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It's not all just about beauty. It depends what they're working on. They have a track record of actually designing or collaborating on customization of the chips and chip sets of their systems to do things other manufacturers cannot do, like the in-house design for the timing controller chip in the 5K iMac. It's this sort of bespoke engineering that enables them to charge the premiums that they do. Bear in mind these are the buffoons that have been earning more profits from their Mac line than the whole of the rest of the PC industry put together for most of the last 15 years. Seems to work well for them in Phones too.
> Every time two Scuttlebutt friends

scuttlebuds?
Thank you for the link.

> Most significant, he [Obama] failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack.

> When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.

I think many of us are asking the same thing: Is the intelligence we're being fed cherry picked.

It's unsettling that the government and the media does not have to be accountable to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, which is what the general public expects.

What happens to those people who mislead us, and are we finally going to smarten up?
Well, they are mentioning fusion-fission reactions, which use fusion to trigger fission. But on an ongoing basis. As far as I can understand, stable fusion is not achieved.
This article in Popular Mechanics explains it a bit better http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25922/apollo...
How about feeding it several audiobooks read by a single narrator, coupled with the books in text? Cost would be < $100. There could be legal problems if you tried to sell the resulting voice, but as proof of concept, wouldn't this work?
This would hold if Uber was effectively employing drivers to transport people from A to B.

But Uber is aledgedly merely a matchmaking platform for users and drivers. Therefore, algorithms to significantly and stealthily arbitrage the difference between clients' offers and the drivers' bids is quite murky, and, in other marketmaking businesses, highly illegal.
> The other real world options we have for baseload power on this scale are fossil fuels, primarily coal.

Sure, but... will this be the same in 10 years? 20? 50? Within merely the past 3 years, the amount of battery energy storage has expanded by a few orders of magnitude.

Because when you build a nuclear power plant, it takes a minimum of a decade to go from on paper to operation, and the operational life, which pays off the capex at the beginning, is hopefully, at least 50.

Nuclear power isn't agile. It has poor reactivity to future market changes. It costs billions to get up and running, and isn't modular. You can't commission it in 100MW increments. A solar power plant requires a dozen handy men and a couple of electrical engineers to maintain, a nuclear power plant requires a few dozen nuclear engineers. Solar power doesn't have publicly socialized decommissioning or waste storage costs.

I'm not trying to tell you nuclear doesn't have a future. What I am saying, with the likes of Tesla Energy and the rise in solar + battery storage, is that the energy grid is in for turbulent times in the next few decades. This makes the economics of nuclear questionable - we don't know if it is going to be economically viable in a few decades.

If I had $10b? I wouldn't touch the nuclear energy sector, personally.
Apple has pretty much always been a lifestyle company as well as a technology company. Technology + Liberal Arts. For a long time that seemed to pigeonhole them in a precarious niche in the industry. How times change.
Birds killed by wind turbines are insignificant compared to birds killed by domestic cats.
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This is interesting, but I'm a bit confused as who the target audience is, general public or famous celebs.

In terms of general public use, usually we cannot afford to discourage people from sending us emails. Automated emails are also caught by spam detectors.

In terms of VCs, if they charge money, it would feel like an admission process and I'd prefer it to be a more formal process rather than an email which they might or might not read/reply to. Same applies to lawyers. Also usually cold emails would be read by assistants/receptionists, so not sure if this model would fit them.

In case of famous celebs, it could be a great way to raise money for great causes while managing your fans.

Personally I'd rather it somehow address my issue of handling emails coming into my inbox. But that's in a different nature, usually emails I get aren't spams and they are real emails which I need to actually respond to, but the priority is not clear.
as I understand what I read the data does leave, but just the users updates - sort of like only your changes to a git a branch are sent when you push.
The big bugbear is global, mutable state. Global immutable state is not nearly as much of a big deal. Local mutable state, likewise.

Once that global immutable state turns out to be less than immutable (e.g you introduce the ability to change program configuration at runtime), you should look for an efficient way of do DI, which in functional programming just means "how do I pass the same first argument to a lot of functions at the same time". The Reader monad is probably the most archetypally FP approach to the problem.
We are adding this now to our tensor library:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/pull/1750

I've also added numpy interop via our new python interface jumpy:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/jumpy

We are doing a lot more than autograd though, this is going to support dynamic computation graphs, give you direct access to a graph data structure and will later be usable from nd4s (our scala wrapper)

Rather than spending time going back and forth implementing all of those things you could just pitch in with our existing efforts (hint: you'd actually be getting something done rather than debating ;))

We have a parameter server for word2vec, various kinds of optimizers and the like:https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/tree/master/nd4j-para...

I'd also just like to note for anyone else reading this: Mulling over doing something helps no one.

If you see something that's open source that's close to what you want try engaging the authors to see what they have to say. Maybe they will guide you. We've done that recently for our lapack integration with cpu and gpu as well as various neural net implementations.

No offense but it kills me to see comments like this. I see tons of people complaining about features yet doing nothing to add them let alone engaging open source authors.

It's kinda funny - every time someone has actually did that I've hired them. The developers that actually take action when engaging open source are amazing people.I have a feeling it's because they take the time to learn and get their feet wet even if it's initimidating.

Other neat community initiatives include flink:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5782

Nasa (Apache Tika):
https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/165

A language for our ETL library DataVec (supports binary vectorization AND sql like transformations!):
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/DataVec/issues/224

A scala lib like tensorflow built on top of nd4j:
https://github.com/ThoughtWorksInc/DeepLearning.scala

Our spark ml integration:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/tree/master...

The community is very active. We have 4200 people in a gitter room alone:
http://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
The concept of a company is not important to economic and technological progress. In fact, it's actively detrimental to it.
It's called time, you did it after being prompted multiple times, and after I posted this
all we need is a webassembler client for wayland and byebye html.
Because we want an energy source that can be operational tomorrow, not one that will be operational 20 years from now.
All you need is a camera and a plane ticket. Seriously, journalism is a tough business but it's about guts, not rocket science.
> What you pay for a stock and what the buyer sells it for are not the same—brokerage fees, exchange fees, etc.—but that isn't fraud.

Brokerage and exchange fees are all set in advance and known by parties involved in the deal. What Uber does would be a fraud on financial markets.
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"* Having a definite 'Angular way' of doing things, but not documenting it explicitly"

Here you go https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/style-guide.html
> You can ship a client with a long list of "cached" nodes that were verified to be long-lived. I mean you need to obtain the client at some point, you can gather a fresh list of nodes along with it. From that point onward you keep your own cache fresh.

I believe this is how bitcoin works. Or at least it used to.
Time is a concept you seem not to understand.
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Yeah they are less efficient. The reason to use them is that they can be fixed pitch and you get control by controlling their speed, which is very simple to do (it's basically a huge quadcopter). Normal helicopters keep the speed roughly fixed and get control using variable pitch, which is obviously far more complicated mechanically.
Further the fact that nuclear power has to pass a higher safety bar than coal is part of what's making it more expensive.

If we were rational we'd be saying that it's currently too safe and too expensive and we should be compromising on safety to get an overall benefit (through reduced CO2 emissions and reduced radiation from burning coal).

I think at this point it's just considered a dirty word and is probably unrecoverable. If we can make fusion work then the benefit won't just be that it's better but that it's a new brand. There'll still be nuclear waste (you can't prevent radioactivation when you have neutrons), but it'll fusion waste rather than nuclear waste.
I don't have the resources or expertise to set up a global media conglomerate.

Start small. Grab a camera, buy a plane ticket, set up a twitter account and a web page. Congratulations you are now a journalist. If your work is good you will find an audience a grow from there.

There are also lots of people already doing this, and you can follow their work if you wish
Why would you leave such a great place to work?
not really. check this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053627

We're engaging with dozens of major vendors of traditional/proprietary software about delivering their software onto Ubuntu via Snaps -- which is a new packaging format that solves many of the traditional problems associated with proprietary software working well on Linux.
but when someone doxxes a trump supporter?
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if broadcom is dropped as a supplier, your ass is forfeit though
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Yes but account owner or user will be able to give permission for access to his banking data. So you will be able to use your fav accounting app to fetch data directly from account without doing csv export or hacking something around.
Ok, so let's skip investigation and just attack Syria without evidences.
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Are you sure about that? Police impersonation to my knowledge do not require additional criminal actions to be illegal, and it is enough to verbal claim that you are a police officer or change the appearance of a car to look like a police car.

The only case I know where police impersonation is legal is if those involved recognize the imposter is not a real police officer, and the imposter is not trying to deceive those involved into thinking he/she is. That is some very clear criteria of both intent and results which is part of the "rarely criminal" cases where without it it is criminal.
Actually it's not about your or my network. Capable proven leadership is one of the rarest resources on earth.

No investor will fire a proven leader unless there is extrodinary liability or (much more rarely) upside.
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> There is a reason we teach Python and not ia64 Assembly to beginners.

Fashion is a reason, but it's not a good reason.
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Cable television periodically has "channel blackouts" where the cable operator feuds over price with the content provider. I guess we can expect to see this now for internet. Imagine going to Netflix to find an error 5xx instead: unavailable until they agree on payments to the cable company.
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Even if it's something we already knew, it's nice to see data confirming.
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Affordability.
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As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, that's no longer true since Uber implemented upfront pricing.

https://www.uber.com/info/how-much-do-drivers-with-uber-make...

Drivers using the partner app are charged an Uber Fee as a percentage of each trip fare.
Cutting lego bricks? Eugh. There's specific bricks that would have worked exactly.
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> Theranos comes to mind

I don't think the Theranos comparison is appropriate. We can quibble about $12 or 25 or 68 billion. But Uber is selling over $5 billion a year [1]. There's something there. Theranos has nothing. It is, in my opinion, a fraud. That's different from a real business with--glaring as they may be--serious blemishes.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-lo...
Agreed. Nuclear accidents may have made some bits around Chernobyl and Fukushima unpleasant, but coal and oil have ruined the entire planet.

People simply aren't rational. It has been so hard for me to accept that.
The Streisand effect at work.
> It's amazing how much money influences these politicians.

I don't understand the hand-wringing[1], why don't the well-paid technologists use their money to influence politicians too? Where is the copyleft-equivalent judo move to Citizens United? Are techies so savvy that getting involved in politics is beneath us? Or is Slacktivism enough 'engagement'? Black site banners can only take you so far.

1. Disclaimer: not american
It's a common misconception that rural roads are safer than urban, but it's just not true. The fatality rate is higher on rural roads (both in total and per mile driven) and rural roads are massively over represented in road accident stats for the percentage of the population that lives in them. Shitty google AMP link to a pdf: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Not knowing enough about this, my first impression is:

How does Federated Learning cope with ... FAKE NEWS! (for example).
It's also possible they're trying to maximize front trunk space.
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> But they can't compel a third party to help them conduct the investigation just because it would be easier on them.

This is a ridiculous statement. Who isn't a third party in an investigation, other than the investigated and the investigators? Bank records, third party statements, etc. This is one of those statements to save for posterity.
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I've been on the offensive side in a lawsuit a couple of times and have spent between 50K and 100K each time, but this was in Europe, and with weaker defendants so I expect it to be easily a multiple in these cases.
Agreed.

I've used Angular 2, React+Redux, and now Vuejs on different projects (and on personal projects, stuff like om, elm, etc).

Vuejs feels like they cheated somehow.

For people in Redux-land: they took the reactivity of MobX and gave it Redux' level of debuggability. One important way, I think, is that Vuex formalizes the 'actions-dispatching-actions' use case of Redux middlewares (which redux says 'is not a part of the architecture, but is important enough to be in core'); in Vuex, all action creators can dispatch other actions, and it throws an error in dev mode if you try to mutate state in a non-safe way.

I've used redux for a couple of years, and felt the pain of juggling different libraries (especially the struggles to manage router state) -- Vue is a delightful experience. Its chrome plugin is ridiculously useful; its documentation always seems clear and helpful; things work together.

I can't wait to see what Alibaba does with Weex -- essentially React Native for Vuejs. I did a test spike with it a month ago, and am trying to keeping tabs on it ...
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I was working on creating this list of books which is recommended on HackerNews and Reddit along with user comments of what they think of the book in an alphabetical order like [Algorithms] [Architecture] [Bioinformatics] and etc.

Comment your favorite.

URL - https://medium.com/@mohammedrafy/list-of-109-interesting-computer-science-books-995ac2d6f8e1
The vue looks good.

Yeah, Vue.js is for people who make things. React is for enterprises who don't seem to mind being 3 months late shipping basic stuff.

In react everything is done in the template language. It's a sort of reverse template language, that doesn't even really use proper html for things. So weird.

Vue is just all together, and is based on web standards. Not a weird thing by facebook enterprise developers who think that documents are dead and everything should be a slow loading monster single page thingo. Vue does components properly.

React components aren't. They tell you to move state from the child to the parents. That's not a component, and probably one of the biggest reasons many of the react projects are giant messes.

React is sort of like the old enterprise thing that doesn't solve any of the real issues with Angular style frameworks.

React does have a pretty good marketing budget though. Lots of evangelists paid to talk it up. Plus lots of developers who have invested so much time learning useless non-standard framework stuff. Also, there's plenty of freelance gigs cleaning up failed messy react projects.
Just a note about Reproducible Builds: "We've been working with Debian upstream on this over the last few years, and will continue to do so" — well, apart from the regular sync/merge flow from Debian to Ubuntu, AFAIK Canonical never reached out to us Reproducible Builds folks from Debian.
That said, we/I plan to reach out to Ubuntu/Canonical soon :)
Too busy to change the world to pay attention to it.
Found via todays the morning paper, which has a writeup as well: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/04/07/sgxio-generic-trusted-io...
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All of which is easily done using plain old Javascript (with the exception of unit testing).
I cant comment on the article since I don't have any actual data on the subject (it doesn't seem they do either). But I do have a slightly on-topic question for HN readers using Windows in enterprise:

You can run popular Linux distributions off grid and still receive security updates via a local package repository. Can you still do something like this with Windows? Does it require an special Windows 10 version?
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Adyen does not work with startups.

I contacted their sales and they slammed the door shut immediately. They were actually quite rude and the tone was like an automated email.

Their wording was they only wanted to work with LARGE companies which already processed LARGE volumes.

Unless someone from Adyen wants to clarify?
Totally didn't even think of that! Thanks for pointing it out. I mostly kept imagining hyoerconnected factories and logistics operations when thinking about this.
Philosophically I dislike the idea of systemd, primarily because it seems to be growing more and more. (Gaining the ability to launch machines, run DNS, etc)

But practically? The service-files are a pleasure to write, the documentation is excellent, and I've not personally had a failure I could attribute to systemd. (Though I did come close, learning that systems with an old version of "snoopy" installed wouldn't boot under systemd.)
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Yeah, it... Kind of misses the entire point of LEGO lol.

and catastrophe*. Not OP but I just have to
> Maybe it is mesh networks of an open source wifi solution

Once mesh networks threaten the profits of telecom companies, How quickly do you think the laws to make mesh networks illegal (or onerous to set up) will be enacted? You can't solve political/legislative problems with technology, unless you are prepared to go to jail.
hey, this sounds like a really interesting service! I have a question - why did you choose to go for hosted JavaScript instead of an API/webhooks combination?
I have contributed to dl4j though ;)

I did not mean not criticise dl4j at all, I was simply pointing out an example of a feature I know I was missing at a point, I think we are actually agreeing. It does not always make sense to start something from scratch even though it's fun and a great learning experience. The ramp-up to something really useful in deep learning is simply very high. Further, few people can be an expert on the whole stack and I have no problem admitting to myself that even if I spent 2 years writing something from scratch, many parts would simply not be as good as something I could copy from an existing open source library. That's why contributing to open source also makes more sense to me - you get to work on a part that you can be good at.

Also should point out that when I was having problems with custom loss functions a year ago you guys were extremely helpful on Gitter in discussing issues.
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>Engineers, with permission from Microsoft’s privacy governance team, can obtain users' documents that trigger crashes in applications, so they can work out what's going wrong. The techies can also run diagnostic tools remotely on the computers, again with permission from their overseers.

So in other words: engineering access to your personal documents (and computer) is mediated by a group of people who also shouldn't have access in the first place. Got it.

When I close my eyes, it's almost like I can vividly picture the crappy NSA PowerPoint slides that must exist, detailing "Windows telemetry exploitation" or some such. At the very least, the information has to be incredibly useful for targeting purposes.
but you should expect it. any sane development environment will require a code review and build verification before code is submitted to master. there's only a problem when that system is overriden because of impossible deadlines, mandated crunch times and other stupid business practices.