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I don't want to speak for him but I suspect for communication purposes 'tptacek prefers iOS to the FOSS alternatives.

When talking with the security folks I know, this is not a rare opinion. You can't trust the source of any comms platform. So you have to reverse engineer the binaries. Once you get into that game the more important things than open source are, do you trust the team? Is the protocol open and vetted? Does it rely on 'odd' implementation details.

The idea that the nature of the software license of the OS that your comms platform is running on, is important for its security characteristics, does not seem to be something that the experts I know believe. Quite the opposite. It seems to be a signal of people who don't do this sort of research for a living.
I used to sleep in my 1995 Honda Del Sol by pulling the passenger seat all the way forward and fully reclined then resting with my head on the dashboard and my feet going out the back window! Only worked on clear nights, though...
I tried working in a library, once I'd been driven out of parks by wandering people on phones. In the library every couple of minutes someone ran outside shouting into their phone "I'm in the library! Hang on!". Grr. And when it's quiet you notice you're within earshot of someone texting on their phone with "click" sound effects.
> It's a real pity that sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities.

Is that the case? I know it’s legal in NYC (much to the consternation of yuppies in the upper west side). In Oakland people sleep in cars and rvs parked on major roads, same in San Francisco.
Which of course, sounds awesome.
Are there any implementations/examples we can check out?
Does this relate to the concept of a "systolic array" in some way?
I wonder if it would be more popular if the cost was reduced to something similar to a regular funeral. It seems it might be a more cheery send off even if the chances of it working are questionable.
Java and Go are much harder to learn. Much more complex from a language perspective, more complicated build process, bigger standard libraries.

This leads to a lot of "first languages" being the latter and a perpetual glut of recent grads that know nothing else so will do those jobs for less
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Try sending an email to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com (perhaps it's not easy to make this a switch for everyone, but they may disable downvoting for your account manually)

As a workaround, after voting/downvoting a new link that says "unupvote"/"undownvote" appear for a few minutes next to the points, so you can use that info to confirm that you voted in the right way.
Also Edge is the only web browser where Netflix can be streamed at 1080p and 4K. OTOH Chrome and Firefox are only at 720p. Safari is at 1080p though. (Netflix's windows app is another route)

Edge also supports Apple's Live streaming tech so, again the only browser on Windows which can be used to watch Apple's Live events.

Too bad that Edge won't ever be on Linux.
if this becomes a bigger thing in the future, would be interesting to see a 'climate control out port' that you could use to connect to a tent/camper/tiny-house via ducting. It could close the car's internal a/c vents and direct out to the port.
Lower stakes, lower tax income.
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> The efficient-markets hypothesis says markets are rational and self-regulating, but it doesn’t account for crashes and crises

It's also a computationally insane assertion, if it were true then markets are capable of computing NP in P (which even with the human element would still be an impressive find; especially considering the `n` it's commonly proposed over in "formal" economic settings is in the area of tens of thousands). It's like people who claim they made a perpetual energy machine are claiming things that are physically insane. Except it's not just some cranks, it's entire fields that haven't caught up to the ideas computer science has discovered.

The adaptive market hypothesis appears to resolve this by tying the efficient market hypothesis to the biology of the computational unit. Since biological systems (appear to) obey the principles of computation, the issue is fixed. Overall it seems a better way forward by connecting pseduo-sciencey intuitive aspects of economics (that violate what we now know about the properties of information) to real science.
It's interesting that you invoke Adam Smith, given how strongly in favor of redistributive policies he was.

EDIT: As for specific things that taxes should pay for, no, I don't think there's a lot of room for agreement. I know a nontrivial number of people who sincerely believe that roads, for example, should be wholly privatized. You and I may think fire departments and roads matter, but we aren't the only parties to that debate. We don't get to decide for them.

I personally don't want the fruits of my labor, in the form of taxes, being used to bomb civilians (specifically, non-combatants) on the other side of the planet. I don't get that say, and I find murder far more repugnant than "theft".

How do you reconcile that? Should I be "forced" to pay for blowing up women and children over there, while you think having to materially support the poorest in your own country is an imposition — even immoral? How is that in any way in keeping with a philosophy of individual liberty?
Don't forget that you also help to fund quite a few PhDs, masters students and undergraduate research assistants, many of whom go on to work in private industry....
The more open attitude you described seems to be on an upward trend in the generations born in the ’80s and beyond, but by and large we Americans do not talk money except with the closest family and of course one’s professionals. Even asking how much someone paid for a big-ticket purchase such as a house, car, horse, land, etc. is considered rude. I wouldn’t ask about something as small as a TV. Even verbalizing that someone is better off or little comments like “no big deal because they’re rich” is awkward for at least a couple of reasons: it leaves the “complimented” person feeling a little embarrassed and then also wondering why the other person is thinking about someone else’s finances.

My parents don’t know my income. My siblings don’t. I know a good bit about my mother-in-law’s income and net worth, but it’s because she is single and has asked for specific financial advice. My parents have recently been going through estate planning paperwork, and I suspect we may have discussions about finances in the next few years.

There are of course exceptions. Within niche hobbies, people may be a little more open after they know each other well about how much goods and services cost, but still not about income. A n00b walking up asking those sorts of questions may still get pushback — depends on how he asked.

I’m on the senior management team for a small technology company, but even though we can all see everything, we don’t discuss each other’s compensation directly and sort of pretend not to know.
This sounds pretty painful :-)
If the gap was virtually unmeasurable before, and it hasn't narrowed, it doesn't exactly seem like a case for more regulation.
Thanks! That made my day. (I would have liked it regardless of the context but particularly nice to hear in the context of helping a business to a materially successful outcome.)
Nice, have you been working remotely the last few years?
I hate to admit it but whatever the solution to this problem will be, Trump supporters will almost certainly fight against it.
Plastic saves lives and reduces waste. Medical devices/healthcare and food packaging are the only proof you need, but it goes far beyond that.

Societal mismanagement has turned plastic in to an environmental disaster/burden. We have only ourselves to blame, not "demon materials".

Recycling is an important tool in material management in a global context. It is not "the solution" and it is not misinformation, or a conspiracy perpetuated by the packaging industry or the plastics industry, or anyone else.

Society was not prepared for the growth or complexities of plastic waste. However, we are perfectly capable of innovating through and out of the current circumstances. This is particularly true as renewable energy becomes more accessible and less expensive. Technologies such as depolymerization, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion are all viable, scalable and in practice to varying degrees. Waste to energy or incineration has a long way to go, but it may prove to be worthwhile through further innovation. I've previously posted about carbon capture as well, which could work on it's own or with processes mentioned above.

It appears to me that the Precious Plastic people are doing good work. I don't think it's fair to diminish or dismiss that good work because we have collectively created a less than optimal system for resource management.
the embedding layer is the layer that converts the one hot word feature in to a continuous multi dimensional vector that the deep net can learn with.
they used to pretrain that layer separately with word2vec. now as it's just a neural net layer, they let the translation model train it with backprop on the main (translation /dialog / qa, etc) task as a regular layer
San Francisco does this.
I believe it's quid pro quo. Equifax sells analytics services to corporations, and presumably you get a nice discount if you enter into an agreement to give them your information.

Likewise for credit scores--why else would a lender report data to Equifax if Equifax wasn't purchasing that data, either directly or as part of a larger contractual arrangement.
In other parts of the world like Canada things are becoming alive with the changes. The earth is a living ecosystem.
The inside baseball Canadian comedy television series 'Made in Canada' used a Tragically hip song [1] as the intro. [2] The series made fun of 'The Industry' which was how PBS carried the series for American audiences.

It is a shame this is not available other than a dvd for season one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_at_High_Dough
[2] https://youtu.be/tmVu1auFWd0
That's true, but also irrelevant. That isn't the etymology of the word - it's a loanword from french, coined by French economist Jean-Baptiste Say.
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In the US, those are protected categories about which a prospective employer may not inquire. This point was explicitly called out and repeatedly reiterated in the training I received a few years back about how to participate in an interview from that side of the table.

Some of that information can be obvious, as in the case of visible disability and occasionally ethnicity. But it's not permissible to inquire in any case. And speaking from the side of the interviewee, such questions would immediately bring the interview to a not overly friendly close, both because the answers are none of any prospective employer's business, and because no company so insensate to liability concerns is likely destined to end up anywhere I care to go.
Physics is doing just fine, thank you.

Edit: but I agree most medical/biology/pharmacy papers are plagued with issues, mainly because the incentives are screwed up and there's more noise overall.
From your profile "I'm also fascinated in the psychology of belief."

If the environmental movement can come to understand how its belief in recycling in fact subverts its goals of environmental protection then the world will start to change.
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sorry, i should have seen the wikipedia link and it's citations.

regardless, is there any open-source hdl code for a platform-capable implementation basis?

it certainly seems like a great way to achieve ASIPs and extensibility as the big-little and heterogenous folks aim for.
I don’t think I’ve ever dreamt of living in 60 cubic feet of space. Maybe instead we should, I don’t know, create more places where people want to be, rather than trying to cram everyone in the world into NYC and the Bay Area.

One of the biggest resources in the US is cheap abundant land. Why the hell are we concentrating all the talent in a few square miles of it?
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Spring MVC is probably what you want then.

Really though, you should invest some time in learning typescript and react. These days most apps are just API calls on the back end and you deal with templating, forms, and other bs in the frontend.

Because most apps are built this way now, you won't find any "modern" Java frameworks that support what you want, and you're pretty much gonna be stuck with the older clunkier stuff.

The learning curve for new SPA frontend stuff is high but I've found it much more productive now that I'm into it. With HTML generated on the server it's too damn hard to get pages to do what you want
> I'm eating pure chocolate beans

You probably meant CACAO beans (note: not cocoa, which is a product made from cacao). There are actually products called chocolate beans, but they are typically just pieces of chocolate that have been formed to look like beans.
> where Netflix can be streamed

Isn't that because of Netflix's choices, rather than technical reasons?
It's in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, written by academics in the field, not by T&F itself, nor funded by them. While there are problems with the peer reviewed system, publisher interference with research results isn't typically one of them.
> "I fear fragility of the mind"

My limited knowledge of you via your HN comments tells me you're in no danger of this whatsoever.

> "opiates and amphetamines"

Hopefully at the same time :)
with a fully autonomous car you could probably just keep driving slowly in loops while you sleep
I'm starting to think that as well. As a father it hits me much harder, and I think I'm at stage four of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The human race may just not be special and will be erased, sooner rather than later.
This comes up in 3d printing often.

The bottom line is that grinding and pelletizing and then extruding even pure PLA post-use for use in the same machine is nigh impossible. It degrades, it gets dust in it, you block your 3d printer nozzle and damage your hot end.
> and [si ri] are sounds rarely said at the beginning of a sentence.

seriously?
Nope, not even remotely surprised.

It is pretty much entirely jest. Most tourists are fantastic, though they often try things they aren't experienced or equipped for. This results in them dying in new and interesting ways.

I'm on the volunteer rescue squad and go out fetching bodies, ideally still alive, on a regular basis. They get lost, try kayaking during flood season, snowmobile on thin ice - including trying to do it over open water, get drunk and use an ATV until they are impaled on a pine tree, and try to back their boats into the water - which is expensive but funny as hell to watch.

So, some of the complaints are valid. You should see them drive in the snow. Fortunately, there are usually giant snow banks so they don't get too hurt. I drive around and pull people out of the ditches, just for fun. I don't charge them, I just enjoy it.

But, yeah, they seem to appreciate the ribbing. If they have issues, we will all stop what we are doing and go out and rescue them. I've rappelled down over the falls to retrieve a kayaker. I even went back to get their kayak. We don't charge them any money, we just give them a ration of crap and tell them to take a few classes before trying that again.

Edit to add: If you're from MA, we make fun of you the most.

Edit again: I just noticed AutoCorrect hates me.
I've been growing milkweed at my parents house and we saw a around 20 caterpillars this year! Unfortunately, ~1/2 of them didn't make it but we at least start seeing Monarchs again. Everyone should be planting better garden plants that can compared to the bland green bushes and grass that never blooms.
And/or users handing over consent for the app (and included ad-tech) to use GPS data without thinking through/caring enough about the consequences. Additionally, predatory apps that demand certain permissions to work can function to force the user to give up GPS data.
Because all the talent likes being able to walk places in a few minutes.

I propose jetpacks, to vastly extend peoples' comfortable walking radii.
From your comments, I actually was somewhat aware of your situation. (Though it was news to me that you had made it off the street. Very welcome news, too.) I tried to write my comment such that it didn't imply anything negative about you. I can now see how what I wrote can be taken that way; I didn't intend that.

I meant to be saying that people can, though no fault of their own, fail to create much economic value, at least as measured in dollars that people will pay for what they do. (Yeah, sometimes it's their fault. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's kind of a mix - they made a choice, and it worked out badly, but it wasn't a clear-cut bad choice. Sometimes it's hard to tell. The point is, these people are there, in very bad economic circumstances.) The question is, what do we do about it? What do we do that genuinely helps them, without taxing the rich so much that it dulls the incentive to create the stuff that will make all of us better off?

And since there's (I think) a lot of "help" that doesn't actually help, I'll specifically ask you: What would have helped you?
Scandinavian, apparently. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned that tax filings in Norway are public information, and that they include salary and wealth information.
You may want to check out Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization over on Coursera. [1] One of the courses is specifically about hyperparameter tuning and another about structuring your project. There is a lot of practical information scattered across all the courses.

Yes, I'm taking the specialization and having a blast with it. :-)

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning
I worked at a Dollar General for 2 years as a Sales Associate. I don't remember specifics but I think they gave a raise of $0.25/hour every 6 months you work there. I started at min wage and after a 1.5 years they hired someone the same age as me to be a Lead Sales Associate instead of promoting me. I was kind of annoyed about that and asked her how much they payed for Lead Sales Associate. Found out I was making $0.10/hour more than her because of the $0.75 increase from minimum wage that I had gotten for working 1.5 years.
I just don't buy it - sure it can be used to do good things, but it's not about learning curves or "grasping it" - it's about "is this a good way for humans to write and read this transformation", and the answer is clearly no.

XML is not a good form for a transformation language. It's not the quality of the code written in it or anything like that.

Take XSLT and change the syntax, and sure, it might be great. You can't ignore the terrible, terrible choice of making the transformation itself XML. It's completely unreadable and horrific to write.
Ok, suppose this is true, why? It sounds like such nonsense to me, there must be confounders
>It's important to remember that Java has been around for 20-30 years and it certainly has not stood still. Many of the complaints people have are from Java of 10+ years ago.

Exactly. I spent about 5 years away from Java after J2EE made me swear it off. I learned a bunch of other languages and frameworks and recently went back. Java is awesome now. Unlike 5 years ago is relatively easy to avoid all the clunky old crap if you want to.
I find these baiting titles tiresome, and I generally assume (even if it makes an ass out of me) that the author is splitting hairs or wants to grandstand on some inefficiency that most of us knew was there already. (I'm assuming if they had a real argument then it would have been in a descriptive title) With titles like these I'll go straight to the comments section before giving you any ad-revenue. This is HN, not Buzzfeed, and we deserve better than this.
That's the big thing; when I express doubt about the worth of separating our rubbish into the recycling bins to my wife I get dirty looks at best!
> But the hockey-stick takeoff

The hockey stick is lying horizontally though instead of vertically. If it took 3 days to go from 0 to beating the top player in the world, I wouldn't have expected it to take 21 days to beat next version. I guess something happens at the top levels of Go that make training much harder.

On another note, I didn't look at the details closely but it seems AlphaGo Zero needed much less compute training time than Alpha Go Master. Could getting rid of any human inputs really make it that much more efficient? That implies it will be able to have an impact in many different areas, which is a bit scary...

(Updated - it took 3 days to beat the top player in the world.)
While this may work, I think you should try to work on your self control instead of these absurd mechanisms- or perhaps Facebook isn’t as bad for you as you live decided it is? If you like it so much, perhaps it’s doing something good for you, right? Cavemen didn’t have much to go by but feelings, and they did ok for themselves.
Guess they are going to band together to dethrone W3Schools :-) (only half kidding, that web site has has some serious staying power.)

Related, when I was active in standards work (I learned just how badly that stuff was run) I discovered that new people in a standards group that was being formed would be lobbying to be the group Chairperson or Vice Chair. But the people who had been in standards bodies before were all vying to be the Editor. That was because the group could argue all they wanted but at the end of the day what was in the standard was what was in the document and only one person had absolute sway over that, the Editor.

So when I see all these leading lights, who just got through a rancorous debate about DRM with the standards body, endorse a new way to capture the "actual" standard, I see a seasoned standards wonk offering to do all the slavish work of editing the documents so that everyone else can focus on the hard work of coming up with the best possible standard.
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The "right to earn a living" is a pillar of the common law tradition that hasn't gotten the respect and deference it deserves since at least the 1930s.
Maybe my brain is weird but I read Kernighan/Ritchie and had no problem grasping pointers. It's actually one of the simpler concepts compared to concurrency and others. But I know a lot of smart people who don't get pointers. I wonder if it's the teaching.
I don’t use it, what’s so interesting about it?
> nor is it particularly astute to create an entire discipline used to justify our entire social order on a theory that is known at the onset to be incorrect,

This is precisely what makes your line of argument tiresome: you fail to understand the very basics of what models are and how they are used.

What determines if a model is valid or not is its error margin for the intended use. Even if a model fails to draw accurate predictions, its ability to express cause-effect consequences is enough to demonstrate the model's usefulness. It makes absolutely no sense at all, and flies in the face of reason, to criticize a model because it might not be very accurate at representing a corner case. That's a very ignorant thing to claim.

To paraphrase George Box: "All models are wrong but some are useful". It seems you failed to understand the latter.
Twitter has moved key parts of the system to Java. The search functionality was redone on top of Netty which they had some articles about.
It’s true that the Amazon hq would stress infrastructure a lot. Amazon should go to Lowell or Worcester. Or Springfield, it would be a huge boon for Western Mass.
Simple: as many kids as you would have if the world weren't so terrible that "it's wrong to bring them into a world like this."