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Sorry! To clarify that it doesn't work with language, I mean you can't ask it a question and then expect it to come up with an answer. For most meaningful questions, you can't sequence an answer from it's question in a general way. This might be in part because Hawkins isn't trying to mimic the brain, but learn about how it works to apply the algorithms it uses to our needs/wants.
Why is this relevant? The proximate cause for the decreasing life expectancy is massive alcohol consumption. You could assign the blame by drawing long, tenuous chains of social causation from policies you don't like. Or, not unreasonably, you could just fault those destroying their bodies through substance abuse.
>The company’s revenue merely doubled last year, to $1.4 billion. Only 300 million people use Twitter every month. Apparently that isn’t enough.

Nope, because there no profit to be found. Twitter is to old a company to not make any money. Investors either need to stock increase in value or be paid a dividend, otherwise why invest?

Letting Twitter be Twitter clearly isn't making the investors any money, so of cause there's going to be suggestions to changes. At this point I think they should wait to see what Jack Dorsey does to be honest, and the article is written before he became permanent CEO.
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Presumably the USA ['s most rich business owners] can get different things out of each, they'll be able to diddle the Pacific countries out of some things that wouldn't wash in Europe and vice-versa - why would they limit themselves to the benefits they could accrue from all nations. Also if they can get various regulations passed that wouldn't pass in the other region later it may be possible to push those same regulations to the other region based on standardisation.
Is it Anti-China, to an extent that US wants to define terms of trade in Asia. If China wants to join they have to make necessary reforms to join. Pro-hegemony, lets ask the Vietnamese and Japanese who have to live in the shadow of China. TPP is certainly not a great bargain for American Labor, but from Geopolitical perspective represents Asian pivot by USA. Think it like an economic firewall.
Sure, sure, in most contexts code as communication medium is laudable. Here, the game is to make people accustomed to understanding go "the hell just happened?" when it works. I like it.
One often overlooked feature shared by technical and real debt is discharge via bankruptcy. One of the impediments to understanding technical debt, I think, is that our primary experience with bankruptcy is with personal bankruptcy and it's potential effects on credit score. When technical debt is discharged via bankruptcy, it is more like commercial bankruptcy...it's an organization or a project that dissolves with the debt and there are no direct personal consequences for an individual's credit score.

To put it another way, technical debt doesn't have to be repaid if the product/project/company fails. Even better it doesn't have to be repaid if the company succeeds to a scale where the library/product/project becomes obsolescent and must be replaced for reasons that could not have been reasonably anticipated at the time the first iteration was created.
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Right now the same The Atlantic story is twice in the New queue. One points to http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271?single_page=true. The other one to http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtlanticScienceAndTechnology+%28The+Atlantic+-+Technology%29&amp;single_page=true

It is probably hard to clean submission urls automatically; I'd like to suggest that spurious query strings be manually removed before submission.
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Do you know of any tool/extension/thing that will auto-redirect me to smile instead of the regular one, I always forget to go there myself.
Why isn't this faster than the "standard" loop based version? The disclaimer at the start says it's not, but I would have thought that 4 64bit math operations would be much faster than a loop with 8 steps and comparisons and so on.
Good on you, it must be tough to give up. You have my respect.
Aside: given that my github name is chickenprop, the obvious name for my shithub would be chickenshit. Sadly, it was registered a couple of weeks ago.

If you're reading this, chickenshit, I hope you make good use of that name.
No, it's just an inability to make trade-offs, and to live with the consequences of said trade-offs. A month after going back to the vanilla logging they'll realize that they actually do need more flexibility, and back to the custom logging they'll go.
But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician?

Can you imagine scenarios where the state, or the family, or the physician are incompetent, selfish, or malicious in determining the competence of a person? I believe there are MANY such scenarios.

This isn't a hypothetical for me... like the author of the article we're discussing, I've had close friends suffer from schizophrenia and depression, and seen one of them involuntarily institutionalized. I wish it was so clear cut SpaghettiCat, but I think the majority of mental health cases are not so black and white as the one in the article.
I still check in on a couple newsgroups. Most activity has moved to web-based forums but on the other hand, so has most of the spam.

There was a time when the best (or only) way to find how to do something in TeX/LaTeX was to search google group's comp.text.tex archives. However google groups got worse and tex.stackexchange now exists.
One of the smartest people I ever worked for, told me I should only learn to look things up, and not worry with memorizing volumes of books. He was the head IT guy at a Telco/ISP. On his desk was a nameplate that read "Think".
No, they're patenting the organism, or the end result. If you come up with an entirely different process to tweak the same organism by happenstance it's still covered by the patent.

This is pretty much the definition of how patents differ from copyright law, if I word-for-word write come up with the same work as you and I can prove that I didn't copy yours, it's not covered by copyright law.

With patents it doesn't matter that I came up with it on my own, you own the rights to the end result.
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Thanks. Looks like ledger does multiple currencies but hledger did not mention that in its features list. Will probably start with ledger then.
That's not practical, I don't know the name of every minified file as there could be a lot of them packaged with dependencies.
Well it was info@nullmedia, so presumably enterprising young fool just wrote: if $hostname =~ m/^null/
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What makes you say Baidu is not technically competent? Andrew Ng's work alone seems to be on the cutting edge of machine learning and voice/image recognition.

While Andrew Ng's work gets a lot of press, there appears to be other interesting work coming out of Baidu in O2O, search, wiki, image,video, self driving cars etc.

They also appear to be a well run business as evidenced by rapid revenue and earnings growth for over a decade.

I'm biased as a BIDU shareholder, but that is precisely why I'm interested in your critism.
Yeah but that does not apply to jokes.
It's not general X and Y in play here. It's government overriding the efficiency that normally results from competitive allocation of resources.
Across two epically long blog posts, that's a lot of words, numbers and graphs to say "it's sunnier nearer the equator" and "electric grids are handy, don't abandon them for no reason", all delivered with a lot of attitude for no obvious reason.

Is there some context outside of these two posts that makes them reasonable things for someone to have spent so much time and effort on?
I've written probably a hundred open source projects in my short professional career. But only two of them do I actually use every single day: a simple OS X window manager [1], and a hybrid command-line/native-GUI fuzzy string matcher [2] (you'd be surprised how many ways/places this can be used). The rest of them didn't serve well as practice like I'd hoped, they were mostly just a waste of time I could have spent better elsewhere.

So lately I have new criteria for how and when to write open source projects: (1) when I realize that I have need to automate something, (2) and it won't take more than a weekend to get a basic functioning version up and running. Anything else, and I nope on out of there. I've got too little time and too many things to do already, I'm not about to waste it creating more unnecessary software. The world has enough of that already.

EDIT: adding links as requested

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid (note: I started to rewrite this in Swift locally, because Accessibility API sucks without generics, and the Objective-C version is a bit buggy)

[2]: https://github.com/sdegutis/choose (note: I started to rewrite this in Swift, but the Objective-C version gets the job done just fine)
Steam implemented tags (and, appropriately enough, a personalized 'discover' queue) and it helps.

On Amazon's non-app store, you can also buy search ads. Apple could implement something similar and take a larger cut of the paid install market. There are search ads on Google Play (see: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2015/07/launching-search-ads-on-...).
Not trying to nitpick, but wasn't it $569.2M of revenue, not earnings? I believe they lost $132M in Q3.

> "In the third quarter, the company lost $132m, equivalent to 20 cents a share."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/twitter-st...
I have to say, just because of the privacy implications, I'm much more inclined to use Apple Pay than CurrentC.
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It is very hard for a mentally ill person to defend themselves. If they are in a mental institution, they can complain but even legitimate complaints get treated like a mentally ill person being difficult or delusional.

That's sort of understandable - if you are around people all day who hear Satan, or have obsessive compulsions, complaining that you don't have enough bedclothes or the food is bad is just seen as part of your condition. If you get given the wrong medication, it's assumed you are wrong and you'll be ignored. If you get mad about being ignored, you can't just walk out as they wont let you. In all likelihood you'll be tranquillised to keep you quiet.

How do I know this? Everything except the sedation happened to me!
I believe CurrentC's (Paydiant's) QR code tokenization works the same as you've described Apple Pay tokenization - the merchant POS does not see any payment info other than a one-time-use token.

This was another decent teardown of Paydiant's Subway app - but it looks like someone high up has had some of the code redacted :)
http://randywestergren.com/reverse-engineering-the-subway-an...

Functionally, it looks like CurrentC only has two advantages over *Pays - loyalty integration and big box retailer backing. Not likely enough, but will be interesting to see how it plays out in the lower end market where a flagship device is not required...
The thing is that not like those cities are cheap to get an apartment in... China is more like still having a resident problem than a first world problem of ghost cities.
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If you want people to be less surprised, or maybe even help them understand what you're talking about, links to those projects would have been handy. :)
Great idea! Subscribed. Have you posted to Datatau? I'll bet there's some folks over there that would be interested as well.
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Please write a book, Jon! You have a thousand valuable insights in one of the worst possible places for us to re-read them ;)
I overreacted here, I don't believe that taxing equals stealing.

It's just how quickly people that have this wish for the nanny state will claim they have a right to your resources for their very well thought out plans.

Plans like imprisoning every mentally ill person and injecting them with some compound against their will.
Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the DSM until the mid-1970s.

The understanding of relatively highly-occurring afflictions such as PTS and schizophrenia is evolving to this day and it's a near-certainty that the DSM will be a different document 10 years from now.

I don't think we should be so cavalier about taking freedom away from people whose main transgression against the rest of society is making us feel uncomfortable when we look at them.
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A "fix"? This isn't a compile-time error. This is the total disenfranchisement of entire classes or groups of people. There is no patch. The "fix" involves lots of difficult work.

First, we have to get people like you to understand what the problem is, which apparently is difficult to do. Then, we have to build empathy for the problems facing black people so you want to actually help them. Then we have to invest in developing social and economic equality within disadvantaged communities.

And hiring more diversely will not lower hiring standards. Please try to understand that.
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Without massive support from the Chinese government they would get crushed. That's not the environment that breeds competence.
c+equality was "implemented" as a macro package. (The response-to-parody hyperventilation went well beyond github.)
Thanks for the idea.
> Economics don't tell you that competition dilutes profits, it tells you that competition drives down prices until profits are zero, which isn't the same thing.

Dilution is a process that happens over a time interval. In that sense, Thiel obviously is referring to dilution in profits per time interval moving forward. So driving the prices from X to 0 per time interval is diluting profits in that sense.

And if one looks at a very large, long term view of things, overall profit will be competed away too. So in a perfect competition, assuming the person shuts business with no loss, all capital ever earned will be competed away. Because competition typically drives prices way below the point where profits are 0, it drives it down to the point where overall profit ever earned is 0. Companies frequently sell at loss for market share.
This stat is due to counting net wealth, or assets - debt. To quote Felix Salmon:

"My niece, who just got her first 50 cents in pocket money, has more money than the poorest 2 billion people in the world combined."

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding...

The poorest person in the world is the rogue trader Jerome Kerviel - he owes $6B. He's vastly poorer than a homeowner who owes $500k on a mortgage, and this person in turn is vastly poorer than a homeless person who owes no one anything. Donald Trump has gone bankrupt a few times - it's quite possible he was the poorest person in the world at that point.
That's exactly what I was fishing for. Thanks.
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I assume the reason they don't do this is that the important and contentious parts of that assertion would be:

What do you mean by "anyone"?
What does "sale" mean?
How do you define "illegitimately labelled"?
etc.

And before you know it you're writing your own legalese to cover every possible question.
The DSM? Don't make me laugh. The DSM has plenty of things in it that you can't say would require someone to be institutionalised. I'll bet there is something I could find in the DSM that you would fit into. I'm not about to commit you though.
It was not "doing nothing" I was proposing, but "giving nothing", in the specific sense of donating (vs. paying for a service).
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When you add salt to bread, and the recipe calls for one teaspoon, a teaspoon of kosher salt is not the same as table salt or sea salt. So how much is it? (It's significantly different.)

When something calls for three cups of flour, and it's a humid day, or a dry day, does that affect the quantity? Yes it does. Significantly enough to affect bread.

Both of the above reasons are why bread bakers weigh all their ingredients, including water.
Troll post.
Very interesting and worth checking out for those in the education or even promotional fields.
I was once given an online assessment test that was supposed to be for language "X". The recruiter accidently gave me the wrong one. At 3 mintues per question I was google racing and compiler testing like mad to answer each question. I passed.

After the mistake she then gave me the "real" test with the correct language. I did not search google (except for one question) or test with a compiler. I failed.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I disagree that this makes my claim "meaningless."

In discussions in the tech community, I almost always see overreaching surveillance portrayed as the government going rogue and acting against the will of the people. The problem is that they don't listen, and the solution is to force them to actually do what the people want them to do.

This is vastly different from a situation where the people actually do want the government to do this stuff. That's true even if that desire is manipulated.

The situation informs the solution. The opinions of the American public are often manipulated and artificial. Fighting that is worthy and useful. But if you skip over all that and simply try to get the government to stop doing its own thing and start listening to what people want, you'll accomplish nothing.
Not really, it's not hard to write a compiler to convert between different programming languages. The challenge is translating between the different semantics of different programming languages (e.g., object-oriented vs. functional, dynamically typed vs. statically typed, etc.).
There is no cure for schizophrenia. I wish there was, but there isn't.
I don't want Amazon being the product police, in the same way I don't want them refusing to sell products that they think compete with them (Chromecast). Amazon should be neutral about the products it sells, instead giving people the tools they need to make buying decisions, like reviews and ratings.
Did you notice this is an article about a limit to capital accumulation right?

Anyway, his theory on capital accumulation is based on a completely flawed framework, and completely useless for understand what's happening today. (Not a hard criticism of Marx, as most economists were using the same framework by the time - but a hard criticism of anybody that insists on pushing his theories around today.)
You mean the whole article is a joke just because the article ends with "the last thing I did was changing the constants to decimal - they look way more scary this way"?

I see it as a presentation of an efficient specialized function, just like the other bit hacks are (some already linked, one more, a whole book, here: http://www.hackersdelight.org/ ).

If it's is to impress the uninitiated, such are more probable to not know the hex codes too. For them is the decimal number the one less scary than the hex one. For others, converting back to hex is just a tiny annoyance, nothing more.
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>$569.2M of earnings on Q3, and you want it to be worth $3-4B?

That's $569.2M in revenue, not profit.
This seems like a natural progression to me. When the rotation of the earth was the most accurate period available then it made sense to use that as a reference. Now it is not and it doesn't.

I think that in the future people will just use UT for anything where people have to coordinate activities. We can have a separate time scale for things we want to coordinate relative to sunrise and sunset. This scale will be able to be completely accurate based on location so we would abolish stupid stuff line time zones and DST. The result will be much simpler.
Anyone interested in seeing these ruins up close should look up Keet Seel [1]. You hike out to the site, knock on the door at a small ranger hut, and he gives you a personal tour as you walk through the site and see thinks like broken pottery and houses held together with rope made from chicken feathers made almost 1k years ago. I recommend making it an overnight trip, but the drive up camping area at this national monument was also amazing.

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Nope. As the article says, those companies are getting big, and staying private. And by staying private they get a set of interesting competitive advantages, so they'll probably won't change this.
I had this opinion long before, so I'm not "buying into" what they're saying, unless you're just using that phrase as a weird way of saying that we happen to agree.

Tyranny of the majority is indeed a major problem here, but it's not how I see it discussed. The tech community seems to mostly believe that government surveillance is a case of the government acting against the wishes of the people. As far as I can tell, this is because the tech community believes that their opinions are representative, but they aren't really.

The distinction is important, because it informs the solution. If you believe that most people don't want surveillance and you focus your efforts on getting the government to do what the people want, then you'll accomplish nothing if it turns out that most people want it. If the problem is a tyranny of the majority, then your approach will be different.
The household diet briefly suffered from my spouse's taking the dietician Gary Null semi-seriously. If only Pacifica's scheduling software had suffered the flaw...
I don't think they should. This way lies madness. You want e.g. the kernel & packages to be pruned down to only have the things needed for each cloud host?

That means that for N cloud hosts Red Hat would have to potentially build N different patches for any update or security fix.

Now you can't certify software to run on "RHEL 7" anymore, it has to be "RHEL 7, assuming it has XYZ, which some cloud hosts don't".

It can be done, but it's a huge hassle, it's much easier to just ship the same distro to everyone. Space is cheap.
I have quite bad depression. That's a mental illness, and I have free will.

My brother-in-law has very bad schizophrenia. I can assure you, he has free will.

You speak about mentally ill people like they are subhuman. They aren't - they are people with the capacity for agency and they have rights. And they should be treated with more respect.
Does anyone know why this story is suddenly in the news? I remember reading her original post at least a year ago, which had all of the same photos. Now, I'm seeing it all over Reddit and here. It feels like that Gotye song all over again.
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That clause is just to undermine the European Union data directives.
They exist primarily because competition was pushed out by the government.
This is exactly the problem! The label of "mental illness" is enough for people to throw out the complete capacity of a person merely because they have troubles in a few spots. It's frustrating.
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