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I really don't understand what sense does it make to leave the comment still visible to new readers, but out of context - if it is offensive then more people are going to read it and get offended, and without context it just doesn't make sense. Unless the idea is to use this as a form of shaming.

I managed a political online forum for a couple years, and IMHO it's much more correct to just remove or detach the thread so that it's not visible in the original discussion. Just my two cents.
> if we want to continue existing, they've gotta go.

what do you mean by that?
> EU was (understandably) tired of UK wanting to get yet more special treatment

Same negative characterisation the Greeks were given when they dared defy the EU. Can you give me any example of treatment wrt the EU and UK that was unfair?; The UK didn't seem to get as much out of the EU as many continental countries.
If you're a beginner at ML, the first course don't really need to be so thorough on math, especially for simple things like regression.

I'm not saying math is dispensable, I'm saying that it could be used much less because code allows it in many situation.
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It occurs to me that the "use another device" verification process built into iCloud Keychain would work well for this. You could make the entire thing cryptographic, actually: just store each device's "erase code" in the Keychain, such that you have to auth yourself on one of the devices that has the unlocked keychain in order to (automatically) grab the erase code and send it to the associated device.
Let's not oversell that.

There are maybe in total 2 compilers out there which are still usable (i. e. not 10 years out of date and unmaintained).

The specification is "open" in the sense that you can't build your own implementation of Java without accepting a proprietary licensing agreement with Oracle (assuming you even get one).
VB's XML literals are just shortcuts for creating the corresponding classes though, right? That's quite a bit different.
Yes, this passive-aggressive approach from Germans is pretty common. Tolerating for a while and then forcing you to switch, and then putting you back into "idiot mode" as you both sound funny and can't express anything precisely (and don't even try to read legal documents, even Germans can't themselves). If Mark Twain couldn't learn it properly (read his story about the Museum of Curiosities in Heidelberg), how much chance do you stand? When you start studying German in depth, you are going to soon realize that it's an extremely illogical language despite initial appearances. There are so many idiomatic non-sensical ad-hoc rules, you'd have to learn an awful amount of exceptions that are used daily, you simply have little chance to catch up with the natives that consider them normal... Tja

My advice - if you really want to move abroad, move to the US, much less issues overall and English is way simpler up to C2 level (which gets super hard) and you can get a recognition and make a bank way easier.
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Twokens could for example be used by companies to buy ad slots or reach on the distributed Twitter which would give twokens value.
That's fair. The comparison was a little unexpected, stark, and a detour from normal HN fare, but I still thought it was apt. (YMMV)
Men who have sex with men do report having more sexual partners than heterosexual men [1]; the number of sexual partners is a factor in the rate of HIV infection among gay men.

I think it would be reasonable to speculate the other major contributing factors are (as posted elsewhere) the hugely increased likelihood to transmit HIV during anal sex vice other kinds of sex and discrimination.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21884382
Who was giving the EU group discounts then?
The original 1/4" phone plug for switchboard use had a ball tip, rather than a pointed one. It's almost compatible with modern 1/4" jacks, but the proper jack is a "long frame telephone jack". I use those with antique Teletype machines. Unlike 1/4" audio jacks, the ring is not a ground, and the shell is always insulated.
Wow! So telling people not to overeat--to save resources--is the same as rounding up people and shooting them! You YCombinator people sure are nuts!

Yet you'll gladly tell people to drive less, or to change their lightbulbs to LEDs, things that could either greatly inconvenience people or cost money. Eating less is free!
As a matter of fact I wrote that English is our only shot (= hope) to have a lingua franca. If it has to be two separate languages... that means you just don't want a lingua franca. Which of course is perfectly legitimate, but I look forward to a future where my daughter will be able to work and live in any EU country without having to learn dozens of languages.
It also helps that they are very easy to keep clean during their useful lifetime.
>Everybody that has spent more than 3 hours on the internet already knows that everyone is out there to get you.

Yes, just like every adult knows thieves are out there to get to your valuables. It means you should secure them, sure, but that doesn't absolve them of guilt if/when they successfully steal based on your failure to store everything in an underground vault.
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I don't have telepathic abilities to guess what exactly author meant. My goal was to let them know that type systems are much more developed than what TypeScript provides, and to encourage them to go out and learn them, read many great books and discover all the type-system goodness that's lying out there for free.
> Just as a reminder it was the EU who ended the BS of every company having a stupid proprietary charger.

Did they? How did Apple get away with it?
I thought they were over valued. Their marketing and branding teams are on point, but besides that they resell Dorco razors, and blades then wrap them in brown paper.

And at this point what's to stop say Gillette or any other company competing with them at a loss selling the exact same razor?
This seems like a good reason for you to use that domain. But if someone else wants to do the same thing, it might be better for them to register their own domain that resolves to localhost rather than use yours - that way, they at least have control of how long their domain will be in existence and know that they control the IP address it resolves to.
Nobody ever said exercise more. (That may be bad advice for obese people too, because it will make them hungrier and they may injure their already strained joints). Plus, it won't help the environment. (That's the subject here!)

Just eat less!
Some of that data was almost certainly sent encrypted. I'd be slightly surprised to find that their internal emails weren't encrypted at the transport layer. If they were using Exchange or even GApps, that'd be the default.

It looks like a few individual mailboxes were popped. So even with a secure network, the result would have been the same.
> The trouble with micropayments is that all the enthusiasm for them comes
> from the people who want to collect them, not the people paying them.

That's because the people paying them have never lived in a world where micro-payments are possible, but the people who want to accept micro-payments have studied them, and see a potential. It's like before the car was invented: all the enthusiasm came from car inventors, not the general public; the people just wanted faster horses.

Micro-payments enable applications that were not possible before, like trustless pay-per-view, where you pay 0.1 cent per second of video. So the excitement is understandable, I think. The execution just hasn't been all that impressive.

I think the Stroem protocol [1] will be the winner in the short term (within the next decade), enabling a form of micro-payments that are not trustless, but with so little barrier to entry for micro-payment issuers and so huge benefits (send money to anyone anywhere instantly and incredibly cheap), I think it's inevitable. But just as with Bitcoin, we have to accept that it's not what some crypto enthusiasts envisioned. With Bitcoin, many people thought some cryptographic construction would solve the double spend problem, but in the end it was brute force - proof of work - that (partially) solved it. I think the same will be the case for micro-payments. We want trustless micro-payments, of course we do, but in the end I think a promissory note-based system will be stable enough that its lack of complete trustlessness (á la Bitcoin) won't be a deal-breaker.

[1] https://www.strawpay.com/docs/stroem-payment-system.pdf
Ask your drivers. I know if SF and Vegas they will all complain about how Uber increased their take. (Around the same time we saw a lot of articles about "unit economics" at startups.)
You're still screwed if you lose both devices (e.g. a burglary where both your phone and laptop are taken).
1) Regardless of whether or not Uber is making an actual profit, which is not the point of the article, it is quite easy to show that Uber is withholding more revenue from drivers than theoretically necessary - on all rides, Uber takes a percentage cut of the overall fare, along with ~$1 or so in fees. You could argue that Uber's cut goes to running Uber itself, but the whole point of the article is that there is no need for a monolithic company running the platform in the first place - the software running it is fairly easy to create (given that there are hundreds of ridesharing apps worldwide) and the server costs are minimal - if the average Uber fare is $10 and it takes a 20% cut, it is ludicrous to suggest each ride costs $2 in server time. $0.02c might be more accurate (or even $0.20, if you add in other operational expenses), but that's a delta of $1.98 or $1.80 not going to the drivers for every fare.

2) Yes, to a company that is owned by the drivers and gives them back the maximal share of the revenue, taking into account the (minimal) operating costs.

3) To call Uber a "mediator" when both the customer and the driver have no say in the cost of the fare is laughable. Uber unilaterally sets the price, and if you don't like it, you're shit out of luck.

4) Like the point I made in 1), Uber takes a much larger cut than what is truly necessary. Even if the hypothetical ridesharing co-op had the exact same fares as Uber, a much larger proportion of the fare goes to the driver. And I would disagree that riders are the only constrained variable - there is almost zero switching cost between different ridesharing services for not only the rider but the driver as well. If only Uber and the ridesharing co-op are the only options for ridesharing in a given city, and they have the exact same fares for customers, but the co-op pays the drivers better than Uber, any driver would logically switch to the co-op since they would be paid more, and the customers would quickly switch to using the co-op's app as well, since the waiting times would be shorter compared to Uber.
>Fair enough. But since when was the DNC officially a part of the US Federal Government?

U.S. Law (U.S. Code or "U.S.C.") doesn't just cover the government. It covers, well, the U.S. Were you thinking Constitutional Law, which limits the powers of the government?

The issue here is that the hackers are foreign. Had you compromised DNC (or RNC! or Goldman Sachs') servers and were an American, you can rest assured there'd be some not-so-friendly men in suits at your door.

It's one among a body of laws that makes black hat hacking and theft of private information illegal. That doesn't strike me as overreaching. I'd prefer that my computer (or my bank's servers) not be hacked – and that there be criminal laws in place to deter it. Just like how I should protect myself such that I'm not a victim of homicide... but I still appreciate homicide laws in place.

Sure, both I and the bank should have proper security protocols in place, but there should also be some criminal recourse for those who decide to commit such crimes.
Every time I try and turn off some weird functionality that makes me uncomfortable in Windows 10, it always gets re-enabled in a later update.

It's a great OS, sure. But Microsoft are doing a great job at making me switch to Linux faster.
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It's not nice, but if those people get harassed, then that'll put more pressure on the parties. So it still helps the goal of making it hard for government orgs to operate.
I just got a pair of Bose noise-canceling bluetooth headphones. They work great. I'm looking forward to doing away with the headphone jack.
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That's a pretty small sample of examples, and they all pretty much could be considered to relate to the same set of beliefs, communism.

So maybe communist ideologies have been used for as bad crimes as religion. But that doesn't prove for all lack of religion. In fact there's another example that proves a great many good to the lack of religion, that of democratic ideologies.

Now if I hypothesize, it seems I see a pattern, any time power is given absolutly to a fixed, non changing group of leaders, whose only mean of overthrowing is through force, it seems to cause atrocious violence. Such as when religion governs, or single ideologies such as communism or fascism governs, or when a single person in the form of a dictator does. Hence why democracy does slightly better.

On that note, ideologies that have as a goal to reign absolutly and supremely, which almost all religion have, and some other non religious ones, like communism and fascism have, then you can probably predict a long term negative impact of society, overshadowing all short terms benefits the ideologies might at first demonstrate.

It's also possible to attribute the harshness of communism to having to overthrow another entrenched great power, that of religion. So it should be considered, would a democratic state transition without atrocities to a communist one? Probably. Similarly, a democratic one would probably transition without atrocities to a religious one also. And this all goes back to having a way to transition that is alternate then simply through force. Any transition from a religious state, or a absolute ideology state, like communism, will require atrocious acts, because such state have no other means of self-adapting or correcting themselves. They're not agile in any way.
I mean Oracle's plans to eventually have AOT on the JDK instead of having us buying Excelsior JET, J9 or whatever.

Similarly Microsoft's efforts regarding MDIL cloud compiler, .NET Native and CoreRT.
History repeats itself - bloat was the main driver for forking Mozilla Application Suite 14 years ago, IIRC not very long after MAS included a chat client.
I agree with the bluetooth being inferior, I hate that the standard headphone jack is going away. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

That said I've been told that the 3.5mm jack takes up a surprising amount of internal space, and that between freeing up that space and a few other tweaks, getting rid of the jack substantially boosts battery life. Still, I think it's not a great trade-off, now you have to babysit a new battery in your headphones, which probably won't last a full day of use.

On a personal note, anticipated lack of a standard headphone jack is one of the reasons I upgraded to a 6S recently, this way I'll have the best 3.5-mm phone Apple made for a while. If I do have to upgrade later on, I'll be strongly tempted to get an SE instead of a higher end phone, as long as it has a 3.5mm jack.
They ship the phones with a small adapter that goes from micro USB to lightning. You're allowed a proprietary port into the phone as long as you provide the adapter for free.
No.

What would Microsoft do with billions of keystrokes from approaching 1.5 billion PCs? Especially since most of those keystrokes are probably Solitaire or GTA or some other game, or else they're from email or social networking (where somebody else has far more interest in your keystrokes).

In any case, running a real keylogger in Windows would be a magnet for the NSA and similar services, which would end up being far more trouble than it was worth....
Awesome. This is really refreshing to hear. How did you go about determining your valuation though? What is it based on?
Food is also one of the most common ways of dealing with stress, depression, or all sorts of mental disorders, minor and major. It's readily available and socially acceptable, and most people associate good feelings with many foods that are particularly high in calories. For some people, it's one of the only consistently rewarding things in their day.
You're exactly right, these are the thoughts that are going through everyone's head. The same thoughts we all had when moving from Windows XP when Vista was the replacement and no one really liked it. Companies I worked with stayed on XP until they literally had no other choice, and then reluctantly moved to Windows 7.

One of the biggest features of Windows in the small-medium business and even enterprise markets is backwards compatibility. If you're willing/able to give that up, you are free to switch anywhere. If you can't, you can't. You have to stick with Windows. I work at a major tech company and all of our laptops are Linux. But we also have Windows VMs because we're all required to run Microsoft Office. We're switching to Macs because we can run a non-Windows system but still have Office (with the exception of Visio, unfortunately).

"A lot more viable options" exist, except when you need Windows software. In which case, no more viable options will ever exist until a new version of Windows is released. The more likely outcome is Microsoft pushing Windows 10 Enterprise a little harder.
Agree! Also raising beef uses a huge amount of water and energy compared to supporting a vegetarian diet. Also, cow and pig farts might have an adverse affect.
Big media outlets and the DNC? CNN even had their frontpage with Trump and Putin pictures side by side saying "Russia Helping Trump?" The actual story was more clear that it was just someone in a campaign accusing Russia. But the headline and setup was obviously intended to convey a different idea.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trai...

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/24/politics/robby-mook-russia...
Ooh, this lead to all sorts of interesting reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege
"""The privilege was first officially recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953). A military airplane, a B-29 Superfortress bomber, crashed. The widows of three civilian crew members sought accident reports on the crash but were told that to release such details would threaten national security by revealing the bomber's top-secret mission ...

...

In 2000, the accident reports were declassified and released, and it was found that the assertion that they contained secret information was fraudulent. The reports did, however, contain information about the poor condition of the aircraft itself, which would have been very compromising to the Air Force's case."""

So a Supreme Court case established precedence based on false claim of secret privilege from the government. That's pretty awful- if correct, it's a huge abuse of privelege.

Incidentally, I was not surprised to see Lucent mentioned in the Wired article- its predecessor, Bell Labs, had a very strong relationship with national security (The Idea Factory showed that the head of Bell Labs and the head of AT&T both maintained "secret schedules" where they would go to DC and share a lot of AT&T's access with security agencies.
I have an old one written some time ago by myself too, in node.js/javascript: https://github.com/crystalline/dnnjs
It is a simple multilayer perceptron with ReLU nonlinearity, it can achieve 1.7% error on MNIST which is bad compared to convnets but good enough for multilayer perceptron. Training a model is as simple as running "node node-mnist.js" in terminal.
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> The thing I would like to get working is telling the net "here is a ton of different buttons, grids, lists and a lot of other UI stuff, and there are all our products - I want to maximize revenue - do whatever you like to get there".

As you referenced in your footnote, this goal is a little like the goal of putting a man on the moon, if the year is 1900. One could the make the case that something resembling an AGI agent would be needed to design/manage a merchant website with any degree of introspection and customizability. Your machine would need to understand business objectives, UI patterns, aesthetics, etc before taking the helm, and these things take years to learn even for even humans. This is not to say that AGI isn't an admirable goal, but that it's an obvious one, just as I imagine reaching the moon was in the centuries leading up to 1969.

Scientific research is certainly a massively parallel effort, pushing the boundary of our knowledge in many different direction at once, but rest assured that there are many good men and women working in this specific direction.

(also know that I have a lot of respect for this kind of vision-oriented thinking, especially because it generally leaves the writer vulnerable to criticism like this)
> And yet it seems very clear they did not know this.

And therein rests your case. But you appear to be simply taking them at their word on this, to me. Unsophisticated observers will say, "Why would they do something so colossally stupid that it'd bankrupt their firm". But the person is not the firm. The person quite often can permanently enrich himself on the path to firm-wide dissolution.
The definition you just gave for co-op also includes any publicly owned corporation.
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Here is a graph with various model predictions towards 2100, under a "business as usual" scenario. As you can see, even the most pessimistic models are below 2C by 2050. I have no idea where 3.5C by 2035 came from, no models predict such a shocking rate. (We were only up ~0.7C over the last century.) Also note that none of these models reproduce the last decade's global warming hiatus; given that constraint, temperature predictions for 2100 will be slightly cooler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Warming_Predicti...
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Interesting idea, but to be honest I think it will never take off in a large scale.

If you want to write a vague and generic piece of code that can figure out by itself what it is that its outputs ought to be with regards to its inputs, you are, with effect, creating artificial intelligence.

This, in turn, requires teaching.

What if suddenly you have new pages on your website? Your AI program thingy wouldn't be able to serve them until you taught it what these pages are and in what situations the end user might be interested in viewing them. Imagine having a 5 year old kid handling your shop's cashier. And now a new product arrived and you have to explain to him/her that there's this new product, what it's called, the price and which types of people are allowed to buy it (e.g., alcohol couldn't be sold to people younger than X years old). If you're really teaching your application with natural language, like you would with a five year old, then the effort it'd take to get that info into your system would defeat the purpose of actually using a computer to do it (computers are good at storing and looking up stuff in large data sets, better than humans for really large data sets).

This whole hype of machine learning is suitable for situations where you have large amounts of data and you want them crunched according to some basic pre-established and non-changing logic without relying on actual human labor. If the logic evolves, you'll always require humans to sit at the helm and steer the right and wrong.

My 2 cents.