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"The prophecy in Isiah 53 talks about a guy who was incredibly ugly and despised by everyone, who was killed disgracefully, and who never uttered a word."

You reduce the passage to being about "a guy who was incredibly ugly" whereas the context (see Isaiah 52) indicates someone beaten horrifically, "his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness".

Your caricature neglects to mention and skirts around the key details of the passage:

The suffering servant is the kingly representative of his people, appointed by God, who, though innocent, will bear the punishment of his people's sins on their behalf. He will be smitten by God and they will mock him for it. He will be rejected, suffer and die, but he will rise, and make many to be accounted righteous.

The substitutionary atonement is clearly repeated many times in Isaiah 53:

"Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted."

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed."

"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."

"For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished."

"He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth."

"Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand."

"After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities."

"For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
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They gave up on them because people didn't use the only one they ever ran: http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/teslas-battery-swap-is-dead/

Realistically, it seems likely that there just wasn't enough demand among existing Tesla owners for that use case. If/When Tesla gets more market share, that could very well change. My understanding is that they are still engineering all their chassis to support the fast swap technology, so they haven't entirely trashed the idea.
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Many businesses use Mapbox (which is based on OSM, but is not free) and many consider that superior choice to GMaps. Others use Bing maps (Facebook, for example). Then there are Here maps, Yandex maps, etc.

GMaps are a quick and comfortable choice, but if your business really depends on communicating with maps, or you want to do something more than display pins or overlay kmls, it is not a best choice.
I think it's a natural outgrowth of how so many people chose "1" when they were forced to add a number to their passwords.
-If you wanted to, you could master an LP with 0 dynamic range; it would work just fine. (Provided the average signal level was low enough to keep the needle from going haywire attempting to follow the LF grooves)

What quickly becomes a problem for LPs is too much energy in the LF/bass region, which will cause the needle to skip and jump all over the place.

The RIAA correction curve is a measure to alleviate this problem, as it strongly emphasizes low frequencies on playback (and, inversely, reduces them before cutting the master disc, leaving much less LF content in the grooves than would otherwise be needed for accurate reproduction.)

I suspect (Mind, this is just a guess) that when someone says an album has 'a separate master for vinyl', what they are really saying is that someone took a copy of the album master before it was sent through the last loudness war compressor - and sent that copy to the LP plant, using the compressed-as-heck master for any other format.
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A Prius is surprisingly large inside. EPA cargo volume for the rear with seats up (5 passengers) is about the same as the Model S. The frunk adds an additional 5 cubic feet.
This is still pretty true for me today. I use Pandora for discovery, and Spotify for maintaining fixed playlists.

Google play music actually works great for both of these functions, but the app is extremely unstable on my phone (Moto X running 5.1), so it isn't an option for me.
That's a blog post by a PhD student. I'm talking about ~50 years of literature with concrete theoretical proposals that involve much more than just the general concept of recursion. Check one of Chomsky's recent syntax papers and see if you find that recursion is the only component of the theory.

Also, the blog post does not say that UG is just about recursion. It just says that it's a central concept within generative linguistics, which is true.
To the Hacker News community, as I'm genuinely curious, does this link contribute anything to you or your understanding of deep learning? 29 people voted for it, zero comments, and it's still on the front page after five hours. It's a very technical and very specific paper that has not yet had any real analysis by the broader ML community. From the previous discussions on deep learning, I generally suspect that seeing "neural networks" is an upvote trigger but then very little good discussion continues past that.

I work in the field and I might read this later - but that's honestly only a might. The datasets they examine aren't particularly impactful or interesting and the paper is preliminary.

MNIST is a standard complained about dataset in vision (with someone recently noting it's more a unit test than a benchmark) but is infrequently used as a dataset for RNNs, other than potentially permuted MNIST which isn't used here. The IMDb dataset is at least standard for RNNs but also not representative of the complexity of many sequence tasks.

The primary statement being made is that the simpler LSTM1/2/3 can achieve similar numbers to that of the LSTM when using a proper hyper-parameter search. That's potentially useful to know but also likely not the thing stopping practitioners from putting such work into the field. Many architectures are also limited in the number of times they can be trained due to computational restrictions - otherwise I'd usually strongly suggest hyper-parameter search!

If people are interested in this type of analysis over RNN architectures, I recommend the older but still useful "An Empirical Exploration of Recurrent Network Architectures"[1]. The primary contribution there is that forget gates should be set to 1 for LSTMs, which was used and then forgotten for many years, but they do present various LSTM variants (MUT1/2/3) that are more computationally efficient too. These were integrated into Keras (a Python machine learning library) for some time. They also show their results over more datasets (arithmetic, XML modeling, language modeling on PTB, and music prediction) for a more convincing and nuanced discussion.

P.S. I'll note I saw this on Nando de Freitas' Twitter feed and assume that's why it was posted here (given he's a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior researcher at Google). A retweet doesn't constitute an endorsement though, especially in science. I'm still confused as to why Hacker News, a very general crowd in tech, care particularly for one deep learning paper and not another. Color me confused :)

[1]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45473.html
I personally really like not being forced to pay extra for a big battery when I buy a new device. I already have enough batteries I carry around.

On the other hand, I think it could be a nice touch to give the customer an option to buy a case/battery combo, designed by the same manufacturer.
OH OH, have you looked in to any such tools? I've been considering writing something jekyll-esque for photo galleries (static, hostable on s3/wherever), or a plugin for jekyll or other static site generator that can do the same (i.e: cloud-backed images, host the static site wherever you want)... have you seen anything like this?
Aren't almost all the businesses mentioned here extinct, or at least have tiny chunks of the market?
In countries like Mexico, carriers do not charge your data use of fb and WhatsApp. They offer it as free social network. I am sure government is behind of such a good will to users from big companies. You get free communication in exchange from your privacy.
It's a backdoor because it grants access (to new messages as well as any messages replayed) with explicit authorization by the application but without explicit authorization by the user.

That seems to fit the currently accepted understanding of the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)
If your browser history consisted of you shopping for groceries, would this be a self-paying system and eternal free food?

Good idea isn't it?
Not really. Nintendo hasn't released the specs of their machines since the Gamecube.
Probably like 50% sales, 25% HR/Legal/Admin, 25% engineering/ops
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I have also had my share of delivery problems. But I'm on iOS and there is no alternative to Signal. So I ended up using iMessages most of the time, and Signal only for confidential stuff or when the recipient is on Android.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a problem for some, but how would Apple's "culture of secrecy" affect Lattner? Apple didn't just release Swift as open source, they released the entire commit history even before it was open source, the future planned roadmap of Swift is discussed openly on a public email list, and the whole Tool chain down to llvm is completely open source.
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"I could go on with the horrible design choices"

You can create hundreds of speculatively horrible design choices, but not one of them would mean a thing until you try the product and check if they apply right?
If I recall, the page is actually served from a google.com domain.
This is as good a time as any to refer to Ivor Tiefenbrun (Of Linn fame) and his claim that digital was a dud (He didn't use those words, but anyway...)

Short version - the Boston Audio Society invited him to listen to one of his own turntables, using music of his choosing - and also listen (blind!) to the signal from the turntable passed through an A/D-D/A loop. He couldn´'t tell the difference.

http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/bas_speaker/abx_testing2.h...
Wait... you mean key management is hard to get right with a large and distributed userbase? Who knew?
Others would disagree that libertarianism is absent, and that its absence is a shame, e.g. [1]. Indeed, they say that the influence of libertarianism is responsible for some of Australia's governmental problems, most conspicuously on display this past week.

[1] https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/06/01/rundle-the-liberal-part...
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No, Paul is addressing the church, then and now. His use of the word "we" in the passage you quote has that sense.

It's characteristic of Paul, see Ephesians 2 for another example.

To come back to your point, if you read the rest of Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, you will find Paul's position (which is in fact Jesus' position) on the matter:

"Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night"

You can't slip a piece of paper between Paul and Jesus. Jesus himself authenticates Paul as one of his apostles.
People like predictable pricing. You sign a lease rather than renting month to month so your housing can't double in price just because. If it can cost between $0.50 and $500 to "fill up" your Tesla, that would SUBSTANTIALLY alter the way owning a Tesla is perceived.
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Sure, this could certainly leak some information, but it's hard to argue that this is a "backdoor".
The 'extreme secrecy' would be an advantage if they actually managed to surprise their customers. The reality is, over the last couple of years they haven't really created something groundbreaking. Why would you want your own employees to not know that the next big thing they're working on is a minor product update. Also, despite the extreme secrecy, every product announced since the iPhone 5s has been leaked in advance. Factory photos, hands-on reviews of cases, photos of chips, etc. In other words, their employees suffer from the secrecy, but the outside world (who they want to surprise) aren't that excited about their launches and already know in advance what's coming up. So... what's the point really.
> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population

This is a very US centric view.

The comparison is done in the city where the two companies are nearly located, the other city is the most important in US and the other is the most important of the English speaking cities in the world outside USA.

If you want to talk about global mapping, use global comparisons.

And not talking about the fact that Apple Maps are supported in just one platform and the market share in USA is very different than globally.
It does allow you, that's all I use.
>That capital gets destroyed, because the bad ideas can't pay it back

But isn't that the crux of the problem. At some point those with capital accrue enough power that they don't allow capital to be destroyed?

Instead of taking a loss they lobby for laws and institutions that allow them to socialize their losses. For example laws that prevent student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy; Federal guarantees on loans; the asymmetric response of the Federal Reserve with interest rates (slow up, fast down); suspending of mark-to-market accounting rules; inflation targets that paper over bad investments; and rigged markets (i.e. prescription drugs).

The result is a subsidy from labor to capital and from new capital to old capital, increasing wealth inequality and lower social mobility.

For example assume that electric cars are the way of the future and that companies like Tesla will dominate. In that case anyone who invested in internal combustion engines invested wrong and should lose their money. That is capitalism.

Instead what do we see? Thickets of laws to protect the business models of dealers of ICE cars and a market with thinner profit margins because companies were repeatedly bailed out rather then be forced to shrink or die.
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While we're on the subject of Plex, does anyone here use it for recording broadcast digital TV (preferably including HD)?

I'm always confused about how most htpc systems only make sense for people with massive private ripped/downloaded libraries of media, while in the "golden age of TV" seemingly nobody watches actual TV.
>if there's anything I should be wary of

Don't cave to the temptation of making an ass of yourself. You never know when you might run into someone in a future job.

They'll likely make you sign some papers for the 1 month severance. Pay attention. Sometimes there are unsavory clauses, like non-competes, non-disclosure, etc. It would be helpful to know where you are located. If you're in California, for example, you can sign a non-compete without reservation, as they are largely unenforceable.

>any advice from people

Was it a really large layoff? Sometimes, there's opportunity there. Often, some of the key people already smell blood in the water, and are thinking of either jumping ship to a competitor, or even starting up their own competitor. If you know any of the key folks that might b e planning this sort of thing, invite them out to lunch a week or two after the layoff and probe around a bit...you might find a place to land.
This is a backdoor because it is used to fool people. In countries like Mexico, carriers do not charge your data use of fb and WhatsApp. They offer it as free social network. I am sure government is behind of such a good will to users from big companies. You get free communication in exchange from your privacy. What a nice deal!
Note that this book covers C++11 and C++14. C++17 wasn't on the scene much at this point so there is no mention at all of it in the book.

Having said that, C++17 was a minor update (much to Stroustrup's displeasure) and I can heartily recommend this book.

It was Meyer's last book as he is now retired (but will happily reply to emails; I love that about the C++ community - I've emailed Sutter, Stroustrup and Meyers and they will all reply).
Also, I'm not sure if photos has this, but you also need to "empty the trash" in your drive account after you delete something before it will be actually deleted.

IIRC it gets auto-deleted after 30 days or something.
I agree with most comments on this thread -- This is indeed a back door and it is irresponsible for someone who works in Security to claim that it is not. If the key-verification functionality that you describe were "opt-out", then you might have a case on your hands, but because it's "opt-in", the user would not know when What's App is potentially spying on them.
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I agree with you. I haven't been this excited about a console since the N64, just knocking the 360 into third place for me. I haven't been excited about game consoles in a long long time. Why buy a console when you get a better experience on a PC and basically the same games? Nintendo is the only one making something worth buying, along with amazing IP that they keep fresh. This will be the first time I've owned a console since the original 360.
"A Comprehensive and fundamentally innacurate guide"

Saying they're unique is just very very wrong.
The encryption protects you against others snooping on your messages in transit which is what it is meant to do.

Absolutely mothing really stops any of WhatsApp, Apple or even Signal itself from reading your messages if they want to/are compelled to. The only way to protect yourself against the service provider is to manage public keys yourself manually using GPG like workflows which have proven to be unworkable.

The trade off is do you want free and easy to use messaging which protects you from other snoopers but not the service provider/government itself or do you want much more secure systems that no one outside the technology priesthood will use.
libsodium, on the other hand, provides a function that does exactly that underneath - crypto_box_seal().
Most people really hate this kind of pricing. It would combine badly with "range uncertainty" for people who've not yet bought one: not only do you not know how far you can go, you don't know how much you'll have to pay for it either.
Thanks for the great explanation and the link. I'm glad I asked. Cheers.
It is sad, and misinformative, that this article is currently #1 on HN, while the much more accurate and better-written Guardian piece "WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages" is #2.

The linked piece is hard to critique because it's borderline incoherent. The "conclusion" is simply not a conclusion, particularly this passage:

> A provider always has the ability to intercept messages as long as the user does not verify fingerprints. With WhatsApp, it is even harder to make sure, no MitM takes or took place. WhatsApp is closed source, so who can tell, if WhatsApp just displays wrong identity keys and lets the user think that everything is perfectly OK ..?
In the US the rate a company has to pay for unemployment insurance is linked to the number of former employees that claim unemployment after being laid off from the company. Typical rates can range from as low as less than 1% to close to 8% and when calculating the rate a company pays they look at several years of history. The exact mechanics vary by state.

So it makes sense that a company might want to discourage people from claiming unemployment because it could effect their longer term costs where as a severance is a one time thing and giving a good reference to a potential new employer is free.

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That is dope. Good work!
It is "free with your $100k purchase".
I've pre ordered it, but £280 is quite a large pill to swallow, especially when the US is getting it for $300.

Not sure if that's inflation or brexit or what, but damn.

Will see what happens in the next few weeks before deciding whether to cancel or not.
I get what you're saying, but blocking websites via the courts is a clumsy and expensive workaround which obviously has minimal impact and probably zero revenue benefit to the people who make those TV shows.

Further more, to watch shows in Australia we must first find who has that show. It might be Foxtel, so you must sign up to Foxtel to watch that one show. That is not practical.

iTunes is better because you can buy one single episode for $3.50, but it's a shame that it's iTunes and not simply the people who made the show, able to offer it directly to consumers without needing to go through Murdoch's "sign up for our entertainment package" or Apple's "we only take 30%" bullshit.

Bottom line: I don't want to pay Apple or Murdoch in order to pay the TV production company who made the show. That just means the price will always be inflated, and I don't use those services enough to justify that cost.
> If you are given the value of what 'cat' hashes too but you didn't know what made it, you would never be able to find out that 'cat' was the original word.

This is false or inaccurate at best too. More correct would be that it should be computationally infeasible for any one entity to have any reasonable chance to obtaining the inverse of a hash, in the foreseeable future.

With all hashing functions in existence, it's always theoretically possible to find the inverse, and that should be pointed out.
My boss was complaining that COTS were expensive and gave gnat as an example. I asked him why do we pay for it ? We use support less than once every 5 years and in case of real problems, public forums exist.

He was completely against this idea. For the company, paying for support is like having an insurance, they do not want to drive without insurance.
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I understand why that is a concern for the security conscious. But for the 90% use case, e.g.: I lost my phone and got a new one. Or my phone isn't turning on and I get a new one.

I install WhatsApp. How do I roll over my identity?

The way I see it is that WhatsApp is delegating the task of identity verification to the network provider (admittedly a weak link for the security conscious). But it _is_ the easiest way for the average user to continue chats on a new phone.

If the default setting were reversed, HN would stop complaining, but the 90% would.

The most 'secure' means of communication is probably a one-time pad communicated via paper on magic ink that you then burn, or something. There is a cost to ease of use in many cases. I wish the conversation was less about right v wrong, and more about what tradeoffs should be made and where to draw the line.