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I wish people would wake up and realize this. My hope is that all the hype around self driving cars will result in some momentum around more limited applications.

But it might be another of those the perfect is the enemy of the good type situations.

Well, he uses the word patents in a context which suggests he doesn’t care much about patents...

The examples cited in the article are mostly websites. And I think (given the title of the article) he would describe himself as a tech investor.

In any case, what investors say isn’t as important as what they do. In my experience they often say they are interested in Biotech, Science based startups, or hardware. The reality is they rarely invest, and when they do, they invest in very conversative plays (aside from the occasional misguided Theranos type play).

The reality is in general tech to then means “some kind of website where I understand the engagement metrics” most of the time.

Tech, as used by investors no longer really means technology. It means a website essentially.

It would rarely (in my experience) even encompass hardware. Certainly nothing requiring novel basic technology (science based startups).

I don’t know why terminology is used like this. Essentially it’s like saying mail order catalogs are technology companies because they take advantage of advances in printing, telecommunications etc.

I guess it’s because the process of building websites is still messy, and somewhat easy to get wrong.

If that’s the case then those women are part of the problem.

Some people act like the social dynamic where men are sexually agressive is solely the responsibility of men.

Most surveys I’ve seen suggest that the majority of women expect men to make the first move (always). This leads to an environment where men are to a degree trained to be sexually agressive.

This doesn’t excuse male behavior. But the road to a more balanced society likely requires changes on both sides.

It’s pretty clear that open access is the way things should be. Particularly as now publication and reproduction costs are essentially zero.

It’s interesting to note how we got here, and how we remain here. Academics mostly universally complain about the current state of affairs, with reason.

However, we’re here because academics gave up control. Because the journal system, which was originally run by academic volunteers was seen as a hassle and has given over to businesses to run. Slowly, the businesses became to extract more and more profit...

The solution is probably to return to a less profit driven publishing model. But current publishers and academics pretty well locked in.

To be honest it sounds like they’re describing the plot of the next mission impossible film rather than anything that exists in our reality.

The article doesn’t make that statement. The article doesn’t provide data to support any statements (it’s a pop science piece).

The original blog:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...

Is better suggests deep learning resulted in maybe 10% improvement. Isn’t as good as human in all cases.

Well, I’m interested in understanding how valuable deep learning is and if lives up to the hype.

Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to the hype.

Particularly as the article cited doesn’t seem to back up its statements very well.

So... anything else?

Looks like great incremental progess. Have you seen the state of Japanese<->English translation? It’s almost completely useless.

I really don’t see this as a huge win for deep learning, anything else?

AlphaGo is interesting. But what big new problems have been solved? (rather than incrementally improved).

I find it somewhat understandable from non-tech people. I’m more surprised at now much people within the tech world but the hype.

Any bets on when the current deep learning bubble is going to burst?

It’s shocking to me how much technical people buy into this, how “this time it’s different” and AI isn’t “over-promising and substantially under-delivering” this time. Really odd to watch it come round again, when the reality is we’re more likely to see some near incremental progresses, partly fueled by more compute and algorithmic advances. Partly by a lot of PR.

I think it’s much easier if you use someone like leapin to manage the company formation process.

I’ve not had any of the issues you’ve mentioned (maybe about 3 spam emails).

It takes time, I think from initial application to having the company set up, it was about 2 months. One month waiting for authorization, another month for the card to arrive.

Setting up the company is then easy. To set up a full bank account you need to go to Estonia. You can setup a transferwise account which gives you a banking facility however.

There are other countries where you can setup companies quicker, or with better tax implications. But I don’t think there’s a good option in the EU.

If I were you, I’d get the e-residency card now and have it available if you want to quickly start a company later.

Yea, that’s not going to work with all children. Mine would just get more agitated from this. For me calm down time comes later and starts with “hug?” and they come to you for resolution.

That sounds really tough. Yep, children like all people are all a bit different. I wish you luck and hope you find what works for you.

You’re getting upvotes most likely because most of the people on HN are either childless (and don’t fully understand what parenting involves) or don’t take an active role in parenting (this is unfortunately true of the people I know in real life who are on HN).

You sound very judgmental.

Bring up kids is hard, what those “mothers” are doing is hard, physically exhausting work which often takes 18 hours a day. You know nothing of their personal circumstances but decide to judge them anyway. For me, it’s amazing that many full time care givers can hold it together as well as they do.

Kids are not entertained by cartoons because they are forced upon them. Kids are often attracted to, and entertained by cartoons and other stories.

Why exactly I don’t know, but they also make up their own imaginary characters sometimes.

In any case, they don’t simply have this stuff forced upon them (in general).

I agree. What’s been interesting is getting to know other families with kids. It’s obviously not always the case, but the fathers often have these elaborate theories. They also look really good in public. I know their wives too. The reality is that they do almost no childcare at home, and their wives have to do almost everything.

It sucks, but the reality (to me) is that you deal with the situations as they appear. Hardest part is managing your own exhaustion after little sleep, look after kids for hours a day for years, and trying to hold down a job at the same time.

I agree, but parenting is a hard job which society often doesn’t seem to value very highly.

In this community I’ve literary heard someone say “Machine learning is very important for the future of humanity, so I can’t spend time looking after my child”.

For me it’s all about investing time, and the long game. Looking after, being patent and educating a child for a couple of hours isn’t too hard. Doing that for 10s of hours every day, particularly with young children, is much harder.

It’s even harder when that work is systematically devalued.

Interesting, I didn’t realize cold welding was a problem in space. I assume it can be solved by applying a coating to surfaces that might come in contact with each other.

Article just says they used cookies for tracking. Does anyone have a better article, indicating why this work a workaround, and they it affected iPhones in particular?

I assume you can spin up new instances easily, and they’ll have per-hour billing. You don’t usually get that with dedicated servers.

It sounds a bit like MAAS [1], which allows you to throw images onto, and manage real servers easily, very much like you might spin up VMs on AWS.

[1] https://maas.io

The Kansai one was really good, felt more tech focused and had great talks when I went.

The Tokyo meetup was more of a mixer last time I attended. Personally didn’t enjoy it as much.

In order to support the second point, more data would be required. Essentially all you’ve provided is anecdotal evidence, which isn’t very convincing.

How would you support the claim that people in the “HN demographic” voted in significant numbers for leave?

That’s a really interesting link, thanks. The number 2 reason was immigration. I can see that it might be possible that immigration is a subset of “decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”. I.e. the immigration policy shouldn’t be set by the EU.

It also suggests that leave voter see multiculturalism, feminism, the Green movement, globalisation and immigration as negatives (80%). Overall I see this as supporting the notion that the leave vote was anti-immigration, perhaps as part of a wider distrust of outside influences.

Your claim here seems to be that there are >1 people who voted for Brexit for reasons other than immigration.

That is reasonably obvious, and not useful basis for a discussion on Brexit.

If you want to gain a better understanding of why people in general voted for Brexit, data would be valuable. Everything else is anicdotal, and not very useful.

Oh ok, so just anti-immigration? Not anti-immigration and working class?

Your anecdotal evidence is not very useful in a reasonable discussion, and it might be more interesting to have a data based discussion (if you have some data).

I think surveys have shown the leave vote was mostly about immigration:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest...

But perhaps you have other data that supports your case?