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It was the right decision, @alyson-cabral. The major market is linux-based, correct? There are better uses of company assets, than trying to chase the less-than-0.06% of holdouts that operate Solaris.

As a person of science, I've used both Sun Solaris and SGI Irix.... time to let go of that past and pivot to the future!

Has anyone watched the live entry of the US mirv's launched from one of our subs to the range of 4k miles? The warheads enter and hit the intended targets within 100m. US ICBMs eliminate guidance error using multiple methods, some of which require no outside signals. They are wicked accurate, without GPS or ground signals. I assume the Russians have the same. Ergo we are all fukered

Does it scare anyone else that groups that aren't illegal are being censored for their (utterly repulsive) principals? Where do we draw the line? Personally, I don't want to enable bad people e.g. _real_ nazis (calling someone a nazi doesn't make them a nazi), racists, homophobes, etc. But that old saying, "live by the sword, die by the sword" begins to echo in my head.

To further that line of thinking, I also know that majority progressives incorrectly ascribe the characteristics of bigotry and homophobia, too broadly to those who differ with progressive ideology. Take for example, the facts of gay marriage. Only a minority of politically conservative folks hold those anti-gay-marriage views. Among young Republicans, 61% are in favor of gay unions / marriage http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/10/61-of-young-... That statistic is actually in keeping with the aggregate national average (all people, regardless of political orientation) of 67% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_mar... However, progressives strongly reject any opinions or facts, no matter how well reasoned and well intentioned, unless those opinions and facts support the progressive ideology and agenda: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/fired-google-engineer-james-...

So, where will people like Zuckerberg (a far-left progressive) like to draw the line, when it comes to political speech. My bet is that they would love to slam the door on non-progressive speech... but they know that the current political machine would respond with litigation or anti-trust litigation. But, what about when the pendulum swings the White House back to a Democrat. Will that door slam, at that time, while the government looks the other way?

Remember, this is a two-way street. Perhaps, one day soon, someone won't want to hear your liberal perspectives, because they violate people's right to free practice of religion... then what?!

In summary, be careful what you ask for, what you cheer for, what you won't tolerate, because the guillotine doesn't distinguish between good people or bad people. It simply does it's job.... and one day, they may come calling for YOUR mechanisms of "free speech."

Yeah, since he's did such a great job with GE's stock...

IMHO HN is getting saturated with these articles. It's all good, I know that's it's a popular subject. So, just and observation.

Sincerely hope that people are paying attention. The SEC is as omnipotent as the IRS, in so much as they can make your life a living hell... in very short order. Recommend that people register their securities or currencies with them... besides, registration gives your product the scent of legitimacy, right?

Good point DamVigilante. We trained the model using hundreds of human-scored essays. They were all double or triple scored, to validate IRR. I think that's why the model is performing so well. But, there is always room for improvement! :-)

I hear you WoodenChair. For this particular task, the stakes are very low (really, zero). The model agrees with our human graders, quite well. In fact, statistically speaking, the machine scoring is actually tightly correlated to the highest inter-rater reliability that we could achieve, among our human graders. You would be surprised.

Go, Andrew, go!!!

Brilliant article. Whatever versioning schema that you use, you should at least start with _something_ at the outset of an application IMO

I'm pretty excited about this... at work, we are using machine learning to train models that allow us to automate the process of grading student essays. The product is called LightSide. I hope to apply my learning from the class to improving our models and our scoring accuracy. Woowhoo, thanks Dr. Ng!

I wish I could mod-down Backpropaganda.... Your blather provides the perfect example of what the author is trying to elucidate upon.

It would be healthy for HN moderators to ingest this article. Even well mannered and well intended messages that do not necessarily agree with progressive dogma, are consistently down-modded. That's a shame.

Coursera

I disagree, due to the not-so-coincidental timing of the introduction of hybrids and all-electrics, to coincide with augmentation of the CAFE standard, implementation of incentives for production and consumer purchase of said vehicles, etc etc. Where it not for the push and pull of incentives and regulatory pressure, they simply would not be on the road, today.

The federal government does not directly subsidize fossil fuel production, distribution or consumption. The government allows for losses, due to failed exploration. Not every well that you drill, brings in oil; or brings in sufficient oil to make that endeavor profitable. Any cost-offsets are in place to help ease the pain of failed wells.

And I get modded down, why? Because these comments do not reflect a purely progressive viewpoint? You should reconsider whom are allowed to moderate these forums.

Personally, this could be a real problem, if Ad services decide to pry open the doors on our ability to deny them our screen real estate. I block Ads, primarily due to the fact that I don't want my web surfing history and behaviors captured by some uncontrollable mob a ad-servers. Further, most advertisements are akin to the dreaded <flash> tag of old! animated, ugly, and obtrusive.

We are coming to a point in the Internets genesis, where technology should evolve to allow the "information consumer" to directly reward the "information producer"... without the need of an intermediary like Google Adwords, etc. etc.

The Economist article fails to mention that electrical vehicles are massively subsidized by governments. The production and adoption of electrical vehicles would not exist, but for these http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/10/tesla-is-hemorrhaging-mone... subsidies. As an honest observer, the natural market forces that would influence a rational decision to adopt electrical vehicles, do not exist. The true cost of electrical vehicles for transportation far exceeds that of the internal combustion, for motive power.

I will stipulate to the fact that electrical vehicles are more efficient. But efficiency doesn't equate to "less expensive."

I was only making an honest observation. It's amazing that, whenever one makes an observation that could be construed as detracting, your observation gets moderated downward. That's sad.

Anyway, audited the first class and think it's a wonderful product. However, my observation about this "seeming like product marketing" stands. Mod me down again, I suppose.

Feels like marketing, not really a news story. Anyone else feel the same?

Brilliant. Time to patch it back to CPU loads.

Agreed with Aphextron. This is old, stale news. Until someone gets one of these "promising technologies" into production, I'm not going to read about "new batteries." Information, like this, has been circulating for a decade. I've still yet to see any of the nanotech in a battery.... yawn.

Very impressive! It's amazing what people are doing with OTS technology.

Does that give you a row-level lock that extends through the chain of referential integrity, for the Order?

>We've tried for 70+ years and have as yet not succeeded to use nuclear as a financially feasible energy source.

All forms of energy are highly subsidized. Wind, solar, nuclear, and fossil. The actual market forces, true costs and externalities are completely opaque, for all of the above.

Generally, from these conversations, I see anti-nuclear folks cheering for nuclear to go away and pro-nuclear folks voicing the opposite. Nothing new to see, here.

For one, I would like to see better control over project planning, estimating, and execution. I would also like to bring on-line newer technology that includes passive cooling etc. I do believe that those technologies will allow for higher margins of safety, which will eventually reduce the cost of operation.

As a project management professional, I have to wonder why these project so-often fail to meet their objectives of cost, scope, and schedule? It makes you think that there have been so few of these projects, in the past 40 years, that any "lessons learned" from former projects are unavailable. Plus, the duration of such projects probably causes loss of knowledge via retirement of the smart people.

If you want to make these projects work, I would recommend spending much more time on planning and give project control to the project managers. My guess is, that since this was a "state owned project", they took a typical "state run" mindset, which always displaces the liability of incompetence and failure onto the endless bank account of the taxpayer.