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This comes up a lot in climate discussions. There's a record hurricane or heat wave, but these things happen randomly so there's no way to say definitively that one particular event would not have happened without climate change.

But we do know that overall, climate change causes stronger hurricanes and hotter heat waves.

In the same way, we know smoking causes lung cancer, but if you're a smoker who gets lung cancer, nobody can say for sure that the smoking caused it, because some nonsmokers get lung cancer too. They just don't get it as often.
I don't think that deleting a bunch of cruft from the app store will "create a cultural black hole for generations to come."

Imagine people had said that same with old DOS games?

The article makes a very valid point regarding digital preservation. The same argument is often made regarding the dangers of DRM or other proprietary data and storage formats.
US is also one of the countries best situated to solve the problem.
FWIW, 1.2 does still build on MacOS. But you have to build it yourself. I did run into a fair amount of problems, but ultimately I'm not sure if those weren't of my own making.
Kudos, Musk is willing to embarrass himself if necessary in a good cause. Thanks. But I'm not overly fond of the paper.

No mention of asteroids when discussing other destinations, or re refueling. No mention of refueling from lunar sources (oxygen - you could haul hydrogen from Mars or Earth. Plus structural matter, solar cells, soil or even food.) Transporters that actually land on Mars - a la the first lunar return trip plans which landing everything on the moon that would return. It's surely more likely that there will be dedicated Earth-Mars transporters for that distance that don't land at either end. Way more economical.

But others have covered this in more detail:

http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/case_for_moon_open_...
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I think you wanted to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577014
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The rules for newspaper headlines is not the same as for normal sentences.

> "Tanzania bans song for two years"

That's ungrammatical as a sentence but a perfectly good headline.
> bad bacteria proliferates without oxygen, without salt and without acid

Why is that so? Why can't some of the bad types of bacteria proliferate in other environments?
The real problem here is businesses who are causing this are externalizing their costs to everyone else. So I have to buy an expensive EV, I have to willingly pay more for energy, I must willingly inconvenience myself to bring a reusable bag to the grocery store. Until we make those who are causing this pay the real costs, we will never see any meaningful change. The worst part is also that those countries that choose not to have any restrictions will inevitably move ahead, economically, of those that do and slowly weaken those that do have restrictions. The only real solution to this problem is complete collapse or ubiquitous market forces that make the environmental choice also the best fiscal choice.
Linux plz
One other benefit with TensorFlow is that transitioning to cloud based processing on Google Cloud / Tensor Processing Units is seamless. It will turbo charge your training when compared to typical GPU performance.

Disclosure: Work for Google Cloud
Ah, yes, that's very possible. For Europe, I hear that AISLER is competitive, and you get ENIG coating by default and DHL shipping, so it's fast.
> Maybe that was psychosis

That's not what psychosis is. People with psychosis are mostly not violent. Did you mean psychopathy?
4, 9, 19, 21, 56, 68, 99 and 100 from the top 100 of the list.
Hardee's/Carl's Junior has ridiculously good burgers for a fast food joint. I gotta say though, since we got a Five Guys I don't even bother with them anymore if I want a quick burger.
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No, parent does make a good point.

The only way for an alternative implementation to compete is for someone to pay for its creation, documentation, maintenance, etc.

That's how we got all these great JS JITs and stuff: with Apple, Google, and co paying the bills, and pushing for them to succeed.

PyPy managed to get close to something working, but it lacks lots of the polish and resources available for CPython.
I'm not sure what specifically you are referring to... but whatever it is it is being used as a distraction from the issues revealed by WL. Chances are even without Assange involved there would be attempts by many governments to discredit those operating WL.
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From the video, it appears this is an AI-plotted hugely multidimensional space t-sne'd onto two dimensions.

Would be interesting to do some kind of ML on how best to present hugely multidimensional spaces onto two _interactive_ dimensions. Where one AI is deciding how things are projected and how it can be manipulated, and another AI is limited to some virtual "mouse, keyboard, 2D screen" to make inferences. Such that it's optimized for faster, more correct inferences.
It may be nice, but it certainly is buggy:

bool isatty = config->global->isatty;
[...]
if(!config)
return failure;
The kind of people using these services are too poor or uneducated to transfer money using one of the many apps that already exist. The blockchain hype is insane, distributed transactions are pointless in most money transfer scenarios where existing systems work fine.
>This article seems a little bit overwrought. I don't think that deleting a bunch of cruft from the app store will "create a cultural black hole for generations to come."

Plus, if that was our actual concern, we had TONS of other stuff to help preserve first: digitize all kinds of old books, movies and music and make it available for example.

iOS apps would be at the very bottom of the cultural landscape for things that would be missed (and the nature of technology is not such that those are meant to be evergreen artifacts anyway... nobody much cares that we can't play ZX Spectrum games easily for example).
so true, and this is why many startups will fail if they switch to the pay to view model (i have my eyes on you medium)
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The salt and acidity kill botulism.
My dad up until recently worked at the public library in Waterloo. There were a number of homeless people well known to the staff that came in regularly. Mostly to get out of the heat or the cold, but they'd use the computers for things. They also get a lot of immigrants through the doors.
What would be ideal would be the ability to charge for an update. Developers would be inclined to actually update their apps. My favorite apps have died on the vine after a few years because it's not worthwhile updating. And so I have to shift to other, inferior apps. Crazy! The alternative is in app purchases, but that really complicates things for the user.
No. Meditations is like switching off internal firewalls(reality models) and trying to read raw packets(thought objects) on an ancient OS you only know by interface. You don't control the packets coming out, but you can apply filters and examine their structure. As you try to peek inside the system, it starts to behave weird as if it has more and more firewalls keeping secrets from you and when you break them down you lose protection from outside hackers and have to build up defenses from scratch.
Ummm. You nailed me there.
Haven't seen much Bayes in current deep learning trends though.
I think it's save to assume they considered the numbers and concluded it wasn't worth it
> make it sound like it's the big bad private journals that are trying to steal all the taxpayer-funded research which should belong to the people

Research Works Act, where Elsevier et al tried to do literally this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act
Over time, I have come to view "declarative infrastructure" as unrealistic. It's right 90% of the time, but not 100% of the time -- kind of like using only CSS and HTML. One should use markup whenever possible; but not everything on a page is truly "declarative". Occasionally one needs to script an input field or a transition.

One example of this is scripting the handoff process that's part of a blue/green deploy. In practice you'll want to look at organization defined metrics. There are libraries to do this -- either internal to your organization, or provided by a metrics vendor -- and scripting the process looks like this:

(1) Setup new environment.
(2) Divert some traffic.
(3) Check metrics.
(4) If metrics are okay:
(4.1) Post message internally (IRC/Slack).
(4.2) Divert all traffic.
(4.3) Set up timed task to tear down old environment (in a day, hour, &c.).
(5) If metrics are okay:
(5.1) Post message internally (IRC/Slack), maybe to different people.
(5.2) Stop diverting traffic.
(5.3) Tear down new environment.

A large part of the work here is declarative: (1) by itself is a big piece of it, and is fully declarative, as is the teardown in (4.3) and (5.3). However, the need for control flow in this and many other cases means that, without a library, one must drive Terraform by templating and shelling out. Not being "real code" pushes one in the direction, not of greater declarativeness (libraries can certainly have declarative interfaces, like Troposphere does), but of worse code.

Many complex and powerful features are exposed to a modern business through libraries -- AI, payments, telephony -- and software defined infrastructure can be, too. The benefits of "infrastructure as code" won't be realized until that happens.
Right but I would never suspect VCs, in today's world of Google Drive et al it's entirely possible that their notes are readable by business dev.
Yes sample size is ridiculously small. Also, I couldn't find anywhere how they actually selected these individuals. i.e. it doesn't seem this was a random double blind study

Also the suggested causal association "unexpected effect of red meat" would need a lot more controls to figure out. There could easily be several confounding variables here.
It just means OSX users (like me) have to compile from source - no different from PyTorch. Happy to provide compiled binaries for 10.12, though it's a bit of a chore to get Xcode clang and CUDA to play nice together.
Assange has been very transparent about his timing strategy, which is essentially a low budget PR strategy due to necessity.

If a single party came forward with information that had been sent to WL and ignored, you might have a point.

If you are a leaker and decide to leak to WL and the material is not published, then you can leak it elsewhere.

The idea that WL is a gatekeeper over what major leaked information sees the light of day is absurd. On the margin there may be a difference of opinion about the newsworthiness of a leak, but WL makes its policy on this extremely transparent.
Officially, there shouldn't be very many people for whom it's relevant. The last Macs with Nvidia GPUs were sold around 2011 if I remember correctly.

Unofficially, there may be some people using Hackitoshs with rather beefy GPUs for machine learning.

There's a lot you can do easily on a $500 GPU that should take too long on CPU. And I prefer the shorter write/run/debug loop of working locally. It's the same niche other machine learning workstations fill, only with the preferred desktop OS.

There will also be external GPUs for Macs soon(ish), and those would be perfect for tensorflow. I'm not sure at that point they'll want it running on Macs again, and discontinuing support now may be the wrong decision.
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It's not the easiest tool to learn
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For the sake of historical accuracy, and for the sake of honest journalism, this lawsuit needs to bedecided in favor of Techdirt and to impose no financial hardship on Techdirt.

Ideally, Ayyadurai would be ruined as well -- as a cautionary tale for other miscreants.
For now–I've thought about getting involved in keeping that going, even trying to set up a travis build. But bazel, I, and C++, we simply don't enjoy the time we spend together.
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Crude joke, but this so reminds me of the line from the movie Argo. Specifically the joke[1] which later became
synonymous with "break a leg" during the movie.

Not that Cloudflare won't fix it, but while reading the post, I couldn't stop hearing it in my head.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjJTsrglDA&feature=youtu.be...
cURL is a good utility but in my view calling it industry standard is a stretch. Personally I like httpie and postman.
Have you considered using Pytorch? Actually, many in the DL community thinks it is the next big thing as it is more intuitive and dynamic than Tensorflow.
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You're not missing anything except the the value of the hype that goes with the deal. The analysts, the fund managers making buy decisions and so on are all in the Whole Foods demographic, so they love the deal and feel the same way as the author - it's all about the optics. I couldn't agree more with you about Kroger. Whole foods did $15b last year in sales, Kroger did $115b. If they managed to triple the volume of Whole Foods, they would still be a small competitor relative to Kroger.
> (not sure how that would work with coffee)

Yes, I assumed that a paper cup and coffee solids will provide nucleation points.

And the incident was about a coffee spill, not a flash boiling of superheated liquid.

> During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchisees to hold coffee at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C).

This is clearly not superheated liquid.
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There's an exceptionally strong tendency, though there are factors which can temper it.

Luxury goods, Veblen goods, and virtue / honest signalling, generally, avoid rampant RttB effects -- Whole Foods itself would be an example, Apple another.

Untrammeled competition on the mass market of complex goods almost always tends toward RttB. It seems that there's an exceedingly strong and pervasive Gresham's Law dynamic across multiple domains, which I've been looking into.

What keeps this from becoming total seems to be a mix of factors. Apple, for example, as a small fraction of either mobile (15%) or desktop (5%) markets, by unit sales, but has profit margins at a level which make it the most highly-valued joint-stock corporation in the world. It achieves this through a focus on some elements of product quality -- I wouldn't call Apple hacker-friendly, in the same way Linux or FreeBSD are (despite similarities), but it's been far more user friendly than Microsoft in many regards, if you're willing to pay a premium.

And a certain portion of the market gets that.

(The dynamic in the case of mobile is similar: more expensive than Android, not hacker-friendly, but vastly less aggrevating to use for the somewhat-discerning user.)

Essentially, if you're going to move off the bottom, you may be able to, but you're going to be limited to a certain niche.

If there are very large scaling efficiencies to size, even that becomes a challenge.

You'll find similar stories across various products and services. Generally, the smaller the market (in terms of total buyers), and more discerning, the more likely a higher-quality product can survive. With market size (and non-discerning customers) comes worse product.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure I composed this same piece like 30 years ago.

Edit: the real art is being able to get published in the NY Times with this boring music.
Western Union today is not really a successor of the Western Union Telegraph Company. It's a unit of First Data, the first third-party processor of Visa and MasterCard transactions. First Data bought what was left of Western Union when the telegram business collapsed and WU went bust.

First Data is a tech startup from the 1970s. If it involves payments, they probably have some service offering. They're bigger than PayPal.
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I tried it and quit after a minute of play. I suggest making the levels a little bit longer to unlock a greater sense of accomplishment. Just curious, why the phone-type aspect for a typing game? Fantastic graphics.
> Games and entertainment content geared towards youth do well.

Which is, I guess, because the youth is more susceptible to ads.

:(
I am disappointed to see Topaz missing from the lineup, but I suppose that it never had strong adoption in the Ruby community.
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> A good food blogger focusing on the US/High GDP audience can get CPMs from $1-4

You're taking a risk here.

By mentioning this, a good fraction of the 300K Hacker News daily uniques will visit your site as I did, and some may be gourmands. Excellent uncluttered presentation and mouth-watering photography by the way.

On the other hand, you tipped off the largest gathering of highly motivated, entrepreneurial web developers to a business idea that no one expected to be so profitable.
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Why the downvotes? Please don't downvote if you disagree with somebody's opinion. Start a meaningful conversation instead.
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ARM provides hardware support for virtualization. MacOS includes a hypervisor framework.

Could Apple support older apps (slowly) in an iOS VM that contains an older version of iOS?
Why is that a stupid remark?

That is something systematically taught by people holding positions of authority over children (in most cases both parents and school teachers).

In light of that, it is not that surprising so many people young see suicide a respite.
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Amazon can not afford to subsidize anything. What people don't get about amazon is that they are very poor. It's going to be interesting to see how they make this work. My guess is replacing instacart and keeping those profits will help balance the books. Young, Whole Foods customers like quality of WF and the time saving of home delivery.
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Most examples are 60 fps, but on the last one I get 60 fps in MS Edge, but only ~35 in Chrome. IE won't even load it for whatever reason. Quadro k620
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My coworkers and I used curl, and the linux kernel, as part of interviews. The candidate was asked to download the source to the Linux kernel during the interview; occasionally they would curl it to the tty. (We don't ding them for this, as I do it all the time myself… In fact, if anything, it provides a great opportunity to see if they know about reset, or the details of their mistake (e.g., why did that have so many odd effects on the terminal? why did the title change? etc.)) Surprisingly, the binary output would screw up tmux beyond repair by reset. (There would be characters printed outside the "terminal"'s area, for example. We suspect tmux has a few bugs because of this.)
Your comments are mostly valid, but I disagree about Keras. Although it's marvellous for patching something together quickly, if you want to branch out at all then it quickly becomes an absolute mess.

Far better, in my view, is to work with the newer Estimators API. It is almost as fool-proof as Keras, but instead of trying to be a framework as such, the Estimators/learn API essentially just wraps up some of the boilerplate that you need with raw tensorflow, and internally looks fairly similar to the code you might write yourself. Consequently, it preserves the composability of TF far better than Keras.
I'm late to the discussion, but my thoughts...

From Amazon's perspective, Whole Foods is a fairly low risk acquisition. WF is a going concern, not growing like crazy, but operating on a profitable basis. They don't need cash or a bail out and prima facia don't need management attention. Given the delta in revenue and profit between the two companies, they won't materially contribute to Amazon's top or bottom lines. Hence, this is not a deal for its own sake. It's strategic to Amazon. Until Amazon makes a formal and compelling statement (not a smoke screen), we'll have to infer what we can and speculate.

Amazon has shown a clear intention to pursue the grocery business. Local fresh delivery and operating retail stores that don't have cashiers or cash registers of any sort implies that they want to change the way people acquire groceries, in terms of both delivery and in-store. From a delivery and distribution standpoint, I really don't think Amazon has much to learn from WF. Amazon is likely the technology leader in that space.

What all of this means to me is that Amazon wants to roll out their cash register-free shopping experience beyond the proof of concept and into a larger scale. And they want to do that in a way that the results can be considered experimentally valid.

By buying a going concern, at the right size and scale, and then only changing one variable, they have a pretty good, experimentally valid method of seeing whether and to what extent the cash register-free shopping approach can work. Some example questions that may be answered:

- How is foot traffic affected? Do they get more people into the stores because there is guaranteed to be no line at the cash register?

- How is customer service affected? Can they redeploy cashiers to the aisles to answer customer questions? Perhaps up-sell customers to a higher average sale?

- How is profitability affected?

- What is the cost of maintaining the check out system itself?

There are many more things they can learn from this. It's a small investment that should hold it's value and provide a petri dish that yields experimentally valid results. Once they have those results, they'll be confident in their decision whether to invest in a global roll out.
I started the channel by posting some videos that were not allowed to be played in the country, then some protest videos that became very popular and were taken up by news outlets. So at that point, it got a lot of subscribers. Sat on it for a while doing nothing, then i realized there was an opportunity. I tried to explain to some artists initially what YouTube could do for them. Most of them didn't understand. They'd just put up their stuff on Facebook or Soundcloud. So i initially did it without their permission. I took 2 really popular artists' material and put it up on the channel then sent a letter at the end of the month with a report and asking them how they wanted to be paid. Out of the blue, they had someone offering them money. So then we had a conversation.

Some other artists already had channels, so they were hesitant, so i approached some of them and tried to explain momentum. They didn't understand either, so I took the same material they had on their channels and put it up then gave them the reports and checks at the end of the month as well. Then they understood it would be tough to go it alone. From there onward, it was much easier getting artists to post on the channel.

I am now looking for ways to move the thing forward. I am getting to a point where I have too many uploads which sometimes dilutes the attention, so I might open another channel. Unfortunately I am not large enough to manage other personal channels as a small MCN.
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