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Australia is one of the least transparent countries with regards to airstrikes. It would be nice if there was public pressure for them to be more transparent.

https://twitter.com/airwars/status/822008554316066816
Cortana sends it off to a server like everyone else. Those libraries are probably not Microsoft's latest and greatest.

Modern speech models are quite big, not so big that you couldn't load it on your desktop, but big enough that you would notice. Couple that wih the fact that search/or a service is going to happen on a server anyways, client side processing doesn't make sense beyond a few functions.
For all arguing "to use Vulcan": the API proposed is a high-level API which could be implemented on top of Vulcan. Or any other lowlevel API like DirectX or Metal.

When designing an API, you have to take the characteristics of the calling language into respect. Especially when you are trying to achieve the highest possible performance. You can define highlevel APIs, which try to minimize the amount of computation in the calling language, or a more lowlevel API, which gives only very basic operations, and the client has to implement more logic themselves.

When targeting "fast" languages like C/C++ you tend to design more lowlevel APIs, assuming that the client can implement abstractions more efficiently as they are more tuned to his needs. When targeting slower languages, you want to do more computation in the API.

So for designing a new Web API, you both have to consider that Javascript is slower than compiled C and on top of that, you have to consider security requirements. Your API should not create an attack vector to your device. This means, the best Web API would be an abstraction on top of the native low level API and the only question with respect to those would be: can the proposed API be implemented well and efficient on e.g. Vulcan?
With Amazo nEcho this was exactly my experience for the first week. Since then, I've learned where it fails and are
becoming more annoyed by it. The clear difference between current voice recognition and a real person is that they don't adapt to the way you talk. They don't learn if they misunderstood you once.

As an example, if I ask Alexa to play a certain kind of music and she plays the wrong one, I'll have to specify it further to get the correct music. Next time I'd expect her to get the clue, but she'll make the same mistake again.

Even though the most annoying thing is that chain commands don't really work with any assistant. I'd expect to give 4-5 commands at once and get them executed. Activating it for each command is very annoying.
> isn't to demand people not buy tvs with ubi, its just to make sure you can have the bare necessities and little else

'little else' = TV in your example, so these amount to the same thing

Because the cost of 'bare necessities' varies by region (housing prices in particular), the only way you'll make this work is if there's a government bureaucracy somewhere that looks at market prices and then calculates some formula that gives you exactly the amount of money it takes to buy X amount of housing, food, etc.

But then you can always turn around and bunk with a friend and then spend it all on luxuries and video games, or secretly move someplace cheaper to live and pocket the extra money. So either you allow people to nakedly game the system, or the government is now in the business of monitoring where normal people live.
What made it difficult for me to sustain focus while listening to him was his near-monotone delivery.

But now I almost appreciate it.
I dont understand this notion of media responsibility to report on matters of grave importance and substance. As long as media is profit driven (which the vast majority it is) I expect nothing from them other than to please their shareholders. If reporting on drones drove more clicks and generated more page views we'd see media rushing to report on such coverage. The fact that they don't to me says it's a demand problem. People just are not interested in facing up to news that their government is bombing other countries in their name.

Public news organisations, on the other hand, should definitely be held to the expectation of reporting on issues in priority of importance, with not a shred of concern placed on how popular the reporting will become.

This is not surprising at all that npr has been covering this extensively, and also nobody bothered to listen.
Power imbalances often arise solely because the people involved perceive it as such (i.e. it's a purely psychological effect). Therefore, simply perceiving the situation differently and then acting on that can make a lot of difference.
Power imbalances most often arise solely because the people involved perceive it as such. Therefore, simply perceiving the situation differently and then acting on that can make a lot of difference.
The war on terrorism is so bloody pointless -- the military has achieved exactly nothing since 9/11. All I could think about the day after 9/11 was the hundreds of thousands (now millions!) of innocent people which had nothing to do with that attack that were going to be killed for no reason ...

It's ironic that the largest part of the us government which has also produced the worst results, gets a free pass from the anti-big-government crowd...

I would love for a politician to talk about the war on terror as a failure as big as the war in Vietnam and to start finally talking about ending it ...
Do Afghanistan and Iraq really count given they were invaded and their governments replaced with puppet regimes? How could the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan ever afford to say 'no' to the US?
Indicated airspeed measures the dynamic pressure exerted on the aircraft by the motion of the surrounding fluid, not the velocity relative to the ground. Airspeed indicators are calibrated at sea level so you need more information in order to get the calibrated airspeed for your altitude and you still need more data + error correction to turn that into true airspeed, which is the actual velocity of the plane relative to the air.
Worth seeing their darker side as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/do-cats-c...
“This isn’t just business. It’s your life. Enjoy the Journey.... Whatcha Muncha! Is everything this great?
Diplomacy alone doesn't afford us the lifestyle we so enjoy. I believe we are lucky to even have the option to ignore the where and how our privileged position in global society is sustained. No one is really hiding this from us, it is that we choose not to look.
Keep in mind that DX12 doesn't support Windows 7 or 8, so that cuts out a significant portion of the existing market.
> there are children in Yemen right now who are afraid of blue skies. drones fly high enough to be invisible to the naked eye; most strikes are carried out in clear weather.

Some adults get PTSD just from being in a car accident. Growing up in this environment must thoroughly destroy a child's sanity. I wonder what the the US drone campaign is teaching an entire generation now approaching adulthood.
To clarify for anyone as dim as I - Venus is 460C (860F) and is hotter to be sure than a typical soldering station, which runs at around 340C (or 650F) - it's not the case that Venus is 460C hotter than a reflow oven.
It's more or less correct, though I think it may only count nodes with forwarded ports.

Running a full node takes 100GB of disk space and some dozens of GB in bandwidth every month. It consumes a lot of ram as well, and if you are running a heavy OS you will often notice your computer is slower.

The cost of running a full node is one of the major reasons people oppose a bigger block size. Most wanting bigger blocks don't run their own full nodes.
Gotcha. Assumptions definitely are liabilities ;)
If Balaji Srinivasan becomes head of the FDA, he'd be the one of the few who is an engineer, scientist, and doctor (non-medical). He holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology. He has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Reviews Genetics. He's a legit polymath.

Disclaimer: I went to school/am friends with him. I'm a software engineer and he's also a better coder than me and he still gives me shit for using an IDE rather than emacs =P
IMHO, that is not what bookube is intended for. However, there's a lot of confusion there - I think it is going to be kubeadm's job in the long term
Can you please explain what you were referring to by 'new ones with no pre-existing specialized chips available to replace FPGAs.'? I've never really head of any thing new that can replace FPGAs.
wasn't this already debunked like yesterday when it came out of the National Review propagandahole?
Good choice for YC research investment.

I hope they don't try to reinvent the wheel in some areas (sounds like it from the post). It would probably be a good idea to benchmark how hard it is to set up a functioning and operational GNU Health system in community X for example.

There's a lot of potential for replacing nothing/no doctors with machine learning, especially in developing countries. Especially in areas where mobile phones are spread I can think of a couple of use cases. Take a picture of your swelling/strange looking skin/whatever and have a classifier tell you what it could be. Last time I checked the algorithms actually beat expert panels (for skin cancer). Could probably be coupled with a "doctor as a service" system that optimizes routes based on this sort of data.

The more I think about it the more I should catapult working in this area up my job application list :)
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Really, you use Prolog (in the shell)? What for - have you blogged about it anywhere?
I've been studying the SCM war with great interest and I like to think of myself, as an impartial observer, from a Git hosting point of view. Since my product is built around Git and not Git hosting, it doesn't really matter to me, who (GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft, etc.) wins the Git hosting war.

The only thing that matters for me, is Git gaining greater mind share in Enterprise. And I think Microsoft's flurry of activity in the Git hosting world, is not them trying to embrace it, so they can extinguish it. But rather, it's them trying to ensure they don't lose relevance.

In the past, when we had SCM diversity (ClearCase, Perforce, Subversion, Git, etc.), companies who managed the SCM technology, controlled the software development life cycle. However, with Git, where there is no owner, you can't control the software development life cycle, like you use to.

Microsoft embracing Git like they are, is just them flexing their vast technical and financial resources, so they can get people to migrate to their ecosystem. They know they can't extinguish Git, and since they can't dictate how Git evolves, their next best option is to make working with Git better in their world.
> sudo to root and largely do whatever they want

Not anymore, even being root doesn't give you total control now[1], and custom kernel extensions are among the things that are prohibited.

This «feature» bas been introduced in El Capitan for «security reason».

[1] System Integrity Protection : System Integrity Protection
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I'm as much in favor of equal application of laws as anyone else, but please explain how wasting the President's time would help anyone else one iota?
In my experience with counter-scamming, these guys generally don't actually use any kind of payment processor -- they ask people to go get gift cards and tell them the numbers. It's a clever way of going about it, which essentially guarantees that they can't be shut down directly. The only way to beat them is to waste so much of their time that it's no longer profitable.
> We don't think it's right to depend on this even if it's theoretically possible.

Care to elaborate on that?

In the worst case, someone could implement Vulkan on top of the "supported" API. Or, the OS developers could get with the times and ship a modern, functional system?
OK, I guess you misunderstood, I was pointing out that there is actually a large quantity of guns on private hands around Europe.
The muscle part is mostly historical, up to the '80s maybe. Now it's more about money eg. to fund campaigns. Cf. Berlusconi, Sarkozy.

Scandinavia is the poster child for ethics, and from what I know I would say rightly so, but it's not representative of Western Europe as a whole.
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I've tried both. Kubernetes is targeted really towards large production clusters -- even kubernetes itself requires quite a bit of resources. A single non-HA cluster initialized by kubeadm for example couldn't even schedule itself on a n1-standard-1 machine on GCE.

For a MVP or a small production stack that runs on one server, I would go with Docker Swarm for its simplicity and small footprint. And even if you do end up scaling across many nodes, you still won't need k8s (kubernetes).
If you make up some reason that you have to call them back (and seem earnest about wanting their "help") they will (often) give you a number (although they may stop doing that if they get blasted enough)
In the UK some newspapers are forced by the industry regulator to issue corrections.

The Daily Mail has, by far, the largest number of forced corrections.

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/12/man-who-hates-libe...

> In the files of the Press Complaints Commission, you will find records of 687 complaints against the Mail which led either to a PCC adjudication or to a resolution negotiated, at least partially, after the PCC’s intervention. The number far exceeds that for any other British newspaper: the files show 394 complaints against the Sun, 221 against the Daily Telegraph, 115 against the Guardian. The complaints will serve as a charge sheet against the Mail and its editor.

> This year, [2014] the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker had committed murders in his home country; that 878,000 recipients of Employment Support Allowance had stopped claiming “rather than face a fresh medical”; that a Portsmouth primary school had denied pupils water on the hottest day of the year because it was Ramadan; that wolves would soon return to Britain; that nearly half the electricity produced by windfarms was discarded. All these reports were false.

And that's just stuff that's unambiguously wrong. Here's an example of the distorted way they report: https://jaimerhblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/raking-it-in/
What's probably more relevant is that those drivers pass the Vulkan conformance tests.
I find it amusing that people went from "raising a minimum wage is a bad thing to do" to "unconditionally giving everyone a set amount of money will be the best thing ever".
I understand that. People try to collect the bomblets afterwards though, especially in the city. So the harm is somewhat limited.
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I would have expected HW to be only a small proportion, but I'd also expect think terms like "pointers, algorithm, recursion" to be much more common for HW.

If Hw, would correlate annually with semesters (noting that SO is internationally popular, and different countries have different schedules).
Don't forget that as far as body counts go, the USG defines "terrorists" as any male appearing to be of military age. There is no such thing as a dead civilian male in a strike zone.
> I think at this point it's pretty clear that these efforts have failed due to lack of traction in that department (not enough people care about "owning their own server" or "controlling their own destiny")

Er, the whole effort has just started. What's happening right now is that people are experimenting with various UX'es. Many are failing (as expected) but I am confident a winner will arise. Just give it some time.
The US has tons of bases on the Philippines and there's a lot of training/cooperation. I can't imagine that the US didn't have permission and cooperation there, if it happened.

FWIW the Philippine military denies that it happened -- http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/07/09/12/philippine-military-.... Which is at odds with objecting to it.
Why would they each cost a dollar when they're running out? How could you possibly defeat economics like that? Scarce things are expensive.

The Redditors who are paying lots of money for the scarce handles, and the people they are paying lots of money to (the feudal lords or whatever, I don't know what to call people in this hypothetical Reddit/Urbit mashup), would absolutely lose out if more became available. They would be like taxi medallions, or houses. Urbit itself makes the analogy to real estate, and real estate owners do not have the tendency to say "yay, more neighbors!"

And I don't need to fork Urbit given the people who run it are jerks; I can just run my own normal Linux server, which runs reasonable well-designed programming languages, and can subtract in constant time.
It is about having vision really. Appreciate their vision from back then, and embrace what they have achieved so far
Here's a thought experiment you can use to clarify the difference between good & evil: What would each side in a conflict do if they had overwhelming power?

We have plenty of evidence to see what the US would do. When they defeated Germany & Japan at the end of WWII did they enslave their people? Use their nuclear advantage to conquer new lands and colonize them? No, they rebuilt their economies and tried to ensure that they had stable governments & trading partners.

What do you think ISIS would do with exclusive use of nuclear weapons? How about Iraq under Saddam etc? Do you think Hamas would be equally deterred by Israelis using their children as human shields as Israelis are by Hamas using theirs for that purpose?

Of course good & evil isn't black and white, the western world does a lot of bad stuff. But it's just as brainwashed to think that just because all sides cause some civilian casualties to think that everyone's morally equal, as it is to think that the US is some altruistic knight in shining armor that can do no wrong.
I'm kinda lost. This seems like a good thing? We can move forward, past weird times sex based marketing, and go towards an intellectual discussion of a subject.
> Yet more whataboutism and aspergic levels of specious reasoning.

I find this to be quite far away from the ideals of this site:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Furthermore, using the name of a medical condition as an insult insults a whole group of unrelated individuals.

> Those two numbers are self-evidently not an unrelated random correlation - yet you seem to be claiming that they somehow are.

We have pointed out to you a number of exceptions that should raise serious doubts about the idea that gun ownership drives gun deaths. If this was the case then several countries in Europe would have similar problems, just on a smaller scale.
This has surprisingly little to do with Rust. Maybe change title to original?
at least they included a link to the independent paper replicating the results of the allegedly cooked data. Surprised me somewhat.
I would venture that the vast majority of people will benefit from a small amount of income compared to the small amount who will take advantage of the system.
There is the v5 project implementing Perl 5 targetting nqp to be compiled inline with a Perl 6 program. https://github.com/rakudo-p5/v5

The project has mostly stalled since Inline::Perl5 became so effective. v5 had the issue of being unable to easily support binary XS type modules. Which means it could never support CPAN, unlike Inline::Perl5. It was meant for people to be able to copy their high mental cost algo code into a new Perl 6 project without fuss.
I thought the Xeon Phi line is better now that it is all one processor instead of a separate coprocessor. I saw a few weeks ago here on HN on an actual use case for its MCDRAM and spreading the load over its separate clusters of cores.
You can chose your identifier (not linked to a phone number). On the other side they are closed source.
Why exactly are we laying it on thick against Apple here when they have the support of other browser vendors in proposing this and are trying to fix a legitimate problem? All of the comments seem to be "well wouldn't it be nice if they used WebVulkan instead" when WebVulkan doesn't fucking exist. If it were so obviously superior why isn't it in the pipeline already? Apple is not the only company that can propose standards, if there was really such an immense appetite for WebVulkan I think it would already have been proposed!

This doesn't even touch the reasons it hasn't been, and the most important of these for me is security. "Well yes, it's extremely low level and admittedly very dangerous, but we can make it secure enough to expose to the most hostile environment in the history of computing" is how we ended up in the mess we are in right now security wise. You want a secure system, you have to build it that way from the start preferably in languages that don't let you decapitate yourself like Rust. I'm pretty sure it's a consensus that it's impossible to write secure C code these days, so why is everyone so convinced we could sufficiently harden a low level graphics API for web use? This is like if when NetScape proposed JavaScript if everyone went "well you're just trying to dominate it, we already have C89 just put that in the browser." Fucking NO. When are we as an industry and a discipline going to learn our lesson with this "code first, secure later" crap?

And again, if this could be done and it's such a great idea, why is this the first proposal and not actual WebVulkan? The argument here is not WebVulkan vs WebGPU because again WebVulkan does not fucking exist. When or if it does, perhaps we can argue about why Apple won't support it if they don't, but until then, you're shooting down one attempt at a standard API with a hypothetical thing that does not exist and which a lot of experts in the field seem to think is a bad idea from several angles.

I will reiterate this one last time because it seems like everyone has missed this: there is currently no cross-platform solution for next-gen web graphics except for this proposal. Put up or shut up.
Most countries have number portability laws now that say the current provider has to release the number.

They can't even hold it over an unpaid debt. Worse, a lot of these laws have government SLAs in them that say x% of transfers have to happen within 2-3 hours (usually 90-99%)

There is zero incentive from any party to add friction to the process for authentication purposes

It really got easy when I noticed the process was automated by a lot of providers a few years ago. I really don't think there was any human oversight on many of these transfers (perhaps a rubber stamp from a cheap offshore pair of eyes for compliance purposes)
What's even sadder is with a few billion much of that uxo could be cleaned up but they struggle for basic funding to clear some each year.

In my mind that displays there is little remorse for past actions.