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Separate, less tangential reply.

I think what could really help computer vision is not as much emulating human eye tracking as it is understanding images as short durations rather than instantaneous shots. The point is that during the eye's saccade reality is always changing.

Think of how close-distance flirting works: you can't use your stereo vision to focus on both her eyes at once -- you have to alternate ever so slightly, occasionally meet her eyes focusing on yours and then lose them. All of this happens automatically -- our visual perception of the situation is intrinsically dynamic.

Of course, here we're getting close to Henri Bergson's ideas about time and duration and Hubert Dreyfus' reading of Heidegger as a theoretician of situated existence. This is the same Hubert Dreyfus who told Simon, Minsky, etc. in the 50s they didn't have a chess computer yet and has recently passed away as a skeptic of automated cars.

Did you notice self-driving cars are slowly disappearing as a near-term possibility? We still haven't figured it out -- we're trying to teach computers with frozen cases (MNIST, Imagenet, etc.) when the real problem is training them on actual situations.

They don't need to emulate humans at all. They just need to exist in the same precise sense we exist. Computing power will keep increasing and I assume so will "deep learning" optimizers, but we need to figure out how to give computers a Dasein.
By that definition, Haskell is an OOP language too, because Haskell has type classes (traits/interfaces) too, and you can have associated methods/associated types too.
Think tanks all have agendas driven by their backers.

Based on your interest in think tanks, you appear to be a person that likes to dig under the surface for more detailed and comprehensive information, so it seems you should also take it upon yourself to research your sources and do some critical thinking on your own. But if you insist, this is a high-level piece on think tanks as servants of corporate agendas:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-r...
I think that even if a policy were implemented that banned paywalls, it would be extremely difficult to enforce. For readers who have subscriptions, it may be non-obvious during submission that it's going to end up paywalled for guests. Some sites have anti-ad-blocking technology, which only have a paywall if adblocked (like The Atlantic). How would these sites be classified? Similarly, does it really count as a paywall if the site has a counter that requires payment after x visits? Some percentage of readers won't hit it, and some will. Keeping track of which sites have these types of soft paywalls might be overly taxing.

I think the current stance is fine, just because it's easier for moderation to deal with. Trying to keep a running blacklist or implementing some kind of detector would be difficult. Responding to an article once it's on the front page would be useless, as you'd have discovered it only by trial and error in the first place.
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The problem is with the demands of being a D1 athlete it's pretty ridiculous for any player to hope to get a great education and be successful in their sport. And given the obvious payoffs of being a successful football player (Millions of $ at age 22 in the nfl) that's where they focus. It's a rare, rare individual who is a top performer while also pursuing a degree in a demanding field.

Below is an interesting article I read that describes the day of a d1 football player at a top school. Note, it is a 15 hour day and only includes 1.5 hours of studying which wouldn't be enough to even cover hw for most engineering degrees.

https://www.alligatorarmy.com/2015/6/9/8752711/florida-gator...
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They wouldn't be made to continue. But if it's clear that the actions of a given non-profit are really for the financial benefit of their 'donors' then then they should be taxed like any other marketing division.
Apple could, you know, spend some cash and help Google build more ISPs. I doubt they have the courage though.
Thank you for linking the other discussion, it is much more eloquent than my own comment.
The bit that worries me is: They’ve built their entire business on the back of open source software that wasn’t ever encumbered with the sort of nonsense they’ve attached to their own projects. And this industry is just going to let them have it, because the stuff they are putting out is shiny and “convenient” and free?

Are we really allowing them to do this for the sake of convenience?
Hockey players are getting smaller, not bigger. You would have never seen guys like Martin St.Louis, Conacher, Gaudreau, Tyler Johnson, make it in the late 90s. That a guy like Kailer Yamamoto gets drafted in the first round shows that things have changed for smaller players.
Oh dear, could you please not troll like this on Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you! That's what I get for falling behind on the theoretical computer science stack exchange.
> Is there a reason why they all seem to have the same blind spot?

I find that companies driven more by hubris and marketing's version of data science, are inherently opposed to boots-on-the-ground service operations. Is the company's valuation driven by its customers or by promises to investors? I don't Postmates but I suspect it's the later. It's almost as if the more you focus on the customer, the more you expose the weaknesses and assumptions built into a years-old sketch of a business plan. So the customer issues get swept under the rug.
The disconnect is probably with confusion or distaste over the word 'propaganda'. It has a negative connotation, but 'propaganda' means "non-objective information used primarily to influence an audience or further an agenda", which is what think tanks produce.
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This is not a joke. I'm buying as much as possible on credit cards, maxing out, going all in 100%.

If I'm being honest, I don't expect this to work out well for me. But my life can be tremendously boring, and the only thing that excites me is crazy risk seeking behavior.

I'm working on it with my psychologist, I hope he fixes me and I sell the BitCoin and pay off these cards before the bubble pops. But it probably won't happen.

Right now I've leveraged about 1 years income, and I'm up 30% after credit card processing fees.
Frankly, if this comes from a company that treats its users as products, I'm not interested no matter what the license says.
"Why reach for a government solution immediately?"

Because government's role number one is to create a framework that all members of a society live in. Some time ago there was a problem with people stealing from each other. So people came up with a government solution.

If companies from a certain size on are viewed as negative for a society it's a society's right to change that. Obviously it has to be done in a thoughtful way but laws are needed. Otherwise let's go full anarchy. That would probably solve the big company problem too.
For non latency sensitive queries you can also run dynamic sampling.
Isn't YCs research arm looking into healthcare?
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Still doesn't seem petty. You have a long standing relationship with your neighbor, and care about him. You don't have much of a relationship with the painter.
Comments like this don't belong anywhere near Hacker News and will quickly get your account banned. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

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Did you even read my post? It wasn't €2.4bn once, it was that PLUS €10m PER DAY of persistent non compliance. That would have come to €3.6bn per year.

The lump sum was just for backdated non compliance.
I didn't see anywhere if these were just randomly selected players or players who volunteered because they thought something was wrong.

I know there was another study where they found a shockingly high percentage of the people studied had issues. However, in that study it was all volunteers who suspected something was wrong. Well that doesn't mean that high of a percentage of players actually have issues just the ones who suspect issues actually have issues. The studies need a little more work before I believe that every person playing football has a brain worse than a non-football player.
That's because the biggest American football players, while having wonderful explosive power, would likely struggle with the endurance requirements of rugby.
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Removed Offensive Comment But good luck to you.

Edit: You also have to beat the apr% on your credit card, probably more than 10%. And you you might have a cash advance fee on the cards for buying BitCoin. This could be another 20%.
If walmart had to pay for police services directly, they might continue with the status quo, or they might take extra steps - like hiring asset protection employees, limiting the hours of the store, making a policy to not pursue shoplifting under $5, etc.

I'm not saying the current allocation of police time is right or wrong, I'm just saying that I think it'd be different if Walmart had skin in the game and I think we'd be closer to the right amount of police time at Walmart if Walmart had skin in the game.
First of all, I have absolutely implemented promises from scratch, and it IS trivial. However, "callback hell" is a reference to writing code with deeply nested callbacks, particularly with manual error handling at each level, both of which promises completely negate.

If you want to change the topic from "callback hell" to debugging across stacks, then we can do that. There was some work with "domains," since moved to AsyncListener/Continuation Local Storage to keep context across stack calls, but I don't disagree that improvements in this department are the place that NodeJS paradigm would currently benefit from most.
hah that's really cool, can you run it again for August?
Hi, thanks for the link. I've seen this paper, but it has nothing to do with strongly typed languages, as far as I can tell. In fact, there is no mention of types in the paper at all, it's strictly automated analysis.
Apple has the money to effectively be an incumbent for this purpose. So their statement is anything but self serving.
"Operation “Nitro Zeus” illustrates this thinking. As Buchanan explains, in the early stages of the Obama Administration, U.S. hackers went on an expansive hunt for “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Iran’s strategic infrastructures. The raid targeted the Fordo nuclear facility that Washington suspected was purifying uranium to weapons grade. But that was not all. The United States also penetrated Iran’s financial, transportation, and air defense systems. The invaders acted in anticipation of the possible failure of diplomatic efforts to curtail Iranian enrichment activity peacefully. They crafted weapons of war even as they strived to avert it."
The CS building in Carleton College has them in the lobby:

http://www.tilexdesign.com/portfolio/detail.cfm/C/328/Carlet...
I would argue that Google and Facebook are more dangerous than other industries. With the information they have I think you could run a very efficient dictatorship.
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It's not a coincidence, the reason that universities and other content providers follow this pattern is specifically to signal that the company/institution doesn't vouch for whatever is being hosted.
We can please do without the tedious talking points, like the guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Rugby also has the method of tackling baked into the rules. If you tried to tackle in rugby in the same way as a block in NFL you'd immediately be penalised and could see yourself off the field. A typical rugby tackle almost by its definition in the rules will cede a metre or so to the attacking player as they are brought down to set up the ruck. IIRC Pete Carroll of the seahawks has taken advice from rugby professionals to help the d with their method of tackling
These days I get the impression that there are fewer and fewer companies that don't see users as products. I hope I'm wrong.
> 1) No tackle football before a certain age (to be determined by scientists based on brain development and how damaging a concussion would be). You can learn a ton about football, running routes, learning plays, getting in shape, etc. without hitting people.

Good luck enforcing this with kids. We played flag football in school but full tackle with zero supervision after school in the park.

> 2) Ban hitting. Everything should be a wrap around tackle. No more players running full speed and launching themselves into other players. Look at how few players actually try to tackle people.

I get what you're going after but it's tricky when you're dealing with the boundaries. How do you push a guy out of bounds without "hitting" him?

> 3). Put padding on the outside of helmets and maybe shoulder pads. Current helmets are not doing nearly a good enough job of slowing down energy. They are designed to protect against fractures, but future football equipment should be designed to slow down impacts.

I see no issue with this. If it's proven to be safer than I'm sure people would switch to it. Maybe pitch it to Riddell.

> 4) Make neutral zone a few yards long. Much of the worst blows happen to linemen who fire off into each other, particularly on running plays. While big hits get the most notice, it is actually those who are suffering routine head blows that are at the most risk.

This would substantially change the mechanics of the game. I'm not sure if it would be more or less fun but it's be a wildly different game. Imagine the difference a speed player would have if there's an added 3-5 yard gap between the starting lines.

> 5) Ban the quarterback sneak and any other similar play where linemen dive into each other in short yardage situations.

The end zone plays would be different indeed. Also, no more superman shots of Cam.

> 6) Ban players for unsafe hits. 15-yard penalties are not nearly enough for something that could cause someone to die very young.

+1

It should be immediate and permanent if it's intentional. Accidental unsafe hits should result in an ejection . Bonus points if the crowd boos the player who committed the hit.

> 7) Ban players for PEDs. Steroids and HGH permanently alter your physiology. PEDs are making players unnaturally big, strong and fast. Suspensions are not enough, because even if a player stops doing them, he may have made himself unnaturally big, strong and fast.

+1

I find it hilarious that doping doesn't result in permanent bans.

> 8) Allow defensive backs to hand check and other ways of playing defense that don't revolve around big hits. The passing game has exploded in the NFL, partly because it's so hard to defend against receivers. Receivers get more separation these days. Allowing hand checking closes separation and would limit the amount of passing.

I have to think this one through further. It's hard to imagine a situation where you can take down a power running back that doesn't involve something like a hit. The truly power RBs are like tanks and the site of one dragging multiple defense players into the end zone is an amazing site.
Look, it's fine with me that you don't understand the concept of imposition.

I'm not talking about fairness or economics, I'm talking about greed, and how a person inserts themselves into a process solely because they want money. A middleman who adds no additional value to anyone but themselves.
I disagree: if it's a site I can't access, that's my problem. I am in favor of more news services instituting paywalls. The problem is related to the failure of advert-driven news sites to survive, and the ongoing advert-blocker warfare. Quality reporting may well need revenue streams that adverts alone can't provide. Therefore, by preferring "free" sites you are biasing away from sites that may have chosen to require payment in order to ensure quality.
Yes it is predictable. Based upon the immunohistological complex of the participants. You won't find anything but red herrings otherwise.
Synergy is still around, and still works remarkably well. The mouse scrolling between OSes is a bit janky still, but still something I can use every day.
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On the flip side, using a gov website to host malware probably has a multiplier effect on charges brought against someone if they get caught.
Yeah how's that working out for Google?
Great idea. Seems like something companies would force on workers who don't want it though.
> Keeping up with the way Js world evolves is absolutely bonkers in my opinion. By the time you finish writing an app, the whole stack becomes outdates as people jump onto new hot thing.

I definitely agree which is why I haven't sunk a whole lot of time into learning any of these in particular just yet. I've stuck with vanilla JS for most front-end needs and Vue.js when I need something slightly more complex, with no build phase.

> Since Clojure embraces the host platform, you always have access to native libraries as well. If a cool library gets developed in Js or Java, it's immediately available in Clojure.

True but I don't see a whole lot on that front in the JVM world either. There's a few libraries that pop up here and there, but most Java work I've ever seen is done using existing tools and frameworks, unfortunately.

> Node has a lot of hype, but I haven't seen anything developed on Node that's not available on the JVM.

I look at it the other way around: In an incredibly short time span, NPM has pretty much covered every library that the JVM has.

> The only advantage of Node I see is that it takes less resources. Having actually developed some ClojureScript apps on top of Node, I think that it's a strictly inferior experience.

From a technical perspective, Node is probably inferior to JVM in most ways, yeah. But not in ways that matter significantly. Lately I've been considering social aspects to be a lot more important than technical aspects, though. I mean, Rails got popular while sitting on top of an AST-traversing Ruby interpreter. At the end of the day, as long as it's semi-usable, hype and an active community are probably more important than all the other facets of a language, at least for most web apps.
I think those squares look kind of out of place, really.
Power always collects, while I disagree with this action from an idealist standpoint this is the way the world works currently. Frankly I would rather have Google grabbing up all the power than anyone else I can think of. I understand that they will become exceedingly corrupted, but we need them in charge right now. The world has serious problems and they are well poised to fix them.
The comparison to a Gladiator sport is a good one.

I see no reason why ESPN/NFL/et al., can't provide comprehensive health insurance to every current & former player for life - as reducing the violence of the sport doesn't really seem to be on the table, broadly speaking.
Sure, cause the next step is a Threatening Letter for too small of a tip....
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>I see it repeated a lot that think tanks are really propaganda engines with an intellectual veneer, but can you back that up with specific examples?

You mean other than the article we are replying to? :)

All joking aside, I'm sure all think tanks aren't shilling with every article, but follow the money. They are typically founded by, actively solicit and are paid for by corporate donations and corporations don't typically give money for nothing.

Cato is a libertarian think tank. They have a specific libertarian slant. The print more articles that libertarians would like and print fewer articles that libertarians don't, specifically Koch flavored libertarian-ism. I mean that's the way it just is. I mean I favor social libertarian-ism, but for someone to be an objective reader, they need to know that Cato was formed to serve libertarian interests.
Also, a corollary: employment monopolies can be established with blacklists.

Refusing to hire someone because they were placed on a blacklist for protected speech is wrong (and I believe, illegal). After the Damore incident there were numerous reports of people within Google openly bragging about maintaining such blacklists.
>But is the concentration of power really at play here?

Yes.

The executive chairman of the corporation they receive ~%20 of their revenue from called and told them to get rid of the guy. The guy was gone in two days. This isn't a grey area. [Edited revenue figure]
The problem is that you'll still be paid before getting banned. This is the problem cycling and other PED rampant sports face.

You can take away the medals but you can't take away their money and you can't take away the fact that they've enjoyed their fame while it lasted
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> Also, I'd rather prefer my tax money be spent on farm loan waivers than be stashed away hidden from the Government under a carpet or in a foreign bank, if that's the comparison you want.

Those aren't the only two alternatives. How about you lower the tax rate and create incentives so that the farmers actually pay back the loans. Right now, farmers take loans with the assumption that they'll be waived, and the cycle continues. I'm not shooting on the farmers here, I'm just saying that farmers, like bureaucrats, like businessmen, are human. If they're incentivized to game a system, they will. For once it'd be great if my tax money could be better spent on other things that would actually benefit the country (strong defense, capable law and order through an effective police and judiciary, etc.) rather than indirectly buying votes for the current political party in power (farm loan waivers etc.). Hell given the binary option of farm loan waivers vs stashing my cash abroad, most businesses will still stash it in real estate, abroad, etc.

> Are you suggesting that you should keep significant amounts of your money hidden from the Government because you think they might unduly target you because of your wealth and views?

No. Even after tax legitimate money is at risk if its just a number stored in a "secure" database somewhere. Whoever has ultimate control over that database has power over you. With cash, gold, you can carry them with you and anonymously pay for goods/services without compromising on your privacy. I was merely pointing out one limitation with a completely central digital payment platform.

> I don't see the connection between a hiring freeze in bureaucracy and demonetization

Ok who is on the receiving end of bribes? The bureaucrats/politicians. Demonetization was supposed to hit the tax evaders (usually bribe givers) and the bureaucrats (bribe takers). Maybe they both were seemingly hurt with demonetization as they both had cash stashed. But since the bureaucracy still exists (and has become more powerful eg - http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-taxman-now-has-mor...), there is no incentive for the bribe takers to stop taking bribes. Tell me this new bill won't be abused and misused. Looking at the history of laws being abused in India, I'd bet that it will be
The bench looks like a "registered/trademark" symbol (it's in the same position). That's confusing.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon are not the same person. This is an important distinction.

No doubt you can point to some Amazon PR to prove it. In reality, they're one and Bezos has done whatever he wanted till now (how many years was AMZN losing money to expand???).

You can also say "Here's an WP article slamming Amazon," but maybe the old WP would have written 5 such articles. I have no doubt that self-censorship goes on at WP just as it went with NBC /GE /Comcast and so on. They know who owns the paper and if someone has to remind them, it will be done.

Of course, you can be independent and think, but....