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> Cyprus citizens who had their deposits confiscated in 2013 by their banks emphatically disagree with you.

Yes, and plenty of people have also lost their bitcoin to their exchanges/online wallets/hackers. And yes, with adequate security and personal cold storage, some of this can be avoided, but if you want to actually transact with Bitcoin these days, you have to convert to fiat since using Bitcoin as an actual currency right now is a train wreck, which means you have to interact with an exchange. And if you do use personal storage, and were to lose your keys or passwords, there is no recovering your money. Its gone forever.

> A man who was moving across states carrying his savings in cash and who had everything confiscated by police under civil forfeiture law emphatically disagree with you.

I'm sorry, how is this related to a bank? The entire problem is that the man had his savings in cash and not in a bank. If your issue is with the government seizing his money, the government has seized Bitcoins as well.

> Venezuelans who see the value of their currency evaporate and inflate 4000% yearly because of incompetence from their central bank emphatically disagree with you.

I fail to see how this is worse than a currency that is as volatile as Bitcoin is, which is also subject to manipulation by anonymous institutions, investors, and governments, if not directly then indirectly.
Then why make opting-out of telemetry consent so obtuse?
6 years is "unheard of" for language stability??

I struggle to think of a language where that hasn't been true..
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I took this course in the Fall of 2011, before Coursera existed, when it was introduced to the public as "ML Class" (sponsored by Stanford).

I agree - it's a great introduction, and I learned a ton from it (and it answered a ton of questions I had until then).
hey neel8986, I know linear algebra is very important for large scale calculations. But how much calculus and statistics do you need for ML? Also, if you can touch what applications of calculus and statistics are used in ML that would be awesome :]. THANKS!
The main thing is, why would I buy a sandwich with Bitcoin if the BTC it costs could suddenly be worth $10,000?

Bitcoin is a bad currency because it's too volatile. I don't expect it to replace conventional currencies without a regulating force, and since that's complete anathema I think the status quo will persist.
Okay, but I've been hearing for a decade now how cryptocurrencies are immune to regulation. That, by their very nature, they're going to prevent existing governments from being able to exercise some types of power that libertarians find objectionable.

What I haven't been able to get a straight answer on is exactly which specific types of power. Because as far as I can tell, a government could still levy taxes in BTC. They could still impose whatever financial regulations they wanted on top of BTC. They couldn't force or prevent transactions, but they could still observe them and impose fines (and, ultimately, jail time or asset seizure) on entities who didn't follow the regulations. They could still demand record keeping and reporting from any businesses they wanted, and would still be able to perform audits to ensure compliance. Given that most of the blockchain implementations allow a third party to easily reconstruct transaction histories, quite a few types of regulation seem like they would actually be easier to enforce.

As far as I can tell, the only governmental function that cryptocurrencies actually disallow is central banking. That may or may not be a good thing, but either way it doesn't feel to me like a world shaking reclaiming of some fundamental liberty from the clutching tentacles of the Leviathan, and it doesn't seem like it would fundamentally alter the day-to-day experience of participating in the economy.

So, what am I missing? What should "not controlled by the government" actually imply, specifically? Or, if that's the wrong way to express the underlying sentiment, what would be a correct statement of the idea?
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Correct, it's a cloud service, based on the research Google published for model exploration[1][2]. There are research examples today where this service provided better models than humans were able to achieve by hand or with genetic algorithms (models trained faster and/or with better error rates)[3]

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/02/google-vizier-a-service-...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00559
Doing SPA commercially for years now, never needed any of those: webpack, babel, gulp, grunt, etc.

If the developer understands the technology that they are built upon he will realize that there is no need for them. Surely they add nice things, but in my experience, they add nothing that worth the learning curve.

BTW, I have 25+ years developing software, so I kind of consider my self a "seasoned" programmer, and I can tell you, I am not put off by technology, if anything else, every once in a while, I get a good chuckle out how the javascript world is reinventing what has been done 20 or 30 years ago. And I don't know many people that get to be "seasoned" programmers and that they get put off by what the new kids are doing. Actually, I don't know any at all. Most of the time the reaction is: Do you remember when we did something similar on that old xyz computer? Yeah! and we had to do a, b and c to adjust to the lack of memory space, now this library is wasting it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15472325)
Sure but how much is it saving us in the long term by being carbon neutral?
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The frameworks that are popular at the moment make it harder.

I put together a simple set of frameworks, engines and libraries that let me build real-time SPAs really quickly and easily. I've built a complex production app with it in a couple of weeks and it works really well. I tried to promote it a while ago and those who tried it seemed to really like it but it never became popular.

Promoting technical solutions these days is literally impossible if you're not a rock star developer.

I don't even care about promoting it anymore. It's my own secret toolkit now.

If people want to believe that SPAs are harder to build, that's fine. But I'm going to keep building them because for me with my tooling of choice it's much much easier.
Very cool. How much did you sell for?
It's interesting really. Thinking back 20 years, nobody would have expected or dreamed of a having a production level database be open source. It stared I think mainly with MySQL but it was really part of a greater shift. Compilers, OS-es, other tools and most software was closed source, by default. Shareware was a thing but it wasn't open source usually.

To that effect I mostly credit the GNU licensing model. I know people love to hate it and praise BSD/Apache/MIT licensing but I believe without GNU, the proliferation would not have happened.

But back to the point, it is interesting that the expectation is reversed completely - people expect databases to be open source by default. Having said that, I still support author's decision to keep it closed source, it's their work and they intend to monetize it in a particular way. It's been around for years, presumably it works for them, which is great.
It would be nice if Google can have a real customer support of its own first where you can reach a human at the end. I have been trying to get help on Google Voice issues that I have been having for months now, and the only help I have available is community driven "Google Support" forums.
Writing a competent, simple replacement for GnuPG, yet PGP fully compatible, is one of the things I plan to do on the long road, thus I think neopg is a good idea, except the fact that they decided to use C++. I know that type safety is one of the considerations, but OOP always results in ambiguous unnecessarily complex code, and for me that defeats the purpose of simplicity. Nevertheless, the GnuPG codebase is a mess.
Hopefully this discovery will help solve the colony collapse problem.
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asm.js was not a well-behaved subset of JavaScript. It was a well-behaved subset of assembly that happened to be encoded in JavaScript.

There is virtually no human-written JS code that is amenable to compilation to wasm in a meaningful way. At the very least, you need a (mostly) sound type system to be able to compile to wasm with a positive expected ROI.

The speed of wasm comes in a large part from the fact that it is entirely statically typed, which means we don't need the speculative optimizations (and their deoptimization guards) all over the place.
The lawyer was being paid by the defendant's parents. And the lawyer was attempting to save the client from the death penalty. As it is, nobody believed the defendant's story about a drug deal gone bad and being framed by the cops, so he was convicted anyway.
Madoff told people he was holding money in people's accounts that was not there. He spent money he had no right to spend under any circumstance in order to perpetuate a fraud. He lied repeatedly and deliberately. It's completely different.
> If you need to restrict access to a field (e.g. social security number) such that only certain users can see it, you need the authorization check twice, once when writing the JSON and again when building the HTML.

I think the article may have some points worth considering, but in what world should security code for restricting access to display a social security number ever be in the browser? The browser should never get data that it would be dangerous for the user to have access to.
In Safari 11.0.3 it's a blank page as well. Just a blue bubble in the bottom right hand corner, no console errors
If it only took you a couple of weeks to build it isn't a complex production app.
Plot twist: His lawyer is brilliant and did this on purpose to cause a mistrial years down the line knowing his client had no other alternatives.
TLDR 'Scott Irwin, an economist at the University of Illinois calculates...the extra cost for biodiesel comes to about $1.80 per gallon right now, meaning that the biofuel law is costing Americans about $5.4 billion a year'.

'Biodiesel is very expensive, relative to petroleum diesel'

'Defenders of biodiesel insist that it's a much cleaner fuel than regular diesel, because it doesn't come from the ground, but from soybean plants that capture carbon dioxide from the air as they grow. In fact, by the EPA's calculations, replacing petroleum-based fuel with biodiesel will cut greenhouse emissions at least in half.

A growing number of environmentalists, however, say that this calculation is dead wrong. They say that if more soybeans are needed to make fuel in addition to food, it inevitably means that people somewhere on Earth will have to plow up grasslands or cut down forests in order to grow that additional supply — and clearing such land releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.'
There are a couple that come to mind that satisfy that criteria; Midnight Club and its sequels, or the (admittedly not at all focussed on realism) Burnout series, both are/were fairly mainstream during their time and featured racing through fictional city streets. So did the Need For Speed: Wanted games, I believe. I assume there are plenty of others that I just didn't play or don't remember (Grid, perhaps?); there's never been a shortage of games that feature driving environments and ways that would be suicidal in real life, even if you ignore the obvious absurdity of games like F-Zero or Extreme-G (Or Mario Kart :))

Anecdata: I'll admit to having the experience of, after playing Burnout: Revenge for many hours, continuing to view streets and traffic on my way to work through the lens of traffic-checking and drifting for extra points/boost. I hasten to add that I never felt the urge to -act- on that view; so much of driving is subconscious and/or automatic that I suspect we have something of a built-in buffer working in favor of normalcy here. But it was pretty surreal.
They could seize the physical items that have your wallet or keys stored on them.

Anyhow, it’s not as if they would just give up if you refused to produce the password. In the US one can be jailed indefinitely for contempt of court.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/feds-say-suspect...
My what a low bar you have set for Bitcoin.
If this is true in real trials, it is a big thing. Varroa mites have developed resistance to fluvalvinate, which is most commonly used miticide and formic acid is really easy to overdose. Lithium cloride in those quantities is quite safe and low cost. Even more, with short treatment duration (48h at 25mM concentration) one can time the treatment well to reduce LiCl ending up in the honey.
I've done the approach you describe with #2. It is much simpler, but is limiting, and generally not what most people mean by "single page app."
The US used to have a policy of paying farmers to maintain unused production capacity - ie, to leave some of their fields fallow. This creates an emergency-response capability: if some event shrinks the country's or the world's food production capacity, then that capacity can be activated. This policy was politically problematic because of the conspicuous waste, and economically problematic because fallow land can't necessarily be converted into food production fast enough.

Mandating use of biodiesel seems like a better way of achieving the same goal: it ensures extra food-production capacity is maintained.

Plus, it reduces the amount of soybean oil being used in food. That stuff's unhealthy (very high omega-6 content), and apparently there's a huge amount of it being produced essentially as a byproduct of soy meal.
Not necessarily. You could destroy all copies of the wallet. The value would be lost. Certainly, knowing that those were 'all copies' would be a challenge, but you could then monitor that wallet and hold a person in contempt if there were later transactions from that wallet.
The WinRT XAML control stack originates more from directly from "Avalon", WPF's precursor, than Silverlight. Windows Phone 7 was Silverlight-based as an interim stepping stone, and the .NET Core platform is closer in origin to Silverlight than the classic desktop .NET Framework (though not exactly either), which are sources of confusion there, but WinRT/UWP doesn't originate from Silverlight (it just inherits some insight/lessons from it).

I've seen some great power user experiences with UWP, even ones that are happy being "mobile first" and "touch first". "Touch first" is still great for mousing (especially as screen DPIs keep rising and more setups involve monitors in multiple DPI resolutions), even if you think it leads to lower information density (there are tricks to that).

At least in Enterprise environments I've worked "mobile first" is incredibly useful because people are happy being able to work from the device they already carry around at all times. It's to my sadness there isn't more Windows mobile devices as Cordova and/or Xamarin continue to eat up more and more of my development time I could be spending more directly on the applications themselves.
Also very interested in knowing average latency numbers for your network, Graham.
Using # as backspace and @ as kill has an advantage when dealing with a teletype.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but your case would be stronger if you could provide some examples.
Also when you consider that we don't have to pay anything for insurance to cover that. The MRI costs $0 out of pocket, covered by the healthcare that is already factored into our equal-cost taxes.

There's still a benefit to having health insurance for covering stuff not covered by the gov't plan: vision, dental, some fraction of prescription drugs, etc. I do have a health plan through work, but I think it costs somewhere around $50-75/month to cover all of that stuff for my family.
Six years for language stability is nothing compared to, for example, C89.
Still the things explained into this presentation could be potentially true and really used. They are not too much difficult to implement in a real daily basis case.
There is a lot of gaming publishers that are focusing on patenting AI algorithm to be used in modern games.
I don't convert my USD to Yen and call it an "investment."
As stated below, some people do treat it as an investment to some extent.
The other thing is, in my opinion more interesting, how you define crypto. They aren't really currencies even though people call them this way. They are a different kind of asset. Sometimes compared to gold, sometimes to stocks but it might be that they are just a new type and we just don't know how to value them. And by supporting them people support the technology behind.
I'm not familiar with Web Assembly, but the recent trend is that as the downloads become faster, web performance in a vanilla browser becomes slower, because websites just send more stuff to you. Pages grow toward infinity. Also, if, like @sjrd mentioned, this code can't manipulate DOM or can use only a restricted set of JS objects, the where will the gain be? Is this intended to be used for number crunching code in the browser runtime? Help bitcoin miner scripts? What's the purpose then?
I've switched to exclusively wearing Brooks Brothers shirts from my local thrift store. They seem to survive to donation, being somewhat higher quality. I also find good winter dress coats and decent suits on a regular basis. It's there, though I'll grant that I might end up digging a little more to find it.
He wasn't working against his client. His client was facing the death penalty, an the lawyer was trying to get him a lesser sentence.
F#, first because its ecosystem is the whole .NET Framework world of libraries, utils, etc. Second, because it's got its own set of very functional libraries like suave.io for web apps/services, FSharp.Data for consuming data of diverse sources/natures, Fable.io an elegant JavaScript transpiler. Finally, with very demanding production projects like jet.com it already has proved that it can process massive amounts of transactions.
We actually expect our support team (at least portions of them) to build internal apps that automate workflows for ops work or for users. It's not always as complex as a full soft eng role, but some of our IT staff do move on to those positions internally based on the work they do in IT. I think it really depends on the company you do IT for, and what they expect for the role. At Google, our IT staff are full time engineers.

Disclosure: I worked on this program and went through Google's IT Residency Program.
Disclosure: I work at Google at Kubeflow

There are a few different reasons:

1) Most companies have very limited skill in building advanced models. While many folks are trying to achieve 5% or better accuracy, MOST folks are trying to achieve ANY accuracy (since they have nothing)

2) Many problems are not very complicated and do not require a custom model. From the blog post, the "cloud" example only requires a small amount of changes to classify for a specific domain - to have to build an entirely new model for that, or train on MM of images seems like overkill

3) AutoML (often) is better than humans already[1]. So if you want to achieve that 5%, you MIGHT need to use a machine anyway.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00559
This is a poor policy decision in order to maintain ag production readiness (or, possibly, is blatant handout to the ag industry), very much the same way corn ethanol is a net negative. Crop production should never create competition between human nutritional consumption and transportation.

You also can't give away your overproduction to less well off countries, as you cripple their ag market, preventing them from bootstrapping their own economy.

It's a moot point with transportation electrifying as quickly as it is. I don't have enough knowledge to say what crops we should be planting above and beyond what meets human consumption needs, but I can say without a doubt we should not be subsidizing crop based biofuels (only algae based fuels, only to be used for air and marine transport).
The problem is that if the lawyer's gambit had worked, the client would have happily benefitted from the result. Since it didn't work, he's crying foul. Private profits, public losses (or something). If this worked, it would be a novel strategy to try something radical like this, see if you benefit, and if you don't, claim the lawyer was not acting with your consent.
The languages move on but so do the expectations. Until we have star trek style computers there will always be more to it than just hooking up some libraries
Nothing can be more legit about a half remembered third hand account from an anonymous Internet source.

My default assumption when I see a cryptocurrency exchange is that it is either fraudulent or incompetently run, because that has been the case overwhelmingly in the past. It takes extraordinary evidence to make me trust one.
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I started with Andrew Ng's ML courses, which take a bottom-up approach beginning with the math. After finishing the deeplearning.ai track, I started rounding out my skillset with some data science and R programming classes, so I could be more comfortable working with unfamiliar data.

The fast.ai courses are a more top-down approach to ML, and there are plenty of good reasons for taking this approach. You'll start getting practice with libraries like Tensorflow right away. However, if you have a fairly strong math background and linear algebra doesn't give you nightmares, I highly recommend the Andrew Ng courses. A deep (ha!) understanding what's going on "under the hood" in ML will help your debugging, inform your strategy, and make your code better in the long run.
> (I heard rumors about China)

Let's not spread rumors here...
This is so spot on!

This isn't exclusive to supermarkets but many other industries and the problem is always the same. Someone looks at the bottom line and realizes that hey 50%, 60%, 80%, of revenue comes from product A, and B through F are just producing 10%, so why not get rid of them, or call them a failure. But what they are missing is the bigger picture because the user experience that drives to go with Product A needs the other products.

It's really interesting that such simple concepts are missed by most people in management roles, and even though here you have a brilliant and simple explanation, most people don't get it.

This is a bit off-topic in a sense, but this one comment just really hit on something for me that I've been dealing with for two years and I'm going to be sharing this explanation with other people because it really captures this specific problem is so perfectly.

Thank you!

On the subject of Youtube, this is a pretty massive change, it is definitely not a benefit to a lot of creators, but as others have said, Youtube is really the only game in town. Vimeo basically disappeared into a premium offering, so they are acting a bit more monopolistically.

The funny thing is if they never really had low standards to share monetization, I don't think that would have affected the way creators create and upload content, but now that they gave it to them, and are taking it away, it's going to cause a backlash for sure. Unfortunately, there's no clear #2 for those creators to goto.
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us
I read this last year and IMO it's really good material.

Would appreciate if you suggest me a book too.
Regards.

https://www.amazon.com/Selfie-Became-Self-Obsessed-What-Doin...
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