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>Microsoft is mixed - for every Xbox and Hololens there's a Courier.

My perception of Microsoft is that it's a Hydra.

The upside is that it's not all bad! The head responsible for the product you care for might have been there for a long time, and is doing a really good job in keeping it up.

The downside is that the other heads might be doing something entirely different and turn the whole beast around .

And while all this is going on, some heads just get chopped off here and there.

(sniff Lumia sniff)
> To call him partially responsible for 100,000s of deaths is very unfair and not very classy considering he's dying soon.

He definitely pushed that war and thus has some responsibility for the consequences. I do not wish him ill will and it is unfortunate that he is dying of cancer, it is a loss for his friends and family. That said, just because he is dying does not make him a saint nor do I have to pretend he is one, he clearly wasn't.
What I need to replace a virtual doctor is automated medical testing.

I need a machine to take all of the measurements and make decisions entirely without any kind of subjective judgement on my part.

Please, validate my health the same way automated testing and other such diagnostics checks work.
this is a very sensible article. kudos to nytimes and the writer. we also need this kind of advice on tv, schools, etc. a better general understanding of depression by society as a whole is not only one of the best tools we have to deal with it, but also a great way to start building a better society
Google fills 'concrete' AI weapons policy with caveats
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[video] Development Economics: “borrowing from abroad is a con” (2015)
The TFA isn’t about accurately describing behavior, it’s about voicing disgust in feel-good words for the author.

> But the hyperbolic and comic hope that a just god might smite the slanderer or brutalizer with a deadly skin disorder is somehow beyond the pale.

Words are plenty, there would be no shortage of them to express the author’s point within relying on deadly skin disorders. Nobody [edit: here at least] is denying atrocities, the point is to adjust communication to the medium used.
SpaceX Plans Facility Expansion at Kennedy Space Center
Has no activity since March , doubt it's still used.
Yep, here's one: https://i.imgur.com/LEI4BAA.jpg

It makes for a great conversation piece, even around non-tech crowds.
As a neutral observer, I've not been on past threads. Most people who don't have particular interest in this haven't. It would be nice to hear both sides of the argument
You're talking about things that have nothing to do with my comment.

But, on your point - you did the math wrong. He has $12,000 discretionary income not $6,000. He likely already paid his last month's rent of $2,500, and he already mentioned savings. So, it makes no sense for you to infer that it will take him a year to move if he loses his job.
Many consider deception to be unethical. However, on the scale of deceptions, many of us would consider faking a userbase in order to jump-start a community to be toward the white lie end of the spectrum.
> I do not believe anyone has the right to force emotional distress onto another person.

But the person who is already under emotional distress should continue to endure theirs? Is your position really that you have a right not to be emotionally upset by others? How does this position account for any form of conflict at all?
> Make it so much different and Factorio specific, that the way it is done in your specific system will not interfere with your muscle memory

I think this is a really thoughtful way to deal with the problem of x-platform UI that isn't using system chrome/dialogues. Don't get in the user's way, and let them develop muscle memory specific for the game.
"Let's kill the contract with Chinese companies, and make it a headline"...

While behind scene do all kinds of money-making contracts with anyone with enough price...
You still think "the Iraq war was needed"? That really destroys your credibility in making this "spread the responsibility" argument. I'll accept some responsibility for the fact that I was duped and completely wrong about Iraq, but there were people against the whole venture at the time. It ain't their "responsibility".
I think the way that percentages were expressed in the headline was intentionally deceptive- 14% seems like a lot of inflation in 5 years! That makes for good clickbait.

Yep. That's my point. The article's premises do not support the conclusion. And, in actuality the end of the article contradicts its own conclusion.

But the percent that is being talked about is the comparative difference between groups, per the line: Over the past five years, millennials have seen their goods become 8.7% more expensive, Generation X 8%, and baby boomers 7.6%. This means that the price increase for millennials was 14% higher than for baby boomers.

There is a subtle error in this analysis. If companies A and B both grow with A growing 300% and B growing 1% per year, it seems that A might be a better company. That is often why companies that don't make money are valued similarly to companies that do make money. Putting the perception aside, A may have only increased by $4 but B could have increased by $4,000,000,000. Therefore it is not correct to say that the increase of A was 29,999% higher than for B.
Still, though, MSR is one of the more prolific research institutions in CS. If they were a university, they'd probably be top-ranked.

I definitely agree. They have some top notch researchers, certainly.

I also agree that the budget comparison is apples and oranges, so I'm not quite sure why you brought it up. The OP made a grandiose claim about Microsoft's academic research funding, and made it quite clear with his discussion of Google that corporate research does not count. So I want a source for the amount of money Microsoft spends on pure academic research without the corporate ties.

Personally, I think if Microsoft spent anywhere close to a billion dollars on pure academic research, the funding situation in CS academia would be completely different. Microsoft grants would be pursued just as hard as NSF grants, because they would be such a major funding source. But that is not the case. Corporate grants are afterthoughts compared to the NSF for academics. Additionally, if Microsoft were plunking such a large amount of money into academic research, I assume they would at the very least publish that figure in a PR piece to cash in on some public good will.
They all but banned it in Berlin (only allowed to rent guest rooms where the owner resides in the place) years ago and last time I was there (last week) it was still well awash with tourists like myself.
Comparing percentages always has the potential to invoke that sort of confusion, but FWIW I'm pretty sure the headline is written correctly. If it were subtracting percentage values from one another rather than dividing, it would be "percentage points" rather than "%".

That said, the article itself is just silly, a true puff piece. I think one could make a more substantive (and more interesting) argument around the idea of the "basket of goods" measurement as a basis for measuring inflation in the first place, as goods make up a smaller and smaller percentage of our total expenses.
New tool enables big-scale analysis of single cells – crg
> First, GraphQL is not a subset of SQL, nor is it in any way related to SQL.

I didn't mean to imply the language syntaxes are related. But they're both syntaxes for relational algebra, and GraphQL has a strict subset of SQL's capabilities in terms of what relational-algebra queries/mutations it can express. (I.e. GraphQL can express joins, but only inner joins with an aggregate projection on the left side; and GraphQL can express projections, but only trivial projections applying the identity function to a subset of the available tuple fields.)

(Note that other, more powerful graph manipulation languages, e.g. Datalog or SPARQL, are also syntaxes for relational algebra. They're similarly limited in some ways compared to SQL—and yet the types of queries they express easily would balloon out to hundreds of lines of SQL.)

> there is no inherent reason why a service cannot expose a GraphQL-only API, and each client only consume that API.

There is no inherent reason why a service cannot expose an SQL API, either, provided you lock down the restrictions on the role the DB is acting as (both in terms of ACLs on DML query types, and in terms of caps on compute time, memory, etc.)

But people don't do that, and they avoid it for more than just the challenging ops story it implies. You don't expose SQL-based APIs to the public internet, because you tend to build APIs to service the needs of particular clients with particular use-cases, and those use-cases can be optimized for by adding things like caching middleware, but only if you can filter out and tag the particular use-case each request is for. REST lets you do that; the use-cases are directly named by the (method + origin + path), and the semantics are already there, built into the protocol, for caching them, substituting them, access-controlling them, etc.

GraphQL, like SQL, doesn't have any place for naming the use-case of a request, in the request. So, if you want any of the useful properties like cacheability or access-control or whatever else to apply, you probably want your GraphQL request to appear "inside" a RESTful request, such that you still have individual REST endpoints for particular use-cases.
Recent turmoils in the US and the World in general, has me wonder about a different aspect of this. For those who don't like the current state of affairs in the world (Trump, Brexit, "populist" movements everywhere), it is awful to leave from this world not knowing what will happen to your family and friends. The scene from "The Matrix, not like this..." is what comes to my mind.
Sure, personal plans have unlimited calling. But a call center? That's multiple phone lines at business rates, and often an internal phone system as well. These are likely special, more expensive lines since they aren't receiving outside calls. I'm going to guess there are international agreements that allow for some of the cost of international connection to be paid by the caller as well (yet another way to make money: International calls).

On the other end, if they were to try to stop spam calls, it would cost money. You'd have to have a way to find out if a caller has legitimate business or not: A collection agency might be marked as spam quite a bit, yet shutting them down would likely mean a lawsuit. Sales calls seem to fall into a weird grey area. There would need to be a system for consumers to report spam calls. These all cost money to build and maintain.

Not to mention enforcement, which would be especially tricky given international calls and the bit about legitimate businesses being marked as spam.
Hah, I really do, if ever so slightly, feel this way. Surprised by the down votes. Just disapprove because you frown on humor, which it wasn't intended as, or somehow did I offend you?
I'd prefer randomized 'hard disk seeking' noises; not the click of death, the sort of soft muted chirping you used to get from very large and slow magnetic media as you actually heard the heads seek back and forth.

In an alternate pinch, licence some item get sounds from vidoegames and do A B testing on customer satisfaction.
What's unethical about 1 or 3?
It's actually only half a crypto coin.
Is Jack a bot? Cool game.
That's a fair point, noted. Better signalling and especially automated signalling has made rail travel orders of magnitude safer.
"List prices for FANUC’s most common robots vary from $25,000 for the simplest, least expensive M1iA, 4 axis “spider” robot with .5kg capacity to the M2000/1200 6 axis robot with 1200kg capacity topping out at over $400,000 list price."

Here's quite a funky one on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fanuc-R-2000iB-210F-Robotic-w-Servo...
I can't agree with your opinion or your father's anecdote. Throughout all of history, gold has held intrinsic value in all kinds of civilizations, and is still one of the most valuable elements that's widely traded. If you can't buy groceries with a block of gold (assuming you're not just shredding off dust to pay them), then the seller clearly doesn't understand the value. On the contrary, paper dollars are intrinsically useless, especially since we left the Gold Standard, which links the value of paper dollars to the value of gold.
> this is the time to apply the principle of charity, this is the time to remember the good things he's done, and not the bad.

It's silly to ignore the war crimes and the deaths of hundreds of thousands just because a war criminal is dying.

> Remember that he's one of the guys consistently disagreeing with Trump (which is still rare amongst republicans).

Rare? The entire republican establishment has come out against Trump - mccain, graham, romney, etc.

And krauthammer doesn't consistently disagree with trump. He supported trump's illegal attacks on syria.
Shouldn't? Hasn't been.
I have worked as a backend developer in product company for about 8 years. I honestly never came across an US/foreign developer who is > 1.1X my ability. I guess except the big four companies all developers (US/indian) have same level of programming competence on average. The only variation is the cultural comfort.
LIDAR probably would have seen the obstacle and avoided it, but so would a human driver who was operating the vehicle responsibly and correctly. It sucks that people treat level 2 systems and level 3 or 4, but the same thing applies to many convenience features in a car (cruise control, power brakes, etc...). There's always going to be some bozo doing what they shouldn't be doing with something.

I'd love to see LIDAR on consumer vehicles, but AFAIK it's prohibitively expensive. And to be fair, even Level 4 autonomous vehicles still crash into things and kill people.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/uber-self...

Last but not least, every semi-autonomous system all the way back to Chrysler's "AUTO-PILOT" has had similar criticisms. People in the past even said similar things about high speed highways compared to other roads WRT attention.

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/history/automotive-histo...

https://books.google.com/books?id=YpGkDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=...
Both - on disk, but the kernel caches it in memory.
Not everyone is blessed with an fast internet connection.
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>> Anyone who actually thought the gig economy was helping anyone but business owners was either deluded or a shill.

That's quite a generalization you're making.

Just because business owners are benefiting by pushing wages as low as the market will bear and reaping profits/growth, doesn't mean consumers/drivers aren't benefiting from the arrangement as well.

Service providers are granted an additional at-will income opportunity.

Consumers are granted a high-value low-cost service.

Many will argue that the service providers are being tricked into the arrangement through hidden costs. However, a large sector of drivers actually rent their cars, which pretty much removes all hidden costs and proves to me that these gigs are a viable alternative to employment.
Venice, mentioned elsewhere in this thread as a problem city because of AirBnB, levies this tax against people who visit and stay in AirBnB
Yes, I agree, it's not right that you can screw up the world and get away with it because of ignorance. It's not a good excuse. If you have power and influence, ignorance is a crime.

I hope that humanity will one day become immune to this kind of individual-tragedy rhetoric and save their hearts for the stats.
Everything you say is true, but extremely misleading. China's nuclear posture uses what's called the "minimum means of reprisal", which means they have an extremely small nuclear force that is incapable of completing the scenario you outline.

Let me just quote the abstract from Jeffery Lewis's phd dissertation on the topic:

Among the 5 states authorized under the NPT to possess nuclear weapons, China has the most restrained pattern of deployment: The People"s Republic of China (PRC) operationally deploys about 80 nuclear warheads exclusively for usewith land"based ballistic missiles. Its declaratory doctrine rejects the initiation of nuclear war under any circumstance. The PRC does not maintain tactical nuclear forces of any kind, and its strategic forces are kept off alert, with warheads in storage. This posture has been sustained over time and changes in threat perception, suggesting restraint is the result of choice and not expediency.

Furthermore, most of the land based ballistic missiles China has deployed are targeted at India, and not capable of hitting the mainland US.

While the dissertation was written in 2004, essentially nothing substantial has changed since then.
This is a great tactic for ridding yourself of any unwanted thoughts. Learn to see them as "other" or a "mindvirus", not part of you. Learning to identify myself with the aspects of myself that I like has helped me in nearly every facet of my life.
How absurd. How dare you.
Very well put. It's important that we recognize the history that led us to where we are, even if it's not a super beautiful history.

I remember this particular period relatively clearly. There was intense debate everywhere, it was the most polarizing issue for a very, very long time. I was on the dove-side of the debate. I remember having some extremely heated debates with "hawks" (all online - these hawks somehow just disappeared after the invasion when it it got more and more obvious that there actually were no WMDs...).
The next revision of the TOP500 will come out this month, let’s wait to see how it stands against the competition.
The previous supercomputer mentioned in the article, “Titan”, currently is the 5th fastest in the list https://www.top500.org/lists/2017/11/
80%-90% accuracy on your arbitrary data set is meaningless.Your cute NLP algorithms suffer miserably in real life. You are severely underestimating how complex language is if you think getting a high accuracy on these narrow tasks is a meaningful measure of progress. Language is a big open problem for cognitive scientists, and linguistics alike. What makes you think that these computer scientists are magically further ahead of these scientists to create true NLP? Alexa is shit, Google Duplex is shit, Siri is shit. All these NLP applications will continue to be shit, until we actually understand what language is and how it works.
If they're claustrophobic enough to the point where they can't even be in that position, then how can they handle a plane as it stands, even with windows? It's not like you can break the window in case of emergencies, and if anything, it's reinforcing the fact that you're 30k feet in the air in a tiny sealed box.
This is just so interesting - I think these rules are more applicable to everyday communication between adults than they may seem at first glance. The point on taking a negative statement and rephrasing it to be positive reminds me of the time I spent in customer support... I feel like people react more strongly to the way something is said than the bare content of what you’re saying.
As of 2016, Lloyds bank offered a "Welcome to the UK" current account that you could open without proof of address.
There exists an Erlang unikernel (of sorts): http://erlangonxen.org/
Microsoft expands program for women returning to work
Weird! A Nuance license would be cheaper and works just as poorly.
HN leaks my data, just press my user name, look at all the comments I made, see which other users I’ve interacted with, and have similar interests, also see my submissions. I looked at all your usernames already.
I'm not convinced that there are other sleeper configurations that are more efficient (from an airline space perspective), comfortable for passengers, and safe in terms of evacuation. It's possible, but even if it worked logistically I'm not sure how many takers you'd get where the choice was to get a coffin-like pod for an entire flight versus a seat. The lie-flat seating gives you the choice between a seat and a moderately comfortable bed.

Admittedly train sleepers do tend to take the coffin approach but the dimensions of the cabin are quite a bit different.
I maintain a relatively big REST API. There are hundreds of different entities with very deep relationships.

Our solution is exactly like Stripe's. Clients ask for the relationships they want to fetch using the query string.

It's not ideal. Seems like a hack. But it works.

On the bright side, I can query the system using curl.

What should be my incentive to consider switching to GraphQL for this project?

What should be my incentive to consider GraphQL for my next project?
What would the characteristics of a "dependent contractor" be?
I think traditional media companies were afraid of Facebook, now they aren't anymore. They are natural enemies. When they fight, there can be only winners from the customer POV.
Tooth regrowth. All sorts of battery tech. Lab-grown meat.
No, it's 200 PFLOPs:

> Built for the U.S. Department of Energy, this is a machine designed to tackle the grand challenges of our time. It will accelerate the work of the world’s best scientists in high-energy physics, materials discovery, healthcare and more, with the ability to crank out 200 petaflops of computing power to high-precision scientific simulations.

EDIT: OK, it's 200 PFLOPs of high precision math, 3 EFLOPs of lower precision math. I take my comment back.
Take a look at the video linked in the article:

https://twitter.com/ZachHonig/status/936584456755929089?ref_...

This seems very well executed to me.
Trump may be awful, but he's not the same flavor of awful as Krauthammer is. He'll soon be forgotten anyway. It isn't important to the armaments manufacturers just who gets them their wars. For that reason, all the many disagreements that reasonable people have with him should be raised now, so that he might actually see those disagreements. Who knows, he may ask God for forgiveness before he rolls off this mortal coil.
Facebook rolls out indirect data center cooling system that can deal w humidity
TPUv3 pods have a stated performance of 100 peta "flops," which is half precision operations on hardware designed specifically for machine learning.

The 200 petaflops number of Summit is referring to general purpose double precision computation. This is totally incomparable to anything the TPU can do at any performance.