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We've had an Apple TV for about a year, and in a post-cable world, it's a perfect device.

We don't have cable. My wife is much more picky about technology than I am and also watches way more TV than I do. She loves the thing. The apps have all of the shows that she used to watch when we did, and things like Siri make it easy to pull up whatever you want without having to dig through apps to find it.

The bigger issue is this: a couple can watch TV in the middle of Oregon at decent quality without having fast Internet. You need fast Internet for the Apple TV to function. Much of America doesn't have access to this.
As long as that global community is all in Facebook.
big fan of your work! Thank you
I stand with Yann Lecun's criticism on the article:

https://m.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143

> [the truenorth team had] to shoehorn a convnet on a chip that really wasn't designed for it. I mean, if the goal was to run a convnet at low power, they should have built a chip for that. The performance (and the accuracy) would be a lot better than this.

They used their 'neuromorphic' chip in an explicitly non-neuromorphic way, basically approximately mapping deep learning processes to their chip. There is very little neuromorphicity (brain-likeness) about it (plasticity rules out of their ass, for starters). And they still get less than state-of-the art performance in most tasks!

I expect 'neuromorphic' to be used when sound neuroscience is used in large scale implementations that allow us to actually simulate parts of the brain. Anything else, we call it what it is, ANNs.
Oh I report bugs all the time. For open source projects. When I pay hundreds of euros for a product I expect it to work. Strangely it something we don't expect for anything related to computing.

We have such double standard.

If you buy a washing machine and it doesn't work, the brand sucks.

If you buy a graphic card that makes you OS crash, it's just nvidia needs a little help. Replace nvidia with any gadget or software.

Windows uses to crash all the time, and people found that normal. The same problem with a microwave would have issued a massive recall but microsoft got away with it.

Well, no sorry. You just sold me a non working product, wasting my money, my time, and preventing me from doing the task I was going to do with my computer.

I'm a dev, I understand perfectly WHY it happens. Complexity VS expectations VS cost. I get it. But the consumer is cheated here.
Why is this about left or right or the hypocrisy of anyone?

NAFTA was widely criticised by some Mexican leftists (might still be, haven't been following as closely) because it was viewed as being hugely beneficial to foreign interests and to wealthy elites, not to common Mexicans. The same people in favour of women's rights and equality were critical of globalisation.

If this is about US politics, I find it so weird how each issue is exactly left or right and if you know someone's opinion about one issue you must immediately know their opinion about every other issue. How did that country become so polarised?
> Has the pace of sweeping changes to the language slowed down in the past year?

Up until Rust 1.0 in the spring of 2015, my Rust code broke once or twice a week. Since then, I've had zero breakage.
Yeah, but these can definitely be used as complementary sources - with proper integration, they'd match almost always, but all mismatches seem like you should assume that the sign is there; e.g. if a sign is in map but not in DB, then it's likely the sign is obscured by something but still should be followed; and if there is a sign in vision but not in DB, then it's likely to be part of some temporary road works. The scenarios where the sign truly "isn't" there are possible, but comparably much more rare.
> Everything is an object and has a class, and classes can be tampered with in arbitrary ways, precisely using the MOP.

CLOS provides specific and well-designed mechanisms to extend the language via the MOP providing protocols for:

* metaobject initialization
* class finalization
* instance structure
* funcallable instances
* generic function invocation
* dependent maintenance

> The essence of abstraction is to ignore implementation details, and concentrate on, well, abstract properties.

That's why CLOS has meta-classes, meta-objects and generic functions. They provide the facilities for abstraction.
The advantage to having a carrier without the support ships is if the security situation seems to be getting dicey you can build out the rest of the fleet a whole lot more quickly than you can build a carrier. It will have taken China a good three decades to field an operational modern carrier with trained crew and air wing, so that's not a capability the UK should give up lightly.

Yeah, the lack of CATOBAR is less than ideal, but you do what you can with the money you have.
So, there's this weird effect where basically every major company has a gigantic fundamental hypocrisy in their mission statement:

Google's is "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and yet - if you leak anything about them as an employee, you are insta-fired. If you try to figure out any sense of organization about their product portfolio, good luck. If you try to scrape any of their results or content, you will be banned quite quickly.

Facebook's is "make the world a more open & transparent place", and yet they have done more than any company since AOL to turn the web into a series of walled gardens. Plus Mark Zuckerburg bought the 4 houses adjacent to his so that neighbors couldn't look onto his property, and walks around with a 24/7 security team.

Uber's is "make transportation as reliable as running water", but their goal is for people to give up their own cars - which they can use any time, any where, for zero marginal cost - to be at the mercy of Uber's service.

Palantir's is "Palantir Technologies is a mission-driven company, and a core component of that mission is protecting our fundamental rights to privacy and civil liberties", and they sell to the CIA so they can spy on you.

At the same time, these companies also do many things that actually are in accord with their mission statements.

I think that you can reconcile this by realizing that the fundamental imperative for every company is continued existence. Those who fail at this are replaced by those who succeed. The mission statement is a tool to ensure continued existence, because it serves to align & recruit employees with similar values, without which there would be no organization. But when there are other imperatives that are necessary for the company's continued existence, even when they contradict the mission statement, the company's existence takes priority. Hence Google is very strict about their proprietary information, even though their mission is to make all information universally accessible; Facebook wants all content on Facebook, even though they claim to be about making everything open & transparent; Uber wants to make transportation reliable & easy, as long as it's on Uber; and Palantir wants to protect civil liberties only so long as it involves buying Palantir software.
My biggest takeaway from this is - people skilled in industrial processes aren't already in very high positions in Airports!?
I can't see that image without thinking of Snow Crash. This is almost literally Snow Crash for neural nets.
That is just your opinion and echo chamber. I give a lot of respect for them for not doing so.

Of course, it's because of money, since Thiel is powerful -- any other guy would have kicked out immediately, but nevertheless considering SV is a liberal echo chamber I give them some respect.

Now only if they has protested against Obama wiretapping the whole world as well...
I know it is not currently impossible, but I don't trust that the current "policy" will continue.

Personally, not talking about virtual GPUs. (I mean, that's cool stuff, but that's not my use case.) I'm glad you found the driver engineers to be solid. I doubt, however, the engineers are driving the decisions on what passthrough functionality Nvidia feels like allowing consumers to have this week.

Or driving decisions like this: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/579449/linux/basemo...

I personally consider removing functionality after I purchase something to be a form of fraud. And Nvidia doesn't seem very shy about doing it. Thus, I don't trust them, and don't do business with untrustworthy vendors.
In case you missed it (since there are a lot of quotes being thrown around in the article...), the new standard will be either:

"Use By: (date)", or "Best if Used By: (date)"

However, the article still claims there are no guarantees of adoption.
Nice idea.

+ A small sphere drone with a dusting cloth around it to vacuum things.

+ Never charge a remote control anymore.

+ Knowing if someone is present by sensors in the floor, furniture, etc.

+ Automated valves on the heaters.

+ Charging locks (not requiring wires should be better w.r.t. security).

+ Easier light placements. They can be put in any cabinet (where it is normally dark, but you don't want to put wires).

+ Blinds, curtains control

+ Speakers integrated in couches / chairs. Perfectly located. Vibrations etc. is also cool as experience.

+ Clothing. So called smart "shoes", "belts", "umbrellas", etc. only hinges on wireless charging taking off.
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If you're going to make a statement like that, at least offer some proof.
Fair enough, we can disagree cordially on this one. I agree that it shouldn't matter but we disagree that it does.

The other names you mentioned have a more silly connotation then bad or gross but I understand your point.

I will still serve as an example of somebody that will avoid cockroach db due to name alone so there's at least one of us out there
I can't believe this is a published article. 3/4 of the paper is essentially crackpottery (e.g. Proposition 5 proves that the composition of surjective maps is surjective), while the final 1/4 is a "proof by picture" (see Figure 6) that you'd see from a mediocre undergraduate pset.
While you specialize in presumptuous ad hominem attacks against strangers on the internet. I like my vice better.
The founders of Cockroach Labs are also the creators of GIMP.
For the sequential case:

P(2 boys | >= 1 boy) = P(>=1 boy | 2 boys) * P(2 boys) / P(>= 1 boy)

where P(>= 1 boy of all 2 kids): 1 gg + 1 bg + 1 gb + 1 bb: = 3/4

P(2 boys): 1 gg + 1 bg + 1 gb + 1 bb: = 1/4

and trivially P(>= 1 boy | 2 boys) = 1

So P(2 boys | >=1 boy0 = 1 * (1/4) / (3/4) = 1/3
If you add exceptions, you trade noise for action-at-a-distance. From my experience, I prefer a little noise over action-at-a-distance.
oops, thanks for pointing that out.
How you state the problem has a lot to do with the resulting probabilities. Many times the answer is ambiguous until you definitively identify the space of states that a state can be drawn from.

Bertrand's paradox is an example of this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
To be fair, for traffic, it's not necessarily the number of cars that's increasing. If everyone doubles the number of miles they drive, that will have a roughly equivalent effect. Car-miles is really the metric to watch here.
Yes, this exact scenario occurs quite frequently on this Netflix show. It's almost invariably a 20-something working as a server at a restaurant.
Here is Peter Thiel talking about Globalization. I have not watch the entire video, but I've seen it mentioned for good points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3r49XXRw4
The privacy you're divulging is far more than your own:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/vv0bq6oia_06z_yjnmjwzw
That fails if you do a first-order implementation because you have no way of knowing whether the person voting/sharing had already read the article, but not necessarily shared it at the time of reading. As a simple example, I subscribe to The Economist and prefer reading the paper version. If I see a story from there cited by someone else, I don't need to read it again to recommend it.

Also, depending on the content and source it may be possible to infer the value or significance of something from the headline alone, eg when one has specialist domain knowledge and sees a headline one knows to be an accurate summary of recent developments in that field.
Are you located in North America? I really doubt Facebook would've rolled out any Super Bowl-specific features to Europe/Asia/Africa/South America.
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While I agree VR isn't the be all end all for cinema, I kind of hope you are down playing the medium of VR film. Being present in a scene rather than being forced a perspective has some very cool possibilities.

It may turn out to be a novelty, but it may be an important one.

I do agree that AR is a huge gimmick that probably won't be solved until VR is firmly established
Thanks! I left out a few words - I specifically was thinking about what Disney Imagineers might use this for at a Disney park. Are they developing some new tech for use in a new land, perhaps? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Land
>We've brought 3 billion people out of poverty in the last 30 years and haven't had a major-power war since WWII when we set up all these globalist institutitions.

What about the other 3 billion people left behind in poverty? That's more than what the total global population was when these "globalist institutions" were set up.
Ask HN: How to get your hardware idea to market quickly?
Say I have an idea for a hardware. So far here are my steps but I'm missing the part where you get your stuff made in China.

1. Create diagrams.

2. File provisional patent

3. Get domain and website setup with Stripe.

4. Incorporate & Create Kickstarter Campaign

5. Find manufacturer in China

6. Get stuff made? How? Where? When? Who? How much?

So far it looks like I'm going the Kickstarter route but want to make sure I'm covering all the necessary items.

The biggest mystery is the cost and margins of getting somebody in China to manufacture it.

tl;dr; How do you actualize your hardware idea using outsourced manufacturing?
Thanks. The inspiration was jonesforth.

I have no plans to extend it.

A similar project I've considered: write an Algol compiler in assembly. Algol is another elegant, influential language originally implemented in assembly.
Only it doesn't. The examples given _compile_ to SQL. So you're not comparing LINQ with SQL but LINQ-to-SQL (or the entity stuff) with SqlCommand.

SQL's a pretty grim language, but it's the only language the database understands as a first-class citizen. Until someone designs a new foundation (like WebASM is doing), the rest is just syntactic sugar.
With phones without sealed batteries, the IMEI(s) are usually printed on a sticker in the battery compartment. Samsung and Apple engrave the IMEI on the outer casing of sealed devices.

Always know where the manufacturer printed the IMEI, so you don't have to unlock the phone in front of police.
But whether it's legal or not, a traveler has no power over a border agent. By the time you've gotten any help, whatever your itinerary was is already wrecked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone is a good place to start.

The basic finding of the studies detailed in that book are that globalization, and particularly multiculturalism within communities have very negative effects on the happiness and community participation of those involved. Diversity and multiculturalism are generally considered axiomatically good by the left and these studies were done by leftist to prove that value. They found exactly the opposite, and they've been replicated many times, again by leftists, hoping to find a different result but to no avail.
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There is no state file and it is a more "AWS first" way to do queries and one off tasks. Especially for destroying old stuff, there is a value in a non-idempotent approach.
There's one BIG problem with LINQ. I'll agree that the syntax is marvelous, a game changer. The problem is performance.

It's gotten slightly better over the years but compared to an ORM with less abstraction like Hibernate it's still dog slow. Every MS project I've worked on was mostly LINQ...then a folder called "dirty SQL" for the heavy stuff.

I'm not sure if it's due to the highly abstracted nature or just not making performance a priority but in my experience sane Hibernate queries are about 1/2 the speed of native SQL and LINQ is closer to 1/50.

I hope and pray they can make the performance at least within an order of magnitude of raw SQL or even Hibernate so I can say goodbye to SQL forever.
>It's not 'as if'

Actually it is just like that. What part did you find unlike that? The "sovereignty"? Mexico, which I used as my example, is also sovereign. And the rest of the things are all true: Ukraine is directly in Russia's borders, it has areas with large ethnic Russian population, and it's legitimate government was toppled. Even the part about bona fide neo-nazis being part of the power coalition is true.

>and you're regurgitating Russian propaganda

No, I'm rather not force-fed with BS west propaganda for the events. (And I'm not Russian either, so it's not like I have a horse in the race. I just can't stand hypocrisy).

Russia is a 1000 pound bear, mostly minding its own business and border interests, and is blamed by a 10,000 pound King Kong who rampages all over the globe.

(USSR yes, it did pull the same kind of shit all around the globe too. But not today's minor player Russia).

>and shallow whataboutism.

Those that bring on "whataboutism" are the ones that are OK with one side doing all kinds of crap (even 10.000 miles away from it's borders, where it has no business to be, and with thousands of dead and total mayhem caused by its actions) but only criticize the other side for doing 1/100 as much -- and are quick to shout against whataboutism when that is pointed out to them.

It's like a murderer calling out a guy that merely slapped an annoying person -- and when called on it, he complains about "whataboutitsm".
No, that's still raising the question of whether or not propaganda is bad. Though that's a fair question.

I'll disagree with your assertions and premises, though detailing why is going to take more time and space than I can devote here. I've been researching the question heavily for the past few months and should, the gods willing, be posting something to https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius ... eventually.
I believe I caveated the term enough by putting "10x" in quotes. I don't strictly believe in it either. This guy was great at organizing a team and a full-stack project back when distributed apps on a pure OSS stack was still a bit of an accomplishment.
While I love those kind of games, there is always a serious limitations in it : a real human system has a pyramid of humans in charge. They are all able to make independent decisions on a local level, or sometime step in to an upper or lower level, avoiding failures cascade on a daily basis.

An omnipotent system manager cannot exist on complex systems, that's why we delegate.
At the start of 2016 there was some consensus that things were cooling off. Markets were down, there were fewer seed stage investments and an all but dead tech IPO market for the first half of the year. Investors started to advise companies to lower their burn rates [https://bothsidesofthetable.com/so-what-is-the-right-level-o...]. Arguably the market conditions were driven by the 2015 - 2016 Chinese market turbulence [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Chinese_stock_...], but who really knows. Growth has picked back up this year and I’d expect job growth to bounce back.
This is not "R for spreadsheet users", it's "why bother learning R in the first place". Was hoping for the former.
Follow up on my usage on Linq ( fyi)

Now i design most of my pages through 1 service/method with a lot of if's and else and re-use that method all the time

For example, a ecommerce-site i made has one function for querying the products, paging, searching, sorting by X, ...). Although, it get's rather complex lately, i wouldn't have it any other way. ( with complex, i mean i now also grouping them by category and category code, a category order number, a product order number, by product title ( varying by the current language), ...

And yes, it' seperated in my service layer ;) and no, i won't change it because this is the fastest way untill now.

Alternatively, you could use Extensions on IQueryable and IOrderedQueryable. Then you do something like db.Products.FilterBySearchTerm(searchTerm).OrderAllBy(sortPropertyName);

But i like ProductHelper.GetProducts(filterWithSettings,SortOnSettings,GroupBySettings); more, mostly because it's easier when i need to customize all the methods because of some "sudden" Change Request that changes all the internal workings :(

Also, if you are new to Linq To Sql. Don't forget DbFunctions / SqlFunctions for built-in SQL Functionality ( depending the EF version you are using). Eg. The LIKE operator has been added in the new EF.

Also, you can always using DataContext.Database.Sql() for using standard SQL.

=====

Pro Tip: DbContext is already a Repository Pattern if you are using DDD !

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PS. If you don't know LINQ. It generates a long SQL query and it's a bit slow, BUT it's very productive in development
. Here's an example with both Generated SQL (commented between /* */ ) and Linq in one of my subbmitted issues on EF : https://github.com/NicoJuicy/EF-ContainsAndStartsWith/blob/m...

I like LINQ: Develop fast and improve when something executes slow :)
More comments are at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13663737
> it's impossible to tell at a glance how the function is actually working. You have to parse out 90% garbage just to get to the details of what's really happening.

After a while, you just learn to ignore the `if err != nil` and get on with your life. I mean, sure, it would still be nicer to have an abbreviation, but it's not like Go code is 90% `if err != nil` (as critics always try to frame), and when I read Go code, I'm most definitely not spending most (or any) of my time stumbling over them.
"Zuckerberg relies on a team of at least 12 people to delete harassing comments and spam from his page while an additional team manages his communications and writes his posts and speeches, Bloomberg reports."

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/18/14314872/mark-zuckerberg-p...
Perhaps we can fork it, rename it and offer very expensive business class support so your VP can feel good about using "IronTardigradeDB" :)
And then time goes by some guy comes along rips out the LINQ and fixes all that so it's performant under load with hand crafted sql queries.
I'm in Brazil and i got that message.
Well, considering that time to get through security equates to a large number of commutes, and you haven't even gone anywhere yet...
Read the label on the package in the twitter link, it was shipped Deutsche Post (the German equivalent of USPS), not DHL. They use the DHL name sometimes for international packages (they are owned by the same group) but shipping Deutsche Post is decidedly not the same as shipping DHL.

As I mentioned in the last thread DHL definitely does not use USPS for delivery. I get packages every week via DHL and they are delivered in the yellow DHL vans, by DHL employees, 100% of the time. They may farm out last mile delivery to USPS for some rural or residential addresses though.

If someone in Germany can clarify this, I'd be interested.

edit: added picture https://i.imgur.com/0vDfxVN.png
They are nothing even remotely likely linq. Those functions return the resulting arrays. Linq expressions are not executed until enumerated.

This allows you to compose linq expressions without computing intermediate results.
Facebook could upend the world order if they built elections into their platform. I mean who 's gonna delegitimize a government elected online by massive audience? People would create new countries