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Blair Witch Project came out when I was at university, and I saw it at the cinema with a bunch of friends. It later transpired that at least two of them genuinely believed it was real. In a way, I have always been envious of their gullibility, because it must have been an _incredibly_ intense experience. As it was, I still thought it was pretty good, and an incredible achievement for the budget.
No matter what religion you follow, there's at least one place closer than Mars (i.e. somewhere on Earth) where you won't be persecuted.
Not only do the accused have to face the possible penalty of a conviction, they also have to face the penalty of mounting a defense. Public defenders are so swamped that the cost of a competent defense would almost surely ruin the average family.

In other words, if you don't take the plea deal, you're punished whether you're guilty or innocent.
"Jaywalking" is not a fake concept. Streets are public property, maintained by the government, so the rules for who gets to use them and how are very legitimately in the government's purview.

If you're talking about the justification for governments making those rules in the first place, I could say the same about a rule saying pedestrians can cross in the middle of the street and cars have to yield - both are arbitrary rules, and should be judged based on their public policy outcomes.
That's an awful long time spent at the park for a kid ;)

But, fair enough.
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Hardly.

28 Days Later /
Shutter Island /
Donnie Darko /
Let The Right One In /
Jeepers Creepers /
The Ring /
Drag Me To Hell /
Saw /
The Host /
The Others /
Cabin In The Woods /
It Follows /
...etc
The idea is not to abandon Earth for Mars, rather it is to ensure that human life does not cease to exist. It's very unlikely for a meteor or nuclear war to kill us all, but why risk it when we are capable of starting a colony now?

Everything I've said is much better summed up in this article. http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...
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But what are those people going to do when they fail?

Chasing your dreams is great. Doing so at the expense of schooling, especially when it's possible to do both, is a gamble at best.
You are correct that code doesn't "expand on memory" but there is no fixed relationship between code size and memory usage. You could certainly write a tiny program that uses a ton of memory pretty easily.
Your github link is 404
I never thought of Donnie Darko as a horror movie. Care to elaborate?
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You won't be able to guarantee there are no cars around you without human drivers. Also, you might get prosecuted for reckless behavior.

I don't get this whole argument. We needn't be so worried about a few others taking small advantages when the overall state will be better for us.
Nice work, I'll keep an eye on this project.
When I was in school, most of our rooms had power (or weren't more than 3 hours long), but I definitely understand the sound complaint. Get a full classrooms of laptops under any strain and it gets deafening quickly.
Not to be disrespectful, but after reading your comment I couldn't help picturing something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdbllHyX9o ;)
A friend of mine can log exercise and turn it into free money in his HSA. I don't know whether they validate it against an activity tracker or not, but this is already happening.
i exercise my own blatant disregard for syntax and grammar rules but christ man, try a comma.
surely

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/mem
I agree with your point in a sense; we can focus on multiple aims and plan according to their overlapping and synergistic benefits.. Yet, and if this irritates some please forgive me for prodding, what might happen if we work on what we want out of order, out of sequence?

~~??~~

imho, to assure a good future for what we already have (and hope to have), to make sure we will even have a launchpad so to speak, we need to preserve our treasure here and set it on a good path beforehand.
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NO!

BWP was a solid innovative film that inspired a whole sub-genre of horror films. It was great, but there have been really outstanding horror films since then.

I am thinking, in particular, of "It Follows". THAT was a revelation of what can be possible in horror.
Well, technically, replacing everything between the Ganges and Gibralter, and between the Congo and the Alps, with butterscotch pudding would be a solution.
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My comment and the article are about AI research specifically, where there is lots of exciting new research due to the success of deep learning. And since the area is new, there is lot of low hanging fruit and challenging problems, which researchers are eager to solve and publish, and as a result Apple is suffering.

So it does not matter how Google research worked earlier or if other areas of Google research continue to wait for a 5 year timer.
Worst case no cord, it just sleeps, right? No reason to worry, power is always close at hand, and hopefully (!) none of your files are just going to vanish if it does so.
I realized I hadn't yet made the repo public. It is now :)
Note to those objecting to '$': I have PS1 set to '$' on every account. It just saves confusion.
I'm happy to see you've read the documentation thoroughly!

We indeed stopped using LevelDB. It has been used for a while but we couldn't work around some speed issues. LevelDB is good for many scenarii when properly configured, though.

The database is multilayered, LevelDB was the last layer, most parallel operation were managed by a massively parallel in-memory database which used LevelDB as a backend.

We do 2PC to handle distributed transactions. Raft breaks our consistency model.

When a node joins/leaves the cluster you might have some transient failures which are generally absorbed by the protocol.

I hope I answered your questions and feel free to give it a spin next week, we're about to release a major update!
The thing is following a feasible set of milestones to actually achieve the goal of reaching Mars and surviving there. The current romantic view of stuffing a few people on a spaceship with vegetables and sending them there doesn't seem to be anywhere in our current reach, seeing that we aren't able to keep people alive in orbit or in the Moon without re-supplying them all the time.

A better solution are robots, robots are way better at surviving in space than we are, they have survived in Mars for years without any supply. So a more feasible set of milestones could be:

- Engineer self-replicant robots in Earth. We are still far from doing something like that but it seems something that we should be able to achieve at some point. Seeing that we humans are able to extract energy and resources from Earth, and build robots, there's nothing indicating that robots shouldn't be able to follow the same steps once they are advanced enough.

- Modify those robots to be able to self-replicate in Mars. Seeing that current robots are already able to survive in there, they have a much better chance than we have to build a sustainable environment for themselves.

- Once robots have a self-sustainable environment for themselves, put them to burn resources to pave our way there so that once people get there they are able to survive comfortably.

Yes, people made great discoveries by sea, but people had been surviving for long periods of time on the sea, and they were great at it. The same can't be said for space in current times.
I dislike they jumped from 0.1x (and io.js) to 4 and a months later the realise v8 semver is 5 and jump to 5 - stupid.

They could have though about version numbers last months, and choose 5.

A bit more conservative version numbering would be great. Nodejs up to 0.1x was to slow, and now it's way to fast - a application runtime is not a browser. Mind the library compatibility - not every dev has time to test for 0.1x, 4.x and now 5.
I'm genuinely not sure. Paying for gym memberships, FitBits, and things to get people exercising could be one option. Or maybe insurers could use extra incentives to encourage people to get flu shots or regular checkups?
I think you skipped over the "great" part.
Is there something particularly wrong with LevelDB? It may not have all of the bells and whistles you could possibly want from an on-disk key-value store, but it seems like a perfectly serviceable building block to put a database on top of.
I had the misfortune of seeing it with a theatre audience that laughed at everything they saw. It really killed it for me.
When I think about the first settlers that sailed across the Atlantic to colonize America, it seems amazing to me that people were willing to give up so much and endure such risks and hardships, but there have always been people that will go to great lengths to conquer new frontiers.

How romantic.

And incorrect.

Folks explored the new world for a very obvious reasons: Money. Land. Resources.

Think spices. Gold. Slave labour.

That's it.

There's none of that on Mars.
>The goal is very different.

The article agrees, and suggests that because of this, Apple will miss out on the top talent that prefers to publish
I think it depends.

When my sister saw it, it was very early on, prior to any pub or wide release, at a festival (or something) were it was presented as basically a true found film/documentary. She called me almost immediately after seeing it and pestered me for months to go watch it, presenting it as truly great.

When I saw it, I knew it was fake, had read about the making of it, etc. We were laughing at it in the theater (especially the "found my cigarettes" part). So, while a little scary in parts (especially that ending), it wasn't anything special to us. We still point to Event Horizon as our favorite horror movie, partly because we didn't know it was going to be what it was. We thought it was more of a space exploration thriller.
I've been wanting to know what they've actually fabbed rather than merely synthesized. What link do you have on them doing an ASIC-proven design at 0.35um? Not just in theory but actually doing it and the chip worked.

Far as getting OSS flows lower, I've been collecting methods for doing that. Physical [re-]synthesis is the next step for 130nm and 90nm. A few other tricks they use. I've collected a few papers on methods of doing as many as possible so academics can reimplement them for Yosys, Odin, ABC, etc in the future. It's critical that we get open flows for 90nm. We can do 180nm first as it's still highly useful, esp for custom. However, 90nm is better for standard cell and flash memory.

My mindset is that we can combine proprietary tools and open tools in a hybrid approach. Let the proprietary tools catch all the errors, guide re-synthesis, etc. So long as they can be made to produce a series of traces for synthesis and test vectors that open-source tools can check. One or more EDA vendors might go for this as it keeps their secrets secret and profits high while letting us do much easier work that OSS tools are already close to handling. I mean, we still strive for open EDA in long term but use this for interim. What you think?
That's much more secure.
This. Interoperability is great when it lets data into the system, but a huge threat when it allows data out.
This is hilarious.

First the media beats the drum of, the drug war is evil, the drug war is costing us millions, the drug war is ineffective, people need treatment not incarceration..they've been running this campaign for years.

Now that people are waking up to this fact, we're going to chalk it up to plain old racism.

Give me a break.
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They did. VA pioneered emr...

OpenVista by medsphere is based on Vista, the gov emr...

All emr companies are walled gardens.

In 2009 I built the first mobile HL7 compliant client for the iPhone which was emr agnostic and could work with any emr -across an esb... But all emr companies shunned us because they wanted to protect their walled gardens. At the time hospitals shunned us because they didn't believe the iPhone was a good enough device (big enough screen) to be usable...

We built integrations into a number of systems... But couldn't get traction at that early stage. So we open sourced it through medsphere...

Dr chrono came along and took different tack which was to make an actual emr...

After working with so many hospitals and these systems I basically gave up... The system is pretty broken and the artificial barriers to entry are pretty lame.
It's not considered cheating for the Language Benchmarks Game, seeing as it's just a game, but it would probably be considered cheating for a benchmark attempting to compare performance for "realistic" programs.
I would add Phantasm to the list. Not necessarily the sequels, just the original.
HyperDex Warp does lightweight multi-key transactions:

http://hyperdex.org/warp/
It Follows, along with a handful of others (The Strangers, the Ring, the first Paranormal Activity), was the first well done horror movie I've seen since the BWP. I guess it comes down to what scares you personally. For me, it is much more about the atmosphere that the movie creates, that often borders on weird and uncomfortable, and human. Of course, the Shining is also a great example of this. The slow slip into insanity in a grand, isolated hotel in a blizzard does way more to evoke that weird feeling that lingers after the movie ends.

It confuses that so many directors keep pushing the same style of horror movie out, when they consistently get poor reviews. Are all directors scared by the same exact themes?
Rather than framing this with a racial lens, why not look at this as evolutionary change in policy given the evidence on europe and numerous studies showing zero tolerance as being counterproductive.

Coke, shroom, acid, horse users (midfle class)in past decades were dealt the same zero tolerance policies with no effect, this surge is seeing a different response in light of new acceptance of recreational drugs and in light of the failures of past policies.

But you know the NYT will get more views and reactions by framing it as racial.... But then they fail to look at policies in Latin America or Africa which are equally punishing, not to mention homogenous places like Japan and china where punishment is harsher and there are no minorities to oppress.

Is the NYT suggesting we go back to zero tolerance?

It used to be said sex sells, now it's race sells.
I do both simultaneously. Both have saved me. There have been times where I immediately hit the brakes and horn when I saw someone doing something stupid (about to pull out into traffic, about to merge into me from another lane, etc) In some of these situations, the horn causes the other person to stop what they're doing and a collision that could not have been avoided solely by me braking, is avoided.
People have recommended The Cabin in the Woods, and it's a great movie, but I suggest you hold off watching it until you've seen a lot of other horror movies. It relies on you being familiar with the cliches and genre conventions for it to work.
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And Shutter Island. Good movie, but not in any way a horror movie.
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No, I'm just saying they're business applications. A segment of business applications are numerically focused. Fortran handles them well. So, in that segment, it can be considered a language for business applications with numeric focus.

I'm not saying anyone should use it today lol. Julia and R are the best for that sort of stuff. Way the hell ahead of Fortran. Although I thought about making a nice web application in Fortran just to screw with people who eventually try to extend it and gasp in horror. ;)

http://www.aim.env.uea.ac.uk/aim/info/fortran.pdf
Yes, it's important to conserve integers lest we run out
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Watch "Rec"
Event Horizon
No, its not ridiculous. What's ridiculous is our approach to the problem. Reconstructing Earth's ecosystem away from Earth is a monumental task in any situation, whether you want to terraform a planet, build a orbital colony or just have a universe ship to send somewhere.

These are decades or centuries long efforts which are solely for the purpose of catering to the current, Earth-optimized human form. If you want to head out into the universe, develop a new form. Adapt humanity to the place you want to colonize, rather than the place to humanity.
I was following along through this article right up until the final line:

>Right now she just wants to hunt down the person who sold Chris his fatal dose. “These dealers aren’t just selling it,” she said. “They’re murdering people.”

Drug dealers are selling the drugs not out of some kind of malice toward the addicts. The users want drugs, the dealers want money. Killing the users does no good to the dealers.

While it's hard to criticize the thoughts of a greiving mother, the focus should not be "let's punish these awful murderers!" but instead "let's find ways to eliminate the demand for drugs".
Maybe introduce some coyotes into NYC to cut down on the rat population?
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In an interview, the driver stated that he didn't see the turning car because his attention was on cars that might switch out of the right lane.
I'd rate Event Horizon as the scariest thing I saw in my life, mainly because the first and only time I saw it was when I was 7 years old.
"Rec" -- it was the original inspiration for quarantine.
While the title is obviously geared for sensationalism, I think the question the article is actually asking is whether or not a gimmick (for lack of a better term) like a documentary style horror movie, and having people go in the theater not knowing if it was real or not, still exists. As the author points out, it's silly in retrospect but at the time there was genuine confusion about it for audiences, and the way the movie was produced furthered the illusion.

That question is more interesting than arguing about whether or not you liked the film.
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I assume you haven't seen most of those, as several of the movies he lists are among the greatest, genre-defining horror films of all time. So, yeah... Blair Witch is hardly the last great horror film.
> Now that people are waking up to this fact, we're going to chalk it up to plain old racism.

Racism was a significant component of the drug war from the beginning. The article doesn't seek to "chalk it up to plain old racism", rather the article seeks to shed light on some of the racial aspects of policy making.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/race-and-drug-war
>my instructor very strongly warned against waving / signalling other drivers through for this very reason

Over here in Germany, too.

My instructor told the the people in my class to never wave. If we were 100% sure and really think it's necessary we should make a movement with our head. That way we would be able to claim we had convulsions in front of a court, greeting the judge with a similar movement :)
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Totally.

This quote from the article illustrates its assumptions.

"But today, with heroin ravaging largely white communities in New England, the Northeast and the Midwest, and with violent crime largely down, the mood is more forgiving."

Wow, that escalated fast.
Do you think your findings would hold up to a double blind test? Often expensive items have a strong placebo effect just based on price ("it has to be better")
Was this gentler Drug War demand voiced in response to the perceived failure of the combative zero-tolerance policy instituted and declared before or this is just another instance of white privilege?

I'd go for the more logical theory.

More importantly, I'm still opposed to the recreational use of strong drugs like heroin or cocaine as they're very lethal and can destroy families and communities pretty easily and I can't see any good use of them.
I was... expecting something more.
the open secret about surfing is that most people only try surfing once--usually on vacation. this is because to be a "surfer", (a) you have to live within a 20 mile proximity of a very select area of coastline; and (b) it takes many different sessions, spread out over a long period of time, in order for you to become proficient. this is largely due to the fact that you need to paddle out to the wave.

compare this to snowboarding. your first time on a mountain, you will absolutely "snowboard". there's a lift that carries you directly to the top of the mountain.

surfing is like going skiing or snowboarding without a lift. you'd have to hike up a mountain every time you wanted to ski. think of how many people would end up being proficient.

that is why this $99 surfboard has really taken off. there may be 2.7 million surfers as the article states (which i find highly doubtful--this is way too high a number), but there are many more times that inland people that try surfing on their holiday and then never go again.
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I suspect that, if you don't have healthcare, job stress is not the top problem.
There was a neat video about addiction on Reddit recently, here's a link to the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3qp6sa/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

Disclaimer: The video itself is a bit hyperbolic and some of the examples and ideas presented are not 100% accurate, but it does support a treatment-first approach to addiction.
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Or, in the dystopia of my nightmares, bicycles and pedestrians are forbidden from using all roads, not just highways. For their own protection, of course.
I think it is a fair point that you find Android's AI features more compelling (although you haven't? switched). So from Apple's perspective its probably hard to measure how many customers they "lose". They did just announce another record breaking quarter and it looks like they had more profit than Google had in revenue for the same period (hard to pin it precisely given the way quarters overlap).

However, while the article claims the "best people" won't go to work there, that is a bit hard to substantiate isn't it? It's seems apparent that the best people who insist on publishing their results won't go there, but are the "best people in AI research" and "people who insist on publishing" the same set of people? Or is it possible that some members of the set "best people in AI" are completely happy to work in a dark lab with no papers published but an essentially unlimited budget?

There is another organization which operates on the same principle, the NSA. They hire some fraction of the world's best mathematicians. Those mathematicians never publish their work, and yet still work there. And every now and then when we get to see behind the curtain, or long after the fact, we discover some really great work has gone on behind that veil of secrecy. Has it hurt them?

The author asserts that it hurts Apple, but I don't find their argument compelling. And there is the sticky issue of defining "hurt". Clearly it isn't hurting them financially, they are killing it. And clearly the feature set parity is close enough that you're still carrying around an iPhone. So how do we define hurt here? As compared to what?

I'm not convinced Apple is hurt by this strategy yet, perhaps when you post here "I really wanted to replace my iPhone with another iPhone but the features of Google's AI or Microsoft's Cortana compelled me to buy a different phone." Then we can start talking about hurt. But so far I'm not seeing it.
Bullying by locals doesn't really happen and if you've experienced it, it's most likely a safety issue or you're violating some surfing etiquette. Head over to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/surfing/wiki/index for their detailed beginner's guide.