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Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle. But you're still not wrong since we have mandatory minimums here as well.
A low energy phone (and WiFi (from a related UW R&D team?)) would be extremely useful in this and future disaster relief scenarios. Furthermore, radio operators who care about the Red Cross may be able to help pull this product through to market.
Chrome was so out of left field.

A desktop browser? Made by Google?! In an environment where people have celebratory launch parties for Firefox??

Of course, the business goals made sense, but I don't think anyone guessed it would overtake the market share so effortlessly.
Keras is pretty cool and can already use Theano and Tensorflow as a backend.
Nuclear propulsion would make colonisation much more practical, much safer, and return trips much cheaper.
I guess this is quite natural. Once some key ideas have been laid out, it's easy for a big corp like Google (whose expertise is on software engineering & algorithms for data processing) to chip in and produce something better.

Research organizations like the University of Montreal cannot compete with that.
Tax cuts always have a higher impact on the wealthy because, well, they pay more taxes.

This isn’t a bad thing. That money won’t dissapear. It’ll get spent or invested (either directly or indirectly by a bank if saved).

Tax cuts are good. Stop saying they’re bad. The wealthy always find loopholes because they can afford lawyers and accountats to deduct taxes or skip taxes through offshore companies, so it’s the not-so-wealthy who have a yet bigger impact but not so directly visible.
I am the top ranked openly female member here. That observation is informed by long experience. In gendered discussions that get heated, the majority of people on HN will tend to side with the man or the male point of view.

Once a man says or does something moderately problematic that is a stereotypically gendered issue, the odds are long against a woman getting a fair shake. Your choice to reply to me and accuse me of making this a gendered issue instead of siding with me and letting them know that their remark is a sort that does not work well is completely consistent with that pattern.
Getting political for a moment... it's disturbing that we've had health care fundamentally tied to employment (in the US) for decades now. I don't quite know how you break this down. I wouldn't think it has to be 'single-payer' to get past this but... I don't know.

> for many people, currently the climate is not one where they could go without a group plan that they'd get at their employer.

It's been this way for decades. 20+ years ago I remember talking to people about freelancing, or starting their own business, and the same reasons came up "Oh, i've got this medical condition" or "we can't afford to lose this insurance".

I can't speak to the 60s or 70s, but for the bulk of my adult life where I've been aware of this issue, it's been like this. :(
It is interesting how Dyson engineering is self - limiting.

I owned two Dyson vacuum cleaners. The cleaning experience was fantastic. When you needed to empty the réservoir (or whatever the part which holds the dust is called) it was a disaster. The ergonomics were so bad that I always ended up with dust everywhere and twice injured a finger.

It is like they were so (rightfully) happy about their motor that they just slapped together the rest.
A long time ago I read a Science Fiction short story about a society where everything was unrepairable, throwaway and came with expiry dates.

Does not seem too much like Science Fiction nowadays...

EDIT:
I wonder if anyone might remember the name of the story: The basic plot is a business man living in a throwaway society manages to convince a dying man to sell him his personally developed car. A car that has been built to last for decades. The business man eventually succeeds by promising to respect the philosophy of the dying man and the manufacturing of machines built to last. As he is driving the magnificent car away he starts thinking of the "improvements" he will make. That loud analogue clock on the dashboard could be replaced by a digital clock and that gear lever knob that could be made from a modern plastic....
Chrome's growth was bootstrapped with very pushy ads on the highest traffic website on the internet, that typically doesn't allow ads. They also paid to bundle it with unrelated installers.
" by producing a superior and more robust alternative."

In a commodity market - those with brand and distribution will win.

Chrome isn't really that much better than others. It may be in some areas, not in others.

But when the 'company that owns the web' is promoting it, they can get any number of downloads they chose to as long as the product is competitive.

And distribution is one thing, brands have incredible power - even with 'we HN readers' who should kind of know better.
That would be a founder solving a specific problem by providing a service.
Our city has a local autistic savant who did this: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/17/autistic_mans...
If you made a sphere of all the earth’s water, how big would it be?
> Research organizations like the University of Toronto cannot compete with that.

This is true; note that in this case it is Université de Montréal.
I've noticed this is an unfortunately common trope on HN.

"If they actually cared about X, they'd Y!"

I think what you mean to say is: "If they really cared about X, and only X, and had no political/financial/strategic impediments, they'd do Y! Therefore they clearly don't care about X."

Let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is a good thing, let's encourage more of it, yeah?
I would guess the network failure has more to do with the network’s software than with its hardware. That would make it a software problem.
iPhone SE is just as grippable as the 5S, it's the same design but 2.5 years newer. Unless something changed in the aluminum finish, but it feels fine to me. (Don't have a 5S for comparison)
The real issue is that consumers are stupid and want to stay stupid which means modular products, being more complicated, are not something they are going to shell out for.

It's a lot easier to say "buy this widget for $x a month for 48 months" (classic US example) than to say "what computer do you have? oh you don't know. why don't we arrange for me to have a look at it another day. uhuh. ok well i've taken a look and if we upgrade the graphics card, hard disk and ram we can probably get that working really nicely for you".

People just don't care. They want a result now, they want it to have a name, they want it to be marketed, they want to show it off and lord it over their proverbial neighbor.

Petty, stupid consumers are the real problem.

Fixing this situation, which has accelerated under the influence of commercial media and dwindling state education budgets in many western countries essentially must begin with education and regulation.
I felt like Google was not going to move to TLS 1.3 if they had not included 0-RTT. Now that TLS 1.3 has agreed to include it, it seems logical to terminate QUIC crypto.
Once it's marked dead (and not simply downvoted to 0) I don't see a way to upvote it back to life nor a way to reply to it. Perhaps other people do. Otherwise I would definitely do so!
Please use the original title ("MILA and the future of Theano").
> that if we normalize the value created to be 1 for the product team, then engineering's value is less than 1

Well yes, if we make completely baseless "normalizations" than that's true. Obviously, there is no reason to do that, but sure, if we do it that's the result.
Not sure how this comment relates to PyMC3 though - PyMC3 is for Bayesian statistical modeling with MCMC. It uses Theano as a backend. Keras is a specifically for neural networks.
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>Tax cuts are good. Stop saying they’re bad.

Taken to the logical limit that would imply that we shouldn't have taxes at all. You're assuming also that taxes are being cut across the board, but it is very unclear if the middle class will experience any positive change, while there is ample evidence that the President and most of his cabinet will make out quite well personally.
Regardless of how long it REST or how much you pump it full of SOAP, a spaghetti mess will still be a giant bowl of indigestible pasta.
In thinking of doing things that (don’t) scale, these graphics make applying tech to water seem feasible — and worth trying.
I have found that Dave Ramsy is has really good advise if you are in debt, need to get out, and have no idea how to do it. I think it isn't very good advise if you are getting out of college and make 6 figures.
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It used to be when you were filling out job applications, you'd get asked if you were ever convicted of any felonies or misdemeanors.

I've seen on more than a few applications in the last couple years, the question has changed to "have you ever been arrested for or convicted of any felonies or misdemeanors?"

Scary stuff. Once you've been booked, you might as well be guilty.
It's still doable, and lots of great online guides and videos on how to repair smartphones, laptops etc.

I replaced my smartphone earpiece, following an ifixit.com guide. Was initially daunted, given the expense of the handset, but it just took a set of mini screwdrivers and a wedge, 20 minutes, and has been working good as new for the last 3 months. Very satisfying experience.
PMD/IFM has been trying to drive their costs down for a while as well.
At least in the U.S. when dealing with building inspectors you describe your house as a "prefab steel-frame building." I've seen container houses in the E.U. also, so certaintly they have some kind of regulatory framework for dealing with these too.

From what I can tell these things can pass building codes if constructed correctly, and also when communicating with the government clearly. The bigger problem is them passing zoning / architectural review that many local governments requires to keep a certain aesthetic in the neighborhood.
if you want bit level granularity you can use either SIMD-BP128 or SIMD-FastPFOR from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.2137.pdf
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Great to see someone with those challenges find a way to be productive. But the article seems to disagree with the above label:

"The boy didn’t show an interest at first, noted Mark, who stresses his son isn’t an 'autistic savant.'"
It's obviously possible to, for example, lower the lowest bracket and leave the highest the same. This would be a tax cut with no impact on the wealthy.
Chrome also was faster and simpler than the alternatives. 
That was relevant too
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If it was only about Google weight, G+ would be a success.
Ask HN: SaaS founders, what are your pain points?
What are problems you're facing that could be solved by an external solution (e.g. automated drip campaigns to deal with dunning). I want to dabble in the SaaS space and rather than creating something that already exists, or working on a contrived hello-world project, I'm looking for actual problems that founders want to see solved.
How about US involvement in elections all over the world? You don't see outcry for that, in fact you see it on the cover of Time magazine as a boast.
All due respect, but there's a reason you can't cut taxes on the non-wealthy: They don't pay taxes.
> Tax cuts are good. Stop saying they’re bad.

Except that tax cuts basically mean the government has less money to pay for things. I suppose if you don't rely on government for anything (like infrastructure to run your business) then that's good. Otherwise it is bad.
Suddenly I'm revisiting memories of Platinum Sounds.
Perhaps you can be less abstract and illustrate your point with sample code. In most comparisons, Swift looks a lot nicer.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/should-i-use-objecti...

The ++ operator was removed from Swift. Haskell uses ++ for concatenation. The case where ++ to add 1 is desirable occurs much less often than a variable declaration, which is better in Swift.
The standard java.io.File and java.net.URL work as normal. CheerpJ provides a choice of filesystem access methods. This includes a read-only filesystem based on HTTP, a local read-write filesystem based on indexDB which is persistent across sessions, and a facility to access JS strings as files, useful to pass input data to target converted Java programs. DropBox and Google drive are also available.
By "the author" I meant Bricmont, sorry for the confusion.
A frugal, thrifty person who saves money so he can retire shouldn't be punished by having his nest-egg eaten away. The only fair way is to tax people upon death.
Yeah, it's absolutely right. And I think exploring that definition is actually the best way to learn what exactly a monad is.
I think it is a fair point within the context. It links up with the "NK developing nukes for survival" but it also plays out in the sense that an outside nation of any sort, including our allies, can never be certain that 4 years from now a deal we made will continue to be honored. Iran, Paris agreement, various trade agreements, NATO, etc. have all been brought into questioning as of late. It is impossible for an ally or other country to 100% predict how a vetted agreement will play out once a new administration comes into office. Unfortunate side effect of our system, but I don't think it is a bad system.
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Theano inspired TensorFlow, Pytorch, ect ect. That there are so many imitators is a complement to Theano.
It's interesting the number of up and down votes this has received but no comments - open to feedback on and offline if you prefer.
This. Seen the same thing in 3 startups. Add me to the anecdata.

It would be awesome if we could get statistically significant numbers of people to report on this effect, although how to avoid selection bias etc. is beyond me atm.
We should probably stop calling them "loopholes", too. The two biggest policies that reduce a wealthy person's taxes are:

1) capital gains is lower than income

2) there are deductions for almost everything

3) tax-free retirement accounts

4) charitable deductions

The truth is that many of the above affect the middle class, too.
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I originally misread this as Theranos and thought well duh, but oddly enough Theranos seems to have outlived Theano!
I am definitively not fine with that. Of course it's up to the person selling the software to decide on the pricing model, but it's also up to the customers to voice their opinion.

I refuse to buy software that is subscription based. The closest to this that I find OK is PHPStorm which has a hybrid model where if you pay for a year you get to keep the version you installed at the beginning of your subscription (or after a year of monthly payments have been made).

I don't expect companies to work on the software for free, if there is an upgrade worth upgrading I am prepared to pay for it.
I'm 46. I spend a lot of time working on side projects and courses, and thinking about the future of my industry (video games). Every 5 years or so I've made a major shift in my area of expertise (from graphics and performance, AI and gameplay, to servers and databases) and from structured C, OO C++ to functional Scala and Clojure.

As soon as my job becomes routine to me or something you can buy from a 3rd party I know it's time to do something else.

So far I've gone 23 years and never had a hard time finding a job. I have worked in some environments with lots of young people and my age was an issue but I quickly moved on.

I work with a guy ten years my senior who is the same as me, constantly updating his skills, and has no problem finding work.
> OTOH, there will be misinformation directed to confuse the public about that, too, and that may be challenging to sort out.

This is what scares me. We saw in the last few days that a prominent 'antifa' Twitter account pretending to based out of Boston tweeted from Vladivostok, presumably in error.

Accounts like these provide the fuel that empowers elements of the alt right, and they're still active in these efforts.

If Twitter and Facebook fail to become more proactive on countering these baiters, what does that mean for our future? This doesn't seem like a problem we can easily retroactively assess our way out of.
>Heck, look at Joe Arpaio, who recently got pardoned for unconstitutionally targeting Hispanic people who haven't been convicted of any crime. Which party was generally in favor of this, and which party was strongly against? Again, the same parties as the first case.

Look at Obama and title nine where kangaroo courts violate due process on a national scale, violating the constitutional rights of american citizens no less. You can't simply point at the worst actors in a group of people and say they represent the whole, but I'd like to point out that Obama was elected via a national majority of democrats while Joe Arpaio was elected via the votes of a single district.
If engineers desire money and prestige (like executives), then the first question is "how are they different from the so-called scumbags who desire money and prestige?" The more you want money & prestige, the more you share a key characteristic with those people.

But let's leave that aside for the moment. On a practical level, if engineers are to achieve money and prestige, then they'll have to (and here come several different ways of saying the same thing):

- sell themselves

- play a power game

- play politics

- ask for money & prestige, in all the different ways including dressing and speaking in a way that signals to money-and-prestige-bestowing people that you should get money and prestige

And they will have to concentrate on this and get good at it, apply the tactics & techniques, and succeed. That's how executive scumbags do it. This takes a fair amount of time and effort, so you'll have to spend a lot of your time on it. Nobody is giving away money for free without even being asked. And nobody cares about raising engineers' salaries as much as engineers do, so it's unlikely you'll find anyone to do it on your behalf. You either ask for it until it happens (selling something, selling yourself) or you say "well heck I wanted to be an ENGINEER" and spend your time doing engineering, and don't worry what's in the other guy's pocket. Screw him, he probably has an ulcer and his wife's a harpy!
What would solve all "loopholes" is just going to a damn flat national sales tax. Period. End of story. Thank you drive through. Stop trying to mangle this demonic beast of a tax code we have now, it won't work and never has. And simply toss it.
One paragraph as the replacement.

38% or whatever agreed upon percent as a national flat sales tax. And for the bleeding hearts that will scream this hurts the poor, Sentence two: The first 5,000/year in clothing tax free, and the First 10,000/year in food tax free.

IRS? Dissolved. H&R block? Dissolved. No more audits. No more income tax. You keep your entire paycheck! No more asset seizure by the IRS. No more tax fraud. No more tax evasion.
The Xperia Mini Pro and the Xperia X10 Mini Pro (shit naming scheme) both have rubberised backs, very like the Thinkpad lid covering (but grippier). It works very well at making the phone satisfying and comfortable to hold, but the durability sucks and it eventually peels off under regular use.
Ya.. "Wouldn’t it be great if every javascript developer could experiment Lodash in the browser without needing to install anything or to create a JsFiddle?" ... Wouldn't it be great if you could do that with any NPM package? Oh ya, you can... https://npm.runkit.com/lodash ;D
well, most of the federal spending goes to maintaining our welfare and warfare state. Contrary to common myth, infrastructure cost is a tiny fraction of the federal budget.
I've always been more concerned with how effectively it's spent.
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Is it that they're the only way that works? Or is it that everyone just assumes they're the only way? E.g. Valve took a radically different approach to management and organisational structure and seems to have been very successful.
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It just seems like the really wealthy would just keep it overseas or find other ways to hide it. Wealth is not always objective. Also, what do you do for someone who bought a house 40 years ago near SV for $80K and it is now worth $1.5M. Are you going to tax them (in addition to property tax) and force them to move? Are they your target?

Personally, I think we need to keep the inheritance tax and remove other loop holes when people are making money. For instance, there is no reason we can't get rid of like kind exchange. People are always more readily accepting to pay a tax out of part of their profits.
That Wrigley Field, for those not from Chicago.
I've mentioned strings, and so did you now.

What I don't understand is what's supposed to be uniquely puzzling about strings. Maybe I'm under the influence of the submission, because the guy said he had an allergy for notation. But even after putting a floating point expression in analogy with some geometrical constructs, the whole thing could still be a model of alien gravity, because neither the expression nor the geometric figures carry any inherent meaning in themselves. The only reason why we know that it is in fact just a pure representation of how to approximate real numbers is because the post itself tells us so.
> I love that even admitting that bullying exists, somehow makes people want to attack you.

I love that a downvoting a comment which is construing an anecdotal case as the general case is considered getting attacked. Maybe you should just ask why people seem to disagree with your sentiment rather than jumping to conclusions?
Pretty crazy to me to think of continents as floating
I think that the goals of MILA/Theano might be somewhat different from that of Mozilla/Firefox.

Mozilla aims to continuously steer the direction in which the web develops. As far as a software layer developed by an academic research group, I'm sure they will be extremely happy that they could set the agenda with early software, and now get to pass the baton to an industrially supported codebase so that they can focus on the next generation of innovative ideas.

While the dominating market share of Chrome over Firefox could be considered a battle loss for Mozilla, the maturation of Tensorflow (and other frameworks which leverage GPUs and provide a higher level interface for ML algorithms) may be considered a big win for MILA.
It's something of a pattern for Google.
Existing products (say, Theano and Torch) were revolutionary, but had a number of pain points that were difficult to remove[0].
TensorFlow is essentially Theano without those problems, and with the guarantee of continued relevance thanks to Google's backing[1].
And of course, they reap the benefits of making it "open-source" while keeping a closed version for private use, similar to Chrome and Google Ultron.

However, I still feel kinda nostalgic for those warm summer days, writing my first autoencoder in Theano and using it to make blurry versions of photos.

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0. Theano had some truly gnarly exception tracebacks, which made it difficult to identify if you'd made a truly incompatible model or if one of the layers/operations just needed a datatype specified.

1. I wish more companies did something like this. It's not necessarily innovation, so much as having a corps of people experienced with some wondrous but unwieldy technology and then giving those people the opportunity to reimplement it "right".
Maybe there are many companies that attempt it, but instead produce a clone with problems of its own? Or maybe you need someone like Jeff Dean supervising the project to make sure everything comes together?