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In my view IDEs are much harder to learn...
For vim or EMACs, you just need the cheat sheet to start with, but with a IDE, sometimes I have to go to video tutorials in order to figure out a button.
agreed, cassandra is sharp edges all around.
Just wait until IBM's Phoenix Pay system and the scandal here in Canada comes to a head. With 300,000 civil servants waiting six months to be paid and it's still not fixed.

There must be a big penalty looming for such a massive level of incompetence.

Phoenix seems like a rather awkward name for an application.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/canada/government-wo...

>Though many government employees work in 9-to-5 office jobs, the public payroll also includes a wide array of people like Mr. Ryan with complicated work schedules and pay rules.

My father used to be in the Coast Guard he worked 28 days on and had 28 days off. If you were injured that meant the days you were off were really two days?? Try explain that to some bureaucrat in Ottawa who can thinks they are speaking English (really French), they're 2,000 miles away and doesn't understand the system either.
And yet, despite the risk factors for the private funds being through the roof, they never lose money, and as another commenter pointed out, the public funds are losing money. I'm sure it's all on the up and up. ;)
There are different kinds of djing, and 'boring' sets where you just mix two records together all night are a skill all their own. Sometimes people want the DJ to disappear so they can focus on dancing all night. They don't want someone scratching or doing live remixes. They want to just get in a groove and feel time stop while an endless beat plays.

It's really hard to keep a crowd like that dancing all night when you aren't performing. I've had 1000 people jumping up and down and screaming and I was just standing there doing nothing while a record played. You really need to know what the crowd wants to get them there and the difference between getting people amped up and just having them wander away from the dance floor is subtle.
Relying solely upon a phone's built-in encryption is much like relying solely upon a condom to prevent pregnancy.

It's only when multiple steps are taken that a method of prevention is even remotely reliable.
Wouldn't a bank be able to do a hard fork a la ethereum? Since it would be a completely private system, they would have total control and it seems this would fulfill (2) in your comment. Or am I confusing the purpose of the technology?
Don't worry, they provide liquidity. Surely you remember how dysfunctional and the financial markets were before we had sufficient liquidity? I mean heck, it could take minutes, MINUTES, to execute a trade.
I bet you could train a neural net to detect the exact moment when the AI bubble has jumped the shark.
> Code I wrote 10 years ago is still working fine today

I'm wondering if any of it's been upgraded to Grails 3, or if they're still on Grails 2, or even using a Groovy 1.x version of Grails.
I don't understand. What does "hug of death" mean?
People are pointing to 08 as a reason to believe she won't be charged, but the better analogy here in Enron. Lay, Skilling and Fastow were all sentenced to prison.
> Yes, but there are tons of "passionate" people out there, so they are looking for them.

Are there really be people passionate about building boring business software or is it just a case of rewarding the liars?
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I don't know - the fact that this is the only manufacturer I know of that specialises in them would indicate it's not huge, and the kind of people that run Linux are the kind of people that generally want to build their own computers.

If you're thinking of starting one, I would say absolutely avoid the desktop market. We can already build our own custom Linux boxes. What we can't build is a solid, reliable, well integrated high-end laptop. With the MacBook Pro continuing its fall from grace as the go-to developer machine, I'd expect you'd find a ready-made passionate (if niche) market.
Give this to a despot to train on his political enemies (or ethnic/religious minorities), and you suddenly have a very good NN for condemning innocent people to jail.

Research should continue into this, but it's worth remembering that the "criminals" being trained on aren't necessarily bad people in the moral sense. They're merely the recipients of judgment by some third entity (in this case, China's legal system).
Statewide tampering is still a tempting target.
Everyone is trying to show off their nerd cred by bragging about how small their terminals are, but you're right. We have bigger, higher res screens for a reason these days: because they're better. And what's better than one terminal window? Two, side by side. Or four. Or four with a browser window open too. Not possible at 300x200, infinitely possible at 4k.

Hell, right now I have three terminals open. One that I'm using to make changes to a file, another that I'm using to just hit the up arrow and enter to scp the file to a remote server after every change, and another to tail the log file in case there's any errors popping up. Could I do it with one window? Sure. Can I use screen to make it seem like I have three? Of course. But why would I bother when I've got tons of real estate?
...unless you overheard an in-joke about how oranges are contraband.
Phrenology for the 21st century.
Youtube in particular. I think it was about timing, broadband was just getting to the critical point where even grandma could watch videos. But people were trying to make youtube in the mid 90's.
I am pretty sure well run oil company could still operate profitable in Venezuela. It is no Saudi Arabia that is for sure, but I still think you can not blame all the problems on just oil export prices.

I would agree that Saudi Arabia is not democratic or all that capitalist. Socialist don't have a monopoly on bad government.

How well a country is set up you can see what happens when their main export tanks, Venezuela was clearly terrible and instead of reacting and adjusting, they started looting the big companies, enforce exchange controls, escalated inflation and did many other idiot things that hurt the country badly.

We don't know yet how the Saudis will deal with this if it ever comes to that.
Downvote cause you have nothing to offer in reply.

I have karma to burn for days.
> In particular, keep in mind that a project going through Kickstarter now will likely not ship for at least 6 months, if not a year or two

Let's face it, never is also high on the probability scale.
A rush of traffic that overwhelms a site due to a submission. Similar to being slashdotted or fireballed.
My dad was a telephone engineer in the 80s and 90s in the UK. He took me to the exchange a few times and I can still recall the impressive noise of the Strowger (or maybe they were Director) units.
I agree with this. It would be much better to annoy users with constant "time remaining" notifications than to unexpectedly delete everything when the time expires. This would also function as an up-sell promotion, a literally "limited time offer" to extend the server's life. I'm not sure it's feasible, but what if you also added a command within the instance to extend its life to the next tier?
I think there are probably efficiencies to be gained by making chips specifically designed for tensor flow rather than repurposing gpus.
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>Don't diabetics already have testing tech that works off tiny pinpricks?

Yep. Labs can do more comprehensive tests that some diabetics get done periodically but home testing kits work via a finger prick.
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> It's kind of mind boggling to think about every atom in the universe representing one position in a game of chess and there not being enough atoms in the universe to represent each one.

Chess players mentions this a lot. And then they consider chess a sport. For a sport, it shure is a mind boggingly low number of game states :)

(ps: I don't mean to start an uninteresting sport-or-not debate. It is what it is.)
I happened to stop by the Downey location this summer and was very impressed. I had never heard of it before.
Gvim, though I think I'm going to transition to terminal vim (via cygwin) at work. There's a lot of tedious manual stuff around here that gnu tools help tremendously with (think log files everywhere) and I'd like to be able to interact with them better from vim.
Developing special purpose machine learning hardware is part of the goal. I think of it like Formula 1, where the R&D eventually trickles down to consumer hardware.

Also, there's no reason why you couldn't have different competition categories where you're limited to using X dollars worth of time on a specific cloud provider, for example.
if you don't mind X86,
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Is this "fake news" guy the next Harambe?
Trump hasn't even taken office yet so no blame can really be tied to him just yet. He's said quite a few silly things so far, but hasn't yet done any real damage. Most of the hysteria is being generated by the 24 cable news channels. I can't turn on CNN without another Trump-o-phobia headline on the screen.

To be fair NATO/Europe have been having issues during the Obama administration. Brexit is just a symptom of a long running problem in the EU regarding national sovereignty and bail outs of poor nations (greece/spain). Obama has struggled finding partners in the middle east to provide support to fight terrorism, but even NATO allies like Turkey have refused to even let the US use their airspace.

I personally think that Trump is picking his battles. He can fight a Mexico trade/immigration battle and get an easy win. Fighting Russia over Syria has no winners. As for Assad, it's hard to see how a person responsible for the deaths of over 300K of his own people could ever really hold on to power with or without foreign support. The US has experience in supporting an unpopular foreign leader (south Vietnam) and it didn't go that well.

I think in the long run, Trump will be more of a 'domestic' president. Someone that really spends more time focusing on domestic issues rather than foreign ones. Hillary I think would have been the opposite. In some ways this may be better for foreign countries, because it means that we are more likely to stay out of their business.
take a look at my post from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031870 . I'd be interested to hear your (and others') thoughts.
What your dad got is an IOL: intraocular lens. These things are pretty amazing these days; they can correct myopia and astigmatism, eliminate cataracts, and eliminate the need for reading glasses too because the new lens is focus-able (in the ones that are "accommodating"). I'm thinking of getting these in 5-10 years, since I'm just starting to have problems with reading now; by that time, new artificial lenses will be a perfect solution to my eyesight problems I can expect to have at that age.

Your dad sounds like one of these annoying non-technical people who hears one technical term (e.g. LASIK) and then applies that in blanket fashion to anything remotely related. He probably calls Android phones "iPhones", and he probably calls laptop computers "iPads", and he probably calls the Internet "AOL".
Cho is a korean as well. Though I'm not sure on his current nationality. Yes, there might be some difference in the style of playing Go, which I do not know the detail.
> We're seeing here firsthand (on a genetic time scale) the origins of homosexual behavior.

Again, nope. I think you're taking a lot of flack here for implying that homosexuality, or homosexual behaviour is somehow unnatural and needed to evolve. That it's an aberration of some sort.

I'm asserting it has always been there, that it pre-dates the very concept of genders. There's an evolutionary bias in some species towards heterosexual relationships, but in others there's no such pressure. Aphids don't need to reproduce sexually, but they do if they feel it's a better deal. Snails possess both genders and breeding gets complicated.

The only thing we're witnessing the start of here is the introduction of new arrangements of genes that behave in a sex-like way. If there was a species where a sex gene was being evolved away there would be just as much scientific interest.
The guarantees aren't useless due to Obama, the US followed the memorandum and sought UN Security counsel intervention. Russia broke the deal, what do you think the US should do about it?
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God, country and family. Maybe also for computers :9
I use an oldish (maybe last years or the one before?) retina mbp to drive the two screens in my home office which I run FreeBSD on (still 10.x, not had time to upgrade it) -- and I run the audio via one of the monitors no prob:

$ cat /dev/sndstat | grep default
pcm2: <NVIDIA (0x0042) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play) default

I almost never turn it off as I have to do some weird kind of dance to close the lid and type startx blind so that I don't end up with three screens in X, but I don't really care enough to fix it when I only have to do it every few weeks/months...

I use a thunderbolt Ethernet dongle thingy which does 1gbit since it doesn't ever leave the desk I've not really tried the wifi..

I use a USB DAC when I've got the cans on though because they sound much better (also works, an audioquest thing)...

I won't buy another macbook tho, XPS+Linux is going to replace my luggable very soon.

Mac/OSX stayed out of my way for a few years and was my justification for using it; who's got time to have to deal with the usual linux desktop problems when you just need a machine to do email ssh and a browser, right? I'm not sure really when, but Mac+OSX stopped being the best solution some while ago (for me at least). It's just a constant source of annoyance now (honestly, let an email password expire and see how many times it grabs focus from your editor, I get at least two full on kernel panics a week, distnoted randomly eats a core all day, I have an alias called something like "fsckoff" which does a kill on coreaudiod for when airplay stops working, I'm increasingly nervous about running prop stuff, yadda yadda). The macbook is a pretty cute little machine though, super skinny.

As for BSD? I don't think I'd bother using a BSD on a lappy that you are actually planning on lugging around, makes a nice workhorse in the home office though if you don't want to have to mess with it too much!
Alternately: criminal prosecution is targeted at people who "look like" criminals; thus, the NN is just selecting those people we think look like criminals, rather than any inherent criminality.
The number of outcomes in a 50-move chess game does not even come close to the Graham's Number.

10^(number of outcomes in a 50-move chess games) also does not come close.
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The argument is that the presence of horseback riding (and now race car driving) doesn't necessarily diminish the popularity of foot races. Not that horse racing is less popular now (though that my be, simply because it's no longer anyone's preferred method of transportation...)
Economists are prone to fads, and the latest is machine learning
Perhaps it uses a memrister?
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I wonder what the infrastructure provided by IBM consisted of.

Based on non-cloud setups like http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...

A rack or two would have been able to handle the load.
Airbnb and Couchsurfing aren't the same thing, and it's not really fair to say that Airbnb beat them. They're for different kinds of people and the nature of "service" is different.
I use vi because:
a) it is the standard editor on UNIX systems.
b) I haven't invested the time to learn emacs yet. :-)

As a sysadmin, I have to deal with many types of UNIX systems, and it's nice to work with something's that's standard that's likely to be there, no matter how old or new the system.

I even teach vi professionally (http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vi.htm) and people enjoy how powerful vi is.

Modern vi (vim) has some many nice enhancements as well.
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As someone who works in the industry I've found that analogies are distinctly unhelpful. That's not really unique to finance [0]. Can you explain what you mean by "literally wiggles them out"? I cannot say that I have observed a phenomenon that I would describe with those words, but I'm always interested in learning more.

[0] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=801816
I'm thankful for being persecuted on HN for my political beliefs by fascist moderators who are going to tell me how to think.
Right...why wouldn't they open that fund to others and rake in more in fees than they could ever make growing their own money? Seems fishy
Neuromorphic means brain like, so basically, super parallel.

Neuromemristive,although I haven't heard the term before, means using memristors to compute artificial neural networks.
For a guy that says "quite a few silly things" and "hasn't done any real damage yet" that sounds like quite a bit of confidence in skills and intelligence that has not been demonstrated. Picking battles?

How about: continue to expect silly things, and ultimately some real damage to become the new norm?
I hear you. I too was wrongly accused eight years ago, which costed me an offer from Three Sigma.
I feel sad that you think this about finance. I believe I've done a lot of good for the world and have gotten the opportunity to work with some very smart people along the way.

I first started working in finance because it was one of the few industries that paid engineers a fair salary without trying to trick us with monopoly money.

Of course, the world has changed and now tech companies are doing the same.
"Is there a strict legal difference?"

Yes, definitely.

If you're a banker selling bundled mortgages and say to a ratings agency: 'I'm going to give you some money, and I want you to lie on your credit rating report that you make of my financial product'. This is fraud.

If you get keep getting bad credit ratings from some agencies, but some others give you good ratings - and you start to spend all of your budget on the agencies that give good ratings ... and then the ratings agencies that are losing business realize they are going out of business, and those agencies start to 'loosen criteria' (say for example, they stop doing extra diligence like physically visiting places and checking up on random selections of mortgages) ... then their credit ratings become less valid ...

Then you don't have anyone committing fraud - but a cynical failure of the system.

It's the same thing with Forrester and the other firms that give 'grades' on products.

I worked at an F50 and we paid for tons of research from firms like that. They also would review our products and put them in the 'magic charts' of 'winners/leaders and losers'.

It's a tricky conflict of interest ... if you don't buy their products, maybe you won't get good reviews.

Now - that is almost fraud - if there is internal decision making that outlines this, i.e. research sales guys saying 'if you don't buy our research we will give you a bad review' or internal practices to that regard - it's probably illegal - or certainly highly unethical.

But it never got to that. We just bought a lot of research.

It's an issue wherever there is a conflict of interest and it's hard to manage.

This is where the SEC could possibly have more impact/influence - in terms of specifying 'what must be done' in a rating.

Ultimately, the market should correct itself - the 'ratings agencies' should have basically had their credibility completely blown up. They didn't. This is bad.

Do you remember Enron? Arthur Anderson did their books. When Enron blew up - there was no 'regulating' needed. Arthur Anderson lost all of their business, because nobody wanted to have their books 'ok'd' by a company that has no integrity, when what they are selling is 'integrity'.

It would be nice if bankers basically demanded good ratings. The Germans and Japanese lost 10's of billions because they never, ever imagined that Americans would lie about this stuff. Surely they have changed their ops a little bit ... but possibly not enough.

Anyhow - I don't think there was a lot of fraud or malice. Just greed, laziness and stupidity, others are clearly more to blame than others.
I think just historically it's interesting. Every statistician was using OLS before computers because they could solve it with pen and paper, so when computers came out it was ported over. But with computers you can minimize any loss function.

However it is useful to have a closed form solution because it guarantees you actually minimized it. Other strategies to minimize functions don't guarantee that but they're still extremely useful.
Each polling place can provide free "stump the chump" ballots that you can give back. So you throw the one they gave you away, fill out and submit your own, then hand them back a dummy ballot that won't get counted.

Or, alternatively, spend tons of money on electronic voting machines that allow the bad guy to game the system on a more massive scale without having to threaten as many people.
There could come a day when you have to sign in to Facebook to use your car, like if they get to harass you with advertising the trip's free.
I use Atom cause I can use thousands of extensions that make coding faster and sometimes easier. I sometimes use Brackets cause I can see instantly what I'm doing
Textmate for projects at home. I use it because it's a decent editor for Mac and I used it a lot in my previous job.

Notepad++ and Vim at work. I am forced to use Windows and enjoy a lightweight editor over and IDE. Notepad++ is light but has decent support for plugins and code highlighting. I use Vim on Linux servers for remote editing and good highlighting. I've used Vim for like 20 years but never spent much time learning much more than the basics (insert, delete, regex search/replace, line numbers, and write/quit).
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+1 for linking to Complete Guide to Flexbox. This guide is really great!
I have an Acer R11, which is similar. Crouton is a great project.

Given the price and performance of current generation Chromebooks, I don't see much advantage in going for ARM systems right now.
No, researchers use whatever is fastest for development and flexible. Otherwise we'd all be using neon.
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USA should play in kinder garden, because Ukraine is able to stop Russia with almost no army, while USA cannot.
Enum vs. ActiveRecord any?
Have any of you ever used Freedom.js?
It's documentation is rather shoddy. It looks promising. I'm trying to implement it in a MEAN stack hybrid, however having trouble doing do.

Link:
https://github.com/freedomjs/freedom
Computers don't model much at all, let alone themselves. They run static, one-off code that was fed to them by external sources, and contain no coherent, dynamic models of real world systems. My dog models more of the world than any computer we've yet built.

Sure, some computer programs model specific things quite well. But these models are very limited, fixed, and useless without human interpretation.
Maybe they're content with the few billions they're making and like the autonomy?
Except that it loads slowly which hurts the usability so it's not really that I prefer a certain layout but more that I prefer the page to load easily.
If you're not writing purely immutable data or can't 100% guarantee a serialized reader/writer, then you're just looking for trouble with Cassandra.
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