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USDS and 18F are staffed by confident people from industry. The federal government, when it comes to software, is not as incompetent as you think.
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Of course, you are definitely right you can raise hell, but that doesn't mean my statement is wrong at all either.
>I'm a member of a protected class [...]

Technically speaking, we all are, no? We all have genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities? Of course you probably meant that you fall into a minority group in one of those classes, but pretty much anyone could allege they were discriminated against based on their protected characteristics, even if sometimes it's not a particularly believable claim.
You've just made up a "liberal" Democrat boogeyman for your weird argument.
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Here's a subset of what Google knows about you to tailor ads for you: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
This is awesome and inspiring. Any thoughts on how to approach something similar for red light camera violations and accident/police data in Illinois?
You created your account 3 hours ago, with a creative name and then annonymously post you work on money laundering cases ... As if that is supposed to add credit or show some sort of background. You are anonymous, don't try and take some high ground to reinforce an invalid argument.
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I see it as an unfortunate consequence corollary to freedom of math and speech. If you give people the right to record and calculate everything they know it allows for invasive analytics in an attempt to soothsay by automating superstitions. If you don't have them then it opens abuses such as reporting that a scumbag serial Ponzi schemer convicted of doing so is "violating his right to be forgotten" and reporting that the local police just spend four hours loitering in diners and coffee shops is "illicitly tracking law enforcement". Restricting others to try to prevent it would prove lossy to freedom overall. Even a "no financialization" limit would allow shutting down a voting record of congress mapped to donor contributions because they are making money off of someone else's data if they try to cover their costs in any way.

I believe that the achievable thing to aim for is a transparent society instead of a half-mirror one.
MoviePass Won't Let Users Cancel Accounts, Renewing Plans Against Their Will
Thinking some more on that case, in a similar situation (if I had a friend accused of a crime that I am trying to fight against), I don't know what I'd do. I most likely would still support my friend, so I might have been too harsh in my previous comment.
Citation needed

(I was stating my opinion, you are the one claiming I am factually wrong and not providing any proof, further a quick google search proves I was correct in my statement too based on reputable legal sites)
Inference Speed is very important. The TensorFlow object detection model zoo lists timings for their models; we picked our model to meet timing demands on a cell phone.

I don't think CPUs are going to give you decent performance unless you microoptimize the inference for the host architecture and even then the gains are marginal.

If you want to avoid expensive GPUs, take a look at things like Intel's Neural Compute Stick, Google's Vision Kit and the Edge TPU. But you can also run models on modestly priced cell phones- we use $100 cell phones to do object detection and tracking, but it's not pretty.
Windows Server is designed to deal with NUMA systems and Windows 10, being a consumer OS, is not, so the comparison is outright faulty. The Phoronix reviewer even acknowledges that Windows Server benchmarks are planned for the future.
Is this what you’re looking for? https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130663/gdc_2005_proce...
Absolutely. However I guess you'll also want to deploy your FPGA application at some point, which means buying FPGAs for all your servers too. So the cost is more analogous to the cost of a CPU/GPU than to the cost of an IDE/developer license.
Let me clear up the confusion. The original appeal is highly limited to at most two issues, and strictly matters of law.

The 2255 is wide open. You're limited by the number of pages (and the realization that if the first, say, 10 claims you bring up fail, maybe it wasn't likely to make a difference if you file any more).

Mention of counsel is funny, because 2/3 of 2255 issues tend to revolve around "ineffective assistance of counsel" (IAC). As such, you generally have to get a different lawyer or do it yourself, since no lawyer will accuse himself of doing a bad job with a straight face.

IAC may include anything from the attorney forgetting to bring up something important, to declaring the defendant guilty in open court, to falling asleep at trial. It generally has to be something really really unprofessional, and the defendant had to have suffered "prejudice". In other words, if you were, based on the mountain of evidence, going to be found guilty, whether or not (for example) your attorney slept with your wife, you suffered no prejudice and the verdict and sentence stand.

I'm sure in that pile of 2255 complaints will be the matter that the investigating officers and leading state witnesses (Carl Mark Force IV, FBI, and Shaun Bridges, Secret Service) committed perjury and theft and this prejudiced Ulbricht's right to a fair trial.

There will probably also be matter about unlawful search and seizure by the feds using hacking tools, etc.

I have a feeling the most fascinating stuff will be unknown to the public thus far.
You're right, and the actual statistic is slightly different: "Despite this decline, however, methadone continues to account for nearly one in four prescription opioid-related deaths", https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6612a2.htm That is, not all opioid-related deaths, but prescription opioid-related deaths.
Tell that to Turkey
Argentine Tango. Despite what you might think, it's a surprisingly technical activity. I meet a surprisingly high number of engineers and PhDs in the tango community. When I'm dancing, it puts me into a state of flow where I'm constantly listening to the music and thinking which movements will fit best. If you're in the SF Bay Area, it's arguably the best city for tango in the US.
> I don't see how companies that claim it's hard to find talent can be OK ...

I don't either, but it's an easy game to play: start a company with an impossibly difficult goal (e.g. build a more popular social network than Facebook in two years, colonize Neptune, cure cancer) and then complain that there isn't enough talent in the labor pool. Finally, blame the government.
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The thing is that the act of mining isn't actually providing any value, it just proves that you have wasted some amount of processing power. This is called proof of work and is a system set in place so that bad actors can't take control of the ledger without spending a large amount of money. The threshold for how much work you need to put in is adjusted automatically. If there was just a single machine in the system they could choose to mine very slowly and the system would eventually reach a very easy threshold.

What that means is that the threshold would be about ten times lower if electricity prices were ten times higher globally.

As you can understand, this is a big big waste - which is why alternatives to proof of work are researched heavily.
>56,007 — 9.1% — of the nation’s bridges were structurally deficient in 2016, and on average there were 188 million trips across a structurally deficient bridge each day

This number is kept higher than it needs to be for economic/political reasons. If your bridge is about to fall down at any minute it's easier to get federal dollars (or justify using your existing dollars) to build a new bridge. As a result there's lots of bridges that are past due with shovel ready plans for replacement but the local/state gov is just waiting for it to become a crisis so that they don't have to pay for as much of the fix. If the replacement bridge requires taking private land, disrupting traffic, etc, etc. there's even more reason to wait for a crisis.
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NSA.
I've started to wonder if we're hitting a stage in society where we need to embrace the "mid-life crisis" as a normal stage of development, rather than as a problem.

I personally would love if we had better systems in place to help people shift careers when they felt that their current one wasn't what they wanted. It seems to me that asking a 20 year old which career they are going to love for the next ~40 years is a bit absurd.
Simply trying to gain traction is hard. Most attempts fail.
https://microg.org/ is a FLOSS replacement for Google Play Services that can be used with AOSP for a (mostly) Google-free Android experience.
> That is why the ultimate form of punishment in our society is to isolate the individual from all human contact.

I would've thought the ultimate form of punishment is execution. If you were talking about life in prison however, I think the reason is to keep the other people safe, not to inflict psychological pain on the convicted.
This is basically the selection criteria for getting a job, why wouldn't they be?
> The best candidates are those who know their algorithms inside and out, have the ability to break down and transform a problem until they can apply something in their toolkit, and have the coding chops to translate their concept into an implementation.

I mean, I guess, but in the many hiring discussions I've been on I found that the interviewers who asked those questions and based their feedback on them had very noisy signals. They frequently gave "lean no hire" feedback on our best hires. The interviewers who actually asked questions relevant to the work had much better signals.
Sign and share Ross's petition for clemency. Almost 60,000 signatures in just 1 month: https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-clem...
For the sake of a debate, why wouldn't you? (just sticking to drug kingpin and not including the murder for hire stuff...)
It's interesting that electric trucks and buses are making a comeback. A hundred years ago, they were pretty common in big cities.

Also, the article seems to acknowledge that city driving is the best application for electric vehicles.
That's actually a really interesting idea. Big food co's would fight it like hell, and I don't think a large volume of food moves through Amazon.com at the moment, but the API possibilities here would be very fun to play around with.
I am probably very unaware of a Chrome or Firefox extension that allows this:

I wish I could Browse to... and set scripts to run before a page is navigated to. I know you can do this from the Dev Tools console just by hooking into events, but i wish there were something more user-friendly so it'd be easy to pass around scripts to average users. Simply to unreference or wrap JS APIs that allow things like this. You'd still need to be impossibly aware of what new API Google is introducing in Chrome every week. I wish they defined subsets of JS, like how there's a C++ embedded standard and such. I know in JS land you go by feature detection not profile selection (like OpenGL?).

We're just learning more ways to sandbox I suppose.

PS: I want the ability to easily re-order the scripts that run before/after an event fires.
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So you would rather trust the government instead? They mostly work with private companies to run their IT stuff so at the end of the day your data would end up on some private servers anyway.
That's not surprising. Voltaire's caricature of Leibniz was politically motivated too, or religious, which was all tangled together during the enlightenment. Basically a liberal/atheist criticizing a conservative/religious thinker. And the Leibniz/Newton debate seems to me to have been primarily political too, dividing neatly on national lines. Politics is always with us, it seems.

Regardless of who came first, Leibniz's work on calculus was excellent. He knew the chain rule, product and quotient rule, linearity, and how to differentiate powers of x; he defined both integration and differentiation and was aware of (but did not prove) the fundamental theorem of calculus (that integration and differentiation are opposites) We still use his notation today: sigma f(x) dx for integration, and dx/dy for differentiation. In fact, even the word for function, in the sense "f is a function of x", seems original to Leibniz and came directly out of his work on calculus. Leibniz could walk into a classroom today and lecture on his calculus and it wouldn't look much different than a modern Intro to Calculus class. If it hadn't been for the climate of German/English intellectual rivalry it wouldn't have even been an issue.

https://www.maa.org/book/export/html/641727
> many pay better than Google

Those would be? The only one I have actually seen (claimed) numbers out of that can beat Google is Facebook.
Hi, What error are you seeing? An uploaded file or URL?

exif.tools is my little project/wrapper for exiftool to make it easier for me to examine photos/pdf files online just by prepending the domain before the URL. I.E. https://exif.tools/https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif
Just checked the video, very impressive. I should try it for sure
I like taking pictures and go hiking. I used to play online shooting game but I found that my emotion went even worse, but Japanese RPG is fine for me.
A potential alternative to Google translate is deepl. It doesn't do website translation like Google translate does in Chrome but I've found it to be better for texts in English, French and German.
> For the record, our room bill at Caesars alone came in at over $50K, excluding meals and other expenses.

Multiple rooms I presume.
If you look for "tensorflow raspberry" on a search engine, you will find several pointers about running TF on cheaper hardware. You would probably get about 1 frame per second with it.

You may also look at recent SnapDragon-powered dev boards, which have TF core accelerators, and provide a serious boost of FPS for less than $700.

Also, using a cloud ML service is an option if you have only a few inferences/day to process
Because Facebook is free and taxes aren't.
A) Where do you think banks got the idea? They just copied an existing shady business model.

B) The developers could have said no. If my boss got a contract with a bank that said I had to track users against their will, I would turn it down.

The point is that the newspapers are bringing up a legitimate problem. It's not a "panic", it's a valid concern.
Older Altera CPLDs and Actel/Microsemi antifuse based FPGA families have nonvolatile configuration within the fabric. They enjoy the benefit of near instant start up since there is no programming phase to transfer a bitstream from an external flash part.
The room can't be used while it's being repaired, and people would push back pretty hard if they were charged for lost business too. People also tend to dispute damage charges.
I spent this summer doing exactly that for an internship. I set up a xilinx Zynq chip to run a basic video capture and streaming program (based on gstreamer), with the encoding portion handled by the fpga. This chip has a baked-in encoder supporting AVC and HEVC, but I suppose you could implement or buy your own IP block for other codecs. Xilinx makes multiple boards based off the same chip with support for video codecs and SDR.
Didn't you get arrested too?
Federalize search.
> Google makes no attempt to hide what is happening and if you enable Location History Google will actually spam you with email warnings that you have Location History turned on.

I had the web and app activity turned off, never received this email.
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Should it geotag your photo with your current location, assuming you have that feature enabled in the camera app?

Should it use your location to contextualize your query for "pizza near me?" If so, does that mean your browsing history has to be redacted so that it isn't possible later to infer your location from your selection of a candidate restaurant?

I think different people will have different opinions about what constitutes a "cumulative location profile." Google's definition makes intuitive sense to me personally but I can see how there might be other points of view on it.

I can understand the public outrage, but on HN it surprises me that almost everyone seems to think this is a clear case of pure evil.
I've berated more than one manager over calling a human being a "resource" in a meeting. Electricity, hardware, furniture, office space, and the like are resources. you might get away with calling people "talent", but not "resource."
I think this bubble was different and rather like the 1999/2000 dot com bubble. Some real companies like Google and Facebook rose from the rubble but the situation where any stupid thing with .com on the name could float for a fortune never returned. I imagine crypto will play out something like that with the stupid ICOs gone but some real stuff of value coming about. I'm guessing bitcoin is like Yahoo - it will continue but the flaws will do for it eventually.
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People can stalk people. Beyond a certain threshold (defined by jurisdiction), it's illegal.

Why wouldn't this apply to corporations? To (legal) entity?

Corporations and their lobbyists spend a lot of time, money, and effort claiming they are "people". For example, with respect to their "free speech" -- meaning, lately, unlimited spending on political campaigns.

Well, ok then, I would propose that they can stalk, like people.

Oh, but wait, there's the catch. They've already beaten me, with their outsized pocketbooks, to the very people who would legally define this.

In the U.S., at least, the law is a _____. Pardon my, albeit self-censored, decidedly improper language. But sometimes, crudeness is the rhetoric of clarity -- in all its unpleasantness and offensiveness.
An organization staffed by competent people that reports to people that are neither competent in the relevant domain nor willing to defer to those that are remains, as an organization, incompetent. As USDS and 18F are both in the executive branch entities, their organizational competence is limited by the leadership of executive branch; this is particularly true of USDS, which is in the Executive Office of the President.
> Find a better solution, or accept that you're driving away eyeballs/revenue.

Let's approach this from another angle for a moment - a hypothetical provider with no numbers/revenue; zero, zip.

Where should they start? Do they start by chasing every possible user out there and risk a wave of spam, etc? No, right now - the Cloudflare approach is looking rather attractive despite Cloudflare not needing to advertise these security features far and wide (unlike some VPN providers) because we're talking so much about it.

In the time that this debate will end, the buttons will be clicked, site(s) will be launched and working without problem for the majority of users it will be targeted at. For nearly everyone, this appears to be a much better solution than those that have plagued various online forums and services for years.

So who is going to find a "better" solution? Probably almost nobody. As the other commenter says, it's a numbers game. And that's just business.
Not a good idea - how would that even be moderated, given that there is always, always, always going to be pushback from politicians and their followers (not necessarily constituents) depending on how the social currents are trending that minute.

Given the constraints of the 1st Amendment in the US, it might not even be possible to moderate a public social network, which would then quickly devolve into something resembling the most excessive wet dreams of 4channers everywhere.

Whatever good might arise would be drowned out by the impulsive emanations of every 14-year old with a passing whim.
I like the discussion at the end about the difficulties on delivering the busses long distance, and the lack of chargers big enough to recharge them. If the Tesla Semi actually launches at some point, perhaps that will change and we will get city-to-city electric busses too. Battery ranges should improve to the point where that becomes practical over the next few years too.

What a great market that would be for Waymo. Predictable routes of mostly highway driving would be right up their alley.
some have the configuration memory on-die as well to keep part count down. Also good to help protect your bitstream, but this isn't infallible of course.
In the UK, voters are a fair bit closer to MPs than people in the US (where I currently live) are to their congress representatives. Though much much further from Members of the House of Lords than from Senators. However there is a complete missing segment of local politics that exists in the US, and that has good engagement, that is much less powerful/engaging in the UK (State and city level, compared to County/city Councils)

Comparing like for like in size and budget, shouldn't the larger states, eg Texas and California have good state level systems. And then the slightly small, but still well funded ones (such as Florida and New York) should have better systems?? I'm assuming that there is a lower limit for the system quality/population size trade off, where it stops being beneficial.

There are also some parts of the US government that have pretty good systems as far as I'm aware, in the military and security.

"The amount of money flowing into your politicians pockets are less." This is absolutely true, the amount of corruption in US politics is astounding.

I disagree that just being bigger leads to worse technology and systems. There are numerous, different reasons they are bad, and this is not directly linked to the size.
The "they'd never develop great features" argument is an interesting one, as I think most social networks can contribute most of their success to the network effect itself. Once that positive feedback loop gets churning, it's hard to turn it around.

Twitter's a neat counterexample here, I think. On the front-end, at least, the features released by Twitter in the last few years haven't left me awestruck. Yet it has become a seemingly self-sustaining space on the internet for public discourse.
Given that the Republican party has allowed people who openly support ethnic cleansing and racial division to be part of the party. I'm pretty comfortable with being part of the opposition to that agenda.
nhanq is a one day old account posting fake news. Let's hope that the trolls don't take hold here on HN too.

There are many valid criticisms of these kind of surveys, but crime, which is the hook that the anti-migrant posters like to use, is one of the criteria - so the idea that "It's getting bad there" is the one that needs rapid rebuttal.
> I've berated more than one manager over calling a human being a "resource" in a meeting

As long as your organization has an HR department (with that name), that battle has been lost on the organizational level and haranguing individual managers isn't going to accomplish much.
I have at least 4 FPGAs that will never be made into asics sitting in my office right now and they're not even for highly technical stuff. They're retro video game things (2 everdrives, a video upscaling device called the OSSC, and an HDMI adapter that plugs into the digital out port of the gamecube originally made for component output).

I bought all these things off the shelf. There are definitely some markets that are well served by FPGAs but are still too small for actual fabrication processes.