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I think that you should be a bit more transparent about how much of Thorston's ideas and code you are using in this project. You should probably give him some attribution.

I also read that book, and have a toy language I've been building, basically extending his ideas. I've looked through your code and much of is it nearly verbatim from the book (including code in your 'vm', or the monkey 'eval' package - it's not just the lexer/parser), though you (as I have), chose different names, or organized things differently, and added new features.

Yes, you've extended his ideas much farther, but the core of 'rooby' is pretty much the same as Thorston's language, 'monkey'.

Monkey is available with the MIT license, so it's fine what you've done. But, having been through the book and pretty familiar with the Monkey code (available for download here: https://interpreterbook.com/waiig_code_1.3.zip), I think it's disingenuous to say 'I read that book before this project..', which seems to imply that it was inspiration, rather than original source material.

On a positive note, it's a pretty cool version of Monkey.
I am actually in a similar boat. I have done a lot of java work, and was active on the security side of things in my previous role. I mostly worked on compliance, but I did some pen testing.

I can see compliance not being friendly to remote where pen testing would be a lot more friendly.

I know security is a big field, but I would love to hear any insight that you have on it.
A JS framework to... run play() on a video tag when you tap on it. If this was released by anyone other than Apple it would be mocked to death.
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The bad tech reporting is not the problem. Failure to retract or acknowledge mistakes, in a situation where the bad reporting might get people killed, is the problem.
Breitbart being the advocate for... violence against women? Or quite a few unconcerning things?

Anyway, you make an unsubstantiated (and practically incomprehensible) claim and yes, you're going to catch "flak" for it. HN being the advocate for substantive discussion.
Apple caught them taking active countermeasures to hide their activity from Apple engineers. They caught Uber doing one thing; the question they should have asked is, what else is Uber doing that they still get away with?
Michael Bloomberg's net worth is $47B, how will he use it?
I definitely didn't suggest average broke-ass Joe. I was thinking more along the lines of media/news websites whose developers haphazardly leverage the format without considering patent implications.
The existence of property is based on a non-consensual model for the purpose of utility.
My experience is the polar opposite - I've had updates before and after, even just to say sorry it's taking so long (4 days isn't long to me).
It must very much depend on who is taking care of you.
"BBC iPlayer only works in the UK"

Yes, of course??
What about extremedb? It's not free, but I believe is on par. Or did you mean only free?
The medium does so much to shape that content though. When discussing songs we love, I'm not sure if it's fruitful to divorce some ideal form of "music" from its medium, any more than it makes sense to describe a guitarist's work in the form of pure music theory. It's usually not the notes in abstract that draw us to a piece, but rather its color and character. Understanding the medium and its associated recording techniques is valuable in a timbral critique of the work.

It's also impossible to explore the history of influential artists like Conlon Nancarrow, Pierre Schaeffer, or the Beatles without understanding the impact that media like piano rolls, mangnetic tape, and multitracking played in their creative processes.
> I'm very excited to see the helmet cam video of Jeff Bezos serving a customary 8-10-12-14 hour shift at the Dallas Amazon Fulfillment Center and walk out with a smile. Can you do what you ask of others? That's leadership.

I feel like there is a big difference between getting through some shifts, and looking at it for the next few years.
Good summary of the article.
it's kinda funny how ~50 people who came from this thread to our service illustrated the point of the lack trust – not a single person registered :)
Perhaps. My area of expertise wasn't ASD, but I know that for other disorders, like epilepsy, extreme ketogenic diets can be helpful, especially for children. I wouldn't be surprised, especially given how many gastrointestinal issues are comorbid with ASD.
A unreported zero day is a de facto backdoor. The chain you mentioned has similar flaws as the current strategy. Step 3 would be incredibly difficult. It would be similar to detecting a virus signature, which are easily circumvented. The second party can use trivial techniques to change the signature in a way that makes it incredibly difficult to detect.

Many 0-days are built of of multiple bugs. A triple letter may use bug #1 and bug #2 to get a result, but another party will use bug #1 and bug #3 to get a similar result. Back to square one with corporate/government/personal equipment getting hacked reducing overall security.
Thank you for your explanation. In this case, I will stick to the Chrome extension mentioned in my first comment here which allows easier integration into reading online articles. :-)
What was the product?
Note that there are plenty of legitimate journals, like PLOS, that charge a fee to publish. It's a common business model for open access journals. Usually they have some mechanism for waiving the fee if an author can't afford it.

Also, allegedly many of these journals actually have per-paper expenses in the hundreds of dollars (!!), mostly from editor time spent soliciting and managing reviewers. That seems crazy. In contrast, major ML venues like NIPS handle all the review management in a mostly automated way and are run by volunteers. But then again, the average review quality at ML conferences seems to be pretty poor, at least compared to what I've heard about in some other fields.
Thank you for the wisdom. :)
No, I am technically not skilled enough to do that. :-(
Have you used the OPT to get your experience?
* Non-innovative, existing technology, presented as a breakthroughc by Apple

* Stupid patent, demonstrating once again the insanely broken to death patent system

* Proprietary technology used for an animated GIF

* Top on hacker news
Destroying jobs is precisely how economies of scale and efficiency generally happens. If those other businesses kept employing as many people, products wouldn't get cheaper as much
Ok, I didn't put it very well but the solution to the courts protecting the syringe makers monopoly is for the government to change the law to disallow such things. A lot of these kind of things like business process patents seem to start with a court judgement and then need legislation to fix.
The idea of using antitrust to break up tech 'monopolies' is spectacularly wrong
Uber won't exist in five years. Thank God.
You have to hover on the 'Live' icon in the top right.

Works fine in Safari :)

Edit: Can confirm it's very twitchy and jumpy in Firefox on macOS. The photo and video switches place every few hundred milliseconds.
Another option to this is Repeatr [1].

Repeatr is for -- like it says on the tin -- repeating things; and hopefully, reproducing them. It's all the containment (runc, underneath), plus the ability to pull in various filesystems, specified by hash.

For concrete examples, you can see Repeatr building Repeatr reproducibly here [2], for its own releases (it's a Go project, so this looks a lot like what's going on in Fillipo's blog here). Another example is this formula for reproducible builds of Runc [3] -- it uses cgo, and became reproducible with go1.7, which was very exciting!

The big gain is Repeatr's syntax for multiple inputs and built-in hash verification means you can assemble reproducible environments like this out of multiple filesystems (say, busybox from one place, golang compiler separately), they all cache separately, they all download in parallel, you never have to write your own "tar -xcvf" boilerplate... and most importantly, you get built-in sanity-checking that the upstream tarballs you're using haven't changed either. No centralized "registry" server required, either. Give it a try!

Disclaimer: author, of course :)

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[1] http://repeatr.io , https://github.com/polydawn/repeatr

[2] https://github.com/polydawn/repeatr/blob/master/meta/release...

[3] https://github.com/polydawn/formulary/blob/master/formulas/r...
We're in agreement.

It's a filter, not a metric: you can say this product worked, as in it did what it said on the tin, but the worse/better comparison doesn't work out.

The other aspect of "at some point you can just build it and it works or doesn't" is that when it's built, you can (ideally) just go read the code and find out how it works. It's ye olde issue of "it would take me almost as long to explain it as to make it..." - if I'm having trouble communicating an idea, I can just go make it, and then show it to you.
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I don't see how that indicates a lack of trust. People may not be in the mood to change, or need to do more research before they do, especially since it is very late in the evening for the Western world.

Also, it's only been 30 minutes since your first post, and 50 is a small sample size.
Would definitely buy if it behaved like i3 on linux. i3 doesn't use predefined layouts like most WM. I find it much more logical than awesome, xmonad, etc.
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Facebook doesn't show up posts based on the source. They do it at individual levels.

So even if you read the "Unbiased Times", you can get a biased selection of articles because of the algorithm.
Spot on. It's one of the most disturbing UX issue that every tab gets reloaded and sometimes requires being online on mobile where connectivity is not always present.

The second thing is the browser session span on mobile. IMHO, it should start when I start and login to my smart device (with a pin, pattern or fingerprint) and it should finish when I restart my device. Currently when I close the last browser window I lose browser session.
Nope. He's just being a contrarian clown.
It seems odd to call the journal "predatory" in this situation. Who is it preying on? The person who got rejected from a journal with standards but still wanted to keep his job?
PUE will only tell you how efficient you're operating your DC (assuming everything is metered and CX'd properly), but as a metric it fails to take into consideration your larger ecological footprint.
One similar thing that's always bothered me conventionally. Why is it `System.arraycopy()` and not `System.arrayCopy()`?
>We haven't had anything approaching a free market since the early 20th century

Hong Kong is often held up as a fairly free market that has worked well. The government does get involved in health care and the like but commerce is pretty free.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/01/hong-kong-is-worlds-freest-ec...
> Love driving manuals,my fuel efficiency is up there with if not better than auto's too (you can't coast in an auto

Manuals and automatics both have deceleration fuel cutoff so it's hard to know what you mean.
> made Swift an open source language that runs only on their proprietary devices

Incorrect. Besides Linux, like the other poster mentioned, it even runs on Raspberry Pi:

http://dev.iachieved.it/iachievedit/swift-3-0-on-raspberry-p...
POSIX is under active development. The issue I'm concerned about is this text quoted from the 'printf' man-page.

> %q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell

> input, escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX

> $'' syntax.
You are correct, PUE only looks at power efficiency, the metric Google uses for water is WUE.

Also, like you said, these metrics only take into account the efficiency of the DC but fail to measure their ecological footprint.
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For a novice, it's hard to assess how important PGMs are currently.

Investing my time to learn Deep Learning (CNNs, RNNs) vs. Random Forest vs. PGMs vs. Reinforcement Learning well enough to be able to apply the chosen approach, it seems that PGMs are not high in the list, is that correct?

Are there Kaggle competitions, in which PGMs have been the best approach?

What are the real-world problem areas that PGM's currently excel at compared to other methods?
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I clicked, I read your value prop, I just can't see myself paying $95+ /year for less obnoxious email in my inbox. It's really not that big of a problem to me.
Actually, to transition between a photo and a video when you hover over a specific-looking badge, which is also animated to show loading progress.

It's not a huge piece of code, but if the question is how much code you need to put in a npm module to justify its existence… well, it's a lot bigger than left-pad!
Are you serious? I have a pretty unique name. On some of my PCs I use my name as my account name. I only care about my privacy as much as the next guy, but providing release binaries from my PC shouldn't mean I'm sharing my personal information.

Honestly this thread is going in the same direction most other threads I see about any flaw in GO seem to take. Users popup to defend GO and try to downplay the issue or shift blame towards something else, like you not framing the issue in the "GO way" (I guess not wanting to expose your username in release binaries is just not the "GO way", if you're not using Docker for release builds your username showing up is your own fault.).
Recognizing food with ~90% accuracy isn't too hard. Getting calories from that is also easy. I'm currently building this into a food tracking app as a side project, with the hardest part being designing a UI that doesn't suck.
>The main reason they don't allow WebM is because only H.264/H.265 are hardware accelerated on iOS devices.

And the only reason they don't support VP8/VP9 is because they can't lock it down like H.264. It's the same reason webGL support in iOS Safari took forever. Apple didn't like the idea of developers being able to create and distribute really advanced hardware accelerated 3D games on the iPhone outside of the official app store ecosystem. They need to support open standards for the sake of developers.
Yep, total respect for it not being a great place in every situation, or worse for some. I just found my comment's parent very... unrealistic.
i'm a happy subscriber. i initially subscribed in gratitude for their making their entire crossword archive free, but i also appreciate the journalism they do and are happy to support them.

interestingly, their lack of a paywall is a definite part of the value i feel i'm getting for my subscription; if i had to log in to read them i'd be a lot less likely to subscribe in the first place. i wish more sites followed an explicit "pay to help keep us free for everyone" model.
I don't understand.. are you saying you're not interested in the differences between the two parties, or are you saying ther are no differences between the two parties?

Because if it's the latter, do you think the 20 million additional people that receive health-care under Obamacare isn't a difference?

Because, like Joe Biden said, it's a "big fucking deal".

Also, you're not helping your cause by saying you're a Bernie-bro. Bernie-bros are generally racist, as he supports a largely xenophobic nativist trade policy.

There's a reason Bernie's base is largely white. Bernie and Trump supporters are the same.

In the end, you should never trust anyone that claims the two parties are equal. Those people have other problems they need to work out first. Maybe they just don't want 20 million Americans to have health care?
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So it's not just me then. Good to know, I thought I was going crazy.
I actually enjoy it.
that's just a joke – I was not really hoping to get users from here :) I was actually surprised with 50 even clicking the link.
SV is undesirable for visas, general overheads, regulation in some sectors, and segments like hardware. Basically YC seems to be optimized for software-focused startups within 3 months of market seeking SV, US or at least English speaking investors, usually with a US initial market.

For hardware startups I can strongly recommend considering HK/Shenzhen, as I can personally attest that sourcing, consulting, manufacturing, and capital are readily and cost-effectively available.
We come for startup and tech news. YC is a startup and tech funding company that needs to have it's portfolio reach us as their customers/employees/investors/etc...
The two things you cited are completely unrelated.

edit: the parent replied to me but deleted their post by the time I finished my response; since I spent the time to write it, I guess I'll put it here:

> My point is that Apple repeatedly resists open web standards for the sake of maintaining their walled garden. This new 'feature' is just another example of that.

> What is this even supposed to be beyond webm/gifv anyways?

WebM is a standard for video.

"gifv" is not a standard or even a format; it's just what imgur puts in their URLs for pages that play looping silent videos, simulating the GIF experience. You can only watch "gifv" on imgur, though of course any site can play a looping silent video.

"Live Photos" is a broadly similar concept to "gifv", in the sense that both are basically just a proprietary brand for a basic UI on top of a video player, not anything with deep technical content. However, the UX is somewhat different. Live Photos combine a high-resolution photo with a lower-quality video, and the video doesn't play until you mouse over. (The actual photo and video are just JPG and MP4, respectively.)

In theory, the idea of treating a photo-video pair like a photo could be standardized, but it's not any less standard than gifv, and at least when it comes to display on websites (as opposed to, e.g., photo gallery apps), it's a simple enough concept that there doesn't seem to be much benefit in standardization. Apple released a small bit of code, for anyone to use on their own website, to do the job of drawing the UI and transitioning between the photo and video; of course, this is implemented on top of open web standards. Not sure why you want to crucify them over that.
The condo in that case is going to be far superior in every imaginable way. A $400k BTO is going to be very basic.

The rule of thumb is 20-30% discount on fair market value. Not 80%! Yes, it's a pretty sweet scheme if you're eligible, but it's not a total giveaway.

If you really could buy a $400k HDB that was comparable to the $2m condo next door then the $2m condo would never even be built, as there would be no market for it.
Sure. My point is that I and others (and it seems Trump as well) want to see a system that is geared towards sth more merit based and towards exceptional talent. Any time people try and make a pitch about how legal immigrants are good for the country, most of the time they bring up people who would have qualified under a merit based system. So if a policy is being sold on the basis of X benefit to the American people, shouldn't the policy be geared towards actually bringing that benefit rather than fulfilling some other purpose?
Just stop using Facebook. You complain about your experience of it and claim (quite correctly) that it

> has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption among certain demographics in the US

but you just keep using it. What would it take to make you stop?

I don't mean to single you out --- I'm just reaching a breaking point here. I usually hold my tongue, to avoid sounding "holier than thou." I stopped using Facebook about six or seven years ago when I stopped liking it. I don't miss it at all. On the contrary: as a non-user, I hate it more than ever. It is an out-of-control addiction causing real problems for society, and people know they hate it but can't stop).

My sister --- who never used it in the first place --- sometimes says that she feels like Wesley in that episode of Star Trek TNG where everyone was addicted to that holographic puzzle game, and he had to pretend that he was into it in the hopes of delaying his assimilation.

I feel that way more and more, especially on a thread like this where there is so much "concern" about Facebook from its very users, even among "our HN-reading, privacy-interested, technically-competent bubble" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177389).
Of course it varies. It's up to you to decide/deduce/infer what the "cost" of using a free service likely is. Understanding that there IS a cost is really the first step, one which a good portion of the population seems to not understand.
Random Forests is not really at all in the same class of depth(no pun intended) as the other models you've mentioned; if you understand decision trees, random forests are just a way of combining independently trained decision trees that is less prone to overfitting.

I'd probably rank these areas in order of importance as follows: deep learning, pgms, reinforcement learning. Deep learning as a framework is pretty general. PGMs, as I have seen them, don't really have any one killer domain area - maybe robotics and areas where you want to explicitly model causality? Applications for reinforcement learning seem the more niche, but maybe that's because they haven't been adequately explored to the extent that DL/CNNs/RNNs/PGMs have been.
I like the idea of the agencies being allowed to use a zero-day with some asterisks.

* The zero-day has to be powerful enough to allow the agency to gain full access & remotely patch the zero day -- i.e. if the zero-day gets out, and the agency didn't warn the manufacturer ahead of time and instead used it for its own purposes, it must have the capability to "immediately" scan the internet for the vulnerability and patch it where accessible.

* If the above condition is not satisfied, or if the agency can't/won't dedicate the resources to develop a backup patch, it should be required to alert the manufacturer immediately.

Does this cost more? Yes. Does it limit some of the monitoring capabilities they will have? Yes. The second seems like a pro. The first one seems like a worthy compromise for questionable activity with high potential for collateral damage.
> No way to filter only videos

It only shows live photos in Motion Stills, not just any photo/video.

> Seems like an app released for someone to get a promo

Anything to substantiate this claim?

The announcement blog post clearly shows it's because of their research into video stabilisation that this app came about as a result - https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/motion-stills-create...

> Also no android version

Does Android support the Apple Live Photo format?
Are there similar services or sites for guidance or mentoring on devops and system administration problems? Or could the options already suggested here: https://www.codementor.io/ and https://www.airpair.com/ also be used in this way.
In a way large cities are harder to get into so the qualifier of it being large is actually detrimental. My opinion is that smaller cities are easier to tackle, so in case anything goes wrong, they can be corrected easily, and after a couple mistakes and lessons, they'll be ready for the big boys.