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People are anything but slow and fragile, at least in 1 sense of the word, in comparison with computers of today. Modern computer models which are typically viewed as the edge of computational intelligence are very susceptible to getting tricked into incomplete models by their input data. Human beings process unfathomable number of stimuli everyday and get placed in unknown situations on a daily basis and very few break down, where as almost all current computer models break down very quickly when viewing previously unseen patterns.
I've been waiting for a show to embrace the crowd sourcing of writing. I imagine a reddit thread with hundreds of ideas/plot lines/debate drawn out for an official writer to "pull" into the show.

What are your thoughts on that?
Honestly this presentation didn't work for me. I was amazed at the spectacle and a few things like perfect math world vs pixels and multi-sampler helped explain a few things but over all it was all over the place and didn't seem to get to many points or insights. It seems more like someone was asked to do a presentation, didn't have a solid idea of what to talk about, and so threw together a bunch of stuff until it filed their allotted time.

I'm not trying to be discouraging. A great presentation can go a long way to making things understandable. For example this video explaining jpeg worked for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2aEzeMDHMA

My point is only that fancy graphics and animation are not enough. The presentation actually has to get it's points across. Maybe this one worked for everyone but me but it didn't really work for me. I don't really know what to suggest to make it better. Maybe it all made more sense live with more talking.

There were a few "bugs" For example slide 22, bi-linear filtering, pixels can't be 2 colors so that slide made no sense.

On the positive side I would love to know what software to use to make presentations easy. Yea, I get the author made his own but in general, making animation is hard work. Worse, once I've made them, even if they didn't end up being good for explaining I put so much work into making them that I can't justify starting over for something that works better. So, anything that would make that process not be so much work would be amazingly helpful.
Clearly, such tricks may already be used by some expert
detectives – but given the folklore surrounding body language, it’s worth emphasising just how powerful persuasion can be compared to the dubious science of body language.

It strikes me to the degree that the folklore is mixed with the (so called dubious) science.
I was always interested in the topic, and had indeed read a book when I was teenager, with ideas such as the iconic example of Clinton touching his nose.

About 5 years ago I went to the topic again; learned that one of the biggest authority in the topic was Paul Ekman and read a couple of his books

Surprise surprise, the main takeaways were ideas such as:

(...) not to jump to early conclusions: just because someone looks nervous, or struggles to remember a crucial detail, does not mean they are guilty. Instead, you should be looking for more general inconsistencies.

Or

There is no fool-proof form of lie detection, but using a little tact, intelligence, and persuasion, you can hope that eventually, the truth will out.

Ekman repeated all over the place that there is no body language for lies, only for emotions, and that the emotions can have a variety of causes.
And that was already clear the last century!
If some security entity has bought something that promised to spot lies, it was probably folklore-based and no science-based.
Incidentally, this is how I interview people. Random BS for 5-10 minutes followed by interview questions. It also works for one on ones with staff to tell a recent funny anecdote about some subject they're interested in to get them to breathe and open up a little.
Apparently the brain-washing works well.
I don't think Swizec was trying to say that cardio is better than lifting, but rather that a high volume of exercise is needed to burn a lot of energy. A lot of people go to the gym, but mostly do it for the social meaning of "going to the gym" rather than actually using that time efficiently on a good workout.
Topsy has a simple "from" flag to restrict search results to a certain user. It only works sometimes when used directly in the Twitter search box.
I avoid grids, actually hate them. But if they were part of the spec then I might take a look when the browser support ramps up.

The problem I have with grids is they don't play nice with fluid resizing. I aim for liquid smooth responses from desktop down to tablet, then just one breakpoint for anything smaller than a tablet. Works for me. Any more break points is a ticket to pain.

What I wish was easily possible with CSS alone, is a method for specific position of an object within a list item, or properties of the list item itself depending on where and how many list items are currently present. That way, if we have 3 list items each containing a thumbnail, the list item could be set to 33% width. If two list items, 50% and so on. Things like a list of thumbs could remain nice and neatly aligned at any point in the responsive page resize. I'm not interested in hacking this with pre-processors, we need CSS to have these tricks up its sleeve. But instead, we get grids?
My use case is different, It is more about packet capturing on the endpoint than packet filtering. In my use case the filtering refers to filtering uninterested data.

Also, this is oriented to internal network endpoints not visible from Internet, so I don't expect to receive massive network-intensive attacks.
I just bought a home, and just started a considerable renovation. I'm putting in new water pipes, new electrical wiring, etc. I thought of putting "smart" devices (i.e. switches, alarms, thermostats, etc.) given the "advantages" these promise.

After considerable research, it's not worth the hussle or money. Let's put aside the fact that these are considerable more expensive, and won't breakeven in years (some devices smart devices simply don't breakeven).

The main reason I decided not to have any of these installed was due to how cumbersome they are to operate. Each appliance/brand has their own app/portal, which does not connect to other brands, making it impossible to have an overview of your "smart home". Even more scary, some of these devices are operated by startups, god knows, if they will be alive next year. Good luck getting that app to work with iOS 10! It's a true headache, it's even a headache for contractors, who have no clue how these work. It's going to take some time (and education) to have an OS that makes a smart home smart...

and don't get me started on the smart baby monitors, etc... if my siblings an I were brought up just fine in the 80's without being in a "smart onesie", I'm sure we can do just as fine today.
What would you have them say? It's the obvious answer: if we start rigging elections and get found out, we lose our customer's trust and hence their business. We have a good thing going here and value that too much to screw it up by "being evil".
https://blog.habets.se/2014/06/Another-way-to-protect-your-S...

Seems like the same thing. Even written in go, too.
It's not perplexing. People don't want it. They thought Glass was ... nerdy and creepy.
> I can understand never owning a car, but never learning to drive feels a bit like never learning to swim.

The difference being you don't need a license to swim. I can drive a car ( and agricultural tractor ) but I'm not licensed to do so on the public highway. It simply isn't worth the cost to me.

In my part of the UK one must take lessons with 'approved' i.e expensive state-vetted instructors as well as computer-based testing. Then hire of a car for the actual practical lesson, plus its cost. All-in here it costs about £3,000 to receive a license in your hand.

And then you can't actually drive on the highway without some form of insurance, starting at around £900 liability-only for new drivers.

Learning to swim cost me around £90.
On the other hand if software is eating the world, I'm sure constituents will want to ensure their system protects their access to jobs over people who are trying to hop into the less worse off system.

So, for example, if Brazil is doing particularly well, I'm sure the citizens will want to fend off workers from places where jobs have eroded more quickly.
Should you hope your child never has to drive a car?
What is the point of owning a car? You ask this as I sit here looking to see if Ford has opened the books on ordering a Focus RS...

There are more uses for cars than A to B devices. Watch this video. I saw it when I was around age 16 and it's stuck with me ever since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZ5J3GLSYI
Is it just me, or it's the "gather" function to mine resources is not working? Really nice apart from that.
For anyone not familiar with the Hype Cycle http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp... we're still in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations". I would have hoped we'd have hit the "Trough of Disillusionment" by now but it seems to be powering along quite nicely.

One of the big problems with IoT is the cost of the connectivity bit of the hardware. You want these things to be low powered but that costs money. You want these things out in the field, but providing constant power is a nightmare.

I've been looking at Automatic Number Plate Recognition networks using Raspberry PI2s, transmitting only the number plate to do transit route analysis. By the time you've added a battery, a GSM module,and a solar charging panel, it's suddenly become a £150 piece of hardware.

IoT is so so interesting, but I think the hype around it is driving money into the domain and people are just ramming the devices anywhere they can.
There is plenty of merchandise that people buy that they don't need and can do without. Many of the products in the article are just technology variations and extensions of the type of products that sold for years in Sharper Image, Brookstone or Skymall. (Or on infomercials) [1] Just something attractively priced, that if marketed correctly, will find a small or maybe even a large market because it's in front of people and an impulse buy (as opposed to buried on a shelf at a Walmart. Focus people and single out the product in other words.

[1] There was a commercial last year that I watched for a striped screw removal tool. The price was attractive and I thought "hmm you never know when you might need this". I then searched Amazon and found and purchased the most highly rated product of that category (wasn't going to order from an infomercial). I knew this product existed prior to that of course (my Dad used them when I was a kid) but until I saw the infomercial I had no motivation to seek this particular tool out. After seeing the infomercial I wanted one so I bought it. It actually did come in handy when having to pull a stripped screw from a washing machine.
The average pay for hotel staff and call center operators is around Rs. 25,000 here, with junior pay starting at Rs. 15,000. That works out to less than $400 either way.
It's a great idea. To be fair, there's plenty of this happening already for most shows (check their subreddits, etc). I think what's a little different here is actually writing it out as a script.

I'm intrigued by the idea of writing a full season of Silicon Valley, but I'd also like the challenge of writing for different kinds of shows. I may write a Rick and Morty script next to see what that's like.
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The article appears to be inaccurate. Why? AFAIK it's possible to make use of netmap on a box with a single nic. I tried this out for myself about 2 years ago on a VMware virtual machine. How does it work? A user land packet filter can "forward" certain packets on to the kernel -- e.g. ssh packets in my case -- while others stick around in shared memory for kernel bypass. This means that I can ssh to the box and the ssh packets flow via the kernel, while the rest of the packets bypass the kernel, but all packets floor over the same nic. Nice :-)
I get it that NI is mostly pushing this for the "creative DJ" market but I wish it was 8+ tracks and they got majors onboard to release stems of older music.

There are a bunch of leaked multitracks on the internet, everything from Metallica to Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson - and they're really interesting to listen to and play with.

The original multitrack tapes are fast becoming degraded and lost so would be fantastic if there was commercial motive to archive/digitise them.
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I feel like this article is going from a well-supported and accepted point—that search engine results can influence our decisions—to then just belabouring the point and making dark allusions to this "powerful" effect and the "possibility" of Google rigging an election.
I don't want to be injured or killed by someone who can't wait until they've stopped their vehicle to use their phone.
And poorly understood! George Martin of Game of Thrones writes that he's against fanfic. Because if he allows it, he can lose his copyright. Then he goes on about Tarzan, and how since people made unauthorized movies on the theme, the author of Tarzan dies poor.

Plus the standard "I made them no one else can touch", which is a valid personal feeling, but little basis for law.
My mistake in misunderstanding your original point. However, my point stands in that travel within the EU, which for most countries is like traveling from one state/province to another, does not quite represent the increasing cumbersomeness of international travel to some countries.
I remember when we bought our new house and the neighbour had an electric cat flap installed into the wall cavity (battery was still accessible). Then it broke. They had to cut it out and replaced it with a standard flap mounted externally.
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Regarding the statistic on urbanization, and given that I'm unable to speak to the impact of yet-to-materialize but inevitably arriving self-driving cars, many cities simply require a vehicle. Period. And rural areas require the same, for a completely different reason. Besides, I would consider a self-driving car a vehicle. As opposed to say public transit, bikes, segways, walking, or telepresence/phones.

I think you might have missed the point I was driving at. I'm not a gear head or car lover. I've never considered a car as something that impacted my status. And my cars have all been "commodity type" cars, that is, until I made memories with them, which would not have been possible without them.

There are already services which rent cars with unlimited miles and unlimited routes. Budget Rent-A-Car. But again, that is a vehicle. I've also bussed across the country and taken the train up the coast of Australia. Not the same thing. A road trip is not a road trip, blanket statement, if it does not allow for deviations in route and schedule, for any reason, or no reason whatsoever.

Before the arrival of Tesla, I would have said personal vehicles (self driving or not) were on their way out. But with advances in renewable energy, recyclable/ sustainable materials, and software which allows vehicles to either go their own way on dirt roads or coordinate enormous numbers of distinct vehicles in one super-efficient flow on shared, optimized infrastructure, it's my humble opinion that the personal vehicle has gained a second lease on life. Again, to me it simply boils down to the fact that there are too many pockets of awesome in this world. You can't build public infrastructure which makes them all accessible. That wouldn't make sense economically or ecologically. Philosophically it doesn't even make sense in many scenarios. It might be a pocket of awesome for the very reason that there are no convenient roads to it. And, no matter how many people we can squeeze into concrete jungles, there will always be a human desire to venture out, onto the road. As long as humans maintain their human nature, there will, in short, always be a human need for the personal vehicle to fulfill. And, by the nature of the need being fulfilled, that relationship between person and vehicle will not be mundane. Q.E.D.
> You also have to remember that in 1988 MIPS was a three-year old company battling established vendors.

And 10 years after that MIPS has become an embittered outcast, trying to sue potential partners into the ground [0].

Luckily, after yet another 10 years MIPS has grown up and started acting somewhat sensibly [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexra
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#MIPS_patent_issues
I answer to UnoriginalGuy about my use case.
Given the overhead of context switches, is it possible to take a general purpose application like nginx and use a user-mode TCP stack? For instance if I had a network adapter that is solely dedicated to nginx, and don't need any of the kernel TCP services. Is this even a viable consideration?

I've done high performance nginx, in the million request per second range (there are situations that benefit from these, though unfortunately such discussions always get waylaid by people insisting that performance doesn't matter), but there is enormous system overhead at this rate that I'd like to get around.
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Well there might be sufficient data to bear that out. Plenty of startups are adopting work / life balance friendly policies. It would be interesting to see if they have a better / worse change of success... Perhaps one for Mattermark
I'm not certain if "apologist post" refers to the article or the comment you replied to, but neither mentions BSD. ?
Fascinating. The way you describe navigating the world based on people's expressions is similar to how Joe Navarro described his experience. He immigrated to America when a youth and knew no English at the time, forcing him to rely on reading body language to understand what was going on. He went on to be an FBI interrogator and used the skills he developed in reading body language in evaluating the truthfulness of those he questioned.

Navarro wrote a book called "What Every Body is Saying".[0] In it he identifies a number of universal body language patterns and sets out guides for interpreting what they mean based on context.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d...
So a SQL layer on top of a KV base? Isn't this very similar to what FoundationDB did (and had a lot of trouble with)?

if so, good post by John Hugg of voltdb about it: http://voltdb.com/blog/foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-s...

How does tiDB compare to this?
Minor correction: Sweden isn't in the euro zone.
Some of these products strike me as being created because one of the owners of the startup thought it was cool, not because they went out and actually tried to identify peoples' household problems and figure out ways to solve them.
> Sorry if I sound mean, but this is just a long apologist post about how things are just so hard. Really? Why? Why can't Linux match BSD's performance?

Mostly I just wish you'd read it again: you appear to have missed the part where I said that this is a real problem which needed working on.

The point I was making is that it's not a problem for most Linux users. Linux includes millions of devices attached to sub-100Mb networks but even if you want to look solely at things in modern data centers ask yourself how many of them are running network-limited applications or are providing services to internet users over an uplink which is actually fast enough to stress modern hardware. For all but the most demanding users the Linux vs. BSD decision will be made on other factors.
I would still run cat6 as if I was going to use smart devices. You're already inside the walls.
Oh, I misread your comment, I think. You're talking about the showrunners themselves incorporating ideas from the community, right?

That would be great, although unfortunately Hollywood is so concerned about lawsuits that show staffs aren't even allowed to read scripts for their own shows. For example, the Silicon Valley staff isn't allowed to read this script; if I wanted to apply for a job there, I'd have to write a script for a different show and send that in.
You have to ask? The bad behavior of Facebook, Apple, Google, etc has been a regular topic of discussion for years.

If you truly want specific examples, I suggest you start with Aral Balkan's talk[1] which covers several of the larger problems that needs reigning in.

[1] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...
Says who? They never even let people buy it. I would have bought one just for shits and giggles.
Like many theories coming from psychology, micro-expressions are a story without a proof. It's probably the same projection of the investigator's suspicions that takes place when reading tea leaves.
My 5 biggest uses:

1. Manage my inbox/respond to emails
2. Maps
3. Product/restaurant reviews
4. Read books on the Kindle app
5. Scan HN :)

Of course - everyone is different, so my list is not universal. I agree with you however, that using a phone for input is...less than ideal.
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Flying to UK from where? When flying to the UK from Europe or USA nobody has ever asked me about the address where I would be spending the first night. USA does ask that.
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Indeed. However, I always thought the idea of Bootstrap was to quickly get a prototype up, not become part of the final product.
> Why can't Linux match BSD's performance?

You do sound both mean and factless. Meaningful apple to apple BSD to Linux comparison needed.
The Dallas / Fort Worth area is referred to as a "metroplex." The vast majority of that metroplex has no adequate public transit, if "adequate" is to be described as "walkable without turning into a sweaty puddle during the summer time." But hey, if you want to walk 4 miles to reach a bus terminal to prove a point, be my guest. I'll be driving, and so will virtually everyone else in "generation Y."

People seek status. Vehicle ownership is a status symbol by itself. Owning a more expensive car? Also a status symbol. That they don't know what's going on under the hood doesn't stop them from wanting the most flashy thing they can afford.
Well, sure. You can use netmap and use a "host ring" to inject the packets back to the kernel. While good for toy app, this won't work in real workloads. For example host ring doesn't support multiple RX queues. The article goes into details how to work around it and just leave most of the network flows to be dealt with by the kernel, while opting-in to the kernel bypass for only selected flows.