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Faust

I've studied now Philosophy

And Jurisprudence, Medicine,—

And even, alas! Theology,—

From end to end, with labor keen;

And here, poor fool! with all my lore

I stand, no wiser than before:

I'm Magister—yea, Doctor—hight,

And straight or cross-wise, wrong or right,

These ten years long, with many woes,

I've led my scholars by the nose,—

And see, that nothing can be known!

That knowledge cuts me to the bone.

I'm cleverer, true, than those fops of teachers,

Doctors and Magisters, Scribes and Preachers;

Neither scruples nor doubts come now to smite me,

Nor Hell nor Devil can longer affright me.

_edit, tl;dr from britannica.com:

Faust, also called Faustus, or Doctor Faustus, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. There was a historical Faust, indeed perhaps two, one of whom more than once alluded to the devil as his Schwager, or crony. One or both died about 1540, leaving a tangled legend of sorcery and alchemy, astrology and soothsaying, studies theological and diabolical, necromancy and, indeed, sodomy. Contemporary references indicate that he was widely traveled and fairly well known, but all observers testify to his evil reputation. Contemporary humanist scholars scoffed at his magical feats as petty and fraudulent, but he was taken seriously by the Lutheran clergy, among them Martin Luther and Philippe Melanchthon. Ironically, the relatively obscure Faust came to be preserved in legend as the representative magician of the age that produced such occultists and seers as Paracelsus, Nostradamus, and Agrippa von Nettesheim.

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Goethe’s play, which contains an array of epic, lyric, dramatic, operatic, and balletic elements, ranges through various poetic metres and styles to present an immensely varied cultural commentary that draws upon theology, mythology, philosophy, political economy, science, aesthetics, music, and literature. In the end Goethe saves Faust by bringing about his purification and redemption.

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> Just because the understanding of consciousness is rather much in its infancy doesn't give people blank checks to make shit up.

Exactly. That's why you can't say things like "it's just messing with your perception" because you really don't know what "it's just" doing.

I didn't say anything about consciousness existing outside of the physical world. All I said is that "you don't really know". But, whenever I say something like that people tend to project some other argument onto me, like I'm here to defend everything any LSD user ever said.
The most surprising detail to me was how much water they have to drain out of the metro each day:

"As a result, he said, they “discharge approximately 2-million gallons of water a day.” In other words: about three Olympic sized swimming pools worth."
I think the only thing that's changed nobody offers people candy and a ride anymore. I was taking public transportation all over, including to school, by myself growing up in Chicago, and never ran into a single issue other than the fact that the CTA sucks.
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Not having worked in game dev, it seems to me that some of the industry problems (high pressure launches, high turnover rate among developers, low ability to address or prevent technical debt) are responsible for at least some of the sloppiness. I'd think it really hard to make the right infrastructure decisions (and implementations) when you have a year or two to build a multi-million user infrastructure that has to adapt flexibly to any changing requirements from the game producers/directors/publishers and which will be thrown away a few years after that.
That is exactly what ipfs does, in contrast to e.g. freenet. Mirroring is opt-in.
That's because better alternatives exist that provide access to the whole Internet free of cost. For example, Mozilla is trying out a couple of variants of free Internet in Africa and Bangladesh:

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2015/05/06/zero-rating-and-t...

Another post worth reading on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/3l9y7t/net_neutralit...
Adblockers as the reason for InvalidAccessError
I really wonder if the actual vs imagined crime rate against children has changed since I was a kid in the 60's. I rarely got driven to schools unless I took a bus. Often we walked or rode a bicycle. Perhaps it's related to more media coverage of crimes causing more fear and back in those days we had little understanding so we weren't worried.

I was mugged once walking on Halloween when I was 6-8 or so by a group of teenagers who took my candy and pushed me to the ground. They then continued to walk down the street (toward my house) and I ran home crying, told my dad, he confronted the teens, identified their parents (not sure how) and called them. In the end I got something of the candy back and I don't know what happened to the teens. I don't think I ever liked Halloween much after that experience.
Yeah, but at that point the quantity of magic will start to make me uncomfortable.
To make the situation even weirder, "giving up citizenship" to avoid these complications is difficult and expensive for US expats.

Renunciation of US citizenship was free until July 2010, the same year that FACTA went into effect. At that time US embassies started charging a $450 fee to renounce citizenship. In September 2014, this fee was raised to $2,350.

So an American family of four, living abroad, who wants to renounce their US citizenship needs to come up with $9400 to do so.
I would be very interested in solutions to this. It strikes me that genealogy trees are multi-dimensional, and compressing them to two dimensions makes layout far less optimal.
Thank you for the concise clarification.

I think one other thing we can take from this is that DNA alone is insufficient to establish guilt, we need corroborating evidence. Just because someone's DNA was probably on a knob does not imply that person was the burglar. Maybe they were a repair person, but they could have been a burglar, if they returned afterwards and broke in, for example. Of course lawyers will point that out, but sometimes people think DNA = guilt.

The issue with npr is they like to have the image of being unbiased. If you can suffer through their pledge drives, you hear their listeners fawn and claim them to be the purveyors of truth and unbias and they, the journalists and interns, truly seem to believe they are.

Lets say an underdog commits a crime, something if done by a top dog, they would take it at face value) They did the crime, jail them. If it's an underdog, well, maybe there were deficiencies in society which contributed to their criminal behavior and thus perhaps that should be taken into account when they are tried.
Yep. I work in finance and have seen inference engines used to work out investment goals. It doesn't take much to turn those into tax goals :)

There is a ton of money in writing something that does this.
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I'd imagine it's because full connectivity is too expensive to provide for billions of people?
True.

I suppose in these (and many) cases, it's simply that this feature is turned off; probably regarded as a bug by the user.
Url changed from http://on-demand-gtc.gputechconf.com/gtc-quicklink/7lMw30#st..., which points to this.
Thank you for your response. Good points I will publish the app and will describe it better.

To the point with the target users:

Of course do I know who my target users are but I don't have a clue where i can find the people which are interested in testing a new released (with bugs maybe??) app.
I thought that maybe some sites where exactly these kind of people are exist.
Also, it seems as if the incentive isn't there. Game studios know they can put a broken product on the market and still make money on it.
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That's certainly what I'm hoping happens – I think the ads / pay not to see ads model has a lot of potential since it's a short step from the current model.

That's also a much better answer than the person I replied to, who seemed to think that the problem was that we aren't using peer-to-peer file change.
Ed, great question. It would be absolutely unreasonable (...and not being a lawyer... I would suspect illegal... but I don't really know) for tanks, helicopters, and troops to "roll... through town." I also agree that you touched on the key failing in that training event: poor explanation to the national audience of the scope of the event.

The military has many places to train. There are places to shoot. There are places to blow things up. There are places to maneuver tanks. There are few places which include a civilian population.

That event was a training event for parts of SOF community; a community which is operating in over 100 countries at any given time. Very few of those countries are in active conflict... by that I'm referring to a shooting-war. These types of units must be prepared to perform their tasks in a peaceful environment without undue notice. Units are typically small; think less than 15 people with maybe 2-3 civilian-style vehicles. They operate dispersed over large areas. They don't have tanks. When such units move around, they are usually in non-military vehicles and attire. For this kind of unit many tasks are related to interacting with people, either local security forces (police and military) or local civilians. There is a legitimate need to train on such tasks.

These types of training events focus on the military tasks which need this kind of a training environment (large area, dispersed operations, civilian population). Training for tasks related to shooting and blowing things up happen in areas the military 'owns.'

I highly doubt any of the training plans included detonations, live-fire, or even dry-fire events anywhere outside the normal military training areas. It's more likely that the interactions with the actual civilian population would have been completely un-noticed. An interaction would more likely look like a strangely fit group of guys were putting fuel in their Toyota and then drove away... maybe making a few jokes with you while you both wait at the pump. Almost certainly the same (or less) level of impact as your average Reserve or National Guard unit driving around on a weekend.
This article completely ignores that single player, mostly-offline games have exactly the same launch problems.

The reason games have these launch problems is that publishers got away with it for too long. Having users who already paid for the game do the beta testing is much, much cheaper and more efficient than in-house testing.

I sincerely hope that steam's move to grant refunds (http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds) will sort this out. "Oops, 30% of our pre-alpha-published-as-final purchasers want their money back". Have one or two publishers file for bankruptcy over that and it might be a very valuable, albeit painful, lesson for the industry.
And having worked in gamedev, I can say you're correct. There's two kinds of studios that are affected by launch issues: The crazy big ones, who run into even crazier numbers that would make twitter/facebook engineers' heads spin... and the awful ones, that have the kind of issues you're describing and have launch issues because of management and/or technical incompetence. Though it's not mutually exclusive.
It may not pass because neither tobacco nor diary farmers got carve outs.
You can have a line and good throughput at the same time. It's easy to develop a line. What you don't want is to have two espresso machines with three group heads each and two baristas just standing around because the counter is too slow.
It doesn't ignore it, it's just a completely different issue. General awfulness of a game on a tight budget and deadline has little to do with backend scalability issues on large budget games...
I’m now 19, I grew up in Germany, and I was never mugged or anything – there were some people who jumped in front of my bike to annoy me, but never actual muggings. Nothing of my stuff has ever been stolen.

And as kids, even just 5, we walked to the bakery and bought bread rolls for the family breakfast.
I've no strong objection to that - it's racy but not in any way that probably matters. Otherwise, it's mostly just a question of forgiveness vs permission...
I guess the wages are low because any task has to be verified by another person (possibly in a consensus-test, where the input of the other person is verified against your input). Or at least, that's what I'm guessing.
I'm wondering what percentage of Mechanical Turk workers are doing the work while at their primary job.
Well, given that the average speaking speed is 150wpm, whilst average typing speed is only 40 wpm, it probably takes ~15 minutes to transcribe each audio clip, giving about $4.5/hour, which isn't so great.
Ok, when was the last time they had something negative about an underdog class? It's not as if only people on the top, politically economically, socially do bad things.
Plus there are lots of constraints. People of the same generation have to appear on the same vertical level. And there are lots of configurations that are simply impossible to represent. For instance a couple with three kids, each of them marries someone, how do we represent the parents of who they marry without crossing lines? Or it is relatively easy to represent someone having children from two different wives but how about three different wives without crossing lines?

And then it needs to look reasonably compact to be visually helpful. So it's a kind of a best effort basis.
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I did this for awhile, and it takes surprisingly long to do these transcriptions. They are mostly transcribing accident interviews for insurance companies. The recordings are absolutely terrible, so you have to re-listen to each part many times to get it right. Additionally, since it is paralegal work, there are very strict requirements for formatting and accuracy.

30 minutes spent transcribing a 4 minute audio clip would not be unusual.
Eliminating all potential discrepancies usually revolves around testing the same scenario in multi configurations and seeing if they have the same outcome. If a outlier is identified then it should shed light on the source of the problem.
Appreciate it. Watching it now as I have some spare time. Seems good so far.
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You would think but far too many developers don't really know how databases work under load.
If you don't have a clue of where to find the people in testing a release, how do you intend to get people to actually use it permanently?

Question for you. Why did you build this app? You still have said what the app does / will do..
Readable with incognito window.
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I hope my other comment sufficiently addressed that "urban combat" was not the task being trained in that exercise. There are places the military trains for "urban combat" ... Main St. USA is not it.
These infinity monkeys wrote shakespeare:

preconizer arrythmically to be or not to be that is the question whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles spearfishes stifles nonswearer belabouring apperceptionism

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This is not mentioned in the article, so just to be more specific, the override of `XMLHttpRequest.open()` applies only for the Safari-specific code of the extension.[1]

[1] See https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/tree/master/platform/..., the code is in `vapi-client.js`, line 247.
Url changed from http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/24/london-underg..., which points to this.
In many cases, yes. In some cases, not.
It has been the case for years now that you really have to include ad and tracking blockers for browsers in your testing process somewhere, even if it's just a manual run-through in the smoke test section. Though I think that more than that is needed; e.g. adblock-enabled pools in your Selenium grid.

You really have to start from the bottom up assuming that things are going to get blocked for some people and build in graceful degradation of performance:

https://www.exratione.com/2014/12/practice-defensive-javascr...

Though the problem in this article looks more in the way of something to be caught by a sufficiently well constructed QA process, followed by a bug filed with the ad blocker in question.
Ha, similar stories - I'm aware of Technorati, they really should have been the firehose of their day (I guess Wordpress.com is the closest thing now). I was building a feed reader that would cluster conversations around the blogosphere so you'd get a better sense of the daily zeitgeist than just following quotes or trackbacks. Which brings me to the more direct comparison - comments and trackbacks to replies and retweets. Finding new content branching from what you're already reading, and frankly the experience was just clunky and terrible compared to Twitter. And that's assuming you've even _found_ a feed reader and subscribed to some feeds. And even if _that_ was easy, where are you yourself publishing? Every task was harder, and only Tumblr has really come close to replicating Twitter's level of integration on a blog-like platform.

Tons of Twitter's best features were stumbled upon by accident, but a lot of their decisions, especially around limiting third-party clients, were justified in their minds by their user testing that showed just how confusing it was to locate and install a useful Twitter client and sign up for an account. The control they had allowed them to reduce friction to nearly zero. For anyone like Technorati to replicate that with open standards, they would have just exercised the same level of ownership.

This is all a shame, I'm sure there's some alternative universe in which longform content has been saved from invasive advertising by a frictionless, open system. And I certainly don't think Twitter is going to come up with a particularly interesting or successful business model. But I open my Twitter app more than my feed reader, and I think I'm happier for it.
But people complaining about "corporate censorship" are smart well informed people? How is internet.org controlling what website people get to see different from, for example, YouTube controlling which videos people get to see? And how are the whims of whoever will control or influence internet.org different from the (mostly left wing) groups that (sometimes successfully) pressure companies to remove material from their websites.
It's interesting that they offer people to take 0.1% more equity for a 5k reduction in salary.

https://github.com/clef/handbook/blob/master/Employment%20Po...

With a 6 year vesting schedule a new employee is 'buying' 0.1% worth of shares for 30k in salary. A 30MM valuation, or 5X the 6MM cap on the convertible note.
It's ok to add a first comment to the thread explaining what you find important about the article.

The reason that's better is that then your comment is on a level field with everyone else's.
The documentation and ease of use of Atmel peripherals, and the electrical robustness of the chips, is something I like. Don't need an ARM to blink some LEDs when a sensor triggers.
For ARM, I like both the OpenCM 9.04 ($9 board) and teensy 3 ($19 board.) Both of them can take 100 mil headers and be breadboarded if needed.
Why would someone delete a existing index without recreating it first? This is common sense for a DBA but not for our full stack engineers who have to know everything about everything g.
Reusability, Mass Production Top the List for SmallSat Launch Priorities
Steam refunds was suspected to be the primary reason the Batman: Arkham Knight PC sales was suspended until the game was fixed.
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It's disturbing how as soon as something is seen as a silver bullet, when you stop questioning things, faith grow very easily.
I've seen two main reasons for this in my experience. The games industry is one where a 'chase the shiny' business mentality requires developers to frequently change their target platforms, development stacks, and desired core competencies for each project. Many of us are jacks of all trades, with little expertise in things like keeping a service standing under incredible load. I've seen developers go into this problem with a 'how bad can it be' mentality, and it never ever ends well.

The other side of things is where you actually have a team capable of delivering a solid, scaling backend service, who simply do not get the chance to do so because of poor production planning and overzealous development schedules handed down from on high. This is not an industry where the engineers get to define the development schedule or feature set. They can influence both, but on many teams the managers expect that crunch will solve all of their scheduling mistakes.

I think you guys at PlayFab are in a great space as this is work that is very difficult to pull off right and many, many developers will (smartly) choose to pay for a solution instead of rolling their own.
"heart cells: interact in a way allowing logic gates and hence are Turing Complete" - http://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
That's in the ballpark, but 300 hours per year is way, way over the average. Anything over 100 is on the high-end of the range.

Several issues though:

The risk is far from linear. Infrequent pilots have much higher risk per hour.

The number of hours for part 91 (most private flying) flights cannot be reliably determined.

About 75% to 95% of risk is under the control or strong influence of the pilot. Weather, fuel, crew readiness, pre-flight planning and related issues are much more under pilot control (if you're willing to cancel or delay flights) than in comparable car trips. It's extremely rare for another pilot to kill you.

I came up with 9% if you assume two fatals per accident.

Light sport is restricted to day VFR, which is lower risk, other things being equal. Unfortunately, that also saps some utility and pushes you towards taking a late day flight rather than waiting for better night weather. I don't think LSA is viable for transportation, which makes it all the more unusual for someone to fly 300 hours per year.

(Context: I fly about 150-200 hours per year, which is 80+% of our vacation travel. I also read every NTSB fatal report.)
> Now that I think about it, this could happen to us as well. We have peer review for each database change, but only at the source level (so, definition of the schema); the actual commands for schema changes are usually generated automatically.

If you're using any of the DBIx::Class deployment tools they should be perfectly happy writing the DDL to disk and then running it from there, specifically to make it possible to audit the DDL as part of the commit that changed the result classes.

Generated != unauditable, especially when the tools are trying their best to co-operate :D
I am member of the Phoenix team. We are not adding GraphQL to Phoenix. What Chris McCord said in his keynote is that some of the ideas behind GraphQL/Falcor, like co-locating your query with your view, is also useful on the server side because it makes the code more maintainable (for example, you no longer need to write a big query in the controller with knowledge of all the view pieces). It also makes views easier to cache, easier to detect when the cache is expired, easier to compose and so on.

How that will affect Phoenix is yet to be seen but developers shouldn't expect a big departure. In any case, if folks want to build their own package that provides GraphQL/Falcor server and clients on top of Phoenix, by all means, go ahead and have fun!