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> If you say something in an aggressive manner, they will tend to assume a confrontational posture and won't work with you.

In my experience, that's not actually true.

Hitler, famously, was able to say many things in a very aggressive manner, people did assume a confrontational posture, and did work with him.

When I see Theo write, I see someone who is passionate and who will not compromise. Yes, he does things I don't agree with, but notwithstanding the comparison to Hitler, he also does things that I do agree with.

The reason we respond the way we do isn't always because of the person we're responding to.

People respond to passion in different ways, some people shut down, some people walk away, and some people feel it's so important to find some other way to prove them wrong that they'll try to turn the conversation into one about rudeness instead.
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They can technically be as long as you want them, but in practice there are still severe constraints. LSTMs alleviate the gradient problems, but you still get real trouble with long-term dependencies.

Alex Graves and some others in DeepMind have focused a lot in the past year or so on developing practical differentiable data structures, so that the LSTM can read and write to an external memory (and save its precious internal state for more immediate needs) yet still be trainable via backpropagation.
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It took less than 20 minutes for me to change over a decently large project. The builds on the CI server increased by about 25 seconds by switching from npm install to yarn install. It was definitely worth it for me.
A couple of good options in a similar discussion from two weeks ago "Ask HN: What printer do you use?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620209
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Thank you for both the explanation and the link!
Thanks. I was curious about that as I'd heard the term used and was almost certain the context was more recent than the Corona project (1972 end date).

I'm also curious about Keyhole and the project, similarly named, which become Google Earth.
Thank you! Those examples were very clear
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> + major dev community...

Do you mean major as in "large", or as in "possessing some positive quality"? While I'm not commenting on Atom's dev community in particular, the two don't have a causative relationship.

A particular downside I see with Atom is it's performance - the perception of which is in some cases arguably approaching that of its competitors - and hence its energy impact, which affects my battery life.
Route information with Siri doesn't seem to be useful even if they know the location. I asked Siri (in central London) how to get to heathrow the next day. It just opened apple maps and showed me how to walk there. I guess I used maps for in pedestrian mode before, but that answer was absolutely useless.
Those plots are confusing - plotting time and standard deviation as two bars next to each other is odd. It would be much better if the plot used error bars, e.g. like this: https://egret.psychol.cam.ac.uk/statistics/local_copies_of_s... . Otherwise it's very hard to tell whether the difference between two implementations is just noise or not.

And if the numbers are so large, adjust the scale. Don't plot thousands of nanoseconds—plot microseconds!

I'm not faulting the author for their plots—making good plots is hard!—but good articles suffer when the data is presented in such ways.
But everything has biases. Objectivity is a fib used by bullshit factories like RT to cast doubt over everything. It's not about bias at all, it's about credibility. NYT has credibility, BBC, NPR, The Times of London, Guardian, etc all do. RT, HuffPo, Brietbart do not.
There's kotlin; I honestly reckon it will take over as the primary Android language in a couple of years
And what interface would it have? Apple 30-pin? Lightning? Micro-usb? usb-c? Does it have room for 3.5 to 6 inch phones?

Integration with speaker/mic is already done via bluetooth but charging is still a problem.
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> I think Facebook is in the same situation. Facebook, Google, and to a lesser extent, Twitter, have a lot of power to influence elections.

And they will if their future power relies on the specific candidate, which is ironically also lobbied (paid) by them.

I don't want to sound like a hippy in the 1960's, but if there ever was a need for the "fuck the corporations" slogans, it's now.
It's been over a decade and over 10 major releases since Google acquired Android. If they still haven't managed to completely absorb it, culturally and technically, then I've underestimated just how dysfunctional Google is.
Emacs is still the best for most of that. Text display works most of the time (although it sucks), there are intelligent modes that aren't a pile of half-correct regex hacks (semantic, most of the modes for the Lisp family), and the base is fairly stable (some of the packages may not be). OTOH, it could be better.

If you don't mind the lack of extensions, and are willing to write your own, you may wish to try some of the other emacsen associated with the lisps. Hemlock is CL-based, so likely faster than Emacs, and Edwin and Guile-Emacs are both based on Schemes (edwin is MIT Scheme, Guile Emacs is... Guile). They still suck at some stuff, though, and they don't have the massive plugin ecosystem.
> and my phone has no problems finding GPS and I have navigation instructions pulled up in about 5 seconds.

That's because your phone isn't actually using GPS ( e.g. Navstar or Glonass ) at that point, it's using cell triangulation or wifi-based location.

For example the fastest possible first-fix with Navstar from a warm-start, using cached prior-location and ephemerides, is 30 seconds[0]. From a cold ( position-unknown ) start, such as a car nav-system powered-down in a parking-lot for an extended period, the first-fix will take longer than 12 minutes. There is no technological way around that, it is an artifact of the system architecture.

[0] and that's for a top-end receiver than can sync to four satellites 'simultaneously' using time-division.
Cereal is 1/5 or 1/10 the price of the Soylent 2.0 the GP mentions. Name brand cereal.
The NY Times is a large scale journalistic outfit with dozens of news desks, hundreds of editors and journalists that all report on the days events, do investigative reporting, provide local beats, report on sports, the economy, politics, etc as well as publish op-eds and editorials. Breitbart, HuffPo, et al are blog teams that aggregate and editorialize news stories and may dabble in the occasional long form piece. It's a false equivalence to claim all are the same.
I've been a soylent customer for 2 years or so, and have always found the flavor to be alright.

The latest formulation, 1.6,changes this. It's far and away the best flavor yet. Very different, and very good. The only formulation so far for which my mouth waters when I'm hungry.
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I've known both Japanese, Chinese and Korean people who self-described as oriental. Clearly I don't know a representative sample, but it's not nearly as straightforward as you imply.
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It is backed up by scientific research. With the exception that stuff which enables you to do something has a lot of value, however your 5th car is almost meaningless in terms of happyness. What's easy to forget is advertising is designed to push past that minimal stuff threshold.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/04/10/5-reliable-...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944 and about 30 other submissions...
One million gifs, wow!

What are the parameters in hosting for all gifs?
Discrete GPS units do all that. I use a tomtom go6100 for all my navigation needs, it's unmatched at its job.
> and in response to an assertion that the use of VMs would increase security

That was his key point. He wanted to destroy the myth that isolation via VM will automatically make it safe to share a (physical) machine with a malicious attacker that also has a VM on the machine.
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> Skin color does not make Obama an expert in race relations.

Nor does your observation mean he's NOT an expert in race relations. You're making the same mistake as the people you criticize in applying generalities to specific cases.
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Once you have a learning machine that can solve simple problems. You can scale it up to solve very complex problems. Its a first step to true AI imho. Al lot of small steps are needed to go towards this goal. Integrating Memory & Neural Nets is a big step imho.
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>"That's how it has worked in America. Government has supplied the initial flicker"

That's not how it worked when America had the most growth. In the late 19th century, when there was less government intervention, America saw the most rapid rate of economic growth. I don't want to get into a debate about who led to the emergence of the great depression but I strongly believe that it was due to government involvement in the economic affairs of America.

That aside, when you talk about funding, there are two things that emerge;

1. You believe that that is the only way to get funding for revolutionary projects. Government is not the only way to do this. Read on IBMs/GEs research labs and you'll see what private research labs can accomplish.

2. That government has money. Government has no money. They only have money in so far as you and I allow them to take our hard earned money in form of taxes. You have to get out of the mindset that demagogues and bureaucrats actually do valuable work. They only get in the way of productive people in a bid to placate non-producers thereby granting themselves power and undue privilege once in office.

As a side note;
The 20th century was the most murderous period that humanity has gone through. Why? Governments comprised of demagogues made terrible decisions after convincing the demos that they can make the best decisions on their behalf.

At least during the aristocratic periods, it was well known that wars were the affairs of Kings and that the common folk were not going to tolerate anyone who would force war upon them. Moreover, you couldn't be conscripted; the only people who went to war were the soldiers paid by the King out of his pocket. You may say that king still taxed people but at least it was just one parasite who had very low taxes as opposed to today when it is many many corrupt parasites with very high taxes.
How do you do pseudo classes like :focus?
In this context what does differentiable mean?
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Overconfident pronouncement by indicating that they are making computational models of natural processes that no one can confidently state are correct or are the most efficient?

Making statements that allow people to see behind the curtains and maybe go off and make their own competitive models... Yes, this is a disservice to the advancement of A.I and should be downvoted : Removing the prestigious veil and illusion from published works.

NTMs memory is external in what sense? Please detail what this means in a 'functional' sense. It's biologically inspired. Neurons maintain memory beyond synaptic weights. The neuron models of present day A.I were basic. Someone comes along and sees the obvious : There is no computational model for how neurons utilize memory and suddenly they're thinking on another level? Give me a break..

Synthetic gradients have everything to do w/ electro-chemical gradients :
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14527
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12456.full.pdf
So, where is your establishment that I am incorrect. It is nowhere to be found. Again, biologically inspired computational models.

Oh look, someone published a paper back in June that is an implementation of Differentiable Neural Computers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00036

It's hype and that is a disservice to the community of people completing similar work and taking similar approaches.

It would be an interesting discussion to have. That discussion was terminated in favor of downvoting me.

They're feeble to someone who isn't well informed on neuroscience. Thus, you'd rather be wow'd and believe in the fantasy that only a small segment of people can write computational models of biology.

Continue believing the hype. Rarely will someone be truthful and honest about where they got their ideas when hype follows. An interesting conversation could have transpired. Enjoy the feels from the downvotes.
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a) twitter's reason to exist is as a communication system where the primary mode is individual > public, in short form. No other communication platform exists that has those characteristics. The web is the next closest thing, but the upstart costs and knowledge required to present information on the web are greater, and the expertise needed to make your content discoverable (SEO) is higher. Blogging services get close as well, but I think the short form is important because it both decreases the barrier to entry (simplicity and low threshold), and democratizes the communication itself—my tweet looks the same and has the same limits and capabilities as CNN's tweet, or the POTUS's tweet. There's something to that.

However, it takes far too long to really understand the value of the service—took me several years before I really "got" it and my curated feed was something I actually enjoyed reading and participating in.

Third, I don't believe twitter understands the value I described above. They've made no meaningful progress in line with that value in their product that would indicate they understand it or are interested in increasing the value, or even preserving it.

b) Twitter acquired Tweetdeck, to their credit, and it still works for exactly what you describe. They really should have innovated on lists more in the actual product, though, completely agree.
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As an emacs user, I can see that. Allow me to counter:

1. As others have pointed out, Emacs shortcuts work everywhere. And if you really want those shortcuts, look into cua-mode, which is closer to what you're used to.

2. Yeah... that might be a legitimate issue for you.

3. Emacs isn't about the default settings: if you find them limiting or frustrating, change them! Emacs isn't about shaping yourself to fit it, it's about shaping it to fit you. The only thing that's just about mandatory is learning a little elisp.

If you don't know how to do something, emacswiki and the extensive documentation are good places to look.
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Dont forget you first need to understand the mathemetical theory of how a brain does computation and pattern recognition. Off course they look into how a brain does it. But the mathematical underpinnings, and how the information flows is much more important than how an individual neuron works in real live. Abstraction and applying it to real data is what they are doing.
Rubin may have been a big reason.

I seem to recall that he was the one that insisted that Android was for phones, and thus devices without a mobile radio was unable to get a CDD certification.
Can you elaborate on how you do this? I wasn't aware that you could use a feature phone over bluetooth as a wifi hotspot. Are you doing something different?
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Looks like "photoshop" might even be selling it a bit short.
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then I'd agree with dsr_: look through brothers range and pick something, the models I'm familiar with apparently all don't exist anymore but Amazon reviews etc should help you. Some color models are also available <200. Check the prices for replacement toner!
Luckily I think that people seldom enters their email address on shady websites... I never liked autocomplete in chrome, it always seemed exploitable to me...
> at 19µs/datetime you can easily end up with that bottlenecking your entire pipeline if the datasource spews (which is common in contexts like HFT, aggregated logs and the like)

+1

This is why a little ELT goes a long way.

>Good CSV parsers reach 200MB/s

By good (and open source) we're talking about libcsv, rust-csv, and rust quick-csv[1]. If you're doing your own custom parsing you can write your own numeric parsers to remove support for parsing nan, inf, -inf, etc and drop scientific notation which will claw back a lot of the time. If you also know the exact width of the date field then you can also shave plenty of time parsing datetimes. But at that point, maybe write data to disk as protobuf or msgpack or avro, or whatever.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/ewanhiggs/csv-game
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It's an ISO standard and we remember how it was approved

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Yeah, that's one of the major benefits—it really can bring people together around specific topics, and democratizes and enables communication between people of all levels. I've connected with and formed relationships with experts via twitter to the point where we've met at conferences or talks and been able to strike up a conversation based on our latest twitter discussion; they knew who I was and were interested in talking to me. Not sure how I would have done that otherwise.

You're right it's an echo chamber, but echo chambers can help you be heard...
still better than having some people filter the news according to their political views.
Simple optimisations like this shave minutes off the runtime of log parsing and data import jobs I run.

I do lots of this in Ruby [0], and often write a custom parser when I know that dates or times will be of regular form. As a bonus I get to golf different methods of doing the parsing against each other, using microbenchmarks.

[0] https://gist.github.com/dougal/e972b26cd0293f99b41896e7d89c0...
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Is there a tutorial or book that you can recommend for a newbie to get started with Kotlin,MVP, etc?
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Sure, but going higher than say 150 km/h for more than 10 seconds the car could phone that in and you'd have to justify it to the police or face a steep fine.
I can't agree more and I'm in for this warehouse idea. Surprising how many people on HN are sorta against it based on the comments in this thread. That's the single most rational thing we can do - simulate the environment, nail it with fast iterations locally, deploy prototypes to the Moon (why Mars? What's the difference?) and only then send further en masse.
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To add to that, please note one thing though. Here we are in a public space, if you (some generic you, not you david-given in particular) say or do what I consider to be a stupid thing, I will just ignore you. I will certainly not insult you. Why would I? I have better things to do.

But if you come into my house and start spitting on the floor, don't get too surprised if I punch you in the face and throw you out. Perhaps I might even insult you. You're in my house, I won't tolerate this kind of behavior. You are forcing me to act just because you are in my house.

Theo and Linus don't come in public spaces (like HN) to start insulting people. They might insult people when they come to the OpenBSD/Linux space and start spitting on the floor. To further the analogy, unannounced people come and spit on the floor.

This is a very deep and fundamental difference. And just because everyone can see and participate in the discussion, make no mistake, it's still an OpenBSD or Linux space. Not some generic fantasy land. I might hold a party and my house where everyone can come, but if you come and don't behave, I will take measures and you can whine all you want about my non PC behavior.
It was a lot of waffle, with the odd buzzword interspersed. I don't mind Obama, but I do mind when people attribute understanding to him when he talks at an extremely thin level about topics.
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In software, it's considered poor coding practice for code to be repeated more than once. If lawyers use templates so often and only a few things change, why don't they employ something similar? E.g. here's standardLeaseContract(); difference1(); difference2(); difference3();

To me it seems this would make things much clearer to parties involved, and reduce opportunities for abuse compared to many pages of boilerplate and only a few lines that matter.
Like this:

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I wouldn't say they have zero credibility, but I would put it on a sliding scale. However, places like Drudge, Buzzfeed have broken stories before so I wouldn't dismiss them out of hand.
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> If you're doing your own custom parsing you can write your own numeric parsers to remove support for parsing nan, inf, -inf, etc and drop scientific notation which will claw back a lot of the time.

The 200MB/s, at least for rust-csv, is for "raw" parsing (handling CSV itself) not field parsing and conversions, so those would be additional costs.

> If you also know the exact width of the date field then you can also shave plenty of time parsing datetimes.

Yes if you can have fixed-size fields and remove things like escaping and quoting and the like things get much faster.
Is that a realistic threat model? What does the technology look like to tap into 800Gbit/s of fiber traffic - under water?
Great concept but I can see it falling out of line very quickly, on the homepage I spotted
"berlin -> country -> germany"
Followed by
"england -> capital -> London"

If you search for the key "germany" it has no results, if you search "london" it finds no results.

The fluidity of the data is definitely a hindrance, if you wanted to use the dataset you'd have to already know what you are looking for to find the value.
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I actually looked for a double-din touch screen with a HDMI input and audio out... and nothing else (couldn't find it).

Anything I connect to that system would be categorically better than any OEM car interface.
"press, tweets, blog posts, conferences, degree programs, seminars and interviews"

That is the hot air
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