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I think parent's point is about how the company is drawing in cashflow. If the customer owns perpetually a copy of the software, the only reason they'll buy a new copy is if the new one is substantially better than the old: hence, the only way the company makes cash next year is if they've been improving their product.

With the subscription model, the company is still going to make that income regardless if they have a new product. As long as no other competitor has developed a competing product, there's no reason to innovate. (and there's lots of ways to deal with competitors besides innovating)
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One more quick point. US banks would love to have all that cash repatriated. It for every $1 that Apple et al. deposits into their bank they create $10 of new currency that they can loan out.
There is no competition to Ethereum in terms of back-end decentralized computer, AFAIK. I picked Swarm because of familiarity and being closer to the devs. I don't know the IPFS devs. I do find both projects awesome.
This might be helpful:http://nmarkou.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-black-magic-of-deep-...
Presumably those are separate systems. I'm talking about multi-task learning.
Replacing that appointment on extremely short notice could be assisted by software.
Surely they could donate the tapes to a historical foundation or society who would relish the opportunity to attempt restoration?
Non-AMP link: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15969674/slime-eels-hagfi...
Looks like an unexpected success then. You've got everyone talking about melting, melded, slimed and how they would correct the title or article.
He just wanted all his counterparties to be bailed out. Same for Goldman Sachs.
This is why there needs to be a system where hashes for JS files can be securely installed in browsers for verification.
I could be wrong, but I doubt that "recent" phone would be a referring to anything near a flagship phone's specs. You're what, 8 cores and 4GB ram? They still sell single core phones with less than a gig of ram.
Recently? Lots of research, of course. The big recent medical one would probably be artemisinin, an important malaria drug. In terms of novel consumer products, I think the major one is the e-cigarette.
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Summer '13 saying hi from across the batches. Self-directed, but plenty of experienced folks to rub off on you, in my experience. The diversity of experience at RC was incredible when I was there. Definitely fantasize about going back for another batch sometimes -- I know so much more now and I'd get so much out of doing it a second time.
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Yeah, the solitary experience thing seems like the biggest hurdle. maybe a twitch like experience where one person directs the camera location and narrates with a bunch of follower who can control their own 360 view.
nah they just re-issue the stock at a big discount to their friends and then issue more at an inflated price to dilute regular shareholders
While not perfect, I think JetBrains made an acceptable compromise with their new subscription licenses. Getting stuck with a 1-year-old version rather stinks if you decide to cancel, but you're never "stuck" without access to a product you rely on because you decided to stop paying.
What exactly do you expect him to say? Gimme a break.

I don't work in the same role so I only know things from a 10,000 ft view. But a lot of orgs that IBM works with have inane bureaucratic structures with their in house devs pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, or in an "IT department". All decisions on using tech tools are made by "higher ups" a lot of whom have 0 technical background. We're trying to change this culture to one where devs get to make those decisions AFAIK.

Disclosure: IBM dev, but not a Developer Advocate.
I have to say, this is one of the most self-aware breakdowns of personal choices and the cost/benefit of those choices I have seen — at least on an internet forum.

I've never been a drinker, too much of a problematic family history attached to the stuff. I think what made things harder for those with an issue in my family and those I know currently battling problem drinking is the dynamic of silence. Forget about whether a person has a "problem" with drinking, the most trouble seems to happen when people avoid considering or talking about their consumption and retreat into themselves. This leads to destroyed relationships, depression, and in some cases leads further down the rabbit hole of drink.

To the parent, whether or not you will face alcohol-related health problems remains to be seen. The fact that you have clearly thought about your drinking and how it connects to other parts of your life speaks volumes, to me at least. I wish more people would be open and willing to talk about matters like this.
I'm arguing specifically against the term being offensive. EDIT: and oddly, I can't seem to find the word anywhere in your comment that I replied to. Am I losing my mind, or did you take that part out?
Can you explain? I thought the entire point of back-propagation was to differentiate and calculate the weights that are contributing more to the error and thus will be "changed" more when you do GD.
a lot of people on public welfare work for a living. child tax credits, obamacare subsidies, subsidized student loans and grants.
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Uh, yeah, it's pretty normal in cities the world over, though. You don't just get to park in front of the fire hydrant or not pay for parking in an area where it's required, or any number of other regulations.
and when you need to rename a single route you do what, rename the whole controller and/or method?
Still on it, and now coming really soon (hopefully). There were a lot of interesting challenges (power, software, datacenter process) along the way, since this is very new hardware to Google.

Out of curiosity, why OpenCL on AMD rather than OpenCL on say a K80 or AWS's M60s or upcoming P100s? (That is, are you blocked on having an AMD part, or do you have a great reason to prefer AMD for compute)

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and want to sell you GPUs!)
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That is the case with Office 365 too.
yes it does? unless you're unable to write a single line without interactivity. i do literally the same thing in go as i did in python (when i needed to): write a little and hit compile to watch what happens (except i add a fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("%#v",x)) or something like that). often the entire thing happens faster than it would take python to just interpret a similar line and execute.
'Bash' is too violent as well. We should rename it to 'hug'.
>0. The ingredients include boiled horse bones. I'm sorry but I don't want that anywhere near my mouth.

Don't go hatin' on Jello...
Humans kill many things over the course of their existence. For instance, we slaughter animals for food, pluck weeds to help our crops, and preserve food by boiling or chemical means (e.g. salt).

Killing is not deplorable. Murder is deplorable. (I'm a vegetarian, so I find slaughter for food deplorable too, but I'm in the minority here.)
I've updated my comment. You don't lose access, but you cannot open old files.

I suppose you could use a PSD or AI to Sketch converter. I'm unsure about other file types.
And heaven-forbid any developer actually calls up a customer or subject-matter expert without routing absolutely everything through one or more layers of middlemen and bureaucracy.
The aliens told them to.
Lets not forget that most companies have improved their cost savings to the point where they are trying to keep wages down. Executives are immune though. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that most companies spend 90% of their payroll on 10% of their workforce.
When it comes to backpropagation, PyTorch introduction contains some valuable parts: http://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learning_60min_bl...
`bash` is also pretty evangelical ;)

On a serious note, I've never actually understood where the term "hung" comes from in computing. Why is the process "hung" and not simply "stalled" or something else.
> The thing I never get with these objections is, what is the harm in raising the point/ making the change? Who loses?

A good practice should be to try to find the most convincing voice (online, not just here) with an argument that answers this question.

That's the best route to honesty. If you can't do this then you're not up for debate.

This is something we all have to do with all of our arguments or questions.

If a question is not investigated it becomes a statement. Just because the person that you're asking cannot come up with a good answer does not mean that a good one does not exist.

So you win by make a statement and not asking an honest question.
> and drop more requirements on you that they didn't think of up front

I think one of the important qualities of an architect is to anticipate what these requirements are going to be and define solutions to them ahead of time.

I have this conversation all the time with our client-facing team.

Me: "What is supposed to happen if this data changes?"

Colleague: "Well the customer didn't give us a requirement for that so we don't have to worry about it"

Me: Screams inside
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Because the code is already validated / tuned and deployed on AMD parts. For a while NVidia dragged their feet on OpenCL so validating the app on their hardware was not possible.
Holding money in a foreign account doesn't restrict Apple's spending on R&D in any important way. Apple holds stock in foreign accounts and issues bonds. They have plenty of cash to fund R&D anywhere and if they didn't they can issue bonds. This is like the argument: if I can balance my checkbook, why can't the government. Governments and modern corporations don't work like your checkbook account.
It's awesome to see how binary representation of numbers often leads to a convergence between operations and algorithms conceived in terms of arithmetic and those conceived in terms of logic.
I think you can open and view them with Photoshop, just not edit. At least that's my understanding.
Honestly, this "creative destruction" has already to some extent entered the photography field. You can take very capable, often professional looking photographs for the vast majority of circumstances with just your phone.

There are still many situations where more professional expertise is required (portrait photography is probably one of the best examples, knowledge of proper lighting is still required for best results). But I've gotten the impression that overall demand for photographers -- and pay -- is slower these days, largely due to technological advances. (See articles like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.h...)

In a way, this is fine though -- as you say, it gives power to more people, which is great.

Per the parent post's point, to be honest, I perceived much of the criticism to be more that they really couldn't think of a good way to use it in their own hobby level work. I personally can't think of a good use case. On the other hand, the most useful application I can think of for this is more in reverse: social media companies with huge image libraries their users have graciously "donated" to them, could use this AI algorithm or something similar to pick, or construct, the most "professional" looking image of anything they can identify from their vast library, and sell it or license it to media / content publishers for a relatively low cost. Such could be but one more competitor to any professional landscape / scenery photographers out there.
As DannyBee said in a sibling comment:

> It's one thing if one of them is like that, but if all of them are like that, maybe it's not because of the cloud providers?
But that's pretty much the same challenge any cryptocurrency faces and even BC faced in it's beginning. BC got past that hurdle to a certain degree, why can't something with actual "usability for the masses", in the form of an open, transparent and uncensored discussion platform, do the same?
Is that why my 4 year old keeps saying "nevermore"?
Not sure if this is what you want, but they are aiming to self tune parameters for you.
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This is especially true for Chinese businesses, but for an entirely different reason. Once a business reaches a certain size, it doesn't belong to the founder anymore, it's becoming state-owned. The founder either ends up in prison or have to escape from the country. Business owners talk about "keeping it small and low-profile" all the time.
I think the VR world is bothersome because you (and me, and many others) have some part of our value system or moral calculus that isn't a function of people's subjective experience but is to do with the arrangement of stuff in the highly contentious 'base reality'.

Wireheading gives a similar icky feeling; if we got everyone in the world some brain implants that made sure they were perfectly happy with their situation, no matter the situation, would the situation as a whole be morally better, worse, or equal to how it is now?

I would say worse, because somewhere in my morality look-up table it says that the happiness of a person who is sitting in a concrete cell with their brain wired up to induce happiness is less good than the happiness of a person listening to the symphony or whatever, even if their subjective reports would both be full of joy.

For me this holds true even if the hypothetical wirehead-world is setup in some way to make sure that people keep breeding or live forever in wirehead bliss or what have you; the situation's value is not just some sum of expected subjective 'utility scores' or something similar (apart from the "Repugnant Conclusion" which is another problem here).

This is probably a patronising and paternalistic kind of morality for me to have, but I'm OK with that (and secretly suspect a bit that people who claim to have a morality totally devoid of this sort of thing are either deluding themselves or lying).

I do like the idea of 50% scale world (although whether 50% scale world would actually work the same I don't know). Introspecting, that seems OK because it's still made of normal matter, which I must conclude has different moral value to simulated matter.
It seems like your suggestion is a little backwards -- computer science is its own thing, and for some reason, people started thinking that computer scientists are ideal software developers. Since that clearly isn't the case, employers should look for some other certification that's more in line with what they require from an employee.
Wow, thank you for that. I had no idea IRC still had that much energy in 2009!
I tried to search for something I could take as a cosmic sign, inputting my girlfriend's name and then my own. Nada. Zippo. Zilch.

We were however eating in a restaurant last year, a pizza place where people scribbled on the walls in marker, kind of an added character thing. Above my girlfriend's left shoulder were our names in faded writing, dated 4 years prior. We do not have fairly common names, so I'll take that as my sign.

Anyway, I digress. This is pretty cool and I have sent it along to my friends.
You've started a mediation practice and you pledge to write more often. Where are you taking the time from? What are you giving up?
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Off topic, but I like how the rounding error in your statement is more than the population of the US.
It "could be" but it just isn't. The reality of the situation is that minorities are being silenced or told they have "internalized racism" and whenever these actual minorities speak out on the "issue", non-minorities tell them that they're not sympathizing with minorities that it "could" effect. It's always a "could", because "could be's" don't need to exist in reality.

Of course, if any of these people fighting on "behalf" of minorities actually had minority friends this would become self evident. The coddling and speaking on behalf of the minority is almost always more offensive to the minority then whatever non-problem the non-minority is tripping over.

Imagine how a woman would feel if she was told by a man to be more sympathetic towards other women on some specific issue, because clearly the man is better able to empathize with a women's problem than the woman herself who is trying to tell the man that it isn't actually an issue and that he's making a mountain out of a mole hill. He insists in his correctness and declares that she has internalized misogyny and that he is better qualified to speak on behalf of women than she is. Swap out "woman" with "person of color" and "man" with "white person" and it has a different result?

If you fail to see how that situation is offensive then I think you're the one with the empathy issue, because you aren't actually seeing from their point of view but how you imagine their point of view to be. I'd be bloody fucking pissed if a cis person tried to educate me on issues surrounding and within the LGBT community or told me I should be offended over something (eg: being called trans, something I call myself for fuck's sake) - and of course that's happened multiple times in the past.
"...at least for some of us"

it's made to be painful for most every single one of us who aren't mega-companies with an army of lawyers and accountants. This is one reason I go almost blind rolling my eyes when a CEO of such a company gets all preachy about right and wrong, and what's in the public's interest, etc.
Both are tricky subject and lot of cooking-like thinking (there are popular recipes, general rules, but in all practical cases to master it there is a lot of non-transferable experience and knowledge).

Some pointers:

* http://rishy.github.io/ml/2017/01/05/how-to-train-your-dnn/

* http://www.alexirpan.com/2017/06/27/hyperparam-spectral.html

At deepsense.io we are developing Neptune to facilitate that process (compare models, version-control them), here: https://go.neptune.deepsense.io (a public release in less that a month!).
> So, what kind of opportunities, realistically, are these guys looking at...

Much depends on the niche/skill-set they acquire. Right now, in the United States, there are nearly 350,000 job openings for cybersecurity professionals > http://www.csoonline.com/article/3206688/it-careers/firms-lo...

Relative to Age Bias, that's hard in every industry. The smart hiring manager who values maturity over youth and inexperience will find loyal, dependable employees.
Yeah, I actually dislike it every time myself, though that's not hugely important to me, nor why I commented.

There was some interesting commentary in this thread about cultural appropriation and whatnot, which seems to me to be beside the point. My intent was only this: if there are other people rightly upset by something, it doesn't matter if you're not, it doesn't even matter if the majority are not, it's still valuable to have empathy for those those that are. That's all.
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Good stuff! Interesting way to look at data basis Amazon Prime Day sales
There is a limit to the current method. The generalised AI you described likely is quite a while away. It's also economically questionable, now that many of the specialised AIs can be done very affordably.

For example, if you want to teach a robot to flip burgers, you could invest a few trillion dollars into generalised AI and wait many years for an uncertain outcome, or you could create training sets for a neutral network and be done in a few months for a few million dollars. The reason we know we have made advancement is that until a few years ago, the problem of training that robot did not seem to be within reach. Today it mightn't be completely easy, but most people would agree that it's quite achievable.
>"Edit not saying you are, but if someones ancestors were slaves, and the IT dept sits around talking about masters and slaves, how would that make you feel?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs#Ethnonym
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Terminology

I feel just fine about it, thank you. I'm more disturbed by the fact that we're even having this conversation at this point in our society.
The big difference is potentially access to the "raw data" without being limited to the view someone has decided to grant access to. E.g many library search systems I've used would have been able to offer this kind of view of the data, but didn't. Then again others have offered far better views.

But I'd rather replace those bad systems with better ones than go back to a card catalog.
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> It makes me think that we're training the wrong people in college by making CS a very difficult, math heavy field which often causes the more human skilled people to drop out.

I disagree. I think instead there is a category error being made: that CS is an appropriate degree (on its own) to become a software engineer. It's like suggesting a BS in Physics qualifies somebody to work as an engineer building a satellite. It doesn't, but that doesn't mean "physics is too math heavy." In fact, engineering a satellite requires almost as much basic mathematics education as a BS in physics requires (some exceptions might include the specialized mathematics required for upper-level theoretical physics concepts that may not apply at an engineering firm).
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> calculate... the average time it takes me to finish a book

Out of curiosity, why?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14770477 and marked it off-topic.
This looks neat. If I had a 6-month sabbatical from work I'd apply, but unfortunately I don't know when I'll ever have the opportunity to do something like this.
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The point is that we didn't have this in products 5 - 10 years ago. Advancement is being made. It might have a limit, but no one is claiming that we have 100% solved AI; just that advancements have been made and products are not yet taking advantage of all the new possibilities.
Yes, I agree -- I ran out of time trying to get the animations I wanted with d3.js. Thanks for the feedback.
Having lived in the south for a few decades, I am extremely surprised there is no Jackson and Lee intersection anywhere.
I always thought it ludicrous, even given the era in which it was published, that Ulysses was banned in places and on trial for obscenity. "Look at Joyce, look at those glasses, he is probably the furthest thing from an indecent pervert that you can find!" I thought, considering him to be a meek-looking, probably inoffensive individual.

Then I discovered some of his love letters to his wife, Nora Barnacle. I have seen lots of things in this age of the internet, but I blushed and read them twice in disbelief. Made me respect him even more as a human and writer for some reason...don't know what that says about me.
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I submitted directly via the FCC website and it was posted the day after I submitted it.

I would assume posting directly via the FCC is more reliable and also carries more weight than submitting a filled out template via an api. (If they can tell the difference.)
Would be cool to see what python version is used in the book
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has anyone had experience with this? I'd love to get some actual reviews of this place?
Neat, I didn't know that.

Worth mentioning that "ciao" originated from "I'm your slave" - maybe in v5 we can have "ciao <master_ip>" :)

> The word derives from the Venetian phrase s-ciào vostro or s-ciào su literally meaning "I am your slave".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao
Have them automate the deployment of a little something is a good start!