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>> 1. Figured out how to get all of my work done super fast

I always assumed that, as developers, we couldn't afford to automate writing code (as Tim's proposition is originally to automate the income), and so you do your work faster. Can you comment how you do that, how did you buy your remote time from that, etc.?
A massive investment in council housing would fix the problem. When it was announced in Hong Kong that they would build ~70,000 new apartments prices plunged the next day.

Eminent domain could be used to seize land and develop affordable housing. It would be fought tooth and nail in court by property developers but they couldn't possibly argue that providing more affordable housing isn't for the public good (though they would try). Against strong enough political opposition they would lose.

We've been here before. After world war 2 there was a program to build affordable housing in New York for returning vets. If we did it in 1945 we can do it again.

The property market isn't a god to be appeased and it shouldn't be treated like one.
But that's not how progress is made. This whole concept of machines taking over has been happening and will happen more. Humans are good at adapting to circumstances, learning new skills and doing more productive work. So guess it's not that scary.
I'm not objecting to politics in general. I'm objecting to continually being asked to pass a political purity test in this particular branch of the discussion. I shouldn't have to explain to the other commenter why they're wrong about my politics. It was bogus and rude for them to invent a political straw man and attribute to me.

I'm prickly about this, because, as you might know, this happens all the time here.
I'm old, and I'm with you. While the Amazon Echo has been way more useful to me than I would've thought because of its speech-interface, so I'm not surprised at the speed or accuracy of speech recognition. It just feels weird. If I wanted to talk to someone, I would call them. Of course, there are many chat situations (the recipient can't talk on the phone, or you're group chatting) that can't be executed via phone call. But I like the tactile experience of typing in a message in those situations. Feels more deliberate. Also, a lot easier (I would think) to insert multimedia and emojis.

However, I'm not old enough that I enjoy the tactile experience of handwriting a letter for the tradeoff in speed, though that's because my handwriting is so terrible.
For many projects, lots of consumers may not realize the project under development is using semantic versioning until they cross a decimal threshold like this and only then if they take care to notice the progression of version numbers.

I had long preferred either Real/decimal numbers as version numbers or hierarchy-of-decimal-digits (exactly one digit each, e.g. "1.9.9" must progress to something like "1.9.9.1" or "2.0.0"). But semantic versioning is really popular these days, so I'm much less surprised even if it's not my preference.
Citymapper.com has an retro text game when you open the console
Pretty easy to download on a desktop as well: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl
did you read the article? All this is explained. The lawsuit was lost, the judge had pretty much told them he would be giving a decision in favour of the defendants the next day hence the need to agree a settlement.
The only thing that Jest has in common with Jest from a year ago is the name. We rewrote the entire framework incrementally (as all the blog posts on the Jest blog point out). We still do not support browser testing. We don't believe that it is critical for a unit testing framework and defer this form of testing to other tools at Facebook.

I am however interested in running Jest within Electron to provide better visual debugging while people are writing tests :)
Makes me feel better about my rents. I pay about the same here in Los Angeles except I'm walking distance from work and have the beach and sunny weather.

$3400 is the median for the high end there, here is about the higher end of the high end unless you start counting the ridiculous places near the beach. But, then if you want an ocean view in Santa Monica, be prepared to shell out $10k/mo or more.
The NRA was pushing against it with much more force though.
I use a pass phrase which is much easier to remember. I know the source material for my pass phrase so if I need to reconstruct my master password I go to the source material and convert it into the password by encoding the first letters, punctuation symbols and letters from the passphrase into the password.

I need to get into the habit of exporting my password list to plaintext csv and storing it in a safe or safe deposit box but I haven't disciplined myself for that yet.

I am worried about the ability for the 1Password database to be hacked if someone were able to get their hands on that.
Inside the lambda calculus, the only thing you can do with a lambda abstraction is apply it.

And one thing you can't do using your numbering scheme (which is basically a Gödel numbering) is establish whether two syntactically different functions are extensionally equal (under some fixed reduction strategy).
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Of course it's a marketing stunt but it also depicts one of the endless possibilities of deep learning. So I don't think its over hyped. For Google to invest more on making Tensorflow easy to use, there has to be early adopters showing enough interest. This will make Google invest enough resources to make it more mainstream.
A concurrent could book a Uber ride for their customer using the API when and where they don't have any driver.

Well, I checked the terms of use of Uber API and competing with Uber is forbidden...
I understand feeling weird speaking to your phone in public but I'm not sure I follow "hold the phone in an unnatural way". When I use speech recognition, I don't move my phone from the usual position.
Cute! It looks a lot like [Pweave](http://mpastell.com/pweave/) too
Yes, thank you. I'm glad it's not just me noticing that the tone of HN commentary these days is increasingly reminiscent of freshman CS with That One Kid Who Knew Code Before College.
Dial it back man.
I use it, but only for personal projects. The distinct lack of configuration needed puts it far beyond Karma + Mocha + Chai in terms of ease of use.
Myspace and Adobe, neither of which is present in my password manager. Huh, no memory of those.
I am not sure what the relevance would be. Are you using the term "organic" as in biological, or as in carbon-based?

In either case, what would it mean if it wasn't organic?
Would it not be fair then, to say that came about from specific circumstances peculiar to America?
> in reality, much expert help is needed to make it work.

I totally agree. Having been taking classes and read ML/CNN articles online, this Google Cloud blog post made this project seem to be significantly easier than the actual effort that went into it. In particular, the blog simply covered the secret sauce to make it work in one line:

> Makoto used the sample TensorFlow code Deep MNIST for Experts with
> minor modifications to the convolution, pooling and last layers,
> changing the network design to adapt to the pixel format of cucumber
> images and the number of cucumber classes.

I doubt this is a one man operation in just a few months of time, considering the computing power that's required to accomplish such feat (which it was said to take 2-3 days for each complete training set). Let alone the fact that they admit 7000 cucumber images are NOT enough to train the model to achieve the typical 95% accuracy that the original MNIST model it was based off.

Although promising, this blog post reads more like a PR campaign for GCP's ML offering (with the custom hardware devices to do the compute, perhaps TPUs?)
Since I am the one that made this post, I will answer you.

- If I work at my 9-5 8 or 12 hours a day it makes no difference in the money I bring home. You can say that theoretically I will get promoted but there are limits.

- I do not control my fate. Case in point today AFTER I made this post the company I work for laid off 16 people, it's a company of 180 so close to 10%

- I don't want to have an expensive house / car. I just want to financial be able to support myself and my family

- Freedom. Freedom to not work for a day and not have to explain myself. Freedom to travel somewhere and not have to worry about it. I realize the contrary to this, perhaps having my own business is not really freedom. I will still have clients, or people that need things from me.
I would love to see that on some actual text (rather than published "samples"). I expect the more text it has to deal with the more unintelligible the result.
I think it just means you have a bit of empathy, and awareness of how other people might view you. Many, if not most people seem to lack those qualities in general, never mind in relation to their phones.

On the topic, something which reads your subvocalizations is really needed, and could even increase the speed!
it doesn't cost 10k/month to have an ocean view in santa monica. there are smaller units in the 500-1000 square foot range for a lot less than half of that -- i live in one. there are lots of "normal" old 1950s/1960s style apartments with ocean views, it's not just the ridiculous marble-clad ultra-lux units that everyone sees when they drive by.
fwiw I do know that it happens all the time here. And, as someone whose politics runs very far to the left contra this forum (I'm a regular Jacobin reader), I can appreciate the annoyance. I did strike me as a bit dissonant, coming from you.

Edit: also, not having to constantly battle either a) trolls or b) what I feel to be right wing libertarian myopia is one of the reasons I've commented so little here, so, I Get It. I've been a reader/lurker for something like 7 years now. early 2009, I believe.
Why would that be the case? Has it generally been the case that innovations on the Internet have been generated from countries where the Internet is (more like) a public utility, and only then imported here? That's not my impression.
If I put in anything mah jong related it removes all the previous topics and resets the page. I've tried with 'mahjongg' and 'mah jong'. Though 'mahjong' seems ok, it just doesn't pull anything.
Does a type exist such that it cannot be mapped to the set of natural numbers?
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I would pay $50/Month to get real valuable leads on businesses/owner that are considering selling their online product based SAAS business.
Thanks for the direct link. rtl-sdr.com seems to be having some issues at the moment.
Are 1Password's files not encrypted? Store it publicly on your web site, email it to your friends, print it out in base64 in a machine-readable font and keep copies pinned on the wall of your cube. You still have to remember one password but at least you're depending on crypto instead of Dropbox's security.
Why would embracing one destroy the other? I think a combination of gestural interface, subvocalization voice recognition, and AR could be the big winner in our lifetimes. The text won't be bound to a screen, you don't give anything up, you just gain.

When you need to get into serious writing or bulk data entry, maybe it would be a keyboard.
Or you could get a place all to yourself...

$45/mo mortgage, 924 sq. ft.: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5-Preston-Park-Rutland-VT-...

$90/mo mortgage, 1513 sq. ft.: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/25-Merritt-Ave-Kingston-NY...

$78/mo mortgage: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/221-Mckinley-Ave-Williamst...

$87/mo mortgage, 924 sq. ft: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/81-Barbara-Ave-Prospect-CT...
Well given his mother is by definition the training set, surely the machine can only perform as good as or worse than her...?
Some years ago, during a phase in which every other comment on this site seemed to be accusing me of being an NSA shill, I made a decision never to spell out my particular (boring, especially if you know where I live) political beliefs in response to people accusing me of having a particular political inclination. Doing so might simplify (dumb, lazy) arguments. But we shouldn't have to do that.
Seems lazy not to have a percentage of tabs for each programming language!

Huh, it's interesting that .cpp is only 27% tabs. I don't think I've ever worked on a C++ project that used spaces for indentation.

Ah, also this looks weird:

.c: 55% tabs

.h: 23% tabs

Presumably the header files just don't usually contain any functions, so there was no need to put tabs in them.
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Yeah he's wrong, routers don't buffer for downstream reasons in any context I've seen.

That being said, Wi-Fi retransmits on more than just collisions. Under the hood, Wi-Fi actually has it's own acknowledgement protocol beneath the Ethernet layer. The idea is that with electrical bus protocols like Thicknet, each tap has a pretty good view of the whole bus. For wireless you might see your own frames just fine, but the destination might not. So you need to retransmit not just when you see collisions, but when the destination hasn't explicitly acknowledged your packets.
You mean mapped one-to-one? Depends on your model of computation. For example, in the simply typed lambda calculus, equipped with a natural number type, as well as structural recursion on it (but not general recursion), `nat` and `nat -> nat` aren't isomorphic types.
The counter argument is that those 14k enters circulation instead of laying idly on some account. Not an economist, so don't ask me what's the better alternative...
Apple either has or has realtime access to your encryption keys for iCloud Drive.
I live in Brooklyn (not Downtown Brooklyn, though) in an old building with a totally new (gut renovated) interior. My flatmate and I are paying above market rent, but not that much (only a few hundred more per person), and it's worth it for the amenities (duplex apartment, central AC, no issues from "deferred maintenance").

We got a month free and have no broker fee. With these conditions, we're actually paying pretty close to market rent. I probably wont be sticking around for longer than 2 years, so we got a pretty decent deal all things considered.
Would be interesting to see a statistic on 2 spaces vs 4 spaces as well. Somehow, I can never get used to 2 spaces, the code feels too cluttered. This applies to json/html/xml as well.
> $87/mo mortgage, 924 sq. ft: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/81-Barbara-Ave-Prospect-CT....

$87 PLUS $396 HOA fee to live in a mobile home in the boondocks. Yea no thanks...
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Then it is straight-up dishonest to invoke "rsync" in the description.
hail helix
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246
Never thought about it (and I've been thinking about email a lot recently), but now that people mentioned it...

Every mail sever defaults should be to trust an encrypted connection with a valid MX host name. Failing that, it may choose to check either reverse DNS or SPF. I see no reason for preferring any of those. Not checking anything by default isn't a good idea nowadays.
Wait, but I thought the question being posed wasn't about the computational complexity of any model but about the power of a given computational model relative to another (e.g. the subject of the CT thesis).

Even if we're talking about just computational complexity, if we allow Turing machines with arbitrary oracles, or (equivalently) we allow arbitrary mathematical constructions in languages, I'm still unsure as to why the complexity matters.

W.r.t the waterfall case. Sure, I agree with that statement, but I'm unsure as to how it plays into the final case---the question isn't about a specific model performing a specific task, but about a model being able to completely replicate another in terms of computational power. Anything I can do in a language (with some functions) I can do in a Turing machine with the appropriate oracles; and conversely, anything I can do in a Turing machine with some given oracles, I can do in a language.
Horrible communication, much more important than to force a change on the site itself is to say to all users: look, your passwords are at risk, if you reused them change them now. All that in a way that non-techies can understand. Else we can all just wait for the millions of compromised accounts.
I just wish they'd move their CloudML thing out of alpha, I've given AWS too much of my money for their shitty GPUs.
> On the topic, something which reads your subvocalizations is really needed, and could even increase the speed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
these textures look absolutely glorious- well done! cant think of anything useful to say, but wanted to give you some positive feedback
Then you wouldn't complain about an extra few seconds for 2FA.
I read the parent comment completely differently. I don't think he was saying that non-technical-people are worthless and shouldn't try to do anything. I think he was saying that the tools are difficult to use in their current state. Perhaps in the future they will be easier to use and more available.

Similar to programming. Programming languages are difficult to get and learn to use. See e.g. my test here on how difficult it is for nontechnical peopel to even install python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453086 Whereas Excel is widely available and taught in schools.
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This whole concept of machines taking over has been happening and will happen more.

But what seems different with the AI "revolution" is that we may be seeing a hockey-stick rate to these changes that simply has no historical precedent. In which the "progress" (read: forced obsolescence) that might hitherto have happened over the course of 1-2 generations may soon be happening in the space of 5-10 years, for large categories of job descriptions, planet-wide.

So guess it's not that scary.

Unless you're the one whose job is threatened -- or as is apparently the case of this "success story", eliminated already. Do you really think all these displaced cucumber sorters can find work as Machine Learning engineers at some hot startup?

Or in the near term, any kind of job at all, without significant difficulty?
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I believe tempestn is referring to the end of the article, where the scientist who found the previously oldest fossil says it may not actually be a fossil:

The dating seems about right, said Abigail Allwood, a NASA astrobiologist who found the previous oldest fossil, from 3.48 billion years ago, in Australia. But Allwood said she is not completely convinced that what VanKranendonk's team found once was alive. She said the evidence wasn't conclusive enough that it was life and not a geologic quirk.

"It would be nice to have more evidence, but in these rocks that's a lot to ask," Allwood said in an email.
Really interesting feedback. Thanks!
My own feelings on this would take a long time to sketch out, and are pretty diffuse tbh. They would also depend not so much on the internet per se but on high technology in general. I would point to early Israel, which was highly, almost exclusively socialistic (and in ways not reproduced anywhere else, i.e. the kibbutzim) as being capable of high tech innovation with a highly dynamic state sector. Also, I feel it worth pointing out that (even though it doesn't make my argument any stronger) that just because something has been the case up until now doesn't make it The Only Way It Works.
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what about emoji, gifs, pics, hyperlinks. texting is way more efficient than talking.
we have an intern this summer create bindings for our internal JS stack. we have some internal stuff running on server side in OCaml which we wish to move to client side.
I would say many thanks to my boss and employer's great support
Repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246
In the article the term "organic" isn't used at all:

> The dating seems about right, said Abigail Allwood , a NASA
> astrobiologist who found the previous oldest fossil, from
> 3.48 billion years ago, in Australia. But Allwood said she is
> not completely convinced that what VanKranendonk's team found
> once was alive. She said the evidence wasn't conclusive enough
> that it was life and not a geologic quirk.
>
> "It would be nice to have more evidence, but in these rocks
> that's a lot to ask," Allwood said in an email.
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Hmm, but how many .vimrcs have

set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab
Sorry if I'm missing something fundamental, but (1) shouldn't matter if there's some mapping between a) those types and b) functions of type `nat -> nat`. AIUI, the CTT is equivalent to saying that anything that can be computed at all (regardless of type signature) can be done via the `nat -> nat` functions representable on some TM. IOW, whatever transformation it is that the other-typed function makes (edit: or whatever input-output mapping), it is isomorphic to one on `nat -> nat`.

Since computers regularly implement exactly such a mapping, it doesn't sound like a problem.

>Curiously enough, programming in the real world is seldom about evaluating functions of type `nat -> nat`.

How is it not about that? Everything you do is converted down to CPU ops that just implement (something expressible as) functions on natural numbers (technically, fixed-with binary numbers). The whole job of programming can be described as "converting a problem to a format suitable for a fast `nat->nat`-implementing machine"; it's just that several of the layers of the conversion are hidden from you.
Yes, I stack this process by buying grocery shopping during the wash cycle, bring the stuff to my apartment, then go back, transfer to dryer, go home and cook something, then return to pick up. Or, like, read a book, whatever.
I would pay anything for my kids to sleep through the night.
it is generate more readable JS. and we have spent lots of time in polishing the FFI to make OCaml/JS interaction easier
In case you enjoy that terminal font[1] as much as I do, you can download it here:

http://sensi.org/%7Esvo/glasstty/Glass_TTY_VT220.ttf

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or Columbia the hippos like it there
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you mean the companies that are constantly getting breached? working for a fortune-class company is just a different flavor of the same underlying bullshit, and one that i especially dislike.

also "just don't work that hard, and collect checks" is not really how i operate. good for you though.
Can you repeat those tests using the library shipping with Mac OS X?

I'm asking because Apple claims the github code is a reference implementation. Those typically aren't tuned for speed or efficiency.
I'm old, and I feel the same way, but: I'm trying to take advantage of the technology more and more, despite my social quirks of using it, since I can no longer use my phone without excruciating thumb pain.
Keep in mind that a lot of these units are still coming on the market. Sure the prices haven't dropped yet, but landlords can only hold out for so long and the end of that rope, that's when prices fall.

This is anecdotal, but I feel like everyone I know cares more about standalone single family houses these days as opposed to apts. IMO Apts and condos seem to be falling out favor, which could depress prices further. Where I live in SF, I've seen people choose to purchase a home way outside of the city, as opposed to getting a slightly smaller condo in the city for about the same price.