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What matters is what the two sides accomplish, not what they say they're going to do. In the US, when the Republicans are in charge, Democrats hem and haw about how they need to do all this stuff differently from the Repubs, but when they're in charge, it doesn't happen. See Obama and friends in '08. Then with the presidential candidate, they chose the one with the $250,000 speaking fees at all the major banks instead of choosing the one who spoke of inequality in the country.
The important question is: Why are you writing the content? What is your goal?

If your goal is to be a writer, to publish content, then you might need to charge for the content. You could write a book and charge for purchasing it, you could write a blog with affiliate links, or you could signup for something like medium subscriptions.

If your goal is to drive customers to your business (which could be your book!), then of course you shouldn't charge for the content; you should spend your time optimizing what you write about and how you direct users to your business.

Content marketing is a very powerful inbound user funnel. But you can't just write a bunch of content and hope it converts into users. You need to be systematic it and realize that it is the widest part of your inbound user funnel. The goal should always be to "convert" the maximum percentage of readers by pushing them further into the funnel (e.g. by signing up for your newsletter). You need to identify the correct audience, write interesting content for that audience, and then carefully drive readers to engage with your content via some call-to-action that pushes them into the next part of your funnel.
Science communicators/journalists can turn "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or 'crying,' behavior forms." into "Scientists find that falling down makes babies cry" but they're less good at expressing concepts like "math equation forms the basis for all current modeling, papers A, B, and C each use a different special case of the equation to reach their conclusions."
Is not osx more of a next kernel with NIX(BSD) userland ?
> A group of researchers funded by a Japanese government program develops...

Sadly, a president believing global warming is a hoax means we Americans will keep reading about other countries passing us where we could lead. We private citizens will do our best, but we're swimming upstream.

I don't mean to politicize what sounds like a great advance. I just can't help lamenting how it reminds me of our withdrawal from responsibility.
> First, in capitalism, a work's remuneration is supposed to be related in a way to the perceived utility of that work for society in general.

This is a misconception, I think. A work's remuneration is related to the utility perceived by the person providing the remuneration. Society in general doesn't pay people. Specific people pay other people. Find something enough people want and give it to them. It's not any more complicated than that.
This is related to one of the least favoured policy changes Milton Friedman wanted to make: remove medical licenses.

There are plenty of tasks doctors are commanded with that do not require mastery level of expertise, and that enormously raises the cost of medicine. You dont need to study 10 years to read an EKG, someone could learn all the EKG patterns in a much shorter time.

A funny story about this in argentina: anesthesiologists earn more money than surgeons. Surgeons are not unionized, but anesthesiologists are.
> Far before some one is rich and poor, they are good and bad at playing the piano, writing a book, programming or anything for that matter. Wealth inequality comes far later.

If you are poor enough, chances are fairly good you will never get to touch a piano to even find out if you can be good or bad at it.

So no, it does not come far before someone is rich and poor. If you are poor, a whole lot of avenues close off to you early regardless of skill, and the odds of you remaining poor is overwhelmingly higher than that you will be able to overcome it, irrespective of how hard you work or how smart you are.
It's a pretty thin bow to draw, but could be - so could general increase in average population blood glucose as more of the population suffers from metabolic disorder/T2DM but again that's promoting tumour growth not necessarially causing cancer.. and there certainly isn't enough evidence to say that. Studies are continuing but again when early weak studies show a positive result, and later good studies show no result, the chance of drawing a positive p value become lower and lower
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It doesn't sound like even you believe they are both the same, certainly you've provided no evidence that is the case in your response.

You'd just prefer if the Democrats were even more towards your preference on fiscal matters. I can agree with that, whether it would fly with the American voters sufficiently to overcome the rural/republican tilt is another matter entirely.
just setup an autoresponder saying "click here to see my phone number" and have that link be an amazon affiliate link.
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Zooming out a little, is it not true to say that minor efficiency gains in collection are still dwarfed in comparison to storage and current conversion losses?
I feel bad for American parents, trying to drown out the stupidity and teach their kids that if we/they don't change society drastically, CC will snowball.
Yeah and multiple interpretations are true. Really cool
Yes, thanks. I only wanted to point out similarities to abstract classes, generic slow methods.
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You're nuts. First and business class comforts are about making the best of a bad situation. At equivalent seat prices, nearly everyone would pick the more than twice as fast option.

Boom's business model relies on this, obviously, but so do their passenger-seat-mile economics. Boom claims that the per seat fuel consumption (and ultimately the ticket prices) would be same as for business class seats currently. This is possible because making a currently-seven-hour flight in three hours enables them to replace a full flat bed with a recliner seat, saving 2/3 of the floor area per passenger.
Part 2 is here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/adventures-in-jit-compilat...
... Or just about anybody using social media
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I suspect the two party system is responsible there. Lots of political viewpoints are all lumbered into one party, meaning that people with fiscally liberal/conservative preferences are lumped in with those with socially liberal/conservative preferences even if they're not the same crowd.

People aren't voting 'against their own interests' in the sense that they're stupid. They're voting for their own interests in a party which also has interests they're against because it's the only practical option. For example, someone who wanted less immigration and pro globalism rules (aka US protectionism) but then also thought things like equal rights for trans people and gay marriage and allowing abortion were the right would be up a creek without a paddle. Either option (with a decent chance of getting elected) is against their interests in some way.
but we do quite well with parental leave don't we

Relative to the US, absolutely. Relative to Scandinavia, not really.
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I think it's amazing that adding some kind of valet system at the airport would speed up my travel more than this kind of marvel of engineering.
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btw: Sublime Text is written in C++, so the performance might be even better than Java.
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Glad to see this viewpoint.

I work in energy and the hivemind on HN on this topic is quite subject to these fallacies. ("Solar energy can't be profitable" and "thorium is the answer" spring to mind.)
Critique the quality of The Ringer compared to Grantland all you want. I'll agree with you. But The Ringer isn't content marketing.
> Not to mention that people criticizing work-life balance of engineers in the us havent visited google offices.

Office are part of work, not part of life
Going by first principles it doesn't seem like it should cost that much. Can't computers do a lot of design work and simulations?
I'm 100% sure it was not intentional!
The highest efficiency for solar cells is at 46% already (multi-junction, concentrating). So this is not record breaking per se but record breaking for this particular set-up.

Also: The best way to look at solar panel breakthroughs is to look at what actually makes it to market. If I had a dollar for every solar cell breakthrough that eventually did not make it to market I'd be fairly wealthy.
I also was under the impression that the BSD's had a strong focus on security, was I misunderstanding something?
Or, the code gets tail recursion optimized, turned into an iterative solution whilst the c code is recursive? If it was doing the same thing its unlikely to be faster.
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I agree thoroughly with your sentiment and am a strong believer in the welfare state as a way of addressing social imbalances. I also like the economics of the state providing better stability to those in the gig economy because, in theory, it will mean that they feel less pressure to work unhealthy hours (as in the article) and this, in turn, should increase the minimum amount they will work for. However, my objection to this as solution is the situation of non-domiciled, largely un-taxed multinationals not contributing fairly to the pot that keeps the welfare working. As far as I can see, that amounts to a wealth transfer from the state to the shareholders and high-level managers of these companies.

Of course the solution would be to tax these companies fairly (which at least in the UK, is slowly beginning to happen), but eventually when taxed fairly enough, doesn't the burden for the companies end up being the same? The only difference is that the state would be footing the bill for the admin overhead of supporting these workers.
Eh, maybe I don't see it. I mean, I use a lot of internet forums running scripts like XenForo and IPB, and those let you change your 'display name' whenever the hell you like. Yet I still recognise everyone perfectly fine. There are people on my forums that change their display name, avatar and signature on a weekly basis. I still recognise them just fine.

Same works on Discord too. There you can change your name whenever the hell you feel like it. Again, doesn't stop most people recognising you.
Because Sony, Nintendo, Apple or even IoT companies that make $9 connected switches do not want to deal with licensing, simple as that.
Because IoT companies that make $9 connected switches do not want to deal with licensing, simple as that.
gcc should just add a 'remove fibonnaci' optimisation pass, that just optimises this away entirely, and stop people using this benchmark.

This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of -- I'm going to be really mean now. They want me to use a compiler remotely, every time I want to recompile? So if their servers go down, or my internet connection goes down, I can't even run my compiler? And they have all the source code I've ever compiled?

And their evidence for their amazing super-awesome compiler is... optimising fibonnaci? Which their compiler (any compiler) could easily be detecting and special-casing? (I'm surprised more don't actually).
It sounds like you already know what you want: to start your own company. But you are scared. You don't want to take the risk of leaving your company ("leaving a black mark on your resume"). If you are really passionate about building a company, you shouldn't give a shit about what your resume looks like or what people will think if you only worked at your current job for six months. That is just not something entrepreneurs should worry about, because you should always be 100% confident in your success, not worrying about what you'll do if you fail!

Also, consider the fact that even if you work on this company for six months and then fail/quit, employers won't think "this guy only worked at AmaGooFaceSoft for 6 months." They will think "this guy took initiative and spent 6 months building a cool product." You will positively impact your resume by building the business more than you will negatively impact it by leaving your current job before 1 year.

My advice is to ask yourself why you are scared. That seems like a signal that you do not believe in your product. If you are not 100% confident you can succeed, you shouldn't even start. Perhaps you should spend the next 6 months at your job refining the product idea and building up a bank balance (salary + options once they vest) to give yourself a 6+ month runway once you quit.

Also, don't be afraid of raising investment to cover your living expenses and the opportunity cost of spending the next 6 months at your job. You don't need to start with a million dollar round. You can raise enough to cover your living expenses ($100-250k) from angels via convertible debt. You could do this quite easily given your AmaGooFaceSoft background. Angel investors don't care how long you worked there, but they see it as a positive signal that AmaGooFaceSoft hired you in the first place. On the flipside, they would not see it as a positive signal if you are not 100% confident in your product.

Feel free to email me. I hate large corporations and am always happy to convince people to leave them.
Yes and no. The macOS kernel is a hybrid kernel, containing three major subsystems:

* Core IPC is from Carnegie-Mellon's Mach microkernel.
* Interprocess communication and virtual file system APIs from BSD.
* A custom driver API written in C++ called IOKit.

However, the kernel is probably the least interesting part of your computer; what users consider the ‘operating system’ lies in the user land. As long as the kernel works and supports your hardware devices, you needn't care. As an example, both FreeBSD and Windows can pretend to be a Linux kernel and run a nearly complete GNU user land, and multiple quite different user lands exist on top of the Linux kernel, the most prominent being Android and the GNU tools.
We used to use svc for classification in the early days of chatbots, but switched to tensorflow

We are using a bidirectional lstm model for sequence classification.
"Wild overestimation of progress" has been part of the story for many technologies.

Minsky was very optimistic, and then he got burned by the AI winter, and became very pessimistic about AI.

There is quite a lot of very serious investment aimed at this type of 'real' AI now. For example Deep Mind, DARPA L2M, recent $100 billion Vision Fund that Softbank's founder said was intended to bring about the singularity.

I believe it because I can basically see how to handle most of the challenges using embodiment or virtual embodiment and interactive learning/L2M etc., by combining or taking inspiration from various techniques that have been published. Stuff like this:

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks (adding plasticity to NN models)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/03/13/1611835114.full

"Decoupled Neural Interfaces using Synthetic Gradients"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.05343.pdf, somewhat similar to autoencoder/decoder pair use in

"Feynman Machine: The Universal Dynamical Systems Computer" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03971.pdf

"Safe Baby AGI"
http://agi-conf.org/2015/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/agi15_bi...

(cognitive architecture)
"OpenPsi: Realizing D¨orner’s ”Psi” Cognitive Model in the OpenCog Integrative AGI Architecture"
http://goertzel.org/OpenPsi_agi_11.pdf
This seems like a pretty empty, flamewar-inducing comment. The news isn't even about the US and Japan has been dominant in high-end solar panels for well over a decade (as China has been the high volume producer).

Why bring the US and its president of all of a few months into this thread?
That the C code is compiled with "gcc -O7" tells me just about everything I need to know about the soundness of these experiments. "-O3" and "-Ofast" are the highest optimisation levels, where "-Ofast" includes optimisations that break some standard-compliant programs (mostly -ffast-math).

Not to mention that comparing running times for a single run on an unspecified machine isn't "benchmarking".
One of the harder problems that chatbot developers face is, how to maintain the context of conversation.

Here I introduce a Functional programmers approach, easy and powerful. Related article http://bit.ly/2mU6q33
If you end up choosing the US, and go to an at will state, keep in mind that your employer can fire you for wearing the wrong color of socks, even if they never told you which color is the right one (no, really). I think it boils down to whether you want to take care of yourself, or if you let the state do it for you. I would definitely take the 60K if it includes awesome public transport, unemployment money, affordable healthcare, a month of holidays, and having free time in the evenings for hobbies.

Your priorities, of course, may be different.
The 168MB is for storing all of the weights (parameters of the model) and the activations from passing one sample through the network. When you are training, you want to pass a whole minibatch (32 samples in this article) through the network, so the activations (not the weights) are repeated 32 times - that's where the 2GB figure comes from. You need to keep these activations around for backprop to work, so you either store them all, or as the article later suggests, you keep the ones that are expensive to compute and re-calculate the cheap ones. Also note that when training you need to store the gradient of every weight too, so this adds 104mb in this example - almost negligible next to 2GB of activations.

For running a trained model, it depends how it's being used. If you're computing one sample at a time, then the 168MB figure is an upper bound on that (one copy of weights + one set of activations). You could optimize this by only keeping the activations for the current layer because you don't need to save the intermediate activations. If however you're batch processing samples at inference time, that's where you want to make most efficient use of the compute resources, so chances are minibatches are going to be the best route; again the same kind of optimization with not keeping intermediate activations applies here.

As for whether GPUs are useful at inference time, that heavily depends on your model and available deployment hardware. TensorFlow has some support for 8-bit quantized models for targeting mobile/embedded/CPU, so there are ways to optimize for this use case. Even at inference time though, most of your compute work is going to be in matrix multiplies or convolutions so there's plenty of cases where GPUs can help.
Is it ironic that the Romans were great wall builders too?
you're wrong. if some good is over valued for long enough market dynamics kick in and the price will go down.
Steve Losh has some arguments for putting two: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/why-i-two-space/
Can't be bothered to got to the cellar to look at the type tag. But it was from the '80s I think. Some Miele domestic machine.

And I didn't pay attention to how hard it would be to remove it -- it was already moot by that time. But it is removable.
I don't know if we're already at diminishing returns, but to estimate that you need to compute the economic returns, not just the conversion efficiency.

As yearly production escalates, even small increases to the "conversion efficiency"/"production cost" can yield high total returns on the investment.
Cheap lenses can provide far less concentrated light than similarly cheap mirrors, since the latter are not constrained by having to sit atop a solar cell. As long as space is not a major constraint, controllable mirrors in array should handsomely beat lenses.
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Yes it does. Does Amazon remove "the earth is flat" books? Anything is up for discussion. Does Amazon remove "humans should be able to have sex with animals" books? I'm sure theres at least a few. Thats the principle of free speech. Claiming "heresy" and lashing out violently is what children do. You dont have to buy the book.
I'm sad to say that your experience with PTO is not the norm in the US. The lower and most of the middle classes have it much worse: http://theweek.com/articles/463897/americas-war-vacation-by-...
Why is it made in California ?
Depends greatly by country. In the US, the total tax wedge (which includes employer tax contributions, such as payroll taxes) is 31.7% of total labour costs[1]. In the UK it is 30.8%, while e.g. in Denmark it is 36.4%. The OECD average is 35.9%

Belgium is the extreme - at 55.3% it's the highest in the OECD. Three European countries (UK, Ireland, Switzerland) come in below the US on this metric.

The numbers are basically all over the place, and depends more on overall culture and priorities than things like healthcare etc. by themselves.

In terms of what is directly visible to the employee, US is at 25.6% of gross wages (note the difference - these numbers can not be directly compared to the ones above, as the ones above are percentages of total labour cost including the employer contributions) compared to 23.4% for the UK, 36.1% for Denmark (Denmark is one of very few countries that don't "hide" hardly any of labour costs as part of employer social security contributions), or 28.4% for Norway, 24.7% for Sweden or 42% for Belgium. So still all over the place.

It also depends greatly on how much you earn, and how progressive your specific country's tax system is.

The only thing that's clear is that the US does not stand out as being nearly as much of a low tax country as people sometimes like to think. E.g. the OECD average (which to be fair is pulled down by several non-European countries) of employee contributions is 25.5%, so slightly below the US.

[1] http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/taxatio...

[2] http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/taxatio...
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Long story short: the BSD license.

BSD systems have always suffered a lack of device drivers.

But if you are a huge enough company, you can do two things:

1. Choose already-supported hardware to develop on
2. Customize the OS to fit your needs

Using a BSD-licensed system feature no. 2 becomes particularly nice, as you don't have to share your changes back and you can keep your work for yourself (for both IP and security-through-obscurity).
IMO, Excessive working is not a problem (if you are not forced to and can/want to do it)...

getting paid $11/hour for it is the problem.