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I am an LTA Aerospace Mechanical System Specialist and I will just say, what they have set out to accomplish will prove much harder than what Blue Origin has accomplished. Yet they do not know that yet because the LTA industry is a very niche industry and only a few really experts in the field who understand what it really takes to keep these systems alive against our unforgiving mother of nature.
The phrase "literal fat" shows just how successful the misguided low-fat crusade was: they don't even need any modifiers to show that they're "bad."

At any rate, it's very easy to design a diet for humans without grains in it that's healthy and that you can thrive on, but impossible to design one without fat. So in that respect at least, literal fat is better than grains.
I think Kepler was the epitome of "shut up and calculate". Measure the motion of the planets, come up with detailed formulas describing them. Newton transcended that by identifying simple relations and invariants that unfolded to exactly those equations. I'd argue Newton and Einstein are the only two who have transcended "shut up and calculate". In the latter case we otherwise would have patched in Lorentz transforms and stated "just because" like Kepler. In quantum mechanics, I feel like it's still something on a Kepler level, equations "just because", waiting for a more fundamental understanding.
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/27/headlines/obama_sign...
Any country is free to be mad that another country messed with their elections.

Has anyone stated otherwise?
To clarify: (average) construction labor in Beijing, I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper outside of Beijing (but I also don't know)
The oft-cited and never-defined Tautology Diet.
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The last time I read about TSX it was a story about how Intel pushed a microcode update to disable TSX because it was flawed. Has this been fixed in newer CPUs? Is there a risk of TSX being flawed on CPUs in the wild (for example, if you're missing the latest microcode updates?)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8376/intel-disables-tsx-instru...
A blatant advert for Salesfarce. Please flag. Every programmer I know despises working with Salesfarce - unfortunately top brass make big deals with Salesfarce and employee programmers are forced to suffer the torment of Visual Basic and the MSWord paperclip type of development environment all over again.
Sounds like US is endorsing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox
99% of the code I write has already been written before.

99% of programs/apps already exist.

99% of things I say and do have already been said and done before.

Code reuse is not the solution. We must rethink software and communication as a whole. As far as I know, nobody is attempting anything close to this.

PMs are welcome.
Let's say I were building product in the US with child labor

in unsafe conditions not adhering to US laws and regulations.

Would I be allowed to sell that product in the US? Probably not.

I don't see why not.

You read in the news a lot about how INS will raid a farm or meat processing factory to arrest illegal workers. Those conditions are often really unsafe and there are also teens working there too.

And yet those farms are still able to sell their produce.
By TIOBE's stats, Go's popularity is up 1.74%. Rust's is up 0.316%.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Call it money or whatever, but Go seems to be getting substantial TLC from the people working on it for every point release.

Of course, this could just be an easier thing for them to do since their approach is not as ambitious as Rust's.
Ok. I will explain why these kinds of studies create more confusion. (Also, ask your nearest teacher if you want a different perspective)

From Adam Grant's Raising a Moral Child: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/sunday/raising-...

"A couple of weeks later, when faced with more opportunities to give and share, the children were much more generous after their character had been praised than after their actions had been. Praising their character helped them internalize it as part of their identities. The children learned who they were from observing their own actions: I am a helpful person. This dovetails with new research led by the psychologist Christopher J. Bryan, who finds that for moral behaviors, nouns work better than verbs. To get 3- to 6-year-olds to help with a task, rather than inviting them “to help,” it was 22 to 29 percent more effective to encourage them to “be a helper.” Cheating was cut in half when instead of, “Please don’t cheat,” participants were told, “Please don’t be a cheater.” When our actions become a reflection of our character, we lean more heavily toward the moral and generous choices. Over time it can become part of us."

If you are familiar with Carol Dweck’s work on praising action instead of intelligence, what does that tell you relative to Adam Grant?

I respect both Adam Grant and Carol Dweck, but what do common people get from reading both their work that is well backed up by research? Confusion
Sorry, next time I'll say something like "If you're going to misrepresent his intention" so as not to confuse a quoted sentence. And I won't use the word "say", because clearly nobody says anything in a text forum. /s

I find it very obnoxious when people exaggerate what someone else said so as to make it easier to contradict. I gather you don't have any problem with that? Yet you do have a problem with people calling it out as bad behavior? Are you sure you know why you're policing anything?
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What does the intelligence community have to gain by perpetrating this hack?
If trust really is so important, then why are fraudulent and counterfeit goods so rampant on their store?
Because government officials are never paid off?
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Right, speaking for myself, my parents were REALLY involved (they were both teachers themselves), so even though I attended a lackluster public high school in rural Pennsylvania, I ended up doing pretty well, going onto a top 20 university and becoming a software engineer in Silicon Valley. I also loved learning and computers though, so I learned a lot on my own just by tinkering in my spare time for fun.
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I think it would be nice to not have the government involved in my food decisions in any way. I'm going to let people I've never met tell me what I should eat instead of looking at people I share genetics with? I'm also not going to listen to people who subsidize food producers as if they're impartial
Well, to parrot above comments, take some probability classes, which are undoubtedly available to undergrads.
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If the purchases are purely cosmetic, I tend to consider them donations.
Instagram is owned by Facebook.
And people were worried Trump would start a war with Russia!!!
Which is why the single-aisle twin-engine commercial jetliner that China is already building uses foreign engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919
So what can you do to prevent it? I suppose you could shop strictly on Amazon, which could actually work.
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> Problems with C:

> [ ... ]

> Maybe a bug in GCC outputted [sic] the wrong machine code

How does Rust protect against a bug in Rust outputting the wrong machine code?

> Maybe a race condition in Linux gave an unprivileged process the ability to tamper with your program

Too bad the race-condition free Rust OS that can replace Linux isn't here yet.
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This is an ancient video about KUKA robot production [1]. While it's not very automated at all, some things are done with robots because no human has the required strength or precision.

Truth is, robots have been building robots since the 60s or so, long before I was born, and long before skynet was a fictional gleam in some author's eye.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qM0znv70IA
That is why people have been so slow to mobilize around climate change predictions.
I never even had a LinkedIn account and I get those emails from LinkedIn.
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So, we could use something like OpenAI Universe to train such generally intelligent systems?
So what you're saying is that it's the video game version of Cards Against Humanity.
For instance, here's a handy guide to what causes or cures cancer http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/a-z/b
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It may be good, but it's not democratic.
The request is not nutty, perhaps the victim was aware enough to ask "Alexa, Call the Police!". FWIW This could be a great replacement to those fallen and I can't get up buttons for the elderly.
You also don't want to rock the boat and bite the hand that feeds you (and your wife, children, etc.).
Score attack games where you basically run to the right, although there are other variations (like ninja games). Alternatively just get the kid into speed running, same idea. Some examples:

* http://store.steampowered.com/app/325150/

* http://store.steampowered.com/app/230270/
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I'm the author - Charity Navigator isn't very useful because it doesn't tell you whether the program delivered by the charity actually helps people, which is by far the most important and most frequently lacking factor. The only thing CN is useful for is identifying outright frauds, and even then it's not amazing.

As you can see GiveWell has investigated AMF including its finances in vastly more detail over 4 years than Charity Navigator has ever investigated anyone: http://www.givewell.org/charities/against-malaria-foundation
In practice it's a mix of mathematical fields; depending on approach, you can have traditional Bayesian probability, regression, estimation, euclidean geometry, classic logic or some combination of the above.

The math is important for understanding and tweaking. But ML is not just fancy statistics (or math in general). It's _data_. An understanding of the math means understanding what data pairs best with what approach. It also means understanding error analysis. It means cross-validation. These are far more vulnerable areas to a beginner in ML.

But the ultimate point is ML is not magic. It's a framework - trenched in mathematics - that provides the building blocks for simulating understanding. You don't need to know the math to use it, but you need it to use it well.
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I was just reading the new laws enacted for 2017 in California, which included a ban on powdered alcohol, even though it has never been for sale in the state. That's one concrete recent concrete example where a warning would have been a nice alternative.
I skimmed their paper and don't claim to understand everything, but I am curious about some of your comments.

As far as higher-order derivatives, there's not really been an issue with obtaining these derivatives with traditional automatic differentiation techniques. The hard part is how to compute them efficiently. For example, Hessian-vector products can be obtained via forward-over-reverse or reverse-or-forward methods, but one runs significantly faster than the other. What's not clear to me in this paper is the practical efficiency of their technique especially for high-order derivatives.

Second, as far as neural networks, it's also not clear to me what's currently missing from using existing AD tools and what this new paper provides. Right now, there exist good AD tools that work just fine with control structures, recursion, and composition. In my opinion, a much better way to implement the training algorithms for machine learning is to just run an AD package on a particular model and then feed the resulting derivatives into an appropriate optimization algorithm. It's accurate, clean, and save time and effort. As such, what do we really gain from using this new methodology?

That said, I appreciate that the authors put together some interesting abstractions that I'd not seen before in this context. I think it's worth a read even if just for that.
This is terrible advice, it is well known that cholesterol and saturated fats found in animal products raise serum cholesterol levels and increase the risk of heart disease and other chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

Here's the president of the American College of Cardiology's research, Dr Williams:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/advice-from-a-vegan...
This is inaccurate.

Pubmed studies show that butter is not related to heart disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines...
> How do people keep motivated to work on side projects when consulting is so much more profitable?

They're side projects. Unless consulting is your side project, I don't really see the ultimatum here. Either you enjoy working on side projects or you don't.

The 'passive' income you get from them is a really nice benefit, but still the reason why you do a side project (as opposed to making it a full-time project) should be because you enjoy making things.
Yeah i think that is the problem. If you do not do something unique people will go with major platforms that they already know.

Its hard to tell if there is still a need as i havent launched mine yet ether. All i know is that i am rather pessimistic for its success because of all the other resources out there.
There's still email and personal web pages.
Dweck's work is about praising correct/good actions, not action in general. She doesn't advocate praising effort that has zero/no chance of success.

The key conclusion of her work is consistent with the passage you quoted. Instead of praising a child for trying in systematic ways, praise the child for being one of those 'organised' kids who tries in systematic ways rather than [insert ineffective way that kid could work hard with low likelihood of success]
Green greenhouse-gas emissions in China may already have peaked
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Humans are prone to error (fine), therefore you are prone to error (condescension, not fine). Post-aristotelian logic?

I'm not completely serious, it's more complex that this.
Or have competition in the form of foreign FDA counterparts.

If the European/Japanese/Other Reputable Country authorities have approved a drug, it could be allowed it in the US, with a clear label, of course.

Foreign physiology and science is the same as American.
Depends who you ask.

Can you? Sure.

Is it smart to possibly introduce errors into the data path in an otherwise fully checksummed path? Not so much.
The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL license. The GPL however is not incompatible with the CDDL.

This means Linux copyright owners could sue ZoL binary distributers, but Oracle could not.

However no one is shipping ZoL binaries, only the source code. The code itself is 100% conflict free.
Only through people's incorrect interpretation of reality.

>nutrition science is hardly 'solved' and you'd be hard pressed to find a researcher in the field suggest otherwise.

You'd be hard pressed to find a climate scientist not in agreement with the consensus on climate change, at least one that isn't already promoting book deals on Fox.
> The latest nutrition supports low carb diets

The "latest nutrition" supports nothing of the sort. Dietitians still recommend you get roughly 50% of your calories from healthy carbs.

Source: my wife is a registered dietitian and has a PhD in nutrition.
I like the face feature personally. Kinda just neat and makes tagging super easy.

However I'm curious, How does Illinois even have jurisdiction to sue Facebook? As far as I know they don't have any land or employees there being a California based company. Even many terms of services say you agree which court to dispute. Seems like Illinois is over reaching to me.

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

> You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute (claim) you have with us arising out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County, and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such claims. The laws of the State of California will govern this Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
I'm not sure exactly how it applies here, but in general you can limit the "language" so it only includes things that are guaranteed to halt. You lose a lot of expressive power, but hey, no halting problem. The obvious thing to do is guarantee loops halt by forcing them to have a monotonic countdown, or ban them entirely.
> The problem with this is that the average consumer is both A) dumb, and B) doesn't know what they need

Note that the customer for prescription drugs is a licensed doctor.
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Can doctors legally prescribe them without FDA approval? There are many niche drugs currently unavailable for therapeutic use in the USA because no current manufacturers hold an FDA certification.
If you’re an EU citizen, by law, all data about you is owned by you, and only by you. That includes personal data, but also any intellectual property you create, and is irrevocable (you can sell usage rights, but never the ownership rights).

So, yes, they have a legal responsibility to not have that data about you, and you can at any point require any company to delete any and all data they have about you, or created by you, and any data derived from it (oops, does that mean training neural networks on your private data means they have to be deleted, too?)
Just as an example: 9% of the cases of Idiosyncratic Drug-induced Liver Injury is self-harm caused by people taking non-regulated dietary supplements:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18955056

You have a theory that the average person will wisely assume the responsibility to vet the health effects of what they consume, but empirical reality disagrees with your theory. Right now people are injuring themselves with products at the margin of regulation.

There's a societal cost for lots of people injuring themselves, and offloading the responsibility of researching safety to the average consumer will cause fear and superstition, limiting people's willingness to try new products, and I would argue that that reduces innovation. Regulation in this area has been a net societal benefit.
Your reply about why the economists failed to predict the 2008 crash is an example of the problem the article is about. The economists didn't need a lot of technical information. They just needed to know that for a couple of hundred years banks had been careful about who they gave mortgages to because if they defaulted they would take a loss, but then they started bundling and selling them, so they felt safe to make it far too easy to get a mortgage. And that the bond rating agencies had a severe conflict of interest because they were paid by the people selling the bonds. And that credit default swaps are unregulated insurance.

Except for the cds part, all that was common knowledge. A little common sense would tell you this was a recipe for disaster, and in fact this was pointed out by people like Dean Baker at the time. The question is why the great majority of economists didn't take 30 seconds to look at the facts and agree, and the answer seems to be they simply lack common sense.
I think people are worried that Trump works for Russia.
As someone who's been bootstrapping his own startup for the past ... 6 years and refused VC money (not for moral reasons), I have to take it. I still refuse to implement Google Analytics and integrate FB/Dropbox/Google in any of the projects I'm involved with.

Moralist? No, I'm just not into feeding the monster.
Rastafari surely do.
If you have a more-recent-than-2014 kernel, BIOS, or stepping, the feature bit ought to be accurate.

So sure, there are some systems in the wild that are broken, but probably not that many.
yup, the science is "agreed on." Disagree and lose your job/funding. That's how to build climate consensus.
Yes I think there are multiple serious AGI efforts using something like OpenAI Universe (there are others like that) and even though I haven't seen any earth-shattering announcements yet, I think between the AD stuff and hybrid data structure/program/NN systems and all of the investment in more powerful NN hardware and configurations there will be some surprisingly general demos running in open/varied environments in the next year or two.
i feel like you could read the summary section and the results section in about 15 minutes.
Why people is so interested of Facebook technology with silly licensing, when there is multiple better or similar alternatives available?

Facebook, google
- no thanks.
As far as I know "Show HN" is only for new-ish projects, Dragula is like 2 years old [1].

EDIT: Notice that the guidelines say "New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok.". The latest commit in this repository is from Sep 12, there has not been a significant release so if we want to stick to the "rules" this post should actually be deleted, but then people will say "Oh! But this is the first time I see this project, yada yada" that is why it got upvoted, because there is still people new to this library. Not that I am complaining, just saying that there is nothing noteworthy today about this project that requires a "Show HN" tag. I suppose the author posted this the +10th time simply because he does not wants his project to be forgotten, which is fine I guess.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https://github.com/bevacqua/dr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The issue is not so much authority, the issue is urgency.

Why is there urgency to rush to judgment about alleged Russian election meddling?

If it happened, then unless anyone thinks the outcome of the election should be reversed, we have four years to get to the bottom of it, take action, and prevent it from happening again.

It's very much reminiscent of the blind urgency to invade Iraq on shaky evidence. Note that one tactic used to get people to act is to create urgency. The simplest example is "this offer expires in 5 minutes..."

It's not so much that I give no credit to any officials as having authority, it's that they all agree on the knee-jerk urgency when there is no apparent need to do so, and none feel obligated to offer a point by point probability assessment of whatever information, inference, or intelligence has them 100% convinced, since the information disclosed so far paints a vague, circumstantial picture.

This sort of elitist disregard for the basic rationality of the public is not something I can stomach, so I simply can't take their assurances at face value.