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For many years now I have wondered if it might be practical for software engineers to be kept "on retainer", as lawyers often are, by companies. I once purchased an absolutely fantastic FTP client called BulletProof FTP. But it followed the sad trajectory of so much software. It reached very near to absolute perfection. And then they just kept working on it. It grew like a cancer. It destroyed everything good about the software and eventually made it worthless. It was clear, to me at least, that there was simply some manager somewhere who had personal problems and couldn't tolerate sitting still, forcing developers to just keep bolting garbage to the side of the thing.

A lot of it boils down to the Protestant Work Ethic having no place in the modern world. It made sense for situations where 'work' was physical labor. That benefits from perseverance and endurance. Mental work does not benefit from perseverance and endurance. It suffers tremendously from them. The brain simply does not work that way.
As much as I know all of these things, the attitude my loved one has has killed the love out of me. Constant negativity, agitation, it's just tiring. I just can't seem to not take it personal, and to have a mindset that it is the disease and not the person.

I can't figure out how to start loving the person again.
> unlike competing companies like Google and Apple they encourage academic researchers to publish papers on the work they fund

First, you cannot compare Google and Apple when it comes to academic research. Apple barely does any, Google is usually the largest source of papers in all major ML conferences (when it's not FB): NIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.
Great article, but what is this about? Is this really true?

> But remember that interactions with law enforcement can vary wildly, depending on race and socio-economic background.
I wouldn't expect a human to be offended by "operator agent fucfucfuc" spoken in a calm voice. There's no need to yell at the robot.
I'm curious, what are the limitations of the Finder?
Actually I wouldn’t. Even when I had a full head of hair, I went months with a clean shaven head.
That's what I want to know, and why can't they be retrofitted to match the specs of the later models?
Unfunded pensions do that, but the government could easily mandate all pensions are 110% fully funded.

Really, it's an issue of policy not pensions.
What makes you so sure they'll be granted?

(From a US perspective)
The disclosures I've flipped through reek of non-patentable subject matter (software/algorithms with no defined field of use), lack a strong inventive step (ok I'm not so sure but it seems like a lot of these are already being researched/used), and have a claims list that is LONG.

It only takes one claim to not be met for a product to not fall under that patent. So if the exact processes described in the claims are not followed or even altered, the offending party could see DeepMind in court (where they would, unfortunately, likely lose).
Yes, as well as rents. A 1BR apartment can be as low as 150€/mo or even a bit lower. It's only a few "hip" neighborhoods that are affected. Still, Athens is relatively compact and mass transit is excellent so you can easily find cheap places to live that are require less than 30 minutes of commute each way to work.
I had to upload a a national id or passport when I registered.
An example from today (first political result on my screen):

- Reuters: Trump says Russia should be at G7 meeting, Moscow not so sure

- CNN: Trump: Russia should be in the G7 summit

- TheHill: An isolated Trump attends the G-7

- Fox News: Trump prepares for North Korea summit as a great performer -- like Reagan
Here is the correct answer ^^^^^

If there are 100,000 transactions for 500,000,000 BOLIVAR ($1 USD on June 8th), and 100,000 transactions for 1,000,000,000 BOLIVAR ($1 USD on June 9th), then demand is unchanged, and the Bolivar is losing value.

NOTE: I used a random number for Bolivar exchange rate. That's not the real exchange rate.
Using ACID transactions to combine queries and ensure integrity
I can't really blame them, as that is a word which is deeply misunderstood by the vast majority of people who use it.
To be perfectly honest, this number sounds speculative at best (utter nonsense at worst).

The fuselage is generally about 20-40% of the entire dry, empty weight of an aircraft (speaking strictly about large transport aircraft). So clearly seeing that kind of reduction in weight isn't really possible strictly from structurally modifying the fuselage (and even major modifications of the entire airframe). If we look at comparing planes with windows (like those operated by passenger airlines) to those without (like those operated by cargo airlines), loose estimates are less than 1% to around 1% weight savings from removing windows alone. Even if you assume massively increased returns on weight savings because of massive changes in airframe design it's probably no where near 50%...

Keep in mind, even incredibly small weight reductions mean huge savings over the lifetime of an aircraft (especially if they are also carried out over an entire fleet).
This is why huge, govt-subsidized projects often fail. The people that conceive and plan these projects with govt. aid do not bear the full extent of its failure. They don't have skin in the game. Perversely, sometimes its better for their career to helm or participate in a failed large prestige project than it would be to participate in more successful smaller projects.

Europe isn't alone in these debacles. Military procurement in the USA is rife with the same BS.

And I don't want to pretend like private companies don't do the same thing on their own (Google Plus anyone?) ... but at least private companies pay the costs on their own and make the heads of failed projects feel the pain (or if they don't ... the companies go out of business or get cut down to size soon enough ... like HP).
Microsoft is also one of the largest patent royalty extortionists in the industry.

Can you imagine if Microsoft had these patents? Every single internet-connected device with "AI capabilities" would be paying Microsoft a royalty within 3 years after the company would obtain the patents.
Maybe they shouldn't litter them on random sidewalks then.
You can always define a new branch pointing to your new rebased ref and push/PR that to avoid having to force-push and messing everyone up.
This IT guy was trying to get me fired, so I had sex with his wife.
I don't think the bay area housing situation is at all representative of capitalism.
Another great introductory book addressing these issues within dynamic systems is Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
You aren't supposed to rewrite history (which is what rebase does) on which other people are basing work. If people have merge/pull requests on your branch, then people are basing work on your branch, and you shouldn't rewrite it.

The best approach (which is what git.git itself uses) is to do the work on a separate branch, which is rebased often; once it's moved to the master branch, it's "frozen" and won't be rebased anymore. All pull requests are based on the master branch, so aren't affected by the constant rebases on the development branch. (Actually, all the work is done on topic branches, what's often rebased/rewritten is a sequence of merges of these topic branches into the master branch.)
Ask HN: Is this Microsoft GitHub joke sexist?
You should experience attending a WWDC, even if virtually.
You don't go to Arch for the UI/UX. I have used Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch). My experience with Arch (i3wm) has been vastly superior to anything I have used before. I would not trade it for anything. The thing about it is it caters to a certain group of people, and if you are not one of those, then you won't have a good time with it.
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>High marginal income tax rates are designed to keep you from building wealth-- the capital-holding classes don't want the competition for assets.

This was my first thought as well when looking at the new Republican tax brackets. They're throwing peanuts at the poor in the form of a minuscule tax break, while simultaneously cutting off their ability to ever actually build wealth by raising the middle rates.
In fact, even if happens sooner, if there’s any form of a blue wave in 2018 they’ll be blamed as well
High marginal tax rates create a major barrier for building wealth.
Precisely. For me it was 2001 to 2012. In the six years since, I miss two things from Linux based desktops: being easily able to launch any application from the terminal and having a clock in the top bar that also has a calendar widget.

What I’ve gained is productivity in a whole bunch of non-dev scenarios. People moan about Creative Cloud or Office pricing but I now no longer have to make a hundred little compromises each day.
Corruption is a great descriptor of why this happened but at this point the word to best describe Venezuela is "insanity".

Their leadership is literally turning down aid from foreign governments. They refuse to acknowledge that the country is in a state of emergency, and to top it all off their leadership has taken full control of the media and police.

Using any other word other than "insanity" to associate with Venezuela's current situation would be disingenuous.
Time spent talking to a robot is free, people are expensive. So the company prefers 1hr with robots + 1minute with human, over 10 minutes with each. It's customer-hostile though, raising the cost of the service in a hidden way.
Because there isn't a systemic problem with people who look like you getting shot for no reason when they talk to the police.
These were all filed in 0.02 seconds by Author: Deepmind.
AI has learned patent trolling ;)
You're treating humans like simple physics formula: change a variable on one side of the equation and the other side of the equation changes in kind. Humans don't work like that, though, because we have brains which adapt our behavior to our circumstances.

You say (emphasis mine):

> Which isn't to say there are no more mysteries in nutrition science, but the basics are well understood and simple to adhere to. Most people just don't want to.

That's the catch, isn't it? You can't just write that off. Motivation is part of the equation.
Note that you can turn it off at any time. And there are no ads there, it's just a pure 4K 60fps stream from the bridge with some artifical railings rendered on top. There are even 2 cameras, one for each side, and you get the view in the correct direction.

My position is also to not remove any windows, but give the 90% of passengers without a window seat a window seat.
Yep sunscreen is very nasty stuff. Wish it wasn’t such a pain to work with and wear.
My father in law, who at 71 is fairly tech savvy, still defaults to calling when he needs help with something. He's always saying "I was on the phone with Apple for 3 hours yesterday" or "I was on the phone with Xfinity all day yesterday."

I think if you're from a certain era, you just pick up the phone first and want to talk to somebody, even if it might be pretty easy to find what you're looking for online.
That's an interesting comment. I bought my first MBP in mid-2012 (and, it's my current mac, although I just dropped it and cracked the LCD screen, so this discussion is suddenly very relevant to me) and I found, especially when outputting to a 1080p monitor, that I hated the way text looked on the Mac. I think this was one of my biggest complaints. Either it's gotten better over the years, or I've gotten used to it, because I don't notice it anymore.
Okay, if I'm naive please enlighten me. Here is how things look from my view here. There are Greyhound stations in literally every single state, and certainly extremely close to near all coastal areas. Stating it's impossible to save up enough to take literally a day off to save your health is something I literally cannot believe. Work 80 hours for a week or two. If you can't get the hours, get a second job. It's not a longterm thing - just enough to get you what you need. What am I missing?

The beautiful thing about this country is that there are practically infinite possibilities and opportunities. Obtaining them can often involve a good deal of blood, sweat, and tears - but they're there. That's the thing that I find frustrating - sayings like 'when opportunity knocks' are idiotic. Opportunity doesn't knock. It's something that must be aggressively sought out, captured, and then chased after once it escapes which it frequently will - like tricky little bastard it is. People seem to believe that others just have things happen for them, or that they were born into fortunate circumstance. In some cases that's true. In the vast majority, it is not. Things are not given, they are taken.
"Remember, people do recover from depression"

That IMHO seems to be as much of a taboo as having depression itself for a lot of people... it's hard to convince someone that depression is seriously real, and equally hard to convince people [affected by their loving one's] depression is not like terminal cancer.
It's interesting to see Google's AI principles [0,1] published on the same day as these patent applications. Of course, this could be unrelated and complete coincidence. However, this _could_ have been strategic depending on the possible breadth* of what they are trying to claim. (And to be clear, I am not saying this is why they released these principles -- plenty of other reasons for that.)

*Note on the applications - I have not reviewed the claim sets so cannot comment specifically on what they are attempting to claim. In any event (and as others have noted, as well) the devil is in the details (e.g, the claims in each application -- more specifically, what is eventually allowed/granted).

[0] - Google's (Alphabets?) AI principles - https://www.blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/
[1] - HN discussion on the same - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17259082

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Sadly yes.

I honestly don't have any numbers to backup my feelings, but I know that a lot of people truly fear the police, and possibly for good reasons.

A while ago we had to call the police on a loved one that we were fearing was suicidal. By the end of the whole night the only thing that happened was the loved one was stuck with a rather large hospital bill as they were admitted (then discharged the next day), and they were cited for having the registration of their car be several months past due BY the cops that were sent to their house.

There are also countless stories online of people (often minorities) calling police or having the police called for them, but they end up getting injured or even killed in the process. There are also reports of cops entering the house of someone that was reported as suicidal with their guns drawn...

Not to mention that with drug laws in the US, someone with contraband or illegal drugs in their house or on their person might be risking everything just interacting with police.

I don't really want to get into the debate about how police should act, or a debate about guns or laws or racism or what is warranted or not or drug laws or whatever else right now, but I do want to point out that for some people, the police might be more of a "threat" than help. And even if statistically the police aren't that likely to hurt someone, the frequency that it's happening and the growing resentment on both "sides" can make it so that many people will want to attempt other solutions before involving police.
How do you decide on which brand of robots to use? I remember seeing videos from the Model S production line having only KUKA robots, but for the Model 3, I only see FANUC.
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Yeah, this seems pretty dodgy when they're showing just pure bolivar expenditure. I think cryptocurrency could probably be a good deal for Venezuelans right now, too. It avoids being subject to poor economic decisions by their government while still also avoiding being at the mercy of an economic hegemon. The more likely case though is that they're probably primarily using USD, along with other regional currencies, far more than cryptocurrency. They're a lot easier to use, too, than cryptocurrency.
Does it have ECC RAM? If it does, then that system sounds very tempting. I wouldn't dare to use it for work without ECC.
The recession happened just before Bush's election (officially starting in March 2000). The .com bust had a huge impact on the tech sector, but the Enron & Worldcom scandals hit the rest of the economy hard.

It was a modest recession, but it wiped out a huge amount of wealth held by "main street" investors. It was bad enough that Bush, a very, very pro-business president, signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is widely criticized as an onerous and needless regulation by conservatives.
>He said the Supreme Court was wrong

Good thing it's the Supreme Court then, and not the "Maybe do what we say Court."

I get a little excited every time some idiot from the current administration tries to take on US rule of law, because I know the slow machinations of the legal system will eventually spank them into orbit over it.
You need to swipe from the left edge to Open drawer, but swipe to the right edge to Discard. Totally different operations, obviously.
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Just want to get a general sense of what people are paying for rent, food, commuting, etc.
“People are hiring again”, any data to back this up? BLS seems to disagree:

- The United States added almost 3 million jobs in 2014, 2.7 million in 2015 and 2.2 million in 2016.

- The U.S. economy added 2 million jobs in 2017

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/news/economy/december-2017-j...
There are already quite a few cheap places people could move to. But the demand is increasingly geographically concentrated, instead.
This is a very important point to understand to help people who are in that mode. Dont let them be alone and keep them talking. It will pass in an hour or less.
Its not just the US. Its widespread in India and spans different age groups as well: from destitute farmers to students from pretty wealthy families. And I'm sure in other countries as well... so yes I too am glad this is getting more attention.
I wonder what percentage of owners actually have the courage to turn on autopilot? How many people here would/do?
That's because income tax for workers is a tax on revenue. The rich are taxed on capital gains - which is a tax on profit.

As it turns out, getting taxed on revenue is far more punishing.
Actually it needed to detect a crash barrier against a background of lots of other stuff that was also stationary.

The easier that you distinguish the signal you want from the signal that you don't, the easier it is to make decisions. For radar, that is far, far easier with moving objects than stationary ones.
Their use of the word significantly in this context does not refer to statistical significance. The percentages you are referring too are just basic metrics based on the last years data, not something that was t-tested. The longer time period changes the starting index, it doesn't really make this type of analysis more or or less statistically significant. As the author alluded, this could mean that economic mechanisms close this gap over time when it appears, or it could be a recent effect. Your criticism isn't really valid.
That is definitely a localized phenomenon. I don't live in the Valley and my expenses are generally lower than that. (Or at least they are if I translate my expenses into single life. Though my "rent"/mortgage is just straight-up lower than that and you'd probably cry to see what I get for it.)

I tend to agree with you. In your position, you need to really want to live in SV for it to be worth it; you're paying a huge premium for the benefit of paying that huge premium.
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Except the EU explicitly makes software patents unenforceable so they won't be.
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I wonder if this means they actually moved the money to wallets under their control, or if they just took control of the private keys.
It links to a page to call "my MEP" by Mozilla that will call me and have me say some dull words to them. Has anyone done that? I'd rather know who my MEP is, call them, and personally explain them the issue. Any idea how to figure out who "my MEP" is and call them?
CDNs are great, but can we stop upvoting abusive headlines?
He said it correctly. It's a common joke among economists and pundits.
Definitely true. I've had a student call for this sort of ideation, after taking prescribed medicine, identified himself as black so they could tell who he was when they arrived, but didn't ask for a 'crisis prevention team'.

Somewhere between the 911 Dispatcher and the police that showed up, the only salient points communicated were "black man" and "drugs" and they rolled up on him as if he was a drug dealer. Very easily could have gone another way.
Since you insist.

https://m.eet.com/media/1246048/2017-embedded-market-study.p...

Apparently I was wrong, see it wasn't that hard to find.
Just like many other here, I feel very smart now :D.

My friend was all neck deep into hype. Yet never could explain how would he train the chatbot to learn all the facts about the business(es). And in end all chatbot could do is act like decision tree with some NLP to extent it could understand few variations.

Which is great but very few limited business use cases, and poor use case for support unless you want your users to hate you.
Funnily enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies
Living the Bay Area and paying $2,500 for rent, you have $1,000 net discretionary income. Even if you decide not to shrink your expenses or grow your income, you are still in a great position.

PS One day you will realize that things you once thought important are actually unimportant. If you keep saving for that day, you will be in fine shape. There is no need for angst, today. If I might make a recommendation - run some numbers as to where you will be if you decrease your expenses, increase your income, save more, etc. Do all that, forecasting for a set period of time, and do not pay any financial advisors or ask anyone else. Just use your own efforts to investigate. If you do that, I believe you will make the best decision for what to do.
I'd edited the title for length and, stupidly, retained a now, redundant comma.
This strikes me as lazy data science and full of overreaching conclusions, because nowhere is uncertainty/spread/variance discussed. What are the errors/variance on these estimations for each year and each spending category? Are these inflation differences statistically significantly different? Comparing 7% vs 8% is already cutting it close without even knowing this crucial information. The headline vastly oversteps the analysis itself, there is simply not enough information presented to make these conclusions.

This is one reason why peer-review is essential. This author can throw out a claim like millenials get inflation 14% worse than everyone else, failing to mention it's a difference of 1% over 7-8%, and moreover he did not even look at variance or statistical significance. This would not pass muster in a statistics 101 course, never mind a reputable journal.
I spent couple of months programming with 8086 in my undergrads. Those were the day :)
I notice a curious lack of any reference to this claim. While looking for it, I would advise to look for those that make specific distinction between "better moneyed campaigns always win" and "more attractive campaigns attract more money". If you find any good research on casual link between money invested (beyond aforementioned minimum) and 90% guaranteed winning, please do share it. Please note the statement "there is no doubt" does not qualify as good research.
AirBnB also immediately contributed to a very serious housing shortage and has contributed to rising rents everywhere.

The effects are just now being understood which why legislation is just now being enacted to taper it a bit.