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Not sure I agree with you on that, but monads handle your concern nicely. For example, I can write some code that does some database operations, and by parameterizing the code over the type of database actions, my code doesn't care if it's calling a "real" database action or a "fake" one for testing or whatever. That is, the code is completely agnostic as to the implementation details, but we still have full visibility and static checking when we actually run the database code, because we have to specify which database implementation we want to use. Boom, statically verified dependency injection.
I think it's not "offloading their liability to the customer", if company says that the washing machine can take 4 kg and the customer then loads it with 7 kg. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that if you do this, the machine will not be able to maintain its balance.

(Seen that happen and customer complain, in no way specific to Samsung.)
> doesn't mean that the bank actually did anything wrong.

Like paying prostitutes by example. Ah you meant illegal maybe.
> The advent of emojis and emoji ZWJ sequences make those kind of "characters" especially common.

They're already common through MacOS filesystems. MacOS by standard decomposes characters (ä into ¨+a)
This, even if possible, would quickly kill her car and make her additionally homeless.

Uber and Lyft drivers not in premium service are not paid enough to get maintenance.

Also, an older person requires often psychological and technical checks to see if they still can drive at all. In EU those are mandatory after 60 years to keep your licence at all, earlier in pro drivers.
There have been incidents where in-store attendants have been caught skimming cards with handheld skimmers I would be surprised if done of these gas station attendants are not in league with the criminals or even install some of these devices on their behalf.
I was left wondering what happened to the Libyan officials in question? In those days it wasn't unusual for those who displeased Kaddafi to face a show trial and quick execution.
In the late nineties I used to work at a Quasar centre (a type of laser tag), and the control system was a two-up DOS display built out of ASCII characters.

Even then, we joked about how old the computer was (a 386 IIRC, a long time back now). It still strikes me that while the hardware in the packs failed pretty often, I can't recall a single crash in that software the entire time I worked with it.

I suspect in retrospect it was statically linked with few to no dependencies, which probably helped a lot.

EDIT: I'm even older than I realized. Shit.
"nice toy". Very succinct diss.
Yeah that's not lost on me. I'm just trying to put the accomplishment in context. To me, (misguided as I may be LOL), it means the state of the art for NN photo compression is getting close to what we could do with wavelets in the late 90's. I don't mean to say that's bad; in fact I think that's pretty amazing.

It's also good to maintain some perspective on what it's actually worth to do better than JPEG. We have had actual usable products better than JPEG for a long time (I mentioned J2K but there's been so many others like WebP and BPG etc), and no one cares. People use GIF as a short-form video format--that's how much no one cares about this stuff. So I think it's mostly worthwhile as research, to increase our ability with neural nets in general, rather than as an eventual product. But who knows?
If a client comes to you and says "I want to buy some bank stocks", and you help them make that happen, what exactly did you do wrong?

There's plenty of problems in finance, but you won't be helping fix any of them by identifying even normal transactions as somehow fraudulent.
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i really liked the idea, but i would love to see "how they did it" kinda interviews with growth chart. when they had a breakthrough etc.
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Sounds completely illogical to me. So why don't they force the participants to convert to Islam then, if they want them to conform to its dogmas anyways?
A modern washing machine, if not level and/or overloaded, will shut off. And then you'll have to rebalance your load and turn it back on again. This has been common since decades ago.

Is it too much to expect Samsung to have implemented a standard feature everyone else in the industry doesn't seem to have a problem with?
Actually, somewhat more generally, if culture X is going to conduct some business with culture Y, which culture dictates the norms of the transaction?
What makes you think it isn't normal in the developing world?
How does your hypothesis square with the physical reality that a declining share of users use non smartphones for ANY type of computing activity, and sales of touchscreen only devices exceed sales of keyboard controlled devices by an order of magnitude (with that gap growing every year)?
My super basic understanding of deep learning is that it lets you skip step 5. Is that true?
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It depends on what you did by helping them. The article did not specifically underline the straightforward way of the deal. Or (God forbid) morality. For any measure of morality (well perhaps not a dictator one)
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"... potentially lethal."

With a heavy thing that rotates at 1600min-1 you should think what you are doing and consider the thing being potentially lethal.
At the end, the most important step is good feature engineering. (including dimensionality reduction, regularisation and stuff like that)
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" Real success was family money, and marrying right. He didn't work very hard."

Great point.

There is a good historical example you can see this in the of the current BBC adaption of Winston Grahams series, Poldark. [0] Contrasting aristocratic families surviving by Name (old money and scheming) or by Wit (entrepreneurial graft and hard work) in the 18th century UK, Cornwall.

[0] BFI Q&A with writer Debbie Horsfield and director Ed Bazalgette discussing adaption and research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsCKYX9-ntw
Well, to the best of my knowledge I think PostgreSQL currently only supports Gregorian calendar system ... ;)
And it's not only climate change but there's also a negative effect on human cognition: https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-dire...
> Not all cultures are the same

No. The one in question armed the IRA and friends, blew up an American civilian airliner over Scotland, and shot a British police officer who was protecting their embassy. Babes in the wood.
In my household, we are flabbergasted that Google's marketing team missed the unfortunate associations of this new name.
However, please remember it may be (of course) a little bit more complex than this: in certain markets trading certain types of investment vehicles with non-qualified investors is forbidden, since they simply would not be able to understand how it works.
This led to hundreds of lawsuits in a number of countries after 2008, when some banks just had low/mid-class people signing a piece of paper saying they were expert investors without actually informing them of the risks involved in those transactions.

This obviously does not apply to this specific case, but I just wanted to point out that it may not be always so simple.

(edit: correct wording)
This is painfully accurate.
I think OR only works if the models are linear.
Developing world lmao, because Jordan Belfort didnt do hookers and blow
In theory you'd assume the engaging party (either proactive sellers or proactive buyers) would adapt to the cultural practices of the ones they're reaching out to, but to some degree it probably doesn't align with human nature all of the time.
Then there's the fact that suite is very commonly mistaken for suit by non-native English speakers like myself. Maybe that's a better name, though. G Suit.
The article was pretty specific:

* The client came up with the trade idea (the spark seems to have come from Qaddafi himself.)

* It was basically just a call option, not some complicated thing with many bells and whistles

* The clients aren't even claiming they were duped in any way

The problem is not that Kabbaj was lying. It's that he was too charming.
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Can't you just activate Inbox etc. in your G Suite admin settings? Granted, they are not available to G Suite users instantly after consumers but they are available, nevertheless.

For my personal use, I have a custom domain on Outlook.com and this account is also a generic Google Account so I have access to the best of Microsoft and Google in one account. Might be a good approach but the only thing I wish is that Outlook had some of Google Inbox's capabilities.

Since I don't use Google for email, my Android phone can't automatically sniff for stuff like parcels or movie tickets and show me Now cards in my device. Other than that, I have a full-fledged Google account tied to my Outlook.com email. That's been my setup for a while.
Can I have a clue? I don't see it.
Compression engineers shaking in their boots.
I'm soft trialling Fastmail at the moment (forwarding all email from Gapps directly to Fastmail). I will probably change over my MX records soon to make it official.

One thing I don't like is that their Android client which supports push notifications (a feature I personally valued in Gmail) also has some weird UX.

For example, the message actions bar within the "view message" pane. At first, I wasn't aware it existed. I thought you had to archive/delete messages from the inbox by swiping it! I only discovered it by accident when my finger missed a link in an email. It seems like it appears when you tap somewhere in the message itself, and it appears over the top of the bar that holds the message title and the back arrow.

Very silly in that regard, but otherwise quite solid. Their servers, service, and desktop offering are great and I found their pricing quite reasonable.
How does it compare to Outlook.com?
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> There is a pay off in optimising berth scheduling, whether its large enough to build a company around I'm not sure...

It's a small but quite lucrative market. We're talking about less than 10 players for 10M+ contracts.

Do you know if demurrage charges are applied for vessels sitting offshore as storage?
The problem with onsite data centers is that it's rare for the total cost to be tracked effectively, they often don't include salaries for example.

Additionally to say that building something outside of the cloud ensures you're cloud agnostic is too simplistic. There are many more shops that would like to move to the cloud to reduce their costs, but can't due to on-site lock-in. They then run into much more expensive problems around expanding datacenters, network or power limitations, or staffing to maintain physical machines which have real world MTBFs you have to do something about when they fail.

I think the issue isn't as much lock-in as much as apps being designed poorly, reliant on a specific feature that's not necessary, but then means their app will only work in one cloud as a result. However in the cases where there is no way around that feature, then you're getting a huge benefit of an instant solution so you can focus on your product rather than infrastructure. And if that cloud does provide a single killer feature you need, then just run that feature there.
I take issue with that, the article alluded to the reason but never mentioned it: why did the put option fail to hedge the forward?

That really does sound like a big freaking problem!

What the hell happened!? Volatility went through the roof that option should have been a gold mine! What was the underlying asset for the put option, the shares or another forward that would pay out the difference??

If shares, did the short selling restrictions the SEC put in place adversely affect the viability of that option? Was the SEC colluding with Goldman to wipe out Libya's bet? Even unwittingly?

If not shares, did something happen to OTC options in the forward market that is not common news??

This lawsuit could have many legs. Not in compensation but information, and if the bank doesnt want that information out there then compensation.
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Flexport, which is a YC company, seems to be doing the same thing. Their guy is on here regularly and should have something to say about this.

Flexport, though, is an real freight forwarder. They take responsibility for end to end delivery as a common carrier. If you shipped through Flexport and it's stuck on a bankrupt Hanjin ship somewhere, it's Flexport's job to get it unstuck. Does Kontainer do that? They seem to be more like a price and schedule comparison site / lead generation system.
Sometimes it can be the smallest of things:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/us/project-vic-child-abuse...
Maybe it's an age thing. In my age group, everyone has a car, but also many have children.
What do you mean "configure Docker"?

Check out hyper.sh. They allow to launch a Docker image in ~3-5s, without the need to maintain a VM cluster. You can use an API service to automate the provisioning, and then forget about the infra thing.
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> Honestly, sounds like the side-AI project could be the exact point of a "blue sky" project

As a separate follow up project; not as a sub-project that stalls the main project (which is how it will be done since "What else are we going to do with the money? Doing the boring work of ironing out the kinks in the main project?").
As someone who has worked at an open source company before I'd love to hear your thoughts on building a sustainable business around open source software. Most use cases I know are basically customization/consulting in enterprise settings build around a free base system.

From reading about the company it seems that you want to monetize on ease of use with the distro?
Do you have customers that specifically pick you because deeplearning4j is open or do you find that it's more of a nice to have or even don't care as long as it works type of situation?

I'd also love to hear some reasoning for picking Apache 2.0 (i.e. a non-copyleft one). I've talked to at least one FLOSS founder who would have picked a different license in retrospect but feel like mostly the license matters less than most people think.
> why did the put option fail to hedge the forward?

They essentially bought a call option. Remember, (bought forward + put option) = call option [1]

They weren't 'hedging' anything, they just wanted to gamble that the stocks would go up. Obviously, that didn't happen. Because all they bought were options, they lost a lot less money than if they had simply bought the same notional amount in actual bank stock.

> Volatility went through the roof that option should have been a gold mine!

Options increase in value when volatility increases only if the stock price doesn't change. If you hold a call and the underlier tanks, it generally doesn't matter than the volatility shot up (unless the option is super long-dated). Try it yourself: http://www.option-price.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%E2%80%93call_parity#Implic...
Which fails horribly and instead benefits many antisocial economical behavioirs. Encouraging "right" activities through convoluted taxation has all the same qualities as planned economy. Although it's not as harmful because it affects smaller percentage of economy.
Time to switch to ImgTec and get some of that Apple $
I'm not sure in that case. It may be contract specific. If the ship is waiting on harbour control to let it in to unload demurrage definitely applies. If it has not been formally handed over to harbour control it may not.
I'm not convinced that's a useful generalization. Beyond that IMAP and SMTP do something vaguely related to email, there's very little overlap between the two protocols.
Democrats had the presidency, senate, and house all under their control and didn't act like they believed it was a serious issue. It was a time where they could have done something big (e.g., carbon tax). But it was politically more useful to take token measures, stay friends with the carbon industry, and keep climate change as a political issue. If you want something done, you should pick us! If we do it, then maybe you don't need to pick us anymore. Keep chasing the carrot.
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Late 20s here, in a more advantageous financial situation than the folks in the article. I honestly don't know what I'd do with myself.

I'd be lying if I said early retirement hadn't crossed my mind, but just from the experience of taking a month or two off work between jobs, I'm 100% certain I'd be bored out of my mind. If one were to retire at 40, then what? Even spending a full 5 years traveling the world and screwing around, that leaves you another 40 or 45 years of idleness.

Maybe I'm just not the type for this, but I'd have to do _something_ productive.
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You should ask for higher salary in any case. Also, find out if it is possible to use Embarcadero C++Builder.
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> > The fact that `function2` is logging stuff is an implementation detail that callers shouldn't care about.

> On the contrary, I think it definitely matters. If a function is going to log something, I want to know about it.

You are missing the forest for the trees.

First of all, why you'd care that a function you're calling is logging stuff is a bit beyond me but fine. Think of something else. Maybe the function is calling memcache, or storing stuff in the database, or sending a UDP packet to a message bus, or is querying the location service. Surely you can agree that there are things this function does that you don't care about if all you need is an Account given a user id, right?

These things you don't care about are called implementation details. Callers shouldn't know about them, therefore they shouldn't have to pass them in parameters.

That's what dependency injection (injection, not passing) does for you. It lets you call

val account = getAccount(userId)

instead of

val account = getAccount(userId, logger, memCache, db, messageBus)

The first example is using dependency injection and correctly hides the implementation details of `getAccount` while not being referentially transparent.

The second example is referentially transparent but exposes all kinds of private implementation details, making the callers' life very difficult, if not impossible (how are they supposed to come up with a messageBus when all they have is a user id?).
There is/was a subreddit dedicated to this. You could post a picture and the other users had to guess the location of the picture. Unfortunately I can't remember its name.
You can type absolutely pure JavaScript, change the file extension to .ts and still get some of the benefits of the typescript compiler for absolutely free.

That's probably why a lot of people are excited about typescript. It basically is JavaScript, but optionally annotated JavaScript. It's not a new language.
Doesn't this cheer you up a bit?

2016/09/27

"Since hitting its earliest minimum extent since 1997, Arctic sea ice has been expanding at a phenomenal rate. Already it is greater than at the same date in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. Put another way, it is the fourth highest extent in the last ten years. Even more remarkably, ice growth since the start of the month is actually the greatest on record, since daily figures started to be kept in 1987"

Hardly the kind of observation to get wide coverage.

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/rec...
They've also sent packages to European recipients (I'm assuming through Deutsche Post as well) and there were no difference between taped and untaped ones.

Read through all the information, they pretty much excluded Deutche Post (by comparing with packages sent to European recipients) and US customs (by noticing how rarerly their packages are picked for inspection).

I agree that there are more possibilities and further research is needed but I don't agree with people believing that what they did so far amounts to nothing.
Well, what you mention is basically a continuation of learning... That's not what I was talking about.
No, I don't think it's reasonable that a modern washing machine will implode due to overloading. As others have pointed out, this is a solved problem, and I would expect Samsung to have built standard safeguards.
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The names communicate a lot, for example a Monoid must satisfy certain (useful) laws. We would all be writing less adhoc APIs and more compositional code by understanding such algebraic structures.
I agree that there is no one right answer for all cases. Companies have definitely implemented their own datacenters poorly and been trapped as a result. You can avoid that fate, but you have to hire right and plan right.

In my experience, the difference in personnel between a service built in AWS versus one built in datacenters isn't wildly different. If you have a five person team for the former, you might need a six or seven person team for the latter. You aren't dealing with hardware and vendor problems in AWS necessarily, but it's also not as simple as 'just run your app and forget the rest' (at least once you start to scale up).

Again though, this is if you're smart about how you build the datacenter. There are a lot of tricks of the trade and a bunch of gotchas that aren't necessarily apparent until you've experienced them for yourself. Hiring experience here is the key.

While you don't necessarily want to limit yourself to the lowest common denominator of cloud providers or your own hardware, any time you make use of something unique you need to make a decision. Is it worth getting locked in? What will you do if that solution goes poof in the night?

To use a real recent example: what do you do if AWS runs out of X1 instances and you really really need some more right now to do your work? It sucks to get into a situation where you have no control over the outcome and even money can't fix it, either in your own datacenter or in AWS.
Divided on ten plus micro services that all need their own keep alive scripts.
I'd expect firms that are based in the US or UK would be subject to laws against bribing foreign officials, e.g. the FCPA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
so west disposed of him only to create proper civil war in that country, with ISIS cells and in the end, kill at least tens of thousands indirectly, still counting.

way to go west! something about lesser evil and whatnot
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(You die if your body temperature increases by 2%.)

98.6 * 1.02 = 100.57, not life threatening.
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And it took 1-3 nights to settle.
>>There is no guarantee the stock market will return money in the future.

It will always return money as long as it exists. How much it will return is debatable.

>>Obviously it's less effort to invest in the stock market so if you're talking about the amount of effort then yes investing is easier

Uh, you said, "In my experience it's much easier to make 1 million then it is to invest 1 million and make another million."

What is this about, if not effort?