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If when a drive in your RAID fails, your first response is anything but checking the docs for the recovery procedure, you're going to end up disappointed sooner or later. When your fault-tolerant system tells you something broke leaving it in a fragile state and your response is to tell the system to ignore that and pretend everything is normal, expect trouble. You're working in a domain where there is no one right answer, so the system cannot magically anticipate how to handle the exceptional situation. None of the above is the fault of btrfs. None of this is avoidable. This problem has to be faced by ZFS, too.

What is avoidable is that btrfs could make it harder to do the equivalent of `mount -o degraded,rw`. But ultimately, there will be some mechanism for modifying a degraded array, and it'll get documented and then excerpted in blog posts and StackOverflow answers without all the context, and users will find a way to work themselves into a corner. There are all kinds of ways to do this with ZFS, too. ZFS tends to default to the approach of requiring you to copy all your data elsewhere and rebuild your array from scratch. What btrfs is doing here is no worse, except that it's a bit less up-front about the limitation because it's actually completely avoidable and this is a fixable UI bug, not a deep-seated architectural limitation.
One way to look at it: consumers don't spend any money on Google products. So they can continue to use youtube, gmail, search, maps, etc. Maybe just less if ads get too annoying. At the same time, Google's real customers (advertisers) are not tied to any of Google's products. They can place ads where it has most effect.
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I also thought that months ago, but it seems much better now.

Plus, I'm really starting to like the bangs, which allow you to search language-specific docs directly without any setup.
I use Oppo PM-3's for just about everything right now; listening to music while working, gaming, travel, etc.

I got them because I wanted something that blocked external noise (I don't like the "pressure" feeling of active noise cancellation) and they came highly recommended from The Wire Cutter.

I consider them 'fine'. They're relatively comfortable for 2-3 hour stretches (after that, the lack of ventilation makes them start to get sweaty, even in cool rooms), they sound decent, and the build quality and carry-case are great.

On the minuses side, the clarity doesn't match my old Grado SR-80's, the noise blocking isn't as good as my Shure in-ear monitors, and the in-line mic is worse than what's on Apple's standard earbuds.

Bottom line, they're not worth the $400 price tag, but now that I have them, they're good enough that I'm not out looking for another pair.

I have to say, I'm not as impressed with them as The Wire Cutter review led me to believe I would be... and that has affected my opinion of The Wire Cutter. I probably could have bought a generic pair of closed-back headphones for $60 and been just as happy.
According to the article, the issue is not that much tax avoidance as actually paying the tax. A sale would trigger a taxable event and taxes need to be paid from the cash assets. Consulting companies don't have much in cash lying around usually, so that might be an event that could threaten the companies livelihood. Now if you sell to an investor, you receive cash from which you can pay the taxes, but if you "sell" to a trust fund, you don't.
Hacker News recently had a discussion of this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011181 .
This is tricky. I think a workable solution is to create zones where free speech is unrestricted and where new ideas can be incubated. They themselves would have some restrictions (e.g. you can't physically hurt the person you lost a debate to) but would, by and large, be free speech zones. The idea was described in this speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJktQiZRa5A

The rest of society can have different rules which can be more nuanced.
NHS pay a lot of money to companies considered to be "high end" consulting.
I was stumped by that as well. It spends half the text explaining the well-known parts (surface models) and then mentions the actual contribution completely in passing:

> So first his system renders a 3D reconstruction of the 2D image in very low resolution [...] Next, do a higher-resolution render of the area you kept.

Where apparently the author seems to think producing a 3D reconstruction of a 2D object is trivial even though that's what the paper is about.
Everyone's risk of death is 100%. I think they mean to say 'increases risk of an early death'.
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Those were the numbers for a year ago.
> You may think I don't have an argument

Not at all. I want to learn and soak in the opinion and form/reform my own. I am quite sure citizens on the different sides of this argument have sincere good intentions as their motivations.
A neural network has been trained to differentiate between popular and non-popular images and give like scores. This network was optimised to understand the features that made a photo popular on social media. Part of the work was inspired by Karpathy's blog on selfie (http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/). However, our algorithm works on different type of images and not just selfies.
The right not to be unfairly tried is easily satisfied by not having a trial at all.

The right to a fair trial is about two things: you must be tried before being found guilty and punishment/sentencing is administered, and that trial must be executed fairly. In effect, you have the right to a (fair) trial.

A trial and especially a fair trial are undeniably interventions on how things would otherwise proceed. But I agree with moomin that the positive/negative distinction is not really meaningful.
This is just automatic engaging of a problem-solving mindset, I believe.
Also, university is essentially 4 years of full-time studying you can do. Spending 4 years "unemployed" while taking online courses/building your own projects/whatever would very likely look odd to potential employers (compared to a more "traditional" path).
> I feel like the only real end-game solution is to cultivate a fanbase, and use them as your revenue stream - much like how music has become today. Artists don't make anything off trying to sell their music anymore, because not being on spotify and pandora is a death sentence to your relevance. You need the audience, even if they aren't paying you anything, to attract fans that want mech you can profit from.

This is more or less what Disney is doing by putting Ducktales on YouTube for free.
Meanwhile, schools appear to be in the race for positioning schools as anything but a place to get a degree.... which is the entire role of college in society today.

Yes and no. Elite colleges have another purpose, which for many will be the primary purpose - it's how the next generation of the elite meet and get to know each other over the course of a few years, with plenty of leisure time in which to do so. Membership of the Bullingdon Club or Skull And Bones will obviously have a far, far greater effect on the outcome of the rest of your life than a generic bachelor's degree. To attract the elite therefore, you need good amenities, because that's what they're really there for. It's also why "Harvard dropout" carries very nearly as much prestige or social signal as "Harvard graduate" - getting in is the real goal, getting out with a degree is just the icing on the cake.

Similar is true of "party schools", or certain colleges where everyone just does activism full-time and no-one goes to lectures anyway.
I wonder what AdBlocker you are using. I use both of these platforms daily, and see absolutely no ad. Apart from product placements directly in the video by the content creator, but not as banners/pre-rolls or any other form.
> google map, because it has absolutely zero decent competitor.

I am using https://openstreetmap.org and have no problems with it.
Agreed. However, if someone is leaking your physical address, they really don't need bitcoin addresses at all. They can just join on your address :)

This made me curious about the feasability of an anonymous postal service. One which you pay for with x-coin, with no identity attached, and you get physical deliveries at that address (placed into a box only you can access, maybe with some sort of private key).

With the security cams and all it might be hard, but probably not impossible if enough people are using it.

Thoughts?
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The original was a hardware clock, this is a conversion of that.
Why did he not offer the employees to buy all or part of the company.
Yeah, even though I agree that the article depicts one possible future, I would expect Google to find a new core business model sooner or later when this trend continues.

I know that size alone does not make you immune to failure but come on, the amount of money and brainpower they command is obscene!
It is somehow unimaginable for me that they can not find a way to get out off this, given their resources.
Do you have more details about these "incredible" results? Peer-reviewed papers if possible. I am genuinely curious.

The only area I know where LSD really seemed to do great is with some cases of cluster headaches. But cluster headaches tend respond to unrelated treatment. They tried to do a non-psychedelic variant of LSD for this but I don't know the results. There were probably also a few "miracles" too but it is not sufficient to devise a proper treatment.

The reason they inject LSD, I think, is to better control the dosage. When eating it, it is harder to determine when and how much of it is ending up into your bloodstream, which is troublesome for controlled experiments.

There were MRI studies where it shows the brain lights up like a Christmas tree while on LSD. I didn't really surprise me considering its effect but still, maybe we are on to something, or maybe not. fMRI research is hard.

As for microdosing, I am highly skeptical. Not to say that it is ineffective but this is an area where the placebo effect is strong, which mean we need to be extra rigorous with the studies.

Now for safety, LSD is not benign. It is generally non-toxic but it is also known to trigger schizophrenia in people with preexisting conditions. There are other things such as HPPD (a form of "flashbacks") and PTSD-like symptoms caused by "bad trips". It probably doesn't deserve the hard ban we have now but before making a proper treatment, these issues have to be resolved, or at least properly characterized.
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If there is a wide consensus on "poor ethics" here on HN, why comment?
AMP is Google's new closed web, like AOL. So the opt-out is to find alternatives. If you don't have any alternatives, then Google can do whatever they want to you.
As someone that isn't American, I support things like abortion rights and such, but I still think that your constitution seems to be so incredibly broadly interpreted that it might as well just be judges choosing whatever they personally think the result should be. It's basically a 9-man supreme legislature.

Abortion rights should exist. I just don't necessarily think they should exist because of an 'implied right to privacy'. Like, what? There are lots of things that Governments restrict that go on in private. I think nobody could really sensibly argue that the US Constitution actually says that the USA can't pass laws about what people do in their own privacy.
Cynic in me would point out that for most people in the US does not exist in any way.
One thing I personally looked for is the tenure of senior folks at the companies I used to work at. It is a better indicator of whether it is worth your while staying at a company. As corny as it sounds, money isn't everything. And tenure is a great indicator of "everything considered, is this a good place to invest my working years?"

But I see that you have an immediate need. philosophical and theoretical answers won't help you :-) .

- One useful source I found was http://h1bdata.info/index.php . If your company hires H1B's then this source is gold.
- Look at job postings your company does and have a friend who would fit the profile call them and ask for a salary range for that position.
- One thing I have found effective is actually asking the "seniors, experts, leads, managers" the question you want answered.
> Building tornado-hardened designs in tsunami zones does not pay off

The big issues are keeping our construction, engineering, and regulatory agencies active with the subject material and with industry, and allowing saner reactor technologies into commercial use.

Fukishima was not far off from surviving that catastrophe as was. More robust training for emergency response would have avoided them pumping the water the wrong way, and something as simple as raising their backup generator a few meters off the ground would have done the trick.

More vitally, pushing techs into commercial production like thorium-salt reactors (among many others!), would provide failure modes that are INSANELY better than what we get from light water reactors. It's just about the most insane thing to do with radioactive power sources... surround them with something under pressure that violently expands and tries to go right to the atmosphere...

I think the tsunami zones should be fine for reactors, we just need to start with reactor designs that will thrive in failure. Your molten salts turning into rock and keeping themselves contained during a breach or flood, for example, is something that's highly amenable to disaster planning.
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This article is placing so much emphasis on voice interfaces as the replacement for screens, but I can't imagine that happening for more than a handful of use cases. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I would never use a voice assistant in public, and you can show a much higher depth of information on a screen. Screens are going to be around for a long time, with AR headsets being the logical next step.

Google will have plenty of time to show me ads on screens in the future (if not directly in search, then via app stores and video ads). And even if their voice assistant just exists to direct me to their screen presence more, in my experience, google as a voice assistant has been 10x more reliable than either Alexa or Siri.
Here in the UK my wife has degrees from 4 universities - from middle ranking to prestigious and by her accounts by far the worst teaching was at by far the most prestigious (and we are talking about a world top 20 institution).

Having worked in academia this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

NB I know these ranking schemes are pretty dubious.
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> If they put it into savings, their mental health would generally go down the drain,

Does this not come back to education, though? Putting money away in savings, hopefully to secure a more stable future, should bring some measure of confidence/happiness.

This sort of basic financial sense does not require an expensive education. At least I don't think it does, maybe I am being naive.

I do take your last point. I think society in general sees retail and the like as stop-gap work or jobs for teens. The reality is very different and opportunities to improve become more and more limited with age and a lack of education.
Oh yeah? I still jerk off manually.
Could you plug this into one of those image generation algorithms and generate a potentially popular image from scratch?

Side note: I can imagine high speed ad networks in the future using this to deliver custom images in real time to users based on their profiles. Tweaked of course based on the interests of their extended network and the likelihood of going viral within that network.
This graph paints a different picture, though:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/234529/comparison-of-app...
Unfortunately, this is unlikely to succeed. The court, especially under Roberts who is a fan of arbitration, has ruled in favor of arbitration clauses recently.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think the value of personal data in advertising is inflated right now.

P&G spent $7 billion on online ads in 2016, and has been making a lot of noise about moving away from them. Many of those consumer products can be sold to almost anyone, and hyper-targeting users by keyword may not help much.

For the sake of the Internet, it'd be stellar if the value of personal data corrected to a level that stopped the war on user privacy. If it turns out that the value is propped up by hype/FOMO-driven ad purchases by larger companies, it could very well happen.
The main reason they are commingled is that teachers need to have mastery of what they teach. As subjects become more difficult, fewer and fewer people have the required mastery to teach a subject. At the end of this (i.e. graduate level courses) the only ones with sufficient mastery are those that are doing the research.

For lower level subjects (i.e. most undergraduate courses) this is much less an issue, but the above still explains why we need researchers to also teach. Issues occur when you let a brilliant but eccentric mathematician teach calculus 101.
His research is in no way relevant to the course, and he might not be able to explain things on that base a level.
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When a CEO/CTO uses the words "straight talk" I prepare for a copious load of meaningless waffling. Was not disappointed!
most ads on youtube really annoying,sometime extra loud to get your attention. There are some creative ads i do enjoy watching. All this means that you can't pepper people wish shit visuals and expect respect. google text adverts - good thing, everything else tries to goad me into acting - feels cheap dirty. I gather they have to tone down their ads and respect their audience? After all and they vying for our attention
That's not what the paper is about. The abstract quoted by the GP shows that it has been done before. Probably only very recently so it's going to be a surprise to a lot of readers, but perhaps old news measured in machine learning years.
The way you've delivered this "experience" makes you sound like you either work for Google or were asked to make a sponsored statement - for credits or $.
The ability to take it to court keeps arbitration fair. Without that stick the carrot of simpler faster rulings wouldn't taste as sweet for long.
A JavaScript compiler backend is currently being added to GNU Guile as a GSoC project: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#47005991100743...
It is for ads.

But those data are also sold for other things like spying, market analysis, cost evaluation, targeting prospects, etc.
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Supported by whom? Is it at the level one can expect from paid support from say Red Hat, SUSE or Canonical?
I love going off a tangent so here's so wthing previously on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777899
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That they and their families will never eat.

This is just like when the British Parliament approved GMOs in the UK and on the same day officially forbid GMO foods from being served in the Parliament restaurant.

BTW I know the guy who was the head of the team who invented the GMO technology. He and his family and relatives only eat the cleanest, best quality ORGANIC food they can find.
I think it's easily quantifiable what's a good article. Clear statement at the top that refers to big things, not a storytelling bullshit opening, then the body of the article provides support for that top statement, and later portions are basically just more of the same gradually unfolding sub-articles.

If this structure is lacking, it'll be obvious to sentiment analysis, that there are too much free floating statement, and the article either requires too much outside knowledge (in field expertise), or it's just gossip.

And of course it can be "easily" estimated how novel the statement is, what quality the sources and support are, and so on.
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But google search has gotten lot worse to find reputable information. Eg try find that is sugar bad for you. I at least get tons of sensational click bait articles instead actual reputable information.
I wouldn't trust a lock that doesn't have a $500K bounty offered for exploits.
>The most popular of them, for example, Hexo, GitBook and Gatsby are written in JavaScript.

They are not THE most popular. StaticGen website mentioned later in the article lists them as 3rd, 4th and 5th. Just saying.
I ride in London, and love https://www.cyclestreets.net/. There are versions for the web, android and now iPhone. It has a 'quietest route' option which I love. Android version gives you voice navigation. I put the phone in my shirt pocket and have it talk me through quiet streets avoiding the hassle of traffic. Open source. Runs on Openstreetmap data. Needs funding and promotion.
Open street map don't tell you to go to the left ride of the lane so you can take a better right turn in 100m in real time, then inform you that you have to alternatives to your current trip given the current traffic spike if you wish.
Hi,
That can be done, but image generation algorithms require a bit more time to be good enough for such a thing.
Two major bottlenecks (I am assuming you are talking about GANs) are:
1. The algorithms are still not too good for hi res images.
2. The algorithms work very well on images where fine grained features are not that important. (For example images of nature), but they introduce unwanted features otherwise (Eyes looking other ways etc.).
We might be all ready by next ICLR/NIPS though, cannot say.
Will the plant protein meat ever trump the animal meat market? I believe that it will but it would take more than 10 years from now.

India could become a huge market for the plant protein meat.

Beyondmeat is one great example.
Do you have a source with more information? Because that will drive me so mad I won't update iOS if it's true.
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Yeah, there's definitely some previous knowledge of the kinds of objects it's inferring, which is used to deduce the parts.

Look at the chairs' legs, where it's transforming the flat base of the rotating chair into something that looks as wheels, and where it's completely missing the bars connecting the legs in the second tall chair.
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Or maybe time periods. Like in the purge :)
Interesting. How do you keep it from getting stolen ?
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To add a bit to Parth's answer it has been trained using metric learning type losses and normal softmax combined.
There is a next version of combined low/high level features combined algorithms we are slowly going to update into.
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"and that, of course, is why Microsoft as a company completely folded after the death of the desktop PC,"

Who thought giants like SGI, DEC, Sun would fall? But they did, and when it happened it happened quickly. Isn't Google in SGI's old building now?
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I'd like to compose an article with the most epic fails, kind of Darwin Startups Award :)
Why can't a site appear on the search carousel if it uses amp.js but is delivered from a fast, non-Google CDN?
How is featuring a carousel of AMP sites not penalizing non-AMP sites? You're being purposefully intellectually dishonest, maybe even with yourself.
Except when it is:

http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2016/12/...