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"Deep" probabilistic? A quick search & it seems the term "Deep Probabilistic" was coined by the package author. Which, hey, nice work and all, but "deep" in this context looks like pure marketing fluff.

Maybe it's not, I'm no longer cutting edge on this stuff-- my grad school days were a decade ago and the day job ::sigh:: doesn't require the more interesting stuff.

But I'm gonna get a bit "get off my lawn" on this one and say that, in my day (woohoo!), neural nets could be deep; they had hidden depths (& layers). Belief networks could be deep, and they were adding depth to learning too; Much of the "deep" stuff today seems to use that word the same way Tide & OxyClean have "deep" cleaning technology in their laundry detergent.

All of which is to say, this is a question from someone in the early stages of cruftiness, meant in good humor, to ask "What makes them there probablistics 'deep' ?" :)
Sure, but is there overwhelming evidence that he did the impossible and rose from the dead? Last time I researched the issue, I was incredibly underwhelmed by the reasons that were used to defend a belief in an actual resurrection.
Decent 3 bedroom houses nearby cost 3 million, so going by the 3x salary to house price rule, a million dollars would be the right amount. That is completely ridiculous, but it is also reality.
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You’re talking about Russia? Isn’t Navalny in prison for running for president? Doesn’t Putin regularly win over 100% of the vote? Im confused
It'll probably be fixed in a week or two at most and you'll forget it ever happened except when recounting stories of the good ole days of technology 20 years from now.
Just curious, why are you getting 100+ emails at once that you can't filter into a low priority/no notification inbox?
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My friend quit his postdoc with a prestigious researcher in his field after witnessing the abuse the international students in the same group were subjected to.
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>So people like me are basically paying for everyone else to go to McDonald's with my taxes.

I suppose then you also take personal responsibility for the bombs dropped in Syria?
They make a single mention of what could be a significant contributing factor; student debt. A quick google search for India and China show that many of their top public universities charge ~$300 and ~$800/year while UC Berkeley is over $14,000.

After 4 years, with on-campus housing the first year, the Berkeley student owes about $72,000 while the Indian student owes $1,200.

As far as the income differences between the countries, the average Indian saves 31.4% [1] of an average $6,490/yr which means $2,037. While in the US it's 5.7% [2] of $58,030 which means $3,307.

So stated another way, the Indian education costs 0yr/7mon of average savings while the US one costs 21yr/9mon. By the time the American child has their bachelors, the American parents are already broke while the Indian parent's savings reserves haven't been depleted - a 2 year graduate program is something they still have the cash for.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-savings-rate-in-In...

[2] https://www.fool.com/saving/2016/10/03/heres-the-average-ame...
To prevent any accusations of insider trading, these sales tend to be announced months in advance and scheduled, so any movements on the sale day are more likely to be naieve investors reacting.
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I'll chime in:
Thank you Audacity (-team) for always being there when I need you (aka consistent quality and maintenance).
The extra H1-B spots for advanced degree holders may have something to do with that.
Are you doing OMSCS while working? I feel like many are doing these programs while employed & having their employer sponsor them.
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I think this is a weak op-ed with an argument that’s primarily supported by emotions such as anger.

Nothing is stopping the writers from unionizing. As a union, they can then work for whatever business would like to hire them. It’s not like “The Billionaire” decided to lock the union out, and exclusively employ freelancers. He decided to shut the business down — tough cookies.
Seriously, all the bait and switches happening on Amazon is crazy. So many people getting screwed because a product built up good reviews then switches out for a counterfeit.
So a billionaire decided to shut down his 'business', because he didn't want to deal with a union. If your 'business' never makes money and wasn't expected to make money isn't it basically an illegal charity or political organization?
It was a Vanity project until the jurnos Unionized, and he did not want to put with that.

Also, he may have other interests who would take his tolerance of his "media" unions as a sign and unionize. To just assigning it to "spite" is narrative bias, in my opinion.
No one said they have an agreement. I said they didn't want to do anything to disrupt the status quo.
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Being a former android user, I see no fundamental difference in how notification are implemented for email between the two platforms.
Not sure you can compare them so directly. $800 is an unobtainable sum (?) for 1 billion Chinese/Indians. I'd also wonder about the difference in quality between UC Berkeley and a lot of those colleges. They are probably very good but US colleges tend to dominate world rankings (partially why everyone goes to them). If outsiders are willing to spend money in your schools, what happens to prices?

I'm also unsure about the comparison between averages (500 billion impoverished + 500 billion wealthy makes for an uninformative average), or savings rate. If US families save less (for cultural reasons or they don't need to), it's not relevant. Or it might be late.
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I don't think Amazon has fully crossed any lines just yet, but I do think it's bound to happen fairly soon just due to scale.

My point is meant to compare antitrust enforcement to the other mechanisms that are viewed by some as necessary to prevent large corporations from causing negative externalities.

Arguably if proper antitrust enforcement had been done in the finance industry, then no firms would have become too big to fail and all of the perverse incentives underscored by regulators post 2008 could have been avoided.

The problem is that since our regulatory state rewards size, there is a strong incentive to become large and hence too big to fail. As Amazon becomes a bigger and bigger part of the economy, it could start using the same rent-seeking tactics that financial firms used in 2008 to get major corporate welfare.
No, the Romney move is still not possible in Bezos' shoes. Bezos couldn't have invested in Amazon in his IRA when it was worth nothing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-directed_IRA#Permitted_in...

> IRA funds are allowed to be invested in private companies. ... The IRS puts restrictions on private equity investments that can be made by an IRA. It cannot purchase stock that the IRA holder already owns. ... In most cases, neither the IRA holder nor any disqualified persons to the plan can be employed by the company while the IRA has an equity position in that company.
Chat heads are a terrible feature, and now that you told me I can turn them off I’m going to go do that immediately.
I'm working on my habit formation/note-taking application: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations

Specifically I'm trying to work up the nerve to go implement a decent search which I've been putting off for a while. And maybe get it cleaned up for some kind of actual release.
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A rational business person would attempt to sell it. They would also keep the websites and content online with advertising systems intact as to allow for some residual revenue. This guy didn't attempt to sell the business and had the websites and archives deleted.
> "DNAinfo was never profitable, but Mr. Ricketts was happy to invest in it for eight years"

Anyone who thinks anyone can be "happy" to "invest" in a non-profitable company for eight years shouldn't be writing articles about business decisions.

Also, this "billionaire" qualifier to make the story more sensational is so cliche.
I didn't know about this quota, but it doesn't really matter. The main point, which the article didn't mention, is that being an undergrad international student is far more difficult. First, the high schools exams can be different and students might not be eligible to apply. Then there's tuition cost. How many Chinese and Indians can afford ~40K/year not including room and other expenses? Foreign students cannot apply for scholarship.

It makes much more sense to study almost for free in India/China/Finland/etc. and then do a GRE and apply to grad school in the US. PhD students don't need to pay tuition and even get a monthly stipend. Also many MS students get some sort of scholarship (but not all).
Indeed. I've been burned enough times that I'd actually join a class action lawsuit at this point. It's pretty ridiculous.

Amazon needs to take full responsibility for counterfeiting. I'm tempted to charge back certain purchases instead of going through the normal highly annoying process.

Being able to return an item no questions asked is not an appropriate remedy for getting a counterfeit product. It's a major hassle to box something back up and return it, and Amazon does not have a good solution for situations when the product that arrives is completely broken or is total junk/DOA.
I have a soft spot for formal methods, but how do you see this taking off?
I don't blame the guy. He was already doing charity work by floating the company. I'm sure he thought that since he was sacrificing money for it, his employees should also make sacrifices and be paid in a commensurate fashion.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. They're just lucky they weren't prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 1001 for making false statements to the government.
> To just assigning it to "spite" is narrative bias, in my opinion.

If a capitalist no longer wants to have anything to do with something he built, the logical thing to do would be to sell it and get some of his $ back. This would also keep the people who helped him build his vanity project employed.

I can't think of a reason to shut it down other than to hurt people.
The iPhone is the lowest % of their revenue it’s been for a long time.

Your advice is the same as what every armchair analyst has been saying for 10 years. I see no reason to believe it’s gotten any higher quality now.
Writing up some mathematics I did while (currently) funemployed. It's about the Wobbly Table problem. I have two parts out of three up already, and am finishing up the third: https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable.html

Probably I won't try to publish it in traditional journals because I don't intend to get back into academia and anyway it's probably not novel enough. (It's a new proof — as far as I know — of an old result.)
"The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture)."

It makes the original iphone seem impressive, perhaps, but now ten years on we see that there has been no real innovation in the phone form factor since then.

They're all just (iphones).

I personally always liked the qwerty slate form factor of the Moto Q / Nokia E71 / Blackberry Classic. But there were many other different and interesting form factors (Nokia communicator, Helio Ocean, that square phone from Motorola that opened out a keyboard like a knife...).

It's interesting and fun to browse through this nice visual history:

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-ce...

... and it makes me wish there were some new form-factor innovation in mobile phones.
As a regular reader of Gothamist, I was very disappointed to hear that they were shutting down. At first, it seemed like so many other stories I've heard: a plucky crew working hard to produce solid journalism getting taken down by the cold, heartless business of online advertising.

After digging into it a bit, I was surprised to find out that it was just like so many other stories I've heard: a group of workers that built a successful business trying to ensure they get to participate in a share of that success, only to be shut out by a ruthless capitalist who can't stand the idea of a union preventing him from hoarding all the gains.
The mixture of cultures here on HN is interesting. There are some very anti-union folks and some very pro-union folks (such as myself).

The article is very opinionated, and I admire that.

I for one think that if a union threatens the viability of your business, then your business model never counted on treating other humans as the vital pieces they are. I am not saddened by the end of such a project (vanity or no), it's simply the natural conclusion of unplanned factors.
Yeah I agree, the title alone reads to me like my toddler tattling on his brother.

Oh I got it maybe the author prefer an impartial unit that could run the media instead and make sure everything is fair for everyone. Kinda like North Korea! ;-)

Seriously though, the article reads like a bit of frustration and foot stomping.
The article (as opposed to this op-ed) in the Times yesterday was more balanced. [1]

It's probably fair to say that there was spite involved--the timing, the immediate takedown of the sites, etc. But it's also fairly clear that the shutdown was probably going to happen sooner or later in any case. Maybe the unionization was the proverbial straw but I'm not sure how different the end result would have been.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/nyregion/dnainfo-gothamis...
You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what a union is, and how they work. Unions are fundamentally tied to a specific employer.
Paywall, so I don't know if this is covered in the linked article-- Is there something unique about the medium, such as with vinyl, that enthusiasts are seeking out?
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the reason there are multiple sim manufacturers and SIM cards interop seamlessly into any device is because they are built entirely on published standards. there is tons documentation, usually in the form of giant specifications. look for Secure Element. Java card. global platform. UICC.
>If your 'business' never makes money and wasn't expected to make money isn't it basically an illegal charity or political organization?

what makes it illegal? i get how it's illegal if it's a charity that's making money, but how is it illegal for a business not to make money?
carrier authentication is huge! do you want someone to be able to subscribe to a network with your phone number? receive your calls? texts? or call or text as if they are you? yes the sim has little relevance to device security for most smartphones. contacts on sim are a great example of supporting legacy features for BC only. but the network is still very important to secure.

sims are used for more than just phones. the chip on your credit card is a Secure Element. the chip in your passport is too. these are some of the most physically and technically secure pieces of hardware ever made
Though I agree that it is spite, the article states that the archives are back up as of now.
Oh? Mono?

Thanks for the warning!
Qi charging is slow. All wireless charging is (by its nature).

It’ll get better but I’d be very surprised to see a popular phone go totally port-less in the next 5 years.
Where's libsodium? :-)
Comments are really useful to explain reasoning behind complex sections, or edge cases that caused code to be written. Other than that I hate boilerplate comments, and try to make code self documenting.
Spite seems pretty plausible. There’s no evidence that he was going to shutdown the companies prior to the unionization. In fact, he was more than happy to keep it afloat right up until the unionization vote. To say that the two aren’t related, it’s to stretch credulity past the breaking point.
There are people in the world who’s life would be more transformed by your wealth than your’s would be by Bezos’.

How did you wake up this morning?

Also not making a moral projection here. We just tend to look up instead of down.
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No, because a huge cost for them right now is underutilization of assets (factory, tooling, some workers, etc.). Their utilization rate will improve, and so operating costs should not scale linearly with revenue growth. "Should" being the key word.
My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students were given research assistantships.
I did this once to one of the driver forces for an internal product i have been using daily. I learned from someone else that it made their day.

Appreciation, when it is well deserved, increases overall well-being of a person. We should not forget to do it.
The rule in computer science is that naming is one of the two hardest problems that we face.

Which is why it is really important to get it right, or at least make a serious attempt to do so.
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Or the $500k+ you can earn. Most of the people in that region have at least a masters degree and likely more.
A slightly different way of thinking about that 24:

log2(8)=3 ... 3*8 = 24
cool! good to know.
A group of workers who weren't making money decided to get together to increase the ask of the owner of the business. That's a big red flag that says "we aren't united in fixing what's wrong here". At that point, the situation is impossible. There's little to no chance of a path to profitability. This isn't some 100 year old car making giant who can be abused for decades and still remain standing, its a money losing small media outlet fighting for survival and relevance.

That same group of workers can start another similar business under their control tomorrow. I bet they won't. They want "someone else" to fix their problems. One of their problems appears to be math.

There were real problems unions solved in this country. True "we own the store, we own your house, we've blocked the exits, your boss has a gun pointed at you" abuses. This is so comically far from that. The only joke left in the story is the outrage of the article's author for not seeing the obvious, inevitable conclusion that he and his peers forced.

I'd like my 20 minutes back from having to have read and responded to this junk. There are serious liberal viewpoints put forth on HN but Mr Hamilton Nolan, yours sir, isn't one of them.
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They only became profitable recently, like 2016 time frame.
Has anyone tried to run a newspaper as a co-op? If you feel like you can run the organization and are pro employee ownership this seems like the logical progression if you feel cheated out of a job. On the other hand I can understand why anyone who is running an unprofitable business would want to shut it down if it were highly likely that it is going to lose more money in the future.
There are lot more pro-union people on HN than there used to be.

Not too many years ago any mention of unions on HN would have nearly the entire HN community frothing at the mouth. These days you'll actually find not a few pro-union voices making themselves heard, as in the last article on this subject to make HN's front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616156
I remember my twenties. I worked at the same job (shelving books in a library) for almost five years. That’s longer than I’ve worked at any other job.

In this field, people now expect to change employers every two to three years, with commensurate pay raises and title increases.

That kind of rapid inflation only gets you so far before that bubble bursts.
I didn't understand the rationale of redux-loop, and I don't understand this one's either. Reducers are nice and simple, why go muddying them up with side-effects?

There are already two good places to put side-effects in redux: action creators and middleware. What's the compelling reason that those aren't sufficient?
> Another problem is that companies often want to sell a long-term vision vs. a solving a specific problem. The end result is an abstract description of the company that doesn't connect with the end buyer.

Perhaps it represents a bias towards investors rather than customers?
The implementation of the unbundling rules was "disastrous" (according to the center-left Brookings Institute: www.pff.org/events/eventpowerpoints/022207BrusselsComm/Crandall.ppt, see slide 3). Unbundling can work, but requires a steady hand in setting rates. The FCC said "screw telcos" and set rates very low, which made telecos basically give up on improving their DSL infrastructure. In contrast, unbundling has worked well in the U.K. There, the government put in place a rate structure that allowed BT OpenReach (the entity that owns all the phone lines) to actually be comparable in profitability to Comcast or TWC.
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OTOH, the Gothamist was profitable, so what does that mean?
Carrier authentication is not huge. The vast majority of communications services today are secure without a SIM, even ones that are tied to your number. Ever notice that iMessage keeps working without a SIM? The SIM card is mostly a relic that is useful to the carrier oligopoly because it increases network switching friction.
$800 is about the monthly salary for so many Chinese I’m finding it hard to think it is unobtainable.