skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elixir is dynamically typed, just like Erlang and the BEAM. Strong typing is a most requested feature from outside the community, seldom from inside. (EDIT correct, strong typing is not static typing. Does anyone make weakly typed languages anymore?)
To the extent that probability means anything in the real world, it means frequency. The domain of the frequency is the rub.
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Gliding is more or less all the stick and rudder stuff with actually staying up and going places a whole other layer on top.
iPads, especially the Pros, are excellent for certain types of content creation. Digital art with the Pencil and music, in particular.

They are also more or less equally as good as PC's at certain types of content creation. Word documents, PDF markup, email, that sort of thing.

There are certain types of content creation that they are bad at (programming, spreadsheets), but we can't say that they aren't for content creation based on that small, developer focused subset of content creation.
So these aren't accidental consequences of provisions meant to address some other issue. These are specifically designed to attack GPL and other copy-left licenses.
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There's something I can't reconcile in my head about crypto: What is the vested interest in a country like the US allowing crypto to become the de facto world currency, thus stripping the power of the Reserve away from the US (and indeed any other country with an interest in managing its own currency)? Doesn't it behoove countries with this interest to work to the bitter end to prevent crypto from becoming de facto?

And if I'm right, and crypto _can't_ become de facto, what is it aside from a security, since it would have no "home"?
It's an interesting distinction which begs the question of how securities enforcement will work on currencies which start off looking like securities and "evolve" out of that designation like Bitcoin and Ether did. As implied by the statement, the "fundraising that accompanied the creation of Ether" would probably qualify as a securities offering since it absolutely relied on central actors to maintain initial development until it had grown sufficiently to become more of a decentralized platform. At what point are token purchases no longer protected by securities law?

The SEC (or SEC leadership) has shown a willingness to take a fairly nuanced view on how cryptocurrencies are classified. Will be interesting to see how this thinking evolves as nuance comes with complexity.
The great thing about those models. You didn't have to max out right away and pay the exorbitant prices.

When I bought my 2011MBP, I slowly upgraded the parts as prices came down.

My advice to people buying Mac laptops today is to max everything out if you can afford to, because you're generally going to be stuck with the RAM and storage for as long as you keep the computer. (Yes, I know you can upgrade the SSDs, but it's a little more complicated than running to your local computer store to buy commodity parts).
no bark though right?
This is really the holy grail that we will be able to translate the connectome into a software representation of it and be able to quickly acquire working neural networks from living organisms.
Stop being a NIMBY and let the market work. If the market wants to build up let it. There will still be plenty of areas with views, you'll just have to pay more.
Two kind of performance metrics they seem to suggest on top of accurate tracking:

+ stability of the network, the neurons should not change their function willy nilly

+ robustness against multiplicative noise

I'm curious if that might lead to a more physiological plausible network.
Damn, yeah. Same here. That little voice of "is this really the BEST way" has grown stronger and stronger over the years, and I kinda have to fight it back to "allow" myself to do little hacky projects like this.

I always wanted to be better at software engineering, and software design, and getting abstractions right, and all that stuff. I've slowly gotten better at all that, but I didn't know it would come with the tradeoff of being unable to switch it off.
I literally have no idea what that comment is supposed to mean?!
Funny to see this in light of our conversation yesterday [1]

This should be read with extreme skepticism. I have experienced first hand how 'science' is done in the Turaga lab. I have on multiple occasions been pressured to cut corners and do shady things in the name of results.

In light of my experience, I require extra-extraordinary evidence to believe anything coming out of that lab....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306673
That's what I am thinking too. My 2014 Macbook is the only laptop I have used where keyboard and trackpad work really well. I have tried Dell, Surface and others but their trackpads simply suck. The friction is wrong, they don't register taps, the palm gets in the way. The Mac is the only one I can actually use and enjoy. If I could get a Linux with the same trackpad I would be in in a heartbeat.
It seems like if corporations are very unequal, we should be suspicious of averages.

Taking an average for corporations that includes Apple and Alphabet is sort of like taking average wealth for a small number of people that includes Bill Gates.

So, I'm not sure how seriously to take this? A company with very high, durable profit margins doing a stock buyback or taking on debt at low interest rates doesn't seem like much of a problem either now or in a recession?

Other companies may be in a much more risky position. It seems important to analyze them in separate groups.
Much of Bitcoin's 2017 boom was market manipulation, research says
A bit old ;-) Mountain Lion on some earlier generation.
Sure, if that was a common occurrence I'm sure people would care, but it's not so they don't.
I'd say the problem is an outdated method of judging a hardware design's "age." Saying the iMac Pro is "neutral" in terms of modern-ness 6 months out from introduction strikes me as particularly nonsensical. Exactly what should have been updated there? I don't see any advance in Intel's relevant line of Xeons in the interim (and AFAIK Xeon development is itself measured in years).

Obviously, the Macbook Air and Mini are extreme (and genuinely embarrassing) examples, but generally speaking a ~1yr update cycle (everything else on that page) seems entirely reasonable, especially given Intel's more, uh, deliberate pace in recent years.
I say it again: This is a kernel mechanism.

Every operating system based upon Linux provides programs with this mechanism. This is not some ioctl() introduced by a Debian patch. This is a mechanism added to Linux by Linus Torvalds on 1993-12-23.

* http://repo.or.cz/davej-history.git/commitdiff/9d09486414951...

Pete French added it to FreeBSD against his better judgement on 2010-01-04. It might have been in an earlier implementation of the terminal line discipline, too.

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/74b0526bbe6326adb7...

OpenBSD, which no longer implements the kernel mechanism, had had it since the initial import from NetBSD in 1995.

* https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173ca...

Illumos has it, and has had since at least the OpenSolaris launch.

* https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/9a2c4685271c2f0...

It was even in 4.3BSD.
Is this implying these flies use gradient descent?
The relevant part is not if you can make a profit, but if there is a "promoter" which says that. He gave an example how buying a house is not a security even if you expect prices to go up, but buying the same house through another legal entity with management can be a security.
You can also do this easily with mplayer: mplayer -vo caca ~/my.gif
Unless I'm mistaken, the data suggests that harsher punishments do not work as a form of deterrent. It seems inappropriate to cage someone for a non-violent offence.
People are farming algae in isolated environments to eventually make diesel. Seems more direct, higher-margin (lower volume, admittedly) and more ethical to squeeze healthy edible oil out of the algae instead.
What about reinforcement learned universal function approximators?
Bought a Dell XPS 13 and then returned it because of the horrible coil whine.
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How do they measure the synaptic weights? I didn’t think even electron imagery could see synaptic receptors and neurotransmitters.
SQL Server's own tools are so good one doesn't really need this.
Draws 100 W, not comparable to any Mac Mini. More to a “Midi.” But it is ugly.
The mistake Elon Musk made in his memo about layoffs at Tesla
Economist is libertarian / European liberal, not USAmerican liberal (which is more like "progressive").
According to wikipedia, Erlang/Elixir is strongly typed. I guess you and the other poster mean static typing?
The retina display though. it's difficult to go back once you get used to it..
Do stupid things, because sometimes they really do work.

And if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
At first glance, text like this may have been included to prevent countries from attempting to claw source code from closed-source software and cloud vendors.

It would appear to be troublesome, at a minimum, for copyleft projects, too.
Why not go one step further (like Style Elements in Elm), and reduce CSS & HTML to layout and style?

https://mdgriffith.gitbooks.io/style-elements/content/

Accessibility is often mentioned when it comes to the separation of concerns between HTML layout and CSS layout, but why would somebody try to adress blind people differently when it comes to semantics and hierachy? Wouldn't you want the same experience as seeing people?
What seems more likely at this point is that: machine translation will get so good that it will be better at translating between languages than any human can; image classifiers will become so good that they will be better at classifying images than any human can; self-driving cars will become so good that they will be better at driving than any human can; etc. etc.

I think the mismatch comes when people looking from the outside who have no real understanding of how the internals work see this progress in a very narrow domain and extrapolate that idea into thinking that something more general is happening.

When you understand the trick, it stops being magic.
fire, police, teacher, and plumbers are all in the $40k - $60k range, at least in the US. I wouldn't call that well paid.
How is the library ecosystem with elixir? Currently I'm usually using Go where I have a library for anything and I'm quite apprehensive to start using elixir if there's a lack of libraries.
I love all the responses about how folks are able to prolong the lifespan of their older Mac hardware (I'm running a 2010 MBP myself). I imagine that's part of the problem -- Apple sells more hardware if you can't upgrade.
If that part of the GPL is invalid, wouldn't that leave anyone who wanted to distribute GPL-licensed software without a valid license to do so? It seems crazy that it would leave intact the right to distribute given that as it's written that is contingent upon providing the source.
I agree. It's tough to imagine I'll buy another Mac at this point.

It seems like Windows has several options for doing Unix development, which was another historical advantage of OS X.

For personal use, all I really want is a 2011-era MBP form factor with modern internals and a modern display (ideally matte). My mid-2010 still has no replacement in sight. I'm not sure the exact PC laptop of my dreams exists, but there are certainly way more options.
Have a look at Maze Rats, designed to be simple and easy to pick up: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/197158/Maze-Rats
NR is an opinion mag / think tank, not a news magazine.
Who is behind this antipathy to copyleft? I wasn’t aware it was on the radar of the sorts of entities involved in writing international trade agreements.
That's almost a rhetorical question, but...

How do you define "crashing the plane" here ? There's only one plane and it's still going. History hasn't ended.
I still use my late-2012 mac mini for Lightroom. I upgraded it with a fast SSD and bumped the RAM to 16 GB which makes it a great 2018 machine.

I believe the latest revisions of the mac mini are not as serviceable though.
"like" and "dislike" aren't the same as caring. In this case, caring means they feel strongly enough about it to purchase or not purchase a specific laptop. I'm sure plenty of consumers dislike their laptops lack of repairability - I also think that they don't care.
Talk to me about the battery life. Life is about tradeoffs.
Seems pretty similar to pug/jade, other than not needing parentheses for tag attributes? (which admittedly, has annoyed me in pug) If I had to go to Ruby-land, I would use slim...
Good luck getting a large population of users from varying backgrounds and age ranges to want to hang out in a completely unmoderated place where anyone can be attacked, harassed, or shown obscene content.
The new BIOS updates addressed the whine issues I had. Might have been worth checking out before just taking it back :)

EDIT: To be clear, my issues were resolved after an update back in Dec 2017: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDet...

"Optimize CPU loading to Improve EE noise" is specifically one of the issues that BIOS update addresses.
Reddit doesn't block anyone from seeing NSFW content.
>>What's interesting about this ruling with respect to Ethereum is that one of the main reasons Ethereum has done so well is because of the development team. If they were terrible, Ethereum investors could have lost all of their money, but instead the developers have done a wonderful job and that has resulted in substantial profits for those holding ether.

It is certainly one of the main reasons, but it's not clear it's the majority of the reason. The community around Ethereum was very large from the very start.

Much of the value generated has been as a result of independent teams creating DApps and various utilities (e.g. blockchain explorers like Ethercan, browser extensions like MetaMask, web-based wallets/DApp-browsers like myetherwallet.com), and unpaid volunteers contributing to its EIP process.

The token sale smart contract template that set off the token sale boom was created by one of the early independent projects, I believe Digix.
Excellent choice for the example GIF. Haha.
You may be confusing strongly and statically typed.
Had 5 various Macs and then switched to an XPS 13. I really like it. Your review is an excellent summary.
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There is good interop story for Elixir/Rust. I would not be so sure about money bit either.
The 11 countries who signed (many still need to ratify the treaty). Alphabetical order:

1. Australia

2. Brunei

3. Canada

4. Chile

5. Japan (already ratified)

6. Malaysia

7. Mexico (already ratified)

8. New Zealand

9. Peru

10. Singapore

11. Vietnam

Much of the terms of this treaty were negotiated behind closed doors with "industry leaders" (large corporate interests) invited to attend.
They don't. It's purely topology, for which they use EM [1]

Uncle Howard has spent a lot of money on modeling the fly connectome at this point!! Pressure is on to show that connectome data is actually useful.

I am skeptical. It's not not useful. But it's just one piece of the puzzle...

[1] https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem
Agreed. Caching the video to a Netflix DVR would likely only be guaranteed to work with Netflix's own content. But isn't creating all its own content Netflix's plan?
I like this writeup but I sort of expected it to contain a "Windows 10 Review from a lifelong macos user" embedded in it. I was surprised that this was just about the hardware.

As a happy lifelong Windows user, surrounded by programmers who call me insane (or an idiot, even) for liking it, I was curious to learn more about what a developer who's used to Mac thinks about the Windows 10 dev experience. (notably for a more honest impression of what I might be missing)
There's no reason a language can't be both strongly and dynamically typed (like Elixir or Python) or statically and weakly typed (like C). :)
A decent fraction of the people in charge of making these decisions understand that new, risky forms of enterprise can lead to benefits for a lot of people.

Despite being a regulatory body, the SEC has a very free-market culture.
Hehe, mine runs on a 900MHz (x4) Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with 1 GB of RAM...
Because social media platforms operate at this scale, we as a society are being asked to tolerate the fact that even content as universally abhorred and clearly illegal as child pornography can be and is available on our favorite platforms, if only briefly.

Being asked by whom? The same person asking us to tolerate the presence of homeless people? Clearly said content is not so universally abhorred if it continues to be produced and made available. What we are actually being asked is to confront the fact that these things exist in our society and that we can't expect them to be kept neatly swept under the rug for us.
Creatives have always been a large target audience for mac hardware. Trust me, video editors and mograph people will always need more RAM. As long as people keep buying higher definition TVs and monitors. Hell, I've maxed out 128 gigs of RAM on a Xeon machine even when I wasn't working in 4k or 8k.

Mac's new laptop offerings cap at 16 gigs. There's a rumor about a 32 gig version, but even that is inadequate. Everyone on the design side of the office is still drinking the kool-aid and using their overpriced hardware because that is workable for their job, but on the video and animation side it's just not tenable. At all. All of us started on macs and switched to upgradeable hardware running windows or linux when it was revealed that apple just wasn't taking care of that demographic. There's a hard division down the middle of the room; macs on that side for photoshop and illustrator, PCs on this side for video editing, tracking, 3d effects, and rendering.

There's one exception: a mac pro "wastebasket" gathering dust in the corner of that office. That was a fucking slap in the face of a computer. All form and no function. Instantly obsolete. Not even remotely upgradeable. No resale value. And my god was it expensive. Jesus christ, you just can't rationalize that expense in good faith and of sound mind.

And I swear I'm not a mac hater. I grew up on them, have some great memories. But the math just doesn't add up anymore. They've become computer sculpture, not usable workstations.

I really don't think hardware will plateau. People have claimed since the eighties that new, vastly powerful computers are as much as the average user will ever need. Well, new uses are suddenly made possible which inevitably put that new potential to work, and gradually those applications become mainstream. If a new computer has fulfilled everyone's needs and more, it's only a matter of time before somebody finds a way to use that extra power for the average person.

It's happened before and it will happen again. In the coming years we're going to marvel at all the useful things we can do with terabytes of cheap RAM on a consumer PC, and we are going to wonder how people in the olden days got by with only gigabytes. Just like we do with the days of megabyte-scale RAM. It will happen.
I was using long time Speendee (https://www.spendee.com/), but changed to Toshl (https://toshl.com/).

I would recommend both. Somehow like the Toshl more.

2c
How would a country claw source code from a vendor in another nation, if they did not sign this agreement? File a lawsuit?

I suppose the most common method is to seize assets or personnel that are located in-country.
My version written in go: https://github.com/moshen/gotermimg
Seems like a massive outage, so far.

http://downdetector.com/status/reddit
> What is the vested interest in a country like the US allowing crypto

There is a reason US is called "leader of the free world", and why "freedom" is such an used word.

And we are way away from crypto replacing anything.
> This means reading the LICENSE.TXT that states "copyleft" and downloading from github is definitely not a "contract".

It's possibly a contract, but it is clearly not “commercially negotiated”, it's a contract (if at all) of adhesion.
Current language is surely messed up. If they meant it can't be required for software that's not already open - they should clarify that. And why such stupid provision be included to begin with? If someone wants to mandate FOSS as part of some import, it's their choice why should it be forbidden?
Wow, I'm impressed that a BIOS update can fix a coil whine. Got any background info on how they did it? Or did they just disable some core hardware feature for it?
We use Textile on our Redmine install. It's not terrible, but it always seems like I am writing more markup than should really be necessary
> If it ever fails, there're simply no Macs for her on the market that it could be replaced with and I don't see her going back to Windows - which means I'll probably have to setup a GNU/Linux working environment for her and to make sure Wine runs her Photoshop version well.

Out of curiosity, does your gf actually need a unix based OS? If she uses Photoshop daily and otherwise doesn't do any work that benefits from Linux - why not just use Windows?
> I think Adobe has a deal with Apple (and possibly Microsoft) which entices them away from delivering Photoshop for Linux

Surely you're joking, right? The deal they have is that approximately 0% of people use Linux.
If that’s all I needed was the occasional way to build and test iOS apps, as much as I would would hate it, I might buy a Mac Mini. On the other hand, I might get a low end iMac.
Inpatient Apple user
Recently I've found out that software makes a lot of difference when it comes to touchpads. I've tried Windows, xf86-input-synaptics and libinput on the same machine, and while on xf86-input-synaptics (my default) the experience was so close to Apple's that I long couldn't understand why people consider their touchpads so special, switching to Windows or libinput made it absolutely awful to use. There are TONS of small things that can make touchpad usage pleasant of annoying and I believe these days it's mostly about software (aside of obvious hardware things like type of surface, size and placement).

I guess Apple simply got their driver nicely fine-tuned to their own hardware, and that's it.
I am in boulder and can't wait, comcast fucking sucks, they just raised my rates from $79 to ~$120 with no warning, i hate them so much...
Sooo Quiver is just caching?
I think your last point hits on another reason why we might be seeing less of those regular tech spec bumps. The amount of engineering that goes into something like the current MacBook or the trashcan MacPro seems to be growing with every redesign. The complexity of those designs makes upgrades more difficult than the old days in which they might simply swap one off the shelf component for the newer and faster version.
Putting aside the US, I'm surprised that the Canadian government didn't notice or discuss one of their citizens disappearing.