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I often hear the claim that NFL just implies that different algorithms and learning strategies will succeed for different tasks. And that NFL has no practical consequences apart from that.

Is there a resource I can refer to, that is clear and explicit about the reasoning?
Good reason to wait for the next chip cycle. AMD will have smoothed out any rough edges and Intel will show us what they've really got.
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I agree but the issue becomes any sweeping legislation or tax increase to fund such a program will negatively many millions of people without any benefit to them. These people are marginalized already and can't take a hit like that so their more wealthy counterparts in the cities can have a higher standard of living. It can only really be implemented at the city level in a fair manner, thus it isn't really a national solution.
"buy on rumours, sell on news".
main thread has to go somewhere. :\

Maybe knowing consumers will probably have more than 2 cores will make games optimise better for parellelism, it's not like the engine programmers _cant_ do it, they do it all the time with GPUs.
Yes, and I found it strange that the article's statement could be interpreted as implying that it was new for Zelda games, as opposed to a departure from most mainstream RPGs.
Give compilers some time and the optimizations will be "free" to developers.

Besides, if your application is one where performance is a serious issue, then you are going to spend some time optimizing rather than adding features. For some applications, performance is a feature.
It's really sad.

So many cool things have been build with Ruby, JavaScript, PHP and Python...

At university my OOP professor was all about how these languages aren't "real" programming languages, like Java or C#. And when I meet people working at older IT shops, that do Qt or Java, they all feel superior.

This chauvinism is a real danger to the industry.
i have also thought about that, but i think they are perfectly valid parts of the system.

For example thanks to vaccines etc. we accelerated immunity drastically. Diseases also spread faster, but until now have been winning quite easily.

And we haven't really started to directly improve ourselves. If you look at this from the perspective of evolution (where 1000 years are not a lot) it seems we are very, very close to achieving this. I would guess this will accelerate Adaptation by some magnitudes.
> but doesn't do enough to differentiate itself from Java 8

Short of implicits and higher kinded types what has Kotlin not yet copied from Scala? FP in the pure sense is still very much niche, nobody cares about Scalaz and Cats in Java land.

Providing a less powerful Scala as an alternative to Java might very well prove to be a great strategic move. Scala's certainly not going mainstream anytime soon, probably in part due to its being too powerful.

Going on 6 years in Scala, staying put for now, but will jump ship if/when something better comes along (for me Kotlin is not it).
That does feel a lot clearer

I guess my main thing is I don't know if I should trust my understanding of the tree display or not

Perhaps, as a sort-of training assistant, have the resulting "code" optionally appear beside the editor?

e.g. https://i.imgur.com/92stVmi.png

(I also noticed that you are looking for TCO for python, In some cases Coconut can do TCO, and can compile to python, but its somewhat of an unweildly tool to use

http://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/v1.2.2/DOCS.html#function-d...
)
I'd also be interested in a remote job like this but I'm based in Canada.
It is for compiler authors, or libc etc. There's very little most application authors would need to do.
Was the two bit politically correct occidental supposed to be me? Not sure I've ever had the pleasure of being called that before.

Regardless, dead has a specific meaning for languages and if people speak it(especially hundreds of millions of people) then it is not dead
It's real (though flawed) logic that's been used repeatedly to stop the expansion of public transport from inner cities into more wealthy suburbs. For a long time in the USA, the prevailing wisdom was that only poor people and criminals ride the bus/subway. That's changing now that more and more people, young and old, are gravitating to car-free city life.
Frame of reference fallacy going on here. One could just as easily say the Intel is 30% faster or slower.
All but one set (for the active tab) of which are probably idle or effectively so most of the time.
That is assuming snapchat is a media company. It's much as a media company as Facebook and Google are.

If they can increase their IPO value with ad sales, they'll be doing so. 40% market penetration for youngsters is solid.
On the one hand, I feel positive about UBI. On the other hand I doubt if it would have worked for me: I have been building my 'smallest hardware startup in NL' over the last 3+ years.

There were two summers which were really bad: some days it was unclear where the next hot meal would come from.

I wonder if I had pulled through if there would have been UBI.
> the interesting bit is that half of floats are in the interval [-1, 1]

This is not so surprising once you realize that this just means you have the same precision for 1/x as for x, which makes a lot of sense for scientific calculations.
IMO that's still bad design on the end user of the ORM library. There's a time and place to use tools like Hibernate, but it became fashionable so it's used all over the place where it doesn't fit and has created huge messes.

There's a really bad trend in the industry of choosing libraries or tools based on trying to improve your resume, rather than trying to find the best solution to a problem.
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I'm hoping things get more interesting when the Ryzen Mobile chips come out later in the year.
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I've move from a company where I had to be there 9-5:30+ to a company with flex hours. Earlier in the week I leave around 3-4 somewhat regularly because on other days I have to be at work until 8:30+.

Even with a couple extra hours at home a week it's hard to find exactly what I should be doing. I tried to put together a schedule of taking some online classes I've watched to for a while, writing, spending 30-1 hour playing games I've been meaning to play, and generally calling / talking to friends and family more. However I still find myself in a loop of checking reddit, youtube, facebook, and hackernews over and over around 7PM.

I understand its a problem born from extreme privilege but if the future is filled with more free time it's a problem that many will run into.
Facebook, of and by itself, wouldn't.

But it would campaign for such services and capabilities within existing (or new) social institutions.

Universal single-payer healthcare, as a right, would be a tremendous step in that direction. And Facebook's capacity to sway political events is proven. Put that to good use.

Generally promoting the concepts of social responsibility, the common weal, full and fair corporate taxation, equality of opportunity, and more, are additional components.
My worst fears confirmed. Docker finally realized they couldn't get a piece of the orchestration pie and are resorting to making Docker a freemium product. Very sad. Wished they had gone so many different directions than this. Knew things were going to get bad then they pushed out their terrible new versioning scheme that every developer had a negative reaction to on the PR. Docker was great, but now I'm really wishing their was a fork or alternative with feature parity.
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One can hope that in the long run we'll see more things with a SPRI-V back end and more libraries in that space to put AMD and NVidia GPUs on more equal footing.
How do you motivate a conscript?

When I was in the British Army, which is volunteer only, commanding a basic training troop if someone was wanted to give up we could say to them 'if this isn't for you then you can go home' (of course we did coach and mentor people to help them, I mean in cases where people just give up and stop soldiering when an exercise gets tough). They usually worked extremely hard to get into the Army in the first place because it's competitive so we know they're motivated.

What do you do with a conscript who never wanted to be there and possibly fundamentally isn't suited to military life anyway gives up? Threaten them with legal action?

What do you do if they sort of do what they're told, but not really putting any effort into it?

Conscription seems counter-productive to me. If you can't attract enough motivated and talented people to join your military then maybe your military is not representative of your society anymore and you should fix that.
Not actually necessary. You can buy one now and just install the new software next year.
This is why you should always have backups.

I'm astonished that this post doesn't have any discussion on the security implications: they say that the database was not copied, but I'd still be nervous about this--presumably it contained access tokens to Dropbox as well as email addresses. If it didn't I'd still want to hear verification of that.

Their homepage claims "Secure" as one of their four main features, which is rather belied by the presence of a default administrative user on their database server--not to mention that the database itself seems to have been publicly accessible from the larger internet. This seems like it would have been prevented by simply putting a firewall on the server and not opening unnecessary ports.
>Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania still cannot enter US territory without a visa, while US citizens can travel to all EU countries visa-free.

The submitted article is more like a newswire bulletin rather than an explanatory story. Therefore, many readers (especially those in USA) will not have the background on why those particular countries don't have visa exemptions. One link I found has a little more info. E.g. USA wants more data exchange (ostensibly to screen terrorists) and those countries haven't complied.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/e...
For these applications, any modern desktop CPU is enough, and enough is all you need for them. People browse the web and do office tasks just fine on tiny 10W "Ultrabook" CPUs.
Whilst Kubernetes is really cool and has a lot of nice features I think, at the moment, it's lacking in some areas that are likely to be important for Enterprise customers who are likely to be interested in this Docker EE setup.

Specifically things like best practice guides for securing Kubernetes are currently thin on the ground compared to Docker which has a fair amount of information covering that sort of thing.

Also the Kubernetes security model is still being developed with things like locking down the kubelet API still to come in 1.6. Whilst that's less likely to be important for some companies, enterprises tend towards solutions with that sort of thing sorted out.
If you link deeper to the offerings for specific providers you get a bit more clarity. For example, Docker EE for AWS is $0.119 per node hour, or roughly $80/month per node.

https://store.docker.com/editions/enterprise/docker-ee-aws?t...
The northeast is a beer mecca. You have great beer on the west coast but there is beer just as good if not better here. A lot of hop farms are in Pennsylvania and the New England states now.
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From everything I've seen, the Ryzen's main appeal is bang for the buck.

If you're after pure performance, then you simply go with the best for your use case, whether it is Ryzen or not.

If you're on a tight budget, however, things get interesting.
This is devastating, at least for me , I learned so much from their channel. Do you think starting a petition would work ? Can we start petition ?
Couldn't agree more. The cloud just makes it clear where you didn't architect for resiliency properly, in your own DC you work around this by doing things that you can't do in the cloud.

But the biggest difference is automation. Because in the cloud you have a full suite of APIs, you can literally automate ever piece of your infrastructure. In your own DC you have to design this stuff to be automated from the ground up, which just making a poor layer2 choice can make that task astronomically more difficult.
I think vspecnur was talking about "Last Night in Sweden" (which sounds like a softcore porn movie but is a different kind of fantasy).
How do develop in SpaceVim?
If only it was available for more platforms. #want
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Go is as old now as Java was when Spring and Hibernate started to appear on the scene. If it time leads to this kind of pattern, why was Java 'over the hill' by this age, yet Go is still considered young?
There is a theoretically optimal machine learning algorithm called Solomonoff Induction. Solomonoff Induction assumes a prior over all possible computer programs that could have produced the data. And it assumes that shorter, simpler programs are more likely than longer, more complex ones. Under such a prior, the no free lunch theorem doesn't apply.

NFLT assumes that all machine learning problems have infinite information. Infinite Kolmogorov complexity. That all positive and negative examples are labelled completely randomly without any underlying pattern or reason. Which is obviously untrue.
There were rumors of slightly better single threaded performance. Stock movements are always relative to expectations, investors knew roughly what was coming but not the exact details.
Are you familiar with Conversational Banking term?
The kinds of interventions I'm looking for would be deep and social (see my other reply in this thread). The thing about healthcare, physical or mental, is that early and sustained efforts pay of vastly more greatly than heroic acute efforts.

I'm increasingly convinced that the traditional Chinese concept of paying the doctor when you are well is an approach well worth considering, and possibly adopting.

It's also quite helpful to realise that not all ills can be healed. Almost all can be made far more tolerable, though, at the very least.
All joking aside, it will be interesting to see if refugees will tolerate conscription. One quarter of the population (and a significantly higher percentage of the younger fighting age male population) is either foreign born or the child of someone foreign born.

Conscription is always controversial and the questions of national identity that have in the past provided a social framework for supporting it are much fuzzier now. The question of "What is a Swede" would no longer be a theoretical one. On the other hand, almost all extant nationalities were hammered out on an anvil of blood soaked fields...
I just accidentily submitted this because I was looking for the discussion.

Interesting discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13766933

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767373

They include feedback from lawyers.
They officially changed tipping policy as a result of a contractor/employee lawsuit. Drivers are now allowed to ask for tips, have tip "jars", etc.
The article says, "The aim is to encourage them to become military professionals or to join the reserves." I'm not quite sure if that's reasonable, but it's a bit different from just forcing people to fight.
Keith smoked. Smoking increases your risk of heart attack or myocardial infarction, amongst others. There's been a lot of public awareness campaigns on the dangers of smoking and in 2017, I can't believe he wasn't aware of them. Continuing smoking was a conscious decision.
SOAP is worse than CORBA in roughly the same way dying by falling from the Empire State building is worse than dying by being run over by a bus.
I've tried a Heddy Topper (it was offered to me in a restaurant in Burlington), I live near Goose Island, and I've consumed New Glarus in Wisconsin.

To me it's all about the scarcity. People waiting overnight for limited-edition brews, crossing state lines to buy exclusive brands...it adds this psychological value to the beer.

When you strip that away you're left with another 100+ IBU beer that my palate eventually can't take anymore.
The mass consumer want cheap price like always. For specific rich and conscientious consumer it will also be respect and good treatment of drivers and thinking about these issues.

I also believe this type of consumers may be less inclined to think about decisions, they themselves or companies they work for, have made to pay that rather handsome salaries.
A normal affect of stock price during a major announcement.

It even has a name '"buy the rumor, sell the news"

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/news-trader.asp

The idea behind this, simply put, is that if you are in a trade for whatever reason with a stock that has a major announcement coming; you are pretty much at the potential peak at announcement time so it is a good time to get out.
For $850/m you could buy a really nice electric bike and motorcycle with a lot of money left over. Why do you take Uber and Lyft?
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> In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent manifesto, he wrote about how Facebook is in a unique position to help prevent people from doing harm to themselves.

This makes you wonder how often it happens that a post on facebook (say, school kids bullying a class mate) is the final straw for someone who is already mentally suffering.

In other words, FB is probably quite responsible for many suicide attempts by people who are at risk to committing suicide.
Sam Adams is not a craft brewery. I understand that term is subjective, but really truly not in this case. I wouldn't say Dogfish Head is either anymore.
Think Pliny the Younger, but earlier in the hype cycle.
It's specifically illegal to obstruct the work of customs officers, and it's what they were charging someone with who refused to give up his phone password. That guy ended up pleading out the day before his trial.
It's also 0.1fps faster than the 6950X in the Civ VI AI test. And the 6950X is literally fucking $1700, that's over THREE TIMES more expensive than the top Ryzen.
Universities and government institutions that haven't spent all of their funding by year-end, for one.
I didn't down vote, but your comment was banal and didn't add anything to the discussion. HN aspires to a higher level of discourse, as you probably know. Just glanced at your profile, you probably have a lot of insight that everyone would find interesting!
I believe OP was referring to the refugee crisis we've had in Sweden lately. It's put a huge strain on the country, and our prisons often have better amenities than refugee camps which is a recipe for disaster.
Unless you smoke, heart attack or MI is highly unlikely before 40. I would review lifestyle choices though and make sure to have a complete medical checkup before 40
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I tried it but i'm confused what i have to do in the game?
I'm confused. It sounds like you're saying the "really bad" part was not knowing where your food was coming from. But UBI would make that a non-issue, so how would that have made setting up the startup harder?
Depends on technical definition. Bill Gates, Carmack and Dr. Su seem to have the chops. On the other hand you have the Jobs and Zuckebergs - that could not engineer their way out of medium depth hole.
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I don't think one game is enough to save the Switch, but maybe this will get enough systems out there to get the ball rolling. I'm sure some people will pick up the Wii U version if they already have one, but I can't imagine buying a console that has been basically declared dead for one game now.

EDIT: I'm saying the Wii U is dead, not the switch. IIRC production has stopped, and there are few games still coming to it.

EDIT: I should be more clear. "Save the switch" isn't the right way to say it since, as other are pointing at, it hasn't launched yet. It's difficult to make a successful console, it's sort of a chicken and egg problem, you need to have successful games to attract more successful games. The Wii U had some hits, but they were too few and too late. Coming out of the gate with this is great for Nintendo.
As other commenter said, none of the cheap GPUs come with DisplayPort I need to drive my current 34" UWD display or future 4K displays :/
Looking at most benchmarks hyperthreading model is equal or better on Ryzen.
Ryzen 1800x and 6900k have almost the exact single threaded score on Cinebench. But 1800x beats 6900k on Cinebench and Handbrake
They send payment via USPS: "The check is in the mail."

Hey, hey! Why the downvote? I thought it was funny: your mailbox underwater, you swimming out to get the check....

[sigh]Oh, well, no fun here...
It's not really my definition of Europe - that is why I was careful to say the continent of Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
This is not server. The actual server Zen, codename Naples, is coming later.
Low-end GPUs are a very poor value proposition. For $89 you could have an RX 460 with nearly 3x the performance of the R7 250 plus HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4.
It's mostly also a packaging issue - I don't need 3D capabilities, so a basic 4K supporting Intel GPU works well and doesn't require me to add a GPU to a chasis (which can then be mini-ITX).

Hence my question about having GPU integrated to the motherboard like older boards had it.
You don't have to tip, it's just an option to do it in-app.

"pay the drivers a fair wage up front" => If Lyft charged more they'd have fewer customers. Uber didn't even bother with tips and takes a higher cut, so drivers make less on Uber already, I don't see what's wrong with optional tipping.
Jeez, dark times.
Please give better examples:

> Anyway, after trying to configure stuff like Kafka, Zookeeper and Maven and setting up a SOAP API, I saw that the problem with Java isn't the language

* Kafka: is written in Scala. It doesn't use XML.

* Zookeeper: it was the first of its kind. It doesn't use XML.

* Maven: same complexity as SBT, Gradle, etc... but it is declarative and again pretty much first of its kind (dependency management + build).

* SOAP: this is not Java's fault (if anything Microsoft was the big pusher)

* XML: jesus will people stop the XML is complex and hard thing. YAML is so much more complicated and harder to parse. I know it is easy to read on the eyes but its harder to parse and has more edge cases. XML is still one of the few languages you can parse and manipulate and preserve comments and whitespace.

The XML thing is the dumbest thing. Developers write hundreds of lines of XML all the time... its called HTML (pedantically HTML5 is even more complicated since it allows SGML and XML style). But for some reason when people have to write a build or config file that they are rarely going to have to edit their fingers, eyes, and brains revolt at the complexity.

Scala also has some massively complicated libraries like Akka.
Ruby has Rails. When languages/libraries get mature they get complicated and the languages warts show more and more.

I expect we will see the same thing even with modern languages like Go and Rust.