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That's not similar, at all. This is actually removing multiples, as in the sieve of erastosthenes.
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There is lost your money, and there is lost your money.
Technically once you gave money to the bank you've lost it, what you've gained is a body that would tell other people on your behalf "it's ok i got him covered".

Once you can't use an ATM, can't pay bills with direct debit, can't do anything then you've effectively lost your money.
The problem is that DB is a commercial high street bank, and not only that it's one of the biggest banks in the world and across Europe.

Overall all the banks in Europe are in a mess http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2016/09/28/Photos/NS/M... and it's not entirerly due to their fault, the negative interest rates implemented by the central banks didn't really help.

Please save us the sentiment which is actually likely to be out of place here because people have somewhat incorrect analogy to wall street and 2008 and say the banks are guilty, their employees/managers are criminally negligent and they should be put on trial.

DB isn't LB on many levels, it's haunted by it's ghosts, but what plagues it and every other major European bank is not the same, and in this case they aren't the only body at fault, the policies of the ECB and the local central banks in Europe so far were pretty devastating for the banks.
What if on top of that you were not born in the U.S?

I feel like this all the time. I was born in Colombia. I managed to get scholarships for all my education from school to PhD and managed to study abroad. But it was not easy. I still feel like I am not good enough, I even feel I am getting old to learn new things. I feel undeserving which can not be good for starting the PhD studies.

The universities where I studied in Colombia are just as good as any university in the U.S or Europe and proof of this is that I managed to get a masters in CS in France and will start my PhD in Sweden (sometime now since there's an immigrant crisis). But as people from the "3rd world" we are often overlooked and underestimated.

I felt very touched by this article and gave me hopes for my future and only makes me want to be younger to take evn better decisions in life.
This [D]NN are "universal approximator" claim that gets trotted around really gets my goat. Sorry I have to vent now, and its no fault of my parent post or grand parent post.

Its not that we were short of universal approximators. As far as learning is concerned, whether the class is universal or not has little or no import. For the sake of argument lets even assume that there is no noise in the training set [in other words I having a white horse on wings with a horn on its forehead that shoots laser beams with its eyes and farts indigo rainbows]. There will be infinitely many functions that passes through your training points and not all of them will have the same error on an unseen point.

Learning is a very different ball game compared to approximation.

"Universal", but in what class of functions ? All differentiable functions ? (the typical NN is restricted to this class), all continuous functions ? all measurable functions ? all computable functions ? Its surely not _all_ functions

Here is a function: +1 on rational and -1 on irrational, can it approximate that ? here's another that is harder, +1 on a non-measurable set and -1 on a measurable set. You say these functions don't matter, indeed, I would be scared if they did matter. But it shows the real deal is characterizing that class of functions that "matter".
It would send the EU into turmoil, DB is not alone http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2016/09/28/Photos/NS/M...
I don't get the downvotes. This is precisely the kind of pedantry for which I come to HN.
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I wonder about the fruit of the poisonous tree in this case, though. IANAL, so I am honestly curious if this doctrine applies to civil proceedings.

Secondly, the tax offices presumably have a right to carry out audits and don't need to substantiate why. I would think that they could use any method ranging from a dice roll to an anonymous tip on a hotline to trigger an audit. The trigger would not be used as evidence in the trial... it may be from a jealous lover who's lying, but if the audit reveals you didn't pay your taxes properly, well there you go.

Thirdly, it may not even matter. Saying 'we have this material' is a great bluff on it's own and could be used to get rule breakers to come clean on their own, as well as sending a message to would-be tax dodgers that it's getting harder and harder to cover your tracks.

This doesn't say anything about the moral issue of tacitly condoning stealing documents by paying for them, though.
They lowball with the offer (#instances) and have price regulate the demand side.

After a few months they can estimate the demand and increase supply accordingly (iff profitable)
Move your money to another account.

You don't want to get all sweaty when the news starts coming in about the final death throes. Even if there's a guarantee (and there are in many countries), I would imagine there would be a period of limbo where it's very hard to get a hold of people who can assure you.

Meanwhile, there's plenty of other banks who seem a lot less likely to fail.
> Bank that are to big to fail.

The question then arises - Should banks be allowed to go that big that would result into such a problem?
There is nothing to be ashamed of something you had no say in. People judge all the time on anything and everything. You should stop caring about being judged and always try to do the right thing. You should be proud of how you did yourself despite loss of opportunities.
Icelander here. The popular story is very inaccurate.

However: I encourage everyone to do like the popular story of how Iceland says we did :)
> UTF-8 can also be handled in several ways.

UTF8 can not be handled in several ways without breaking it, it's a pretty straightforward and strict encoding.
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That's precisely what the parent is asking in the first place.
They apparently got photos down to 5m (or maybe only 51m) above the comet. Here are images on the way down.

https://www.cieletespace.fr/actualites/dernieres-images-de-r...

https://twitter.com/C_et_E_Photos/status/781809777370423296

https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/781808178048696321

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/781809255443673088

https://twitter.com/C_et_E_Photos/status/781819361241817088

https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/781825922647355392

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/781834822583017472
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Well it's closer to O((n/log(n))^0.5), although that doesn't make much of a difference until n becomes rather large.
Yeah, I forgot the other part of the platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQXmnMr_w8
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> Identity should never be used as a password.

Yes.

> Identity cannot be changed if compromised.

I'm not up to date at what's possible with plastic surgery, but in this specific case I think it's doable (new fingerprints).

> As a second form of authentication it is fine, but as a single form alone it is a bad idea.

I don't consider it authentication. More like a record locator.

> But if you must have only one of these then the weakest one is something you are as, if compromised, it can never be changed.

I think a lot of this "fingerprints as authentication" stuff will go away once situations like this become commonplace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726108
What do you mean? Azure regions are in separate locations. Let's consider how many scenarios (datacenter power loss, earthquake, floods) lead to a failure of azure region vs AWS zone/region. Surely, floods and such have higher probability of taking down all availability zones in one AWS region (say Ireland) than taking down Ireland and Netherlands Azure zone at the same time?
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It sounds like a poor design, you can try some things that might keep ice from accumulating,

Fridge outside temperature should be low (~72 f) and outside of direct sunlight.

The evaporation coils need good airflow (a tiny fan can significantly increase efficiency.)

I would verify there is a tight seal around the door and the water drip is clog free.
Please explain, or link to an article that you believe show the more accurate story.

For all I know: Iceland let its banks fail and jailed some high-ups in said banks, while bankers worldwide said Iceland was going to have an endless recession because of it, which did not happen.
"Germany Says No Bailouts for Deutsche Bank"

These are basically the famous last words before any bank goes bankrupt and consistently get's a government bailout in Europe.
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> At Microsoft, we are focused on empowering both people and organizations

Yeah, right. Any and all of the big ones will never create artificial intelligence.. they by definition can only create (and keep) things/entities that have patience for empty marketing speak.
BPG is derived from HEVC and thus patent encumbered as JPEG2000. But we have new codec like Daala or AV1 that could be used as a still image formats when they'll be mature enough.

I made a website where one could compare various formats:

http://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison
"In a similar case, rival Goldman Sachs agreed in April to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis." [1]

I don't know why the fine is lower, but it's the same order of magnitude...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/16/deutsche-ba...
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oh sorry, missed the revenue reports which is the better than interviews.
I've only been following this news very lightly - but it is fascinating. This gave me more detail on the 'why' it was being crashed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/rosetta-mission-what-is-it...
Unless the legislature forces this, I doubt it will happen. The banks and credit cards have turned these exploits into a problem of the individual instead of a problem of the institution (which has shit security). So you and I get stuck with the fraud and they get paid, typically.
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I'm all for wiping out bank shareholders to zero and sending corrupt executives to jail... but if the financial system and the public lose confidence in Deutsche Bank, one of the world's largest banks, we could end up with another global financial panic like the one we saw in 2008.

By many accounts, the second leg of the Great Depression of the 1930's started with the failure of an Austrian bank, Creditanstalt, in 1931, triggering financial panic and a wave of bank failures that ultimately affected everyone. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creditanstalt#First_Republic , http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-20/lessons-fr... and http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052103... , for example.

The world cannot afford to have another global financial panic. The outcome could be catastrophic. Lenders, including depositors like your Aunt Tilly and Jack the plumber, should not have to worry about the safety and liquidity of their money.

The financial system is infrastructure -- like the electricity grid and the Internet. We cannot afford to have this infrastructure come to a halt due to the fear or stupidity of greedy executives. Businesses and consumers depend on this infrastructure every day.
I'll know rosetta has "landed" when the XKCD has been updated: https://xkcd.com/1446/
Its working as designed. "Fair" was never part of the plan...
Well there already was no bailout of Lehman did not work out too well.
If you are born in the Western World, it is like starting a marathon 5 km away from the finish line and still be in the same race than the one starting at the beginning.

When you start thinking everything you get for free, even just in a lower middle western family, compared to someone born in a war torn village in Africa, the concept of "self-made" becomes really meaningless.
That is the exact reason why these vultures should be curtailed.
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> I don't consider it authentication.

Maybe you don't, but a lot of others do. Like, Apple.
It would be fairly simple to create an argument he cannot refute. Make a hashtable with 4 slots, put 16 elements in it, even with perfect distribution it would have to look through 4 elements to find the last one. This means it takes O(1/4n), or, since constants doesn't matter O(n). If he cannot accept that I would simply walk out and inform them that I could not take the job seriously, when the interviewer don't know such a basic thing.
MeteoSwiss uses a 12 node cluster with 16 GPUs each to compute its weather forecasts (Piz Escha/Kesch). The machine is in operation since more than a year. We were able to disable the old machine (Piz Albis/Lema) last week.

The 1.1km forecast runs on 144 GPUs, the 2.2km probabilistic ensemble forecast is computed on 168 GPUs (8 GPUs or 1/2 node per ensemble member). The 7km EU forecast is run on 8 GPUs as well.
IANAL, but I believe this would almost certainly have been illegal in 2008 under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
> ä into ¨+a

You've reversed the encoding (the combining character follows, so U+00E4 decomposes to U+0061 U+0308), and that's a simpler case as combining characters are combining, they have very specific properties which mark them as combining characters and as continuation of a grapheme. AFAIK that's not the case for ZWJ sequences.

There's also a case to be made for reverse(WOMAN ZWJ HEAVY BLACK HEART ZWJ MAN) to be MAN ZWJ HEAVY BLACK HEART ZWJ WOMAN (sadly the latter does not seem to be handled correctly, at least by Apple's rendering system, it fails to combine into a single "couple" glyph)
If you have an account with a US branch and the amounts are under the FDIC insurance limit the process of transitioning people's accounts from the failing bank to a new bank is usually pretty efficient. It seems to happen overnight in most cases. Failed banks are much more common than people realize but they are usually smaller and don't have national or international presence so you don't hear about them as much.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
This is the case.

Finding someone with the perfect storm of conditions is really really tough.

The problem is that all the studies really have to be n=1 and the hunt for drug targets is now the hunt for the black swan.
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>* Oh come on, you're not even trying. He means, the type checking and refactoring capabilities that you want to have in a large team that relatively quickly changes composition. I.e. the kinds of teams you often find in enterprises.*

I rarely find such large teams in enterprises.

What I usually find is ad-hoc projects, some in VB6, some targeting IE6 in 2016 still, others in J2EE with "enterprise" application servers, etc. Most done by 1 to half a dozen people. And I don't see them "quickly changing composition" -- the same persons work in the same IT deps for decades...

>I doubt Google doesn't use any of the type checking and refactoring tools that come with all Java IDEs out there. You think they rename Java methods with command-line search&replace just to stay in touch with their inner startup?

No, I mean there's nothing enterprisey about refactoring.
I think he may be taking the human-survival-apathetic stance similar to this George Carlin bit, "The planet is fine; the people are fucked."

Not that I defend that viewpoint, but I can see its merits.
Math doesn't magically understand chemistry and context.

Biology simply isn't that discrete. It's like 4000 years of spaghetti code.
As someone who tried out XUL back when they released XULRunner, in 2006, I don't agree at all; XUL was this weird and poorly document XML language which you could only use for desktop apps (since no other browser besides Mozilla's supported it). Also, JS on browsers was much more limited back then, so code reuse between the site and the desktop app was much less useful.

Meanwhile, Electron and their ilk use all the standard web languages, and JS is nowadays used much more (including on servers), so the code reuse is now actually useful.
I couldn't agree more. That's how it is where I live and there aren't many brilliant people who are barred from getting good education because of financial problems.
Perhaps because of the misleading partial quote from Wikipedia.

The full sentence is "For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community."

The ESA website gives all times for the descent ±20 minutes, so GMT, which is ±0.9s from either UTC or UT1, is fine.
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So how about we bail out the institutions and throw the executives in jail? That seems like a good compromise.
Yes, but those are the more radical anti-femme feminists. There's very little ideological consistency. The author of the post decrying the lack of pockets wears makeup, high heels and bras on her blog.
The link title is misleading. MS will not have 5k people working on AI. They merged their MS Research and their AI engineering team. It's not like they are going to drop all the other research they are doing to focus solely on AI. The new org is called the AI and Research Group. This is just a reorganization to democratize some of the resources available within MS.
This argument about Mars protecting us from an extinction event on Earth any time in the next 250 years seems like baloney. If that's an actual concern I would invest in something Earth-based first (e.g. underground bunkers).
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ElcomSoft tried to sell their software by claiming that they now can break backups faster. Guess what, Apple just broke your software.
So is the physics of lithium-ion batteries. Just as you don't worry about your phone exploding in your pocket (the generic you; you specifically should worry given you have Note 7 :P), you shouldn't have to worry about a washing machine accidentally mauling you. Sure it may happen, but consumer regulations are written to direct manufacturing towards minimizing that kind of occurences to below "I have to consciously care about it" level.
Same here, graduated in the 2000s. The way hash tables are described in the opening section sounds really naive, and I would hope that real implementations aren't using that method.
Sure you could. But I'd like to have a backup options in case I end up in strange place that doesn't accept chip&pin or my chip is really broken while on travel. It could be opt-in, so in case I need magnet, I could call my bank and ask to enable it.
> Besides, banks aren't special. They're businesses like any other. They need to go bankrupt if they make stupid business decisions.

I disagree. Banks form the foundation of the infrastructure of the capitalist system. Failure of banks has a large effect on the businesses that rely on that system to operate.
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>I suggest becoming more than superficially familiar, then.

It's a work in progress :)

>With all due respect

No offense taken

> I know one recurring thing I've encountered is that I'd love to be able to say that in [...] that the return result of DoWhatever is guaranteed to be the same type as the thing you called it on

Forgive me, but isn't this generics all over again, or am I missing something?

And once more, is it possible to bake these features into the type system without requiring more boilerplate code? I like the idea of strong guarantees of a type system, but I worry about having to wrestle with the compiler. One of the things I really like about Go is that the type system provides guidance but I don't spend much time making the compiler accept things that I patently know are compatible (I'm looking at you, Rust).
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yea, babel, as exception replied
Most of us don't want sustainable energy, agriculture, etc., that doesn't mean we don't fight tooth and nail for them...
Hope not... their rise4fun teams are some of the best stuff I can find on the web. Please keep that fundamental research alive.
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Insurance takes time to claim, when banks fail the financial services stop functioning, when your payments don't clear you are at considerably greater risk than when a bank is insolvent and can't consolidate it's outstanding accounts with the central or its peering banks.
Commerzbank is in almost of a bad shape as DB, same goes for many other banks in the EU and Germany.

Greece was a nightmare people don't really understand what was going on and the fact that they couldn't use an ATM, couldn't pay their bills, but at least that was a country wide issue.

When you get a similar situation but when one out of X people is left hanging in the wind because their bank has failed it would be considerably worse since there would not be a single unified emergency solution to cover them (in greece people stuck it out, there was even bartering, local stores had credit ledgers etc, GL getting credit from your local supermarket because your DB debit card won't work anymore), and when more banks start to fail because their investors and creditors lose faith and pull out (which is what happened to LB) it would make things worse and worse.
That's not quite correct - it might be fair to say 'machine learning researchers are likely to be gamers', but it's not fair to say 'gamers are likely to be machine learning researchers'
Or getting Americans on the metric system.
Amen. Bringing accountability in the banking sector? That's a refreshing thought and a decisive step forward to save, whatever can be saved from the EU.
I think the grandparent comment boils down to saying "there's no known persistent data structure with O(1) random access for read and write". Whether you need such a structure (for a cache, histogram, frame buffer, etc.) is up to you.

Some functional languages allow transient data structures (via something like ST or uniqueness types), so you can match the performance of any imperative algorithm at the cost of ugly code.
judging from its source, all it does is inject a blank .html file:

https://github.com/tvdv/BlankNTP/tree/master/BlankNTP
This seems good strategy. I am no expert, but AFAIK Microsoft research division is maybe (the) most advanced and most achieved research division in whole industry. Just look at people with H-Index more than 30 who works in Microsoft research.