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>the notion that we need to preserve linguistic diversity by making sure obsure-language communities stay where they are, instead of learning languages that allow them to participate in the world economy.

In the Linguistics community, this is not an either-or proposition. The focus is on preservation of minority languages in the face of the economic necessity to adapt to the majority language. The economic necessity will always win out. There's no need to defend it.

Additionally, the ethical concerns with Linguistic preservation are numerous and well-acknowledged. There are many indigenous languages that may never be preserved simply because the people who speak them specifically refuse to participate in it and the professionals in that field respect that (they don't have much choice, of course).

I've seen this anti-preservation sentiment before and it's quite puzzling; it seems to assume a demand by the preservationists for monolinguistic isolation that doesn't exist. That is, most of the world's people speak 2 or 3 languages anyway, so the call for everyone to "learn English and forget the rest" or something similar is not even necessary.
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Beyond being slow at communicating his idea, he is also largely limited to his working memory. I can't imagine doing any sort of serious intellectual work without the assistance of paper (or similar technology) to augment my working memory.
I don't know if there's something new in there, but
Leonard Susskind wrote a book in 2008 exactly on that matter - "The Black Hole War" [0]. He describes his "battle" with Hawking on whether the information is lost in the black hole, and Susskind is the one who's against information disappearing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Hole_War
Hmm yes you as long as the tethering shows as a network interface (which all of them do) you can manage the metered settings individually, and every device will have it's own virtual network interface even if you sync 2 different phones via bluetooth.

The only time you "can't" do it is if you are using a Wifi Hotspot method in which case you'll have to set the Wireless connection to a metered one so it will keep track of the cap no matter to which HotSpot you connect too.

That said Windows doesn't block applications from accessing metered connections it moderates it self(Windows Update, Windows Mail etc...), has a separate setting for what ever MSFT calls "Metro" apps these days (so "Store" apps can be toggled individually with metered access policies), and for windows services so if Spotify decides to download a playlist you might get a surprise bill in the mail.
Oh, your first plan was to actually build a board to frob the buttons on the 808? If so, it was a good idea not to do that. I've used 808s in R/C and they're very finicky, they will just error out for no reason sometimes. The Mobius is more robust but throws off a lot of heat.

So did you end up using the 808/Mobius manufacturer in the process at all, or completely do everything from scratch? Is at least the lens module + camera controller chip a self-contained module? Would be interested to hear which vendors you used.
You have not given us one shred of evidence to back up your claims. Just because you include the words "Snowden","NSA backdoor", and "Dual EC" in a paragraph doesn't make any of your conclusions magically true. You have no papers,public comments, or code contributions to prove your point. Just a lot of assumptions.
For each language I used several random sources on the web, sort-of crosschecked for multiple spellings, etc.

This Hindi site was definitely my favorite:

http://www.hindilearner.com/hindi_bad_words.html

After all the insane insults that I'm too shy to repeat, there's an awesome deadpan note at the end: "Learn to avoid these Hindi Bad Words in your Hindi conversation." Thanks for teaching them first?!
Well put. That's exactly my feeling. Even on a phone, a voice based helper should be opt-in as it's not an essential feature and not everyone wants to use it, but everyone wants to not be recorded by default.
I wonder what software they're using; they mention that the system is event-driven, but I can't see any sign of what they're using to implement this, whether custom or COTS software...
I realize we're wandering way off on a tangent here, but. . .

I don't know that folks are in favor of stasis, per se. I get the impression it's more a by-product of the collective guilt a lot of Americans feel about the knowledge that the country was built by displacing and destroying a great many cultures. Loss of languages in particular is associated with the Carlisle school.

So folks are used to thinking of this stuff in terms of imperialism and ethnic cleansing. That maybe leaves them less likely to recognize that the issue has other facets as well.
Inexpensive unlimited data is getting scarce, but I think that's reasonable. LTE capacity is by nature more limited & expensive than wired capacity.

For many activity categories- email, light browsing, etc- a few GB per month is more than sufficient.

If you want to torrent terabytes per month or run multiple Netflix streams all day long, you are a three or even six sigma user, and carriers realize that subsidizing your unusual usage with other subscriber's fees increases costs for the average user, making the carrier less cost-competitive. So you are either going to get pushed to hard lines, or you are going to have to pay for those terabytes of data.

My phone (Verizon prepaid) freely allows me to tether, although this relaxation is a recent development so there are probably many older phones that simply have not been updated to allow tethering. My 1GB is definitely a snug limit but not unworkable.
This is great stuff. Thank you! I'm actually about to release an Ear Training app for iOS and I would love it if you'd take a look and tell me what you thought. if you would e-mail me at info@mockingbirdlessons.com I'll tell you more
You're exactly right. Growing up with the words removes them from being recognizable as dirty. Note also, Dick is a name (or nickname for Richard). Language is weird sometimes...
> Moreover, most people have it exactly backwards... to the extent passing epigenetics to your children makes sense at all from an evolutionary perspective, it is passing adaptations, not weaknesses.

While I don't think epigenetic math anxiety is particularly plausible (for, basically, the "math receptor" reason you state earlier), an adaptation in general may turn out to be a weakness in a particular case. If, say, it was possible to epigenetically pass on stress triggers (an "adaptation", because having a stronger, quicker fight-or-flight response to a particular environmental condition that is a frequent stress source might generally be an advantage) this might manifest as a weakness in some particular cases. Now, because its hard to believe that there are "math receptors", it seems unlikely that even if this was possible in some general sense, that it would be possible in some way where "math" was the specific sensitized trigger, but if it was...
They are simple enough to run on the hardware itself without needing cloud support.
There's always a legitimate need for lots of calls. For instance political dialer is allowed. Anyways, the answer is to put liability onto the carriers handling this traffic, and let the fine trickle down. I guarantee you that even with a token fine of 5 or 10 grand, all traffic resellers, from large wholesale to retail would suddenly find ways of vetting customers. They'd either hold bonds or require credit.

Sure, scammers would move to hacking pbxes to place calls. But with strong liability, resellers would find ways to limit the damage a single account could do, like you suggest.

Also there isn't any real good way to limit caller ID "spoofing". The level of interconnects makes it as hard or worse than IP spoofing. And it's already an offense to spoof ID for scamming, at $10k a pop. But no one follows up and pushes the issue.
was there any programming interviews? where can you find these type of jobs?
Cool info to see interrelated like this, but the constantly shifting arrangement makes it really hard to make any kind of sense out of it, if there are any higher-level patterns to see.

Having stuff move is fine, but if it must, it should move in relation to input from the user - enlarging objects related to the selected one, or making the relation lines more rigidly spaced, that kind of thing. Different shapes for animals and habitats or objects would be good too.
Would this be used in conjunction with an authorization API to control access to the interface? So you would have an OAuth API to be able to even make a call to the ABI, which then has the built in security features of limiting security-threatening system calls, or would CloudABI have it's own access control as well as capability-security? Or am I muddling the concept?

I've learned a bit about APIs, but this is a new (and quite interesting) concept, particularly as far as security goes, but this looks quite interesting.
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But the capabilities don't scale that way and the interconnect and topology of how that computation is arranged is completely different between brains and existing networks.
What did the sysadmin buy her wife for Valentine's Day? A rootkit.

(Just made that one up... Not genuine Australian. Also, I can't tell jokes.)
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That is nothing that cannot be trivially obviated with a date check before doing bad stuff.
Strike while the iron is hot.
I'm not making a joke. There's no need for cloud computing resources for effective voice recognition or handwriting analysis. Therefore, since those applications can run on the device itself, they are rather simple from a network perspective which is what we're discussing here.
Not that smooth if you saw the comments on HN last week - teams lost months of productivity keeping up with the rewrites in Ember, even with no immediate breaking changes.
They're breaking the TCP contract because they're strengthening the IP contract. When you've got a re-transmit facility sitting below TCP, it's reasonable to make some speculative promises. It's not reasonable to keep ACKing for a full minute or to ACK more than a handful of packets, though. But especially in the case where you've got more knowledge of the last-mile link's loss characteristics than the congestion control algorithm at the server endpoint, you can make some pretty nice bandwidth/latency tradeoffs.
The human brain project did receive $1B from the EU...:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project
A DJIA index bought on September 3, 1929 was underwater until November 23, 1954. That's over 25 years to get back the exact amount you invested. Of course factoring in inflation, that investment had actually shrank.

The attitude that the market had nowhere to go but up, and $1 invested this year was assured to be $1 + $X ten years from now, is the exact attitude that investors in 1929 had (or 1999 for that matter).
that site is the worst, many of the postings are low quality
(replying to myself is probably bad form, but I had another thought to note here)

Most likely, the WiFi provided by carriers like AT&T is meant for offloading. The phones will do EAP-SIM or some other authentication the customer has no idea of. That will get the voice and SMS traffic passing via WiFi and associated backhaul to the Mobile Core, instead of the mobile network.

Assuming that scenario, where WiFi is really a low-cost extension of the mobile network, the carrier has very little incentive to do the "right thing" when it comes to injecting ads and/or content filtering. They are already improving the services their customers pay for. Offsetting that (relatively low cost) with some "bad form" advertising probably won't get a second thought.
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I loved that book. One of the best books on cosmology/space-time/quantum-general relativity. Susskind's thought experiments are mind boggling, and he is a great writer, able to explain complicated physics in a clear and thoughtful manner.
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Performance enhancing proxies have existed (and have been deployed) for a long time. You will for example not find many, if any, satellite data providers without a PEP somewhere in the mix. Nor will you find many mobile operators who don't have a transparent HTTP proxy, even if not a generic TCP one.

The implications of PEPs are discussed at length in RFC3135, and not really discouraged unless they interfere with the end to end principle on the application layer.

For your specific example, using the ACK stream as a liveness signal isn't in general very useful. For example the kernel on the phone will happily continue ACKing for a long time even if the application that's consuming the data becomes wedged somehow and can't process it.
> If you don't use voice or ink, why are you worried about sharing your voice and ink data with Microsoft?

This sounds uncomfortably like "if you don't have anything to hide …".
Doesn't the Nasuni Filer do something very similar to this?

And why hasn't TechCrunch asked these questions?
>>Beside that, I really don't get the point of all this, seriously. Not from a technological benefit, be warned, but from a user perspective the benefit is almost intangible. Why should the average sysadmin care? Linux is a rock solid kernel that does everything, what is the niche that Hurd is filling?

Well, that's debatable.
Linux just crossed the 20 MLOCs bar. Granted, this is mostly driver code which you will only need a small subset of, but still:
Linux is a huge complex blob.
Linus himself said it's bloated years ago[1] and that
it has a high entry barrier for new developers due to its complexity[can't find the link right now].

My guess would be that this is partly due to its classic monolithic architecture and partly due to their developement model[2].

After working with Plan9 for a while I can't help but
take my hat off to the beauty and simplicity of the system.
Especially as a sysadmin your life would be so much easier.
No LDAP, no Kerberos, no NFS, no need to update or deploy software on/to terminals.
But as it stands we're living in a land where every computer thinks it is a Mainframe.

Linux has done a great deal for OSS and will without question be around for quite some time but you have to wonder how computing would look like today, if history had taken a few diffenent turns.

FWIW: Is it just me, or is OS R&D gaining a little more traction lately after it almost stagnated in the 2000s ?

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/linus-torvalds-linux-is-bloated/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Kernel_code...
Android 6 has the ability to mark WiFi networks as "metered". I'm not sure how much background traffic that disables though.
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>It safeguards against garden-variety incompetence[1]. It provides some defense against the large number of badly-intentioned people who can write an Objective-C app

The exploits tend to be trivial, often trivial enough to fit into a single tweet. (https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/623727538234368000) They require no competence to use.

As for protecting against incompetence and mistakes, that is far too an extreme of a measure solely to protect against that. Some decent QA will fix that.

So what is the point, really, of sandboxing if it does not thwart highly technical attackers? It severely limits the functioning of apps, makes it far more difficult for app developers (myself included), and for what benefit that could be worth the trade off?

https://www.google.com/search?q=developers+leaving+%22mac+ap...
I think it's wrong to call it poorly written because the programmer only accounted their C preprocessor code for ~99.99% of desktop and mobile operating systems. The diminishing return for avoiding this approach is so impalpable it hurts.
Windows, OSX/iOS/BSD, and Linux/Android literally are everything anyone ever uses, within rounding error.
I imagine that would be an effective way to vastly improve his working memory, like strength-training for his brain. Maybe Aristotle or whoever it was that complained about books ruining youth's brains would find Stephen Hawking's memory up to snuff.
They would likely care if they see how bad the user experience can be.
One of the things I liked most about my month long visit to. Cuba was that he kids, instead of being inside playing computer games, were running through the streets while the adults sat around playing card games etc. it was so much more social.
I hope this doesn't change
> Hmm yes you as long as the tethering shows as a network interface (which all of them do) you can manage the metered settings individually

Everything I've seen on Win 10 metered connections -- including from Microsoft -- indicates that only WiFi (not-metered by default) and cellular (metered by default) connections can be set as metered, and that other network interfaces are always treated as non-metered and cannot be set as metered.
That was quick - when I was there at the end of 2013 internet access was hard to come by and very expensive, and also very transient
Not my area of expertise but I'd imagine it's a function of population and interconnectedness of economies. I do see that some nation economies will be hurt and others helped as everything will probably revert to a mean to some degree.

I saw this data on how fast China's economy had grown recently and thought it relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China

What evidence is contrary?

I do imagine this growth will be asymptotic though on a longer timespan as we need to slow down population growth due to the environmental impact. But who knows? At some point maybe we will be mining asteroids and finding wealth (and places to spend it) outside of Earth.
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Well, porn sites figured out it was bad for business. The demographic targeted for these spam messages easily falls for the same tricks, but aren't getting any services in exchange; only a faceless company.

Credit card farmers don't really care about repeat business, same goes for the brain pill trial guys that people for some reason give their CC info willingly. If someone catches on, you just bring up another llc, rinse, and repeat.
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Who... apparently didn't speak Spanish.
Pff, 250 and 700 million dollars. That seems ridiculously large for a petty spamming crime.

At least he filed bankruptcy.
> Microsoft's handwriting and voice recognition to improve if we refuse to share back any anonymized information with Microsoft?

Handwriting and voice recognition software have both been available for decades, and have improved considerably over most of that time without most end-users being required to share data back with the software makers (in many cases, without most users even having a mechanism available to do so.)
(Mill team)
The streams are not streams of instruction; they are streams of half-instructions. The Mill is a wide-issue machine, like a VLIW or EPIC; each instruction can contain many operations, which all issue together. Each instruction is split roughly in half, with some of the ops in one half and some in the other. On the Mill, the split is based on the kind of operation and the info that ikt needs to encode: all memory and control flow ops on one side, all arithmetic on the other, although other divisions are possible.

Each half is grouped with the same half of other instructions to make a stream, and the two streams decode together, step by step, so each cycle one instruction, comprising both halves, decodes and issues.

The result is to double the available top level instruction cache, and cut in half the work that has to be handled by each of the two decoders.
Does this violate the "exceeds authorized access" provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? AT&T is not acting as a regulated carrier in this instance, and does not have the immunities of a carrier. Also, their terms of service[1] do not permit them to modify the web pages of others. They can block URLs, ask for a payment, or show an ad at connection time as an alternative to a payment. But they did not disclose that they would modify existing pages.

The requirement for arbitration in the AT&T terms does not apply, because the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a criminal law. [2]

[1] http://www.att.com/legal/terms.wiFiServices.html
[2] http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/criminal/a...
This is a very inaccurate comparison for many reasons, but to get the sense of complexity of the human brain:

In the human brain, there are almost 100 billion neurons (the project plans to simulate 1000 neurons on one core, hence 1% atm). Each has about 7000 connections, or alternatively there are estimated 10^15 connections or more.

The internet has only about 15-20 billion nodes, only few highly connected, the Internet is more of a tree than a complete mesh.

So in some way, you could say we are nowhere close to obtaining the computing power of the brain, if we, of course, disregard the fact that the nodes, computers, are very powerful on their own. But this is where the comparison breaks. The human brain is powerful due to the complexity of its network, not the sheer amount of "working units" (cores/transistors).

Comment on the project: it is exciting, but it must not be understated that it is still a very gross approximation, since the neuron models used are simple. It might be the case that interesting behavior will arise using this simple model, but it also might be the case that the secret sauce is in the fine behavior of each neuron. The hope is that interesting phenomena can be observed with this simpler model, perhaps a bit like classical physics can often be used without requiring the full model of quantum mechanics.
The UK is no longer an absolute monarchy, and has not been for many centuries, but the UK is a real constitutional monarchy. Australia, Canada and New Zealand are real constitutional monarchies too, in personal union with the UK.
Yes, you have right! :-)
I always put the monitor over the height of my eyes. To do that, I put an object under the monitore and I set the chair at the minimum height. So the chair is lower and in proportion the desk seems to be higher, and also the keyboard. This generates shoulder problems, too...
That is novel to me. Thanks for sharing.

Are they really doing flow inspection & identifying protocols? Or is it just that they're watching for standard ports?
Problem is, in the developed countries the more profitable drugs are cosmetics, antidepressants and Viagra.

That means research into important drugs like antibiotics, HIV and malaria medicine is underfunded.
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They have an unofficial API[1] that could be used.

[1] http://api.urbandictionary.com/v0/define?term=culo
It's not just Silicon Valley it'd be terrible for, it'd be terrible for our entire country.

This isn't a serious policy proposal by the GOP, it's just an attempt to generate interest in their campaigns.
I don't understand why you would pick a diet that is known to raise LDL levels when Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn are using a plant-based diet to treat those with cardiovascular disease with great success.

The keto diet is actually known for improving lipid profiles, especially in terms of increasing HDL, lowering LDL particle size, and lowering triglycerides. Some people do see their total cholesterol go up a bit, but the thinking is that HDL/LDL ratio and LDL particle size matter more than total cholesterol count.

But, for me personally, I haven't made a final decision yet. I've read a little on the Ornish diet and am somewhat intrigued by that as well.

At the very least, I think we can all agree that high amounts of processed sugar is bad. :-)
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