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Google Assistant Comes to Your iPhone to Take on Siri
The government is very important in creating the environment for the future to be built. Safety, stability, intellectual/skill capital, laws & rewards that support innovation (e.g. 'good' patents). The future must remember the great debt it owes to governments and their citizens, for it would not exist without them.

Unfortunately the future tends to hide its money in offshore bank accounts.

Government also has a greater role to play in extremely long-term initiatives that don't make sense in a shareholder funded vehicle. Much of our current society is founded on government funded R&D as Candu mentions.
> depending on the scalability of the backing RDBMS

As far as I know, none of the backing RDBMSs that the ORM supports are horizontally distributable. At least not officially, right? CockroachDB with its Postgres interface sounds good, or Citus? But as of today, are any of the supported DBs distributed?
Ugh. No particles will ever be detected by these plastic toy block sculptures.

While a non-functional LEGO version of something the resembles a experimental equipment might be fun for some people, none of these things are actually particle detectors.
this isn't true. 250k-500k can be tax free by meeting few requirements (living in the house >2 years).

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/capital-gains-and-your...
I think I have about 20 of those email responses at this point!
I took a class with the Sanjoy (the author) this past fall. Awesome guy and a great teacher.
I think the parent's advice wasn't to screw over the company, but just to approach it from the legal standpoint first. It sounds like his co-founders don't believe he's entitled to his 1/3 share, even though he is. So start from a position of strength (which he already legally has), and then work down from there:

"Hey you two, the fact of the matter is that I own 1/3 of the company outright. We didn't start off with a vesting schedule or anything else that would change that. Dwelling on that isn't helpful. I may be leaving, but I do want this company to succeed; my owning 1/3 of something that fails doesn't help me or anybody. I get that 1/3 of the company belonging to a non-participating founder will look bad to investors. However, I've put in just as much work as you two have up to this point, so I'm not just going to walk away empty-handed."

At this point it's just about good faith negotiation:

"I'm willing to let you guys buy me out of all or part of my stake. What do you think is a fair offer?"

All that being said, it is a shame that there was no vesting schedule set up in the beginning, so it might make sense for the OP and co-founders to essentially retroactively make one up, and, if they can all agree to it, all be subject to it. The OP will be giving up some of his shares, and the other two cofounders will feel an incentive to stay and work hard to ensure they vest as well.
That's how pretty much all packages in any distribution are built.

Note the included hashes — if the file on the server gets replaced, the building process will complain. (Sure the package maintainer will probably just replace the hash :D But if the file changed but the version number didn't change, or there was no release announcement, that's suspicious…)
We just bought a used Xeon HP workstation for a build server. It is 7 years old. But a 24-core new workstation would be much more expensive. We're putting in some SSDs to speed up build times, and it came with 24GB of RAM, which is enough for our use cases. The price? $400 or so. It even came with a Quadro 5000 video card, though we weren't planning on GPU compute for this particular box.
True. If a tomato picked from my garden on the right day is a 100, then I can buy 95s in season at a tomato farm, and routinely buy 80s at CostCo (look for packs of multicolored cherry tomatoes) and sometimes pay a lot for "vine ripened" tomatoes in special packaging at the grocery store that usually end up as 50s.

A random beefsteak tomato at Whole Foods tends to be a 20 on this scale. Yes, there's worse.
Training users has been tried for over two decades and has largely failed to hinder black hats in any significant way.
The ORM works against a relational database. The relational databases that Django supports are not distributed, right?
That's shocking. The Wikipedia page gives a 2002 reference (for the sentence you cite), so I guess in order of magnitude it must be correct.

It seems to say that the reason for this is that it must be heated to absolutely insane temperatures, which is, obviously, energy-intensive.

5% is huge though. I still have trouble believing it. I wish I could see a pie chart with the major sources of CO2 emissions. After things like cars, planes, factories, POWER GENERATION, etc, I would have thought those were the major ones.

if you Google "pie chart of co2 emissions" it's hard to see where just concrete fits in. Oh well.
char const * const ptr2 = "Lorem ipsum";

Edit: Said exact same thing as parent but formatted differently. Sorry. :)
I feel like there have been a series of announcements about AI toolkits and work in the last week. Is there some collaboration, is this a special week?
Especially because government is in the unique position to fund technologies for the public good, regardless of whether they can be profitable or not. They can also balance those technologies to have the greatest accessibility so it doesn't end up centralizing in expensive high tech hubs.
replace airbnb with craigslist, backpage, or the local newspaper if you like.

The bigger point is that the rental pool is so large, that it's really easy to fill a vacancy even if it's just a single home rather than a large rental complex.
This domain is reversible:
http://net.net Created Date: 1994-10-23
I have grave concerns that this publishing format is delivered to us by two people that, as far as I can see, have limited to zero publishing background.

That said, they're being responsive to questions in Issues, so I remain optimistic.
>Not sure what you mean by 'propagandaland'

On HN that probably means "Trump supporter".

The left still thinks patronizing the right as "stupid" and incapable is going to get them somewhere.
The question I would ask is: What is Uncle Sam funding that we are likely not aware of? I think the answer to that is: plenty.

There are plenty of reasons for Uncle Sam to be covert. Obviously, national security comes to mind. The other is the Constitution, as well as other things that are supposed to limit the gov's.

If history is any indication, when it comes to Uncle Sam: just because we don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
That only works if you have a large enough audience, or if you are lucky enough to get a post upvoted enough to get proper exposure.
Kotlin has been supporting Android for a while, with the promise that the language takes Android's needs into account. For example to do not request JVM 8 as a minimum...

Kotlin has been unofficially supported already by the Android tools team for some time. Meaning that they would work with the kotlin team in order to make sure that when a tools update breaks the kotlin build tools, they can be fixed in a timely manner.

Now that it is officially supported, we might have :
- idiomatic android api for kotlin (there is already 100% interop, but sometimes java's code can be better expressed in kotlin)
- official android documentation in kotlin.
- I guess that kotlin will focus even more on Android's support

It is not going to change anything regarding kotlin compatibility with Android. Since kotlin outputs bytecode, it would be almost impossible for Android to permanently break kotlin compatibility without also breaking 99% of all Android's libs.
And yet you're still missing most of the point. Commercial tomatoes aren't pulled off the vine early for fun or pure greed, it's a matter of picking them before they are too soft to survive shipment.

That's not a problem with a tomato from your own back yard, but it's a big deal even if they only have to travel a few miles.
I don't reddit, but I was giving my opinion as everyone does here. If you disagree with it fine, but I disagree it adds "nothing". It's pointing out the absurdity (with sarcasm) of these types of measures, touted as "protecting the people", if you disagree please cite why.
There were versions of OS/2 with SMP support, if I remember correctly.
posted this below. know your tax exemptions: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/capital-gains-and-your...

agent fees is a big reason that I don't buy a house. unless you're in a booming market it's tough to make back that fee.
I wholeheartedly agree, I was deeply moved by this and loved his writing style so much and wanted to read something else by him. Shocking that he died so soon, seemed like such a good man.
> I was thinking of taking pictures of him every time he is upset, and then tagging the photo

You won't be able to have anywhere near enough data for that.

Unless somewhere out there is a labeled dataset of newborn baby faces, with around 20-30,000 unique samples (the more data, the better).

Your problem isn't really that difficult; it could probably be done with a very simple neural network a few hours of training. If you wanted to be robust, you could hack the ImageNet CNN into something to do this, too.

I would suggest, though, while what you are doing sounds fun - enjoy being a father and deal with this the old fashioned way. It'll probably be more satisfying.

/heck, what do I know - I don't have kids...
You can't forget BeOS, currently alive in the form of the open-source reimplementation Haiku. In spite of their perpetual Alpha status, I'm still continuously amazed that it's even half as good as it is.
Roads, dams, railroads, energy transport, the postal service. I would argue that the large scale successes outnumber the failures.
I think urban areas generally are big contributors (though I'm not sure I'd call that "skew," necessarily). Definitely not just SV and NYC, though. Also include DC, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Austin, etc.
That is the odd part isn't it? At some point the sale price of a new home has to incentivize building houses.
LGM-30 Minuteman
Is there a CFAA defense to border searches of phones?
Appmixer released, visual tool to connect cloud apps
Or even lower, companies are experimenting with ternary, fp8, etc. for inference tasks.
Should this web page have been served as `text/hacker-news-comment-thread+html`?
> The long view is surely that Government provides an excellent vehicle for planning of infrastructure and allocation of large-scale funding, and independent institutions and private companies the best vehicles to receive that funding for R&D & actually building out infrastructure.

What you mean by "long view" here? I also don't particularly see why private companies would (in principle) be better than government-run institutions. I mean, in most of the world universities are government-funded institutions, and I think they produce quite a bit of innovation?

The key here is independence from the direct source of funding. There's nothing magical about private enterprise that means it'll be more "innovative". You just need independence[2].

> When a government tries to build infrastructure directly, you often get disastrous outcomes. Australia's so-called National Broadband Network is a recent and woeful example.

I can't claim to know much about Australia, so can you explain what went wrong with NBN?

I can tell you that e.g. Sweden is among the top[1] of the world when it comes to Internet speed, and I believe that was mostly done by government mandate. (Not sure who actually laid the fiber, but that's pretty much beside the point.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...

[2] As in: Your funding is guaranteed for X number of years, regardless of political whims, popular opinion, etc.
Used to be quite popular with ATMs, so I wouldn't be surprised if a few of those still survived for banks where they connect to IBM mainframes.
hey maybe this means we will eventually be able to build apps in other languages to that target the JVM like Jython (or pure python would be cool).

Eh, I'm moving on from Python so if they never threw the ability to build apps for android with python that'd be fine, too.

Am I the only one that finds Java's (and Java 8's) syntax fine. I like the traditional type annotations and perceived verbosity.
As is the website. I like how they describe the new graphical features without including a single screenshot.

EDIT: To be sure, I'm genuinely interested in what it looks like.
I don't see exactly what the mentioned problem has to do with writing REST endpoints though.

Agree with OP. REST endpoint in many cases are the way to go. Particularly today when the front end might undergo who knows what transition and not really have much to do with Django at all.
Just wait until eventually someone over the XDA forums creates an Android Go based ROM with those features back, but still with the more efficient kernel and base system.

I'm actually pretty stoked for this to be honest! Can you imagine if there was the possibility of switching those profiles in real-time, like an upgraded version of the "battery saver" that already exists.
Not any news on the Fabric dismantle. What brand stays alive? Will everything become Firebase?
Not really. Android has its own graphical stack.

You might be able to write an ndk app targeting android with you own stack of widget, but that's very different from an 'sdk' app.
Can you explain how one launders money using a condo? Typically this is done with a small business like a car wash or laundromat...
I'm curious how you would even know? If Google is making ML breakthroughs, I think it's quite obvious they won't be immediately publishing them if they are actually commercially useful.
Art of the Problem posted a new video on Turing Machines
>but the very high transaction fees are a big deterrent.

You've succinctly described why so many parties have a vested interest in sustaining any housing bubble. Many palms getting greased along the way, and very few people who benefit form the implosion.
Why? Because we don't reelect politicians who are tied to programs that have "failed." That's why. We, the electorate, are easily manipulated and on average have no tolerance for "failure." As a result, few elected officials attempt to push for things that might end their career.

In short, We get what we ask for.
"Proceeds" is a synonym for profits, not for revenues. That was my point: "15% of revenues" might very well be the entirety of the proceeds, making their statement true. You have to do some accounting to prove or disprove that.
Interesting because this was the way houses were priced when my parents sold theirs in 1972. Plus ça change...
I'm not aware of architectural patterns for service methods in Django (would like to find some as well), but what I did was to somewhat mimic a Java structure.

All the project is in one single app, which I unimaginatively called "core", and inside this app there's a "services" Python package (i.e. a folder with a __init__.py file inside). These have roughly one Python module (.py file) for each "category" of services. For example, there's thin layers like "user_service.py" (basically passes through to the relevant models), to more complex services like "dependency_x_integration_service.py", which connects to external service "X" and pulls some relevant data (say, user interaction datapoints), and bridges them to the models in the system.
So you purchased a condo you don't live in as an investment in area where few but the super rich can even afford to own their own homes, and now you find, not that you'll take a loss if you sell it, but that you won't make as much money as you'd like (because of perfectly standard fees and taxes that were standard when you bought the place too), and can make more money renting it out instead...

...you're not looking for sympathy, are you?
They don't exactly broadcast it on loudspeakers. I live in the West End of Vancouver. It's pretty common.
heh, new idea: GitHub Monkey — randomly makes your private repos public
> Who believes in unlimited government?

He never said anybody believed in unlimited government. There are plenty of people that believe the government should have more power over individuals. i.e. Socialism, Communism, Socialized Healthcare, etc.

At it's core, it the collective imposing it's will upon the individual. If we continue to give power to the collective to impose on the individual, the individual will cease to have freedoms & rights.

Note that things are even more nuanced. Some individuals hold inordinate influence over the apparatus of the collective, which is used to impose rules on other individuals.
What I find funny is that through all this he never actually mentioned the fact that sizeof() a string constant includes the NUL character at the end.

This has bitten me more times than I care to admit.

Nowadays, I almost always use the array form and actually declare my strings character by character so that I see the NUL if I actually meant to use it.
US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High, Hits Record $12.7 Trillion
If you're interested in the private-vs-public dynamic that is building our future, I strongly suggest watching Xavier Flory's talk at 33c3, "The Transhumanist Paradox"[1].

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8064-the_transhumanist_paradox
Ask HN: Recent, 'datestamped' satellite imagery website?
The images I have seen of the Oroville dam look fine, are copyright 2017, but don't show the date they were taken.
As if home owners don't have a sweet enough deal already?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-homeownershi...
If quantum chips work out then a ton of existing financial infrastructure using non-quantum-resilient security will also fail.
The official docs has the best tutorials I have ever seen for a new language.

1 - skim the language documentation (depending on your familiarity with java, this will be more or less easy)

2 - download intellij, clone the kotlin koans repo and do these exercices.

After finishing the koans, you will have a good grasp at kotlin's basics.
Hi Dang, I submitted the article. I was trying to use the r/futurology article title which was, "University of Houston physicists have discovered a catalyst that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, composed of easily available, low-cost materials and operating far more efficiently than previous catalysts, reported in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences."

HN has an 80 character limit for titles so I had to cut it down drastically from that.
If you get your DB model 100% correct the first time I want to work for your clients!
I'm watching the EU: https://www.ft.com/content/b2b2b246-b21b-3493-936f-4853f8fa5...
Did I even mention “free market”? Did I say government should not get involved at all? Where is this negativity coming from?
By containers, do you mean shipping containers? Sounds interesting!
I will expound, these types of measures to "protect the people" are absurd, farcical, and generally do way more harm than good, causing ridiculous friction in the market that helps no one. This tariff only helps the inefficient.
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Here's the central issue for someone outside the CS industry: I have large scale, high value data in a competitive, highly regulated, exciting market, something that bends GDP: defense, aerospace, healthcare, transportation. It's not like I got a bunch bored tweens in the Valley to share pics of their food. I have to sell my organization, which may be looking at a decade or more of data, that my CS collaborator can a) handle the data at scale, b) secure the data, c) hold on long enough to get to market. Because a couple years won't even get you to the FDA's or FAA's doorstep. NASA, DoD? FRA, NHTSA? You're looking at a 10 year lead time. You're looking at hosting tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars of data, running an equal amount of compute, and doing it for the next 10 years. Not the last 10 years. The next 10.

I can't, cannot, convince the org to bet the future on the ability and moral grounding of two random guys in a garage. They wouldn't even be able to wrap their heads around it, the difference in scales is too big: "You want to give our 10 PB of data to two guys in a garage? What? Get out. In fact, go get a new job, you're done here."

These deals are being signed by people who worry about capitalized words, like Gross National Product or Personal Health Information or Mars. We're talking orgs with tens of thousands of people who have committed their lives to a thing. We're not trying to use Dutch actions to steer 20-somethings in Orange County to the right sushi restaurant. Which is a sweet trick, don't get me wrong. But it's a bit different when we're trying to protect nations and their economies, and maybe just save the world or the human race.

Do you know what the US Government defines as "a large firm" for contracting purposes? 200 people. That's about right. You and I both know that those same two guys working for AFGAM are still the same two guys. But I need to contract with an entity wherein, if those guys I'm collaborating with go south, I have recourse with the Inc to keep the project on track. They can fire the guys, bring in new guys, subcontract some guys, whatever. But I've got to convince serious people that I can maintain a 10 year trajectory in a white hot, globally competitive market.
I admit I didn't get very far in it, and maybe I didn't give it a fair chance, though you are one of the few people I've seen reporting that they found value in it (and that's great; I'm glad someone has). But I had known about cellular automata since the early 1980s when I read about Ed Fredkin's work in the area. I don't remember now what the first pages of NKoS say, but I do recall, after reading a little of it, concluding it didn't seem worth continuing.
That's still only computer vision and speech recognition. Google still does piss-poor at answering your questions using snippets.
The entire idea of the Manhatten Project was that it's such a game changer you would want it classified. It also included luminaries from the public and private sectors. For all we know, the Government is collaborating with tech partners to create such a thing as we speak but will not disclose because of national security.

Remember the internet, gps, modern telecom etc all came from government research, or some combination of public and private money but were generally declassified 10-15 years after its invention and use (some exceptions obviously). It stands to reason the next generation of AI is already being built in a similar fashion and we'll look back in time and see the patterns in hindsight.

For example, how does the NSA sift through its giant treasure trove of information? Isn't that what AI/ML/Deep Learning is designed to do? In my opinion, the government is very up to date with current trends, maybe more so than people realize.
Sorry no invites to give, unfortunately. I used what.cd briefly, but I received an invite from an admin who is a good friend of mine growing up, and he's fairly high up the chain. There's definitely the same level of love and care put into the site as before.

Of course, like what, it's really hard to get your ratio up without uploading your own albums, or trumping others. They do however give freeleech tokens every so often.
Right, I was about to make the exact same comment (in much less charitable terms).

I do not think we are anywhere close to a DIY subatomic particle detector, but a kit that would allow you to, let's say... test for common minerals in tap water, would be a cool gift for a STEM inclined teenager.
I wonder if you could buy an ad that looks like that from Google or if only Google is allowed to use them...
You scale your app server out and your database server up. You can have 100 django servers hitting one database with a read-replica, for example.

Depending on your workload, this is often a great way to scale and pretty typical for Django. In most cases your app servers will saturate way before the database does.