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It’s weird, I keep hearing things like this but have encountered literally no issues with it on my mid-2015 MacBook Pro... Is there some particular hardware that it’s dodgy on or am I just lucky?
"working on compilers for imperative differentiable programming languages"

what would be an example of such language?
The article mentions salary negotiations and immediate interview feedback. It sounds like the executives decided not to hire for whatever reason (maybe salary).
You don’t even need that. You can work some magic with CSS to hide/show and even rotate/flip elements using inputs.

> input:checked + div { display: none; }

Some people don’t like that either though. :/
> An especially unfortunate truth is that many developers have grown so afraid of workflow-breaking bugs that they're willing to risk security flaws just so they can get work done.

Can't blame them. Ultimately, it's productivity that pays the bills.
Throwaway account:

I enjoy scraping GitHub user data and have found it a great goldmine of data.

95% of the time I can recover an email address for a user based on their commits, even when the email is not publicly visible on GitHub.

Very insecure.
Ran htop for a while on the latest public beta of High Sierra 10.13.3 last night and didn’t have any issues.
I'd love to be wrong on this, but from what I understand Chicken Scheme can no longer produce static binaries.
Can parachutes deploy automatically safely?

I mean in cities I keep imagining much greater extent of elevation, moment we figure how. Above the smog line... I'm sure I was in 94 but 16 same place, in the middle, ugh.

Could it become unlawful to rent (Live in generally) homes without harmful particle filtration?

I'm thinking of renting out my filters just before tenant viewings, because this eliminates the obviously fresh air chill, takes out fat or any food Smell beyond the kitchen, let's a visitor smoke even..(friend closed rental dear by offering a cigarette excused by filters, it's your residence now) but from flu season to the decoration next door, the cost needs a artificial boost. Wish was a swapHN channel..
> Given so much unhappiness with OSX

Unhappy people post a LOT more and the internet loves a good pile-on. Apple has had plenty of embarrassing QA lapses but the average developer is fine, and it’s not like everything else is perfect. The Linux users I work with spend more time on sysadmin work than the Mac users by a hefty margin, although there’s a good argument that software compatibility is worth that overhead.
how about food?
Until a vulnerability is found in ARM TrustZone.
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>First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub.

I didn't mean to imply it is, but if an open source project finds it easier to use one platform (such as github), trying to subvert that by emailing patches sounds like a very annoying thing to do. It seems similar to submitting pull requests to the Linux Kernel on GitHub, which explicitly requests that you submit patches on the mailing list.
I can at least confirm for you that you made the right choice. Today I went to use the touchbar to adjust the volume on a conference call I was in and ended up hitting the contextual "home" button, taking me away from the page (and call) entirely. I guess I should have memorized which invisible part of the touchbar corresponded to what better. I miss hardware buttons.
People want to use their smart speakers to buy things
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According to the bug thread, the bug doesn't always happen but there are some things that can be done to reliably trigger it.

https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-341...
If someone invents a machine that does some necessary consumer-level work (say, a washing machine) and the result is not increased leisure, something is Very Wrong. Sure, we could spend the time we save doing dishes on productive labor, but this wasn't time we owed to the workforce in the first place.

"Increased activity occupies surplus generated by increased efficiency" works for corporations, which is why economists like it, but not for humans, which is GP's point. In fact, GDP is only of practical utility at all insofar as that equation does not hold, since leisure and autonomy and generally not-being-beholden-to-work is the economic end of "human welfare."

There's other points, which I think GP was referencing in a less clear way, about how GDP measures all sorts of economic "activity" that is useless altogether- financial speculation in bubbles, competing advertisement campaigns, etc. But the main point is that GDP is a measure of output, not welfare, and for humans (all else being equal) we're better off the less that we're required to do.
I opened it in an Incognito window and it worked fine. Public posts on FB can be seen without logging in.
Canonical probably feels better about this decision after this blog post. Not a great experience, but I don't think it's worth dragging a company publicly over.
I believe this paper by Marcus ( https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.00631.pdf ) earlier this week inspired this.

Edit: I don't mean Marcus inspired the term differentiable programming; he inspired LeCun to emphasize the wider scope of deep learning after Marcus attacked it. In fact, LeCun liked a post on twitter rebutting Marcus' paper that also talks about differentiable programming: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/948811917593780225
I appreciate your reply. My apologies, and thank you.
I'm on macOS High Sierra for the spontaneity. Every morning, I go to wake my Macbook Pro with two 4K USB-C connected displays and external keyboard and mouse. Will one display turn on? Both? Neither? Who knows!
Why did human technology advance so slowly at first?
Apple hardware was nice. Not anymore. I had to have the keyboard replaced on my touchbar model. And the 8 Gig memory limit is silly. Thanks to an external keyboard and vagrant I get to spend most of my time on linux with a good keyboard, so it is tolerable for now.

I would dump it for a linux laptop, but I work remote so every type of video chat/screen share tool needs to work. Most of them don't work on linux. My computer choice is dictated by chat tools, which is kind of sad.
To my knowledge today the 2 best things are ripple and raiden on ethereum.
> Differentiable Programming is horrible branding. It's hard to say, not catchy, and not as easily decipherable

Tell that to the people who deliberately popularized the term Dynamic Programming for something that was neither dynamic nor programming.

____

(From Wiki)

Bellman explains the reasoning behind the term dynamic programming in his autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane: An Autobiography (1984, page 159). He explains:

"I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from? The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term research in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word “programming”. I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying. I thought, let's kill two birds with one stone. Let's take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities."
Regarding "Youtube is a video hosting site, it's not a political platform": politics enters any situation where 2 or more people are involved. Another poster has clearly explained how YouTube is quite fine hosting shows with what are clearly political views as well as choosing whose views are currently in favor. Calling any editing effort non-political is either woefully uninformed or an attempt to manipulate others (snowed or trying to snow others).

Regarding "has no obligation to host content it doesn't deem suitable": Yes, sadly, this is a problem not unique to YouTube. All hosters get to decide what to host and to change that decision at any time.

Some people choose to respond to hosting on sufferance by becoming sycophants (placate the hoster with speech one believes won't offend the censors) but that is ultimately detrimental to one's own message and free speech overall. We have no solution for this that is really easy for nontechnical computer users because we all depend on other parties for Internet access. If homes had Internet access that could not be taken away, we might be able to recommend self-hosting. For now, in the age of the ISPs, the best we can do is massively decentralized hosting which uses no DRM, running additional nonfree code (such as YouTube's DRM in JS), and somehow getting a lot of peers with lots of storage and bandwidth to keep available copies of everything uploaded (we ought not decide that one message is worth sharing and not another message because that is the very problem we're trying to solve).

This is a tough problem to solve. I don't know what a viable solution will look like quite yet. But I know what to avoid: we won't solve this problem by placating big business desires for more control over what we say and how we get copies of other people's works.
Carefully filed in an almost unread subreddit rather than in /r/announcements where it would be seen by everyone.
That’s true, but it’s been squarely presented and decided in Reich v Gonzales, relying on Wickard v Filburn that Congress does have this power. And through application of stare decisis / precedent it will be difficult to undo that.
The original link in the article is dead. Here is the Archive.is version:

http://archive.is/3jRC3
WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities
Why was this reported to htop instead of Apple? Most of these people "me too"ing don't seem to realize that this isn't htop's problem...
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It makes the use-case for this type of code deployment wider and it's more effective at what it's already used for.

These are two reasons why developing and supporting WebAssembly is finally against the interest of the users.
A few years ago I watched a security talk where the spearker showed how much sensitive info was in Github. There was an amazing number of passwords, and what really surprised me was that a number of them realized after they pushed the sensitive data what they did and tried to delete it. . . . . they also thought simply committing over it was the way to delete it. It is possible that several of these companies did the correct thing and changed the password after they realized their mistake, but I have a feeling not.
to be fair though, the subject is a judgement of a technique's name, not a judgement of the technique itself.
The Platform Security Processor (PSP) is built in on all Family 16h + systems (basically anything post-2013), and controls the main x86 core startup. PSP firmware is cryptographically signed with a strong key similar to the Intel ME. If the PSP firmware is not present, or if the AMD signing key is not present, the x86 cores will not be released from reset, rendering the system inoperable.

The PSP is an ARM core
Shipping brand new tech isn't like shipping a new T-shirt, where, for example, the only change might be the print design. From the T2 processor in the new Mac Pros to the iPhone X Ai/VR chips, from new filesystems to brand new cloud services, Apple's 'critical path' is in R&D. How can an operations guy accelerate that?
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I use Linux as a daily driver, and currently have zero issues using Hangouts and Hipchat's built in videochat, and only minor issues with Skype, for a data point...
I read there is already a web browser exploit, if I remember it was a CCC talk this summer
The real issue is the speculative execution of loads and stores which cannot be rolled back in the event a branch is not taken.
That's not a new problem. My 2012 rMBP w/ 10.11 has the same issue. OS X has always had issues with multiple displays.
> 2. Isn't the evolution of Deep Networks more advance setups such as GANs, RNNs, and so on?

That's not what Yann LeCun is getting at I think. Most neural networks models are sort of like a non-programmable computer. They are built around assuming the data is a fixed size, fixed dimensional array. But in computer programming there is an ocean of data structures. You have sorted sets, linked lists, dictionaries, and everything else. Imagine that we knew that a data-set was arranged as a sort of "fuzzy" dictionary and we wanted the computer to do the rest. All we need to do is load up the right deep neural network (I mean differential programming something or other) and wallah.

Something like where the the value in a piece of data dictate the layers that get stacked together and how those layers connect to layers for the next value in that piece of data
Crappity crap...
Then again, it was very rarely updated - usual sign of noncommittal developers.
Your assuming they did not sneak a small camera in.
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If I’m understanding the fundamentals of the science behind this article, basically researchers are messing around with the state of the orbitals [0] of the electron clouds of individual atoms and molecules in very cold condensates that are otherwise stable, provoking interesting states that defy the usual macroscopic interactions commonly observed in the 4 classic phases of matter?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital

Is that about right?
>someone invents a machine that does some necessary consumer-level work (say, a washing machine) and the result is not increased leisure, something is Very Wrong.

Leisure isn’t free though. Increased leisure time is going to create work/spending in other areas. So you save time on household chores due to the cheap machine, that means you probably end up spending more money on your leisure activities. You buy more books, video games, hiking boots, sports gear, etc.
I was with you at first, but then your usage of semicolons went way overboard.
A little off-topic, but what do you do now? Are you still interested in graphics rendering? Your insights reflect my experience in film/video post-production and I am starting to get deeper into the software dev side of CGI and doing freelance work as a 3D Artist. I am very passionate, to the point that I work over time on accident and take jobs with low pay. I am hesitant to use the skills I’ve learned for anything else because I worry what would happen if the passion were to fade. But, I have not yet found a full-time job that balances the two. I keep studying and doing freelance, looking for the right opportunity for now. I had a great balance for years in film production but haven’t found it in this new undertaking so far. My drive seems similar to yours, and I’m just curious if you still work in the vicinity of graphics rwendering.
There was someone (victorbjelkholm) talking about the zoom-out limits of https://filemap.xyz/ on IRC and I couldn't reply there:

I've arbitrarily imposed these limits because the purpose of the app is not for casual visitors to wander around the world browsing everybody's files, they're supposed to go to specific addresses and browse only their files there.

This measure will not protect anyone absolutely, since an "attacker" can easily read the entire database and figure out where are all the files, but it protects users from 99% of the casual visitors.
it seems like it's made by analogy with "probabilistic programming", i.e. defining complex probability distributions by writing familiar-looking imperative code (with loops and whatnot).

I think the idea is that thinking in terms of passing data through layers in a graph is cumbersome sometimes, and that expressing it as a "regular" program that just happens to come with gradients could be more comfortable.

I'd argue that GANs in particular are a natural fit for this style. The training procedure doesn't really fit exactly into the standard "minimize loss function of many layers using backprop".
Every time I read stories like this, I feel like the value of iOS development is slowly dwindling. App development has been a race to the bottom for small teams/indie developers making it difficult to build a sustainable lifestyle business. I'm not sure if there is anything that can turn the ecosystem around, but I hope WWDC introduces some more sustainable plug and play business models for developers.
And no native Evernote client :(
Amazingly, they are much lighter than some other services.

Boston's Hubway bikes are 3-speed, but 42 pounds despite (I believe) an aluminum frame. New York's Citi Bikes are also 3-speed, but 45 pounds.
In depth explanation of what exactly is the vulnerability of Meltdown
A provisional offer usually comes from the person who would be your direct supervisor who outright states their intent to hire but then has to jump through a bunch of HR hoops. A prudent person would probably be on their guard because they can sometimes fall through but it's rare enough that I wouldn't fault the candidate for assuming they have the job.
Which usage of semicolons are you referring to? The only one I can think of is using them to terminate definitions. I realize it's slightly unorthodox, like most of cixl; but many languages seem to be fine with using semicolons to terminate every single freaking statement, how is this worse?
Nearley has been working great for us -- I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it for other projects.
What is "socially-positive" output and who gets to decide that?
thats pretty much what he was fired for. Mistreating employees, damaging the company, it's reputation and he was caught later in his career in the wage setting scandal. So yeah, they are pretty similar.

Not sure I have heard anything about TK going after rape victims specifically, thats a new one for me.
Has anything come out of the OpenBSD community about this? I've searched but can't seem to find any official statements.
My comment was facetious. Both countries’ currencies are plagued with flight problems.
This is anecdata but…

I have to reboot my late 2013 MacBook Pro a few times a week, when it freezes or becomes partially unresponsive in weird ways. Previous to High Sierra, I tried to remember to reboot it every few months, mostly out of superstition.

I plan to upgrade to a 2015 model when this one dies, for the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread and here https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
> I've never fully understood this view, since 'the system' that we all suffer at the hand of is just a collection of our fellow academics.

The first layer, yes, but after that come non-specialist academics, who aren't qualified to judge my particular work on its merits, and so have to substitute some other metric; and then administrators, whose fitness to judge the merits of any academic work is, let me say, not necessarily a given. For example, even without any worries of bias: as a mathematician, it is always a struggle to get non-mathematicians, even (or perhaps especially) other scientists, to realise that author order on mathematicians' papers reflects only one's place in the alphabet, not one's contribution.
working with dynamic neural net libraries that have autodiff (PyTorch, regular Torch, and I think also MXNet now) feels a lot like this. you just write normal functions, but after you execute them you can ask for gradients too.
Thank you; it totally went over my head.
Twitter should be honest for once and tell the truth - that Trump is good for its bottom line.
If you need a job, why would you reject other offers before accepting an offer from someone? That really doesn't make sense...
> T-dawg
> It's suspicious that he didn't describe the execs interview.

Where does it say he had to do an interview with the execs after getting the provisional offer? All I read was that "Canonical requires a panel of executives to approve each senior level hire."
I would hope it could tap into the Atari 800 / 5200 / 7800 era of games.
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