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DVDs in Europe nearly always use Dolby Digital / AC3. PAL players have to support MP2 (not AAC) as well as AC3 and uncompressed PCM that all players worldwide have to support, but very few discs actually use it.
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I'd pay a monthly payment for having a washer that I can always expect to work and get serviced if it doesn't, along with regular service.

I know I can lease washers, but the price makes is such that I might as well buy and replace every so often. 2 years amount to buying the machine, and most machines last longer than that. But pay to lease a commercial grade washer would be great.
He also wrote the excellent Game Programming Patterns, which you can read here:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Salt is generally only an issue if you already have, or are via family link likely to have heart issues... Of course, the anti-saturated fat and dietary cholesterol claims were also unbalanced and not well supported. However, most people have far more salt in their diet than they need anyway...

What gets me more is the amount of "natural" flavors added to food... when you have a hypersensitive sense of smell and taste man some of that stuff is nasty, and 19 of 20 can't even smell/taste it. It may be natural and some people will respond positively to additives, but it's really harsh to some of us.
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Anecdotal:

Growing up, our parents never added salt to our food, avoided as much as possible any processed foods and made everything from fresh ingredients.

After moving out and living with various people, shifting my diet multiple times, I generally feel worse now than I did before. When I fast and shift myself to healthier eating I feel better. What interests me is why most people don't feel "bad" when they're eating the food that I would feel sluggish from the next day. My pet theories are their body is accustomed to it/or they simply don't know what it feels like to not feel that way- if you know what I mean.

I thought it was self evident that anything that weakens you is likely to be bad for you.

Glad that these findings are going more mainstream.
Another possibility is to just run an automatic speech recognition system (e.g. Sphinx or PocketSphinx can read from the mic input), and align its output with the ground truth text.

You need to deal with imperfect matching because the ASR might produce a text slightly different from the ground truth, but if you want to chunk e.g. at sentence granularity (and then move on to the next sentence), you should be able to do it in real time.
There are two issues here, I suspect.

1) Will people be able to meaningfully "produce"? So far our ability to learn has not outstripped the ability of the universe to provide interesting insights.

2) Will we share the fruits of that production in a way that helps new children? This, I'm not so sure about. I'm expecting a child soon and this worries me.
This idea is already part of how inflation is measured. It's called Hedonic Quality Adjustment: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpihqaqanda.htm

But I also think that this is difficult to get right.
This.

In Norway (heck, in Scandinavia, and, is my impression, in most of North/Central Europe, too), there's strong focus on rehabilitation.

Inmates are encouraged to pursue education while incarcerated. If you want to enter a trade, there are workshops &c in the prisons where you can do your apprenticeship.

Also, in all but the (rare) cases where you are deemed to be a lasting danger to society, you are automatically eligible for parole after serving 2/3 of the sentence. This, combined with a maximum sentence of 21 years imprisonment, means that most offenders are released back into society after a maximum of 14 years behind bars.

During the latter part of your sentencing, you are progressively granted more and more freedom - for instance, halfway houses where you can go to work in the daytime but need to observe a curfew in evenings/nights. The idea, of course, being to prepare you for civilian life again.

Result? The recidivism rate is among the lowest in the world, at approx. 20% overall. (I didn't know that until I googled it while writing this comment.)

That being said, liberal me still feel somewhat less lenient towards paedophiles; I guess any parent does.

However, I don't think the solution is locking them up and throwing away the key; much better to provide counseling and treatment to bring their recidivism rate down as well. It is my firm conviction no society can imprison anyone for life just in case they should reoffend and still consider themselves civilized. Obviously, your mileage may vary.
Proportion foreign born isn't a good proxy for "cultural diversity" anyway. If I a city's foreign-born population can be attributed largely to immigration from 1 or 2 countries that is hardly diverse...
So you're not responding to the parent comment at all? The comment:

> I think it should be that way with cars. Just include a screen and some buttons, then let people connect their smart phones.

Your situation as described:

A built-in navigation system which is quite a bit more than just a screen and some buttons. It just happens to use your phone for data connection.
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Sorry for the confusion, everything after the initial "Blockrandbebauung" was about the opposite, for contrast. "Mietskaserne" is really just a derogatory nickname and could be applied to any form of high density, low quality rental apartment building.
The difference between diet and related (fat, diabetic, metabolic syndrome, mixed allergies) issues with things like tobacco and other drugs is you literally can't just stop eating.

I agree there's been far too much effective lobbying (and spending on junk research) in and outside the government that separating agenda and getting any change to the status quo will be hard.
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Branding is the real enemy of quality, as it makes consumers lazy.

Consumers might say they care about quality, but ask them to define it beyond "it lasts" and they will likely say brand.

For example, take searching the web, what's the best search engine and how often do you think people compare the options they have and the quality of the search results?
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Fortunately, at a macro level.. something like 70-80% of what we take in are purely caloric needs... I mean, under 100g of sugars a day, and over 80-120g of protein.. but otherwise, for the most part calories are calories. We do need to reduce the amount of refined sugars, starches and fats in our diets, and increase the amount of raw vegetables and fruit... I'm not talking a veggie/vegan diet.. but having some mix, and keeping some things in that above/below block.

Adjusting for special dietary needs (diabetes, allergies, pku etc).
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Yeah, but then again Angular2 is also super-opinionated.
Here in Japan, the domestic brands (even ones that are struggling like Sharp) still make household appliances for the domestic market that feel a lot better built than the stuff I remember from Sweden. They also advertise higher-end models as "Made in Japan".
> It could take 5 years at university to get it working at all, 5 years as a startup to get the first product to market, 5 years to scale up the marked from zero. Then you only have 5 years left where you actually have a chance to make money.

In practice the first 15 years would (and commonly are) simply stretched with continuation patents...
What doesn't smell right? If you know how an algorithm works you can find some input data that will lead to a desired output data.
> I think it was Bezos who said that in this age, attention is the scarcest commodity. He's right.

Of course he's right. How else could the ad industry have turned into such a disaster?
The question is whether market capital wants to see those who behave poorly get what they deserve for that behavior (and its idea of 'deserve' may be somewhat counterintuitive).

Evil is more profitable than good, because of externalities. The question is, how MUCH more profitable, and for how long? There are also patterns to consider which have to do with over-reaching, hubris and inability to work within any external context.

Uber is the kind of evil that doesn't play nicely with other evil. It's an extraordinary profit opportunity and treated as such, right up to the point where it explodes. The whole thing is based on conflict and dominating everything it touches, but it escalates where it doesn't have to: it can only continue to grow when it's not meaningfully opposed.

As such, Uber doing evil actions isn't meaningful, but Uber running afoul of Google in legal conflict is meaningful. Government and law aren't rich enough to oppose Uber, but Google is, and if Uber prevails against Google that drastically weakens Google.

I think it'll go the other way. Google is like a considerably more restrained Uber. They're in a position to do what governments and laws cannot.
The one game that Lee managed to defeat AlphaGo was probably the last time any human player was able to beat the strongest Go program at the time. That said, there are a few interesting ideas to try, and I (being a reasonably strong amateur go enthusiast myself) would love to see Google try out:

1. how many handicaps can AlphaGo give to human players, while still come out winning? the idea of handicap is basically the stronger player lets the weaker player a few "freebie moves" before the game proper starts. For reference, a typical professional player can give 2 to 3 handicaps to the strongest amateurs.

2. Can AlphaGo defeat a group of professional who are also given unlimited time to think and discuss?
Not just salt, but refined sugar, starches and fats/oils... fats are good, those requiring multi-step refinement, centrifuge processing, perfuming and dying to be palatable, not so much.
When did I contest this? What I asked is: if they could afford a 50-year-good fridge in the 70s, why wouldn't they be able to afford a 50-year-good fridge today?
I know that thesis. But i find that the middle class usually has a propensity to buying the more expensive items (even if it ends up being only marginally better than crap) because of a different dynamic. and it always puzzled me, i see it as an uninformed, irrationally positive, outlook generated by the mean fact of paying more for a "brand", because "surely it is better".
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We have created a bot in house without using any platforms like wit.ai or api.ai. We treat is as a text classification problem. We are using word2vec to vectorize the input documents and a linear svc to classify it into one of our pre defined classes.

Also we have a feedback dashboard where the admin can tag and validate incoming user queries with correct class names (similar to what existing platforms provide). This is fine until a certain level but becomes impossible later.

So now we have a few (5k) tagged queries and a lot (350k) untagged user queries. Is there any way we can use these to enhance our system ?
It was; the astronaut corps, leery of being engineered out of their profession, lobbied hard for it. If I recall correctly, there's a brief discussion of the subject in The Space Shuttle Decision [1], which I can recommend most enthusiastically to anyone interested in how this unique and remarkable spacecraft, and how the difference came to be so broad between what it was and what it was meant to be.

[1] https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm
All kinds of things will grow on the water pipes, drains and containers. That's normal. I can take all of them out super easy on our old siemens washing machine, we're talking less then 15 minutes. Rinse, put them in a dishwasher, put back in 15. that smell is gone for a couple of years. Good luck doing this on a more recent washing machine. I wouldn't recommend leaving the door open. Some rubber parts don't like it if they are dry for too long.
In Europe you will find nowhere toploader. We know they are poor engineering: Bad water and electricity efficiency combined with more stress and wear out for the fabrics during washing. Only plus side I can see is that it is faster... but wasting so much resources does not justifies it IMHO.
So if the premise is that ideas are not patentable and inventions are, then what makes an audio codec constitute an 'invention'?
The historic data for extended periods of super low interest rate is "sparse" to put it mildly. Pretty much never happened before, so the "consensus view" by economists is not that much of a "consensus" after all.

Also, historically a leader of the various Feds does not necessarily have to be an economist - similar how supreme court judges don't necessarily have to have a legal/judge background. Given there is a whole committee of opinions, having some "fresh" outsider views may actually help the discussion. (Though I am not saying that having a former Goverment Sachs fellow necessarily is a poster child of fresh ideas here :)
I wonder how much more expensive an appliance would have to be if it were made to last as long as possible (within reason).

I think there's a market for a "heirloom" edition that costs 40% more and has a 20 year warranty.
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(You must mean premiums collected divided by payouts and claim expenses. Otherwise, if the inverse ratio were 1.20, that would imply that insurance companies were losing money.)
Or the Tesla's 17" screen... http://www.hashslush.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tesla_1....
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Concerning Braintree, the fact that they do not provide REST like API and only SDK is a no go.
From everything I've ever read, there is no concept of rehabilitation in the USA. If you have ever been convicted, or even accused, of a felony or sexual crime in the USA then life as you knew it was over.

The concept of being able to pay a debt to society and for that to settle the books, and to then allow those people to return to society and contribute value again... is alien to America.

The problem starts with the lack of rehabilitation and not with the original incident. If a person is deprived of the hope of ever living a meaningful life again, then what incentive exists against their prior behaviour? There is no disincentive that works when a life has already been destroyed.

Regardless of what it was, drugs, sex, violence, theft, or simply going to a demonstration and being arrested when someone else kicks off and you are convicted by proximity... once you deprive people of a future, of hope, then you really start bringing out the worst in them when you could have brought out the best in them.
> What interests me is why most people don't feel "bad" when they're eating the food that I would feel sluggish from the next day.

Eating processed foods for years causes huge changes in the gut microbiome. Presence of different microorganisms means you'll process various foods differently from others.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/1...
If corporations were so confident of their ability to keep research private, they wouldn't apply for patents. However, I suspect most inventions are either of little practical interest, or would soon be rediscovered by somebody else. How long would it have taken before somebody else thought of 1-click buying, for example?
That is why we have version numbers.

Usually languages are extended. C++11 and C++14 are different languages, although the first is a subset of the second. That does not always hold. For example, Python2 and Python3 are different languages.

In line with the article: If you only provide a subset, give it a different name. Prepend a "mini" or "micro" or whatever. For example, "MiniPython" would be expected to provide a subset of Python.
The "TLDR" summary of the article:

> Cardiovascular disease claims 610,000 lives in the United States each year. It is the leading cause of mortality nationwide, accounting for one in every four deaths.

> A new analysis, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows that a substantial portion of these deaths could be prevented by healthier eating.

Nothing new; has been shown numerous times. Article does not state how this analysis is different.

> In 2015, more than 400,000 [2/3rds] deaths from cardiovascular causes were linked to unhealthy diets, according to the research

According to the article, for a healthy diet we need to eat more:

* whole plant-based foods (nuts, seeds, vegetables, whole grains and fruits), and omega-3 fatty acids

...and we need to eat less:

* salt (sodium), trans-fat, saturated fat, processed meat, sugar

> Ashkan Afshin, co-author of the study, said: “some of the leading risk factors are not high intake of unhealthy foods, but low intake of healthy foods.”

> Over all, the results of the study were consistent with global patterns.

-----

Now my observation. When they talk about what we should eat more of, the instruction is clear (only omega3s are cryptic). But when stating what we should eat less of most of it is cryptic.

Well let me decrypt it for you... reduce or stop eating:

* meat/dairy/eggs (bad fats, bad protein, toxin build-up)

* processed foods, like oils & sugar (they have been separated from their original form thus lacking fibers and nutrients)

* non foods, like chemicals (sugar replacements, preservatives, colorants, etc.)
I'd consider $60 bucks to pick up deep learning skills an "insignificant cost".
True, what made me write it was a YouTube channel I came across, they don't accept donations or show ads on their channel and they have crazy views, they say that we don't want to earn money on this, granted that they give it away for free, but it isn't "evil" to get some money out of it, I am not saying rip off students by charging 10000$ per session, but providing something like a PDF version of the online guide for a small amount say $5 would, in the long term, give you some return.

That's passive income which you don't have to bother about, like you'd have to bother about ad deployment. We as an industry are funny, we expect everything to be free of cost _and_ the author should not monetize it in any way possible, it isn't evil to monetize that's what I am saying.
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You're getting some really angry and personal responses in this thread telling you to suck it up and clean up the code yourself as if thats the path all programmers have to take. Thats not true at all, many companies provide good opportunities for employees to grow within their role in a more positive manner. Cleaning up the codebase would make you a sucker. They lied to you and as you describe it continuing to work there sounds like career suicide. Don't do them a favor by putting in the extra hours and effort into cleaning up their mess (its not YOUR mess). Your time is valuable! By lying to you they are literally wasting your LIFE. Think about it that way and any guilt/obligations you have towards management goes away.

You make a mistake by taking the job but what is done is done. Now you know what questions to ask in interviews to make sure this never happens again. So, if you are unhappy put in the hours you are paid for and start looking. Thats the only way to get another job and change your situation. When you find an offer you like put in your notice and say thank you for the opportunity and keep it professional. Don't tell your boss that you're going to quit ahead of time, thats a great way to get fired because they wont want to train you anymore.
A friend of mine did his training at Miele and spent some time in their QA. He was very impressed with their thoroughness. ;-)

My dishwasher is a Miele, too. I have owned it for ... 13 years now, and I got if pre-owned, so I guess it is at least 20 years old. Has not given me any trouble, yet.

(My washing machine is some no-name brand, though, and it has worked well for 11-12 years now, so sometimes one can get lucky.)
I remember when I disassembled a VCR I was suprised to find a lead weight in it.
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I couldn't have said it better.
Even appliances from the same factory going to different countries are vastly different in quality. Pretty much the same model too. There is a huge washing machine assembly operation inmy town, my friends work there, they warn anyone that would listen.
A high-level intuitive, if simplistic answer, would be that you want to do batching based on type, and a monolithic scene graph does not arrange things by type; nor is it in general a valuable abstraction for rendering graphics, which are ultimately highly non-hierarchical and undermined by the constant need for sophisticated traversal logic.
Making a group of professionals with unlimited time to arrive to a common conclusion may be a harder challenge than AI. I would love to follow those discussions, but I am not sure they would ever end.
>Under deflation, there is decreasing motivation to work or produce

Is that only a bad thing? If we have overcapacities and therefore prices fall then producing less would be the rational thing to do. I do understand that this has negative consequences as well though.
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Not the grandparent, and slightly offtopic, but I think it is inhumane to raise children with problems that would affect their quality of life. Preferably this should be detected before birth, but if it's not possible but becomes obvious just after birth I would prefer to euthanise my baby than a life in pain.
I do think we need to distinguish between kinds of insurance.

Cheap insurance for rare catastrophic loss of high-value capital assets (ie shipping, buildings and contents): fine. The oldest form of insurance (Lloyds).

Expensive small-value insurance (phones, PPI): probably a bad deal for the consumer.

Mandates to insure other people (motor vehicle, public liability, etc): here the cost of the premiums are a useful incentive to avoid inflicting unnecessary risk on bystanders. Although that can make it prohibitively expensive for young people to drive.

Disguised forms of saving (life insurance): it's complicated. Also a surprisingly old product. Maybe best handled by mutual societies rather than for-profit businesses, although the actuarial considerations of estimating death are the same.

Insurance-flavoured things that push the risk outward (credit default swaps): sophisticated investors only, and even then someone's getting taken for a ride. Some cities lost a lot of money by investing in these.

Health: should be dealt with at national level, not the private sector. Nobody should be refused coverage and people should not be financially ruined by medical conditions. I'm quite happy with the NHS system in which private "topup" insurance is permitted but uncommon.
You could also try the shuttle in FlightGear (a free software flight simulator), it's quite impressive, you can fly it with NASA's manual.
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