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Google’s next-generation AI training system is monstrously fast – The Verge
1) It already has it when you enter the password manually.
2) What do you think Google will do with your router password?
Or they will let out a nostalgic sigh as they think about those simpler days where you could get useful work done on 4 GB of RAM... ;-)
While this might be pertaining to cofounders as well, it's not a rule, whereas it is a rule for first hires. Cofounders can have completely different means to resolve conflicts/departures etc. specified in operating agreements, such as arbitrations etc.
I agree. In addition, if you pull a stunt like that, expect to have the book thrown at you to make an example of you. Part of the reason Ross Ulbricht's sentence was so harsh was to send a message.
If you have moving subjects (i.e., people in a public place walking past) you can take multiple shots and finagle it with your preferred image editor. Other techniques using variations on this, or just simply copying/pasting from other parts of the image (clone tool).
I've always been somewhat underwhelmed by AI stuff but Google is rocking it. As a long time iPhone user I'm really tempted by their stuff (if it wasn't for the privacy creep). Apple isn't even in the same league as Google when it comes to AI and services.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539936/erase-obstructions...
My understanding is that the anxiety isn't about a fear of programming being automated in the near future, but rather about ML growing into a required, essential skill for a software developer in the next few years.
Good thing you're not an investor then, yeah?
We know the real reason for down votes is it's voicing support for conservative views and questions the HN group think bubble.

You can dress it up with whatever fancy logic you want, HN commenters are as bias and unthinking as any others.
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Ask HN: Grants for personal development/engineering projects?
I was looking for a way to keep my kids' minds engaged this summer (instead of letting them watch TV for 30 hours per day), and decided that a family summer project would be a great way of having fun as well as learning some new things (for all of us). The project we decided on was to build a quadcopter drone. In planning this out, I decided I wanted to document the entire process, use a Raspberry Pi as the core, and do as much of the engineering and software development as I could. I realized that by using open source software, commodity hardware, open-sourcing all of the custom code that I write, and thoroughly documenting the entire process, I could provide a very educational guide for hobbyists to use at home, or even teachers to use in their classroms.

I mentioned this to a coworker, and he thought I should see if I could find a grant to help defray some of the costs associated with it. Does anyone know of any organizations that provide grants for personal projects such as this? The goal is to produce a completed product for under $250, but I fully recognize that there will be additional costs associated with building prototypes, buying the necessary tools, etc. Ideally, I'd like the total cost of all the research, development, and engineering to be less than $1500 total (sub-$1000 is my real goal). Since I want this to be useful in teaching children more about engineering and software development, it's important to me that the expenses are minimal for the finished product.

Can anyone give me any leads on individuals, foundations, companies, etc. that might provide grants to help defray some of these costs? I'd really appreciate any recommendations you can provide. And I'll be sure to post a link once we begin work so you can follow our progress!
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What the other guy said, but that's also why I said "circa" instead of an exact date. The reason Camcords and Corollics became ubiquitous was their reputation for consistently lasting, on no more than the manufacturer-recommended maintenance schedule and a warranty repair or two, past the 100k mile marker without throwing a head gasket or rusting away.

Nowadays that's the minimum we expect (even for bargain-basement Korean subcompacts,* exotic Porsche sports cars or bleeding-edge high-technology computer-controlled Teslas), but >25 years ago it was virtually unheard of outside the Japanese brands.

*The Hyundai Excel and Pony had such poor reputations for reliability that their brand image still remains somewhat tarnished in the US, while the Daewoo brand had to be retired in North America/Europe entirely (I believe some of their models are now sold as Chevys).
This is a remarkably common belief and it bugs me to no end. I don't know why, but many people have developed this conviction that C is required for computers to work, that that's the baseline of computation. This comes from both novices and experts. I haven't figured it out.
Agreed. Keeping animals in captivity is a relic of the past when that was the only way to view animals. Now we have high-resolution cinematography and underwater photography...why not educate children using NatGeo, and inspire those that find it exciting to go further?
Every mention of Stephen Wolfram's ego-trip of a book deserves a link to Cosma Shalizi's epic take-down of a review ("A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"):

http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

(EDIT) The gist: "As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsupported."
Google Will Sell Its AI 'Supercomputer' Chip Through GCP
That's the thing, there aren't "active" and "inactive" ingredients. There are webs of phytochemicals that have dynamic interactions with one another and with the human body. Reductive medicine is missing that point over and over again. It's not possible to extract single ingredients that have the same effects as the qualitative mixtures phytochemicals in plants. Not only that, interacting with the plants on a human, physical level is nurturing in and of itself. There are so many pathways for information to get into the body. I want to drink lavender tea when I'm feeling a particular kind of anxiety. The smell alone calms me. The color is soothing. The way the tea feels when I drink it is warm. I enjoy the way it tastes. The taste and smell remind me of memories and moods. It works very well. It doesn't cover "general anxiety" for me. I wouldn't offer it as a prescription to someone who tells me they have "anxiety". It works better in cases of "spiritual crisis", to help maintain a bigger picture after a death or tragedy, than it does for acute frantic, nervous feelings. In those cases, I prefer valerian, chamomile or holy basil.

You're bullshitting me if you think I'm gonna prefer to take a pill with "holy basil extract" over a delicious cup of holy basil tea. Absolutely not.

And tell me how to "extract" rooibos? What parts are you going to put into pills? Can you extract the taste? Can you extract the nutrients? Would you make one pill for the antioxidants and another for the vitamin C?

It used to be thought that THC was "the active ingredient" in cannabis. Well, it turns out that THC and CBD, along with numerous other varieties of cannabinoids, interact dynamically in the body, modulating one anothers' effects. Studies have shown that CBD quells the psychosis inducing effects of THC very well. But CBD on its own isn't necessarily a strong antipsychotic. It'd need to be taken in large doses to have that effect.

The idea that "germs cause disease" is a similar misconception. Bacterial infections are symptoms of larger ecological imbalances in the body's microbiome. Sometimes infections are really caused by antibiotics (if you wanna point fingers), as is the case with C. Difficile infections that take hold in guts whose flora have been nuked by antibiotics.
On Italy’s Coast, a Forsaken Village Is a Tale of a Paradise Lost
I made it a point a long time ago to never use any SaaS, PaaS, or cloud solutions from Google for anything important. First off, their offerings tend to be much more expensive than competitors. Second, Google tends to randomly drop features, services, and support for applications without warning whenever they want. Third, they don't have any actual support at all for anything. I use Linode for all of my hosting, and I can get tech support on the phone in less than 5 minutes even without the upgraded support plan. On top of this, Linode and DigitalOcean offer extensive community curated documentation for almost everything.

The above reasons are also why I don't use any open source software developed or maintained solely by Google. There's no guarantee that Google won't just stop maintaining it after a year or less. For a somewhat recent project, my co-founder and I evaluated using Angular2 for the front-end of our application. During our evaluation, we learned about Angular4. Knowing about what happened between Angular1 and Angular2, we decided to steer clear of the angular ecosystem. This decision also made more sense from the performance and ecosystem side of the argument. Most groups that develop open source software do their best to ensure that there is a well documented and simple upgrade path. Look at Django, rails, React, Vue, postgresql, etc for example. As far as I have experienced, Google products offer no such simple upgrade path.

To be honest, I'm not really sure what value Google is offering anymore. The only quality product from them I still find any use for is Gmail. Even Gmail has competitors that do Email better. I guess there's also youtube, but Google are kind of shitting that up as well.

I think the tech space needs to walk away from worshiping Google and Facebook. In all reality, the technical quality of their products is lacking and their entire goal is to lock both consumers and developers inside their own walled gardens.
Same, though I was too dumb[0] to grok what I was doing in high school. It took me until my third CS course in college to finally understand what I was doing at that level of programming.

[0] Not really dumb. I was accomplishing my goals, but I had no understanding. It was a combination of rote copying and imitation, and dumb luck.
> Both are abiding by laws restricting access to that content. If you have an issue with that perhaps talk to the relevant governments.

In the case of Roskomnadzor, GitHub is not under the jurisdiction of the Russian government---they made a choice to comply. They could have instead chosen to stand up to the Russian government, which would surely upset its citizens and the world and possibly lead to change. Possibly not. It's certainly a gamble.

rms drew a hard line on this. When I asked him about Roskomnadzor specifically, he was not moved. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I forget what he said about the export controls; I'll have to look at my mail archives tonight. But if they are complying with US law, and they have no choice, I don't think they'd be penalized in these criteria.
A Canadian Town Wanted a Transit System. It Hired Uber
"Apple isn't even in the same league as Google when it comes to AI and services."

Not many companies are.
Garbage article. Of course if everyone did everything correctly the first time, we'd be in an entirely different world.
OP works for Pornhub, so I suspect it is on their site.
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This is helpful too: https://github.com/auth0/extend/wiki/Auth0-Extend-User%27s-G...
The company is based in LA, a city known for its hellscape of congested freeways.
Not having to pump gas in the freezing cold. I don't need any other reason to drive an EV. Not this one in particular:

>“The electric drive-train is so much more powerful. The gasoline and diesel cars cannot possibly compete,” Seba said. The parallel is what happened to film cameras – and to Kodak – once digital rivals hit the market. It was swift and brutal
It's a shame these financial press editors are so naive.

I'm an electric transportation fanboy. I'm a Tesla Motors customer and I have a photovoltaic array on my roof. I've done these things because I'm an early adopter, not because they're even marginally cost effective in 2017.

The economics aren't happening for an EV tipping point in one decade. Certainly not in the vast US.

Why not? Because: the places people in Sili Valley call "flyover country." Because: utility companies. Because: recharging time. Because: infrastructure. In the US, we have our own kind upper class twits (cf Monty Python). Many of them live in Sili Valley. The guy who wrote this study is a candidate for that honorific.

EVs require widespread charging capability. I'm lucky. I own my own house, and I had the money (til I spent it) to upgrade my electric service and get my 40A charging port installed. It cost money, and it leveraged resources (house, driveway) I already own.

The charging rate at 40A is about 26 mph: one plugged-in hour gets me 26 miles of range. It all works for me: it's my car, and I sleep. Still, a fossil-fuel vehicle can take on a full load of fuel in a few minutes.

What about apartment dwellers? There may be a few apartment developments offering charging ports. But not many. It's costly to add that stuff. Tell landlords they have to install charging ports at the rate of one or two per apartment, by 2022. Let us know how those conversations go.

It's true that car charging is a time-shiftable load, so it won't require a lot of extra peak-load generation capacity. But for time shifting to work at scale we need to persuade the electric utilities to implement some sort of "smart grid." It takes years of regulatory battles to do easy stuff. And the "smart grid" is hard. Tell the legislatures, bought and paid for by big companies, they'll be compelling utilities to adopt smart grids in five years. Let us know how those conversations go.

OK, OK, those things aren't important, because robot uber. Because of self-driving hired vehicles. Visit Ohio or New Mexico. Tell the third-shift nurse she'll be taking cabs to work from now on. Tell the electrician who rigged my 40A port she won't own the van she drives to work sites, and won't even control it. Let us know how those conversations go.

Telll robot uber's investors they have to pony up the capital for all those robot taxicabs, and the insurance costs for operating them 365 days a year rain or shine, sleet or snow. Let us know how that conversation goes.

Yes, electrified transport is the future. Yes, peak oil will look like declining oil prices and gas stations getting steadily shabbier as demand dries up and margins get thinner. But is it gonna "tip" by 2027 in the USA? no. In Norway and Singapore? Maybe.
Honestly I found the paper critically lacking where they attempted to make reference or comparisons to virtual retinal displays. Saying that a VRD is functionally restricted to moderate FOV in comparison to the 120 degree FOV of the Rift - using only the embodiment of the deform-able membrane mirror as reference is ridiculous on it's face.

Even a rough version of the deformable mirror AR VRD described by researchers at UNC Chapel Hill [1] accomplishes 100 degrees FOV with accommodation.

They went further with the Pinlight achieving 110 in 2014 [2]

The technical limit according to our own work for VRD FOV is H: 200o, V: 140o (Combined). So either they're ignoring work in the field intentionally cause they don't want to do VRD or they don't know about it. My guess would be the former.

[1]http://telepresence.web.unc.edu/research/dynamic-focus-augme...

[2]http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Emaimone/media/pinlights_siggraph_20...

edit: I find this whole thing extremely frustrating. Facebook could throw 2 billion dollars at VRD tech and actually get to a working stable consumer grade system if they wanted to - everything is there for it. Why aren't they?
I guess it depends what you're doing.

Remapping some engine timings, where the worst thing that could happen is you blow up your engine: mostly fine, although there's a small risk that you cause an accident if that causes you to lose acceleration on the highway. Reading OBD or CAN buses, fine. Writing to the buses: nope nope nope.

And that's just for cars. Flying cars, where many system failures result in an inability of the car to stay in the air: I'd expect this to be thoroughly illegal and heavily prosecuted, because I for one quite like being alive and not underneath a crashed flying car.

Does this stifle innovation? For sure. Does it restrict one's ability to modify the things you own? Definitely. Are aircraft regs sometimes over the top? (For instance, preventing you from updating old built-in gps systems, as came up on HN recently.) Yup. But the regs exist for good reasons.
I know about clean plate techniques like that, even use them often in production... haven't realised it's the same. Looking at the link in sibling comment to yours now.
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It's a lot easier to isolate your atoms from noise.

There's a giant nuclear fireball blasting half the planet at a time with EM, everything is radiating EM (even on some of the communication bands!), most of the things will diffract or reflect EM, and we don't know of a way to isolate EM using only EM.

So atoms seem to have a better asymptotic isolation in known physics, and thus conceivably might always be faster due to potential noise in the respective channels.
There are two solutions to this that don't involve any new tech:

1) Don't move your POV in VR.

2) Train your brain interpret movement in VR as world movement not body movement. If you can maintain a sense that you're not actually moving just because your eyes are showing a lot of stuff moving around you, then your vestibular system and vision system will be in accordance and you won't have any motion sickness.

Children who use VR from a young age will have an easier time of this, but adults can learn it too.
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Household debt makes a comeback in the USA
If nothing were to change, then sure. But what about wireless charging at stop lights? Or the batter tech on HN last week that has longer range and only takes 5min to fully charge?
2b) By choosing to be rescued and studied you are increasing the scientific knowledge, general awareness and overall compassion for your species.

Thus, you would be contributing to your species' long term survival.

Site note: I don't think a 6x6 human cage is analogous. Maybe a medium-sized apartment in which you can socialize with other humans is a fairer comparison? It would be a poor existence indeed. But worse than death?
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Did you read the comment? These aren't wild orcas/dolphins they're rescues with no wild instinct. The alternative to taking care of them is to let them die, would you rather have that?

Maybe we should close down the animal shelters too and let all the animals "free". I'm sure they'll do fine in the wild.
But protectionism doesn't have to be "a battle for last place". It often is, I agree, but is also one of the levers used by Korea (etc.) to develop. The book which changed my mind about this, which I highly recommend, is Joe Studwell, "How Asia Works", https://howasiaworks.wordpress.com .

India, unfortunately, has a long record of getting this exactly wrong.
That only works if you have a grandma in a non-extraditing country
tl;dr: hindsight is 20/20
A few seconds earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14360549
Google in full offence on ML/AI. Their computing advantage enables them to outperform everyone else at this point. AI dominance and monopoly is in sight.
Ahh I think you are right. Just checked and you can set limits for App engine, but there are budgets in Google Cloud which is confusing and doesn't seem like it actually limits anything, it just keeps you notified of how much you are spending relative to your budget
I get what you're saying, and there is certainly a place for that. For example, just this week I saw the WaPo headlines about Trump supposedly sharing classified intelligence with Russian diplomats. Now maybe that's true. But my spidey sense was tingling as I read the articles from all the major news outlets. I saw not one of them was calling for impeachment for what would absolutely be a crime if it is true. And I saw not one of them was calling for charges to be levied, which I would expect people who dislike him to be rooting for since it's precisely the same sort of crime that Trump wanted Hillary in prison for. The articles also mention how the third-party source didn't approve for the info to be shared with Russia. All of this combined indicates to me that the information isn't "classified" at all. It's just considered sensitive - and that's a massive difference. One that would make all the headlines factually inaccurate. And since none of the media outlets were calling for action to be taken, I think they are fully aware that the info wasn't actually classified.

But more importantly, I find the real risk isn't in what/how they are reporting and being aware of the slant, but rather in what they are intentionally not reporting on. The issue at its core is information asymmetry. No one individual can stay on top of everything going on in the world which is why we rely on information sources to sort it out and keep us informed. But they can't be trusted - any of them. They all have agendas and biases. The only way is to expose yourself to information from multiple sources with different opinions so that you can, hopefully, wade through all the bullshit and actually get to the facts.

Also, with something like gadget reviews, you can close that information gap by purchasing it and testing it yourself. You can easily determine if someone is full of crap. You can't easily do that when it comes to politics and world news. And the risk to society with our current media/news system is extraordinary. People follow the sources that they agree with and it becomes a bubble for them that they live in. Those sources rarely ever introduce anything that goes against their narrative grain so you get a positive feedback loop where people's opinions are strengthened simply because of the information they choose to consume. It's like how so many people on Twitter and Facebook couldn't comprehend how Trump won because they 1) don't associate with anyone who supported him and 2) they only followed people with the same political beliefs - so they had no idea what his true support level was.

/rant
Exactly, MS did it right this time: Released a fix.

How many times has MS never released a fix and a researcher been forced to publish 90 days after submitting?

Not the case here and they did good. It was everyone else's fault.
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And I was objecting to your characterization of Vancouver aquarium as a place where animals are made to do tricks for our entertainment. It is a serious research institution which takes animal welfare very seriously. Keep in mind that, for the most part, these are animals that would not survive in the wild. Vancouver has banned wild caught whales and dolphins for decades.

Animals in captivity are always problematic, but there are sometimes good reasons for it both from an animal welfare point of view and from a human education point of view. In the meantime, great strides have been made in improving conditions for animals in captivity, and Vancouver has been a leader in this regard.
I can't think of anything at this exact moment that does not contribute to UX. My response was regarding the assumption that the parent comment of mine equating UI with UX.