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For what it's worth, the actual structure of the brain starts off with way too many neurons and connections and starts paring them down. Learning is creation, but it is also destruction. Removing useless connections is valuable. A lot of the paring down happens in your teens with the process reaching a stable state in the mid-20s.

This doesn't mean learning ceases past the point (clearly not). But it does mean that changing synaptic weights and forming new synapses comprise the bulk of learning rather than new neuronal projections and creating new neurons of which the later two become insignificant with small exceptions (such as the generation of new neurons in a small region called the SVZ and also in the hippocampus, a region important for memory though I don't know if the role of these new neurons is known in any great detail).

Adult learning necessarily uses restricted mechanisms compared with children and adolescents. It's still a general learning machine though, though rate of learning might suffer (I'm not familiar with that part of the field).
More generally: When you give the government more power, you can expect the powerful to try to use it.

What? You thought that power was going to be used on behalf of the powerless? That may have been the stated intent. But the powerful tend to know how to use power better than the powerless do...
One could make the argument that the State receiving the income from these fines would go back to fund public services, benefiting consumers.

Additionally, the state pursuing issues like this helps 'keeps the bastards honest' and prevents more consumers from being violated in the future. It's like how a murderer going to jail doesn't result in the victims from being compensated.
It doesn’t! Most was self taught by reading sources and some O’Reilly books. Community support was rather marginal at the time when true technicalities were discussed. Same as Stack Overflow now: loads of people with superficial knowledge, but very few with in-depth or architectural technical prowess. Unfortunately, those ppl are often too occupied to scan the SO posts and a simple answer skimming the true ideas often wins the accepted answer instead.
When I got here I saw the girzel thread below, shuddered and then read the article. It is actually well worth reading. It gives a real flavour of going into the great unknown from the perspective of one side, with some pretty decent insights from the other side. I think.

“Grand Choulaa” - this looks to me like the locals taking the piss.

Initially Macartney did not realize that he was supposed to prostrate himself before the emperor. Nor, when it was explained to him, was he willing to do so. Despite his great admiration for the prosperity and civilization of the Qing Empire, he viewed Qianlong as an equal to the king of England

Macartney would never have really considered Quianlong as equal to the King of Britain (England and Scotland became Britain a little earlier). I am also sure that Quianlong's people would have had exactly the same notion in reverse for exactly the same reason.
It's 42 because in ascii 42 is the asterisk (*) wildcard, meaning anything you want it to be.
https://www.asciitable.com/
My first impression looking at their schema was, "what the fuck? if they wanted MongoDB why the fuck didnt they just go with MongoDB?"

Thanks to Magento I can add "someone tried to turn MySQL into a typeless K-V document store" to the list of crazy things that I've seen.
From my reading, EU member countries seem to have been much more consistent with each other than we in the US might expect.

A lot of the fear in this thread seems to be from people reading EU law through US filters.
The Space Shuttle suffered 2 total losses in 135 missions. Apollo had 1 total loss from a dozen or so flights (plus several heart-stopping near misses). If privately flown Cessna 172s had that kind of fatality rate, I (and many other posters on this board) would long since be a smoking hole in the ground.

Space flight is spectacularly dangerous, and US launch vehicles have a particularly gnarly safety record. Some paranoia is probably warranted.
my print drivers better work right, while they are off in their 'marketing' adventure
This is what happens when you have rent control in your city. Residents who are lucky enough to live in under market housing become reluctant to move as they will be unlikely to receive another apartment at the rate they currently pay. Landlords have no reason to invest money back into buildings if they cannot recoup the investment. Rent control is bad public policy and should go the way of the dodo.[0]

[0] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control
> Once your rent hits $2700/mo, you are no longer stabilized.

That's actually not true. At $2700, landlords have the option to petition for deregulation, but there's no guarantee that they'll succeed.

Under $2700, they can't petition for a high rent deregulation. The income threshold also only kicks in at this threshold, so a unit rented for $2000 can be occupied by a person who makes $500,000/year, and there's nothing that the landlord can do about it.

In addition, I'd have to check, but I believe the increase for the two years before DeBlasio was reelected was 0% for single-year leases.
Most GDPR emails unnecessary and some illegal, say experts
I'm not sure a policy leading to higher food prices or offshoring of food production capacity would be that popular.
Maybe New York City doesn't really need any more middle-class suburban white twenty/thirty-somethings.
Could you be more specific about to what you’re assigning responsibility? Your original post was somewhat vague and I’m not following your variable analogy without you outlining specific values being assigned to X, Y, and Z.
Yes, actually, it does. Because C++'s mantra has always been zero cost abstractions. And people have defended the language because "you can't do better and still have the same performance". Well, it seems you can.
Brakes and tires are two legitimate inspection points that often get neglected by drivers. Still, brake inspections especially, are very often abused by mechanic shop and/or unreasonable regulation terms to force car owners to replace far before is actually necessary.

At least in my experience, it seems every single year the shop states they won't pass the car unless some of the brakes are replaced. I suspect in this case they are just bald-face lying, as recently I balked at yet another ~$600 maintenance charge to pass a routine inspection, took the car to a friends shop out of town, and was able to conclude that the original shop never even checked the brakes, as the wheels took _a lot_ of force to remove once the lug nuts were off.

Similarly with emissions checks. It often turns into nothing more than a yearly tax on your vehicle and does nothing to improve anyone's safety.
I'd ask a slightly different question: why is so much of our economic policy centered around new and higher paying jobs in a certain area, in disconnect with the current residents preferences for housing policy? It seems like these things are controlled by very different interests that end up fighting in ways that treat the non-high-income/wealthy existing residents as collateral damage.

We want housing to be more affordable in LA, [a different but still local] we also want Amazon to come to town and bring in a bunch of new workers from out of town. Those two goals seems hard to reconcile.
It's actually historically the normal case that governments try for the sensible middle road, then get pushed towards communism by the West. Allende, for instance, was pretty liberal - but the USA was convinced he was a communist, and torpedoed the Chilean economy.
So a company whose fantastic products are also known to take forever to load even on most performant machines, acquires a ecommerce that looks good on the outside, but it is pain to run in every scenario :). Kind of make sense in some weird way.
upvoted for new vocabulary word....
> The "osc~" object, for instance, will update the frequency at every audio block.

You're just talking about sending a float from a control object to "osc~", right?

To be clear:

If "osc~" is receiving a float atom from a control object (thin line), then yes, it will implicitly convert that float to an input vector on block boundaries.

If "osc~" is receiving signal data from a DSP object (thick line), every sample of the input is used to calculate every sample of the output.

If "osc~" is receiving signal data from "vline~", the user can supple subsample accurate frequency changes to "osc~" bound by the precision of float precision, at the expense of performance.
If this didn't happen to you, would you still think this way?
Also Theranos never should have killed half the employees "to restore balance to the company".
Wow, that is quite significant.

36k is not a small bounty for an RCE, but I feel like this is more critical to Google than the highest Android payout, for which they pay up to 200k for: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/android-rewards/
I wish uninformed journalists could be bothered to get the terminology right.

A CIA “agent” is a foreign national — a spy. A CIA officer is the American who is “running” the agent.

FBI has Special Agents, CIA has officers.

It’s much like calling a police officer a “police agent.” The reason this bothers me is that it reveals an ignorance of CIA at a fundamental level — if writers can’t even get the basic terminology accurate, how could they possibly be trusted to get the non-trivial aspects correct?
All non-market pricing options (like rent control) are inherently arbitrary.

Also frequently it’s property taxes that force people out of neighborhoods (eg their families own a place for years, and then the property values go up making it too expensive for them to live in). If property taxes were eliminated, this would displace fewer people. Naturally you don’t see any politicians talking about this since they don’t want to eliminate a source of revenue for the state — they’d rather blame Airbnb!
No, administrative division was invented much later. Погост is literally «to guest».
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81...
We have run into a number of issues related to our integrations, the biggest of which was a documented behavior changing completely after a minor version upgrade, which completely broke our shit. (The behavior is that all orders go into "Processing" status after payment clears, regardless of any statuses you may have added and whatever you have set to be default for the 'Processing' superstatus. Doesn't help that the data flow for orders supremely confusing)

Also whoever wrote their JS needs to be shot. How it is acceptable to load your HTML buttons in one order and then, at the last second, suddenly switch to the opposite order. It was like all those Hawaii missile warning interface UI memes from a few months ago, except real life.
The data in NY shows pretty clearly that buildings with significant amount of stabilized and controlled units get an outsized share of Major Capital Improvements because that is the way you get your units to cross the stabilization threshold.
> In my experience, the upper limit on the minor version is most often arbitrary

In my experience, this is the dependency version that was used when testing the library depending on it. As soon as your tool swaps it out for a newer version, you actually run an untested combination. Yes, it should work. But as we all know, it often does not.

And then the tool does not even have a proper feature to enable you fixing it on your side (e.g., by pinning a whole dependency tree).
Fun fact he was known as "Mr Broadway" in his early career he performed in numerous shows. Completely off topic but that really was the golden era of law and order
Honestly, I'm just surprised this is the first time you've seen something like that. It feels like I've seen it everywhere :P
vgo trades some safety (by not supporting upper bounds) for some utility (by not artificially limiting the lifetime of a released library). Yet package managers that do support upper bounds do not guarantee safety, because libraries may not specify upper bounds or they may specify too broad bounds. This is a trade-off, and I have not seen anything convincing about why vgo position on this trade-off is unreasonable.

Can you give an example where vgo prevents use of a library where another approach does not? The main difference in the expressive power between vgo and traditional approaches is that the latter can restrict your use of libraries together more. vgo does not need a perfect world: it is practical in the imperfect one.

> MVS does use a maximum. It's the major version number in SemVer.

So, we can not force a library that wants dependency v3 to use dependency v2 (and vice versa), even if the author of the library knows that it works with either v2 or v3. This is a loss of vgo. On the other hand, if another library can only work with v2, and yet another can only work with v3, vgo allows the use of both in the same application. This looks like an acceptable win for the price of that loss.
I can't figure out what you mean by POS, is it Point of Sale, or more common attribute meant to describe Magento performance? :)
That's exactly the problem. "Outsourcing" affordable housing is always going to lead to abuse. Slumlords are going to be slumlords as long as it's profitable. You can't legislate that away.
I suspect we'll want both. The bloom index only helps if you have decent spatial locality. Which you won't for say a serial, uuid, etc. There's also types of indexes where it's probably going to be more efficient to have one index (I'd suspect a spatial indexes are often going to be that) for a number of usecases.
I'm glad you are considering this and get it.
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> In SouthEastern [...] there is less of them in the streets and if they are less likely to do it again.

Really? Of course only anecdotally, I've always had a worse impression of this 'street crime' in SEA than in places like Barcelona.
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Yeah, in my experience teenagers (especially those that are highly self-motivated) can see stack traces and stuff as just another part of the puzzle. It's the younger and less motivated kids that tend to get frustrated.

Edit: I'll also point out this:

> It was pretty obvious to me that I had committed a mistake at some point of my code.

How a student handles this is also often a sticking point. "Oh no, another error, I'm bad at this, maybe this isn't for me." Is an attitude that I've had to turn around. It goes a long way to convince a kid that it's actually the computer's fault because it isn't smart enough to understand what you're trying to tell it. So you have to be really specific in how you write to it. Then suddenly error messages are informative clues on the way to making your program work, rather than the computer scolding you for being a bad coder.
I guess humans, being the temporal creatures we are, have an easier time debugging procedural programs because they have a "story", an expected sequence of "events" (calls, reassignments, etc.), that naturally goes with the program. Functional programming inherently obscures that.
Hi flukus

Yes - you can create a case at https://support.google.com/a/contact/admin_no_access
Robots grow mini-organs from human stem cells
Given the way this exploit was developed, I honestly think he got something on the order of the ceiling that someone who is not already known/connected on the black market could hope for. The act of advertising it in any way that could convey its potential value would likely burn it. Any pitch on the black market would tip your hand to people who had access to service logs for the past several weeks.

The only way you could sell it is if you already had connections directly to people who were known to need an exploit for this service and had a channel to approach them privately, IMO.

For someone in the author's situation, I think he got a very good deal and almost certainly made some great contacts that he will be happy to have in the future.

(That's a long way of saying that when I run that particular thought experiment, in the context of a vulnerability where discovery provides a certain amount of disclosure should anyone go back and check logs, I have a hard time seeing a more lucrative black market. I think the math would be different in less centralized cases.)
So you can neither confirm nor deny they'll put it in a plexiglass prison and never let it escape again? Interesting.
This is actually a key problem with using rent control as a primary means to achieve housing affordability. Rent control works as a way to soften the blow of large rent increases (like the kind you might see after a major building renovation), but it really only works as long as there are plenty of other units on the market so that when eviction inevitably does happen, the tenant has somewhere else to go that they can afford.

The problem is, many cities like NYC and San Francisco are trying to have their cake and eat it to. Liberal residents want to keep their suburban-style single family neighborhoods while simultaneously appearing to care about skyrocketing rents. You simply cannot have it both ways. The ONLY viable solution is to relax the rules blocking the construction of new housing. SB827 in California, which would have overridden local zoning to legalize the construction of higher density buildings within walking distance of transit stops, was a valiant effort to do the right thing, but it failed because of a strong anti-development sentiment from anti-capitalist tenants rights groups and pro-housing-appreciation single family home owners (in a particularly absurd moment, the mayor of ultra-tony Beverly Hills, which has built almost no new housing in the last few years, claimed to be against the bill because he was concerned about all of the "luxury housing" it would build in his town).
Since these kind of stories are pretty popular on HN I maintain a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression

Maybe it will help someone.

For anyone who thinks this is medically reckless, please see the earlier discussions where it has already been discussed to death.
Yeah, but whose fault is it? Big companies offering these abusive services or the common folk's who agree to use these services without giving a fuck about their personal information?
A public employee union is not the government. With limited exceptions being a public employee does not mean you forfeit your rights. There should not be distinction between public employee union and private employee unions. If workers come together to bargain as a unit then they should be allowed to do so wether they are public employees or not.

Unions do not circumvent the normal political process. They are not seizing power from voters. Your view appears a bit extreme.
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Today I literally just finishes 2 months travelling around the area. I felt less safe in parts of France than in Barcelona.
Even in a mature democracy, like in the USA, it is difficult for voters to determine who is acting in their interest due to the multiple layers of non-declared interests that exist in each political party. Now imagine what happens in a poor country. Your supposition that the electorate is responsible for this is as true as assuming that a victim of theft is responsible for the robbery.
Hi Markus, thanks for your hard work on this website (also on all the Swi constraint libraries).

For your machine learning section, you might want to consider discussing Metagol [1], a modern ILP system that can learn recursive theories and perform predicate invention.

The core Metagol implementation is tiny and relies on a meta-interpreter (the technique is called Meta-Interpretive Learning). It is a radically different approach to previous ILP systems but much simpler and easier to understand. It should be interesting to anyone who wants to do machine learning with Prolog.

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[1] https://github.com/metagol/metagol
Make sure you get an MRI to understand the severity. I tried PT, electro therapy, spinal injections, yoga, deep tissue massages, but nothing was long term. I eventually needed to get a microdiscectomy which proved to be a life changer.
Hi jimrandomh

Alex here from G Suite Cloud Support at Google. We're limited on what we're able to share in public forums related to specific customer situations.
as someone with a background in the biotech industry and also as someone who has written a lot about theranos' systemic problems, i'm inclined to say the problems with corporate culture go way farther than this article suggests.

the technical mishaps with pipettors and nanocapsules aside, theranos has a culture of 1. secrecy, 2. exec impunity, and 3. incompetence.

i'm sorry to say that theranos is probably not the only biotech company out there which falsifies results. i was never under any pressure to falsify any kind of results in my positions, but the incentives are very clear.
It's funny then that the left-wing parties disagree with so much of Merkels policy then, especially in the core areas of left-wing politics. Reforming Hartz4 and the pension system, that'd be a left-wing dream. A left-wing dream certainly isn't a government with Horst Seehofer responsible for the interior and "Heimat", or Jens Spahn for Health.

Not all they do is clear right-wing (how could it be in a coalition with a center-left party?), but little is clear left-wing. Not the worst from a left-wing perspective, as you can tell by the conflicts in her party and the AfD, and the fact that the SPD got in again after much hand-wringing, but that's about it.

This ongoing coalition is of course a problem, since both parties are forced into compromises, which makes it hard to sell themselves as big successes to their voters.

Partially you seem to apply US standards for whats left- and right-wing policies to a country with a fairly different political landscape, e.g. with the examples you first cited as being clearly left-wing dreams, many of which are fairly mainstream positions in Germany.
The space shuttle, Apollo and early Soyuz were also very different spacecraft than current designs and technology.

Challenger and Columbia were lost due to institutional ineptitude. The engineers that were the manufacturer of the SRBs on Challenger specifically warned against the cold temperatures and were overruled. People noticed the foam shedding issue with the space shuttle many years before the Columbia incident. The space shuttle was a catastrophic clusterfuck of a pork barrel political design. There was actually no launch escape system or possibility of recovery from early launch phase anomaly once the SRBs were lit, until they burned out (unlike the launch escape system on Soyuz, Apollo, Dragon2, etc).

The space shuttle had a ridiculous number of moving parts and degree of complexity compared to a Dragon2 on a Falcon9 (or a Soyuz on top of its booster)

The soviet union and russia have had zero fatalities since Soyuz 11 in 1971. I would actually venture that at this point it might be statistically safer to fly along as a passenger in a modern Soyuz mission than to fly as a second passenger in some sub-500-hour pilot's kitbuilt piper cub clone.