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That's what I thought too. Dark means the repo is private. If you fuck up, the world won't see

White means, anything you do here is publicly visible.

Seriously github.com can we please use the black to give some meaning.

I don't want my public repos to have black headers.
I remember going to UMSL to look up programs and classes for going there. My mother dropped me off near the Psychology building because it had a bench and I did not drive.

I got some flyers and a course catalog and called my mother on a pay phone.

Psychology called a security guard on me because I was sitting on a bench and reading papers. Didn't seem to believe me that I wanted to be a student there. This was in the early 1990s. My mother picked me up but security said someone had panicked in the building because they saw me.

I'm white by the way, never had a criminal record or anything. I decided to wait to go back to college later.

But yeah, security can be paranoid based on one's looks or people calling and complaining until security does something.
The thing is that it didn't seem like that at the time. Someone high up went around the company to see if there was a fit for me, claimed there wasn't, and then said I could either give up on the technology or go work somewhere else. An offer came in around then to do so, I took it. Ironically, that person ultimately left Google arguably over the consequences of adopting that technology later on.
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I think Google's quiet transformation from a search company to a data company that is trying to learn everything about everyone is the prime example.

Google buzz was also one of the early moves that showed this, opting everyone who uses gmail into a social network was pretty evil if you ask me.
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I am failing to see how providing your Facebook password provides any legitimate confirmation about you and your associations. You can easily create a fake Facebook profile with your picture, fake posts, fake friends, fake everything.

The internet is a cesspool of people who troll, create fake profiles, invoke reactions, behave completely different than they would on the streets, and intentionally hide their identity. Using it as a primary source of identity verification is a terrible idea.

Why not require proof of a financial statement? Bank account in your name, or a process to verify somebody via their bank account without requiring their bank account password.
Agreed, I came up with analogy that I intend to use whenever false equivalencies are used to try to scuttle an argument: there is a massive difference between going 65 (mph) in a 60 and 110 in a 60. While both are illegal, you can not use one to justify the other. We can have high standards and expect them to be met but if we cannot tell the difference in scale between two actions we are doomed.
I appreciate healthy discussion of technical topics. However, I'm not sure you're having this discussion in good faith. I wrote this response in case you are.

LeCun never said anything about the Von Neumann Bottleneck. TrueNorth is not a Von Neumann architecture; it does not have a memory bus; it does not have the Von Neumann Bottleneck [0,2,3]. From wikipedia [1]:

"TrueNorth circumvents the von-Neumann-architecture bottlenecks and is very energy-efficient, consuming 70 milliwatts, about 1/10,000th the power density of conventional microprocessors"

If you disagree, please explain how you think the Von Neumann Bottleneck applies here.

With regards to energy consumption keep in mind the smallest GPUs (TX1) are ~10W, typical FGPAs ~1W, versus 70mW for TrueNorth! It's popular to hate on TrueNorth but you could throw 10 of them together and still be fantastically more efficient than anything else today - that's super cool to me! It required lots of special engineering effort to get right, such as building a lot of on chip memory.

On chip memory is one of the most difficult components to get right, minimizing transistors while not breaking physics. It's not as simple as "pouring tons of memory on a die" and requires specialized engineers that hand-layout these components. The event driven asynchronous nature of TrueNorth is fairly unique and undoubtedly added complexity to the memory design.

Do you have any references or evidence for CNN runtimes being mostly dominated by compute? The operations performed in a CNN are more than just convolution; for every input you multiply by a weight, you now have a memory bound problem, which is much more expensive than ALU operations. Don't just take my word for it, listen to Bill Dally (Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, Stanford CS prof, and general computer architecture badass) [4]:

"State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have hundreds of millions of connections and are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources and power budgets. While custom hardware helps the computation, fetching weights from DRAM is two orders of magnitude more expensive than ALU operations, and dominates the required power."

This is what TrueNorth got right, and made its bet completing design before AlexNet was published. That was a time where Hinton was viewed by the ML community as a heretic talking about RBMs and backprop and hardly anyone believed him. TrueNorth, like NNs at the time, gets some shade by doing things differently that over time we're seeing validated by other researchers and architectures incorporating.

I recommend reading [4] if you haven't already, as it is rich in insights for building efficient NN architectures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Von_N...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNorth

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7229264/?reload=true&arn...

[3] http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01528.pdf
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Actually, this idea comes from the time of the previous administration: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/homeland-security-soci...
And what about TAILS? It has a separated/modified Tor Browser. If I frequent a certain site and LE knows that I know I can be exploited, but what if I'm an activist who puts the TAILS USB in his notebook, boot from it, then publish an article on medium.com with a freshly created account. Will LE be able to exploit me?
This comes up all the time, but I think it just comes down to that HN is not a democracy, does not aspire to be one, and as far as I can tell, it never has had that aspiration.

I think the best metaphor for HN is that Paul Graham has invited all of us to his house for drinks and discussion. There are not a lot of limits on that discussion, but sure, if you are boisterous enough, someone will ask you to leave. There isn't due process and you don't have any rights, because we're just guests at a party. The rules are not applied by the admins as a judge might interpret statutes. Rather, they are there as helpful guidelines for the socially clueless as to how guests should behave.

I feel approaching HN in this way makes it very enjoyable. Personally, I have found the discussion at this gathering to be top notch.

Of course, it's not for everyone. If you would prefer discussion board as mini-nation state (another excellent model, in my opinion), I think reddit does a good job with that.
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What happens if I have 2FA enables?
While I am not a defender of insane cheetoh, the article itself says the Obama administration (but more importantly, the officials that work for the admin in every agency) crafted these initial ideas around social media affecting immigration

Regardless of party, I would invite you to google the following governmental overreaches and then see which parties were in office:

The Pirate Bay raid, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, NSA surveillance revelations, Superpredators, War on Drugs, War on Crime...
The NSA and mass data collection and the overall technology was massively developed by the previous administration. Both sides do it, its the same evil done in different ways.
It seems difficult to argue with the idea that the reason housing in SF is more expensive that that in Detroit is because there is more money chasing it.
Marketing 101: bullshit repeated consistently enough with a large reach wins a broadcast-modality "contest of wills" where consent/attitudes/preferences can be manufactured to accomplish almost any aim, from the sinister, public good or prank.
The advantage to embedding the initrd is usually that you don't have to worry about a separate initrd (for example, if you're reliant on some really basic bootloader). It's also more in-line with, say, OpenBSD (AFAICT) which doesn't use a separate initrd/initramfs (not sure if this is true of all BSDs).
You get to pay Caesar his due and leave.

If you're a non-resident US citizen in particular, you can really be screwed.
That's a fair point when dealing with such a large number of countries (and a widely varying stage of development between them). But the passport would have to be designed to adhere to ICAO standards in any case. That would make countries legally obliged to accept it as a valid travel document.
But that, in addition to all the other factors mentioned in the article, requires a lot of formalisation or written AU mandate - none of which has happened.
> Why is it so hard to admit when they or someone they support makes a mistake?

One of the critical aspects is social pressure. If they ever made fun of the thing they are supposed to be convinced of, convinced others (publicly especially) against it, they will throw every cognitive, emotional, and other tricks against every believing that.

That is why public ministering and proselytization as a necessary step in participating in many religions -- it is not just to simply bring others into the faith, but it is to inoculate those who do it against every disavowing it. I posit that social media and everyone messaging each other false-hoods is part of this public display of belief. Later on going against that is very hard, because there is solid evidence of them making fun of it just a week before. Nobody wants to be seen flip-flopping or being a hypocrite.

2) Simple lack of practice in critical thinking? They are acting in good faith but just not seeing the con.

Interestingly critical thinking of often orthogonal to other proxies for what society thinks "intelligence" is. Often it goes the opposite way -- the smarter the person thinks they are (maybe the more diplomas they have hung on their wall), the less likely they are to ever change their positions, because they will:

a) Have to confront the fact that they have chosen or supported an invalid one before. And with 3 diplomas on the wall, that is surely not something they would do

b) They have a greater capability at rationalization. When the CEO has a bad day because they had a fight at home and goes to work and shuts down a project or fires someone publicly, they will rationalize it to themselves in many other ways except "I really was upset for another reason, and made a stupid mistake, I just wasn't thinking straight". They'll use their intelligence to make something up that sounds reasonable.
This has been discussed several times in the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598505
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From your own link, this was the previous proposal:

> Visitors entering the country under the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens of some countries to visit up to 90 days without a visa, would not be required to list their social media accounts, and the forms would not ask for passwords.

> The department said that while it does not consistently examine social media accounts of applicants for visas or immigration, it has a list of nearly three dozen situations in which social media can be examined to screen applicants.

They say they didn't ask for passwords, which is the main objection, and also said it was optional (see also the same thing in this very article). How does it make sense to call it the same idea?
i'm not a boomer and that wouldn't be good for me. it wouldnt be a godsend to cities either, with plummeting revenues (schools would be especially hit hard). home prices fell not long ago, and that was bad for nearly everyone.

home prices and jobs kind of come together, not always but mostly. its sort of like wishing no one would eat at your favorite restaurant so you wouldn't have to wait in line, only to see it go out of business.

millennials will have to do better than wishing people ahead of them get dragged down so they can jump ahead.
Thank you for stating this. It is important to realize IMO that some very deeply moneyed interests in the US beleive in massive surveillance.

If they didn't, then it wouldn't be happening from both parties
The objection is that she was not "on the team". The ran the team and wrote the papers. It was her project, and she deserves credit for more than merely being present.
Very small fraction of FB engineers use Changeset Evolution.

We have new workflows based on some of the underpinnings of Evolution, but without the UI confusion.
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Wow, thank you very much for this info. How will your employer or foreign country of residence feel if you are not on a work visa?
Apparently many think it's because people in SF have forgotten how to build. They are constructing inefficiently using expensive materials.

Credit sets the price. Banks issue as much credit as they can, leaving workers with enough to eat / heat / clothe themselves and no more.

I cannot understand how anyone can think otherwise. This is how we create money.

Where is all the money going in SF with all the highly paid devs? A big wedge to the landlords. Because all productivity gains flow into land because that is what the banks use to create new debt.
The playbook remains the same, no matter how stale.
That wasn't the same idea; the bill in Congress, which also came from the time of the previous administration, was.
Another thread with a related subject (and more current projects):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8340283
No way. Oracle owns enterprise ERP.

Every public company needs to run Oracle/Peoplesoft or SAP.
One has to wonder about the logic of unemployed lute players (people like most armchair anchor "journalists" without a shred of topical understanding) given power to referee edits on highly-scientic topics or judging vital concepts/details "irrelevant" because they don't understand historical context or subject matter.
It's just as ridiculous as those forms you are asked to fill when entering the US as a foreigner.

For example:

> Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States?
The article specifically states this is a normal occurrence.

It happened 100 years ago, it happened one thousand years ago.

It ponders perhaps it's happening more often, but brings no evidence to the table on this possibility while reporting on this natural occurrence.

If you think this is science, to use examples that have always happened to convince people of change, your conception of what science is is very very flawed.

And my point is, climate deniers can see this. They see through this fake pulp for the masses (I mean seriously the article even admits it's a normal occurrence) and use this to reinforce their opposite cult views.
So the emphasis is specifically on the word time, rather than administration?
I don't understand this. Isn't sorting an in-place procedure that does not need to allocate on the heap?
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Hi, I'm a student that has been self-teaching coding for a while now. I'm trying to create a game just to challenge my capabilities.

If I were to develop a simple Android game, would Unity be a good choice?
> HTTPS Everywhere would be a win

IME, it breaks too many sites to give to all end-users; if the default configuration omitted sites listed as 'Partial'; maybe it would be passable. Maybe have a subcategory for intermediate users and put it there. Novice-level users (for lack of a better term) have no idea why the website is not working, and thus don't even know to consider disabling HTTPS Everywhere.

Also, it makes the user easier to identify.
wow, is emulation not an option at that stage?
It's not common to need them, perhaps, but it's still useful if you don't want to recompile your kernel just to add on-boot support for various devices. Slackware's 'mkinitrd' tool is one example of this sort of approach; you can add various modules (like for your root filesystem, keyboard, etc.) by adding to the $MODULE_LIST variable defined in '/etc/mkinitrd.conf' or by running 'mkinitrd -k $MODULES'.

You can of course accomplish similar things by just recompiling the kernel (which Slackware makes very easy to do), but if you still need to use 'mkinitrd' anyway (perhaps because you're using LVM or softraid or LUKS), it's often more convenient to just throw in the modules you need while you're at it.
They both offer pretty much the same features for managing notifications.
I wouldn't be against Google showing the articles clearly marked as non-free. I would however be disappointed if I clicked through a regular link and hit a paywall.
Twice! ;)
Israel is occupying Palestine. When Palestinians fight back, Israelis can't claim to have been provoked, when their occupation is the original provocation.

It's like claiming Hitler just justified in killing 6 million jews because after he killed 1 million, a few jews tried to fight back, and he had to kill another 5 million because he was provoked.
How adorable. Any thoughts on events that have occurred in the last 1500 years or so or is that your deal, you just wander in, drop an obtuse one-liner, and then wander off again?
You managed to name a bunch of typefaces which are even less suitable for tasks where someone might use Computer Modern (Times is comparable). I’m not sure what that proves....

Instead of Calibri, the Microsoft-provided typeface to use for mathematics is Cambria, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_(typeface)#Cambria_Mat...

Personally I like Minion, http://www.typoma.com/en/fonts.html

Or combining some kind of Renaissance-style typeface with AMS Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler

Or Lucida Math, https://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype.html

If you prefer Times, try MathTime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathTime TM Math http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/tmmath/tmmain.htm or STIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project
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I believe that it's subsidized by the government. What we found was that getting there was cheap but being there was ridiculously expensive.
I have not been to Tokyo, but I still don't see how you make a plot of land as small as SF support 4-5 million people without still creating serious compromises to quality of life for the lower end of the price range.

You still need to displace people for new development. Renters, just like owners do not want to move to make room for "new comers". Even if the move is close in proximity.

EDIT:
Another example - Santa Monica, CA. Renters hold the legislative power (64.1% renter population), but the opposite of what you describe happens - the renter-elected city council members oppose growth and renter-led coalitions block development of great projects.

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California
http://la.curbed.com/2015/8/21/9928090/pretty-expoadjacent-o...
Related is the story of Soviet maps. The Soviets had engaged in a monumental effort to map the world and then during the collapse in one of the republics the classified stack of maps got in the hands of Westerners:

https://www.sovietmaps.com/

Here is a longer article about it:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

And also the map of San Francisco from the 80s:

http://i.imgur.com/SdmmFUd.jpg
The solution is the have a GNU phone, with open source software and firmware all the way down the stack. There it is, it's not a popular opnion around here, or especially within the government ("mah backdoors!"), but the fact of the matter is there is no reason I shouldn't be able to have full granular access control over any program on my phone or computer, down to root.

I am increasingly convinced that RMS was/is a man so far ahead of his time that he was bound to be misunderstood, misconstrued, and lambasted for it, but in the end I think he is right.

Either the user controls the program or the program controls the user. The problem here is not the app, but the platform the app is on. Android isn't much better. Google had a good chance to put linux on phones for everyone, but had to go and proprietarize and BSDize the fuck out of it until it became almost impossible to have root on some phones. I'm sure In-Q-Tel and the after-sex smoking level of coziness google has with the gov doesn't factor into that though /s.

When the totalitarian dystopia hits, people who have learned how to deal with the imperfections and quirks of FOSS ecosystems will be the new freedom fighters, ahead of the game.
I know the policy; I've seen it ignored many times. Also, that applies only to articles about living people.
First, you and your devices will be held for hours while they go through your accounts and devices. Then they'll require you to disable 2FA.
You're moving the goalposts. You said homeless. If you're now shifting your claim to merely "chronic" homeless that's a different conversation all together. Furthermore do you have source material that calls the numbers used in the article into question or were you planning on solely relying on ad hominem to win the day?
Quaternions didn't change much.
Seems to just be a rehash of the original Wired article with the same title (which they cite). The original was extensively discussed here a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13604551
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All I can say is: if you've not read this yet do so. It's a quick read, and it's completely worth the time. Best thing I've read on the Internet today, honestly.
Sure, you can provide a fake profile. And then they'll find out your real one (Facebook will certainly be compelled to help out) and you're now guilty of lying to the border officials, and probably banned for a long time, if not for life.
Kim Justice has another series of videos on Youtube about Commodore, Atari, and Amiga. She did a lot of research on them.

Commodore did not market the Amiga in the USA, and the PC Clones caught up in 1987 with VGA and Sound Cards. When Windows was preloaded with a mouse on PC Clones nobody needed the Amiga. The Amiga was cheaper than the Macintosh, but PC clones were cheaper than the Amiga.

Amiga had mostly video games, and Commodore could not get business apps written for it to compete with PC Clones nor get many computer dealers to carry them as Jack Tramel burned computer dealers by putting the Vic-20 and C64 in toy stores and discount stores.
Rent in Tokyo is comparable to NYC
On both, actually - to show that it isn't an idea emanating for the aforementioned insane cheetoh.
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That argument suggests there can be no judgment about anyone, and everyone is helpless to judge good from bad. I'm not willing to abandon the idea of good and I hold people responsible, including myself, for their judgment.

Yes, we need to have some mercy too; I certainly make mistakes, but then I am responsible for them.

Calhoun's peers fought a war to end slavery; it wasn't as if he had to imagine quantum physics in the 19th century to figure it out.
you can have local temp tables, global temp tables as well as indexed views. always depends on what you want to accomplish.