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>Functionally, these patents are effectively more like patenting the concept of changing linear motion into rotational motion than patenting a particular mechanism for doing so.

And one thing is clear: if the industrial revolution had started 20 years later due to some over-broad patent on a whole class of devices, then today we would be lawless cavepeople without electricity.

I mean just think it through! Surely whatever incentives the patent system created - including for Watt, or, for that matter, the wright brothers, pales in comparison to the fact that as a species we came this close >< to losing it all. There was a race against time and we won that race.

If the hundred thousand year old history of science had been delayed by just twenty years, surely we would have lost it all. The fact that the industrial revolution happened under a broad patent system that produced Watt, the wright brothers, and others, is the purest coincidence.

If the patent regime had been even slightly broader, the twentieth century would have been one very long, very boring appendix to Archemedes' screw.

Thank God that it happened to be just right! And alas, that nothing has been invented in the digital domain since 1997, since, alas, this system simply does not work there. :( :( :(

Can you imagine if things had been invented since 1997?

Imagine if people could communicate or innovate without patents coming and beating them up like a school bully.

one can dream. . .

(Sorry for dripping with sarcasm, you're just so wrong I cannot express it in any other way. who cares if a few patents are granted which are too broad -- big deal. literally a twenty year wait solves that problem forever. the contract with society works.)
>This will be another Fire incident for Amazon.

Disagree. This is entering a far less saturated somewhat new market. A very focused communication/consumption device where the tablet is trying to be a laptop.
Not in a lisp it isn't, compiling very often happens at runtime, in which case you're compiling in the same process as the code that is running at that time, in which case the same resources are available to both.

This is how you get a REPL and other forms of runtime evaluation.

This is kind of the nub of being a dynamic programming language, if it can't do this, it isn't a dynamic programming language. Lisps are generally dynamic programming languages.

Clojure-script might be an exception because of how it is implemented, but Clojure proper on the JVM certainly supports this type of behavior.
I don't have alexa, just "OK, Google", and the interaction model is very similar to the commandline - which isn't too positive when it comes to regular people.

And it fits with :

>> we primarily use it as a smart connected radio,

Does anybody see a solution to that problem ?
Robert Caro has a new audiobook talking about LBJ and Robert Moses
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As far as I understand, only the use of the attention mechanism with ConvNets is novel, right? Convolutional encoders have been done before.
Of course not. Lowering the cost to build housing benefits developers and people looking to move into the community. Subsidizing rents directly lines the pockets of landowners in the local community, as does restricting supply.

Guess who has the most votes for determining local policy?
> Also note that lack of hygiene is actually a useful feature - it allows macros to capture variables from code passed to it as well as the environment they expand it. Some cool stuff can be done that way (some uncool foot-shooting too, though).

Doug Hoyte's excellent book _Let Over Lambda_ has a lot of examples.
> Until recently it was thought that in all of biology, from microbes to humans, there were only two methods to generate and conserve the energy required for cellular metabolism and survival.

What are the existing two methods? ATP & something else?
> If you believe that enabling unsanitary 3rd world hellholes

The unsanitary hellhole is the US, given how many people are forced to live on the street due to land use / zoning laws that prohibit building cheap high-density housing and a simultaneous lack of social housing.

There is nothing "unsanitary" about high-density housing if it's built with proper structural/electrical/fire safety/plumbing standards. Japan is no "unsanitary hellhole" despite the fact that it allows very-high-density housing options that would make NIMBYs shit bricks -- like manga cafés (sleeping in the cubicles tends to be allowed) and capsule hotels.

With properly installed fire sprinklers, fire-resistant materials, and working fire alarm systems, there's not much fire safety risk. Anyway, the "single family homes" that US housing policy loves (to the exclusion of everything else) never have fire sprinklers and they go up like Zippos once a fire takes hold.
The point is to reserve capacity for the demographic you're trying to help, and fix the price at what they can afford.

Just giving poor renters a subsidy puts them in competition with middle-class renters for the same units. Middle-class renters can always win that competition by repurposing some of their discretionary income towards rent. Poor renters stay priced out, and middle class renters pay more for the same units. No thanks.
I am trying to figure out what the problems are with Google Analytics anyway.
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Apple doesn't receive a license from Qualcomm. They pay their third party manufacturers which pass it on to Qualcomm (and until recently, Apple was receiving a rebate for some of it in exchange for exclusivity).

Also I doubt anyone is going to ban the iPhone over SEPs.
eh, until most young people who bear the brunt of not being able to save by home ownership also are politically represented wholesomely in some manner... [ not negating your statement... ]
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I don't need data. My argument isn't based on a such a claim.

Our entire economy relies on free actors being able to buy goods and services from their choice of supplier, based on price, quality, or most other factors.

It's clear that this is required for our economy to function. Therefore it can never be "wrong" for some entity to do this unless you can identify some other unfair distortion in a particular case, but you haven't.

An employer not offering more in a particular region is just exercising this ability to choose, the general form of which we must grant to have a functioning economy.

If you want to argue that it's wrong, then the onus is on you to explain why the general case of free market competition should not apply in this case. But you haven't.
Yes, that's pretty accurate. Step 3 (attention) is repeated multiple times, i.e. for each layer in the decoder. With each additional layer, you incorporate more of the previously translated text as well as information about which parts of the source sentence representation were used to generate it. The independence of the current word from the previous words applies to the training phrase as a complete reference translation is provided and the model is trained to predict single next words only. This kind of computation would be very inefficient with an RNN: it would have to run over each word in every layer sequentially which prohibits efficient batching.

When generating a translation for a new sentence, the model uses classic beam search where the decoder is evaluated on a word-by-word basis. It's still pretty fast since the source-side network is highly parallelizable and running the decoder for a single word is relatively cheap.
Sir, this is a thoughtful post, and thank you very much for sharing (my context mixed with your thoughts just fueled me the right way). Thank you, and keep posting!
You're a musician, you're just not classically trained in traditional instruments.

It's the same as a modern photographer who doesn't know how develop film, does it make you less of a artist because your photos were developed on a LCD screen. If anything, it frees you from spending time in a darkroom and instead have more time shooting photos.
We need a lot more units. That's it. All these crazy schemes with lotteries, vouchers, and set asides are all unnecessary. We just need more units.

Remove the laws that prevent building more units and tax the value of the land as opposed to the value of the property as a whole. That second part encourages maximum use of the land, which generally means more units.

Other than that, work on the infrastructure to support the new units and get out of the way.
I think if that's not what your job is like, then you're probably in the vast minority in the world, probably even in Western culture unless you're a standard deviation above the norm in IQ or generational wealth.
> Not a lot of people have played with Jigsaw: it is hardly a thing you can play with in an afternoon.

Presumably the people voting on it have.

> can you explain why saying exactly the same thing much sooner would not have been?

Because letting it get this far (weeks? from release) and then suddenly objecting loudly seems a little fishy versus bringing up technical objections years ago when there would be adequate time to address them?
I re-read http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies... today. It would suggest weathering short-term pain, letting the bubble eventually collapse, and picking up from there - funneling money into a bubble only makes it grow.
There must be a setting in regular Clojure on the JVM for controlling how much recursion or memory usage is available during macro expansion, because I've hit that limit very easily in the past. It's been about a year since I used Clojure much, but I doubt that's changed.
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Tangential point, but Amazon wants to eliminate even your spouse.

Edit: I see I wasn't the only one whose brain short-circuited for a second.
There are two major use cases as I see them, and both are buoyed by the fact that these days, speech recognition by devices such as the Echo or Google Home is actually quite impressively good -- it can pretty consistently understand your words from across the room, while it's playing music, for example.

The first case is the "want" factor that others have mentioned on this thread. It's less that I "need" an Echo in my home, and more that it makes certain activities easier: I can get measurement conversions, set timers, and pause my movie while my hands are occupied cooking in the kitchen; I can get the weather forecast while putting on my shoes on the way out; and now, I can also answer calls and send/receive messages while my hands are occupied. It's less that I couldn't do that with my phone or computer and more that Echo-like devices make this more convenient.

The second case involves the fact that there is a comparatively small, but still significant portion of the population that cannot effectively use touch devices to do the things that the rest of us can easily do with our phones. The people who "need" this kind of device the most, in my opinion, are those suffering from paralysis causing them to be unable to use their hands or fingers with enough dexterity to operate a touch screen, or unable to use them at all. These devices are real life-changers for this group, since they can now control lights, their television and other entertainment options, and talk to their loved ones -- all activities that were difficult, expensive (requiring specialized devices), or impossible before.

In addition to this first group, there are also those who often have difficulty figuring out how to use computer/touch screen technology, even though they are physically able to -- the elderly are probably the first example that comes to mind. It's much, much easier to just set up an Echo Show and be able to "drop in" on your grandmother and chat, than it is to get her set up with an iPhone or a computer and teach her how to Skype or text.

So all in all, most people will get this for the "cool" factor and because it makes their lives a little easier, but some people will gain a huge benefit from it.
Like any technology there can be lots of different inputs and outputs. I think it is safe to say that Roland and the TR808, 909, 303 changed music notation, and music forever, with their popularization of grid based music programming. It may be that Ableton is doing the same with their software. Each year the tools get better to do these sorts of creative activities. The Beatles recorded Abbey Road on a giant 4 track expensive four track owned by a record label. In 1995 I saved up my money from a summer job and bought a 4-track cassette recorder for about $500. Now you can get a four track app for you mobile phone for about $5. Or download an open source one for free.

YAY :)
Depends on the interest rate and your opportunity costs.
42.

On a more serious note; just in case.

- A tool that combines logic of my source control (commit history), static code analysis, and my ticketing system to produce a risk matrix for my code components so I can better estimate how risky a feature or bug fix is to implement. I.e. Many commits in a short amount of time, with multiple issues reported in that code area and bad static analysis results probably means I need to rewrite that part entirely and hence have to double estimations.

- jetbrains resharper for Web languages.
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I am as well too still. @steevenwee any word on how long it typically takes?
No, qwerty for keyboards is more like the lay out of the 12 notes on an instrument, and there are many instruments.

Music notation is more like a programming language. The score is like a program that you can read/interpret and play.
I can also attest that the Seagate STX000DM000 is not a good drive. Out of 4 ST2000DM000 drives 1 had to be RMA'd and another is showing potential signs of failure (checksum errors in ZFS). Granted it's a small sample size but I recognized that model number immediately since I have been dealing with them a lot recently.

Personally I've found that the 40-45$ refurbished 2TB enterprised hitachi drives on Amazon are more reliable. Since I'm running in a raidz3 config I'm not terribly afraid of any single disk failure
Yep, great idea. "push down the prices". In other words, lowering compliance costs, regulatory costs, and in general any governmental barrier placed forth.

This is called "Trickle Down Economics". This works for saving more of the elites money, but not for us. Frankly it just doesn't work, at all, when looked at with a lens of government. But boy, will they sell us this package that "It'll lower costs... We'll be able to hire more people.... We'll be able to...". In the end, they stockpile and shovel the money out of the US.

If X costs $100 and by eliminating ALL governmental costs, goes to $80... and the average person only has $40, neither choice does a damn bit of good. They're both unaffordable. But now, one pays less to the burden of citizenship and public resource usage (aka Taxes).

You want to stimulate the economy? Put money in the hands of the people! Yeah, you won't "save" that mythical $20 of compliance costs, but if the citizenry has $150, now they can afford your X. Course, the argument here is that X now goes up to $200. But Y over there is willing to play 'Supply and Demand' and undercut X... Just like how things do now in many markets.

But, you know, something about socialist programs makes people get up and deny the very facts about supply and demand, and competition. For some reason, they all claim that everything will miraculously buffer up by Z% because socialist programs.
We had security theater in the burbs, in fact we probably had more and better guards and metal detectors. The big difference I see as an older parent is police involvement, at the good schools the cops occasionally lay down the law on loitering, possession, occasional fist fight requiring no medical treatment. The bad schools are full of daily police calls for all of the above plus stabbings, graffiti, handgun possession, rape, hospitalized beatings. It seems the biggest danger at the good schools is boredom and rebellion, and at the bad schools the biggest problem is physical danger.
A lot of poor people are poor due to bad financial decisions. Things like, you should pay the rent before going to McDonalds. It's the reason many people don't give money to the homeless on the streets.
Musicians frequently get taught music in large batches at schools, though, which means you don't have to worry about network effects—there are choke-points in the network.

There's no reason a given school couldn't teach a "colloquial notation" first, with the "Lingua Franca" musical notation taught later on, for everyone in that given school. Then everyone who comes from that school would know that colloquial notation.

Consider: the "Chicago school" of Economics; "Rugby School" football; etc. These things start as colloquialisms, then spread to global awareness.
One problem is that every machine tends to be designed just a little bit differently. Therefore, tips on exactly recreating the sound might not necessarily translate well from one machine to another.

For instance, the "Blade Runner Blues" patch as I understand it is actually one of the brass presets on the Yamaha CS-80. (Bad recording but here: https://www.firsthomebank.com/personal-banking/deposit-produ...) The CS-80 has a pretty unique architecture for a polyphonic analog. (http://www.cs80.com/tour.html) To get a patch exactly right would require replicating layout, filter architecture and structure, etc.

Knowing basics synthesis, however, can get you pretty close. I have a patch on my Alesis Andromeda (which has some CS-80 type elements such as a ribbon controller, dual resonant filters, and an unfiltered sine that goes to the post-filter mix) that someone did in a user community -- it came out decently good. I was able to Google a book page that gives a good overview of recreating it on other synths. (https://books.google.com/books?id=Jz1JMnZNO88C&pg=PA74&lpg=P...)

Now, to really get the Vangelis Blade Runner type effect, you have to be able to play a synthesizer expressively. This is unfortunately is tougher on most synths compared to the CS-80, due to the CS-80's polyphonic aftertouch that most synths lack. That being said, there are other techniques people could do. I understand that Vangelis used pedals to manipulate filter and volume, and that is something that can be done on many synths that I don't see a lot of people taking advantage of. Don't discount playing technique when it comes to the art of sound design, in other words.
I mean, it's literally a post about the Zenimax vs Facebook lawsuit. So covering the early Oculus developments is really all that's in scope for it.
For sure I'm on the same page as you that the current "media climate" is not necessarily a healthy one for society as a whole. But almost nobody uses that kind of "if everybody simultaneously stopped doing X the world would be a better place, so I'll stop doing X" mentality when deciding on their own behavior. Hence climate change, nuclear de-armament, etc.

The arguments on HN and other places for "online privacy" aren't usually hinging on this tragedy-of-the-commons point. They're usually heavily implying that some very real and personal harm is being perpetrated on the unsuspecting sheeple right now and if only they understood what was really happening they'd be up in arms. I don't think a vague uneasiness with consumerism in general is what they're alluding to.
Maybe the OP-1 would be of interest to you?

https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1
>Life extension is the apex of selfishness, and also extremely inefficient.

Inefficient? It takes an enormous amount of resources to raise an infant to adulthood, namely with education, and many years of not only complete non-productivity, but distracting adults from being productive by having to spend time changing their diapers and such. There's a reason people aren't having many (or frequently any) kids these days. Industrialized nations are in negative population growth mode now.

>My death is a little annoying for me, but oh so great for everyone else!

If you really feel that way, you can off yourself at any time.
Model decision interpretation is a solved problem: https://github.com/marcotcr/lime
I think that you are approaching the notation from a very left brained kind of logical point of view. Once you learn to recognize the patterns in musical notation, none of these concerns actually matter. Musicians just see the pattern and play it, and then focus on the stuff that is really difficult, which is the musicality.
> I guess the sad state of affair in regards to email syncing protocols (POP3 and IMAP) are partly to blame, JMAP might help a little but I guess it's too late.

I'd say it's entirely that. Sync was so often half-broken with real email clients across multiple devices that having no offline access was a price nearly everyone was willing to pay to fix that, provided the web client were good enough (and, clearly, the problem was so bad that it didn't even need to be that good).

[EDIT] Also: accessing your email on devices you don't own/control.
Check out the Novation Circuit. It's a brilliantly fast and intuitive sketchpad for electronic music. You can turn it on and be making music in minutes, without reading the manual. It runs on AA batteries, so you can doodle ideas anywhere. It isn't a replacement for a DAW, but it isn't supposed to be.

https://novationmusic.com/circuit/circuit
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I am really under-utilizing my echo dot. I just have it turn lamp lights off and on every couple weeks as a gimmick.
To embed binary assets into any language, write a program that emits the binary as a string containing hex codes.

E.g. bytes [0, 12, 99] would become "\x00\x0C\x63".

Almost every language has facilities to treat a string as a set of bytes, so this works basically everywhere. It's nice because you don't need any special language-level support for it.
Poor people have always had access to health care and society has always paid for it. You don't get turned away at the ER and we have Medicaid ($545B) and Medicare ($646B) [1].

The people that get hosed the most are the ones with assets, like middle-class homeowners with some savings that have a major health emergency.

It makes sense to try and force everyone onto health insurance before they need it, just like auto insurance; as it will cost a lot more to everyone if people are uninsured. But I agree that bringing down the cost should be a focus. Everyone gets a raw deal when doctors play billing games any chance they get, like giving x-rays for everything and keeping people overnight unnecessarily and charging insurance companies exorbitant multiples of the cash price.

I actually know someone carving out a business going into healthcare centers and showing them how to make more money- by not playing admin/billing games and just serving patients. That's just crazy.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
If the goal is to "solve the obesity epidemic", it doesn't matter if it works for a small number of people. The reality we must wake up to is that calls for people to eat less will never, ever be successful at solving the problem.
I have a really hard time believing that somehow companies self-managing healthcare administration is more efficient than a large group consisting of the entirety of an insurers customers let alone vs. nations with universal healthcare or even ones with single payer private healthcare. And that doesn't even address the many small businesses which need to pay for "individual" plans as if there weren't larger groups with which to distribute the risk.

Even the marketing act of splitting up all these groups up as you describe is a huge waste. Now you have to shop the differences, the companies have to explain the differences, and everyone (insurance co, health provider, patients) gets to track multiple different groups with different rules. It's all a waste compared to fewer larger distributed risk pools - which is the whole point of insurance.