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> "What it boils down to is do you want to have us control our own laws and decisions and borders, or have to take orders from some bureaucrat in Brussels that doesn't understand us?"

> Yes, I would rather have decisions made by people in Brussels that understand what they're doing.

Julia Reda is a MP inside the EU parliament. She was voted in their and is not some bureaucrat. The voter turnout in Great Britain was 36 % in 2014, so it is partly their own fault if the do not feel represented by their representatives.

Günther Oettinger however was rescued from an historic loss of the conservative CDU against the Greens in the state of Baden-Württemberg [0] where he was minister-president (governor in the US). It was the first time the Greens were the big partner in a coalition to govern a German state. Oettinger screwed up a big project to rebuild a train station followed by many protests, police scandals and so on [1]. His genius argument why Stuttgart should not have a terminal station, when Paris has one, is that there are no people living west of Paris. The CDU lost the election on the topic of nuclear energy and Oettinger was then of all places appointed to be Commissioner of Energy. People also ask themselves why Germany sends the one person with the worst English skills to an international parliament and make fun of it [2].

So yeah, you could definitely argue, that the commission could benefit from directly elected members. Although it is not undemocratic: The members are appointed by the governments. Great Britain also had nice, prestigious positions: Commissioner of Foreign Affairs (10-14) and Commissioner of Finances (today), while Germany only got energy and internet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Baden-W%C3%BCrttem...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RrEQ8Ovw-Q
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Seems like a totally random benchmark to me.

None of them is known to be really fast and the benchmark tells, they all range in the same order of magnitude. So why not include Inferno, Mithril or Preact? Only a few of them are mainstream, so why mess with stuff that is neither popular nor known to be fast.
The vast majority of Tensorflow users are students from the Udacity course. So the "rising dominance" of Tensorflow is actually disputable. 95% of those users have little experience, let alone the opportunity of deploying to production.

As a technology, Tensorflow is not better than other frameworks in many ways. It has a nice website and a few tutorials, but it doesn't do well, for example, in large production environments.

The field of DL libraries is actually wide and changing quickly. TF, CNTK, DSSTNE and other libs all came out in the last 10 months or so.

So Paddle has a chance, especially in China, where Tensorflow is handicapped because people can't use the Google Cloud on which it is optimized.
> don't think this new framework has much chance of gaining wide adoption

I don't believe it needs to, I believe diversity in a relatively young field is an advantage as it helps to not get stuck in a local minimum, so to speak.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364123
Amen! The EU is corrupt and incompetent, and it needs to go away sooner than later.
The simple reality is that taxpayers fund a good deal of pharmaceutical R&D

And how much of the very most expensive clinical trials, and applications to the FDA? Not to mention marketing, so busy doctors actually know of their existence?

Upfront drug discovery is very easy compared to that, as well illustrated by this XKCD cartoon: https://xkcd.com/1217/

drug prices have little to no relationship to their actual cost

Which is Marketing 101. And also demonstrably not true for the particularly expensive ones to produce (I'm thinking in particular of the HIV antiviral with 3 chiral centers).

And while Mylan has certainly been raping a population that depends on Epi-Pens for their lives (including my 2nd oldest nephew ... and speaking of family, it's good to be the daughter of a US Senator), anything liquid is inherently more expensive for a whole bunch of reasons.

And as far as I can tell, there are exactly 4 different ED drugs approved by the FDA in 5 formulations, and what's with the misandry?

and these companies do a very good job of exploiting loopholes to pay as little tax back into the system as possible.

Which is endorsed by no less of a moral authority than the US Supreme Court, and makes them no different that any other well run industry.
funny how americans blame the labour unions for the destruction of their car manufacturing. when the country and companies that forced that destruction have

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
I was kind of joking about that. Or something. Seeing as I'm not a compiler/interpreter expert, I honestly don't know what I was thinking posting that. Seriously, what was I thinking?

But I'm just thinking this is utterly nuts: Not that I'm degrading your accomplishments. If it's really that hard a problem, than the fact that you have solved it at all is impressive. But the fact that we have to go to those lengths at all is crazy.

Part of why it seems so nuts to me is probably because I don't know enough about Ruby's internals. As I understand it, A class's methods are kept in a datstructure, associating them with their identity (I think it was a hashtable at some point, although this may have changed) - A vtable, in C++ parlance. When you monkeypatch a method, you're either adding a function to the vtable, or changing which function a vtable entry points to. I don't know why you have to deoptimize to do that. past-me should have probably understood the problem better before he made claims he couldn't back about it, but there's nothing I can about it now, save apologize for being stupid, and ask for an explanation. Which is what I'm doing now.
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Yes, how the amounts paid are kept anonymous is particularily interesting: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt

The involved parties are kept anonymous by enforced mixing, I think.
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That chart is slightly misleading in this context; it only measures GitHub repository activity (naturally skewed toward newer/less mature frameworks), not actual usage in real-world applications.
Try freelance, or contract work. You can be employed for yourself and making money right away without having to build a product or a business first. That's still running your own business and being an entrepreneur!

Switching from salary to contract can be a big stepping stone for creating the career and life you want :D
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That is a rather unfair reading. I dislike the "look at the poor little people of Cork we rescued" but perhaps they insinuated that the Cork section was not as vital but I'm not sure I would see that as deriding them.
> Everywhere we looked, the data supported our conclusion that today entrepreneurs are building more billion-dollar companies in the Midwest than in the last 50 years combined.

That's a pretty big incentive.
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The problem is the focus on worldy success, not the pursuit of a dream. Artists, writers and musicians who pursue their passion consistently over the years are no longer concerned with 'making it'; the endeavour becomes the stuff of their life. I am not a famous musician or writer, but practicing music and writing has made me a better coder and a better person and kept me out of a great deal of trouble.
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>Anything less is obviously intending to deceive

I wholeheartedly disagree. What about the case where the person involved actually loves the product and wanted to talk about it anyway? This is frequently the case with gamers, models that prefer certain makeup, etc. What's worth doing is worth getting paid for, but that doesn't necessarily mean they "intend to deceive" - in fact it's the exact opposite. It's an honest endorsement.

IMO, it should only be required to be labeled as an ad if the post wouldn't have been made unless the brand paid for it.
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I felt like Google had a lot of very interesting social tools between Wave, Reader, Talk, and Buzz (remember that?). Consolidating that wasn't a bad idea, had they picked the best innovations and smartest social groups from all three of them. Unfortunately, Plus felt more like taking the worst of all three (Buzz's forced inclusion, for instance) and ignoring any of the innovation (Wave, especially), reverence for internet standards (Reader based on RSS, Wave and Talk based on XMPP to different extents), or existing social groups (Reader had a somewhat active social scene before Plus that could not survive the transition, especially the shutdown of Reader itself).

There's a sense there of some hostility between the groups involved at the time and something of a hostility against the "techie-first" nature of the company before plus. I'm one of the ones that question if Google lost a lot of its "soul" in building Plus and trying to be more like Facebook.

I figure there's an alternate universe out there where something like Plus started as a smarter merger of Wave and Reader, and I'm curious what that would have looked like.
It doesn’t violate my privacy but it endangers the well being of the web. If native advertising becomes the norm journalism as a whole will go down the toilet. First it starts with celebrities endorsing products without clearly stating that they’ve been paid, and then you’ll have the buzzfeed model all around the web. Paid articles that promote products in a way that the untrained user can’t really tell the difference. I don’t like it. Of course I can only speak for myself.
My advice is to consider talking with a licensed mental health professional about what is bothering because it can provide a neutral and scientifically based point of view tailored to your individual experience, current state, and long term goals.

Good luck.
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Why, it's almost as though people hate ads, who'd have thought
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"Did you know it was possible to outfit an open-plan office with Ikea desks -- in the midwest? TIL."

This reads like a parody until it inexplicably turns out not to be.

Columbus and Ann Arbor both have big, important universities smack in the middle of town, and the demographics and culture that go with that. If you were choosing the least-surprising towns outside of the Bay Area and NYC to find software startups in, those would pretty much have to be on your list.
I would love to see a link to a tutorial or project that shows how to do this. As someone who has sampled many OCR products, I have been wondering why people are not using deep learning for this. It's really a match made in heaven. Or maybe the vendors are just training a system and then releasing it without updates?

The difficult part of OCR'ing forms is parsing text in a variety of word-wrapped panels and boxes and converting checkboxes to text. Is that something deep learning could be trained to handle? For example, imagine parsing the huge receipt you get when you buy a car. The text itself isn't always the challenge.
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Boy, it sure seems weird that the EU has only gone after American companies for this...
Every single comment here is focused on just one aspect of this article: speed. Far more interesting points the article covers are around _how_ Elm optimizes and _how_ developers optimize Elm code. From the conclusion:

- Optimizing Elm only touches view code, unlike everyone else.

- Optimizing Elm cannot introduce sneaky bugs, unlike everyone else.

- These results should generalize to apps of any size.

Also interesting is how Elm's immutability allows it to use requestAnimationFrame by default, which plain vanilla JS libs can't use by default.
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that's what they said the solution is, isn't it?

> ... then get someone to actually like your product(, and then it won't matter that they disclose it)
Tensorflow is actually pretty slow and problematic on large clusters outside the Google Cloud. Probably because that's not what it was designed for.

For Java/Scala people, Deeplearning4j has a pretty sophisticated Spark + GPUs setup:

http://deeplearning4j.org/gpu

http://deeplearning4j.org/spark

http://deeplearning4j.org/spark-gpus

[Disclosure: I help create DL4J, and it's supported by my startup, Skymind.]
"People hate ads so we'd prefer to just keep tricking them into thinking it's not an ad"
They've already had several chances to better themselves. They haven't, and so they don't deserve another chance.
I think I completely agree with you:

> the protocol should be redesigned to assume online signers, taking advantage of cryptography in every transaction.

When you say online signers, do you mean not actively storing RRSIG records for RR sets at all? Or do you mean dynamically resigning the zone after any update? I think there is a benefit to these records in validating they originate with zone from which they claim to be. The biggest concern I have right now with the protocol is that having multiple nodes being responsible for managing a zone is difficult because each has to be signed by the parent zone, though with the necessary automated support, this shouldn't be hard to overcome (i.e. makes HA harder).

> Resolver-server encrypted transactions also solve the problem of endpoint signature validation (because there's no weak link between servers and clients anymore)

Do you have any thoughts on DNS over TLS vs DNSCrypt? I got halfway through implementing DNSCrypt, but I have some concerns about it being easily exploitable for DOS attacks. And am switching to DNS over TLS for now.

> Daniel Bernstein, among others, was smart enough to realize that if you encrypt the connection between a resolver and a server, you don't really even need signatures anymore...

Yes, this is true, but the concerns I've had with this are 1) ability to cache data and 2) ability to add nodes to the network. While I completely agree with this, we need to come up with a method that allows new nodes to be added to the graph, which might be cumbersome from a resolver perspective. In terms of zone authorities it should be relatively straightforward though. With the current DNSSec design, it allows for trusted data to be stored on untrusted nodes in the graph, making cached data straightforward.

If you don't mind, I'd love your feedback on a project I've been working on for the last year: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns

I want to try and deal with many of these aspects of the protocol, from the slant of making it easier to setup and operate. I currently don't have a lot of documentation around operations, as I'm still focused on implementing some things like DNS over TLS. I'd love to bake some of these concepts into the software, so if you have any feedback that would be awesome.
I'm assuming "the original airbnb tweet" refers to Kylie Jenner's AirBnB birthday gift post.

I consider AirBnB's product/service to be the marketplace for temporary lodging.

I don't know what actually happened with AirBnB/Jenner, but I predict AirBnB reached out with something like "We'll find somewhere nice for you to stay if you post it". I don't consider that using AirBnB's product. The AirBnB's marketing/promotion/whatever team just short-circuited the usage of the product/service.

Of course, if AirBnB's product/service was reaching out out to me and giving me free lodging in a beautiful place for me to post on social media, then I'd be totally down with the original AirBnB tweet.
There's an important difference between precision and accuracy. An LM35 will easily yield ~10 mK precision, but in absolute accuracy, they're far worse (the extent of the calibration error varies by model).
>It encourages me to see that the European court at least has some people on it that seem to understand that net neutrality is in fact a human rights issue.

If everything is a human right, nothing is. At this point, what's the difference between a "human right" and a nice thing?

>Yes, I would rather have decisions made by people in Brussels that understand what they're doing.

The thing about centralized government is that it's great when you agree with what they're doing, but it's terrible when you don't. Ask yourself how happy you would be with European governance if they primarily didn't implement policies that you personally considered wise.

People have different ideas about what's fair. The hinge of democracy is the simplicity by which a people can make their will known and have that will executed, at least within their own region.

More local governance makes individual will much more important. Consider that a representative's attention is evenly divided by the quantity of his constituents, because each constituent has an equal quantity of votes. Thus, a smaller quantity of constituents means more individual influence in government. That's generally a positive thing. Therefore, jurisdictions should be broken into the smallest workable units, and the amount of power concentrated within a jurisdiction should be correlated with its localness.
Be civil > Well thats a naive opinion.

Civil commentary is about more than just language choice. As a rule of thumb object to content, not meta information. You can replacing dumb with naive, but the underlining commentary is about the messenger not the message.

Now, with some actual commentary it's less obvious. But, when the entire comment is simply a snippy one liner it's just filler. As it stands I can guess what the objection was, but not in any meaningful fashion.

PS: If I would change the rules I would make it clear that it makes boring reading is one of the major things to avoid.
Software, maybe. But tech? How many times have we seen [Brand X] endorsees tweet from a [Brand Y] phone?
But you can still label it with that specificity--I've seen Internet celebrities close videos with "Yes, I really do love this product, but I am also getting paid for this." Transparency about when money is being transferred is important.
Someone who has lived in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, now Chicago here. I think Pittsburgh is much more similar culturally to Chicago than NYC. When I saw the post lump Pittsburgh in the Midwest, I had a feeling the "But wait, Pittsburgh is in Appalachia" comment was coming, but I think it made sense to put in in.
They can only micromanage your policies if you specifically allow it beforehand.

If you follow your line of thought a bit further to its extremes, your home state is not sovereign, because its administration ordered some paper clips from a supplier and is now bound to pay for them, without the senators being asked if they really want to pay. ;-)
For me React won the last round because of its simple API.
In regards to your last point, I believe experiments in human psychology have shown that the lines are quite blurred when it comes to fiction vs reality w/ sensory input.

Unless one holds some principle that is able to supersede any given perceived "facts", fiction easily becomes truth, and even then it's a real struggle.

We have been studied, we have been found flawed, and those flaws are exploited for monetary gain as a matter of course.
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>If I understand your position correctly then there is no room for the possibility that blacks (or the so called white trash) are getting in their own way. You have to look upon that possibility as a hypothesis to test for. Otherwise we might as well be treating minority group X like our pets instead of being autonomous human beings.

I could acknowledge a subgroup of a larger group "causing their own harm". E.g. white trash, or a subgroup of blacks.

On the other hand, I don't see how a group like blacks can in general, and for its majority, "cause its own harm", in a different amount than another group.

Unless there is evidence of genetic differences to cause discrepancies, I would expect both blacks and whites to have similar percentages of people that "cause their own harm" all other things being equal.

Which is not what we see.

But of course, all other things are not equal either. One group was extracted forcefully from their native culture and country and forced to work as slaves for centuries, the other was not. One group faced persistent persecution and specific laws against it until late in the 20th century, the other did not.
see my comment in a sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12392121
Yes, but he's still saying that should be labeled as an ad just because the person got paid for it. That's what I disagree with. The only test should be "would the user be seeing this if the poster wasn't paid?"
...maybe. I think we underrate the physicality of our minds. For example, if you transplanted a male head on a female body or vice versa, some personality changes would be expected. Or a male head on a male body with different testosterone levels, for example.
How does the browser tell the difference between your personal self-signed certificate for a domain where the difference between HTTP and HTTPS doesn't matter, and the case where an attacker substitutes a self-signed certificate for WWW.BANKOFAMERICA.COM?
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Elm on the frontend and Haskell on the backend is a sensible choice, though at that point you may be better off with PureScript on the frontend.
If we have always been lazy, why is there now an obesity epidemic? It seems to me that means the cause of obesity lies elsewhere.
It's a little depressing to read how many harmful ideas he considered "almost died out" or even "officially died out" that still plague our society to this day, 70 years later.
If I were designing it I would have it either switch to multiple columns when the size of the white space got too large, or I would have the columns widen with the page.

The latter results in a sort of 'tweetlike' appearance for a lot of G+ posts as they are quite short, the former makes it more 'newspaper' style and introduces the question of how you move from the bottom left to the top right. If you do it with the same posting it makes scrolling challenging, if you do it with multiple postings it makes the user scroll up and down to see the top and bottom.

Then again, there is a really useful layout that folks have been using forever where you put summaries on the left and content expands in boxes on the right. But then it looks just like gmail or something, except that is exactly what it is "group email". Gooogle plus seems confused about what it is, is it twitter ? is it facebook? is it usenet? is it email? Fix its multiple personality disorder and the design will fall out of that naturally.
I love this piece. I also feel pessimistic about calm tech because a lot of tech companies have perverse incentives to addict and perpetually disturb their users in order to gain mindshare and sell ads.
"Small"? What does that mean? Cloudflare doesn't have special private backhaul networks to origin servers; they use the public Internet like everyone else.
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I disagree that it is important to know that they were paid if they genuinely like the product. Any hint of it being advertising immediately discredits the content, and there is no need for that to happen in the case of a genuine endorsement.
Yes, because everyone has that perfect negotiating power to do so. There are no school districts that are struggling or can only afford to pay so much for teachers, and hospitals that can't afford higher salaries for nurses.

The "invisible hand" is not what should be guiding society. The "invisible hand" has declared that it's more worthwhile to be a Kardashian than it is to be a teacher or nurse.