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I wonder if letting people directly control priorities for some percentage of research spending (10%?) would encourage more science spending in general though. Like even if that 10% is flushed down the toilet, maybe it's counteracted by a much larger budget over all.
I once did the egg drop with a plastic container of honey. The container shattered and got honey everywhere, but the egg survived.
> They also doubt that the project can be completed in anything close to its original deadline and budget.

Spoiler: It was completed two years ahead of schedule and 10% under budget.
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I studied there, and during that time, spoke to and tutored many such students. Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence.
If I understand your case, you'd have to do it in multiple steps - you would get the results and paginated them, and record the hashes in a different store (eg redis) - then run the aggregations on a paginated set of hashes. I understand it's a pain, but I think it's just a hard/messy problem. Like I said, if you can find other people that are solving this problem (could be there are..) then you can reference them to the ES people, I'm sure they'd like to find solutions.

It's also possible you could restructure your data to make it easier to extract the way you want.. I'm not sure if that's possible in your case, but many times in the NoSQL world, modeling your data in the best way for how you want to extract it is key for success.
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> A lot of problems suddenly disappear.

Not to be negative but citation needed.

Also (I guess we'll cross "isolation" of the list):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness#Social...
I know my browsing habits/history is not private, and I know I am being tracked, even though I use plugins to minimize that.

But having a marketing person send me a personalized email slapping me in the face with that tracking by explicitly telling me that they know what web page I visited on their site... that would be a pretty big turn off for me.
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"Results 6 studies for primary prevention and 5 for secondary prevention with a follow-up between 2.0 and 6.1 years were identified. Death was postponed between −5 and 19 days in primary prevention trials and between −10 and 27 days in secondary prevention trials. The median postponement of death for primary and secondary prevention trials were 3.2 and 4.1 days, respectively."
I do not want to raise taxes. I just want that everybody pays his taxes, because than we could lower taxes.
There aren't many LCD billboards here (Dublin, Ireland). The few that I've seen are reasonably small and generally used for stuff like how many parking spaces are free in the city centre.

But I despise the things, especially if they change what they're displaying (ie movement or flicker). The number of of times that they switched from dark to blindingly-bright almost causing an accident is shocking. I'm surprised that nobody has been seriously injured because of this (that I know of).
First thing I thought when reading the headline was 'so is Oracle'. Glad it's mentioned in the article.

AWS is absolutely killing it. Every release cycle, they put out quality products that directly attack Oracle. And, Oracle is in the bad position of having to eat their existing profitable business lines to compete.

Now, of course, cloud isn't here yet. There are certainly lots of issues around security, auditing, privacy, data ownership, etc. But, the trend is accelerating. Why? Because the cloud is so much cheaper. Why maintain and manage your own data center and infrastructure for millions of dollars when you can reliably outsource for a fraction?

I used to do a lot of work in the utility industry. I remember years ago giving a presentation on the cloud. The audience was passionate that it'd never, ever happen to them. They were extremely protective of their data. But, then I slowly saw it happening anyway. It crept in slowly. The first to go were the lowest risk systems. Then, the next lowest risk systems. Then, the next.

The incumbents will hold position for a long time to come, propped up mainly by government spending, hellishly long sales cycles, a corporate aversion to micro products, and FUD. They have plenty of time to catch up. But will they? That's the question. Unless oracle is actively researching new cloud platforms (and I'm guessing they are), they're going to be in pain in 5 years. Corporations that don't move to the cloud will be in a cost disadvantage.

On the other hand, serious work needs to be done to overcome the severe limitations of the current cloud. Lots of certification and auditing and risk assessments and SLAs need to happen.
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If the Isle of Man was invaded, the UK would be the one defending it.

The legal wordplay is irrelevant; it has no effective sovereignty if it cannot even put up a semblance of defending its own borders.
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Well you'd still pair it with a shell.
For nearly a century it was only possible to find out what the general public thinks with traditional polling, which costs thousands or even millions of dollars/euros. Since the rise of Web 2.0 Social Media analytics has been increasingly popular. A lot has been said about the predictive power of Twitter so far. According to some people you should be able to predict flu epidemics, unemployment and even riots/revolutions. What about Elections?

I have tried to predict the outcome of Turkish General elections of 1 November 2015 using Twitter data and I believe I will be able to predict quiete accurately. Within a few percent.
Its actually more specialized than that. When the gambling law was written fantasy sports was given a specific exemption because traditional fantasy was so popular.

The daily sites saw this exemption and developed games that push the envelope as closely as they possibly can. They've even added rules about not picking too many players from the same team as they are worried about that being perceived as a violation. The entire industry has been 1 jump ahead of legislation its whole short existence. In some ways they have been incredibly savvy, for instance they have financial backing from some of the biggest players in the US sports markets. That they allowed this idiotic behavior by the employees to go on for so long is boneheaded on an epic scale.
Thanks, I've started on Marcus Aurelius a couple of times, and it does indeed seem like a bunch of somewhat cryptical notes to self. Enchiridion seems relatively straight-forward in comparison.
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This sounds like a terrible idea that can be easily abused. To distill, it amounts to 'get this donation because I'm happy with your work' which is great, until incentives get involved. A parent giving an incentive? A student from a wealthy family giving a kick-back as preferential treatment has been given to them to start a research career? Following a research interest and de-prioritising others? The conflicts of interests are clear and exist and impact today.
Human condition writing like philosophy and religion formation peaked about two millennia ago. Once its figured out, there isn't too much new to say, unlike, say, technology or fashion. You can write a popularization or translation once in awhile. An eternity of profitable textbooks are possible, just like mathematics.

If you'd like a vision into what Moores Law or computer science will look like in 2000 years, you could do worse than comparing to the humanities peaking 2000 years ago. In 2000 years there will be academic disciples reading Knuth and the lambda-ites will continually be having "revival" journalist articles written about them every couple years and their heretical un-natural love of parenthesis.

It would be interesting to argue that position against something like geometry where at the entry level there really isn't much new beyond Euclid however at the higher end there has been progress and at the low end modern textbooks don't resemble "The Elements" very closely even if conceptually there is nothing new.

Strong fact based arguments could be made either way. Halting-problem-like, the most effective way to figure it out will probably be to wait 2000 years and see what happens.
Long time ago, when I was young and stupid I've mastered in politcal sciense. So, now (when I'm only stupid), let me tell you this - question do you vote or not is pointless. Only when you ask for motives right after makes any sense. Because those two questions can show who you are and what your politicals class is.

There is quite pleasant theory about what political systems are. It state that you can represent all political systems as segment, on which both ends are dictatorship and democracy. But, this theory also states that those two systems are unachievable in our world, they are like asymptotes - all political systems tends towards them, but never actually get there. If you take a look at democracy - even Greek democracy weren't this perfect one - yeah, everybody could vote. Except for a women, those who hasn't finished their army service, those who haven't got status of a citizen and those who were slaves.

Having this in mind, I personaly always go to elections and always vote. Sometimes - in local elections - I know who had done something for my district or city, and this gives me clear options. This man did this and that, he seems fair and honest, he claims he can do few things better - yup, I'll give him my vote so he can try his best. Other times - especially when it comes to parliment or presiden elections I go to election but I don't have clear options. I don't know those people and to be truly honest - most of them has been on political scene for far to long - so I don't vote for them who have the biggest election budgets. And it happened twice to this day - I made invalid votes on purpose. Here, in Poland, we can't add our option to the vote card. There were two cases where none of candidates on my voting card weren't good enough to have my voice, so I write my types down which made my voice invalid.

What does the first paragraph have to do with the second? I choose people who will drag our political system towards this version of political system which is nearest my opinions and preference.

And to all people who say that qoing to election won't change antyhing - yes, it will. But it require some maturity and effort. It require to make a choice and quite possibly to regret given voice. And then it require consideration - "who I'll vote for if my previous choice was bad?". In some sense it's quite biblical - be hot or be cold, not lukewarm. But... this would mean handling the consequences of our choice, and we humans don't like to do that...
They're the walking dead because they pursued scale over innovation. Once they had achieved scale, they found themselves with too much momentum to innovate. So because they couldn't innovate, they built an army of consultants to hawk their wares to customers who also valued scale. But that consulting business never really took off because its existence was predicated on a model of dumping obsolete (but "enterprisey"!) hardware/software onto customers already suffering from vendor lock-in. When those customers start to struggle (as they inevitably will, because the tech industry is far from the only one where scale can impede your ability to innovate) the market has moved on to a different place, and the company never kept up. Then you see a death spiral of layoffs and divestitures that destroys 50-90% of shareholder value.

Sound familiar? This fate awaits all these companies:

- Dell: I don't even know what Dell makes anymore. I guess they sell PCs, servers and consulting services to small businesses that don't know any better. But this market is being eroded by an army of local MSPs and resellers, and it's not a model that benefits from scale.

- HP: HP has been a disaster for a while, but they will probably endure since their hardware is generally pretty good and reasonably priced. But servers and printers are not a very high-margin business, and that's caused their leadership to be constantly on the hunt for a newer, higher-margin revenue stream.

- EMC: Storage is increasingly distributed, and EMC's centralized storage solutions really are a dinosaur in today's market. They just make the wrong product and never found anything to replace it.

- Cisco: By all rights, Cisco shouldn't be on this list given that the Internet still largely runs on their hardware. But they convinced themselves they were a consulting company, and that ran off all their good engineers. Cisco today is a shadow of its former self.
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This article simplifies that problem is that these companies are "fucked by cloud". As you pointed out many companies will never migrate to cloud - never. But they will not buy expensive storage from EMC or expensive network equipment from Cisco.

It is not only about cloud. It is that these companies did not evolve to match current needs: it is about sales process (just try to buy cloud from Oracle and you will see), it is about support, it is about pricing, it is about technology (SOAP?) ...
And I brought to you a non-anecdotal, total-population statistic. Again, justifying the null hypothesis (that there is no evidence he was any harder or easier on students in the grade distribution).
The work was done at HRL, which Boeing owns a large part of (source: I worked at HRL).

Also, from my understanding, the most interesting thing about this material isn't the weight but the manufacturing process. To build the lattice they used a specialized 3D printer which combines the beams from a few directions, cf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_microlattice
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So two things:

1. Cloud providers are making it easy for legacy businesses to take baby steps. You don't have to use a NoSQL solution with AWS Dynamo, you can use Postgres with RDS. Or if you're hyper-conservative/stuck with legacy stuff, you can run Oracle with RDS. Or get an EC2 instance and install your own personal copy of Oracle on it. You don't have to jump to full modernity right away, you can take the easy wins of hosted infrastructure first, and only later move up to the bigger wins of hosted platforms.

2. Yes, legacy stuff takes forever to disappear. There are still businesses running VMS inside of VAX emulators with COBOL apps on them. But once you're in that "super-conservative businesses won't move away from you anytime soon" area, you're in a declining market. New businesses unencumbered by legacy won't go down that road -- small businesses starting today will never buy an on-site server to start with (thanks to Office 365/Google Apps/etc.), and as they grow there's no reason for them to change that policy anymore. EMC might never get a new customer, and even if they keep their old ones for some time, it's just a question of how fast their decline is.
I've been thinking about creating a separate Chrome login for use on any browsing on social sites (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn) - maybe even a unique login for each. Would that be an effective way to isolate this type of thing?
> They couldn’t use servers from Dell and HP and IBM.

Does Amazon buy servers from Dell, HP or IBM?
It isn't illogical or inconsistent. The notion that grammatical gender is illogical comes from a misunderstanding of the purpose of grammatical gender. We learn in schools that words are either masculine, feminine, or neuter.

Gender is useful for several things: think of it as a technology with multiple applications, some more obvious than others. The most obvious would be to indicate whether a pronoun is male, female, or inanimate.

One of the more important uses for gender is for agreement. Agreement in gender helps to denote which noun an adjective belongs to. Of course, it's not foolproof, but it's good enough. In addition to agreement, genders increase the information redundancy of words, which is useful when communicating in a noisy, lossy medium.

Admittedly, genders that actually correspond to the natural gender of the things they refer to may not detract from the purpose of information redundancy and of agreement, but as with many things in life, good enough is sufficient cause to adopt the status quo.

What I'm trying to say is, under the supposition that genders should reflect natural gender, they do indeed appear illogical and inconsistent. But genders do indeed have practical purposes and do indeed develop according to certain rules, and if we judge genders by these criteria instead, their development does indeed follow rules and is consistent.
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And then there is Elon Musk who told his CIO to build their own manufacturing planning system because he refused to give that much money to SAP or Oracle.

Ps. Having migrated an SAP off of AIX, I'd say you'd be better served with something like a VBlock or even VirtuStream or Amazon cloud to run it. There also are price and performance incentives to run R/4 on HANA than on Oracle.
Some of this might be from his Oxford background -

Oxford and Cambridge have a very strong culture of small-group tuition, where the tutor ("supervisor") has an enormous amount of freedom. And students typically have end-of year exams -- everything up until that is formative.

If you look at it from a semester course-by-course system's perspective it would seem very strangely designed. But Oxford and Cambridge's pedagogy is very effective at producing independently-minded, creative, and somewhat fearless students, who "get" the subject matter.

And there is quite a lot of research elsewhere supporting the effectiveness of small group tutoring (which might go a long way to explaining why the Oxbridge teaching style works as well as it does there).

So when you say that in his first semester, he gave a great deal of independence to the TAs, especially in small-group discussions, and gave students freedom for all the mid-term testing to be just formative if they wish, that sounds to me as if perhaps he was experimenting with bringing some of what he valued about Oxford's teaching practice to Berkeley.
What's the point of having a company like FB or Starbucks in your country if they're an incredible net loss to the economy? Why not stop attracting these kinds of businesses or even actively seek to kick them out? I mean, assuming that fixing the tax laws for corporations is impossible, which I think at this point is a fair assumption.

With numbers like this, it'd be easy to morally justify looting, and other otherwise criminal activities against both these types of corporations and the government that allows them existence. It'd seem to start tearing down at the social fabric in many countries, not just the UK, where the poor are actually taxed more than these corporations. With just a little more poverty and misery, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we started seeing violence and social upheaval as people realize they have no other recourse.

And who could blame people if they reacted this way?
> an inability to attain mathematical fluency excludes the next generation from any implied augmented intelligence benefits.

Well, only in some ways. I don't have to understand how a refrigerator works in order to use it. Improvements in quality of life produced by use of augmented intelligence ought to be accessible even to those without it.
Erlang's syntax really is really really easy... its just different enough that it causes fence jumping when switching languages
What's the ethical situation for a journalist who leaks this like? How long and hard do you question the agenda of your source? Don't you usually need multiple sources before you publish something like this?
I'm not a journalist but am curious how these "insider info that most certainly will influence the deal price" scenarios are generally handled.
The reality is - The UK has a relatively low corporation tax rate. In the UK they would still getting plenty of return on their investment if they paid corporation tax on the profits generated in the UK.

These academic arguments about tax don't hold much sway with me. 18% is a perfectly reasonable rate of corporation tax. Paying that tax ensures the long term viability of the British economy from which Facebook will earn even more profits. Not paying it is just leaching the nutrients out of the environment. It's a scorched earth policy and HMRC should be merciless in their punishment of it. And I use the word punishment intentionally.
Why not a create a new Chrome profile that's not signed into Google, and use its Incognito mode?
But you still need taxes to pay for courts, police, armies, etc.

Unless you are arguing the An-Cap thesis that these functions can be conducted by private entities. If you are, then congratulations: we're already living under your preferred system! It is just that for most territory, one company has seized monopolistic control of the territory, has called itself "the government", and no other companies have been formed to challenge it. Exceptions such as the West Bank where two companies are competing do exist.
It might not be obvious right away, but San Francisco is really tolerant and open minded. That picture looks like yet another hate rally targeting a specific demographic, but it's really a welcoming party for new arrivals to the city.

Edit: Yes, yes, I know I'll get some downvotes for this. But hate and prejudice are disgusting, even when they are popular or politically correct.
The government only needs to find $80mm if the disrupted industry consumes the same resources. If somehow the disrupted industry does not (efficiency, other tax base), government does not need the revenue. It is incomprehensible to some people that government should let go of funding.
Interesting caveat: "We have only focused on all-cause mortality. Other outcomes may also be relevant, for
example, non-fatal cardiovascular end points."
it'd be good if export to file exported it to a javascript source file rather than an array
except apple (and companies like it) very much do "write the book" via lobbying.
What would be your opinion on Oracle?

I find it strange that the Author didn't include Oracle in the title although he talks about it at some length in the article body.
> Seems to be with your standard of posting. I gave up with you

If you start calling people names I have to assume it's because you've run out of proper arguments but still feel agitated enough to keep posting.

> The PDF by the way uses words like "cost saving" and "efficiency" quite liberally.

What's your point?

Are you saying that because a political party use those words then they must not be misleading?

On a national level a "cost" could just as easily be renamed a "stimulus", so your choice of words is based on how you want to sell an ideology.

The Keynesian approach is that in a down economy you apply stimulus and in boom years you cut back. The Friedman approach is somewhat different, but the key point is that none of this is provable, so politicians choose their economics based on ideology rather than choosing their ideology based on economics.

"Efficiency" is also misleading in this context. To be more efficient you actually need to deliver the same outcome for less money. If you choose to deliver less (i.e. by making cuts to services) then that's not increasing efficiency, it's just cuts.

And you're wrong about me being a "leftie", as you would find out if you chose to actually talked to me rather than just sniping.
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You could just combine two separate browsers and use one for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and whatever else you wish for and use the second one while being logged out of social networks.