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* Densely Connected Convolutional Networks [0] by Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu, Laurens van der Maaten, & Kilian Q. Weinberger.

* Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training [1] by Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Joshua Susskind, Wenda Wang, & Russell Webb

CVPR 2017 Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards

* Annotating Object Instances with a Polygon-RNN [2] by Lluís Castrejón, Kaustav Kundu, Raquel Urtasun, & Sanja Fidler
* YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger [3] by Joseph Redmon & Ali Farhadi

CVPR 2017 Best Student Paper Award

* Computational Imaging on the Electric Grid [4] by Mark Sheinin, Yoav Y. Schechner, & Kiriakos N. Kutulakos

CVPR 2017 Longuet-Higgins Prize (for cvpr 2007 papers that stood the test of time)

* Object Retrieval with Large Vocabularies and Fast Spatial Matching [5] by James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic & Andrew Zisserman

CVPR 2017 PAMI Young Researcher Award

* Ross Girshick & Julien Mairal

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06993

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07828

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05548

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08242

[4] http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Sheini...

[5] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4270197/
Open borders == immediate destruction of the low-skilled and unskilled labor market due to oversupply of labor.
Why not consult UPS tracking as an oracle for that case?
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> it just doesn't work that way. there's this thing called equality before the law, or something.

It's like, there are countries other than the United States where this concept of exceptional treatment could apply or be de debated.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/International-tax-for-ind...
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Ask HN: What are your favorite physics sites, documentaries, books?
I'm suddenly very interested again in how the micro and macro are connected by laws of nature. I find the history of physics, as well as the characters, and insights fascinating. I could talk about it all day. I lost this passion for a few years but it's reemerging again.
Related: http://people.csail.mit.edu/lenin/papers/Procrastinator-Pape...
Traffic is end to end encrypted, but since all nodes are self-hosted (or run on a VPS) Tor gives some privacy. It also protects against denial of service attacks.
For me it's a lovely piece of mechanical sympathy I can have with my own body: it lets me tell if I'm agitated or soothed in ways I'm not immediately aware of.
The article doesn't purport to understand or comprehend cultural differences, it's simply exploring the economic case. It's not call The Culturalist.

For an empty article, you've had a very strong reaction to it.
Is this the part you're referring to:

"Unskilled migrants care for babies or the elderly, thus freeing the native-born to do more lucrative work."

Sorry, no, I don't want migrants deeply afflicted with weird cultures left alone with my baby nor my mother.
> whenever "the market" would believe that the usage growth is going to stop

If you're talking about transactions-per-second, how could the market not already know that this is the case? Computers have finite resources, and a decentralized immutable proof-of-work ledger would be really inefficient to run on ten billion devices forever.

But if you mean growth in total perceived value, Bitcoin's use as a trust-less standard for floating other currencies could continue indefinitely. I'm not able to talk seriously about the proof-of-work/proof-of-stake argument, or the inflation/deflation argument, but there's no known technical reason that each Bitcoin can't be worth a trillion dollars in the far future. In addition to the economic and political theory, you're basically betting that asymmetric crypto, SHA, and the Bitcoin source are all mathematically sound, and probably that physics imposes serious limits on computing power, if you want to make that (super) long play.
'nationalist'...
I've taken a PL course, and still have a vague understanding of the consequences of certain design decisions. Just reading this thread alone has already taught me more and ways to think of why X design is needed and what consequence does it mitigate/resolve.
Is this article assuming an infinite supply of jobs in any given location?
There's a bit of a chicken & egg problem there - if the immigrants come in a giant burst, they won't have any money to pay for new cities with.
Where are you getting this?

>According to the Bundeskriminalamt, also known as the Federal Criminal Police Office or BKA, crimes by immigrants rose 79 percent in 2015.
But at the same time, the number of refugees in the country rose more than fivefold — by 440 percent.
In other words, the typical German was more likely to engage in crime than the average migrant.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/...
That sounds interesting. This is a really busy period but within the next few weeks I hope to check it out.

In general, I love meeting with the non-academic side of this work. I met de Grey and some of his associates at last year's AAA meeting. The relationship is complicated, as you know.

I see the value in both types of research -- people working outside the system don't have to worry about IRBs, paper-writing, etc, and can take risks we can't. OTOH, there are a lot of very smart people on the inside who are working on "things that matter". For example, Jim Kirkland and senolytics. They have access to expertise, funding, samples, and personnel that the non-academic community cannot realistically match. Although the entrance of Calico et al is a new quantity and it will be interesting to see how that turns out.

As a very short summary of my focus, I came into the field, read a lot of papers, and came to the conclusion "no one knows what causes aging". So my focus is on bioinformatics systems to process a lot of data and help me figure out what direction should be most fruitful to focus on. I work with wet-lab people but don't do it myself.

I hope the new generation of academic aging researchers will reach out more to the non-academic side more, though. I plan to do so.
Then why aren't the migrants doing that in the places they live now?
And the reason it doesn't come with a Linux distro (instead of FreeDOS) is so that they don't imply it works with Linux.
Any kind of immigration restriction is an act of oppression.

Think of how insane a proposal to limit people moving from a state to another in the US would be, how many arguments would be concocted against that, but so many arguments in favour of international restrictions.

I have no doubts that free movement would have drastic positive economic and social effects. What is truly incredible is how adamant people can be to categorize and justify creating rules to prevent other people from moving around.
I remember the gypsy moth invasion of the 1980s. You could peel a few thousand off of one tree in my backyard. I have no trouble believing a determined bear could eat 40,000 a day if they were congregated like that.
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Where do you see interface{} getting sprinkled?

Any libraries or anything in particular?
Kinda cool to see this on hackner news. My landlord manages bears for the greater Yellowstone area. So I have heard firsthand accounts about this.

The bears effectively scoop the moths from the rocks using their claws. It's one of the most caloric dense foods they have.
I realize this statement probably won't go over well here, but Niantic's behavior strikes me as the kind of thing that happens when a company is entirely run by software engineers who refuse to accept relevant advice from anyone who isn't a software engineer.

There are people who understand event planning, there are people who understand how to build F2P mobile games, and I get the impression that exactly zero of these people were consulted, or, if they were, their advice was immediately ignored.
Man, that's so shitty. Why can't anyone have a not-entirely-positive opinion about anything without being a hater, bitter, etc?
Nobody is forcing you to. The application of migration restrictions is forcing other people to not move. In terms of individual liberties you lose nothing in this case.
I'm already on extremely high alert for an apparently rapidly-growing political movement whose primary demand is that I be forcibly expelled from my home and society for the crime of sharing an ethnic heritage with people who, it is charged, were genetically compelled to impose even a fraction of this onto an unwilling host society.

Let's not.
#sigh# Clearly the joke was not funny if it had to be explained.

For decades, Richard Stallman has been calling it GNU/Linux, because the OS “aside from the kernel” was GNU, and Linux is the kernel. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.en.html

Now, we have a Microsoft system that runs the Linux binaries, which are GNU according to Stallman, but not running them on the Linux kernel. You’re naming the entire system after the one component that is missing. By the same logic that normal Linux should be GNU/Linux, Linux containers on Windows should be GNU/Windows.
> but there is little besides conjecture and anecdotal evidence to support it.

He had a strong reaction because he's tired of these kinds of lies being perpetuated by our media. Everybody knows mass immigration from problematic parts of the world brings a huge burden on the host population.
It's worth remembering that before the 20th century, the US had more or less completely open borders. And we turned out OK, didn't we?
> Just keeping the lights on uses more gas than that.

Can you elaborate on this?

One gallon of diesel = ~41kWh. Assuming 30% conversion efficiency that gives us 14kWh. Assuming a 50mph speed to traverse 500 miles means we need to keep the lights on for 10 hours, giving us a power budget of 1.4kW. I don't know what kind of lights locomotives carry but that seems like an awful lot.
Why not unmaximize the window?
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Because UPS tracking is limited to determining whether UPS delivered a package. It can't say who the package was sent from, who it was delivered to, or what was inside.
> There might also be better approaches than Hilbert Curves. For example, we could view it as an instance of the Traveling Salesman Problem with a couple of hundred points; it should be possible to have a good heuristic solution for that. On the other hand, a TSP solution doesn't necessarily only have short jumps, so it might not be that good?

TSP is actually very amenable to heuristics and state of the art branch-and-bound algorithms can often find optimal solutions even for instances with thousands of points.

Does anyone here know if there is a good open-source solver that we could throw this problem instance at?
It's the entire point of this offering. I don't want it, but it is all about the modules.
It would not affect everyone equally, and wages in many areas would definitely go down. For example, if the US recognized medical degrees from other countries, the influx of doctors would be so large that the income for a physician would drop tremendously. So the physicians that are already employed should (if they represent their own interest) be very against such a policy. But the aggregate would end up being that the total salaries earned by doctors in the us would go up.

i.e. if you had 5 doctors at 500k, and you opened up, maybe you would have 10 doctors at 300k. This is a natural economic progression. Same with software engineers: open borders would definitely have a stark impact on median income, but there would be more startups and more work and more people employed in the sector.
After a conference once, Aubrey sat down with me at whatever bar we were at, and he told me that one of the dirty little secrets about the field of aging research is that nobody really reads that many papers.

I laughed it off, I thought he was pulling a fast one on me. At the time I was intentionally reading about 10 papers/day ( http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/ not all of them on longevity, of course). I told him my personal target, and he basically said nope, other people are reading at most a few papers per month.

I don't really think the academic system is working :-). Biology is crazy complex, there's just no way for anyone to get enough context if they are just grazing around.
I can't understand it either
I think the article is talking about the entire bear population eating 40k each day.
Im not sure what you mean with this comment, can you clarify?
If we spread out all the worldwide social welfare resources among all the people worldwide who would require social welfare, the average would be so far below the current levels of first world social welfare that it's basically the same as the system had been destroyed.

It's not about finite vs infinite, it's about the notion that currently "the good social infrastructure" in the first world can cover a small portion of the global population, doesn't have much excess capacity, and is obviously not sufficient to provide a comparable level of life/service/whatever to everyone in the world. Dividing it equally would mean a regression to the global average which is unacceptably low compared to first world standards, so the first world would never accept this.
Corruption, authoritarianism, expropriation of companies, ... this plot sounds a lot like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
People who speak a language where two given colors have the same name will have more difficulty telling them apart than someone who speaks a language where those two colors have different names.

https://vimeo.com/120808489
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My whole comment assumes the game isn't zero sum. I recognize that globalism helps the poor. My conclusion is that it helps wealthy individuals who own these corporations more than the masses.

To break this down further, the masses gain economic value and employment. The wealthy gain political/economic influence to solidify their wealth and position.

I'm not talking about low-balling millionaires. I mean the billionaires and royalty of the world. The people who own industries, not just companies.
And now we're slinging obnoxious insulting mud. Lovely. Thank you for your contribution. I'm going to be that guy. Citation please, even one statement anywhere by an author if an OOP language or of a book on OOP where they say it's the only way to do that.
This is the exact same argument to have collective bargaining rights and unions.

I don't think the tech-crowd is a fan of unionization in general.
Another win for RISC-V, exactly what it was for, an open platform for anyone to innovate on processor design.
The article says the world would be twice as rich. World GDP/capita is $16k. Doubling this would make it $32k/person. U.S. GDP / capita is currently $57k. Assuming open borders lead to an equalizing effect in all countries, then Americans would need to get used to living twice as poor as today.
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Looking at the concerns of US population, I'd bet that they'd be quite happy with the notion that increased supply could cause a significant decrease in doctor salaries and thus medical costs.

Protection benefits the industry, lack of protectionism benefits everyone else; and patients have much more votes than doctors.
I read your comment and assumed you had no exposure to Mandarin before moving to Taiwan. Then I saw your username and am now assuming you did. But I could be wrong :)

I'm curious to know how early you were exposed to hearing Mandarin sounds (from birth?) and whether you spoke Mandarin at all with your family before you moved to Taiwan.

I ask because one of the toughest things getting started for many foreigners learning Chinese is being able to distinguish the tones when listening and speaking, and AI read some report of some research that said that early exposure to hearing another language (I think at under 12 months old) allows you to distinguish the sounds that occur in that language, even if you only learn that language later in life.

If you went from zero to fluent in 3.5 years, that's awesome. I can imagine the second half being hard but doable. I can't imagine how you got through day 1 and month 1 at all!
sorry, what is your "busy people" a euphemism for?
Leading cause of death in a group with an ultra-low death rate? You could make the case that it's a problem, but that's not enough by itself.
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German and Dutch are extremely similar. As a fluent Dutch speaker without any formal German lessons whatsoever I can read German pretty well. Speaking and understanding are more difficult, but I'd say most Dutch/Germans would be able to make smalltalk in a bar if they took it slow and used a lot of hand gestures.
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This seems to be hosted on medium, which forces a floating "share bar" aka "dick bar" in Gruber's terminology.

Those are much more annoying than push notifications, because i can just not enable notifications for that site. I had to write a custom package for 1Blocker to get rid of medium's bullshit
Just let me upgrade my own hard drive and RAM :(
But they have to get special licenses, at the discretion of the copyright holder. They can't rely on the first sale doctrine.
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Milton friedman spoke 40 years ago of how people in america changed their views on immigration. In the 1800's and early 1900's, immigration was open and considered nowadays to be one of the great processes that got america to be what it is. Bring me the poor and the sick and all that. 60 years later, turns out immigrants are lazy welfarers.

As MF says, the moment you put welfare, suddenly you end up wanting to restrict people's freedoms. In any case, being inelegible for welfare is a lot kinder than having quotas of how many people can come in, absurd legal fees, the unpredictability of lotteries, and all of that.
Counting in crimes like drug sales is misleading. Selling drugs is really just a business opportunity, albeit illegal. Native Germans tend to have much better opportunities and more to lose. To some degree the same is true for robbery/burglary as well. It's economic pressure and incentives that make these crimes attractive, these people aren't so much immigrants but rather crime tourists (some of them from EU countries, mind you).

If you look at crimes without a profit motive, things tend to even out or turn around. You'll rarely see an immigrant responsible for arson or property damage, for example. In absolute terms, most crimes (that are persecuted) are of course profit-driven and the most crimes occur in poor areas.
Was that true for america when it had the immigrant influx in the previous centuries?
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The linked article actually describes limitations with low carbohydrate diets. Attempts to make up yhe caloric deficiency with only protein is bad as the body struggles to keep nitrogen balance.

Given plenty of carbohydrates, it is possible to survive long term on very limited supply of essential fatty acids as well as proteons.
but why should they 'eat a tiny bit of everything'?
> Assuming open borders lead to an equalizing effect in all countries

That assumption is both onerous and preposterous
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That's a great link. I used Think C in the late 90's and school on an LC III - I can't imagine using it on 80's Mac hardware.
I dont know how protectionist poorer countries are in general, but in south america there arent strong restrictions, because it is considered that people from developed countries are a lot more productive, precisely the effeect you are looking for. Sometimes there are rules meant to mimic the other ones as a deterrent (you dont let mine, i dont let yours kind of thing. Brazil and Argentina do this)
Given what's be happening recently I don't think that supporting Israel even ranks in the top 10.
This is a good point. Once welfare systems exist, you don't know if immigrants are coming because they believe in the host nation's cultural values or if it's just because they want free stuff, and have no intention of assimilation.
> you lose nothing

Right, and if those unskilled immigrants don't all find jobs as nannies and nurses (since I won't be the only one keeping them from the most vulnerable), then I'll be taxed to pay for them anyway. That's not "nothing".

If the cultures are very different, and they come in huge numbers that refuse to assimilate, then I suffer dilution of mine. That's not "nothing" either.
It's not strictly deflation in terms of a shrinking money supply which is the nasty case. In principle a bitcoin currency would provide a constant supply of "money" - which since it is something that has never really existed, does raise interesting questions about how the financial system would behave if it did.

However, that presupposes that nobody starts performing fractional reserve lending using bitcoin as a currency. If that is allowed, then we're back to the existing banking system and it's varying supplies of money in proportion to banking debt. Nothing has really changed except that we have slightly more efficient inter-bank exchange mechanisms...unless we get a proliferation of alt-currency lending models, in which case we're back in the US wildcat banking era (circa 1840's) - a period that was not exactly renowned for its financial stability.

Alternatively, in the hypothetical world (because it's really quite hard to stop) where there is no bank lending any more... then we have the problem of how is a modern economy going to work without banking debt? As you say, lots of interesting questions on the economics side.
Modern "EDM" producers actually receive a lot of criticism for these practices from both critics/academics and laypeople. I think the massive commercial success and general enjoyment of this music actually comes from the spectacle of the "live" events, and so as an extension even just listening to it at home, the spectacle is implicit and can be experienced vicariously to some degree. On top of this, this music as a product is obviously extremely easy to produce in comparison to other genres/processes and is thus lucrative to profiteers.

Another reason why such utterly cheap production habits have been wildly accepted is because of the already established history of house music and techno, which was originally revolutionary, because those sounds and the contexts for which they were experienced ironically represented newfound human feelings of liberation, from a youth movement to escape a bankrupt Detroit to the fallen Berlin wall. Techno was a way for people to grab the rising technocracy by the horns so to speak and make something specifically human out of it.
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Turbo Pascal seemed like the perfect language for writing DOS games in the early 90's. Fast, you didn't need to know low-level things but you could always patch in assembly routines if you needed to.
Its a commonly voiced, but false dichotomy - increasing blocksize 4x or even 8x will have negligible impact on the security or decentrality of Bitcoin.

It will just allow more transactions through, which will allow fees to fall to levels where normal people can use it for normal transactions.

The use of bitcoin as a currency is being throttled by the artificially small blocksize.

We can have more than 3 transactions per second, while still maintaining the fundamental properties that are Bitcoin.

Hopefully SegWit2X will be the sane compromise everyone hopes for - ie. that we see the bottleneck alleviated with segwit and 1MB blocksize contributing to a near 4x improvement in transaction throughput, and lower usage fees.
Considering mass immigration in terms of increasing worker pools presupposes that the mass immigrants are workers.