The maps are implemented in C, and worst case for all operations would be O(n log n) or similar.
Indeed - we see some really innovative uses of OSS on GitHub from companies you wouldn't expect. Software is an enabler of their business, initially; then, it becomes totally interwoven.

One of my favorites? John Deere. https://github.com/johndeere
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Mark, that's a legitimate question, but shouldn't you also ask how many Spotify customers forgot to turn off auto-renew? After all, they are also quickly acquiring customers.

In my opinion, a lot of users of streaming media services are neither enthusiastic customers nor entirely forgetful. Their opinions of the services they pay for aren't consistent from day to day, either.
> About the only use-case I can think of where Ruby has a clear advantage is in creating a DSL

Yep. Chef and Puppet (machine configuration tools) are written in Ruby.
Sure, but that doesn't necessarily have to do with GMOs. Say we pass a mandatory GMO labeling law and, in response, Monsanto figures out a way to make pesticide-resistant seeds through normal cross-breeding. Now we're back in the same place we started, except with labels that confuse people into thinking GMOs are bad.
Yeah I don't get it. Is the company offering investors more equity in order to prevent a lawsuit for failing to disclose the shady stuff they were doing?
At the end of the article it states that they offered their employees a chance to leave if they wanted with a generous severance package and that 10% took it. Doesn't sound like they forced them to leave.
Can't imagine this is legal. It sounds like they are trying to dilute out Conrad specifically by significantly repricing the earlier rounds and then covering existing employees with new grants. Anyone out of the good graces of the current management sees massive dilution and everyone else is untouched. How is this not just stealing Conrad's shares?

The extra kicker is investors signing up for the free shares agree to waive all claims... except against Conrad. Wow, that's vengeful!
We're talking about JSON parsing here: a solved problem.

Solved for your use case(s), you mean. You're saying that you cannot imagine a reasonable circumstance under which off-the-shelf solutions wouldn't fit your needs? (Hint: if you write code for a living, this very scenario is why you have a job.)
Environmentalists are those with concerns about environmental consequences and advocate for scrutiny of things which may lead to them.

The organizations chartered with environmental concern decidedly focus on such things.

There are certainly people who are anti-internet or anti-medicine, but they are called different things. Additionally there are purely anti-capitalist people.

However, one can be pro-capitalist and pro-free market while simultaneously claiming that the tobacco companies violated this trust of the market.

People are complex creatures and take on a variety of labels with varying degrees of precision, passion, and commitment.
You're being extremely pedantic. Machines are getting better. Humans aren't.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, you've convinced me to take a moment and think more carefully about this.

The energy efficiency is an excellent point.

Ultimately I am still extremely leery of the apple lock in factor in general and their arbitrary rulings of what is and is not okay within the garden.

I am still pretty upset and maybe even somewhat traumatized about all the previous times they've fucked me over in scenarios like this. It starts out great and then gets ruined.

edit It looks like I've hit the HN rate limiter, so I'm merging my reply:

Unfortunately I can't go into detail about these scenarios because I don't want to get into trouble with my employer. Suffice it to say that I no longer place trust in Apple keeping anything of value "open".
Hmm, cool! The way I might go about that using Barrel would be to have many sequences in many players, can hook up your signals to call play() (or pause/rewind/stop, as needed) on the right player.

Also, Barrel has no built-in story for animations or anything HTML specific. But you can include tweening information in the events that make up the sequence, as long as your "doer" function knows how to perform them.
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That's the right paper. On page 8 you'll see the line "The last line is referring to all the changes is
what we refer to as “Inception-v3” below".
I was looking into those who signed (currently at 110 by the way) and I was a bit interested in the age range. Even though the years that individuals were granted the prize ranged to as far back as 1962 (James Watson was around 32 at the time), I didn't find anyone who's currently under 60 who signed. My search was far from exhaustive, so I'd be interested if anyone found a young laureate on this list.