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> The money that you "pay" in federal taxes is just dollars that are deleted out of existence so that the dollars created by federal spending don't create inflation.

No, it's not. Federal government revenue is real revenue, federal government borrowing is real borrowing, and federal government spending is real spending. The Federal Reserve creates and destroys money, but that monetary action is separate from the fiscal action of government revenue, borrowing, and spending.
I would like to take this moment to vent, and wave at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk .

The argument that we need to do something about this waste beyond the timeframe of our civilisation is mind boggling to me. This is the only risk we seem to take this seriously - in no other arena can I recall people arguing about what something will look like in 10,000 years. What about war between America and China? >1% chance, massive potential for death and destruction. Who cares if some poor person digs into an old nuclear waste dump in 500 years compared to that?

We can leave this problem to the future. If they have regressed so far that they can't detect nuclear then they have bigger problems than radiation poisoning.

Threats to energy security are so much more of a threat than potentially maybe not being able to figure out how to reprocess spent fuel until it isn't a health hazard.
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Ok, I wouldn't go that far. Also, windows builds are a pain :)
> and the other costs $50 a month these days

I appreciate your point, but it's actually $19/mo for InDesign.
I think to get a general idea of how much this might be true, consider taking a person who was just barely surviving in society two thousand years ago. Show them the modern world. Ask them how much of it is Veblen.

We don't see it because we're immersed in it. To that guy, everything we do is gold-plated and incredibly decadent. We are far, far beyond creating and exchanging things simply for survival.

The richest people don't even create or exchange things of any substance. A guy plays basketball, makes ten million a year. Somebody writes a best-selling book, never has to work again for life. These things would have made no sense to the overwhelming majority of people just 150 years ago.
My view is that the build which runs on the CI server should be close to identical to the build which a dev can run on a workstation. This way you don't have to check in anything to debug build errors.

The build may complement the normal build, in ways such as emailing, but shoulldn't modify it.
1. Google/Facebook try a lot of underhanded things to triangulate more information about you (for e.g. with sleazy tactics such as inference based on your friends' data even after you have left FB)

2. The very notion of a lookalike audience (and its unfortunate popularity amongst the growth hacker types) is an immediate giveaway that FB/Goog are never going to take this tracking down even a single notch.

3. Google/Facebook actively encourage you to be always signed in to their networks

4. Google Analytics has more or less ensured that they see a BIG portion of what you do. Besides, just imagine a casual web user jumping from site to site. How many times are they going to land on a site which doesn't use Google Analytics?

5. Android is the dominant phone OS

6. Let us not even get into the infuriatingly patronizing attempt by Facebook to become an ISP in countries like India. Why didn't FB try to pull that stunt in a more developed country? Food for thought!

This is a case where pretty much every company is in the wrong.

>> People are missing the point on the bill, it isn't just horrible for privacy.

However, the overall point you make is true.
> In 2014, display advertisers started concentrating on large, walled, social networks. The indie “blogosphere” was disappearing. Mobile impressions, which produce significantly fewer clicks and engagements, began to really dominate the market

There was a recent discussion on HN about how difficult it is to promote a blog now (compared to a few years ago). I think this statement by Deck further emphasises the fact that independent blogs are seeing a decline in readership.
Many a little makes a mickle, as such those "some local contaminations" can add up very quickly to a very large scale, especially considering how long these contaminations last.

> This is not in any way a desired event, and if nuclear technology would be developed, and not demonized, its probability could be far smaller, as many technologies are already available to avoid such accidents, which have all happened on old power plants.

There are still hundreds of these "old power plants" active, you want to replace them all with the magical new wonder power plants which never fail and are immune to human error? How is that supposed to work, considering the costs for decommissioning and long-term waste storage?

>Please rest assured, we will not be forced to live in bunkers because of Fukushima, and even if another such tragedy would happen, we could mostly keep out lifestyles, until the global warming caused problems would cause much more changes in it.

I never claimed that we'd be all forced to live in bunkers because of Fukushima. I merely took issue with your flippant statement of "humans can survive without seafish" because that's as much of a slippery slope as it can get, thus the "surviving in a bunker just eating mushrooms" example. Humans might be just fine without eating seafish, tho the rest of this planet's ecosystem (on which we still depend to function properly) probably wouldn't. As such I don't consider the "let's just poison the oceans because humanity can survive without seafish" approach as viable.
> raytracing an image takes much longer than the polygon-based rendering done by most game engines.

Minor nitpick, but it has nothing to do with the fact that it renders polygons. Ray tracing can also render polygons. More precisely, game engines use rasterization which works by projecting triangles onto the screen rather than tracing rays through the screen.
No, Apple is not intentionally wasting your storage. That's frankly a very offensive accusation to make.

As for alternate language content, honestly that stuff doesn't take up very much space, and stripping it would break the code signature. The only way Apple could strip that is if they perform the equivalent of App Thinning based on a list of languages you specify when downloading the binary from the App Store (and even that wouldn't apply to downloading non-MAS apps).
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I want to learn about Deep Learning, and become somewhat familiar with some of the DL frameworks. I've decided to proceed by working on face-recognition project. I'm looking for some guidance on which DL frameworks will be suitable for this task. Thank you!
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The incumbents said it couldn't be done...
If you have ubiquitous records of your behavior then, in the event of adversarial legal process, you will routinely be compelled to produce a very large subsection of those records, and you will find that a poorly considered moment N years ago will play very poorly in a courtroom when divorced from every other moment in the last N years.

This isn't a crazy dystopian future; this is the routine practice of law in US corporations. If you start a company, you will be advised to train your employees on how to avoid causing $500k judgments while operating under the assumption of ubiquitous post-hoc surveillance of all written communications.

Of note: utterances which would not have caused your lawyer to say "I recommend against you saying that in writing" when they were originally committed to a spinning platter may not be zero-risk in e.g. five years.
So much to respond to here.

I am one of those companies running a recursive DNS service, DNSFilter.com

We are not advertising driven. OpenDNS cut the ads a few years ago.

We do not run open resolvers, we just have paying customers who wish to use our service.

The DNS extensions you are referring to are the EDNS0 Client Subnet extension. It is in wide use by authoritative servers for major CDNs and is supported by a number of recursive DNS providers. See the spec here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-client-sub... Section 11 addresses your concerns about IP addresses being shared: It is encouraged to provide only as much granularity as is necessary based on network architecture. At no time is there a reason to share the last octect of an address (since Internet BGP routing is limited to a /24)

We do not run an authoritative DNS service, yet are working to improve encrypted communications... in coordination with industry authoritative partners. Very early stages, but we are driven to protect our customers and the Internet at large. Every time I hear someone misunderstanding what DNSSEC is, and why they think they want it, I'm encouraged to work on solutions such as dnscrypt or DNS over TLS: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858
I am impressed that it only took $35,000 to get lobbyist help to get this law proposal that far.

There's a lot of talk here about efficiency and many efforts to strive for it. What would it take to raise 10x that much and provide Prof. Bankman with a war chest that stands a good chance of succeeding?
Thank you for posting this. "Советское Фото" was an amazing magazine. I still have some of the issues at my parents' home.
You probably meant 1TB to be 931 Gibibytes, didn't you?
>What's the problem with just assigning a number 0-10 for every candidate that you care to, and summing up the points?

That's Range Voting, and it's my preference, but the main problem is that it's complicated both for the voters, and in implementation. Approval Voting is a simplified form (reducing the range to just 0 or 1 vote per candidate) that has many of the same advantages, but has the benefit that people understand it more easily.
A downstream user gets to choose which license applies. That's the whole point. If I publish something that's dual-licensed, I'm giving you two licenses and you can pick whichever one you prefer for your usage.
Ask anyone outside the US. Tipping belongs in the stone age.
It's Erdős, not Erdös btw.
Dry-rb is a collection of next-generation Ruby libraries
"This time it's different" sounds a cliche but there's many reasons to believe this time truly is different wrt the pace and magnitude of change.
> It's a simple suggestion if you're looking for a starting hypothesis.

While it can be used to select priority for exploring hypotheses, it's at least as valuable as a method of choosing from among models with equal explanatory power once they've been tested and established to have equal explanatory power.
https://github.com/google/tacotron

Still no source code...
Which must be the correct spelling, because it's shorter.
We could remedy that by taking privileged children away from their toiling parents who provide them with advantages not available to other kids.
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1 - It's not really about the volume of impressions, but about typical attribution windows. Banner ads typically aren't measured on 1 day click attribution. In more DR oriented workflows the impression logs will be ingested into MMM (media mix models) to project the impact the banners had on conversions across all of your acquisition channels.

In non-online conversion paths (e.g. offline retail, call centers, etc) or branding campaigns, many are measured using offline lift studies or brand lift studies which take at least a couple months to show results.

2 - Not exactly. The prices would be driven up, meaning eventually Chase would get less impressions for the same budget. If both you and I used to buy 1,000 impressions for $5 across 100,000 websites who had a total supply of 2,000 impressions, but then we limit our list of allowable websites to 5,000 websites that only have 1,200 impressions... prices will rise.

The impact is not apparent when only I change my bidding strategy, because I'll buy 1,000 of the 1,200 impressions from the top tier websites, and you'll get 200 from them and then 800 from the bottom tier. But once we both change our bidding strategies, we're now both competing on the same 1,200 impressions. Prices will go up as we compete over them.

This is a simplistic auction, of course. In practice, the ad exchange values different sites differently... but this is just to give a rough mental model about how the increased competition on fewer sites will lead to increased auction pressure thus driving prices up and volumes down for each advertiser. The exchange and publisher will be happy, though.
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This is the first I've heard of the EPL. I'd love to hear someone elaborate on why it's listed as the "best copyleft license", specifically with regard to the GPL.
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> She could have decided not to have the child right?

There is nothing in the movie that explicitly supports this.

(Spoilers ahead.) My take is that as she learns the language, her mind is changed. Not only can she remember the future, she comes to understand that she cannot change it. Just like the other heptapod knew it was going to die, but came to Earth anyway because the future is immutable.

Giving her free will introduces a paradox: the future which she remembers will no longer exist if she veers off the path. Unless she can see all possible futures, which is a different story to Arrival altogether (see Dune). The whole visit could be pointless in any case (again, spoilers) if Earth decides not to help the heptapods in the far future. The entire plot hinges on an immutable future.
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Media companies, by definition, are never considered to be "campaigning". They can say whatever they want. There legal definition of campaigning (ex. churches aren't allowed to campaign in many countries).
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For eample:

Peter has been working as a developer for 4 years.
Calvin has been working as a developer for 2 years.

Calvin earns the same money as Peter, why?
It seems Peter didn't put in as much effort as Calvin did. Even more, Calvin learned what Peter knows, for half the amount Peter did.

You can see where I'm going with this. For me personally work experience does NOT matter.

What makes a junior developer?
A junior developer knows enough to get things done.
If there's a more complex task, there is a big chance
he will require advice or help.

What makes a mid-level developer?
A mid-level developer knows enough to get things done
in a more sophisticated manner - compared to junior
developers which use the same hammer for every nail,
the mid-level developer utilizes different technologies
for different purposes. He is not proficient, but he
understands the need for different strategies.

I'm on the brink of becoming a mid-level developer. I used to tackle all of my problems with the tools I know, because I was unsure in my knowledge. Now I understand the difference. When given a more complex task, I will research what's the best way to do it, consult with senior developers and ultimately implement a solution.
I'm not an expert so this is my opinion, but you sound like you are in the exact same shoes. A rising mid-level developer, but a mid-level developer non the less.
Worked hard to get here as I'm sure you did. I heard this in a songs lyrics, but I use it as a motto in life - "I used to get what I'm given, now I only get what I'm worth".
It's hard to say but easily tens of millions of dollars. Note that there's little incentive to offer a significantly lower price to customers without any competition applying downward price pressure in that range so it's basically impossible to figure out what the internal cost difference is just by looking at price changes.
I haven't thought enough about this, but perhaps cheap automation could lead to self-sufficiency of nations. Apart from rare resources (which could be recycled?) * , goods could be produced where they are needed. If a state is more or less self sufficient, it can create a bubble in which its citizens are provided for even if they don't work. Or am I missing something?

* This would probably look like the UDSSR or WW-II Germany, but without the downsides caused by ideology. Workers could concentrate on improving automation ever further.
The obvious downside would be that ideology would not die out, and nations would still strive to grow bigger > war.
Not photos, but related. Recently I found a good website with Soviet and Russian movies translated to English [1]. As a Russian I can say that at least some of the movies have very solid dubbing and subtitles.

I was also thinking on making free Apple TV app to support this project.

[1] http://sovietmoviesonline.com/en/
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This research just came out, quite literally, like today.

There will be a tensorflow implementation tomorrow though.
More like given mediocre UK politicians had blamed their own failings on the EU for 30 years.
Ah, the "Don't read to your children" approach [0]. Don't worry, I know you weren't being serious. Sadly some people are.

[0] http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417997/professor-if-yo...
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Yeah, stuff sold to gamers tends to be styled horribly, so you sometimes pay a premium just for some restraint. Try getting a half way decent tower case these days that doesn't look like a Tie Fighter crossed with an Amsterdam brothel window.

But at least it widens the options a bit and after searching around in that space one might get something half way decent. At least some gamers seem to prefer smaller keyboards, so you can get "tenkeyless" mechanical ones. Just a while ago, every gamer keyboard looked like Rick Wakeman designed it.

Them using cherry switch copys, getting replacement keycaps could be an option, but I haven't found a good deal on those yet.
> We need to put the means of production in the hands of the people.

They are in the hands of the people. Most means of production can be bought on markets that are open to the general public.
A note to founders out there working with a heavily open source influenced stack: take a few hours to read through and really understand the history of these licenses and how they work. It's likely to come up in fundraising and m&a due diligence and can cause panic from others (even lawyers) involved in the process who don't understand the fine points and assume that your proprietary code is laden with all sorts of burdensome obligations inherited from open source components.
The model is smart enough to not mix them together in the same sample. Different samples would have different voices, unless you put in a voice identifier as input to the model. Then you can control which voice to generate with.
Here's the link to the documentation (PDF) for more infos: https://github.com/google/earthenterprise/raw/master/earth_e...
I don't see D2 :(

Could it be that they have country-based restrictions?
Std::string_view accepting temporaries: good idea or horrible pitfall?
this comment chain is getting legendary rn ...best of HN for real. i'm wondering what max tegmark was saying about computers simulating the MWI and physicists confirming/nonconfirming MWI via computational simulation.
>That we will see the demise of self-ownership of cars when you state

I stated no such thing, a car having self-driving capabilities has literally nothing to do with the ownership/proprietor status of said car.

>Someone who has a car that has a "self-driving mode" can just as easily get behind the wheel and operate the car in manual mode because in their impaired state they also "think" they are ok to drive.

You are still thinking way too much in the present. Try to imagine a future where pretty much every vehicle on the street is autonomously self-driving, legalities have changed that no human "security driver" is required anymore. In such a setting it would become the norm to do something other than driving while traveling in a vehicle, like being productive or having some leisure time. Sure enough, there will still be people who would want the "thrill" of controlling their vehicles themselves, but manual driving will probably be reserved to special lanes/circuits, due to how rare it will become and it negatively impacting the performance of the fully autonomous traffic.

We won't get there from now to tomorrow, we will only get there with many small baby steps until we are actually there.
Is there a way to read this without the paywall?
I've written both my bachelor's and master's thesis using Pandoc and Markdown with occasional LaTeX markup.
I'm a layman and I don't really understand much of this, but I'm really intrigued: What's the general consensus in your field on the existence of more than 3 spatial dimensions?

Seems to me, that there are a few phenomena that appear to be more or less random. Could they be perturbations caused by activity in dimensions we cannot perceive?
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That is not your call since you're not in a position to assess the profound meaning of the word 'better' in the mind of another individual. In my case 'consuming' a lot of books costs money and definitely makes my life better but someone else's choices are for them to make and not for me to pontificate over.
Honestly, it is for the good. Let it burn. I am hoping for a phoenix.

I met a guy who started a bakery instead of a web startup as he was worried about patent trolls & being bullied by the big companies.

The internet is today over commercialized and it cannot be relied on for accurate information thanks to fake news.

I am reminded of a quote by Jeff Hammerbacher: ‘The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads… That sucks.’.
Iron Man-like flight suit by a British entrepreneur
Neo4j Sandbox
Right. Only us smart HNers living in SV know anything about tech.
My mate worked at a giant ecommerce company, it would send hundreds of millions of e-mails a month... and with virtually no performance evaluation (only high level stats which are by no means actionable). It took a single SQL query to propose cuts to traffic in the order of 20% with ~zero loss in revenue.

I remember attending a talk, where this guy talked about their freemium app used by dozens of millions of users. Their in-app popups were cut by 30% or so without losing revenue, all thanks to a few simple if statements (they tried machine learning as well, but this did it).

One can only wonder how much of this excessive advertising there is, I guess it's mostly driven by absolute revenue numbers without much consideration for costs and efficiency.
Ah yes should not have forgotten redundancy being good. Fairness is obvious: cost of procedures, risk of side effects, time spent in operation, etc is born by both parties.
Why not? Compilers compile themselves. Animals reproduce. Etc.
I don't see this as a particular obstacle. Yes, I can't buy Paul Ryan's data individually.

But I can buy anonymized browsing and demographic data for the downtown DC zip codes, and de-anonymization is not particularly hard when you have so much information to work with. Zip code, gender, and birth date together are enough to get you to 87%.
Wow, this is fascinating. All that history. Too bad my Cyrillic isn't any better, but it might be a good opportunity to learn.
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