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>> Neural networks are so called because they mimic — approximately — the structure of the brain.

Grumble.

ANNs are "approximately" like the brain [1] as much as Pong is "approximately" like the game of Tennis. In fact, much less so.

ANNs are algorithms for optimising systems of functions. The "neurons" are functions, their "synapses" are inputs and outputs to the functions. That's an "approximation" of a brain only in the most vague sense, in the broadest possible strokes, so broad in fact that you could be approximating any physical process or object [2].

Like, oh, I dunno- trains.

Trains, right? The functions are like coaches and the parameters they pass between each other are like rails. Artificial Neural Networks --> Artificial Train Networks; they mimic - approximately - the structure of the train.

Stop the madness. They're nothing like brains, in any way, shape or form.

And grumble some more.

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[1] Wait- which brain? Mammalian brain? Primate brain? Human brain? Grown-up brain? Mathematician's brain? Axe-murderer's brain?

[2] Because... that's what they do, right? They approximate physical processes.
That's a problem that I struggled with for four years (multiple IPS, one DSLAM for ADSL, that ran some ancient crap that they refused to upgrade to support ipv6...).

But now, this new network is my home network. So if I want ipv6, I have to maintain it myself :-) (This is, assuming that the upstream ISP here that provides the fiber line will be able to provide ipv6, but I'm fairly certain that shouldn't be a problem)
I have a new XPS 13. It's impeccably built, you can use it comfortably on an airplane, and it runs Linux with no issues. But I wouldn't use it for daily development. The 13 inch screen just doesn't have enough real estate, and it often feels like it's struggling to drive the 4k screen whenever I try to switch applications.

If you don't mind something heavy, check out the new Thinkpad P50 or P70. They have actual desktop-level performance, terrific screens (matte, color corrected 4k IPS!) and the new NVMe SSDs. I do most of my daily development on a P70, and increasingly just lug it along when I travel even though travel was the reason I bought the XPS 13.
Decentralization of power is not about reducing the power of government, it's about bringing power closer to the governed and reducing the ability of people to misapply the power that there is. Your offhand dismissal shows you aren't looking at the problem from the same perspective.
Please comment civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all. We ban accounts that continue to post like this.
Looks like they come with Ubuntu...is that bog-standard Ubuntu, or does it have custom drivers for things like the touch screen? (Basically, I would be curious whether it's easily replaced by another distribution.)
This is a common question, a good solution is the "cubbyhole" technique.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-cubbyhole-principles.ht...

I prefer the "pull" model, it can be done with a few lines of code in the CD process: First from the deployer to authorize a new instance, and second on the app/instance to request the token.
It's not an arbitrary binary blob. It's blob that's running at SMM level. A perfect place for rootkits.
Suffice to say the tech that Magic Leap has is so much leaps and bounds better than Hololens that it will derail Microsoft's AR train completely once its launched. The hype is very real and so is the tech.
One gem I found when I was shopping for a laptop is the Dell Inspiron 7559 (part of their "gaming" series). I bought the most expensive $1300 version last winter and it's been great.

- 4k touchscreen

- i7 Skylake processor w/ identical stats to that on the $2400 15" macbook pro

- 16 GB RAM

- 128 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD (I replaced the HDD with a 500 GB SSD from Amazon)

- NVIDIA GTX 960m w/ 4 GB GDDR5 RAM

It's sturdily made, I take it everywhere. The only thing I miss from my mac is the trackpad. You can't beat mac trackpads. However, the trackpad on the Inspiron is great, much better than many of the others I've tried. When you take into account it has better graphics acceleration than the $2800 macbook pro, you find that dollar for dollar, it's one of the best value laptops out there. (Seriously, compare it to even Dell's XPS 15, you'd have to pay ~$1650 for an XPS 15 to get comparable specs to the $1300 Inspiron 7559. The Inspiron even has double the graphics card RAM of the $2550 XPS 15!)
Lenovo has some nice hardware, I used it for years, but the problem is that their own software is unusable and the OS options are lagging, at least for me.

Yes you can install Linux, but I'm not going to pay a premium price to then spend my time hunting down the correct drivers and in the end still have some hardware not supported.

Either all of the hardware that I paid for is fully supported by some Linux distribution and on top of that I don't have to lift a finger to keep it updated or I'm not buying at that price.

I pay and you solve my problems, not I pay and you deliver me a bunch of new problems that I'll have to tinker with.

That's really why I switched to Mac's. I'm also not terribly convinced by the new touchpad, but maybe it'll grow on me.
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Something like the latter. I think just a few blog posts would be very helpful.
XPS 13 is well worth it. Its only downside is the webcam looking up your nose. It's lighter than a macbook pro and is about as sturdy.
> so does OS X if you can replace the wifi card

How do you install OS X on this machine ? Any tutorial you can recommend ?
X220, X230 are made by Lenovo.
I'm growing so tired and weary of complaining and the continuous cycle of outraged on the internet. The latest example is Apple and the new MacBooks.

Tim, this is why leadership of companies at the top by "committee" doesn't work. You need a strong leader (type A) that is a dictator to silence the masses and guide the company forward. Otherwise, you get a million different voices speaking up thinking they are somehow instantly experts in a field.
Fascinating perspective! Thanks for sharing.
I said this in another thread. Will say it again.

Whenever your boss comes and asks you "What would you like to be your primary machine?". I bet you will reply "Latest MacBook Pro". Yeah sure it will be kinda hard for you with 16 gigs of RAM, but nonetheless much easier than having a Hackintosh.
Wow, those are great specs for 1300. what's battery life like?
started doing my own worldly research about 18mo ago, my day to day im a full stack dev. Some of my stuff is even so controversial it's been banned and deleted from hn and reddit.

Hubble may already have pics of macroscopic worms and moth larger than a galaxy.

Matresses may be satellite dishes (energy coil arrays)

vaccines are little ufos

Vaccines usage and coverage correlates to nut,breast,uterine cancer and to abortion, miscarriage, deformity, retardation, autism, adhd, chrons, aspergers, prison rates and mental illness, (check the graphs they n^2 the vaccine every five years from 1975 on)

I would say most newspapers and congressmen are trash and treasonous for covering lot up; by not publishing data mailed to them. This is just a few notes since 18mo...
I agree. The intel naming convention has sucked since they switched to the Core iX names a few years back. Why are they still selling Core i5 computers in 2016 when they were available in 2012? It's like they don't want consumers to know there is a new processor out.

No wonder PC sales are so bad these days.
Rule of thumb: If comment and code disagree, usually both are wrong.
They are pulling the confidence level out of their asses. The Clinton campaign has been playing with the polling since the start of this campaign.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26551

If this is real, it can be duplicated.
I don't know. I didn't try not to. I generally expect that the things that Secure Boot protect against are things unlikely to affect me.
A) Maybe you're in a jurisdiction where it actually does mean something? That exception is clearly defined in the sentence you quoted.

B) The claim is not that nutritionists are useless, it's that (in most jurisdictions) the word is useless. The fact that you know a non-useless one does not disprove the claim.
No formal sources unfortunately, it's similar to using a linear regression model trained on historical data for inference (with some cross-validation/penalization to make sure we're not just finding signals in the noise).

We know for sure that there's a ton of bias (in the bias-variance sense), and that the predictions won't be nearly as good as a blackbox model, but we may glean some useful insights out of it.

Same idea with decision trees, in the past I've used them to find what factors influence customer support scores on online tickets, and we found some surprising and useful insights that were used for process improvements.
No word on the invisibly-killed-off and yet so sexy Mac Pro, I guess :P
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I went with a ThinkPad P50. It's not nearly as bulky as some think. I specked mine with the Xeon processor, and 1080p screen (but 4k is an option). Also specked everything else as low as possible (HDD/SSD, RAM). I upgraded these items myself after. I now have a server grade processor, have put two 512 SSD in it (one M.2 NVMe), and 64GB of RAM. It's a beast. I can also swap out the LCD panel directly for the 4k panel if I so choose with an after-market one later if I so choose. Initial base price was only around $1400 (was on sale), and about $500 for the SSD/RAM on my own dime (would have been well above $1000 on lenovo's site).

So for ~$1900 I have something that blows the MacBook Pro out of the water.
The marriage license argument is textbook strawman. That is not regulation of an industry, and you know it.
They aren't trying to displace iPad...
I personally prefer the XPS 15 for the quad-core CPU and discrete graphics, but it looks like getting it to play well with linux could take some work, and there might still be some issues: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2317843.

Out of curiosity, what has you disappointed with Apple's new laptops?
The NHTSA has been a strong proponent of self-driving technology and has gone out of its way to make sure there is a path to doing it legally, without pulling the legal 'gotcha' that you described here.

The device would probably be SAE Level 2, and should be regulated as such.
>>humans suck at driving

Proof?
"As Vault is run within our internal network (and for other reasons), TLS is disabled. "

No. No. No. No. No. No. This should NEVER be an option. You should not allow data to pass unencrypted over the wire, period.
Yes, exactly. It's called the "otp" plugin.
Does it run macOS? No? In which case no its not a good replacement for a MacBook Pro.
When he kills a bunch of people in China, you're going to feel silly about having made this comment.
Next step: setup development system ?!

Surely they do some end-to-end testing?
I carried a 2013 Dell XPS Developer Edition and a MacBook Air in parallell for a while this year. Note that not all of this necessarily applies to more recent versions of the XPS.

* My XPS has a really awful touchpad. When I first got it, it was definitely my main reservation. I tried a 2014 model and noted that it wasn't much improved.

* The battery life is much, much worse on the XPS, which is probably the main reason why I find myself reaching for the mac. I've kept Ubuntu 12.04 on it, so Linux power management has likely gotten better but there's still no comparison.

* other than that, I've loved my XPS. It's super light, has a brilliant keyboard, excellent specs and still works well after three years.
P.S. I do own the a 2014 MB Pro as well, so not being ThinkPad bias. Just stating the options and route I chose as a replacement.
Fedora and RHEL won't load any unsigned kernel module (yes, found out the hard way: I was wondering why VirtualBox doesn't run, even if it successfully builds it's own modules). However, you can enroll a MOK (Machine Owner Key) and sign whatever you want.

I was under impression, that Ubuntu does not enforce signing kernel modules even with Secure Boot on.
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It's regular Ubuntu, I believe. You can install whatever distro you want, but Ubuntu is guaranteed by Dell to be fully supported. I installed Arch on mine with no issues.
That comment I'd interpret as the requirements must be considered in this region; so if the law changes, the requirements still apply, it's just that the code needs to be updated.

Requirements are usually exogenous to the code.
I have an X201 sitting next to me. It could heat my office or dry my hair when idling. I wish I could just plop in a better cpu and keep the chassis.
Is there a fork of this with no premine?
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> xps 13 9350 with iris pro

Do you mean Iris Graphics 540? I think Iris Pro Graphics 550 included on-chip eDRAM and isn't available on any of their 15W Skylake CPUs, it's a 28W only part.
Yeah, but if you really wanted to work for us you should be happy spending a few hours filling in these ridiculous buggy online forms.
It is a beautiful machine but I want to voice my experience having tried on the XPS 13 for size:

https://medium.com/@securitystreak/buying-a-professional-pen...

Granted I owned the older 9343 model but despite the many BIOS updates (and several Linux distros) my laptop kept up phantom right clicks and cursor jumps - very annoying! No issue with Windows 10 though.

I sold it onward and happy with the real-estate 15" provides me once more.
Certainly something I've thought about!

I'm sure there's some bias, but I think my view is overall pretty objective on her ability and intelligence. Largely because most of my impression of her intelligence was built before I had any feelings for her - and ended up being one of the largest contributions as to why I fell for her in the first place.

She's only a couple of years my junior in age, but went through the whole Bachelors -> Masters thing, so is lagging behind me by more than half a decade in the actual work experience department, so she still makes a fair amount of mistakes when it comes to office politics, and her degree, while related, isn't directly applicable to what we do, so she still has had a fair amount to learn as well. I've tried to stay objective on both sides of this, and point out things she can learn, since I figure that objectivity will help her in the long run.

There's some outside validation as well - she received her first promotion very quickly, and is on the fast track for the next one, based almost entirely on the mountain of positive feedback she's gotten from her work with outside teams and both internal and external customers.

>Given that "objective assessment" of a coworker is hard to define, yet alone hard to enforce, I don't find it very unusual if other colleagues cast aspersions on her motives in such case.

Yeah. I know it's not anything that can be enforced, I just don't think that I'd be receiving anywhere near the same attitude and comments if the tables were turned and she was the more senior engineer. It's also that I have no direct way to help her get ahead outside of feedback to the management, which admittedly carries a decent amount of weight... But it's also something that I've specifically told her I'm not able to provide since I can't guarantee I'll be 100% objective, and something she has no problem with.

Sorry for another long response, but it's something I wrestle with many days of the week, and have thought a lot about.
I have one for the work. It is absolutely wonderful.
I am currently using Ubuntu 16.04.1, and I feel it lightweight and performant. The battery lasts about 9 and a half hours (doing web browsing and light programming).

I suppose that the thing will only improve with future Ubuntu Hardware Enablement Stacks that include new kernels and so...
Uh when will the H1B=lower-wage meme just die? A lot of the H1B hiring is purely skills based. In my nook, all of it is skills-based. I am yet to encounter a hiring manager who'd hire shit employees on H1B just so that he can save money by paying them lower wages. Especially startups. I'd love to find out who those founders and managers are who'd hire less-than-optimal people solely so they can pay them less. Looking to short those companies, lol.
It's not much, but if somebody puts a button on the internet that gives me 8 cents every time I push it, I might try pushing it a few million times. :)
> Do you diff against the same base, or create an incremental chain? How many diffs do you take in between recapturing a full image? At $DAYJOB we always take full backups into a fast in-house deduplicating store.

We always diff against the same base and have 5 days in between subsequent full dumps. The number of days just comes from a trade off between space occupied by the backups and time it takes to generate them.

> Is there no better way to handling this than polling?

There's definitely different ways to approach this, we find polling works well for us. We also use the same database for crash recovery, so doing the assignments through it serves both purposes.

> Presumably you can only get this parallelism by disabling FK integrity. Is it re-enabled in the following VERIFY stage?

I'm not sure what you mean by parallelism through disabling FK integrity. Splitting the backup into its tables means we can restore a subset of tables instead of the entire backup. This allows us to load individual tables concurrently, but also not have to wait to load a massive database if all we need is a few small tables.
A swimming pool in your backyard is an inherent danger. That doesn't mean anyone will be injured or killed, but a deep body of water with sheer walls is inherently dangerous.

It would nonetheless also be accurate to describe it as a possible danger, because the danger only manifests in certain circumstances.

> So what I mean is, the autopilot could turn out to be safer than manual, in my mind, so how is it "inherently" dangerous.

That could well be the case but I don't think it eliminates the inherent danger. Maybe it's less dangerous, but cars on the road are just kind of dangerous in general.

I think it's also very generous to assume that the early auto pilot car systems we have today are necessarily safer than human drivers. Emergency braking is almost certainly a net gain. Self driving might be or might not be. A self driving add-on cooked up by geohot? I'm doubtful it's yet gone through the kind of engineering rigor we'd expect of a system like this.
True hackers ship.
The T560, which has an optional 15.x" 3K screen, has both an internal and a removable battery.
FPGA based Robot Motion Planning is lightning fast
Totally depends on the role and circumstances.

Were you a worker bee in the back office that had nothing to do with the scandal? You should be fine, and will have a good story about your ethics for why you are seeking other employment.

Were you a high-ranking employee with direct responsibility for any of the factors causing them to be in the current mess? You might have a tougher time because you'll need to explain yourself.

These are also things that you might want to consider tackling in a cover letter.
(C), as a portion marker in a classified document (which it would properly only occur in if the document itself was at least as highly classified, with banners marking the classification in full words) means "confidential", not "classified". In email, the banner text is placed at the top and bottom of the body (the subject line of a classified email is portion marked to indicate the classification status -- including (U) for unclassified if that applies -- of the subject line itself.) [0] Any place that portion markers are properly used, the whole containing document is clearly marked as classified with a specific level, and the whole content -- other than parts portion-marked as unclassified -- is classified.

It's kind of funny how the majority of the people who mock Clinton over this get it wrong themselves.

And also omit the context, which was a (C) used in an email which had neither a portion marker in the header (as all classified emails should) nor classification banners. In that context, I think mlet's actually pretty reasonable to have no idea that a parenthetical (C) on a paragraph was intended as a portion marker of classification level.

[0] http://www.cdse.edu/documents/cdse/Marking_Classified_Inform...
The title is inaccurate. There's no evidence that she meant rigging the election. As someone else noted, she could've meant determining who was likely to win. If I'm betting on a football game, first I want to determine who's going to win. That doesn't mean I'm fixing the game. If I can't determine who's going to win, then I shouldn't bet. As the US shouldn't have bet by pushing the elections.
My dream laptop:

- Remove the function keys, remove escape, and all other ancient stuff like Sys Rq and Pause / Break, remove arrow keys, remove Page Up etc. Swap the places of the trackpad and the keyboard so the keyboard is closer to me and the mouse is farther away. I use the former most of the time, and it's more ergonomical that way.

- No moving parts; have a 64GB SSD disk, a 4-8GB RAM, a decent CPU that supports virtualisation, open-source compatible hardware (i.e. run any Linux and any BSD systems on it, OpenBSD for me, especially), no cam or mic, generally no recording devices, have a decent speaker, USB ports, two jacks, one for the mic one for the earphones.

- Thin, light, 15.6"-13" in size.

- Battery that guarantees me at least 3-4 hrs of time, under load. Weight or thinness can be compromised to achieve that.
I've had to RMA it twice, but otherwise my surface pro 3 has been the most reliable computer I've ever used. My only machine for work and play for the last 2 years, and right now it looks like a Surface will replace it.
I'm on my fourth motherboard for a year-old Dell XPS 13. They've released a new model since then, but the experience was pretty awful. Each failure is hours down the drain dealing with tech support and a hard drive wipe. The overall experience of using it as your primary computer is made painful by the inability to depend on it working.

The warranty just ended, so unless they finally fixed it for good, the machine may have been a waste of a thousand dollars. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it keeps working.
Sounds like everyone below is saying the XPS is great, with exceptions of the battery life, build quality, trackpad, and webcam. So you're probably better off buying the now last gen MBP.
I run Windows 10 on my XPS 15, hooked up to a 42" 4K TV for a monitor using HDMI - it works great except for a couple of Windows programs that don't scale up correctly. I run the 42" TV at 200% because I don't want to squint all day.
Good tooling, easy to understand, unambiguous? Sounds like Java.

Why can't people just use Java?
There was an article the other day about a man who lets his children go on the top of his roof. He made a calculation that the probability that harm would occur was low enough to be acceptable. I do a much similar thing; will follow up with you if/when my bios gets rooted.
None of the above
She could hire someone to walk her dog and 40% of the country would consider it scandalous and criminal.
I wish this was on the ballot this year.
TLS really shouldn't be disabled.. especially for SECRETS. I'd fix that up right away!

I've been very pleased with vault, our biggest hurdle has been working out the TLS fun, vault TLS certs from the PKI backend expire in ~ 32 days, but vault is a long-running service, you don't really want it restarting and having to re-unseal all the time, so we have our own CA out on disk, and vault's PKI holds an intermediate cert. This gives us the ability to generate long-term certs for stuff like vault, but still use vault's PKI infrastructure for most TLS certs, while only having to keep track of 1 CA cert internally.
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