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That was absolutely the case with Linux Command Line and it appears to be the case here as well. I say appears because I have yet to receive the product but the manufacturing looks exactly the same as the last counterfeit. The same traits.
Surprising, Andrew Ng leaves Baidu so fast.
Interesting choice of timeframe (2005-2014).

2005 marks the period where we had so much feed that we didn't know what to do with it all, leading to lots of cattle being raised and relatively cheap beef products produced as a result. Not knowing what to do with it all, by 2007 we implemented ethanol subsidies to try and use up some of the excesses. That helped spur on a huge commodities boom through 2008. Just as that was dying down, the US suffered a major drought, pushing feed availability and prices even higher. The result was that from ~2008-2013, especially towards the end, the number of cattle being raised diminished significantly and that sent the price of beef soaring to unprecedented levels by 2014.

It would be interesting to see if the trend actually continues through to the present, or if, now that beef stocks have started to recover, consumption will go up again.
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Sadly, the post has no meaningful information beyond that he's resigning.
I agree with you that some of the answers were surprisingly fine, but credit for that goes to the answerers. Trollish questions typically lead to useless spats.
Both would be great but there is only a limited amount of time in a day.

The fastest way to get into the industry is doing projects. However I would take the specific approach that some other member posted here. Find local companies near your area, research their product and build a programming project that is related to their business. Then email them directly to a few key players of the company to showcase what you did.

After you get the job, you can start focusing on CS theory. There are tons of materials online for CS theory such as Coursera, Udacity and edx.

Good luck!
Upcall is definitely not a spamming service (no robotcalls or autodialing service), but a human-powered platform supplementing SDR and CSR at companies looking to scale their outbound leads efforts and customer retention/engagement. Upcall is a SaaS/API which connects clients with work from home U.S. based callers, making calls within a specific context (qualify lead, welcome user on a platform, collect feedback, reactivate user, etc...).
It's not like he's dumping the methane in the environment though (e.g. dumping manure on a field): it's ultimately being run through a combustion engine.
Aha, I found what I first came to say in this thread, here is the memory "driver / middleware" origins: http://www.scalemp.com/media-hub-item/scalemp-software-defin...

But ComodoHacker's comment, made me think yet again, why was ACID compliance ever a issue?

I was reliving some nostalgia at the weekend, explaining to a friend how I got excited Microsoft Transaction Service came bundled with NT.

That was my "free" ACID transactions.

It as cross platform, then, too. (or at least multi arch, and advertised to play nice with things like IBM CICS, which may have been much of the point of the bundling, to win deals, even in check box tallies)

MTS is one of the few OS level dependencies SQLServer has. But i think the cross platform origin I recall, was born out when SQLServer/Linux appeared.

I have all this time been confused.

I get it, if you don't need ACID, and have other design reasons, go ahead.

But, well I just always saw it as a problem solved, or plug and play solvable, thanks to MTS. Getting a book on MTS is hat convinced me NT was serious and our business should take heed. If you're a small shop, have margins, can work with fat servers - or as we did, fundamentally scale through transaction routing in the first place - NT (plus the variations of services for Unix now for Linux) can be a happy place.

Incidentally, I believe the middleware - driver that Intel is shipping with Optane, is the work of ScameMP.

This is their Flash Expansion description: http://www.scalemp.com/products/flx/

we've used their product very happily - it may be a good fit especially if you are staging oversize db's you intend to shard, but need them up behind a connection while you test, which was our need.

N.B. Scale MP has a free tier which may also fit your needs.

Not meaning to shill, but I never know why I don't hear of them more, our experience was absolutely satisfying.

edit: typos; "free"/free
edit: removed "very" from "may be a very good fit" about ScaleMP - felt so for us, but can't say why anything that works to meet specific need is qualitatively better when doing the job is a binary y/n..

and to add, now if products like Optane eliminate the performance cost discarding ACID transaction compliance has been justified by, then will that not upset a few conceptual applecarts? I mean, I think some very loose and fast argument has been given, surrounding non ACID compliance and data and databases generally, over recent years, and certainly the performance cost trade off arguments has appeared to me to mask logic elsewhere that needs attention.
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Moderation is guesswork, but I doubt a legitimate question that "happens" to contain race would "happen" to take the form of the most common race-troll trope around. We've all heard these arguments a million times. A few people are obsessed with this stuff, the rest of us are bored past tears, and it's off topic for Hacker News.
Big blow for Baidu. Wonder if he'll join Google again. They are the foremost in AI.
Flying into Bijlmer is not a viable alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862
Another bozo breaking the law. When are you yuppies going to learn? Work hard and don't cheat.

>>> law us ambiguous.

translated to -
let me sell something shady, get rich and move into the bigger house and FUCK everyone else.

Nice try. Fuck off now.
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I'm really surprised, and disappointed, that Travis announced this publicly like this. From my understanding the Google team has a policy of giving people time to patch the bug before announcing it. I know that the technical details weren't released by by confirming there is a zero day exploit he's making it more likely to be discovered and exploited. The responsible thing would have been to notify the vendor and apply the standard policy they have in place for disclosure.
https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

From the details here it looks like Netflix was actually getting arm twisted by Comcast first and then other big last mile carriers. What this article says is still relevant ?
Seconding 1Password. It also works on Firefox and can be used from Mobile Safari and apps that implement support specifically for it, if you have an iPhone.
From that perspective, it does start to look dicey in terms of "offer a lengthy and full service warranty" + "allow the end user to make modifications", so I understand that perspective.

But I do think there's a lot of room for detecting what changes were made and honoring / invalidating the warranty depending on them. Rather than simply saying "something was changed, therefore we invalidate the whole warranty."
Is his Machine Learning course still relatively up to date? I was considering devoting some time to it, or a course like it soon.
I didn't know he was a founder of Coursera. I thought he mentioned Coursera because of the MOOC <facepalm>
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So... considerably after Pythagoras died? Roughly in an era where there was considerable trade between the European Mediterranean and India and beyond - to the extent that Pliny, presaging similar arguments about the India and China trade a millennia and a half later, claimed that Rome was beggaring itself importing foreign baubles.

Goods and ideas have always flowed back and forth across Eurasia.
For me this shows the difference between theoretical setting and what you would want to do in practice. I have been following 6.824 (where this is sourced from), to learn something about distributed systems programming and it was great fun to shed a lot of figurative sweat to convert those 26 (actually) lines into working "production" code. Hundreds lines of code, because in real-life we have packet loss, network partitions, etc. But the pseudo-code in the link itself is correct, however, it doesn't tell the whole story.

Now I am repeating that experience, as Akka project contributor ( http://akka.io/news/2017/03/17/akka-2.5.0-RC1-released.html ) on getting delta-CRDTs into Akka. And again - what was a few lines of pseudo-code in the original paper, or even tens of lines of real code but in some ideal setting ( https://github.com/CBaquero/delta-enabled-crdts ) is becoming literally thousands lines of "production grade" code.

Finally - I wholeheartedly recommend the 6.824 course to anyone interested in distributed systems. Even if you don't like strong consistency, you'll learn a lot about testing and debugging distributed systems, the knowledge you can re-use later in your career.
I haven't seen these counterfeits. I've only seen the photos. The first counterfeit looked like it was printed from our PDF but it's hard to tell. There's a bar code on the back but not the POD code you're referring to. But we know the first one was printed and sold by them. About 1200 copies.
I don't eat beef as casually any more. It's expensive and often bad.

I do enjoy it at a nice restaurant though. And I don't really avoid it, but I don't seek it out either.

What makes beef good? How do I find it?
I was in Japan on vacation and we ran into three americans.
All of them were fat and still having cheese/burgers/french fries.

One drunk man was passing by and he called large american man - "DOUBLE BUDDHA"

hahahahhahahahahhaha. I could not stop laughing for 3 days.
Peer5 - This is malware on your browser, and they are abusing the webrtc protocol for their business usecase.

Until they provide a clear opt-in usage behavior, this opinion will not change. Clearly if their proposition is about better streaming service/quality, this is trivially testable by how many users opt-in to their network when viewing videos.

Their endpoints should be added to easylist. This is very big concern for metered users, who'll see their usage spike. Is there a list of peer5 endpoints?
What's the price difference between industrial beef and the beef from your friend's farm?
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>it is good to see that alliances like OpenAI are forming to democratize the knowledge...

Very true! I hope he joins OpenAI and helps achieve their mission [1]. It would be a huge boost to their efforts.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
Which is undoubtedly going to be much better with an official Autofill API.
Baidu is now one of the few companies with world-class expertise
in every major AI area: speech, NLP, computer vision, machine learning,
knowledge graph.

Just idly, I find it interesting that practical applications of this technology seem to often funnel down to just this subset.

There's a lot of room to apply machine learning to solve actual problems that many people have, but often its unclear that doing so would end up with results that are significantly better than traditional approaches; or how to achieve those results, tangibly.

I'm sure we haven't heard the last of Andrew Ng; there are a lot of people who want those sorts of skills.
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I spent part of my youth working with special needs kids.

Everyone is different, and you never know what is going to work.

First lets talk about what is truly positive in what your doing, you have a goal: "lessen the load for my mother".

The reality is that your mom isn't going to be there forever, and giving your brother a life that is his own matters.

That opens up my next questions:

Do the things your proposing solve the underlying issues or do they simply shift the burden? Do you want to have to maintain these API's forever? What happens if amazon stops offering alexa? What happens if your brother transitions into an environment where he can not take advantage of the technologies your building? What happens if the power goes out for a few days (it can happen)?

I would suggest that you spend your efforts finding a good occupational therapist first. I suspect that this is going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack and in the short term would make a lot of other solutions seem more practical. Your looking for a person who is good at what they do and gets along with your brother, depending on where you live this could be HARD.

It might take a long time to get your brother to the next level when it comes to his functioning. It might cost you quite a bit out of pocket in the (relative) near term. However if your brother lives to be 50 or older these costs will turn out to be rather small in the long run. Your freeing your mother, and eventually yourself, from burdens (I don't mean that in a callous way but a loving one) and giving your brother more independence and flexibility.

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With all of that out there, I don't want to dissuade you from building any of the things you suggest. People with special needs need every advantage they can get, hell some of the things your suggesting would be of benefit to regular folks as well. A "Weight sensor API for bed" not only helps your brother but every parent with a lazy teenager!

Realize that there are probably others who want, need or are willing to support you in building these these tools for people with special needs and/or disabilities. If your going to be open (source not minded) then you might be surprised at how much support you get. Prosthetics 3d printing is probably the most prominent and impactful example I can think of that uses this model, and there is plenty of room and support for others.

As a final bit of encouragement, you need to go dig in at hackaday.com one of their 2017 prizes is for assistive technology!

https://hackaday.io/prize/details
8 minutes to process a single image. But excellent results, so good for offline optimizations.
Boy oh boy.
I see. Always poignant to hear these kinds of stories.

I'm curious as to whether interrupt handling was done underneath the multiprocessing layer or whether interrupts were just hammering the pipeline design. (I assume by "an interrupt" you're referring to slowdown within the fraction of a second after a given interrupt occurred, within the context of floods of interrupts interspersed between instructions?)

Very cool to hear that Intel snapped up what you eventually managed to ship, FWIW - and that you were able to pivot in the way you did. Also interesting to hear about Opteron use in the field, my experience is only with tracking the consumer sector.

Also, the "GPLed SGI compiler" part you mentioned caught my eye and led me to the EKOpath compiler, and particularly its OSS release in 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110616135434/http://pathscale.c...

After some floating back and forth I found https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux... which a) mirrored my questioning exactly and b) contained a very nice and straightforward answer, so I guess that put closure on that. Really sad that it never really took off though; faster compilers (https://lwn.net/Articles/447541/ in/from https://lwn.net/Articles/447529/) are always something I'm looking for :)
You being puzzled confuses me, you might as well ask

... doing your taxes is as simple as filling out a form - why would you ever need an online system if I can just grab the form from the newsagent and fill it out? I've personally never had any problems

... we used to get just fine between locations using boats, why did anyone bother to invent planes? I personally have plenty of time to sit on a boat
Yes, thank you. Black hair, both men's and women's, is a full-on subculture that doesn't exist in caucasian circles. The role of the barber/salon in black culture cannot be overstated.

GP is simply ignorant.
We're having a problem with GitHub forks hosting a bunch of pirated copies of our books. GitHub wants us to point to them all -- but they're forks!
At Safeway, this is referred to as, "The Deli".
This actually seems to be an edge case that falls through the rules as written. You can't know that you're peddling counterfeit goods without violating the law, but you can negligently "whoops-didn't-mean-to" sell counterfeit goods. And as soon as you officially know, you put a hard halt to things there. So the manufacturer has to play whack-a-mole with the counterfeit suppliers to various points in the supply chain.
Which was a backward-compatible extension of a 48-bit address space system built out of 1970s chips: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/system38/IBM_Syst...
Just as electricity transformed many industries roughly 100 years ago, AI will also now change nearly every major industry

This is an underrated point, and something I don't think most people outside of the high level Machine Learning/AI world take seriously.

It's also one of the biggest challenges for the industry going forward because of natural monopolies. I say that because if AI is electricity then data is the coal/oil that drives it.

The big technology players have a massive advantage in their ability to build and deploy tools that collect the data, and then bring it back to be turned into "electricity." If we aren't careful they will be the only groups who can make progress and show actual real world ML driven capabilities - making the barriers to entry even higher.

If you just look at the computer vision space, to do really good Machine Vision you need a LOT of novel image data and the primary platforms creating image content are largely owned by the top 5 players in the form of collection (smartphones) and warehousing (cloud servers).

I'm not sure if there are solutions here that make it possible for a lot of companies to do really well - everyone will just be bought up or out competed by the bigs once the big ones notice a threat on the horizon.
While I still am a big fan of C++, I'd attest to the fact that is a worse language to teach beginners. Funnily enough, that's not so much because of the language, but because of its legacy.

I learned programming with Borland Turbo Pascal and later Delphi and have to admit I struggled with the OOP mindset at first. The according chapters of the book I used were filled with contrived examples that left me saying "I can also do this the old way!". Apart from this, I found the book to be very well written, though.

Then, I tried learning C++ (using a Book frome the same series) with Borland C++ Builder. Boy, was that a mistake. I didn't get around to understand why I had to keep using -> instead of . everywhere (before, I almost never used a pointer anywhere), the whole delete-dance was a nightmare and the Borland tooling was so filled with magical clicks that generated event handlers that I never understood how the whole thing really worked (you never got to see the whole code). Headers vs. .cpps was a similar disaster, and compiler errors could only be met with comparing your code with the example on a symbol by symbol basis[1].

So, while C++ is a nice language (far better than Java IMO), starting in it was a nightmare. The problem here is that you have to explain way too many concepts at the beginning (which still holds true even with C++17), and since APIs like the Borland GUI libraries or win32 are based on so much cruft and ages old crap, you'll never get to the point where a beginner can say "Look, I've drawn a circle!".

Honestly, if you ask me, programming courses should best just start with a modern version of Python. But even then you'll have trouble setting up on Windows and getting over the whole UI frameworks disaster.

[1]: This kills experimentation. That's the absolutely last thing you want to do if you're trying to teach a motivated kid how to program.

Edit:

Also note: Often, the mindset seems to be that "beginner" means someone at a university. In my opinion, that's a fallacy too. I started out when I was 11 - I'd never even had any decent english course in school back then. Think of that, and you'll start to see the flaws in starting out with some way too complicated concepts. We should get rid of the notion that a learner has to "push through" things (especially at the start!). It will be to the benefit of society.
It's complicated. Javascript is enabled, but NoScript is installed. But NoScript by default allows all "honest" scripts, although it does block some stuff. But that's in the default "low security" mode. The goal is having websites work, so users won't give up on Tor, while providing some security. Users can increase security, but there are only three options (low, medium and high). That's to keep user profiles in fewer bins. In the "high security" mode, all scripts are blocked.
Citation needed. For the US this number is less than 50,000, where are other 950,000 car deaths occurring?
It's a good foundations course. Read Ian Goodfellows Deep Learning book for a more modern and extensive treatment.
Yes. It may not cover some of the most recent advances (e.g. deep learning) but it lays the foundations required to understand them. Besides, it is really really accessible. And fun. I enjoyed taking the class.
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I've asked before, they said no.
I can't but only because I can't really smell much any more. Other than bourbon.
The other thing going on on Amazon is this "Send me an email to before buying" to rip you off.

These are easy automatically to detect from the listing text.

Amazon does nothing until you tell them.
The classic is Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Ingrid Daubechies. If anyone can recommend a more recent book, I'd be interested too.
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He has been a huge influence on me. We partially have a community AI org because his thoughts on democratizing AI.
Tesla does something very similar to this.
After making his first video course, he teamed up with Daphne Koller and made Coursera as a platform for courses.
Yes his course is good. Not sure if up to date. But worth doing. I am doing it now.
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So it's an iPhone... but red!

Totally going to post to HN when I change the colors on my site.
I take it that you read the article, because it had a graph showing US exports rising from nothing to a lot over 2016-2020?
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> AI is electricity then data is the coal/oil that drives it. The big technology players have a massive advantage in their ability to build and deploy tools that collect the data, and then bring it back to be turned into "electricity."

Data is important now, but when we have solved vision, speech, text and robotics to a decent degree, data won't matter as much. The great thing about AI is that we can cheaply copy already trained models or already labeled datasets. There aren't so many datasets needed to solve the most interesting and financially profitable few problems. Of course, there will always be fringe projects where more data is needed, but the main applications will be in the commons. You can copy an AI model if you can talk to it (use it to produce sample outputs). Any model could be copied in a dataset and transferred into another model. The great thing about machine learning is that it learns directly from data, so it's cheap to copy by tracing the inputs and outputs of other public AIs, just as current AIs are taught by tracing the inputs and outputs of people (supervision).
I love the fact that you gave it a shot. Most people don't get nearly that far. It's much better experience than most college classes.