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Re: clever.do as a whole

I wasn't aware of Clever.do, and trying it out. So far it looks nice.

Can I just comment that the tutorial kind of hides things (without being obvious that it is hiding things). I was wondering where a task I added went, and it didn't show until the tutorial screens were completed.
You are not alone. I also have some gremlins messing with my technology.

I like to believe that there is an AI out there that managed to avoid CAPTCHA and is messing with us at the worst moments.
The transfer time saved is almost certainly more expensive than the CPU resources used, especially on modern devices. Depending on your browser, this may even happen off the main thread.
You asked what the following command did, and it will do plainly what you tell it to, but you're treating the fact that a/b can be anything you make it to be somehow a fault of checkout, and all because it decided to be nice and try to guess what you really want. I don't understand that line of thought.

The git documentation clearly states what happens in your scenario:

> ARGUMENT DISAMBIGUATION

> When there is only one argument given and it is not -- (e.g. "git checkout abc"), and when the argument is both a valid <tree-ish> (e.g. a branch "abc" exists) and a valid <pathspec> (e.g. a file or a directory whose name is "abc" exists), Git would usually ask you to disambiguate. Because checking out a branch is so common an operation, however, "git checkout abc" takes "abc" as a <tree-ish> in such a situation. Use git checkout -- <pathspec> if you want to checkout these paths out of the index.

See here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#_argument_disambiguati...

If you somehow manage to purposefully name things in a confusing manner, you can tell git exactly what you want it to grab at any point in time. I don't possibly see how this is a fault of the tooling.
Data scientists are leaving Southeast Asia. This guy hopes to fix that
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Bet placement and payment are all functional parts of a casino game. You can't ignore them when reading the regulations. If Ivey placed bets differently than he otherwise would have, then the game was affected.
And it was "good" for IG Farben to supply Zyklon B to the Nazis. Until they lost and several company executives served prison sentences for crimes against humanity. Amorality certainly pays the bills.
There's only one (more or less) answer - you can't have a few people owning the output of the machines. The wealth will have to be spread out - whether that's thru some form of Socialism/Communism that doesn't exist yet or not, I don't know.

But once you get to more or less full automation, the only people who would make money under the current system would be the owners - there wouldn't need to be any workers.
Well obviously trucks or buses can't compare on a per lane basis. But that's not a fair comparison. There's a street to almost every house but not a rail road track. If the railway tracks were as dense as streets you'd end up with much of the same problems and restrictions. You'll always need a truck of some sort to distribute goods from a railway station to a house. And I doubt you will come out on top if you have the added costs and time of transferring goods from trains to trucks.
I loaded Ubuntu 16.10 into my build for just that purpose, though really it wouldn't be difficult to bump the 16.04 kernel up to 4.8+. There are also 16.04 and 16.10 ppas with different levels of mesa driver that are built and tested ahead of the main repositories (stable and nightly). If you're not interested in being that close to the bleeding edge I understand, so some of the improvements at the front-edge are maybe 6-12 months out from wider distribution.
This sounds like dispute between Ireland and EU. Please remind me why is Apple dragged into this ? Specifically laws.

There is also the concern of how 13B Euros of Apple will-be/have-been seized/escrowed for the duration of the case which may takes years. In case EC loses, will EC/EU pay to Apple for temporary loss of their property ?
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You missed one of the most major issues:

Most of the vendors know they have serious issues here, but hide them. Literally.
You never notice because they don't use open source compilers (even for things like CUDA, let alone shader compilers), so it's not obviously more than "just a bug" until it happens to you continuously.
Instead, they pretty much never have to fix the bug until someone notices, and then they hack it some more and move on, instead of fixing underlying issues in their structurization/etc passes.

Most vendors i've talked to can't even tell me what control flow breaks their compiler (again, doesn't matter if we are talking shaders, cuda, you name it. it's all broke), they know plenty does, but are fairly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about doing more than working around whatever bug they get given.

Meanwhile, over in open source clang/llvm world, we can basically fuzz test CFG's, etc for CUDA.

The death of some of these compilers can't come fast enough.
Do you really think that a losing gambler would be able to bring a suit against a casino because a dealer placed cards in a slightly uneven way that seemed suggestive to the gambler and caused him to make sub-optimal bets? Even if it could be shown that the dealer had studied the psychology of cards for that very purpose?
> I keep reading here that there is no shame in business making money, so how else would that work for the gambling industry?

> As for their card trick, they both knew very well what they were doing, that is was at best immoral if not illegal.

There is no shame in doing anything within your abilities and the law to take money away from a business either.

As for their card trick, the casino agreed to all their demands and took the risk that something was going on they did not understand, with the expectation to take money from individuals in a way (gambling) that is at best immoral.

You may see what I did there.

For me it works both ways. Neither side can claim the moral high ground in this game they both agreed to enter - the only thing that stands out to me is that the side that isn't used to losing, lost.
My great-grandfather managed the C&H Bay Area sugar refinery. Life comes full circle.
Character classification is the easy part of OCR.

EDIT: It sounds like they were benchmarking a very constrained problem as well (only a single font, with certain features). One disadvantage with Tesseract is that it has to be trained by the user for specific fonts, my OCR was generalist (general shape-based character classification is practically designed for convolutional neural networks).

I'd love to give more details in a blog post soon.
Anyone know why these cells so readily do this?
> If you hype it, they will hate it.

This. People really seem to struggle to learn that if you massively hype something in advance, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Even if it's good, but just not as good as they were expecting, they will feel disappointment.

It's been advertised on the front page of the App Store for over a month, which is more promotion then I've ever seen Apple do for a game, but although this game is good, it doesn't feel good enough to be the most promoted game in iOS history.
Have you considered upgrading your Wifi setup to something like Ubiquiti Unifi hardware? I'm trying to convince the spouse that I need ~1k$ upgrade our home network to Ubiquiti...

There's a blog post that was on HN a few days back about it: https://www.troyhunt.com/ubiquiti-all-the-things-how-i-final...
>falls apart once it's understood that the definition of burden is inherently non-universal.

If you have a personal non-universal idiosyncratic definition of "burden", please share it.

I assume its something compatible with ",gladly paid for some things that allowed his son to pursue his passions,"

(I don't think it would change the plug-and-play nature of the author's essay but I'm willing to be shown that _your_ definition completely throws the author's words into a mess of contradictions.)
Sugar is killing us
Combined with the 8% value from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13229499, that (according to my early morning math) comes in at something like (very roughly) $25M "gross revenue" (apologies if that's not the right term). That's just for whichever four days they set the records for.

A fair bit of money, but for a company like Nintendo I could see development costs already getting up there, to say nothing of advertising, ongoing maintenance, and so on. Maybe they really will lose money on it.

Mobile games are hard. For a game with this pricing model i.e. you pay up front, you get a high quality game, you play it (Monument Valley might be a similar example), even with really good market saturation (which is how I'd describe what SMR has accomplished but, again, I'm not an expert), $25M is great. To make a few comparisons based on probably-wrong numbers I found on Google for some excellent games, Tiny Wings made about $5M and the fairly well-known Monument Valley did about $15M.

Those developers doubtless kept costs down by limiting their staff and project scope and relying on word-of-mouth/viral/whatever marketing. As I see it, any other approach with the straight-up pricing model is simply not going to make you any money 99% of the time. The people really making money on mobile games have set up Skinner boxes where "whales" can drop thousands of dollars a year in "micro"transactions.

Maybe this is all bullshit; I'm just fascinated by the idea that you can release a relatively simple game, break download records on the app store with 8% of those downloads getting you $8-10 per (making some dumb assumptions about Apple's cut), and still lose money.
Saw a talk about bug bounties that had some data. Bug bounties mainly go to people in so-called "third world" counties; those are the people who appear to be the ones most interested in them.
Yes and no, maybe. You are right that this current flavour of tax avoidance is not going to work anymore and moving to London now or in the future will not change the outcome for the money mentioned here, only future money.

However about London, once outside the EU they will have the opportunity to position themselves as a tax haven with clever new tax avoidance scheme for large companies.

Now you probably automatically dismissed the idea because that's a crazy idea. Setting up yourself as a tax haven does not scale to the size of the UK economy, and the UK would need to do it at a time of intense scrutiny by the global community and the EU will certainly see that as a aggressive negotiation tactic which is not going to help the Brexit negotiation. But well, there were better arguments for not leaving the EU in the first place, and yet the UK seems to merely go for the hardest Brexit possible. So who knows ? McDonald (fiscal) move to London is worrying. Nissan and others are a bit too happy after their secret chat with the PM.
Still convinced that it won't hold up on appeal.

If the judge considers the cards to be marked because of manufacturing flaw that made the cards not perfectly symmetrical, then that manufacturing flaw would be present in all the casino's card games, rendering them all invalid and illegal and opening up the casino to lawsuits for return of losses from illegally operated games, which were illegal essentially because of a technicality. This would likely result in the casino going bankrupt.

If the judge considers the cards to be marked because they were rotated, then the judge has effectively outlawed a consensual agreement between the casino and the player regarding game conditions, which is neither in the spirit not the letter of the referenced law. True, the player exploited information asymmetry because he was aware of information that the casino was not, but that's a perfectly acceptable advantage which casinos exploit all the time when they don't explicitly explain to casual players how the rules of their games mathematically guarantee a house advantage over the long term.
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I think you fail to understand the depths of human fears regarding technology. Computer-driven automobiles are billed as a safer alternative. But if they yield even a small number of fatalities, it will likely be seen as a huge failure.
For me, the overwhelming take from that article is that investors are bothered by it.

Super Mario Run isn’t living up to the expectations for Nintendo and investors
Many investors in Nintendo are worried about the overall profitability of the game
Investors point to games like Pokémon Go
Some hoped that Nintendo was planning additional content to make the game more lucrative

There are a few mentions of players:

mixed reviews from players

This feels more like a throw-away comment about the reaction to the game, rather than specifically commenting on the lack of in-app purchases.

it may frustrate some players who had hoped Nintendo was finally betting big on iOS

Even this isn't about the gameplay, but whether Nintendo will make enough money to justify carrying on with iOS.
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This could be written about any tool. Especially bad with Perforce and Subversion - which do not really support branching. They say they do, but then the merging is a huge pain.
It really is beautiful. I was hoping there was a high res version.
I've got a job I really enjoy now and make a decent salary. However it's my time outside of work that I'm more concerned with. Out side of one key hobby I don't really know what to do with my time so it doesnt feel wasted. I've never had an issue putting in my 8+ hours day if I have something to look forward to when I get home.
"remote" branches are called remote-trackimg branches. And yes, it's very confusing. Especially when git status says "up to date with origin/master", but pulls down loads of stuff when you pull...
Yeah, and having already had a clearance in the past definitely helps speed up the process to "reactivate" it. The big bummer for companies like mine is that our contract says that we have to have employees with an active clearance. So to activate the clearance, we have to hire them, keep them on overhead for several months and they can't start working until their clearance is approved.

It's a painful $20-$40k hit to the budget. :/
The new RadeonSI Mesa driver is a massive improvement over the previous generation drivers. My R9 290 only gets better every 6 months when I upgrade to a new Fedora release, and it's all because AMD publishes specification documents while the majority of nouveau development is still based on reverse engineering. If you care about performance, the Volcanic Islands cards and newer are all supported by AMD's proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver which is still better than the open source ones, but I expect that gap to continue closing a lot faster than the past as the Gallium-based RadeonSI driver is a lot easier for developers to work on.

Still, comparing NVidia's current lineup to AMD isn't apples to oranges. If you want a 1070 or 1080 just get one, Vega is still months away and while we see AMD stomping in Vulkan and DX12 benchmarks compared against similarly priced cards (RX480 vs GTX 1060) they don't have a proper answer for the higher end cards until Vega is out.

Otherwise, don't let driver support deter you, the whole design behind AMDGPU-PRO is much like NVidia's proprietary drivers - it lets AMD reuse the majority of their Windows drivers to keep parity between platforms; and, again, the open source drivers only keep getting better at a rapid pace.
AMD are in no position to fuse off functions in their CPUs - they're barely relevant even with all the functionality enabled.

If you look to the GPU market where AMD is in better shape, they do fuse off features like FP64 and ECC unless you pay for the heavily marked up FirePro versions.
John Doe. See [0] and the article that it links to.

Try posting that spreadsheet on the internet and see what happens.

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/employee-lawsuit-accuses-goog...
Yes, the consumer technically pays the tax. However, Apple acts as the collector of the tax from the consumer, and is responsible for "passing it on" to the appropriate tax authority. So, the reform the asked question: What tax authority does Apple report and pay the taxes to?

And the answer is that the EU regulations state that VAT taxes are to be paid in the country in which the transaction takes place. If the transaction is online (and potentially therefore spanning multiple countries), the customer's location is used as the place of transaction.
Indeed Facebook tried this in 2013, and the user misery was immediate and loud [1][2].

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-tries-googles-webp-image-... [2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/chicke...
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My understanding is that employers may not hinder employees in discussing salaries among themselves, but may impose restrictions on providing salary information to non-employees.

So I can tell another Googler my salary but I can't tell you (unless you're a Googler) because my NDA forbids it. I'm pretty certain that I'm allowed to tell you that I'm not allowed to tell you, though. :)

There's an internal site where a number of Googlers share their compensation, anonymously or otherwise. I've never received any indication of disapproval or retaliation from management for being on it.

(I am not a lawyer, standard disclaimer applies.)
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Oh this is very cool. Glad to see Bozhi's work getting some attention. A friend of mine is co-mentored by Bozhi and my graduate advisor, and was working on some very neat experiments using this technology to trigger specific responses in T-cells. Basically, the gold nanowires can be used to trigger a membrane voltage differential, and theoretically trigger a calcium flux and then a downstream immune response without an antigen. I know they had successes with nerve cells, and I'm hopeful the T-cell results will show similar success.

Edit: Properly reading the article, it looks like this is either slightly older work, or a different experiment from the one I'm familiar with, which did show success in nerve cells last time I saw the talk on it (and used gold, or gold-silicon, my memory is fuzzy now, nanowires).
By that token is it also sexist because he said "dude"? Where do you draw the line?

Seriously, not every mention of race is racist. Saying this is racism cheapens the whole idea of racism and hurts whatever it is you believe you're fighting for by "calling it out". You're effectively putting a guy who mentioned someone's (hypothetical, as it's not even in reference to a real person) skin color in the same category as people who burn crosses, or deny people of color job opportunities based solely on race, or lynch children.

To put it in terms appropriate for HN you're adding an extremely small outlier to the data set of "racists" and thus bringing down the entire average.
Hi Gus,

Thanks for your comment. I believe the video is a really interesting idea!
16.04 is a LTS-version (long term support) while .10 is not - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
What to do with commits that touch both back-end and front-end code in step 2.? This amounts to manual run of git-filter-branch, which is a feature the author was unaware of. Without that tool this task is daunting. If the author is willing to manually rewrite potentially hundreds of commits that touch back-end code, then there are a lot of straightforward solutions. We're looking for something more elegant.
Check out Ubiquiti gear. I've been wanting to upgrade to their Unifi line, but haven't convinced the spouse that I need the money when it "works" to her. The random drop-outs don't bug you when you aren't constantly SSHed into something, and the bursty speeds aren't bad when you aren't moving files to and fro on the internal network. :(

There was a cool blog recently on HN about switching to Ubiquiti HW: https://www.troyhunt.com/ubiquiti-all-the-things-how-i-final...
I have lots of iOS games where the IAPs are shared with my family. I believe the developers have a choice of whether the IAP is long term or temorary. EG the "restore purchases" button you often see to use it on a new phone.
I don't do Silicon Valley philosophy. I'm talking the efficient stuff that midsized organizations overstretched IT teams have been pulling off for years plus some tooling that comes with DISA's extra money. However, the lock-in effect...

"because I all but guarantee there is Microsoft-specific code running at all levels of this organization. Everyone has to be retrained, a lot of infrastructure has to be rebuilt. All of that will chew up your 1bn quickly."

...is a valid reason to default on using Microsoft. The difference is that moving what I can to alternatives means I can gradually move from lock-in to more flexible IT with open standards & multiple vendors to choose from. Organizations on Microsoft are often stuck, though. This much is undeniable. IBM, Oracle, and SAP the other huge offenders here.
Where's the sugar coming from now? I assume they're not closing due to reduced demand.
The thing that stops me from getting AMD GPU for GPU programming is CUDA seems to be more widely used. OpenCL I really want to like it but hopefully the open standard AMD is pushing will gain more traction...
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They changed "moments" to "explore" but thankfully changed it back.
How Facebook knows exactly what turns you on
This article contains a crapload of speculation that goes well beyond what was actually accomplished:

>"But before Tian’s group can turn the phenomenon into a tool, they must first understand how exactly a cell will eat a piece of silicon nanowire, and what happens to it once it’s inside the cell. That’s what the group did in today’s report.
[...]
The process is called phagocytosis"

>"phagocytosis (from Ancient Greek φαγεῖν (phagein) , meaning "to devour", κύτος, (kytos) , meaning "cell", and -osis, meaning "process") is the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phagocytosis

So, here is what was really accomplished here (according to this summary). Some researchers asked: "How does a cell eat a silicon nanowire?" They got the answer: "by eating it".

That said, it seems like a useful thing to know that this substance will be phagocytosed. I wish they gave more context though, eg is the nanowire biologically inert, is there something special about the silicon here, etc.
MSSQL transactions are trule serializable by default. MySQL InnoDB supports it too but you have to change the transaction isolation mode.
Didn't this happen to Hooli in the last season of Silicon Valley?
AMD wasn't pushing code for better performance, they were pushing a janky abstraction layer for their devices to make porting their Windows driver easier, that basically did what NVidia does and skipped a lot of the existing DRM infrastructure in the kernel.

If you want to write a kernel driver that's effectively a Russian train toilet nobody will stop you, and you can feel free to maintain the engineering effort on it - but it's not going to be accepted into the mainline Kernel and you'll have to maintain it out of tree.

If AMD wants a shim to make it easier to port their Windows drivers over that's perfectly acceptable, but they need to work with the existing DRM infrastructure and the people that maintain it to get a kosher driver that everyone can be happy with.
Yes, a properly funded pension doesn't need new money to pay out existing benefits. The new money coming is a down payment for the people who will eventually retire, not to pay out benefits for those who have retired.

Also, Ponzi scheme is a closer match to what you are implying. Pyramid involves escalating returns based on recruiting new members "under you".